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ee I want to see the study that shows me the TikTok users versus the non-TikTok users. And you'd have to see what if people identified as gay or bisexual or any part of the LGBTQ, see if they identified before they started using TikTok. I think you're going to see a direct link. I think you'll see a very direct correlation between using TikTok and changing your gender or your sex preference. So an…

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uld assume other people have made the same prediction but here's a prediction. Google may never be in the AI business in the way other companies might be able to because it won't be able to fix it. It's not fixable unless they got rid of all the employees. And so maybe that's going to happen someday. Nope. Not going to fix that.

But there's another product that might be deleted too. Let's see. Eric Weinstein was saying there's a Google product called Ngram Viewer. I've never heard of that before but I think it used to be called something else maybe. But what you could do is you could put in a search term and you could find out when it took off. So you know how there's some search terms that had zero interest until one day. Now that sudden interest in the search term can be really revealing about how the media is hypnotizing and brainwashing the public. So if something was never mentioned for decades and then suddenly it's all in the news and it's the only thing you're talking about, it could be organic but that would be unusual. Far more likely it's an op that somebody is trying to make it a thing and you think it's happening naturally but it's not. It's the mainstream media working with sometimes our own intelligence people to make something trend.

So here's an interesting prediction by Eric Weinstein. He says prediction: Google Ngram Viewer will be shut down one day for public access. It is simply too subversive. And at first I looked at it and I thought well you're not going to shut it down just because the answers are a little inconvenient. But the more I thought about it I'm going to back his prediction. I think he's right. I think that it reveals when an op starts and it makes it very obvious that it isn't some kind of a brainwashing operation. You can just see it in the graph. Boom. Everybody's talking about this now. So I think he's right. Which is a hell of a prediction. A good prediction.

All right. There's a, you probably know there's a mind reading ability of AI that it can actually, if you put some sensors on your head, the right kind of sensors, it can look at brain wave patterns and it can tell what you're thinking and draw a picture of it. So that's a real thing. So you know you can think of a giraffe and the AI through its sensors will draw a giraffe because it can tell you're thinking about it. Now apparently there's some big breakthrough in that. I saw this on a Rowan Cheung thread about AI who's a good follow for all the AI stuff and researches at Stability AI in Princeton. They've got this new thing called MindEye2 and it's some big leap in reconstructing images from brain activity.

Now how much do you want your government not to have that? That's the ultimate thing you don't want anybody to have. I can't think of any technology that would be worse for humankind than being able to read your mind. That's your last freedom. Your last

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freedom is to be able to think your own thoughts privately and have nobody know it. That's right on the verge of going away. Now do you think your government can't force you to the sensors? Of course they can. Do you think they'll use it to solve crime? Yep. Soon as it gets good enough they're going to say think about where you were Tuesday and it's going to draw a picture of the crime. And you'll…

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