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“I think within five years, the internet is going to be the largest holder of US treasuries.”

“This December eighth president's daily brief was consistent with all of the other assessments, essentially saying there was no interference in the outcome of the election by Russia. That brief was pulled. It was never published. It was pulled back from publish…”

“Their nuclear capability was destroyed much of their infrastructure destroyed, much of their military capability destroyed. When you look at Israel's actions throughout that twelve-day war their economy is tanking their energy sector is tanking, so it's a, it,…”

“Well, I think the most successful information warfare mimetic war right now is actually being won by, like, the pro-Palestinian crowd.”

“We actually, in both of those cases, that's a pure pretense to get the government off of us, right? Everyone knows both of these companies are toast because in the case of Scale AI, in theory, Meta owns 50% of it, and in theory, their business is selling to ev…”

“The like single person, a hundred million run rate company is coming, or maybe it's already here.”

“I think that we might have AI smarter than any single human at anything as soon as next year.”

“And then probably within five, like say, 2030, probably AI is smarter than the sum of all humans.”

“Let's just say that the actions of the West are indistinguishable from suicide.”

“And if you take away religion, then I think you actually, you get something in its place which is actually worse than what was there before. I mean, it's like destructive, basically. You get like the white work mind virus filling, filling the hole that religio…”

“I think it can be done in, in 30 years. Provided there's an exponential increase in the tonnage to Mars, with each successive Mars transfer windows, which is every two years. So every two years, the planets align, and you can transfer to Mars. So I think in, R…”

“I do think there's an issue with our lead institutions that have taken the best and brightest and most valuable things you could teach someone and have turned it into some kind of Stalinistic bullshit that is anti-correlated with everything that, that works in…”

“We had a democratic administration come to us and basically ask us to do a Muslim database. Now, you would think, given the way I'm kind of besmirched as like some kind of, I don't know, it's like a Jewish conspiracy, that would be the first thing, according t…”

“Has Israel done something America would not have done under certain, the same circumstances? I think America would have been a lot more brutal.”

“I believe progressives in this country are working day and night to hurt poor people in this country. I don't believe they're progressive.”

“Just take like an obvious example of like fraud, human rights watch.”

“I don't actually think migration's working in the West, because people don't want to change.”

“And they've literally told the brand manufacturers, if you deal with costplusdrugs.com, we will diminish you on that formulary. So instead of reaching a hundred eighty million people, And not just for the drugs they work with us on, but for their entire portfo…”

“Yes, well, no question. He was involved in Iran-Contra. American, French, Israeli, probably British.”

“Native Canadians are encouraged to kill themselves at government expense for non-terminal illnesses up to and including economic distress. And that's sponsored by the government. It's called the Maids Program.”

“The one thing you have to worry about in a multi-ethnic society is ethnic conflict, because it's enduring, it doesn't go away. It's generational, and we're moving toward that.”

“She was stabbed because she was white, and everyone knows that, actually.”

“I've never seen anybody mismanage anything the way the government of Israel is mismanaging the response to what's happening in Gaza and the West Bank.”

“But if you're not dispatchable, you're not adding to the peak capacity of a grid, you're just a parasite. Parasites are expensive.”

“I think a lot of science is totally broken. I think that they're like, I think that a lot of the, and I think that the scientific project is incredibly important and one of the most valuable things in history, but that the practice of science and the Current s…”

“He did a world tour where he spoke to every major leader the world over to tell them, hey, this technology is gonna pose an existential threat. And I think that was academically disingenuous, and I think did a disservice to the technology he loves.”

“And at three o'clock, we're going to sign the document together in the Oval Office, where the United States of America will own 9.9% of the great American technology company Intel.”

“I think it's very reasonable to say that any sitting president should be allowed to remove a Fed governor if he believes it's not aligned with the wishes of the electorate and the voters and the plan that was voted in.”

“And a censorship enterprise that they created that was so vast. It's the biggest affront to the first event we've ever seen.”

“And to that point, I've been able to reduce the number of human agents I have in support From about 9000 to about 5000.”

“I mean, we put our money where our mouth is. We've been a buyer. So over, and that's again, like we a year ago when we were buyers, we still wouldn't have didn't conceive of that.”

“So the Russian strategy is a defensive one.”

“They just want to clean up Gaza and take the territory.”

“Zendesk had been acquired a couple of years prior. They were strategically, energetically, culturally dead. They were upsetting customers in the market. There's an opportunity there. We're doing service.”

“I think we're going to find ourselves being the fastest growing out of all relative to all public software companies.”

“It was effectively a coup against the president of the United States, because these were executive branch officials who owe a duty of loyalty to the elected president. Instead, they were working to subvert and undermine him based on Essentially lies and hoaxes…”

“There is no democracy in Ukraine right now. There's just not.”

“We need to eliminate employer sponsored insurance.”

“I explicitly told Lip Bhutan. He had never talked to the guy because it was like four layers down. The company has like absurd amounts of hierarchy. It's like four layers down. He goes and talks to the guy and he's out, right?”

“Intel is literally gonna go bankrupt if they don't have a big cash infusion, or they lay off, like, half the company, right?”

“But if you're trying to crush it, I think the only people that will really make money in venture capital are the GPs. Building a fee generating business around it.”

“Because why these guys are incapable of creating new technologies, Chinese. They have to keep stealing forever from China, from America.”

“Anthropic has eclipsed OpenAI and API revenue, and their API revenue is primarily not thinking. It's clawed for, but it's not in the thinking mode.”

“In OpenAI's case, it's 750 times harder to get traffic than it was from Google just 10, 10, 10 years ago. In the case of something like Anthropic, it's 30,000 times more, more difficult to get that traffic.”

“I think they're dead at 250 or 1500 to one that we're seeing with OpenAI and completely dead at 60,000 to one that we're seeing with something like Anthropic.”

“In October, we will reintegrate a few animal products, such as fish or shellfish, and yes, we will bring our duck back, our honey lavender glazed duck.”

“Parents of small children that is generally a bad idea. Not always, but generally a bad idea to back parents of small children.”

“Like, the general purpose robotics Thing is going to happen, and it's going to happen in the next decade, and it's going to happen at giant scale, and I think there's a plausible argument, which Elon also believes, that robotics is going to be the biggest indu…”