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structed to ignore Trump-related success. Obviously it ignored it so much that it wouldn't list him as a prior president. What else would do that? What else? There's some kind of general suppression commands or series of commands in Meta AI that very obviously and very clearly is suppressing anything good about Trump anyway. So that's a smoking gun. Now do you believe that the CIA is not behind t…

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gramming say ah I got it wrong. I got another wrong thing about this prosecutor because I know that she's not biased. I better change that.

There is no way to get there from here. Where we want to get to is an AI that's smart and unbiased. It's not a technical problem. Let me say that clearly. It's not a technical problem. The problem is with us. The problem is that we created an entire body of work that is mostly lies. It's mostly motivated lies. And then we trained the AI on our motivated lies and we're wondering why it seems biased. It can't be anything else. How are you going to, and who is so smart that they could train it to be unbiased? Who's the unbiased person? I don't know any. How in the world is it going to arrive at an unbiased view of anything? It can't. It can't pull unbiased out of only bias. There's no way that it's built to even manage that situation.

All right, so I think Gell-Mann Amnesia is why we'll never be able to build it and it'll take a long time to realize that it's impossible. So I think one of the big proofs of the simulation will be when we realize that we can't fix AI. Now there's a prediction for you. We will come to realize that this bias problem is unfixable because it was never the technology that was the problem. Everybody get that? The technology is fine. It's doing exactly what they built it to do. They looked at what humans do and built an intelligence based on it. Except the techies didn't realize that all of their news is untrue. Because if you work in Silicon Valley you think well the things I know about aren't always true but the rest of that stuff is true. So I'll just train it on the rest of the stuff. It'll be fine. And I'll just tweak it on the things that I know about and then we got it perfectly unbiased. They will give up on that. They will give up because it is unsolvable logically. It can't be solved. It's not the technology. It's not how they tweak it. And that will get us one step closer to the level where we understand we are a simulation.

In level one of awareness, I call that the child level. In level one of awareness you believe that adults tell you the truth. Santa Claus is real. Okay, tooth fairy is going to put a quarter under your pillow. Sounds good. That's level one, child level one of awareness.

Level two comes when you realize that adults sometimes lie. You say, oh God, there are bad adults and then there are good adults. There's some adults who tell the truth and there's some who lie. That's level two.

Level three is when you understand that reality might be fixed, like there might be an actual reality, but that we don't have access to it and our interpretations of it, our narratives, are purely subjective. So subjective that we literally can't tell if we're the bad guys or the good guys in the story, right? Take Ukraine. Are we the bad guys? Are we the good guys? We don't know. We are so in our subjective worlds that even the most basic questions, are we the bad guys, we can't tell. What about wokeness? Are the people bringing you wokeness the good guys or the bad guys? Depends who you ask. The most basic questions of reality we don't know. And that's level three, where you realize that, wait a minute, maybe everybody's hypnotized. That's level three. But at that point you still believe that it's mostly other people who are having the problem. You believe that you have a thing called common sense and it is protecting you from the problems that other people are having. "Wow it's a good thing I haven't been fooled by that. Yeah I get that there's a difference about whether we're the bad guys or the good guys in these various issues but it's obvious to me. It's obvious to me. So I'm not really part of that. I'm an observer of other people who have subjective problems understanding this base reality. But I'm just on the outside. I'm like this smart observer." That's level three.

Level four is coming. You know what level four is? Once AI has completely proven to us that we are only a narrative-driven species and that we don't know the truth and we don't have access to it and never will, somewhere around that point you're going to become an author. And I don't mean writing books. I mean you're going to start authoring your environment, your actual reality. Now you might only be authoring your subjective impression of what your reality is but it's all you have. If you believe that you won the Olympics and you go through your entire life thinking you did, well you did, even if you didn't.

And I would say that level four, where you realize that nothing's real or at least you don't have access to reality, it's all narrative, we're close in that level. We will also realize that we are a simulation created by a higher entity. Some of you are already there. But we're probably no more than a year or two away from the general consensus being that we're there. It's going to be a lot like thinking the election was rigged. Two-thirds of the country thinks the elections are sketchy. Didn't start out that way. That took five years, two years or so. Well you could say less from 2020.

And I've got a prediction. Well actually I'm going to tell you about a prediction. I've reminded you of this many times but I'm quite aware that it doesn't register like it's something I say and you've heard it before. But until reality caught up with it it didn't make as much sense. In 2015 I told you in public a number of times that Trump would change more than

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politics. He would change our understanding of reality itself. And then we watched and he did. He brought us all the way to the middle of the third level of awareness. AI is going to take you over the border. AI is what will convince you that you're living in a simulation. Not just the fact that it can create a simulation that's perfectly photorealistic, but we will realize that we can't program t…

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