Back to episode — Episode 2943 CWSA 08/30/25
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ott, they thought of all the safety problems and they got it to work now. Well maybe. But it just doesn't feel like people are going to want to put a, okay I've got a cat crawling on my back now. Doesn't feel like that's going to be a real thing in the market. It might work in the lab. How many people do you think have died in the Gaza war so far? Just the Palestinian side. Reportedly the Gaza He…
← Previous segment →an NPC, what do you say now, Scott? "Scott, nobody can believe the death count from the Gaza Health Ministry. Nobody believes that number, right?" Well I hear that. I tell you all the time, don't believe any numbers that come from a war zone. Right? You've heard me say that. So you all know that I understand that you can't believe any number that comes from a war zone. The exception being the Holocaust, of course, that those numbers are exact, but that's the only one. The only one. I learned that from the ADL. But every other number that comes from a war zone is suspect.
So I went to Grok and I wondered again, not that I'll know the right answer, but I wondered how Grok handles it. And I was surprised. So according to Grok, the Israeli intelligence services and the Israeli military basically trust that number, but the politicians in Israel say, "You can't trust that number. It's coming from the Gaza Health Ministry." Is that true? Did Grok get that right? Is it true that within Israe
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l the military says, "Yeah that's about right. We trust that number." And but the politicians are saying, "Oh no no it's nowhere near that." I don't know. So apparently there have been other estimates beyond the Gaza Health Ministry and they're actually in one case higher. One estimate is 70,000. Now is that reliable? No. I mean somebody just had a different method for calculating. But there is t…
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