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rence coming, which is an all-AI paper conference. So the conference will have humans at it, but they're there to see what would happen if AI wrote the scientific papers, submitted the scientific papers, and then here's the fun part, did their own peer review. So they're doing a conference of AI-generated scientific papers that will be matched with the peer reviewers so that the humans who attend…

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your question. That moved you, Tom. It should have.

How does gravity manifest at the quantum level? Well, I don't know if I'm ready for that one yet.

When you imagine how you're perceived. Now, that's interesting. So when you think about how other people think of you, I have a reframe for that. We'll probably get to it later, but I'll share it with you now. What's the best reframe for worrying about what people think about you? You've heard me say this one. Provenge. Yeah, I'll look into Provenge. I know about that one. What was I talking about? You, I just forgot what I was talking about because I got on the Provenge track. How to reframe if you think people are thinking bad things about you. The basket case theory is one. That's not the one I was going for, but that is also correct. If you remember that everyone's a basket case, then you're not going to feel bad about you being one. That's a very powerful reframe. It's one of my favorites. You just, once you realize that once you get to know somebody, they've got all kinds of problems that you didn't know about until you knew them really well. And once you realize there's no such thing as the people who seem to have no problems, they don't exist. There's nobody like that. Once you realize that you're just like everybody else, but your problems might be different, but you all got your things, right? So that's the first one here. But here's one that's even better. Nobody cares about you. They're not even thinking about you. You imagine that people are having all these negative thoughts about you. If they do, it lasts all of one second in their head. It doesn't matter. People don't care about you. You know, your family does, but that's not what you're talking about, right? You're not talking about your loved ones. You're talking about sort of co-workers and people you run into in the street, stuff like that. So here's where I learned that. I've told you this story, but this will make it concrete again. Many years ago, I did laser surgery on my face to correct a bunch of spider veins that were sort of in the mask of my face. Now, I was told by the laser professional that my face would look all purple and it would look like I had gone through a windshield and it would last for about three weeks. And I probably didn't want to go out in public looking that way. So sure enough, I get the treatment. My face is all purple and it looked like I'd just gone through a windshield. So obviously, I don't want to leave the house. So day goes by and I'm bored and I'm thinking, three weeks? Wow, that's a long time not to leave the house. And the second day comes and I'm bored and I just want to go shopping just to get out of the freaking house. And I say to myself, what would happen if I just didn't care what anybody thought? What would happen if I just go to the mall with my face that looks like I just went through a windshield? What would happen? So I went to the mall. Nobody gave one what I look like. Nobody stared. Nobody asked me about it. Nobody showed the least bit of interest in whatever it was I was going through. Not a glance, not a stare, not a child going, "Oh, what's wrong?" Nothing. And once you get a big dose of nobody cares, oh my god, the freedom. The freedom that that gave me, it was actually one of my more memorable days of my life because that's when I realized for sure that I didn't have to worry about what other people were thinking about me because they weren't thinking about me. They just weren't. They just were not thinking about me. They think about themselves. So if you want to be liked, help people think about themselves. That's what the Dale Carnegie course does. If you want to be liked, your job was not to make them think better about what your face looked like. That wasn't the job. The job was to make them think about themselves if you want them to like you. So there's another reframe for you.

Ladies and gentlemen, I would say we've done what we need to do here. I hope I've changed your lives a little bit, just a little bit, and we'll come back and do this tomorrow. There will be real news sometime this week and we'll get back to what we usually do. But in the meantime, I'm hoping all these reframes are making you more powerful and happier. All right, everybody. Good. All right, everybody. I won't be talking to the Locals people privately because basically what I just did is what I would have been doing. But I will see you tomorrow everybody. Maybe tonight I will do another drawing class for the Locals people but I don't know yet.