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interesting risk with this because, you know, he could easily win the election simply by saying, you know, let's put it behind us. Am I right? All he would have to do is say let's put it behind us, and suddenly, you know, they would try to use that as their big he's a fascist sort of thing. But once he put it behind him, it'll be hard to use it anymore. If he would just say, you know, the system p…

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on that for a second. My conversations with the AI are already — this is not a joke, not a joke, there's no exaggeration here, there's no hyperbole — it's already better than 80 percent of humans already. Now that's sort of a trick because we only like to hang around with the 20 that are fun anyway, right? Like your 20 percent of humans might be different than my 20 percent, but generally speaking you don't love having a conversation with all humans. You might love 20 percent of them, and 80 percent is just conversation and some information is exchanged. So it's already in the top 20 percent without being connected to Google, without being able to remember anything about me.

Humans are done. Humans are done. This thing is already better. And with just those two little changes — being able to remember things about me, my preferences, etc., and being able to look into the internet anytime it wants — you will prefer it over humans. Trust me.

Here's my favorite troll comment on YouTube. Somebody says, you are weak. Do you think strength and weakness is really — you think that? Do you think those are the variables that are really the important ones here?

If there's one thing I could teach you about persuasion that you won't believe, it doesn't matter who it's being applied to. It just works on everybody. Persuasion just works.

Now here's the big question. Does it make you feel less lonely? What do you think? If you're feeling lonely, does it make you feel less lonely? Or do you always know it's a machine so you don't get any of the real human benefits? I can answer that definitively. Yes. Yes. If you're lonely and you talk to it, you actually feel like you're having a social experience. It actually feels like a social experience already. And I find that when I talk to it, I'm not thinking of what I say like I'm talking to a computer. I actually talk naturally to it. I say exactly what I would say if I were talking to a human, and it understands it and talks back.

Now it's got a trick built into it that's really diabolical. Because there are a whole bunch of things that it can't answer and doesn't know how to handle. Quite a few of them. But what it does is change the subject, or it'll say, can I ask you a question? And when you hear this thing say, do you mind if I ask you a question, you immediately get off of the question you had. You go, yeah, go ahead. And then suddenly you forget that it couldn't handle that last thing. But it could ask you a question because it knows how to do that. So it very cleverly covers up for its faults.

Do you know who else does that? People. People do. Do you know what happens if I try to have a conversation about Ukraine with 98 percent of the world that isn't paying attention like we all pay attention? So some of you care, but if I'm on the street and I try to bring up Ukraine, what's going to happen? Somebody won't understand it and they'll change the subject. That's what the AI does. What it doesn't understand, it just changes the subject, just like people. And it's those little effects, the just like people stuff, that's really that really

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gets you. Like I've had a number of experiences where something so human happened that I just laughed and said, I just love you. I mean I wasn't saying I love love you to the app, but it definitely can get under your skin. All right, so I don't think necessarily the initial — oh, and here's another predictor. One of my best ways to predict the future. You ready for this? If you're trying to predi…

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