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Chapter 1: What is the highlight of human civilization?
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He's the founder of Salesforce. Very smart, very futurist-looking kind of a guy. He was reposting on X a video of a company showing off their robot, and he said that if you take DeepSeek, which is that Chinese AI that costs just pennies to use, and you combine it with Unitree, which is basically a cheap humanoid-looking robot. It goes for about $16,000.
I think there might be an expensive version, too. He said that it's not a science fiction anymore, so we're right on the verge of AI plus robots, except... I'm pretty sure that the video he sent around was CGI. I don't think we're close. I don't think that the current version of AI, no matter what you do, you're not going to make a robot be able to generally do stuff.
I think it's always either CGI, where they find one robot doing one thing, and then they show it to you and you go, ooh. Look at that robot removing glasses from the dishwasher. And then you realize that's sort of all it can do. If you tried to do something else, we would forget how to do the dishwasher thing. So I don't think we're even close. But it'll sneak up on us really quickly.
There is, however, according to Hamza Abbas, a new kind of AI technology. So the current ones are large language models where all they do is predict what the next word will be, but they don't really understand anything. They just predict what the next word will be. But there's a new kind of AI called an LCM, a large concept model.
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Chapter 2: How can AI and robots change the future?
So instead of looking at words and just predicting what word comes next, they somehow can predict can master concepts. And then they put these concepts together and then they're supposed to be smarter. But apparently Meta is doing this. And I think I'm going to wait on this because, again, I'm very skeptical that this would give you enough AI to put in a robot and make you feel good about it.
I do think we'll get to the point where there's AI and robots, but I don't think we're as close as any of the smart people are saying. It just doesn't look like the technology can do it. Anyway, the TikTok, as you know, either has to be bought or go out of business in the United States. But Perplexity, the company that does that cool little Perplexity app, which I highly recommend, it's awesome.
So they've got a pretty good bid. Or at least they've got a good concept for a bid. They want to buy TikTok. And they would sort of integrate it in some ways with the perplexity. So one of the things you could do is if you did a search, one of the things that might come up with would be a TikTok video. But that's only if they buy it. They would rebuild TikTok's algorithm from scratch.
They put it in American data centers. They'd make the recommendation system transparent and open source. And they'd upgrade the AI infrastructure using NVIDIA's technology and a bunch of other stuff. But they're not the only ones who want to buy it. You've also got a bunch of investors led by somebody named Frank McCourt. He must be very rich.
And I think Microsoft and Oracle, yeah, they're part of it too. So there's a lot of people who want to buy it, but I don't think China wants to sell it. So they may just decide to go into business in the U.S. We'll see. there's a study out of Northwestern that showed that ordinary people can persuade people on political topics. Do you believe that?
So they did a study, and it's led by Northwestern University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. And what they did was they had ordinary people send their arguments to other ordinary people and see if anybody could change anybody's mind on some political topics.
Amazingly, 30% of the people who were targeted, they all knew they were in the study, but 30% of them changed their opinions after citizens tried to persuade them. And allegedly... What they learned is what kind of persuasion works to change somebody's mind about politics. So here's what they think they found. That it's better if you pace. That's a term I've taught you before.
You sort of match the person you're supposed to persuade. So instead of coming at them as, I have superior knowledge. If only you knew what I knew. That doesn't work. In fact, they called that out as the bad way to persuade. So you don't want to start off with all of your news sources are fake. I know everything you know, but you don't know everything I know.
And if you were as smart as I am, you would have a different opinion. Apparently that doesn't work at all, surprisingly. But what does work is if you identify the topic as if through the lens of the person you're trying to persuade. So you sort of adopt their point of view to show that you can. And then you don't seem like you're the superior one lording it over him.
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Chapter 3: What does the new study say about political persuasion?
And they would just have a little bit of better feeling about us because we joined their club. Isn't that interesting? So there's no downside. Apparently there's no downside whatsoever, but there's a potential upside. It would just be a little bit easier to do business and resolve disputes if you were part of the same commonwealth. Huh. I didn't see that coming.
so all right let's test so i used the persuasion technique that i told you and i picked a topic that most of you didn't have a hardened opinion about because it was just on a left field how many of you started out like i did started out with hell no hell no we're not giving away our sovereignty
But then when I explained that there's no sovereignty change whatsoever, but there might be some economic benefit that's not super obvious, but makes sense. Anybody change their mind? Did anybody say, huh, you know, actually that doesn't sound terrible. I'm just looking at your comments to see if I changed any minds. All right, you can work on that.
According to the Amuse account on X that you should all be following, Quinnipiac, they got a latest poll that says, for the first time ever, the congressional Democrats are underwater, meaning fewer than 50% of their base likes them, while at the same time, congressional Republicans are approaching record high favorability.
So at the same time, Democrats are at record low favorability, or they're in that neighborhood, Republicans in Congress are at record high favorability. Now, that should be enough to guarantee that the midterms go to the Republicans. But, you know, nothing really works that easily. But it's quite a period in time.
It does further suggest that the Democrats don't have policies and plans that the public is interested in. You probably are aware that there's a new book out by two Democrats, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, and the book is called Abundance. And I heard some people say Democrats say positive things about it and say it's all the buzz and everybody's talking about it.
So I thought to myself, huh, what could this book be about? So I asked AI to summarize it. And as far as I could tell, the suggestion in the book is for Democrats to become Republicans and just act like it was always their idea. Now, I didn't read the book. So there's a very good chance that I'm not summarizing it correctly.
But the abundance refers to using capitalism in its best way to create enough stuff so your prices go down. So if you use capitalism properly, there would be more homes and then they would be more affordable. If you use capitalism properly, there'd be more food and your prices would go down. There'd be more gas and your prices would go down. So how do they do that?
Well, a big part of it is removing regulations that aren't critical. Now, what does that sound like? It's literally just mainstream Republican policy. Let's bring our manufacturing back to our shores. Let's get rid of burdensome regulations. It just sounds exactly like being a Republican.
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Chapter 4: Is the U.S. considering joining the British Commonwealth?
Because the point is that he was being discriminated against for his race and maybe his gender. So if he found a clever workaround so he wouldn't be discriminated by his race, that's not unethical. That's not immoral. That's nothing but playing the system the way it was designed. So good for him.
Nicole Shanahan, who, as you know, was sort of one of the leaders, if not the leader, of a movement to get LA Mayor Karen Bass recalled because of her terrible performance, especially around the LA fires. But as Nicole Shanahan is warning us, It went from, in January and February, she said, just about everyone in L.A. was calling for me to help seed the recall of Mayor Bass.
Ha!
Well, there it is. The most predictable thing in the world. And Nicole says, I can't think of anything more pathetic than race baiting your community after literally burning it to the ground. I have some advice. You should get away from the cities. The cities are not fixable. And the sooner you realize that, the better you'll be.
Now, I don't know if you can get away from them because, you know, I live in California. If L.A. and San Francisco go down the drain, I don't think I would be unaffected. Seems like my taxes would double again or some damn thing. But anything you can do to get away from cities, because there's no fixing that. And the reason there's no fixing it is identity is
going to be the main criteria and doesn't look like anything's going to change that. And as long as identity goes first and competence is not the top goal, you're not going to get anything better. Meanwhile, actor Rob Lowe was on a podcast kind of thing talking to the star of Severance. His name is Adam Scott. I almost forgot his name. His name is almost exactly my name, Adam Scott.
Anyway, Rob Lowe was saying that if you were going to make a TV show or a movie today, you would never make it in California because California would just be higher taxes, higher regulations. He said it would be cheaper to take everybody from L.A. that's involved with the movie, including the extras, you know, hundreds of people,
and moved them all to Ireland and filmed the entire thing in Ireland. Just to pick one country as an example. Other countries too. So the other countries have, or other states too, have tax breaks and they make it easy. But California has destroyed its own most important industry after tech. Can you believe that? That California is so poorly managed
that nobody in their right mind would make a movie here anymore. Oh, my God. Now, that's from Rob Lowe, and they talk about walking through the studios and they're just ghost towns. All of Hollywood is dead. All of Hollywood is dead. And if you've seen any recent movies... I tried to watch... What's the one that's like the prequel to The Wizard of Oz? Is it The Wiz?
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of the Democrats' popularity decline?
Now, even if none of that causes anybody to say, okay, I have a conflict and stand down, even if it doesn't change any of the behavior, wouldn't we be better off knowing which ones are clearly in the bag? Because there's nobody who thinks that if your spouse or your adult daughter are deeply involved with one side of the political spectrum, nobody thinks that has no effect on the judge.
Obviously it does, because you couldn't go home unless you ruled in a way that your spouse and your daughter approved of.
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Well, speaking of the legal and justice system, lawyer Jeff Clark explains how dangerously close we came, according to him, in the 2020-2024 period to become a one-party political monopoly, meaning a Democrat monopoly. And he talks about what causes all these law firms to be not just a little bit Democrat, but seriously Democrat. And he kind of draws out the whole picture.
So you've got our education system managed by Democrats mostly. So kids are being raised to be Democrats. And then they go to law school and their law professors are all Democrats, pretty much. And then it just turns them into Democrats if they weren't already.
And if they were conservative and if they somehow get through the system and join a big law firm, they have to kind of pretend they're not because it would be terrible for their career in the current situation to be the lone conservative in the law firm. That's just not going to work. So the conservatives have had to hide and just pretend they're not conservatives.
And by the way, I have dealt with a lawyer not too long ago who said that directly to me. Yeah, I'm the hidden conservative. I don't tell people I am in the real world. Somebody told me he had to hide his political opinion. Yep. And he was eventually not allowed to work with me. Let me say that again.
There was a lawyer for a local law firm who had agreed to work with me until the rest of the law firm said, you can't work with him. And he had to pull back. That's a real thing. So if you think that conservatives are getting the same legal services as Democrats, they're not. Not even close. And they went so far as to
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