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don't have the option of not thinking if we're awake. Well, even if you're asleep your brain is still active so you don't have an option of thinking nothing. And if your problem is that there are too many negative thoughts, that is something you can control. So you can't control whether you have thoughts but you can definitely control, 100%, you can control the percentage of them that are negative…

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'm not recommending any of this just so we're clear, this is very not recommended but it's a truth, it's just one of those hard to process truths, that there are some people who are on Adderall or uppers or speed who figure out, oh my God I'm already in the top 1% of smart hardworking people. If I put myself in the 0.001% I can make a billion dollar unicorn company and change the world. And then they do. Now if they get a lifelong habit that ends up bad that was a bad decision. If they end up making something that changes the world and makes billions of dollars and then they get off it because they were high agency, high willpower, they were just doing it because it worked, well that's a huge win. But I don't recommend it because the odds of you being in the top 1% and being one of the few people who could handle literally addiction and then shake it off, you're not one of those. Let me say that again. You're not one of those. I might be wrong for 1% of you but you don't know if you're in the 1%. You really don't know. But it is true.

And then I look at Sam Altman with his psychedelic experience. I have heard maybe more of these stories than any other type, that somebody changed their life because of the psychedelic experience. That was also my experience early in my 20s and it was completely life-altering. So if you don't understand how one experience that lasts a few hours can change everything it's because you haven't experienced it. But when people say that they're not joking. They are completely different forever. Now could you also do it and have a terrible experience? Yeah, there was just a story yesterday about people doing ayahuasca and just puking their guts out and quitting their jobs and having all the opposite effects. So yes it's high risk. So if there's one thing you hear from this I want you to hear the high risk part. The part I don't want you to act on is guessing that you're in the top 1% and you're one of the few people who can ever do an illegal drug, get a benefit from it, and then get back from it. Don't do it. I'm just saying that some people do it.

All right, ChatGPT is coming out, speaking of AI, with their new advanced voice mode and that's good because the current model, I don't know if this only happens to me or you, when I talk to it it tends to act like a teenager who is pretending to have a bad cell phone connection. I don't know if you've tried to use the current ChatGPT voice mode but I'll ask something like this. ChatGPT, I have a mole that appeared on my arm. Let me describe it. I'll give you a picture of it and can you tell me if this is dangerous? And then ChatGPT will say in perfect English, there are two possibilities. Number one, there's nothing to worry about whatsoever. And I'll think, wow. And they'll say but number two possibility is that amputation. And I said, wait, wait, what? What did you just say? And then it will say in perfect English it could be nothing to worry about whatsoever. And I'm like, okay, okay, what was that other thing you said with amputation and bile? Like bile, I don't even know what that means. What is the bile? Good? Is the bile bad? What's it mean, ChatGPT? And then it'll say I'm having trouble connecting now. So that's been my experience with ChatGPT. If you really, really want to know the answer it's going to be a teenager or say, oh sorry Mom can't hear you. I should come home. No I can't hear you anyway.

So I have big hopes for the advanced voice mode. I have a hypothesis that all of those problems I just described are, some of it's just Wi-Fi, you know if you're in the car or something or losing connection over your 5G. But some of it I think might be that they don't have enough computing power because the amount of computing power you need is just almost unfathomable and I can't imagine that they got right where they wanted already. So I suspect that some of it is just more computing is more goodness. So all this is going to fix itself. None of this is permanent. So I have big hopes for this advanced voice mode. I'll let you know after I try it out.

Meanwhile Google allegedly paid $2.7 billion to hire a good AI guy. Let me say that again. Google, who wants to make sure it can stay competitive in this AI stuff and some would say it's maybe not in the top tier, so to fix that they paid $2.7 billion to hire back a guy who used to work with them and was one of the pioneers of inventing the LLM AI concept. And he left because Google was a little too conservative or slow or didn't want to pursue it as much as he did. So he created another company which didn't necessarily look like his other company called Character was going to ever make money. But he cleverly sold the company with an agreement that he would go work for Google. So he basically sold a company for $2.7 billion. His part of it was several hundred million just to do a job.

So let me give you this advice. If you ever find yourself in a position where somebody is willing to pay $2.7 billion just to hire you as an employee, know he didn't get the 2.7 billion but he got his share of the company, you should take that. Yeah, I don't give a lot of career advice but if somebody offers you $2.7 billion just to go to work, most of the time I'd say yes. I'd say yes on that. That's my advice.

Well meanwhile the InfoWars saga continues. The judge has ordered that Alex Jones can auction off, he has to actually because InfoWars is being closed down by the courts to pay the legal damages for the Sandy Hook families, and his entire life's work will be sold off to the highest bidder and liquidated. I saw some people joking and saying Elon Musk should buy it. I don't think that's going to happen because I don't know the assets are exactly. But even after he sells off all his assets, correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't this lawsuit judgment that he's under mean that every penny he makes for the rest of his life some of it has to go to the lawsuit? So haven't they crippled him economically forever? Like he can never come back because if he makes money he just has to give it away. Sort of the OJ Simpson, you know, doomed for life. You can never really make money in this world again.

Well so when you start looking at the number of people who were leaning in the same direction and got cancelled, from Tucker to Alex Jones to Roseanne to me, and you know you can add a bunch of names to that, would you say it's fair to say that the media and the Department of Justice and the Democrats collectively are crooked? And when you look at the lawfare against Trump and then you look at all the lawfare and related things against other characters, doesn't it seem like the media, the Department of Justice, and Democrats are fundamentally corrupt? It does to me. I remember thinking that the Justice Department was mostly on the up and up but you know it was probably bad if you were like a Black American especially earlier in

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years. And I thought well that's something we need to fix. You don't want any discrimination in Department of Justice. But I wasn't completely aware that the entire enterprise is corrupt and it appears it is. So I would say the media, the Department of Justice, and the Democrats are one big ball of corruption kind of collectively working with each other. Here's a funny thing. MSNBC had a little t…

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