Back to episode — Episode 2874 CWSA 06/20/25
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scenarios that aren't real and they would call that synthetic training data and then it would self-edit and update its internal parameters based on the synthetic training data. Now what would be another name for synthetic training data? Well, it would be imagination. It would be imagination because it's not based on reality, but you perceive it as if it's reality but you know it's not. And I woul…
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The BBC is reporting that the founder and boss of the Telegram app, it's a messaging app, plans to leave his multi-billion dollar fortune to over a hundred children he fathered. A hundred. Now he didn't do it the Elon Musk way. He only had six children the normal way that people have children and all the rest of his hundredish children were because he had donated to a sperm bank. So he plans to leave his money to children he's never met that he was the sperm donor for.
Now if you've ever seen this guy, he's first of all a genius and second of all really good-looking. So you can really imagine why he would have been selected a lot to be the sperm donor. But I love how billionaires reproduce. I have to admit that there's something about this that makes sense. Now I guess he's not going to leave them the money right away. There's something like a 30-year delay between when he makes the money available and when he dies. So he wants to make sure that they can make a life for themselves before they get any of his money. But yeah, he's the official father of over 100 babies conceived in over 12 countries. Wouldn't that be wild to have a hundred babies?
There's a friend of mine who in her adult life learned that she was basically a sperm donor baby and then at the same time learned that she had dozens I think dozens of half siblings and they started finding each other. How wild would that be to be an adult? Like you're in the middle of your life and you learn that you have dozens of half siblings and you start meeting each other. That would be so wild.
Anyway, according to Ohio State University, most women want children but half are unsure if they will. Well you know how I could make sure that they have children? They should use that billionaire sperm donor and try to get in on that inheritance. That might help.
So apparently a lot of people have the intention to have a baby but they don't necessarily think that it would make a difference, that their happiness wouldn't necessarily be worse or better if they had a baby or not. So clearly, unless we plan to reproduce with robots alone, which maybe we will, you never know, we're going to have to completely reconfigure society so that having babies makes sense again. And the only way I can think of that is if people who want to have babies find living conditions that are ideal for having a baby. And I would argue that if you're in an inner city, not a great place to have a baby. But if you're also in a very rural area, again, maybe not the best place to have a baby.
So I'm going to give you my idea that you're going to fight against if you're an NPC and you're going to say no small houses. Even though this has nothing to do with tiny homes, you'll say it anyway because that's what NPCs say. I believe that we need to develop cities that are optimized for having babies. And all that would mean is that you had little neighborhood areas where people who are having babies around the same time are living so that there's always somebody who can watch your kid.
I think I've told you this before, but in my first marriage there was this extremely lucky situation where the two stepkids were exactly the same gender and same age as I think four different couples that we knew really well. So on any given weekend the kids would have a sleepover at the house of somebody that you knew really well. So you trusted them and the kids would be delighted and then the parents could have a date night if they wanted and you wouldn't worry too much because you were such a tight group of people and the ages and the genders were perfect. So that both the boy and the girl had somebody their age in this other house. And that was amazing. It just made life so much easier in so many ways.
Now add to that if it were walking distance to those houses because it wasn't in our case but they were in town. They weren't that far away. So imagine then adding the Tesla auto cab and imagine that you've got one th
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at's so safe that you could send a smallish kid, not too small but 12 years old let's say, to their friend's house without having to leave your house. Now imagine that you had essentially free or low-cost child watching stuff while you're working. If you designed your town so it was optimized so the kids had friends and you had people to help you do things when you needed a little help. It would b…
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