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because you won't remember this topic in a few years, but you'll definitely remember that Trump is always the strongest player in every game and that gives him an advantage in negotiating and leadership and everything else. So if they don't do what I'm going to suggest right now, it's not a mistake. It's just a different way to handle it. All right. So one way they could go is too bad. Too bad. T…
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Now here's the thing. Is it safe to have AI in the military context already? Because I told you my story about Grok hallucinating about me. Pretty fairly simple fact about me. Can we safely deploy a hallucinating AI into the military? Or has Elon Musk found a way to eliminate it entirely in the specific way that the military will use it because in the way I use it is chatting with it. But if you're not using it to chat, does it hallucinate? I don't know.
So I have questions about how safe it is to have a military application of any AI whether it's Grok or anything else when even talking to it is sort of iffy in terms of its facts. So I get a big question mark on that one. You know obviously I'm not the only person who's thought of this and obviously they looked into this deeply. Obviously Elon Musk is not going to unload some dangerous AI into the military. So it seems obvious that they've solved it or made it not an issue the way they're implementing it. But I'd love to know how they did that. That would tell you a lot about the potential of AI and how fast it's going to get into your robot.
Boy, this is good. Seven. Are you having as much fun as I am? Yeah, I've told you before this is my favorite part of the day. And a lot of you tell me that it's not really about the news or my takes on things, although sometimes you like those. It's really just about hanging out. And you know, that's why I enjoy it the same way.
Anyway, historian Victor Davis Hanson is warning us that there's a whole bunch of deep fakes made by AI of him. So there's a whole bunch of videos that appear to be him giving different takes on things that are completely fake. Now I have to confess that I fell for one of them. I hate when that happens. So to me it looked real and the opinion that he gave in what turned out to be a fake video was interesting and so I reposted it on X and somebody fairly quickly alerted me that it was an AI fake.
Now here's the interesting part. It wasn't until I was alerted that it was fake that I could see that it was fake. So on a quick look, totally persuasive. But once somebody says, hey, that's fake, you look at it a little bit closer, you're like, oh, how did I fall for that? Right? So the cracks in the fake become obvious after you know it's a fake. And I'm a little bit disappointed in myself that I fell for it.
So be careful if you see any Victor Davis Hanson videos. He tells us the only way you can know the real ones are the source. I didn't write down what the sources are, but if it comes from a legitimate source, one that you know he has an association with, it's probably real. If it comes from some unknown weird little source, probably a fake.
So here's something I love. Trump apparently, maybe it happened yesterday. I'm not sure, but Trump is either going to or already has sat down with a bunch of American CEOs to try to get them to do more of what he wants and less of what they were doing. Specifically, he's trying to convince them that they're overpaid. He mentions that directly that they're making four or $50 million a year and at the same time they're making all that money they're slow building meaning whatever it is that they're manufacturing they might make good stuff he does say the quality is good but that they're too slow and that slowness of course has an impact on the GDP and competitiveness etc.
And we know that China is really good at building fast. So if we have a manufacturing base that is slow and we're trying to compete with China, we're not going to do so well because they can iterate faster, they can build faster. So now I think Elon Musk has proven to the world that things can be a lot faster when you're manufacturing because people have been amazed on several different domains that when Elon Musk wants to build something whether it's rockets or satellites or cars or anything else that he can get it done fast. So it's not impossible to be an American manufacturer and build things fast. You just have to really lean into it like Elon does.
So the first thing he's trying to do is embarrass them. Embarrass them that if they're taking this muc
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h money, they better build fast. Otherwise, the United States isn't getting their full value. I love that. He's not putting anybody in jail. He's just putting pressure on them. I like the pressure especially because he's being transparent about it. Second, he's going to try to convince them to do fewer stock buybacks. That's where the company buys its own stock because it doesn't have any other b…
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