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“Philanthropy is really that, like, last line of defense, as it were, where you've both got a kind of market failing and democratic failing, and I think that applies for people in very poor countries who, you know, they don't get a vote over who's U.S. Presiden…”

“My general proposition I've been saying for years is, if the data can be collected, and if it can be used to make profits, it's gonna be used for that by people, unless The government stops it.”

“If you enable a back door, which is what some governments are requesting it is really naive to think that that back door would only be accessed by that government who wants it.”

“Boeing spent many, many tens of billions of dollars on share repurchases. I do think, you know, if Buffett doesn't want to, the government shouldn't come in on terms that are more favorable than where Warren Buffett would provide the company with capital”

“Picking winners and saying, I want this technology to be developed by such and such a date has a pretty awful track record and is likely to end up by the losers picking the governments. In other words, you know, the wrong people end up getting the grants and t…”

“If we didn't have all these social contact tools, then maybe we'd never have locked down. You know, we just couldn't do it. In which case, of course, the epidemic would have been worse. But to some extent, as it were the existence of the video conferencing and…”

“There's probably nothing more lonely than being in a bad relationship or a bad marriage. Being lonely Has a sense of powerlessness attached to it. It's a sense you lack agency. It's about wanting to feel connected. Typically we think of loneliness as being wan…”

“The way that our system is based is academia study something. They write up a paper, the media reports on it, and then the government regulates on that basis. It, that is the sense in which our society is based on quote science. And if you think about it, almo…”

“Like, they're not going to be able to ban it now. It's going to be harder to ban it. If enough members of the elite have sort of defected and are making money from this, only the sort of retro authoritarian chunk, which is Only about 30% of the population. It'…”

“This crackdown demonstrated insecurity. When you need to do something like that it indicates that you feel you can't just, you know, go and put out a megaphone and be like, hey, people, I'm listening to you know, we'll figure it out, and there's a mutual trust…”

“The difference, though, is that there are very few feedback loops for the government. So one of the early kind of theories that I pull from a lot of sociocracy and the guy that kind of created the modern version of it talked about feedback constantly as like t…”

“It's costly to be public. And it slows you down, and you're, ah, and you're a target for everybody. Public companies attract government.”

“They made so much money that the government told them that they were too profitable.”

“People need to know what rules are government imposing on the AI companies and what instructions are they giving the companies? All of that should be publicly known. We don't want sort of backroom manipulations to be allowed.”

“I came to believe that the government running the schools was sort of the essence of the problem and that it would be better and more effective to have non-profits. Like, if you look at the university sector, you know, and all of our top universities, they're …”

“The only thing that's unique about government is that it has the legal power to apply force. That's it. There are plenty of other decision-making bodies, associations, governance structures around society But they're not governments because they cannot apply f…”

“Governments, pharmaceutical companies, and a whole group of parasitical interest groups have created this crisis and perpetuated it.”

“There's no need for government to be the provider of media. when people can, you have a, this is a media outlet right now. Why is it that you need the government to do what other people, with people, free citizens, Can do for themselves. And the answer is tha…”

“Like, I, at this point, I think stable coins will get there faster than the government will be able to do it.”