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lity, I don't know, 10 or something. That's about it. So if you think I'm saying that Ivermectin definitely doesn't work in any scenario whatsoever because there's a study that says that, I guess I just can't do that anymore. I just can't tell you because there's a high-quality study that it's true. It just doesn't work in 2022. But let me say this, and this is not based on analysis. It's based o…

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but evil? I don't know. Can you get a handful of evil? Can you measure it? This one's 200 evil. This other one, I don't know.

Evil is real, but it's real in the sense of how we process our environment. So for some of you it's real. For me I've never sensed it, felt it, framed it that way, considered it as even anything important. Yeah, the Nazi death camps. Okay, there, let's take the extreme example. The Nazi death camps. That could all be explained in terms of normal human processes because we know that we can get underlings to do literally anything. Are they evil or are they just underlings who will do anything because they're afraid of whatever happens to them? I don't know.

And then some of the underlings are sadists, form of mental illness you could argue, or is it a personality disorder? I never know. But I don't know. I guess I would say that I don't have a use for that frame, which is different than saying it doesn't exist.

So the question of does evil exist is unanswerable because whatever it is, it's not like you can — there's no measuring device for it. There's no such thing as a detector for it. So we'll never agree on whether it exists or not. But could we agree it doesn't have a use? Like framing the world that way, does it help? I feel like it would just be scary to live in a world that you framed as full of evil and demons, whereas I just see broken stuff. Oh, there's somebody with a broken brain and they might act a certain way. Yeah. So yeah, maybe it's useful within the context of a religion.

Scientists have finally completed the human genome. So we have actually for the first time a hundred percent of the human genome has been mapped. So we're going to learn a lot more about genetic diseases and stuff. It was only eight percent of it or so the l

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ast eight percent, I guess, is all we didn't have already. But now imagine putting together artificial intelligence with the human genome, with medical records, with DNA. I don't think we fully understand what's about to happen. You see what I'm saying? The full human genome, DNA about individuals, access to all kinds of medical records that are, I think at this point we don't have access to them…

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