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a million years ago we had more CO2? Does that make sense to you? Does that sound logical to you that a million years ago there was more CO2 and the world was thriving therefore the current level of CO2 is not dangerous? You know that's not logical, right? Even Thomas Massie was making this case and I was cringing because Massie is sort of my standard for good behavior. You know he's like the sta…

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Ashkenazis just sort of work through the system just being the Ashkenazis, eventually the Ashkenazis look to be dominating a lot of important industries.

Now why is it that they dominate the important industries? And somebody would say Hollywood too because that influences our minds. Why are they all in the — why are all these Ashkenazis in the important industries and why do they have all this power? Because they went to school.

Would you like your family to be captains of industry and maybe head up a media company someday? How about sending them to school? How about if you send your kids to school they can be the CEOs of a media company too? How about opening your head and looking at if there's a group of people who are killing it on education and they become your boss, maybe you should look at yourself. Maybe you should check your work, right?

If you've got a boss that's an Ashkenazi because they all went to school and it was their biggest priority and it wasn't your priority, they should be your boss. You should have worked harder. The Ashkenazis are going to run your country. They're going to run your media. They're going to run your Hollywood. They're going to run your tech. They're going to run everything that matters. Why? Because they went to school.

Is making me crazy. All right, how is that not obvious? How is that not obvious? Every one of you anti-semites, you don't see that going to school is the main variable. Can you not see that seriously? You can't see that there's a correlation between school and success? Am I the first person to tell you that? Like you've never heard that before? You never thought of it? Didn't have that thought yourself?

How about it doesn't require any collusion on behalf of Israel for the people who took schooling as their top priority and then executed on it, right? Now you're going to say but Scott they might be talking to each other and preferring their in-group or something. Yeah, so what? So what? So what? You want to be in the in-group? Go to school. Send your kids to school. Make it a priority.

All right, God that bugs me.

All right, back to the main topic here. Do you think that AI will create work for humans or reduce work? What's your best guess? Will AI create work? I'm going to make a prediction that it's going to be more like when we said computers were going to reduce paper. Do you remember that in the 70s, early 80s? Yeah, all these computers are going to reduce paper. The current market for computer printers is about 50 billion dollars.

I remember when computers came in the first big change was more paper, right? Because you had to print it twice. You know you may have to make copies and everything. So there's a story about at least in some jobs there's one group of people who are looking at — they're examining articles to see what would be included in their publication and they got a big problem because it used to be humans would write articles, they would submit them to their publication, they would look at them and say oh okay and they'd pick the good ones.

Now the number of articles that are being submitted is shot through the roof because they're being written by AI and AI can write fast. So where they used to have to look at, you know, maybe I'll just pick up numbers, these are I'm just making this up, where you might have to look at let's say a few dozen human-written articles, now you've got a thousand articles that have been submitted written by AI just with a prompt. So nobody did the work and they're all bad. So now they have to look through a thousand to find that one where they used to look through a few dozen.

That's a very specific industry and situation but I feel like there's going to be a lot more of that. For example if you said to me in the pre-AI world I'm in my cubicle and boss comes in and says Scott I need you to do this task. Now in the old days I would have a certain set of tools and I'd go work on that task and

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maybe you know I wish I had AI because I would do it better. So that's just the old way. I just go work on the task. What's the new way? The new way is if I know that there's an AI that could help me I'm going to have to research it and I'm going to have to learn it. And the way the current architecture is you might need two or three different AIs. For example you might need one AI that creates a…

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