Episode 2759 CWSA 02⧸23⧸25
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 1 minute
Words per Minute
147.17786
Summary
In this episode of the podcast, Alex talks about a new type of eyeglasses that can recognize your face using facial recognition technology, and how technology is changing the way we live. Plus, Alex takes a look at how technology has changed politics.
Transcript
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You know when everything goes wrong all at the same time
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There's something about the first minute that sets the tone.
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So just imagine I gave you the simultaneous sip
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I can't see the comments on X if there are any.
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And Joe Rogan was talking about some Harvard kid
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who figured out how to use facial recognition software
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Now, Joe seemed to think that that was a terrible idea
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You could hope that people would not use these glasses
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for something that looks like a privacy violation of some sort.
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So it's not that I'm in favor of it or against it.
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It's just going to rain, whether you complain about it or not.
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And technology is definitely going to give you this capability.
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whether it comes from individuals who are hacking it
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So again, I'm not in favor of it or against it.
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But in related news, there's, according to the Brighter Side of News,
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I guess they've figured out how to use galvanic skin responses
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in a more granular way than we've used them before
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so that you could actually tell people's specific
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and immediate emotions based on what's happening around them.
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But now imagine putting these two technologies together.
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And let's say one of the things about them is they like dogs.
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Because they've got a lot of dogs on their social media.
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You could immediately engage them in a conversation.
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That would be a little creepy if they didn't know
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But, you know, imagine a time when everybody has them.
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were making the person you're talking to happy or not.
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But imagine if you just saw enough about somebody
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I would argue that you could only be surprised about that
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they'd be driven toward common sense solutions.
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What I love about this is Democrats can't learn.
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That was somebody who thought maybe her messages
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The other thing I've learned, not from the Elon Musk
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And it seems like the right number, $40 billion,
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But it's so depressing to know that Doge can be,
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you know, going crazy, finding things to cut and
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And then one match in California could eat all of
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And yeah, that fire wasn't caused by a match as far as we know.
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But one fire and all the savings basically just absorbed.
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Now, Rick Grinnell says that there will probably be conditions on the
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part of it might have a condition of defunding the California Coastal
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So apparently they make it really hard to build anything on the coast.
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Zelensky is going to sign a document that says that he agrees to,
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that the United States will be in a partnership to exploit the rare
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earth minerals in Ukraine for the mutual benefit.
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I wouldn't hold my breath that anything's going to get assigned about
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because we've already gone through one round of,
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I think one of the things that happened was that Trump got really mad at
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I don't know about the details of the mineral deal,
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but he had to agree to a mineral deal or Trump was just going to pull the
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And what I love about this is that Trump doesn't bluff.
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I absolutely believe that if Zelensky had said,
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there's no way we're going to do the mineral thing.
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I believe that Trump would have started pulling out our funding right
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If Zelensky also reversed himself and changed his mind,
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usually the threats are so bad that if he started to implement the threat,
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the longer that the rest of the world realizes he doesn't bluff.
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it would just be completely different every time.
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Zelensky is the one who proposed that the U S take a stake.
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So the financial times says it was Zelensky's idea all along.
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let's do something with the rare earth minerals,
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I'm not going to say the financial times reporting is correct.
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you're thinking that Zelensky was trying to hold out on the rare earth
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He just wanted to make sure it was good for Ukraine.
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they think they've got an idea that they would employ,
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but only if there's a ceasefire that looks like it would stick.
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And they would ask for the United States to backstop them.
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if Russia attacked while they had their forces in Ukraine,
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European people coordinating to defend against Russia.
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It's just two of the most important countries and being backstopped by the
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So maybe this is how you solve international things.
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You do things that maybe don't make sense on paper,
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what sounds like a tiny story that could be a big one.
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there's a research group that figured out how to add some,
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And it allows it to absorb nutrients so much better that they could use a lot
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I never even think about nitrate and phosphate,
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we have a global shortage and we don't really know how to make up the
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a genuine threat because a fertilizer goes away or we have to use less of it.
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So we don't know if this is going to be commercial grade yet,
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but if they did anything that made our existing supply of fertilizer last
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I'm going to say something very loud happening outside.
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I think we'll be able to put this up on YouTube and rumble later today.