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d not only did they not see it they didn't even know there's a higher classification. What? What do you know? What that makes me think, I don't believe that we've captured any alien technology. I don't believe we have. But when I hear this I go huh. Suppose you had just hypothetically suppose you actually had an alien spacecraft with alien technology. Who would you want to show it to to see if the…

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e I'm bragging about what I got right but remember I make predictions. So if I don't tell you I got one right you're losing half of the value. You should know when I get one right and what domain it is because maybe that's a domain I can guess better than other domains. There are some domains I can't guess. For example I can never predict who anybody's going to pick for a vice president. I have no visibility, experience, knowledge. I can't do anything on those. But stuff like this you know what is a logical plan, you know how can you get from here to there, I'm pretty good at that. Pretty good at that anyway.

Meta has some kind of breakthrough according to TweakTown. TweakTown that's really the name of a publication. Apparently they can strap some sensors on your head and they can successfully read 80% of your thoughts. Now the 20% they can't read is still big enough that they can't do much with this technology. But what happens if it keeps getting better? What happens when the AI can predict what you're going to do before you know what you're going to do? Because here's the joke. We already know that. So without AI and without these fancy sensors we already know from brain imaging and other lots of experiments that the part of your brain that handles rational thought doesn't even activate until after the decision. That's one of the most well understood things for many decades. Every once in a while they retest it and they're

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like yep sure enough the rational part of your brain is a rationalizer. It rationalizes the decision. It doesn't make the decision. What makes the decision is some combination of irrational impulses. But then after it's made your little rationalizer says oh it's because I could see the greater opportunity in that direction. And maybe sometimes it's true too but it's usually not why you made the de…

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