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“He donated his dog coins to Future of Life. They ended up being worth six hundred million dollars. So by this- Almost like this accident, this Doomer think tank ends up with a six hundred million dollar war chest, and they've been funding these journalism fell…”

“She has shown that there are hundreds of these front organizations, and they're all really just funded by a few big tech billionaires. It's Dustin Moskovitz, Jan Tallinn, and Vitalik Buterin.”

“There's just one problem with this narrative. There was no such dinner. We checked my schedule.”

“There's not going to be a federal bailout for AI. Not going to happen.”

“There's only one way to stop it, which is with federal preemption. Otherwise the states will do what they want and the blue states will basically dominate.”

“Three big tech billionaires who are on the left contributed over a billion dollars to these Doomer think tanks. Basically, it was Dustin Moskovitz, Jan Tallon, and Vitalik Buterin.”

“The next time the Democrats have the trifecta, they will absolutely get rid of the filibuster.”

“Otherwise these socialists are going to take over in three years.”

“If we deny the rest of the world the ability To participate in the American tech stack, then they will participate in the Chinese tech stack”

“And you know, it was very unfair because again, these founders wanted to comply with the rules, but they weren't told what they were. And that was all part of a deliberate strategy, I think, to drive crypto offshore.”

“And I think we will lose the AI race to countries like China if, You know, if this is the set of rules that we have.”

“I suspect that's where we'll be with AI dumerism in a few years, but in the meantime, it's a really good narrative to kind of take the place of the climate dumerism.”

“Literally the minute the Biden administration was over, all the top Biden AI employees went to go work at Anthropic, which tells you who they were working with during the Biden years.”

“A big part of the reason is that those initiatives came from glass Lewis and ISS.”

“The homeless we have in San Francisco are not predominantly from San Francisco. They're from all over the country, all over the surrounding area. They come here for the benefits.”

“Well, they don't have an incentive to solve the problem because again, a lot of this money goes to NGOs and they get paid for every addict they can add to their flock.”

“I just don't see another way to be able to create the incentives for investors because they know that if they invest a lot of money in rare earth processing, that all China has to do is slash the prices and drive them out of business.”

“President Trump has ended seven wars in seven months before this one.”

“The U S and China are in a high tech competition. They're in a security competition, economic competition. And the reason is because China's become rich and powerful and the United States does not tolerate peer competitors.”

“The only way that I see for model developers to comply with this law is to build in a new DEI layer into the models to basically somehow prevent models from giving outputs that might have a disparate impact on protected groups.”

“And if there is no federal standard, what you're going to see is that the blue states will drive this ban on quote unquote algorithmic discrimination, which will lead to DEI being Promoted in models, which is what the Biden administration wanted. You will see …”

“Because I think it's pretty obvious that the Palisades wouldn't have burned to the ground if you had been the mayor, because you would have made sure that there was water in the fire hydrants.”

“It was done deliberately. They opened the border and you know that. Because remember when Texas tried to put up barbed wire to enforce their own border. The Biden Controlled Border Patrol got rid of it. They removed it. So this was done deliberately.”

“50% of left of center said yes. 14% of right of center said yes. Even that number is shocking to me.”

“Then they asked about destroying Tesla dealerships and protests, whether that could be justified, and roughly 60% of left of center said yes, and 23% of right of center said yes.”

“And I think actually this was an act of terrorism in the sense that it was designed to discourage other people from speaking out.”

“Well, this isn't lawfare. This is the president pushing back on, I think, a Fed that's been overly political.”

“So in other words, he went along with this whole transitory narrative to get renominated by Biden. And then a week later on November 30th, he said it was time to retire the word transitory.”

“And it caused an asset bubble in twenty-twenty-one, it caused the nine percent inflation that we had the following year, and it caused the crash that we saw in twenty-twenty-two and 23.”

“Powell started the rate cutting cycle last fall with a 50 basis point cut right before the election shortly after Elizabeth Warren sent him a letter demanding a cut.”

“He'll cut for Biden. He'll cut for Yellen. He'll cut for Kamala. He will not cut for Trump.”

“So anyway, he calls, and basically what he told me was that all the conspiracy theories are true, that we've now gone into the admin tools that the trust and safety team was using, and they literally have check boxes to throttle accounts based on, exclude them…”

“There is a very plausible argument that the censorship of this story could have swung the results of the twenty-twenty election, okay?”

“During the Twitter files, we found out there was Yoel Roth, who you mentioned was the head of trust and safety, and definitely not a conservative. There was correspondence inside of Twitter saying, hey, we looked at their so-called API, and these are just regu…”

“We also know that the Steele dossier was a hoax, and that was the whole basis once laundered through the FBI and that whole investigation, that somehow the Russians had interfered in the 2016 election.”

“Brennan was like the head of the CIA. He received an intelligence assessment from the organization in which they said, look, there's nothing to this. It's bogus. We haven't. Not just the Steele d'Ossie, but the whole idea of somehow that the Russians had run t…”

“A year ago, support for the war was in the sixties or seventies. Now it's collapsed to 24%. So the vast majority of Ukrainians now want a resolution to the conflict, even if it means making concessions.”

“I don't think the Russians have the intention to invade another country, and they don't have the capability.”

“If you just compare this so-called AI psychosis to the effects of social media, again, I think it's relatively benign because it's something that people are doing to inform themselves about things and they can go down rabbit holes, but it doesn't really trigge…”

“If you want to reverse this law system, DC, and I think it's going to have an impact very, very quickly. I think it's going to work very quickly.”

“If you hamstring our AI models access to data by creating a whole bunch of new requirements for contract negotiations, like we could really lose the AI race.”

“You're going to have a populist socialism in the Democratic Party, or you're going to have a populist nationalism in the Republican Party. And to all my friends on the tech right, your choices in the future are not going to be neoliberalism or neoconservatism.…”

“Growth is back, inflation is low, and what you saw over the last few months was the elites in both parties, I'll give you that, they were scaremongering on tariffs and predicting doom, and they've been proven to be out of touch with Popular sentiment and reali…”

“If you go back and look At Anthropik's announcement, or Dario's announcement, there is a pattern of trying to grab headlines by making the most sensationalist version of what could be a legitimate concern.”

“If you hobble our own innovation, our own AI efforts in the name of stomping out every possibility of X risk, then you probably end up losing the AI race to China because they're not going to abide by those same regulations.”

“I actually think that probably the single greatest dystopian risk Associated with AI is the risk that government uses it to control all of us.”

“And the policies under the Biden administration were doing the opposite of all those things.”

“I would define winning as the whole world consolidates around the American tech stack. They use American hardware in data centers that, again, are fundamentally powered by American technology. And, you know, just look at market share, okay? If we have, like, 8…”