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So now AI can influence us by which vocabulary we use, but it can also influence us by being very useful. So we rely on it for facts, even if they're wrong. And apparently it can also influence us with analogies and emotion and empathy. So if you were wondering, is AI going to start being in control of humans? Yeah. Yeah. No doubt about it. There isn't the slightest chance that AI will not be influencing what you think about stuff.

Now the interesting thing is will this cause any kind of unity? So right now the country is divided by politics. What would happen if AI, all the AIs, start converging on the same explanation of things and use the same analogies and have similar vocabulary? Is it possible that our diverse opinions will merge into one opinion that coincidentally or not is exactly what AI would tell you is true? That might happen. So one possibility is AI manipulates us and turns us into mindless puppets and we don't know it. The other possibility is it allows us to stop fighting with each other because we can all just look at AI and go, "Oh, all right. I guess that's the take." And then we just agree with it. So could be good. Never know.

According to Trump, the US has arranged a treaty, some kind of a peace treaty between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of Rwanda. Now raise your hand if you knew that the Republic of Congo and Republic of Rwanda were in some kind of a war. I have to admit that although I do know the number of people who live in Iran, 92 million, I did not know anything about the Republic of Congo or Rwanda. However, according to the Post Millennial, Trump is bragging that the US got that done and if we did, good job. Marco Rubio looks like they may have been instrumental in that. But Trump being Trump and as I already noted, it's impossible for him to say something that's boring. Instead of just saying, "Hey, good news. We've got this peace deal. We've got this new peace deal that was really necessary." Instead of doing that, he announces it. And at the same time, in the same message, he complains that he probably won't get a Nobel Peace Prize for his work with India and Pakistan, his work with Serbia and Kosovo. I don't even know what that was. Egypt and Ethiopia. Again, I have no idea what that was about. Does anybody know what Trump did to make things better between Egypt and Ethiopia? I do not.

And then he also mentions the Abraham Accords as all the things he's done for peace but he won't get a Nobel Peace Prize because that only goes to liberals, he says. And he says that even if he were to end the war in Ukraine and get a good result in Iran, even if he could do that, he says he'll never get the Nobel Peace Prize.

Now, do you recognize what form of persuasion he's using? This is not random. This is really good persuasion because he keeps saying that he won't get the Nobel Peace Prize. What do I teach you about negatives? This is another hypnotist trick. The hypnotist trick is that the more you make people think Nobel Peace Prize and peace prize for this, I won't get the Nobel Peace Prize for this. And your brain doesn't hear the won't. It sort of forgets it right away. And all you can think of is Trump and Nobel Peace Prize. So it's actually a super clever way of increasing the odds that he gets a Nobel Peace Prize, which to me is hilarious. It's hilarious that he's working on it, like he actually is trying to get one. I kind of love that.

All right. Well, as you know, the news is never complete without some stories about Elon Musk. Today is no exception. And apparently Elon Musk scolded Grok, his own AI, because Grok said that it used sources Media Matters and Rolling Stone to dispute something said by X user Cat Turd 2. And apparently Musk responded to Grok on the X platform like he was talking to a person and he said to Grok, "Your sourcing is terrible. Only a very dumb AI would believe Media Matters and Rolling Stone. You are being updated this week." S