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Back to episode — Episode 2702 CWSA 12/27/24

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cess depended on people thinking I could do that and I could do more, I probably would exaggerate my success early and I'd tell everybody, ah, it's working, it's working like crazy, it's so fast, I'll do more of it. So on one hand I don't mind. I mean it seems a functional bit of marketing if you say you're doing a little bit better than you are. I just feel like if he can get everything good with…

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chief who was hiding the most vital information from the commander in chief? Now I don't think it's illegal, but you should never work in that job again. Anybody who's hiding the most important information from the president while working for the president, it's got to be fired right away. I mean there's no real second chance for that kind of stuff. So I don't know who it was. But maybe when Trump gets in there we can get a better idea which spy chief silenced the truth from the commander in chief.

On the other hand, Biden wasn't really totally functional. So and the funniest thing about this story is when they talk about the spy chiefs and the Pentagon and they did all their research and they found out things that nobody could have ever known. And then it's taken years for them to finally tell you what they think they know. And I've told you before but it's funny. I think probably like maybe a week after the COVID pandemic hit that one of my smartest friends called me and said here's a picture on Google Maps. That wet market is directly across the street from the Wuhan lab that creates, that does exactly this kind of work. So on week one I knew for sure. Was I doubting that the lab that was across the street was a real problem as opposed to the wet markets that have operated forever and never had this kind of problem? Exactly. So pretending that anybody didn't know on day one or at least day seven is just kind of funny because if I knew, I mean I knew for sure in a week. I was just waiting for the rest of the country to catch up. I thought it'd be easy but it took years.

All right. DARPA, according to Reclaim the Net, DARPA has created this what they call a theory of mind. So they're using technology and software to predict and influence behavior. So apparently they think they can predict what people do and they claim that they'll use it against our adversaries because if you know what your adversaries are going to do, well you have an advantage. Now do you think this would stay limited to use against our adversaries? Of course not. Because every time the intelligence people find something that works against their adversaries, unless it's a kinetic thing like a bomb, it ends up getting employed domestically. Because if we're trying to control people in other countries, sooner or later somebody says you know there are a few people in this country who could use a little control. Why don't we use that external thing to control these rogues inside the country? So of course it will come internally. Of course it will.

Now the question is do you think it's real? Do you think even if they try really hard and the smartest people and they use AI that they will be able to predict people's actions in the future? Well how could they if you have free will? If you have free will there's no way they're going to predict what you're going to do. I'm just joking. You don't have free will. So they'll totally be able to predict what you're going to do. It's really an information problem. If they knew enough about you they could get it 80% of the time. They could probably do populations faster. They could probably look at a politician's message and then look at how that'll affect the election and know who's going to win based on the messaging or maybe even the personality. So there's some things that it definitely will be able to predict more so than anything we're doing today. Because polling predicts, if you do it legitimately. A lot of our polling is not legitimate. But if you did it legitimately like the internal polling for the Trump campaign, it

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told him he was going to win. It literally predicted the future. So yes, there will be other ways to do that too. I believe that AI will use pattern recognition to predict the future for individuals. But it won't be able to do that until it knows enough about those individuals, which I don't know how they'll do that. Maybe if they knew everything about your social media and everything you've ever…

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