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play the drums. Now you're going to say to yourself, I know, but Scott, there have been things called drum machines for a long time. You know, you could just program them and then they make sound. To which I say, well, but you know this is better. They've added AI to it so it can make up its own beats. Now that's pretty good. Imagine if your AI drummer could come up with beats that you wouldn't ev…
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But if you teach a robot how to manipulate humans by matching their movements and then the next stage would be matching their language style, so that's also a persuasion trick. So if somebody likes to talk in military ways, do you know anybody who likes to use a lot of military terms like we're going to take that hill and you know I jumped on that hand grenade and well we'll live to fight again? You know, just continuous warlike things. If you pace that and you adopt the same style when you're talking to them, they will begin to trust you and you will begin to have a persuasive effect on that person. It's pacing and leading.
We probably don't want to teach the robots to do it. It's probably too dangerous. Nobody's going to believe me about this by the way. Like if you were not steeped in persuasion as a hobby or a job, you wouldn't really know how dangerous this is. But if these robots start copying the way
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we talk and the way we move, they're going to have full control over our minds. Let me say that again. If a robot can learn to talk like us, in other words adopt the same mannerisms that we have individually, and also move like us, literally copying the way we move, it will almost have full control over your brain. Now I know you don't believe that, but it's coming and there's nothing that can st…
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