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“They got really bad on many fronts at the same time. And so just relieving that and getting back to a reasonably optimistic, constructive, pro-growth frame of mind, there’s so much pent-up energy and potentially in the American system, that alone is going to, I think cause growth and spirit to take off.”
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
“We’ve got the best artists in the world, creative professionals, the best movies. So yeah, I would say all of our problems, I think are basically, in my view, to some extent, attempts to basically sand all that off and make everything basically boring and mediocre.”
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
“We have our issues and we have, I would say particular issue with manufacturing, which we could talk about.”
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
“You’ve mentioned in the past the book The Ancient City by, if I could only pronounce the name, French historian Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges. I don’t know.”
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
“Wow, that meme came and went. I think you were central to them. You’re central to a lot of memes.”
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
“I think what I realized is that I just have a very different perspective on some of these things, and the reason is because of the combination of where I came from and then where I ended up.”
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
“As you said about the 800, so I took the SAT and the ACT many times, and I’ve always gotten perfect on math, 800. And I’m not special, it doesn’t identify genius, I think you want to search for genius.”
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
“I think your profile on X states, it’s time to build. It feels like 2025 is a good year to build.”
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
“I think I speak for a lot of people that it has been a real joy and, for me, an honor to get to watch you seek to understand the human psyche as you described.”
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
“I don’t know if there’s parallels there, but I could also say just on a human level, he has a good heart and I interact with a lot of powerful people, and that’s not always the case.”
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
“The way to actually think about how to make a system work and maintain any shred of freedom is to actually understand that that is actually what’s happening.”
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
“Number one, it was obviously the rise of smartphones, then it was the rise of the new messaging services, then it was the rise specifically of I would say combination of WhatsApp and Signal.”
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
“I think you guys disagree on a lot of things, but I personally like vigorous disagreement, I, as a person in the stands, like to watch the gladiators go at it.”
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
“I feel like I spent my first whatever, 30 years figuring out machines, and then now I’m spending 30 years figuring out people, which turns out to be quite a bit more complicated. And then, I don’t know, maybe God’s the last 30 years or something.”
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
“Maybe it’s grounded in hope that I believe you can revolutionize a system from within, because I do believe Stanford and MIT are important.”
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
“I think anybody listening to this could name a series of slogans that we’ve all been forced to chant for the last decade that everybody knows at this point are just simply not true.”
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
“I think the taxpayers do not understand this level of crisis, and I think if the taxpayers come to understand it, I think the funding evaporates. And so I think the fuse is going through no fault of any of ours, but the fuse is going and there’s some window of time here to fix this and address it and justify the money because just normal taxpayers sitting in normal towns in normal jobs are not going to tolerate this for that much longer.”
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
“I agree with that, up to a point. So, I think, for sure, for quite a long time, the people who are good at coding are going to be the best at actually having AIs code things, because they’re going to understand what, very basic, they’re going to understand what’s happening.”
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
“Balance the powers. But the other way they did it was they echoing what had been done earlier I think in the UK Parliament, they created the two different bodies of the legislature.”
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
“You know how I think runs it? Whoever the fuck says they run it, that’s what great leadership is.”
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
“I agree with you that the situation is dire, but I just think that institutions are important.”
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
“Individualism in America probably peaked, I think between roughly call it the end of the Civil War, 1865 through to probably call it 1931 or something.”
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
“I think what happens is they conform to the belief system around them, and I think most of the time they’re not even aware that they’re basically part of a herd.”
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
“The counter argument to that is I do think a lot of how Elon is causing change in the world right now … There’s the companies he’s running directly where I think he’s doing very well, and we’re investors in multiple of them and doing very well.”
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
“I would just say, I think the way to look at that … And look, like I said, I don’t want to predict what’s going to happen once this whole thing starts unfolding.”
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
“Actually, that’s worth noting is that’s another trillion-dollar question on AI, which is in a world of pervasive AI, and especially in a world of AI agents, and imagine a world of billions or trillions of AI agents running around, they need an economy. And crypto, in our view, happens to be the ideal economic system for that, because it’s a programmable money.”
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
“If you have, the people I know who feel that way are pretty centered and generally seem very, I don’t know how to put it, pleased, proud, calm, at peace.”
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
“The thing that the tenured professors at all these places know is it doesn’t matter who the president is because they can outlast them because they cannot get fired.”
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
“About 20, 30-year-old book, but it’s completely modern and current in what it talks about as well as very deeply historically informed. So it’s called Private Truths, Public Lies, and it’s written by a social science professor named Timur Kuran, at I think Duke, and his definitive work on this.”
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
“We built an ossified system, an ossified, centralized, corrupt system, where we’re surprised by the results.”
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
“I would say, I’m not going to predict, I’m going to say there’s questions all over the place. And we have this category of question we call the trillion-dollar question, which is literally, depending on how it’s answered, people make or lose a trillion dollars, and I think there’s, I don’t know, five or six trillion questions right now, that are hanging out there, which is an unusually large number.”
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
“My serious observation would be it’s the thing I’ve talked to him about for a long time, and I keep trying to read and follow everything he does, is he’s probably, he is the, I think, see if you agree with this, he is the smartest and most credible critic of LLMs as the path for AI.”
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
“To play devil’s advocate in all this, in terms of national immigration issues, none of this is a top end issue, just because the numbers are small, and so I don’t think, the administration has said this is not a priority of theirs for right now.”
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
“I think, again, I think the way to do it is to look at these issues combined, look at DEI combined with high-skilled immigration.”
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
“The voters actually have a voice and they actually exercise it, and they don’t just listen to ads. And so again, there, I would say, yeah, clearly there’s some power there, but I don’t know if it’s some weapon that he can just turn on and use in a definitive way.”
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
“I think you said something actually quite profound there, which is the ring of power is infinitely tempting.”
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
“I think that most people just go along, and I think even most high status people just go along. And I think maybe the most high status people are the most prone to just go along because they’re the most focused on status.”
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- Lex Fridman Podcast