987 - May I Meet You? feat. Ed Zitron (11/17/25)

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🗓️ 18 November 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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This episode isn’t just great—it’ll revolutionize what you think of AI. Ed Zitron is back in the trap to discuss his recent reporting on just how much money companies like OpenAI have (and how much they’re burning). We talk about the byzantine financing of generative AI and LLMs, the tech world’s dream of recreating the postwar boom with a technology primarily used to make the world’s least legal porn, and the proliferation of data centers across the country. Plus: Bill Ackman teaches you how to pick up girls. Get your Ed at: Better Offline podcast: https://linktr.ee/betteroffline Where’s Your Ed At newsletter: https://www.wheresyoured.at/ Twitter/X: https://x.com/edzitron Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com

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0:00.0	All my
0:02.0	All I'm going to be is
0:05.0	I'll want to be is a joke all I'm going to be is a joke AII
0:33.7	It isn't just two letters
0:35.5	or a Steven Spielberg classic Nor is it Bicentennial Man, which is actually a different movie about a robot who had to wait 200 years to have sex.
0:46.3	But will investors be waiting 200 years for their capital to have sex?
0:51.0	That is the question that we have Ed Zitran on to discuss today. Ed, do you think that the
0:56.9	robot and bicentennial man had sex? I understand this is the subject of a recent article you wrote
1:02.5	with the Financial Times. Well, Bryce Elder and I at the Financial Times were discussing this,
1:08.1	and we could not, we spoke to many sources and no one would agree.
1:11.8	Half of them believed he fucked all the time.
1:14.1	Some of them believed he was actually asexual and which meant he would have sex but only
1:20.2	with one specific partner, which I think is the, not seeing the movie, but I think that's
1:23.6	the part of the movie.
1:25.0	Yeah, well, actually, Michael Burry closed his fund because he
1:29.4	couldn't figure out this question. It's like, it's back to investors pretty much for, since
1:33.9	a bicentennial man has come out. I think the one thing I can say with absolute certainty here
1:40.2	is that the Jude Law character from Steven Spielberg's AI definitely had sex.
1:45.6	Yes.
1:45.7	That was sort of like that was a plot point in the movie.
1:48.0	100%.
1:48.6	Actually, we have add on today to discuss kind of a bombshell regarding open AI's capital expenditures
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