Europe at a Turning Point - Elon Musk on Bureaucracy and the Fight for Innovation

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TLDRThe speaker articulates that starting a company involves significant pain and hard work, with most startups ultimately failing. They discuss the challenges of overcoming bureaucracy in government, which has grown during times of peace, leading to a recommendation for a department focused on government efficiency to eliminate unnecessary regulations. The discussion spans immigration policies advocating for sensible restrictions and the deportation of criminals, the importance of freedom of speech, and the preservation of cultural identities amid declining birth rates. The speaker stresses that dramatic changes are needed in Europe to ensure its survival, advocating for initiatives to boost birth rates, deregulate, and maintain cultural uniqueness.

Takeaways

  • 💪 Starting a company involves painful hard work and uncertainty.
  • 📉 The majority of startups fail due to overwhelming challenges.
  • 🗽 Freedom of speech is crucial for a healthy democracy.
  • 📜 Bureaucracy hinders government efficiency and needs reform.
  • 🌍 Unique cultures should be preserved against global homogenization.
  • 👶 Low birth rates threaten cultural identities in many nations.
  • 🚀 Sensible immigration policies and deportation of criminals are necessary.
  • 🌀 Creating a government efficiency department can reduce regulatory burden.
  • 📈 Radical incentives may be required to improve birth rates.
  • ⚖️ Deregulation is essential to prevent stifling business and innovation in Europe.

Garis waktu

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    Starting a company is a challenging and often painful experience, likened to 'eating glass and staring at the sun'. The majority of startups fail, so those needing encouragement to begin should reconsider their motives. Additionally, overcoming government bureaucracy is a significant obstacle in improving government operations, likened to the struggle against entropy.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    Government efficiency is crucial to combat the endless increase in bureaucracy. Without a systematic way to remove outdated laws and regulations, government size and complexity will continue to grow unchecked. A department focused on maintaining government efficiency is proposed, particularly through re-examination of regulations that cause more harm than good. Balancing the budget is also necessary to prevent national bankruptcy.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:00

    Trade policies under President Trump may include tariffs to promote cooperation and address trade imbalances with countries imposing asymmetric tariffs on American goods. While some distort market options, there is a belief that fair trade policies would benefit both American companies and those abroad. Government incentives can distort markets, but companies must adapt to avoid competitive disadvantages.

  • 00:15:00 - 00:20:00

    Germany could benefit from government efficiency standards similar to those proposed for the U.S. Ongoing bureaucracy hampers growth, and a cleansing process is needed to alleviate regulatory burdens. Emphasizing meritocracy and freedom of speech is imperative for a functional democracy, alongside responsible immigration policies to deport criminals and promote safety.

  • 00:20:00 - 00:30:05

    Cultural history and pride in Germany should not be overshadowed by the darker periods, such as the Nazi regime. Recognition of Germany's contributions to civilization and philosophy is vital, alongside acceptance of historical facts. A meritocratic society that condemns racism and sexism, regardless of the direction they take, is essential to combat societal divisions while promoting free speech and individual culture.

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  • What does the speaker compare starting a company to?

    They compare it to 'eating glass and staring into the abyss,' indicating the pain and uncertainty involved.

  • Why do most startups fail according to the speaker?

    The speaker suggests that the significant challenges and hard work required lead to a majority of startups failing.

  • What does the speaker suggest about bureaucracy?

    They describe bureaucracy as a major obstacle to improving government efficiency and suggest that it grows during peaceful times.

  • What recommendation does the speaker make for dealing with bureaucratic regulations?

    They recommend creating a department of government efficiency to reduce unnecessary regulations.

  • What are the speaker's views on immigration policies?

    The speaker advocates for sensible immigration controls and the deportation of criminals.

  • How does the speaker feel about freedom of speech?

    They believe that genuine freedom of speech involves allowing all voices to be heard, regardless of popularity or viewpoint.

  • What concern does the speaker express about birth rates?

    They highlight low birth rates worldwide and predict potential cultural disappearance if trends continue.

  • What is the speaker's opinion on the future of cultures?

    The speaker argues for the preservation of unique cultures and cautions against global homogenization.

  • What drastic changes does the speaker recommend for Europe?

    They recommend increasing birth rates, sensible immigration policies, deregulation, and promoting freedom of speech.

  • What does the speaker think about government incentives and tariffs?

    They express skepticism about government incentives distorting markets but acknowledge their necessity in some competitive contexts.

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    well the re the reason I say uh starting
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    a company is like eating glass and
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    staring thus is that um in order to make
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    a company successful it it requires uh
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    doing a lot of painful work work that is
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    not fun working very long hours um and
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    then uh maybe your company survives
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    maybe it does not um and the vast
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    majority of startups fail so that's why
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    um you know that's the eating glass and
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    staring to the US is starting a company
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    uh lots of hard work followed by death
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    is usually what happens when people
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    start companies um that's why I say if
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    people need words of encouragement to
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    start a company they should not start a
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    company um U with respect to government
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    um you
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    there's really the the the challenge is
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    overcoming uh bureaucracy um and I think
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    bureaucracy is perhaps uh
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    the the I'd say the penultimate bus
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    battle the the ultimate bus battle is
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    defeating entropy which we physics tells
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    us we cannot defeat entropy
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    um the second hottest battle is
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    defeating
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    bureaucracy um but you know it's that's
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    that's how difficult it is to improve
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    government um now one of the things
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    that's happened which which always
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    happens with an extended period of Peace
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    time is that you have a steady increase
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    in the amount of bureaucracy um the size
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    of government grows the the laws and
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    regulations that um are put in place uh
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    get um larger every year so it stands
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    the reason that you know if you have
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    Regulators Regulators are going to add
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    more regulations every year lawmakers
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    will add more laws every year um the the
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    cleansing process normally for getting
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    rid of nonsensical laws and regulations
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    is war now obviously would prefer to not
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    have War Drive the uh Reformation of
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    government so in the absence of War you
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    have to um you have to have something
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    like what we have have formed here in
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    the US um a department of government
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    efficiency in order to get rid of uh
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    laws and regulations well with laws we
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    have to require obviously the the
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    consent of Congress but for regulations
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    this can be done at with at the
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    executive branch level is to reexamine
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    the vast body of regul
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    and get rid of those where the they do
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    where there's more harm than good um of
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    which there are many um and and then
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    reducing the size of the government um
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    and and and then also balancing the
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    budget so that we are not driving the
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    country
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    bankruptcy um these things are all very
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    hard um and I want to be clear like we
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    we may indeed fail in this objective
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    that's why I described it as an
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    extremely difficult battle um the the
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    this has never succeeded before so prior
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    attempts to reduce the size of
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    bureaucracy to uh make government more
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    efficients have uh generally failed
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    um even when parties are elected for
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    that
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    so if you take say uh Reagan uh he've
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    campaigned on getting rid of the Federal
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    Department of Education and having that
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    be done at the state level um and the
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    Department of Education at the federal
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    level is a
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    uh creation it was um I think created
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    about 45 years ago or something like
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    that you're also very familiar with the
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    German economy and the German market so
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    would you recommend a department of
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    government efficiency for Germany
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    too um I would um I I think generally
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    for governments that having you
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    basically need to have some process for
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    trash trash collection garbage
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    collection um so if you if you a if you
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    only have a process for creating um
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    regulations but no process for deleting
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    regulations eventually everything is
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    illegal and nothing is allowed to happen
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    um and and progress uh comes to a
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    grinding halt um so uh it's very
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    important I think that all governments
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    have um have a have a team that's
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    responsible for reducing the size of
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    government and for uh getting rid of
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    regulations that may made sense at one
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    time um but no longer makes sense
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    currently uh and simplifying the process
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    otherwise you get um these things build
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    up like like you know plaque on arteries
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    like you start having uh the the the the
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    sort of the flow of of blood through the
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    government get const constricted uh with
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    more and more buildup on the walls of
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    the arteries um so you must have this
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    cleansing process very important
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    well I think president Trump likes to
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    get things done um and he he's not
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    looking to you know punish country
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    countries um or do or to do things that
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    are economically insane um but he does
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    view tariffs as a means to uh gain
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    cooperation of countries for important
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    matters um so uh and and and obviously
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    if countries have implemented asymmetric
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    tariffs where they are taxing the import
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    of American Goods uh while America does
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    not tax the import of their goods uh
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    then we have an imbalance so um what I
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    suspect you will see is that uh
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    president Trump will be
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    uh will will want to for countries that
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    have asymmetric tariff barriers like and
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    it could be either tariff or regulatory
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    barriers that which are basically any
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    any Restraint of trade um then the the
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    president Trump will will want to take
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    action to stop the Restraint of trade
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    and ensure that there is a fair Level
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    Playing Field for American companies and
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    companies in Europe or China or wherever
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    the case may be so um that's my guess my
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    my sense of it is is that there need to
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    be um there needs to be he he's simply
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    looking for a fair and Level Playing
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    Field yeah um well first of all uh I
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    think actually Tesla would would have
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    existed without a
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    if the FD had been in power we would
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    still have put the the factory uh in
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    Berlin um the I'm generally um against
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    uh government incentives that distort
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    markets um and there are tend to be a
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    lot of government um tariffs and
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    incentives and penalties that distort
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    markets so uh that's uh you know now now
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    if if those things are put in place by
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    others then we obviously must take
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    advantage of them or Tesla is at a
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    competitive disadvantage
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    um but uh the you know the reason that
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    I'm uh in favor of afd is that um
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    there's some fundamental things that
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    must happen without which uh I you know
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    I'm concerned that um Germany will will
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    fail which is that there has to be there
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    have to be sensible controls on um
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    immigration uh there has to be uh if you
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    know if there are criminals in Germany
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    uh who are committing crimes and hurting
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    people in Germany they must be deported
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    um and that's not happening um then
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    there must also be freedom of speech
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    such that the people know what the truth
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    is um otherwise they cannot make an
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    informed decision so if you do not have
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    freedom of speech you cannot be a
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    democracy because the public cannot make
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    an informed decision about their vote if
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    there is not Freedom of Information um
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    so the there the in Germany right now
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    there are
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    Draconian uh laws rules against uh
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    freedom of of expression uh where even
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    insulting politician can get to uh
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    prison time which is insane so uh I like
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    the fact that the afd is in favor of
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    freedom of speech um I like the that the
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    afd is in favor of sensible immigration
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    policies and deportation of criminals um
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    and I like the generally generally
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    libertarian policies of the
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    afd uh well it it is obviously easy to
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    straw man my statement uh which is what
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    he's done uh to say that uh you know
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    that that uh what that that we should
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    flip from entirely uh a a sort of a
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    where where we sort of torture uh young
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    children in Germany with with nothing
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    but guilt uh to saying oh we should
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    completely ignore the sins of Nazi
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    Germany I've said obviously uh neither
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    of those things uh what I have said is
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    that it we should not be torturing
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    children in Germany uh and telling them
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    that Germany is the worst country in the
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    world uh and that is all they are taught
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    and they are taught nothing about about
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    uh you know uh the the the great things
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    that Germany has done in the past um and
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    and that the that Germany cannot be
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    defined and and and and children whose
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    great-grandparents may not have even
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    been nais um are told that Germany is
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    the worst country that has ever existed
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    in the face of the Earth and they must
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    live with nothing but guilt and shame
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    this is
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    wrong this is wrong this is this is not
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    what I'm not saying is that that Nazism
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    should be ignored I I never said
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    that um but I am saying that the
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    tremendous uh cultural history of of
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    Germany uh is is incredible if you think
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    of the the great philosophers uh the
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    great composers uh the incredible
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    contributions in terms of engineering
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    and science that Germany has made uh
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    including for those of the of Jewish
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    people in Germany who you know Einstein
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    you know good example um uh
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    these these things should be celebrated
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    um not to the exclusion of Nazism not to
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    ignore it but not to say that this is
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    all Germany is about is absurd and
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    false okay and so so people should be
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    proud of the great things that Germany
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    has done proud of the the that that
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    Germany is an an ancient Nation
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    thousands of years old um that was the
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    the one of the few
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    Nations to actually resist incorporation
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    into the Roman Empire you go back 2,000
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    years ago even Rome could not defeat
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    Germany Rome was the most powerful EMP
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    Empire in the world at the time but
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    could not defeat could not defeat
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    Germany they gave up so uh one simply
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    one simply needs to understand the full
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    context of German history the great
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    things as well as the Terrible
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    Things um and uh you know when you look
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    at say
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    America like what happened to the native
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    people of
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    America where are
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    they uh what happened to the native
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    people of Judea before the Jewish people
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    got there where are
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    they so at some point the things cannot
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    be simply about terrible things that
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    have been done the terrible things must
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    be learned but also the good things
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    well I mean this is simply uh I mean
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    that's that's you know we're going from
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    like deep philosophical and political
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    issues to uh trivia of the week um this
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    is
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    a there are a lot of very smart uh very
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    motivated uh engineers in China um so
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    you should expect that China will come
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    up with many great things and they have
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    come with many great things again look
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    at the and if one looks at the long
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    history of China also an ancient Nation
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    uh that has invented and developed many
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    things and for most of actually human
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    history China has been the most powerful
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    Nation on Earth um so you know I think
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    particularly from say the possession of
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    people in China they they simply view
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    China's ascendency as um resuming the
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    the normal sort of place in history
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    which is the most powerful country on
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    Earth um and so you you can expect that
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    they will do many great things deep seek
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    being being one of them
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    um but that that is simply um a result
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    of of the immense amount of talent um in
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    China that is very impressive um but but
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    it's not is it is it some sort of
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    complete revolution in AI it no it is
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    not um
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    the xai and others will soon be
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    releasing models that are better than
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    deeps well as you know the Europe
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    actually has more bureaucracy than wait
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    can you guys is it okay connection looks
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    good
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    the Europe actually has more bureaucracy
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    than the US does because you don't just
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    have the provincial um and sort of uh
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    National level you you also have the EU
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    uh on top of that um and to be totally
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    Frank uh EU headquarters in Brussels is
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    a essentially a cathedral to bureaucracy
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    um so if one wishes to visit the Grand
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    Cathedral of bureaucracy visit EU
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    headquarters in Brussels
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    um uh I do think that uh Europe probably
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    needs um government efficiency more than
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    than the US does and this needs to
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    happen at the at the country level and
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    at the EU level
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    um and and actually I think the Java is
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    more difficult in Europe than it is in
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    the US um you know the I I think
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    regulation has inhibited a tremendous
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    amount of progress and innovation in
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    Europe and and and unless and and if if
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    the over I call it the sort of the slow
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    strangulation by overregulation um it
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    because it's a slow strangulation
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    because it's not like at any one moment
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    you you feel like this is this is this
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    is it but but the the no around the neck
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    just gets a little tighter every year um
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    and and eventually uh you know it's it's
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    going to kill Europe so there must be in
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    my opinion immediate action uh to reduce
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    regulation at the EU level at the
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    country level and at the local
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    level well I think we'll see that um
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    open source models uh lag generally lag
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    the uh commercial models um so whatever
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    is commercially powerful today will
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    probably be open source in a year or
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    less and I expect that Trend to
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    continue so so essentially everyone will
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    have
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    ai do you see in fact this is this is
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    maybe the most profound
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    change you know the Advent of digital
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    super intelligence um if you stand back
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    and say like from from a thousand years
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    ago sorry thousand a thousand years from
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    now what will historians well assuming
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    they're even human at that point not
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    computers um what will historians regard
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    as the most important thing or the most
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    important milestones in history um one
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    of those fundamental Milestones will be
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    the Advent of digital superintelligence
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    no
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    question um they will long ago have
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    forgotten who's in charge of of which
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    country um or that will be a minor by
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    comparison with the Advent of digital
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    super intelligence I think also um the
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    human becoming a multiplet
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    civilization um would also fit on that
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    on that list because I think that fits
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    on the list I mean one could say like
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    looking at from a very broad uh
  • 00:16:12
    standpoint very high level look at say
  • 00:16:16
    what what are the what are what are
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    Milestones that would perhaps be in the
  • 00:16:20
    top 10 from an from the general
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    standpoint of evolution in general uh
  • 00:16:26
    you'd say like there would be single
  • 00:16:28
    cell life multicellular life
  • 00:16:30
    differentiation into plants and animals
  • 00:16:33
    uh life going from Ocean to land mammals
  • 00:16:38
    uh cognitive function in mammals that's
  • 00:16:41
    like humans um then also then then then
  • 00:16:44
    would be life becoming
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    multiplanetary
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    and digital super intelligence would fit
  • 00:16:52
    on on that you know essentially top 10
  • 00:16:55
    list
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    I mean with great difficulty um it is
  • 00:17:01
    quite a challenge uh the you know our
  • 00:17:05
    our brain only consumes 20 watts of
  • 00:17:08
    power and uh and of that only 10 of
  • 00:17:12
    about half of that is higher brain
  • 00:17:13
    function so I've got basically a 10 watt
  • 00:17:14
    meat computer to do all this um and and
  • 00:17:16
    I find this all to be very challenging
  • 00:17:18
    for my 10 watt meat computer that is my
  • 00:17:19
    brain um uh one thing that I think is
  • 00:17:24
    helpful though is um there's a big
  • 00:17:27
    difference between training
  • 00:17:29
    uh how much mental workload training to
  • 00:17:31
    do something takes versus uh inference
  • 00:17:35
    or executing that thing so you could
  • 00:17:37
    take like let's say uh chess as an
  • 00:17:40
    example it might take proba say 10,000
  • 00:17:43
    hours to become a Grandmaster of Chess
  • 00:17:47
    but then you can play the game in a few
  • 00:17:51
    hours um so that's sort of what H has
  • 00:17:55
    happened here with uh say Tesla and
  • 00:17:57
    SpaceX is that I've I have really way
  • 00:18:00
    more than
  • 00:18:00
    $10,000 uh into understanding how to
  • 00:18:03
    build and grow a car company and a
  • 00:18:05
    rocket company uh and satellites and uh
  • 00:18:08
    all these things um I also before SpaceX
  • 00:18:13
    uh you know was a co-founder of of two
  • 00:18:16
    internet companies so I understand the
  • 00:18:18
    internet I understand payments and all
  • 00:18:19
    that kind of thing um and so the mental
  • 00:18:23
    workload required once you have trained
  • 00:18:25
    on something is very low compared to the
  • 00:18:27
    training itself
  • 00:18:29
    um that is how I'm able to do
  • 00:18:32
    things uh that requireed immense amounts
  • 00:18:35
    of training over decades uh but only but
  • 00:18:38
    do not require um much mental workload
  • 00:18:42
    once the training is completed um now
  • 00:18:45
    right now for for government although
  • 00:18:46
    I've interfaced with government
  • 00:18:47
    tremendously uh this is this is my first
  • 00:18:50
    time actually trying to improve
  • 00:18:52
    government so there will be some initial
  • 00:18:56
    training workload that is significant
  • 00:18:57
    and then we'll move to inference which
  • 00:19:00
    is several orders of magnitude easier
  • 00:19:01
    than
  • 00:19:06
    training um I have not actually I'm not
  • 00:19:10
    put in a vid for Tik Tok um and
  • 00:19:15
    um I mean I I don't I don't have any any
  • 00:19:18
    plans for what would I do if if I had
  • 00:19:20
    Tik Tok I mean I guess I I would look at
  • 00:19:24
    the algorithm and try to decide you know
  • 00:19:27
    how how
  • 00:19:29
    how harmful or or useful is this
  • 00:19:31
    algorithm and and what can we do to uh
  • 00:19:34
    shift the algorithm to be more
  • 00:19:36
    productive um and ultimately be
  • 00:19:38
    beneficial to humanity um you know we
  • 00:19:41
    should just generally lean in the
  • 00:19:43
    direction of something which is uh more
  • 00:19:45
    beneficial than than more harmful um I
  • 00:19:48
    don't use Tik Tok personally
  • 00:19:51
    so you know that's I'm not that familiar
  • 00:19:54
    with it I've just seen you know I just
  • 00:19:55
    see the videos occasionally appearing on
  • 00:19:57
    X or people show me something
  • 00:19:59
    um but I'm not trumping at the at the B
  • 00:20:02
    to acquire Tik Tok um I I don't know
  • 00:20:05
    acquire companies in general it's quite
  • 00:20:07
    rare the acquiring Twitter now called x
  • 00:20:11
    uh was was highly unusual I I usually
  • 00:20:13
    build companies from from scratch and um
  • 00:20:18
    the reason I acquired Twitter which is
  • 00:20:20
    what I said at the time which is that it
  • 00:20:21
    was important for to preserve freedom of
  • 00:20:23
    speech in America and to the extent
  • 00:20:25
    we're legally allowed to in the rest of
  • 00:20:26
    the world um that's
  • 00:20:29
    uh it was I felt like acquiring Twitter
  • 00:20:32
    would be an important productive step
  • 00:20:34
    for the future of humanity um and uh
  • 00:20:37
    even though it's it's really quite
  • 00:20:39
    painful U and has been very difficult um
  • 00:20:42
    it was I thought I think nonetheless
  • 00:20:43
    important to do so um I don't know if
  • 00:20:47
    the same logic I don't know if the same
  • 00:20:48
    logic applies to Tik Tok but
  • 00:20:53
    um so I'm not I'm not I I don't B I
  • 00:20:57
    don't acquire things just for economic
  • 00:20:59
    reasons um and so it's not clear to me
  • 00:21:02
    what what the purpose of acquiring Tech
  • 00:21:04
    talkk would be apart from
  • 00:21:09
    economics sure well I generally regard
  • 00:21:11
    these movements as as positive um so and
  • 00:21:15
    and this this whole definition of what
  • 00:21:17
    is right what is what is sort of a
  • 00:21:19
    rightwing what is leftwing this whole
  • 00:21:22
    thing has shifted over time um you know
  • 00:21:25
    policies like simply having uh sensible
  • 00:21:27
    immigration
  • 00:21:29
    um and um you know uh s will govern
  • 00:21:34
    spending uh are those used to be uh in
  • 00:21:38
    fact people on the left used to have
  • 00:21:39
    those uh opinions as well and the
  • 00:21:42
    Centrist government certainly had those
  • 00:21:43
    opinions so uh what what we've seen in
  • 00:21:47
    the media is a
  • 00:21:49
    defining uh things that used to be
  • 00:21:51
    Centrist to Center left such as a
  • 00:21:54
    sensible immigration policy as somehow
  • 00:21:56
    far right which is absurd um and false
  • 00:22:00
    uh because uh really far right should
  • 00:22:02
    refer to extremely fascist situations
  • 00:22:05
    like far right should refer to you know
  • 00:22:07
    electing regimes that want to uh launch
  • 00:22:09
    Wars uh or or genocides or something
  • 00:22:12
    like that that's what that farite is
  • 00:22:14
    supposed to mean far is not supposed to
  • 00:22:15
    mean sensible immigration policy um that
  • 00:22:20
    that literally if you took speeches from
  • 00:22:22
    politicians that were Center left and
  • 00:22:24
    just go take their speeches from 10 15
  • 00:22:27
    years ago they were literally saying
  • 00:22:28
    this the same thing so what what we've
  • 00:22:31
    seen is really a a drift left to to um
  • 00:22:37
    you know hesitate use the same modifier
  • 00:22:39
    but where a lot of governments actually
  • 00:22:41
    are far left but think they are Centrist
  • 00:22:44
    or think they are merely left or
  • 00:22:45
    Centrist but they are actually far left
  • 00:22:47
    compared to what the left
  • 00:22:50
    uh was
  • 00:22:52
    even years
  • 00:22:55
    ago um you can take speeches for that
  • 00:22:58
    Obama or Hillary Clinton gave about
  • 00:23:00
    immigration and they sound identical to
  • 00:23:02
    president Trump and that's just as of 10
  • 00:23:04
    15 years ago not that long ago um so I
  • 00:23:09
    think what we've seen is a redefinition
  • 00:23:10
    of what is right and left but an
  • 00:23:12
    inaccurate uh redefinition and frankly
  • 00:23:15
    it's just propaganda because people are
  • 00:23:18
    are generally have the association that
  • 00:23:19
    well anything far right must be bad so
  • 00:23:21
    then we're going to just label things
  • 00:23:22
    that are common sense far right which is
  • 00:23:24
    absurd um now what what what I'm a big
  • 00:23:27
    fan of uh
  • 00:23:29
    president mle he's doing fantastic job
  • 00:23:31
    in Argentina the results speak for
  • 00:23:33
    themselves Argentina Argentina is
  • 00:23:35
    experiencing unpressed intoed growth he
  • 00:23:37
    has inflation under control finally uh
  • 00:23:40
    he has reduced the size of government
  • 00:23:42
    dramatically um and and reducing the
  • 00:23:44
    size of government is very important
  • 00:23:45
    because you need to move people from low
  • 00:23:47
    to negative productivity roles in the
  • 00:23:49
    government sector to high productivity
  • 00:23:51
    roles in the private sector this is what
  • 00:23:53
    actually results at a fundamental level
  • 00:23:54
    in economic Improvement if you move
  • 00:23:57
    people from to negative productivity
  • 00:23:59
    roles to high productivity roles uh then
  • 00:24:01
    the output of goods and services
  • 00:24:02
    increases and the standard of living
  • 00:24:04
    increases this is uh leaving aside
  • 00:24:08
    because sometimes people get caught up
  • 00:24:09
    in the they think money is real but
  • 00:24:11
    money is not real U output of goods and
  • 00:24:13
    services is real money is simply a
  • 00:24:15
    representation of
  • 00:24:20
    that um yes well let's just Define what
  • 00:24:23
    what is meant here I mean um if um by
  • 00:24:26
    workism one means
  • 00:24:29
    uh uh you know just like racism on the
  • 00:24:33
    basis of of sex and gender and other
  • 00:24:36
    matters which um you know Dei is simply
  • 00:24:40
    racism
  • 00:24:41
    rebranded um then yes I'm Against Racism
  • 00:24:44
    and sexism no matter who it's directed
  • 00:24:46
    against uh it is entirely possible to be
  • 00:24:48
    racist against white people or black
  • 00:24:50
    people or Asians or anyone else um and
  • 00:24:53
    and we should really accept no racism or
  • 00:24:55
    sexism in any form no matter what it's
  • 00:24:57
    called Uh Dei and and workism uh advoc
  • 00:25:01
    essentially Advocate racism and sexism
  • 00:25:03
    sexism that is wrong they're also anti-
  • 00:25:05
    meritocratic uh so we should really in
  • 00:25:08
    my view have a mer meritocratic Society
  • 00:25:10
    where people succeed on the as a
  • 00:25:12
    function of their abilities and how how
  • 00:25:14
    hard they work that should be the only
  • 00:25:17
    way that that people um succeed not
  • 00:25:20
    through any some arbitrary measures uh
  • 00:25:23
    that are discriminatory so so we need a
  • 00:25:26
    meritocratic society and we need freedom
  • 00:25:27
    of speech
  • 00:25:28
    um and freedom of speech is only
  • 00:25:30
    relevant if people are allowed if people
  • 00:25:32
    you don't like are allowed to say things
  • 00:25:34
    you don't like that is the only time
  • 00:25:35
    freedom of speech is relevant um it it
  • 00:25:38
    can't be that the government is deciding
  • 00:25:39
    what is Mis what is or is not
  • 00:25:41
    misinformation or disinformation uh
  • 00:25:43
    because then uh you get politics applied
  • 00:25:45
    to those uh labels and in fact you
  • 00:25:48
    simply get the suppression of freedom of
  • 00:25:49
    speech so really
  • 00:25:52
    um I think it's rism is is evil because
  • 00:25:56
    it is it is um R IST sexist um and and
  • 00:26:00
    and anti-free
  • 00:26:05
    speech yeah I mean it's it's it's very
  • 00:26:07
    basic that if if people stop having you
  • 00:26:11
    know if there are no babies people if
  • 00:26:12
    people stop having babies Humanity will
  • 00:26:14
    come to to a halt um and uh we we we've
  • 00:26:19
    seen now for many years very low birth
  • 00:26:21
    rates uh in almost all of the world um
  • 00:26:25
    so even India recently went Bel low
  • 00:26:27
    replacement rate
  • 00:26:29
    um so sometimes people say well we'll
  • 00:26:31
    just we'll just replace people with
  • 00:26:33
    immigration like immigration from where
  • 00:26:35
    um if you look at China for example they
  • 00:26:37
    are roughly at half replacement rate I
  • 00:26:39
    think maybe at maybe at 60% or something
  • 00:26:42
    like that so that means call it
  • 00:26:44
    something like 600 million people will
  • 00:26:47
    be lost in in of this generation where
  • 00:26:50
    where are you going to get 600 million
  • 00:26:52
    uh immigrants that would require almost
  • 00:26:54
    two Americas to move to China uh that's
  • 00:26:57
    impossible possible if you look at Korea
  • 00:27:00
    Korea has a replacement the birth rate
  • 00:27:02
    is now one3 replacement rate that means
  • 00:27:05
    in three generations Korea the size of
  • 00:27:07
    the Korean population will be about 3 to
  • 00:27:09
    4% of what it's current currently is and
  • 00:27:12
    basically Korea will
  • 00:27:14
    disappear um and I I think that there
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    are uh great things in every culture um
  • 00:27:21
    we don't want the German German culture
  • 00:27:23
    to disappear we don't want french
  • 00:27:25
    culture to disappear we don't want
  • 00:27:27
    Korean culture to disappear or or Japan
  • 00:27:30
    or America or anywhere um I think it's
  • 00:27:34
    it's you know this is part of why I'm
  • 00:27:36
    like I think we should be very cautious
  • 00:27:38
    about uh having some sort of global
  • 00:27:40
    mixing part because we will then not
  • 00:27:44
    have every place will look will be the
  • 00:27:46
    same and there won't be any unique
  • 00:27:48
    cultures in the world which I think
  • 00:27:50
    would make the world
  • 00:27:52
    worse so I think we need to preserve
  • 00:27:55
    these country cultures um and uh and
  • 00:28:00
    that and that that's that's the future
  • 00:28:01
    that I think is is better I think that
  • 00:28:03
    that most people would agree is is
  • 00:28:05
    better we should
  • 00:28:06
    not have cultures
  • 00:28:08
    disappear um and currently based on the
  • 00:28:12
    current birth rates and the sort of uh
  • 00:28:16
    so-called multiculturalism and
  • 00:28:18
    globalism uh what we're actually seeing
  • 00:28:20
    is the dilution of individual cultures
  • 00:28:23
    and the the destruction and death of
  • 00:28:25
    individual cultures which I think is
  • 00:28:27
    terrible for the future
  • 00:28:33
    well I think we are at an inflection
  • 00:28:35
    point so we the I would
  • 00:28:40
    recommend you know radical change in in
  • 00:28:42
    Europe uh that uh encourages a much
  • 00:28:47
    higher birth rate I think this may
  • 00:28:48
    require some very dramatic incentives um
  • 00:28:52
    I think Europe needs to have a sensible
  • 00:28:54
    immigration policy uh you know that
  • 00:28:57
    where people are vetted before coming to
  • 00:28:59
    Europe and if they commit crimes they
  • 00:29:01
    are deported um otherwise you will have
  • 00:29:04
    uh the destruction of Europe um the also
  • 00:29:08
    you have to have uh significant a
  • 00:29:11
    significant effort in
  • 00:29:12
    deregulation um and and basically
  • 00:29:15
    removal of laws and regulations um so
  • 00:29:18
    that you do not get hardening of the
  • 00:29:20
    arteries until basically everything it's
  • 00:29:21
    illegal to do anything in Europe which
  • 00:29:23
    is what's basically happening now um so
  • 00:29:26
    I'd recommend immediate and dramatic
  • 00:29:27
    action for deregulation freedom of
  • 00:29:29
    speech um and sensible immigration and
  • 00:29:33
    improving the birth rate if those things
  • 00:29:35
    happen Europe will have a good future
  • 00:29:36
    and if they do not Europe will fail
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