it looks exactly like the United States tried to install their own leader a preferred leader via the mechanism of having voting machines that maybe they had some back door to. I don't know that that's true. In other words there's no hard evidence of anything so I can't point to any evidence for it but why would the United States care so much about another country's voting machines so much so that they would get involved? Can you think of a second reason for that? I can't. What would it be? Is it because we're so kind to other countries that we get really deeply involved in all of their affairs whether it had a political angle or not? No we don't do anything like that.

In the comments Lemon Minty is saying voting machines are to make you think voting is real. Well I don't know. I mean I think a paper ballot with lots of observers would maybe think voting was real. I don't think there's any other reason than the one that you suspect. Now but I'll soften that again because I don't want to get sued. I'll soften it to say does anybody have a speculation of what a second reason could be? I can't think of any. I have a pretty good imagination. I can't even imagine a second reason. Can you? I mean honestly can you think of any reason that the US would be so incentivized especially the CIA to make sure we got those American driven machines in there? But I remind you our elections are pristine. Nothing to worry about in our elections because it's not like we've seen any bad behavior anywhere. So our elections are fine. They're fine everybody.

All right two AI companies OpenAI and Anthropic they've reached some kind of AI safety agreement with the US government and what it involves I don't know what else it involves but key to this is that the government would have access to the models presumably before the public did so that they could test them and look for AI problems. So do you feel better that there's an effort to have a regulatory body that will be overseeing AI? So glad. I was worried for a moment that there wouldn't be a regulatory body regulating AI. Now let's leave that world of imagination and go to the real one shall we? In the real world we know that the time it will take for the AI industry to totally own the regulators would be now. Yeah I think we're probably already there. How hard would it be for the AI industries to totally own the regulators? Well let's think it through. If somebody's job fo