#458 – Marc Andreessen: Trump, Power, Tech, AI, Immigration & Future of America
Lex Fridman Podcast
Lex Fridman
4.7 • 13K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2025
⏱️ 237 minutes
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OUTLINE:
(00:00) - Introduction
(12:46) - Best possible future
(22:09) - History of Western Civilization
(31:28) - Trump in 2025
(39:09) - TDS in tech
(51:56) - Preference falsification
(1:07:52) - Self-censorship
(1:22:55) - Censorship
(1:31:34) - Jon Stewart
(1:34:20) - Mark Zuckerberg on Joe Rogan
(1:43:09) - Government pressure
(1:53:57) - Nature of power
(2:06:45) - Journalism
(2:12:20) - Bill Ackman
(2:17:17) - Trump administration
(2:24:56) - DOGE
(2:38:48) - H1B and immigration
(3:16:42) - Little tech
(3:29:02) - AI race
(3:37:52) - X
(3:41:24) - Yann LeCun
(3:44:59) - Andrew Huberman
(3:46:30) - Success
(3:49:26) - God and humanity
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| 0:00.0 | The following is a conversation with Mark and Driesen, his second time on the podcast. |
| 0:05.8 | Mark is a visionary tech leader and investor who fundamentally shaped the development of the |
| 0:11.3 | internet and the tech industry in general over the past 30 years. |
| 0:15.6 | He is the co-creator of Mosaic, the first widely used web browser, co-founder of NetScape, co-founder of the legendary |
| 0:23.8 | Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andresen Horowitz, and is one of the most influential voices |
| 0:30.4 | in the tech world, including at the intersection of technology and politics. |
| 0:36.9 | And now, a quick few seconds mention of each sponsor. Check them |
| 0:40.3 | out in the description. It's the best way to support this podcast. We got OnCord for unifying |
| 0:45.5 | your mail stack, GitHub for programming, Notion for team projects and collaboration, Shopify for |
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| 0:55.2 | Choose wise and my friends. |
| 0:56.6 | Also, if you'll want to get in touch with me, for whatever reason, go to Lex Freeman.com |
| 1:01.1 | slash contact. |
| 1:02.4 | And now, onto the full ad reads, no ads in the middle. |
| 1:05.2 | I try to make this interesting, but if you skip them, please still check out the sponsors. |
| 1:10.2 | I enjoy their stuff. |
| 1:11.6 | Maybe you will too. |
| 1:13.4 | This episode is brought to you by Enchord, a platform that provides data-focused AI tooling |
| 1:19.0 | for data annotation, curation, and management. |
| 1:22.7 | And for model evaluation, once you train up the model on the data that you curate. In this conversation |
| 1:30.2 | with Mark Andreessen, we actually discuss what he calls kind of like the trillion dollar questions. |
| 1:37.5 | And one of them for AI is how effective will synthetic data be? It really isn't an open question. |
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