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Note how much more thoughtful Carlson is than the BBC guy, James Clayton, who interviewed Elon the other day. Clayton's questions were puerile and shockingly underprepared. Trivial.
Tucker, by contrast, gets into very weighty issues: what the danger to humanity from Artificial Intelligence? What’s the future of Twitter? (A place where the world talks to itself). What have government agencies done within Twitter to quash opinions? Twitter might turn out well, says Elon; it’s a toss up.
Elon knows AI well -- he founded what is now ChatGPT.
He talks of an evening at the house of his then friend, Sergey Brin, the founder of Google, where they discussed AI. Google at the time having 95% of the world’s brightest brains in AI, and a “ton of money”. Imagine that! Imagine that room, which had other Silicon Valley heavyweights there. And we get to hear of it, and Elon being called a “specist” by Sergey, for wanting to care fro humanity (“guilty” says Musk). And talks of how he thinks the government should set rules for the development of AI, which rather goes against the view of Musk as a libertarian.
We hear all this consequential stuff, not from the mainstream media, but on Fox. I’m sometimes given a hard time for watching Fox and specifically watching Tucker Carlson. But to me it’s just broadening the river of info that’s coming down the hill. There’s plenty I get from the BBC, ABC, MSNBC, CBC and the others. Fox gives a different slant, and it’s the only one to do so. And if you think that’s because its slant is not worth watching, I’d ask: can it be that one side has the monopoly on the truth? On what the relevant news is? Surely not. I recommend Occasional Readers who are of the Left, to add it to their stream of information, to make the stream into a river.
