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about psilocybin helping somebody's mental health, and 100 percent of the time it works every single time. So do you think it worked with health care workers and their depression and burnout? Yes, it did. Yes, it did. Just in case you wondered, they could have skipped that and just asked Scott. Eric Dolan of The Post was writing about that. Makes me wonder, is there anything this little psilocybi…

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istening to one side of an argument for an extended period of time. Doesn't matter what the argument is. You will be convinced, or at least people will be more likely to be convinced if they listen to one side of an argument without hearing the other side. That's all it is. So it doesn't matter if it comes to you in a documentary or you only look at the stuff in a bubble on social media or you talk to one biased AI that was intended to be biased in this example. Yeah, it's a documentary effect. Of course it works. Of course it does. All you need is one point of view with no counterpoint and then add time. That's it. Time plus one point of view equals persuasion.

I'm going to give you a Trump persuasion lesson in a little bit. You're going to like it.

Regarding Gaza. Well, one of the co-founders of Roomba, you know, the little robot that vacuums your house, says that Elon Musk is in for a terrible surprise with his humanoid robots. So Futurism is writing about this. Victor Tanguy and the Roomba guy says that you can't teach robots how to do things with their hands basically. And the reason is that the hands don't have a feedback mechanism. I think that's part of it. But he doesn't believe that you can teach a robot to do stuff by showing it how to do stuff. So as in you would never be able to teach it to do the laundry or maybe even empty the dishwasher. But teaching it to do the laundry? Probably never. According to one robot maker, how about never. No, you'll never get that because I think his argument is that if you don't have the tactile feel, you can't learn with your hands just by watching. I don't know about that.

I would not bet against Elon Musk, who very clearly believes that this will work, and he'll be rolling out these robots sometime this year. I don't know. I'm going to stay skeptical until I'm proven

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wrong. And my skepticism goes like this. If it were possible that in one year we would see robots learning by watching somebody iron a shirt and then the robot can do it, you would already see that. If that were going to be on the open market in less than a year, you'd see the demonstrations today. But we don't. So I have to conclude that they don't know how to do that. Will they be able to do it…

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