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“At Figma, we said, hey, if you are using AI in your writing of any kind, just put at the top, written with AI. Very simple, very easy to follow. And people made jokes about it internally, but people do it. And it makes it so that we can all trust that when we see something, we know that it's been cared for enough that it's worth your time to process. And I think that we're going to see some bifurcation here around trust.” — Dylan Field, All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg “I used to believe even a few years ago, I said it at our annual user conference Config: I said the ceiling will be raised by AI. You'll be able to do greater things than before. That was wrong. The ceiling has stayed the same. AI is not raising the ceiling. Humans are raising the ceiling, though.” — Dylan Field, All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg “At this point, because AI has become so good at programming, I don't think that CUDA is necessarily their moat or it's not a moat that will stand. At this point, I think their biggest moat is the amount of cash that they have.” — Rakesh Kumar, Newt's World “Imagine a Bloomberg news or Reuters news digest each day going out, but in place of your spot oil prices and election results and statements from Angela Merkel or something, you just have dozens and dozens of right-wing YouTube channels supporting theories about bioweapons labs in Ukraine. … It is this funhouse mirror version of news media.” — Paul Mozur, The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon Edition “I don't mind bubbles. I know bubbles have a negative connotation, but bubbles are not a bad thing as long as there is clear physical build-out that happens accompanying bubbles that helps the society. … Today, more than half of UK's railway network is still from those days of railway mania.” — Rakesh Kumar, Newt's World “One of the greatest things about this national security approach is it's actually a really affordable national security approach. You know, for the price of two F-35s, you can prevent the need for any F-35s by stopping the wars before they start, by attacking the corruption, by deterring.” — Paul Massaro, The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon Edition “He had four preconditions. One is: look, the next model has to require fewer GPUs than the last. And not like a little fewer, but like a lot fewer … Then the second thing is the next model has to take less time to train … And then the accuracy of the next model has to be better than the last. … And then finally, it's got to keep happening again and again and again. Zero of those four have been met.” — Ben Horowitz, All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg “We're effectively like in 1999 and 2000 in the internet media world where everybody just works on CPM. … Right now it's cost per million input tokens. … When Google invented and scaled AdWords and AdSense, the market exploded. Because we went from buying a thousand ads to just getting an outcome. Right now we buy a million tokens. We will eventually move to an outcome.” — Chamath Palihapitiya, All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg “Actually demand for coders is increasing, even though 95% of the code is written by coding assistants. And the reason for that is, well, first of all, you still have that 5%, and that 5% is of a much bigger pie.” — David Sacks, All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg “In 1999, bandwidth was $1,500 a megabit. And it was very hard to get it. And so you had to get a long-term contract, three years. By 2001, it was $50 a megabit. So if you were holding bandwidth, and you borrowed money to get it, you're dead. You're dead.” — Ben Horowitz, All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg “The SpaceX prospectus is truly the first real blueprint for what is the East India company of space… The bottom rung is space launch capability. Right now, SpaceX launches 80% of the mass in space. Its next closest competitor is the government of China, and it's not close.” — Josh Tyrangiel, Prof G Media “In the past, we've mostly seen the government taking shares in companies or mandating production of certain items really only in two kinds of settings. One is during wartime, and the other is during a serious financial or other kind of crisis like COVID… What we're seeing today is where it's being used basically in peacetime with no real end in sight.” — Ashley Deeks, The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon Edition “For an actor, for a character, it's the best because you always want to be losing. Losing is way more interesting than someone who's winning all the time. Winning is boring to watch, but to lose, that was so humiliating.” — Keri Russell, On with Kara Swisher “Imagine if we learned that the American academic community developed a disease such that they had a chronic fatigue disorder and had to sleep for 30% of the year. … We'd say, well, God, we have to cure this disease. In this case, we made the disease. The disease is the paperwork that we're forcing these scientists to fill out.” — Derek Thompson, Plain English with Derek Thompson “PG&E, our utility in Northern California, has doubled its rates over the last decade while service has only gotten worse. Why? Well, because they haven't been able to actually build that transmission and that generation to lower prices for everybody. And that's all because it can take three to four times longer to plan and permit a project as it actually takes to build it. That's bonkers.” — Josh Harder, Plain English with Derek Thompson “We're definitely in the manic phase. 1871 was maybe the point at which you could have said this is perfectly rational and it's reasonable. By the end of 1872, we'd exceeded all bounds. So I'm sure that we have entered the manic phase.” — Liaquat Ahamed, Prof G Media “I fear that it's going to take a Hiroshima Nagasaki type event for everybody to wake up. And I fear that that will be the reckoning for us to find accountability. But clearly, these people elude accountability and deflect accountability and are, in a sense, post-accountability.” — Jeremy Strong, On with Kara Swisher “All I can do is offer an opinion about AI as it pertains to my field. And it's that I'm optimistic, actually, because I think the audience is going to reject it. I think that if you play Call of Duty, you don't have an emotional connection to the people you're shooting in Call of Duty. That's going to be your experience watching AI Schindler's List.” — Aaron Sorkin, On with Kara Swisher “I don't think there'll be a single AI-relevant drug in the next 10 years. AI does not help drug discovery. … It's pretty hard to do. And we've had computers for a long time. I built a Cray cluster to analyze drugs. Now I can use GPUs. It's great. But there isn't much AI can help us with in drug discovery.” — Martin Shkreli, All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg “Yeah, I've been shorting them. Unfortunately, we lost millions of dollars shorting quantum computing companies, but I told my wife that we gained billions in insight.” — Martin Shkreli, All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg “If there's one thing that we could all do that will both strengthen our bonds, build better communities, and boost happiness, it's introducing our friends to each other. It turns out that building bridges is actually more rewarding than deepening bonds.” — Adam Grant, Plain English with Derek Thompson “I worry a lot that increasingly people are defaulting to AI companions, which I actually think is an oxymoron. I don't think a chatbot can be a companion because by definition, companionship is a two-way street. You could receive simulated emotional support… But guess what? You can't give it back.” — Adam Grant, Plain English with Derek Thompson “It would be a historical anomaly if we did not see the use of bioweapons in the upcoming years, not decades, but years. That is what history has taught us: that engineering of natural sciences inevitably leads to the use of weapons.” — Ashish Jha, Plain English with Derek Thompson “No one talks to Google in complete sentences. No one says, hey, Google, I have a question about the capital of Australia. Could you please let me know what that is? No, they just type in Australia Capital Enter, right? Because we don't anthropomorphize that particular AI-based system. … The era of anthropomorphized chatbots was an accident.” — Cal Newport, Prof G Media “If you think that SpaceX is really worth $2.3 trillion, which is where it is today, it's because you think Elon Musk is some kind of anomalous genius. And if you don't think that, you should not be in the shares because ... it would be breaking all of the rules of finance as we know them.” — John Foley, Prof G Media “JSOC is an industrial level killing machine, but do you want to apply it to every problem? The answer, of course, is no. And people in JSOC know that as much as anybody else.” — Peter Bergen, The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon Edition “It's kind of childish to think that a fairly major nuclear-armed power is just going to do what we want them to do.” — Peter Bergen, The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon Edition “Belief is an active ingredient in AI success. You have to believe that the scaling laws will continue, that putting billions or trillions of dollars into building data centers and acquiring compute will pay off. … The belief is the enabling force that allows you to win. And if you don't have it, no amount of technical expertise can save you.” — Kevin Roose, Plain English with Derek Thompson “The people at DeepMind just said, like, that's crazy. You cannot build super intelligence out of Reddit posts. Like, it's just not going to happen. And they were wrong.” — Kevin Roose, Plain English with Derek Thompson “I say it on occasion, just wanting a little bit more love than my brothers got. Just a teeny bit on occasion. And that's a hell of an engine.” — Ari Emanuel, On with Kara Swisher

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