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he first thing you would do? You would make your partner, your mate, more attractive than ever, right? Because breaking up is the worst thing to do. What you'd like is that you're really, really, really are into your partner and vice versa. So what if the people who do the psychedelics are not responding chemically to some afterglow chemical thing? What if they figured out how to author the simul…

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convenient. So even meeting your neighbors was easy. Joining a gym is easy because it's five minutes away by foot. You wouldn't need to ever DoorDash because everything's five minutes away. So look at all the money you save on eating out because everything's five minutes away.

So I will no longer entertain the argument that designing a city from scratch and making it really, really good to live in is a bad idea. I'm not going to listen to your criticisms anymore. It's already been done. Already been done. More than a 15-minute city, it's a five-minute city and they love it and it's been working for years. So there.

Well, Grok, as you may have already heard, it's now better at handling images. So you can upload anything to it. You can upload your medical x-rays, your blood tests, and it will give you medical opinions. But also you can make it create drawings. Now I asked Grok to draw me drawing Dilbert and it created a photorealistic version of me that was really close. I mean, just maybe a little bit with a smile that wasn't exact and they changed the glasses a little bit but not totally. But here's the most interesting thing. Well, first of all it had six fingers. It did a great job of drawing me, but when it wanted to show Dilbert the comic strip drawn on the piece of paper I was holding in the image it created, it couldn't draw Dilbert. Isn't that weird? And it makes me wonder, is that a sort of a copyright protection thing or does it have a problem with line drawings? I don't know. But it showed me with six fingers, which would explain why I couldn't draw Dilbert correctly.

And here's the best part. The clothes it put me in, mostly shirts. That's what it showed. The shirts were excellent. Here's what I want. I want Grok to say, I have designed six different shirts. Here are the links where you can buy a shirt that looks kind of like this. I'll do it. Yeah, the shirts like those, the sort of soft, comfortable ones with the buttons look great. Oh my goodness.

All right. Did you know, and also given that it does a perfect picture of myself, I asked the following question. How long is it going to be before people are making their own porn and then putting themselves in it? You know, at least their image in it. That's going to happen like really soon, right? To me it seems like one of the industries that's most challenged by AI is porn. Because if you could create the exact porn you wanted and the people were perfect and beautiful and you could even put yourself in the scene and watch how much you enjoy it, why would you pay for it? It's going to look exactly like professionally produced porn. So I think the porn industry will be the first one to completely shut down when AI gets a little bit better. Not much, maybe a year from now.

Here's a story I don't know if it's true, but according to an article in ZME Science, the launch codes for the US nuclear arsenal was, and you know they've changed the code so it's okay if I tell you, so try not to memorize this, but this was the actual launch code for the US nuclear arsenal until 1977. The code was 00000000. Really? The launch code was just zeros. Now I kind of understand why that would be the case. You can kind of understand it, can't you? 'Cause you could imagine being the president and your only job, if the nukes get launched from the Soviet Union, your only job is to immediately open up the football and launch a counterattack and you've only got a few minutes. Imagine if you forgot the password.

Now I suppose it did leave the possibility that the

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person carrying the football could launch the nuclear weapon. But what if the person carrying it didn't know the password was 00000000? But what if the game was to make sure that only the president knew the code? I doubt that's the case, but you might want to have some kind of control like that. Like only the president knows the password. Would you trust any president to remember a long password?…

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