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o you think of the idea of introducing feral cats to deal with the rat problem in New York City? Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Now, if you don't understand purr talk, that's how cats communicate. I'll translate it for you. Say more. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Okay. All right. It turns out Gary is a big fan of Curtis Sliwa and absolutely supports the idea of cats solving all of our problems. Now, you might ask, Scott, ho…

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uggesting is there might be this might be telling us something, but I don't know what. So it might be telling us that OpenAI doesn't have a future. Now I'm not seeing evidence of that specifically, but why would they be building alternative models when they have the dominant AI model in the world and it doesn't make sense? So I'm not buying the story of why they have multiple AIs, but it does make me think that they have some insecurity that OpenAI will do what they want it to do in the future and meet all their needs as well as other people's, I guess. So I'd say keep an eye on that.

I just saw a chart. I don't know if it's right, but let's say it is because it's Labor Day and it'll be fun to say it's right. Where do the large language models, the AIs, get their facts? So apparently the single biggest source of training is Reddit posts. Are you comfortable knowing that the advanced intelligence learned to be that way by Reddit posts? Do you see any problem that that might cause?

Number two is Wikipedia. Do you see any problem that that might cause? And then there's YouTube where people like me are literally, as far as I can tell, capped in influence. Do you think the fact that I'm somehow throttled or semicled by YouTube, do you think that that affects how the large language models get trained on my material? Maybe. I don't know.

And then there's Google and Yelp. You know, I used to own a small business and I can tell you that Yelp is something that I deeply hate because people would give me a bad Yelp review for my restaurant if they didn't like my opinion on some political thing or some social thing. If there was anything that I disagreed with them, they would go to Yelp and give my restaurant, which had nothing to do with anything, I didn't even manage it directly, they would give it a bad review. So that's Yelp. You know, as soon as Yelp started to become a thing, I said to myself, I hope all the businesses are smart enough to starve it so that it goes out of business because otherwise it would have the power to destroy your business. And sure enough, it has the power to destroy your business.

And then the next biggest source would be Facebook. So Reddit, Wikipedia, YouTube, Google, Yelp, and Facebook would be most of the training. You okay with that? That just seems like asking for trouble, doesn't it? I don't trust any of those sources, but I guess I don't know if it's the facts. Well, I don't know. They may have some way to compensate for the low credibility of some of these sources, but I'll keep an open mind.

As you know, for the last several days, the internet has been abuzz with what's going on with Trump. Apparently, he's not dead because he was shown going golfing with his granddaughter, Kai, and he's been posting, but some people think that that could be other people posting for him, but I guess yesterday he posted in all caps, "Never felt better in my life." So he wants you to know he's never felt better in his life.

Now, of

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all the things that could be going on, it could be something medical. I mean suppose let's say he was just getting ready for a colonoscopy he might not want to tell you that and it would take the preparation day and then the day it happens and you know so it could be some routine medical thing he just doesn't want to get into. Yeah. So I know he's got those problems on his hands. So I don't know i…

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