Sean Strickland on UFC bonuses: "No one’s getting paid more. What’s the new bonus? 50? 100? You say no to a fight? They’ll find some guy in some fcking sandpit who’ll do it for fcking 5k and 5k. That’s how it works."
Elon: "The robots are not the scary part. The scary part is AGI, digital super intelligence that far exceeds human intelligence. If there's a digital super intelligence that is just vastly smarter than the smartest human, we could lose control of it."
Sam Altman: "I'm excited about Bitcoin. This idea that we have a global currency that is outside the control of any government is a super logical and important step."
Elon Musk: "The elements that define success for an AI company are going to be one, the talent, two, the hardware. How much AI hardware can you bring to bear? That's actually a very big deal."
Elon Musk: "Nothing any of my companies have done has been to stifle competition. In fact, we've done the opposite. At Tesla, we have open-sourced our patents. Anyone can use our patents for free."
Elon Musk: "My prediction is there'll be more robots than people... everyone on Earth is going to have one and going to want one... we are in the most interesting time in history."
Elon Musk: "The biggest mistake I made is to put too much of a weighting on somebody's talent and not much on their personality, it actually matters whether somebody has a good heart."
Elon Musk: "My reflexes aren't what they used to be, but I have a lifetime of playing video games. At one point I was maybe one of the best Quake players in the world. I won money for what I think was the first paid esports tournament in the US."
Elon Musk: "The reason we are seeing this extreme amount of hatred and violence is because we are actually succeeding in getting rid of corruption and waste. If we weren't succeeding in getting rid of corruption and waste they wouldn't care."
Bill Maher: "You used the term 'an orgy of socialism', you said that's what you see in the Democratic Party. I do too!"
Fetterman: "Yeah, whether it's like the mayor in Seattle, she is absolutely a socialist."