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Speaker 1: Z Media hellyone, Welcome to this week's Better Offline monologue.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host ed Zetron. Sorry I missed last week's

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Speaker 1: monologue everyone, I was sick, and in truth, I'm still

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Speaker 1: kind of sick, but the work is important. I also

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Speaker 1: want to thank all of you have sent very kind

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Speaker 1: words via the email inbox and they've read it. I

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Speaker 1: really do appreciate you so much, and actually that's a

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Speaker 1: good place to start. Everything's rough. As you know, you've

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Speaker 1: seen everything, the horrors are many. Remember to be there

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Speaker 1: for the people close to you, and as isolated as

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Speaker 1: the world might make you feel right now, there are

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Speaker 1: millions of people feeling exactly like you. Our subreddit, our

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Speaker 1: slash Better Offline is a great place to start, as

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Speaker 1: I assure you that if you feel that isolation, the castigation,

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Speaker 1: the irritation by the push to put ai and everything,

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Speaker 1: you are anything but alone. We are feeling it. I'll

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Speaker 1: admit I've been kind of reeling myself. I've had family

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Speaker 1: stuff to take care of, all while being sick for

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Speaker 1: the best part of what is now three weeks. I

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Speaker 1: think it's tough to take a break when you have

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Speaker 1: so much to do, especially when the stuff you have

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Speaker 1: to do involves keeping up with the current events, and motherfucker,

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Speaker 1: we are in an event heavy era. I missed the

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Speaker 1: premium newsletter for the first time in months. In a

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Speaker 1: monologue for the first time since we started doing them,

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Speaker 1: felt guilty, which is ridiculous. You'll all tell me off

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Speaker 1: for saying it, But this show is built on sincerity,

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Speaker 1: so I'm going to say anyway, So give yourself a

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Speaker 1: little bit of a break. Everything is fucking rough, not

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Speaker 1: me though, not taking one of those don't get those now.

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Speaker 1: As I wrote in this week's newsletter, which I called

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Speaker 1: the beginning of History, things appear to be reaching a

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Speaker 1: breaking point. Let's catch up. A few weeks ago, Anthropic

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Speaker 1: and the Department of Defense got in an argument because

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Speaker 1: Anthropic wouldn't allow them to use Claude for domestic mass

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Speaker 1: surveillance or to control autonomous weapons, the former of which

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Speaker 1: the latter of which is totally out of their capabilities.

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Speaker 1: As a result of this flimsy defiance, Anthropic was designated

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Speaker 1: a supply chain risk by the Department of Defense. This

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Speaker 1: immediately led to a depressing amount of people doing bullshit

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Speaker 1: we stand with Xanthropic Jesui Claude commentary suggesting that this

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Speaker 1: company was in any way ethically opposed to blowing things up.

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Speaker 1: Let me be blunt about how wrong you are if

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Speaker 1: you think this way. Anthropics Claude LLM was used in

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Speaker 1: more than likely it was handled a bunch of data coordinates, images, targets,

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Speaker 1: and so on and asked what to do. This does

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Speaker 1: not mean it is powerful, or accurate, or really anything

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Speaker 1: other than a means of escaping the responsibility for choosing

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Speaker 1: who to kill. Dario Amerday really make no mistake about this.

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Speaker 1: Loves war, enables war, and is a full supporter of

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Speaker 1: the US military, and I quote using AI to defend democracy,

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Speaker 1: which can mean literally anything that America wants it to.

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Speaker 1: Just look at the history of fucking America. Similarly, Clammy

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Speaker 1: sam Altman immediately swept in to take Anthropics business once

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Speaker 1: the DoD kicked Anthropic out. And I want to go

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Speaker 1: what I can tell, chat GBT will support all legal uses.

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Speaker 1: It's I really just fucking despise everyone involved. Here. I

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Speaker 1: if you go to jail, I'll come visit you, you little shit.

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Speaker 1: Yet something interesting happened as a result of all of

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Speaker 1: this bullshit. Anthropic Soap who will designate the supply chain

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Speaker 1: Krishna Rao, which revealed, and this stunned me, that Anthropic

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Speaker 1: has had five billion dollars in lifetime revenue to date,

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Speaker 1: with to date referring to March ninth, twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 1: Now this flies in the face of basically every reported revenue,

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Speaker 1: pay for it. But this is important. That Anthropic had

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Speaker 1: But pretty much war, I really need to be clear.

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Speaker 1: I've been arguing with people about this for days. If

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Speaker 1: include missing months and such. It's very obvious that Anthropic

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Speaker 1: been misled for years. Let's simplify. Anthropic has raised more

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Speaker 1: training and influence costs a loan. Just think about that

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Speaker 1: annihilated there. This company's a dog. It's very obvious that

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Speaker 1: its leaked revenues have either been inflated or outright lies.

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Speaker 1: And in the end, Anthropic is just kind of a

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Speaker 1: piece of shit. You know what, It's time for a

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Speaker 1: little rant. And while I think you'll all enjoy this,

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Speaker 1: this is really targeted at those be that are yet

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Speaker 1: to be swayed by my arguments. I hear all of

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Speaker 1: this crap about AI changing everything, but where's the proof? Wow,

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Speaker 1: anthropic managed to turn thirty billion dollars into five billion

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Speaker 1: dollars and start one of the single most annoying debates

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Speaker 1: in history. Where's the money? Who is actually getting a

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Speaker 1: profit out of AI? In video? The companies that make

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's true. But if you believe it,

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Speaker 1: what end? What are the actual documented economic effects we

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Speaker 1: do not read, let alone understand. Because I'm learning a

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Speaker 1: little bit about code right now, very slowly, learning to code,

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Speaker 1: and the more I learn, the more I realize that

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Speaker 1: it's important to understand what it fucking does. But you

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Speaker 1: know what AI boosters, If you're listening, I don't know

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Speaker 1: how many of you do, but please, if you talk

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Speaker 1: and use real data. Something from today, please. You are

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Speaker 1: legally banned from saying the words soon or in the future.

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Speaker 1: All of my stuff has to be in the present,

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Speaker 1: So your should to point to one thing from today,

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Speaker 1: and creating the moral distance from an action that might

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Speaker 1: have blown up a fucking school in Iran, and empowering

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Speaker 1: the theft of millions of people's work, and having to

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Speaker 1: hear every fucking day about Sam Altman and Dario Amma

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Speaker 1: day to terrifyingly boring and annoying oaths with no culture

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Speaker 1: and no whimsy in their wretched little hearts. Oh wow,

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Speaker 1: So you can code a clone of an open source

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Speaker 1: need this? Is this really impressing you? I want to

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Speaker 1: be clear that my position is sincere. I do not

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Speaker 1: I have sat and thought about how I might be

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Speaker 1: wrong far more than I've searched for how I might

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Speaker 1: be right. This industry cannot sustain itself and is not

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Speaker 1: a team. I think you are all cresting the wave

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Speaker 1: think you think Sam Moltman is your friend. I think

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Speaker 1: you think open ai is your sports team. I think

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Speaker 1: It isn't. It's a waste. Open Ai and Anthropic are

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Speaker 1: before real state, and that's before the actual people. That's

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Speaker 1: not just crap, it's shit. How much of what you

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Speaker 1: you having fun? I'm having fun because I enjoy writing

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Speaker 1: and reading my podcast. If I worked in the technology

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Speaker 1: I'm not scared of AI. I'm scared of the financial

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Speaker 1: apocalypse that come. I recently read a terrifying stat the

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Speaker 1: other day from Apollo's Asset Sorry, Apollo Asset Management's John Zito,

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Speaker 1: who said that between twenty eighteen and twenty twenty two,

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Speaker 1: software accounted for thirty to forty percent of private equity

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Speaker 1: leveraged by outs, the specific era in which venture capitals

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Speaker 1: to slow. Worse still, the largest software leveraged buyouts of

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Speaker 1: anywhere from fifty percent to ninety percent debt. In very

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Speaker 1: simple terms, p firms brought brought into software companies, and

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Speaker 1: from twenty five to twenty eighteen, a completely different era

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Speaker 1: a weird noise, but I'm going to keep it. We're

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Speaker 1: end of software's hypergrowth era, and the come up and

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Speaker 1: software debt now distressed, which means likely to be paid,

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Speaker 1: IFAI was meant to be the solution here, it was

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Speaker 1: meant to be the panacea that would restart growth in

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Speaker 1: the software sector, allowing software as a service companies to

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Speaker 1: upsell their clients, create new SaaS companies that venture capital

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Speaker 1: and private equity could invest in, and usher in that

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Speaker 1: new era of hypergrowth. Instead, large language models are unprofitable,

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Speaker 1: lack significant renovative features that make selling new software possible,

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Speaker 1: and outside of open AI and anthropic do not appear

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Speaker 1: to have much revenue potential at all. Most businesses don't

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Speaker 1: even break out their specific AI revenue. IBM literally just

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Speaker 1: stopped doing so, and eight percent of their generative AI

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Speaker 1: revenue was consultancy services hawking it to people that didn't

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Speaker 1: really need AI, but they needed to start doing AI

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Speaker 1: because their shareholders would kill them. But here's a good example.

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Speaker 1: Sales Force, which makes tens of billions of dollars a year. Well,

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Speaker 1: they revealed that they had eight hundred million dollars of

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Speaker 1: anualized revenue for their agent force chat bop. That works

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Speaker 1: out to about sixty seven things million dollars a month.

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Speaker 1: That's boopy. That's dogshit. And if you disagree, you don't

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Speaker 1: know fucking finance, and you're living in a dream. But

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Speaker 1: who is the dreamer? We are both at an end

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Speaker 1: and a beginning, a reckoning for decades of hubris and

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Speaker 1: a punishment for those who believe that all software would

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Speaker 1: grow in perpetuity. I don't know what happens next. But

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Speaker 1: I do know that we're at the beginning of history,

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Speaker 1: and that looking at the past as a way of

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Speaker 1: confirming your biases about everything is a mistake. You need

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Speaker 1: to start looking at the fundamentals. If you don't, if

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Speaker 1: you're a booster, if you're an AI fan listening to this,

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Speaker 1: if you're someone that writes about tech, and you're still

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Speaker 1: in the aim, you need to start proving your arguments

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Speaker 1: because when this collapses, and I'm confident it will, you're

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Speaker 1: going to look like a fucking idiot. Now, some of

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Speaker 1: you might be not so bad, there are many of

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Speaker 1: you that won't. Many of you have taken a kind

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Speaker 1: of middle ground, a centrist position. We all know how

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Speaker 1: those work out. It's time to start looking at the fundamentals,

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Speaker 1: and it's time to stop looking at the dot com bubble,

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Speaker 1: or looking at uber, looking at whatever little myth you

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Speaker 1: have to pretend that all of this is going to

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Speaker 1: work out if you can prove me wrong. I look

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Speaker 1: forward to reading it or hearing it, but it's been

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Speaker 1: years and nobody appears to have tried. I really don't

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Speaker 1: know what will happen next, but I'll be here to

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Speaker 1: explain what I know. Every single week. Thank you for listening.