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Lonsdale: Claudine Gay targeted Roland Fryer over police violence research
“And of course, Clyde and Gay, who at the time wasn't even president yet, but she was like a big internal African-American woman activists at Harvard. She went after him and she found a former student who, and she got the former student from like 10 years ago t…”
Lonsdale: Israel Will Keep Fighting and Completely Wipe Out Hamas
“The way it stands now is, is we're going to keep fighting. We're going to wipe out Hamas and hopefully we can work with others to have a government there. That's not, you know, does not allow terrorism.”
Lonsdale: Anti-Israel Hatred in Gaza Stems From School Indoctrination
“I think basically what creates a generation of civilians that hate Israel is you have the schools in that area have been run by people who teach people that Jews are pigs and Jews are wrong and our religion hates Jews.”
Lonsdale: Majority of Young Adults Dislike Jews for Their Success
“And now in 19 to 25 year olds, majority of them don't like Jews because we're successful.”
Lonsdale: Brands get 10x better sales using fit models over obese models
“One of the funny things, which I probably shouldn't say, but I will, is that we have consumer stuff we do sometimes, and a lot of the consumer companies I see around are starting to put, like, very obese people as their models, and I asked our partners who kno…”
Lonsdale claims BLM movement ideas caused thousands of additional Black deaths
“There's a lot of truth and positive parts of the BLM movement the last couple years, but it's actually led to thousands more deaths in the black community because of the things that it was pushing. Because of the bad ideas.”
Lonsdale: Robots will be able to perform any task within two years
“In the next couple years, robots are going to be able to do everything.”
Lonsdale: AI-native startups will crush incumbents by redesigning workflows from scratch
“It's so hard to like re-engineer how some of these things work based on what's possible today. That they're just going to get crushed by new companies started by younger people who are like, maybe not even younger necessarily, but people who are just doing thi…”
Lonsdale: Russia funded European green parties to halt fracking and eliminate competition
“They funded the green parties, they funded the protests, and they turned off fracking in Europe because it's so good for the environment. They tricked everyone because obviously they don't want competition.”
Lonsdale claims Biden's HUD forced facilities to allow drug use
“For a while, HUD, the national government was actually coming in under the Biden administration, and it was forcing people to allow people to use drugs in their treatment areas”
Lonsdale: Zuckerberg Built an 'Anti-Woke' School After Facebook's Became Far-Left
“He and a bunch of my friends have a school that's, like, sort of anti, anti-woke, because the school of Facebook was super woke, and so they all had to, like, build something else.”
Lonsdale: Competitors are weaponizing Reid Hoffman's politics against Joby
“One fund that put a billion dollars in is my friend. Michael Thompson, who he, you know, I feel like I'm friends with both sides, but I'm kind of on the moderate right, I'm on the right, and Michael is on the right, and his partner Reid Hoffman's on the left, …”
Lonsdale: Slow FDA review enables China to commercialize US biotech IP first
“We'll start something here that's based on a new breakthrough, a really important new target, and because the FDA is so slow, because it takes you a decade, and China only takes four or five years, they'll literally start something a few years after taking all…”
Lonsdale: Coinbase and Winklevosses refuse to hire Gensler's SEC staff
“They won't even hire anyone who worked with Gary on any of this stuff they were doing.”
Lonsdale: Harris-Warren price gouging proposal covers 23,000 large companies
“Well, if you look at the price gouging law that Kamala Harris and Senator Warren and all these people on the very extreme left were putting forward, it's actually something that applies to about 23,000 big companies, and it would give them a lot of arbitrary p…”
Lonsdale: US federal government abandoned merit-based testing 45 years ago
“So this was basically a form of DEI. It's like proto-DEI in the late seventies, and it was under Jimmy Carter's administration, and then eventually the courts pushed it and finalized it in the early eighties. So for 45 years, We haven't had merit-based tests i…”
Lonsdale: British intel chief believed Iran tricked US into Iraq war
“And one of my mentors ran British intelligence and was involved before the Iraq war in the U.S. And he tells me that the Iranians are very, very clever, the regime and certain people there. And he says that, that he believes from the best intelligence he saw, …”
Lonsdale: China Controls TikTok's Algorithms to Brainwash Tens of Millions of Americans
“Yeah, I would force them to divest of Tik Tok. I think that, I think that's fine for Americans own Tik Tok. I think right now, China controls the Tik Tok algorithms. I don't care if the guy's based in Singapore, some of the data's here. It's very clear China c…”
Lonsdale: China Is Likely to Launch a Military Strike Within Four Years
“I'm very concerned about the geopolitical situation with China and Russia and the potential of war. When I was in, you know, a country in Asia, I won't say the name, seeing our ambassador there, who's on the other political side, but a very smart guy. Even he …”
Lonsdale: China censors Hollywood films intended for US audiences
“They tell me there's two different looks that Chinese get for every one of their movies. One look is things where they say before it comes out, if you have to censor these or can't go to China, but the other look is things you have to censor for American audie…”
Lonsdale: US Pensions and Endowments Finance Chinese Military Innovation
“We have lots of U.S. Pensions, U.S. Endowments financing their military innovation right now still.”
Lonsdale: Ophthalmologist Lobbying Delayed AI Diabetic Retinopathy Approvals for Years
“Yeah, we did the first AI treatment for diabetic retinopathy with the company, and it took You know, because you can scan the eye and see if the diabetes might make them go blind, which you can then treat very, very affordably with AI. And it took us years to …”
Lonsdale: Populists will mismanage the AI workforce transition
“What's gonna happen is some crazy populists, both on the right and left, this is like a non-political comment, crazy populists want to manage it because they want the power, and then they're just gonna screw it up, right? And they're gonna steal.”
Lonsdale: Europe Is Poorer Than All US States Due to Slower Growth
“Which is what happened to Europe, by the way, is they don't realize they're the poorest relative to all of our states because we've just been growing so much faster for the generation.”
Lonsdale: Autonomous AI Agents Are Now Much Better Hackers Than Humans
“The new agents, actually, it turns out, are now much better hackers than people. They manage other agents. They do it.”
Lonsdale: Facebook asked Peter Thiel to be openly gay for diversity
“I remember they had to ask Peter Thiel if you, if he could be openly gay for the Facebook board because it was important to count for the number of people.”
Lonsdale: Mississippi has a higher GDP per capita than the UK
“And in Mississippi, I think, is our poorest state right nearby, and you think of Mississippi, and you don't think of wealthy people, and it's wealthier now than the UK, obviously.”
Lonsdale: Tech startup formations in China have collapsed over four years
“You've seen the number of tech starts have collapsed over the last four years in China.”
Lonsdale: Chinese models now dominate global open-source AI
“Their open source models in the world, for example, are now dominated by the Chinese.”
Lonsdale claims over 48 district attorneys funded the Wren Collective
“More than 48 DAs were caught specifically funding the Wren collective around this.”
Lonsdale: Venezuela is manufacturing weapons for United States adversaries
“It's producing with manufacturing plants, weapons for our adversaries.”
Lonsdale: Former SF DA Chesa Boudin Worked with Hugo Chavez
“Our recent DA in San Francisco, who we threw out of power chase a boot, and I guess worked with Chavez as did many other of the far left in the U S.”
Lonsdale: Protesters targeting Palantir are paid by the political left
“The protesters get paid by the left to do it, but then they're actually just encouraging you.”
Lonsdale: Palantir caught Chinese intelligence blackmailing employees to steal IP
“Obviously, you know, at Palantir, we catch them in the old days trying to steal stuff. And it's, it was interesting. The thing that really I've mentioned before, but that shocked me was there's people we knew and trusted from PhD programs who are working with …”
Lonsdale: Majority of Young People Taught Critical Frameworks Resent Jews
“19 and twenty-five-year-olds who've gone through the system, who have these frameworks, the majority of them have problems with Jews right now, which is terrifying to me.”
Lonsdale: Harvard's Jewish population fell from 20% to under 5%
“One, it used to be for a long time based on merit, over 20% Jewish. It's very clear that along with this other kind of anti-Semitic stuff that was like not okay for the people running it, and they, and they've pushed that down to, I think, under five percent n…”
Lonsdale: Top 100 universities will not hire non-leftist historians
“You can't get hired as a historian at any of the top hundred universities anymore if you're not kind of on one side of things”
Lonsdale: Xi Jinping will shut down TikTok rather than allow a sale
“I think because this is such a powerful tool for the CCP that Xi Jinping will not allow it to be Sold out of his control and we'll turn it off instead.”
Lonsdale: Palantir partnered with special operations to eliminate thousands of terrorists
“And I know what this means, because obviously building Palantir, we partnered to help you know, use a lot of very advanced techniques in partnership with special operations forces to wipe out Several thousand terrorists.”
Lonsdale: Epirus shot down drones 9.5 times farther than legacy contractors
“When we went head to head with them, we didn't just like beat them by a little bit. We shot down the hardened drones nine and a half times farther away. Same size, same power, nine and a half times, completely wiped the floor.”
Lonsdale: European civilization will decline over the next 20 to 30 years
“I did not see European civilization going the right way the next 20 or 30 years.”
Lonsdale: U.S. defense market will yield 7 to 10 new prime contractors
“I think there's probably the right answer for the U S it's not going to be like a thousand businesses or a hundred businesses. It's going to be like seven to 10 new primes.”
Joe Lonsdale: Palantir helped locate over 10,000 terrorists for elimination
“And so Palantir ended up, as you probably know, helping find like over 10,000 terrorists to be eliminated in those years.”
Lonsdale: US NGOs receive over $100B in government funding
“In this country, NGOs receive over a hundred billion dollars of funding from governments now. It's actually probably a lot higher than that.”
Lonsdale: Anduril integrated with Saronic in three days versus legacy primes
“So we have this company, Sironic, I think you're also just invested in them, that we helped, I helped build, and it's growing really fast for the Navy, and the people, they asked us to weaponize some of the autonomous vessels, and they, and so we reached out t…”
Lonsdale: Regulators destroyed PayPal's early competitors in Europe
“When we were building PayPal, I was a kid there Eliot Spitzer kept trying to destroy the company with regulation, and he came very close to doing so, and in Europe, there actually were companies that, that were destroyed by the regulators, so it's funny, like,…”
Joe Lonsdale Claims Massive Racial Disparities in Top-Level Math Achievement
“So I think right now, for example, between the races, maybe it's not comfortable, but Asians have 25% of them that score, you know, at the top level in math, whereas with Hispanics, it's two percent and blacks is one percent.”
Lonsdale: Palantir Helped Reduce IED Deaths in Iraq
“Palatine worked because we worked really closely with a lot of the special forces communities and the teams and people like that who were competent, and we helped go to Iraq, we helped reduce the number of IED deaths, and really kind of, you know, fix things, …”