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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…
← Previous segment →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 done, all resumes and everything you've ever written, probably it could do it. But it'd have to have access to all that information. Probably will have that access.
Well the Trump effect continues to get things done without him actually doing anything yet. Well he's doing a lot but not specifically this. So Mexico is going to open shelters to house over 12,000 of its own citizens who might get deported when Trump takes over. 25 planned shelters and it's a strategic plan to accommodate exclusively the people who get deported after January 20th. And Mexico says they're taking Trump's threats seriously and they're preparing the facilities to accept them. Now doesn't that make his job a lot easier if Mexico has already built the receiving facilities? It's going to be a lot more humane and a lot more politically acceptable if Mexico, instead of arguing like crazy you shouldn't send them back, is building facilities to accept them. That's the Trump effect. They're acting in a way that is the adult way to act simply because Dad came home. Like everybody started to pick up their toys. Oh Dad's home. I don't need to be told. I'm going to pick up all my toys because it would be way worse if I don't pick up my toys. So that's what's happening.
All right. You probably know that yesterday there was a big brouhaha on the internet on X about the issue of issuing what visas or whatever the approval is to work in the United States for foreign workers. And the debate comes down to hey, if we're America First, why would you bring in any foreign workers? But Elon Musk, it took him all day to clarify, but he said we're really talking about the 0.1% of the top engineers. Now those are, according to Elon, those are jobs which are really, really hard to fill and there are tons of openings. And it wouldn't really be possible to train some Americans to be in the top 0.1% of engineering in the next few years. If you have a 20-year buildup, yes, you know in 20 years we might create enough top engineers that we don't think about taking anybody from another country. Maybe possible. But at the moment if you want to compete in AI and crypto and quantum computing and robots, those are all the things that are going to drive economies in the future. And the people who drive them the most are going to be the engineers in the top 0.1%. In fact OpenAI only exists because Sam Altman brought over some Indian engineer who made the breakthroughs that made AI essentially possible. So even AI wouldn't even exist if we hadn't brought in one of those 0.1% engineers and he hadn't done what he did. So keep that in mind.
Now I weighed in and immediately it just caused more problems than it solved because what I didn't understand is that people were not on the same topic. So there are a few topics and individually they're all important but they all got sort of conflated. And people were mad about things that they were on the wrong topic. So let me tell you what my view is and then we'll talk
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about the topic. My old view, my old view prior to Biden, and it's now changed because of Biden, but my old view is that you want to keep everybody smart. So if somebody wants to come in and they've got a high education in some valuable field or even if they just want to be an optometrist or make money, that the country is better off every time you bring in somebody who's going to add to the tax b…
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