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America, which has GDP growth.
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have politically is it works almost too
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it but again, if you just start with the
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culture. It's products have to be better
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your for your uh um economic health,
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diplomatic service that's going
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so the opportunity is it's I I tend to

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think like the opportunity is that if

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you want to succeed and thrive, there's
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this. How are you going to rebuild your
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Just start there. Like again,
that it it and the people

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are doing that. We have partners.
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industries so you can compete and win?

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There there is no other way.

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>> Alex, I think we are living

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in one of the most exciting times
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there is so much progress, there is

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progress on so many levels in highest

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and accelerated speed. It is

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the case for space, it is the case for
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robotics.

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It is the case also for defense,

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unfortunately we need that. So my

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question is although we are

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at the eve of an incredible accelerated

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productivity gain and uh potentially

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living in civilization I
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Nevertheless, it is one
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There is a lot of fear.
There is a lot of anger.

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How do you explain that? Is it simply
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fear. >> Now, let me
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think And by the way,
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That is the Western wrong. And it is
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where I do think America
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with political consequences that are

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really bad. America has a more of a

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political problem where left far left

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any solution. And they're very serious
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couldn't win is not true,
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the the the the the the central framing

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people I agree with, probably you and

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it's always like this is going to be a

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bastion of plethora of good
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going to profit from and there
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say this, but but it is a commonly
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everyone to like just stand up and say
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like the overselling of AI
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really somewhat disconcerting,
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depressing because you don't have to do

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that is net net excruciatingly valuable

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for the betterment
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have some negative externalities. First of
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layers, ontology, etc. Um it
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is it does it while it
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living of the average person, the people
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That's a problem for society. Like you
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centuries ago. It was true when the wheel
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steam engine was invented, it was true

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computers were invented. It has in the

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end, if we draw a line, contributed
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steam engine is going to destroy
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different first. Let me give you
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up a lot of the problems.
in your Pan America. This is a new

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playbook. Like there
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why am I doing so well? Because this
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And even if that is true and let's
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well. I think that's not I
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Everybody people who are willing
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better, but not everyone.
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problem. We have a political problem
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salary doubled and the
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five times wealthier, but like it was very
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right? You now have a revolution where,
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wealthier than I am now.
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could become, you know,
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could go over certainly could go up
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go up 50% or double, okay?

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of like unimaginable wealth

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and normal and that unimaginable wealth
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Like these are like very
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that, you know, you probably wouldn't
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were over for dinner, you have
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And you know, and then our whole fabric
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first of all, it wasn't a draft.
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Wealthy people, it's not like in the '50s
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mean, it's inflammatory, but we
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everybody else is kind of growing.
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people are afraid, even if it is true
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fear people have is "I'm
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that fear, even if it's not true,

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the people running the lab companies,

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who are the leaders, told you it's true.

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They're telling you your life is going
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wealthy, and you don't
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much afraid that they would lose their
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nervousness is really surprising.
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they are afraid that in a few months
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said I'm yelling at everyone
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on public, I've been a Democrat, despite
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of my life. I'm still a '70s
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progressive, meaning I want to help the
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The the Silicon Valley line basically is

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"Don't believe your lying eyes." Okay?

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This doesn't work politically. And by
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and Europe have about all these issues.

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And if you if you tell people don't
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they do? They protest vote.
That's what happens. And they protest

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vote, cuz what they're really saying
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everything I know." And by the way,
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America, the political class has low
legitimacy. So, what you know, what your

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version of reality is,
they're always lying to me.

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I don't know why they're lying.
That's hard to figure out, but you people

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believe they're always lying to me.

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And again, to just overly
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why I'll give you a different version.

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Why is Palantir the most popular brand
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most unpopular. We have For every time
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I'll tell you why we're the most popular
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attack us often. We're the most popular
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I am saying things you don't want to hear,
like the West is superior, we need

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national service, which means helping
out old people, it doesn't mean no uh

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industry should be fully aligned
with the country. Uh we have to fight for

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these things. We have real adversaries.

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If we're not competent, we'll lose.

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These things are technologies are
not perfect, and you have to listen to

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annoying people. And by the way, you
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hate, whatever. Okay. And you know why

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we're so popular? Because everybody else
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figure out what you want to hear so they
can That's the Feld version. And that's

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why when you when politicians in this
country or anywhere else say, "Hey,

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don't believe your lying eyes on
migration. Don't believe your lying eyes

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on nuclear. Don't believe your lying
eyes on AI." They get up and they vote

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for people who are like, "Screw these
people. I'm going to burn down my

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house." What