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“The last Biden administration executive order said that you could not sell a GPU without federal government approval. Like, that was a real executive order, and that got reversed, but like, we were that close. To being basically out of the global chip game.”

“What happened in the LAPD with the Rampart scandal right after the Rodney King incident They had the same kind of thing. Everybody got fired, et cetera. They had trouble recruiting. They started recruiting people out of gangs and those gang members ended up, y…”

“Well, in that case, the LAPD was corrupt, and the, well, there were literally criminals in the police force protecting the criminals who killed Tupac, and, you know, thankfully, we kind of reopened the cold case, and we caught the guy, but it's,”

“It's like every major, you talk to any major tech CEO of the biggest companies in the world of the, you know the biggest pharma companies in the world, none of them could get meetings with this administration.”

“One of the blocks was there was a bank that was going to buy Silicon Valley bank and by buying Silicon Valley bank, it would move up into the G-SIB category, which is globally systemic important banks. And they're like, no more G-SIBs.”

“One of the big things that's changed in talking to many police officers is like grand theft auto is no longer a thing. Like if you steal a car, you don't get prosecuted in almost any state. Certainly in any blue state, you're not getting prosecuted for stealin…”

“There are more Nigerians. I believe there's more Nigerians at Harvard than African Americans.”

“And the reservation system is essentially UBI. It's 65,000 dollars a year, I believe, per resident.”

“Our friend Vinod Khosla, I think, had a tweet that got him in a lot of trouble where he said, like, you know, there won't be any more human musicians because the AI would just program whatever feeling, however you want to feel, they just program it for you.”

“Since we started the program, I think crime is down over 50% and then you know, shooting of suspects by police is down, like, close to 75%.”

“Crimes are committed, like, 98% against poor people. Like, that is who are the victims of crime.”

“Grand Theft Auto, Is not actually a crime in any major city anymore, unless like it's a crime if it's, you know, some huge auto ring, but like if it's just stealing a car, like if I steal a car and I just like ride it around, smash it into the wall or whatever…”

“Half the people in Buenos Aires use them.”

“It's something that half of the citizens of Buenos Aires use on a frequent basis, so, like, it's a really great, useful, important product that, you know, can make everybody's lives better, and we've just outlawed it in the United States, and it is you know, j…”

“Machines are far better at medical diagnosis already than humans.”

“Campaigning against crypto because of the like Bitcoin mining, which is like tiny, tiny, tiny compared to what people are using on AI now.”

“First of all, you know, the sec has lost, I think five cases in a row. So, you know, like some of their like arbitrary enforcement of things that aren't laws is not working.”

“At many of the kind of elite institutions, the number of administrators outnumbers the number of students.”

“Over 70% of the artists that are the top streamers are independent. They're like outside of what you would call Hollywood in the music industry.”

“Steve Jobs got fired because he made the product too expensive.”

“This is like, we're flat out, and people are reselling GPUs for [514] Ben Horowitz: Four times what they bought them for”

“The Amish decided to come out and vote for Trump because the Biden administration, and this is so wild, like, raided their farms because they were selling unpasteurized milk.”

“I think somebody said it's like, 5000 families in New York are half the tax base, or maybe it's more.”

“The fact that higher ed has more administrators than students is so crazy.”

“I believe it's in the Obama administration. The federal government basically said that the government would lend anybody the money to go to college who needed it.”

“In Andrew's model, he basically puts a kind of cap on what the CEO, the founders and executives can make, you know, and it's a dollar cap. And once they hit their dollar cap, which is whatever their kind of financial independence threshold is, and I think it w…”

“First of all, when you get to that level of power per rack, AC power doesn't work anymore. So like, that's a pretty wild thing. So now, now you're into DC power, which by the way, also requires its own cooling.”

“The grand wizard of this is Alex Karp. If you watch his interviews, he never talks about Palantir.”

“They just went from zero percent of GDP to three percent of GDP spent on defense.”

“Within literally 24 hours of him getting elected, the stock market had its biggest, its fifth biggest day in history.”

“If you're kind of middle to low income and you're banked, you spend more on overdraft fees than on vegetables.”

“This is also true with autistic kids. They've done similar research. And the one thing that works is one-on-one tutoring. Or the one thing that's proven of all the interventions consistently, there is a professor with UCLA, Ivar Lovas, who kind of proved that …”

“70% of, 70% of GDP in Russia, I believe, is fossil fuels.”

“Under Toussaint, Haiti had more export income than the United States, so super successful as a country.”

“It was a difficult year to raise venture capital. In fact, I think there were only two new funds raised that year. There was SARS and Khosla.”