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1. “I think that there was a genuine desire to make money. And also, these people are not all the same, right? Some of them are clearly just cynical. Some of them are true believers, right? But I think there was an idea that came partly from science fiction and partly from the sort of like weird, you know, Californian mix of counterculture and libertarian ethos that there was like a happy alignment between the desire to make lots of money through technology and to save humanity through technology that there was a way to both make a lot of money and make the world a much, much better place by bringing about this sort of inevitable science fictional future.”

   2025-07-14 · On with Kara Swisher · Science vs. Silicon Valley with Adam Becker · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

2. “Yeah, I mean, look, they really think that because they have more money than anybody else in the history of humanity, that means that they are the smartest people in the history of humanity. And that's just not true, right? You know, they are not experts on everything. They are arguably not experts on anything other than, you know, how to make a billion dollars. But they reject the idea of independent expertise that people might know more than they do about science and technology because I think they've drunk their own Kool-Aid. They're high on their own supply.”

   2025-07-14 · On with Kara Swisher · Science vs. Silicon Valley with Adam Becker · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT