You can always add more regulatory oversight later, but it is very hard to reduce. He wants a fast step labs and China might actually agree to, rather than a one-way ratchet of new rules.
"private sector is generally better doing things than the government"
"Tesla policy is to issue a recall *before* there are injuries. This is absolutely the right thing to do."
"And then obviously regulators respond to public pressure and the press."
"Direct democracy by the people. Laws must be short, as there is trickery in length. Automatic expiration of rules to prevent death by bureaucracy."
"If somebody wants to leave and join another company, sometimes they have to spend six months on garden leave."
"the best thing that government can do is just get out of the way"
"It just forces us to think about it more."
"if it takes like let's say an additional six months or 12 months for, for AGI, that's really not a big deal."
"Every year that passes comes with more rules. And while all humans die, laws and regulations are immortal. So each passing year, we tie ourselves down with more and more strings, until, like Gulliver, we can no longer move."
"I am incredibly compliant with regulations"
"you will eventually make everything illegal"
"An excessive number of laws and regulations is the natural outcome of an extended period of prosperity. Historically, war would clean the slate of laws and regulations, but this can be done without war. We simply need to acknowledge that this is a problem and actively work to delete and simplify laws and regulations."
"I think we need to have a process for garbage collection of rules and regulations."
"we are being strangled by regulation."
"the forcing function for cleaning up bad rules and regulations or sort of archaic rules and things that don't really matter anymore has been war."
"it's a lot harder to get things done now than it was 10 years ago."
"There are so many regulations that major new construction is practically illegal in America"
"Absolutely. There are so many regulations that building has become practically illegal."
"if you've got billions of miles that show that in future unsupervised FSD is safer than human, what regulator could really stand in the way of that?"
"So I don't think regulatory approval will be a limiting factor."
"It's illegal six ways to Sunday to build high-speed rail in America"
"a lot of the regulations are nonsensical"
"SpaceX was fined by the EPA"
"Well, what are our choices here? The country is choked with nonsense regulations and excessive government spending is driving a great misallocation of human resources. Building great projects is practically illegal in America."
"Mario Draghi’s critique is accurate. A thorough review of EU regulations to eliminate unnecessary rules and streamline activity in Europe would revitalize growth and strengthen competitiveness. Things should be default legal, rather than default illegal."
"Unless current trends for absurd regulatory overreach are reversed, humanity will be confined to Earth forever"
"There should be rules and referees for any field. For example, pro sports could choose to have no referees or rules, but they do not, because it would make the games worse. We should have a reasonable set of regulations and regulators for matters affecting public safety, not too few and not too many. There is not currently an effective mechanism in government for removing bad regulations or agencies that have negative net public good. That’s why there needs to be a dept of govt efficiency to force garbage removal of bad regulations and negative net good govt agencies."
"America is being slowly strangled to death by an accumulation of millions of regulations. Tens of thousands of new rules are added every year, but very few are ever removed. Eventually, everything becomes illegal."
"SpaceX will be filing suit against the FAA for regulatory overreach"
"America is being smothered by legions of regulators, often inept & politically-driven"
"I think a bonfire of nonsense regulations would be epic."
"And so I call this like sort of strangulation by overregulation."
"strangulation by overregulation is not turned around, we'll never get to Mars, it just will be illegal."
"There should be a federal approval process for autonomous vehicles."
"It really needs to be like a national approval is important."
"This should be a national approval process for autonomy."
"we could build the rocket faster than they could process the paperwork to approve the launch"
"The absurd regulations get worse every year. Unless we push back, everything will become illegal."
"The world is suffering slow strangulation by overregulation. Every year, the noose tightens a little more. We finally have a mandate to delete the mountain of choking regulations that do not serve the greater good."
"There are so many regulators that it’s like a sports game with more refs than players on the field!"
"Delete CFPB. There are too many duplicative regulatory agencies."
"Deleting nonsense regulations that fail to serve the greater public good will lead to a new age of prosperity"
"The biggest factor, in my opinion, is that crazy environmental regulations prevent building fire breaks and clearing brush near houses. That’s what allows massive fires to get going. Once they’re going, you’re just in damage control mode. In this case, damage control also failed due to the reasons mentioned above."
"These fires are easily avoidable, but nonsense regulations in California prevent action being taken, so year after year homes burn down and more people die"
"Hopefully, public pressure will drive political, regulatory and legal reforms, otherwise these areas will not be rebuilt for many years to come. The current system makes it impossible."
"America innovates, Europe regulates."
"you every year you get more laws and regulations until eventually everything is illegal"
"Tax regulations need a massive reset. They are torturing the American people!"
"This administration will get rid of all regulations that make no sense, like this one"
"Excessive laws and regulations result in almost everything being illegal, enabling the government to engage in selective enforcement. They can then take any company down for POLITICAL reasons, aka lawfare."
"This shows why a regulatory overhaul is necessary. The burden of mountains of regulations is why the high speed rail can’t get down in California and the bridge that the ship hit still hasn’t been fixed."
"you will get the steady pile of more and more laws and regulations over time until everything is illegal"
"does tend to be very much a one-way ratchet in terms of increasing regulations"