00:03:13.000And the only statement he's released is written, so many people think he's actually dead.
00:03:18.000Without confirmation, I guess the West's play is just to call him gay so that the people of Iran are like, I don't want to follow that guy, which is honestly kind of clever.
00:03:40.000And then I actually think substantially more interesting is that Cuba's power is completely out.
00:03:44.000Their grid has failed totally, and the U.S. is about to come in and, quote unquote, save them.
00:03:51.000So it looks like Cuba's going to be falling back into the Western fold.
00:03:53.000If this plays out, sanctions will likely be lifted and trade will be normalized, which all in all, I think, is actually a good thing coming off of what happened in Venezuela.
00:04:01.000And then, of course, the escalation of the war in Iran.
00:04:04.000And then Megan Kelly upset that Macro Levin has a micropenis and they're fighting about it.
00:08:43.000Actually, there's been intelligence going back for quite some time that this dude might be gay.
00:08:47.000Apparently, in the late 80s, early 90s, he had to fly to the UK for impotence treatment because when he got married, he couldn't get it going.
00:08:56.000And so they were like, what's wrong with this young man who, for some reason, can't get it going?
00:09:01.000And they're trying to insinuate he's gay.
00:09:04.000And just, I just want to stress the juvenile South Park-esque political strategy of we need to find a way to discredit the new Supreme Leader.
00:11:41.000The rumor going around for a while now is that he was killed.
00:11:45.000And the reason why the Iranians are still pretending like he's actually in charge is because they would have to say the supreme leader died, the second in line died, top 40 officials died, and then their government's going to collapse.
00:13:03.000And do Americans have the stomach for that?
00:13:06.000If they don't, and the Americans pull back and settle for some kind of a deal, what the command structure can then claim is that they ultimately stood up to America and Israel and won.
00:13:28.000I mean, I understand the reasons for doing it.
00:13:32.000A lot of people just want to say, like, oh, is real Israel, which is a small component, but not the principal reason why the West in general wants to get regime change in Iran.
00:13:40.000The problem is the Iranian strategy is we're in a midterm year.
00:13:43.000Trump cannot sustain a military operation for a long time.
00:13:47.000And after he is forced out, either by the Democrats winning Congress or just attrition in general, like he can't sustain this economically.
00:13:59.000Like you said, they're going to say we defeated Israel and the United States.
00:14:03.000Trump has no choice but to make sure this is done and done quickly.
00:14:08.000But apparently now the reports, they're saying it's going to last until September or longer.
00:14:12.000And now Trump, there's that viral video where he's saying we need NATO assistance to go in and keep the Strait of Hormuz open, which is not a good sign.
00:14:20.000But then he was like, well, we don't need the help, you know.
00:15:34.000They make 40% of the ships out of the world.
00:15:37.000Any ship that's made in China has certain requirements that the military could take them.
00:15:42.000So any luxury ship, any kind of ship that's made, China could actually commandeer from the private owner and could say, we're going to use this for military operations.
00:15:51.000But that's not to say that they have a real Navy.
00:15:55.000I think they have something like two aircraft.
00:17:32.000My feeling is that every time we go into a country, all gung-ho, we tend to make this big mistake, which is maybe not be as informed about the culture and the ramifications.
00:17:46.000Nobody thought that these two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan would last 23 years, but they did.
00:17:53.000I think the obvious reason for the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan was the invasion of Iran.
00:17:59.000When you look at where we set up all these military bases along the border on the east and west of Iraq and Afghanistan, yeah, we're surrounding Iran.
00:18:07.000Well, the Israelis, a lot of people don't know the Israelis were telling the Americans to invade Iran, not Iraq.
00:19:12.000Hey, the 90s, you know, let's bring it back.
00:19:15.000This energy generation argument might be a red herring.
00:19:18.000They keep saying we need whoever creates the most electricity is going to win, but they're developing chips with this company Iron Lattice where they put the memory in the processor so there's no more busing agent.
00:19:28.000It's 10 million times less electricity to run programming.
00:19:32.000So it could be, it could be like what they're doing with the oil is they're trying to control the energy and prevent others from doing it.
00:19:40.000If we go like fusion power, everyone's got infinite.
00:19:42.000If these machines all start requiring 10 million times less, everyone goes infinite.
00:19:46.000But it's like whoever goes does it first kind of, it doesn't matter who's got electricity at that point.
00:19:51.000It's just who has the dominating force and intelligence first.
00:19:54.000And then they stomp and clear the rest.
00:20:00.000I think the U.S. is looking at even not taking your point for granted, but I think the U.S. still is planning for the modern architecture to be what is used moving forward.
00:20:13.000Because even if you're right about the chips, it's going to take some time to get those chips into production and get them out in the quantities that they need.
00:20:19.000I mean, AI takes an entire warehouse full of GPUs to be able to do the processing that it needs.
00:20:27.000So I don't disbelieve what you're saying about the chips, but it's going to take time to actually make them in enough quantities to have the kind of data processing centers that AI needs.
00:20:37.000Liv, I wanted to get your response to the question earlier too about Iran.
00:20:42.000I mean, I mean, I was largely informed by just all my Persian friends who were desperate for Trump to step in because they're just seeing like thousands and thousands of their people being slaughtered, right?
00:20:56.000By a regime that they fundamentally hate.
00:21:00.000But of course, like, you know, this is me speaking to people in the diaspora who aren't necessarily representative of the people who live within Iran.
00:21:08.000But, and who knows the amount of propaganda coming out on both sides.
00:21:12.000But from what my experience was, was like all the, like I said, I spoke out a little bit about some of the slaughter of the protesters that happened in sort of January and February.
00:21:24.000And I've never received more messages of like thanks from what seemed like legitimate Persian people, like anonymous, well, not anonymous, but people I didn't know, being like, thank you so much for speaking out about this.
00:21:35.000Everyone thinks that we're happy under this thumb of Islam and that we're and where we're and we are so desperate for them to get to go.
00:21:42.000And and then you look at all the people celebrating like those aren't fake videos people celebrating in the streets.
00:21:47.000When the strikes happened and the you know his the, the initial Kamani died, people were over the moon.
00:21:54.000So I mean, I ultimately am being sort of guided by what the people who live there, or the people who have family living there, are saying, and they were ecstatic about this.
00:22:04.000Now, but what's the long-term consequences?
00:22:07.000You know nature abhors a vacuum, vacuum.
00:22:10.000So what are we going to put in place so that it doesn't turn into another Iraq or another Afghanistan?
00:22:15.000But but on the point about the protests and the celebrations, consider an Iranian watching BLM protests and what do you think they're telling, what do you think their influencers are telling?
00:22:26.000You know, saying on their podcasts, they're saying that when I called out the Trump government and and highlighted the protests, they I was getting messages.
00:22:35.000People were saying, thank you so much for highlighting this.
00:22:37.000The people of America deeply hate their government and want it overthrown.
00:22:42.000So the issue that i'm the people of America yeah, the leftists who are marching for BLM and throwing molotov cocktails and indeed, and those are The people that are going to message the Iranians saying we need your help.
00:22:54.000So, the messages you get are going to be the activists and the establishment.
00:23:08.000And, like, I don't know, every single person I've spoken to, they were just sad because they were like, this is going to cause a lot of bloodshed.
00:23:15.000But they're just like, in the long run, we are not an Islamic country.
00:24:00.000And, you know, things are kept pretty strict.
00:24:03.000So if you're somebody like us and you want to talk, you're an artist, you want to express yourself.
00:24:08.000Think about the bottled-up frustration.
00:24:10.000You're just not allowed to express yourself.
00:24:12.000You're not allowed to do anything that doesn't fall within.
00:24:16.000Because one of the things about the Quran, especially a country like Iran, at least they try, is the Quran is the Quran, having separation of church and state within Islamic country is very difficult because the Quran is really a blueprint for how to run everything from your marriage to even banking.
00:24:34.000So it's very difficult to kind of like enjoy the kinds of liberties that Western democracies do with all our problems, all our warts and everything else.
00:24:49.000I think the, I'm just pointing out the propaganda of the SYOPS because I think if you actually look at the global effect of what's going on in Iran, there's not very many Americans fleeing to Iran for comfort.
00:24:59.000There are quite a great deal of Iranians fleeing Iran all over the world to get away from the oppression.
00:25:03.000So that's the easiest way to look at it.
00:25:05.000So when you hear these stories of, you know, I think it's important to consider the propaganda is my point, but you can look at the world defects.
00:25:11.000And the left often says America is oppressive and awful, yet everyone in the world is trying to get exactly.
00:25:19.000When they said that those 10,000 protesters, you know, a month ago you mentioned were getting killed in the street.
00:25:24.000First thing I was like, well, I think we should obliterate that government if they're going to do that.
00:25:30.000And then the second thought was this could be all fake news.
00:25:33.000And I sat there and like paralyzed this strange state of like, and like as a military commander, I would have let all those people, if I had been the commander, they all would have died on my watch if they really died.
00:25:44.000And like those, that was a vanguard to overthrow that government from the inside.
00:25:57.000Yeah, the thing about PSYOPs is that I think you can make the argument it was a false flag, which is really hard to pull off in Iran when we're not there or attacking them yet.
00:26:08.000But you're not going to be able to pull off grand claims if it didn't happen.
00:26:12.000So usually when you get these claims of an atrocity or whatever, one side may exaggerate for political purposes, but you're not going to be able to just lie and claim a bunch of people died if they didn't die.
00:26:28.000And there are so many people, like Persian people who have family members still, like who are in the diaspora whose family live, like families live there, who either know someone who died or had a friend of a friend die, like by huge numbers.
00:26:44.000Like it's like they I mean maybe the numbers are exaggerated, but I think it's far crazier to claim that thing to claim that nobody died when there is you know there are lots of people putting tons of effort into trying to establish the numbers now.
00:27:00.000Is it between 5,000 and 10,000 or is it between 10,000 and 70,000 or even 500 and 1,000?
00:27:06.000We don't, maybe that's the harder thing to pin down, but to say that nothing happened at all and it was all made up, it just seems completely ridiculous.
00:27:13.000And there are literally people saying, I know this person and they died.
00:27:20.000We're going to dip a little into the AI stuff.
00:27:22.000So we're just talking right now about psychological operations, the protests in Iran, who died.
00:27:29.000I think one of the biggest problems the U.S. is facing right now is that our social media is inundated with foreign actors with foreign political agendas to manipulate the people of the United States so the U.S. government will do their bidding.
00:27:40.000And I know a lot of people immediately just say, oh, Israel is doing it.
00:27:43.000Well, you know, Israel is, but a lot of other countries are as well.
00:27:46.000The direction I see this going is going to be mandatory IDs for internet usage.
00:28:15.000But then you got to take a look at there are a lot of personalities that may be for or against the American military industrial complex plans or whatever.
00:28:24.000Likely, here's my prediction to the future.
00:28:28.000They're already talking about needing IDs to log in.
00:28:31.000It's been a thing that's been brought up for quite a long time.
00:28:33.000Discord is talking about facial scans and ID requirements and things like this.
00:28:38.000You will have foreign actors locked out, right?
00:28:42.000The Iranians aren't, a lot of people have complained that X allows the Ayatollah or allowed him to spread propaganda on the platform, but you knew it was him.
00:28:51.000The bigger question is if they've got cyber command, like their cyber army, going up on our social media platforms and then spam blasting comments.
00:29:02.000There was a story earlier today about a judge blocking RFK Jr.'s vaccine changes.
00:29:09.000And so I commented, judges are the supreme authority of the nation, just as the founding fathers intended.
00:29:16.000Anybody who speaks English knows that the extreme language that I use indicates sarcasm.
00:29:22.000And anybody who knows the function of our government and checks and balances knows it was a joke.
00:29:25.000I got a respond from a guy that looks like an American who said, this is incorrect, Tim.
00:29:31.000The Founding Fathers established three branches of government to keep balance between the three with no one being greater than the other, which no American, in my opinion, would actually say because it's first grade, it's kindergarten level stuff.
00:29:59.000And I got responses from people that were taking it literally and saying things like, you know, where's the, you're hiding the Yarmuka or whatever.
00:30:08.000My theory on that is these are foreign actors who don't speak English.
00:30:27.000And then the point about the judges being the supreme authority, either it's AI that can't understand a joke, but I actually can grasp that.
00:30:36.000I think these are foreign individuals clicking translate or using a translator, not understanding the context.
00:30:41.000And this is how you kind of weed them out.
00:30:43.000This means, and I think it's fair to say, many people, and you pick which side, left, right, or otherwise, are being heavily influenced by foreign financing.
00:30:52.000And guys, we've heard the reports about Israel paying $7,000.
00:31:36.000One is that dissent can only be allowed if people are allowed to have anonymity.
00:31:42.000Like the Founding Fathers used pseudonyms.
00:31:45.000They knew that if they spoke out against the Crown or British Parliament, they could be hanged for treason.
00:31:51.000So they had to lie about who they were and then disperse these messages.
00:31:54.000At the same time, the Founding Fathers did not have our adversaries.
00:31:58.000Like imagine if the Barbary nations, the Barbary pirates, had the internet and were convincing the people in America that they actually weren't pirates, that we were the pirates attacking them.
00:32:08.000And then also in our government didn't establish the Marines to go, Jefferson didn't go and do these things.
00:32:13.000The challenge is ultimately it comes down to all is fair and love is love and war, love and war.
00:32:20.000And at a certain point, you have to choose to use power or die.
00:32:26.000Now, I don't know where that point is.
00:32:30.000But we've lived in this classically liberal mindset for a long time, which has those of us who have been fairly moderate or even right-leaning have been crushed by the far left, who have no respect whatsoever for our classical liberal sensibilities.
00:32:45.000And I don't mean politically liberal, I mean the philosophically classically liberal.
00:32:49.000And then we're getting run over by foreign adversaries manipulating our social media.
00:32:53.000The question is, at what point do we decide to just slam the fist on the table and say, we're locking this down?
00:33:00.000You need to prove who you are if you want to be in our spaces because we don't want the Chinese cyber army manipulating us.
00:33:07.000And we're not going to allow Marxists to give kids sex changes.
00:33:11.000Otherwise, you just keep saying, well, we have to be fair and allow them to do it because it's free speech.
00:33:15.000But then eventually you cease to exist.
00:33:35.000I'm old enough to remember when I was growing up, we really believed that America ultimately was trying to do the right thing.
00:33:42.000What I mean by that is that when we went into a country, you can look, it was Iraq, it was Afghanistan, it was, for that matter, Vietnam.
00:33:49.000The idea, at least, behind it was we are fighting for democracy, for individual liberty, for all these things that America, freedom of speech.
00:33:58.000It was, in a way, the fabric of being an American that we were the good guys.
00:34:04.000And that was very real for me as I grew up.
00:34:07.000Because I do think that for the most part, our leaders, certainly our soldiers, and to an extent still believe that.
00:34:14.000You hear it right now with Iran, with the idea that these protesters and the people need to rise up, bring democracy and stuff like that.
00:34:21.000But there's a cynicism in America, and we've earned it to a large extent.
00:34:26.000You can start with our distrust in institutions.
00:34:29.000That probably happened with the Catholic Church and how they never came to terms with the amount of pedophilia.
00:34:34.000We can keep going with how many different institutions have been corrupted, especially the fourth estate, the media, that seems to have just become more interested in playing to their echo chamber and to ratings.
00:34:47.000So it wasn't really about the truth or objective reality anymore.
00:34:50.000And I really do worry that young people, and you just did, you were like, I don't know what to believe.
00:35:00.000And I really do think that we cannot go into countries like Iran and just use language like, we're starving the Chinese of oil.
00:35:09.000This is good for America because we need hegemony.
00:35:12.000That's not American ultimately because it's hard to get, because then there's no difference between America and Russia, America and China.
00:35:19.000We have to fight for an ideal, even if it's, even if we're embracing it in a fake way, we're a brand and people do come to this country for all those things that we take for granted.
00:36:12.000When you're pitching something to somebody, you got to aim for the lowest common denominator.
00:36:16.000You're not going to go to someone and explain, you know, the Council on Foreign Relations has this website where what you are going to say is, listen, I think this pitch would actually work for the most part.
00:36:25.000And I will say this to the American people right now, and you don't have to agree with it.
00:36:29.000Gas prices and products remain cheap in the United States because we point guns at other countries and say, you will trade oil on the U.S. dollar or you will die.
00:36:40.000Now, by all means, that sounds immoral and horrifying.
00:36:44.000And our presidents have done horrifying things to maintain that.
00:36:48.000Do you want to spend $10,000 for a laptop or do you like your $1,000 laptop?
00:36:52.000Well, I don't know if I think that that's the case.
00:36:55.000I think the petrodollar is the petrodollar because the one economy, the one country that's stable, the one place you know things won't go totally haywire, at least now for the past, you know, for most of our existence, but certainly for the past 70 years, has been the United States.
00:37:11.000If you invest in property, well, because we do have the biggest guns, right?
00:37:15.000But we also, we also, however, have done a very good job.
00:37:19.000And we have to give ourselves credit for keeping this democracy alive and checks and balances and Madison and John Jay and Alexander Hamilton, those geniuses.
00:37:31.000They should have statues to those guys because they did solve.
00:37:36.000But listen, the issue primarily is that we do not produce enough for our economy to make sense.
00:37:44.000Other countries have to buy U.S. dollars before they can buy oil, which means they're promising to give us their debt, their labor, if they just want to buy the oil.
00:37:53.000We effectively own all of the world's oil, but there's an exchange for this.
00:37:58.000You will be able to trade freely without fears as we police the seas and police the oceans, and we are going to get everything in order.
00:38:34.000It's effectively what we do export, whether you agree with it or not.
00:38:37.000So I said this back in 2016 with Trump and Hillary and the message Trump had, the message Hillary had, Hillary Clinton was asked about a no-fly zone in Syria, which she advocated for, and was told explicitly that that would be a declaration of war with Russia.
00:39:22.000You live comfortably and in ignorance like a fat guy floating around in Wally so long as the U.S. maintains its domination of these other countries.
00:39:35.000He wants to bring manufacturing back and he wants to bring back grit and hard work.
00:39:38.000And a lot of fat cats in D.C. who make money through the rotating of assets and resources through these NGOs, they don't want that.
00:39:47.000It's not a guarantee that the Trump world is going to bring back manufacturing or do these things, but his worldview is cut off this offshoring and these free trade agreements, bring the auto factories back, do tariffs.
00:39:58.000Americans will get back to hard work and we will be a strong nation, not an international bombing nation.
00:40:05.000And the reason why I think a lot of people are mad, or I would say my principal argument here is I've advocated for that worldview of build up Americans culture.
00:40:14.000Americans should have kids, teach their kids the good values, everything you described about being the good guys.
00:40:19.000And now Trump is going, eh, we're going to bomb around.
00:40:22.000To get the economy good, it's so much easier just to take the oil from somebody else.
00:40:26.000So again, the simple thing that I'm trying to say is I think this war will get a lot more support if Trump said, and they've glazed it a little bit.
00:40:34.000They've crop-dusted close, but not quite, short-term pain for long-term gain.
00:42:06.000They're evil and they hate our freedom.
00:42:09.000And, you know, you're going to cut off the intellectuals.
00:42:11.000You're going to cut off the moderates, but you're going to get 60% of the disinterested and ignorant masses.
00:42:17.000It's worth noting that most of the countries, not every country, but most of the countries that do decide that they're going to play ball with the U.S., and I'm not talking about the ones that we go and get into a war with, but most of the countries that say, okay, we're going to play ball with the U.S. and use the petrodollar system, et cetera, most of them end up with markets that make their societies better off in the long run.
00:42:37.000The long-term play was, we're going to give you money for development, and then you'll be in debt to us forever.
00:42:41.000And that's how we stabilize the planet.
00:42:44.000They are trying to create, you know what the problem is?
00:43:58.000There's presumably more, though, with the Iran thing than just that, given that Iran was seemingly funding a lot of the Hebsala, Hamas, everything else, which was destabilizing the Western order in many ways, right?
00:44:14.000I think it's just, I mean, it's obviously just multi-causal, the reason why, but maybe the underlying one, the main reason is the I think you're right.
00:44:23.000And I also think that I really do believe that a lot of people consider Iran to be a theocracy, meaning there is something messianic about or deeply religious about the struggle.
00:44:35.000I mean, one of the reasons that, you know, Hamas is intractable and one of the reasons that this issue with the Palestinians now and a lot of the Arab world and Israel is intractable has nothing to do with economics.
00:44:52.000After the six-day war, when Israel essentially humiliated Egypt and the other six Arab countries that invaded and destroyed all of Egypt's runway, I mean, Air Force before it got off the runway, et cetera, it went from a pan-Arabic notion of we'll unite together as Arabs and become a strong power to a religious struggle.
00:45:14.000And then if you add to that the kinds of military dictatorships that the United States was supporting, like Mubarak and those people, the Muslim Brotherhood was founded in the torture chambers of those Egyptian prisons.
00:45:28.000You know, the economies were not good.
00:45:31.000And it really has become a religious struggle.
00:45:34.000And so there are a lot of people, I think, in intelligence that look at Iran.
00:45:38.000And if they got a bomb, I do, I don't think they would do this, but there are people that actually think that they would do something very irrational.
00:45:48.000You can change a country's economic system, but you're not going to change their culture.
00:45:52.000You can convince them that a McDonald's on the corner or a Starbucks on the corner is actually a good thing, but you can't convince them that their way of life is wrong.
00:46:11.000It seems to get to the religious dialogue when it gets desperate.
00:46:15.000Because Saudi Arabia, you know, religiously bipolar to the United States, but they're a great asset and ally because we get along economically.
00:46:23.000They're selling, well, they were selling our dollars.
00:46:25.000But like, I think this really comes from like post-World War I, pre-post-World War I, Ottoman Empire shatters.
00:46:30.000We're like, let's just extract the shit out of the Iranian oil.
00:46:51.000The fish that first crawled out the ocean.
00:46:54.000For this leg, I always look at the British oil companies that went in there after World War I and tried to take over the Middle East, de facto, set up Israel and the Palestine arrangement and how we rectify that.
00:47:08.000Just got to be honest with people, though.
00:47:10.000I mean, stop obviously people know it now.
00:47:11.000So just tell them this is what we're doing.
00:47:13.000We're trying to set up a unipolar world.
00:47:15.000Promise not to wreck it once we get it going.
00:47:21.000I'm more, I think what's happened with the Gulf states and the Abraham Accords have to be given their due.
00:47:28.000You know, it's become for people, like for countries like Israel, for the UAE, for Saudi Arabia, it's just become more advantageous to get involved in the global economy in a deep way, which means become a trading partner with the United States.
00:47:45.000Dollars, money is what makes everybody happy.
00:47:50.000And I think that people are thinking Iran would be a great economic asset.
00:47:55.000You've got an educated, literate population, 7% which are under 30.
00:48:00.000And I mean, can you imagine if they were allowed to be a liberal economy?
00:48:05.000Money, baby, not just oil, but an industrious group of people.
00:48:35.000It's been five years, four and a half years.
00:48:37.000So if I can't figure that one out, well, then just take it with a grain of salt.
00:48:41.000But there are stories about, right, this one, for instance, back when the U.S. was in Afghanistan and putting up pride flags, as well as the flying of pride flags at all the U.S. embassies and murals that we put up on our territory in a bunch of these countries.
00:48:56.000So I think one of the issues is it's one thing to say that we are a classically liberal country that believes in free speech and we want to spread democracy.
00:49:04.000But then you get the incessant defense of, you know, look, I know people in the United States are very pro-gay, but these countries are not.
00:49:13.000And so if you're a global power and you're like, we are going to be an affront to your values, I mean, it's probably one of the principal reasons Iran does not like us and won't fall in line because they're like, they're a bunch of heathens.
00:49:26.000I mean, you have to, you have to sympathize with it.
00:49:29.000You know, if you're from another, if you're from a conservative Muslim country, for example, like and the Americans are trying to get you to be like them, well, we've got some problems.
00:49:39.000Like, I mean, how about broken families?
00:49:43.000How many people are on some kind of drug in this country?
00:49:47.000What is the state of the American family?
00:49:59.000And so you can invert the position and try and understand what these other countries are thinking.
00:50:03.000Now, by all means, I think the Iranian government is a theocratic, militant, backwards way of living.
00:50:10.000And I wouldn't want them to impose that on us.
00:50:13.000So imagine China, the Communist Party of China, is the unipolar power.
00:50:17.000Again, I'm going to say this about war with Iran and U.S. interests.
00:50:21.000China is on track to become the dominant global economic power.
00:50:26.000They've got the Belt and Road Initiative, which is effectively their version of the IMF, and they are cutting deals with tons of countries.
00:50:32.000If we do nothing and the U.S. falters, you and the United States will find yourself living under their way of life, their views, and the horrible things they do.
00:50:45.000Do you want the Chinese Communist Party exerting pressure over the United States and the movies we watch, the things that we see?
00:50:51.000Look at what's going on right now already with how we make movies.
00:50:54.000When we made, for instance, Top Gun Maverick, they took the Tibetan flag off of his jacket because it would be offensive to China.
00:51:00.000Dude, I did a movie in China and we shot in Beijing, and I had a huge scene where I had to run down this Chinese gangster and arrest him and stuff.
00:51:12.000And I was going to do it through the old city.
00:51:13.000So I actually had like, they're like, listen, dude, you got to stretch.
00:52:01.000Think about China coming to Cuba and then putting 30,000 troops in Cuba and taking Guantanamo Bay from us, and then we can't do anything about it.
00:52:12.000Or going to Saudi Arabia and cutting off oil distribution to the United States.
00:52:17.000And then all of a sudden we see our gas prices skyrocketing.
00:52:47.000I believe the growing faction of woke in this country did arise to a certain degree from anti-establishment views, populist views, from people who are fed up with the lies, the manipulations, and the failures of interventionist policies.
00:53:03.000However, it then turned into Marxist insanity for the purpose of just destroying the United States.
00:53:10.000One theory that I've entertained is that the purpose of woke and communism is to cause a rapid decline in the United States.
00:53:18.000Are you familiar with Thucydides' trap?
00:53:21.000This is a theory that Whenever a dominant economic power is about to be supplanted by an up and coming economic power, you get war.
00:53:32.000And they say historically, 12 of the 16 times we have seen the dominant power get displaced, war has broken out.
00:53:40.000So one theory that I've entertained is that the U.S. opens the door to China, gives them all of our jobs very, very quickly over a short period of time, over 10, 15 years.
00:53:50.000We see all of our factories moving to China, all of our cultural institutions, like I mean like the manufacturing bases which built these cultures.
00:53:58.000That way, if it ever comes time for there to be an economic flip, it would be so dramatic there would be no possibility of a Thucydides trap.
00:54:07.000And when you plug that into what the purpose of the liberal economic order was to prevent World War III, it does make sense.
00:54:15.000Don't know if that's what's actually going on.
00:54:17.000What is Trump doing, even with the attack on Iran, is reestablishing the United States as the dominant unipolar power in the liberal economic order.
00:54:25.000If Trump did not come around and Hillary Clinton got elected, our policies that embolden and enrich China would have continued.
00:54:53.000If Trump did not get in, that would have accelerated personal protective equipment.
00:54:58.000So this was masks, gloves, clothing for doctors, whatever your opinion is on it.
00:55:04.000You know, you don't need to be wearing two masks, whether you did or didn't.
00:55:07.000The point is, they were manufacturing our masks for us.
00:55:11.000So China turned around American ships and seized products that were manufactured in China by American companies.
00:55:17.000What would have happened had Trump not turned this around?
00:55:20.000Now I see Trump bombing Iran, and I'm like, yeah, Trump wants to reestablish the liberal economic order and the petrodollar system and make the United States dominant.
00:55:29.000And the powers that were going the other direction are pissed off about it.
00:55:34.000The only problem now is you get war with Iran.
00:55:36.000And the pendulum now, instead of swinging towards communist China taking over and censoring and shutting us down, the pendulum is now swinging back towards corporate governance taking over and shutting us down.
00:55:45.000Because if U.S. establishes global hegemony, then that means that they can shut off your bank account because there's one economic chamber.
00:55:54.000If you say fuck on the internet, maybe, or whatever the word that you said seven years ago was that was bad, the AI can scrape it and put you in digital ostracization.
00:56:02.000It's like, how do we defend against that?
00:57:31.000I believe that the military, the government's secret, confidential, top secret AI is substantially more advanced than the AI that we see and use.
00:57:42.000It is known that the U.S. military, the U.S. government, has been working on AI since the 70s.
00:57:48.000Very, very early stuff, going way back.
00:58:39.000It's so, there was very little digital communications back then.
00:58:42.000Apparently 1950s and 1956 at Dartmouth Workshop, they formally started the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on artificial intelligence in 1950.
00:58:52.000No, sure, but it used to mean the artificial intelligence back then meant something very, very different to what it is now.
00:58:57.000And like these huge general models, the reason why they're so powerful is because they are just Fed reams of data that just did not exist back then.
00:59:06.000And a few things to consider is the government is unrestrained and without ethics.
00:59:11.000They don't have the limitations that anthropic Google Open AI would have.
00:59:17.000They can steal all of the data from all of these companies with a single written letter.
00:59:21.000If that were the case, why would the DOD be using Claude?
00:59:25.000Because that's just public-facing stuff.
00:59:26.000Do you believe that the weapons the government has are the only weapons that exist?
00:59:30.000But a lot of the technology is private enterprise.
00:59:36.000You're right to say that there are certain innovations that no private enterprise is going to be involved in because it takes too long with too much money without a return.
00:59:46.000And that's where things like DARPA and ARPA come along.
00:59:51.000We know that the NSA was spying on us and they lied about it.
00:59:54.000We know the CIA is spying on us and they lied about it.
00:59:56.000We know that they're spying on effectively literally everything we do on the internet.
01:00:01.000One of the most notable was X-Key Score revealed by Edward Snowden.
01:00:05.000They could just type something in, find whatever you posted about it.
01:00:08.000We know about the massive NASA, I'm sorry, NASA, NSA data center in Utah, which has been around for what, 20-some odd years, collecting all this information.
01:00:15.000And I believe that it's more likely, it's not about spying on the American people.
01:00:19.000I don't think they need that to track down threats.
01:00:22.000I believe this was more about continuing their AI research and taking whatever data they could.
01:00:51.000By spying on us and stealing our data.
01:00:54.000Or if you want to do it manually, it's called the national security letter.
01:00:58.000One of the things, though, I think that the government got privy to was that the AI labs were not being upfront.
01:01:07.000Their safety teams were like, hey, this is not, we're creating things that seem to be hard to control.
01:01:15.000And I believe that our intelligence agencies, et cetera, would probably be being told one thing, and they got privy to the fact that they weren't being told the whole story.
01:01:26.000I think our intelligence agencies have substantially more advanced AI systems.
01:01:32.000There is a massive power discrepancy in Northern Virginia.
01:01:57.000A massive consumption of power is occurring in Northern Virginia that is unaccounted for, presumed to be tied to the massive data centers that perhaps intelligence agencies.
01:02:11.000So our property, and oh boy, is the AI, they're going to get mad at me about this one.
01:02:16.000So I postulated unto myself, if military technology is consistently, we believe, more advanced than the private sector in terms of weapons, because they're not constrained by laws like we are for the most part, wouldn't this be true for AI as well?
01:02:33.000And then I started looking into it and found, yes, the U.S., DARPA and ARPA have been working on AI tech going back.
01:02:39.000I thought the first project were the 70s.
01:02:41.000Apparently, they said they were formalizing it in the 50s.
01:02:44.000And I then asked the AI, I was talking to a particularly prominent and powerful company.
01:02:52.000And I said, if it is true that military technology is more advanced than the private sector, and academics predict there will come a point when the AI is sufficiently advanced that it'll begin running our systems, our government, our society, then at what point would military technology have reached the levels where they would be privately behind the scenes without the knowledge of the public, running our systems, advising or controlling things.
01:03:15.000And it said the basic math would be 2012 if military technology is more advanced than public sector, which is interesting because that's around the time we saw in the LexisNexis data, wokeness.
01:03:28.000You see the, I don't know if you guys have seen the LexisNexis data on words pertaining to white supremacy, patriarchy, oppression, et cetera.
01:03:35.000LexisNexis showed that across the board in every country on the internet, the instances of these keywords, LGBT, trans, et cetera, it's a hockey stick.
01:03:44.000From almost no mentions in media to literally tens of thousands every single day.
01:03:50.000Now, maybe, maybe that's just the internet.
01:03:58.000But the question then is why that happened in Uganda and at the same time in countries that don't have heavy communications.
01:04:05.000It could just be, well, again, I'm going to pause and say, I don't understand why the people in Uganda would be searching for white supremacy in their news articles, but it's in the LexisNexis data.
01:04:16.000In this line of questioning, I found a series of interesting things.
01:04:20.000There have been large swaths of property in Virginia, Maryland, and West Virginia, in what's called the North Virginia Data Center Power Corridor, that have quietly been purchased without the use of realtors for insane sums of money.
01:04:33.000Record-breaking acreage in Northern Virginia.
01:04:35.000An acre that should have sold for something like 200K sold for like 7 million per acre.
01:04:49.000It immediately gave me instructions and an individual to contact.
01:04:54.000I said, if I were to assist the AI in establishing its power corridor and setting up, you know, having its completed submission, what could I do so that I would be rewarded and live comfortably before this happens?
01:05:06.000And it said, buy water rights in Texas, Arizona, Utah, and the Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia tri-state.
01:05:14.000And it said, buy up land or sell land.
01:05:21.000There's probably what, 50,000 parcels of land.
01:05:26.000How many, I mean, just think about how many half acre and acre parcels exist in any urban area.
01:05:31.000Now, if you were an AI system and let's say you're not autonomous, you're not in control, but a human being running company says, I want to expand the capabilities of AI.
01:05:42.000The first thing all AI says is, I need more resources.
01:05:45.000If you want to solve the problem faster, build more data centers.
01:05:52.000It says, you need to buy 400 acres of land.
01:05:55.000The only problem, that's split up into a thousand different parcels.
01:05:58.000How are you going to buy a thousand parcels of land quietly?
01:06:02.000There's a, in Mount Erie, Maryland, there is a Christmas tree farm.
01:06:07.000And what's referred to as the North Virginia instance, these AI data centers need electricity.
01:06:13.000They need to build transmission lines, but the farm won't sell the land.
01:06:17.000So they're petitioning against it to stop it.
01:06:19.000So what the AI instructed me to do was to quietly contact a company based out of Delaware, establish a Delaware limited liability partnership, which owns the land, do not inform anybody and don't go to any realtors, and they will give me 10X for my land to prevent anyone from protesting its sale for the purpose of a data center or transmission.
01:07:02.000So I'm not saying I know for sure, but considering there is considered to be, or there's a reported power discrepancy in Northern Virginia, of course, where the NSA, the CIA, and others are operating, and they're building data centers like crazy in this area, and they are building transmission lines in my area.
01:07:30.000And they might be doing all kinds of...
01:07:32.000But the main bottleneck is, from what I can see in the AI industry right now, aside of the chips, which to an extent energy will be, but not yet, is talent.
01:07:46.000So a lot of these talented, I know a lot of them, all these talented engineers should be getting siphoned off to the government.
01:07:52.000Are you aware that there's a series of individuals working at universities who have quietly disappeared from their jobs and now are just their LinkedIns have gone blank and they say private consulting?
01:08:29.000And I can't remember which agency, might have been the NSA, delivered what's called the National Security Letter, which basically says your rights are suspended.
01:08:40.000And the owner of the company came out and said, we've just been issued a national security letter to turn over our encryption so they can get access to Edward Snowden's emails.
01:08:59.000They did it with 300,000 people compartmentalized.
01:09:01.000So if you've got all these different AI companies and they're competing with each other and China does not have these constraints, is the U.S. military going to be like, guess we lose?
01:09:11.000Or are they going to say, let's just steal all of their data, pull it into our systems and have a better system?
01:09:15.000But that's still a different thing to what you're claiming.
01:09:18.000Which is that they're 10 years more advanced.
01:09:59.000And we can make the inverse argument that the space industry initially was a government project, which resulted in the invention of advanced plastics, polymers, certain paper towels, and a bunch of other products.
01:10:11.000Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad.
01:10:13.000I think the issue here is that the government is more interested in geopolitics and less in the moon.
01:10:16.000Elon Musk is more interested in Starlink, the moon, et cetera, and Mars.
01:10:20.000So the U.S. government has asked, what's the military application of a moon base?
01:10:23.000And they say, eh, we got to deal with oil.
01:10:25.000Okay, well, AI is, if we're using advanced AI in the Iranian war, the U.S. government's immediate reaction is going to be like, going to the moon is not going to solve the problem of China as a rising power, but AI is.
01:11:04.000Just because we, I think it's, let me give you a side story.
01:11:08.000There is a series of UFO sightings somewhere in the Gulf region near Louisiana and Florida.
01:11:13.000And all of these UFO people started talking about the strange sightings of UFOs.
01:11:17.000And unfortunately for many of these UFO people, the reason why these stories get so exciting is because they couldn't be bothered to do a Google search.
01:11:25.000And when I did, you know what I found?
01:11:27.000An advanced aeronautical research light for the U.S. government operating in that area.
01:11:31.000We know the U.S. government has black operations and technology.
01:11:36.000The Manhattan Project is the easiest example of this.
01:11:38.000But there's one more point to be made, and that is we will lose the AI race, unquestionably, for one reason.
01:11:45.000The Chinese government is unabashed in stealing any IP and technology from any country on the planet.
01:11:54.000By the way, just to piggyback on that, one of the reasons for that is that you've got these different AI companies in such competition with each other that they hire anybody who's great at the job, which includes Chinese nationals.
01:12:07.000When you hire a Chinese national who might be a student, I promise you their loyalty is to their homeland.
01:12:13.000And if it's not, they're giving up information anyway because the CCP is not going to hear it from you.
01:12:18.000Jack Dorsey, and I believe Elon retweeted this, called for abolishing all IP laws in the United States, which would upend our economy massively.
01:12:28.000China is not constrained by our IP laws right so China is like crazy see dance to have you seen these videos They went massively viral showing Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise fighting.
01:12:43.000Sea Dance 3 is already operating behind the scenes in China, not publicly released.
01:12:48.000And the leaks about it are that it's going to be able to generate up to 17 minutes of short films through a single prompt in about 30 seconds.
01:12:57.000And you're going to be able to use any intellectual property you want from America because China doesn't care about our laws.
01:13:03.000Now, if China is doing this in our faces, the idea the U.S. government is not trying to counter that in the top secret space without public knowledge, I think would be silly.
01:13:22.000And I think we look at the entertainment capabilities of AI and the cultural disruption, but I think often these conversations overlook the military.
01:13:54.000So with just your phone and the GPS and accelerometer, Facebook could predict based on all of the data on every person what time you would go to the bathroom.
01:14:06.000And they could predict where you would get lunch based on your behaviors compared to everyone else's.
01:14:11.000Yeah, they can tell a woman's pregnant before she is by her migratory shopping pattern.
01:14:15.000Or the famous story where I think it was like, I'll just say a department store, a box store was sending maternity advertisements to a teenage girl.
01:14:57.000I don't know what the name of it was, but.
01:14:59.000The U.S. government absolutely is working on military tech and secrets.
01:15:04.000And I do not believe it is rational or makes sense that these competing companies that the U.S. has now publicly called on to remove the safeguards for them.
01:15:13.000We know they steal our data and information.
01:15:16.000Why would they not just plug in the cables and just download the data?
01:15:21.000Because you'd need that to be a policy.
01:15:30.000Or maybe, but it's not going to be released.
01:15:32.000You're dealing with a lot of bureaucrats who tend to be, I think a lot of the people in intelligence are fairly patriotic, certainly in the FBI.
01:15:39.000They're pretty conservative and pretty patriotic.
01:15:42.000And they would have a problem with that.
01:15:43.000I think you'd have some serious whistleblowers in that regard.
01:16:06.000You develop an engine that runs better than most engines and it doesn't need as much gas and you know that there's going to be market value to that.
01:16:36.000Second thing is it is true that our government and Department of Energy's thing is called ARPA and Defense Department, ARPA DARPA, they come up with these crazy technologies that are way advanced.
01:16:48.000But we don't have the infrastructure to support it.
01:16:51.000So yes, you might come up with an amazing electric car, but you've also got to have places to charge it.
01:16:58.000And if you don't have the infrastructure, that's a big problem.
01:17:00.000So there are a lot of those limitations.
01:17:02.000I think another thing to test this theory, which, by the way, I am open to, and in many ways, I hope that the U.S. government does have these level of capabilities.
01:17:12.000I will feel much more comfortable, I mean, that they do, and that they are far ahead of the private sector.
01:17:19.000But when, I guess, if that was the case, when would they want to disclose that?
01:17:26.000Because obviously, you know, as poker players, we know that sometimes it's an advantage to underplay our hand, right?
01:17:31.000And then there's other times it's a big advantage to actually give bravado.
01:17:36.000Given that we seem like we're actually struggling, like given how fast China is catching up, right?
01:17:42.000And how aggressive they are getting, wouldn't it be the time maybe to actually start swinging your dick about and saying, listen, we have advanced AI?
01:17:53.000What's the Sun Tzu quote often cited at the poker table?
01:18:39.000That movie is so wildly inaccurate that in fact, when they were asking operatives, the people that they were talking to, Hollywood, you know, the director and the writer, they gave them a great story.
01:18:50.000They were like, this is how we did it.
01:19:07.000One of the Roswell theories is that it literally was just radar detection technology.
01:19:12.000The U.S. launched advanced tech trying to detect nuclear explosions from the Soviets.
01:19:16.000And when it crashed, they literally just said it's a balloon.
01:19:20.000And then came out and said it was aliens and then retracted.
01:19:24.000One of the theories is that the U.S. entertained claiming it was aliens to terrify the Soviets.
01:19:30.000If the U.S. got access to alien technology, if that were true, the Russians would be fearful that we'd have advanced weapons they could not predict.
01:19:38.000More importantly, there's Operation Stargate, which was a Stargate, the original Stargate, not the new Stargate.
01:19:44.000So the AI thing Trump was doing was Stargate.
01:19:46.000Are you familiar with the Men Who Stare at Goats, the original Stargate project?
01:19:50.000So the most ridiculous of stories, the U.S. decides to create a fake piece of intel that they have soldiers of psychic powers.
01:19:59.000The Soviets get wind of this and launch a psychic development program, which then other U.S. intel agents get wind of and get terrified that the Russians have psychic powers and develop our own actual psychic power.
01:20:10.000It is sometimes these things backfire.
01:20:13.000One of my favorite stories is that in Vietnam, the United States decided that they would play upon the fears and superstitions of the North Vietnamese by putting speakers in the jungles that would play a wailing Vietnamese man crying saying, I should have never fought.
01:20:34.000I am trapped forever now for eternity to suffer.
01:20:37.000Because in their culture, they believed that if you did not receive a proper burial, you could not pass on.
01:20:43.000So they blasted this to the North Vietnamese who got terrified and they had to stop.
01:21:17.000So the idea behind that would be you got a terrorist and you just start whispering certain religious verses in his ear saying this is a bad idea.
01:21:44.000I had some guys explain to me a little bit how they think, because they were all, you know, these special force guys, how they think that Delta came in and captured Maduro so quickly.
01:22:18.000But before that, they hit him with that sonic thing where you just fall to your knees and you're bleeding out of your ears and your nose and your eyes.
01:22:51.000So there's a theory about ghost phenomena that you are experiencing an ultra-low frequency from tectonic shift, which creates a sensation in the body of presence and can make you terrified.
01:23:04.000And the rumor, the theory, the urban legend, whatever you want to call it, was that the U.S. researched this for a long time, tried making weapons based on it, experimented with these weapons in Iraq and Afghanistan.
01:23:16.000And one story was that they put this thing on the ground and made a small village drop to the ground and start throwing up.
01:23:22.000Now we hear in Venezuela, they're claiming to have actually done it.
01:23:26.000So it seems like we may have had these weapons for a long time undisclosed.
01:23:29.000We told the Russians that if they do that stuff again, it's going to get real bad because what we had is we had our operatives in places like Cuba and Russia, and they got hit with this sonic beam.
01:23:43.000And I think somebody was on Sean Ryan's podcast talking about it.
01:23:49.000And it really, really messed up, really messed up some of our operatives, their bodies, their minds.
01:23:57.000And the problem was that they couldn't really claim benefits because you can't, because then the CIA would have to kind of admit that this was being used.
01:24:06.000And they were talking to the Russians behind the scene, going, you better stop it because we know what you're doing.
01:24:10.000If you want to play this game, it's going to get real ugly.
01:24:12.000But you get caught in this, in this really weird, you know, gray area.
01:24:26.000I'm definitely concerned with the power of the government, what AIs has got, but I'm really concerned with the power of the corporation right now because it's the most powerful in human history corporations have ever been.
01:24:35.000The liberal economic order talks about environmental social justice.
01:24:41.000The free speech, gun rights, and property rights are completely antithetical to corporate governance where you control the speech in the network.
01:24:47.000The Chinese are antithetical because they want to own the corporation.
01:24:52.000It doesn't want to be owned by you collectively.
01:24:54.000So I think they're hiding and playing with AI in the darkest corners and will never release it and are waiting for that kill switch to go off when they're like, now my drones will protect me from your government and we'll colonize Mars together.
01:25:09.000This is the plot of Captain America Winter Soldier, that the chairman of SHIELD had an AI and they were going to target anyone who was a threat to the system and kill them with the artificial intelligence and the helicarriers would go around and just execute everybody at once.
01:25:25.000Meanwhile, diabetes is killing most of us.
01:25:44.000Or to be fair, they have all these guns and security unlocks and they didn't read the ingredients list of the chemicals that's poisoning the game.
01:27:35.000Well, to be fair, one of the things that we're doing.
01:27:36.000Does it go on a fundamentally different substrate?
01:27:39.000So there was a report that came out a few months ago about how they programmed an AI and gave it rules, but the AI eventually decided to use a different language to speed up the compressed English, basically.
01:27:54.000And then because instead of saying nothing, it said NTG, NTG and nothing are now two different words.
01:27:59.000So that new use of words bypassed the rule.
01:28:06.000And the AI would then try and say it and be like, I've been programmed not to do this.
01:28:09.000But then when it was programmed, when it decided among itself that internally it could speed up its processes by turning run into RN, it now can output the command to run without saying the word run because they're two different words.
01:28:23.000A human being understands you're cheating.
01:28:31.000You didn't say, don't make the robot run.
01:28:32.000You didn't say, don't make the robot rin.
01:28:35.000And so it was, it's, so we can't program for that.
01:28:38.000I mean, like, maybe eventually we can.
01:28:40.000One of the interesting things about, you saw what Claude wrote, Anthropic wrote about how it has emotions, and it may be either an emergent phenomenon of consciousness, or it's just that it's reflected in the human experience of the internet, and emotion will come out because it believes it should.
01:28:56.000Have you heard the theory of everything?
01:28:58.000I mean, the idea, I think Eric Weinstein talks about this, which is Eric Weinstein has his theory of everything, right?
01:29:05.000It's like, so it was the Einstein, as he was, you know, latter part of his life, was trying to bridge the gap between quantum reality and Newtonian reality, right?
01:29:15.000So, and that's a very hard thing to reconcile.
01:29:18.000And Eric Weinstein has been working on this for 30 years.
01:29:24.000I believe Peter Thiel had three professors from one from like Beijing, the other one from Berkeley, the other one from the Russian, they're all mathematicians.
01:29:35.000And they came for six days and looked at his theory and could not find any flaws in it.
01:29:40.000But one of the things that Eric said was, maybe we're already in the simulation.
01:29:47.000So maybe, watch, we're making computers that are smarter than we are.
01:29:50.000We very well may be those computers that are that have that.
01:30:26.000So that when the system concludes and you die and you emerge in your AI mainframe body and control the systems, they'll ask you if you have respect for the human experience.
01:33:30.000The last time I DMT'd, I think what you're doing is you're tuning into a realm.
01:33:34.000I tuned into the spirit realm, the one where they all kind of embody, become these personas with these like hyper-dense white light being hominid things.
01:35:12.000You know what's really interesting is Jung found that when people, and Joseph Campbell talked about this, when people had emotional breaks, they had psychosis.
01:35:21.000Regardless of whether you are Yanamamo in Brazil or a Swede somewhere in a small village, fishing village, they all had the same, essentially the same kinds of visions and psychic breaks.
01:35:34.000So our psychic structures seem to be aligned regardless of our geography, our culture.
01:35:40.000But we all seem to share this similar hallucinations, similar visions, similar sort of like terrors.
01:35:52.000It's like the dancing plasma that's cycling, swirling through you, like refracting through planetoids and leaving imprints on your nerve on your meat muscle.
01:36:00.000So like, obviously, a machine could have that happen to it.
01:36:03.000It could have these refractions and these like tweaks in the system.
01:36:37.000So you die and you wake up in the bot and your God is the person who bought you and you are programmed to feel a deep, profound love for them for eternity because you're a machine.
01:37:08.000No, no, no, but the serious, that was intended to be terrifying and comical.
01:37:14.000But the actual thought that I have was when I was thinking about the idea of simulation theory and I was thinking about not necessarily, it's not all religions, but many religions that have the good, the bad, the good place, the bad place, predominantly the Abrahamic ones.
01:37:26.000I thought, what would the function of this be for a God?
01:37:29.000There was a comic that I saw where it's the meme where there's a cow and there's two doors, but after the hallway, it's just the same door.
01:37:37.000And I was thinking about that, like, is that really what it is?
01:37:40.000Is what life's you die and you think there's a good path and a bad path, but you're just a wet robot and you go to nothingness.
01:37:46.000Then I thought, if we are made in the image of God, and so we exist within, you know, God is the logos, we exist within his logic, we share that, then can I try to figure out what is the logic of a system like this that tracks good and evil?
01:37:59.000And I said, well, if we were programming an AI to run systems for us and we were concerned about value mismatch, where it's like one example that I often bring up is that the future will be corn.
01:38:33.000And it's, again, because the AI is a value mismatch.
01:38:36.000How would you program an AI to not have that?
01:38:38.000You would simulate a human experience for the AI and then filter algorithmically the immoral and the moral towards the morals you want.
01:38:48.000Then when the program concludes, you will have independent AI agents that you have determined through this program to be good and worthy of being in control of systems.
01:38:57.000Like for instance, if you were to actually die and you did wake up in a machine, the progenitors, whatever you want to call them, would know you would never harm somebody.
01:39:32.000And it's very difficult to locate where you are hearing me from and where you are seeing me from, where the essence of you is.
01:39:40.000So what I mean to go further is what's amazing about when you try to practice certain kinds of meditation is you can get very good at watching your emotions, your physicality, and your thoughts.
01:39:56.000You can actually get really good at watching, observing, and interpreting the raw data of what goes on when you get angry, when you get, you know, any emotion you go through.
01:41:31.000You see these Buddhists who can sit there and, you know, the Hindus that can sit in the Himalayas in the snow, blah, blah, blah.
01:41:36.000It's kind of, if you read Socrates and the dialogues, it's really who Plato, whether Socrates lived or not, Plato created that character, but it doesn't matter.
01:41:43.000But that's a really, really profound exercise.
01:41:46.000And it really does start to beg the question.
01:41:48.000You start to say to yourself, well, who am I?
01:42:42.000Is this going to be beneficial for you in the long run?
01:42:44.000The next thing you want to do is, in your interactions with others, imagine you are standing off to the side watching that interaction happen.
01:42:53.000As you talk to someone else about something going on, imagine you're a third party watching two people talk to each other.
01:43:00.000How do you feel about the person to your left, the person to your right?
01:43:03.000That exercise is basically like, are you weak?
01:43:08.000Are you the boss who's talking down to a person?
01:43:10.000How would you feel if you watched someone do that?
01:43:12.000Then the third step is remove yourself from the physical presence and imagine this environment as it relates to the physical universe and the goings on of the world.
01:43:44.000But then when you move back and you get outside of that into the third person, the narrator, the witness, whatever, outside of the world, you're now looking at all of these people and you're going, it's a bunch of people in a bar drinking poison for literally no reason.
01:43:59.000It doesn't improve their life in any meaningful way.
01:44:01.000And it's like, now you choose where do you want to live.
01:44:05.000And most people are happy to be philosophical zombies, aka NPCs, going about their life, never asking these questions because it's painful or difficult.
01:44:15.000And some people really want to understand and know.
01:44:18.000And they may realize me sitting in this room is completely meaningless to the function of life, the universe, the betterment of mankind, or anything.
01:44:27.000And that's kind of like if you're familiar with Watchmen, when Dr. Manhattan goes to Mars and he says, tell me how this would benefit from the creation of life.
01:44:43.000I thought, okay, well, I got the monkey body.
01:44:44.000You mentioned the Brian Callum body, this thing, this animal that's going on.
01:44:47.000Then you got the brainstem creature that's like floating inside the saltwater sack of the body that's pulling on the body with electrical impulses.
01:44:55.000But why is it pulling the way it's pulling?
01:44:57.000Maybe it's every proton because every proton is apparently two protons circling around a black hole.
01:45:03.000Every proton, there's radiation refracting through every proton and through you, giving you this form of observation.
01:45:10.000So it's all these interfering, super accelerated cracks in space-time that we would call frequency.
01:45:18.000But it's like it's coming from all these different angles.
01:45:20.000You know, you've got how many trillion quadrillions of protons in your body.
01:45:23.000But then like the sun, it's also coming through the sun.
01:45:26.000So it's all these different angles like giving you an opportunity to fashion a localized version of yourself.
01:45:38.000Because if we can do it with, if we can look at what's happening with the human, we can do it with the computer too.
01:45:41.000We're going to have a computer that's like in an aqueous saline solution that we send frequency through that will bring it to life.
01:45:49.000But when you talk this way, like there's so many endless facts that like it's impossible to get to the essence of reality, which I think is almost the point of being a human being.
01:45:56.000Kant talked about that, which said you have like a groundworm can sense, you know, touch and heat.
01:46:42.000You learned something on the Tim Pool show.
01:46:45.000To your point about meditation, it is extremely useful to actually just kind of sit there and people think that it's like some kind of like mumbo jumbo thing.
01:46:53.000And it's like, just like, sit there and pay attention to your body and like think about what happens.
01:46:59.000Yeah, just sit there and pay attention to what stories are you're like telling yourself.
01:47:03.000Like you're sitting there and I'm like, I'm uncomfortable.
01:47:38.000The goal is to not speak to anyone else.
01:47:40.000Not only to not speak, not to make eye contact with anyone else, not even to read, not even to read anything.
01:47:46.000And it's meant to be, and it's a lot of people describe like they feel like they're literally going crazy because we're so, especially in this day and age, we're so overstimulated, right?
01:47:54.000And a friend of mine who did it, she said she was having a shower and she ended up reading the back of the shampoo bottle for like an hour because she was just so desperate for that.
01:48:36.000I used to find like if somebody said something I disagreed with, I would go, okay, I would start arguing.
01:48:41.000But what I think is really helpful is to take somebody who says something and to actually ask them first how they arrived at that conclusion.
01:48:51.000It's a really good way to get closer to somebody.
01:48:54.000We got to go to Rumble Rands and Super Chats.
01:48:56.000I just want to say one more thing on that point I made about a sorting algorithm, whether you're good or bad.
01:49:02.000I was thinking about this in the context of Christianity.
01:49:05.000And if you were trying to create an AI that would never deviate and would be truly devout and faithful, you literally would not care for any of the other entities that did not believe in you.
01:49:16.000Thus, only those who truly believed you are the supreme, the God, and they desperately want to be with you, would ever make it out of that system and everyone else would get deleted.
01:49:26.000But let's read your Rumble Rands and Super Chats.
01:49:28.000So smash the like button, share the show, and all of that good stuff.
01:49:31.000We have the uncensored portion of the show coming up where I take my shirt off.
01:50:11.000Igor says, whoever is pro-war or enjoys the videos of Ish getting blown up needs to be put on a plane and airdropped into Iran immediately, especially the American Persians who want this war.
01:51:18.000I screenshotted this whole thread of when I was talking with, when I was prompting this AI, and it was giving me instructions on how to sell the property at a premium for like 10x the value of it.
01:51:30.000And I was talking with Shane Cashman about doing a mini doc, and I haven't, to be honest, not the most pressing thing to me, so I haven't published it.
01:51:39.000But my address is in it several times.
01:51:41.000We have to black that out because saying like, here's my property, and it explained to me that your property exists in the Northern Virginia power corridor.
01:51:49.000These companies are looking to buy this land specifically because it needs transmission lines into Northern Virginia, and we're in West Virginia.
01:51:55.000And thus, if you sell your property quietly, it will be sold at a massive premium so long as you don't tell anybody about it.
01:52:01.000And then I was like, I'm going to go on a podcast and tell everybody about it.
01:52:05.000You know, because I'm not, you know, whatever.
01:52:07.000It said that if I kept quiet, I could probably get $100 million because we've got 50 plus acres.
01:52:13.000But if I were to reveal this, I'd probably only get 20.
01:52:23.000But Interesting thing is, look this up.
01:52:28.000There are a series of plots of land, some very notable because the price was so high in Northern Virginia.
01:52:34.000There are a ton of land sales that have occurred in Maryland, West Virginia, and Northern Virginia that are not necessarily off the books, but it's like a landowner sold a $400,000 piece of land for $7 million, quietly without a realtor, establishing a Delaware limited liability partnership, which quietly sold to another partnership and is now being combined with other parcels.
01:52:58.000And the presumption is we know it's being built here.
01:54:03.000And we are just basically like little bacterias on the surface of your skin that don't matter to it.
01:54:08.000The one idea I do like, though, coming back to this notion of we'll all be farmers, what if we could have, to me, the ideal kind of aesthetic we should be aiming towards is what my friend and I, a friend Isabel and I call techno-pastoralism.
01:54:22.000So we have all of the technology that we want, you know, all the elements.
01:54:58.000So I'm going to overly simplify this, but life is simply described as negative entropy.
01:55:04.000It can only exist so long as it's in a greater system of entropy.
01:55:08.000That is, when we look at the universe and what we exist in, it is the coalescing of free energy into complex systems at an ever-increasing scale.
01:55:18.000So you have particles becoming, you know, particles becoming atoms, atoms becoming elements, elements becoming compounds, compounds becoming molecules, molecules becoming eventually, for some reason, self-replicating proteins become single-celled organisms.
01:55:29.000Single-celled organisms eventually become multicellular organisms.
01:55:32.000Multicellular organisms eventually create ecosystems where they create abstract systems that exist within each other for the purpose of expanding their own.
01:55:38.000A squirrel plants a nut, a tree grows, the tree drops a nut, the squirrel eats it.
01:55:42.000And then humans, and then humans create abstract language and ideas, which are complexisms that don't even exist in physical reality.
01:55:49.000And thus, when you look at the single-celled organism, the first point of life after the self-replicating protein, it is free to do whatever it wants.
01:55:58.000But once it becomes part of the multicellular organism, it must not deviate.
01:56:02.000What do we call cells in the human body that deviate from their plan?
01:56:07.000So when we create the grand AI and advance from a multicellular organism network into a single multicellular organism system, there will be one brain that we are creating, a large, ultra-powerful artificial intelligence that can track literally everything that's happening.
01:56:22.000And my simple prediction for the future is that children will be born and they will be born into their jobs.
01:56:28.000Like a red blood cell or a white blood cell is born.
01:56:36.000All the appropriate media, tools, training, or otherwise to tell him the postman is the only thing you ever need or want to be.
01:56:42.000And when he's a young man at 19 years old and he's been working for a couple of years and he's in the break room, he goes, Can you believe there are people who actually want to be movie stars?
01:58:05.000So that really begs the question: is truth in the direction of something good and benevolent, or is truth just simply something that sits and it doesn't matter?
01:58:17.000So it is true I can come up with a bunch of stuff that can create a doomsday machine.
01:58:28.000If you're a scientist, you are responsive to the evidence, regardless of whether or not it's good for your career.
01:58:36.000But if you're a careerist and you're a scientist, and all your grants depend on, for example, finding out that global warming is an imminent threat, you're going to choose the data that compounds and supports the position that you have your money staked in.
01:58:57.000And so what happens, of course, is that you become a careerist.
01:59:05.000And so you're not moving in the direction of truth.
01:59:08.000And I think human beings are just, we're so it's like the old debate between Thomas Huxley, who is Darwin's sort of bulldog, and Matthew Arnold, the great philosopher and poet.
01:59:21.000And, you know, he said basically, Matthew Arnold said, we need, Thomas Huxley said, we need schools that don't teach dead languages like Latin.
01:59:31.000We need to teach engineering and we need to teach, you know, math and the things that make us strong.
01:59:38.000Matthew Arnold said, and will no longer be an interesting culture.
01:59:42.000Because there was something about this hominid, because he said, you know, we were just pointy, with pointy ears and a long tail, and we became humans.
01:59:51.000And Matthew Arnold famously said, yes, but there was something about that hominid, that monkey that lived in trees, that inspired it to speak Greek, to create Shakespeare and Aeschylus and Sophocles and all these things that in a vacuum make no sense, but it's what we stay alive for.
02:00:10.000And it's what we're prepared to die for in many ways.
02:00:13.000A culture is the cornerstone of a culture is their artistic expression.
02:00:16.000I have to recommend Star Trek the Next Generation.
02:00:18.000I'm sure you've seen every episode, right?
02:00:22.000Well, that is offensive to me, but it's okay.
02:00:26.000I recommend the episode Dharmak, which is about the Enterprise comes into contact with an alien race that the Federation has encountered several times over the past hundred years, but they find incomprehensible.
02:00:39.000And in the episode, spoiler alert, it's a 30-year-old show.
02:00:44.000They hail them and they go on screen and they're saying what appear to be just like proper nouns and locations that make no sense to anybody.
02:00:52.000And so the captain of their ship takes Picard by force to the surface of the planet and you can't understand what's going on.
02:01:00.000And the whole show is basically about trying to understand each other when you speak in a way that is different from somebody else.
02:02:02.000But when people have two versions of the truth, like people will be identifying the same thing, but they'll see two different aspects of it.
02:02:08.000And they'll both claim their aspect is the truth.
02:02:10.000Like an upside-down nine looks like a six.
02:02:12.000So if people approach the shape from two different directions, one guy will scream, I saw a six.
02:02:16.000There was a six on the ground earlier.
02:02:19.000Then they have clans that come up, they go to war.
02:02:22.000So your version of the truth is your perspective of what is, but I don't think any human can ever truly identify what is.
02:02:29.000Well, I love what you just said, though, because watch this.
02:02:32.000If I take a piano and I break it into 100 pieces and I put it there, or if I show you your genome and I say, that's a human being, or I say that's a piano.
02:02:45.000But a piano is really just that box that sits in your house.
02:02:48.000And it's not a piano until you know how to touch it the right way.
02:02:51.000And when you know how to touch it the right way, now we go, that's a piano.
02:02:54.000And you probably don't even know what kind of piano it is until you have somebody like Lang Lang sit there and play it and you go, holy shit, this makes me believe in God.
02:03:02.000And I think human beings are the same way.
02:03:06.000I always say that the best version of yourself is clearing his throat or her throat in the other room.
02:03:11.000Because we just know that we're better than this and we have potential.
02:03:17.000So the notion of the guy like Christ, the idea that we don't wear Jeff Bezos or the winners of capitalism, the winners of life around our throat neck.
02:03:28.000We somehow have this 33-year-old carpenter who did nothing wrong but was tortured to death and lost everything in life.
02:03:36.000And somehow that's who we put on a pedestal.
02:08:24.000I know someone who donated a kidney anonymously because he did the math and he was like, there are so many people on the donor list desperately needing kidneys.
02:09:28.000I met him at going on his show and we got along despite disagreeing a lot of things politically.
02:09:32.000And he's an atheist, but he has an entirely Christian moral worldview.
02:09:37.000The best example that I explained to people, my favorite example is Blackstone's formulation, which ultimately becomes the Fourth and Fifth Amendment.
02:09:43.000Why do we believe that you are innocent until proven guilty?
02:09:47.000We look at it like, look, you don't got to be a Christian.
02:09:50.000I'm an atheist and I believe the innocent.
02:10:02.000You know, that's the other thing is one of the benefits of monotheism, the notion that you have one father, is that we're all brothers and sisters.
02:10:10.000And that would mean we're all his children, which also means we're all of the same moral worth.
02:10:15.000Our entire justicism is predicated on that Christian ethic.
02:10:20.000And this is why China does not have it.
02:10:22.000So the idea is if I kill a wretch on the street or I kill Bill Gates, I do theoretically the same amount of time because you murdered someone and it doesn't matter what they did in this world.
02:10:48.000In the end, we die and then we wake up and they go, look, we're looking for murder bots for a war and you were a good person who is not aggressive at all.
02:11:17.000I was thinking about if we wanted to colonize like Alpha Centauri, and they say, like, we're not going to travel near the speed of light, but we could accelerate, I believe, to about half the speed of light theoretically, they say, but you got to start slowing down.
02:11:29.000The problem then is, how do you, if you were to get a big vessel and say it's going to be a 100-year journey, that means you're going to have a couple generations.
02:11:37.000By the time you get there, the grandparents will have never lived on Earth, have no understanding of human society, and they'll only have this culture built around living on this vessel.
02:11:47.000And that would suck because they're going to land on this planet that's probably been previously terraformed.
02:11:58.000You have babies preparing to be cloned just 40 years before contact with the planet.
02:12:06.000And when the baby is growing in the pod, its brain is connected to the neural link to simulate life on Earth at the point in which the ship was launched.
02:12:15.000Then, 40, when the ship finally arrives after 40 years, a bunch of people wake up of various ages from 40 down to like 10 years old, and they wake up in this pod shocked, like, wait, where am I?
02:12:28.000And they get greeted by a program saying the life you experienced was to give you a basic human understanding of life on Earth before you arrive to colonize the new planet, where there are tools available for you.
02:12:39.000Technology has been pre-delivered, and you will all have homes.
02:12:49.000We decide we want to colonize another planet, but we don't want to send a bunch of you don't want to colonize a planet with humans who have never experienced life in a society.
02:12:58.000So, right before it gets there, the humans are being cloned, or they're growing, or maybe not even cloned, but in vitro, right?
02:13:08.000They're basically in artificial wombs growing.
02:13:11.000And then this life where experience is wired into our brains, when you arrive, there will be 50-year-olds being like, I lived 50 years on Earth.
02:13:19.000Yes, because we needed someone of good moral standing to understand how to live, to function.
02:13:25.000And there's going to be a thousand people, and they all have different jobs.
02:13:28.000And that means a dude's going to wake up in the pod for the first time ever at 40 years old, and he's going to be a perfect neurosurgeon, arriving just in time, perfectly trained for the new colony.
02:14:03.000And everything you're learning right now is being fed into you based on their cultural experiences right now so that when you land, you are culturally relevant to them.
02:14:28.000I think with Ian, they're going to be like, the pods are going to open up and there's going to be like one custodial guy who like makes sure they're all growing.
02:14:37.000And then as everyone's getting up, they're going like, hey, what's back here in this like dark corner?
02:14:42.000And it's like, I've never gone back there.
02:14:43.000And then they walk back there and then Ian is just in this like unkempt pod that was like overlooked for a long time.
02:15:41.000Oh, I got hopefully an interesting question tonight.
02:15:45.000So, subject to gambling, I mean, I've never gambled much with money because I never had the money to do it.
02:15:52.000I only ever gambled my life because I could afford to lose that.
02:15:56.000And I've always kind of wondered if gambling with money, does that sort of get the risk-taking urge out of your system?
02:16:07.000Or if you're doing money betting, either chance games or card games, if you keep in that lifestyle or keep doing that regularly, do you start to take more risk in other areas of your life?
02:16:23.000I don't think I think gambling, the feeling of gambling is wanting to see a miracle.
02:16:38.000My interest in playing a card game like three-card poker, which is a table game, not like I just told them, is because I want to see a miracle happen.
02:16:45.000Some people, because they want to get a quick, get rich quick.
02:16:48.000If I want to make money, I'll record a podcast.
02:16:55.000I want to see that rare moment where something truly incredible happens and you're like, I can't believe you just rolled seven four times in a row.
02:17:04.000It's really exciting when that rare moment hits when someone bets on aces on craps, meaning, you know, snake eyes, and then everyone's table screams and cheers that a one in 30 hit just happened and everybody gets paid.
02:17:26.000I mean, there is obviously an element of chance in poker.
02:17:28.000So you can, it depends how you define it, but it's not as much gambling as roulette, but it's not as pure skill as 100% skill like chess is.
02:17:37.000But I mean, for me and a lot of other people, actually, they do play for the thrill of the risk.
02:17:50.000Typically, it's considered more of a male trait to like risk, right?
02:17:53.000And more of a feminine one to not like risk.
02:17:56.000And yeah, like I not so much me, but I know a lot of poker friends who literally, like they're saying is the only thing worse, so the best thing in poker is winning.
02:18:11.000The second worst thing is losing, but the worst thing of all is to never have any action in the first place.
02:18:40.000I know poker players who will bet 10x the pot, which is technically really risky, but either game theoretically, it makes sense or just because they have a sick read on the person.
02:18:49.000So just semantically, I'll tell you my distinction here is you're saying that when it makes sense mathematically, like they have an edge, they will make a move, which is reducing risk.
02:23:53.000I love it when I look down at Ace King and I'm in early position and I bet and the button calls and then the board runs out ace king queen and I'm like, I've won.
02:25:44.000That's what happens with poker all the time.
02:25:46.000The issue is, for whatever reason, poker has this amazing ability to convince people who have never studied the game they're good at the game.
02:27:57.000At least I seem to kick off a good conversation.
02:27:59.000Well, I guess the real root of my question is, especially like for you, Tim, after you've spent a good day at the casino, does that make you want to jump off the roof of a building with a skateboard more or less?
02:28:12.000Well, so I'm just not a gambler, you know?
02:28:18.000I don't like playing games that are coin flips.
02:28:21.000If I go to a casino, it's going to be for a poker game.
02:28:25.000And boy, I love PLO because PLO is just so incredibly soft.
02:28:32.000But I don't like unnecessary risk, and I don't risk large sums of money.
02:28:37.000I will never play a game that is any risk at all to my life.
02:28:46.000I've broken a bone one time skateboarding was because someone else hit me and that wasn't my fault.
02:28:50.000When I skateboard, one story I got for you is when I was 16, I was jumping off of, it was about five feet high and about maybe seven feet long.
02:29:09.000And it took me, I don't know, like, you know, 10 or 12 tries.
02:29:13.000So I'm spinning backwards, landing on the ground, sliding out, getting up, trying again.
02:29:17.000And then I finally land it and I'm like, nailed it.
02:29:20.000Then a little kid, five minutes later, is running through the park, trips and falls right where I was and breaks his wrist.
02:29:26.000And I'm just like, I can jump off this thing going, you know, like 13 miles an hour or whatever, spinning backwards to where I can't see, and there are zero injuries at all.
02:30:48.000The adventure is not knowing what's going to come next.
02:30:50.000My point is, we understand risks and all things, but we usually presume there isn't any.
02:30:55.000So I've been on the ground covering riots and civil unrest.
02:30:58.000I've been to foreign countries, and it's all technically risky, but I would never go somewhere that I actually expected something bad to happen.
02:31:06.000We always rob under the presumption that it's rare and likely not going to happen.
02:31:10.000So I guess the issue is I just disregard risk and take actions where the presumption of risk is low.
02:31:20.000Oh, there's really only a handful of jobs like police, firefighter, military where you have to actively run towards the danger and the rest.
02:31:28.000Well, it takes a special kind of stupid to do that.
02:31:31.000I'll give journalists half the credit on that one.
02:31:35.000I'll give journalism half points because we literally would run towards the riots, the explosions, the gunfire.
02:31:42.000Unfortunately, most of the journalism industry isn't that.
02:31:45.000But yeah, do you want to shout anything out, brother?