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test it. You would connect it to, so not all AI can influence anything outside of its own domain, but it's not impossible and in fact it's done that. You can have the AI affect your other apps. So in theory you could create an app that would delete OpenAI and then you could ask OpenAI to activate, basically commit suicide. You could basically tell it to activate the app that deletes itself and the…

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f all it's doing is picking up a pattern, then you can say everything will be fine, we've got backups, go delete yourself. So easy to test.

Speaking of testing, what's going to happen on Christmas Day with all the drone activity? I'm predicting that the drone activity, the big ones that are sketchy, the ones that are the size of a car, I'm only talking about those, I think they're going to sort of stop running on Christmas. Now if I'm wrong and there are just as many sightings of car-sized drones on Christmas, then I would say, huh, maybe this is not coming from America, because Americans pretty much all take the day off on Christmas. You know, if you're the military, whoever you are, you're going to take the day off on Christmas. But if the source of these weird drones is Iran, would Iran take Christmas Day off? If they were alien space

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ships, would the aliens take the day off? If it were Chinese, would they take the day off? Russia might. Russia has some kind of Christmas, doesn't it? I don't know. They might. But let's watch for the drone reports now. Did you notice that in the last two days or so the drone reports seem to trickle out? I mean they seem to die out. Why would that be? Well it could be that people were trying to…

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