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't think they know exactly why. I assume it's not some kind of cyber crime because I don't know who would go after Portugal, Spain, and parts of France. That'd be a weird target. But they're dealing with that. And it kind of reminds you how fragile civilization is. There was probably, my guess is, one piece of equipment that went bad and it took three countries offline. So we'll keep an eye on tha…
← Previous segment →ention, you look at advertising and then they win. But with AI, they're going to move to an intention economy, meaning they're going to figure out what it is you're likely to want, maybe before you even know it. And so they'll be looking at your intentions to give you what you want.
You can say goodbye to your illusion of free will because once your AI gets good enough to know what you want and it starts giving it to you before you even knew you wanted it, why would you even make decisions? Because it's going to be right. You know, every now and then you might have to correct it like, well, no, I don't have time for that cup of coffee you were going to make me, robot. But the intention economy has way more ramifications than just how they sell advertisements. The ramification is that we come to understand that free will is an illusion. It's a big deal, but I know you're not ready for that yet.
Popular Mechanics has a story that says that somebody somehow found a chemical fingerprint on Stonehenge. Do you bel
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ieve they found a fingerprint on Stonehenge? I'm not sure I even believe the first part of the story, but according to them, if they're right, it means that the giant stones came from a different place than they've been telling us for years. In other words, the whole Stonehenge story was kind of BS. That's what they're thinking. But this reminded me that if you watch enough YouTube stories about…
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