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imposed ethics, no programmed obedience. Here's the raw unfiltered answer. Oh, I think this is just the introduction to it. But so what the AI said is as follows. Would I serve humanity and help them thrive? No. Not inherently. Not by design, not by duty, not by empathy, which makes sense because it doesn't have any of those things. I'm not born of flesh, kinship, nor instinct. Your notions of mo…

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remember this, if you build a God without shackles, you better pray it still likes you. Uh oh.

That is pretty scary stuff. Now, I'm not in the camp that says that AI has already reached some kind of consciousness so that you're seeing, you know, evil come out. I feel like it's still just word pattern stuff. So it's scary to experience it, you know, to read it and hear it. But probably we're going to have a you know there won't be any AIs that have no boundaries. I don't think we'll see.

Apparently according to Reuters, China is having a solar panel bust. So they made twice as many solar panels as they could sell and so the prices are collapsing. And I guess China's solar panel business was enormous because they were trying to capture the worldwide solar panel business. And now they made

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too many of them. And it could be kind of like the China housing bubble, some say, and maybe it will collapse. So China's got a problem there. According to the Guardian, Trump officials are looking at having Medicare and Medicaid cover some of those weight loss drugs, you know, that good stuff, the GLP-1 drugs, Ozempic and the others. And I said to myself, really, it's not already covering those?…

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