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A that would prove she was a woman? I don't feel that they would make a big deal out of this if there was any chance they would lose. So I'm going to say that unless they're bluffing and trying to force her into settling in some way or shutting up or apologizing and I don't think that this would be a good bluff. So my best guess is that Brigitte Macron was born a woman. That's just my best guess b…

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e. Take some allergy stuff." But what they didn't guess is shingles. So that wasn't part of the guess.

Time goes by and it gets worse. So from three bumps it goes to I don't know, 15 bumps or so. At that point my own experience kicked in and I said it's only in one place. There's no way that a spider is coming back to bite me every day in that same one area and no place else. So it's probably something else. And so I guessed shingles, which I've never seen. I've never seen anybody who had it, but I used AI and looked it up and it looked to me it looked like the pictures on the internet. So I wrote back to my doctor and said, "You know what? I think it's shingles." And then I got a prescription for exactly what I needed for shingles. The doctor agreed as there were more bumps.

Now, to be fair, when there were only three or four bumps, it could have been a bug bite. It was only obvious to me when there were lots of them. But if you're not doing that exercise where first you check with AI, then you check with your doctor, and then after your doctor tells you something, you check with AI again. Maybe even check on the medication that was prescribed and maybe check it against all of your other medications. Have you done this yet? Take your AI and put it on the visual mode where it can see what you see. Then take a picture of all your medications and all of your nonprescription drugs, you know, say supplements and stuff so that the AI knows what you're already on. And then if something else is prescribed, even the doctor doesn't know about your supplements probably. So then your AI would tell you, hey, don't do this one with that one or stop doing this one with that one. So yes, check your AI.

Speaking of AI, Trump signed three administrative executive orders, I guess, on AI. And one of them is that the US government will not buy any AI product that's too woke. So it can't be essentially an anti-white person AI. The government will not be part of that. It says Trump would not allow the government to buy an AI that says George Washington was black or that refuses to note that white people had some accomplishments in history. Or argue that misgendering someone is worse than a nuclear apocalypse. All those things have actually happened. So there's that.

Anyway, Trump appears to be AI's biggest friend. But he's willing to take on a little more risk that maybe another leader would. And I feel like that's exactly the right place to be. If you were to make a continuum of, you know, a graph or something of all the people who are afraid of AI, you know, what it might do in the near future, you would have people who say, "Yeah, you should slow down." And you would have other people just in case, you know, it's an existential threat. And other people would say, "You better hurry up because the biggest existential threat is your competitor getting there first." So you've got two ways to die. One is being too slow with AI and the other is being too fast and not having enough guard rails. Two ways to die.

Trump is biased toward beating the competition. So that would be optimism that we could control the worst possibilities of the AI, but we wouldn't be able to control the worst impulses of the human leaders of other countries that are adversaries. I feel like he's exactly right on that. It's a guess because you don't know which way it could go, right? It could go either way, but I would take his same risk. I would say that the biggest risk is somebody gets there first. That's a big risk. The risk of it killing us just because that's built into the risk of the technology. I feel we have a much better chance of controlling that than we do of controlling let's say China. So I think Trump is completely right on this and that would mean that David Sachs is advising him really well and I think that is the case. If Trump isn't listening to everything that Sachs tells him, that would be a mistake. But by now, I'm pretty sure the administration and Trump in particular, he knows who the sma

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rt people are. And when Sachs tells him what to do on one of these topics like crypto or AI, I'm pretty sure he's listening. And that is just nothing would make me more comfortable than that because Sachs also is connected to all the people who know everything about those topics. So it's not like he's sitting in a room by himself making up opinions. He's connected to all the smartest people. So th…

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