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There are two and a half countries
that are embracing these technologies.

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America, which has GDP growth.
That part of the problem we

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have politically is it works almost too
well. It's just not widely China seems

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to be working and Israel seems to be
working. Where have people not embraced

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these technologies?
And so that that it's like

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it but again, if you just start with the
core problem Germany has, it's an export

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culture. It's products have to be better
than everyone else's or no one's going

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to buy them. And you you you can
basically ask Germans, do you think your

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products are going to be responsible for

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your for your uh um economic health,
bullstand, or is it going to be your

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diplomatic service that's going
to deliver that? You're going to you're

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going to rely on German popularity. And

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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
only one set of technologies that can do

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this. How are you going to rebuild your
car industry so it's as good as China's?

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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.
How are you going to rebuild these

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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
of civilization. There is so much change,

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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
health, it is the case for computing and

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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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a better form of

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living in civilization I
really see that opportunity.

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Nevertheless, it is one
of the most skeptical times.

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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
the speed of change? Well, it's too much

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fear. >> Now, let me
just focus on America. I

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think And by the way,
that is not a European origin.

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That is the Western wrong. And it is
an arguably bigger problem here. This is

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where I do think America
might have Like I think

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Okay, Europe has an obvious tech problem

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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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far right have just like

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They It's more hurt
the people are successful than

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any solution. And they're very serious
about that. And you know, the idea they

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couldn't win is not true,
unfortunately. Um

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the the the the the the central framing

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I'm skeptical of here with people So,

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people I agree with, probably you and

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definitely people in my tech world, um

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it's always like this is going to be a

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bastion of plethora of good
things that everyone's

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going to profit from and there
are no dangers. Not saying you

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say this, but but it is a commonly
held view. And that the tech people want

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everyone to like just stand up and say
that. And I think that is not credible.

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What But I what I think is actually just

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like the overselling of AI
in this country is really really um

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really somewhat disconcerting,
but it's also

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depressing because you don't have to do

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it. This is a natural resource

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that is net net excruciatingly valuable

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for the betterment
of humanity. But it does

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have some negative externalities. First of
all, we don't know where it's going to go.

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It's These things are not deployable

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without processing engines, application

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layers, ontology, etc. Um it
And the biggest problem in this country

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is it does it while it
will raise the standard of

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living of the average person, the people
involved are likely to get 10, 100 times

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wealthier than they already are.

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That's a problem for society. Like you
know the the way I try to explain it to

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my Silicon Valley colleagues
is Do you think that

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>> the wealth I mean if we go back to

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history then innovation

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and new technologies have always led to

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a growth, to prosperity, and to an
improvement of the standard of living of

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all people,

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particularly of the lower income income

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classes. That has started uh

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centuries ago. It was true when the wheel
was invented, it was true when the

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steam engine was invented, it was true

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when

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computers were invented. It has in the

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end, if we draw a line, contributed
to the well-being of people and it has

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improved the shape of society.

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Nevertheless, at the beginning
there's always the concern the

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steam engine is going to destroy
>> Well, let me just sorry.

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>> jobs and we are always afraid.

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>> So my point is do you think that it
is not different Let me give you a

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different first. Let me give you
a different the answer that I think sums

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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
or there is no playbook. Like

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why am I doing so well? Because this
is a neuro diversion age and what the

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people had skills

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So So this is a different revolution.

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And even if that is true and let's
assume it is that everybody will do

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well. I think that's not I
think most people will do better.

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>> You You think that society is going
to divide into a very few with incredible

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>> I mean it is the mass that has nothing.

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No, no, no, I'm not I'm not saying that.

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Again, I think that's like that's kind
of there there it that's not what I'm

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saying. I'm saying most people
who are middle and middle

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and lower class will do better.

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Everybody people who are willing
to change their jobs are likely to do

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better, but not everyone.
But that's not the real political

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problem. We have a political problem
in this country, not a tech problem.

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In past revolutions,

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uh the person at the bottom maybe their

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salary doubled and the
person at the top became

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five times wealthier, but like it was very
unusual to be a billionaire 40 years ago,

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right? You now have a revolution where,
you know, I could become 20 times

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wealthier than I am now.
And the person who is working out here

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could become, you know,
they could have their salary

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could go over certainly could go up
significantly by any normal standard

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over a period of 10 years,

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go up 50% or double, okay?

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It when you have a complete decoupling

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of like unimaginable wealth

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and normal and that unimaginable wealth
and then this is where we're not really

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allowed to say this, but it's done by

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people that you don't really relate to.

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Like these are like very
oddly shaped IQ specimens

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that, you know, you probably wouldn't
want to have over for dinner. If they

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were over for dinner, you have
nothing to talk to them about.

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And by the way, vice versa.

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And you know, and then our whole fabric
is not like I got screamed at for like

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first of all, it wasn't a draft.
It was like we should have some kind of

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service. By the way, by that I meant
hospital, taking care of old people.

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Our our fabric of our society
is already strained.

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Wealthy people, it's not like in the '50s
and '60s where people actually knew

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each other, went to the same schools.

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We're already totally separate
societies, right? It basically is. I

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mean, it's inflammatory, but we
already live in a separate but non-equal

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society. And then, you hyper-charge it

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with like extreme economic wealth.

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Like like ex- egregiously extreme, while

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everybody else is kind of growing.
And even if it's not true,

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people are afraid, even if it is true
that most people are raised, the actual

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fear people have is "I'm
going to lose my job." Now,

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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
to suck. And they're also getting very

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wealthy, and you don't
find them very likable.

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>> And people who used
to be on the winning

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side of history are now suddenly very

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much afraid that they would lose their
job. I traveled to the Silicon Valley

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three times over the last few
weeks, and the the level of

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nervousness is really surprising.
A lot of people

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think we have only 6 months until our

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jobs are going to be gone, and that is

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the tech community, that is developers.

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And they they work day and night
in order to reinvent themselves, because

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they are afraid that in a few months
>> And and again, >> no income.

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>> And and and and the political version
that scares me a lot, and I do think

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said I'm yelling at everyone
in Silicon Valley in private and

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on public, I've been a Democrat, despite
what you may be reading about me, most

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of my life. I'm still a '70s
progressive, which is actually a real

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progressive, meaning I want to help the
poor, I just don't want to burn the rich.

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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
the way, it's the same problem Germany

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and Europe have about all these issues.

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And if you if you tell people don't
believe your lying eyes, you know what

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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
is "You are telling me not to believe

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everything I know." And by the way,
also, just overarching in Europe and in

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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
tie this in to annoyingly,

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why I'll give you a different version.

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Why is Palantir the most popular brand
in the world? People always frame as the

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most unpopular. We have For every time
you reach someone, we have 100 times of

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I'll tell you why we're the most popular
brand in the world, and that's why they

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attack us often. We're the most popular
brand in the world cuz I might be crazy.

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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
can't blame everything on a country you

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hate, whatever. Okay. And you know why

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we're so popular? Because everybody else
is telling you they're only trying to

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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