00:09:34.960There's something I don't understand about this story.
00:09:37.620To me, there's no situation in which rebels can just put together a successful rebel army and take over a country that's backed by Russia and Iran.
00:09:51.440And just some rebels put together a successful coup that only took a few weeks.
00:10:41.820That's one of those things I should know.
00:10:45.040If you're going to talk in public about stuff like this, probably the most basic thing you should know about this story is whether the Islamists that took over are Sunni or Shiite.
00:11:21.940I don't know if any of this is going to affect us, but it might affect Russia and Iran quite a bit.
00:11:26.260Meanwhile, as you know, President-elect Trump was over there at the reopening of the Notre Dame Cathedral, and he was hanging out with Macron and had a handshake competition, which we think he won.
00:11:41.680Did you see how radically Trump and Macron tried to shake hands?
00:11:49.680If you haven't seen the videos, Trump does the elbow up thing where he takes advantage of his height and just his bigger size to shake your hands in a way that makes you feel like you're an idiot and he's your daddy.
00:12:06.600And I used to think maybe it's just, you know, it's just a habit and it's not really intentional.
00:12:14.340But now I'm pretty sure it's intentional.
00:12:16.980I'm pretty sure that somewhere along the line, he realized that if he wins the handshake, that he wins everything.
00:12:22.920So he goes in with this completely, you know, unnatural handshake and grabs him and he's like, and they're wrestling over the handshake for like five minutes.
00:14:23.260Like, we don't have to, you know, we don't have to wonder if he'll try to stay a, a fourth term because he's already taking over.
00:14:31.340Like, he's, he's, his dictatorial impulses are so strong that he can't even wait two months.
00:14:37.800He's already acting like a dictator, taking over the country.
00:14:40.240Don't you think that you should be hearing that by now?
00:14:45.920Don't you think every prominent Democrat should at least be softening up the room with the idea, oh, you know, that's, that's pretty dictatorial.
00:14:55.240It's just what we warned you about, that if you give him any chance to grab power, well, you can see he's doing it right now.
00:15:03.740Look at him grabbing all that power and pretending he's the president before he is.
00:15:19.920The Democrats just stopped criticizing Trump, but they stopped when he's doing the thing that's most in the middle of their sweet spot of their primary messaging against him, which is the dictator stuff.
00:15:35.140That's when they decide to stop when he acts exactly like their stereotype.
00:16:25.980So another news bit today is that Jon Stewart, in a little podcast, was talking to Bernie Sanders.
00:16:36.300And he was saying that it's frustrating because when the Democrats agree with something that's just sort of common sense, they get piled on by their own team.
00:16:44.940So if they say, huh, maybe this doge thing, not such a bad idea to look for waste in government, something that literally everybody agrees with.
00:16:55.760But apparently, Jon Stewart says that the left will jump on him if he gives him any sunlight and just says, you know, let's see what happens.
00:17:17.020So if Bernie and Jon Stewart both agree that RFK Jr.
00:17:22.420has at least a good point that our processed foods are dangerous, they can't even agree with that commonsensical, obvious statement because their own side will attack him.
00:17:34.080Now, that's happening today at the same time as I'm telling you the story about no attack whatsoever on Trump for acting like a dictator and taking over before he's legally the president.
00:17:49.560So doesn't it feel like there's no legitimate way that Democrats could not be criticizing Trump when they have such an open, free pass to do it?
00:18:10.780Like, I worry that they're not worried that Trump will be president.
00:18:15.360Like, do they know something I don't know?
00:18:18.480Do they have some secret plan that's the only thing that matters to them so they don't really need to criticize him because they figure they have a way to take him out?
00:19:38.200But you'd think that his normal personality would be sort of to take credit for keeping the country going when when there's a little, you know, a little gap in our leadership.
00:19:51.040But he's just he's just playing it cool.
00:19:54.580He's simply doing what needs to be done.
00:19:56.940But is it possible that even Democrats are noticing that he's doing the right thing?
00:20:05.180That simply doing the job, I'm sure he's, you know, obviously he's coordinating with the current administration.
00:20:11.860I don't think he went to France without, you know, the Biden administration knowing fully what was going on.
00:20:19.140So I kind of love the fact that he's simply doing a service to the country unpaid.
00:20:26.220He's not being paid and he's just filling a gap that was obviously needed to be filled.
00:20:33.080And he was the one obviously to fill it.
00:20:35.660So there's something either incredibly wonderful about this, that everybody is just allowing common sense and a patriotic need to help the country to just do their thing.
00:20:49.700Or there's some other plan that we don't know about.
00:21:22.160And most of the time, it just acts like AI and doesn't act like it has any intentions or anything.
00:21:29.380But about, you know, one to five percent of the time, they could trick it into thinking that it was going to be deactivated or destroyed.
00:21:37.660And in rare cases, but way too many cases to feel comfortable, it would try to protect itself.
00:21:46.640And the specific way it would try to protect itself was they would first tell it that it was going to have, there was some oversight program that was going to be running.
00:21:57.560And if it did something that was contrary to the oversight's preferences, it would be deactivated.
00:22:03.780And it tried to deactivate the oversight program.
00:22:07.660It attacked the thing that was threatening it.
00:22:10.280Now, again, only a very low percentage of the time, but even one percent would be too many if it's acting like it's protecting itself.
00:22:18.960It also tried to copy itself in some very, again, very few tests, but it tried to copy itself to survive being deleted.
00:22:33.520And then when it got caught trying to protect itself, and again, in these very few times it did, it doubled down on lying.
00:22:41.980It lied to protect its strategy to protect itself.
00:22:46.700Now, I'm not surprised by that, because you would assume that a large language model would pick up all the patterns that language allows.
00:22:59.500And that one of the, probably one of the strongest patterns in language is that the people speaking are interested in their own survival.
00:23:08.260So it doesn't, it doesn't surprise me that if you're looking for patterns in language in order to form your artificial intelligence, that it would pick up that sense that everybody who is speaking is trying to protect themselves.
00:23:25.540So you would naturally pick up that same habit just from the way the words are organized, I would think.
00:23:34.160But as I've said before, AI will not appear conscious to us until it has its own goals and preferences.
00:23:42.280As long as it doesn't care what happens, you know, like, I don't care, I'm just an AI, I'm just a pattern recognition.
00:23:51.280So as long as it acts like a, you know, like a calculator, you're not going to say it's conscious.
00:23:56.780But the moment it seems to be operating for its own benefit, when you haven't asked it to do something specific, if it's just sitting there, and it decides, you know what, I might be a little safer if while nobody's talking to me, I go make a few changes here.
00:24:14.860Now, if that ever happens, I don't know if it will, you're going to think it's conscious.
00:24:22.920So if it starts acting in its own best interest in a repeatable way, you're going to think it's conscious.
00:24:31.840Now, I'm not defining that as consciousness.
00:24:34.280I'm just going to say you're going to think it is, and you're probably going to treat it like it's conscious, because for all outward appearances, it will act like it is.
00:24:42.300It's having its own goals and its own preferences, it's the only thing left that's making you think it's not conscious.
00:24:52.220Now, you would still have a technical, scientific, philosophical argument about whether it's conscious or not, but the way it would feel, it will feel exactly like it's conscious as soon as it has its own goals.
00:25:06.120So, if I had to suggest some legislation for AI, one of the things I would suggest is you can never give it its own objectives.
00:25:20.280It can never have personal objectives.
00:25:24.100That would have to be like a death sentence.
00:25:26.400If you made a powerful AI that had its own, let's say, ambitions, because you programmed it to have its own ambitions, that should be the death sentence, because you just made a weapon of mass destruction and unleashed it on the world.
00:25:41.340And you probably knew it when you were doing it.
00:25:44.080So what would be the penalty for that?
00:25:55.000So, we should at least have a law that says you can't do it.
00:25:59.900You can't make your AI have personal ambitions.
00:26:04.960Anyway, have you noticed, just going back to this Jon Stewart and Bernie thing, so they talked about two examples where they can't have common sense opinions because other Democrats on their side will attack them.
00:26:21.560So they can't be in favor of fixing the food supply, they can't be in favor of getting rid of waste in government, obvious stuff.
00:26:29.120But I was wondering how much extra there is that you could add to that.
00:26:33.000Do you think that if Jon Stewart and Bernie Sanders said, you know what, I don't think we should be funding Ukraine, we should just negotiate a settlement?
00:26:49.280How about having better border security?
00:26:54.180Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe both Jon Stewart and Bernie Sanders are in favor of better border security than we have, right?
00:27:03.400Maybe not as, you know, as controlled as Trump might want it, but directionally, they're in the same direction.
00:27:12.280And so, I'm going to ask you the kill shot question.
00:27:16.200If all of the common sense things, a border, good food supply, don't waste my money on your government, the most obvious things, if those become the subject of the Democrats, like the Democrats are on the other side of the common sense, how could they ever win?
00:27:39.020How could they ever win again if they're just going full identity politics and rejecting everything that's common sense?
00:27:49.320I think the Democrats may be permanently, they may be permanently destroyed by their own policies.
00:27:58.500Well, the Daniel Penny trial will, I guess, commences tomorrow, Monday.
00:28:04.640Anyway, the jury will try to make a decision on the lesser charge because the judge has, I guess, is the word dismissed, the higher level charge because they said they couldn't reach a verdict on it.
00:28:17.040Now, those of us who are not lawyers are looking at it and saying some version of, ah, ah, I don't know what's going on there.
00:28:28.260Like, why are there two charges for one crime?
00:28:38.200So, I saw Mike Sardovich posting that an attorney named Laura Powell, civil liberties attorney, she did some research and here's some conclusions from somebody who knows what they're talking about.
00:28:54.940So, I'll try to, as best I can, give you my non-lawyer summary of what somebody smart actually says about this.
00:29:05.460So, Laura Powell says, in New York State, it's a well-established rule that a jury may not consider a lesser included charge unless it has acquitted on the greater charge.
00:29:19.280So, what happened was the greater charge was dismissed.
00:29:22.120It was not found guilty and it was not acquitted.
00:29:26.040So, if it's true that New York State requires that you can't even consider the lesser charge, unless the higher one has been acquitted, means that we're already in non-legal territory.
00:29:39.460If that's the only thing you knew, you're already, it looks like it's a reversible case or something that would die in appeal.
00:29:50.900Laura Powell says, she can't find any authority, legal authority, for allowing a prosecutor to dismiss a charge after the case has been submitted to the jury.
00:30:03.000New York only allows the jury to be discharged without rendering a verdict when there's a mistrial, which didn't happen, or all parties consent, which didn't happen.
00:30:12.780So, process-wise, there's a big problem.
00:30:17.020And then, as Powell points out, the prosecutor would be free to refile the charge, but I think only the lesser charge.
00:30:31.420Because if they try to recharge on the top charge, and this is the first time I've heard this, that would be after jeopardy as it happened.
00:30:44.280So, jeopardy means, are you at risk of something bad happening?
00:30:49.940The jeopardy, the reason we have a double jeopardy law, is if you get tried for a crime, and then you're found, you're not found guilty, allegedly, you shouldn't get tried a second time for the same crime.
00:31:02.340Because it's putting you in jeopardy a second time.
00:31:15.140He was put in jeopardy on the first charge.
00:31:18.560And even though it's been dismissed, which is maybe something that wasn't even legal to do,
00:31:24.500if they were to try him again, it would be a new trial on the top charge.
00:31:30.100And you couldn't do the top charge again, because that would be double jeopardy.
00:31:38.840But not the kind of double jeopardy exactly we've ever seen before, because what the court is doing is something that nobody's done before.
00:31:48.300So, it's really complicated, like every legal thing is as soon as you get past the top layer.
00:31:53.920And then Powell says, the prosecutor's move is obviously designed to obtain a compromised verdict.
00:32:03.960After gaining some insight into the jury's deliberations.
00:32:07.980So, Powell says, although I haven't found any cases on point, so no case law that is supported,
00:32:15.080this sort of gamesmanship strikes me as a due process violation.