Back to episode — Episode 2908 CWSA 07/25/25
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ce. This is just an objective statement of fact. But if you don't like those facts, you're going to do everything you can to scrub them out of the AI. So super intelligence will be whatever the people in charge decide sounds intelligent. How many of you know that I invented a word years ago that became literally part of the vocabulary? Now, many of you have not heard it, but if you were to Google…
← Previous segment →op of their head. You couldn't tell by reading what they wrote because they would put a lot of thought into that. But if they're just speaking casually and they say something like, "My hands are tied." If you were to guess that that judge likes being tied up, you would have about a 75% chance of being right. It's not guaranteed, but when you see an unusual choice of words like my hands are tied, it's almost always part of their brain just revealing their inner secrets. And it doesn't work only for sexual stuff. It would work for anything that they cared about.
That's why I taught you that if you're looking for a lie, wait till somebody starts their sentence with "well I would say" because you don't say "I would say" if you're just talking about what you believe is true. You would never use those words. That's a reveal that you don't believe what you're going to say next.
So here are the bad ways to predict the future. Using your common sense. Using your common sense is a terrible way to predict the future because other people are not operating on common sense. It might be on feeling, which persuasion would get to. It might be there's a monetary thing. You know there could be lots of things but common sense no you can't really predict much with common sense. How about history repeats? No history doesn't repeat. I've been saying this for years. There are some patterns which you might say hey that looks like that other thing but history can't repeat because we know what happened the last time so at the very least the people going into the decision would be able to say hey last time this didn't work out so we better make an adjustment. It would be exceedingly unlikely if history repeated.
Now what is consistent is that people are people. So if you're making a prediction based on people being selfish liars, well that history might repeat. But it's not about the history. It's more about knowing how people react. So I wouldn't use history repeats. And I think people end up just with, well, my side is right, the other side is wrong, so I'll just listen to what my TV host says and do whatever they say.
Well, how many of you saw the video of Trump doing a site visit to the Federal Reserve's building construction site? He was there with Tim Scott and Bill Ackman. And here's the fun part. He was there with Jerome Powell. Now, I don't know if Jerome Powell was originally invited to go along or he asked to go along, but you should see Jerome Powell standing next to Trump after knowing that Trump has insulted this guy's intelligence for a year straight or maybe six months. He's been basically calling him too late Powell and essentially calling him an idiot who ne
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eds to leave and he's thinking about firing and then he has to go to this event and they have to stand next to each other. So first of all, Jerome Powell looks like that old grandfather guy from the Disney movie Up. Do you remember that movie Up where there's this guy who has this perpetual frown? So Jerome Powell looks like that guy from Up and he's smaller than Trump and he has to stand there l…
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