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all the creativity. So we had to come up with creativity and solutions on our own. So I believe my generation developed some skills for creativity if only because we sat there alone a lot and not looking at anything. Do you know how much time I just sat there not looking at anything or doing anything because there wasn't anything to do? Like just nothing. I used to sit on a wall when I was a teen…

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pre-technology but I was young enough that I was completely immersed in technology in my whole work career. So that's unique.

And now I'm still young enough, but just barely because you know I'm really past my expiration, but I'm staying healthy so far. I'm one of the people who has a full creative structure in my head and I've got enough facility with technology that I should be able to be one of the few people, you know, small sliver of people who could use AI and add creativity.

My belief is that we've lost our ability to be creative because we're more consumers and less creators. Yeah, if you don't have a phone you create because you create your own consumption. Come up with a thought, think about it. That's your entertainment. But if it's just coming to you there's no thinking. You're just, you know, your creative muscle is basically atrophied.

So I believe that as AI gets better the creative muscle in humans will atrophy. It will just let the AI do it. But there'll be a thin sliver of time in which I can quickly become the richest person on Earth simply by coming up with ideas that are higher quality ideas than young people are able to do. But I also would have the ability to instantly implement through AI. None of that's going to happen but it's an interesting thought.

So the only thing I want you to remember is that there's an inversion where implementation used to be everything and now it might be nothing. So it might make the idea the valuable thing for the first time in history. The idea has never been the important thing except maybe the wheel, you know, because you could implement it yourself with a, you know, carving a stone or something.

All right. So Prigozhin is dead but they think his troll farms live on. And there's more priming us that Russia is going to influence the elections. Huh. Who would want to prime us to believe that the elections were being influenced toward Trump? Oh yeah, all the bad guys who if Trump wins they're going to say it was Russia collusion and they're going to try to overthrow the election and say it wasn't fair because Russia interfered. So they're setting you up for that.

I don't believe there's any evidence tha

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t any Russian troll farms make any difference in our elections. There's no evidence that made any difference the last time in 2020 anyway. So I don't think it'll make a difference this time. This is the fake data season. This is the season where all of the economic data will make it look as though everything is working great because the Democrats control the government. The government comes up wi…

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