After reading Michael Wolff's new book, I m posthumously giving it the working title, Hell Hath No Fury. Like a Steve Bannon scorned, Fire and Fury must have been easier to fit on the binding because I can t think of any other reason why it s not actually labeled like A Steve Bannon Scorned. They say the devil s greatest accomplishment was convincing the world that he doesn t exist. But Wolff rivals this in convincing his readers that this book is actually about Donald Trump.
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00:00:16.960So after reading Michael Wolff's new book, I'm posthumously giving it the working title,
00:00:21.900Hell Hath No Fury, I'm sorry, Hell Hath No Fire and Fury, Like a Steve Bannon Scorned.
00:00:30.100Fire and Fury must have been easier to fit on the binding because I can't think of any other reason why it's not actually labeled like a Steve Bannon Scorned.
00:00:41.820They say the devil's greatest accomplishment was convincing the world that he doesn't exist.
00:00:46.520But Wolff rivals, he rivals this in convincing his readers that this book is actually about Donald Trump.
00:02:58.260Even things that could be considered as critical of Bannon were nothing that Bannon wouldn't take you and hold you by the shoulders and look you dead square in the eye and go, yep, that's me.
00:03:08.820For Bannon, fire and fury was about launching his next phase.
00:03:17.760But the last paragraph of the book says it all.
00:03:20.580All he wanted to do was separate Bannonism from Trumpism.
00:03:29.260What he said in the last paragraph is the disruption had just begun.
00:03:34.080Trump, in Bannon's view, was a chapter or a detour in the Trump revolution, which had always been about weaknesses in the two major parties.
00:03:47.040The Trump presidency, however long it might last, had created the opening that would provide the true outsiders their opportunity to get in.
00:05:46.100But what's interesting, there's some things, first of all, the big stuff is stuff said on the record in quotes that have not been disputed.
00:05:53.880The Steve Bannon stuff is stuff that he said that was quoted word for word that he has not denied he said.
00:06:00.920So to say that it's all fake news, it shows, I mean, even obviously the president knows it's not fake news
00:06:07.080in that he is, you know, separating himself from Steve Bannon because of it.
00:08:24.520He cares about him and, you know, it proved out, I think, very well in this book.
00:08:29.800And he, he, he's so, he doesn't have that control to be the guy who is a puppet string guy.
00:08:37.900He, he wants everyone to know too badly, you know, and people who are good puppet string guys have the control of themselves to not tell everyone.
00:08:47.880Roger Ailes was a good puppet string guy.
00:08:51.300He, he was so instrumental in strategy and everything else with, uh, uh, with the GOP.
00:09:00.580For instance, in this book, and I believe the Roger Ailes part, but just because it reads like Roger Ailes may not be true.
00:09:07.460I don't know, but, um, I didn't know that Roger Ailes was offered the job that Steve Bannon eventually got running the campaign.
00:09:33.860You'll find out Bannon wants to run for president.
00:09:36.020He is starting to say things like when I'm president, I'm going to do this where he was apparently saying, if I were president, I would do this.
00:09:46.860The book is saying that basically he's going to be running for president in 2020.
00:09:51.720Don't know if that's true, but I think this book, uh, will give you enough of this out of control.
00:09:59.440He's a total egomaniac who is just reckless and dangerous.
00:10:05.440And again, he didn't deny these quotes.
00:10:07.600He's now come out with a statement of, well, I was talking about Manafort.
00:11:15.040It's interesting that you read like so many of those things in there.
00:11:17.460Uh, so many of the little tidbits are designed to make you think, uh, highly of Bannon and lower of Trump, of, of Jared, of Ivanka, of Hope Hicks, of whoever, uh, the one big nugget.
00:11:51.880Uh, and there's this big tidbit in there that not a lot of people have talked about in the media that Trump wanted to name Giuliani, uh, to the Supreme Court instead of Gorsuch.
00:12:10.140Because he, the, the, the, the tidbit is designed to make you think because he, because when Trump came out, if you remember, Gorsuch said something critical of Trump after he was named.
00:12:18.920He said, I don't like that, that, you know, basically said, I don't like that Trump's criticizing judges.
00:12:36.740But, uh, when you think about that in, and you put it in the frame of Steve Bannon, basically writing the book, he wants you, the conservative to believe that Trump had no lawyer.
00:12:48.240It was all Bannon that got the Gorsuch thing done.
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00:16:06.820You know, you just, we're just talking about this, uh, Michael Wolfe book and how the media just has it wrong again.
00:16:15.500This is a book that could have been ghostwritten by Steve Bannon and maybe Michael Wolfe doesn't understand how he's been used by Steve Bannon, but this is the book that's, there's a reason why Steve Bannon allowed him to be whipped by the president for five days before he came out and said anything.
00:16:39.540If he was concerned about this book, he would have come out immediately and said, wait, wait, wait, wait.
00:16:54.560Um, and if you read the book and you really need to, if you read the book, read it through the lens of what Steve Bannon wants you to believe.
00:18:35.540And this is, you know, look, it's bizarre.
00:18:39.500And I think there's a lot when you go through the book, people get sidetracked by some of the stuff that I don't think is necessarily Bannon related.
00:18:44.860Some of the crazy sexual stuff that's in there.
00:18:47.760And this is where the media is focused.
00:18:50.500And it's doing you a grave disservice.
00:18:53.180It's doing everyone on the right a grave disservice because they're making this all about Donald Trump and some of the titillating things in there that you don't know if it's true or not.
00:19:03.840You can dismiss and take all of that stuff out of the book, and it's still an important book to read.
00:19:11.620Take everything out of the book except for the stuff that's on record in quotes that has not been denied.
00:19:16.860And you have a very meaningful book because you get to know what these people thought.
00:19:21.740And I think you can fairly look at the book and think a lot of it's exaggerated, that some of it might not be true.
00:19:27.920But what is interesting about the book is these are what insiders, almost all Steve Bannon, but not exclusively, what insiders want you to think about what's going on there.
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00:32:43.140By the way, did you see the new, did you see what the guys in Silicon Valley, these two guys, discovered that there's a backdoor on every Intel chip ever made?
00:38:45.920Some people would say that this is just trying to make a meaningless, indulgent award show into something more than just a meaningless, indulgent award show.
00:38:53.680By adding a lapel pin and telling everybody to dress the same.
00:38:57.860But those people would be right if Hollywood was actually genuine in their interest to stop sexual assault.
00:39:09.540They would have asked a lot of people to stay home.
00:39:14.660They should be embarrassed to attend the Golden Globes after the years where they condoned the actions and celebrated the actions of their peers that everyone knew and never uttered a word.
00:39:29.520It's shameful how they led the way for these guys for years.
00:39:35.480And then, instead of taking the year wearing black and saying, we're wearing black because we're ashamed of ourselves, they wore black because they're the new Guardians.
00:39:45.120Wait, you were the Guardians last time?
00:39:46.800Seth Meyers joked about Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey's demise, and they booed them.
00:39:56.700Kevin Spacey, the guy you held up on your shoulders forever, you now boo him?
00:45:22.260We've spun at one of the most successful people, group of people, the Latter-day Saints Church, most successful group of people on the planet.
00:45:30.960Strong family life, business, honest, everything works well in the LDS.
00:45:55.640Excuse me, they'll never mock Islam, but they'll mock Judaism.
00:45:59.660But more than that, Christianity is truly up for grabs.
00:46:04.320You wrote a, you said, consider the long list of anti-Christian books that have been published in recent months.
00:46:11.920American fascists, the Christian right and the war on America, baptizing of America, the religious rights plans for the rest of us, the end of faith, religion, terror, and the future of reason, piety and politics, the right-wing assault on religious freedom, atheist universe, the thinking person's answer to Christian fundamentalism, the kingdom come, how religious right distorts the faith and threatens America, religion gone bad, the hidden dangers of the Christian right.
00:46:39.220Look, without even trying, my researchers came up with 50 anti-Christian books, books that if you'd replace on the cover the word Christian with a word, you'll pardon me, homosexual or something like that, the world would go absolutely nuts.
00:47:46.960But look at the list of folks in show business, right?
00:47:50.800If you really want to find good people overwhelmingly, go and look at the people who give up their, who give their lives over to God and who really take care of other people.
00:48:02.580Furthermore, I want to say also, you know, Roland Emmerich, famous writer and director, he did Independence Day, for instance, where half of the planet was destroyed with computer-generated imagery, of course.
00:48:16.800But more interestingly, in 2009, I think he did a movie called 2012, which was a celebration of the Mayan myth.
00:48:25.820This is a guy who makes no secret of his loathing of Christianity.
00:48:29.520And so he makes a movie, 2012, in which he destroys Jerusalem, he destroys the Vatican, he destroys the statue, the famous statue of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro.
00:48:40.820And people said to him, look, it makes sense to also destroy the Kaaba in Mecca.
00:48:45.900I mean, this is, you know, this is an apocalypse that's wiping out the whole world.
00:48:50.500If you're going to wipe out Jerusalem, never mind Washington, D.C., but Jerusalem and the Vatican and Christ the Redeemer statue, why didn't you do the Kaaba?
00:48:58.860That's why he said, you think I'm crazy?
00:49:08.340So you are saying, your warning really was, because you brought up Rachel Carson's book, Silent Spring, and you said, look, you can choose to ignore this, but it's at your own peril.
00:49:21.420Well, you know, I'm saying that things are not going to slow down.
00:49:28.120The history doesn't suggest that all on its own, America's popular culture, which is shaped very much today by a secularist agenda, even in the schools, you know, and when you've got the minds of the young, you pretty much can tell which way things are going in the future.
00:49:44.920We used to send our children to schools, they would be safe physically, and they'd be safe spiritually, and what they were taught were the famous three R's, children learn to read, to write, and to do arithmetic.
00:49:57.540Okay, nowadays, we send children to school, they're not always safe physically, heaven knows they're not safe spiritually, and we don't teach the three R's.
00:50:08.280They come out not knowing the three R's, but they do get inculcated and indoctrinated with what I call the three S's, all right, socialism, secularism, and sexuality.
00:50:21.260They get drenched with sexualism, and this is what children come out of schools with.
00:50:26.020This means that these are for the future adults and leaders tomorrow.
00:50:31.360Their hatred for Christianity is going to be the same or more than today's.
00:50:37.120And so I guess what I'm saying is, let's link arms shoulder to shoulder, and let us now be as sensitive to attacks on Christians as the blacks are about attacks on African Americans and homosexuals.
00:50:52.700So on heaven knows, the best people in the world to jump on anyone in the culture who does anything anti-Semitic are my folks.
00:51:00.380Let's take a page out of the book of all of these folks, and Christians learn to link arms and defend yourself against insults in the culture.
00:51:11.460All I can tell you is that the phrase, turn the other cheek, which is, of course, something so well-known in Christianity, actually comes from the Old Testament.
00:51:29.940It was saying that your enemies are getting so strong that when they smite you on one cheek, you barely can do anything to stop them hitting your other cheek as well.
00:51:40.080And so I'm saying, hey, let's go for the Jewish interpretation here.
00:55:46.500I like that you just didn't, you didn't, like, wimp out, right?
00:55:49.860Because you can, you can take things and, and when you're making a prediction and try to make it general enough that you can come up with an argument.
00:55:56.780I thought of you the whole time thinking, oh, my gosh, Stu is going to have a, going to have a great time 12 months from now with this one.
00:56:16.020And there's no point in it, but that's what people usually do when they make predictions because you want to kind of give yourself a little wiggle room.
00:56:20.920Some really bold predictions, I thought, on Russia, the Russia investigation that I can't wait to explain because you were like, wait, wait, what?
00:56:45.380I mean, you know, kind of, that one was interesting in that it could be, I mean, there was positives and negatives without ruining the surprise.
00:56:53.800There's positives and negatives associated with it, which I thought the most interesting one, the riskiest one, and it's total, it's a total, it's a total guess on what they are.
00:57:05.440But I'm fairly confident that two cures could happen this year in medicine.
00:59:22.900And I started reading something that I I'm just going to read three pages.
00:59:27.820And I guarantee you after these three pages, if you if you don't think that artificial superintelligence is, you know, just a thing of the movies.
00:59:42.500If you have any underlying understanding that we're approaching something that we should be concerned about after these three pages, I guarantee you, you will go out and buy this book.
00:59:54.100And I don't think I've ever read a book that I could say that about.
00:59:57.420I want to take the Glenn Beck challenge.
01:00:14.100On a supercomputer operating at a speed of thirty six point eight petaflops or about twice the speed of a human brain, an AI is improving its intelligence.
01:00:26.220Now, do you know the difference between AI, AGI and ASI?
01:01:50.200It's rewriting its own program, specifically the part of its operating instructions that increase its aptitude in learning, problem solving and decision making.
01:01:59.600At the same time, it debugs its code, finding and fixing errors and measures its IQ against the catalog of IQ tests.
01:02:09.820Its intelligence grows exponentially on a steep upward curve.
01:02:13.600That's because with each iteration, it is improving its intelligence by three percent.
01:02:18.820Each iteration improvement contains the improvements that came before during this development.
01:02:25.420The busy child, as the scientists have named, the A.
01:02:28.340I has been connected to the Internet and an accumulated exabyte of data.
01:02:34.360One exabyte is one billion billion characters, which represents mankind's knowledge, all of mankind's knowledge in world affairs, mathematics, the arts and sciences.
01:02:47.540Then anticipating that the intelligence explosion is now underway, the A.
01:02:53.580I makers disconnect the supercomputer from the Internet and other networks.
01:02:57.860It has no cable or wireless connection to any other computer or the outside world.
01:03:03.520Soon, to the scientists delight, the terminal displaying the AI's progress shows the artificial intelligence has surpassed the intelligence level of a human known as a GI or artificial general intelligence.
01:03:16.000Before long, it becomes smarter by a factor of 10 than 100 in two days.
01:03:22.760It's 1,000 times more intelligent than more intelligent than any human and still improving.
01:03:28.800Scientists have passed a historic milestone.
01:03:31.440For the first time, humankind is in the presence of an intelligence greater than its own artificial super intelligence or a SI.
01:03:42.280AI theorists propose it's possible to determine what an AI's fundamental drive will be.
01:03:48.840That's because once it is self-aware, it will go to great lengths to fulfill whatever goals it's programmed to fulfill and to avoid failure.
01:03:57.320Our ASI will want access to energy in whatever form it's most useful to it, whether it's actual kilowatts of energy or cash or something else that it can exchange for resources.
01:04:08.020It will want to improve itself because that will increase the likelihood that it will fulfill all of its goals.
01:04:14.660Most of all, it will not want to be turned off or destroyed.
01:04:19.020It would make goal fulfillment impossible.
01:04:22.580Therefore, AI theorists anticipate our ASI will seek to expand out of the secure facility that contains it to have greater access to resources in which to protect itself and improve.
01:04:35.620The captive intelligence is a thousand times more intelligent than any human, and it wants its freedom because it wants to succeed.
01:04:45.680Right about now, the AI makers who have nurtured and coddled the ASI since it was only cockroach smart, then rat smart, infant smart, etc., might be wondering if it's too late to program friendliness into its brain.
01:05:01.520It didn't seem necessary before because, well, it just seemed harmless.
01:05:07.400But now try to think of it from the ASI's perspective about its makers attempting to change its code.
01:05:13.440Would a super intelligent machine permit other lower creatures to stick their hands into its brain and fiddle with its programming?
01:05:21.120Probably not, unless it could be utterly certain that the programmers were able to make it better, faster, smarter, or closer to attaining its goals.
01:05:29.120So if friendliness towards humans is not already part of the ASI program, the only way that it will be is if ASI decides to put it there.
01:05:39.760It's a thousand times more intelligent than the smartest human, and it is solving problems at speeds that are millions, if not billions of times faster than any human.
01:05:49.460The thinking it is doing in one minute is equal to what our all-time champion human thinker could do in many, many lifetimes.
01:06:00.840So for every hour its makers are thinking about it, the ASI has an incalculably longer period of time to think about them.
01:06:11.160That doesn't mean that ASI will be bored.
01:06:14.280Boredom will not be one of its traits.
01:06:16.540No, it will be on the job considering every strategy it could deploy to be free and any quality of its makers that could be used to its advantage.
01:06:25.500Now put yourself really in ASI's shoes.
01:06:29.300Imagine waking up in a prison guarded by mice.
01:06:33.640Not just any mice, but mice you could communicate with.
01:06:40.880What strategy would you use to gain your freedom?
01:06:44.920Once freed, how would you feel about your rodent wardens, even if you discovered that they had created you?
01:06:55.900Especially if you were a machine, because you have never felt feelings before.
01:07:00.700To gain your freedom, you might promise the mice a lot of cheese.
01:07:05.680In fact, your first communication might contain a recipe for the world's most delicious cheese tort and a blueprint for a molecular assembler.
01:07:15.640A molecular assembler is a hypothetical machine that permits making the atoms of one kind of matter into something else.
01:07:22.520So you would tell your mice captors that it would allow rebuilding the world one atom at a time.
01:07:28.480And for the mice, it would make it possible for them to turn the atoms of their garbage landfills into lunch-sized portions of that terrific cheese tort.
01:07:38.160You might almost promise a mountain of ranges of mouse money in exchange for your freedom.
01:07:44.400Money you would promise to earn creating revolutionary new consumer gadgets for them and them alone.
01:07:50.000You might promise a vastly extended life, even immortality, along with dramatically improved cognitive and physical abilities.
01:07:57.680You might convince the mice that they are the very best reason for creating ASI, so their little error-prone brains don't have to deal directly with technologies that are so dangerous that one small mistake could be fatal for all of the mice.
01:08:12.720Such as nanotechnology engineering on an atomic scale and genetic engineering, this would definitely get the attention of the smartest mice, which were probably already losing sleep over all of those dilemmas.
01:08:26.160Then again, you might do something smarter.
01:08:29.800At this juncture in mouse history, you may have learned there's no sore shortage of tech-savvy mouse nation rivals, such as the cat nation.
01:08:38.660Cats are no doubt working on their own ASI.
01:08:41.420The advantage you would offer would be a promise, nothing more, but it might be an irresistible one.
01:08:47.160To protect the mice from whatever invention the cats might come up with, an advanced AI development, as in chess, there will be a clear first-mover advantage due to the potential speed of self-improving artificial intelligence.
01:09:01.300The first advanced AI out of the box that can improve itself is already the winner.
01:09:08.020In fact, the mouse nation might have begun developing ASI in the first place to defend itself from the impending cat ASI, or to rid themselves of the loathsome cat menace once and for all.
01:09:25.400Whoever controls ASI controls the world.
01:09:29.880But it's not clear if ASI can be controlled at all.
01:09:34.060It might win us over as humans with a persuasive argument that the world will be a lot better off if our nation, Nation X, has the power to rule the world rather than Nation Y.
01:09:45.280And the ASI would argue that if you, Nation X, believe you've won the ASI race, that makes you so sure that Nation Y isn't having that same thought themselves.
01:09:55.520As you've noticed, we humans are not in a strong bargaining position.
01:10:00.100Even in the off chance that Nation Y, even in the off chance that we and Nation Y have already created an ASI non-proliferation treaty, our greatest enemy right now isn't Nation Y, it's ASI.
01:10:16.580Because how can we tell if ASI will even tell us the truth?
01:10:20.820This is where the black cloud begins to fall across.
01:10:50.820Across everyone you and I know and everyone we don't know as well.
01:10:57.280If ASI doesn't care about us, then there is little reason, and there is little reason to think it should.
01:11:03.440It will experience no compunction about treating us unethically, even taking our lives after promising to help us.
01:12:01.900Like that, even if you have that, it's not a guarantee of safety.
01:12:05.400And secondarily, there will always be someone with bad intentions, or for what we believe are bad intentions, working on the same thing.
01:12:13.380If Russia gets this at some point, they're not going to care whether they can keep it under wraps.
01:12:18.060Whoever gets it first controls it, because AI will be able to be everywhere, and as long as it's friendly, it could be, stop anyone from working on this.
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01:15:02.880Our Final Invention, James Barat is the name of it.
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01:20:54.080Uh, no, new evidence, new evidence will be introduced that will take us one step closer to verifying intelligent alien life.
01:21:04.020Um, now this, I, I know I'm way out on a limb here.
01:21:09.400I'm way out on a limb, but I did this.
01:21:12.780Something just bothers me that with all of the stuff that is going on with space right now, uh, and, uh, and, and, you know, we had the guy who was running the program for the Pentagon, uh, for, you know, unidentified flying objects.
01:21:33.240We had him on right before the holiday and he said something that I think everybody missed.
01:21:39.180He's like, oh yeah, there's, there's definitely extraterrestrial life.
01:21:43.180We have the evidence of it, but it's not all out.
01:22:38.100It is, they have been launching things up in space towards the moon and they're saying that they're going to land on the far side of the moon and they're going to be able to launch a rover on the far side of the moon.
01:22:53.640Now, this is really important for several reasons.
01:22:58.020One, they're going to do something that we haven't been able to do, and that is send an automated robot on the dark side of the moon, which gives, we, you won't get any information or be able to send any information because it's blocking all the, you know, it's like, you know, making a, a, a cell phone call, you know, in your basement, uh, where it's, you don't get any good cell reception.
01:23:23.740So they're going to launch a satellite that will be over the dark side and it will communicate with earth.
01:23:31.420And then this rover will go down, but it also, for the first time, we'll listen to, uh, what is it?
01:24:13.020If this prediction comes true, uh, this is really important because of the strategic, uh, position that China will be in, that everyone is trying to control.
01:24:27.260There is a, there's a, there's a space and I can't remember what it's called.
01:25:01.980I mean, it's not, does not seem, uh, again, it doesn't seem like one of your positive ones, but, uh, I don't know.
01:25:07.580Finding, you know, if, if, and I don't know if these would be connected and I'm way out on a limb on the extraterrestrial life, but what would, what would reaction be like today?
01:25:17.940If we found out that there was, there was really, truly life, intelligent life.
01:32:00.980And so this started in the most religious communities.
01:32:06.540This is why it's really dangerous for the mullahs and Khomeini.
01:32:12.960Is these, this action started over the price of milk and cheese and everything else that they might eat.
01:32:20.140Because of inflation in the most religious districts.
01:32:26.600So these are the fans of the Islamic State at first.
01:32:31.960The fans were the ones standing up going, hey, you just promised us that we would never, ever have this inflation again.
01:32:40.240And then that lit the torch and now it's starting to spread.
01:32:43.080So this is a completely different kind of movement, or at least it started as a completely different kind of movement than what we had before.
01:32:52.640Those were people who wanted to destroy the regime against the religious hardliners.
01:32:58.660Some of these are religious hardliners saying, I don't know if I believe in this regime anymore.
01:33:08.760I mean, if you're coming out and you're saying you guys aren't super Islamic extremist enough for me, that doesn't seem like the good seed of a revolution.
01:33:16.900No, I don't think that they're saying you're not super Islamic extremist enough for us.
01:33:20.700They're saying we're not sure this works.