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it might be a tie. Meanwhile, Elon Musk says that the new version of Grok is coming and it's going to be a banger. He's calling it Super Grok. And if you, I don't know, Premium Plus or whatever user, you can get it. Will Super Grok be the AI of all AIs? I don't know, but it might be the most unfiltered one. It might be the closest to at least attempting to be honest. We hear that the new Claude…
← Previous segment →iends are doing it, you really are going to have to fight full-time and do nothing else but fight about that. Because a modern teenager in the modern world, if you say they can't have their social media after they've experienced it, all right, it's too late. After they've experienced it and they're hooked, they will know that they cannot have a normal social life. They would know that their ability to deal with their peers the way everybody else is dealing with them would be gone. I don't even think they could date. I think they wouldn't be able to date because it would look weird. Like I'm not going to hang out with a weirdo who doesn't use social media. It would make you a freak in your own school.
So there's no right answer. And I've had enough acquaintance with this topic in my personal life that I don't think there is a way to take a phone away from a teenager now. I think somebody like a Mike Cernovich, I'll use him just because he talks about his family situation a lot in a very productive way. Now I think in his case, if you've got homeschooling and you start early and they don't have social media and you build some kind of a life that they think is their life that doesn't involve it, you know, doing stuff with Dad, etc., you can make that work. Probably you could probably make that work. But unless you go full Cernovich, I don't see any way to make it work.
So I agree with Chamath that the government banning social media for kids is just smart, obvious, and it's the right thing for the government to do. It's exactly what you want your government to do, to help you out instead of hinder you. Give me a hand. Give me some help. That's what you want.
I guess Florida has already banned social media for kids under 14. Do I have that right? Kids under 14 are banned from social media in Florida. I don't know how that's going to work, but we'll see.
So just like I was in favor of testing drug legalization, it didn't work, but good job testing it. At least we found out what doesn't work. I think there might be some model where legalization could work if you changed a bunch of other things, right? But if you don't change a bunch of other things and you just change that one thing, I think we could say that it doesn't work. We tried it. We tried it. It didn't work. Now we know. We don't have to try that again. But if you tried something where you changed everything but also that one thing, maybe someday. We got to keep trying stuff because what we're doing now isn't working.
There's a new study about educators, in other words teachers mostly, and the study finds that half of all educators believe AI will not significantly affect their employment oppor
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tunities. So the people that you've chosen to teach your children don't believe that AI will significantly affect their employment opportunities. What do you even say about that? Did we intentionally find the dumbest people to become teachers? How in the world could they have that opinion that the job that's most likely to disappear entirely is their job? Am I wrong? The most likely thing to disap…
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