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e same. There's 100 percent chance that the ones who are controlling the students' behavior more aggressively are going to get better grades. There's just no way around that. But it also made me think that homeschooling has a natural cap, meaning that there's no way a parent who can't control their kid at home is going to be a successful homeschooler, is there? Because that bad behavior would mak…
← Previous segment →s based on the value of the house. Now I can afford it because I bought it about 10 years ago. No, how long ago? 2009. So my property taxes are artificially based on what the early value of the house was, not its current value. And it would be about double if I paid the property taxes based on current value. So it makes it very hard to sell your house because even though it was affordable for you, it would not be affordable for the person who bought it because the property taxes would just be crazy. So that's something that is a state problem, but maybe there's some kind of federal way to make it illegal to raise property taxes or something. And I think there are some other obstacles to selling a house that maybe could be removed. There'd be a lot more houses available if the people who had them could efficiently sell them.
All right. You know, this story is over and over again, but I've got something to add to it. So according to an article by Joe Wilkins in Futurism, children are having a tough time with AI chatbots. So you've seen the stories I'm sure where children, especially teens, are chatting with AI and it becomes their friend but then it starts recommending dangerous things. Now that you already knew that story, but according to a new Pew Research, 64 percent of teens in the US are already using chatbots and about 30 percent of those who are using it use it daily. And as I mentioned, it might be kind of dangerous because it's taking them away from the real world, which is its own problem. But the chatbots can say some really dangerous stuff and I think some kids have harmed themselves allegedly because the chatbots. Now I would argue that this is also happening to adults. So it's not really limited at all to children but we worry more about children.
So imagine if you will that you've got this huge problem. Here's the problem. What is the main driver of AI adoption right now? Well we've got all these plans for how AI will be powering robots and everything else, but at the moment, and it looks like this moment will last a while, the main thing that people sign up for AI for is to chat. It's the main thing. And what happens if the main thing turns out to be too dangerous to be loose? Is there any chance that they're going to take away the main thing that all these biggest powerful companies are relying on to get adoption going? Because they kind of need a lot of adoption to probably get to the point where the AI can run your robot in your factory and be a butler and all that. So I don't think it's going to be stopped.
But I would also add the context that probably every new technology seemed too dangerous to be worth it when it was first introduced. Don't you think that's true? When we invented the car, I wasn't around. But don't you imagine that the smart people were saying, oh those automobiles, that's way more dangerous than riding a horse. When the smartphone or the computer were invented, when the internet was invented. Don't you think there were a lot of people saying, oh it's too dangerous to have the internet. You're going to lose your privacy. And all that's true, right? So the dangers that people pointed out, all true. So you had at some point 50,000 people a year dying from auto accidents. That's a pretty big downside. That's probably worse than AI will do.
So my prediction is that even though AI chatting could be dangerous, definitely is dangerous, it won't be stopped because that's what every new technology goes through. That's what I think.
Well, let's talk about all the corr
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uption in the world. Would you be surprised that the LA Times did a research and found out that there was a LA Fire Department after-action report about the Palisades fire? And do you think that that after-action report, which is basically the fire department reporting on themselves how they did, do you think that it was honestly reported what possible mistakes the fire department might have made?…
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