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Patrick Bet-David discusses RFK Jr.’s claim that American food contains harmful ingredients that are banned in other countries.
“Let's look at the US McDonald's fries. Here's what it looks like in US versus UK. In US, it's potatoes, vegetable oil, then you have canola oil, corn oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil, natural beef flavor, then you got dextrose, sodium acid, pyrophosphate, salt, fried in vegetable oil, blend with citric acid, and dimethylpolysiloxane.
When you look at McDonald's fries in the UK, it's potatoes, vegetable oil, sunflower, rapeseed dextrose, fried in non hydrogenated vegetable oil. Salt is added after cooking.”
“Now let's look at ketchup. This is US versus UK and US. Ingredients, tomato, concentrate, distilled vinegar, high fructose corn syrup, salt, spice, onion powder, natural flavoring.
You go to UK, tomatoes, sprit vinegar, sugar, salt, herb extract, and spice.”
“How much you like Mountain Dew? You know how many countries Mountain Dew is illegal in? Let me give it to you.
Mountain Dew, which contains BVO that's linked to potential health risks, is banned in Europe and Japan, but it's legal in US.”
“Honey bunches of oats. These cereals contain BHT, a preservative banned in Japan and EU due to potential carcinogenic properties but you can buy it in US.”
“Coffee made, the coffee creamer contains trans fats, specifically partially hydrogenated oils, which are linked to heart disease. While the US banned trans fats in 2018 products containing them still can be found, many countries including Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, Iceland, Norway, and Denmark have stricter regulations.”
“Thanksgiving's around the corner, stovetop stuffing. This product contains preservatives BHA and BHT, which are suspected to be carcinogenics and impair blood clotting. These preservatives are banned in the UK, Japan, and several others European countries, but available in the US.”
“Papaya, corn, and soy. Genetically modified versions of these crops are common in the US. However, several nations, including Russia and other countries and the European Union, have bans on genetically modified organisms, GMOs, due to health and environmental concerns. But you can find them in the US.”
“Let me tell you about these farm raised salmons. In some countries, farm raised salmon is banned due to concerns over the use of certain chemical and antibiotics in the farming process. For example, Australia and New Zealand have restrictions on the import of farm raised salmon from certain countries. But you can find them in the US.”
“Now I'm gonna go through a bunch of these colors that you know, red 40. You have Swedish fish, Kool Aid, red vines. Then you got yellow 5 and 6. This is Peeps, Jell O, Hostess.”
“Then you got ADA. This is Jimmy Dean, Arnold Brett, Tillsbury. Then you have RBST, which is artificial growth hormone, which is General Mills and Land O'Lakes. Now we have olestra, which is Pringles and Lays. Then we have parabens, which is Cetaphil, Olay, and CoverGirl and then we have Pink slime, which is Tyson.”
If you're worried about ticks, put up an owl box.
The animal driving most Lyme disease in the eastern US is the white-footed mouse. Ticks that feed on them are far more likely to come away infected than ticks that feed on other animals. The bigger the local mouse population, the worse the next year's tick year.
A single barred owl pair raising chicks can take hundreds of rodents in a breeding season. Owls also don't carry Lyme. The bacterium can't survive their digestive tract, so an owl that eats an infected mouse is a dead end for the disease.
Researchers at the Cary Institute, the leading lab on Lyme ecology, have been explicit about this: "Landscapes that support predators have reduced Lyme disease risk."
One owl box on its own isn't going to fix a tick year. But a yard with owls, foxes, bobcats, and weasels in it has fewer mice, and a yard with fewer mice has fewer infected ticks.
If you have woods or fields nearby, a properly sized barn owl or screech owl box (different species, different ...
The "fly brain" controlled release is likely what has the big AI labs spooked.
We are running fly brains in web browsers while creating emergent properties quite easily.
Google Research would not have released their most cutting edge or capable brain for the masses to mess around with and we can assume that they now have internal access to artificial brains which rival human capabilities and beyond.
Now imagine those artificial super brains in hyper scale data centers that run massive arrays of them.
In 2021, I first heard of artificial brains being used to control satellites and brushed it off as science fiction.
God created humans. Humans created LLMs. And LLMs now seem to be creating artificial brains and potentially artificial consciousness.
You should embrace as much of the new technology as you are allowed to access.
Acceleration is inevitable.
Dario has written that we need to “pace the frontier,” and Sam has agreed. People may be surprised by my response: go ahead.
You guys are the frontier. By any reasonable metric — market share, revenue growth, model capability — the two of you have a duopoly on frontier intelligence. You’ve also claimed the lead is widening because of recursive self-improvement.
I don’t see what you see in the lab. If the unreleased models are scary enough that you think you should slow down, I support your decision to be responsible.
But stop pretending you need anyone else’s permission. Stop pretending antitrust law has to be suspended so you can form a cartel. Stop pretending you need a regulatory approval process that supersedes product liability. Stop pretending METR is independent when it is intertwined with Anthropic’s investors and staff. Stop pretending you need those same evaluators to police competitors who aren’t even at the frontier.
Most of all, stop pretending the motivation to ...
