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ke six figures? And they're all sleeping with somebody who also has a harem. So the top, I don't know, 5% or 1% of men have unlimited options because all the women want the top 1% or 5%. So they basically have virtual harems that are changing over all the time. But the women too. They're just going on OnlyFans and they create their own harems. What about the ones who are not doing any of those t…

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it should be different or what people should be doing with their life. I don't have any advice. I'm just saying that we've evolved into essentially a harem civilization. But at least it's fair. Men and women have their own harems, just differently.

Well, here's some news from AI. Google's DeepMind taught a robot how to tie a shoelace. Now if you don't think that sounds impressive, consider that whenever you see a robot doing something it seems to be using one hand at a time. It doesn't do a lot of things where both hands are coordinated. But imagine tying a shoelace. If your robot can tie a shoelace, that's pretty close to doing everything you're going to need it to do. So it can do that and clean the kitchen. And so it did about 98% of the things I wanted it to do. But the two-hand coordination thing is the one that i

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mpressed me. So if you can get your robot to do two-handed coordination, the time between now and the time that you will have a full robot tennis partner, literally a tennis partner, a robot who can serve and hit the ball back, is probably five years. Yeah, it might have more to do with battery life and a little mechanical stuff to make sure the robot doesn't fall over. But they're pretty much t…

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