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tom line than a worker by himself or the AI by itself, which is a very solid argument, I think, but we don't know if that's the way it'll turn out. The other thing is that people can't connect the potential benefits of AI to how their life will be better, but they can tell that it looks like AI might use up their water with data centers, which is a hoax. So apparently the data centers do not use…

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delusion. I don't know what that is. You have to know how to prompt the AI. Exactly. If the skill of using AI still resides in the person who's giving it the prompts, how are you going to replace the human? Anyway, we'll see what else is happening.

Come in. Hi. I'm on a live stream right now, but that's okay. Yeah, I'm gonna put my name on the board. Okay. Is going home, so I'll be your nurse today. Okay, great. Just pay no attention to me. I'll just be anything for you. Well, breakfast is coming pretty soon. I put the right there. Eric Yeah. Just so you know, I'm live streaming, but you don't have to be careful. Yeah. You don't. No, you don't have to be quiet. They know I'm in a hospital. So just do what you need to do. They will patiently wait. It's a shift change.

All right. In spirit, you're a teenager. I am. Would you like coffee? Would you write? Yes, please. Good. All right. Thank you.

You know, I think my problem is that there's something I'm eating in the hospital that I'm allergic to.

All right, what else we got here? China builds the most advanced chipmaking machine and cracks the EUV barrier. Only one company in the world currently has functioning EUV machines, which I assume is Taiwan, and I assume it's the only way to make these advanced chips. Let me see. So this would be a very big deal if China could make the AI chips. But I think the equally likely possibility is that all the big nations will figure out how to make AI chips. They just haven't done it yet.

A new laser could beam power midair to US aircraft at 5,000 feet for infinite range. Oh, wow.

Did you see Elon Musk's estimate that SpaceX could become the first hundred trillion dollar value company? Hundred trillion dollar company. SpaceX. I feel like that is very possible.

Oh, so you probably saw the news that Elon's $56 billion pay package got approved. So the court reversed the reversal of it. So if you didn't know that story, I guess Tesla had a pay package deal with Elon from years ago. They said if he reached certain targets, he would get as much as $56 billion is what it was worth by the time they executed. But time has passed. So that $56 billion stock grant would now be worth closer to $140 billion. So while you were working yesterday, Elon made $140 billion in one day. Well, actually it was the sum total of all his work, but I do own some Tesla stock. I'm pretty happy about it at the moment. I also bought a Tesla yesterday, but for a family member who was very happy about it.

So let's I guess we should talk about this. How many of you are interested in the story of the quote civil war on the conservative side between Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson and Ben Shapiro and Erick Erickson and Tim Pool wading into it a little bit. Megan Kelly, she's into it a little bit. How many of you find that interesting? Because it's weirdly not interesting to me.

I think I have the only useful opinion on Israel and all that stuff, which I'll reiterate in case you haven't heard it. If you say you're for or against Israel, you're in trouble. Would you agree? Doesn't matter if you're conservative or pro-Trump or non-Trump. If you were to come out publicly as a podcaster or a pundit and say that you were against Israel, even against some things they're doing or even against AIPAC, if you're against anything, you're going to come up to this brick wall that will be bad for you and your career. But likewise, if you say you're pro-Israel, you will be accused of not being America first. So you can't be for Israel and you can't be against them without dividing everything and ruining your career, making enemies.

So a while back I landed on the only defensible position in my opinion, and it goes like this. I'm American, so I care about America first. I have complete respect for Israel being Israel first. Why wouldn't I? I think every country gets to try to maximize their national benefit. So if there are people who care more about Israel and they want to maximize Israel's benefit, that's just their privilege. Most of it is kind of public and transparent. So if you wanted to dislike the people in AIPAC, Americans, you can find out who they are and you could dislike them. If you wanted to not vote for somebody who took AIPAC money, you could not vote for them. So I don't need to invest my reputation or my anything, my money or anything in Israel because Israel is its own country and they are pursuing what's best for Israel. Of course. Of course they are.

Now, do I need to dislike Ben Shapiro if I think he's too pro-Israel? I don't need to. I can simply observe that he has a set of preferences. He's very public about it. And if somebody wants to agree with him, that would just be

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a different opinion. So personally, I would look at what's good for America in every situation. And if Israel is, if I thought that Israel was, let's say, guiding us in the wrong direction, I would have a dual opinion. One, are they doing a good job of it? Because it's their job to do a good job of it. The Israeli lobby and the pro-Israel people should be doing whatever they can to maximize their…

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