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“If we had just done those three things, there would have been no war.”

“If you're wondering why Putin seized Crimea, it was in direct retaliation for the coup that we backed in Ukraine in 2014. This is the origin of the conflict.”

“I lean towards thinking it's more plausible than not.”

“Because there's a good chance we could have avoided This disastrous war if we had just been willing to close NATO's door.”

“This is an FTX level fraud, except that what was stolen here was not customer funds, it was their free speech rights.”

“With the result that I think is quite likely that the Russians will be willing to use a tactical nuke to prevent their total defeat.”

“The question is, did the US State Department do everything they could to avoid this war? And my point is, absolutely not. They should have taken this Ukraine issue off the table in writing before the invasion.”

“They are the enforcement wing of the woke mob.”

“The scale interference in the election was committed by big tech. I mean, they censored the Hunter Biden story two weeks before the election.”

“I think this administration does not want to see Twitter become a free speech company again. And so the political winds will blow towards letting, I think, Twitter be acquired by a big tech company, even if it means big tech gets bigger. Wait a second. So I th…”

“Elon is gonna be thwarted by these folks. He's not gonna get control of this company. They're, the vested interest in stopping him by the board, by the new CEO, and by the corporate media and the political elites is too great. They will find a way to stop him.”

“This war was easily avoidable. I mean, the State Department could have avoided this war very easily.”

“I strongly believe we could have cut a deal on Ukraine a year ago to diffuse this whole situation before it turned into a war.”

“They had this basically pro-Russian democratically elected Prime Minister, President Yukinovich who was deposed in a coup in 2014, a coup that was supported by our State Department and probably the CIA, ok?”

“Chase Boudin has done nothing except release the perpetrators.”

“Fauci, with respect to COVID, we talked about it before, 100% participated in a suppression of the investigation into the origins of COVID. There was an active attempt to suppress that.”

“If you kind of look at you know, who's behind this clip, it's pretty clear that it was a democratic super PAC, put this together, and sort of astroturfed it as a viral video.”

“So this, you know, this guy not only helped unleash a plague upon the world. He then lied about it to cover his ass and protect his millions. That makes him the worst in my view.”

“These censorship principles only exist so the employees of the company can censor one side of the debate that they don't agree with.”

“Look, I mean, if you're going to define structural racism as conditions that, that trap people of color in poverty across generations, which seems like a pretty fair definition, then you have to say the number one cause of structural racism is the school syste…”

“Because I think like all this, these leaks from the so-called whistleblower, I think this is a completely orchestrated political hit, and they should just fight back and push back on it.”

“He is one of the most corrupt governors we've ever had.”

“It's like child abuse.”

“Wearing a mask after you're vaccinated is now, it's like the blue equivalent of the red MAGA hat, where it's completely performative to say, hey, I'm on team blue. You know, even though, like, scientifically, it's meaningless.”

“Honestly, I think it would have been the same.”

“I think he's disqualified himself from being a candidate, you know, at a national level again.”

“Well, they're creating a very negative perception of AI to further their case for AI regulation. And the end goal here is to create a federal department of AI. They want an AI regulator.”

“On the one hand, you're asking public market investors to underwrite your company to a value in the trillions. On the other hand, your own safety lead, not Jacob Cox and the boss who then sort of co-signed his tweet, is saying that your core product is unsolve…”

“I mean, no, look, this is a doomer psyop and the ultimate target is open source. That's what it all comes down to, because that is what An FDA AI will ultimately ban. They won't call it a ban. They'll just say, look, we have to apply the same standards to open…”

“OpenAI, frankly, seems to be running an anthropic slipstream right now from a red capture standpoint. I don't think they're as doomer as anthropic, but they can see the benefit if the federal government effectively creates a moat that, you know, there's huge e…”

“Fundamentally, They agree with him, and their employees are saying they agree with him, and he's amplifying their message, and frankly, whether they plan this or not, they are happy that he's doing this. Why? Because they like the political outcome that he is …”

“I think that if you were to pinpoint the beginning of the downfall, that was it.”

“Well, I definitely don't think this is nation building. You know, we're not trying to stand up an army here like we did in Afghanistan. We're not trying to teach them about toxic masculinity. We're not trying to stand up a government or anything like that. We'…”

“I'm glad that President Trump didn't put Machado in charge, because how's she going to stay in power? Like, what Guns are gonna basically protect her. You know, it takes men with guns to basically stay in power in these countries. I'm not saying that it can't …”

“No company, and you'd have to say, therefore, no founder CEO has done more to promote these fears and pump these fears and amplify these fears than Dario has.”

“And yes, we will get smoked by China because they will not subject all their companies to these constraints.”

“An open source ban is coming. They're not going to call it that. You know what they're going to say? They're going to say that we simply have to apply the same standards to open models that we apply to close.”

“There is no evidence of that. We're now years into the AI boom, and there's no evidence of that. We only see that job creation.”

“Anthropic has really been behind a lot of the political activity to restrict Nvidia's sales internationally.”

“The green stuff can't scale in the short term. It's all gas powered for the new data centers. That's the only way to kind of get the amount of scale that you need in the next year or two.”

“Now we're really down to just anthropic and open AI. So the market for frontier intelligence has become a duopoly.”

“The latest we heard is Anthropic is now over eighty billion of ARR. Started the year at 10. It had forecast a hundred billion as exit ARR for the year, and most people said that that would be impossible to achieve. Now it looks like they're gonna do it with a …”

“Cantwell, who's the ranking member on the Senate Commerce Committee, opposed it, supposedly at Dario's behest, because he will accept nothing less than an FDA for AI.”

“Remember when Anthropic did the whole blackmail study, you know, where supposedly an agent displayed independent goal-seeking behavior and then blackmail an employee. It turned out that actually they iterated on the prompt over 200 times to get to that result.”

“It's breathtaking hypocrisy for Anthropic to maintain that it is entitled to train on all the world's output for free, even if the creator objects, but- The one type of output that you're not allowed to train on is their output, even if you pay for it. That is…”

“I think where it's all leading to is an effort to ban open source models.”

“Anthropic is guilty of regulatory capture of attempts to seek government protection.”

“They started the year at ten billion of ARR. They're now over seventy billion of ARR.”