Politics

“The AI maniacs are about to take a huge leap upwards, and there'll be this massive reallocation of status. It'll be very hard for our politics to handle that.”

“The people who do well in politics now are just optimized for content. They're basically content creators because the polling is the timeline.”

“I would probably say, yeah, the most like obvious one that I'm like super passionate about is, is definitely politics. And that seems to, you know, grow as I get older as well because of what Jeff was saying is like, how do I, okay, we have the money, we have …”

“Since he got involved in politics, I think it's very hard to be involved in politics at all without Making enemies. Like, it's just such a zero-sum thing that there's people just really eager to distort and take down reputations, and there's people that take s…”

“We took a stance that we're not going to engage in politics. And, but we want to work with the administration, whichever one is there, with genuine partnership to help them think about how can innovation truly be impact at scale in our societal systems. So we …”

“If, you know, if you want to go into politics, you are far better off having done something first. That's my view. And I think that because A, you bring a set of skills and experience about something else into the political arena, which is just a good thing. A…”

“Politics is manipulating outcomes and people for your own gain. Influence is about increasing the odds that your good ideas survive.”

“You know, I've generally found that when I get involved in politics, it ends up badly. So that I'm like, you know probably shouldn't do that. I should do less of that is my conclusion.”

“And what I think AI is particularly bad at, that people are trying to make, trying to use it for, that they're going to fail on, in my view, is when they try to use it for markets or politics.”

“Politics would be the number one thing I would say don't try at home in that it's so, it's almost always, you know, and I'm saying this as a kind of firm that's gotten very involved in politics but it was, unless it's necessary It's very tough.”

“If you're trying to build a rocket or cars, or you're trying to have software that compiles and runs reliably, then you have to be maximally truth-seeking or your software or your hardware won't work. Like, there's not, you can't fool math, like math and physi…”

“None, none, none of the IPS officers or All India service officers who have joined politics after retirement have been successful. Very few.”

“What happens when you have people that join a company and in reality, you didn't really need them. They will go out and manufacture some other thing that they should go work on. They should, they will go out and figure out something else to work on. And realis…”

“I think what it shows is just because you really understand one domain, investing or technology, it doesn't automatically make you understand a totally different domain politics, and I think you're just saying, look, It turns out YQ is not transferable, and yo…”

“I have no intent whatsoever, at least not today.”

“Fast forward to this year, I would say that's no longer the case, that people really do care about political views, because it's moved into the category of values, and so people are really thinking about if we share political views, that's a proxy for do we sh…”

“Trump's core insight is that attention's the most valuable resource, and getting it at all costs is the best way to dominate politics, and he's set himself to doing that in a bunch of novel ways.”

“एंट्रेपरनर के पास जो पहली ट्रेनी होती है ग्रो करने की यहाँ पहली ट्रेनी होती है खुद को खपा देने की जो है वो भी दे देने की वहां पर मैं मेरा मेरी कमपनी या मेरा प्रोफिशन उसकी नमबर वन कैसे बने यहां होता है नेशन फर्स्ट”

“When you become a politician, you need a lot of qualification. Every time you see thousands of eyes. If you get a word, then you get to meet your 10 years of age. Your You have to be aware of 24 by seven. You have to live with it. You have to be aware of unpre…”

“Most people in politics are very comfortable with their status quo, and they could tell you everything that's wrong with it, but there's risk to moving, because if they change the status quo, then what it does is it creates uncertainty, and they know how they …”

“I'm in like the prime of my venture career. I'm only 12 years in actually, Chamath. So figure five, 10 more years, like is the sweet spot. And so I'd like to see the companies that I was involved in grow up, become public companies, et cetera. And I didn't fee…”

“As we head into yet another fierce election cycle, obviously there's only, and there's only three things that engage anyone, which is politics, the NFL and Taylor Swift.”

“I don't give any money to politics ever. I never have, never will.”

“Now I think public policy has become a spectator sport, just like politics, right? We already have chosen our favorite government or our favorite political party, and then we are trying to rationalize whatever governments are doing on that basis.”

“The cure to politics is not to lecture people about being apolitical. It's to make sure the team has too much to do.”

“Politics is ephemeral. Companies have a durability which guarantee the only real power worth having.”

“On the politics side, what has to be done is you have to be, there's no special, like, death star to the rot. Like, you have to replace it, and that means funding Small, annoying races that seem trivial, but aren't. You have to find the candidates. You have to…”

“The way politics works is that you don't somehow come together in the middle. I think one side has to win in the eyes of voters. Voters have to choose a path.”

“We are getting increasingly involved directly in politics which is not something that we would, you know, prefer to do if we didn't have to, but you know, we are doing it in this category and a few others as sort of these challenges have gotten more intense.”

“40 something million in capital in about a day and a half in a DAO around an idea. I mean, holy shit, that changed politics forever. People just don't know it yet.”

“So I became convinced that the reason we don't transition energy is first and foremost because we do not have as a species that technology to do it. Politics play a role, but it is really a technological gap first and foremost.”

“It's a lot of very hypocritical and ad hoc thinking in politics, right? It's instrumental reasoning toward trying to win an argument at that moment in that day”

“I just don't think that like politics teaches people to think critically and it's like, yeah, part of that is like, they're not thinking probabilistically, but it's more like people just want to see their kind of priors confirmed.”

“Today, you could say digital technology is a one-zero, yes, no, you know, right, wrong choose one of the above cookie-cutter medium, so people's lives and politics and approaches end up getting that way.”

“This is why markets work better than politics, because Freeburg, in order for you to pursue what you want to pursue, you don't have to convince a majority of the country to support it. You just need to find one person who's willing to fund it. You know, you ra…”

“I tell people that I'm not political. That my messages are not political messages, they're social messages, or maybe human messages, but they're not social, they've been, they're social messages that have been politicized, but I don't talk about politics. And,…”

“The difference between business and politics is that you can, in business, be competing with somebody in a quarter and come in second and still make a lot of money. And still be in business for the next quarter. And politics, you come in second, and you're don…”

“That's something that I have almost no tolerance for. Is mixing politics and investing. And there's a lot of it because the two fields are kind of cousins, right? But that's something that I just see almost no good about mixing politics and investing.”