Manhattan Project

“I think what it is, honestly, is, like, all of these people have Oppenheimer complexes and think they're working on the Manhattan Project, right?”

“So, so if you map this back onto AI I think we can say, you know, Leopold is, is kind of in this Manhattan Project camp. So, so we can say he's probably, you know strong military, right, in, in, in this quadrant.”

“Things like the Manhattan project, electricity, the Apollo project, these are like less than or barely above one half a percent of U.S. GDP at their peak. Even the Apollo project, even the interstate highway project is like six 10th of a percent. Building out …”

“This is, like, the combination of the build-out of the internet, the space race, and the Manhattan Project all put into one, where there's a geopolitical implication of it, there's an economic implication, there's a national security implication, and then ther…”

“What AI companies is doing right now that like the foundational companies, It's like privatizing the Manhattan Project. Ok? Alright, so imagine that they do build the atomic bomb. And now they're sitting and saying, ah, you know, I don't know, maybe we'll do i…”

“I mean, NVIDIA just, you know, has an out and out. Like, for now, they're just so far ahead of everyone else. I mean, it can't last forever, but I think that, you know, the demand for building the infrastructure for intelligence in society is going to be absol…”

“The first thing that comes to my mind, and maybe this could be applied to both SMRs and level three scale out, is we could choose to do something more like a Manhattan Project or a NASA Project, and you hinted at this already, where you get the best and bright…”

“Many of the new advanced reactor designs are not exactly new. They date back to 60 years to the Manhattan Project and the early development of nuclear. So things like fast breeder reactors, gas-cooled reactors. We have experience with all of these for many, ma…”

“Which was very prescient and turned out to be the thing that really, I mean, without that, they would not have succeeded and We would be living in a different world today.”

“It's probably the highest concentration of talent, intellectual talent for sure in the history of the country, maybe the history of the world including, Recruiting John von Neumann you know, as well as, you know, every great physicist who wasn't a Nazi.”

“How long would it take you to make a chat GPT again yourself from zero? And it's like six months to a year and however many tens or hundreds of millions of dollars. So, you know, it's not quite, you know, anyone can do that at home, but it's like, it's also no…”

“He hated the fact that he had participated, he hated the fact that he had participated in the invention of nuclear weapons, and he doubly hated the fact that he had so much fun doing it.”