Politicians

“The system either picks for the most corruptible or corrupts. What we need to look at is, why is it that the positions of power make people behave this way or select for a certain kind of person? It is not the individual. The individual is a symptom of a much …”

“And the people who are utter morons at AI but brilliant at politics are going to have us for lunch. That's the movie in the next three years. They're going to have Sam for lunch because he's lied to them as far as they're concerned, and they're going to have t…”

“If you want to influence public perception and you have enough money, you can bet heavily on something or someone to make it look more popular, and we already have examples of politicians betting on themselves.”

“The tech leaders are becoming more and more politicians because they have a bigger, bigger impact on culture, on society.”

“It's spineless politicians who cave to their aggressive demands who are the root cause of the problem here.”

“For me, like for any politician, if you are telling the people their eyes that you're crazy or not right, you lose, you know, and we were punished.”

“Politicians from both sides of the aisle, they want the economy to do great, and they want rates to come down. They're likely not going to get both.”

“And I definitely think when you're, you know, interviewing People, in particular politicians, always ask the question twice. Because when you ask the question, they'll have a prepared answer for it, right? But then when you ask them again and say, but why? Now…”

“AI is the new lightning rod. For fear and for divisiveness that ultimately breeds compliance and control, which is where these politicians are trying to drive the populace and the voting conditions in the United States.”

“This country still runs because 10% of politicians are fantastic people. This country still runs because 20% of bureaucrats have not sold themselves.”

“Many of the politicians who are put, were pushing concepts that would have really put a stranglehold, I think, on AI startups and would have led to more monopolization of a market that already tends toward monopoly because of the high barriers to entry already…”

“I feel like corruption is a bigger detriment to society when the money is taken out of circulation. Or it delays processes. As long as the process is getting expedited by virtue of corruption, and money is not getting hoarded, I mean, like, if a politician tak…”

“Politicians. Used to fear the press and now to a large part, they bought it and use it as a tool.”

“There are going to be politicians 1020 years from now where it's going to be like, oh, they took the Trump, you know, and time will pass, and things will get refined, and so they will have taken the Trump playbook. They will at some point, I think, completely …”

“Because someone is going to pay you a million dollars, and at least for next 10 years, that trust can only be built by humans, because you can't jail an AI, but you definitely can jail a person. So a lot of these things which require this human trust, for lack…”

“I haven't checked on him in a while, but the other politicians that we do track, the majority of them do outperform, but this year is going to be an interesting one because of the different market dynamics.”

“There are many businesses that are very badly run with very bad CEOs that actually don't do a very good job at all. And therefore just because they're CEOs doesn't mean they're going to make great politicians.”

“We call, or our politicians call kisans or farmers annadata or whatever, but this is basically to make them fools. If we can treat them as businessmen, Who are entitled to earn a good income for supporting them and their families. I think that's a better thing…”

“If you see most cooperative banks are controlled by politicians today, and I meant all parties, so not just one party, but all parties want to control these banks.”

“Him and AOC have, like, joint hands for this, for, like, the one thing that they've come together on is the fact that they want politicians to not be able to trade or at least have all of their money in like a political ETF or something like that.”

“I think that from now until the end of time with social media tools replacing traditional media, and then with AI tools that are going to create enormous amounts of very sophisticated misinformation and disinformation. I think the only strategy for politicians…”

“I think there's a big difference between CEOs and politicians. It's okay for us to, you know, when we make a decision, if some people are not happy, it's okay for us to make that decision, because hopefully time will prove that that was a good decision, or tim…”

“In my own experience with politicians has been that I have never been Asked to do something wrong.”

“If you're a politician, you know, what do you really want? You want to, you want a dependent voter base and you want a voter base that's dependent on, on, on, on largesse and things that you can do for them, and then, you know, ultimately that resolves to you …”

“Notably the teachers' unions who quite, I mean, are effectively bribing politicians, right? And these are public employee unions that are playing a massive and distorting role in our politics.”

“I think comedians and politicians together form some of the smartest people in society.”

“The people that got sucked into this perception game that FTX was playing that, you know, the politicians, the regulators, the investors, they all now are trying to just sweep it under the rug and say, oh, I didn't know about this financial fraud. It wasn't ju…”

“The politicians who are usually the worst, I think have actually been the best. Right. I guess this is their arena. And they are the ones that actually can pick sides.”

“A fight over one piece of oil-related legislation that actually ended up in a wrestling match. Seriously, some politicians ended up rolling around on the floor of the National Assembly.”

“I honestly hope they get banned. Like they shouldn't be able to, if they get banned, it's bad for our business, but I think it's better for society and it's better for the trustworthiness of our government.”

“I think it's politicians misreading where we are and trying to keep us in the industrial, trying to fix the industrial age that is going to make this transition bad.”

“That's why politicians are going to be as dishonest as the media allows them to be. And the media is not holding them accountable.”

“I don't believe electing a politician is going to do that at all. Like, not a chance. I reckon the world had a pretty decent chance with Obama, and not much changed, right? He got through a, you know, a healthcare bill that was really just US-centric, and that…”

“And how are politicians going to assist households with that energy shock, which they hope is a one-off? And the answer is probably more fiscal spending. More transfers to households, and that conversation is already underway.”

“I'd rather pay them more salary so they're less beholden to the special interests when they get out of office. But I don't think that by itself is gonna solve the problem.”

“And that's what we find missing from government too much is real hard for performance metrics that are actually met by the politicians.”

“And I think economically, we are going to take a step back because politicians will try to slow the economy down again.”

“That's where my head always goes when I talk about newsletters and emails, and it's just when politics, you know, what is it going to look like when politicians, when I used to work at Nationworld, that was the big thing of, we need to know how many a percent …”

“We're rebranding the same old social programs as infrastructure because the politicians know that's one of the last categories of spending that's still popular.”

“So for example, like if the rule was, you know, you can only be a two term politician. Wow, that would be what a cleansing effect that would have on anybody that chose to serve in politics, up and down the board, you know, at the federal level, at the state le…”

“If you're reliant on the government paying you to do work, it means you're only ever going to build things that the government and that politicians already believe are possible. And if you do that, you're never going to be able to build the things that are tru…”

“No, I mean, let's think about that. What we're saying is we need the politicians to set up a regulatory body to control how the people talk about the politicians. I mean, that seems like a recipe for disaster.”

“It's not, I don't believe it's the physicist's job to decide what should and shouldn't be discovered. From a physicist's point of view, everything should be discovered if possible. It is the job of politicians and other people of that ilk to make sure that thi…”