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more about how to make boring food taste good? That'll get you a lot. So no, science should talk to the other parts of science which do know that willpower and free will don't exist. But they studied it. Do you know why they studied the thing that doesn't exist? Because they're experts. They're experts. Let's drink to the experts, shall we? To the experts. Love those experts. Let's see if anythi…

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o funny. It's the smugness. The smugness. If somebody's just mentally ill, it's just disturbing. If somebody is perfectly sane and smug, sometimes they're just popular. I would say Hannity is kind of smug, wouldn't you? Sean Hannity. He seems a little smug. Maybe you'd say he's just confident, but a little smug. But he doesn't come off as comedy because he looks like he's doing his job. And you know, even if he knows he's exaggerating, he probably knows it. You know, nothing crazy.

But if you look at Lawrence O'Donnell or Rachel Maddow, they're super smug, but the things they say are crazy. If you had smug and crazy, it's hilarious. So when I watch it, I'm like, oh my God, what am I watching? This is the funniest thing. Smug and crazy at the same time.

Anyway, there are some people thinking that so-called AGI or super AI intelligence is coming and it's real close. OpenAI fired two people for allegedly leaking information. Now, I saw online some speculation that, you know, it's obvious what it was they leaked. Well, that's not obvious to me. But the speculation is that the

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leak is about something called Q-star, a rumored super intelligence that will come out of OpenAI fairly soon. Who believes that? How many of you believe that the leaks were about a super AI and they were on the verge of something we've never seen before? I'm going to say no. I'm going to bet against it. I think it was probably a leak. I mean, that part might be true, but I doubt it was about a sup…

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