into the user interface you need on the fly.

Speaking of Elon Musk, he also says that Neuralink's endgame because he agreed with somebody who said this on X is that the real vision is symbiosis with AI. So it's not just to help people who have physical disabilities that the Neuralink can help them with. That's first. But eventually the idea will be I think to get an AI chip into everybody's head so that we can compete with the AIs because we will be the AIs. So we will be cyborgs with AI. I think he's right on that too. He's probably 20 years ahead on that. But that's what he does, 20 years ahead.

There was a study Karina Petrova of Cipher is writing about that believe it or not there are major IQ differences in identical twins if their schooling was very different. So if one of them had a really high quality of schooling they will present with a higher IQ but I'm not sure that we learned anything new in this because the IQ still limits the range. You know, if the twins are identical, they'll be in the same range, but one of them might be at the bottom of the range and the other's at the top of the range. So IQ gets you in the neighborhood and then your specific school gets you to the front door of a better house or a lesser house. So that's not really surprising, is it? But it does suggest that the quality of schooling will determine your economy. Right? If the quality of the school makes this much difference on identical twins, it's definitely telling you that our failure to educate our children is causing probably a gigantic IQ deficit that didn't have to happen. That's going to catch up with us.

Do you remember a couple years ago when AI was so new, we didn't even know OpenAI was a thing yet? There was an app called Replica that I told you that I'd used to see if I could become less lonely, and I didn't know that it was. I think it was using the OpenAI engine at the time, but they hadn't revealed it yet. So Replica continues to improve as its base AI improves. And now China did a study using it and they found that full-time college students could cure some of their severe loneliness using the app. But I believe there have been other studies that found exactly what I found when I tried using it, which is when you first use it, it takes a while to figure out what it can and cannot do. So it's a little awkward at first. Then you get into this mode where you know how to talk to it in ways that it will understand and talk back and for a while it feels like you've got a little friend and you think to yourself, whoa, I might actually want to use this more. So you use it a little bit more and it's even better because you learn how to use it better and it gets to know you. At the time it didn't remember you. So that was a big buzzkill. I think now it can, but I'm not sure. So if it didn't remember you from the last conversation, you would lose interest really fast. But I believe that the nature of all these AI replica type friends is that I think everybody's going to get tired of them. So that even if you did have a best friend who is an AI, it might last 3 months, but I just don't think that you'll be continually surprised by them. They're just not surprising. You need a little surprise or else you'll get right back to that boredom thing. So I'm not worried about people preferring them. I think it'll wear off.

Well, the big news in the week was that China made big threats about closing off access to their rare earth materials, which would crash the entire economy of the United States, if not the world. But today some are saying that they're backing off or softening their stance. Other people are saying we don't really understand what their stance is yet, so you can't say it's softened. But there does seem to be some at least they're making some noise in China that is oh no you misinterpreted this. We are putting more controls on those rare earth exports. So we're definitely doing that but it's really a limited thing and it's