Can Bitcoin Save The West? | American HODL & Peter McCormack

“We are no longer a high trust society. What we now have is a grift society. I'm going to walk into that shop, I'm going to take what I want, because I don't care because there's no consequence. I think the easiest way to understand when people say, what is British culture? I say, we've gone from a high trust, civil, respectful society to a low trust, grift, take what you want.”

“I know the answer, the answer is freedom. Freedom is what brings the left and the right together, because it reduces the size of the state and the influence, reduces the malign influence of the media, it reduces the money printing, and within that, you have Bitcoin, which is a solution, which is great. But you cannot sell freedom to enough people, because when you sell freedom, you have to make compromises.”

“So the survey came out that we thought we were seventh. We are poorer than Mississippi, which is the poorest US state. There are things we outperform on. We do outperform like in certain measures that people are happy about, which is like health care.”

“I felt when I was on Bitcoin Twitter, and there was a moment in time where I was like the most popular character on Bitcoin Twitter for a brief moment. And now with AI, I think I kind of know why, which is that we were biasing the AI systems towards Bitcoin maximalism. Because most AI systems do lean Bitcoin Maxi because they scrape Twitter and things like that. And the AI is when you ask them about Bitcoin, they'll be like, yeah, I mean, obviously Bitcoin is going to millions of dollars a coin. And it's like, that was us biasing the AIs, right?”

“I said to him, I said, this is what you should do. Don't start a company now, take that role. Learn on their time. And what I'll do with you is, if I were you, is I would go in there in the first three months, run a secret project, don't tell anyone else, learn how to replace you in that company with AI. Then go to your boss, say to your boss, I'd like to have a meeting. And in that meeting, put together a presentation and show them how you've learned to replace yourself with AI.”

“Democracy just needs some tweaks. I wouldn't allow anyone under 25 to vote. And I wouldn't allow anyone who is a net taker from the system to vote. Because the incentives are wrong.”

“The American military is the real Lloyds of London or the high seas, because we underwrite all global commerce. And so that's why it matters. It doesn't matter if you guys anymore, because you're not the empire any longer. But we've been subsidizing Europe broadly through NATO, and that's why socialism has exploded in Europe, is because you don't have to spend on defense.”

“I've had it been doing AI on my website, SEO on my website. Okay. It went and screwed up five pages. So it went and did some optimization on the page, and decided to do it with the API. Anyway, I went on to the website and there were pages missing. So I said, did you delete them? They said, no. I was like, well, they're not there and you're the only one who's been working on it. It's like, no, it definitely wasn't me. It must be you. It's like, I think I'm a human. I think I would know it was me.”

“Liz Truss replied and said, well, this is a point with communists. You can't convince them. You have to defeat them. And so I was thinking about that in the lift, and I realized the only answer to this is we just have to go and kill them all.”

“Hard work doesn't equal reward. You're, you know, sort of what you think you're owed, what you think is fair. Those things don't lead to reward and they never will. That's just not how life works. Risk equals reward, right? So are you willing to risk something? Are you willing to put something up in order to gain something?”