sound good but you hope it won't hurt you too much. Disney made a gigantic mistake but they didn't do it intentionally. They did not intentionally destroy their business or degrade it by doing something like that. I don't think they quite saw the DeSantis pushback coming. So to imagine that it's similar, that somebody accidentally hurts their business by saying things they think wouldn't hurt but it did, that's completely different from an insurance company saying look we'd better make ourselves super unprofitable or else we won't look woke enough. That's not happening. That's not happening anywhere ever. No insurance company behind the scenes is going to tell you, well behind the scenes they're going to make money. They wouldn't be talking out loud to help themselves in this case. Do you think? Yeah, I feel it would just hurt them if you knew what they were doing. They're just trying to make money, period.

All right, there is something called, and I don't know too much about it, some kind of the Q-PARQ framework for having rational discussions without all the crazy stuff that happens. They saw Brett Weinstein talking about it and I think he invited Sam Harris to be part of it. And the idea is there's this useful framework for debating and if you use the framework, and I think there's some software that helps you work through it or something, I don't know all the details, but the idea is that you could use some third-party format to keep two people on a sane and reasonable debate. What do you think of that? Suppose the technology works. So let's take an assumption. I don't know that that's true but let's say that technology works. Will this change everything? Because now you'd have a way for people in the debate, getting rid of all the crazy parts so you could actually see the debate. No, it won't. Do you know what's wrong with this problem? It solves the non-existing problem. Because the reason that people say crazy things during debates is that they don't want to say the real thing. The real thing doesn't help them. The reason people lie is that the truth doesn't give them power or entertainment. People want to watch the news or interpret the news or get their preferred interpretation through the news. They want to win debates because they want power and we watch them because we want entertainment.

As soon as you imagine the people's main motivation is to guess something right you're completely lost. Nobody's main motivation is to get the right answer. The main motivation is to be right and to get power. Now people think that if they had power they would do the right things in some way. That's the right thing too. But nobody cares about the logic of a debate. So you're solving a problem that isn't a problem because debates are intentionally, if anybody wanted to debate in a reasonable way they don't. They already know how to do it. Do you think that Brett Weinstein and Sam Harris don't have the intellectual tools to have a rational discussion? Of course they do. Of course they do. But would they do it? Those might be two of the most famously rational people in our public discussions and I don't even think they could do it. And I have a very high opinion of both of them in terms of their intellectual academic credentials, right? I just don't know it's something people can do. Because I had a conversation with Sam Harris and it was not my opinion that logic was guiding his opinion. Some of you saw it too, right? Did you have a sense that he preferred logic? I didn't. I didn't get the sense that it was even a preference. It felt like a strong preference to avoid being rational about Trump. That's how it felt. Now again I can't read his mind. I don't know what Sam Harris is thinking privately about anything so it's just a reaction on my end. It's not about him.

All right, so I love the fact that somebody's working on that, trying to get our conversations realistic. But I think AI is going to solve this problem for us. And here's how. I think AI is going to take any story and add the context that is missing and it's going to rewrite it in simpler terms and make the misleading headlines go away. It should not be hard for AI to dismantle fake news and tell you what was fake about it just like I did basically. So what I did was I said hey this title doesn't match or it's misleading compared to the content. I think hey I could do that most of the time and I think they could summarize better and I think they could basically solve fake news. I mean they could come close.

Foreign is Google the top AI? I actually don't know that. And I believe I credited the wrong person was saying that AI was conscious. So I saw a follow-up saying that I may have accredited the top Google researcher for saying that AI was conscious but at least somebody who knows what they're talking about thinks I was crediting the wrong person. Because I think the actual Google head does not say that. So somebody who's high up in that world did say it.

All right, he was considered one of the four horsemen of atheism. Yeah, Cody the life maker. All right, just looking at your comments. Well that's all I had to talk about today. I noticed Greg Gutfeld was trending today. His show has continued to be gigantically popular. It was weird that weirdo hired a lawyer for the AI. I don't know that story.

Oh, let's talk about Pelosi going to Taiwan. I don't know, is that really a story? I think it would be a story if Pelosi didn't go to Taiwan. If she had wanted to and changed her mind or something. But I feel as though it's sort of a nothing. Yeah, it's absolutely a story because we'll talk about it. But what do you think China's going to do? Do you think China is going to punish the United States in some way for an American citizen who is a free citizen going to another free country to visit? You think they're going to punish us for that? I hope so. I hope so. Boy do I hope China tries to punish us for Pelosi visiting Taiwan. Yeah, I hope so. Because yeah, we definitely need to be murdering their fentanyl dealers in China. So if there's something they're doing to us let's ratchet it up on our side too. Let's go kill their fentanyl dealers where they stand.

Did you see that there's a candidate for Arizona attorney general? Let me find his name so I can give him a little shout out here. Probably didn't write it down. Damn me for not writing that down. Somebody will give me the name here in the comments. But there's a candidate for attorney general in Arizona who says we should, at least that Arizona should treat or label the cartels as terrorist organizations. So if the federal government will not label the cartels as terrorist organizations Arizona might do it if they elect this attorney general and if he gets his way. And apparently there's some constitutional allowance. I'd never heard this before but if you heard this, states can create their own national, I guess state guard, not a National Guard. Have you heard the states can form their own armies basically? Apparently that's a thing. Yeah. So the Arizona potential AG guy running as a Republican, will somebody give me his name? He deserves a shout out. Just Google that for me and give me a shout out in the comments because I don't want to not mention his name. He's too strong. Evergreen no Hamida hamide. So his last name is H-A-M-A-D-E-E-H, Hamadeh. So he's Republican and Abe Hamadeh. Okay, he is Republican and he's tough on the cartels and I like him. I like him. I like him for that. I don't know what else he does.

Oh, Gutfeld's still trending. Let's see why. There's a July 25th Glenn Greenwald tweet about the Gutfeld show, how it's basically mopping up the competition now. So it's fun to watch him succeed. I hope you're enjoying it as much as I do.

All right, here's a little information on fentanyl and the Doc Anarchy comment. I don't want to attribute this yet but let's just say it's from another doctor. And Doc Anarchy, I've been a reader to myself before I read it out loud. Okay, so it's hard to overdose on oral opiates. So I think that's what Doc Anarchy was saying. It's hard, it's sort of rare to overdose on prescription pills. But if you mix it, if you have a second medication called benzodiazepine, it becomes very easy. And 90 percent of prescription opiate overdoses include that drug, benzodiazepine. Oh wow. So that's a special case. But I don't think that takes away from Doc Anarchy's point because the people who are not taking this other drug at the same time would get a lot of benefit. All right, so this is good context.

All right, and that is what I had to talk about today. Yeah, Carrie Lake is tough on the cartels as well, also running. What is she running for? Governor of Arizona. Yes, it is a great show. It is a great show. You know the larger point is that I'm right about everything today.

All right, how did I determine that the Democrats put a poison bill in the pact bill? Look, we'll Google it and you should find that the bill includes things that are off point and that the Republicans cared about that. I feel like there was a story I skipped here that I really wanted to do. Let's check. Yeah, did you affect the DeSantis ESG move? I did not. I mean I don't think I did.

Okay, what's my prediction for China's response? I don't know. I think it's going to be symbolic. I don't think China's response will affect you as a citizen of the United States. I feel like they might do something like move some warships around or talk differently. I don't know. I just don't think it's going to be anything. They have to push back.

The famine coming. I'm going to vote against the famine based on the Adams law of slow-moving disasters. Now I know this one's special because you can't grow food very quickly. So if the food you grew doesn't produce that's not really a quick turnaround fix. I get that. But I'm going to vote against mass famine. Now I don't know that I'm right so I'm not going to put 100 on this one. Yeah, I usually don't. But I'd say I'm going to put a 90 odds of no famine. And the reason is that humans are just really, really good at responding to a known problem with enough time to respond. And one way or another I feel like we might be able to get by. Now I don't think the famine is for the first world countries. It's going to be for who can't afford to pay massive prices to get the limited food. But I feel like we'll figure out how to keep them alive long enough to get the next crop going. That's what I feel. But we'll see. Yeah, Africa could be tough. In Africa, I don't want to minimize the risk but I'm confident we'll figure it out.

Micro lessons on how to make a killer tweet. I can do that. I feel like maybe I have. All right, an Israeli topic I didn't cover that you just desperately need me to. Where am I? I'm at a secret writer's retreat location. Are you able to smoke while on vacation? No comment. MTG was acquitted of what? I don't even know there was anything going on. Market index, is the market up or down? Make the sun bigger.

Well, I could probably tell you now what makes a killer tweet. You want your killer tweet to be short and something that people would want to say to their friends so they could remember it easily. So it has to be