n people. And some of it is because I reframed something. They stopped drinking, they lost weight. Sometimes it's because I told somebody a fix was available. So I just told them of a medical solution that they didn't know about and so then they got fixed. But if you count the number of people I've advised correctly who got the right treatment and they got fixed it's hundreds if not thousands. I mean I have no way to count it but it's at least hundreds of people I've cured. Not me alone but I've put them on the path to a cure.

So when I tell you hey I think maybe the collectively, the you know I call this the collaborative IQ. So it's not my intelligence that's driving this process. I'm just sort of an organizer but the intelligence is the collective intelligence, right? And that's always true because if I got outside of what all of you thought was reasonable you'd stop watching. So basically you constrain me and then I boost what you're thinking and it's like this collaborative intelligence. So could a collaborative intelligence that does A-B testing cure ADHD for some people some of the time? Not necessarily. Not all the time. Not correctly.

All right we got an NPC alert in all capital letters from Philip. Your arrogance is strong today. Let us analyze Philip for what is wrong with his personality. Philip you're very insecure. Very insecure. Here's the thing. Are you threatened by the fact that I've cured people and I can demonstrate it? I mean all I'd have to do is ask people here have I cured you of any health problems and you would see a stream of confirmation. It'd be easy. And I've done it lots of times and people write to me all the time so I know it's true. I don't know how many. That would be different. But if you think that telling you that I can cure you of sometimes incurable diseases, if you think that what you're seeing there is my arrogance, you're kind of throwing out the baby with the bathwater aren't you? You don't think you could handle a little bit of my feeling that I'm being arrogant? You don't think that that would be sort of a small price to pay for the fact that people are actually solving lifetime problems, health problems? Why would you want to discourage me from doing that Philip?

I have a hypothesis that I learned when I was developing Dilbert in my cubicle. Here's sort of a deep psychological hypothesis for you. That men, unless you're truly a best friend or a family member, they don't really like your success. Man can you confirm this for me? Unless you're truly a best friend you don't really like other men's success. You don't really like it. It's threatening. We're just built that way. There's nothing you can do about it right now. If it's a family member like a true friend yes. In those cases you are genuinely happy. But if it's just somebody you heard about maybe you're not so happy, right?

Here's how I discovered this. When I was developing Dilbert in my cubicle I would often do a comic that I would draw on my whiteboard that was just about the office and something that happened. And people liked it. They liked it enough that they encouraged me to become a professional. Now what did women do when they walked into my cubicle? Here's what women would do sometimes. They'd read the comic and they would laugh or not laugh, right? Do you know what men would do? Here's what three-quarters of all the men would do. They would accid