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“The raid on Lindisfarne in 793 is what we call the official start of the Viking Age.”

“It's likely that Ragnar is a collection of the deeds of several different Viking leaders.”

“The longship could sail across oceans but also navigate tiny rivers deep into Europe.”

“The berserkers worked themselves into a frenzy where they were seemingly impervious to pain.”

“For the Norse, your physical body dies, but your reputation lives on forever.”

“And we've learned a ton from founders like Edwin Land, who transformed photography really by focusing on building amazing products and thinking about, you know, how to make sure those products fit into people's lives and uplifted humanity. I think, you know, if you look at instant photography and the role that that played in people's lives, Edwin thought of the camera as something that was incredibly personal. Right? And and I think, as we've looked at the sort of trajectory of technology over the long arc of time, technology gets more and more and more and more personal.”

“One of my frustrations or disappointments with the way that computers have been built over time is that they actually pulled us away from one another. So growing up, during lunch, rather than being on the recess yard running around with my friends, I was so inspired by what computers could do. I was obsessed with computers. So I was in the computer lab all day long. And computers, I think, you know, whether it was the mainframe or the desktop, you know, have have sort of pulled us away from one another, away from society, brought us indoors.”

“I mean, even basic things like opening into the camera. Right? It opens into your experience of the world. Right? Not, you know, a feed of content from other people, not a a messaging feed alerting you to what other people are sending you. It literally opens into your experience. And so from the very beginning, we've thought about, like, how do we ground your experience of computing, like, in what what is right in front of you in the present moment and inspire you to create from that.”

“But the second thing you said, which which is so funny, my daydreaming right now, especially as we think about glasses and the future of computing, is really, like, what if aliens are watching Earth right now and they're, like, terrified that smartphones have, like, taken over humanity, that, like, we're spending all day long, like, caring for these things and, like, plugging them in and, like, tending to them and, like, our lives are all oriented around, like, these little screens, and, like, what would aliens do?”

“I like that he had a commitment beyond just, like, you know, his customers and creativity and these sorts of things. He really wanted to participate in building a better world, and and took that really seriously. And then I think if you look at a lot of his, you know, a lot of the the investments he made around his laboratories and around his innovation, he was he was famous, actually, and and back then, this was quite unique, famous for uplifting women in those research roles. Right? And I think, like, he was a real champion of talent.”

“And then they realized, oh no, this is what they do. They go deep into the woods in public land and they set up a grow-op and they got fucking AKs and they got, you know, the Virgin Mary photos that they pray to at night. It's crazy. Like full on campsites filled with cartel dudes, they started turning into a tactical team. So this guy had to get Belgian Malinois and bulletproof vests and they're getting shootouts with the cartels in the middle of the woods.”

“It would take the place of so many different pharmaceutical drugs, and that's a big part of the problem. The other part of the problem is the alcohol industry. They've done studies. They know. They lobby. They work on it hard. They do not want marijuana becoming legalized in the whole nation. Alcohol is way worse. Way worse.”

“And they're using all these crazy pesticides and herbs that are totally illegal, fucking super toxic shit, shit that's outlawed on farms in America, but it's effective. And so they're using it. So you're getting this weed that's infected with these pesticides and herbs. There's no rules, man. It's illegal weed. If they had it legal, you could have inspectors who could check the farms and the factories.”

“For 13 fucking years, alcohol was illegal in this country. You know how crazy that is, a grown man telling you you can't have a drink? It's exactly the same thing. We're just delusional about it. And we put it under the label drug, which is alcohol. Alcohol is a drug, dummy. It's a drug. There's a lot of drugs. Caffeine is a drug.”

“Thank you, Talios from Asapiko Park in Mineola. I have my own Serra slice. It's the best fucking, it'll knock your dick off. It's the best slice. I put it up against any slice that you could give me. Caputo flour from Italy. No bromate, no preservatives. Sicilian oregano. We have some beautiful fiordilate fresh mozzarella. Just wait for the fucking pesto.”

“Our old friend would be so happy. Not just that picture, but so much that you've done.”

“She taught me everything about how to run a club, how to do it right. Basically, kind of let the comedians run it, let the inmates run the asylum.”

“I think it frees us up in a way. I'll say things and try things and not worry about seeing them on YouTube when they're not ready or when I've made a mistake.”

“The problem when I do that, when I get no sleep, is my memory is dog shit. Like I have a really good memory and a terrible memory.”

“Creatine is not just a supplement for muscles. Creatine is actually a really good cognitive function supplement. It's actually a cognitive enhancing supplement.”

“You feel it in your tissues, man. It's like you feel it's really good for coordination exercise... you feel all the fibers of all your shit moving.”

“They are stating that the AI-fueled stock market bubble is going to burst starting right now in 2026. Their thesis is that starting in 2026, those spectacular gains are going to unwind precipitously because rising interest rates and a higher, stickier inflation rate will essentially act as gravity on these sky-high equity valuations.”

“When you buy a tech stock at a massive premium, you're basically buying the promise of huge profits 10 or 15 years in the future. But if interest rates are high today, the mathematical value of those future profits shrinks drastically. When Capital Economics says inflation is sticky, they are saying the easy money era is over, which means the justification for these astronomical tech valuations evaporates.”

“Bridgewater Associates has executed a massive portfolio pivot that completely contradicts the mainstream narrative. We are talking about cutting their holdings in Meta by over 46 percent, alphabet position by 40 percent, and they even cut Microsoft by 10 percent. These are the companies that completely defined the 2024 and 2025 bull run.”

“The core issue they are pointing to is the infrastructure cost. If the cost of building out the servers, the power grids and the massive data centers for AI outpaces the actual dollars and cents it generates in revenue, the math simply stops working. It becomes a black hole for capital.”

“Private equity firms are lending billions of dollars to AI start-ups entirely outside the purview of traditional banking regulators. If one major AI start-up defaults on that private debt because their models don't generate the promised revenue, the contagion in that unregulated debt market could be incredibly rapid and entirely opaque until it is far too late.”

“SpaceX filed, confidentially, to go public on April 1st, targeting a $1.75 trillion with a T valuation. When SpaceX goes public, if it's at that $1.75 trillion valuation, so weird to say trillion dollar valuation for an IPM, they would be the eighth largest company in the world, right behind TSMC and Saudi Aramco. They're aiming to raise Chamath $75 billion, which would be by far the biggest raise ever in an IPO.”

“But the most important positive thing that will happen from the IPO is a validated external mark-to-market valuation of SpaceX. And the market every day in real time gives you a valid mark-to-market assessment of the value of Tesla. And this allows you to put these two things together to minimize these losses. And I think that that's what Elon really needs. It'll make his life tremendously simpler from a governance perspective.”

“Getting to the moon, I think, is going to be very important, not just because there's this important social milestone and race happening on right now with China, but I think the moon could end up being kind of the next industrial frontier for humanity. And the reason is, if you can get to the moon, the moon has an extraordinary abundance of material that we can mine, process and manufacture into goods.”

“And the autonomous competency is what led to the robotics revolution. And the robotics revolution, even if the socialists ban robotics on earth and tell us no robots allowed, they're taking all the jobs, you could ship all those robots to the moon and they could get to work and create an entirely new manufacturing frontier for our civilization, for humanity. That frontier can manufacture precious metals and other goods and ship them back.”

“SpaceX has also created, and this is going to be a big part of the valuation analysis that many are doing, they've created a backup to the Internet. The Internet is fundamentally limited by all of the nodes on the network and the connectivity amongst all those nodes, and that connectivity is largely driven by copper and fiber optic cable. So in space, with the number of satellites going up with Starlink, and to actually deploy data centers that can output data on those nodes.”

“Silicon Valley didn't just predict the importance of defense in the 2020s. It largely took the exact wrong position, the opposite position. First of all, you have obvious examples like big technology companies explicitly refusing to do work with the Department of Defense. Google is one big example, but the worst examples are really in the startups that don't exist because people didn't want to even get into such a controversial space lest it ruin their careers.”

“The vast majority of conversations that we had were about whether or not it was even ethically okay to ever build a company that would build weapons. And the people who turned us down, the ones who decided not to invest in Anduril, actually believed that we had a good team and good people and good product market fit. The issue is that they thought that it was inherently wrong to build tools capable of being used for violence because they believed that the idea of deterring violence through having a strong arsenal was fundamentally obsolete and itself wrong.”

“The United States military and the prime contractors that dominate the military industrial complex have none of the right tools, talent or incentives to apply autonomy to the systems they do. There's no reason to save costs because they don't get paid for making things that work. They get paid for doing work. And in a world where you get more prestige and more money by having more people working on bigger things, there's no reason to use autonomy to reduce costs and increase capability.”

“The reality is that that's not where they're going to fight us. They're going to arm proxies or if they engage directly, they're going to use technologies that give them an asymmetrical advantage in the areas where we are the least competent. These are the areas where they are putting a lot of their resources. The reason that Vladimir Putin is saying that the ruler of the world is going to be the country that masters artificial intelligence is because he thinks that that is one of the only ways that they're going to be able to get the best of us.”

“The United States has the strongest commercial artificial intelligence industry in the world, followed closely by China. But at the same time, the United States military and the prime contractors that dominate the military industrial complex have none of the right tools, talent or incentives to apply autonomy to the systems they do. There's more better AI in John Deere tractors than there is in any US military vehicle. There's better computer vision in the Snapchat app on your phone than any system that the US Department of Defense has deployed.”

“Yeah, I just want to say there's about 10% AI in the film, but there's 90% blender. And that's actually handmade CGI. So everything you see is all handmade. And even the de-aging of Bob Lazar, we scanned Bob. We went over to his house, scanned his face, took a process of de-aging him through that, then creating a digital model of Bob in different ages, and then placing him in the environment.”

“So, late 80s, you've essentially told the exact same story all these years. And then, within the last, you know, nine, ten years, we've started to get all these reports. There was the New York Times story. There was the GoFast video and the FLIR video and all these videos that show a craft that's moving the way you described this sport model moving.”

“It really made a big difference when he showed me some things and, you know, walking down the corridor here and turn, oh, stop. Wait, there's another door there. I mean, it was like I was going back into the facility and really brought. I mean, actually seeing it again really brought some things back that I had completely forgotten about.”

“I guess these guys were lifers though. I mean, they spent most of their time there. They spent at least two weeks at a time and one week off. So they stayed at the base. I mean, these guys were hardcore. I had just come in on the project, you know? So, I don't know. I don't know what happened to them. I'd love to know. I suspect that Dennis Mariani, my supervisor, died.”

“It's amazing because you've told the same one for all these years. It's also not normal. Like, normally, when people lie, they get bored with the same lie and then they come up with another lie. And there's some other stories. Eventually, you catch them. There's some cockamamie new thing that they come up with. And it's the type of people that are that deceptive.”

“AI tools are now embedded in daily workflows, but many workers aren't sure how to adapt. From ChatGPT to Microsoft Copilot, AI is showing up in your email, your documents, even your meetings, and you may have noticed, but you're already working with AI.”

“Before AI, a lot of work I was doing through Excel was manual, right? Trying to make sure that all people were tracking everything from sourcing a product, managing that journey to its end user, et cetera. Now I literally can go into ChatGPT and explain to ChatGPT, this is what I'm looking for. It will create the exact same Excel document or better, and just give it to me.”

“I think this is where the human skills will become more valuable. So certain people you're saying, they're becoming like relying on the bots, and they can't articulate whatever message they want to articulate verbally, but they can easily go and ChatGPT and do what they need to. And that's where it's going to, in future, the people who are going to be far ahead are those who are going to have these skills which AI doesn't have.”

“Have you heard of dead internet theory, where essentially the internet devolves into a bot-driven AI landscape where the human interaction that we used to have growing up on the internet suddenly no longer exists. There’s going to be a new internet and the new internet is going to be human internet. You're going to sort of log on with some sort of human ID and it's only going to be humans talking to humans.”

“And I think that there's lots of talk about how AI is going to replace people's jobs and things like that. But I just think that those jobs will evolve, and then AI will potentially be a tool of that job. The same way that your app or your email is, and those sorts of things already are. They haven't replaced anyone. And I think that your job role as a person will just fundamentally change eventually.”