Back to episode — Episode 2923 CWSA 08/10/25
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d simulated worlds that are visually perfect and then we start populating them with characters who are programmed to believe that they're real and not characters, we're going to realize that we're a simulation. There's no way around it. It's definitely coming. So the biggest shock humanity will ever experience will be the realization, uh oh, we're actually just made from some kind of code. And the…
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Apparently on Reddit, people are complaining. I saw an article in Ars Technica. People are complaining that GPT-4, the one that just got replaced, had a much better personality, and GPT-5 is a little too antiseptic and a little too professional. It's just not as casual and cool. So ChatGPT-5 may have exceeded on some benchmark tests, but the public is like four or five. Not that different. Sounds like we may have begun to plateau in what AI is even ever going to be able to do. It's possible.
Now, I do think that the AI progress will be perpetual, but it might not be as fast as what we've seen so far. Could slow down quite a bit, but still improve every year.
Apparently there's a move by the FAA to reduce some rules to make it practical and economical for companies to make supersonic jets. And I guess there are a few that are already on the drawing board. But with these proposed changes, which might take a year or two, and then they've got to actually build the jets, you might get to go across the country in three and a half hours. So LA to New York in three and a half hours. That would be cool.
And I guess they found some way around the sonic boom. That was a problem with the original supersonic jets like the Concorde. So they've engineered around that somehow.
John Deere, the American company, is going to put another 20 billion into US operations. So add that to the growing list of companies investing in the USA. I really don't know if these numbers are different from what they would have been if anybody else had been president because some of it just feels like a bunch of BS. Like every company has to say they have AI and that they're reducing expenses with their AI, and it feels like every company has to say that they're investing a few more billion dollars into America but it's all kind of nonbinding. There's no penalty if they change their mind. It's a little bit suspicious. I feel like they might be overhyping their investments, but I'm still in favor of them overhyping it because it's the overhyping that makes other people say, "Hey, there's a parade. I better get in front of this."
Author Alex Marlow has a book. I don't know much about it except that it seems to have a theme that connects Russia
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gate, Stormy Daniels, and six court cases. They were all designed to take Trump out and that they were all connected. It's a coordinated lawfare machine built to kill the MAGA movement. Now, I feel like we do know enough at this point that we can connect all of those dots. So I'll be interested to see if Alex Marlow has done that, connected all the dots. Is it my imagination or do the Republicans…
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