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Polish PM Donald Tusk:

I will say this plainly, without hesitation: the whole world looks with envy at how India is developing and how Poland is developing.

Polish PM Donald Tusk to India's Modi:

I am proud, truly proud, that I can call myself your friend.

Elon Musk on AI:

I do think there's at least some percentage chance of it being an existential threat. But there's nothing I can do to stop it.

So I basically came to the conclusion I've got two choices, which is either be a participant or a spectator.

Being a participant is more interesting than being a spectator, and maybe I can shape it, hopefully in a good direction.

Elon Musk on AI:

There's a lot of talk of having a regulatory agency, but the problem is that regulatory agencies take a long time to get established, and their rulemaking is very slow.

What if we just have a call once a week?

Maybe a week before we release a model, we give access to our competitors and say, "Why don't you try out the new model and see if you see any problems with it?"

I think competitors would keep each other honest in that situation.

If they say, "I was able to make a nuclear bomb with your AI," it's like, "Oh, we better fix that before we release it."

Elon Musk on Trump:

I came to the conclusion that there was no way we were going to solve the deficit from within the government.

Maybe if the president made that his primary goal, we could do that.

But the problem is, if you try to solve the deficit and stop wasteful spending, you make a lot of enemies.

And President Trump likes to be liked.

He doesn't like people being upset about some funding being stopped.

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Elon Musk:

I think people will find ways to be happy, in the same way that people who retire seem to be fairly happy even though they're not working.

But the reality is that there won't be anything humans can do that AI and robots can't do better.

One analogy might be gardening. You don't have to grow your own fruits and vegetables. You can just buy them from the store.

But sometimes people like to grow their own fruits and vegetables and make dinner for friends. It's kind of a nice touch.

Elon Musk:

Once you have a robot that can manipulate atoms and shape objects, the value of intelligence becomes exponentially greater.

It could have a science lab, run experiments, and try to understand the nature of the universe.

Elon Musk:

I don't think money is going to matter in the future.

And I don't think even so-called wealthy people will ultimately control the AIs.

I think they'll control themselves.

Elon Musk:

There's a limit to what any single human can consume. You hit that saturation point pretty fast.

Going from a billion dollars in net worth to $10 billion doesn't make you ten times happier or mean you have ten times more stuff.

It actually means you've got a resource allocation problem.

Elon Musk on Israel:

The neighboring countries have tried to annihilate Israel several times. Not once, multiple times.

In Israel, they realize that if you let people into Israel who want to kill Israelis, they will do so.

They're quite pragmatic about this, and they try to make sure that doesn't happen.

Elon Musk:

I do think at times the X feed can be a little dark.

I do think there's too much political rage bait on X.

Elon Musk:

If simulation theory is correct, then any simulations that are boring will be truncated.

The fact that we exist means that we are an interesting simulation.

And really, the most important thing is just don't be boring.

Netanyahu:

A significant part of the antisemitism in the West is an operation by, unfortunately, Russian entities, and of that terrible man, Dugin. A terrible man, simply terrible.

And he is poisoning the young American right. That is where he directs most of his efforts. They work together; they have alliances.

This struggle must be conducted through AI as well, as well as in government ministries.

Billionaire tech investor and longtime Trump ally Peter Thiel has openly criticized the U.S. war with Iran, marking his clearest break with the president on foreign policy.

“I’m skeptical of [the war], I think we should not have done it,” Thiel said during a private lecture on October 12. “There were a lot of mistakes that were made.”

Source: POLITICO

Zelensky:

I think Trump had a special relationship with Putin, and still does.

Maybe it really is possible that Trump being on friendly terms with Putin could have prevented a full-scale invasion.

But one thing you have to know for sure: neither I nor Trump are eternal in these presidential seats.

Either way, Trump's presidency would have ended, and Putin still wouldn't have changed his main goal — the occupation of Ukraine.

So I think, honestly, it doesn't matter who the president is as long as Putin is there.

Zelensky:

We asked the Americans: If you believe this is war, then give us weapons urgently, everything you can give.

But nobody would give anything.

I asked President Biden: Impose sanctions on Russia now, preemptively. If you know there could be an invasion, impose sanctions.

But President Biden said, "We'll impose sanctions if there's an invasion." Postfactum, not preemptive sanctions.

I'm not God to judge a president, but I believe that was a mistake.

Zelensky:

I didn't think there would be a full-scale invasion.

I didn't think so because I believe that if people know there's going to be a full-scale invasion, partners and so on, and they don't take preemptive steps, don't sit him down at the table, don't tell him, "Are you out of your mind? Have you lost your mind to wage war, to kill people?"

But even so, a full-scale invasion happened.

Zelensky:

A day before the invasion, the Europeans, who knew less than the Americans, were talking with Putin.

Putin promised them there wouldn't be an invasion.

He lied to all of them. He knew there would be an invasion. He knew everything.

Zelensky:

Russia was putting out a lot of information claiming I had fled.

Their whole idea was for people to run, and people would run if they saw that their leader abandoned them.

They wanted me to run.

I couldn't abandon Kyiv, the office, the people. It's just impossible.

That would be betrayal. Betrayal of my human decency and the constitution of Ukraine.