Eric Weinstein
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I sure as shit wouldn't build a chemical rocket company.
But I'd do it as cover.
And I sure as shit wouldn't do things in an open university department.
I'd build an organization
that could rationalize billions passing through it with almost no footprint.
Because what I really need is whiteboards and coffee and smart people and a secure campus and a story.
God, wouldn't you love to have access to what they're doing?
No, because I'm going to do it myself.
How are you going to do that?
Because I know really smart people, Joe.
Don't you need like insane amounts of money in a laboratory somewhere?
Like Sam Altman is racing.
Dario Amadai is racing Elon Musk for super intelligence.
I asked myself, if you could have premium subscriptions to Grok, Gemini, XAI, sorry, Grok, Gemini, Claude, all of them, or you could have Edward Frankel's home phone number, which would you choose?
I'd choose Ed Frankel's home phone number.