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t took it. Moved on. Anyway, I'm not too worried about the DoorDash robot, but it won't be completely smooth sailing, but I think they have to get there eventually. Got to do it. OpenAI has released a list of work tasks it says ChatGPT can already do in replacement of human activity. Now apparently OpenAI is sort of trying to walk this fine line between scaring you that AI will take all your job…

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t aware of any technology that would change that. So, I'm not worried really much at all about losing jobs to AI. I think the nature of jobs will change a lot and the nature of life will change a lot, but I don't know about jobs. It doesn't seem to me that there's some straight line from where we are now to fewer jobs. I just don't see it.

All right. Unitree, which is another humanoid robot outfit you hear a lot about, it was discovered according to Interesting Engineering, a Thurva Gavi is writing that these robots are built with a Bluetooth connection which is just a convenience for helping you hook your Wi-Fi up to your robot. Now, the Wi-Fi may have its own security issues, but apparently the Bluetooth feature is very hackable. And on top of that, they discovered that the Unitree robots send data back to China every five minutes. What? It sends data to China every five minutes.

Now presumably if you looked at that data it would be necessary data for making the robot work or work better something like that I assume but just imagine the risk that you could hack it through the Bluetooth and it's already sending data to China so and it could infect other robots in range of its Bluetooth so that's not ideal. Now, it's good that they found it. I'm sure they'll figure out a way around it.

All right. CBS News had an article. I saw a post on it on X. It said, "Meet the man behind one-third of what's on Wikipedia." And I thought to myself, well, that can't be true. It can't be true that one person is writing one-third of the articles or editing one-third of the articles on Wikipedia. But he is. There's one guy and the funniest thing about it is the guy looks exactly like a popular meme. I don't want to be unkind, but you can't overlook the fact that he looks exactly like one of the most popular memes. You know, there's a cartoon guy that is just a little heavy and he's got a humorous face. This guy looks just like the meme. It's awesome.

But you know I have to admit on one hand it's probably bad that there's one person who has that much influence. On the other hand how impressed are you that he was smart enough to write a third of the articles on all manner of different topics and the other editors allowed them to be published. Meaning that other editors thought yeah that looks accurate to me. That is really impressive. Like if you're wondering what is the upper limit of human ability. Well, I would look at this guy. Whatever he does, his human ability of writing and understanding and absorbing new information. I've never seen anything like this. I mean, if this news is true that he wrote or edited one-third of the articles on this, I don't even need Wikipedia. Could I just have this guy's DM? Can I just DM him and ask him if I have a question? Skip the middleman.

Well, the government is officially shut down because they can't come up with a budget. And now you're probably thinking to yourself, Scott, who's right and who's wrong on this budget stuff? Is it the Democrats who are lying about what they're asking for, or is it the Republicans who are lying about what the Democrats are asking for? Have you noticed that both sides are very obviously lying? Now, lying by omission more than lying by commission, but probably a little lying by commission as well.

Now, would you agree with me that the Republicans, all of them, all of them are absolutely full of shit about what they're claiming the Democrats are asking for? And would you agree that what the Democrats say they're asking for is absolute shit? They're both lying. Am I right? Would you agree with me that they're both lying?

So, obviously right now, here's the trick. This is a trick I learned from my old boss at Pacific Bell. If you know that both sides are lying about spending, the decision is easy. That's your decision. Both sides are lying. So the answer is you don't give them a penny. You got that? If both sides are lying, you don't give them a penny. That's the rule. This one's easy. This is the easiest rule ever. You don't need to know the details. You don't need to know anything about the national debt. You don't need to know what their plans are for the next phase of negotiations. You

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don't need to know what they lied about. You don't. All you need to know is both sides are lying. Not a penny more. That's it. Now, that happens to be to the benefit of Republicans, but I'm not giving the Republicans a gift here. They're lying, too. It's just if you can't do your job and you can't even tell us the truth, maybe you don't get a penny. Now, I learned this trick, a version of it, so…

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