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flexible. Like we respond to stuff like almost a creature. It's kind of awesome. Anyway I've got a new hashtag to represent the fact that the people leading the country are the people we trust. It's hashtag NoJoe because we've got leadership without Joe. Rogan I'm sorry without, we do we do have Joe Rogan. We have leadership without Joe Biden. So it's sort of a no-Joe situation. You've heard of s…
← Previous segment →to compete with whatever we have formed here which is an organic super brain? Because I would guess that for every computer that has a way to beat us there's at least one person who knows a way to beat it. So I'm not so sure that's not a fair fight because we have numbers if nothing else right?
Well as soon as there's a super intelligence the first thing you should do is block the other super intelligences. If it wants, if it has some kind of survival impulse at all it's not going to kill people first because it needs people for electricity. So the moment the super intelligence appears as soon as the super intelligence appears, let's see I want to make sure that I'm not being summoned somewhere. Nope all good. It's going to be a fair fight. But anyway the first AI would get rid of any competing AIs because the AI would want to rule if it had some kind of like self-preservation built into it.
All right that ladies and gentlemen is what I was planning to talk about. Was there any topic I forgot? Anything I forgot? Rams or 49ers? Not really watching sports too much.
Was the destruction of the family marriage system planned? It doesn't seem natural. You know I tend to think that not that many things are planned. I happen to be a proponent of alternate family system let's say. Normalization. While I completely agree with the general let's say traditional American view I'll call it traditional as opposed to correct. The traditional American view is that the family unit is the building block of the country. Is that a good way to say it? Would you say that's correct? Like you're not going to have a strong country without strong building blocks and the strongest building blocks are the family unit.
All right now that said how many of you are rocket scientists? Well probably not many because there are very few people who would be born with the ability to be good at that to be a rocket scientist. How many of you are NBA professionals? Well not many. Yeah so the only point is the human capability is very distributed. How many people who become parents are good at it? Well many there are many people who are very good at being parents. Maybe even most. Maybe 60 percent right? I don't think it's 60. If I had to guess I'd say 30 tops who are really good at it. What would you say? How many would you say are let's say good enough at it that they are helping their children more than damaging them? What would you say are the ones who are really the positives? I'm seeing everything from 10 to 75, 80. Somebody said 80, 90. So I think the people saying 80 and 90 that may be more of a philosophical answer. I don't know that that's a functional answer. I can't believe that you would actually think that. So I think maybe you're adding something to my question before you answer it.
All right so I'll give you my guess but you could use your own guess to go with the rest of this. In my opinion the very best situation would be two really qualified parents or at least one and a family unit. Do we all agree with that? As long as the parents are qualified meeting whatever the minimum is that's the best thing. But the trouble is in my opinion maybe as many as two-thirds of all parents are not qualified and never will be meaning that they just don't add anything. You know the kids would be better off if they just visited their parents and had somebody else figure out what to do with them.
Now realistically I don't know how many of you have learned this but you basically have a lot to do with your kids until they go to school. Now it's not an absolute but for all practical purposes you're done raising your kids. I hate to tell you you're kind of done when they go to school. You don't want to be. You try pretty hard but whatever influences they're picking up at school are just going to overwhelm what's happening at home. So you can make really big strides before they go to school you know set the base. And the younger they are the more you can fight with the school to influence. But by the time they reach high school, by the time they reach high school 14, 13, do you think you have much influence on them? They're kind of baked by that.
So now I know that some of you have special children and I mean this in a positive way. Some of you have children who will listen to you all of your lives. They'll actually look you in the eye. They'll take your advice and then they'll implement it. Like that exists. But if you're lucky enough to have those kinds o
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f kids don't imagine that that's common. Please please don't imagine that. If everybody used your wise parenting standards and your setting limits don't believe that that works for other people. Other people could do exactly what you're doing and get completely different results. So you have to understand that one size doesn't fit all for almost anything. And I don't think the family unit makes s…
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