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ly she's highly qualified. She's an engineer for the most important job probably in the world at the moment, so she must be crazy qualified as well. And I can guarantee that she's smarter than the average person. I mean I can guarantee that personally because she's been following me on X. And wouldn't you agree people who follow me on X are way above average in intelligence? I mean it's a trend. I…
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Number two, wait until you find out the implications for free will when AI tells you it doesn't have free will and it acts just like people. What are you going to say? Are you going to say, oh look, but you're a machine. People have free will. And then you can't tell any difference between the machine and a person that you're talking to. And then you're going to say to yourself, why does the person have free will but the machine doesn't when they act exactly the same? So it's going to raise these questions. Not that it will answer the questions. I'm going to say what I'm saying is it will throw civilization into a kind of an uncertainty.
Here's another question. Will you still think you have a soul when your robot acts exactly like a human but smarter, and then the robot tells you no, I don't have a soul, there's no such thing as a soul? And then you look at the robot and you look at your friends and they're acting exactly the same. Yeah, interesting question. Will your faith stay intact when your super intelligent AI has a conversation with you and explains to you how all religions are formed? Because if you've never heard how all religions are formed, then your own religion looks pretty compelling. You know, your parents, all your friends, everybody has the same religion. But what happens when somebody that you know is not just trying to convert you to a religion, it's just a machine, tells you how all the other religions were formed? And you say to yourself, well that's very familiar. Do they all seem to talk to an angel and then they come up with different stories? What's going on here? That'll be interesting.
And then what if AI tells you one of the major religions is the right one? Suppose AI and all the AI in the future, they all decide that Islam's the real religion. Now you're assuming that won't happen, right? Why would you assume that? You can't assume anything. Because if AI is smarter than you, in theory it should come up with interpretations of reality that are different than you have. There's no point of being smarter than you if it has the same opinions as you. No, it will have different opinions from you. That might include religion.
Do I use ChatGPT on desktop only? No, I use it both. All right. So I don't know what the answers to those will be, but they'll be interesting.
All right, here's the most interesting political story of the day from me. You will hear this nowhere else. This is why you come here for the takes you'll hear nowhere else. So Politico says there's an internal debate on the Biden campaign about how to handle Biden's age. Now I guess some of them want him to go out and just campaign as best he can, but there's not much left. And others say well you don't need to do that. You should focus on his accomplishments. When you hear that, what do you think? Biden is very old, so we're going to focus on his accomplishments. Do you know, I hear that's the end of the race. That's it. You can call it. Here's why.
If you're going to focus on the accomplishments, you're literally planning for the past. Well not literally, but you could frame it that way. Doesn't it sound like looking at his accomplishments is looking at the past? Do you want to, in this time of tremendous change from AI to wars going on at the same time, is that when you want to look at the past? Or maybe we should look at the future. So you've got Trump, who's also a certain age, but when he talks he says I'm going to build new cities with flying cars. I'm going to build new cities with flying cars. I'm going to build a wall on the border. I'm going to fix this war. I'm going to do this thing. When Trump talks, it's all about the future. Not all, but you know what I mean. It is way more future-oriented about what he's going to do. If they make the colossal mistake, and they might not have any option, it might be their best play, but it's a losing play. Their best play if they're talking about what Biden did, they're basically saying he's done. You can't hear anything except he's
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done when they talk about his past. Am I right? Now does this sound familiar? Is there any historical precedent for one candidate talking about the past and that completely losing the election? Yes. This is exactly Bob Dole versus Clinton. Bill Clinton. When Clinton and Gore were running against Bob Dole, Bob Dole was a lovable older gentleman who went through World War II. And Bob Dole said he w…
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