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it depends who's doing it. It really depends who's doing it. I do think Sacks has changed people's minds because he's credible and he's good at what he does and you know his arguments really strong. So if anybody could do it you know if it's doable there's a very small group of people who could make a difference but he might be one of them. He might actually be one of the most persuasive people i…

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hat is for humor. So you invite your friend over and say hey I've got this funny movie you want to watch it in my house. The person who doesn't have a sense of humor is just going to say they're busy because what they can't say is I don't even know what this humor thing is. I would just sit there and stare at it. I'm not going to be laughing because I don't know. It just doesn't work for me.

So do you think it's all the same people? So I'm just going to throw this hypothesis out there. Maybe it's not three different groups. Maybe the group that doesn't have an inner monologue doesn't have a sense of humor and can't tell a story because I feel they're all related. I feel like they're all related.

So now some would say that that would be the number of NPCs. The people who are like effectively biological AI. They're just wandering around. They don't have an actual life because they don't have an inner dialogue and they don't even laugh at things like AI. AI wouldn't laugh at anything but it might identify there something is fits the form of a joke but it wouldn't laugh. So it makes me suspect that we are already at one-third cyborgs, Battlestar Galactica style. You know the Cylons. And Battlestar Galactica is a famous sci-fi and part of the story was that some number of humans were actually really really well done androids so good you can't even tell with a medical exam. Feels like that. I'm not saying that's true. It just feels like it.

All right. Apparently the Biden budget that he's promoting for the country would spend hundreds of millions to train school teachers in DEI. Isn't that just reparations? I think we should stop saying that reparations is a different conversatio

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n from DEI. Now the first thing you're going to say is Scott, DEI is not just about the Black public. You know DEI is about any groups that are not getting a fair shake in society. No that's not true. I'm sorry if somebody told you that. If you took the Black population out of the DEI conversation the whole thing falls apart. Do you think that you could get the women and the gays and the Hispanic…

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