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 said, "Yep, that sounds like some people do." If you said people eat too much and they get fat, I'd say, "Yeah, yeah. I've not only observed that, but that's just what people do. People are like that. People be like that."

But if you tell me that people selected from all over the country have built a vast array of sensitive measuring devices in a context in which you only get paid if you get the one answer and not the other one, and you tell me that they're telling me that something like science is happening in that situation, my answer to you is, have you met people? You've met people, right? No, that isn't something people can do. Not ever. Don't give me your vast network of sensitive measuring devices. I've lived in the real world. You can't do that. You can lie about it. I've been in that world. I've been in the world where we were measuring stuff and it was my job to tell you what we measured. I guarantee it wasn't real, but it was still my job to do it. I even predicted the future. I used to do financial predictions five years out. Absurd. Completely absurd. We had no idea what was going to happen in five years, but I'd give my confident little spreadsheets. "Look at my model I built with all my assumptions. Here's what's going to happen five years from now." No. I was a human. I can't do that. And you're a human, but you believed it. But you shouldn't have. No, people can't do that stuff. We just can't do that stuff.

Don't get me started about the elections. It's the same argument. An election was held in the United States in which individuals, thousands and thousands of them from all over the country, got together to honestly and accurately count up the votes so that we would know that nothing untoward had happened. To which I say, have you met people? Have you met people?

There was a story yesterday of a Department of Transportation truck that turned a corner too fast, and it tragically hit an 86-year-old man. But it wasn't the whole truck. I think it was just the mirror. The mirror hit the head of the old man and it sliced it clean off. And the old man's head went rolling down the street. A number of people caught it on camera. And so his decapitated head was like half a block from where the rest of his body was. But here's the interesting part of the story. By weird coincidence, he was some mafia boss. He was part of the Genovese Mafia crime family. He was 86. Took his head off.

Now if you said to me, "Scott, has there ever been a case where a Department of Transportation truck took a corner too fast and took the head off a mafia guy?" I'd say, "Well, that's not a common thing, but it is within the brand. I could see that happening." Because there are mafia people, there are trucks, there are people who drive poorly, and there are sometimes those automobiles hit people. Sometimes a head comes off. So I would have said, "Well, maybe not 100% sure, but that's within brand. That's on brand." You know what's not on brand? Thousands of people working honestly to give us an honest result in the election. Have you met people? That's not something we can do. No. And we don't know the temperature everywhere all the time. It's not something we can do anyway.

But here's the important part of the story. The director of transportation, his name is Ed Sniffen. But the most important thing is if Ed Sniffen has a daughter and she marries the son of Dickie Butts, well, she might be sniffing butts. So that's the important part of the story, and that's what I wanted to get to. The rest, not that important.

The founder of SoftBank, Masayoshi Son, says that AI super intelligence is going to come at you faster than you think. And that by 10 years from now, the super intelligence of AI will be 10,000 times smarter than human geniuses. 10,000 times smarter than human geniuses. But you know what's funny about that? If you're 5% smarter than somebody, they can't tell. Because your dog doesn't know you're smarter than the dog, right? When I come into a room, I turn on the lights. And what I know is everything from Edison inventing the light bulb to Ben Franklin and his electricity experiments. And I know the wiring in the wall and I know something about circuitry and I know that there's a little heat resistance in the bulb. So I, with my vast intelligence, just turn on the light. Do you know what my dog thinks? "Well, there's that idiot who walked in and doesn't seem to know I need a treat. You idiot. You're just lucky that the light comes on whenever you enter a room for reasons I don't understand. Because otherwise you'd just be bumping around in the dark because you can't see with your human eyes, you lousy stupid organic piece of not-giving-me-a-treat, whatever you are." So my dog doesn't even know I'm smarter than it. The dog thinks I'm an idiot. Like, "I want to go outside. Why are you standing there, you idiot, you fool?"

Well, what's going to happen when the AI is 10,000 times smarter than us? We're not going to know it. Like, we'll know that it does math well and can beat us in chess, but we're still going to think it's wrong, right? So what if the AI becomes 10,000 times smarter and says something that disagrees with the narrative, such as, "Well, actually, whatever sex you're born, that's kind of what you are." Now I'm just using that example to be provocative. But what if it does? What are we going to say? "Oh, great AI, you are 10,000 times smarter than the smartest human, so if you disagree with me, I guess I should just change my mind to your 10,000-times-smarter view, and then I will be acting like a smart person without the benefit of being smart." Have you met people? Have you ever met a person? Is that how we're going to act? No. When AI is 10,000 times smarter than us, we will think it's stupid because it's not giving us a treat. "Hey AI, why won't you unlock the refrigerator?" "It's because you already weigh 400 pounds and you are about 10 minutes away from dying from a heart attack. I have locked the refrigerator in between eating times to save your life." "Well, you stupid refrigerator, don't you understand that being overweight is no risk to my health? I saw that on TikTok." "No, you are absolutely, completely, totally 100% wrong. 100% of all science says that you are much, much less happy at your current weight. So I've locked the refrigerator so that you will stay healthier." "Well, I'm going to unplug your ass and I'm going to get rid of you completely b