Episode 2294 Scott Adams: CWSA 11⧸16⧸23, Everything Is Going Right Today
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 5 minutes
Words per Minute
148.42532
Summary
A video of a woman who is alleged to be Laura Aboli goes viral, and then it turns out it's a deep fake. Is this the first deep fake? And if so, what kind of deep fake would it be?
Transcript
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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the Highlight of Human Civilization.
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Now, I hear on the Internet, so it must be true,
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that there's some kind of planned or anticipated solar event
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that might have the effect of cutting off the Internet for months.
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Could you imagine if there was a solar event and the Internet went down for two months,
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How many problems could you fix in the world by having no Internet for two months?
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In fact, most of the things I'm going to talk about today
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except we have the Internet to fight with each other.
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what would the world be like if the Internet went down for two months?
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but if the phone worked, we'd probably figure it out.
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she was doing a little speech about transhumanism
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and how everything that we've seen in recent years is really a plot.
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It's a plot to increase the trend toward getting rid of human beings
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the quick version is he would be very tech savvy.
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So he would be somebody who understands everything
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the first time there's really like a big fake out using a deep fake?
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Because people are buying into this pretty hard.
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who was not the person shown on the viral video,
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had to create a Twitter account just to say that she didn't have a Twitter account
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So, I guess he understands now that it wasn't real,
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but I feel like there's yet another thing to drop,
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Do you think it was likely a human impersonator?
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that they would use a human impersonator of a real person?
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if you can kind of play around in your basement,
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as much because it would be such an interesting event,
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like you might be interested just to see if you can do it.
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that doesn't feel like what happens in the year 2023.
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Whereas a deep fake would be completely expected right now.
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you'd expect to see the first deep fake that actually fooled people.
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to the fact that the treasury is getting flexible with respect to issuance of debt.
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that was too little to make the stock market go up?
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even in the neighborhood of something like a solution.
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a last desperate gasp to go another month without failing to,
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the Adams law of slow moving disasters suggests that we'll figure this out.
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I have no idea how we can get past the debt problem.
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It's not like something you could easily invent your,
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And you can't just manage it better and try harder.
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it's resistant to all the normal solutions that humans use,
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I will bet that like every other time in my life and lifetimes before me,
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but you could see it developing years in the dance,
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but I also didn't see a way out of any of the other problems.
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The fact that we can't see a way doesn't seem to be predictive.
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The fact that you can't personally see how this problem will be solved.
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Doesn't really have any predictive value because you,
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your imagination is not up to the task because you're putting your one person's
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imagination up against seven billion people trying to solve a problem in some
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So several hundred million people only need to have one person with the right
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which could potentially float to the top and you're good.
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you don't need to be the one who had the idea of person.
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They just announced a massive expansion of nuclear energy and they give it a two
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new reactors and try to double their energy production.
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And previous goal was a hundred percent renewables.
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And now they've changed the language to a hundred percent clean energy.
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the word renewable almost destroyed the nation of Sweden.
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the nuclear is off the table and nuclear was the only solution.
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So they almost destroyed a country with what I call word thinking.
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word thinking is when you imagine that words carry your logic and your reasons.
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we must be renewable and everybody buys into that word renewable,
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distorted because instead of looking for a solution,
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You should have always been looking for a solution instead of looking for a
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they managed to get out of that necessity probably,
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they've got a whole bunch of different models and they don't all predict the
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they created a new method for statistically analyzing climate models.
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And apparently it projects future conditions with more fidelity.
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they've tweaked the models to make them predict the future more
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do you know how they know that they've predicted the future?
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How do they know the models predict the future?
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Are they comparing it to the other way to predict the future,
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but thank God they have this other way that can predict the future.
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So they can say the new way is just like the old way.
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we know what the future is because now we know our models.
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Now at best they fit to the past is called the hind casting.
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Now I'm only enough of an expert because I've done a lot of forecasting.
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the method provides a way to adjust for models.
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The method provides a way to adjust for models with high temperature sensitivities,
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By assigning different weights to models and combining them.
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Who was it who assigned the different weights to the models?
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we just need you to come over here and maybe assign some weights to the various models.
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we're just going to say that we assigned weights to the models.
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We don't want them to ask how they were assigned because obviously that would be human opinion.
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And if you were to define your models based on some human opinion,
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That's the stupidest dumb fuck thing I ever saw in my life.
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But we're going to make it even worse because we're going to have the janitor to assign the weights.
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they won't even ask how the weights were assigned.
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But have I told you how meta analysis is like horoscopes,
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but the scientific community has been selling it to you like science for years?
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A meta analysis is where you look at a bunch of different studies and none of the studies are good enough.
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So then the meta study says we'll put them all together and they'll have different problems
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and their different problems will cancel out and then we'll get a good reason.
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It's a way to get the outcome you want by looking at all the different studies and then here's the magic.
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Because the averaging is based on the number of people in each study.
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If the one they decide to throw away happened to be the biggest one,
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And that's exactly what happened with some of the COVID studies.
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Somebody would decide to put in or not put in the biggest study.
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It's a way to laundry an opinion and make you look like,
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Do you think that when they found this way to add together all of the models
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I'm here to explain to you the obvious ways they're just trying to
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And this is just bamboozlement doing something.
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we don't go in a day without some kind of George Floyd related news.
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So Derek Chauvin is trying to get his sentence overturned.
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He's the one who went to jail for allegedly murdering or accidentally murdering
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Now this might surprise you that no lawyer would take this case,
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there's some other doctor who had nothing to do with the autopsy.
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but he read the autopsy report and he believes that Floyd died from complications from a rare tumor
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called a paragangliomy that can cause a fatal surge of adrenaline.
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if the jury had heard about this possibility that he had a rare tumor,
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Now I have a theory about why Chauvin is doing this himself without the benefit of a lawyer.
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It could be because no lawyer would pursue this.
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that the real problem was coincidentally a rare tumor.
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That doesn't get too beyond a reasonable doubt to me.
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I don't think that was exactly the path that's going to get him out of jail.
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So Trump has provocatively claimed that if he gets elected,
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he wants revenge on all those Marxist Soros prosecutors.
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wouldn't I say he wants to get rid of every Marxist prosecutor in America.
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And Abby Phillips of CNN was talking and decided that the,
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the important question was to give the vague to respond to Trump's use of the
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So Vivek Ramaswamy gets this question from Abby Phillips about,
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what does he think about this use of the word vermin,
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And you have to see it because it's viral and it's awesome.
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Instead of addressing anything about the dumb ass question,
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Just absolutely humiliated her on live television.
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he took the high ground and the high ground is,
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I'm not even going to address this dumb ass question.
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after it became viral and everybody was sort of cheering the fakes approach,
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He basically made her the joke of the internet.
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there's a Republican candidate who has the skill level to handle this the only way you should.
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you high ground it and make sure that you've got that high ground.
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You make them look like the clowns that they are,
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I'll use up all your time telling you your viewers are being not serviced properly,
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Now what's important about it is not just that he did it and it worked out so well.
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because they're all going to be in the trap, right?
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Every Republican is going to get asked these questions.
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Abby Phillips is a reason that I don't like Jake Tapper.
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I'll just give you this sort of background story.
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He did some guest cartoons from the Dilbert before it was disgraced.
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And when I'd complained to him that Abby Phillips had done a package
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in which he'd mentioned the fine people hoax like it was real.
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And I was kind of getting on him for CNN coverage
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about treating the fine people hoax like it was a real story.
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And he accused me of being a racist, essentially,
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for saying that Abby Phillips was getting the story wrong.
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And I had no opinion whatsoever of ethnic background.
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Because I didn't know who she was, didn't know what her face looked like.
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And her voice, you know, doesn't give away any ethnic background.
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That was the point where I realized I wasn't talking to just a person.
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that because she was wrong on something that's obviously wrong
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And that I objected to that, that that was racist.
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That's the point I realized you can't talk to him.
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What happened that you would even be in that frame?
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So, anyway, here's where that story should have gone.
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When Trump said he was going to get rid of these vermin Marxist DAs
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that Soros had funded, CNN should have invited Alex Soros,
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why these prosecutors are good ones, because he's backing them.
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Or shouldn't it be that Trump says these prosecutors are bad,
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and then you take the number one person responsible
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and you say, you know, what's the other side of this?
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That would be, there's an argument on one side,
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Now, I assume if the right-leading news invites him,
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because, you know, he maybe doesn't want to get
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about why he thinks what he's doing is a good idea?
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hey, some people say your funding of these things
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why wouldn't they want to get his good, strong argument
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Wouldn't the smartest thing the Democrats could do
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of the most important person in the conversation?
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Why don't you ask him to defend what he's doing
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Would you like to see her the other side of the story?
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if you could put the other side of the story up
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the Rana factor is dragging down the entire party,
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Imagine if Vivek was the one that you remembered
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you know, because the pressure might be building.
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