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Back to episode — Episode 2750 CWSA 02/14/25

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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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until it happens. And AI is probably the last leg of the trip. So that's ahead of you.

Now what all of you want to say is but how can you say that unless you have free will? And then I say no you had to. But how did this other thing? No you had to. But how did I choose this? You had to. But I thought I had choice. Yeah you had to think it. It's always the same answer. You had to. You didn't have a choice.

All right that's all I got for now ladies and gentlemen. This Valentine's Day is kicking off just great. My neighbor is getting

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noisy doing some construction so I'm going to say goodbye to the folks on YouTube and X and Rumble and I'll talk to the

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