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“Next week I'm going to like MC a whole like nuclear conference and it's like the least heretical thing. It's all like government people and like companies and DCs and like, There's whole funds around this and stuff.”

“Microsoft, like, go in and pro bono get the government on the latest and greatest software. Like, just do whatever that work is instead of just continuing to start to charge XP licenses. Like, you have some sort of, like, moral duty. This is your way that you …”

“Smart, young people are going to want to work in the government for the first time just so that they can work under that sort of Elon religion, right?”

“Obviously this is going to be heavily, you know, purchased by the government first and then, you know, large corporations and, you know, industrial companies.”

“You can think about a lot of the government as just a wealth transfer, and the, but the way we transfer the money is not through the Andrew Yang UBI strategy, it's instead through a bullshit job. And I don't know if that's gonna go away. I think that might jus…”

“Over the next couple election cycles, both at the state level and the national level, I think we'll see that play out where the tribes have a big incentive and they have big balance sheets that they can go and start lobbying the government to say, Hey, we need…”

“You get to a scale, like, Teal scale or Elon scale. And yeah, the highest and best use of your energy is making sure the government is, is, is working in your interests and towards the same goals.”

“The government has been terrible about brush management because of environmental concerns.”

“There's no strategic purpose to owning crypto at the government level.”

“I would actually argue that it's harder to sell to the government than it is to build a product that's relevant to the government.”

“They have aging assets that are kind of infrequent. Like there's, you know, certain networks that just don't have a lot of assets and they're old and they're vulnerable to outages, whether it's like an intentional outage. You know, by somebody targeting that s…”

“Plaid sold, right? Plaid sold and the government stopped it. And I think that that was you know, to me, a interesting moment in The government getting involved in something that was debatable, and I think it also tells big companies, like, don't waste your tim…”

“It's governments and it's ones who are, who have a long tenure. You look at America, You know, the presidential cycle is four years. So, I don't know if that's necessarily long-term incentives.”

“Keep the government out of the application layer. Focus on the energy layer. Just work on driving down energy prices and let all the tech companies duke it out and they will be benefit beneficiaries of cheaper energy”

“My assumption is that, ah, the private company should have very little say in how the government uses those products”

“The goal isn't to, fine, we just won't use Anthropic. I do think the goal is to hurt Anthropic. And you're, if you're not going to be subservient to us, you're not going to be allowed to build a power base, period.”

“So there were two main sticking points that they went back and forth on no mass domestic surveillance and no fully autonomous lethal weapons.”

“Whichever way, like, the anthropic Pentagon stuff, like, evolves, like, I think it's very clear that this is not, like, the last time government deals will be made, right? Like, the OpenAI deal is not the last deal that OpenAI will make with the government.”

“There is new news from Michael Kratzios that the government seems to be taking anthropic and opening eyes messaging around distillation very seriously and is setting up a task force.”