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border was the main thing that sold him because he just thought it was insane that you would open the border. And imagine being a billionaire founding Airbnb and knowing that it was just being destroyed by opening the border along with everything else. But yeah, so apparently that got him interested enough to sort of look into the whole Trump phenomenon a little deeper and he liked that RFK Jr. wa…

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ere's now a 100% chance we'll be able to do that maybe in a year. I wouldn't bet on a year, but three years, five years, you don't think in five years there will be simulated realities that we could use to learn something or explore something. You know, I've told you that I have so many problems with water leaks that if I'm a simulation, I believe I was created by a plumbing company to figure out the best way to approach lots of different leaks because they're all unique and they're big ones and bad ones. They're never easy. And all you'd have to do is create the simulation and then introduce a whole bunch of different leak possibilities that match what the real world, their base reality, would have and then just let me try to solve them in a time period that I thought was years but the simulation could complete in a second. So they run the simulation, they make me live an entire life fixing problem after problem that's related to the leaks and then they check it later and see if the AI has learned something that it could not have learned from humans because it wasn't the right kind of training data. You had to create a world to create training data maybe. So that's my theory.

Putin is mocking the people who think that Russia is getting ready for some kind of big land war in Europe. And I like the fact that he's mocking it. He shrugged it off as hysteria. Do you believe there's any chance that Russia would want to move into either Germany or France? They might try to pick off a Baltic country or something, but who knows? Anything's possible. Remember I kept telling you that the Ukraine war is going to turn into an all-robot war? Well, apparently we're getting really close to that because unbeknownst to me, but now the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Ukraine is already using AI-driven drone swarms. Now if you could have an AI-driven drone swarm, the AI could decide whether to shoot somebody or blow up something or not. It might get it wrong, but so do the people. I don't know if it would get it wrong more than the humans. Maybe it would be less, but they apparently have been using probably over a hundred drone attacks and they've been doing it for a while. And the new software would allow them to send out let's say three drones and if one of them got disabled, the other two could pick up its mission and somehow the drones by contacting each other can figure out a lot more of what's going on and adjust. But the software that they're currently using could go up to 25 drones. So in theory, we're very close. I don't know if we're there yet, but we're very close to being able to say, "All right, this little area that's controlled entirely by Russian forces, go fly over there with your 25 drones, look for high-value targets and coordinate an attack and then just let them go and everything will start blowing up that looks like anything that's serious military stuff." Would it accidentally kill some civilians? Yes, exactly like now. So it wouldn't be worse necessarily.

China's developed a 6G chip that's capable of 100 gigabit per second speeds. I saw Rohan Patel writing about that. To which I say, I've long suspected that our belief that China won't be able to catch up with us in chip technology because of some racist reason. We always have some racist reason like, oh, the Chinese will never be able to innovate. Well, I've never believed that. I've always believed that China might be more secretive and the entire time we're thinking they'll never catch up with their microchip technology, that they've already caught up and that they're just not revealing it yet. Well, this 100 gigabit per second chip so that would make your mobile devices way faster, etc. That would suggest that they have very good chip-making capabilities and maybe better than we assume. So keep an eye on that.

And then some publication called the Brussels Signal is reporting that one of China's big economic problems, and I'm not sure how much to believe this, is that the domestic people don't spend a lot of money. So they don't have a domestic market basically big enough to support what they want to do. So the Chinese citizens are very conservative with their money. So they like to pack it away and save it instead of spending it. But the economy requires spending to keep everybody afloat. So China is trying to manipulate their public to be more spendy, but the public says, "I'm not sure I trust the system enough that I want to draw down my savings because it's the only way I'll be able to retire." So I don't know. China is either on the brink of self-destruction or it's about to dominate the world. And every day there's evidence of both.

According to Just the News, Chinese networks are laundering billions of dollars through the US in support

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of the cartels. But the amount of money is just staggering. So the Treasury has this financial crimes enforcement network and they said that banks have flagged $312 billion in transactions from suspected Chinese money laundering networks. Wow. So the good news is that the Trump administration and probably Scott Bessent and maybe others are getting real serious about tracing the evil money. So that…

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