Erik Torenberg sits down with Aaron Ginn, the CEO and co-founder of Hydra Host and the co-founder of the Lincoln Network (now Foundation for American Innovation). They discuss tech and politics, US-China relations, the GPU revolution, and foreign policy predictions. Upstream is proudly sponsored by Vanta. Get $1000 off Vanta with https://www.vanta.com/upstream
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Episode Preview
(01:55) Aaron's background
(07:23) Aaron's journey on his moral idea maze
(11:30) Innovation and progress in the human experiment
(15:09) Sponsors: Mercury | Santa
(17:15) Can a right wing parallel economy for everything happen?
(19:51) NVIDIA versus the public cloud
(28:55) Status of GPUs 6 months to a year from now
(34:19) Kinetic interaction with China
(42:05) GPUs: Foreign policy concerns and predictions
(51:20) Comparison of Biden's and Trump's foreign policy
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LINKS:
Hydra Host: https://hydrahost.com/
Book: The Terrible Truth About Liberals
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Terrible_Truth_About_Liberals
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