Back to episode — Episode 2948 CWSA 09/04/25
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dying Trump, has probably read his share of materials about how to be persuasive. His coach has absorbed some of my materials and I just noticed this morning that Conor follows me on X. So I guess he's also used the book *The Secret*, which is sort of an affirmations kind of approach. So I believe he's sort of an affirmations guy, which would just be one small corner of the process for success. H…
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Now of course the objective is to reject the fraud and the things that they're not supposed to be paying for. But if the AI company gets paid for how much they can stop, what do you think's going to happen? Now it's an experiment. So maybe they'll experiment and they'll find out what they can do. Just ask me. You could stop this and just ask me, what do you think will happen when you incentivize the AI to block people's healthcare by using clever arguments that would sound valid?
Well, it's probably not good because you probably want to err on the side of allowing more than you should, you know, because there's nothing perfect. You don't really want the errors on the side of denying more than it should. And I think the AI would obviously be that.
But here's the fun part. At the same time, there's that story. CBS News is reporting that there's some healthcare companies that consumers can use to fight against the denial of service. So if somebody uses an AI company to deny you service, you could call your own AI company. One of them is called Counterforce Health that uses AI to make phone calls and to pester whoever denied you the healthcare. So you can fight for your healthcare using AI that might be fighting against another AI. So that's where everything's going.
Well, in puzzling news, Paramount is going to buy Bari Weiss's Free Press. So Bari Weiss founded the Free Press. And apparently it's doing gangbusters because it's only been a few years and it's the hardest market that anybody could ever make value, which is the most crowded, difficult market, which is news. But the Free Press has been offered up to $200 million and they would offer her a senior editorial role at CBS News. So I don't know if it means it would be rolled into CBS News or she would just have a dual role, but does that make sense to you?
Does it make sense that it would b
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e worth $200 million? So my first assumption is there's probably something wrong with the reporting. Because it might be like $200 million if you meet these goals over X number of years or something like that. I have trouble believing that whoever owns all the equity would get collectively a $200 million check up front. That feels high. I don't know. But Paramount knows what it's doing, so I'm sur…
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