#442 – Donald Trump Interview

The following is a conversation with Donald Trump on this, the Lex Fridman podcast. And now a quick few second mention to his sponsor. Check them out in the description. It's the best way to support this podcast. We got Ground News for a nonpartisan news aggregator, Encore for unifying your machine learning stack, Eight Sleep for naps, NetSuite for business, and Shopify for ecommerce. Choose wisely, my friends. Also, if you want to, get in touch with me for a multitude of reasons, go to alexfreeman.com/contact. And now onto the full ad reads. As always, no ads in the middle. I try to make these interesting, but if you skip them, please still check out the sponsors. I enjoy their stuff. Maybe you will too. This episode is brought to you by one of my favorite websites, Ground News, a nonpartisan news aggregator I use to compare media coverage from across the political spectrum. The point is to see every side of the story, especially political stories, and come to your own conclusion. We've been talking about it on this podcast, on many podcasts, just how biased specific media sources are. Like most problems in the world, this can be explained by incentives. The funding is drying out for news organizations, so they more and more rely on clickbait journalism. And, clickbait journalism requires extreme polarization. So just like in the Soviet Union, when, everyone knew the official sources was propaganda, you have to, arrive at the truth by getting a lot of sources and integrating them yourself and understanding where exactly the truth lies because it often lies in the nuance, in the details, in the middle. Anyway, all that said, it's obvious that this is, a thing that could be solved with a tech solution, and that's exactly what Ground News is. Every story they provide, it comes with the breakdown of political bias and reliability of sources, and it offers multiple perspectives. It's just a really, really nice website. Oh, and, a cool feature, the blind spot feed shows discrepancies in media coverage on the left and the right. So go to groundnews.com/lex to get 40% off the Ground News Vantage plan, giving you access to all of their features. That's ground, g r o u n d, news dot com slash lex. This episode is also brought to you by Oncord, a new sponsor. It's a platform that provides data focused AI tooling for data annotation, curation, and management, and for model evaluation, and a bunch of other stuff. Basically, the whole machine learning stack. What they do really well is focus on the data side of machine learning, which does not often enough get the love it deserves. Many of the things they do go under the flag of active learning. This is a topic that's always been, fascinating to me, but they just they pull off the whole thing really well. I just have to celebrate them for, doing a great job just …