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etimes. It's every time. It doesn't have the option of going any other way. As soon as there's enough money, it becomes completely corrupt. Now at a lower level of money maybe you can get away with stuff, but once you get to the big numbers, it's all lies. It's all lies. Now let us develop that theme a little bit, shall we? So the fact that there's a Cambridge climate scientist who's coming out…

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one that's not already bought that also has the features I want, what are the odds of that?" "Well, it's about zero."

So then I say, "Well then, but I could just build one." Yeah, I could order one with my specifications, right? And I'd be willing to wait. I'll wait six months. I just want to get the truck I want. And then the Toyota guy says, "We don't do that anymore." And I said, "What don't you do anymore? Make trucks that people want?" "Yeah, yeah, no, we just make the trucks we want to make, put them in the pipeline, and people are buying them. So you can't test drive it. You can't order it with the features you want." That's a real thing. And the reason they can do that is that all of their trucks are bought as fast as they make them. They don't have to do better. Yeah, they don't have to.

So then I said to myself, well heck with Toyota, I'll go over to Ford and I'll get a Bronco. So I start looking at the Broncos, and they range from like 30,000 to 105,000 for a Bronco. Did you know that? That the highest ones are well over 100,000. And so I have to do this major research to find out what features I want between 34,000 and 115,000. There must be some of that that's unnecessary, right? Somewhere in between might be sane. I don't know. So first thing, I have to spend my afternoon doing all this research. Do you think that did me any good? No, because when I contact the dealer they'll only have three of them and they won't be the ones I want. Do you think I can order one? I don't know, maybe. But so yeah, everything is incompetent.

But I think if you buy a robot it'll be like buying a car someday, and it'll ask you what package you want with it. Do I need to connect those dots or are you already with me? They're going to ask you what package you want with it. So when you buy a robot by Mr. Adcock, you can specify what package you want. Okay, moving on.

Rowan Cheung, who talks about AI on X, he's a real good follow if you want to keep up with AI, does a real good job every day. He says that Google's DeepMind unveiled Genie. It's an AI system that can generate interactive video games from just a text or image prompt. It can create an entire functioning video game with a whole realm and world that never existed anywhere, on the fly while you play it. Now that's insane. It's crazy. You know what else it is? It's one step closer to you understanding that you're in a simulation. Yep. And the reason that it gets you closer is as you realize that these simulated worlds can be created on demand. And here's the fun part: in those simulated games they create the past on demand. Let me explain.

So let's say you're in a video game that's just created by AI, and you want to walk through a forest. That forest doesn't exist. It comes into being as you walk through it. But as you walk through it, you get to see a tree that's 50 years old. It actually created the past. Do you get that? By creating the current, which is what it does, it puts things there that have been made historically. The tree, if you started digging in the ground in your simulated game, let's say it was one where you're trying to find a treasure, if you got lucky and you dig in your simulated world and there's a treasure down there, was it down there before you started digging? It wasn't. The past is already being created on demand within the context of a video game.

Sooner or later you're going to realize that's how your real world works. That if you dig a hole in the backyard, unless somebody already dug a hole there, there's nothing below the dirt until you dig, until you need it. It doesn't exist because that's how you would build software. You would just build it to exist when you needed it, including the past.

I don't know how many hints it will take before we

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all realize we're living in a simulation. But I would think that the fact you can create your own simulation would get you halfway there. I think the double slit experiment, the limit on the size of the universe, the speed of light, Bell's theorem, the fact that there's something called the smallest unit of matter that doesn't make any sense. There can't be a smallest unit of matter because what's…

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