billions of dollars personally at stake in keeping OpenAI a functioning successful company. So now if somebody has billions of dollars at stake for having the right opinion they're going to be on that opinion. So there's nothing about his current opinion that tells us anything about what he's thinking. Can't tell what he's thinking. But if you want to say to yourself I think the old Sam was the real one, I think that's reasonable. But don't rule out that no matter how brilliant you are and how committed you are you could realize later that you were hypnotized. Because a lot of people did.

You know if we didn't have a whole bunch of people who said honestly, you know and they don't say this about themselves but they could, but I'm really really smart and I was totally fooled by that. But lots of people are essentially saying that. So if lots of people who are as smart as Sam Altman are saying I got totally fooled and we believe them, I believe Bill Ackman for example. I believe he was genuinely fooled but he's also genuinely brilliant. How do you explain that? Because it's normal. It's completely normal. Being able to be free from persuasion is a specific skill. It's not a general intelligence thing at all. In fact general intelligence works against you. You're easier to fool. Dumb people are harder to fool sometimes because they'll say hey you smarty pants looks like you're trying to pull something on me. Well why do you say that? I don't know I just don't trust you. But what do you see that's tipping you off? Don't need to see anything. I just don't trust you. And you're going to be right. So the low IQ person who says I just don't trust you ends up being right. And the smart person says let's look at all the facts and the details by reading the New York Times but I'll cross check it with CNN to make sure that one and they both got it right. Oh it looks like they agree. I guess that's true. So now I'll act like Trump is Hitler because CNN and being smart isn't helping you. It just is a different skill than understanding persuasion.

So you can see the mechanism. You have to be able to see the machine. If you can't see the mechanisms of the machine the machine owns you. But once you learn enough about how it's done, such as learning how a ruse is done, learning how incentives work etc., once you realize how the machine works then it just sort of materializes in front of you. And when a new hoax comes out you go oh that just came out of that hoax machine. And then you're immune. But you got to see it all. Common sense doesn't get you anywhere on that topic.

So I didn't know that Reid Hoffman and Sam were so close and worked together on this. But I don't know what's going on with Reid Hoffman. Someday we'll find out I think.

The New York Times had an opinion piece today. I think it was an opinion piece. Hard to tell these days. The title was "How Labeling Cartels Terrorists Could Hurt the US Economy." All right, how many of you knew that the biggest shareholder in the New York Times is also the richest man in Mexico? And what they're talking about here is that the cartels are embedded in all of the industries of Mexico. It's not just the drug industry but they're embedded with agriculture and everything else. So it could take down the whole economy of Mexico, not just the drug selling part of the economy.

Now to be fair, being the largest shareholder is only 17%, and he doesn't have a controlling interest. That still belongs with the family. So the family is making all the decisions. But I simply point out that wouldn't it have been nice to know that the biggest shareholder for the people who wrote this article is the richest guy in Mexico who I'm guessing has business interests that sort of have some cartel embedded with them. So you never know. You just have to be aware of who's who.

Apparently ICE is going to call the nonresident aliens from now on. Remember how that became like a dirty word? Don't call them aliens. They're just undocumented. I've never been too worked up about what name we use for them. And I have to agree that alien sounds more like something you want to get rid of than undocumented does. And the names matter. So I don't love that aliens has been reintroduced. But I wouldn't mind if all the words are reintroduced. Meaning that it just doesn't matter what you use. That seems healthy. You shouldn't get mad if somebody calls them aliens. You shouldn't be happy if they call them undocumented. Well if we're talking about the same thing it's just words.

Well my prediction on the JFK files, which as you know Mike Pompeo had talked Trump out of revealing all of them last time. According to Mike Pompeo there's nothing in there interesting anyway but there are some secrets. So nothing that we would learn that's big and shocking but still a few secrets even 60 years old. Because he points out that if somebody was in their 20s then they could still be alive in their 80s. But he was just using that as an example. He didn't say that's the reason some of it is secret. He thinks 99% of it already available and that what little there is left in the JFK file isn't really going to change anybody's mind about anything.

Here's what I think. Given that we widely assume the government itself was involved in killing JFK, the question I would ask is do you think the government that killed JFK, and then if it was let's say CIA related or Dulles related, do you think they would have left the memo on that? Do you think there would have been a memo that you could find in the files as in here's a memo, go kill JFK and make sure you keep this memo secret? No, there's not going to be something in the file if our own government killed them. If our own government killed JFK, which is exactly what it looks like happened, they're not going to keep the memo. I mean even in the wildest imagination that somebody ever wrote a memo and put that in writing, if they ever put it in writing which is ridiculously unlikely, they certainly would have lost it by now if you know what I mean. Lost it. Lost in a fire. Misplaced. So no there isn't really any chance there's something in the JFK file unless the JFK file says that the space aliens did it. What are you going to learn? There couldn't possibly be any secrets in there at least secrets about who did it. There can't possibly be anyway. So I won't hold my breath for that stuff.

As you know the Trump administration is doing a lot of firing. And the funniest part is the DEI professionals are trying to avoid being fired because all the DEI people are going to get fired by changing the name of their job. So we're seeing some examples of the director of DEI quickly changing their names on the website to executive, you know just generic executive. But I watched one young black man who worked for the government, I forget which agency, he was sort of proudly crowing that he was moving from his job as a professional in charge of DEI to something that sounded exactly like DEI but used different words. And he announced it in public at about the same time that the Trump administration was putting in a clarifying order that says if all you do is change your name we're going to fire you. And so they asked people to turn people in who were just changing the names and still doing DEI. And like 10 minutes later he updated his post on X from hey everybody I got this new job to I've been laid off. That's right. He bragged about his new job which was just different letters for his old job at the same time that the word went out fire anybody who changes jobs and keeps doing DEI but changes the name of the job. So got him.

Anyway so there's lots happening. I guess the ICE raids are happening now. We're not seeing gigantic video and stuff so one of the things the ICE people are apparently doing right, and obviously they would do this, is they're not announcing where they're going to attack so they don't have cameras. So we're not seeing a lot of video of them picking up the people that were on the list of the bad people. And that's good.

All new hires in the government got their offers rescinded. Interesting. Apparently Trump has already sent 1,500 military troops down to the border. I don't know if all 1,500 are there yet. They started with 500 but it's targeting 1,500. And they're reinforcing the wall and building outposts to help them monitor any illegal entries. I thought I saw in a separate report that they had orders to shoot. Basically orders that they could use deadly force whenever it made sense. Now those are my words but is that confirmed that they have the permission to fire at the border if they need to? You know we're talking defensively. Yeah well that's very Trumpian and probably a good idea.

And meanwhile according to Just the News Trump is announcing emergency price relief for cost of living crisis. Now that doesn't mean if this were a Democrat thing it would mean that they put price controls on things but that's not what Republicans do because it's dumb and it doesn't work. Haven't done that since Nixon. That didn't work out so they learned a lesson. But here's what he is doing. So you decide if these actions will cause prices to come down. He's ordering all federal agencies to untangle the American economy from Biden constraints. Now what are those constraints? Well he's going to eliminate climate policies that generally are going to increase the cost of everything, that make food and fuel costs go up. So in the short run if companies get rid of their climate expenses I think they would just bank it and just keep it as profit. I don't think they would immediately lower the prices but they might. So long t