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rch is correct and their interpretation of it is correct, would be the reason they're so smart. Yeah, the reason they're so smart is because they were philosophy majors. But they looked at the data and sure enough the people who were majoring in philosophy were indeed smarter on other standardized tests than the average of other people. Now here's why I can't tell if this is a prank. Because isn'…

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h. Okay. I think I would have guessed that one.

Science also says according to something called YourTango, Christine Schoenwald is writing that science says people with a good sense of humor are wired for higher intelligence. Well, I take back everything I said about scientific studies. It turns out the science is very, very accurate because I can't find anything to argue with in this. Yeah, people with a good sense of humor, they're much more intelligent. They have more smartitude, their smartness, these smart smartassness. I don't even have words anymore. But anyway, yeah, that's true.

Remember, I've famously said for years that one third of the public literally doesn't have a sense of humor. Do you know what the other way to say that would be? One third of the world isn't smart enough to get jokes. Just one third. Yeah, think about it. Think about it. Well, my experience, you know, as a professional funny man, my experience is that the smarter people are, the more they're going to get my jokes and the more they'll appreciate it. So yeah, I think intelligence and sense of humor are related.

Here's another one from Science Mag. They did a study to find out that the children of adults who are very active themselves, you know doing sports and outside activities and stuff, if the parents are very active physically then the children are more likely to be physically active. And so they've concluded that if you model a behavior that children will follow it. You know what they could have done? They could have asked me and the first thing I would have said was yes, children do copy whatever examples they're exposed to. Yes, that's you don't have to study that. I will just tell you that's true.

Secondly, how do you rule out that there's a genetic thing where the people who are genetically predisposed to exercise, because not everybody likes it the same amount. You know, not everybody reacts to food the same. Not everybody reacts to exercise the same. I personally am not genetically able to enjoy running a marathon or even training for one. It would just hurt. But there's a whole range of physical activities, you know, like I was playing aggressive ping pong yesterday. Oh, cat is missing me. And I seem to be optimized for that. So yeah, how do you rule out the fact that the kids are just naturally more active because they came from parents who are active genetically? You cannot. So I do not trust that study.

Another report says the American economy grew 3% on an annualized basis, I guess. And that would be amazing. So if you're not following economics, you wouldn't know that they were expecting something in the twos, the mid twos as a percentage of growth, but at 3%. And that is really good. It's not so high that you'd expect inflation to go up and then interest rates can't come down. It's just almost perfect. Yeah, you wouldn't want it to be too hot. But it's definitely strong. That's a good result. It's one of the best if it's real. I mean, obviously the macro theme today is everything is suspect, so it may not be real, but if it were, it'd be great.

There was a back and forth on the X platform today between Elon Musk and somebody named David Scott Patterson. I don't know anything about him, but he had an intere

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sting comment that Elon weighed in on and I'm just going to read it to you because they were both very brief and very interesting. So David Scott Patterson says that by 2030 all jobs will be replaced by AI and robots. All jobs. And here's his calculation. He says the US labor force is about 170 million. About 80 million of those jobs include hands-on work. So he's talking about the whole 170 milli…

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