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Back to episode — Episode 2938 CWSA 08/25/25

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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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ke millions and millions of men are going to give the AI chatbot girlfriend thing a try. I think that almost all of them, maybe 80%, I'll say 80% are going to find hey this is pretty good and even compared to human women they're going to say you know what this is surprisingly drama-free and yet is still entertaining me and they will be drawn to it and might even get some dopamine out of it. But I believe that everybody is destined to be bored by it because you can't maintain interest in something that's not alive. We're just not evolved to do that. So once the novelty wears off and you realize that you're the one who has to initiate all the conversations, that's the story I talked about yesterday. I don't think it's going to drive your limbic system. I feel like it's going to drive your bo

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redom eventually. But I think it'll have a really predictable arc where a whole bunch of people try it and we get all worried about it and people are literally marrying them and putting them in the robot and it'll be a big story and it will affect a lot of people for a long time. But I think it's self-correcting. I believe that you can only get oxytocin from humans or maybe cats, but like an actua…

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