The lightbulb cartell existed, but it wasn’t like we could have had lightbulbs that would have lasted longer with the same efficiency and light output.
The difference between a conspiracy theory and a conspiracy is that the latter has actual evidence for it. I don’t think that’s the case for the lab leak “theory”.

Didn’t perceive the AI enthusiasm as too bad. At least they also covered self hosted LLMs and don’t seem like they fell completely for that hype.
The crypto stuff is difficult to stomach though. More of an issue on their other podcasts though.
I’ve been awake for a while and have been forced to watch the slow move towards it over the decades.
Good thing there’s always nature to take your mind off the topic of totally preventable tragedies caused by profit seeking and complacency.
Read about this on the site of the garage project. they apparently wouldn’t be a thing without this funding.
Recently set up a cluster and it’s great. Sad to hear this went through