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Reses: Claims of systematic industry 'debanking' are an absolute crock
“Okay, I don't believe there was debanking. I think it's a crock of shit. I think it's an absolute crock of shit.”
Adcock claims Figure's internal AI team was running circles around OpenAI
“It got to a point where we were just like, our team internally that was designing these models were running circles around OpenAI. We were just way better at this. And we were better about testing on the robots, training the models, like all, all of it.”
Rabois: Opendoor should cut headcount from 1,400 to 200–300 max
“There's 1400 employees. There should be like more like 200 or 300 max”
Sadeghi: Nucleus is the first company to optimize embryos for IQ
“This is the first time a company has partnered with a couple who have optimized their embryos on the basis of intelligence.”
Biden administration delayed Starliner rescue to deny Elon Musk a political win
“The Biden administration clearly turned that down because they didn't want to give SpaceX a political, an Elon, a political win against Boeing in the midst of the, you know, campaign was campaigning for Trump.”
Armstrong: The New York Times is a political propaganda arm
“In my view, the New York Times is more of like a political propaganda arm than it is doing any real journal, journalism at this point.”
Goldstein: Competitor weaponized the government by framing Archer engineer as a spy
“If, in America, I didn't think it was possible for a competitor to weaponize the government to come after you. And we saw that. It was unbelievable. It was you know, one of my engineers was set up to look like he was like a Chinese spy, and it was totally fake…”
Michael: Pete Hegseth is already the greatest Defense Secretary in our lifetimes
“Pete Hegsus, I think, is going to be, and is already, probably the greatest Secretary of War in our lifetimes.”
Karp: No expert class has been right about anything in 20 years
“I can't think of any expert class that's been right about anything substantive in the last 20 years.”
Vasavada: GPs expensing private jets to investment funds is a scam
“And then what a lot of GPs do or a lot of managers do is they actually expense these planes or the operating costs from their fund. Which is, I feel like a complete scam, but you can basically deduct The cost of operating an aircraft from the actual fund, whic…”
Sadeghi: Patients, not doctors, should use genetic data to select embryos
“We believe that every piece of information from cancer to IQ to schizophrenia belongs very thoughtfully in the hands of the patient, and the patient is the one, not the doctor, that the patient is the one that should pick their embryo.”