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heard the word "internet." I was playing with it in the lab, and then you could feel the attraction to it and everybody else could too. You knew it was going to be big before it was anything. You could just tell everybody had the same excitement about it from the first exposure. AI does that too, right? If you tried a few AI things when it was new and it didn't do much for you because it didn't do…

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and then you are your own transit system. That's true for Maui. Maybe they have a bus. Maybe I don't know. They don't have much of a transit system in Hawaii. But here's the important part of this story. The director of transportation over in Hawaii, he said, quote, "Climate change is indisputable." Isn't that a weird word? So can you tell that that person is hypnotized? That's not an opinion that you come to through reason. Nothing is indisputable. If you use a word like "indisputable," you're pretty much signaling that you did not get there by reason. If you had arrived at your opinion by reason, you would have said probably something closer to "in all likelihood" or "all indications are" or "science tells us." Those are all fair. But to say "indisputable," you're treating me like I'm an idiot. No, it's not indisputable. Watch this. I dispute it. Now when I dispute it, I'm disputing the models and I'm disputing the alarm. Whether or not the Earth is getting warmer, I don't know. But I'm pretty sure they don't know either.

My best argument about climate change is, have you met people? Have you met people? Here's the argument in favor of climate change. Then I'll show you how my argument works. We know the temperature's going up because we have a vast array of thermometers, sensitive devices placed in locations around the world, and we check them and then we can see that the temperature has b

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een going up. And by the way, we can tell it's been going up for 100 years. To which I say, have you met people? What people? Have you met them? The humans? You've heard of them, right? Human beings. There are some things they can do, some things they can't do. For example, they're pretty good at murdering each other. So if you told me, "I think people murder each other sometimes," I would have sa…

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