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“David really sort of He hired a sort of a comms person that he works with a lot, this guy named Lanny Davis, and they just focused on like attacking me, like over and over and over again for like six months, and it became this huge thing. And David, well, he w…”

“Yeah, we know that there are some copyrighted works in our training data. That's not illegal. It's stock standard for the industry. It's what every AI company does.”

“My most contrarian belief was OpenAI loses its lead, loses its nonprofit to for-profit transition and becomes the number four player in AI. The total collapse of OpenAI is my most contrarian prediction for .”

“And I'm running aggressive marketing against Microsoft because they have really a terrible product co-pilot that I'm have to position against and market against.”

“I, I'm pretty sure that the market here shrinks by an order of magnitude, and instead of fighting over five trillion, I think we'll be fighting over Five hundred billion.”

“LLMs are not the path to human level intelligence. LLMs work for discrete worlds. They don't work for continuous, high dimensional worlds, which is the case for video. And this is why LLMs do not understand the physical world and cannot be used in their curren…”

“One other thing I'll be doing very early in the administration is closing up the Department of Education in Washington, D.C., And sending all education and education work and needs back to the states. We want them to run the education of our children.”

“I completely agree with you, and I'll go even further, which is, I think that the Democrats will lose one of California or New York in the next eight years.”

“I always thought it was a really bad idea to discriminate against people for their race or their gender or things like that. So I never was cool with DEI”

“During COVID, it turned out that these gene therapies were really bad for you, and that these traditional treatments were really, really helpful. Don't slap your face like I shouldn't have said that, because it's fucking true.”

“Foundational models are the fastest depreciating asset in human history.”

“And what we found was that on the lower level uses of force, there are racial differences that we couldn't explain. And we put them through formal bias test, and there is bias that goes on in the lower level uses of force. What we didn't find was any, that tha…”

“If it's like going to be a razor thin close election, then I'm pretty sure Kamala will win because they will cheat. They will fortify it. They will steal the ballots.”

“It's not worth it's not worth World War III. And I still think it's quite catastrophic if it if it gets taken over by the communists.”

“I would have asked the states to submit alternative slates of electors and let the country have the debate about what actually matters and what kind of an election that we have in these important states.”

“So, 55% of the production from the organized sector may be rising at seven percent. That gives you 3.75% rate of growth. But the 45%, which is from the unorganized sector that is declining at five percent, that gives you -2.25. So your real rate of growth is n…”

“Google decided that work-life balance and going home early and working from home was more important than winning.”

“Allegedly they have just recently obtained nuclear weapons.”

“There was an extremely large hack happening during the election called SolarWinds, which my company was deeply involved in investigating and remediating, and there are other cyber experts that disagree with me, but I personally believe that SolarWinds could ha…”

“Travis committed no crime and they, you know, sort of ousted him despite the fact that, you know, they actually didn't necessarily, you know, have the legal control to do so. They just cornered him in a hotel room, you know, two days after his mother had passe…”

“Just days before the shooting, Peter Thiel and Reid Hoffman had an exchange at Allen and company that was publicly reported. In which Peter said that Reed had turned Trump into a martyr by funding lawfare, and Reed responded, I wish I had turned him into an ac…”

“For a little tech we think Donald Trump is actually the right choice”

“I think the UK can go back to being pretty much the richest country in the world per capita. I really truly believe that.”

“We are going to close up education. We'll have a tiny little group to make sure everyone's teaching at least English. And perhaps proper math, et cetera, but very little. Department of Education goes, and education goes back to the states, and where it belongs…”

“And you know, it turns out that the month before the Russians invaded, Blinken told Lavrov that the administration was not only going to bring Ukraine into NATO, but that they thought it was okay for the United States to put nuclear weapons in Ukraine.”

“Quite honestly, I mean, part of what's happening is big tech is against us. There, there's a, there's basically a lot of the political issues now are a civil war inside the tech industry where, The big tech companies are lobbying very aggressively for what the…”

“It is costing an order of magnitude more to train, and that's why I don't think open source models will be viable because of the training costs.”

“The sexual violence was multiple locations, systematic, meets the definition of a war crime, a crime against humanity, and was part of the plan.”

“I mean, what we're really talking about here is World War III. So if you want to have a serious chance of World War III in the next four years, then I would say go ahead and vote for Biden in November.”

“The big tech companies have done this thing which we thought was illegal because we observed it occur at AOL and people went to jail, but what they've done is they invest in startups, you know, huge amounts of money. Microsoft and Amazon and Google are all doi…”

“Like we go to the China model that Google and Microsoft are advocating for this Chinese model of only a few can control AI. We're going to be in big trouble.”

“Vinod has been lobbying to ban open source AI. And by the way, he denies that he's been doing this, but I saw him with my own eyes when the US Congressional China Committee came to Stanford I was in the meeting where he was with, you know, 30 20 or 30 congress…”

“I believe every crypto company that has an EARN program is a fraud.”

“And even, I know Coinbase is the good one, but where are they getting this 10%? It's a pyramid scheme. It's fraud.”

“At exactly the moment when native-born Americans' birth rates are tanking, over a 100,000 people die of fentanyl ODs, and we're pushing euthanasia on the population, which we are, you're, you basically, you're saying, I've given up on the people who live here,…”

“And I have to say, I think it's fair to say too he's probably the only Democrat who could and will lose to Donald Trump in 2024.”

“Yes. Get rid of them. Build a professional service organization. Hire more SEs who can do it. Customer success. Look, people think that's blasphemy. I get it. I don't believe in it. I inherited our customer success when Frank came in and he gave it to me. I go…”

“A big part of the crypto VC game is doing these private token deals, and then you kind of build some prestige media narrative hype and then sell the token to retail, and then retail gets sucked in, and the VCs kind of dump tokens on retail. That's like a big G…”

“What I do expect is, you know, within two or three years, most likely, I think the. Majority of new car sales will transition to vehicles where people don't have to drive because once you have that choice, I have a hard time believing that people are going to …”

“By 2030, you'll see more electric airplanes in the air than gas powered airplanes.”

“And every VC has a fraud in their portfolio. Every single VC has a fraud in their portfolio.”

“The lab leak was a great example of that. The, you know, people absolutely knew as a lab leak, the scientists absolutely knew as a lab leak, but for the greater good we're going to say it was not.”

“I would at least until the US has achieved semiconductor independence.”

“I would pardon Julian Assange. I would pardon Edward Snowden. I've committed to a long list of pardons of people who have taken steps to expose corruption that we otherwise would not have seen in this country.”

“Patient zero, it turns out was a researcher at the Wuhan lab. Who was performing gain of function research?”

“I believe very strongly that by undermining the rule of law, On which contracts exchange and property depend by alienating the rest of the world and by pitting some groups of Americans against other groups of Americans and devaluing the idea of unity and commo…”

“I actually think warfare is going to get a lot safer. Like, I think, actually, automated warfare would be much, much safer.”

“There is this idea, somehow, the desire to, and the ability to dominate, is linked with intelligence. A statement that a lot of people are making, including Jeff Hinton recently, That somehow, as soon as a machine becomes intelligent, it becomes uncontrollable…”