00:00We do need to delete entire agencies as opposed to leave part of them behind because if you leave
00:08part of them behind, it's easy. It's kind of like leaving a weed. If you don't remove the roots of
00:15the weed, then it's easy for the weed to grow back. But if you remove the roots of the weed,
00:20it doesn't stop weeds from ever growing back, but it makes it harder.
00:23So we have to really delete entire agencies, many of them. We really have here
00:30rule of the bureaucracy as opposed to rule of the people democracy. So
00:38we want to restore rule of the people. And so what that means is reducing the size of the
00:43federal government, basically reducing regulation. There's a tremendous amount of
00:52over-regulation that's happened over time. And this is an inevitable consequence of a long
00:59period of prosperity is that you're going to get more and more rules and regulations, more laws
01:05accumulate over time. And the normal forcing function for getting rid of rules and regulations
01:11is war. So it needs some kind of existential war where you have to do a reset in order to
01:20avoid being defeated in a war. This is literally, throughout history, it's been the main forcing
01:24function for clearing out an accumulation of laws and regulation. In the absence of that,
01:31every year you get more laws and regulations until eventually everything is illegal
01:35and nothing is permitted. I think some of the things we're doing also will be
01:38helpful to hopefully helpful to other countries because with the new administration, there's
01:46less interest in interfering with the affairs of other countries. I think
01:54the times the United States has been kind of like pushy in international affairs,
02:00which may resonate with a number of the audience. And I think we should, in general,
02:07leave other countries to their own business. And basically, America should mind its own business,
02:14you know, rather than push for regime change all over the place. But human intelligence,
02:19I think, will be dwarfed by machine intelligence. I'm not sure how to feel about that, except that
02:26it is inevitable that at some point, human intelligence will be a very small fraction
02:35of total intelligence. Digital intelligence will be more than 99% of all intelligence in the future.
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