at the billionaire Russian co-signed the loan you should see Maddow's expression and she goes really. Even she couldn't believe it. Now she played along but and I can't read her mind right so I don't know exactly what she was thinking but my impression of it was that she didn't believe it. Or at least even if it were true it was in the category of unbelievable statements. So either one of those would have given a similar reaction. But I'm gonna give some credit to Rachel Maddow because I'm pretty sure she was skeptical about the claim and that it looked like she was and that was the right reaction. You can love or hate Rachel Maddow but she's very smart. She's very smart. Sorry you can't take that away from her.

Speaking of smart there's a clip of Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba, billionaire guy, talking to Elon Musk on a stage. And they're talking about whether computers will ever be smart like people and they disagreed. Elon Musk said computers are already chipping away at what we used to think only humans could do. They could beat humans at chess every time. They compete about the game of Go which is even more complicated every time. And Musk who's making the case that they will actually just surpass humans and there's no doubt about it. Jack Ma said cleverly that he's seen people invent computers but he's never seen a computer invent a person. So a person could make a computer but a computer can't make a person. Therefore humans always have that sort of superiority. To which I say there's no such thing as a person who ever made a computer. That's never happened. No person has ever made a computer. Civilizations have made computers. Groups of people working over time have developed parts of things which when put together can be assembled into a computer. But no person has ever made a computer. Has a computer ever made a person? Yeah they're simulated but they have. In fact there's about a trillion to one chance that a computer made you. Now there might have been a human or an intelligence of some sort who pushed the button and said hey computer make me a simulated civilization that thinks it's real and then the computer did the rest. So can a computer make a human? Probably already happened.

When I say probably already happened that a computer has made a human I mean you. I mean you are very likely a simulation according to simulation theory. There's a trillions to one chance that if any civilization ever could make a simulation of humans it thought was real or a simulation of any creature they thought was real there would probably happen lots of times. And maybe even the simulation would make its own simulation. So there's a very high likelihood that a computer has already made a person. Not just a person, probably trillions of people. And they don't know that they were made by computers probably.

Speaking of this, and then when I tweeted this I got some pushback and one of them was interesting. One was a software developer who said on Twitter I'm a software developer and basically I can tell you that a computer can only do the simple logic that people give it. It can't think. To which I say number one well you're thinking and you're probably created by a computer so there's that. But secondly a computer programmer is typically not somebody keyed into the creative process. I have a unique window on this situation because I have been a computer programmer so I know what it means to program a computer. I've made a number of programs earlier in my career. I've invented games and done things for corporate use so I have been a computer programmer. I've also spent most of my life as a creative person. If you tell me I can't make a computer do what a creative person does you are so wrong. Oh my god you're wrong. It's the longest, you could ever be. You can create a computer that will create things. Here's what you're missing.

Let's pick one of you and make you the Dilbert cartoonist. All right you take over my job tomorrow and you just do my job. Can you do it? Probably not. Now let's see, how about you draw, make some paintings. I'll just say you personally go make some paintings that are so good they'll hang in the Louvre. There'll be world masterpieces. Go ahead go do that. You can't. So when you say humans are creative that's just not true. It's just not true. Humans can't create. That's not a capability of humans. Here's what humans can do. We can assemble things that already exist in our minds. So when I create all I'm doing is taking things I've seen, add some techniques and formulas. There's actually a formula for humor I talk about a lot. I combine it and then I say well did that work? How does it feel? Yeah that's no good so I try something else. How does that feel? Oh yeah that made me laugh. I'll go with that. A computer can do all of that. It's just A/B testing with a framework and then you see did people laugh or did they not. If they laugh you do more of it. If they don't you throw it away.

Now the reason that you think people are creative is because we have seven billion people and many of them are creating things. Every now and then entirely by chance we like some of it and we say well look at that. Look what Rembrandt created there. Rembrandt something