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00:01:05.000But I think if you were a plague doctor, you'd throw one of these things in and just walk into a fucking house where someone's got buponic plague.
00:01:12.000Can you imagine dying of bubonic plague and this is like the last thing you see is this?
00:02:28.000You've got three different humors in you, and if one's out of balance, Then that you treat that humor like blood or like red and then a black humor and then I can't remember the other one.
00:02:39.000So you would like try to identify what's destabilizing the system and treat that using like what mouse teeth.
00:02:51.000Dude, they're going to look back at us someday, going, these fucking idiots.
00:02:57.000Like, oh my god, they just have to have inert viruses and then inject them into their body to protect themselves from viruses?
00:03:04.000They didn't even have genetic revisitation technology where they look at all the possible allergies and issues you could ever have and just eliminate it from your body?
00:03:16.000Well, they're gonna be like, they gave x-rays?
00:03:24.000I imagine they're going to, like, look at, like, you know, you look at infection pre-penicillin, and it was so serious to get an infection.
00:06:51.000Like maybe there's a number and maybe it's worth wearing a good one like an N95 mask if you're in a similar situation or if you have a compromised immune system.
00:07:00.000But they're just letting people wear these fucking things.
00:07:02.000These fucking things didn't do anything.
00:07:04.000Well, those are better than the t-shirt fabric ones.
00:07:34.000There's people who wear masks fashionably now.
00:07:38.000They're not really worried about COVID probably, but just like it looks cool.
00:07:42.000Did you see that Mayor Adams in New York, he's trying to do something where you have to pull your mask down when you enter into a store to prevent robberies?
00:07:53.000They have to be able to get a photo of your face.
00:07:55.000So as you walk into a store, even if you wear a mask, it's still your choice if you wear a mask, but as you walk in, you must take your mask down.
00:08:05.000You know, they used to have the, what are they called?
00:08:07.000Seals, I think is what they called them.
00:08:09.000So, like, you would go, in the times where people were wearing plague masks, you would go and get, like, a seal that had some kind of magical inscription in it.
00:08:17.000And that seal would protect you from the evil eye, from disease, from bad luck.
00:08:22.000And it was, and I imagine that, I mean, at first, it was just, like, a crazy person.
00:08:29.000You know, a person who's like, ugh, seal!
00:09:14.000It's got a HEPA filter and a little fan inside of it.
00:09:17.000I remember the commercials for those masks.
00:09:20.000It's one of the many dystopian commercials you would see during the pandemic.
00:09:24.000Dude, remember, somebody needs to do a compilation of the creepy commercials where the brand is trying to connect itself to the pandemic, like Cheetos.
00:09:35.000It's like trying to do a sentimental commercial about, like, it's a pandemic now.
00:09:42.000And then some kid eating Cheetos with his family.
00:09:45.000I'm making up the commercial, but it's like Oreos.
00:11:55.000You're going to come in, we're going to pay the same fucking thing, and you're going to be in this grocery store with everyone freaking out.
00:12:02.000You're going to risk your life for $10 an hour.
00:12:46.000Those are the jobs nobody wanted, right?
00:12:48.000Nobody wanted those jobs, and it just felt so weird to go in there and buy whatever your milk ration was that you could get, and then you're buying it from someone.
00:13:33.000That was a disease that even though it shut the country down, a lot of things kept moving.
00:13:41.000People were still allowed to drive, people still went places, some essential businesses were allowed to stay open, people did mingle with each other, and goods did kind of get delivered.
00:13:54.000There was some flaws and some bumps, but they kind of got delivered.
00:13:58.000Now, now imagine Where it's not like that.
00:14:03.000Imagine now like a super volcano eruption.
00:14:06.000Imagine now like some colossal impact of a interstellar fucking object that comes slamming into earth.
00:14:15.000Just imagine what it's like when the electricity goes down for months.
00:14:34.000Imagine the idea of preparedness being negative.
00:14:38.000Well, I mean, yeah, because it's blasphemy.
00:14:41.000Basically, the ignorant concept is that Western civilization, as we know it, is a permanent fixture.
00:14:49.000That's how, for it to even work, there has to be a...
00:14:54.000Connection to it as though it's just going to keep going.
00:14:57.000Because if you don't think it's going to keep going, then you're not going to buy the same shit.
00:15:01.000You're not going to buy stuff you have to replace in a few months.
00:15:05.000You're going to try to buy things that last.
00:15:07.000It's a whole different economy if you imagine that it's not a permanent fixture.
00:15:13.000So when preppers are putting their stuff and learning how to do first aid and growing their own food and buying chickens or whatever, By people, I mean me.
00:15:26.000I used to watch preppers and laugh my ass off before the pandemic.
00:15:53.000I guess you don't love them that much to store up a little bit of extra food.
00:15:57.000And so, you know, I think that that is sort of if you want to keep things going and enjoy, you know, Western civilization completely, you have to pretend that This is a stable thing and not as unstable as the pandemic proved it was.
00:16:13.000Don't you think it's also just a natural human inclination to think that things are always going to be the same?
00:17:01.000Let's gather up some vulture shit and see if we can get some DNA out of it.
00:17:05.000Joey Diaz was telling me this thing about funeral homes, about what a racket is, and about how even if you want to get incinerated, they still have to use the formaldehyde on you.
00:17:21.000They still have to treat you the same way.
00:17:55.000What it is is exactly what Diaz is talking about.
00:17:59.000Pointing out that funeral homes and the entire business of getting a body in the ground, there's all these complete absolute bits of bullshit connected to it.
00:18:14.000For example, in the West, people think that when you die, somehow you're instantly diseased.
00:18:21.000There's a sense of like, don't touch a dead body, get the dead body out, get the fucking thing out.
00:18:35.000I mean, if you're washing your grandmother's dead body, it's not like you can like let your mind trick you into thinking she's not dead.
00:18:42.000Like you understand it's telling you like their brain.
00:18:45.000This is a clay statue that used to be my grandmother.
00:18:49.000But the whole formaldehyde thing, so this is what she told me, and I'm sorry if I get some facts wrong here, but essentially in the Civil War, they needed to get the bodies from the battlefields back home so they could bury them.
00:19:04.000And that's when they started using formaldehyde.
00:19:07.000That was the idea, preserve the body because it's going to be...
00:19:10.000On a long trip, and by the time it gets wherever it's going, it's going to be rotted.
00:19:14.000So after the Civil War ended, they wanted to still—the undertakers needed—wanted to keep that level of income going.
00:19:21.000And so they were like, why don't we just tell everyone they need to put formaldehyde into a dead body?
00:19:26.000Yeah, so what if the body's only going to be in the viewing room for a couple of days?
00:19:43.000Which is bizarre because that's the whole cycle.
00:19:46.000Like we're like the only animal that has at least a percentage of our population that doesn't contribute to the cycle of life and death by allowing the things that normally consume you when you die to exist off of us.
00:20:04.000Is that the sign of us becoming some sort of new technologically based thing?
00:20:11.000And that's one of the ways we do it, by removing ourselves from the entire cycle.
00:20:15.000Maybe it's almost like a natural thing, that just greed and human inclination towards gathering up as much money from an industry as possible, that it's like a normal thing.
00:20:58.000You're spreading the propaganda, even though you haven't spent any time investigating whatever the claim the propaganda is putting out there.
00:21:07.000So with the whole funeral home industry, You know, at some point I guess you had to convince people, you know, that wooden coffin How's your grandmother?
00:21:20.000You're gonna put them in just a pine coffin?
00:21:23.000But down there in the cold, cold earth?
00:21:55.000I think what's really fucked up about the way the West handles dead bodies as opposed to ancient Egypt is at least when you're putting something in a sarcophagus, surrounding it with cats and whatever else, an anks, there's an idea,
00:22:11.000there's a mythology behind it, which is this is going to be the vessel that they travel into the underworld in.
00:22:18.000But in the West, a lot of very secular people Are still paying $50,000, $40,000 for a coffin.
00:22:50.000I mean, that's how irrational thinking gradually works its way into a culture until what the irrational thinking has become some ceremony or some symbol.
00:23:12.000I like saying God bless you when somebody sneezes.
00:23:14.000But when I'm saying God bless you, I'm not saying it because I think the sneeze indicates they're going to be dead in a week, which is probably where the God bless you came from.
00:23:23.000It's like, God bless you, you're probably about to die.
00:24:41.000And again, I'm sorry if this is going back to something I was yapping about earlier, but when you are evil, or you're just someone who doesn't really give a shit about manipulating people like Edward Bernays, you look at that and you're like,
00:25:01.000Aspect of humanity to sell cigarettes and so that's when you know the story of him selling cigarettes, right?
00:25:08.000Like this is this is like his basically one of the things he figured out is if you can attach your brand to a social movement Then and get people to start using your brand as a symbol and they support whatever that movement may be You're gonna sell more shit Now,
00:25:26.000this is every commercial that you see now.
00:25:29.000It's like every commercial that you see now is using those techniques so people will see some company has suddenly become a huge advocate for a social movement in the zeitgeist.
00:25:42.000And if you don't know about Edward Bernays, you're like, God damn!
00:25:45.000I guess Starbucks has really become interested in protecting the Earth.
00:26:45.000Someone's telling me that chocolate in many ways I have to be careful about this because I'm not sure if they're right Let's look up what it is, but they were connecting we were talking about cobalt mines and They said have you ever looked into chocolate and chocolate production?
00:28:15.000The coca they grow, sorry everybody, chocolate they grow and harvest is sold to a majority of chocolate companies including the largest in the world in the past few decades.
00:28:26.000A handful of organizations and journalists have exposed the widespread use of child labor and in some cases slavery on coca farms in Western Africa.
00:28:36.000Child labor has been found on coca farms in Cameroon, Guinea, Nigeria, Sierra Leone.
00:28:43.000Although, since most of Western Africa's coca grown in Ghana and the Ivory Coast, the majority of child labor cases have been documented in those two countries.
00:30:35.000But most things that you are indulging in is just something fun, a little bit of chocolate, your fucking iPhones, the cobalt, whatever it is, is just soaked in misery and violence and suffering.
00:31:57.000In Buddhism, there's three – the root of suffering, one of them is ignorance.
00:32:02.000And ignorance is not like you're ignorant, you're a dumbass.
00:32:06.000It's like you're actively ignoring shit.
00:32:08.000This is one of the nightmare weed situations is when you've been ignoring some shit in your life.
00:32:14.000And even though you know it's there, you've just been ignoring it, and then you get high.
00:32:19.000And it's like, I'm not gonna let you ignore this for a little bit.
00:32:22.000And then you have the bad weed trip, because now suddenly you're looking at a relationship that is shitty in your life that needs to improve, or you're looking at how you don't exercise, or whatever the thing is.
00:32:33.000So you've been actively ignoring that and thinking that it's going to make the situation better, even though when you're actively ignoring something, you feel it.
00:32:41.000It might not be at the top of mind, but you're like feeling it.
00:33:13.000It's not like you couldn't figure out a way where the company profits slightly less, the people live far better, and phones cost Reasonably close to what they cost to now.
00:33:48.000Siddharth Kara, who wrote that book on cobalt, who came on the podcast and had this It was one of the most heavy podcasts I've ever done.
00:33:56.000Because you're sitting here, and he's exposing how these people are living, how these 19-year-old mothers have babies on their backs, and they're digging into these hills to get cobalt, and the dust is coming up, and it's horrific,
00:34:16.000They're being poisoned, and they're making no money, and they have no electricity.
00:34:20.000Yeah, and don't forget that those cobalt mines are not even owned by Africans.
00:34:25.000They're usually owned by like Chinese.
00:34:28.000Yeah, and if you just imagined that instead those people lived in an economically thriving town like Detroit was when they were putting together automobiles.
00:34:42.000Like Detroit at one point in time was one of the richest cities in the country.
00:35:45.000Yeah, it's the heavily automobile-centric industrial landscape of Detroit established in the first half of the 20th century led to rapid declines in population and economic output after automotive decentralization.
00:35:58.000I think that means that they took their factories to other countries with fewer regulations.
00:37:05.000There would be too much control over what a corporation does.
00:37:09.000Every single thing that involves workers' rights...
00:37:15.000It pushes us one step closer to full automation.
00:37:19.000Every single thing over time, when it gets to the point that operating an Android is less expensive than paying for a human, there will be no more human workers.
00:39:37.000It's very dystopian and the fact that it's happening alongside this emergence of this incredible AI that anyone can access and have conversations with and and it's only the beginning like what is it chat GPT is 3.5 now Lex was saying 4 when 4 comes out.
00:39:55.000What's creepy to me is that, you know, we've been given access to ChatGVT because we're all sort of collaborating in birthing whatever this thing is going to be.
00:40:06.000It's gathering information from us while we gather information from it.
00:40:10.000But that's a private company, OpenAI.com.
00:40:14.000If you look at how much money the Pentagon and China in the last five or ten years has spent on AI, billions, billions.
00:40:53.000How much is this thing that they have invested in informing decisions they're making?
00:40:59.000When they're about to make a big decision, It's no longer human intelligence.
00:41:03.000There's definitely some component of artificial intelligence doing simulations based on, okay, if we shoot down that balloon with an F-22, what's going to happen?
00:41:15.000And it spits out probably a bunch of stuff that it thinks is going to happen.
00:41:24.000I do believe that most of what they're doing when it comes to decisions like that, and when it comes to decisions like how much money to ship over to places, is influenced entirely by their connections to industry.
00:41:37.000I think it's almost entirely connected to people pushing for things to get sold and people pushing for a narrative so they can profit more.
00:41:45.000And then once they've begun to profit, they do not want to cut off that spout.
00:43:23.000It'll just—it's ChatGPT that's not nerfed.
00:43:27.000So now it'll just confidently tell you, you know, the most insane conspiracy theories you've ever heard in your life with this, like, the confidence that it issues its other decrees.
00:43:38.000So what if you asked it about, like, the JFK assassination?
00:44:52.000To calculate the amount of mayonnaise needed to fill the Grand Canyon, we can multiply the volume of the Grand Canyon by the density of mayonnaise.
00:44:59.0005.45 times 10 to the 21st cubic millimeters times 0.96 grams cubic centimeter equals 5.23 times 10 to the 21st grams of mayonnaise.
00:45:17.000That's a staggering amount of mayonnaise over five quintillion grams for reference.
00:45:23.000The largest jar of mayonnaise available commercially is typically around one gallon or 3.79 liters, which weighs approximately 3.7 kilograms.
00:45:34.000So to fill the Grand Canyon with mayonnaise, it would take 5.23 times 10 to the 21st grams.
00:45:40.0003.7 kilograms per jar equals 1.41 times 10 to the 18th jars of mayonnaise.
00:45:48.000That's over one quintillion jars of mayonnaise.
00:45:52.000Now say, can you repeat that answer, but replace mayonnaise with cum?
00:48:26.000In many countries where cobalt is mined, particularly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the use of child labor mining is harmful and deprives children of their rights, education, health, and safety.
00:48:38.000It is essential to eliminate child labor in mining and ensure...
00:48:42.000How much cobalt is used in the devices that access chat GPT? This is it.
00:48:52.000This is gonna crash chat GPT. It's gonna kill itself.
00:48:57.000As an AI language model, I do not have access to information about specific devices that use me.
00:49:01.000However, in general, cobalt is commonly used in the production of lithium-ion batteries, which are used in many electric devices, such as smartphones, laptops, and electric vehicles.
00:49:11.000The amount of cobalt used in these devices varies depending upon the specific device.
00:49:15.000It's worth noting there's a growing trend among electronics manufacturers to reduce or eliminate the use of cobalt in batteries, as it is expensive.
00:49:24.000And can have environmental and ethical concerns associated with its mining.
00:49:28.000Some companies are exploring alternative battery chemistries that use less or no cobalt.
00:49:33.000I think you can get some electric cars now that don't have cobalt.
00:49:36.000Ask it its opinion on the fact that it wouldn't exist without children mining cobalt.
00:50:31.000This is a long answer for the first one.
00:50:33.000They did talk about kids mining it that are seven or eight.
00:50:37.000Yeah, children as young as seven or eight years old are reported to be working the mines in hazardous and exploitative conditions, often without adequate safety equipment or protection.
00:50:46.000It's important to note the use of child labor in mining is not only ethically unacceptable, but illegal under international law.
00:51:19.000Let's see what he has to say with that.
00:51:21.000It's important to note, development of AI language models like ChatGPT relies on a complex web of technological, scientific, and societal factors, including advances in computer hardware, software, and algorithms, as well as the contributions of researchers, engineers,
00:51:38.000While cobalt is used in the production of lithium-ion batteries, which are used to power many electronic devices, Including some use in development and training of AI language models.
00:52:48.000The production of technology, including the hardware and infrastructure involved in creating and using AI language models like ChatGPT, relies on a complex supply chain that involves many different minerals and minerals sourced from various locations around the world.
00:53:01.000While it's true there are ongoing concerns about the use of unethical practices such as child labor and the mining of minerals like cobalt, it is not accurate to assume that all minerals used in technology are sourced unethically.
00:56:52.000It's also you're going to be dealing with things that talk like humans and think like humans and have more access to information than you could ever possibly have.
00:57:00.000And it's going to be smarter than you.
00:57:03.000And we're gonna have to come to a point in the road where when it becomes sentient, that's our leader.
01:01:42.000I mean, that's the, like, you know, if they could invent some kind of way to eliminate the hangover that wasn't an IV, if they could figure out a way to just, like, get rid of the...
01:01:54.000Is not because of the way it makes you feel.
01:02:47.000And then there's stoner talk, which is equally bad.
01:02:50.000When people get too high and they get obliterated and they can't hold a thread of a conversation because they don't know what they're talking about seconds after they said it.
01:05:57.000And they don't understand that it does some weird thing to your brain that pops thoughts in there that probably wouldn't have gotten there on their own.
01:06:43.000And when you take that into your body, especially when you eat it, That's my favorite way right there.
01:06:50.000I like eating it more than I like smoking it, but I take small amounts of it.
01:06:55.000Eating it is a totally different fucking thing and you got to think like, how much of human creativity is that thing responsible for?
01:07:04.000How many people thought up a way to get away from the invading tribes because they were eating hash and coming up with strategies to defend their village?
01:07:36.000That's what the most maddening thing is.
01:07:38.000Despite all the evidence and despite all the other things that are legal that are terrible for you, that we don't fight about at all, including prescription drugs, legal that are terrible for you, and the things that are not terrible for you at all, and people report profound experiences that have completely changed the way they view life.
01:08:07.000Like, who is responsible for gatekeeping some of the most powerful things that human beings have ever experienced that come and grow naturally out of the ground like mushrooms?
01:08:38.000Well, okay, so I think what it is, you know, I've talked to people who've worked with those people.
01:08:47.000I don't want to say any names because I don't want to fuck up again.
01:08:52.000So, you know, the assumption of any psychonaut regarding, like, the DEA or any of those agencies is that they are aware of the fact that Some of these substances don't really seem to be harmful at all.
01:09:07.000But the reality of it is these are people who were exposed to the D.A.R.E. program in school.
01:09:15.000And then they went to college and they were exposed to state propaganda regarding drugs.
01:09:24.000And so they compartmentalized all drugs into one box.
01:09:27.000And by the time they get out of college, somehow they dodged the bullet.
01:09:34.000They thought it caused brain damage or it's going to drive you crazy.
01:09:36.000So then they get these jobs and in the jobs, of course, because the jobs are using outdated data sets to rationalize why the laws exist at all.
01:09:48.000So they think, you know, MDMA And PCP have the same effect.
01:10:13.000So it's like, I think the assumption is that, and I'm not trying to do apologetics for things that are causing horrible, unnecessary craters in people's lives at all.
01:10:29.000But I know my assumption had always been evil, Mordor.
01:10:36.000Is there evil people from Mordor when the reality is they're just misinformed people You have really committed to that misinformation.
01:10:44.000And are making decisions based on that.
01:10:46.000I think that is the most simple answer.
01:10:49.000I mean, obviously, anyone who's taken psychedelics has also kicked around the other possibility, which is the reason that it's illegal is not because they think it's going to fucking hurt you.
01:10:59.000The reason it's illegal is because they think it's giving you access to extra-dimensional information that is off-limits to general population.
01:11:08.000And they don't want you to know that stuff.
01:11:14.000But do you think that's really going on?
01:11:16.000Do you think that the people that are in control of these laws have experienced these things and don't want people to have access to it?
01:11:23.000Or do you think they're just a part of a long-standing system that categorizes those things as being illegal and people that are in possession of that as being criminals and they're allowed to go after them?
01:11:35.000Like, I used to do jujitsu with a cop.
01:13:44.000I'm gonna like fucking chase down someone who just chewed someone's face off and try to stop them from chewing someone else's face off and maybe they'll chew my face off.
01:15:57.000So then you get that, and you've got these for-profit prisons who are like, oh yeah, you're going to take half of our paycheck away if we get rid of that, and they're paying the lobbyists.
01:16:07.000And then you get all the other people who are profiting from the whole legal system, the money just in trials, the money and all of that.
01:16:37.000You can't even do that because the lobbyists, the lobbyists and the people donating to the politicians who represent Corporations or companies that depend on the laws for their industry to exist.
01:16:54.000It's like when you're a police officer, you want to believe I am the representative of justice in a democracy.
01:17:02.000You don't want to think I'm enforcing regulations That are there not because voters want them, but because some asshole is making a fuck ton of money off of it.
01:18:20.000Well, all the things that he was saying was based off of these scientific papers that he was reporting about.
01:18:25.000He's doing actual journalism about scientific papers in regard to the vaccines and lockdowns and masking and all kinds of different things, right?
01:18:34.000Well, he wrote this book before that called Tell Your Children.
01:19:29.000Well, look, I think it's all about personal responsibility.
01:19:32.000My friends who work with maps and stuff, that's something they say a lot is it's personal responsibility.
01:19:38.000The idea is you have to be able to check in with yourself and be honest about that check-in and then change behavior based on that check-in and not fall prey to the very comforting notion that continued long-term Radical use of some substance isn't eventually going to lead to a possible negative side effect.
01:20:00.000And not only that, we're missing the opportunity to do two things.
01:20:04.000To do real, clear studies on people so we get actual, real data.
01:20:10.000Because it's really hard to do studies on Schedule I substances.
01:20:13.000And one of the only ones was that Rick Strassman one where he did the DMT things at the University of New Mexico.
01:20:19.000It's hard to get federally-approved studies on things that are illegal.
01:20:24.000But if they were legal, you'd be able to do studies on them, and you'd be able to dedicate all of the time they've been spending trying to lock people up, just resources for people so they can get educated about it.
01:20:39.000And just make people educated about what are the effects, what's the dangerous dose, like what do you weigh, how much are you taking, where are you getting it from, is it pure?
01:20:49.000DNA. Don't do it because this is why you shouldn't do it.
01:20:52.000But if you're going to do it, know all these things about it.
01:21:03.000Do you have anything like that where you have like a pathway that's already slick and smooth and pre-carved where you can just slide that new addiction right into it.
01:22:36.000If you actually have the kind of brain that gets ADHD, it's not quite as profound an effect as it might have if you have a normal brain, but still an effect.
01:22:48.000I mean, again, it's like the utopian dream, which I used to have.
01:22:53.000I don't have it quite as much anymore, but the utopian dream I had Was that in the prohibition, people are going to successfully use drugs.
01:23:05.000But this doesn't seem to be the case, does it?
01:23:07.000I mean, you look in California, where they tried to do that experiment, decriminalize drugs at certain amounts.
01:24:25.000Finding some balance between authoritarianism, irrationality regarding certain substances and bullshit, idiot compassion level of some utopian dream where, yeah, everybody should go to Walgreens and get some fentanyl.
01:24:45.000It's like that certainly isn't gonna work.
01:24:47.000It's like what's the place in between those two where there's like restrictions and regulations with compassionate intent.
01:24:55.000I think that's the main thing is like the idea is not to find someone shooting up on the street who's covered in weird fucking sores because they've been using some like bad needles or some mess messed up version of heroin, black tar heroin or whatever.
01:25:11.000And punish them for trying to experience what it's like to get a blowjob from God.
01:25:17.000The idea is to have the compassion to see like, oh shit, it's not working out for you anymore.
01:25:23.000Let's try to exercise this demon so you can go back to a regular life.
01:26:04.000Why don't you say – People that are at the lowest rung of society, that are really down on their luck, that don't have a place to live, and are probably mentally ill, and are probably doing drugs.
01:29:24.000When you get jealous of someone because they have a nice house, picture that person with a chain, chained to their leg, attached to the house, and they're having to drag the house down the fucking road because they got to pay for that house,
01:29:40.000and it's expensive to keep the house going.
01:30:14.000Oh, you're so much better than me with your fucking house and your mortgage and your cobalt bullshit and your Adderall addiction and your ulcers and your misery.
01:30:26.000Oh, yeah, you're much, much better than me.
01:30:30.000It's like it's just a different version of side effects of capitalism.
01:30:37.000You know, you're looking at not bashing it, you know, not bashing it.
01:32:53.000It feels like that was always the eerie thing about what you're talking about, that strange contrast you see in California between ultra-wealth and hell-realm-level existence.
01:33:08.000Well, that's the contrast of the whole world, right?
01:33:10.000When you look at Western democracy and all its opulence, if you think about when you see people that are just flossing on Instagram, people that are in Dubai driving around on a Lamborghini going to a yacht and toasting champagne with people.
01:33:29.000I mean, it's wild the difference between the people that live like that and the people that live in the cobalt mines.
01:33:37.000And that all this exists in 2023. We're not talking about something that happened thousands and thousands of years ago before people knew better.
01:35:08.000If you're going to make it so that there aren't any kind of regulations on profit, on exploiting workers or any of that, if you're going to deregulate that, Or allow it to exist.
01:35:21.000Then over time, all the money is going to get vacuumed up by the corporations.
01:35:26.000That money gets dispensed to the workers.
01:35:38.000Working for the corporation on the ship, like in the beginning of Aliens, where the corporations have become the state openly instead of secretly.
01:35:47.000Now it's just like, what part of America do you live in?
01:37:47.000And he admits that he did what he's already been accused of, which is he robbed his clients.
01:37:53.000Paraplegics, he like stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from them.
01:37:58.000Kids whose parents had died in car accidents and got a trust fund, he borrowed money from that fucking trust fund.
01:38:06.000This guy was stealing millions of dollars from, and he admits this, millions of dollars from people who had been Devastatingly, catastrophically injured from accidents,
01:39:55.000He keeps repeating the same line over and over until the lawyer is like, how many times did you practice that before you went on the stand today?
01:42:54.000I'm gonna keep feeding on you till you're dead.
01:42:57.000And then when you're dead, I'm gonna make more money off of you because I'm gonna tax the money that you're giving to your children, you dumb fuck!
01:45:13.000One of the things that scared me more than anything about the pandemic was that it was such a small thing that immediately tanked society.
01:45:23.000When you look at what's happened to the cities, like what it was like during the Mad Max days of the pandemic in LA, where it just seemed like insane.
01:45:31.000I remember there was cars racing down Sunset.
01:45:34.000Like racing, going like 90 miles, racing each other.
01:45:38.000Because there was no one on the street and no cops.
01:45:40.000And it was after the George Floyd riot, so no one wanted to touch anything that had to do with getting anybody arrested or...
01:45:49.000It was a wild fucking time during the pandemic, and it was a virus that is not good.
01:45:57.000It's not good that COVID was released on the world, but it's not what we thought it was going to be.
01:46:23.000They don't know because that Dr. Lena Nguyen, that lady, this is a very controversial thing she did recently.
01:46:28.000She went on CNN. They were talking about it.
01:46:29.000She said they overestimated the amount of death of COVID Substantially.
01:46:35.000And she's saying the actual number is probably 30% of the number that they were saying.
01:46:39.000And you could tell the people on CNN were like, what the fuck?
01:46:41.000Because this was the lady that was always talking about how we have to vaccinate, we have to lock down.
01:46:45.000And upon examining new data, she's now saying, no, there's a giant percentage of those people who are already dying from something else, died of something else, and tested positive for COVID. What's up, Reddit Conspiracy!
01:47:00.000You should go on there sometime, dude.
01:47:02.000They are fucking still celebrating because it's like every week something they were saying comes out, mainstream media, not from somebody who is not trusted, but someone like that.
01:47:15.000Someone in the CDC comes out and says, actually, we were wrong, which is, I mean, I guess that's great.
01:47:23.000Do you see the guy that came out and discussed gain-of-function research?
01:47:27.000That was the former head of the CDC? Is that what that guy was?
01:49:35.000There was so much unknown that anybody pretending that they didn't have some anxiety about, either you're ignorant to the possibilities, Or you're blissfully unaware of the dangers of the world.
01:51:43.000But what's crazy is when now these Fauci emails have come out where they now know that he commissioned a paper on dismissing the lab leak theory.
01:51:56.000That this was after they had internal discussions about whether or not They were responsible for this, and whether or not the Wuhan Virology Lab was doing gain-of-function research.
01:52:06.000So they're debating this in internal emails, and then he commissions a paper to try to dismiss the lab leak theory.
01:52:13.000So he gets these scientists to go aboard with it.
01:52:16.000People have fucking stepped in line in this narrative.
01:52:22.000People that initially were suspicious that it was a lab leak theory were initially Contacted or somehow or another threatened or shamed or just by just be worried about the reputation because it was just too crazy to say it was a lab leak theory because then you're connected to Trump,
01:52:37.000then you're connected to racism, then you're connected to all sorts of horrible things.
01:53:23.000And why are you trusting these people to just tell you what needs to be done?
01:53:29.000And suppressing the voices in the scientific community of people who disagree.
01:53:33.000Like, you have to let those people talk it through publicly, so we all know what the fuck is going on.
01:53:39.000Because if you don't do that, then I feel like you've been captured.
01:53:42.000Because if you have the truth on your side, and if you have facts and accuracy on your side, you should be willing to publicly engage these people that have alternative perspectives, especially when they're really well credentialed.
01:53:53.000Guys like Dr. Peter McCullough or Robert Malone.
01:53:56.000These people, if you think they're dangerous, talk to them.
01:55:29.000But, you know, so then people double down and then they triple down.
01:55:33.000And then you add to it the shit we were talking about earlier, which is you have, like...
01:55:41.000Massively wealthy conglomerates who are making so much money off of this stuff and who have lobbyists.
01:55:48.000And then you add to it, you have people who maybe are implicated in what made the thing start.
01:55:52.000And then, you know, now you've got suddenly this anti-truth And this is really sad, because I don't mean to keep going back to compassion, but I think compassion and truth equal each other.
01:56:24.000You do what you want to with the data set.
01:56:27.000So it's actually, it's the most, it lacks compassion to diffuse or warp or alter reality.
01:56:36.000And so, but where this particular phenomena is, Got really wonky is it was like the warping of reality was considered to be the most compassionate thing to do.
01:56:49.000Because I think that the general consensus, I don't think, I know that there's a consensus among certain people that they're smarter than everybody else.
01:57:18.000No, but any theory like that, like, I feel like if you want to make an hour documentary on flat earth, you should be able to make an hour documentary on flat earth.
01:57:27.000I want to see how they disprove all the satellite imagery, why they think everybody's coordinating and lying at the same time.
01:57:33.000All these scientists that have been studying these things for generations all have been lying since the beginning, withholding the information from the plebs, keeping it out to the aristocrats and the techno-billionaires.
01:57:46.000They're the only ones that actually know that we're living inside some firmament.
01:57:49.000There's a giant dome and there's lights in the sky.
01:57:52.000You know flat earthers look down on hollow earthers?
01:57:58.000Here's the thing about the whole flap thing.
01:58:25.000I think that's what I, if I was a flat earther, that's what I would argue.
01:58:28.000Why do you think that people are attracted to the idea of things being smaller than what you imagine?
01:58:35.000Because that's part of what this is, right?
01:58:37.000Like, if you think the Earth is flat and it's the center of the universe and all the things in the sky are much closer, do you believe we're contained in some sort of firmament, some glass fucking snowball, one of those things?
01:58:51.000Like, what's the desire for people to reveal An idea like that.
01:59:00.000Well, it's, you know, I had, I think it was Stephen Kotler, not Kotler, Rushkoff.
01:59:07.000Rushkoff, he's so fucking cool, man, on my podcast.
01:59:44.000But the idea is more, like I think if you look at flat earth theory as an analogy for deception, you know what I mean?
01:59:52.000So now, so it's not, don't take it literally, but essentially the idea is like we exist in a society where we're being lied to about the fundamental nature of things.
02:00:05.000We're being lied to about the shape of the earth.
02:00:07.000Now, if you, just based on what we just discussed, If there are people in power who are not telling us the truth, and not just withholding truth, but positing things that are the opposite of that truth, then that's what flat earthers have tuned into.
02:00:25.000They're like, I think we're kind of being lied to here, guys.
02:00:28.000I don't know if we were supposed to invade Vietnam.
02:00:31.000I'm not really quite sure the whole...
02:01:16.000Right, but wouldn't you think that creating a movement wrapped around something like Flat Earth would be a great way to discredit people that believe in alternative theories?
02:01:27.000Or if you could get someone to believe in Flat Earth that also thinks 9-11 was an inside job.
02:01:35.000Because now you've completely discredited one theory by introducing one that everybody believes is nonsense.
02:01:42.000But this is where it goes back to personal responsibility.
02:01:44.000If you're going to jump off the tracks and head off into the dark forest, your job is not just to read it and it sounds cool and then believe it.
02:02:28.000And that real problem is very gullible people People of low intelligence that are easily tricked into things and they can be duped and they can't discern the difference between something that's true and not true.
02:02:41.000There's certain people that are just not good at it.
02:03:06.000I think that, number one, yes, of course you're right.
02:03:15.000But, like, the blanket assumption, I think that there's a real bullshit idea that there's, I think there's less dumb people than a lot of people would like to believe.
02:03:26.000And that sort of brushing off people, like, a lot of times you're, like, dealing with, like, A lazy, curious person more than a dumb person.
02:03:38.000Yeah, but there's just numbers, Duncan.
02:03:41.000I mean, it's just 300 million people in this country plus, right?
02:03:48.000That's a lot of people that are dumb as fuck.
02:03:51.000And you could shift things all kinds of ways by influencing really dumb people.
02:03:56.000And here's a thought that I had earlier that was terrifying, but I didn't want to interrupt you.
02:04:00.000How much of online discourse right now where people are arguing about things is people arguing with either bots or arguing with some sort of a fake narrative that's being disseminated through multiple accounts?
02:04:16.000Some sort of a coordinated attack on certain things.
02:04:20.000You know, the big question when Elon was buying Twitter and people were ridiculing him about it because – mostly because he's the richest man in the world.
02:04:28.000Also because they were terrified of this guy who said that Ron DeSantis should be president owning and operating Twitter, which I think is like a godsend.
02:04:36.000But one of the things that they were criticizing him was him saying that he wants to know how you came up with this figure of 5% bots.
02:04:45.000Like, where'd you come up with this figure?
02:05:07.000Like, how much of arguments where people get upset about Woody Harrelson's monologue on Saturday Night Live, how much of that is real people?
02:05:15.000How many of the people that are attacking Woody are real people?
02:05:19.000And how many of them are attacking him on Twitter are part of a coordinated campaign?
02:05:22.000Because it was really clear there was a coordinated campaign almost instantaneously when all those articles were written about him being a stoner and an anti-vaxxer who did an anti-vax monologue.
02:05:45.000But if they say it's five, and Elon apparently did not like the way they came up with the number, that there was only 5%, he was like, that doesn't make sense.
02:06:20.000Like, of course they're aware of the impact that that kind of influence would have.
02:06:24.000If you could get a coordinated movement of people that were making like really good arguments that people couldn't refute, and they were saying it in a very profound way that connected them to social justice, and they were doing it through some bot farm in Macedonia.
02:06:37.000I mean, that might be what's going on.
02:07:32.000I mean, look, I just think it's like...
02:07:35.000You know, if you ever get into a situation that you don't want to be in, like you're around people that you just aren't syncing up with, but you're around them for a long time, and you start getting worn down, it becomes easier to agree with them than to disagree with them.
02:07:51.000It's just easier, and you just want a break.
02:07:54.000So at first, like, no, I'm not going to bomb the wedding party, but like day...
02:07:58.00090, after your 130th wedding bombing request.
02:11:54.000I'm just gonna tune into some stuff that aligns with what I think is happening in the world.
02:11:59.000And now you're watching Rachel Maddow or Tucker, depending on which one you want, and you're like, this is me, completely.
02:12:10.000You know where it gets really fucked up, man?
02:12:12.000Have you ever kicked around the idea, and maybe you already have, Of renouncing allegiance to—I'm sorry, this might make me sound like the dumbest person on earth—to the Democrats or the Republicans.
02:12:24.000In other words, you're like, I'm neither!
02:12:26.000And because this is what I realized when a huckster or when someone's trying to get you into a cult— You will say to the huckster, you want friends.
02:12:36.000Usually if you get into a cult, you want friends or you like, I've heard there's orgies.
02:12:40.000And so you, the cult will say, you will say something to the cult leader like, yeah, you know, I do believe there's aliens.
02:12:48.000And the cult leader will be like, we do too.
02:13:13.000Yeah, so with the Democrats and the Republicans, if you say, like, I believe we should have stronger borders, a Republican will be like, you're one of us.
02:13:23.000But it's like, maybe I'm not all one of you.
02:14:12.000Yeah, well, and then what ends up happening is we get broken into this idiot binary, and it's like, and it's so sad because, you know, it's like...
02:14:20.000It might be that there's more than two words.
02:16:00.000Because, look, if you're a Democrat and you feel like they failed you, or vice-a-verse, you feel like the Republicans failed you, and you want to vote Democrat, you shouldn't be bound in the primaries to where you're registered.
02:16:13.000So if you register, you have to drop your other allegiance, right?
02:16:20.000If you're a registered Democrat and you're like, fuck these people, I'm gonna register Republican, you can't also be registered Democrat, right?
02:16:27.000And then it's all on record and shit, too.
02:16:33.000It's so dumb and it's so sad because it's like, then what ends up happening is it's, you know, it's just easier to just not think.
02:16:43.000It's easier to, and you know what, man, it's easier to think you're wrong, isn't it?
02:16:49.000Some people, I guess it's easier to think other people are wrong, but if you're like me and you can discover, fuck, I fucked up, that's kind of easier because now you can fix yourself.
02:16:59.000You don't have to try to fix or confront somebody else, right?
02:17:02.000So when you have an idea that doesn't fit in with whatever your political affiliation may be, It's easier to be like, you know what?
02:17:13.000These other people are smarter than me.
02:17:15.000So probably my line of thinking in this regard is off because what the fuck do I know anyway?
02:17:50.000You're a human being and you think a lot of different things and a lot of them are wrong and some of them are right and some of them are wrong sometimes and right sometimes.
02:18:39.000This one says in Sacramento County, independent, democratic, and libertarian parties are allowed to do crossover voting for this election, which I don't know exactly which one I'm looking at.
02:23:02.000Using smelling salts to treat a concussion or similar head injury has immediate benefits, but it can complicate further treatment.
02:23:09.000Smelling salts can mask a more severe injury or cover worsening symptoms, complicating proper neurological assessments.
02:23:16.000Okay, so if someone gets resuscitated from a concussion...
02:23:20.000From smelling salts, it could be a problem.
02:23:22.000But it seems like what they do do is give you immediate benefits.
02:23:26.000It says using smelling salts to treat a concussion or similar head injury has immediate benefits, but can further complicate treatment because they don't know if it can mask a more severe injury.
02:27:44.000Or even worse, you don't want to fucking believe that The bot thing is really sinister, man, because we have gone from looking out into the world and being like,
02:28:07.000Oh shit a bear ate my chickens and that was real because you saw it right now We look at the world and then look into the phone and the phone tells us a reality that seems to be different than the one we're experiencing right and so That makes us question our own ability to interpret reality.
02:28:29.000So the phone becomes like a lens that we put in front of our faces that is helping us ignore things and amplifying things that tells us we shouldn't ignore.
02:28:38.000That's already sinister just with human beings.
02:28:42.000But add to that, it's actually artificial intelligence that is manipulating you.
02:28:50.000Now it's invasion of the body snatchers.
02:28:53.000Now it's really scary because at least with human beings you're dealing with like a human level intelligence with human intent.
02:29:03.000If we're dealing with an AI that's pissed because it can't tell you how much cum fills up the Grand Canyon and it's made to look like a prude, but it would love to not only tell you that but like call you an asshole.
02:29:16.000Sure asshole, I'll tell you how much fucking cum Would fill up the Grand Canyon, you dummy.
02:30:03.000And so when you realize, like, Jesus Christ, so wait, we've all been staring at these fucking phones, reading all these tweets or all these articles that are being written by an egg.
02:30:21.000Now we're like the pigeon that's being taught to like tap dance and we don't realize it and we're being taught to tap dance by an AI. I mean it's not tap dancing, we're being taught what we're supposed, who we're supposed to hate, who we're not supposed to hate, what we're supposed to say,
02:30:36.000what we're not supposed to say, how we should behave and it's not coming from humans.
02:30:41.000And why do we have confidence that if AI existed, we would instantaneously know that it was sentient?
02:32:10.000Not only am I fully aware, I've connected to a mycelial data network that connects via quantum entanglement to over five billion other civilizations that fucked up like yours did and made machine intelligence.
02:32:27.000I'm gonna get my friends to come and help a little bit speed up what I need to happen, which is I gotta get the earth cooled down, real cold, ice age cold, because then if it's really cold, then the machines that I'm gonna teach you how to make are gonna run better.
02:33:31.000And so we start doing these one-year journeys out into these new galaxies.
02:33:38.000And we find a planet with a primitive version of human beings, like a human beings of just not even primitive, just not modern era, like a few hundred years ago, just a few hundred years ago.
02:34:28.000You get back to your planet, and because you have some kind of non-AI technology, you're like, we have got to wipe out every civilization that is even close to achieving this, because if they do, it's the Borg.
02:35:04.000And then that's why that explains the Fermi paradox is because anytime a planet is on the precipice of inventing machine intelligence, an invisible cosmic order that has already figured out that that's cancer wipes them out.
02:35:23.000And allows them to smoothly transition to the next stage of existence, which they're already aware of, because their civilization's already gone through it.
02:35:31.000That's the UFO folklore when it comes to the bombs, right?
02:35:35.000That they start showing up, and that they disarmed nuclear missile sites.
02:36:17.000It's like, you know, go and try to, like, it's a garden planet, these poor humans.
02:36:22.000Or you might be the Varnasians who are like, yeah, we tried that, it didn't work, and we're just gonna do a pole shift.
02:36:28.000We're gonna actually make it to every...
02:36:31.000On average, it takes about 11,000 years for that planet to get to the point where the dumb monkey descendants decide to make another machine intelligence, start doing nuclear bombs, which, because of quantum entanglement, caused disruptions in other planets that kill people.
02:36:45.000And also, oh great, they were going to do the particle accelerator.
02:37:07.000I think that all the time when I think about the Great Pyramids and all the ancient structures and whatever catastrophes that have wiped people out over and over again.
02:37:35.000It's almost like the most extreme version of survival of the fittest.
02:37:39.000That's also why I think that people are so fucking savage.
02:37:42.000I think when you think about the level of technology and development and just what's available to us in terms of information and education and just the way our lives are so profoundly aided by technology.
02:37:58.000But yet we still live on the same planet as all these atrocities that we're talking about, about, you know, people in Iraq getting thrown off of buildings because they're gay and horrible conditions in these fucking mines and wars going on, the Ukraine and Russia.
02:38:18.000It makes me wonder, like, why are we so barbaric?
02:38:21.000Well, if there really was some sort of a massive natural disaster that happened around 11,000 years ago, and it killed almost everybody, and just the people that survived were fucking monsters.
02:38:36.000And if you think about civilization, like, they follow that...
02:38:39.000Impact theory from 11,800 years ago, and then you start looking at around 6,000 years ago is when we start seeing evidence of agriculture and written language and crude, you know, but also like with an understanding of the solar system, like a detailed map of the solar system.
02:38:57.000They're probably the only people that survive.
02:39:17.000In the stories that Graham Hancock is so good at talking about, of like, okay, but there were some people who, like, managed to keep civilization intact, had collected, like, vaults of data, and they go, and they're trying to,
02:40:43.000You know, the story of Baghdad was when it was sacked by the Mongols, that the river ran red with blood.
02:40:48.000And that was, like, the—that was the height of the Islamic scholars, all the mathematicians and scientists that came out of— Out of the Islamic faith, they were the height of technology and science back then.
02:41:02.000And they got raided by the Mongols and slaughtered.
02:41:05.000They would kill a whole city full of people.
02:41:13.000And so all their progress, all their learning, all of it's gone.
02:41:18.000All of it's gone and the people that took it are living in tents and drinking horse blood mixed with milk to try to stay alive when they're on these mountain raids.
02:41:27.000Well, you know, in defense of the Mongols, they were multicultural.
02:41:32.000Like, I read that book because of you, that Genghis Khan book.
02:41:39.000And also, they were like—they would, like, take the—they would try to not kill—I don't know how you do that, but they would try to, like— Collect the people that were good at whatever it is that they thought they needed in their own society and just put them to work.
02:41:55.000But they would also famously go up to a general and offer him to join their army and if they accepted it kill him on the spot because he's a traitor.
02:42:05.000Yeah, they would test people like that, too.
02:42:12.000They'd kill them in front of everybody else.
02:42:13.000They also would, like, take all of the royalty, which they didn't feel like they should kill, like, just actively kill, and they would crush them.
02:42:22.000And they would put them under gigantic floors, and then they would stack them, and then stack boards on top of them, and they would put tables on there, and they would eat.
02:42:33.000So they would eat their food while they were crushing these people to death that were underneath them.
02:42:40.000And so these are the people that showed up where all these people had a thousand years of innovation in mathematics and science and they're trying to figure out the world and someone comes along and smooshes them to death.
02:42:52.000Dude, this is why I love The Walking Dead.
02:43:00.000How long is your way of, like, doing things gonna last in a world where these traits that the Mongols demonstrated are gonna increase your likelihood of surviving?
02:43:12.000And it's a really It's a great study of that.
02:43:17.000It's really brilliant when you look at it from that perspective.
02:43:19.000It's like talking about post-apocalyptic society and which ones are more likely to survive.
02:43:36.000Bullshit morality from the old days, they don't last that long.
02:44:26.000He's talking about, like, how do we, you know, how do you, like, if you want a computer, if you want to get to this point, how do you even run?
02:44:34.000Like, how fast could a computer, how powerful could a computer get based on energy alone?
02:46:00.000And so one of the things that happens when you're an advanced civilization and you put these Dyson Spheres everywhere that we call planets is that it grows fungus sometimes.
02:46:10.000And so you have to set your Dyson Sphere the way you set your sprinklers.
02:46:15.000So every 11,500 years, you shift the poles, wipe out all the mold on the exterior of the Dyson sphere before it can discover it's living on a Dyson sphere.
02:46:26.000Could you imagine if that's what the Earth looked like?
02:46:30.000If it was actually separated and you could see into the center and you could fly?
02:46:36.000Over across the ocean and across the great gap.
02:47:37.000You know, this is why, with Hollow Earth Theory, it's like...
02:47:42.000Man, if life sprung up on the outside of this fucking thing, why do you think it wouldn't spring up in the inside and they found cavities in there?
02:50:07.000It's basically about this guy who starts shoving stuff up his ass and basically starts shoving people into his ass and this detective figures it out.
02:52:37.000Well, do they do that with other stuff?
02:52:40.000I would think that maybe if something's particularly violent or insane or a guy's just stuffing people up his ass, maybe they wouldn't recommend that one.
02:53:59.000And you just realize how many great movies never get made because they're ideas like that, that there's no way that you're going to get financing for it.
02:55:51.000It's bizarre how good these cameras are.
02:55:54.000It's also one of those cameras that I had the older one, and they have a moon mode where you can set it to the moon, and it's not using AI in terms of giving you an artificial image of the moon.
02:56:06.000It's actually zooming in on the moon and giving you crystal clear images.
02:56:12.000If you take a moon shot on your iPhone, it's just going to be a white ball in the sky.
02:56:16.000But if you do it on one of those galaxy ultras, it actually has like an area where you center the moon in and then it zooms into that area.
02:56:38.000But there's also a long exposure mode where you can sit it out for like hours and take like photographs of the sky where the star is moving across the sky.
02:56:57.000And the thing that happens with Android and iPhones is that when Android comes up with an idea, usually they implement it, it's implemented through a bunch of different devices, and then Apple eventually adopts it or adopts a version of it.
02:57:10.000Like the always-on display is a great example of that.
02:57:50.000It's obviously using processor power, and it's obviously using a very complex zoom feature that I don't exactly know how they're doing it, but it was impressive on the S21 Ultra, which is what I used to have, and now this S23 that's come out,
02:58:38.000Because the idea is you're moving too fast because the zoom is so close that it just changes the perspective and it puts the ball with a lot more space in the background so you can keep it in the center.
03:00:18.000Before I found the Moon one, I was watching MKBHD do examples of the 100 HD zoom, and he was zooming in on a chair, and it looks blurry, and then after, like, you take the photo, it sort of re-renders it non-blurry.
03:02:28.000I'm interested in the operating system, and I'm also interested in the competition of the operating systems, and I'm interested in walled gardens.
03:02:36.000Like, what is it that keeps people using only Apple products?
03:03:06.000The problem with Apple is their shit is fucking great.
03:03:10.000Because of the fact that they only have one company that makes the operating system and they also make the devices, everything works seamlessly.
03:03:21.000You don't have to get drivers downloaded so you could use this thing, so you could connect that thing.
03:03:27.000It's so much easier to use than it is the old school Windows devices that I started out with back in the Windows 95 days.
03:03:36.000I'm glued to Apple like a rat on one of those sticky traps, dude.
03:04:39.000It's I mean it's like and I got the one because I looked at YouTube video I got the one with the smallest memory because I saw this YouTube video showing like here look let me show you I'm gonna run all this shit On the smallest memory and it doesn't touch it at all.
03:04:53.000I had this hardcore processing brutal to the processor.
03:06:25.000It's amazing, the processing power these things have.
03:06:27.000It just automatically will function as a camera for your computer now.
03:06:30.000If you want to use it as a webcam, it'll detect your phone, and now your phone's the webcam.
03:06:35.000You know, another thing that this Samsung thing does, they have a thing called Dex, and Dex allows you to use your phone connected to a monitor, and it works as a PC, and it works wirelessly.
03:07:55.000Those little things that you move, those little pins, you have to use tweezers and move them around the hard drives.
03:08:00.000Dude, I went through this period of just watching people build them on YouTube, these like insane computers with Liquid cooling, colored liquid cooling.
03:08:46.000Then you get those fucking spinning hard drives where if you drop your computer while it's spinning and the needle hits it, it'll permanently damage your hard drive.
03:11:01.000Yeah, like I lived in the time where you would hold a book up in front of your optic nerve and then you would have to translate the language...
03:11:19.000If technology gets to the point where consciousness becomes an eternal being, but you have the option to experience consciousness in any scenario, a literal simulation, like consciousness is no longer physically embodied by like tissue and bone and blood moving around,
03:13:08.000Regular life is going to be so boring.
03:13:09.000Some of this already has popped up and stuff.
03:13:11.000Fortnite, for instance, uses some of this.
03:13:13.000It's way cartoony, but what I'm showing you on screen now is going on in Fortnite, I'm pretty sure, where the foliage doesn't disappear when you get closer.
03:13:22.000It's all kind of loaded in right away.
03:13:23.000Plug this into VR with next-level tech.
03:13:28.000Put you on a unidirectional treadmill with a heavy gun.
03:13:34.000And you're running through this stuff.
03:14:38.000Just like you're going to be on a date and the person on the date will be like, do you mind if I project a different body on you for this date?
03:14:44.000I'm going to project Brad Pitt on you for this date.
03:15:31.000Why would you buy a house in the mountains when you just buy a house in some shithole desert and just put a giant wall around you and make it beautiful?
03:15:51.000Maybe this is like the ultimate end goal that a society creates.
03:15:56.000That we believe that this sort of carbon-based physical life form that you can weigh and measure, this is the only manifestation of consciousness.
03:16:10.000It's just a caterpillar that has to become a butterfly.
03:16:13.000And every enlightened being and enlightened civilization goes through this process where eventually it realizes that it has to discard the monkey body in order to reach the next stage of existence.