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an illusion. The only thing that protects your privacy in a world where the government can get access to anything that they want — they only need to have a reason and it doesn't have to be even a good reason. It could be a reason they made up because they're lawfaring you. So you don't have any privacy. The only thing you have that protects you is your boringness. Have you heard me say this before…

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get access to everything you have: the government. They just need a reason. As long as you're boring, no reason. But the moment you do a freak off, you know, sort of Diddy style, well suddenly they're accessing your phones and your computers and talking to everybody who ever knew you. You don't have privacy. You don't even have a little bit of privacy. You have zero privacy. You only have the right to be boring. That's it. Nothing else.

So I'm not saying that you should give up your privacy. And I'm not saying I would enjoy it if I lost mine. Wouldn't like it at all. But I bet you once we realize that privacy went away a long time ago or maybe you never had it that you'll just say yeah I don't really have any serious privacy because my government can get whatever they want if not hackers but I can use these AI agents to make my life 10 times easier. So I think people will just get over privacy. That's my prediction. And again, I'm not saying you should or that you'll like it. I'm just predicting that's where it will go.

Well, SoftBank — the company is SoftBank. According to Digital Trends, Trevor Mogg is writing that they've developed AI agents to make each worker like a thousand-armed deity. So the head of SoftBank, Masayoshi Son, he said that they now have this technology that would allow the AI to make its own agents

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and you could have potentially one person could have a million AI agents doing stuff for you. But I say I don't believe this is a fruitful direction because if you had one AI agent and you told it to make some hotel reservations, it wouldn't be a big burden on you to check and make sure it did it right and then correct whatever wasn't right. But if you had a million agents that were doing things o…

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