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“And they do it like the really kind of nasty thing is they claim, oh, it's for safety. You know, we've created an alien that we can't control, but we're not going to stop working on it. We're going to keep building it as fast as we can. And we're going to buy …”

“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.”

“Because of the shortage many police departments have lowered their standards. So the kind of criticism of the police was, okay, you have, and it really, like, if you looked into it, There were some, like, psychos who joined the police force. They couldn't get …”

“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…”

“Police shootings of suspects in Vegas dropped like 75% when we first put the cameras and the drones in place.”

“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,”

“You know, what they found in terms of the quote-unquote Russian hacking was just about effectively nothing. Like, there was nothing. And so, but the dominant media narrative Was that Facebook had been hacked by the Russians, and I think like probably half the …”

“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.”

“We have a company with an incredible drug platform. They cured. A rare disease, like past phase one clinical trials, carried it, sell the drug to Sanofi because, you know, so they can get some of the money back to develop more things, and the Biden administrat…”

“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…”

“We're seeing you know, this administration do the same thing. In something called choke .2, but this time with crypto companies and, you know, there's no law that they're following. There's no rule. There's no legislation. There's no vote. There's no nothing. …”

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

“Way more women go into STEM in like Kazakhstan than in Sweden.”

“We have UBI for Native Americans. It's called the reservation system, and it's horrible. And, you know, it's 65,000 dollars a year a piece, and it does not do anything.”

“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.”

“Over 70% of people in China are optimistic about AI, and less than 30% in America were optimistic about AI.”

“When we did the stimulus program, we found out that the government is very bad at getting money to people. I don't know, it's like, depending on the numbers you read, it's somewhere around four hundred and fifty billion dollars got stolen.”

“I mean, well, just, if you go back to COVID, the stimulus program, like I think four hundred billion dollars was stolen.”

“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%.”

“And so this last year, 25, about 18 point, what is it, 18.3% of all venture capital raised in the U.S. Was raised by us.”

“For murder. You have a 53% chance of getting away with murder.”

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

“The Vegas prosecutor will, if you're like an eighteen-year-old kid, and you commit a first-time offense, and it's not violent, they'll send you, they won't prosecute you, they'll send you to Hope for Prisoners, and you go through the rehab. They are close to z…”

“Look, we've already seen, like, a pretty large percentage of the crypto venture capital go overseas.”

“It was spread like 98% or 95% through gay sex, and, you know, the rest through intravenous drug use, and almost none, it turns out, through heterosexual sex.”

“Venture capital is a little bit unique you know, from our point of view in that it's the only asset class where the top managers tend to persist for decades.”

“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…”

“In Ohio Sherrod Brown was, you know, over 10 points ahead when we started against Bernie Moreno. And Bernie was able to take him out.”

“Half the people in Buenos Aires use them.”

“And in fact, if you look at the African American population, there's one asset class that they over index in and it's blockchain crypto.”

“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.”

“The Optimus Prime thing that, that Tesla's building hasn't really worked actually yet.”

“It was really interesting to see Elon reduce X by 80%. And then everybody else had numbers like eight or 10 or 15%. And Companies of the same generation with the same kind of growth with the same basically profile.”

“There was a bank that proposed a new charter where they were going to They were not going to lend, they were going to use zero leverage, so no risk, basically. They were going to only take deposits and lend out money that they actually had and at a ratio such …”

“We printed more money since 2009 than we did in the whole rest of the country's history combined.”

“I also think we need technological solutions, not just regulatory solutions for things like deep fakes that kind of help us get to, you know, what's human, what's not human. And interesting, a lot of those are kind of you know, viable now based on kind of bloc…”

“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.”

“44,000 white enlistees in twenty-eighteen and 25,000 in twenty-twenty-three, with the biggest drop-off coming between twenty-twenty-two and twenty-twenty-three.”

“Bitcoin started in 2008 and it's, you know, a piece of software and there's probably four engineers working on it at this point and there's no company and it's worth a trillion dollars.”

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

“First of all, like if you look at graduation rates or, you know, outcomes or so forth for diverse students are much worse than for your main students.”

“There was just a Report that like half of companies are dropping their like bachelor degree requirement, which kind of says, well, the credential no longer means much.”

“Universities rarely, you also have to understand almost never do layoffs. So they only get bigger.”

“They're far larger than the actual university kind of college program. You know, and they all have them. Harvard has it, you know, Columbia, et cetera. And They are mainly foreign students. So it's mainly like Chinese students... These schools, everybody pays …”