The Beck thing is long, so the mid-item unredacted quote is too. Starting with JD talking:
If we see Germans do something incredibly offensive to American values, I think Americans are going to recoil a little bit at that. You know, I went to Germany very recently, very briefly, Glenn.
Just to visit the troops and say, hello.
And I was hearing from Germans during that very brief visit on the ground, saying that they were worried about free speech policies in their own country.
Well, if we have 38,000 troops there and we're living amongst the Germans, we're literally defending their country.
I think you can expect Americans to at least express some negative opinions about some of the free speech policies they're seeing in Europe.
And, Glenn, you know this as well as anybody. Things that start in Europe. Sometimes come over to America. The same way that things that start in America, make their ways to Europe.
The kind of social media censorship that we've seen in western Europe.
It will -- it's already made its way to the United States. That's the story of the Biden administration, silencing people on social media.
So we will be very protective of American interests when it comes to things like social media regulation.
We want to promote free speech. We don't want our European friends telling social media companies that they have to silence Christians, or silence conservatives.
GLENN: Right.
J.D.: And I think there will be that friction over the next ten years. It's not that we're not friends. But there is a disagreement you didn't see ten years ago.
GLENN: Right. So they've decided they will not pursue being a leader in AI. But they will make all the rules. How confident are you, that we are in a -- a winning position here on AI?
It is advancing so rapidly. And the things that I hear that come out of China, it's either another way hipped. It's all a paper tiger. Or they're way ahead. Where are we, do you think, on AI and, you know, AGI.
J.D.: Well, I think that we're ahead, Glenn. But nobody -- nobody says that we're way ahead, should be believed. You know, in artificial intelligence, six months is a lifetime. Twelve months is a generation. We're probably 12 months, maybe two years ahead of where the Chinese are, when it comes to critical hardware, when it comes to necessary infrastructure. When it comes to the engineering talent. But that is not very far ahead at all. And we're really going to have to invest a lot in developing America's next generation of scientists. Glenn, we're going to have to make sure that our hardware companies, that we stop regulating them to death. That our energy infrastructure. That we stop regulating them to death. Because if we allow the Chinese to catch up. We may never ever have an edge on China in this space again.
And I think for a lot of people, artificial intelligence is a chat bot. It's something that maybe helps a college student write a paper.
No, no, no. The artificial intelligence that I'm worried about, Glenn, is the kind of intelligence that helps them develop next generation weapons. It helps their rockets and missiles hit their target, and 99 percent more accurate than the weapons that use artificial intelligence. They're just massive defense technology implications of this.
That it's kind of like, what would have happened, if the English Army had faulted the Americans in the Revolutionary War, and we had M-16s and they had muskets.
We don't want to be on our battlefield of the future and have -- you know, we have the muskets, and the Chinese have the M-16s. I think AI is the critical part of staying ahead of the Communist Chinese.
And it's something, look, we're very focused on. We have a great guy. It's David Sacks in the administration who is leading this effort. But it's full pedal to the metal, Glenn. We have to constantly be innovating and staying ahead of the game. We can't follow the European lead of regulating. We want America to innovate, and that's what we're doing.
GLENN: I spoke to the president a couple weeks ago. And, you know, I was going to ask him about nuclear energy. And he just volunteered. I said, what about energy with AI?
And he went to say, you know, we're talking about making them their own -- you know, their own utilities. And they can build it. We can clear, even if they want nuclear power plants. That didn't print.
I mean, I thought that was one of the bigger headlines of my lifetime. And nobody seemed to pick that up, or care about that.
And we do lose, if we don't have these power plants. Are we -- what are we doing to accelerate?
I mean, they need 99 percent of our power by 2028.
99 percent of the power that's currently being made.
We need power plants.
J.D.: Yeah. You're a smart guy, Glenn. Because I don't know what else the President said during that interview, but I doubt it's as important as that point.
GLENN: Nothing.
J.D.: This is a critical issue. And, yes, what we've done. We've had Lee Zeldin's EPA, and all of our environmental folks look at how we cut through the red tape. And make it possible. Because the market would do this. Right?
These companies would like to do that.is.
But it's the environmental bureaucrats that have told them, you can't really attach any power plant off-grid to a pure, you know, artificial intelligence hardware facility. We're tearing down those regulations and making it possible again.
And then, of course, Glenn, part of this is not just building these facilities, but it's powering them with the fuel that we need. And the president -- you hear this term, all of the above.
The President has really said, we're all of the above.
GLENN: Have to be.
J.D.: We're lowering the regulations on coal. We're powering the natural gas folks.
Petroleum, obviously, nuclear.
Like, this is a president who said, all power that we have, we need to put it into this prospect. And, Glenn, one important point on this. You look at a chart of electric degeneration, the People's Republic of China versus the United States.
GLENN: Uh-huh.
J.D.: Four years ago, we blew them out of the water. Right now, the PRC is producing about three times as much electricity as we are. And we flatlined in the last 20 years. That innovation. That development.
That's got to change. We've got to be producing more power for the next wave of innovation.
It's maybe the most important part of the puzzle.
Okay. Elon's and other AI will have little local ill-regulated nukes. NIMBY shout-out. Watch Out!
And coal? And the Europeans don't like Nazi-talk but we are better on that.
And the Chinese. There always are the Chinese. If we need a scapegoat, they're there and on the verge.
The academy speech here's my YouTube link. Forty minutes. Didn't bother watchng, but you're in charge of your own time. Hope he said wise and trenchent things. Doubt it.
Talking to Glenn Beck, wherever he's gone to, and a commencement speech to military people.
JD's out there, but seeming to not be pumping iron over the BB Bill stuff. Or the manufactured spat between money/power as Elon and Trump are phrased by too much of the media.
Just stuff. Glenn Beck had his fifteen minutes of fame, but he's not the hot topic today.
But little nukes, every server farm having a shot of installing whatever? Great idea, maybe. Just NIMBY. A lot of other back yards are out there, Wyoming or whatever.