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eing in a tunnel right now? It would be the same except you could walk a little bit. Right? At some point if they've got enough food, their tunnels will literally be full of — am I wrong? Because I don't think there's somebody whose job it is to take the waste outside and dump it when the bullets are flying. So they probably got a tunnel full of the worst smelling thing you've ever smelled with th…

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a prospect for holding off Russia until there's some kind of a deal. But who's making the deal? They'd have to wait for it. They'd have to hold on until there's a Republican in office or else they're completely dead. So that's all bad.

All right, but let's talk about AI. So there's a new executive order from the Biden administration. It has many components to it. It looks like the primary point of it is to ruin the entire industry, as Elon Musk has been warning lately. When you add regulations, they tend to last forever. It's hard for regulation ever to be removed. So every year you have more of them and you're like Gulliver, you know, the giant Gulliver with the little people holding him down with a million little strings.

So let's see if this AI executive order goes in the right direction or not. So here are some of the things. And don't be worried. I mean, because these could be totally just normal safety things, right? So don't jump to the assumption that it's all woke or something. I mean, it's our government. They're not going to just destroy the most important industry that we've ever created in the last 50 years. They're not going to destroy it for some woke reason or something. Let's see.

Number one, AI must advance equity in all civil rights. Well, God damn it, they ruined AI. Yeah, because you know what? Right, wouldn't it be great if there was equity in civil rights and the AI did not discriminate? That would be great. Do you think that's a possible thing, logically possible? No. The only way y

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ou could get that outcome is by programming it to agree with Democrats. Logically there's no way it can work. It can't work. It's not one of those things, hey it's worth a try. There's only one thing that can happen. They have to program it so it's hardcoded to agree with Democrats, period. So basically they would use AI as a political tool forever to run everything. Let me give you an example. A…

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