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All right, that's enough of that.
So yesterday I had an interesting experience. I don't know if any of you have experienced this yet, but have you ever talked to somebody immediately after their first experience with a Tesla self-driving? There's sort of an analogy to that. I told you a few years ago the first time I got on an e-bike, I couldn't get the smile off my face because the difference between an e-bike and a regular bike is just one of them just thrills you and the other is just a bicycle. But I'll bet you there's something just like that for people who just got done doing their very first ride in a self-driving car.
So I saw it yesterday, a few people who had just had their first ride, just got out of the car and they'd done some self-driving, you know, just locally. They can't get the smiles off their faces. Apparently the first time you do it is just such an experience that it's not like anything else apparently. So watch for that. Watch for people getting their first full self-driving. When I say full self-driving, I mean they still have to pay attention, but they don't have to participate.
All right. Well, the Nvidia director of robotics says that the Tesla self-driving is like an AI that passes the physical Turing test. Now, the Turing test was passed a long time ago the standard way, but this would be a physical Turing test, meaning that it acts like it's sentient even though it's not. And Elon Musk responded that the best real world AI is their Tesla AI, but he said, "You can sense the sentience." Now, I still have not been in a self-driving car, so I don't know if that comment hits or not.
But have any of you done the self-driving Tesla? And can you confirm that when you're doing it, you can feel the sentience or you know almost intelligence? I don't want to say consciousness of the car. Is that true? That you can sense the sentience or not?
Oh no. Oh, we got a lot of yeses. You can sense it. All right. Good.
So speaking of Tesla, you know Tesla's building the Cybercab, which would be a dedicated vehicle just for self-driving, like a cab basically. But the most shocking thing is that he's improved the production process so much that he thinks they'll be able to produce one of these Cybercabs every five seconds in one assembly line. Every five seconds. So obviously it's highly, highly automated assembly line. But he says you won't be able to get near the assembly line because you'll be moving so fast.
Now, imagine a world where people like me, I don't think I'll necessarily ever be able to get into an auto cab or Cybercab, but wouldn't it be cool to just sit in what would be like a little living room, basically just a tiny living room, and it just takes you where you want to go. That is amazing. And that's basically this year, end of this year.
All right, let's do what I like to do. We're going to test your BS filters. So here's some science and you tell me if the science is BS or not. According to the University of Texas at Austin, people who help other people, you know, they volunteer or help other people a few hours a week, it may slow the brain aging of the people who are doing the helping. Do you believe that study that the people who help other people will add to their lo
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ngevity? Well, maybe. I think that's entirely possible. But how do you rule out the more obvious possibility? Correct me if I'm wrong, but are not healthy people doing more of everything? So if you had great health and great vitality and great energy, wouldn't you do literally more of everything compared to people who are not healthy? So I can see why healthy people would volunteer more. They'd j…
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