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| Not checkable | Bill Ackman | Not checkable | 1 Oct 2026 | But he builds an army of believers and followers that enabled Tesla to be built. Bill Ackman · Not checkable · 1 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Yann LeCun | Not checkable | 1 Oct 2026 | “saying, ‘AI can kill us all’ is incredibly destructive for everybody, including for the public who’s scared shitless,” LeCun said. Yann LeCun · Not checkable · 1 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Bill Ackman | Not checkable | 1 Oct 2026 | And it’s a company that owns these small cities. Bill Ackman · Not checkable · 1 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Bill Ackman | Not checkable | 1 Oct 2026 | the biggest change over time is an appreciation for the importance of what we call business quality— long-term, durable, protected… Bill Ackman · Not checkable · 1 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Yann LeCun | Not checkable | 1 Oct 2026 | “If you have a machine and all of a sudden it makes a strange noise and starts breaking, you would’ve wanted to detect that as early as… Yann LeCun · Not checkable · 1 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Bill Ackman | Not checkable | 1 Oct 2026 | I would say every CEO in America today is like, how do I use AI? How does it apply to my business? How is it a threat? Bill Ackman · Not checkable · 1 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Bill Ackman | Not checkable | 1 Oct 2026 | you can build this enormously profitable, compounding, tax-efficient machine over time. Bill Ackman · Not checkable · 1 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Bill Ackman | Not checkable | 1 Oct 2026 | we can buy it at, whatever, $0.60 on the dollar. Bill Ackman · Not checkable · 1 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Yann LeCun | Not checkable | 1 Oct 2026 | Many people working in AI safety “usually have an agenda to push,” LeCun says Yann LeCun · Not checkable · 1 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Bill Ackman | Not checkable | 1 Oct 2026 | So super cool company, but the timeframe is decades as opposed to quarters. Bill Ackman · Not checkable · 1 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Bill Ackman | Not checkable | 1 Oct 2026 | That is a change in markets. Bill Ackman · Not checkable · 1 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Bill Ackman | Not checkable | 1 Oct 2026 | I think those companies are really at risk. Bill Ackman · Not checkable · 1 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Bill Ackman | Not checkable | 1 Oct 2026 | I think a similar thing is happening today in a sense to Amazon and Meta. Microsoft. Bill Ackman · Not checkable · 1 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Yann LeCun | Not checkable | 1 Oct 2026 | “I think he’s completely deluded.” Yann LeCun · Not checkable · 1 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Bill Ackman | Not checkable | 1 Oct 2026 | It’s a bit like the Irvine Company. Bill Ackman · Not checkable · 1 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Bill Ackman | Not checkable | 1 Oct 2026 | Stocks just got crazy cheap, just incredibly cheap, of really high-quality companies, right? Bill Ackman · Not checkable · 1 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Yann LeCun | Not checkable | 1 Oct 2026 | “Dario tries to distance himself from Open Philanthropy, but he’s totally into it,” LeCun said. Yann LeCun · Not checkable · 1 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Bill Ackman | Not checkable | 1 Oct 2026 | What we’re doing is instead of reinvesting all the cash the business generates into real estate, we’re going to reinvest all the cash into… Bill Ackman · Not checkable · 1 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Bill Ackman | Not checkable | 1 Oct 2026 | I worry more about a Salesforce than I do about your kind of— I think you got to do the work. Bill Ackman · Not checkable · 1 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Yann LeCun | Not checkable | 1 Oct 2026 | “He’s trying to do the best thing for the company, which is close to its IPO. But claiming AI is too dangerous to put in our hands, and… Yann LeCun · Not checkable · 1 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Bill Ackman | Not checkable | 1 Oct 2026 | A company has to earn a return in excess of its cost of capital in order for a stock to go up. Bill Ackman · Not checkable · 1 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Bill Ackman | Not checkable | 1 Oct 2026 | I think we’re still super, super early in terms of big companies using AI effectively. Bill Ackman · Not checkable · 1 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Bill Ackman | Not checkable | 1 Oct 2026 | And 15 years later, we haven’t really created much value with it. Bill Ackman · Not checkable · 1 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Bill Ackman | Not checkable | 1 Oct 2026 | So I haven’t seen much success other than— I’ll give you the Pershing Square story. Bill Ackman · Not checkable · 1 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Bill Ackman | Not checkable | 1 Oct 2026 | We’ve not taken advantage of this at all. Bill Ackman · Not checkable · 1 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Bill Ackman | Not checkable | 1 Oct 2026 | the most important and most challenging thing to do is determine what’s the risk of disruption? Bill Ackman · Not checkable · 1 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Bill Ackman | Not checkable | 1 Oct 2026 | But you don’t go work for an insurance company. So the insurance company’s ability to recruit investment talent is very limited. Bill Ackman · Not checkable · 1 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Bill Ackman | Not checkable | 1 Oct 2026 | It’s a royalty on the compounding of investments in these entities. Bill Ackman · Not checkable · 1 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Bill Ackman | Not checkable | 1 Oct 2026 | Microsoft, when the average customer is paying, I don’t know, $50 a seat or some small number, that platform is worth a lot more and is… Bill Ackman · Not checkable · 1 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Bill Ackman | Not checkable | 1 Oct 2026 | I think there are 3 ways you can invest with us that are all different and will achieve different things. Bill Ackman · Not checkable · 1 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Bill Ackman | Not checkable | 1 Oct 2026 | The best investments are ones where you don’t need to join the board and do anything. Bill Ackman · Not checkable · 1 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Bill Ackman | Not checkable | 1 Oct 2026 | They’re venture investments that do— what’s helpful is they’re not seed or Series A, right? They’re D or E, but they’re still like venture… Bill Ackman · Not checkable · 1 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Bill Ackman | Not checkable | 1 Oct 2026 | We got here by accident, right? Bill Ackman · Not checkable · 1 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Bill Ackman | Not checkable | 1 Oct 2026 | Howard Hughes is actually a really interesting company, but it’s a business that Wall Street has not cared about for a long period of time. Bill Ackman · Not checkable · 1 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Bill Ackman | Not checkable | 1 Oct 2026 | Stocks are at an incredibly cheap valuation. Bill Ackman · Not checkable · 1 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Bill Ackman | Not checkable | 1 Oct 2026 | So Wall Street’s never cared, it’s always traded at a huge discount. Bill Ackman · Not checkable · 1 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Bill Ackman | Not checkable | 1 Oct 2026 | I would say on the hierarchy of things they worry about, it’s probably number one. Bill Ackman · Not checkable · 1 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Yann LeCun | Not checkable | 1 Oct 2026 | “The thing I want people to know is that AI is not over,” LeCun said, Yann LeCun · Not checkable · 1 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Bill Ackman | Not checkable | 1 Oct 2026 | It doesn’t have to be public. Bill Ackman · Not checkable · 1 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Bill Ackman | Not checkable | 1 Oct 2026 | We’re going to build this into a compounding machine over the next 50 years. Bill Ackman · Not checkable · 1 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Bill Ackman | Not checkable | 1 Oct 2026 | And Elon’s done an amazing job keeping the cost of capital of his companies really low. Bill Ackman · Not checkable · 1 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Bill Ackman | Not checkable | 1 Oct 2026 | I think the answer is exactly what you said. Bill Ackman · Not checkable · 1 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Bill Ackman | Not checkable | 1 Oct 2026 | And how can you do that when someone’s asking about the tax rate in the second quarter? Bill Ackman · Not checkable · 1 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Bill Ackman | Not checkable | 1 Oct 2026 | So what we’re doing is we’re repurposing the real estate assets and we’re transforming the company into a much higher returning kind of… Bill Ackman · Not checkable · 1 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Demis Hassabis | Not checkable | Oct 2026 | Hassabis has compared AGI's impact to "10 times the industrial revolution at 10 times the speed." Demis Hassabis · Not checkable · Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Demis Hassabis | Not checkable | Oct 2026 | It's going to happen soon. My estimate keeps moving closer to the present, Demis Hassabis · Not checkable · Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Peter Thiel | Not checkable | 30 Sep 2026 | It's less good than a golf cart. Peter Thiel · Not checkable · 30 Sep 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Peter Thiel | Not checkable | 30 Sep 2026 | There's always a question I like to ask: What is the antonym of good? Peter Thiel · Not checkable · 30 Sep 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Peter Thiel | Not checkable | 30 Sep 2026 | And if you're evil, you're not bad. Peter Thiel · Not checkable · 30 Sep 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Peter Thiel | Not checkable | 30 Sep 2026 | The moral question of our society, we have all these good vs. evil debates, and we're just full of badness. Peter Thiel · Not checkable · 30 Sep 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Peter Thiel | Not checkable | 30 Sep 2026 | A Trabbi is a bad car. Peter Thiel · Not checkable · 30 Sep 2026 | |
| Not checkable | GiveWell | Not checkable | 30 Sep 2026 | That increased capacity lets us explore more areas and move more funding to programs we believe could do extraordinary good. GiveWell · Not checkable · 30 Sep 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Peter Thiel | Not checkable | 30 Sep 2026 | And therefore, maybe you're actually kind of good because you're at least getting something done. Peter Thiel · Not checkable · 30 Sep 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Peter Thiel | Not checkable | 30 Sep 2026 | And so, if you're evil, you're at least competent. Peter Thiel · Not checkable · 30 Sep 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Peter Thiel | Not checkable | 30 Sep 2026 | And the moral antonym is evil. Peter Thiel · Not checkable · 30 Sep 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Peter Thiel | Not checkable | 30 Sep 2026 | Most of the time, things are not even evil, they're not even good. They're just merely bad. Peter Thiel · Not checkable · 30 Sep 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Peter Thiel | Not checkable | 30 Sep 2026 | A Ferrari is an evil car because it doesn't get many miles per gallon. Peter Thiel · Not checkable · 30 Sep 2026 | |
| Not checkable | GiveWell | Not checkable | 30 Sep 2026 | Despite the growth of our grantmaking, the needs and opportunities before us continue to far exceed available resources. GiveWell · Not checkable · 30 Sep 2026 | |
| Not checkable | GiveWell | Not checkable | 30 Sep 2026 | Our grantmaking aims to support programs that save or improve lives the most per dollar. GiveWell · Not checkable · 30 Sep 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Peter Thiel | Not checkable | 30 Sep 2026 | The functional antonym is bad. Peter Thiel · Not checkable · 30 Sep 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Peter Thiel | Not checkable | 30 Sep 2026 | So you're in a world where 99% of the businesses, companies, people, political leaders, business leaders are totally incompetent, that's… Peter Thiel · Not checkable · 30 Sep 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Peter Thiel | Not checkable | 30 Sep 2026 | I'm going to get in trouble for what I'm about to say, but I think we moralize way too much. Peter Thiel · Not checkable · 30 Sep 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Peter Thiel | Not checkable | 30 Sep 2026 | I think it's better to be good than evil, I want to be very clear, but I prefer Goethe's "Faust" to Marlowe's "Faust." Peter Thiel · Not checkable · 30 Sep 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 26 Sep 2026 | Let’s agree that the provenance of an idea has little bearing on its validity: whether or not doomers are weird, they could be right. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 26 Sep 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 26 Sep 2026 | These debates are a spectator sport, not an epistemic tool. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 26 Sep 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 26 Sep 2026 | When I said that the doomer scenarios projected alpha-male psychology onto AIs, this was not an ad hominem insinuation that the proponents… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 26 Sep 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 26 Sep 2026 | I stand by my claim that most of the doomer scenarios are preposterous (beginning with the AI paperclip maximiser that consumes our bodies… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 26 Sep 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 26 Sep 2026 | But as rationalists we should agree that attacking an idea should not be confused with attacking a person. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 26 Sep 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 26 Sep 2026 | So let me begin by apologising for any inadvertent offence and by emphasising that my admiration for you is immense. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 26 Sep 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 26 Sep 2026 | Obviously I believe in defending ideas in the face of criticism. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 26 Sep 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 26 Sep 2026 | It was an analysis which proposed that they were applying an inappropriate alpha-male theory of mind (an intuitive psychology) to AI. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 26 Sep 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 26 Sep 2026 | I think your brilliance is enviable and your integrity inspiring. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 26 Sep 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 26 Sep 2026 | We agree on almost everything, including your commitment to rationality and effective altruism (at least in their original, lower-case… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 26 Sep 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 26 Sep 2026 | Nonetheless, I stand by them as substantive arguments against the radical claim (I trust you’ll agree that it is radical) that within a… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 26 Sep 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 26 Sep 2026 | I’m just sceptical of the prophecy that AI will murder every last human and of the assumption that sowing such dread is the most effective… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 26 Sep 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 26 Sep 2026 | And telling young people they will soon perish en masse has costs in their appreciation of the institutions of modernity, their mental… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 26 Sep 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 26 Sep 2026 | I choose to delope: to fire my pistol into the ground to pre-empt the conflict. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 26 Sep 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 26 Sep 2026 | I boosted the article because it addresses legitimate questions. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 26 Sep 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 26 Sep 2026 | It’s consistent with my argument in Enlightenment Now that prophecies of doom are not effective responses to genuine risks but have… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 26 Sep 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 26 Sep 2026 | But the AI X-Risk community itself is facetious about what they insist will be a massacre of humanity (the paperclip memes, the jocular… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 26 Sep 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 26 Sep 2026 | The dangers of AI are real, including bioterrorism, cyber-sabotage, and unconstrained agents. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 26 Sep 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 26 Sep 2026 | these are not aspersions on living people, but on the hypothetical protagonists of the exotic scenarios. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 26 Sep 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 26 Sep 2026 | And the adjectives were not gratuitous insults but juxtaposed as antonyms to the “intelligence” in “artificial intelligence.” Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 26 Sep 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 26 Sep 2026 | I’m strongly in favour of sober safety evaluations and engineering best practices: independent oversight, mandatory investigations of… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 26 Sep 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 26 Sep 2026 | I confess that my tone can be irreverent and my prose purplish, which you suggest is incommensurate with the gravity of the topic. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 26 Sep 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Peter Thiel | Not checkable | 25 Sep 2026 | They may say the idea is crazy, yet secretly agree with me. Peter Thiel · Not checkable · 25 Sep 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Gary Marcus | Not checkable | 25 Sep 2026 | Huang is making a fool of himself, by telling the world we can trust the companies, when each passing hour makes it clearer that we can’t. Gary Marcus · Not checkable · 25 Sep 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Peter Thiel | Not checkable | 25 Sep 2026 | The alternative is also far from neutral. Peter Thiel · Not checkable · 25 Sep 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Peter Thiel | Not checkable | 25 Sep 2026 | I do not know how to assign a probability to a system much smarter than any human escaping control. Peter Thiel · Not checkable · 25 Sep 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Peter Thiel | Not checkable | 25 Sep 2026 | I do not want one led by democratic socialists. Peter Thiel · Not checkable · 25 Sep 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Peter Thiel | Not checkable | 25 Sep 2026 | I do think there is a trend against democracy, and liberal societies are in some trouble. Peter Thiel · Not checkable · 25 Sep 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Gary Marcus | Not checkable | 25 Sep 2026 | It’s time (past time, really) to (temporarily) shut down OpenAI. Gary Marcus · Not checkable · 25 Sep 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Peter Thiel | Not checkable | 25 Sep 2026 | Much of this is what we are doing to ourselves in the West. Peter Thiel · Not checkable · 25 Sep 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Peter Thiel | Not checkable | 25 Sep 2026 | If I had to single out one problem, it would be dementia: finding a way to slow or reverse the decline in people's brains. Peter Thiel · Not checkable · 25 Sep 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Peter Thiel | Not checkable | 25 Sep 2026 | But even a 5 or 10 percent probability would be pretty bad, and that understandably pushes people toward precaution. Peter Thiel · Not checkable · 25 Sep 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Peter Thiel | Not checkable | 25 Sep 2026 | I strongly reject the suggestion of moral equivalence between the United States and China. Peter Thiel · Not checkable · 25 Sep 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Peter Thiel | Not checkable | 25 Sep 2026 | When a majority votes for parties that want to end democracy, it may already be nearly too late. Peter Thiel · Not checkable · 25 Sep 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Peter Thiel | Not checkable | 25 Sep 2026 | I am self-aware enough to know that I am not electable. Peter Thiel · Not checkable · 25 Sep 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Gary Marcus | Not checkable | 25 Sep 2026 | About the closest thing to an honest account of what happened – and I seriously doubt even this is completely candid – came out about an… Gary Marcus · Not checkable · 25 Sep 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Peter Thiel | Not checkable | 25 Sep 2026 | I am a tough critic of China, and we must take the rivalry seriously, but it is too easy to blame China for everything. Peter Thiel · Not checkable · 25 Sep 2026 |
“But he builds an army of believers and followers that enabled Tesla to be built.”
Bill Ackman 1 October 2026 Transcript of Bill Ackman Interview: All-In Liquidity 2026 (Singju Post)
But he builds an army of believers and followers that enabled Tesla to be built.
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