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ictatorship because people prefer it, because the alternative is being incompetent, having Congress muddle around? Yeah. Now the problem of course is that if you take it too far, let's say for example this latest bombing attack, let's say that when Trump did it and also when Biden did it, that let's say it was extra-constitutional, meaning the Constitution doesn't quite support this act. But what…
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All right, now let me take that story into this next news item. There was a man, I guess his last name was Raja Gopal. I think it was India. Was it India? Might have been Pakistan. I forget. But he's from the Karnataka Hassan district, so somebody can tell me where that is. But anyway, he was riding his motorcycle and a cheetah or a leopard, it's not clear, attacked his family. Just like came from the bushes and attacked them and bit his son in the leg and starts attacking his son and wife.
This guy, who's not some fighter or hero or anything, he's just a guy, gets off his motorcycle and kills the leopard with his bare hands to save his family. He actually grabbed the leopard and strangled it. Did he get hurt in the process? Oh yeah, he did. Yeah, he got hurt. But he also saved his family and strangled a leopard or maybe a cheetah. A leopard, I don't know. It's pretty bad either way.
Now that's the prisoner island story. This is the prisoner island story. Now I don't know anything about the guy who did this, but it makes me wonder, does he have the prisoner island story in his head, some version of it? Has he carried a model of himself through his life that when he came to this situation the model kicked in and there was no doubt who was going to win the fight and that he was going to fight?
Now it probably was just reflex of somebody saving his family, so probably there wasn't a lot of thinking going on. It was just reflex. But whether or not he had the prisoner island story in his head, he has it now. He has it now. The next time he gets in a situation that you and I would be frightened to death of, he knows he can get through it or has gotten through something similarly dangerous.
So make yourself a prisoner island story. It doesn't have to be real. It just becomes the program that runs in your head. Could come in handy if you were attacked by a leopard.
Have you seen the videos of the Tom Cruise deepfakes? Look on my timeline if you haven't seen them yet. They're, I don't even know what to think about them. So there's some discussion about whether they're real deepfakes. They're actually so good that you can't tell if they're deepfakes. And some people are saying, ah, you got fooled. It's really just a look-alike. It's a look-alike pretending to be a deepfake. Maybe. Maybe. I can't tell. I can't tell if it's a real person. I also can't tell if it's actually Tom Cruise who's playing a prank. It doesn't quite look like Tom Cruise to me. So my personal opinion is it's not Tom Cruise. I can't rule out a look-alike, but it did look a lot like him.
Now somebody says too tall. Well, I don't know if you could tell from the video his height, but here's the thing. That's how good a deepfake is right now, that we can't even tell if it was really a deepfake. How good do you think the best ones are? Because this is just something that ran on Twitter, right? It's just something on social media. How is the best one? Don't you assume that there are government versions of this? You know, where we're working on it for both offensive and defensive reasons.
Because I have to think these deepfakes have a military application that's through the roof. What would happen? And you know we're working on this,
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right? Well, I don't feel like I'm giving away a state secret because it's kind of obvious. Don't you think that our government and probably other ones are putting together deepfakes of other leaders and deepfakes of terrorists? Don't you think if we had a good deepfake of Osama bin Laden we could have made some videos and put them into the system and caused people to act differently because they…
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