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removes their tumors. So I'm in the process of trying to qualify for that, which I should be able to do. Should be no problem. And fairly soon I would imagine I would start that. It's one of those you have to go to a place and get an IV six times over two months or whatever it is. And there's some chance that that would at least set the pain back a little bit. We'll see. We shall see. So I don't…
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So 10 years ago I started doing all kinds of humanoid robots in the office and it was all about the co-worker who is a robot and the robot takes over for the boss one day and everything's about the robot. But if you look at the 10-year-old comics, you cannot tell that I didn't draw them today. They're exactly like today. All the things that you could anticipate would be a problem with robots, it's all there.
Anyway, I thought that was interesting.
Elon Musk says that Grok the AI will soon be able to make a movie that's at least what he says watchable before the end of next year. So before the end of 2026. And he thinks it'll be able to make what he calls a really good movie by 2027. Does that feel right to you? Do you think that by the end of next year Grok will be able to make a watchable but not, you know, best movie in the world but that by the end of the year after that it'll be making full movies that you'll want to watch?
Well I don't know. Now OpenAI, in related news, OpenAI says that they're not going to protect your copyright for people like me who own a property like Dilbert. They're not going to protect it. You have to specifically ask them to exclude it from their training and from their answers. So you have to exclude it so it can't be used by other people. But you have to specify it and you have to specify every character.
So I can't just say all the Dilbert characters. I have to say Wally the world's smartest garbage man, Dilbert, Gert, Robert. I got to do them all. Now I do plan to do that. And also with my book God's Debris.
So I did see Jay did this amazing little demonstration of God's Debris, the first few pages of the book, and it's really impressive. I have to say, it's really impressive. But I don't know if we have what we could, I don't think we have enough to make a full short movie. I don't think it's quite there yet. But boy, was it impressive.
Anyway, speaking of AI and Elon Musk, he was doing an interview somewhere where somebody asked him this question: What is the universe contained in? Which is a funny question. The universe exists, but what's it in? Isn't that a weird question? The first time I heard it I thought, wait a minute, it's not in anything because the universe is everything. But doesn't everything have to be in something? And I wasn't sure.
But here was Elon's answer to the question, what is the universe contained in? Answer: a computer. I agree with that.
And then I guess Lex Fridman asked Elon, "What's outside the simulation?" And Elon's answer was, what was his answer? What's outside this simulation? Damn it. Did I not write that down? Apparently not.
But what's outside this simulation will, you know, would sort of tell you. Oh I'm so
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rry. That was the question that Elon wanted to know the answer to. It wasn't the one he has the answer to. That's where I was going wrong. I thought I didn't write down his answer, but he doesn't have an answer. It's the question. The question is, what's outside the simulation? Is there like somebody in a gamer chair who's running our world? Maybe. Maybe. I'll let you know when I get there. But h…
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