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observe is people telling me they observed something pretty sketchy, right? But if I had observed it myself I would likewise be subject to confirmation bias. So the fact that other people are telling me and maybe they have confirmation bias probably doesn't change much because if I had directly seen it myself I'd probably have the same confirmation bias. So let me say this as clearly as possible…
← Previous segment →heir own choices one way or another, we would, we could close 90% of our hospitals and still have extra capacity. So Chris, have you not noticed that most of the reasons people are in the hospital are bad choices? Now you think this one's a bad choice. Other people don't. So I'll recognize that people disagree whether vaccination is a good or bad choice. But that's mostly what the medical community does. The entire medical community is correcting for your dumb ass mistakes. I mean of course people are dying from natural causes, but when was the last time you saw somebody in the hospital waiting room or the emergency room who looked perfectly fit? And if they do it's a broken leg because they did something dumb, right? It seems to me that a tremendous amount of our entire health care budget is correcting people's dumb ass choices in life. So why would you call this one out to be special? It's not special at all. We're making a bad choice every time we wake up. Exercise today? Nah, I'm busy. Eat less? Not today, right? Smoke less? Okay.
Provocatively I asked this question: Is it just a coincidence that everything I try to influence goes my way? Is that just a coincidence? Probably not a hundred percent. But have you ever noticed that coincidence that whenever I'm persuading on a particular topic it seems to go my way? Well today we learned that Great Britain has decided that nuclear energy will be the cornerstone of their plan to get to zero carbon emissions. Great Britain is all in on nuclear power. Now Adam Townsend had a podcast, I think it was yesterday, in which he had an expert from Oklo, I think Oklo, a new generation nuclear startup, and asked this question on my behalf. So Adam had solicited questions to ask these experts and one of my questions got asked. And it was, if America can't get nuclear, if we can't get n
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uclear in America, how can we get it in space? Now the expert explained that because it's space, the type of energy you can use up there is not every kind of energy. You couldn't burn oil or you can't use coal in space. You can't run an extension cord for electricity. So there's lots of things you can't do to get energy in space. But the one thing you can do is nuclear. In fact we already do it. I…
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