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Sacks: US must plan to sabotage Taiwanese chip factories if invaded
“Our military needs to have a plan to sabotage those chip factories, because we can't let them fall under the control of the CCP.”
Sacks calls Al Gore's climate change push a 1990s hoax
“This whole climate change thing was Al Gore's big hoax going back to the nineties.”
Sacks: Welfare entitlement fraud may be connected to stolen elections
“And some of this is even connected, I think, to voter fraud. So you're talking about here, stolen money, maybe leading to stolen elections.”
Sacks claims Biden's AI mandates were designed for long-term ideological indoctrination
“By the way, in my opinion, That was the end game for the Biden approach of requiring DEI values in these models.”
Sacks: Russiagate was effectively a coup against Donald Trump
“It was effectively a coup against the president of the United States, because these were executive branch officials who owe a duty of loyalty to the elected president. Instead, they were working to subvert and undermine him based on Essentially lies and hoaxes…”
Sacks: There is no democracy in Ukraine right now
“There is no democracy in Ukraine right now. There's just not.”
Sacks characterizes Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as a military dictator
“He's a military dictator.”
Sacks: Federal agencies are executing political reprisals against opponents
“They're using the agencies of the federal government to exact reprisals against their political opponents.”
Sacks: President Biden provoked the proxy war in Ukraine
“Well, I would argue that Biden provoked the proxy war in Ukraine.”
Sacks: Gemini's flaws accurately reflect the political biases of its creators
“This idea that Gemini turned out this way by accident or because they didn't, because they rushed it out. I don't really believe that. I believe that what happened is Gemini accurately reflects the biases of the people who created it.”
Sacks: Vladimir Putin is a rational actor, not a madman
“Whether or not you believe everything that Putin said, my takeaway is that this was a rational actor. This was not a madman. This is somebody who we could have negotiated with.”
Sacks names Volodymyr Zelenskyy as biggest political loser of 2023
“My biggest loser in politics for this year is Vladimir Zelensky, the president of Ukraine.”
Sacks: Mainstream media conspiracy theories can be as dangerous as Alex Jones'
“The mainstream media promotes a lot of conspiracy theories, and some of those theories, if acted upon by crazy people, would be just as dangerous as the things that Alex Jones has said.”
Sacks: US failure to respect spheres of influence caused Ukraine war
“Our foreign policy establishment cannot comprehend that other great powers want a similar Monroe Doctrine. I think that was a huge contributor to the war we have in Ukraine right now.”
Sacks: Hersh report alleging U.S. Nord Stream sabotage is plausible
“I lean towards thinking it's more plausible than not.”
Sacks: Twitter's undisclosed moderation is an FTX-level free speech fraud
“This is an FTX level fraud, except that what was stolen here was not customer funds, it was their free speech rights.”
Sacks: US State Department failed to avoid war by refusing NATO guarantees
“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.”
Sacks: The New York Times acts as the woke mob's enforcement wing
“They are the enforcement wing of the woke mob.”
Sacks: Big Tech committed massive 2020 election interference censoring Hunter Biden
“The scale interference in the election was committed by big tech. I mean, they censored the Hunter Biden story two weeks before the election.”
Sacks: EcoHealth's Peter Daszak helped unleash COVID-19 and is 2021's worst human
“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.”
Sacks: Twitter censorship principles exist solely to suppress opposing political views
“These censorship principles only exist so the employees of the company can censor one side of the debate that they don't agree with.”
Sacks: The public school system is the primary cause of structural racism
“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…”
Sacks: Facebook whistleblower leaks were an orchestrated political hit
“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.”
Sacks: Gavin Newsom is one of the most corrupt governors ever
“He is one of the most corrupt governors we've ever had.”
Sacks calls wearing masks after vaccination the blue equivalent of MAGA hats
“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.”
Sacks: AI doomer campaigns aim to establish federal AI regulator
“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.”
Sacks: Anthropic faces severe product liability from internal doom warnings
“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…”
Sacks: OpenAI is pursuing regulatory capture to secure a duopoly moat
“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…”
Sacks: Anthropic embraces AI doomer warnings to advance regulatory capture strategy
“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 …”
Sacks: Colin Kaepernick ad marked the beginning of Nike's downfall
“I think that if you were to pinpoint the beginning of the downfall, that was it.”
Sacks: US Venezuela oil agreement is purely a business deal, not nation building
“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'…”
Sacks: Backing Machado in Venezuela would risk deploying US troops
“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 …”
Sacks: No founder has amplified AI fears more than Dario Amodei
“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.”
Sacks: Frontier AI intelligence is now an Anthropic-OpenAI duopoly
“Now we're really down to just anthropic and open AI. So the market for frontier intelligence has become a duopoly.”
Sacks: Anthropic shows breathtaking hypocrisy by blocking training on its model output
“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…”
Sacks: Anthropic is seeking regulatory capture and government protection
“Anthropic is guilty of regulatory capture of attempts to seek government protection.”
Sacks: Anthropic is principally responsible for state AI regulatory frenzy
“Anthropic was principally responsible for the state regulatory frenzy that is damaging the startup ecosystem.”
Sacks: AI CEOs are driving public anxiety by scaring people needlessly
“Look, this is all downstream. This is all downstream of the fact that these AI CEOs have been scaring the daylights out of the public with respect to AI.”
Sacks: Bernie Sanders' AI wealth fund proposal is property confiscation
“Well, I'm not in favor of Bernie's proposal because it's a straight up confiscation of property, and I just think that'd be a terrible precedent.”
Sacks: Data does not support predictions of AI job loss apocalypse
“Now, the job loss apocalypse is not a story I believe in. I don't think the data supports it.”
Sacks: Anthropic is hypocritical for hiring Karpathy while warning of recursive AI risk
“You know, last week they published this blog saying that recursive self-improvement could end the world. Therefore we need a pause. What did they do the previous month? They hired Andre Karpathy to run recursive self-improvement. Ananthropic. They're complete …”
Sachs: Anthropic has a pattern of using fear to market products
“These guys, I'm not saying it's not sincere, but they have a proven pattern of using fear as a way to market their new products.”
Sacks: Anthropic's AI policy advocacy is regulatory capture
“Regardless, I do think it is a form of regulatory capture because it plays into the hands of the big companies and creates moats that new entrants will not be able to Overcome.”
Sacks: Anthropic operates a ruthless political smear operation in Washington
“Anthropic may pose is this company that's on the side of the angels, but they've hired a number of very seasoned brass knuckle political operatives in Washington and, you know, members of the Biden administration, Laura Loomer actually just had a piece today o…”
Sacks: NYT selectively targets right-coded tech figures in Epstein coverage
“The New York Times clearly has a list of people they consider approved targets. They're all right-coded. People like Elon or Peter Thiel and even J. Cal, Because of his association with us, I guess, and they become the targets, but the people who've donated hu…”