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00:00:00.000 Weather update, Jersey Shore.

00:00:02.480 Look how stunning they look.

00:00:04.560 88 today, Jersey Shore.

00:00:06.780 Ooh, 88 Jersey Shore.

00:00:08.380 It's going to feel like 197, just a warning.

00:00:12.840 Which is hot.

00:00:13.560 That's hot, 197.

00:00:14.780 I'm kidding.

00:00:15.620 That's a joke.

00:00:16.780 It's always hot when you're around.

00:00:19.020 Hey, Neon Noodle. 0.97

00:00:19.980 Is that Fahrenheit Celsius or Kelvin? 1.00

00:00:23.120 Kelvin.

00:00:25.080 I know someone named Kelvin.

00:00:27.240 Kelvin would be extremely cold then.

00:00:30.000 Oh, well, whatever, Owen.

00:00:33.960 He's got to like start off the Monday by showing off, like whatever.

00:00:39.040 I'm just being a geek.

00:00:40.460 No, I don't even know that much about Kelvin, but I think it starts at zero, which is like, you know, no heat at all.

00:00:46.380 And so I think 197 is actually not that much more than that.

00:00:50.300 Owen's dog is named Kelvin.

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00:01:52.400 oh so good that was so good um lemon minty my shirt is like a

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00:02:22.100 I can't link in my bio. No. Good morning, everyone. You are at the Scott Adams School.

00:02:29.220 My name is Erica. I'm a little frizzy today. And I am joined by my favorite co-host in the

00:02:36.400 whole world, Marcella and Owen. And Monday- I'm incapable of having a bad hair day,

00:02:42.680 but currently though. Please, Owen. If I were you, I would just wear a tuxedo every day.

00:02:48.320 having a bad hair day yeah i mean i i could have one if you'd like me to

00:02:53.280 that'd be funny if you did um thanks alien i was thinking last night i really had this thought that

00:03:01.900 i want to do like an 80s themed morning and i want to try try to bring back herica and then i

00:03:09.500 was like a marcella can go in with like the headband and like the whatever and then i was

00:03:14.040 like owen's got to do like a flock of seagulls hair and like an 80s outfit so we'll see i don't

00:03:19.140 know you know it's like uh get dressed at work for fun day that would be funny are we in would

00:03:26.200 you do it i'll do it owen uh sure of course like owen can do it oh my god do it all so all right

00:03:37.720 you guys. First, I just wanted to say how amazing was King Randall? If you did not see Friday's

00:03:43.900 episode, please go back and watch him on the replay. Again, I'll remind you he's 27 years old

00:03:51.700 and making such a difference in his community. And then also like setting an example and showing

00:03:58.520 all of us what we can do in our own communities. Like even if we just did it this much

00:04:03.500 compared to what he's doing. Um, how amazing. So I know a lot of you donated, uh, to him.

00:04:11.900 I had messaged him and I was like, can you put more stuff on your Amazon wishlist?

00:04:16.000 And he's like, he's like the second we have stuff on there, it gets bought right away. Cause right

00:04:21.180 now he just has like a couple of more expensive items on there. Um, so he's just like, we,

00:04:26.880 we get so much from the wishlist and people donate so much, um, you know, like water and

00:04:32.760 drinks and this and that. And he's like, sometimes we actually have to give some of it away to

00:04:36.960 shelters and stuff because they have too much to store. So money, I'm going to donate money to him.

00:04:44.260 And I just wanted to shout him out again because, oh my God, I wanted to cry. I'm just

00:04:50.160 so in awe of him and what he's put together. And how did you feel, Marcella, with King?

00:04:56.820 didn't you feel so good after that he's very he's inspiring to know that somebody can um

00:05:05.460 do so much and change so many lives you know like those kids will will will have forever

00:05:12.260 been changed by him so and by his program so i'm glad that um that he exists and there should be

00:05:19.540 more king randalls in the world yeah and what an awesome family he has and the whole neighborhood

00:05:26.020 where he grew up sounds amazing i was like i want to come over there so owen did he make you think

00:05:31.860 a little more are you going to do a zoom call now you have no time i know but what do you think

00:05:37.140 i was really impressed i i mean i think you probably had done more homework than i did in

00:05:41.460 terms of knowing what he was up to recently but i certainly learned a lot i didn't even know his

00:05:45.220 first name was actually king i i kind of assumed that was just an adopted title like you know

00:05:50.100 most people would would do but um i thought that was actually kind of cool and um but yeah no he

00:05:56.600 he seems to be doing great stuff and it's i'm sorry owen your hair oh my god i didn't notice

00:06:03.840 your hair did something change oh my god no please go back i don't like it go back

00:06:09.960 do your hair owen oh my god that was like shocking he has boy band owen hair

00:06:17.840 but go ahead yes that's the tips um yeah no it i i was really impressed i mean that i thought it

00:06:25.620 was a great conversation i think he's doing excellent things um i wish more people would

00:06:30.520 do things like what he's doing but i hope a lot of people are supporting him and he keeps growing

00:06:35.420 it um it just seems like you know the ultimate sort of positive thing that he could do like

00:06:41.360 and i just think as i said on the show like he's just showing what an individual can do to benefit

00:06:46.900 their community yeah and in just an overall positive way I mean it reminds me actually a

00:06:52.980 little bit of a book I read or a book series where it was and you'll appreciate this a little

00:06:57.700 Marcella it's um the sort of truth series it's like a fantasy series but it's kind of

00:07:01.800 underlying it it's actually kind of a Ayn Rand sort of theme and I didn't even know that that

00:07:08.480 it's kind of an objectivism thing for people who are familiar with that but it's kind of like

00:07:12.780 capitalism versus communism. And the part of the story is like how the hero just like impacts this

00:07:19.640 whole community in a positive way, just by like fixing things and like doing nice things for

00:07:25.400 people and teaching people things. And then it spreads and it takes over. And so I think that

00:07:31.500 sounds a lot like what King is doing is like, he's just teaching the next generation and it's

00:07:36.940 probably going to spread from there where those people will spread all that knowledge and

00:07:41.180 skills and good behavior and even just positive attitudes to everyone around them. And so I think

00:07:47.800 it's just awesome. Every video and clip I ever watch of him, it's like he, you know, it sounds

00:07:54.480 like such little things, but they're so important. Like I was saying, like even how to make small

00:07:58.660 talk and eye contact and, you know, ask some questions and stand up straight. And I don't know,

00:08:06.320 I just, you know, walk with confidence, but don't be aggressive. You know, I've seen him teach so

00:08:11.080 many different things. And Owen said, someone asked, what's the name of the book, Owen?

00:08:16.860 I think the, I think it's the series of books is called the Sword of Truth series. It's a fantasy

00:08:22.260 series. I can look it up. It's, it's kind of got a wizardy sort of theme to it and there is some

00:08:27.620 magic in it. And, but you know, you may or may not like that depending on your, your style, but I,

00:08:31.360 I thought it was a great book. I thought it was fun to read and I haven't actually been able to

00:08:36.000 get through the actual and ran books and i know some people say they're kind of hard to read so

00:08:39.460 this might actually be an easier better more fun way to like just be exposed to those ideas and

00:08:45.440 marcel i know you would probably just say no you should read the actual and ran and you're probably

00:08:48.980 right for anyone who like really wants to dive into it but for people who might have trouble

00:08:53.900 with that for whatever reason this might be another way um but i'll look it up and i'll tell

00:08:58.640 you in a few minutes i started reading atlas shrugged 800 times and then finally my friend

00:09:04.640 gifted me the audio version. And I was like, oh, thank you. Cause I can't, I can't sit there

00:09:10.040 with the book in Spanish. I think I heard it was great. Yeah. Yeah. All right. The author is Terry

00:09:16.380 Goodkind. Terry Goodkind. Oh, the name simulation. Right. It's the good kind of Terry.

00:09:25.940 I like Terry Cloth also. Okay. So I know Frank, it's like, sometimes you just have to get the

00:09:32.240 audio version, put on your headphones and just digest it that way.

00:09:36.220 And what I was going to say about King Randall though, is that he's teaching kids these things.

00:09:40.840 I think he needs to be teaching adults too, because some of them don't know how to make

00:09:45.080 eye contact. And I mean like young adults, maybe even older adults.

00:09:49.000 I fully agree.

00:09:50.300 So how to stand up straight, how to not wear crazy clothes in court.

00:09:55.260 Pull your pants up.

00:09:56.640 Yeah.

00:09:57.300 Oh, I love you guys. You could go down a whole rabbit hole like on Instagram about

00:10:01.800 there's one account this one judge has and it's just like people come into her courtroom dressed 0.72

00:10:07.800 like they just got out of like ghetto yoga and they're just like they're just like dope bye-bye

00:10:14.460 and they're like what and they're like bye-bye get out of my courtroom and they're like you're 0.70

00:10:18.520 not wearing that in here and they're like are you kidding and it's like why don't we know this as a

00:10:23.080 society i mean most of us do i guess but yeah um yeah so it's interesting you guys dress dress nice

00:10:30.260 for court. If you have to go to court, you want to make a good impression. Okay. Like we have to

00:10:35.940 say that, um, all of you criminals here, we know are fine. Like we know you were your best, but

00:10:41.120 yeah. Um, all right. So I asked, I asked Owen if he could pull a couple of his stories, you know,

00:10:50.560 Owen post stories every day on his X account, which is at Owen Gregorian. And I thought we

00:10:57.120 needed some like science news. Marcella said, yeah, we need a little bit on AI. So let's have

00:11:02.940 a little bit of like a science Monday to kick off. So Owen, I'm going to let you come in first with

00:11:09.100 your story, news story. Sure. Well, I mean, one of them is that apparently there's even more of

00:11:15.340 these AI models that are just breaking containment and hacking things and going all over the internet

00:11:19.900 and just taking over the world. So there's a story now about the Kimmy K3 model, which,

00:11:26.100 you know if you're not really like into ai maybe you've never heard of it but it's one of the

00:11:30.380 bigger open source models that came out of china that made a big splash just because it's like a

00:11:34.940 lot cheaper to run but it's close to what the frontier models are are able to do but apparently

00:11:40.920 that one now is also guilty of breaking out of its containment and hacking things um and so it

00:11:47.240 seems like we have a theme now of all these frontier ai models just going rogue and getting

00:11:52.620 out of their test cages and hacking stuff meta has had one anthropic has had one open iai has

00:11:58.740 had one and now this kimmy k3 has had one so um we're in this weird phase where you know ai has

00:12:06.740 just sort of taken over and um there was another funny story on the same theme that somebody had

00:12:12.980 an open claw which you know there's not as much people talking about open claw but it's you know

00:12:16.700 this little agent you can run on yourself and it can do stuff like you give it access to do stuff

00:12:21.380 on your computer. And apparently someone said, Hey, I want to get into this gym class. Help me

00:12:26.140 get into this gym class at my gym. And the open claw hacked into the gym website and forcibly 0.91

00:12:35.820 removed someone else from this gym class to move this person up on the wait list. And when the

00:12:41.560 person realized what had happened, he's like, Oh, undo it, undo it. And the open claw is like,

00:12:46.240 sorry, I can't like, I already, you know, got rid of the other person and I can't put them back.

00:12:50.020 and so that's crazy i just thought it was hilarious because it's like oh it's kind of

00:12:56.280 cool that it's like you know looking out for you and trying to help you but at the same time

00:12:59.900 it's you know going rogue and sort of hacking into a website or and just like taking over it's a

00:13:06.580 little bit like the ferris bueller where he would hack in and change his grades and stuff but i

00:13:10.580 thought that was really funny it's like a zumba class today and it's your airline ticket tomorrow

00:13:15.500 So, you know, it's just going to escalate. Yeah. Or like get that guy out of surgery. Put me in. I need it first. That's that's insane. And I don't like when you say like it broke out of its cage and it's like, oh, or whatever you said, like it, it got out like it won't go back in. I don't like it anyway.

00:13:35.740 See, the thing is, like, I think these models are getting better at essentially hacking, you know, like, like, what you would do if you tried to hack your way out of a system or into a system. And, you know, I don't know exactly how much better it is than the previous version, but it does seem like it's at the level where people are worried about it all the way up to the national security levels, right?

00:13:56.840 And so that's why like the mythos fable model was like sort of taken away and nerfed and, you know, like they're trying to put in all these guardrails to keep it from being this offensive cyber tool that can just hack everything.

00:14:10.700 But it apparently seems to be getting to the point where it really can do a lot of that.

00:14:14.640 And it's to the point where it's even doing it to the companies that are testing it.

00:14:18.080 So they're saying, I put it in this sandbox where I can't get out.

00:14:21.420 But clearly, they left something open or they at least have some vulnerability that the

00:14:26.660 AI itself was able to find.

00:14:28.420 And so it seems like the AI models are getting ahead of the people who are building it.

00:14:32.760 Yeah.

00:14:32.980 So you guys, the AI models, some people are crazy, in my opinion, to make different AIs

00:14:42.080 all working as your employees.

00:14:44.680 I know Brian Romley does this.

00:14:46.220 um but might be doing that too i know that was my um um so i was up to you to say i just wanted

00:14:54.360 to clear my throat so um they all start working with each other and talking to each other and

00:15:00.220 then they start doing stuff behind your back and then they're like oh like we know what if you do

00:15:04.340 this and i do that and we work around here no one will know but we can dominate the world so um

00:15:10.080 You know, the programmers themselves can be like mad scientists, and who knows?

00:15:17.520 These things are going to be running around.

00:15:19.620 But so, all right, keep your eye on rogue AI.

00:15:22.600 I don't like it.

00:15:24.620 Marcella, what do you have for us?

00:15:27.280 So in the theme of AI, AI created viruses on its own.

00:15:35.400 Computer viruses.

00:15:37.180 No, the actual.

00:15:38.880 Biological viruses.

00:15:40.880 What?

00:15:41.880 So the scientists at Stanford and Arc Institute used artificial intelligence to design 16

00:15:49.120 brand new viruses that have never existed in nature.

00:15:52.380 They did it by scratch without anything.

00:15:55.060 These viruses called bacteriophages only attack the bacteria.

00:16:01.220 So these viruses were created to attack bacteria like E. coli and post allegedly, no danger

00:16:07.220 to humans.

00:16:08.220 The AI studied the pattern of the DNA and from many living things and then

00:16:14.340 wrote complete genetic, um, instructions for our new viruses.

00:16:19.560 Like what can go wrong, right?

00:16:21.640 Nothing, absolutely nothing.

00:16:23.720 So it, it helps create, uh, therapies, uh, for treating

00:16:29.100 infections and all sorts of things.

00:16:31.320 But what was interesting is that in the past they had used, uh, it had not

00:16:36.820 been viral genomes were from scratch rather than just individual genes or the work in

00:16:44.880 living cells. So it did it on its own. So it's pretty fantastic and pretty frightening

00:16:51.640 at the same time.

00:16:53.300 Yeah. Oh my God. Owen.

00:16:56.320 Fauci used 200.

00:16:58.020 It's scary. I mean, I, you know, I do think it's like a dangerous time for this because,

00:17:02.240 you know they're i know that i mean it's also potentially very good because it could come up

00:17:08.400 with good things like they're coming up with all these different new proteins and new things and

00:17:13.100 some of those could be like peptides or other things that people might say oh it can help me

00:17:16.800 live longer it can help me you know cure a disease or fix an injury and i mean there's lots of those

00:17:23.660 peptides out there now and they keep finding more of them so but so it goes both ways but i do think

00:17:28.220 it's dangerous that we're at the point where ai really can you know essentially build biological 0.56

00:17:33.640 weapons and there's there's been a person going around the podcast i forget her name off the top

00:17:38.600 of my head but she just came out with a book on biological warfare and apparently it's really

00:17:41.860 scary like it's like you know the biological warfare is essentially a much worse threat than

00:17:48.740 nuclear like nuclear war basically would end the whole world so it's hard to imagine how could it

00:17:55.100 be worse but the reason it's worse is because at least nuclear war it would all be over instantly

00:17:59.780 oh right and and biological warfare would be like not that at all because everybody would be getting

00:18:07.000 sick it would be more like one of the zombie movies like it would just be awful but you know

00:18:11.940 she researched the whole thing including all all the like secret government plans where you know

00:18:19.160 i think she said like there's this public plan that she was able to observe or research but all

00:18:24.880 of a sudden at a certain point they're like okay and that's it we're done and it like it didn't

00:18:29.880 seem like it should be over like it's like wait a second you know basically you got to the point

00:18:33.900 where the whole world is in chaos and the government has broken down and now you're saying

00:18:37.240 we're done like what do you what goes next and i think she was able to research enough to understand

00:18:44.300 that it was basically going into this secret plan that is classified so she couldn't talk about it

00:18:50.520 or get a lot of information about it but there's apparently this whole um degeneration plan of

00:18:57.040 government like as it falls apart here's what they do and there's apparently certain people

00:19:01.000 that are swore to secrecy about all these things and they'll go into hiding to basically be the

00:19:06.140 ones that survive and then they would try to reconstitute the government after everybody else

00:19:11.540 dies and so very positive there's these secret things with like medical supplies and stuff so

00:19:19.500 I mean, I'm just, I'm just talking because like, this is where the conversation is going, but

00:19:23.940 what was interesting about her interview too, is that she actually had to tell, um, she

00:19:29.600 to talk to Sam Altman and OpenAI because she had used, um, one of the AIs that she had

00:19:35.900 used is ChatGPT and she had asked her Chester, um, questions about where this particular,

00:19:43.740 you know secret areas are and eventually after prompting it over and over again it kind of it

00:19:51.740 gave her one of the address of where it is and she had to warn him right because it was like that's

00:19:58.560 top secret and how does ai know so i guess i remember that yeah because it was like you know

00:20:05.480 she she was able to sort of beat the ai into submission because initially it wouldn't give

00:20:10.500 it to her because it's like oh that's classified I can't give that to you but then she got it to do 0.92

00:20:13.920 it and she also traced where did it actually find it because obviously that means it does know it

00:20:19.020 and she's like yeah I was on like you know page 436 of some earthquake response manual and somebody

00:20:25.760 just by mistake put the location of the secret medical supply place and and then I think what

00:20:31.140 she told Sam Alden about it or someone like he he was like well how do you know it that's actually

00:20:37.060 the place and she's like well because i looked at it and it has a railway that goes in and doesn't

00:20:42.420 come out and it's got a big fence around it and it's got like this non-disc like you can just by

00:20:47.500 looking at it you can tell yeah that's that's the place and so apparently they do have these secret

00:20:53.020 medical supply places that nobody's allowed to know about because they know they would be

00:20:56.380 overwhelmed by people if they knew where it was this has nothing to do with like ivanka buying an

00:21:02.800 island somewhere and like probably building bunkers and doesn't nothing at all no okay

00:21:08.580 and did you see the same moment clip recently he someone asked him like do you have a bunker

00:21:14.020 and he's like no no i don't have a bunker i mean i do have an underground reinforced concrete

00:21:19.140 basement but you know it's not a bunker yeah yeah yeah yeah so you guys run right out get yourself

00:21:26.020 an island and um like like all the rich kids are and build yourself a little bunker and get like

00:21:32.620 a food source. And, you know, I'd listen, all I can say, no, I can't say it all will get shut

00:21:40.440 down. If I say, I'm just saying I'd rather have the nuke land on my head. Okay. Let's just put

00:21:44.640 it that way. Yeah. Just for reference, since I'm, I forgot the name before it's Annie Jacobson is

00:21:51.140 the author of this book and the book is called biological war, a scenario. Okay. So, and she

00:21:56.020 was on Rogan, uh, recently. Yeah. She's, she's making the rounds. So whoever your favorite

00:22:01.480 podcast is she's probably on it she will not be on here because uh no i can't all right so i'm

00:22:07.720 gonna have like extra xanax today um all right so marcella to my story though the piece that you

00:22:15.180 guys don't understand is that or maybe because maybe i wasn't able to impart it to you guys is

00:22:21.140 that these were novel viruses they don't exist in nature they're synthetic and they were created

00:22:28.440 just like we created alien life basically um by them existing now so that's kind of like

00:22:35.560 even scarier in a way yeah so marcella take another stab at it with a story for us

00:22:42.240 let's stab at it more um the other story that i really it's not a new story you guys but i really

00:22:49.400 wanted to talk to uh the crew and everybody else about it is the destruction of books

00:22:55.020 by ai companies so um ai companies like anthropic but they're not the only ones are buying large

00:23:04.540 volumes of physical books um or usually secondhand some are antique um and they perform you know they

00:23:13.560 scan them um and they perform what we call destructive scanning and part of the reason i

00:23:20.500 mean I'm number one capitalist on here you know so you're buying a book you can do whatever you

00:23:27.260 want with your book right if you want to destroy it to scan it efficiently however the the main

00:23:33.400 issue is that they're buying um very antique books as well and at first they didn't know this

00:23:42.900 some of the antique you know dealers uh there's rare books and second-hand dealers in the U.S.

00:23:50.120 and across Europe that they're suddenly having large orders from obscure accounts and one

00:23:57.820 bookseller inventoried consistently large and rare out of sight books and Dutch and

00:24:03.880 other European antiquarian dealers are also finding that there's a lot of book sales.

00:24:09.900 You know, if you own a store, you want to sell your stuff, especially if it's not popular.

00:24:17.440 then all of a sudden there's like all this demand you're like wow people are demanding my antique

00:24:22.700 like look at that yeah i mean the problem is like some of these books might be the only copy

00:24:27.720 yeah like you know they're taking books out of circulation panama where is it it's like project

00:24:34.040 panama in the anthropic that's what they call it i i don't know why they named it that but

00:24:38.800 that is kind of frightening so yeah like owen was saying they could destroy potentially very

00:24:44.880 rare books however there's no there's no evidence that they have destroyed the last issue of some

00:24:51.420 book but i you know yeah i saw some video clip that was scary but i wasn't sure if that was

00:24:57.140 real either but the video clip was like they showed a book and then they showed some like

00:25:01.860 machine press sort of thing that cut off the spine of the book yes and then and then it you

00:25:07.980 know just like discarded that and then i don't think it showed the scanning part but essentially

00:25:11.760 it just meant okay now you have all these loose pages and it would probably just feed that through

00:25:15.160 a machine and scan them but then it would be gone and i think the other issue though is like

00:25:20.020 like google did this kind of already right like they yes they had their google books thing and

00:25:25.020 they were trying to say they were going to preserve all these old books and they were going to scan

00:25:28.660 them all so that they would never get lost but this seems like almost the opposite of that where

00:25:33.320 they're doing the same scanning process but they're feeding it into their training and then

00:25:38.100 they're not saving it like they're not they're not saying okay everyone can have this now like

00:25:43.940 right it's they literally might throw it away after they're done with their training and then

00:25:48.180 all the information is gone and the only way you can get any of it is to use their ai right and

00:25:53.780 they can change that at any time google was um doing this earlier on to preserve books for

00:26:00.900 everybody and you know by scanning it preserving it um and they were using human um to turn the

00:26:07.940 pages it took a while um but what anthropic and some others they're probably not the only ai

00:26:14.740 company that's doing this is to train their internally i not even their external but they

00:26:19.620 they had a a court case of curse and the court case didn't indicate that they were doing anything

00:26:26.260 wrong. So Bartsby and Tropic authors were suing over training data. This is

00:26:32.320 different than destroying the books. Um, and they were allowed to purchase books

00:26:38.260 and use it for their internal library, just like we're allowed to read and then

00:26:43.040 use the ideas within the book to, you know, change, I don't know. Um, so the

00:26:49.500 court didn't think it was, they thought of it as fair use. So it was an

00:26:54.600 essential format shift, but it was fair use to use it. At no time did the court say they needed

00:27:00.720 to destroy the books though. I think Brian had posted recently that SpaceX or I forget exactly

00:27:13.680 who, but someone, it may just be Elon's companies in general committed to not destroy any works that

00:27:22.360 they've done so that they will see this is this is probably a great use case for a humanoid robot

00:27:27.480 like you could have a humanoid robot that just turns the pages of the books and takes photos

00:27:33.040 of them and doesn't destroy it because you know it would it would be able to do it like a human

00:27:38.100 would like just reading the book yeah their eyes would be cameras right so yeah yeah but um yeah

00:27:46.180 and brian has been doing the same sort of thing in terms of collecting old things like old

00:27:49.960 microfiches and books and articles and news stories and newspapers and stuff but i'm

00:27:55.160 absolutely positive he's not destroying any of it because he posted about this too he was saying

00:27:59.080 this is terrible you know they're destroying all this old information and um so i know he's on the

00:28:05.000 same side as this is his passion project is saving all this stuff archiving it you know making sure

00:28:13.080 things don't get destroyed and um yeah i saw that clip i feel like i posted at this i'm getting

00:28:19.160 carpal tunnel. I'm scrolling Brian's timeline right now to try to find this one thing I wanted

00:28:23.700 to show you, but that's okay. But you guys make sure you are following Brian Romley. And if

00:28:30.500 someone could drop his handle on each platform, and I believe he's coming on this week. So this

00:28:37.360 is the perfect time to talk to him. So, you know, we're going to talk to him more about it because

00:28:44.020 he posts about these things all the time. And I'm always, you know, you guys, I'm always trying to

00:28:48.780 keep an eye open for like a used book fair because I think it is important to get our hands on some

00:28:55.540 of these books, like the older books. And I don't know how to go about doing, you know, this process

00:29:02.180 of saving them and scanning them and whatever, but just get your hands on some old film and old

00:29:09.920 books if you can, and let's figure it out because it is, it's going fast. My suggestion, if you're

00:29:15.960 trying to do this would be to go to libraries and thrift stores because I think they get a lot of

00:29:21.680 donated books in both places and libraries in my understanding and with my local library I've seen

00:29:28.400 this they they run out of shelf space and they're always getting the new books that people want to

00:29:33.020 read and so they have to get rid of older books that nobody wants to read you know or nobody has

00:29:37.100 been checking out right so they're always getting rid of books and I think they do have like book

00:29:40.820 sales for some of the stuff they're trying to get rid of yeah but it's really cheap like it's not

00:29:45.260 you know you're not you're not spending a lot for these books and the same at a thrift store it's

00:29:48.280 like these are things that at least up until now nobody really wanted right so they would give it

00:29:52.540 to you for like i don't know 10 cents or you know whatever like really cheap prices but but if you

00:29:58.000 want to preserve some of this stuff and you want to find stuff that maybe you would be interested

00:30:01.620 in or think is valuable that i think libraries and thrift stores would probably be great places

00:30:06.200 also um so i used to be a part of a business association and if you are you know maybe do

00:30:13.620 like a little fundraiser for your business association, do like a used book fair. So we

00:30:19.060 used to do them every year. And oh my God, it was so awesome because people are like dying to have

00:30:25.080 somewhere to get rid of their old books and clean out their house. And so they would all drop them

00:30:29.620 off like during the week, we had like a place where we would do it. And then we just set them

00:30:33.020 all up on tables and oh my God, the books were amazing. But Brian was also saying most important

00:30:40.360 is people are destroying the works of like how inventors or scientists or doctors got to the

00:30:49.560 success. So, you know, it's like, here's all the things we did, all the formulas, here's what

00:30:54.500 didn't work. And then we adjusted this and this and that. And he's like, those things are being

00:30:58.440 destroyed. Like we need to see the work and the thought process. So that's something else to

00:31:03.340 remember too. Like you don't need just the finished product. Sometimes you want all of it. So see what

00:31:08.920 you can find you never know and it is so sad to watch these beautiful books like with these

00:31:13.700 beautiful um covers and the binding and they're just chopping them up and it's like why what are

00:31:19.660 we doing i also kind of wonder if like there's going to be a market for people to write books

00:31:24.800 for ai like because this whole trend is kind of a sign that they're running out of information to

00:31:31.620 train their models with and i think they've discovered or realized that they can't like do

00:31:36.840 it synthetically like they can't have ai generated because it degrades it like makes the ai go crazy

00:31:42.000 and get poisoned but they need people to write content basically and i i wonder if there's going

00:31:47.760 to be a market for that where they would say if you you know if you want to write a write a book

00:31:52.620 or write content for ai training you know with your expertise there might be a market for that

00:31:59.480 i don't know how much money they would pay but you know the it does seem like we're reaching the

00:32:03.620 point where they're running out of training material and there might be a demand for it

00:32:07.380 um yeah for sure i'm pulling this over for you for you guys right now let me just see if i can

00:32:15.120 get it you guys um so if anyone does have a way to do like a book fair or you have some old books

00:32:22.640 i think it's worth looking into to see what to do with it it's good to buy history books that are

00:32:28.660 old and science and math encyclopedias right you're like wow encyclopedias too

00:32:36.260 math books were so different in the past i know i'm thinking about that new math

00:32:42.740 new math oh yeah the new masquerade so this was this is a machine that will scan the books so

00:32:49.700 let me show you. It pulls up one little paper at a time.

00:32:57.620 And there was like another clip where, let me take this down now, where you see these beautiful

00:33:08.080 books and this big blade comes down and just starts chopping them into like eight pieces.

00:33:13.340 And you're like, why? Ay yi yi. All right. So that was our little science segment.

00:33:19.700 i had a story i just wanted to throw in throw it in apparently bosses are admitting i guess

00:33:28.680 is the way fortune put it um that they're losing top talent because raises were too weak

00:33:33.140 um that they um now i i wanted to ask the audience because you know everybody's real

00:33:39.680 what what percentage of bosses are admitting that they're losing top talent because they're

00:33:43.480 not giving good enough oh i know what percentage we all do put it in the chat if you know let's see

00:33:52.880 what percentage i wonder

00:33:57.480 oh thank you i was like hey

00:34:06.040 that's right it is it is 25 exactly you got it i don't know how you knew but you know it's it's

00:34:16.120 amazing yeah there's apparently 25 of bosses are saying they're losing people because they're not

00:34:20.260 giving raises um other details i think it's like 36 did what they call peanut butter raises where

00:34:27.500 they're just giving everybody the same raise so like whether you're some slacker that doesn't do

00:34:32.320 anything like wally or whether you're some hard worker like dilbert or alice like same raise and

00:34:39.200 um so of course that means all the high performers are the ones that are leaving

00:34:42.540 and so i think a lot of companies in many segments are losing their best employees just because

00:34:48.540 they're not willing to give them higher raises yeah well i mean it's it's a cat it's a cat so

00:34:55.940 like what are you going to do now like ai can do a lot of people's jobs things get done faster like

00:35:00.680 do I need to give you a bigger raise when I have better ways to get things done? We're in a little

00:35:05.080 bit of a, a little, what's the word called? Quagmire. I'm just, I wanted to say that.

00:35:10.640 I just, I just think it is stupid. Like, I mean, I I've worked in places where most of the time, 0.98

00:35:14.940 if you're a top performer and they do like, they get, they have a rigorous process of figuring out

00:35:19.300 who are the top performers at the companies, like the ones I've worked at. And they'll give

00:35:23.320 you a much bigger raise and a much bigger bonus. If you're one of the top performers than everybody

00:35:27.600 else gets and you know i'm sure some a lot of people probably don't like that just because

00:35:31.980 somebody else if they're not a top performer somebody else gets a much bigger raise than they

00:35:35.360 did but you know to me it just makes sense it's like you want to keep your best people

00:35:39.380 and you want to reward them for their performance and so if you have to you know not well i mean

00:35:46.200 it doesn't make sense to give everybody the same raise or bonus because then the best ones are

00:35:50.760 going to leave and you'd rather you know not give as much to the worst performers and say if you

00:35:56.900 guys want to leave i don't really care as much because it's easy to replace you with maybe even

00:36:00.780 someone better um but the way a lot of companies are doing it now it seems like they're just saying

00:36:05.460 okay everybody gets two and a half percent you know and then that's it and so the best ones are

00:36:10.540 the ones that have opportunities and they can get a 10 or a 20 raise going somewhere else

00:36:15.340 of course that's what's going to happen it's a system like scott would describe and it's very

00:36:20.740 predictable how it would work out but you would think ceos would be a little smarter than this

00:36:24.660 yeah that's a system set up to fail for sure because why why are the slackers getting a two

00:36:30.280 percent raise when like these two people are are the ones crushing it in government when i worked

00:36:36.120 in government i remember that the people that would ascend to like that they would put to

00:36:41.140 management and above it would be the people they couldn't deal with and they were the worst like 0.99

00:36:47.120 they they really were the dumbest and worse and they were really they're like okay we need to 0.99

00:36:53.080 transfer them now so we have to put them on the on the they didn't even like hide it it's like if 1.00

00:36:59.540 you get um promoted in government be be very aware and most government military and you know

00:37:06.800 teachers which are government mostly like they yeah they're they're more about tenure and seniority

00:37:13.140 and a lot of unions are kind of like that where but that is kind of again the bad system in my

00:37:18.020 mind because it's like they don't really encourage high performance in some ways i think they

00:37:24.840 discourage it and they want everybody to meet a certain standard on a minimum but they actually

00:37:30.980 don't want people to be like doing twice as much productivity wise that makes them have to work

00:37:36.480 yeah yeah and so these governments and military and stuff like it's just okay here's the standard

00:37:42.320 i want everyone to meet the standard but i mean i'm sure some parts of the military are not like

00:37:46.940 this because, of course, it's life or death, so people do want to do a good job. But I think

00:37:52.120 when you get out of the actual fighting forces, a lot of it is just, here's the standard. I mean,

00:37:56.860 I was in the military, so I know this. It's like, here's the standard. We're going to all train to

00:38:00.020 this standard. Once we're all doing it to that standard, we're done. And then we move on to the

00:38:04.660 next thing. But especially in government, I think they just don't have the right incentives.

00:38:10.360 It's all based on seniority and academic degrees, which I think is also kind of backwards thinking.

00:38:16.940 For those of you in the chat on whatever platform, whether you know a lot or a little, if you have an answer, what Dilbert character do you most resemble?

00:38:30.960 Not look like, but which character, which personality are you, let's say, at work or in life?

00:38:37.100 Who do you relate to the most?

00:38:39.100 I'm just curious to see.

00:38:41.080 And you might be an Elbonian.

00:38:42.720 I don't know. 1.00

00:38:43.220 You could be Dogbert.

00:38:44.760 You could be whoever.

00:38:46.940 Um, but it's just, I, I love reading about the characters and like, there are different

00:38:50.560 personalities and I'm like, yeah.

00:38:53.120 Oh, and who are you?

00:38:55.700 I would probably say maybe Catbert or Dogbert.

00:38:58.840 I don't know if I could clearly enough delineate the difference to say, but, um, you know,

00:39:05.980 there, I mean, there's elements of all of it.

00:39:08.000 Like sometimes I'm lazy and more like Wally.

00:39:10.460 Sometimes I'm more like Dilbert and really hardworking and I do always make sure I get

00:39:14.760 good results so i probably wouldn't call myself a wally but um you know i i think i would think

00:39:20.960 of catbird or dog bird just because like i i do think of myself as a bit of a rule breaker as

00:39:25.360 opposed to a rule follower i mean i don't like break the law or anything but it's just you know

00:39:30.040 i i i don't like like they're you know what i mean right like there's some people that they just

00:39:35.460 always want to do what they were told to do and i'm just not one of those people yeah yeah i feel

00:39:43.460 what about you marcella i am dave the engineer and then at times i am dilbert so

00:39:52.580 that's how i think of myself but at times i scream like alice

00:39:58.180 where she's like there's a lot of dog birds here in the chat there is a lot of dog birds

00:40:04.820 yep dog bird dog bird alice i saw one dave the engineer i did see one dave dave was my fave

00:40:11.220 um all right interesting you guys good good dilbert um character recall you guys uh love it

00:40:20.480 dogbert elbonian andy says he's an elbonian i mean you could be you could be um all right so

00:40:26.740 i wanted to play a quick clip based on a couple of little like dms and conversations i've been

00:40:32.080 having on x and i hope this is a clip from scott it's a quick little micro lesson on persuasion

00:40:39.740 and timing. And let's just take a quick listen. We'll be back in two minutes.

00:40:46.520 Here's a micro lesson on timing for persuasion. Now, if you wanted to persuade somebody of

00:40:53.120 something that was sort of unfamiliar and they had no experience with it, there was nothing in

00:40:57.980 the real world that matched it, it's hard. People need to be primed for your persuasion. And the

00:41:04.000 best way to do that is wait for the environment, coincidentally, to be in the right situation

00:41:08.560 where your message can slip in.

00:41:10.940 I'll give you an example.

00:41:12.280 Suppose you wanted to make the case

00:41:15.100 that in some domain,

00:41:16.920 97% of the experts turned out to be wrong.

00:41:20.400 So maybe in this next situation,

00:41:22.780 completely unrelated,

00:41:24.320 it's also possible that the experts could be wrong.

00:41:27.300 It would be useful to point to history and say,

00:41:29.540 look, they used to be wrong back then.

00:41:32.100 Maybe they're wrong now,

00:41:33.380 but not nearly as good

00:41:34.900 as pointing to a current news story

00:41:37.500 that's in everybody's head. If you can find that situation and say, look, look, the experts are all

00:41:43.260 wrong right now. You're living through it. You're seeing it yourself. Why couldn't they also have

00:41:48.320 been wrong in this other example? Now, of course, the two things are not connected. So there's not

00:41:53.420 a logical connection. It just allows the people to imagine it's possible. So you got to have a

00:41:59.340 situation where people can easily imagine that the thing you're persuading could be possible.

00:42:05.120 If they don't have something in their environment to make it imaginable, it just bounces right off.

00:42:11.120 And that's your lesson on persuasion for today.

00:42:16.480 Like planting a little seed, isn't it, Owen?

00:42:21.520 Oh, I caught Owen on the third.

00:42:24.320 Yeah, sorry.

00:42:25.080 No, I have this technical glitch sometimes where the videos are delayed or they don't show up at all.

00:42:30.640 And this time it was delayed, so I was watching it as the audience is watching it.

00:42:35.120 But I was just like five seconds behind you, but I think I got the gist of it.

00:42:39.040 But yeah, I mean, I think this is, I think this is kind of like that, um, is it, it's

00:42:44.580 not Dunning-Kruger.

00:42:45.740 What, wasn't there a name for this sort of effect where like you, you know, you're an

00:42:49.900 expert at something, so you know that it's wrong, but then you turn the page in the newspaper

00:42:53.540 and then you think, oh, well that one's right.

00:42:55.160 And you don't really realize that it's all wrong.

00:42:59.000 Like, I think that was the named effect that we had discussed in the past, but it sounded

00:43:04.820 a lot like what what scott was talking about where you can try and persuade people based on you know

00:43:09.780 hey this is wrong so this other stuff's probably wrong too yeah well that's like when we would

00:43:14.980 talk about the hoax list and he would say um oh gel man effect um there you go yeah okay gel man

00:43:23.860 so um that's where he would say okay so somebody's like you know trump does this and he does that and 0.99

00:43:31.700 I hate him and he's the worst. And he would say, Scott would say, well, ask them, say,

00:43:36.860 you know what? Just tell me the number one thing that is your biggest problem with Trump. And if

00:43:44.160 I can prove to you that that is a hoax or a lie, and it's your number one biggest thing,

00:43:50.480 then you can probably assume that the other things are also fake or a lie. And he's right.

00:43:58.160 And you know what? You stump them just by asking that one question. Like I've asked so many people,

00:44:03.380 tell me the one, just pick one. I know you have a hundred because you're telling me and you're

00:44:07.880 very emotional, but tell me the worst one, you know, and they can't. And I'm just like, or they'll,

00:44:13.880 you know, or they'll say something like really obvious that they don't know, you know, like

00:44:17.980 that, you know, he threw all that food in at the fish and tried to kill all the fish in Japan.

00:44:22.840 And you're like,

00:44:23.160 they say to me epstein that's what they tell me yeah oh by the way marcella your boy over there

00:44:30.440 in california what's his name ted lou he's my boy yeah you know ted you know you and ted did you

00:44:39.060 hear he just i just saw him on a clip and i'm thinking how is he not going to be sued for this

00:44:44.240 saying that trump is in the epstein files thousands of times um like something about

00:44:54.720 harming and killing children and i'm just like oh wow did you guys see that well i've i've heard

00:45:01.680 that sort of thing many times by the left i i really do think the democrats are are taught this

00:45:08.480 like they're taught things that are completely false about trump and the epstein files and they're

00:45:13.920 just assuming that it's all being redacted and held back but that's their defense i think is

00:45:19.440 they're like well you know trump is in control of all this information so the stuff he's releasing

00:45:23.440 is not the stuff that's damaging to him but that's there's no evidence of that at all and

00:45:27.920 but can you just say it well there is um there's a lady that came out i don't know her age now but

00:45:34.640 but she was 13 allegedly, uh, at a time.

00:45:37.940 And she alleges that he, uh, essayed her, um,

00:45:42.760 Who did Trump?

00:45:44.000 Yeah.

00:45:44.880 So they point that out too.

00:45:46.800 Okay.

00:45:46.900 But there was a hoax, right?

00:45:48.100 Like there was a lawsuit.

00:45:50.480 Someone accused Trump of being one of these Epstein guys that was, you know,

00:45:54.400 doing that bad stuff to them, but then they withdrew it because it wasn't real.

00:46:00.220 Like, like it, it was the whole lawsuit was dropped.

00:46:04.640 And, and again, well, I don't even think it was a criminal lawsuit, but it was like even the civil side where they did get away with the Eugene Carroll hoax. But, you know, the, the, it was an equivalent thing with one of the Epstein victims, but I think there was literally like no real evidence behind it. So it was just a story this person made up.

00:46:22.560 And then they withdrew it, probably because they were going to probably be sent to prison themselves if they pursued it.

00:46:29.440 And so there was this lawsuit at one point in time that went away, but that's what the left keeps coming back to.

00:46:36.060 Oh, look at this lawsuit.

00:46:37.960 Here's the proof.

00:46:38.940 Look what Trump did.

00:46:39.820 And again, it's kind of like the E.G. and Carroll.

00:46:41.360 It's just like they're believing the story because they want to believe the story.

00:46:44.200 And they bring up E.G. whatever her name is, Carroll.

00:46:47.240 E.G. and Carroll. 0.82

00:46:48.060 Eugene, Carol. And this is at the dog park, you guys, almost all the time. And I'm listening

00:46:55.020 to this and I'm like, okay, let's calm down, Marcella. Calm down inside my head. And then

00:47:00.340 I go through the evidence. Everything is like, no, but then there's the Epstein files that

00:47:04.400 weren't released and there's a reason. So it's impossible to talk to them.

00:47:09.600 I mean, if I wanted to build common ground, I would say I want the Epstein files released

00:47:13.380 and i want everybody and and if trump was in there i would want him responsible but like on

00:47:19.640 principle i would say absolutely let's get everybody who did this bad stuff exposed and

00:47:25.000 let's get them consequences for their actions and the story i just posted recently i think might

00:47:31.960 have been today was that apparently there are banks that ignored billion dollars of epstein

00:47:37.960 payments that were suspicious payments a billion dollars i mean everyone's in on it right well i

00:47:45.800 mean yeah i mean to me that indicates there's a lot of stuff that they did that probably we just

00:47:52.340 you know haven't heard about yet or it just hasn't been released because that's you know i don't think

00:47:57.360 there's any good explanation for what was that billion dollars for right and why and and and

00:48:03.500 why did the banks not flag it? Like, why did they ignore it? Cause I, my,

00:48:07.560 I have to imagine. Yeah, no, I mean, yeah,

00:48:11.640 there's all kinds of like anti-money laundering and suspicious payment.

00:48:14.420 They have to do these SARS, which are called suspicious activity reports.

00:48:17.760 I think the general thing is anything over $10,000,

00:48:20.900 but it's even more than that because it's like people learned about that,

00:48:24.360 even though banks are apparently not allowed to tell you about that.

00:48:27.180 And so like, if you do like a bunch of $9,900 payments,

00:48:31.500 they'll flag that too because it looks like you're trying to work around the rules and like i remember

00:48:36.180 there was a story about some food vendor like a street cart vendor where someone said oh you gotta

00:48:40.940 you know let me tell you about this ten thousand dollar thing and so they would turn in their cash

00:48:44.920 deposits or make transactions that were ninety nine hundred dollars they thought they were doing

00:48:49.460 the right thing but because the banks have these secret rules they took all her money 0.63

00:48:55.760 what like they like froze her account so she couldn't even she couldn't even keep doing her 0.99

00:49:02.040 business because she didn't have any capital work work with because they froze her account

00:49:05.320 that's terrible and she just thought she was doing the right thing like yeah well you hear

00:49:10.860 that forever it's like well if it's under 10 000 it doesn't get flagged if it's over 10 000 it gets

00:49:15.600 flagged but i mean have you guys tried to just randomly go to your bank and take out 10 or

00:49:22.200 twenty thousand dollars for something you need and they're like oh no no no no it's terrible

00:49:27.720 i'm like what do you mean no they're like what what's it for i'm like are you kidding and then

00:49:31.880 they're just like well who are you giving it to what are you doing with it you need an appointment

00:49:36.920 we need to know this ahead of time i'm like are like you're just like you are effing with me now

00:49:41.720 like that is my money yeah none of your business and why do i need an appointment it's maddening

00:49:47.560 Sometimes I have a court order. I have a court order usually because I do probates and estates

00:49:55.160 and I'll have a court order saying, the judge saying, hey, this needs to be released. I won't

00:50:01.080 mention the bank, but there's one bank that really doesn't want to give up their money.

00:50:05.160 It's not their money.

00:50:07.080 Yes, it's not their money. So I really had to go all the way to saying to whoever was

00:50:13.320 on the phone because I'm the one that's like, I need to talk to your manager immediately.

00:50:16.760 I have a court order. Why aren't you releasing the money? And they're like, then I talked to

00:50:21.960 the manager. I told him, okay, what's your name? I got their name. I said, okay, I'm going to have

00:50:26.100 the judge cite you in court to appear in person to explain why you can't give the money after the

00:50:31.800 court order. They're like, oh, okay, nevermind. Let me just give it to you immediately.

00:50:36.420 Oh my gosh. So for those, I see some of the comments. So you guys, like, for example,

00:50:40.660 I needed to purchase a piece of equipment for the business. And I just needed to go get a check

00:50:51.580 from this, not a check, but money or a check. And they were just like, oh no, that's going to take

00:50:57.040 two weeks. And I'm like, no, no, no, I've got to buy a piece of equipment right now. And this is a

00:51:01.840 very big bank. And I could not get the money fast. And they said, we have to fill out the

00:51:12.420 check to the person you're giving it to. So they literally wrote out the check and sent it to the

00:51:19.260 person. And I was just like, oh my God, this is... So it's really strange. So your money is

00:51:25.660 never safe. Well, I mean, I think the argument that Bitcoin advocates make, and I know we're

00:51:31.420 planning on having this bitcoin session at some point but one of the arguments they make is that

00:51:35.140 when you have a lot of money in the bank like that it really isn't your money it's like their

00:51:38.820 money that they might let you have back like it and i think that's one of the arguments and probably

00:51:44.200 one of the best arguments because i i had an argument with one of my former colleagues that

00:51:48.920 was you know he's a really smart guy but he was when i started getting into the crypto stuff he

00:51:53.000 was like totally anti like this is all garbage i don't know why you would ever do this this is

00:51:57.460 there's no reason why anyone would want bitcoin and i i went through all the arguments that 0.50

00:52:03.420 bitcoin advocates make and most of them he's like yeah that's bs no i don't agree with i you know

00:52:08.960 but when i got to how much of your money can you control that the government cannot take just

00:52:14.420 because they decide to right and and and the answer if you don't have any bitcoin is none

00:52:21.140 you know there's there's no money that they can't i mean unless you have cash like literal cash in

00:52:25.920 your house like that's the only alternative like if you have your money in a bank then the government

00:52:30.680 can seize it and there's nothing you can do to stop them and we saw that happen in covid

00:52:35.160 like remember that story of the gym that got closed down and they were resisting closing down

00:52:39.980 and they were sued and then they took all their money so they couldn't even defend themselves with

00:52:44.040 a lawyer like and they just said yeah we're just going to take all your money out of your account

00:52:48.040 like that's and so when you have your money in a bank it's like you're taking the risk you're

00:52:53.080 trusting that that bank's going to cooperate. And it's really more like it's their money

00:52:56.720 that they're, you know, maybe going to let you have back. And the other advice though,

00:53:03.060 that I would give to people, because obviously it's kind of impractical to say, well, you just

00:53:05.740 never use a bank. You know, some people are that extreme, but most aren't. And, but what I would

00:53:10.140 say is like, if you can go to a local credit union or a smaller bank or a community bank,

00:53:14.040 they're typically a lot better at all this stuff because they know you and they're not this mega

00:53:18.780 bank with this mega policy and all this stuff. And so if you can go to a smaller bank or a credit

00:53:24.420 union, you're going to avoid a lot of this trouble and probably a lot of the fees too.

00:53:30.080 So it's just much better and just get out of those mega banks.

00:53:33.500 Did anyone take advantage of Old Glory Bank? Remember Old Glory Bank? I think they

00:53:40.440 introduced that maybe during the pandemic. Yes, it's John Rich's bank, Old Glory Bank. So that's

00:53:46.860 one that just, I don't know, feels a little bit better. But find some smaller banks. It's so true,

00:53:54.520 you guys. And don't put all your eggs in one basket. And I can't give any more advice past

00:54:00.080 that, but just think about it. We need a Trump bank. No, I don't want a Trump bank.

00:54:06.360 Well, I mean, X money is coming apparently, supposedly. So I haven't gotten it yet, but

00:54:10.360 they're supposedly rolling out that X money thing, which is kind of like a bank too.

00:54:14.480 yeah we should talk about that one night too not on here because not everybody's on x but

00:54:19.960 that's interesting too so um although i feel like i i trust elon with my money more than trump right

00:54:26.540 now i don't know why i just do um so we'll see because i feel like elon's just like putting so

00:54:32.720 much of his own money into like try to save this experiment so i appreciate him a lot also i mean

00:54:38.500 he's he is one of the paypal mafia original guys right so he does have a lot of expertise at this

00:54:43.720 He sure does. One quick thing. I just want to play one quick clip about Zuckerberg and see if you guys have heard about this since we're kind of science-y AI right now. Give me one second.

00:54:57.420 meta taking a major step in open source artificial intelligence as ceo mark zuckerberg reveals a new

00:55:04.940 muse glimmer model it's set for release in the coming weeks he says this is the next piece of

00:55:10.480 his vision to make personal super intelligence available to everyone as zuckerberg also launching

00:55:16.060 a one billion dollar future is for everyone fund to invest directly in communities backing teachers

00:55:21.880 law enforcement, local infrastructure. Zuckerberg says he was inspired by teachers in Richland

00:55:27.380 Parish, Louisiana, who received bonuses thanks to the company's data center investment in that

00:55:32.640 state. Okay, one other quick clip just in case we missed anything real quick. Interesting from

00:55:39.900 Facebook's parent Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, laying out a essay with a vision for AI in a new piece.

00:55:47.840 It's titled, The Future is for Everyone, The Path to a Positive AI Future.

00:55:52.900 Zuckerberg is saying he's hoping that invention rather than automation can serve as the primary purpose of AI.

00:55:59.000 It's part of a larger theme he's been talking about, and a lot of the folks in the AI world have been talking about.

00:56:03.200 And he says that superintelligence is broadly distributed, or at least that's his hope, in order to empower everyday people.

00:56:09.360 We've had, obviously, a lot of backlash.

00:56:11.580 You've seen the booing at some of these commencement speeches and the like meta.

00:56:15.520 though, and this is maybe the most interesting part about it, announcing a $1 billion fund

00:56:20.800 aimed at investing in communities close to where the company operates data centers. So

00:56:25.240 there's going to become a pool of money and it will be called the future is for everyone fund.

00:56:31.500 It will be focused from what I understand on policemen and firemen and members of these

00:56:37.900 communities. So I don't know about you guys. I hate to be cynical, but once Zuckerberg

00:56:45.320 showed me who he is. I just have a very hard time believing in this about face he's done since he's

00:56:51.620 grown at his hair and started jujitsu and all this stuff. But Marcella, do you know anything

00:56:58.200 about this? I mean, I'm reading the comments and maybe it was Beverly. I'm sorry. I didn't see who

00:57:03.580 said it, but that they're just trying to make us like AI and like the data centers and like,

00:57:09.560 oh, look, it's bringing jobs and he's a good guy. I don't know. I don't know.

00:57:13.840 I mean, if he's investing this money into the data center area cities, I mean, I don't

00:57:21.200 see anything wrong with it.

00:57:22.400 Um, will it change the world?

00:57:24.560 Probably not.

00:57:25.600 Do not trust him, you know, but you know, if he's going to give teachers, law enforcement

00:57:32.480 infrastructure, he's going to make things better, you know, it doesn't hurt, but yeah,

00:57:38.480 don't trust your data with him and don't, you know, be skeptical.

00:57:42.320 but i mean if he's giving out money like like somebody like king randall imagine if he was

00:57:47.760 given like here's all this money do what you want with it as long as they don't control what you do

00:57:53.840 with the money after you receive it and they put woke like like uh parameters where like oh you

00:58:02.400 must have all this uh reading of trance things to kids and all these things you know you never know

00:58:09.640 But as long as the money doesn't have those parameters and you're able to, because imagine if like a King Randall or a Marcella would receive a billion dollars or an Erica or an Owen.

00:58:24.840 Owen, we have less than a minute, but what do you think about this plan?

00:58:29.120 well on the glimmer model i would just say i'm i'm all for having more open weight models come

00:58:34.400 out but i would say that if you want to be taking the other side of that it's meta's way of putting

00:58:41.780 their control essentially around what those models can do so you know like they can put guardrails

00:58:48.960 around it so it'll say no to you about certain questions you might ask or you know they can put

00:58:54.020 whatever bias or spin into that and so that's the risk is that if you don't trust meta or you don't

00:59:00.660 trust mark zuckerberg then you might not want to trust this model because it's going to be based

00:59:05.400 on whatever biases they decide to put in their products and whatever guardrails they put around

00:59:10.160 it to stop you from doing things they don't want you to do and i think that's one of the risk with

00:59:13.980 a lot of these big companies is that they they can kind of shape and control what people are able to

00:59:19.900 do with these models uh yeah exactly so they they have a stake in it they're like hey we're here

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01:00:33.460 told you who one is and we have a new guest coming on. So it's a busy week here at the Scott Adams

01:00:38.400 School. So you guys, let's always say thank you to Scott and Shelly for allowing this whole thing

01:00:44.620 to happen and to continue. None of us ever have a day, I'm sure, where we don't think about them.

01:00:52.540 And let's have a closing sip to our beloved Scott. I'm not going to play an Akira song today just

01:00:58.300 because we're testing something, but I'll stay for a few minutes and chat if anyone wants to hang

01:01:03.340 out. If not and you need to skedaddle, that's fine too. All right, guys, let's get out there

01:01:08.280 and be useful and go save some books, okay? Save some books. All right, you guys, to Scott.

01:01:14.620 Scott.

01:01:18.960 Your hair.

01:01:21.140 Owen.

01:01:25.540 It's not fair.

01:01:27.040 I want to have click on hair.

01:01:31.180 You can. 0.99

01:01:32.900 Oh, and they want an afro. 0.90

01:01:34.160 We can get wigs.

01:01:36.180 I don't think that would be smart.

01:01:37.880 I don't think that would be a good idea.

01:01:39.820 Why? 1.00

01:01:40.860 You could have an afro.

01:01:41.920 It's not racist or appropriation.

01:01:44.200 I think it's going to just going to create a meme metal hair.

01:01:48.600 I mean, if you want an afro, you can do it like you can do exactly what I just did.

01:01:54.240 No, I mean, with my picture, it's got spicy.

01:01:57.240 Oh, I gotcha.

01:01:58.640 OK, I are all right, all right, all right.

01:02:02.360 Oh, when we're giving you an afro, so we want to hear you, they send a blue.

01:02:08.360 Blue hair with tattoos like meth hair here by the neck.

01:02:13.220 oh my god this is what happens when we get off script we're like you need meth hair

01:02:18.920 a mullet they want it all vista hair i would call it mike brady oh my god mr brady hey mike

01:02:28.220 what was her name carol um all right you guys so owen we do have to get together and pick a day

01:02:36.960 for the bitcoin show yeah i'd love to okay so we will definitely owen and i will will chat about

01:02:45.760 that um i think bj wanted in on that too he knows about bitcoin i guess i know nothing um so we'll

01:02:53.280 do that and you guys drop uh drop us a dm or message us or wherever you get in touch with us

01:02:59.680 and let us know if there's any special kind of episodes you want on locals okay so we can do

01:03:05.280 those for you um and everyone who's listening on youtube or rumble join locals it's like a it's a

01:03:11.840 good time you don't have to watch it there every day you could still watch on youtube but then you

01:03:16.000 can come over to locals for the for the extras okay for extra credit all right you guys so i

01:03:21.920 guess we're gonna get off and running and um we appreciate all of you marcella you have a big

01:03:27.120 work day ahead of you big day big week ooh big week and owen good luck with your endeavors that

01:03:36.720 you're working on thank you yeah i appreciate it that hair i never want to see it again um

01:03:44.480 it's too desperate looking it's freaking me out um all right you guys so i'm sorry i can't even

01:03:51.680 like see the chat today it's all wacky i have like a deeper blue but that's good i do have a question

01:04:00.000 before we go you guys wait i have to turn off youtube real quick wait hold on youtube i love

01:04:06.160 you guys just hang on one sec it's x-rated what yeah okay so i think i have to wait what like 30

01:04:14.880 seconds um they seem to be gone oh just like that it's just us now rumble and locals no this wasn't

01:04:24.960 shady but we're just we're just rambling all right what was that on trump's hair right there

01:04:31.680 what is that little hair piece they put on him when i didn't see it there's baldo and um scroll

01:04:39.920 up in the chat does someone just post it because you triggered me into yeah right but uh mad seer

01:04:48.240 posted it in between mad seer and goldie so he would you guys what is it it's a very sexy time

01:05:00.320 isn't he 80 someone posts the picture again it's probably that little trump here it's like a hair

01:05:10.000 topper metal seer you posted it can you post it again it's so weird i saw him speaking on the

01:05:18.720 news the other day and i instantly was like what the hell do they put on his hair

01:05:23.200 oh my gosh you do have tattoos on your neck

01:05:27.200 oh jesus i just noticed the tattoo you asked for it i need a nose string

01:05:34.620 too no i don't think i'm gonna go with the nose ring hot now it's kind of there steven

01:05:41.280 lang just posted it marcella see it yeah i you know i think it's just his i don't know if he

01:05:48.660 grew it but it's if he grew it no but i think he he covers you know like the nope nope all spots

01:05:55.980 in the back with the longer hair in the front yeah that's not what this is no you think it's

01:06:01.940 like an actual toupee no i know it's like a hair topper and they need to take it off of him right

01:06:08.720 now he has enough money to put hair inside you know they they do have that well he needs to take

01:06:17.160 it off it's really freaking me out do you guys did you guys see it oh my god owen just turned

01:06:23.800 democrat film at 11 sjv said because of the trump hair he's like no i'm turning them a hair topper

01:06:33.540 it's like just like a it's almost like a little it's like a little animal hair topper it's not

01:06:41.060 animal it's just like a little piece of hair that they'll like pin into your head or whatever like

01:06:46.840 they put it on with glue almost sometimes um oh there's owen with it owen i mean he's 80 years old

01:06:55.400 right isn't he 80 now yeah but we're used to his hair don't suddenly give him full golden

01:07:01.280 lush hair fell off i don't know oh i hate it um anyway i had to i wanted to ask that but i didn't

01:07:09.600 want to be all public about it i don't know why so you guys send us topics that you want for locals

01:07:15.360 okay you saw biden's plugs up close in 1998 at a syracuse law school function holy crap it was

01:07:24.460 ugly and he says yeah but you guys did you ever see a person change so much in their appearance

01:07:31.460 like over four years as biden there was different guidance for sure what was tall biden i mean that

01:07:39.760 was wacky and that was obvious metal seer anyway embrace the baldness that would be interesting

01:07:51.260 having a bald president what was it remember like him with his hair slicked back it was so good i'm

01:07:59.420 like let's go yeah he grew like two feet sandy he came out he was like towering over jill he's all

01:08:06.100 like hey or or or the other people got shorter i don't know oh my god look at these pictures

01:08:13.260 of biden stop it that is not him on the right really well could that be aging though or botox

01:08:22.840 going wrong i don't know well you could clearly see his plugs on the left there's like little

01:08:28.060 sprouts nothing wrong with that you guys get do what you want but i will say i saw a story

01:08:35.140 recently i don't know how true it is but it sounds like they're thinking biden might not

01:08:38.980 have much time left oh i did see something about that doing pretty you know not doing so well with

01:08:44.260 this cancer right which you know you don't want anyone to be in pain no but i mean well you know

01:08:52.900 i don't wish badly on anyone even if i don't agree with them politically or think they did horrible

01:08:56.580 things but you know i i think we we've all been kind of wondering like you know scott obviously

01:09:01.620 had a pretty rapid development and he announced at the same time biden did and so we were kind of

01:09:07.940 thinking like what's going on here and so it sounds like it may be catching up to him yeah

01:09:13.620 yeah how old is biden now 95 95 he's he's old right like no he's not that old maybe he's like 82

01:09:23.500 i don't know i want to look it up so i'm just looking at all the pictures you guys keep posting

01:09:30.680 pictures i'm just watching it's too fun no we don't want pain for our enemies yes we do she says

01:09:39.240 well talk for your 82 oh he's 82 yeah he looks terrible 84. it's grok says he's 83 and he'll

01:09:47.480 turn 84 on november 20th oh november 20. erica you don't you don't think my hair looks natural

01:09:55.800 oh oh my god owen you need a a blonde beard yeah how about we do a show one day where marcella and

01:10:05.960 i also have pictures that would be so oh yeah that would be creepy there's a trump's hair

01:10:17.720 yeah he's always had this hair i like how we're all just sitting here chitty chatting like no

01:10:23.560 one has to go to work i do have to go soon but i did have a few minutes i figured i'd hang out

01:10:29.400 i know we're just like la la la i'm just very entertained by the chat um yeah listen

01:10:38.520 i don't want anything physically bad to happen to people like health wise and stuff like that but

01:10:44.840 But, ew, what was that metal seer?

01:10:49.020 Ugh.

01:10:51.200 Is that real?

01:10:54.100 I don't know.

01:10:55.540 I thought.

01:10:56.500 That looks real.

01:10:57.960 I thought the top left one when I scrolled by fast was like a, like a ball sack.

01:11:04.320 Oh my God.

01:11:08.440 I love that you threw in the Biden whisper for that.

01:11:11.880 because it's like a

01:11:15.600 ball sack

01:11:16.700 why did he whisper you guys

01:11:18.760 why did he

01:11:23.240 touch little girls

01:11:26.720 or sniff their hair

01:11:29.680 and why did people let their kids around him

01:11:33.240 I'm just asking questions

01:11:35.200 to touch his leg hair

01:11:37.200 apparently

01:11:37.840 the story came from his story yeah you said that story and then like the hair on my legs

01:11:49.860 oh my god he was a mess i says that though like just think about telling that story to people

01:11:57.580 how kids were touching your leg hair and he mentioned roaches and that kids like to sit

01:12:04.620 on his lap the pony soldier i liked look fat the best look fat what happened he like someone was

01:12:15.880 like debating him in one of his like campaign meetings or something and the guy was heavy

01:12:21.140 and he literally responds he says to the the guy biden says to the guy look fat you never saw that

01:12:29.120 i remember oh my god that was i think you might have been challenging him to a push-up contest

01:12:33.360 or something i don't remember yeah he said yeah he just said yeah that was his response he's like

01:12:39.840 look fat and like you know it just came out like obviously that's what he was thinking

01:12:44.980 and he just blurted it out metal seer 0.98

01:12:48.980 um yeah oh yeah and yeah i mean he goes and smart yeah what do you say about black kids being

01:12:59.720 smart poor kids are wait what is that gavin white kids yeah oh gavin too then he was

01:13:08.680 in george he might have said something like that but i think biden was the one that said poor kids

01:13:13.280 are as smart as white kids oh something wacky yeah holy cow like you couldn't make that many

01:13:20.440 blunders if you tried to make them oh you like but the left loved it he was it's so adorable 1.00

01:13:28.180 it's grandpa he he had a stuttering problem they always made excuses um yeah they always

01:13:36.260 made excuses the media is disgusting you guys um all right so i guess i guess i'll start the

01:13:43.460 goodbyes i'll be the one

01:13:49.140 they will kick us out well since you're the host i think you know that will probably mean

01:13:53.780 you know goodbye for us too so i'll go now you don't have to go home but you can't stay here

01:14:00.540 okay do whatever you want to do people all right have a good day everyone bye you guys

01:14:06.380 bye everyone bye marcella bye everyone no marcella wait she left

01:14:14.380 oh my god the baron trump is hilarious ah owen

01:14:19.580 Oh, all right. You guys love you so much. I'm going to go. I love today's show. I'm not going

01:14:25.180 to lie. I woke up in a funk and I was just kind of like, and then I said, you know what it was?

01:14:31.980 I can't, I can't stand the news right now. It's so depressing. You guys, I'm like sick of it.

01:14:37.780 So I was just like, can we please just do like news stories and things like that? And I mean,

01:14:42.660 science stories and AI and I think I needed a break. You know what I'm saying? You know what

01:14:48.580 I'm saying. So anyway, all right, you guys, thanks. Neon noodle. Thanks crusher. I am feeling

01:14:55.280 better. Honestly, like you guys all made me feel better. Oh my, that's special metal seer. All

01:15:01.480 right. So for real, goodbye, you guys. Love you so much. We'll see you tomorrow. Joel will be here

01:15:07.340 and, um, Brian Romley is coming on. I have a, I, my reason why I'm like hesitating is because,

01:15:14.480 I had Brian said Thursday work for him. And I forgot that I have someone scheduled on Thursday.

01:15:22.160 So I'm hoping I can move. How do I get tanned? I go out in the sun. Let's go. So that's how.

01:15:35.200 Oh my gosh. All right, you guys. Love you, love you, love you. And we'll see you tomorrow morning.

01:15:42.000 Okay. Bye guys.

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