Back to episode — Episode 2514 CWSA 06/23/24
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cut back on the working, give myself a nice part-time job and live like a king with my harem who thinks I'm handsome. But since I was not born handsome, I said to myself by looking in the mirror when I was about five years old, literally true story, you'd better get a really good job if you want to compete in this world because you're not going to do it on your looks. And so I did. And that, by t…
← Previous segment →have full human movement and good batteries and AI and somebody says, I'm going to form a robot basketball league where my robots will play your robots and they'll play actual basketball. They'll dribble, they'll shoot, they'll foul, everything. Would you watch it? The answer is once. You might watch it once, but you will never be interested in robots playing basketball.
Now imagine if the robots could play basketball better than Michael Jordan. They could jump higher and do these impressive dunks. Would you watch it? Not even a little bit. Do you know why? Because it's not people. Yeah. We're not interested in basketball. We have no interest in basketball. Because if we had interest in basketball, you could watch robots play and you go, wow, look at that basketball. They could really play that basketball, those robots. No, you would have no interest at all.
People watch basketball because they want the players. Men watch basketball because it's men who are better than them and they're like, we're kind of drawn to just looking at anything in that domain. Yeah, that's the real reason. It's because the athletes are super examples of people you want to mate with. They're displaying a talent that is unusual. So the basketball example should tell you that AI art is probably not the future except in a utility way.
You've been following this story that I haven't talked about at all, and I'll tell you why. There's a bunch of Chinese-owned farmland that in many cases is nearby to US military bases and it's an alarming threat. Now I take that seriously. I do think that having a bunch of Chinese farmland adjacent to American bases, that does seem like a security risk. But I would also point out, and the reason I hadn't talked about it until now, is that if you have a lot of bases and you have a lot of farmland, how are they not going to line up?
So I was having trouble removing chance from the story because I looked at the map and it looked to me like some were near bases, some were not, but a lot were. Am I worried about that? Yeah. Yeah. Because it is a resource that you could i
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magine China might take advantage of if they wanted to. So yeah, it's a problem. But I don't know if it's a plot. It might be. So you have to worry about it exactly as if you know it's a plot. But I don't know. I don't know. It could be just they need food. So they create a bunch of farms in places that have good conditions for farms and then they ship the food back. So it might be 80% food, 20% y…
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