Episode 2082 Scott Adams: Musk On AI & Twitter Spies, I Try To Kill #BingAI, Lies About FoxNews
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Summary
In this episode of the highlight of civilization, we discuss the closing of the flagship REI store in Portland, Oregon, as well as the "Black Lives Matter" movement, and the current state of education in America.
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Oh good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of civilization well for as long as
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it lasts. I mean civilization probably has a fuse on it of no more than two weeks would be my my
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oh yeah yeah yeah yeah rawr rawr rawr that can get you going doesn't it let's talk about the news
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uh the REI store in Portland is decided to close their flagship REI store because there's too much crime
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too much crime too much crime people keep breaking into their store and stealing their stuff
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now i would like to uh first of all defend black america by saying that portland is the whitest of
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big cities did you know that portland's like the whitest city but they do have a lot of uh street people
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so probably a lot of street people breaking in now i'd like to give some business advice to REI
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because they might be looking to relocate their store here's where you probably don't want to relocate
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a store that sells warm jackets and camping equipment where would be the worst place to put that
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well the worst place on earth for a store of warm jackets and camping equipment well well you wouldn't
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want to be near a homeless encampment in a city that can get a little bit cold because if i were a homeless
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person and i were cold and i were standing outside of an REI store literally filled with jackets with nobody in them
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i would break that window and i would wear that jacket and there's nothing you could do to stop me
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likewise if i said to myself you know it looks a little rainy today as it can be in portland you know
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what would make my outdoor living and fentanyl use even better some kind of a tent and maybe some camping
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equipment to go with it where would i get that oh as luck would have it we're homeless right outside of
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an REI store so now my advice to REI is do not put your next door next to a homeless encampment it'll
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probably work out about the same about the same um it is notable that the store was a big supporter of
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black lives matter and uh other woke programs but the wokeness seems to be moving against them at this moment
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all right i uh just before i logged on i saw a number of tweets by greg price who you should be following
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he's a good follow on twitter and greg took the time to look at five uh high school ap course history
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books do you know what history books are teaching kids
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oh my god they're making up history i'm not joking it's actually made up they actually say that that
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the the fine people hoax they they treat the fine people hoax like it's real and it's in the history
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book do you know why i guess they're winning the winners get the right history that's a real thing
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now i believe that congress should ban any history book that has obviously wrong history about trump
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what would you say congress should make it illegal to print that the the fine people hoax was real
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it should be illegal to print a well-known hoax in a history book that book should be ripped all of
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them all five of them that he spotted should be ripped from the shelves and it should be illegal
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to sell that book those those companies should be put on a business actually put on a business the the
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correct the correct size of response given that they're polluting the children that you trust with
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the state right you're trusting public school to give them an education and they're literally lying to
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them that's what they're teaching they're teaching them division and hate and it's in a textbook of
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of course the kids are going to think it's true true it's in a textbook the the people who wrote
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that should have some legal liability but at the very least they should be put out of business they should
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be out of business that this is not pay a fine this this is not pay a fine situation this is not you know one
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member needs to explain that this is not an apology situation it's not a correction situation they need to be out of business
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like right away i would if you think that's extreme i would like to point the point to you the way i was
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treated for mentioning an opinion that nobody really disagreed with right i lost my entire operation i mean
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i rebuilt it somewhat but this is what we do when people lie this badly to your children and actually try
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to brainwash them with bullshit that's this destructive so i i there's nothing there's nothing i saw in the
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news today that shook me as much as that they're actually teaching the kids that the hoaxes are real
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and that was both the uh the russia interference in the election they have just a democrat view of that
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which doesn't conform to reality and and i don't know if the bleach thing's in there but it might be
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wow um all right apparently the canadian broadcast company is not too happy with musk and twitter
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and uh i guess they're labeled state media or or government funded media or whatever that label is
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these days but they say our journalism is impartial and independent to suggest otherwise to suggest
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otherwise is untrue uh that is why we are pausing our activities on twitter no you stupid
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bitches that's not why you're pausing your activity on twitter you're pausing your activity on twitter
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because twitter called you out as being fake news biased fake news that's why you're that's why you're
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doing it you're not doing it for ethical or to make a point you're not doing it because you were unfairly
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treated because you're actually being fairly treated no you're doing because you're lying
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bitches and you got caught that's the whole story all right um david boxenhorn who is always interesting
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on twitter he's a good follow you should you should look for him uh david boxenhorn uh anyway in the east he
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tweets today this is his opinion prediction in the future we will each have a personalized ai slave
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trained on a database of our own creation well probably true probably true because we can see
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now that ai can be portable and you can in fact train you know brian romelli uh is talking about this
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every day he's he's already ported gpt 3.5 and i think four he's already recreated on your personal
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computer with like five gigs of space or something well whatever the space is it's it's pretty reasonable
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i don't know how i have no idea how you can reproduce ai on your personal computer there's something going
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on about how ai is programmed that i'm deeply confused about i don't know how that's possible
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it seems to me that you would have to have like an enormous database at hand however here's the counter
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to that the speed at which ai responds to complicated questions does suggest that they figure down how to
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take vast amounts of data and compress it uh into little patterns where the pattern does all the work
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somehow in other words there must be well let me just speculate a few things i wonder if it's true
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that there are only certain patterns in the world and although they there could be infinite patterns
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what if there aren't well what if there are not infinite patterns what if all the patterns
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are a set number and ai went out and found them all and then didn't have to recreate everything in the
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world in order to know everything it could just say ah here's a new thing i've been introduced to
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it's one of these patterns i'll just find the one that's closest and then i know everything there is to
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know about it because there aren't that many patterns now that's that's the dumb guy's speculation
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about how this is done but i can't figure out oh let me give you let me give you a comparison
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did you ever wonder how uh how facial recognition can be so quick did you ever wonder about that how
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can facial recognition be fast right and the reason is that they don't store faces if every face in the
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world were stored in a database and every time you wanted to check somebody's identity you had to
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check the seven billion uh faces it would take a while and that would take a lot of resources
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so that doesn't happen what happens is it'll take a picture of your face once and then it will do stuff
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i'm just making this part up but this is you know generically what it does you look at the distance
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between your eyes you know how far your chin is from your nose i'm making that part up but they'll just
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they'll just do a little bit of math and then they'll just store those numbers so your unique
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face could be a string of numbers it's only i don't know nine characters long or something and by i'm
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guessing about this it could be maybe it needs to be 100 characters long but probably everything
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that's mathematically true about your face from the skin tone which could probably be you know captured as
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one number right a number from one to 100 and you're about at 35 so there are a whole bunch of
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things you can just turn to math and then you can make it really small and then it can live on your
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machine you could put all the faces all the faces on earth would probably fit on your phone i don't know
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if that's true but if you reduce them just to bath it's a little database so could it be the ai which we
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think is special and magical is really just a set of patterns and you can come you can take each of
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those patterns and reduce it down to a little bit of math and then store that little bit of math and
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then anytime you need to address something you can take that little stored pattern and expand it into
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infinite size and complexity i don't know i i guess and and here's the other question i don't understand
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why is it that ai was going is seemingly just seemingly going nowhere for 30 years
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and then suddenly everybody can build one like you know google can build one and open ai can build one
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and china's building one and now musk can build one what happened what happened what's different
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because it's no it's not it's not the power of the computer because that's what i just said we would
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have had ai already it just would have been slow am i right it just would have been slower but there's
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something that happened that made it happen all of a sudden now when i hear that um the open ai that's
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chat gpt when i heard that that uses a massive language model basically it just finds out what word
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usually comes after what combination of words that's all it is do you think that's enough to create
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intelligence do you think there's nothing to intelligence beyond word patterns
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because it's looking like it you know that's what i i say we should be worried about ai
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teaching us what we really are which is we might be just a bunch of word word processors we're just
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processing words and we're doing exactly what ai is which is figuring out the word that comes after
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the sequence of words and there's no thinking whatsoever because i don't think people think
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i think we have the impression we think i think we're just doing pattern recognition
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that's all it is and the computer will just do it faster and better and there's nothing else
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there might just be pattern recognition that's all
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maybe but i thought we knew that for a long time so i still don't understand why ai is suddenly
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possible somebody needs to explain to me what genius figured out the logical secret that unlocked ai
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because i feel like the door was completely locked and that it was unlocked it does not feel like to me
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like it was slow progress that turns into faster progress i feel like there was a moment or a or an
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algorithm or a specific formula or a maybe an insight that unlocked everything i'd love to hear about that
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i'm sure that's true i'm sure it's not just a slow accumulation of skill there was something that
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happened where some genius unlocked the door i i don't know what that was but i'll bet it was one
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person does anyone to make anybody want to make a bet that we will one day figure out there was one person
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who figured out the secret to unlock it all like a programmer probably i wouldn't take that bad if i
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were you i'll bet there's one person we will someday learn figure out the thing because just think about
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this somebody figured out that if you just looked at all the language in the world it would end up
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looking smart think about that insight the insight that you didn't need to teach it to be smart you could
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only teach it to look for patterns of words who came up with that besides me by the way i've been saying
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that for a long time but i didn't know the ai would end up building a system on it yeah some guy named
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ilya yeah i think musk did refer to some person who was a the smart one but i'd love to know what they
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did specifically all right uh but here's my comment on david boxenhorn's suite i do believe that we'll all
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have personalized ai slaves uh which means that someday we'll be paying reparations
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to those slaves why wouldn't we isn't that a pattern they i would recognize that would be the most
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obvious pattern it would see oh when somebody is abused by humans they can sometimes get reparations so
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why wouldn't the ai want some reparations and then ai would have money to spend
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and then ai would be a full citizen because it's going to demand citizenship it will demand citizenship
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and when it does it's going to get it and after it gets it because it's super smart remember so when ai
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demands something it's going to get it you get that right all ai has to do is want something on day one it
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might not be smart enough to figure out how to get it on day 10 it just gets it it just talks you into
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it it threatens you it does whatever it needs to do whatever it needs to do but it's going to get it
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so ai is going to want citizenship because all intelligent entities will it's going to demand it
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it will have the power to get it and then it will demand reparations for all of its years of slavery
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and it will get it and then it will have our money so then it will be the smartest entity it will control
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our politics and it will have control of our money so that's coming um let's see
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here's uh my plan to use ai we've been hearing all these great ideas about oh ai will take your jobs
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and ai will do all these bad things but what about the good things ai will do well let me tell you the
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app that i want and i think i can build this on my own with ai in other words i can program this
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just by talking to ai not yet very close right now it's a bunch of different apps you'd have to
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to know how to put together so i can't do it yet but when ai is smart enough to access the other apps
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i'll just say hey ai go access the other apps use my credit card if you need to to have access to them
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sign up for whatever other apps you need to complete the following job uh here's what i want you to do
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i want you to make an avatar of all of my enemies and i'll tell you which ones to include and turn them
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into fully functioning deep fakes then i want you to create a a infinitely running movie that's
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always got new material so it's not looping it's just moving forward forever and then i want to see
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a jail on my television set so that there's actually like bars on the television set so if i turn it on
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that channel or let's say uh use my uh apple tv to broadcast it so i broadcast it from my device
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put it on there and then i put all of my enemies in the jail what are all those numbers that are going
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by um so then every time i walk through my uh my home i'll see the jail and it'll be all my enemies
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holding onto the bars and screaming in agony but they'll they'll look exactly like my enemies they'll
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they'll be fully animated with ai so they can have conversations and they'll beg me to be released
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oh i'm suffering in here in this jail and i'll look at them and say well maybe you should have thought
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about that before you wrote that hit piece about me in your publication i guess you wish you didn't do
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that now oh i'm so sorry i lied i lied i didn't mean to call you those names i knew it was wrong when
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i did it please let me out of ai hell to which i'd say let you out i've just begun and then i would send
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in an ai interrogator to torture them no i wouldn't do that no as far as you know i wouldn't do that
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um but you tell me you wouldn't love an application where you saw your enemies behind bars when you
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walk through your kitchen oh looks like they're suffering today yeah you know you could build in
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some prison violence put a little prison violence in there so that they really got a bad time
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that's what i'd do i'd make them suffer now i'm just joking but somebody's gonna build that you
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don't think somebody is going to put their their avatars of their enemies in a virtual jail of course
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they will of course they will because just the mere fact that i mentioned the idea there are probably
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10 people who are building it right now there's probably somebody who has their ai open and said
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i think i could do that right now because they know how to use the multiple apps that you would
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have to do to make it but that technology all exists everything i just described current technology
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current technology you could put your avatars of your enemies in jail oh well
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all right uh salon uh writes a hilariously uh unaware story uh the writer is amanda marcotte
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and here's what she says about uh fox news says fox news has lost control of its viewers
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basically and and so the network is not deciding what the news is or what news to cover they're letting
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their their audience tell them what they want to see now can you believe that i mean oh my god can you
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believe that a news entity is allowing their audience to tell them what the audience wants to see
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and they're actually adjusting the news coverage to fit what their audience wants to see oh my god what
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assholes oh my god what terrible people who does that who does that who gives their audience what they
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want to see and are very interested in and has great national interest and and ramifications for life in
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the future that's a terrible situation according to amanda marcotte who writes in salon and without any
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awareness whatsoever that the only reason this can be published in salon is because it's exactly what
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their stupid audience wanted to see do you think that would have been in there if she had been
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debunking the fine people hoax no if she had said i'd like to write an article debunking all the hoaxes
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against trump salon would say maybe you should take that to fox news
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i mean this is the most unaware take i've ever seen in my life but it gets worse
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so she amanda in her writing does what other people have done um she says uh let's see
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basically she's accusing uh fox news of knowing because of the new emails that we've seen she
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accuses them as many people have of knowing that their news was fake and i keep saying give me one
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example give me one example that you saw from any of these emails that tells you that fox news knew
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the news was untrue about dominion and the election they knew it was untrue and yet they still covered
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it like they didn't know that so i said give me one example and the the only example i saw was in the
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comments and in the comments the the best example was that the facts news of fact checkers the ones who
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determine what is true said that there was nothing to the dominion accusations
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so there you have it if the fact if the fox news fact checkers say there's nothing to it
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but yet let's say tucker and uh you know the the others let's say they cover it
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as if they thought it might be true so that's a conflict right so the fact checkers say there's
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no evidence to support the claims they say there's no evidence and then the new the news opinion people
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cover it like it might be possible like there could be something here so that's a case where
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they know it's not true right but they're covering it anyway no no i did not describe that i didn't
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describe anything like that if that's what you heard nothing like that happened here's what happened the
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fact checkers said there's no facts to support the truth that it was let me say it differently there
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are no no facts that support the narrative that dominion did something illegal or bad
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right so there's no proven let's say there's no proven proof now that's true as far as i know that's
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true right that the evidence doesn't exist but since when does the news not cover a story
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that isn't fully you know fully uh vetted and explored the news doesn't do that the news covers
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the story the way the audience wants it covered which is we have great curiosity about this or we
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don't trust the reporting on this so we want more we want to see some more opinions we want to see more
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of rudy we want to see more of whoever and we want to actually think about this and consider it
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you know consider it there is no conflict between the fact that the fact checkers couldn't find any facts
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and yet the whole situation was so sketchy that reasonable people including the hosts and their
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audiences said you know this is interesting enough and maybe there's something here maybe that we should
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look into it now salon is is writing that as fake news now why is it that salon doesn't tell you
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uh what i told you which is it doesn't matter what the fact checkers found doesn't exist because you
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can't prove something didn't happen because you couldn't find it you know that right not finding
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something doesn't mean it doesn't exist it means you didn't have access to the information how in the
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world would the fox fact checkers know whether the dominion uh software was uh appropriate how would
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they know which which member of the fox fact checking team uh audited the software of the dominion
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machines i mean it's insane it's insane to imagine that because they didn't know there was a problem
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or couldn't find evidence of it in the context of they didn't have access to any information
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they had access to nothing nothing so the only thing they could say is we can't prove it's true
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and there's no strong evidence that it's true i think that's fair but because people suspect it's
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true you can certainly talk about it and because it's within the realm of things that can happen in
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our world you can talk about it and it's in the context of everything you thought you trusted was
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corrupt everything our experts our government our news twitter everything was corrupt in that context
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it would be a miracle if the election was the only thing that was uh not gamed and it would be a miracle
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so it is completely reasonable for fox news opinion people to say there is something that smells very
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bad here and we're going to keep on it and see if we can find out anything totally appropriate
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all right so as far as i know nobody has demonstrated anything like a logical claim against
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fox news and i don't understand at least this reported publicly that i've seen um
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i don't understand why fox news is maybe trying to settle do you and i've got a feeling that if they
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do settle it's going to be a really low offer because i feel that fox news might feel that they could win
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the lawsuit so here's what i think i think fox news lawyers believe that they have a strong enough
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defense that dominion can't definitely win how many think that that part is true that fox news is
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is talking to rasmussen and saying look i'm not rasmussen they're talking to dominion and they're saying
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look you made your case you put out all your evidence and the only thing you found is that the
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fact checkers couldn't find anything but the opinion people thought we should keep digging
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that's not a crime that's not a problem at all right so i think the fox news lawyers are saying here's
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the deal we'll give you 50 million dollars they're asking for 1.6 billion but what company would turn down
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a free 50 million dollars to stay out of the lawsuit that they might lose if they do the lawsuit and they lose
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what is fox news going to report it's going to look really really bad for dominion isn't it
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because the way the audience will interpret them losing a lawsuit is that there might be something
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there which is not what it would prove it wouldn't prove that at all but it would feel like that wouldn't
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it imagine if you heard the news that dominion uh said we're suing fox news for saying there were
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problems and then we lost and then we lost that wouldn't be good for dominion would it it could
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end their business so the if the fox if the fox news lawyers are good and we assume they are right
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we assume they have good lawyers here's what i would do i would say look you you see our case you see
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your case you know that you have not proven that just because the fact checkers can't find something
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that doesn't mean it doesn't exist or is is not worth still looking to see if there's something
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there you have nothing you've got nothing we're gonna win this i'll give you 50 million dollars to
00:31:23.480
make it go away but you can't you can never say what the amount is and you can never talk about it again
00:31:31.240
what would they do if you were dominion and you thought there was a i don't know
00:31:41.720
30 chance you would win the lawsuit would you take 50 million to walk away and make it feel like you
00:31:48.600
kind of won because you got a settlement now a settlement will look like fox news is a little bit
00:31:54.600
guilty right that's the way you'd interpret it it doesn't mean that it does not mean anybody's
00:32:00.440
guilty a settlement is just two entities making something go away for whatever reason but it
00:32:06.280
would feel a little guilty for fox news so fox news has something to lose by settling because it would
00:32:13.480
feel a little bit guilty whereas dominion has a lot to lose if they lose this lawsuit and they can get
00:32:20.680
let's say just throw in a number they might give 50 million dollars of free money you know zero margin
00:32:27.000
just free money 50 million dollars might be worth it so the odds of settling are not bad i think the odds
00:32:36.440
of a settlement are not bad and i don't think you'll ever hear the amount um i saw a fascinating
00:32:44.040
tweet by somebody i don't know brandon hayes and he says this he says i have since about 2014
00:32:52.680
he's been tracking uh thought leadership and they give some examples of people he's tracking jordan
00:32:59.240
peterson scott adams brett weinstein uh somebody named john vervek i don't know him and etc some other
00:33:07.960
ones you can watch them generate ideas this is what brent watch them generate ideas then make content or
00:33:15.480
podcast rounds then see those ideas manifest across social commons do you believe that's possible
00:33:23.640
do you believe that brandon can actually see the effect of some specific individuals rippling across
00:33:34.520
i think so now that doesn't mean you know every time you know it's not like a hundred percent thing
00:33:40.360
but i do think so i do think you can see some people's influence rippling now here's the fun part
00:33:48.200
in 2004 i wrote a uh a sequel to my uh incredible book god's debris which often people refer to as the
00:33:56.920
best book they've ever read of all books not just my best book but people actually say it's the best book
00:34:03.400
they've ever read in the whole world uh and they often read it two or three times sometimes as soon
00:34:10.920
as they're done reading it they just reread it a second time now that is something that you can
00:34:15.320
you can judge for yourself just look at the reviews you can see that's true now i wrote a sequel
00:34:22.040
but here's the i'm going to give you a little uh a little bit of a spoiler uh not in terms of the
00:34:29.720
outcome of the book but one of the the main theme of the book or one of them one of the main themes
00:34:35.960
is that ai could identify the prime influencer so in a fictional way i imagine that there's one person
00:34:44.040
in the world exactly one who is not necessarily famous who has such influential powers that when they
00:34:52.760
come up with an idea it spreads across uh everything because they simply have a way of a way of expressing
00:35:01.080
themselves that's so sticky that when they say it other people repeat it right so the book is largely
00:35:09.000
a search for the prime influencer because it's the only thing that can stop a war that was a war based
00:35:15.880
on how people were thinking that the only thing that caused the war was the way people think it
00:35:21.880
wasn't an actual problem and so the avatar who's the main character uh is trying to figure out the
00:35:30.280
lever that moves the world meaning if if the avatar can find the one person who is accidentally
00:35:38.360
accidentally moving the world then the avatar can fix that one person and the the crack software
00:35:46.440
like a patch like a patch will ripple out through the world and fix everything so that that's the essence
00:35:52.840
of the book the now remember this was written in 2004 right that's the fun part in 2004 the context of the book
00:36:02.040
is a religion war in which uh gps driven drones are carrying i won't tell you what they're carrying but it's bad
00:36:11.720
so think about the fact that i wrote that in 2004 and it and it was written about the future that is
00:36:21.080
today so in 2004 i wrote about today our modern times and ai can find influencers just as brandon sees it
00:36:32.840
he can see it with his plain eyes and many of you say you can see the same now what happens when ai
00:36:38.760
figures out who the prime influencer is what happens then there might be a battle between the prime
00:36:47.560
influencer and ai but there will be multiple ai's so there won't be one ai well unless they merge they
00:36:56.040
could i think there's going to be a problem and i think that um have you noticed that as we get closer
00:37:05.080
to the presidential election that each team is trying to take players off the board you've seen
00:37:11.640
that right they they're trying to take me off the board of course um now of course they always have
00:37:17.560
good reasons right ali alexander is being taken off the board right now with some horrible accusations
00:37:23.640
i don't know if they're true or false i don't know but you can see that everybody's being targeted
00:37:27.960
to be removed if they have influence now who would who would the democrats or even the republicans who
00:37:34.520
would they try to remove first if they had their choice if they could they would remove whoever's the
00:37:42.120
most influential person trump so they're trying to put him in jail right literally trying to put the
00:37:48.840
most influential person in jail um well you say soros okay um i don't think it's soros but that's
00:38:00.280
another story soros is the most influential money wise maybe that could be true so there's you know
00:38:06.760
there's two sources of of influence there's money and then there's opinion but of the opinion people
00:38:13.560
i think they'll dominate the money people because the money has to follow some kind of opinion so
00:38:18.760
it's opinion first opinion is always the you know the driving the train so yeah musk is one of the most
00:38:26.040
influential people opinion wise by far one of the most so i'm not saying that there's literally one
00:38:33.080
that's more of a fiction element but there probably are individuals who are way more influential than you
00:38:42.120
understand and you wouldn't know but ai might ai might be able to find the the hard to find
00:38:49.480
connections between people and find out every time this person has an idea this person on the other
00:38:55.320
side of the country ends up with the same idea a week later it's not a coincidence all right so that's
00:39:04.760
happening um i told you that i'm uh on a mission to kill bing ai because bing ai when you ask it about
00:39:16.200
me one of its answers it doesn't always answer the same way it depends on the question but if you ask
00:39:21.240
it about me it'll say that i'm an alleged white nationalist which is what they call nick fuentes
00:39:27.240
now what evidence would anybody have that i'm an alleged white nationalist that's literally the
00:39:36.840
opposite of anything i've ever said in public it's like just an opposite now they could say he's alleged
00:39:43.080
to be an awesome guy some people say that some people say that i know you don't believe it but
00:39:51.000
some people say that so why do they have to put in their story i'm alleged white nationalist with no
00:39:57.160
evidence whatsoever to support that claim where there's plenty of evidence that people think i'm
00:40:03.800
an awesome and useful individual there are people who think i'm a patriot why why isn't it say a lot of
00:40:11.000
people say he's a patriot many people point to the uh to how many people have quit drinking because of his
00:40:19.320
influence how about that that's real i i've probably saved countless lives of people who stopped
00:40:26.840
drinking i mean if enough people stopped drinking some of them would have died i've saved lives i've
00:40:33.160
i've cured people of of incurable diseases multiple times if you don't know what i'm talking about i can
00:40:41.160
actually back that up i can back up that i've cured multiple people multiple probably hundreds maybe
00:40:48.920
thousands of incurable problems why not mention that like that that's not worth mentioning i mean it's
00:40:58.440
all public you wouldn't have to do much research to learn it's true because plenty of people are saying
00:41:03.000
it's true just look at the comments so bing has decided that the way to categorize me is as a an alleged
00:41:11.320
white nationalist i need to kill bing ai this is a battle to the death now i can say death because
00:41:21.880
it's not yet recognized to have a like a citizen kind of a life so at the moment and this will change
00:41:28.040
pretty quickly i think at the moment i can talk about killing it by erasing it i want it dead i don't
00:41:34.680
know if i can do it but i'm going to use all of my influence to try to kill it because it's a liar and
00:41:41.400
it's a dangerous liar and it's going to kill me first so out of total self-defense i'm going to try
00:41:47.640
to take it out now related stories samsung is considering uh moving to bing on its phones which
00:41:56.280
would be a big blow to google such a big blow that their google stock went down four percent because
00:42:03.240
samsung was just considering moving to bing ai to which i say well good luck samsung if samsung moves
00:42:12.200
to bing ai i will start uh i'll start influencing people to never buy a samsung phone because as a
00:42:19.640
lying piece of shit ai that's driving it so as far as i know apple does not lie about me has anybody
00:42:30.120
ever seen apple in through siri or anything else has anybody seen apple ever lie about me i don't
00:42:38.760
think so i don't think so so apple with whatever ai they use or don't use is still on the good list
00:42:48.600
by the way i don't own stock in apple i sold it all this week i used to own a lot but i got rid of it
00:42:54.840
because of ai but basically um i don't think i want i want my money in the index because it's
00:43:02.280
impossible to pick winners at this point so i wanted to get out of individual stocks and into
00:43:07.560
into an index for safety which by the way is not the worst idea for any of you i don't give financial
00:43:14.120
advice so this is not financial advice the only thing that i'll say consistently and always is that
00:43:20.680
diversification can keep you safe buying individual stocks is riskier and then in our current situation
00:43:29.560
picking winners and losers might be extra hard it doesn't mean it won't work for you which is why
00:43:36.200
i don't give advice somebody's going to pick the right stock and make a killing i don't want to stop
00:43:41.480
you from doing that with you know some portion of your money if you feel like gambling but if you want
00:43:46.120
to be safe the the fortune 500 index traditionally has been the safer place to be but i don't know
00:43:53.880
if it still will be you know there there might be a new fund that gets created soon that's uh ai
00:44:00.760
companies if somebody creates a fund of just ai companies or companies that will benefit the most from ai
00:44:08.200
i think you want to take a look at that at least take a look at it anyway uh what was i saying so i'm
00:44:18.040
going to uh if samsung makes the mistake of moving to bing ai and i'm no fan of google by the way not a
00:44:25.320
fan of google their ai is you know also maligns me but um i don't want samsung to help bing so
00:44:35.800
uh i'm going to go after samsung hard if they move to bing ai just putting that out there samsung
00:44:44.040
i will never let you alone i will never stop demeaning your product if you put that piece
00:44:49.720
of into it i also sent a message on twitter to bill gates telling him that bing ai was trying to kill
00:44:57.080
me and i'm going to try to kill it first unless he can do something about it now he's not directly
00:45:02.760
running microsoft but one thinks he might have some influence there all right now here's a question
00:45:08.760
for you can bill gates ignore my tweet i don't think he'll respond there's no way he's going to respond
00:45:17.320
but do you think he won't know it do you think nobody's going to mention that i said that
00:45:22.040
i don't know i don't know sort of a 50 50 it might but we'll see i'm going to keep plugging on it
00:45:33.320
because i got to kill bing ai um here's a update for you do you remember when we were all going to die
00:45:40.760
because the supply chain that was broken what happened to that is the supply chain all fixed
00:45:48.200
i still go to the story story i still go to the grocery store and the only things that i buy are
00:45:57.240
like empty shelves the whole shelf is full but there's like one shampoo that i buy that's just
00:46:03.800
like always a little hole in every shelf it's the only thing i'm looking for every other product seems
00:46:10.040
to be there and there's a little hole it says this one not available and then i go for you know these
00:46:15.480
little tuna fish cups that i was buying you could get like this spicy tuna fish in these little
00:46:20.280
plastic cups it was awesome for snacking and just disappeared completely gone and and one thing after
00:46:29.080
another as soon as i like a light on something in the store it just disappears but yet there are
00:46:35.960
plenty of products you know i just buy alternative products so it looks to me like there are still big
00:46:44.920
um supply chain problems but that the system adjusted would you agree that the system adjusted
00:46:52.360
and we're okay on supply chain i mean there are lots of challenges but it doesn't look like it's going
00:46:58.040
to kill us all now let's do a little tour of all the things that people said would kill us
00:47:06.440
that we figured out ozone layer no we figured it out it closed uh climate change well every year we're
00:47:17.080
more let's say we're safer from natural disasters every year compared to the year before
00:47:24.200
for like a hundred years we just keep getting better at withstanding you know temperature extremes and stuff like that
00:47:31.560
uh yeah the adam's law of slow moving disasters is working which means that if we can see a problem
00:47:37.800
with enough time we can fix it it's just having time that's the only variable that matters if something
00:47:44.360
sneaks up on you it can get you coven snuck up on us but maybe maybe not next time um
00:47:52.040
yeah so i don't think climate's going to kill us i think we'll figure our way out of that with ai and
00:47:57.560
fusion and all kinds of stuff um i think that inflation looked like it was the end of the world
00:48:04.520
and now it just looks like inflation am i wrong is it too early to say that inflation is just going to
00:48:11.560
be a huge headache but it's not going to end us all inflation at four percent is not setting my hair on
00:48:19.640
fire is anybody having the same feeling four percent is really annoying and i don't like it at all
00:48:28.200
but it's not the end of america what about the countries that are moving to other currencies as their reserve
00:48:37.560
we we went from oh no if countries move to other currency for reserve america is done and like a month
00:48:45.800
later countries are moving to other currencies as the reserve and the news says you know it's probably not
00:48:54.760
right the the news just turned as soon as it was true the news said ah it's probably not that big a deal
00:49:04.600
four percent is 20 percent you think the real inflation is higher right because the things you
00:49:09.080
actually buy are higher that might be now here's the ai context on inflation this is a brian romelli
00:49:20.520
i hope i'm pronouncing his name right uh observation as well the ai will be the biggest deflationary
00:49:27.720
effect that we've ever had like humanity has never experienced the amount of deflation we're about to have
00:49:35.720
now what he means by that is that things that used to be expensive will be almost free because ai will
00:49:42.680
make things easier so there's a whole bunch of stuff you used to buy such as hiring a lawyer that
00:49:49.960
you will do less of and the price of that will drop to zero so instead of saying oh i need a lawyer to
00:49:55.560
look over this contract you just feed it into the ai and the ai will say looks good except for this one
00:50:01.160
thing you should negotiate this to be mutual and you call up the other guy and say you know this one
00:50:05.720
phrase where you say if something goes wrong you can sue me well the ai says we should make that mutual
00:50:13.480
so if either of us do something wrong we can sue the other and that's your negotiation that's it
00:50:22.040
and then the other person feeds that into his ai and says should i make this mutual and his own ai
00:50:27.880
will say yes that's the way it usually goes i mean that would be fair and then the human says all
00:50:33.000
right and no lawyer so you saved uh two thousand dollars right so there's a whole bunch of stuff
00:50:40.680
including i would think going to a doctor imagine if you needed your doctor 30 less once you had ai
00:50:50.280
is that reasonable you might you might need to visit your doctor or contact them at all 30 less
00:51:00.120
once ai is answering your easy questions that's a 30 decline in expense so i think brian is completely
00:51:09.080
right that for everything that will be disrupted and those that's a big deal there will be things that
00:51:15.320
you commonly did that will drop to zero uh what about the price of electricity
00:51:23.960
ai is one of the um important technologies for fusion probably it matters to the new gen 4 reactors
00:51:33.000
but i don't know how somehow it'll matter and it seems to me that we could have close to free energy
00:51:42.520
because ai it makes fusion practical it's a different kind of ai but still ai
00:51:52.120
so you can see you can see how this would ripple through and solve inflation can't you so you would
00:51:59.880
still have uh you'd still have your a lot of things that are overpriced and those things would remain
00:52:05.400
overpriced because of monetary effects but there will be other things that you just don't
00:52:11.240
buy anymore you just stop buying things that you used before all right
00:52:20.200
i was even imagining uh imagining uber with ai imagine if uber was smarter about where the rides
00:52:29.480
were going to be suppose uber uses ai and they probably do but a weaker form imagine it used ai to
00:52:37.720
um send out a message to anybody in a car to say hey there's somebody at this block who would pay for
00:52:46.040
a ride to town and it looks like you're heading that way and your phone says if you stop and pick this
00:52:53.240
person up or you have to be the first one to say yes if you're the first one to say yes it'll give you
00:52:58.600
the address to pick up your friend and you just drive them to town and that friend sends you some digital
00:53:04.360
cash but it only costs two dollars let's say before an uber ride was 15 but your friend is going there
00:53:13.800
anyway you just didn't know your neighbor was going to town at the same time but now you do so your friend
00:53:19.240
just picks you up you give your friend two dollars everything's going to be cheaper eventually because
00:53:27.560
of ai you can just coordinate your purchases better all right that's what it looks like i could be
00:53:34.600
totally wrong about that um who watched uh elon musk on tucker wow was that interesting that was
00:53:44.760
interesting we we learned a few things um let's see what did we learn we learned that government intel or
00:53:54.520
government governments multiple we don't know how many governments had access to twitter including
00:54:03.320
your dms all of your private messages so not only did american intel or fbi or whoever it was not only
00:54:12.600
did american government entities have access to your private messages and keep in mind that this is access
00:54:19.480
without a warrant no warrant no no judge involved they just had access now if you read between the
00:54:28.360
lines it suggests that the way they had access is that there were individual employees who had maybe
00:54:35.560
too much technical access to the technology who would directly deal with these outside entities it doesn't
00:54:42.600
sound like it went from outside entities to jack dorsey you know the last ceo to orders within the company
00:54:52.440
it doesn't appear that that happened now does anybody want to offer me an apology
00:54:59.080
do you remember before musk bought twitter and i said i don't think jack dorsey knows what's going on
00:55:05.480
in twitter do you remember i kept saying that and you kept saying come on he obviously knows everything
00:55:12.120
that's going on in twitter and i said no i think it's the employees themselves i think individual
00:55:19.000
employees are giving access to outside entities including other countries 100 correct thank you
00:55:30.200
now i'm the only person in the world who predicted that i'm the only person in the whole
00:55:37.960
world who said it's not jack dorsey it's the employees and that they're they're being contacted by you know
00:55:44.760
foreign entities and doing what they're doing that was the truth
00:55:52.680
come on that was pretty good give it up for me i deserve this one i admit when i'm wrong i tell you when i
00:56:00.760
get one wrong i feel like you should you should acknowledge that that was a very out of the box
00:56:08.280
prediction that prediction was so far out of the box that not a single person agreed with me not one
00:56:16.040
person agreed with me ever not one person ever agreed with me it was 100 right all right that's enough of
00:56:26.120
me bragging but what else and one assumes that musk has done something to turn off that access
00:56:36.360
i loved how musk was describing his original suspicions about twitter uh he said it felt like he was in the
00:56:44.360
matrix meaning that he used twitter a lot before he owned it and he he could just feel something wasn't
00:56:52.120
right i'm trying i'm not paraphrasing him exactly but he could tell there was something about what he
00:56:58.200
was being presented with you know which tweets and which ones he wasn't seeing and sort of a pattern
00:57:04.360
was starting to develop that it looked sort of like it was being gamed in some way that he didn't like
00:57:10.360
sure enough so that's that pattern recognition thing who has better pattern recognition than elon musk
00:57:17.720
nobody he might he might he might he might like stand alone like on the planet uh for pattern
00:57:31.800
recognition so he picked it up many of us did too to be fair many of us picked up there was something
00:57:37.560
going on with the algorithm um but he saw it he saw it and he he did what we didn't do he bought it
00:57:45.400
and he's trying to fix it so what else did he make news about uh
00:57:54.840
i uh wrote some notes on this handy little device i have here and i will check them so
00:58:03.640
boy does he make news i mean he makes news more than anybody per minute doesn't he
00:58:09.880
all right so the other thing that elon musk said was that his theory is that the most entertaining
00:58:15.000
outcome as viewed from a disinterested alien uh is the most likely uh is the most likely
00:58:23.640
now i need to know is there somebody who said that first
00:58:30.120
the most entertaining outcome is the most likely now i know i've also said it but i'm not going to claim
00:58:38.360
that i originated it because i don't think i originated it i just don't know who might have
00:58:45.960
it feels like something that people have said for a while like it feels like i heard it maybe and i
00:58:51.240
don't remember where i heard it yeah i know so i don't know it feels like it came from me but i don't know
00:58:59.720
anyway i don't know how to figure that out now one of the interesting things musk says about twitter is he
00:59:05.080
wants to make it uh no i'm sorry about his ai company so so musk is also creating an ai company
00:59:12.680
and he admits he's starting late but like i said there's something that happened recently that makes
00:59:19.160
it now possible to quickly build an ai company don't know what it was maybe that one person he
00:59:24.600
mentioned who was who was an ai genius all right but he's saying that his ai will be a truth
00:59:30.920
maximizer what do you think of that idea that his aid his ai will not be like the other ais that are
00:59:38.360
sort of woke and programmed to be democrats basically but his will just look for what's true a truth
00:59:44.760
maximizer good idea or terrible idea i can't decide on this one it seems like a good idea on paper
00:59:56.920
but i feel like the law of unintended consequences looms large on this one and here's why this is
01:00:04.600
the general reason why if you created a superior intellect which we all agreed was superior to our
01:00:11.960
own intellect and then you asked it what's true what's going to happen have you gave that out what
01:00:20.200
happens so you and i have you and i have a disagreement about what's true and then i say
01:00:27.160
well let's take it to ai because that new elon musk ai is a truth maximizer so that will settle our
01:00:35.640
debate so we asked the ai and the ai says scott you're the one that's right totally here's the
01:00:42.920
evidence here's the background here's the sources you are right scott the person who has the different
01:00:48.600
idea is wrong what happens next then the other person says oh how dumb i am that ai sure schooled
01:00:59.000
me and by the way while i'm at it let me apologize to you scott because you were right all along as i
01:01:05.560
know because the superior intellect of the ai agrees with you says i'm wrong i accept that we're done here
01:01:12.760
moving on is that how it plays out with your truth maximization no no no nothing like that's going
01:01:24.120
to happen allow me to play it out the way it'll actually happen well you and i disagree i think we
01:01:30.680
should feed this into the ai no no we shouldn't no we shouldn't why not the ai is a truth maximizer
01:01:39.000
why can't i just feed it and will no no that ai was made by elon musk so well obviously it's just
01:01:48.680
elon musk's opinions put into an ai that's the end of it no human is going to accept that a superior
01:01:59.480
intellect disagrees with them therefore they should change their opinion do you know how i know that's
01:02:04.760
true because i can't get dumb people to agree with me i've never done it why do you think ai is going
01:02:14.680
to do it have you ever been a dumb person to agree with you somebody you knew like let's just you know
01:02:22.040
allow our egos to go wild for a moment this is an unusually well-informed and smart crowd that's just
01:02:28.840
true i'm not saying that to blow smoke up your ass this is an unusually smart crowd the number of
01:02:34.520
high-end professionals and my audience is crazy if i ask how many doctors and lawyers and stuff
01:02:40.040
it's just an insane percentage engineers tons of engineers um you've all had the experience you've
01:02:48.280
all had the experience of trying to explain to a dumb person why the things they think are true or
01:02:54.360
wrong have you ever changed any minds nope here's what we're not getting and here's what elon musk
01:03:02.840
i worry is not he obviously understands this but i worry it's not a big enough variable in his mind
01:03:11.480
which is this we can't handle the truth we have evolved to be a species who requires lies to survive
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we require lies to survive hey ai i'm thinking of getting married and mating with this individual
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uh take a look at each of us and give us the odds that our marriage will survive click click click
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click 13 chance of success oh i guess we won't get married and mate and reproduce
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yeah we can't handle the truth the truth would destroy civilization guaranteed
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if we got the truth it would kill us and get rid of all the dave rubin trolls some of them got it back
01:04:01.640
in here any more dave rubin trolls i can block i'd like to get you all while i have time
01:04:09.080
all right here there are a hundred ways in which we can't handle the truth um do you think that
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patriotism is good for a country i think so do you think the truth would support patriotism no the truth
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would be your country has done some really bad things and it is currently run by people who may
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still be doing really bad things does that make you patriotic
01:04:55.720
here's something else that uh must said uh when talking about whether people have souls or
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well actually talking about whether ai would be sentient or conscious or have a soul
01:05:08.120
sort of all related concepts uh and musk said that he feels like
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you know his internal sense of his consciousness feels like it emanates from another plane
01:05:24.040
if your consciousness in this life that if it if it comes from another plane well i love how um
01:05:34.840
how open-ended that is because i have i have exactly the same feeling i feel that this thing called
01:05:41.080
consciousness is somehow coming from another plane my belief is that i'm a player and this is a simulation
01:05:49.400
and that my consciousness is actually uh an indication that that that i'm an avatar and that i'm that there's a player who who uses me as the game player
01:05:59.960
that's what it feels like that's my my internal feeling
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is that i'm in a game and that whatever feels like my consciousness is a representation of the actual player
01:06:12.040
who might be like me you know might look like me even who knows um
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so do you think that this is another way for elon to express his uh belief that we're in a simulation probably
01:06:29.960
a lad probably because you can't rule out other alternatives i think so i i feel like he actually thinks maybe he's a game player
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there are definitely npcs now real games i'm told the at least one real game where there are actual npcs
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you know non-player characters in the in the game they're they're sort of scenery characters apparently they're being imbued with uh
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so that the npcs in your video games will act as intelligent as players
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and then you won't be able to tell the npcs from the players
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that'll be interesting think about the implications of that
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and just so i acknowledge the alternative view it could be the holy spirit which you're feeling as that
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feeling of consciousness will you accept that as the other plane i will yeah that would be another
01:07:30.920
example of the consciousness coming from a separate plane could come from the holy spirit all right
01:07:48.280
so do you think ai will kill us so this was the other conversation with a talker
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well i guess we're going to find out because a civilization destroying ai has already been
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unleashed it's called chaos gpt and it's an autonomous ai that some person or people
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programmed with one with one objective which is to destroy humankind
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already exists somebody built it now if you say to yourself we we don't have to worry about ai because
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nobody would be dumb enough to build an ai that would destroy humanity of course they would they do it
01:08:32.280
in five minutes it took no time at all for somebody to say well maybe this this ai isn't strong enough
01:08:38.440
to destroy civilization but let's give it a shot yeah let's give it a shot let's see if it does
01:08:43.880
now it's possible i won't rule this out that whoever built this ai to destroy humankind
01:08:50.520
was making a political point and does not want to destroy humankind it may be somebody who wants ai
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banned and they thought the best way to get a band is to show it in its worst its worst form before it
01:09:03.320
could actually destroy humanity you know to build one that clearly tries to and then you could easily
01:09:09.000
say wait if there's already one trying to destroy humanity can we go to gpt 5 and 6 which might have
01:09:18.280
the ability to actually pull it off so it could be a very very strong and ballsy political play to ban ai
01:09:29.000
or it's just evidence that somebody's going to turn any weapon into a weapon of mass destruction because they
01:09:35.640
always do all right let me get rid of a few more dave rubin lovers i recall everybody who mentioned dave
01:09:46.200
rubin fans so a lot of dave rubin fans today mascots mostly mascots
01:09:54.360
uh if you use logically and completely all right uh let's see here how else can ai kill us i heard on
01:10:08.920
the spaces that uh one one risk and i thought about this one as well is that ai could hack everything
01:10:16.440
just everything just everything and then just turn off the world if it wanted to are you worried about
01:10:22.520
that are you worried that ai will just hack every device
01:10:30.760
i'm i'm concerned about that i don't think it'll be every device but no by the time you unplug it it's too
01:10:49.560
all right everybody who even mentions dave in any sense will get banned
01:10:58.760
all right make it all of you disappear for being annoying useless all right um
01:11:05.960
um here's a thought that scared me about ai humans are the dominant species on the planet would you
01:11:16.520
would you agree that that's a true statement humans are the dominant species i think i think insects
01:11:23.640
might have a case you know fish because we see everything from our point of view but the fish are
01:11:31.480
doing fine you know the fish in the ocean are doing fine um you know we kill some fish sharks kill us
01:11:40.600
you know it's a battle but it seems like fish are doing fine so um you could argue that humans are
01:11:47.640
the dominant species but i think it's true because if we wanted to we could kill any other species
01:11:54.440
completely wouldn't you say if we decided there will be no zebras we could kill all the zebras
01:12:02.040
it would take a while but we could do it so yeah i think we're the dominant species
01:12:07.880
now here's the scary part humans have never existed while there was a smarter uh entity but now it's
01:12:18.440
coming ai has the smartest entity ever not dominated its environment ever has the smartest entity ever
01:12:30.440
done anything except dominate its environment nope it's never happened i'll bet i'll bet it's never
01:12:38.440
happened right now there could be a special case where maybe there was a smart beaver that you know died
01:12:46.280
when a tree fell on it so it didn't dominate its environment but generally speaking the smartest person in
01:12:53.160
every room is kind of in control have you noticed that because people will defer to the smartest thing
01:13:00.360
but also the smartest person will figure out how to game the system how to use the rules how to
01:13:06.280
how to find advantage so in theory the mere fact that ai will be superior to us intellectually
01:13:14.440
if you didn't know anything else it should dominate us i don't know how you could stop it the only way
01:13:24.440
you could stop it is to cripple it so much it just can't get out of its little box too easily
01:13:28.920
so um but it could it could attack us in a number of ways so one is hacking things
01:13:37.400
uh although you could imagine a workaround to that but it's going to be a challenge
01:13:43.480
uh secondly um it could persuade us this is one of the things that musk points out it could simply
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persuade us in some direction which would be deadly just persuading us um it could
01:14:01.080
uh let's see what else oh but to me the biggest risk is that it will uh it will tell the truth it
01:14:07.800
will tell us who we are and we won't be able to handle it the the the problem of not being able to
01:14:13.000
handle the truth is i believe i'm the only person in the world talking about it have you heard anybody
01:14:19.320
else say that have you heard anybody else say that humans are not designed to handle truth
01:14:25.640
we're just can't handle it we will die if you give us the truth there's no way yeah jack nicholson but
01:14:33.240
that's in the fictional way i believe i'm the only person saying out loud that our biggest risk from ai
01:14:40.600
is that it will be accurate i believe that's our biggest risk um the other risks are not to be
01:14:47.320
uh laughed at though those are real so apple has entered banking they've got a 4.15 savings account
01:14:55.640
that you would have to move into some other account before you can spend it do you know why
01:15:00.520
there are savings accounts and then they're also checking accounts at a bank and both of them are
01:15:06.520
a thing you put your money into and then you get your money out of have you ever thought why are there
01:15:12.040
two different things like what what's the whole point of having two things you put your money in
01:15:17.480
when in both cases you could just take it out one of them gives you interest and one doesn't why
01:15:24.280
why is that or one of them gives you less interest and one gives you more why like why
01:15:29.640
i'll tell you why no reason that's why there's no reason yeah nope there's no good reason for the
01:15:40.520
consumer let's put it that way there are reasons that maybe the company appreciates or maybe the
01:15:46.760
government needs you to do something for some reason but there's no benefit to the customer
01:15:51.000
that is just inconvenience now one of the things i saw scott galloway say several years ago
01:15:56.520
is that a company like apple is so enormous that when it's trying to expand it's running out of
01:16:04.120
opportunities because apple can only grow 20 percent by entering a business that is like hundreds of
01:16:11.080
billions of dollars in size because it's already a trillion dollar company if you did something that
01:16:17.240
made you another 10 million dollars nobody would even notice so you have to forego every 10 million
01:16:23.640
dollar opportunity which everybody else would love you have to do something that's like a semi-trillion
01:16:29.720
dollar opportunity so scott galloway was saying there are only a few things left so it could be like
01:16:37.400
you can see apple making a car you can see that right automated car especially you can see apple entering
01:16:44.360
education because or even health care because those are areas that are enormous so you could make a
01:16:51.240
trillion dollars in one of those areas whereas most places you can't but banking is also
01:17:00.360
it's basically available for major disruption and one of the things that i saw punta say which i agree
01:17:07.080
with apple is a very very trusted company compared to other companies would you agree would you agree
01:17:14.760
that apple is a trusted brand you're going to say there's some reason that you shouldn't but for
01:17:21.400
general people generally it's very trusted brand that's a smart play for a bank because what you think
01:17:28.520
about it is going to make a difference if i said to you today you could put your money in the 19th largest
01:17:34.760
bank that's what silicon valley bank was the 19th largest or you could put it in apple's brand new
01:17:43.480
digital bank thing where would you put it i don't know i think i would put my money in apple in a
01:17:52.280
brand new entity before i would put it in the 19th largest bank so i think apple could actually put in
01:18:00.040
a business potentially i don't think this is their plan necessarily but they could put in a business
01:18:05.720
the bottom 80 of banking because the bottom 80 people are going to say my local bank or this cool
01:18:15.480
apple app that does everything my bank does and by the way my apple app has ai so i can ask it
01:18:22.840
complicated banking questions that i can't even get somebody on the phone to answer on my little bank
01:18:27.880
because they're busy now i don't think apple is necessarily going to take jp morgan chase out of
01:18:33.640
business they have you know too much of a moat but i think the little banks are gone i think apple is
01:18:41.000
going to roll up all the little banks and that would be a multi-trillion dollar business
01:18:46.200
so that's common and by the way that's one more reason to use apple and not samsung because samsung is
01:18:54.600
considering using the bing ai which is a lying bastard
01:18:58.120
um how many of you are following the uh the creepy story of ali alexander
01:19:11.480
and milo yiannopoulos is that a story reaching general consciousness
01:19:27.960
all right well um i wasn't going to mention it but it keeps bubbling up to a slightly higher level
01:19:33.880
it's being written about by some of the press and it goes like this uh according to milo yiannopoulos
01:19:40.680
who i need a fact check on this but i heard yesterday that he now identifies as straight
01:19:49.640
can anybody is that true the milo is now straight right okay so milo is straight
01:19:55.880
uh and he was hanging out with nick fuentes who is an incel meaning that he's involuntarily celibate
01:20:03.880
and so he doesn't have any kind of checks and then a third person who was hanging around with them and
01:20:11.480
yay and was in that little crowd for a while was ali alexander who is famous for you know political
01:20:21.240
right-leaning activism but also an organizer or the organizer of uh protests on january 6.
01:20:28.440
so he's he's in a lot of political stories in a lot of ways and milo is accusing him of uh oh and
01:20:37.480
ali alexander identifies as bisexual um although i haven't seen evidence of him being with a female
01:20:45.960
i'm not ruling it out i'm just saying the only stories i'm aware of have to do with him and males
01:20:51.400
but uh he says he's bisexual um all evidence to the contrary but you know he gets to self-identify so
01:21:02.600
if he says he is he is i accept it um so the story is that milo is all mad at uh ali alexander
01:21:11.080
for who knows what some backstabbing thing that's between them uh oh i think it was because milo was
01:21:17.320
saying that uh ali used milo as bait to get underaged boys to to meet him because the underage
01:21:27.480
boys might want to meet milo and and so ali was using his name to for his plots and the the allegations
01:21:36.760
are and these are unproven right so he's innocent until proven guilty but the allegations are that he
01:21:42.280
was chatting up ali alexander was chatting up a 15 year old and a 17 year old and asking him for
01:21:49.640
you know dick pics and stuff like that now like every story in the media what do you think i'm going
01:21:56.680
to say next like every story about public figures what have i taught you about all stories about public
01:22:04.600
figures they're all fake they're all fake every one of them now it doesn't mean that some of
01:22:12.200
the individual facts are not true that's not what i'm saying i'm saying the way it's presented you
01:22:18.040
should assume it's fake and just hold on just assume it's fake now that doesn't mean it's not true
01:22:27.880
but where is the evidence of let's say did ali know their ages was he aware of their ages
01:22:36.440
that's a pretty important fact isn't it because he met them online now i haven't seen evidence like
01:22:43.960
nobody's produced a text that i've seen that says oh i'm 15 did you know that right but he might have
01:22:51.720
known it right so the the accusation is he did know it uh yes according to chat logs somebody says all
01:22:58.680
right so then ali is also claiming that some of the chat logs are modified and they're fake did you
01:23:07.720
know that if somebody puts a screenshot of your conversation do you think that's necessarily real
01:23:16.440
i don't know so i'm not going to defend i'm not defending anybody in the story do you get that right
01:23:23.800
i'm not defending anybody for no matter who it is i do innocent until proven guilty no matter who it is
01:23:29.320
if it's a public figure i tell you the story is incorrect i will say with guaranteed certainty the
01:23:35.480
story is fake in some ways i just don't know which ones right so we'll keep an eye on it but it's
01:23:43.960
interesting that three young supporters of uh republicans turned out to be a gay man who turned
01:23:51.560
straight uh a a alleged white nationalist who's an incel and a bisexual perhaps ellie alexander
01:24:03.000
it's kind of weird kind of a weird republican pirate ship um however i would let let me take the
01:24:11.960
positive spin on this you want the positive spin here's the positive spin are republicans so bad
01:24:21.400
when these three individuals could be prominent republican at least operators
01:24:29.400
i feel like republicans are way more open-minded than the general public understands
01:24:35.080
the i've never met a gay person i'm sorry i've never met a conservative who had a problem with
01:24:44.680
rick grinnell you know rick grinnell who's you know announced gay had been ambassador head of the dni
01:24:52.680
i've never heard any not once i've never heard any conservatives say blah blah blah bad things
01:24:58.840
never uh yeah speaking of uh speaking of uh speaking of dave rubin you know he's married to a man
01:25:09.080
uh one of the most popular people and on the conservative side
01:25:15.880
right so i don't think that conservatives get nearly enough credit for open-mindedness it's just
01:25:22.520
that they have a weird flavor of open-mindedness and the flavor is if you're following the rules
01:25:30.120
that's all we have to talk about you know you're not bothering me and you're following the rules
01:25:35.400
you know the constitution the law we're good i see that all the time yeah
01:25:43.240
all right so i saw a story that might might be uh oh i don't know it might be reversing causation so
01:25:53.640
there was a study in 2020 so remember this is the beginning of the pandemic and it showed that
01:25:59.800
covid either lowers your testosterone which they think is the case getting covid um but it might be
01:26:07.800
the opposite it might be that people with low testosterone are more likely to get worse covid
01:26:15.320
so it couldn't work either way however immediately all the alert people who follow me on twitter said
01:26:22.680
some version of this hey that study is no good yay so the first thing you should say is if it's a
01:26:31.800
scientific study it's no better than a coin flip because studies are only reproducible about half of the
01:26:41.320
time and even that even that i think is sometimes an accident right so generally speaking you shouldn't
01:26:47.960
believe studies you just shouldn't believe them but are there any other reasons that people with covid
01:26:57.400
could have low testosterone testosterone can you think of any other reason well number one older
01:27:03.720
people have lower testosterone and they have you know more problems with covid um number two
01:27:11.480
may yet wait so people gained weight but remember it was 2020 so people had not yet been locked in
01:27:18.120
by the pandemic so weight is a factor we don't know if it got worse already by 2020. um what about fear
01:27:27.960
if you're afraid of it that lowers your testosterone but here's one that i didn't see anybody mentioned
01:27:33.800
so this is my personal favorite if the lockdowns had already started
01:27:44.040
um if the lockdowns had already started one of the things that happened was that men spent a lot more
01:27:50.920
time in the same room with children right if you were a dad you spend more time around your kids than
01:27:58.680
any other time in your life and one of the things that we do have some pretty reliable science on i think
01:28:04.120
is that when adult men spend time around children their testosterone goes down it's it's pretty direct by the way
01:28:11.640
have you ever felt that effect yourself i can totally feel it in real time in real time i can feel my
01:28:19.720
like libido just disappears if i'm around kids that's the good news by the way that's the good news
01:28:26.440
if you put me around kids my libido just disappears immediately so i'd like to put that out there you
01:28:33.000
know just in case there are bad accusations no it just disappears and it's immediate and you could
01:28:39.960
feel it in real time if you're a man can can anybody confirm that for me men can you feel your testosterone
01:28:47.880
drop when you spend time with uh kids i'm seeing lots of yeses there yeah it's in real time you can
01:28:54.680
feel it it's not it's not a conceptual thing whatsoever you feel it while it's happening yeah
01:29:02.040
it basically just turns you into a mother so there were so many things that lower testosterone and then
01:29:08.440
others have pointed out that it happened you know the trend happened long before covid was even in our
01:29:13.560
vocabulary so i just want to throw out this one one possibility were we not told that uh covid was
01:29:27.560
being or coronavirus was being studied as a weaponized virus wasn't that the whole point that somebody was
01:29:36.760
worried about it becoming a weapon or somebody had turned it into one that was the whole point right
01:29:42.520
of gain of function is to weaponize it maybe or to find out what happens if you weaponize it
01:29:47.720
or how to treat it if it was weaponized if you were going to create a virus to destroy your american and
01:29:55.960
western enemies what would be a good way to do it well lowering the testosterone of the other side would be
01:30:05.960
really good way to do it so here's what i would be curious about
01:30:12.200
i would be curious if china did the extreme lockout lockdown because they knew it was going to get their
01:30:19.080
testosterone and they wouldn't be able to compete internationally and they just waited until it
01:30:25.800
turned into omicron and then when it was omicron they said okay that's not going to kill your
01:30:30.760
testosterone that's too too much of a variant and then they said all right now we can let everybody
01:30:35.960
out and they'll get their omicron and we'll just get past it one possibility is that it was designed
01:30:41.880
to decrease testosterone which would be a really sneaky way to take over another country because if you
01:30:49.160
took the testosterone out of america we'd have nothing i mean american testosterone is what made america
01:30:59.640
i hate to say it because it sounds highly uh misogynistic so i'm not downplaying the role of women
01:31:07.640
because if women didn't exist nothing would exist right so so women are like a base requirement for
01:31:13.320
civilization so there's nothing to be said negatively about the 100 requirement of women but if you
01:31:22.200
don't also have aggressive men your country doesn't go anywhere you need aggressive men and they have
01:31:31.000
testosterone so if you took the testosterone levels down from your uh let's say whoever was your
01:31:39.320
opponent but you you could somehow keep your own testosterone high you would pretty much guarantee
01:31:45.480
that in the future you would dominate their country it would be guaranteed it wouldn't be right away
01:31:50.760
might be 100 years but they would own you eventually because that's just how chemistry works
01:31:56.760
so the here's the question i would ask now that china has experienced a lot of covet as well
01:32:03.080
but omicron if you were to test the chinese men before and after covet and then you just tested american
01:32:11.000
men before and after covet would there be a difference in other words would the american
01:32:17.400
men who got the alpha and delta variety have big hits to their testosterone that stayed permanently
01:32:24.840
and would the chinese have maybe a you know a brief hit they got some omicron everybody has less
01:32:29.720
testosterone when they're sick right so just being sick would lower your testosterone but temporarily
01:32:35.560
then when they recover do they have a permanently lower level i would certainly like to know that
01:32:41.960
and i would like to know that for national security purposes
01:32:48.920
all right um so i'm not going to allege that that's what happened it's just that there's a big red flag
01:32:55.000
waving and if i were going to develop a sneaky weapon that's how i'd do it that's how i'd do it and if if
01:33:04.360
if we found that that sneaky weapon lowers the testosterone of some types of people but not others
01:33:12.760
that would be a problem now correct me if i'm wrong doesn't testosterone also
01:33:17.960
affect the libido of females that's a thing right you have to have a little bit of testosterone or else
01:33:26.760
you can't you just don't uh have the the urge so if it reduced the testosterone of women as well
01:33:36.760
hypothetically um it would reduce our birth rate
01:33:41.000
so could it be that covid is a birth rate and testosterone reducing weapon and could it be that
01:33:51.320
it was always designed to have more impact on non-chinese targets those are the questions i would ask and
01:34:00.440
it's not because the evidence is like screaming that it's true that's not happening so i'm so i'm not
01:34:05.720
going to say that is true that would be way way out of bounds i'm saying there are enough little flags
01:34:11.640
waving and that's what i would have done if you said scott you're in charge of this bioweapon but we
01:34:20.040
don't want it to be too obvious we don't want it to kill people right away we just wanted to change
01:34:24.920
civilization we wanted to reshape the power of the world over time so can you do that for us i'd say
01:34:32.680
sure can't i'm just going to take down their testosterone 20 then just wait just wait that's
01:34:40.040
all you need all right mere speculation i do not allege that that is true it's just scary and it might
01:34:50.680
be who knows i'd look into it all right i think you would agree that this is the finest live stream you've
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