This episode is a mashup of some of my favorite moments from the past week, and some of the things I think you should be worried about in the future. I talk about AI, and how it's going to take over the world, and why it's not going to be as good as we think it is.
00:03:32.880Well, here's an example of why that won't be exactly what you should expect.
00:03:38.880So, Meta, Zuckerberg's company, is paying celebrities to use images of them within Meta, the virtual reality world.
00:03:49.360So, you can walk around and you can see Tom Brady or Snoop Dogg or Paris Hilton or Charlie D'Amelio, who I've never heard of, but I would guess is famous.
00:04:01.060And you can use their likenesses as AI chatbots.
00:04:06.440So, Brendan Marriott was tweeting that someone asked the Snoop Dogg chatbot what weed it liked.
00:04:14.500And it said it had no idea and gave a disclaimer against using drugs.
00:04:19.600So, they've got a Snoop Dogg avatar that they can't make it act like Snoop Dogg because that would be totally inappropriate.
00:04:37.820You're never going to have a problem telling AI from humans if it's a corporate AI.
00:04:44.380You know, if it's some rogue AI, it might actually act like a human.
00:04:47.220But the corporate ones, or could it be so lame?
00:05:55.680Dear platforms, it is a fact that cannot be disputed that the 2020 election was completely free and fair.
00:06:07.880There were no signs of any impropriety, despite the fact that 100% of our other enterprises and groups in the United States are, in fact, corrupt.
00:06:19.660We are so lucky that all of our elections were run straight and fair and clean with no problems whatsoever.
00:06:28.280Nothing I say after this should take away from the fact that those elections were so good and so clean that nothing, nothing can change that fact.
00:06:38.780So, having said that, I've been following the Rasmus and the Count on X, and one of the things that, one of the claims, now, I'm only going to tell you this like I tell you a UFO story, right?
00:06:53.760If I tell you a UFO story, it's not because I believe the UFO is true.
00:07:44.760But these Rasmussen people, these rascals, probably some kind of traitors or something, keep saying that there's a specific locked room in which these questionable, questionable, but perfect.
00:08:03.520The ballots are perfect, but they are being questioned.
00:08:07.440So don't confuse that they're being questioned with the fact that they're perfect and could never have been wrong.
00:08:14.760But I guess the people questioning the ballots didn't have access to the room, so they couldn't actually just look at them and see if they're, in fact, fake.
00:08:25.540But the Georgia Supreme Court has now said that they can open it and take a look.
00:08:34.940So what do you want to predict about that?
00:08:39.280Do you think that when they open that door and they look at those ballots, number one, do you believe the ballots will be there?
00:09:40.760And can you imagine the simulation becoming more entertaining than that?
00:09:46.600That would be the ultimate entertaining outcome.
00:09:50.560It wouldn't mean the election was wrong, right?
00:09:53.760Because it would just be one room and you'd really have to count them up and whatever.
00:09:57.020But although I would bet a large sum against there being anything in that room that changes our minds, I would bet against it a very large sum.
00:11:07.320If you were going to build an anti-racist oyster reef, how would you do that?
00:11:15.200Would you make that available to everybody so that everybody could apply to the anti-racist oyster reef and do some oyster growing and gathering?
00:11:24.960Or do you suppose that the anti-racist oyster reef explicitly excludes white people?
00:14:45.900Here's some fake news on fake news, but possibly fake news about the fake news.
00:14:50.520So, this is sort of an inception, fake news embedded in the Russian egg of fake news is within the fake news, something like that.
00:15:00.520So, the original news was the news that allegedly, ABC News I think is the only one reporting this, that some Australian billionaire talked to Trump and Trump told him some nuclear submarine secrets.
00:15:15.740And then that billionaire went and talked to a bunch of people, and that's an example of why Trump can never be trusted, can never be trusted with secrets.
00:15:24.900And then Catherine Herridge from CBS, a competing network, looked into it, and the problem is that the tweet or the post did not match the story.
00:15:42.600And I got fooled by this, but Dennis Herring noticed this and kept me honest.
00:16:03.740Now, if you said shared sensitive records to somebody, does that necessarily mean there was a physical document?
00:16:13.540How would you, how do you interpret shared sensitive records?
00:16:19.600Would you assume that it was on paper or on digital form?
00:16:25.360Well, the actual story is more about there wasn't a document.
00:16:29.320So, when you say shared records, that's a little ambiguous.
00:16:34.560So, I first interpreted it to mean that they were debunking the ABC story, or at least said they could find no evidence of it, which would be different than debunking.
00:16:44.860But it looks like they're just confirming there's no physical document.
00:18:43.320Now, I've been told by somebody who has actually been on nuclear submarines that, at least during, I think it was the START treaty or something,
00:18:53.300the Russians would actually be on our submarines counting the number of warheads because it was part of the treaty.
00:19:01.380That, you know, in some time in our not-too-distant past, we let the Russians on the nuclear submarines so they could see the missiles themselves.
00:19:12.720Now, I don't know if that treaty is being observed anymore.
00:20:27.340So, in the news, they said, Trump said that one of the secrets was how close we could get to a Russian submarine with our own submarine without being detected.
00:21:27.940Well, under some conditions, if the submarine were doing this or that, they could probably spot us three miles away.
00:21:36.480But if we were running silent, we might be able to get within 100 yards, but it's very uncertain because there are lots of variables.
00:21:46.680Now, it would also depend which sensor we were close to.
00:21:50.820If we were close to one of their, you know, this or that class submarine, probably they couldn't get us within five miles.
00:21:57.080But if we were close to one of their good submarines, and we're not entirely sure how much technology they have, so we'd be guessing about what they have, but we think it might be somewhere between 100 yards and three miles.
00:22:11.900That's what the real world looks like.
00:22:15.180Do you think that if Trump gave anybody, even if he told Putin himself, one number, like how close we can get to a sub, would that be useful?
00:22:27.560Do you think the Russians would say, finally, we got that number?
00:22:32.740We thought it was going to be highly variable, depending on lots of different things.
00:23:23.920So see if anybody else or any network has a conversation about whether the alleged secrets would have any military value in the real world.
00:24:27.280They make sure that whatever entities or groups anywhere, whether it's locally or international, has somebody that's one of their loyalists in charge.
00:24:37.940So they just make sure that there's, you know, one of their loyalists is trying hard for one of those jobs.
00:24:43.720And there are a lot of people in the Democrat Party toward the top who have Ivy League educations and great resumes.
00:24:51.100So it's a whole bunch of people who can get top jobs in a lot of different places.
00:24:54.780So they make sure that their people are in top jobs in the most critical places, such as local prosecutors, DAs, right?
00:25:05.180So they've figured out these little choke points where if they have Democrats in those offices, they can rule the world.
00:26:50.160More on the topic of everything is exactly the way you think it is.
00:26:55.600Boston University loaned $600,000 to a mysterious trust run by Ibram Kendi's brother-in-law to buy a house, I guess.
00:27:07.980So didn't you imagine that Ibram Kendi and his anti-racist thing that raised, I don't know, tens of millions of dollars?
00:27:15.060Didn't you imagine that was all grifty?
00:27:19.760And all the evidence coming out is highly suggestive that it was no more honest than Black Lives Matter, which turned out to be just a money grift.
00:27:29.340There were good intentions among the people, but the organizers seemed to have been money grifters.
00:29:58.060When Obama got, you know, his first Obamacare stuff passed, he said directly, it's not good, but it's going to be hard to get rid of it, and it will improve over time.
00:30:12.980He actually said it's not, in his own words.
00:30:16.160But his strategy was to get it wedged in there where you couldn't get rid of it, and then you would have to improve it over time.
00:30:23.560And I think that's actually what happens.
00:30:26.760Now, I'm not saying it's a good system, but I believe it has improved over time.
00:30:32.160And instead of, you know, disintegrating, which some people imagined, more people are signed up.
00:30:37.960So, that would suggest that the market likes it, if more people are signing up, compared to the alternative of not being covered, I guess.
00:31:09.020Are you surprised that the polls are massively toward the Republicans now?
00:31:14.880Especially in law and order and economy.
00:31:18.180If you think things have gone too far, I would argue that things are going to have to go farther.
00:31:23.900Because every day that goes by of the Biden administration, and the cities being destroyed, and the border being open, and leftists being gunned down on the streets, and video of carnage, etc., every bit of that is making it less likely there will be Democrat leadership in the future.
00:31:43.800At the moment, if we simply had an election immediately, we'd probably have something like a split government.
00:31:51.280But the only way you get to the other side of this is if things become so bad, and the country becomes so unlivable, that both houses go Republican, and the presidency does too.
00:32:06.020Short of that, there's no point in having an election.
00:32:08.880Because it's just going to be, you know, jammed up, locked up government with mixed power.
00:32:16.860So, if things don't get a lot worse, they'll never get better.
00:32:33.720I mean, you could feel the bottom coming, but we're not there.
00:32:38.920When you heard that members of Congress sleep in their offices because it's too dangerous to go home at night, that's not quite the bottom because it's just that city.
00:32:51.440When nobody wants to go outside after 6 p.m. anywhere, in a city, let's say, that might look like the bottom.
00:32:59.500And I think we're rapidly approaching that.
00:33:01.640So, I don't know if I'm, honestly, I don't know what's better for the country if we get much worse fast so that there's some chance we'll have a corrective force.
00:33:14.400Because if it doesn't get much worse, even the Democrats won't be able to see it.
00:33:19.100Because the Democrats are so hypnotized at this point that they honestly, they have no idea what's going on.
00:33:26.180I would say 80% of their base has no idea what's going on.
00:33:31.640So, it's going to have to get much worse and then it'll get better.
00:33:34.860Trump is filing some big old motion to dismiss the charges related to January 6th under some kind of, I was president and presidents have immunity.
00:33:51.680So, but I'm not sure how that, I don't even understand it.
00:33:58.800Because immunity doesn't last until your end of office.
00:34:03.340Or is it only things he did under the presidential, yeah.
00:34:11.800So, I don't understand it, but experts say there's some chance that a lot of the charges could be swept away by the Supreme Court saying that he can't be charged.
00:34:22.860But it would take a long time for the Supreme, well, I don't know how long.
00:34:25.800But it would take a while for the Supreme Court to rule, which would put all of the trials on hold.
00:37:37.160But I'm not sure they wouldn't have done this.
00:37:40.740But certainly you have to ask that question.
00:37:43.300The releasing of money probably made a difference.
00:37:46.260The hostage-taking is the scary part because it looks like the hostage-taking was a big part of their strategy because that's the one thing that they can milk forever because you don't want to bomb where the hostages are.
00:38:00.520I would expect Netanyahu to go stronger than anybody's ever gone against the Gaza territory where Hamas is coming out of.
00:38:14.520And I think Gaza could be in for a really bad week.
00:38:21.360Now, can we get to the fact where I'm a fucking racist?
00:38:26.400Scott, Scott, you did not say enough about the plight of the Palestinians.
00:39:13.540Tell me that I didn't say enough about or the thing I should have said or the thing I said twice is really, really telling you what's in my deep, dark soul.
00:42:06.280Well, let's do an update on right-leaving people who are being attacked and being taken out with hit pieces.
00:42:14.000So the Daily Beast took a run at Christopher Ruffo, who is one of the big advocates against the woke stuff happening everywhere,
00:42:24.140and wrote a horrible piece in which they slandered him for alleged association with bad people.
00:42:33.680However, Christopher Ruffo and his attorney, I think, went hard at the Daily Beast and actually got them to change their, change the language in their headline.
00:42:43.900And I think they changed one other thing.
00:42:45.380So he did actually get them to back down and thoroughly embarrass themselves.
00:42:51.400But the thing you need to know is this.
00:42:56.560The Daily Beast is a hit piece publication.
00:43:00.340They've come after me maybe three to five times.
00:43:05.140So the Daily Beast tries to eliminate me from public life like every once a year.
00:43:11.560I think they come after me on a regular basis.
00:43:14.220They are not a legitimate publication.
00:43:21.580And so they went after Christopher Ruffo.
00:43:24.280But apparently he did well and attacked back.
00:43:26.820Then let's see, over at MSNBC, a fellow named Mehdi Hassan, he said that Elon Musk claimed there's a hate speech isn't a problem on Twitter
00:43:40.480because a reporter was once unable to cite a single example.
00:43:44.800Do you think that's a good framing of what happened?
00:43:47.760This is something he actually says in public.
00:44:07.060It is true that there was once a time that one reporter couldn't come up with an example.
00:44:11.960Is it true that therefore, because of that one reporter, that Elon Musk believes there's no problem because that one reporter that one time?
00:44:19.580But that's what idiot Mehdi Hassan is telling you.
00:44:23.080He's telling you that the smartest person on the planet thinks that one person saying one thing and not knowing something tells him everything he needs to know about the communications on the platform he owns.
00:44:39.820Not even the dumbest person in the world would have that opinion.
00:44:42.060But now Mehdi has put that in his mouth so that he can now debunk the thing that was never true.
00:44:49.160So now he's going to give, he's assigned Elon a dumb opinion, like the opinion that you'd have to have an IQ of 50 to have, and now he's going to debunk it.
00:45:15.100Well, you fight that by showing some other anecdotes, because after having proven that anecdotes are stupid, you make your argument based on them.
00:47:12.500But yet, when they look, they could only find these hate examples from white people, plus the one person that Republicans liked who wasn't white, according to him, I guess, which would be yay.
00:49:21.980He told you there would be hit pieces against him because he was getting too close to the source.
00:49:25.460So, Mike Benz, B-E-N-Z, I've talked about him a number of times.
00:49:30.940He does these great threads and videos in which he explains the gears of the machine so that you can understand both historically and currently how the intelligence operatives, you know, control the media, control us, and, you know, set up NGOs and all kinds of clever things to manipulate our belief systems.
00:49:51.560So, of course, there's a big hit piece on him from somebody named Brandy Zandrosny, who is famous for being wrong, basically, and writing hit pieces.
00:50:05.120So, one of the ways you can tell it's a hit piece is who they get to write it.
00:50:12.100Respectable people who have good careers are not going to jump into the hit piece business.
00:50:18.220It's people who have done them before or their careers are not in a great place or they're famous for only doing bullshit.
00:50:25.000So, the hit piece people are specific people.
00:50:46.660So, here's some things you should know about Mike Benton's.
00:50:51.740His relatives died in the Holocaust or escaped it, I guess.
00:50:55.820He went to Hebrew school until he was 17 and would call himself not just Jewish but, like, super Jewish.
00:51:05.720And it turns out that the entity, which he was a member of, which were accused of saying anti-Semitic things, was set up to battle anti-Semitism.
00:51:19.420And they were doing it in a unique way.
00:51:21.780So, if you saw it out of context, it could look like it was anti-Semitic.
00:51:25.760But if you understood the larger mission, you could see that they were engaging people to try to make progress against anti-Semitism.
00:51:33.820So, just to hold this in your head, there's somebody who is not just Jewish but, in his own words, sort of extra-Jewish.
00:51:43.080Like, not just a little bit Jewish, like, fully in Jewish.
00:51:48.540And he was accused of being anti-Semitic because he was trying to battle against anti-Semitism.
00:52:24.620Do you think the guy who went to Hebrew school until he was 17 had an anti-Semitic, not just like one comment or something, but like a whole operation?