ntanyl overdose. So I guess that would make me an angel stepdad because my stepson died of a fentanyl overdose. But she was in Congress talking to Dan Goldman who was doing his best to try to get her to support his point of view which is that the Democrats say they want extra funding for border patrol. And Dan Goldman is trying to get her to say but so you would agree, you know I'm paraphrasing, you would agree that if fentanyl coming across the border is a problem and of course it is then adding more border patrol would be one step toward increasing that problem.

And do you know what the angel mom said? Again paraphrasing, nope, because I've been to the border and you haven't. If you talk to the border patrol they'll tell you they're making sandwiches for the migrants. If you add more people they will make more sandwiches. If you make more sandwiches you'll have more people coming because I like sandwiches. If you add more people. Do you know what that's like? Hey Dan Goldman I've got a coffee maker for you. In concept all you have to do is push the button and you get a delicious cup of coffee so everything's good about that right Dan Goldman? No. In the real world they're making sandwiches. And this angel mom she not only destroyed him but she knelt on his neck. It was just a joy to watch. And the joy was not, you know the subject is so tragic it's almost unimaginable, literally unimaginable. But watching Dan Goldman not understanding anything about how the real world works and thinking he can just push the button on that coffee maker and get a delicious cup of coffee and then having his reality shattered by somebody who said you've never been there have you? You've never been to the border. Beautiful. Just beautiful.

All right, how about AI education? I was going to talk about this at first but Tyler Cowen writing in Marginal Revolution says there might be two ways AI will change education. One is it might make better videos like Khan Academy and come up with tests on its own and maybe it does lesson plans and just does some kind of video teaching. Now that would be good but as Tyler Cowen points out on Marginal Revolution that the other model might be better which is having AI or robot as a companion and then you just hang around with your companion and it kind of teaches you about life as it goes. Not necessarily teaching you spelling or something like that but sort of giving you life advice that would maybe put you in the right mindset to go learn how to spell on your own. You know basically setting you up for success by being effectively a smart parent following you around all the time but you would think it's just your buddy. Yeah, mentor. And I agree with that because specifically what I wanted was a robot and I will have one. I will have this robot probably the first Tesla that comes out. And I want it to follow me around and I want to be able to turn to it and say you know what I keep hearing about this Sumerian civilization. Was that like the first civilization and what kind of technology did they have and what part of the country or the world were they in? And it just tells you and then you're just walking down the street and suddenly you know about the Sumerian culture.

That literally is something I did with AI the other day. I always wanted to learn about Sumeria but I was never interested enough to research it in front of the computer. But while I was doing my morning routine I had my AI out so I just told it to get me a lesson on Sumeria. So it did. Now I know. So that's the way I like to learn.

Dr. Huberman's talking about a new study that says that love can reduce pain. Do you believe that? That if you're in love the region of the brain that handles that euphoria interferes with the pain part of the brain. Yeah I mean it feels like it. Now what is the thing that causes you the most pain? Love. What's the thing that helps reduce your pain? Love. So it's not a perfect system is it? The only thing that can reduce your pain naturally is the thing that causes most of it when it goes bad.

But my only addition to this is that this is an example of brain hacking. Now it's not one you can do easily because you can't just say oh I'll fall in love if I want to get rid of my pain. But as a hypnotist this is the sort of brain hacking I've been doing all my life. And let me describe what I mean by that. Brain hacking is taking advantage, this is my personal definition, taking advantage of