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ld say that every time he believes some data that seems to lean in a direction that obviously he has some bias against vaccinations. He would say maybe he doesn't but I think we would all say he probably does. Everybody likes to be right. So in his case it would validate a lifetime of skepticism. So I would say I haven't had a lifetime of skepticism. So I might be less biased on it than he is if…

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to listen to? And how would you do that? Because the AI would have to be able to read the room to have a personality. It would have to be able to read the room. How's it going to do that? And when I say read the room, it should know that it shouldn't talk to me if I'm doing something. You know, it shouldn't interrupt me. But maybe there'd be some situation in which it could chime in. So AI personalities is going to be a big, big deal, I think.

Here is an interesting thing. Also TechCrunch, Maxwell Zeff again. So OpenAI is also going to make an AI version of LinkedIn. Do you follow the tech world enough to know why that's extra interesting? So LinkedIn is where people allegedly find connections for business and get hired and stuff and it was created by Reid Hoffman, famed Democrat donor and investor, and sold to Microsoft. So Microsoft is the big investor in OpenAI. So OpenAI and Microsoft are joined. But at the same time that Microsoft owns LinkedIn, OpenAI is building a LinkedIn killer. And so we don't know enough about that situation. It might be completely friendly. It might be, you know, maybe Microsoft said, "Yeah, if you can do it, do it because somebody's going to do it if you don't." So you might as well eat your own lunch before somebody else eats it, kind of thing. There's a different saying for that, but you know the thing. So we'll see.

That must be awkward at the meetings. So how's your project going to destroy a major part of our enterprise? Ah, it's pretty good. Pretty good.

Now I also wonder will OpenAI use AI to make a version of Microsoft Office because isn't that what Elon Musk has tried to do? I believe he recruited a team or he's in the process of recruiting a team to create an AI interfaced essentially a Microsoft Office, something that would do everything it does. And that does seem doable. Now maybe that would be for phones only. I don't know. Maybe mobile devices. But Microsoft, it's probably a good thing that it owns the big AI company because all their products are vulnerable except for cloud stuff, I guess.

Well, there were many protesters, thousands who flooded the streets of DC and they were protesting Trump's militarization and federal takeover of the law enforcement thing even though the mayor's on board with it and even though the people seem to like it. So big protest.

Now I saw a number of people online comment that there were no black protesters out of the thousands of faces, that there were no black protesters. Now what does that tell you? Now people interpreted that as meaning that the black citizens want extra law enforcement because they might live in places of the city that are the most dangerous. So that would make sense, right? Most dangerous place. You'd want the most help. So there are no black protesters.

However, there's another hypothesis. I cannot vouch for this being true, but I remember seeing an interview with one of the people who's in the business of renting a fake crowd for protests, which we all know by now is how these kind of protests are formed. They're paid protesters. But still, the question persists, even if they're paid, where are all the paid black protesters? And this is very racist, not by me, but I swear I saw one of the owners of the fake protest businesses say that they avoid hiring black people because it might cause too much trouble. Now I cannot vouch for that being true. It's literally just something I saw in some coverage not too long ago. And I thought to myself, could that possibly be true? Is there any way in the world that he would say that out loud? Because it doesn't feel like something he would say out loud, even if it were true. So but I will note. Never mind.

Anyway, Matt Walsh had an interesting point on a video he made that the introduction of body cams destroyed the Black Lives Matter movement. Now that might be a little bit hyperbole, but he makes a good point. Have you noticed that the police brutality claims, especially the ones that have a racial element to them, seem to have gone away when body cams came in? And then you have to ask yourself, is that because the officers knew they were wearing body cams? That that would be

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enough to stop somebody from bad behavior. Or was there always a very low level of the racially biased shootings and we just didn't know it was a low level because too much but then we add all body cams you know for sure. So which is it? Did the body cams make people act better or did it simply tell us how they were already acting? We'll never know. Do you know why? Because all data is bad. So eve…

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