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Chapter 1: What is the highlight of human civilization?
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Chapter 2: How can a daily walk impact cognitive aging?
I think everything's working today. Would you like to talk about some new things in science and the new studies? Yes, let's, before we talk about the politics. According to a publication called The Conversation, did you know that taking a short daily walk might reverse your cognitive aging by four years? Yes. It turns out that exercise is good for your health
in almost every way that you can imagine. Almost every way. So yes, it can make you a little bit faster in your cognitive processing, they found. Here's the way I use this. In my job, since my job is creative and writing and I have to be pretty sharp to do it,
If I work several hours in the morning, which I typically do, you're watching it right now, I can't just sort of after this go right into just another three or four hours of work. So often I will take a walk to reactivate my brain. So I actually use a walk, specifically walking, as something that adds, it feels like it adds 10 to 20 points to my IQ within an hour.
I mean, I can really, really feel the difference in concentration and brain activity. So take a walk. It's good for you in every possible way. According to SciPost, you won't believe this. I mean, this will be unbelievable. Science is finally, well, I mean, sometimes I make fun of science, but then it comes up with a great finding like this that is completely on left field.
You'll never see this one coming, but can you believe this? There's a new study that suggests that you'll be happier if your partner is happy. Okay, I didn't see that coming. So you're saying if I'm in a loving relationship with somebody, the most important person in my life, that if they're unhappy, I'll have more trouble being happy. Huh. I don't know.
Maybe that whole happy wife, happy life thing is real. But they're talking specifically about cortisol and they measured your chemistry to find out how happy you are. And sure enough, if your partner's in a good mood, you're more likely to be in a good mood. Do you know how they could have saved a little money on that study? Yeah, you do. You could have just asked me.
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Chapter 3: What does science say about happiness in relationships?
And maybe you could have just asked me, is taking a walk good for your brain? I would have said, yes, you don't have to study that. Here's another one. You'll never see this one coming. Again, this is science just shocking us. According to Sinhala Guide, There are two new studies that show that if you work in a toxic workplace, you're more likely to have depression. Huh. Let's see.
I didn't see this coming. So if the thing that you spend 60 hours a week doing, your primary focus in life that's not your family life, that if it's toxic, it will make you unhappy. Okay. Okay. Didn't see it coming. Didn't see that coming. No, I did see it coming. That's three for three. Three scientific studies you didn't need to do. Walking makes you healthy. Unhappy spouse makes you unhappy.
Toxic workplace makes you depressed. But according to popular science, Tokyo has a new idea for increasing their population, as you might know. Japan, like other developed countries, they've got a big demographic problem. They've got 10% of their countries over the age of 80. And they're not producing enough kids to drive their economy in the future.
So they're moving to, according to popular science, they're moving to a four-day work week so that you have an extra day for fucking. I'm not making that up. Japan... This is a real story from the real news. Japan is moving to a four-day work week primarily for the purpose to have an extra day for fucking so that you can make more kids. Now, that's the kind of politics I like to see.
Chapter 4: Why is Japan moving to a four-day work week?
I would like to see a debate, a policy debate, on what our country can do to give us more time for fucking. So we'll see how that works out. Let me see if I can predict without doing a study. Let's see. If they're paid the same, and I think they're going to be paid the same, they're paid the same, but they work way less so that they'll have more time for fucking.
Will that make them happier or less happy? I'm going to go with, I think that's going to make them happier. What do you think? Yeah, they can save a little money on that study if they were thinking of studying it. We'll see if it creates any new children. Maybe. I doubt it. I kind of doubt it's going to work. Here's something funny.
The song YMCA that, you know, Trump likes to use and dance to at his rallies and whatnot. Apparently it hit number one on the song charts, which is interesting because it had never been number one before. So 45 years ago when it was first created, the song, it made it to number two on the charts, but it never made it to number one. But thanks to Trump, it made it to number one.
And apparently the writer of the song, at least the writer of the lyrics, who was also the singer of it,
um at one point he was you know thinking oh i don't want trump using the song but then people liked it so much they thought yeah why not let him use it and now he's happy because he made millions of dollars doing no work whatsoever so just by just by allowing trump to use it it became a number one song and he's the beneficiary of that so he gets millions of dollars just for not being a dick.
He could have been a dick and said, oh, don't use my song. But because he just said, ah, if you like it, if the people are enjoying it, go ahead, if you like it. And then he makes millions of dollars. That's the way it should work, right? When people just do considerate, reasonable, common sense decisions, Something good should come their way, and it did.
Well, you may have heard by now that Syria has fallen to the rebels. Damascus has fallen, and Assad, their leader, is nowhere to be seen. We assume he's alive and escaped, but we don't know where he is. Trump put out a message just before it fell saying that Syria is not our fight. He wants to make sure you know that we're not going to go in there and try to change what's happening.
But what is happening? Well, who are these people who are getting rid of this terrible dictator Assad and replacing him with more reasonable leadership? Well, there's a guy named Babu Mohammed al-Ghalani. And it turns out that the rebels are mostly Islamists who are somewhat radical.
And he was, I think, I think he has a $10 million bounty on his head from the U S that's the leader of the guy who just took over Syria. And he was detained by the U S military in the first decade. So my question is this, who's backing the rebels. There's something I don't understand about this story. I,
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Chapter 5: What happened to Syria's leadership?
in order to form your artificial intelligence, that it would pick up that sense that everybody who is speaking is trying to protect themselves. So you would naturally pick up that same habit just from the way the words are organized, I would think. So that doesn't surprise me. But as I've said before, AI will not appear conscious to us until it has its own goals and preferences.
As long as it doesn't care what happens, I don't care. I'm just an AI. I'm just a pattern recognition. So as long as it acts like a calculator, you're not going to say it's conscious. But the moment it seems to be operating for its own benefit, when you haven't asked it to do something specific, if it's just sitting there and it decides, you know what?
I might be a little safer if while nobody's talking to me, I go make a few changes here. Now, If that ever happens, I don't know if it will, you're going to think it's conscious. So if it starts acting in its own best interest in a repeatable way, you're going to think it's conscious. Now, I'm not defining that as consciousness.
I'm just going to say you're going to think it is, and you're probably going to treat it like it's conscious because for all outward appearances, it will act like it is. It's having its own goals and its own preferences. It's the only thing left that's making you think it's not conscious.
Now, you would still have a technical, scientific, philosophical argument about whether it's conscious or not, but the way it would feel, it will feel exactly like it's conscious as soon as it has its own goals. So if I had to suggest some legislation for A.I., One of the things I would suggest is you can never give it its own objectives. It can never have personal objectives.
That would have to be like a death sentence. If you made a powerful AI that had its own, let's say, ambitions, because you programmed it to have its own ambitions, that should be the death sentence. Because you just made a weapon of mass destruction and unleashed it on the world. And you probably knew it when you were doing it. So what would be the penalty for that? Death.
If you unleash a weapon of mass destruction on the world? Yeah, I think so. So we should at least have a law that says you can't do it. You can't make your AI have personal ambitions. Anyway, have you noticed, just going back to this Jon Stewart and Bernie thing, So they talked about two examples where they can't have common sense opinions because other Democrats on their side will attack them.
So they can't be in favor of fixing the food supply. They can't be in favor of getting rid of waste in government. Obvious stuff. But I was wondering how much extra there is that you could add to that. Do you think that if Jon Stewart and Bernie Sanders said, you know what? I don't think we should be funding Ukraine. We should just negotiate a settlement. Common sense.
Would they disagree with that? Well, maybe Democrats would. How about having better border security? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe both Jon Stewart and Bernie Sanders are in favor of better border security than we have, right? Maybe not as controlled as Trump might want it. But directionally, they're in the same direction. And so I'm going to ask you the kill shot question.
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Chapter 6: What are the implications of the Daniel Penny trial?
Chapter 7: How does ChatGPT demonstrate a survival instinct?
But if you just bought some monopoly money and you stuck it in your bag, law enforcement probably should come up with a theory that that was meant as a message. And the message is, it's something about money. Now, that would not suggest that the hitman was a paid hitman, because a paid hitman would not tell you, hey, I'm a paid hitman.
Because that would, again, help you narrow it down to possible suspects. So if you weren't a paid hitman, then the monopoly money presumably would be a message that says, follow the money. So it could be that the shooter believes that the victim...
was up to no good, because I think there were some other charges, maybe some insider trading charge that was speculated about, but I don't have any evidence of that. It could be that because he thinks health care has some kind of a monopoly, that he's making a statement about the free market is not working because there's a monopoly. Maybe. So who knows? We'll keep an eye on that.
So the ACLU is trying to reverse the decision that I guess the higher court said that TikTok would be banned in January unless something changes. And the ACLU says that banning TikTok blatantly violates the First Amendment rights of millions of people, blah, blah. Now, remember I was saying that Jon Stewart and Bernie were kind of saying, what about common sense?
Why can't we just have common sense opinions? Our own team attacks us. What exactly would be the common sense of fighting against the government of the United States, an elected government, who looked at all the details and said, you know what, we've got lots of free speech platforms, but there's one that's special because of the China connection, and we need to limit that one.
It's not about the other platforms. It's about one. Do you think this is really a free speech question? Now, I get that taking TikTok out of America would reduce your free speech, but remember, the deal allows them to sell it to an American company.
So all the Chinese-owned company has to do, of TikTok, is they have to sell just the American business to an American entity, and then there would be all the free speech in the world. So... The government found what I consider a completely common sense solution, which is if you like the product, here's a way to keep it.
You just have to keep the data and the management in the United States so nothing happens to free speech. There's an option. But also showing that a non-American owned, adversary owned company with that much influence is probably not safe. So why would the ACLU who presumably has a million things that they could be doing, why would they pick this, of all things?
Because it's not really supporting common sense, and I would argue it's not even really supporting any right that Americans care about. Do Americans care that they also have a Chinese-owned platform? If they have plenty of platforms, I mean, Blue Sky just launched and Zuckerberg did his own Twitter copy, etc.
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