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nd to be around people in person. And it has nothing to do with the people I'm talking about. People that I genuinely like and have done nothing bad to me like people who are genuinely good as far as I can tell. I just can't stand to be around people right now. Anybody else have that experience? It could be social media that's doing it to me but I think it's actually it was actually my real life t…

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I'll nail it. I'll be this is amazing. It's amazing. Anyway that keeps going all the way till the end. It never stops even right up to publication date. It never stops. So there'll be days I wake up and I just hate it and the days I wake up like yesterday.

So yesterday I was in Starbucks and every now and then I'll just reread what I've written because I need to sort of re-saturate myself with what I've already done before I can make sure that the next thing is additive. So you have to keep rereading your book that you've written so far. So I did that yesterday and it's awesome. Honestly awesome. The number of lives this thing's going to change is crazy. And I didn't realize it until I sort of saw the whole because you know I end up micro-focusing on a little chapter. It's crazy.

Now here's the other thing that's relevant to this. This commercial, it is kind of a commercial relevant to the conversation. I am going to get killed for this book. The critics are going to destroy me. Do you know why? Guess why? Why will I be criticized for this book just massively? Take a guess. You're almost there. How are you missing this? I thought I'd teed this up for you a little bit better than this. The answer is right in front of you. Because I left my lane. I left my lane because reframes are really psychology. I'm not a psychologist. I'm a hypnotist. And nobody's going to say you know listen to the hypnotist. They're going to say it's a cartoonist. They're going to say why is this cartoonist telling me psychology, right? And they're going to say I'm damaging people and I'm oversimplifying and I should stay in my lane. And when I was just being a cartoonist it made sense. And then everybody's gonna say that that reframe is going to hurt somebody, right? I don't think any of them will hurt anybody but somebody's going to say well that one yeah that's reckless, right?

I am going to get absolutely destroyed but it's going to really help a lot of people. Now I'm going to share it with some of the people on the Locals community. I'm going to run through some of the reframes in the book just to give you a sense of it. Give some feedback. Might help me. Might help me tune it a little bit. But my God it's going to be really good. It will be the biggest thing I've done. So if you're willing to believe that it should be the biggest thing I've done I would be amazed if it's not a national phenomenon. Right? If not international. Because here's the trick. It's not enough to say something good and useful because lots of books do that and that's what I've done before. I've said something that was entertaining or useful or both and those will sell a lot of books because people like to be entertained. They like useful stuff.

But the extra gear that I've never hit that some people have, other authors have, is where the usefulness of it is just extreme. And this is going to have probably 80 to 100 reframes in it of which for most people at least 10 of them would be life-changing. So and they can learn them just by reading them. Reading a comment on Locals which I appreciate. I appreciate that comment. Yes I've been playing drums.

All right, big question. What's the difference between God and intelligence and the simulation? The difference is that God is usually defined as one entity and if we are a simulation we're probably, it's probably a group effort. You know somebody built the technology to build the simulation so it'd be one versus many. And then the next difference would be that that civilization may have had a higher civilization that created them. So God is one and done. Simulation is infinite iteration. What if we all share one consciousness? That's more of a woo thinking thing. I think it just depends how you define things.

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You're wrong about how to program AI. You know set the rules. You give it a large training set of successful humor. I would do both. So I would give it the rule but you're right it would be useless. The rule would be useless without a large training set of humor and that's definitely part of the plan. All right, all right. Midterm predictions. I may stay away from midterm predictions. The midterm…

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