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tell them you’re competing with them. Could be a coworker, could be a classmate or something, but you just tell yourself, “Okay, I’m going to beat that one. That one I’m going to beat.” And then you’ve got a target. You’ve got something specific. And you’re far more likely to accomplish something specific than something generic. Like everybody knows that, right? So if you say, “I’m going to beat…

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ng an LED light without damaging healthy cells. That sounds pretty good.

What will Democrats say about the development of LED light to fight cancer? What will they say? Well, we already know what they’ll say. Democrats will say, “Why would you use household disinfectants and bleach to kill cancer?” And then I would say, “What? Nobody said anything about bleach.” “Yeah, you just said bleach will cure your cancer.” No, nobody even used the word. Nobody even used the word. No, we’re talking about light. From the beginning to end, we’re talking about light. Yeah. “Were you?” Because the news said that you said bleach would do it.

Do you all remember the drinking bleach hoax, which was done exactly the same way as the fine people hoax? In both cases the hoax was because you cut off the clarifier. When Trump said, “But I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis. They should be condemned totally,” you take that off and it reverses what he said. With the drinking bleach thing, if you take off the beginning where Trump said he was talking about light and then you take off the clarifier at the end where he again emphasizes he was only talking about light, if you take those clarifiers off, it allowed the news to say that he was talking about household disinfectants or bleach because the other people had talked about it before. It’s the same hoax.

So it’s funny to see that there’s yet another light treats a disease will CNN reported as why would you put bleach on your skin? No, they won’t because Trump didn’t say it.

According to Interesting Engineering, now we can make art, we like you and I can do it. Somebody can make artificial neurons that replicate real brain chemistry. And you would do that because it might be another way to get to AI. How many times have I told you that our current big AI models, the large language models, will never get you to general intelligence? They’ll just sort of be able to do what they can do now, but maybe a little bit better. They’re not really going to get over the hump to be like a thinking conscious anything. It doesn’t have that potential in my opinion.

But there are a whole bunch of other AI approaches that are being rapidly prototyped at least because I think people know that there’s a limit to the large language models. And so this neuron replicator was specifically so they can build a better AI with a completely different method. I think I’ve read several now. There are several different approaches that all have that same quality, which is they’re not regular LLMs. They’re a completely different approach because I think that would get you to advanced general intelligence.

So if I had to bet I would bet that the LLMs are going to get leapfrogged by some smaller entity and then they’ll get bought up pretty quickly. But if some smaller entity could do that, you know, do the whole large language model without a trillion dollars, you know, if they could do it for a hundred million, some trillion dollar company’s going to buy them pretty quickly. So that’ll happen.

As you know, Elon Musk has said, and I like repeating it because every time I hear it, it makes me happy. The Optimus, the robots that Tesla is going to make and is making already will cost less than a car, twenty to thirty thousand dollars eventually. But here’s the fun part. Elon says it will be able to do anything you want. Well, anything. I don’t know about anything, but it could teach, babysit your kids, walk your dog, mow your lawn, get groceries, serve drinks, or just be your friend. Whatever you can think of, it will do. I can think of a lot of things. It’s going to be awesome.

And I think this will be the biggest product of ever of any kind. Now that’s the exciting part that we could be watching the greatest product innovation rollout trend of all time of all history and we’re going to get to watch it I think. But this would suggest that Elon Musk thinks that he has a version of AI that can get to something like general intelligence because that’s what he’s describing here. The LLMs would never get you to a robot that could do that stuff. It just isn’t the right technology. But he uses visual training. So he’s doing a lot of visual training and I think some probably some artificial worlds training too. So it looks like he thinks he has a path and if he says he has a path, I would not doubt him.

Did you know that in addition to drugs that are generics, so you know we have generic drugs, but the pharma would wish we didn’t because if there were no such thing as generics, then they could forever have a monopoly on their IP, their property. But over time their IP times out and then there can be a generic for the drug. But did you know there’s a separate category of drugs and I’m not smart enough to know what’s in the category, but the biologics? Biologics. So that’s a category of drugs.

But apparently according to RFK Jr. who just did an announcement about it, apparently the pharma was doing a great job of marketing and persuading Congress not to allow knockoffs of their biologics. And the argument was that nobody would be able to make a proper copy. That’s sort of like magic and wizardry and more like making a fine wine and you couldn’t let anybody knock off the biologics because it might be dangerous and ineffective. And somehow they sold that. Meaning that if you tried to make an imitation or copy of one of these biologics that had lost its copyright protection or whatever protection it has, that you couldn’t do it because they had put too many obstacles in the way.

But apparently there’s going to be a rules change and President Trump’s going to sign something that would allow companies to compete for this big category of biologics. And that would be, in my opinion, a huge win for RFK Jr. because it’s not the sort of thing that necessarily would have even come up had he not been running the show. So not only did he identify a problem that has potentially enormous economic value to consumers, but it looks like he acted, identified the problem, acted, solved. I mean I’m sure nothing’s that easily solved, but looks like a win to me. OANN is reporting on that.

Well, meanwhile, NASA is reportedly building or it’s well along the way of buil

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ding a quiet supersonic jet. So something that doesn’t go bam when it crosses the sound barrier. This one goes thud. A more acceptable noise in the atmosphere. And they’re already testing. It’s already built and they’re doing test flights and it works. And if it works and if it brings in a new era of air travel, it could reduce the time that you go across the country to I don’t know maybe half. So…

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