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, which is there was one time in my past I thought, you know, maybe there's some UFOs, maybe there's some aliens that are visiting. But more recently I had ruled that out in favor of the hypothesis that if anything is happening at all, in other words if these sightings are at all real, that the source of them would be our own past. So it might be ancient aliens who live beneath the ocean. It might…

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feeling it." To which I say, it's going to look like a human being. You know, your screen is going to be somebody who is a deepfake who looks exactly like a human. It looks and acts. So you might have like Professor Feynman teaching you physics and you would absolutely not know the difference. You just wouldn't be able to tell. And they would be able to customize your lesson completely.

So I think at the moment we might be in a place where the AI is not as good as the best teacher. How long is that going to last? Once it looks like a human and once it's way better at learning how to teach and once it's more customized to you specifically, which might be the big part, it would be way better and you would probably enjoy it.

So I think then I said that and then somebody pointed me to a link. Did you know that El Salvador has announced a partnership with xAI to build a public education program around AI? So they're going to use Grok as a personalized digital tutor. Remember this is El Salvador. So El Salvador is weirdly forward thinking. They're well managed and that they're going to gradually roll it out over two years and it will just be fully accredited. And their leader Bukele said that using xAI for their education will be a way to quote leapfrog traditional education so that El Salvador can have the best education system in the world in just a couple years. All they have to do is go first and they're going first. So Bukele, very smart.

So if you want a good free education, go to El Salvador. So that made me wonder how many things are going to go to the price of free. So in the United States we still got this accreditation fetish which apparently has been solved for El Salvador. But don't you think we're very close to an advanced education, the very best advanced education, costing you literally nothing? So instead of paying $70,000 a year for an elite college, you could pay zero, do it at your own pace, and it would be not just as good but way, way better than a traditional education.

So as I'm watching with interest Elon Musk's idea that eventually everything will be free, there are definitely things that are going to go first. And if we can get rid of the roadblocks in the United States, which would be teachers unions and accreditation and inertia, so if we could get to where El Salvador is, education would be free.

But the best part about it is if you've ever had kids in the public school system, how many of you have had kids recently in the public school system and you know what a nightmare it is, right? It seems to me that if you put your nice kid in an environment where everybody can go, you know it's a public place, they will be bullied beyond repair. So the damage that's done by going to a public school is really pretty high. So there's damage to the family unit because they overdo homework. There's damage to their mental health. You can make all of that go away and make it free. And we basically have the technology to do it alrea

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dy. So people don't realize the horror and the torture that they put kids through in public school. If you haven't observed it personally, you would never believe how bad it is. So education could go to zero quickly. But I've also said that car insurance could go to zero because once your self-driving car has basically no accidents, there's always going to be some, then the car maker can just ad…

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