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Palantir CTO on The SaaS Apocalypse & Preventing The Next World War | a16z
- ▶ 9:28 Shyam Sankar Oppenheimer, the father of the bomb, said the nuclear navy wasn't gonna work. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:30 Shyam Sankar Not only did Oppenheimer think it was a stupid idea, the Navy did too.
Marc Andreessen: How Movies Explain America
- ▶ 51:52 Marc Andreessen Um, and, uh, ended up, I forget the exact role, but basically ended up overseeing, um, uh, Oppenheimer having a security clearance stripped and basically being booted out of the, out of the military industrial complex after, after, you… 13 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:15 Marc Andreessen And then there's just the reality that, like, Oppenheimer's backgrounds and political activities and, like, all of the people around him, including his wife and his girlfriend and his brother, were actual, like, 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:43 Marc Andreessen This guy that slammed down that the nuke was bad, and that these people were bad, and the whole thing was bad, and that Einstein was like a, er, sorry, that both Einstein and Oppenheim were moral heroes, in some extent, kind of trying to… 7 times in the scene
The State of AI: Growth, Fragmentation, and the Next Wave
- ▶ 21:23 Martin Casado I mean, the guy's Oppenheimer.
Marc Andreessen & Andrew Chen Talk Creative Computers
- ▶ 12:27 Marc Andreessen You know, people look back on that, and my friend Peter Thiel in particular looks back on those projects and says, wow, like, those were kind of great achievements, you know, going to the moon and, you know, winning World War II, and,…
Future of Crypto, Blockchain & Web3 w/ Chris Dixon
- ▶ 1:16:35 Ben Horowitz I'm Oppenheimer.
Why It's Time to Be A Techno-Optimist
- ▶ 1:14:23 Marc Andreessen Which is like Oppenheimer shows up to, you know, kind of wring his hands about the morality of the atomic bomb.
What is the Future of Hollywood?
- ▶ 1:58:57 Marc Andreessen It's not like, it's not like Oppenheimer was like top of mind for everybody, right? 2 times in the scene
Oppenheimer & the Catastrophe of Communism
- ▶ 0:00 Marc Andreessen It feels eerily to me like history is repeating itself, like a lot more directly than I would prefer, exactly like it happened, you know, in Oppenheimer's time with the Russians.
- ▶ 0:38 Ben Horowitz Um, and why don't we just start out like, uh, you know, you've been doing a bunch of reading on Oppenheimer, the man, uh, what'd you think of the film?
- ▶ 2:55 Ben Horowitz Uh, this one's from DJ Wayne, and he says, what was it about Oppenheimer's personality that made him different from other engineers and able to lead the Manhattan Project? 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:09 Marc Andreessen So the treatment of Einstein, the treatment of Oppenheimer's involvement with communism, I thought was, was pretty bad. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:14 Marc Andreessen And there was this real, and they, they show this in the movie a fair amount with kind of how Oppenheimer fell into communism, you know, which is look, you have to, you know, you have to, you have to, um, I'm going to, I'm going to amuse… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:04 Marc Andreessen Um, and unfortunately, Einstein, uh, is, is with Oppenheimer in that.
- ▶ 27:52 Marc Andreessen In a sense, it was, uh, it was correct, and in a sense, it very, it very much wasn't, and so the, the very end of the movie, um, you know, there's this kind of pivotal final kind of conversation with, uh, uh, Einstein and Oppenheimer,… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:44 Marc Andreessen And, you know, of course, sitting here today, at least, Ben and I would say that von Neumann, like, had a clearer view of politics than, you know, than Oppenheimer or Einstein did.
- ▶ 36:50 Ben Horowitz Actually, this brings, um, uh, the next question, which is very interesting, which is, uh, Sanjay Thakur, who says, can you discuss the historical context of Oppenheimer's security clearance revocation during the McCarthy era and its… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:16:49 Ben Horowitz How different is the Los Alamos project if John von Neumann doesn't accept the invite from Oppenheimer? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:18:56 Marc Andreessen Um, so, um, you know, to credit to another, another example of his leadership skills. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:24:48 Ben Horowitz Rami Moore asks, Oppenheimer's story involves themes of ambition, moral dilemmas, and personal sacrifices. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:34:29 Ben Horowitz Uh, what attracts fringe ideas people to the Bay Area as in Oppenheimer's time?