The Techno Optimist

.@NASA Administrator @rookisaacman on what's different about going back to the moon: "This will not be a repeat of the flags and footprints... Transform what will begin as a small scientific outpost into something that may one day resemble a city on the lunar surface. This mountain of effort is our opportunity to potentially spark a lunar economy." — Jared Isaacman, NASA Administrator, at a NASA Artemis briefing

.@nayeema asked @geoffreyhinton how long governments have to act on AI: "It looks like the idea we're getting this exponential progress might actually be true, in which case you don't have long. Exponentials grow very fast... AI is being used to make the chips better that AI runs on... So it's just a guess, but I guess we have a year or two before everything gets much worse than it is now." — Geoffrey Hinton, Nobel laureate and "Godfather of AI," on Smart Girl Dumb Questions

.@RayDalio on the pattern he sees in the AI boom: "Think about the late 20s, prior to the bust... first time you had cars, first time you had airplanes, first time you had movies, first time you had radio. So all around you, you're seeing this tremendous innovation that everybody knows is going to change the world and everybody wants to bet on it... You can't spend wealth. You have to sell wealth in order to get money to spend it... What creates the bursting of a bubble is the fact that you need cash." — Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater, on @BloombergTV

.@Jason on Elon's plan to give every American kid a share of @SpaceX: "A share of SpaceX worth $150, $160, $170 it's been trading at, which is a $10 billion gift, which I believe will be amongst the largest gifts in the history of charity ever done... There's nothing that says this is not going to become a bit of a contagion amongst the affluent... giving it directly to kids who can't touch it for 18 years." — Jason Calacanis on @theallinpod

Billionaire investor @peterthiel, co-founder of @PayPal and @PalantirTech, gets asked whether AI could actually slip out of human control. Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner is asking about a moment from September 2026. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay urging AI companies to deliberately slow how fast they improve their most advanced models, and OpenAI's Sam Altman and Elon Musk publicly backed it. The same day, @sama ruled out an @OpenAI IPO this year. Some critics wondered whether the warnings were self-serving. Thiel doesn't go into motives. He puts the odds of a runaway AI as low but not comfortable, then says the debate itself tends to push people toward precaution. Low odds aren't the same as safe odds: "if the probability is even 5% or 10%, that seems pretty bad." From Peter Thiel's conversation with Mathias Döpfner on MD MEETS.

.@nvidia CEO @JensenHuang on what he tells his own software engineers: "Every single engineer who came into the world of engineering, you spend all your time typing. When you get a job, they give you a laptop, they give you a chair, and you start typing... Even at NVIDIA, when software engineers talk to me, I tell them, you're just typing... My favorite key is Backspace. And the reason for that is because the best software is the smallest software." — Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, at the All-In Summit (@theallinpod)

.@FlockSafety CEO @glangley on what happened after one city switched its cameras off: "I saw this one city in Washington, just, it's so sad that they turn the cameras off the next weekend, a little boy gets shot, car drives off, it's gonna be a cold case. And luckily, the city next door still have Flock cameras, found the car, made the arrest... I've never met somebody who's like, I want to be less safe." — Garrett Langley, CEO of Flock Safety, on @theallinpod

David Cross asked Joe Rogan who's going to save us from superintelligence. His answer: "There's no one saving us... We are the last of the regular people. I think we're all going to have to integrate. I think if you don't integrate, you won't survive... There's probably going to be a wearable, or a @neuralink-type thing for the bold that want to get a hole drilled in their head... The people that get it are going to be able to control so much so quickly, that if you don't adopt it early, you're going to be f***ed." — @joerogan with comedian @davidcrosss on The Joe Rogan Experience

.@friedberg on what @SpaceX has quietly built alongside its rockets: "SpaceX has largely built a backup internet. And that backup internet can coincide with the Earth's internet, but it creates this extraterrestrial communication network... If governments collapse, if there's civilizational upheaval, etc, etc, etc, this becomes, I think, a fundamentally kind of important technology infrastructure that's going to exist in parallel." — David Friedberg on @theallinpod

.@bendingspoons CEO @luke10ferrari on where the company's first $40,000 came from: "We launched an AI company in 2010, very early, too early, clearly, crashed and burned. Three years later, we're left with about $40,000 in capital we'd raised from the VC... They told us, you guys keep it, we'll sell our shares to you for $1... and you go and get a nice vacation. We're clearly a little bit sick in the head. And so we took the money and enthusiastically turned it into a seed financing for Bending Spoons." — Luca Ferrari, co-founder and CEO of Bending Spoons, at the All-In Summit