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2026 21 mentions in 5 episodes 4 per episode
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Armstrong: Global collaboration to pause AI is unrealistic
“So it's hard for me to imagine a realistic scenario where the world collaborates to pause AI.”
Kamath: The world will invariably move to socialism in cyclical shifts
“You know, the cynic in me, Has kind of resigned to the fate that the world invariably will move to socialism. I believe these are cycles.”
Blania: World splits iris data across servers to avoid central databases
“And how we approach that is we have multi-party computation. And so that essentially means that, so in our case, when you verify with an orb. You know, we take all these pictures they get computed on the device, and then they actually get split up in multiple …”
Blania: World has reached 18 million verified users and 40 million total
“We are now at. Eighteen million users that are verified. Forty million in total in the app.”
Blania: World will direct 90% of company effort to the US
“So I think over the next year, 90% of the, you know, effort of the company is just gonna go about the US.”
Blania: World has the world's largest crypto wallet by user count
“And so now we actually, we have the largest wallet in the world in terms of users.”
Blania: World ID Verification Is Live on Tinder Japan
“So meaning like within Tinder, and right now in Tinder Japan, it's already live. You can prove both that you are in fact a real human.”
Blania: World has 37 million users, 17 million Orb-verified
“So we're not, I think, thirty-seven million users total. Seventeen million of which are verified, so they used one of these orbs.”
Blania: A user privacy leak is the only thing that could kill World
“One of the operating principles is fail-safe privacy, because in some, like, that, that's the only way you could kill this company in, in a second. Like, if, like, one engineer is doing something stupid, and we would leak user privacy, basically in any form or…”
CZ: The 180-degree U.S. political shift on crypto is good for the world
“A 180 degrees. I think that's, this is good for America. Yeah. This is good for the world.”
Horowitz: Falling Behind China in AI Development Is Extremely Dangerous
“China's not gonna have that kind of restriction and you getting behind in AI, I think would be very dangerous for the world.”
Hetty Green was the world's largest individual financier during her lifetime
“You have to keep in mind, at a time when women weren't even allowed to vote, Hedy was the single biggest individual financier in the world.”
Mobius: The world will not enter a global recession anytime soon
“I don't think the world is going to go into recession anytime soon simply because there's just too much going on, too much growth going on. Of course, you will have downturns from time to time, but these will be temporary. That will not be something that will …”
Altman: World needs far more AI infrastructure than currently planned
“I think the world needs a lot more AI infrastructure, a lot more than it's currently planning to build, and with a different cost structure.”
Bullard: Global coal additions were 25GW in H1 2023, down significantly
“There was about the first half of the year, about 25 gigawatts of coal-fired power generation capacity added around the world, which is down from more than a hundred gigawatts added in 2015.”
Robbins: Statistically measured global human violence is at its lowest historical level
“We actually have the least amount of violence in the world, if you measure it, that's ever been.”
The world will be in an unbelievably better place by 2030
“24 will see way more of it, and by the time, like, the end of this decade rolls around I think the world is gonna be in a unbelievably better place.”
Varun Mayya: Highly Pessimistic About AI's Impact Over Next Decade
“I just want to warn everyone, including the people watching that I quickly switch on Doomer mode. So I'm really pessimistic about What's going to happen to the world in the next 10 years?”
Radhakrishna: Top 0.1% Who Master AI Prompting Will Define World Rules
“There'll always be a small percentage, right? If it's, you know.1% of the world, that's that. You know, percentage that will, you know, know how to prompt engineer, you know, all of those things. And they will be very, very relevant for the future. They will d…”
Rutherford: 50% of Americans and 90% of humanity do not fly annually
“Half of the United States doesn't fly in a, in any given year, and about 90% of the world doesn't get on a plane in any given year.”
Vashisht: Global obesity will reach three billion people by 2030
“I mean, the world had doubled in obesity between 2002 1015, and now it's tripled to three billion people by 2030.”
Mackey: The world has never been better by every historical measurement
“The world has never been better than it is right now by every historical measurement.”
Strange: Nearly half the global population is unbanked
“By some estimates, almost half of the world is unbanked.”
The global supply of arable land is fully exhausted
“There's, the amount of arable land in the world is done. We're, we've used it all.”