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“Occasionally your government will make the sensors bad on purpose.”

“And if Bitcoin became really a serious, well, ok, it you'd be amazed at how quickly whatever freedom you think you're getting via the blockchain would disappear.”

“What keeps most currencies valuable is the belief that, well, two things. The belief that governments will exercise restraint in issuing currency, ah, and the fact that legally you can pay taxes. So if you like, the thing, whole thing is backstopped by, ah, by…”

“You can imagine the governments, if they start to see the seniorage eroded by crypto, will say, okay, well, we'll offer you government-validated crypto, ah, which, not sure at some point why that's any better than government-validated other stuff, but, ah, The…”

“And he stated that the insured, the government can be thought of as a giant insurance company with a sideline business in national defense. And Homeland Security.”

“They don't resist technology change, but it's unfamiliar and nobody has time to get out and really spend time learning something new. And that resources are so limited in government, which is probably one of the biggest challenges.”

“Governments are by their nature risk averse. That's one thing. They have a huge public trust that they have to maintain, and there is a public process, you know, public hearings, the rights of people to come out and be heard, And that is a slow process, and it…”

“And unlike a corporation, you can't fire those as customers, right? You know, the people are still on Windows XP. You know, they want to upgrade, and Microsoft eventually says, you know what? You can't upgrade anymore. You got to move on. You can't do that if …”

“Things don't change quickly, which is usually a good thing if you really sit and think about it.”

“And at some point, I think governments large and small are just going to have to move on. And, you know, there will be alternative channels, but if you want to read it, you're going to have to come down to the library and read it. We're not going to mail it to…”

“I think the three big ones that we think a lot about for the next, you know, five or 10 years Are, and they're really, really big, you know, domains, and so these are long-term projects, but healthcare education, and then ultimately government.”

“It's already the case that if you are a reputable business that deals with large Bitcoin transactions, those have to be reported to the government, or you're going to end up in behind bars pretty quickly.”

“Relationships, the relationship between the government and Silicon Valley from, in terms of all these issues, is at an absolute low point. Like, It's one of those low points where you can't imagine it getting any lower, although it probably can.”

“Valley companies now feel much more emboldened, not even so much out of a sense of, like, proactive, like, enthusiasm, but almost out of a sense of, like, defensive energy to get much more determined to do end-to-end encryption. Also much more determined to fi…”

“The democratic process is that everybody gets their day in court. Everybody gets their chance to petition. Everybody gets their redress of government. Everybody, if you want to participate, you get your ability to participate. So, if that's what we believe dem…”

“If it's called disruptive technology, it's going to be disruptive to government.”

“So a lot of tech companies have really been operating very well without our interference, and so the first time, you know, when we meet, you know, whether it's tech meeting government, there's like a cultural divide. Well, the cultural divide exists because we…”

“If there's anything that I think is ripe for more innovation and solutions in government, it's in the human services.”

“The sharing economy and these sharing businesses got in front of government but they didn't get in front of their customers, because their customers are demanding these services. So, and in a lot of ways, we've had to catch up.”

“Often, and especially, you know, in different parts of the economic cycle, you have top-down focus, and you have government start to try to organize what's going on in the startup community, or you have academia or university in the city try to become the cent…”

“Tech companies are getting a lot bigger, so they're not flying under the radar of government anymore.”

“There's never been a really successful case of a top down government mandated or government created eco cluster. Nor has there been a completely purely successful bottoms up community where it's just a startup set of entrepreneurs who are very entrepreneurial …”

“Most of the consumers, most of government, isn't going to need to know that it's running on a distributive ledger rails.”

“I think that the private sector can help government better understand its own problems by embedding predictive analytics into some of our programs. We could do that in our social programs. And then on the back end of it is rapid cycle evaluation to determine w…”

“I understand that government sometimes, when presented with something that is new and is, is not known, can respond in a way with fear and wants to just regulate and shut it down. And knowing that as a public servant, I always wanted to cause us to pause and n…”

“Government does not have the skill set, the culture, or the bandwidth to necessarily analyze this data.”

“For decades and decades, we've trained people to believe that the government can provide a very steady income, can provide low unemployment, can provide rapid economic growth. And I think the government's ability to do this is limited. What we're seeing, I thi…”

“The super active area of research right now, right, which is how do I make the deep learning models more transparent so that I can debug them, I can verify them, I can make sure there's no systematic bias in them, right? Because until that, you couldn't do imp…”

“A lot of the resistance is actually inside government.”

“So I think there are things in the space that we're not yet aware of, the public's not yet aware of, that will be coming.”

“If you have Amazon in charge of all the storage, then maybe Amazon is not intending to censor Individuals, but say a government is, it's much easier for a government to prevent Amazon from serving files to their country than, you know, a amorphous internet of,…”

“Now governments have all the resources, you know, but they're stale in their approaches because of it.”

“Space situational awareness and domain awareness and traffic management and ultimately traffic control. Becoming services that actually should be provided by governments that have traditionally only been provided by private industry.”

“50 years ago, a new technology like this would have been, like, deployed in the government first, and then in big companies, and then years later in the form of something individual people could use. The model today is, like, it's just online.”

“The experience of checking your EBT balance is probably the most common interaction that low-income households have with the entire government, and so making that a dignified and modern experience is worth a lot.”

“Public interest technology I define as a non-government entity that helps government to solve problems in the public interest, but without signing contracts or making money through the public sector.”

“Is the onus on government to reach out to us and say, hey, let's have a conversation? And truthfully, I don't think that's the case. I think the onus is on us companies to make sure we are opening up that dialogue, that we're showing up for events like this, t…”

“I think for us at Flow, and this is another lesson from the past, we used to think, and I used to think we had to own everything. I think the category is so big that the only way we're going to achieve anything is through partnership, partnership with governme…”

“What communism really is in effect is it's not a distribution of power to everybody. It's a massive concentration of power to the small number of people who run the government because you remove a hundred percent of the power from the private sector and place …”

“The early 19 fifties through the late 19 seventies, when government, and especially DOD, contributed between one half and two thirds of all American research and development dollars.”

“I don't think the private markets solve everything. I do believe in, like, Public private partnerships. I do believe in institutions. I do believe that the government has a big role to play here, but I think that role to play is investing heavily in, in people…”

“So it's really a government imposed thing at this point as opposed to a capitalism imposed thing.”

“And interestingly, the Industrial Revolution also Caused the creation of a much, much larger government which in turn then regulated those fields and has kind of stalled out in some ways the American dream in those dimensions.”

“The kinds of people who can run projects like that just don't work for the government anymore. They, they're in the private sector.”

“The government created these enhanced subsidies for the individual market that allowed individuals to take advantage of more and more government help to purchase individual plans, and this had the effect of both increasing the total participation from around 1…”

“So you've had an enormous amount of NVIDIA's purchasing orders come from the balance sheet of governments. Just unprecedented demand they've been seeing from nation states realizing that they want to be hyper centers.”

“I wouldn't want the government influencing where that investment happens, but I want the government taking a significant share of the returns of that investment.”

“There were ideas being proposed by not just the government, but industry to require a license. To build frontier AI tools and for it to be regulated like nuclear energy.”

“If we say, like, you know, we've got this big agenda to get AI, then people are gonna build these five, 10, 15 year plans, and quite frankly, nothing will ever happen. Like, we need, like, micro-level projects at each agency with basic use cases to say, how do…”

“In the government, oftentimes you celebrate the fact that you checked all the boxes and you completed a process. Disconnected from the reality of this move the needle for whatever outcome we're trying to drive for our mission.”

“We are seeing this, I would call it a renaissance, of people in the private sector, particularly people in tech with tech backgrounds, Wanting to serve their country, wanting to come into government.”

“Look, I think it's a I think the myth that I'd like to retire is that the government actually cannot and should not be A leading innovator with deployment of technology. I just think it's silly. And again, this whole risk mindset has totally warped everybody's…”

“We see it in how the companies even have reacted to AI, where all the big companies immediately went to the government and basically said, regulate us, which to me is the lawyer culture.”

“And it's very hard to understand the customer if you've never served, if you've never worked inside of government.”

“SpaceX and Palantir walked so that everyone else could run, and I, it's maybe unfair to say that they walked, but both of them had to sue the government.”

“I think that right now we've seen this thing in revenue and finances where it's been doubling or tripling every year. And my default assumption is that attention that AI gets from policymakers and governments is going to follow a similar trend where it will do…”

“When we talk to government, you know, they're looking for partners to absorb that risk. And frankly, when we talk to, you know, some of the commercial companies as well, they're really excited about venture's role in absorbing some amount of risk so that they …”

“The thing that was true about the kind of old incorrect idea was that they were way ahead of us in integrating their AI technology with their government, you know, on a kind of military basis, on a bureaucracy basis, you know, in all facets.”

“And those technologies today are not being built by governments. They're being built by the private sector.”

“If there's no source of economic, if there's no source of funding for Moonshot to continue to train models, like, we know where the funding will come from instead, and it's not, like, something we, right, you know, it's government and things that, like, are ac…”

“And I think the government is particularly Ill suited to do the latter, particularly over time. It's just not a good government function, but they're very good at setting the rules because they can enforce the rules. So I think that that's kind of a combinatio…”