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uous about validating a delusion that leads to a dangerous mental spiral." Now, am I wrong to say that you couldn't really say that in public just a few years ago? Now, you know, I have a lot of empathy for people who are in that trans situation. Whatever they're going through, it sounds tough. So, you know, I feel like empathy is perfectly appropriate. But I do agree with the idea that we are no…

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y. If you're sure that it's just an imaginary structure in their head, you are not obligated.

Well, you know, I've talked quite a bit before about trying to create an agent that would look like me, like a clone of me, and would survive me and go on forever as my AI version of me. Well, apparently that's a growing industry. They're called deadbots, AI dead bots. And a deadbot would be a bot or an agent or an AI entity that represents somebody who's passed away. And apparently this is like a real thing now and companies are getting into it and managing your digital assets and stuff like that. So the digital afterlife industry, it's an actual thing, is expected to be like a really big industry.

I'm not aware of any company that can do this. I know there are a lot of companies that can do parts of it. There are companies that can make something that looks and talks just like you, but I don't believe there's any company that can make something that looks and talks like you and doesn't hallucinate. And I don't think that you could even make one with off-the-shelf apps anyway that would even reliably look at a file you provided for some facts you wanted to get right all the time. I don't think the technology is there.

So I don't know if this industry will really take off unless people are happy looking at their dead loved ones saying crap that never happened in the real world. I mean, that would be weird.

Well, apparently the White House was asking Nvidia for a share of the revenue of chips that the White House would allow them to sell to China, which would not be their best ones because that would be too dangerous to let China have their best AI chips. But Nvidia is putting up a fight and I guess they're saying that they'll fight any government action to try to get a revenue share.

So, this is one of those cases where the government can blackmail a company, but I don't think it's like some other cases where the government is just being helpful and getting something in return, you know, like keeping them from becoming bankrupt or something, they get something in return. I feel like it's different if you just say, "Oh, well, I'm the only one that can approve this," but all they're doing is approving something. Do you get 15 percent of revenue for just that particular kind of business just 'cause you approved it when approving it is your job 'cause it's the government's job to approve things or disa

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pprove things, right? So if they just do their job of approving a thing why would they get 15 percent revenue? So I could see why Nvidia would fight that. I'll bet they can afford some really good lawyers. So, how many of you have had the following experience? You mentioned something. You were having a conversation and you said something about, I don't know, I'll just make something up, bonsai tr…

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