In this episode of the podcast, we talk about a new invention that could revolutionize the future of AI, climate change denialism, and a new law in Australia that would force companies to include climate change risk assessments in their annual reports.
00:04:18.800So I can see how they'd be so confused.
00:04:23.060Here's the funniest suggestion that I've seen recently.
00:04:27.340So this is from, apparently in Australia, there's a new law that says all of their public companies have to include in their annual reports
00:05:38.280And since we have no solutions, nobody has proposed any workable solution that would affect India and China.
00:05:47.360So the suggestion is that every Australian company should say that climate change will destroy them completely in time.
00:05:59.260Now, that's kind of brilliant because it's what I call giving people what they want.
00:06:06.680You know, there's a way to satisfy the bureaucracy by destroying it at the same time.
00:06:14.840If you maliciously comply with the rules the way they're written, you would actually say, in the long run, our company will burn up and everybody will die from climate change.
00:06:27.620And that would be actually compatible with science.
00:14:24.500And I don't think that's leading toward knocking a lot of boots.
00:14:28.340So, in a million little ways, people are finding ways to be less reproductively available.
00:14:36.120You would not be surprised to know that the rioters in D.C., the ones that were rioting when Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu was speaking,
00:14:48.300you may have, you may wonder, huh, given that the January 6th people were treated so harshly and put in jail,
00:14:56.860a lot of these people destroying property and doing these things, probably in jail by now, right?
00:15:47.620So they sort of have to pretend the charges are real and that it was an insurrection.
00:15:53.660All right, here's an update on what we call the coup, which is the replacement of Biden by Harris.
00:15:59.660Seymour Hersh, investigative journalist kind of guy, he says he's got a scoop here that Obama actually threatened Biden with the 25th Amendment
00:16:10.500and said that Kamala Harris was on board with it.
00:16:41.300Now, this one's a real hard one to evaluate for me.
00:16:46.980Because on one hand, I completely understand the concept that there was something like a coup, at least a coup within the Democrat Party, not within the country itself.
00:16:59.560But given that it is also literally true that Biden's brain was not capable of finishing the journey, and given it's true that Democrats can use whatever process they want to decide who their candidate is, there's no law against it.
00:17:20.800It's definitely reducing something that Democrat voters thought they wanted, but now that they have more information, I'm sure they didn't want it, really.
00:17:31.380So, I think the coup thing is maybe overstated.
00:17:36.620To me, it looks like Democrats do what Democrats do, which is ignoring their own voters in favor of making sure that the leaders in the Democrat Party get the candidate they want.
00:17:49.680Now, if you're a Democrat and you don't have a problem with that, why should I?
00:17:56.860They can make their process whatever they want.
00:17:58.780And if they don't like their leaders gaming the system to get Bernie Sanders out, they don't like the system game to get Kamali in, not really our problem.
00:18:11.280I would say it's not a national problem.
00:18:13.480It's just that Democrats can choose any way they want.
00:18:31.040I think this was the best speech I've ever seen Trump give.
00:18:35.460Now, keep in mind, it was designed for a specific audience in a specific time, so you have to judge it within its specific domain, not compared to, let's say, his stump speeches.
00:18:47.420I thought he was more relaxed, more funny, more connected with the crowd, and somehow he did this spanning generations thing like I've never seen in my life.
00:19:00.440So he managed to use enough buzzwords and show enough familiarity with crypto that he felt younger than his age.
00:19:09.500But at the same time, he was making sure that you knew he was taking advice from the younger, smarter, you know, the vakes, et cetera, the people who you trust do know this domain.
00:19:20.860And so he was very cleverly acting young and then showing his work.
00:19:27.660Here are the people who are advising me.
00:19:32.020And then he had specific technical sounding recommendations about things that I can't judge.
00:19:38.880So when I say that this was, in my opinion, maybe the best public presentation he's ever given, and he's already starting at best in the world.
00:19:49.280So I was blown away, honestly, just the quality of his communication skills, just crazy stuff, crazy.
00:21:58.140Now, of course, he was pandering in the sense that he was there to tell them what they wanted to hear so they'd be on his side and vote for him.
00:22:05.220But here are some of the things he said besides firing that SEC commissioner, who some say is sort of a roadblock to some of the innovative things that the Bitcoin world wants to do.
00:23:24.320I can say that's putting the right priority in the right place, etc.
00:23:28.760I said there will never be a CBDC, you know, a crypto from the government, and we'll defend the right to self-custody, freedom of transactions, freedom of association, freedom of speech.
00:23:42.480And he'll support USD stablecoins and global savings in bitcoins, and he says the government will never spend its bitcoins, and he'll maybe create some kind of a reserve and blah, blah, blah.
00:24:09.040Well, I did hear some people saying, oh, we hate, I don't know, some idea, or he didn't say enough or said too much or something.
00:24:17.140But remember, the Bitcoin community is a bunch of people who don't agree with each other.
00:24:21.680So he's not going to go to the Bitcoin community, which is literally just a bunch of people who disagree with each other, and get them all to agree.
00:24:30.260So that wasn't really something he could do.