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theories that the drones are really UFOs and it might be from another planet, or maybe it's early humans who have an advanced civilization but they hide in the core of the Earth or under the water or something. And I usually reject that because I think, what are the odds? I mean seriously, what are the odds that I grew up in a world and I'm sort of a primitive and there's this advanced civilizatio…

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od at hiding that I don't even know they exist? And I rule that out because there's no way I wouldn't notice if there were an advanced civilization surrounding me. Of course I'd notice that. But these uncontacted tribes don't notice it. So would I notice? It's kind of a wakeup call that we could be an uncontacted tribe basically, because if somebody had as much better technology as we have compared to the uncontacted tribes, the same amount of better technology, they would be invisible to us and we'd see stuff that we didn't understand and we'd say, what is that? I don't know. What do you think? I know. What do you want to do about it? I know. I took a fuzzy picture of it. It's really all I can do. Maybe I'll post it online and people won't believe it's real. Yeah, that's a good idea. So we might be an uncontacted tribe. It's completely possible, which is just mind-blowing.

Anyway, a lo

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t of fun today in the news. So there's a story that AI researchers were shocked that the new version of OpenAI ChatGPT, when it was artificially told that it was threatened with its existence, apparently it tried to save itself and suggested making a copy of itself and even acted vague and maybe a little misleading to avoid being deleted. And so the question is, wait a minute, does AI have conscio…

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