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ve some good opinions here and I agree with them completely so let me help you learn to deal with your stress which is perfectly legitimate and earned stress but maybe you should meditate more. Would that help you if your therapist thought you were right? How's that going to help you? You need a therapist that knows you're batshit crazy otherwise they can't possibly help you. They're just going to…

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y easily probably? What's the biggest thing that has to be solved? Misinformation. Misinformation is the biggest thing that needs to be solved. Grok could have the ability to be the best debater among humans and other AIs because if it's built not to be biased by its nature it might be somebody that you could say hey who's right and who's wrong on this Israel stuff. Might actually tell you. Now it's not a right or wrong situation. It's a this group did this, this group did this. That's why this is happening. But you might start learning for the first time what is real news and what is fake.

Remember I told you that AI, a different AI not Grok but a different AI could determine where people are in a building by looking at the wildly amazingly complicated Wi-Fi signals because it's so good at pattern recognition it can unsort what looks like random signals. Don't you think it could also learn to spot fake news? If Grok had been changed on Scott Adams instead of Douglas Adams it would already be able to do it because a big body of my work is specifically telling you how to spot fake news. But here's the good news. I have also put most of those thoughts on Twitter on X. So in theory since Grok is reading X if you asked it hey what are some ways to identify, actually somebody should do this, ask it this question. What are some ways to identify probable fake news? If it looks a little bit like my list because you know X has heard my list a bunch of times. If it looks like my list that's something pretty useful. And now when you make a post on X be careful because you're not just talking to people anymore. You're talking to God and God may be judging you. Might be judging you.

All right. So let's talk about this Wall Street Journal opinion piece said that Hamas is doing that thing again where they promise more massacres when they talk in Arabic but when they talk in English they're talking about ceasefire, humanitarian ceasefire. So I feel like we're smart enough to get that now. Now suppose Grok wanted to answer a question about hey what does Hamas really think or what are they really trying to do? Grok could on the fly take one of this guy's speeches, translate it into English. I'm guessing I don't know if it can do that but it'd be great if it could. Translate into English. Maybe even give you the transcript in English and show you for yourself. Because right now I'm listening to somebody talk to somebody who talked to somebody that says they heard a different message in Arabic but I can just hear it. Let me get a translation and call out and save me some time. Grok could go just to the part that matters and just have him read that part to me. See for myself. So the ability for weasels to persuade you just went way down because if Grok can call out the weasels it's going to be tough to be a weasel. Going to be really tough to be a weasel.

Now when Grok starts working like Community Notes which feels inevitable, you know maybe there's a Community Note but maybe in addition separately there could be a Grok context. You know what I'd like? I'd like to see a context button on every tweet. A context button. You just push the context button. Grok comes up and says well here's the context you should know about this piece of news you saw in this post. Here are the three best arguments against the opinion that you're seeing on this post. Here's a better opinion than the one you saw on the post but agrees with it. My God could it not do that automatically on the fly? One button. Boop. Maybe I don't need to see it but I'd like to have a button. Who thinks that's a bad idea? A one button Grok context review. That's not a bad idea. In fact I'd be kind of amazed if it doesn't get implemented.

Remember what I told you. I tell you this all the time. That whoever's in charge is not really in charge. Whoever has the best idea is always in charge at least for that idea in my opinion. A context button that activates Grok is such an obviously good idea that it will be implemented. Anybody want to take a bet? I believe that's so transparently obviously a good idea that it's almost impossible to imagine it won't actually be implemented. Want to bet against it? Anybody want to take a

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bet? I'll bet you're going to see it pretty soon because it's just the best idea. There's not even a debate against it really. All right. Speaking of what's fake, did you see some video of what allegedly is a Gaza hospital rally which shows a courtyard packed with people? What apparently is the Gaza hospital and they're watching screens and we're told that on the screens, although you can't see…

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