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s that are for the public good. He's not making a video game although he might someday. The things he does are so obviously good for the country if not the world. At the very least it makes the US more competitive. But it bothers me a little that the Pope would weigh in on this and be so wrong about understanding the general situation. I want Elon Musk to have two trillion because his history is t…

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. And it's not a thing that you can figure out how AI will boost global trade. Please. Really? Really? Nobody knows what AI is going to do. It might be better than that. It might be worse but nobody knows an estimate. God. All right. Nobody can legitimately estimate that sort of thing. And once you learn that it will help you a lot because there's a tendency if all these experts say well we estimated this thing. And you say to yourself well experts estimated a thing. That sounds pretty good to me. But generally when experts are estimating a thing the odds that they know what they're doing and the estimate is credible, very low. It's very low.

All right that's all I got to say today. I've got my cat in my lap who has been enjoying the show more than you because the cat likes it when I'm busy doing something else and he's just laying on my lap. So Gary, I'm done now with the main show and I'm going to go private with the beloved, very beloved local subscribers and the rest of you. Thanks for joining. And we'll be back tomorrow, same time, same place.

All right locals I'm coming at you in 30 seconds. 30 seconds starting.