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he simultaneous sip, and it happens now. Go. Now, before we get into all the ugliness, because of course we're going to talk about Israel, I have a few topics before that. But I wanted to share with you something I shared in the man cave last night with my subscribers on Locals. And it's a difference between wanting something and deciding. And you'll see this distinction in a lot of places, and…
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As soon as I realized that there was no alternative, I had already decided. And then I just lined up the problems and just knocked them down. So today I probably solved the sound problem. I turned up my light a little bit. I've got another camera ordered. I've got a new laptop ordered so I'll have better resolution in the camera. So there's nothing that will stop me at this point.
And so my advice to you is that when you find a situation and you're having trouble with it, ask yourself, is this something you want or is it something you decided? And then you'll know what's going to happen. You can predict your own actions after that point.
All right. Here's some fun stuff, then we'll talk about Israel. There's a new app that lets you see the Greek ruins like the Parthenon as they were before they were ruined. So you hold your phone up, and with your eyes you're seeing the real ruins, but at whatever you're pointing at, the app will turn it into the original version. How cool is that?
Imagine that being everywhere, where you could walk down any town, you could just hold your phone up and maybe dial it in to see what it looked like at any time in history. What did this look like 500 years ago? Oh, wow, cool. Now that is a cool app. I'm all about that.
Another application I saw that blew my mind, but I'm having trouble believing it. So Brian Roemmele took advantage of — and this is so clever it just kills me. I wish I thought of it — took AI, the large language model versions of AI, which is good at recognizing patterns of words and knowing what would come next in a certain pattern, and he applied it to redacted confidential documents. You know, the kind where half of the page is redacted, you know, it's covered up with black.
And the AI apparently can actually tell what's covered up because of the pattern of the other words that are not covered up. And apparently he's done numerous tests and he says we're in an all-new world now.
There are two parts to the story. Number one is that security and privacy may have been breached, so it might not be useful to have redacted things. But there's a way bigger thing to the story. How in the world does it know what those words are that are covered up by the other words that are not even in the same sentence? Apparently, because I don't think you could tell from the sentence itself. You probably have to tell from all the other words around it.
That says something about human intelligence that you're not going to want to think about for too long, because it certainly suggests that we're programmed and there's not much free will going on. If you can tell from the words you can see what must have been the words that you can't see, then how much free will did you have? It's just something to think about.
All right. Governor Newsom declined or r
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ejected a law that would have made psychedelics decriminalized. So are you surprised? Governor Newsom of California, very progressive place, and he turned down a new law that would have decriminalized psychedelics. Now, I did not see his reason for why, but I'm going to speculate it was probably just the details. There was probably something in the law that's not obvious that was unacceptable. So…
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