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all that chemistry right in your body, your brain isn't working, period. So your brain and your body are one tool. All right. Reportedly Elon Musk is going to use his AI called xAI and do a little standalone app. So right now it only exists in X as Grok, but they're going to make their own standalone. As far as I can tell it seems way behind ChatGPT because Grok so far doesn't have images and it…

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put trillions and trillions of dollars into it. So why do we need to fix the models? I thought you told me the models already worked because you asked me for trillions of dollars. So why do I have a new story every single day about a new variable that they didn't know about that's very large, and so they're incorporating it into the models?

Any of you who have lived in the real world as long as I have, you know what that means, right? If you have a model that's telling you the truth and then you keep changing the model by adding variables almost every week, and the variables are kind of big, and no matter what you do you still get the same answer — if you're 25 you think that means that climate change is real and they've got a real good bead on it. When you're 65, the fact that they change it every week tells you that they don't know what they're doing. It's a real big difference in experience, am I right? Those of you who are older and have experience, when you see that they're adding a new variable to their complicated models and they're adding it every week and they're big variables, that tells you there's no other explanation. There literally is no other explanation. But if you're young you just think, oh the models were good before and they're getting better. No, that's not what's happening.

All right. Meanwhile, according to the Daily Caller News Foundation, America's most expensive DEI program is about to go away. So apparently the University of Michigan — they've spent $250 million on DEI since 2016 and students and faculty have reported deteriorating campus clim

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ate. Racism is worse. They have exactly the same percentage of Black enrollment and they got absolutely nothing out of it except people feeling bad about each other. So that's what they got for $250 million. Hey, does anybody know how they could have saved $250 million? Is there anything they could have done? Anybody they could have asked? Hey, we just need your advice. Should we spend $250 milli…

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