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amazing how useful he is in pushing energy toward one point of view. Because certainly it would be good if everybody started thinking oh wokeness is the funny stuff. Like it's just a joke. And Musk is saying it directly. Yeah it's basically a joke. So that helps. Thank you for alerting me to that. Anyway, Hunter's agreed to testify and allow it to be a public hearing. And so his lawyers have said…

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a successful model that was really making money and people liked it I would probably sign up just to see it. I would do that. I mean literally I would do that without the sexual interest. I would see how good it is. Now I did the same thing with the app that gives you a digital girlfriend. Like I didn't think I was going to have a digital girlfriend for the rest of my life but I really wanted to experience it because I want to feel like what does the future look like with this AI stuff. So some of it novelty.

All right. GPT-4 AI for radiology is as good as doctors now. So if you're looking at a radiology imaging of some internal part of your body, apparently the AI can find the pattern, meaning it can find the fault in the image, whatever is wrong with you, as well as a doctor.

Now what happens when you fast forward one year and it becomes common knowledge that the AI is better than a human doctor? And let's say the AI says it looks like you have a tumor but the experienced doctor looks at the same image and says I don't think so. I don't think that is a tumor so I wouldn't operate because the operation is dangerous. But the AI is saying yeah yeah that's a tumor which would indicate you got to operate immediately. So what's the doctor going to do?

Here's what I worry about. I worry that the doctor will have to agree with the AI because to do otherwise would be risking a lawsuit. So the doctor is going to say I don't think you should operate but if the AI says you should and it turns out I'm wrong you're going to die and then your family's lawyer is going to say the AI told you to operate and you also know the AI is better than humans. Why did you override the AI when the AI is the superior diagnostic tool? You see what I'm saying?

I think the doctor just becomes like the dog that guards the machine. You know the old joke about there's an airplane that's so advanced in flying itself that you only need two people to fly it. You need a pilot and you need a dog. And the job of the dog is to make sure the pilot doesn't touch anything. That's the joke. So it's going to be like that. The doctors are going to have to agree with AI or just get sued. And then why do you need a doctor? Pretty soon doctoring becomes either just pure research or something. I don't know. It's going to be interesting.

Well here's an update on Alex Soros. I already talked about this but there's a community note added to make it more fun. So Alex Soros as you know has taken over for his dad George Soros in the Soros funds and giving out the charity money etc. And you also know that he gets a lot of heat, the Soroses do, for funding the campaigns for progressive DAs who like not to prosecute a lot of lesser crimes. And it's making the cities look unlivable because of the unprosecuted crimes.

But Alex Soros defending himself he posted where are murder rates actually higher? And he says not in progressive cities. And he linked to an article that said that conservative rural areas have increasing murder rates and inner cities that might be run by Democrats maybe not as much. So he compared the conservative rural places to the Democrat run cities and said hey it's not much worse than the city so why are you bothering me?

Now as I reposted him with a quote I pointed out that the only reason you would compare a rural place to a city is if you're trying to hide the impact of your policies. Does that sound fair? Because it's such an obvious wrong comparison. The only reason you would do an obviously wrong comparison is if you're trying to hide something or you're trying to make something look true that's not true. I guess that would be the other way.

All right. And then I went on to explain that you should compare cities to cities, Democrat run to Republican run, and you should compare rural to rural to the extent that there are any liberal run rural areas. There must be somewhere.

Now I thought that was just obvious and it also made me wonder is the situation with Alex Soros that he knows there's a problem and he was intentionally using a misleading comparison to cover over the problem? Because I can't read his head. I can't read his mind so I don't know. But the other possibility is he really didn't know. And I think that's the stronger possibility.

Well let me develop this. How often do you see super leftist stuff on the X platform? I feel like I'm completely shut out from it. The only time I see left-leaning content is when somebody's mocking it on the right. And I didn't turn off any knobs so I didn't see Democrats. Like I want to see the Democrats but the algorithm has locked me out.

Now how about in person? Do I see a lot of left-leaning people in person who would maybe correct me if I had some wrong opinions because I'd only seen one side of the issue? I actually don't. I don't have any conversations with people who disagree with me in person. I'm sure there are people who disagree with me but I don't have any conversations about it. My daily life would be people who don't care about politics at all. Let me say that again. I don't spend time with people who care about politics at all.

You should see me trying to talk about my day. Hey how was your day? Whole bunch of things you don't care about. And I'm done. That's my whole day. Bunch of stuff that none of you care about who I know well enough to see in person. I think I have one or two friends who engage in that content and otherwise nobody cares.

So here's my point. Imagine you're Alex Soros. How many staunch Republicans do you encounter in person and have meaningful conversations with? I'm guessing zero. Would you argue with that? I'm guessing exactly zero. So I

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think you could rule out that anybody in person is saying you know Alex maybe that thing you're looking at is not the whole story or have you considered this? I don't think it happens because it doesn't happen to me and if it doesn't happen to me why would it happen to him? So because I think my situation is normal. You just get closed off in your little bubble and people don't want to make troubl…

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