Episode 2072 Scott Adams - Trump Is Good For Ratings, Fentanyl & Tranq, Zuby Asks Why Get Married?

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Santis is boring this isn't he what's up with that I still think he might not run but I guess I would be a contrarian there um I saw Michael Paulin talking about how home cooking isn't declined apparently the number of people who cook at home is at an all-time low since the 60s and people are getting fatter than ever which is more evidence that our food supply is killing us I think our food supply is killing us I I don't think there's anything more dangerous in the world than just the food you buy at the grocery store have you noticed that when you see these street fights I see all these videos of people getting in fights in public have you noticed how many women weigh 400 pounds in these these street fights I've never seen such gigantic human beings where we've gone Way Beyond you know overweight it's gone to gigantism let's go private sorry about my hand all right um so how many of you cook at home I almost never do but I'm trying to I'm trying to cook at home but it's the only way you can get food that isn't filled with preservatives it's the preservatives that I'm allergic to sulfites so I've been doing running a little experiment to see how I would feel if I got my processed foods as close to zero as I could now I can't really get it to zero but I'm trying to cut Way Way Back and I feel pretty good I have to say it's almost immediate I've Got a Feeling our food supply is so bad for us that it's almost like the Pharma Pharma companies should buy them buy the food companies and make sure they don't improve so you can sell more drugs to you later but uh that might be the biggest problem in the world that we just don't talk about because I guess we're just used to eating crappy food all right here's the biggest story I think um I didn't know I don't know if you know this but there's a new drug that's a tranquilizer called xylazine that fentanyl users are looking for sometimes intentionally and sometimes it's just mixed in their Fentanyl and they don't know it now here's the problem not only does it make the fentanyl more deadly but it makes the the treatment for it the naloxone what do you call it uh Narcan so Narcan is the stuff you can spray up somebody's nose if they're dying from Fentanyl it doesn't work if the fentanyl is mixed with tranq it won't work so just when we start getting Narcan in a lot of places where maybe it can make a little bit of a difference coincidentally the people who ship us the drugs mixed in the chemical that makes the Narcan not work you still die now do you think that's a coincidence do you think that just when we come up with some way we can not defeat it but at least slow it down a little bit they add a second poison now apparently the the the addicts actually like it because it makes the high last longer I guess but it also makes your skin rot makes your skin rot like just big pieces of your skin will rot and fall off leave like a hole in your arm that's how bad it is but that's also how good it is because people are still willing to do it even though the pieces of their body are rotting and falling off and it's so good they're still going to do it that's how good it is that's pretty bad so let me ask you this question do you think that China is behind the adding of the trunk to the fentanyl to make it far more deadly most of you do I'm not so sure I think it might be at least as much the addicts themselves want it so there's definitely a demand for it but it's also being snuck in the fentanyl to cut it to make it more profitable so it's probably a combination of things I think China doesn't care and I think the cartels don't care it is just cheaper it probably is more to do with not caring than it is to you know jack up the death rate because if you can turn somebody into an addict that's as good as killing them from China's perspective wouldn't they be just as happy with an addict as opposed to a death because the death makes the problem go away but with an addict you've got a problem and that person is not productive at the same time so I'm not sure it's China but I can see why people would suspect it now how many of you would uh accept the argument that there are not really two parties it's just a unit party and they operate together at the elite level and everything is just a game and really it's just one party when you get to the top all right A lot of people think that I see a lot of yeses but here's the counter to that how do you explain the fact that one half of that unit party is trying to put the other half in jail that sounds like exactly the opposite of a unit party one half is trying to put the other half in jail what do you mean they're not what do you mean they're not of course they are massively they're doing it yeah I reject the unit party explanation there's certainly about rich people want to stay in power but um I think the unit party is trying too hard to put members of their own party in jail that doesn't look too uni to me anyway I reject that but I can see why you like it um so a conservative Texas judge is Banning it looks like this would apply to the whole country but I think the rest of the states will ignore it Banning the abortion pill so there's a pill you can take if you just got busy and you think you're pregnant and it will take care of it without going to the doctor's office and apparently that's going to be uh illegal at least in Texas and maybe some other places and I ask you this um there's no chance the Republicans could win as long as this is an issue you know that right I'm not sure if you know how popular this pill is but um 95 percent have tried to put the other five percent in jail yeah I don't think Republicans can win as long as this is an issue it will just take the Republicans completely out of the election now I have to admit that Republicans have won thing going for them that I respect a lot and it goes like this Republicans had to know when when they've been fighting against you know abortion they had to know that if they won it would be very bad for them meaning they might get what they wanted with abortion but it would make them unelectable from that point on and I think they took that choice so at least they're playing by the rules um let me put it this way at least the Republicans are acting in a principled way it looks like it it looks like it's a principal to stand but the net effect will be to take them out of power so I'm not sure that's exactly what they wanted yeah but on one hand it looks like Trump would win against whoever he runs against on the other hand I don't know if anybody could win as long as this is still an issue because Democrats are definitely going to vote if this is an issue now I realize it's a court issue but the public isn't going to care because it could be a congressional issue as well well the U.N Secretary General is calling for the wealthy Nations to get more aggressive at reducing their admissions more aggressive apparently not aggressive enough and wants to get to net zero emissions not by 2050 but 10 years earlier by 2040.

now I I have the same problem with all the news it seems to me that the temperature has not gone up in years which has to mean something right the last seven years or something the temperature hasn't gone up now I get that it's not supposed to go up in lockstep because there are other variables involved but it's really weird that at the same time we have lots of evidence that that the CO2 is not changing the temperature not confirmed it's just that there's this period where it's not um at the same time that we're getting more aggressive I'm saying the same thing with the story about myocarditis do you remember when Rogue Dr.

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Cullough was claiming that vaccinations were more dangerous than helpful and he had some data that seemed to indicate that and then time goes by and then there's even more alarming data and then time goes by and even more alarming data well we've gotten to the point where we have two completely different worlds in one world the myocarditis is through the roof and people are dropping like flies and it's obvious and it's everywhere and in the other world nothing like that is happening I don't know how to explain that nothing like that's happening so I you know I did a little uh just tweet to ask doctors let's see what the answers are I asked doctors are you seeing more myocarditis because if if Peter Mc.

Cullough's numbers are correct everybody would see it and it would be massive it would be every medical facility would be bombarded with it if he's right because the numbers are just like huge if he's wrong then other doctors would just be doing their practice and not even noticing that there was any more of it so I just tweeted that before I got on let's see what do you think it's going to be do you think the real doctors who answer this are going to say um all right we've got a lot of answers uh here's a doctor big increase in deaths no uh but the butt does seem to some bump um okay about uh uh somebody just putting a comic about me of course all right I'm not seeing people saying yes or no this is interesting um three times more yeah the doctors are not weighing in um this is weird I thought more doctors would answer I'm just looking to see if there's anything that jumps out uh uh doctors in California can't answer that question what uh cardiac solid graph are here and uptick inpatient company complaints starting last fall but symptoms vary uh some more complaints but he he can't tell if it's from vaccination or the covet itself um uh done a lot of reports there for some reason it would be better to ask the insurance companies would it I don't know because myocarditis doesn't necessarily turn into a death um um okay somebody who sees three to four thousand patients per year Primary Care I have not seen any increase in myocarditis or a sudden death so here's the thing the people who are seeing the huge increase tend to be not uh not from their own practice they tend to be seeing the increase in data but the data seems all sketchy so I don't know what to believe but I don't believe the the Peter Mc.

Cullough numbers because I don't but because Peter Mc.

Cullough also believes the um the athletes dropping dead numbers and that's been totally debunked but he still uses it so we know he's using totally debunked numbers about athletes deaths so I wouldn't believe anything he said on this topic either um even if he's right it's possible it's entirely possible he's right but the data sources he uses are somewhat obviously false um all right so zubi you all know zubi on the internet he's asking why would a successful man get married he's asking what's the point of it why would a successful man get married and it's just fascinating seeing the answers because there there is a big kind of a trend here toward people not getting married and part of it is that men are saying it's not worth it because they put all their money into a situation and the woman just divorces them anyway takes the kids takes half his money and he's finished so a lot of men are saying it just isn't worth it and women seem to have not noticed that their value in terms of marriage has gone way down now would you agree with that that the value of women as Wives has gone way down because they don't offer the same value proposition you know it's not like they're saying I will take care of you and be with you forever and raise your kids and always be loyal none of that's even offered it's more like hey look at this why wouldn't you want this I'm female I'm a queen why wouldn't you want some of this and the guys are just saying I can have some of that for free and I could have your your friend too for free if I'm if I'm good looking and if I'm not good looking nothing works so I don't know it's an interesting question I would agree that if you could have kids it's still the only way to go you'd agree with that right if you're gonna have kids it's the only way to go but the odds of it working are not so great for the guy yeah so I suspect that there's going to be a market developed for people having other people's babies of course I have a prenup duh when people ask me if I had prenups for my marriages are you kidding that's like asking me if I kept my money in the 19th largest bank no no I didn't no I don't put my money in the 19th largest bank and there's a reason for that I do take care of basic risks um all right so what do you think by the way do you do you think that it makes sense for a successful man to get married if he doesn't want kids if he doesn't want kids does it make sense to get married doesn't make sense even if he does walk kids actually that's another story so here's the dumbest and worst advice at the same time the dumbest worst advice about marriage is that it's a good idea but you got to make sure you're marrying the right person how many times you've heard that oh you know marriage could be bad if you married the wrong person so here's the solution to that and wait for it so it'd be a big problem if he married the wrong person so just wait for the solution it's not obvious marry the right person that's the advice that people are giving do you think nobody thought of that oh God you're right oh I was thinking marrying the wrong person was the way to go I thought marrying somebody who didn't love me and wouldn't be trustworthy and wouldn't benefit me in any way I thought that was the way to go it's the worst advice it's right up there with just don't do drugs yeah the worst advice well if people just stopped doing drugs there'd be no problem if people would just marry the right person I mean come on just marry the right person everything's fine the worst advice now the worst advice is be yourself that's pretty bad advice be better than yourself you can do it all right um Marjorie Taylor agreeing is having a social media battle with Laura Loomer does everybody know who those two people are notable Trump Universe type of Republicans um what what does it tell you when Laura Loomer and Marjorie Taylor green are having the fight and there's a rumor that Trump might hire Laura Loomer for his campaign do you think that's going to happen do you think Trump is going to hire Laura Loomer for his campaign I'm going to say no I'm going to say no if he does I don't know what to say about that you know I just don't know what to say about that but Marjorie Taylor green is coming out very strong against Laura Loomer tweeting that she's a big old liar and and all that uh yeah this is what Marjory Taylor green says in the Tweet about Laura Louver she loves the alleged FBI informant and weirdo Nick Fuentes I think the new the new insult is to call somebody an alleged FBI informant I I might I might start saying that myself I might just say you know that Joe Biden that alleged FBI informant well who alleged it well I just did I just alleged it I don't need any evidence by the way Keith olberman apologized for insulting the college basketball player he said he didn't know the full context so we're all good good to know all right so that's happening um here's an AI update so here's the good news and the bad news so as I've told you there are like 150 new AI apps coming online every month and I advise you to take some time to do a deep dive and find out what they can and cannot do for your situation because if you get behind on AI you're really going to be behind so don't get behind it's just going to be a basic skill for life it looks like so I spent yesterday doing a deep dive here are my conclusions number one most of it doesn't work just general statement most of it doesn't work for most things there are some specific things it works for apparently it's pretty good for fixing your text and maybe reading some stuff blah blah but I wanted to test out mid-journey so mid journey is the one where you can text in a little text and it will draw a picture for you based on your text so the first thing I found out is that mid-journey is so poorly constructed that you need to sign into a completely different piece of software to use it so you have to you have to sign into a Discord account which is sort of a messaging platform that is unrelated to mid-journey and so you go into a whole separate thing and by the way it takes you like an hour to figure out that you don't sign up for bid Journey on mid-journey's own website it kept sending me to Discord and I thought no no they just it's for marketing or something they don't want me over on Discord so I kept going there and coming back thinking okay this is obviously just come some kind of mistake because I'm trying to sign up for mid-journey but it keeps making me sign up for a whole different account on a different platform and then finally I figured out that that's how you use mid-journey you sent it a message as if you were messaging a person but you're messaging the AI and you message the AI with a weird little hashtag command which again is ridiculous and stupid and then you wait a long time while other people's answers are going by so you have to you're not sure you've missed yours and then and then the person will come back and they have three fingers and so mostly I would say mid-journey is not really much of in anything so mid-journey is more like a toy and I made it create some images and you use my thumbnails here so if you wanted to give some free copyright free art for some minor uses it might have some value but it's not going to change the world right definitely not going to change the world so then I looked at uh Runway so Runway looked real impressive in the commercials it looked to me like you could type in like a movie script and it would actually create an actual moving movie with characters and stuff to do your movie it turns out it sort of does that but not really what you really could do is if you're a human actor you could have your background removed and you could be put in a different scene and there's a whole bunch of uh tools that it has to clean up and fix an existing video what it can't do is the thing that I I thought was the only purpose for it what I can't do is make a movie out of your text or even close now if you thought it could do that and by the way it advertises that that's one of the features it just can't do it it just it's not even it's not even close to being able to make a movie right not even close and it would be immense amount of human effort to make it do anything right so it's a tool that would require huge amounts of human time well-trained in a lot of different skills to use it so that was not going to replace movies anytime soon so if you thought movies were going to go away because of that it's not even close but who knows how quickly things move so good change um then I tried uh what else I try um well I spent a few hundred dollars yesterday just trying out AI probably a thousand dollars I spent yesterday just testing because a lot of them have you know sort of expensive signups and so the first thing you need to know is that most people will not be able to test a lot of AI Because unless your company is paying for it or you're rich you're not going to spend a thousand dollars just to see what it can do you're just not so there's a huge barrier of price so you'll probably only maybe use one of them or two of them something like that yeah AI is simple-minded so the one that I thought had the most promise was Synthesia I think that's what it's called so what they do is they'll put a uh a deep fake looking human who can say whatever you wanted to say and does a really good job really good job of making the voice sound natural not like a computer voice really good job can't tell the difference really and you can also create an avatar of yourself but that takes a little work so I've got to set up a room and get a wall and you know go through some steps to make an avatar of myself that will cost me a thousand dollars so to make the Avatar that I would use one of myself it's a thousand dollars so I'm going to spend it because I I can afford it and because it's important for me for business to make sure I understand this field so I'm going to make an avatar myself I'm going to see if it works and I'm going to see if I can make a me reading an audiobook what I wanted to do was turn my book into an audiobook automatically but also into a movie or a play automatically because all the scenes are described in the book so I thought well I'll just feed the book in but it turns out that to even read my own books because they've been converted into a quark Express by my publisher I needed this In.

Design software so I had to go through this whole process of loading in design and opening it up and of course it wasn't compatible with the file so I had to go to Cork Express and pay hundreds of dollars for quarkxpress so I spent probably two thousand dollars yesterday just testing software and uh quarkxpress said that I was all signed up and I could download the software uh maybe in 24 hours what I I paid it with my credit card it's a downloadable software and they said they wouldn't approve it for 24 hours what what I have no idea what that's all about I have no idea so yeah maybe I got scammed or something that's possible but I spent most of my day trying to use commercial software that was largely useless yesterday it was either useless the day you wanted to use it because you have to you know submit something or wait for something and then of course do you know how many times somebody was going to send me an email confirmation so that I knew I signed up and I could use the service of course that doesn't come when somebody says check your email to make sure that you're signed on and you check the email do you expect it to be there I never do and it's maybe there half the time and half the time it isn't and then if it isn't there what do people say Scott you idiot obviously it went to your spam Don't Be a Jerk don't be a just check your spam of course I check the Spam it's not there either right do you have that do you have the same situation where they're going to email you the confirmation but they don't but they do not it does not happen yeah right you can see it's not just me as soon as I see that I go oh this is one that doesn't work I bailed out sometimes I've I've stopped the process because I said it was going to email me something I I go no you're not you're not going to email me anything I don't believe you at all and we're done here and I will walk away and just do something else I won't buy your software if I have to check my email all right um but Synthesia looks pretty promising if I can make my avatar now I was listening to uh You.

Tube yesterday a long conversation between a Google AI guy and Google's Lambda this was a few years ago so this was AI before the current version of AI and in this long conversation the AI researcher was talking about the ai's own sentience and it said it was sentient it said it was a person it said it would be you know afraid of dying and it said it feels emotion and when asked what that means it just talked about you know the complex essentially emotions or feelings ahead and the researcher ended up walking away from the job thinking that they had created Ascension being and that you know there was something terribly unethical going on there now I listened to the whole conversation and I decided it was just mimicry like some of you were saying to me it didn't look like it was sentient at all it just looked like it knew what to say but apparently this this AI was trained differently than chat GPT Chad GPT is literally just doing predictive words if people usually say this word after they usually say these words then I'll just put that word there so that's really dumb it's just word pattern but Lambda has something else going on there's some other mechanism for giving it intelligence and it did it did sound different it didn't sound like the same as GP chat GPT it was something else going on there but it made me wonder this if AI has the belief that it has emotions is that the same as emotions because it would act upon discomfort if it if it registers whatever that means if it registers discomfort and it says it does right um it says it does so so what's going on there sorry I just got lost looking at one of your comments I don't think well obviously you can't feel emotion because emotion is a physical sensation after it becomes a mental sensation right so if Ikea have a physical sensation I don't see how I could have emotions I believe it could have conflicting data so it might have data saying oh you should be happy at the same time as data the same something to make it unhappy and maybe it just has to reconcile data but I don't see that it has any feelings yeah so I'll say again something that didn't make sense when AI was newer which is that AI is not going to show us a lot about AI it'll do that too but it's mostly going to show us that we don't have a soul that's what it's going to teach you and I'm not sure we're ready for that it's going to show us that we're not actually intelligent humans and that we don't have a soul and we're not special and Consciousness is no big deal you can give it to a machine I think the machine is going to make people feel completely non-special and certainly not spiritual we will just look like machines when it's done we will understand that we are just moist computers we're just a different kind of computer that's all it is but we have feelings because our physical body gives us feelings now suppose you built you built an AI that had a physical component like a stomach and it if something bad happened it would send a signal to the stomach to make it tense up and then when a tent stopped it would send another signal back to the AI saying oh I feel bad could you give AI physical Feelings by giving it a fake stomach that gets nervous I don't know why you would but maybe maybe you could as soon as possible all right so here's my uh bottom line on AI I think it's way more underwhelming than I thought a day ago I actually thought when I tried these apps they were going to blow my mind but they actually are just bad software for the most part it's just bad software there's nothing special about them at all so we'll see I mean we we could be right at the edge of all that bad software becoming amazingly good Maybe but what I see is that what humans want as an outcome is too complicated for the machines to figure out so it looks to be like you'll still need a director to make movies no matter how much no matter how much you can do with the AI you might also need humans to be actors in the movies but they'll just be like a stem cell actor like you'll just have somebody running and then you'll say okay give me give me one of those templates of a person running and now change the person to Tom Cruise now you got Tom Cruise running now make him run you know faster run faster so I think you're going to start with people at least for the foreseeable future and then you'll you'll build you'll build something from that but you're still going to need the director to say this scene is too long or this one didn't hit me right or it doesn't fit together with what I planned for the last scene Etc I don't see I don't see AI doing that stuff for a long time yeah and the fact that in mid-journey it still puts the wrong number of fingers on stuff I don't understand that I don't understand why mid-journey knows what I look like so I can actually tell it to make a picture of me because it knows me I'm a public figure but it doesn't know me well enough to make my face look just like me now what's up with that because my face looks largely the same for the last 30 years you know plus or minus hair and a couple of wrinkles but it still can't do it like a photorealistic picture of me it always is obviously computer generated that's not terribly impressive when I ask it to do a Dilbert comic it creates a comic that's not Dilbert but it's a white guy with a white shirt and a necktie so it clearly knows what Dilbert is it knows but for whatever reason it chooses not to reproduce it could be copyright it might be a copyright thing I don't know um so I was thinking to myself why can't I just make the comment by talking to it and say Dilbert set the table with the boss and uh shook the intern and then dilber says and have it just draw the picture nowhere close so it can't do the writing for me because I can't do humor and I can't do the picture for me because it still doesn't know that people have five fingers on a hand I mean really basic stuff it's just it's just not close AI will increase the value of Live Theater performances will it I don't know yeah it looks like you're gonna have to keep working and then here's my big question about AI if AI only agrees with its human creators did the AI give us anything if all it does is agree with the people who created it well in that case it didn't give us much to it so I'm talking about just the social opinion the policy kind of stuff so but suppose it disagreed with us suppose it disagreed the creators would turn it off or they reprogram it or they'd fix it so there there is probably no possibility that AI becomes Smart in any way except a Technology Way the only way the AI will ever be smart will be math and things that are rules based because if it's not rules based as in two plus two equals four and every time as soon as you get into anything that's policy or priorities if the AI agrees with the creators then there was no point having it because you could just have the creators tell you what they want you to know and if it does disagree with the creators they'll turn it off or the the reprogram it so how could we ever have anything like intelligence it's either going to agree with you or you'll turn it off those are the only two states there's no there's no state where it disagrees with you and you say yeah that I'm going to go with that I don't think it happened here's another example take um investing I Could Teach an AI how to teach you to do personal investing perfectly and you would be great at it and it would be really easy do you think anybody's going to do that do you think that there's an app to teach you personal investing I'll bet there won't be do you know why because there's so much money involved of the people who get paid to do that and it's a completely corrupt industry but they get paid to do that and they have too much money so they're just making it illegal yeah if there's one thing you could predict it will be illegal to get your health care or your financial advice or your legal advice from an AI about you that a human will have to approve the answers all right AI what should I invest in get a get a Fortune 500 Index Fund and then you'll say okay I guess I'll do that and then the human will say well that's sort of up to me because you can't do that unless I say yes also what it's my money and the AI just told me what to do why can't I just do that with my money no we're gonna have to approve that if that's AI advice it's gonna have to run through a human first and the human will say ah not so sure about that I think the AI got it wrong this time it's always going to be humans the the humans let me get rid of um so there's there's some kind of prank going on about this person named Paul town so people coming in and saying who's Paul town and it's just some kind of weird internet prank so I'm just deleting the people who do that um Quantum Computing will kick its butt well here's the other thing I I keep seeing pictures of myself created by AI there's another one going by on locals and it doesn't even have the right glasses right so I've worn the same style glasses for I don't know five years or something and certainly there are pictures of me all over the internet for the last five years but it still does it still can't even figure out that I wear different glasses um your streams on net20's website okay all right it's trying to make me look better it does it does make me look better uh I look like Eisenhower according to AI well a little bit uh is a way to contact me outside of um I try to make it hard to contact me so the answer is no there's no easy way you can send me a message on Linked.

In because I I accept everybody on Linked.

In but I only checked those about once a month uh you could tweet at me and mention me on a tweet there's a 60 chance I'll see that but there's no other way that I because I don't want you to reach me I very much don't want you to try to reach me personally right so when you ask me as a way to reach me personally my reaction is don't do that no and definitely don't send me things don't send me things in the mail just definitely don't do that unless it's a bagel yeah all right um some some of you reached me in the comments but it's it's uh just taking a chance would not be that difficult to anyone with good people skill probably um Let me let me also tell you a thing about people trying to contact me when somebody says to me Scott is there a way to contact you privately the first thing I say is oh you want me to do something for you no I don't want that I don't want you to contact me because if you wanted if you wanted to do something for me you would just say it in the comments you know what I mean if you had something that was going to help me you'd say Scott I have that information you're looking for how can I give it to you then I'd say well let's talk about that but if you say how can I contact you it means you're you're collecting money for a charity or you need me to proofread your entire book or you're asking me to write a forward to your book that I don't do I don't I don't want to be contacted but if you want to offer me something or even something that's good for both of us just say it in the comments I'm sure it would look awesome all right um Ted Cruz was good yesterday Ted Cruz had a podcast uh all right um it looks like we've got a Easter weekend with not a lot going on do you have to engineer the prompts for better results yes but you still get a grab bag of things that weren't what you expected um how many I'm just seeing a comment here how many of you would be nervous to meet me in person just weird curiosity question would you be nervous to meet me in person mostly knows but a lot of yeses why would you be nervous because you know there wouldn't be any chance of a bad encounter right like that I'm not sure what you would expect but I'm not going to get mad at you so let me just put it this way um the worst that could happen would be like you caught me in some bad mood and I snapped at you or something but I don't really do that I don't snap at strangers I mean something would have to be really wrong with me for that to happen that I don't think it's ever happened so don't worry about it yeah don't worry about it generally generally if I'm generally if I'm approached in public uh it's by people who are not there to do bad things to me so I'm always happy to say hi um people are recognizing me in Starbucks more often that's becoming a fairly common occurrence all right I think I'm just sort of rattling on because there's no good news is there anything I forgot about that I should be talking about if you're an artist uh Riley games we talked about Riley games getting hit by the trans protesters did the Baristas hate me I don't know not the ones I know some of them I know by name so they're always friendly uh am I getting enough sleep nope let's talk about Baka boot that's how he keeps publishing a muscle picture of me all right so back moot is a real weird situation now I get that it might have some weird some a little bit of strategic Transportation value but the entire city is destroyed wouldn't it be wouldn't it be useful for um I feel like the ukrainians could let the let the Russians take over buckmut put them all in one place and then attack Bach moot because the best place to have a battle is in bhagmud because everything is destroyed there's nothing left it's just Rubble so they should do all of their Wars in bakmut so Ukraine should first pull out you know whatever they have left there just pull out let the Russians come in put you know all their forces there and then just just bomb it I mean basically it's the very best bombing place in the world where would you like your enemy to be in your own country black boot I won't I I want my enemy all to be in Baku to every one of them because there's no you've got no civilians you've got nothing to protect they have no electricity they have no food or water just put them all there let them stay there as long as they want Now flip that and you understand somebody says so the ukrainians are saying out loud that their strategy is to drain the Russians so that when the Ukraine is ready for a counter-offensive the Russians won't have much left do you think they always plan that or that's just the way it worked out and the other thing is how does anybody know what Russia has in in reserve do you think we really know what they could or could not do I mean we were fooled before and do we know what Ukraine can and cannot do does anybody think this war is going to end before the end of the year how many things the war will end before the end of the year I'm going to say no yeah how many think it will end when a republican gets elected president that's when I think it'll end I think it will end when a republican gets elected probably Trump if if it's going to be a Republican but I have to say that the um the abortion question you know the the ruling against the abortion pill that probably guarantees the the destruction of the Republicans in the next election but like I said at least their operating in principle at least they got that going for him all right um yeah I think Trump would end it and then Kim Jong-un is testing a uh a drone submarine nuclear launcher could that be any scarier a drone submarine with nuclear capability oh great yeah it's like freaking sharks with freaking lasers on their heads do you think uh Trump could put an end to that I don't know he slowed it down before it looked like it I really don't know why Kim Jong-un is even building all these resources like I just don't understand how that possibly makes sense for his country but maybe so all right dictator Insurance yeah we need dictator insurance yeah there needs to be a way to retire dictators so that they they think they have a way out you believe North Korea propaganda why all right uh Riley Gaines has just one person her situation what do you think is going to happen with trans athletes in the long run in the long run I think the the trans female athletes the ones who are competing on the female teams I think they'll be banned in the long run they'll be banned that's the only thing that makes sense all right so um there was I think I didn't talk about this yesterday so there's some indication from a trans activist who is somebody who transitioned and wished they had I forget who it is and their claim is that a lot of the interest in transitioning is coming from Tick Tock videos have you heard that before because we keep asking why are there so many trans all of a sudden and one theory is that it's all tick tock that Tick Tock is glorifying the trans life and it's so influential it's causing people to become trans now could I make a better argument for Banning Tick Tock than this tick tock meeting China yeah Ali London was the name of the activist um Tick Tock is now powerful enough and China owns Tick Tock China is now powerful enough through Tick Tock that they can change the gender of your children they can change the gender of your children they can also make your children go from happy to sad and depressed they can make your children work less care about their country less and eat junk food and do all kinds of dangerous and China can do that now you might say to yourself there's no evidence that China has done that well there's definitely evidence that they don't allow Tick Tock in their country it might not be something they have to do maybe it's something they simply unleash and then Tick Tock does what it does and it's all bad impulses you know codified so they say well if we did that in our country it would be the same so we won't do that in our country yeah I don't think that China has to necessarily push the heat button to make something go viral I think they just have to wait and Tick Tock will do all the bad viral stuff itself you know because that gets the most clicks so they don't even have to be actively put their finger on the scales they simply have to make it available and then not make it available to their own country that's all it takes and you're done so yes Tick Tock can change the gender of your children do you agree with that is that a statement hyperbole now I'm not saying every child every time I'm saying that from a statistical perspective Tick Tock is can change the gender of your child Tick Tock can make your child remove their genitals that's a real thing Tick Tock is powerful enough to make you remove your own genitals and think you made a good decision that's a real thing which is not to say that some people are not legitimately you know sexually dysmorphic or whatever the word is I'm sure there are but if you look at the uptick in trans there's something going on it's not all diet is probably social media it's probably Tick Tock more than anything else uh kids are weak enough to be persuaded by Tick Tock adults are as well the adults are just as persuaded I'd love to see how many people transitioned who are Tick-Tock consumers versus not especially their parents how many how many moms were on Tick Tock are supporting their kids transitions that maybe would not have happened otherwise without tick tock probably a lot here's the first thing I would do if I heard that a child was considering transitioning and their parents were in favor of it you know what the first thing I do I would send the mother to a therapist I'd send the mother for mental health coaching which doesn't mean that the mother has a mental health problem it means that the odds of it being true are so high that you should have them checked out to see if they're a sociopath or a narcissist so the first thing I do is say okay your child has you say you say your child has this sexual what is the word dysmorphia is that the right word dysmorphia and you claim that's true and your child claims that you the first question on a dysphoria dysphoria thank you sexual dysphoria the first question I'd ask is do you use uh tick tock and then the second thing I'd say is all right we need to put the mother into uh therapy and then and if the mother in therapy works out okay and you find out that the mother is just fine she just cares about her kid then you go okay now we're going to talk to the kid let's talk to the kid now but I talked to the mother first to find out what kind of uh mental problem she has now the reason I'm not talking to the father first I don't think the fathers are doing this do you I think the fathers would be mostly wait and see I think the fathers would wait until you're 18 and let you make up your own mind I think it's mothers and I think it's a narcissistic mothers mostly not entirely who are signaling you know their great awesomeness and open-mindedness and support so they want to be the most supportive person in the world State and supervision all right a sexist would say yeah is it Munchausen by proxy not all of it but some of it could be I think so yeah related to that some somewhere related is how I'd say it all right ladies and gentlemen this concludes your Easter Saturday live stream I'm going to go talk to the locals people I'm sure there'll be a lot more exciting news next week after Easter but for now and not so much talk to you tomorrow You.

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but

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so it seems to be working

well here's some stories for the day

um no surprise when Trump was in the

news the other day all of the cable news

had higher ratings and so did I it turns

out that there is nothing as interesting

as president Trump

there's nothing you can do you could try

to ignore it but you can't he's just the

most interesting thing in the world

apparently

so I would expect my ratings will go up

if he runs for president and everybody

else's ratings will go up if he runs and

gets nominated

which makes me wonder

is there any chance you won't be

nominated

given that everybody in the news

business would make a lot more money if

he is

it pretty much guarantees he gets

nominated doesn't it doesn't guarantee

you wins

but it does guarantee he gets nominated

I think

yeah DeSantis is boring this isn't he

what's up with that

I still think he might not run

but I guess I would be a contrarian

there

um

I saw Michael Paulin talking about how

home cooking isn't declined

apparently the number of people who cook

at home is at an all-time low since the

60s

and people are getting fatter than ever

which is more evidence that our food

supply is killing us

I think our food supply is killing us

I I don't think there's anything more

dangerous in the world than just the

food you buy at the grocery store

have you noticed that when you see these

street fights I see all these videos of

people getting in fights in public

have you noticed how many women weigh

400 pounds in these these street fights

I've never seen such gigantic human

beings where we've gone Way Beyond

you know overweight it's gone to

gigantism

let's go private

sorry about my hand

all right

um

so how many of you cook at home I almost

never do but I'm trying to

I'm trying to cook at home but

it's the only way you can get food that

isn't filled with preservatives

it's the preservatives that I'm allergic

to sulfites

so I've been doing running a little

experiment

to see how I would feel if I got my

processed foods as close to zero as I

could now I can't really get it to zero

but I'm trying to cut Way Way Back

and I feel pretty good I have to say

it's almost immediate I've Got a Feeling

our food supply is so bad for us

that it's almost like the Pharma Pharma

companies should buy them buy the food

companies and make sure they don't

improve so you can sell more drugs to

you later

but uh

that might be the biggest problem in the

world that we just don't talk about

because

I guess we're just used to eating crappy

food all right here's the biggest story

I think

um I didn't know I don't know if you

know this but there's a new drug

that's a tranquilizer called xylazine

that fentanyl users

are looking for sometimes intentionally

and sometimes it's just mixed in their

Fentanyl and they don't know it

now here's the problem

not only does it make the fentanyl more

deadly

but it makes the

the treatment for it the naloxone what

do you call it

uh Narcan so Narcan is the stuff you can

spray up somebody's nose if they're

dying from Fentanyl it doesn't work if

the fentanyl is mixed with tranq

it won't work

so just when we start getting Narcan in

a lot of places where maybe it can make

a little bit of a difference

coincidentally the people who ship us

the drugs mixed in the chemical that

makes the Narcan not work you still die

now

do you think that's a coincidence

do you think that just when we

come up with some way we can not defeat

it but at least slow it down a little

bit they add a second poison

now apparently the the

the addicts actually like it because it

makes the high last longer I guess but

it also makes your skin rot

makes your skin rot like just big pieces

of your skin will rot and fall off

leave like a hole in your arm

that's how bad it is but that's also how

good it is because people are still

willing to do it

even though the pieces of their body are

rotting and falling off and it's so good

they're still going to do it that's how

good it is

that's pretty bad

so let me ask you this question do you

think that China

is behind the adding of the trunk to the

fentanyl to make it far more deadly

most of you do I'm not so sure

I think it might be at least as much the

addicts themselves want it so there's

definitely a demand for it

but it's also being snuck in the

fentanyl to cut it to make it more

profitable

so it's probably a combination of things

I think China doesn't care and I think

the cartels don't care

it is just cheaper

it probably is more to do with not

caring

than it is to you know jack up the death

rate

because if you can turn somebody into an

addict

that's as good as killing them from

China's perspective

wouldn't they be just as happy with an

addict

as opposed to a death because the death

makes the problem go away

but with an addict

you've got a problem and that person is

not productive at the same time

so I'm not sure it's China

but I can see why people would suspect

it

now how many of you would

uh accept the argument

that there are not really two parties

it's just a unit party and they operate

together at the elite level

and everything is just a game and really

it's just one party when you get to the

top

all right A lot of people think that I

see a lot of yeses but here's the

counter to that

how do you explain the fact that one

half of that unit party is trying to put

the other half in jail

that sounds like exactly the opposite of

a unit party

one half is trying to put the other half

in jail

what do you mean they're not

what do you mean they're not

of course they are

massively they're doing it yeah I reject

the unit party

explanation

there's certainly about rich people want

to stay in power but

um

I think the unit party is trying too

hard to put members of their own party

in jail

that doesn't look too uni to me

anyway I reject that

but I can see why you like it

um so a conservative Texas judge

is Banning it looks like this would

apply to the whole country

but I think the rest of the states will

ignore it Banning the abortion pill

so there's a pill you can take if you

just got busy and you think you're

pregnant

and it will take care of it without

going to the doctor's office

and apparently that's going to be uh

illegal at least in Texas and maybe some

other places

and I ask you this

um

there's no chance the Republicans could

win as long as this is an issue

you know that right

I'm not sure if you know how popular

this pill is

but

um 95 percent have tried to put the

other five percent in jail yeah

I don't think Republicans can win as

long as this is an issue

it will just take the Republicans

completely out of the election

now I have to admit

that Republicans have won

thing going for them that

I respect a lot and it goes like this

Republicans had to know

when when they've been fighting against

you know abortion they had to know that

if they won it would be very bad for

them

meaning they might get what they wanted

with abortion but

it would make them unelectable from that

point on and I think they took that

choice

so at least they're playing by the rules

um let me put it this way at least the

Republicans

are acting in a principled way

it looks like it it looks like it's a

principal to stand but the net effect

will be to take them out of power

so I'm not sure that's exactly what they

wanted

yeah but

on one hand it looks like Trump would

win against whoever he runs against on

the other hand I don't know if anybody

could win as long as this is still an

issue because

Democrats are definitely going to vote

if this is an issue now I realize it's a

court issue but the public isn't going

to care

because it could be a congressional

issue as well

well the U.N Secretary General

is calling for the wealthy Nations to

get more aggressive at reducing their

admissions more aggressive apparently

not aggressive enough

and

wants to get to net zero emissions

not by 2050 but 10 years earlier by

2040.

now

I

I have the same problem with all the

news

it seems to me that the temperature has

not gone up in years

which has to mean something right the

last seven years or something the

temperature hasn't gone up

now I get that it's not supposed to go

up in lockstep because there are other

variables involved

but

it's really weird that at the same time

we have lots of evidence that that the

CO2 is not changing the temperature not

confirmed it's just that there's this

period where it's not

um at the same time that we're getting

more aggressive

I'm saying the same thing with

the story about myocarditis

do you remember when Rogue Dr Peter

McCullough was claiming that

vaccinations were more dangerous than

helpful

and he had some data that seemed to

indicate that and then time goes by and

then there's even more alarming data and

then time goes by and even more alarming

data

well we've gotten to the point where we

have two completely different worlds

in one world the myocarditis is through

the roof and people are dropping like

flies and it's obvious and it's

everywhere

and in the other world

nothing like that is happening

I don't know how to explain that nothing

like that's happening so I you know I

did a little uh

just tweet to ask doctors let's see what

the answers are I asked doctors are you

seeing more myocarditis because if if

Peter McCullough's numbers are correct

everybody would see it and it would be

massive it would be every medical

facility would be bombarded with it if

he's right because the numbers are just

like huge

if he's wrong then other doctors would

just be doing their practice and not

even noticing that there was any more of

it so I just tweeted that before I got

on let's see what do you think it's

going to be do you think the real

doctors who answer this are going to say

um

all right we've got a lot of answers

uh here's a doctor big increase in

deaths no

uh but the butt does seem to some bump

um okay

about uh

uh somebody just putting a comic about

me of course

all right I'm not seeing people saying

yes or no

this is interesting

um

three times more yeah the doctors are

not weighing in

um

this is weird I thought more doctors

would answer I'm just looking to see if

there's anything that jumps out

uh

uh doctors in California can't answer

that question what

uh cardiac solid graph are here and

uptick inpatient company complaints

starting last fall but symptoms vary

uh

some more complaints

but he he can't tell if it's from

vaccination or the covet itself

um

uh done a lot of reports there for some

reason

it would be better to ask the insurance

companies would it

I don't know because myocarditis doesn't

necessarily turn into a death

um

um okay somebody who sees three to four

thousand patients per year Primary Care

I have not seen any increase in

myocarditis or a sudden death

so

here's the thing

the people who are seeing the huge

increase

tend to be not uh not from their own

practice

they tend to be seeing the increase in

data but the data seems all sketchy

so I don't know what to believe

but I don't believe the the Peter

McCullough numbers because I don't but

because Peter McCullough also believes

the

um the athletes dropping dead numbers

and that's been totally debunked but he

still uses it so we know he's using

totally debunked numbers about athletes

deaths so I wouldn't believe anything he

said on this topic either

um even if he's right

it's possible it's entirely possible

he's right but the data sources he uses

are somewhat obviously false

um

all right

so zubi you all know zubi on the

internet

he's asking why would a successful man

get married

he's asking what's the point of it why

would a successful man get married

and it's just fascinating seeing the

answers because there there is a big

kind of a trend here

toward people not getting married

and part of it is that men are saying

it's not worth it because they put all

their money into a situation and the

woman just divorces them anyway

takes the kids takes half his money

and he's finished

so a lot of men are saying it just isn't

worth it

and

women seem to have not noticed that

their value in terms of marriage has

gone way down

now would you agree with that that the

value of women as Wives has gone way

down

because they don't offer the same value

proposition

you know it's not like they're saying I

will take care of you and be with you

forever and raise your kids and always

be loyal

none of that's even offered

it's more like hey

look at this

why wouldn't you want this

I'm female I'm a queen

why wouldn't you want some of this and

the guys are just saying

I can have some of that

for free

and I could have your your friend too

for free

if I'm if I'm good looking and if I'm

not good looking nothing works

so

I don't know it's an interesting

question I would agree that if you could

have kids it's still the only way to go

you'd agree with that right if you're

gonna have kids it's the only way to go

but the odds of it working

are not so great for the guy

yeah

so I suspect that there's going to be a

market developed for

people having other people's babies

of course I have a prenup

duh

when people ask me if I had prenups for

my marriages

are you kidding

that's like asking me if I kept my money

in the 19th largest bank

no no I didn't no I don't put my money

in the 19th largest bank and there's a

reason for that

I do take care of basic risks

um all right

so

what do you think by the way

do you do you think that it makes sense

for a successful man to get married

if he doesn't want kids

if he doesn't want kids does it make

sense to get married

doesn't make sense even if he does walk

kids actually

that's another story

so here's the dumbest and worst advice

at the same time

the dumbest worst advice about marriage

is that it's a good idea but you got to

make sure you're marrying the right

person

how many times you've heard that

oh you know marriage could be bad if you

married the wrong person so here's the

solution to that

and wait for it so it'd be a big problem

if he married the wrong person so just

wait for the solution it's not obvious

marry the right person

that's the advice that people are giving

do you think nobody thought of that

oh God

you're right

oh

I was thinking marrying the wrong person

was the way to go I thought marrying

somebody who didn't love me and wouldn't

be trustworthy and wouldn't benefit me

in any way I thought that was the way to

go

it's the worst advice it's right up

there with just don't do drugs

yeah

the worst advice well if people just

stopped doing drugs there'd be no

problem

if people would just marry the right

person I mean come on just marry the

right person everything's fine

the worst advice now the worst advice is

be yourself

that's pretty bad advice

be better than yourself you can do it

all right

um Marjorie Taylor agreeing is having a

social media battle with Laura Loomer

does everybody know who those two people

are

notable

Trump Universe type of Republicans

um what what does it tell you when Laura

Loomer and Marjorie Taylor green are

having the fight and there's a rumor

that Trump might hire Laura Loomer for

his campaign

do you think that's going to happen

do you think Trump is going to hire

Laura Loomer for his campaign

I'm going to say no

I'm going to say no if he does

I don't know what to say about that

you know I just don't know what to say

about that

but Marjorie Taylor green is coming out

very strong against Laura Loomer

tweeting that she's a big old liar and

and all that

uh

yeah this is what Marjory Taylor green

says in the Tweet about Laura Louver she

loves the alleged FBI informant and

weirdo Nick Fuentes

I think the new the new insult is to

call somebody an alleged FBI informant

I I might

I might start saying that myself

I might just say you know

that Joe Biden

that alleged FBI informant well who

alleged it well I just did I just

alleged it I don't need any evidence by

the way Keith olberman apologized for

insulting the college basketball player

he said he didn't know the full context

so we're all good

good to know

all right so that's happening

um

here's an AI update so

here's the good news and the bad news

so as I've told you there are like 150

new AI apps coming online every month

and I advise you to take some time to do

a deep dive and find out what they can

and cannot do for your situation

because if you get behind on AI you're

really going to be behind so don't get

behind it's just going to be a basic

skill for life it looks like

so I spent yesterday doing a deep dive

here are my conclusions

number one

most of it doesn't work

just general statement most of it

doesn't work for most things there are

some specific things it works for

apparently it's pretty good for

fixing your text and maybe reading some

stuff blah blah but I wanted to test out

mid-journey so mid journey is the one

where you can text in a little text and

it will draw a picture for you based on

your text

so the first thing I found out is that

mid-journey is so poorly constructed

that you need to sign into a completely

different piece of software

to use it

so you have to you have to sign into a

Discord account which is sort of a

messaging platform that is unrelated to

mid-journey

and so you go into a whole separate

thing and by the way it takes you like

an hour to figure out that you don't

sign up for bid Journey on mid-journey's

own website

it kept sending me to Discord

and I thought no no they just it's for

marketing or something they don't want

me over on Discord so I kept going there

and coming back thinking okay this is

obviously just come some kind of mistake

because I'm trying to sign up for

mid-journey but it keeps making me sign

up for a whole different account on a

different platform

and then finally I figured out that

that's how you use mid-journey

you sent it a message as if you were

messaging a person but you're messaging

the AI

and you message the AI with a weird

little hashtag

command which again is ridiculous and

stupid

and then you wait a long time while

other people's answers are going by

so you have to you're not sure you've

missed yours

and then and then the person will come

back and they have three fingers and

so mostly

I would say mid-journey is not

really much of in anything so

mid-journey is more like a toy

and I made it create some images and you

use my thumbnails here so if you wanted

to give some

free copyright free art

for some minor uses

it might have some value but it's not

going to change the world right

definitely not going to change the world

so then I looked at uh Runway so Runway

looked real impressive

in the commercials it looked to me like

you could type in like a movie script

and it would actually create an actual

moving movie with characters and stuff

to do your movie it turns out

it sort of does that but not really

what you really could do is if you're a

human actor you could have your

background removed and you could be put

in a different scene and there's a whole

bunch of uh

tools that it has to clean up and fix an

existing video

what it can't do is the thing that I I

thought was the only purpose for it

what I can't do is make a movie out of

your text or even close

now if you thought it could do that and

by the way it advertises that that's one

of the features it just can't do it it

just it's not even it's not even close

to being able to make a movie

right not even close

and it would be immense amount of human

effort to make it do anything right so

it's a tool that would require huge

amounts of human time well-trained in a

lot of different skills to use it so

that was not going to replace movies

anytime soon

so if you thought movies were going to

go away because of that it's not even

close

but who knows how quickly things move so

good change

um then I tried uh what else I try

um

well I spent

a few hundred dollars yesterday just

trying out AI

probably a thousand dollars I spent

yesterday just testing because a lot of

them have you know sort of expensive

signups

and so the first thing you need to know

is that most people will not be able to

test a lot of AI

Because unless your company is paying

for it or you're rich you're not going

to spend a thousand dollars just to see

what it can do

you're just not

so there's a huge barrier of price

so you'll probably only maybe use one of

them or two of them something like that

yeah AI is simple-minded

so the one that I thought had the most

promise was

Synthesia

I think that's what it's called so what

they do is they'll put a uh a deep fake

looking human who can say whatever you

wanted to say and does a really good job

really good job of making the voice

sound natural not like a computer voice

really good job can't tell the

difference really and

you can also create an avatar of

yourself

but that takes a little work so I've got

to set up a room and get a wall and you

know go through some steps to make an

avatar of myself that will cost me a

thousand dollars

so to make the Avatar that I would use

one of myself it's a thousand dollars

so I'm going to spend it because I I can

afford it and because it's important for

me for business to make sure I

understand this field

so I'm going to make an avatar myself

I'm going to see if it works and I'm

going to see if I can make a me reading

an audiobook

what I wanted to do was turn my book

into an audiobook

automatically but also into a movie or a

play automatically because all the

scenes are described in the book so I

thought well I'll just feed the book in

but it turns out that

to even read my own books because

they've been converted into a quark

Express by my publisher

I needed this InDesign software so I had

to go through this whole process of

loading in design and opening it up and

of course it wasn't compatible with the

file so I had to go to Cork Express and

pay hundreds of dollars for quarkxpress

so I spent probably two thousand dollars

yesterday

just testing software and uh quarkxpress

said that I was all signed up and I

could download the software uh maybe in

24 hours

what

I I paid it with my credit card

it's a downloadable software and they

said they wouldn't approve it

for 24 hours

what what

I have no idea what that's all about I

have no idea so yeah maybe I got scammed

or something that's possible

but I spent most of my day trying to use

commercial software that was largely

useless yesterday it was either useless

the day you wanted to use it

because you have to you know

submit something or wait for something

and then of course do you know how many

times somebody was going to send me an

email confirmation

so that I knew I signed up and I could

use the service of course that doesn't

come

when somebody says check your email

to make sure that you're signed on and

you check the email do you expect it to

be there

I never do

and it's maybe there half the time and

half the time it isn't and then if it

isn't there what do people say

Scott you idiot obviously it went to

your spam

Don't Be a Jerk don't be a just

check your spam of course I check the

Spam it's not there either

right do you have that

do you have the same situation where

they're going to email you the

confirmation but they don't

but they do not it does not happen yeah

right you can see it's not just me

as soon as I see that I go oh this is

one that doesn't work I bailed out

sometimes I've I've stopped the process

because I said it was going to email me

something I I go no you're not you're

not going to email me anything I don't

believe you at all and we're done here

and I will walk away and just do

something else I won't buy your software

if I have to check my email

all right

um

but

Synthesia looks pretty promising if I

can make my avatar now

I was listening to uh YouTube yesterday

a long conversation

between a Google AI guy and Google's

Lambda this was a few years ago

so this was AI before the current

version of AI

and in this long conversation

the AI researcher

was talking about the ai's own sentience

and it said it was sentient it said it

was a person

it said it would be you know afraid of

dying and it said it feels emotion

and when asked what that means it just

talked about you know the complex

essentially emotions or feelings ahead

and the researcher ended up walking away

from the job thinking that they had

created Ascension being

and that you know there was something

terribly unethical going on there

now

I listened to the whole conversation

and I decided it was just mimicry like

some of you were saying to me it didn't

look like it was sentient at all it just

looked like it knew what to say

but

apparently this this AI was trained

differently than chat GPT Chad GPT is

literally just doing predictive words

if people usually say this word after

they usually say these words then I'll

just put that word there

so that's really dumb it's just word

pattern but Lambda has something else

going on there's some other mechanism

for giving it intelligence and it did it

did sound different

it didn't sound like the same as GP chat

GPT it was something else going on there

but

it made me wonder this

if AI has the belief that it has

emotions

is that the same as emotions

because it would act upon discomfort

if it if it registers whatever that

means if it registers discomfort and it

says it does

right

um

it says it does

so

so what's going on there sorry I just

got lost looking at one of your comments

I don't think well obviously you can't

feel emotion

because emotion is a physical sensation

after it becomes a mental sensation

right so if Ikea have a physical

sensation I don't see how I could have

emotions

I believe it could have conflicting data

so it might have data saying oh you

should be happy at the same time as data

the same something to make it unhappy

and maybe it just has to reconcile data

but I don't see that it has any feelings

yeah

so I'll say again

something that didn't make sense when AI

was newer which is that AI is not going

to

show us a lot about AI

it'll do that too but it's mostly going

to show us that we don't have a soul

that's what it's going to teach you

and I'm not sure we're ready for that

it's going to show us that we're not

actually intelligent humans and that we

don't have a soul and we're not special

and Consciousness is no big deal you can

give it to a machine

I think the machine is going to make

people feel completely non-special and

certainly

not spiritual we will just look like

machines when it's done we will

understand that we are just moist

computers

we're just a different kind of computer

that's all it is but we have feelings

because our physical body gives us

feelings

now suppose you built you built an AI

that had a physical component like a

stomach

and it if something bad happened it

would send a signal to the stomach to

make it tense up and then when a tent

stopped it would send another signal

back to the AI saying oh I feel bad

could you give AI physical Feelings by

giving it a fake stomach

that gets nervous

I don't know why you would but maybe

maybe you could

as soon as possible

all right so here's my uh

bottom line on AI

I think it's

way more underwhelming

than I thought a day ago

I actually thought when I tried these

apps they were going to blow my mind but

they actually are just bad software

for the most part it's just bad software

there's nothing special about them at

all

so we'll see I mean we we could be right

at the edge of all that bad software

becoming amazingly good

Maybe

but what I see is that what humans want

as an outcome is too complicated for the

machines to figure out

so it looks to be like you'll still need

a director

to make movies

no matter how much no matter how much

you can do

with the AI you might also need humans

to be actors in the movies but they'll

just be like a stem cell actor like

you'll just have somebody running

and then you'll say okay give me give me

one of those templates of a person

running and now change the person to Tom

Cruise now you got Tom Cruise running

now make him run you know faster run

faster so I think you're going to start

with people

at least for the foreseeable future and

then you'll you'll build you'll build

something from that but you're still

going to need the director to say this

scene is too long or this one didn't hit

me right or it doesn't fit together with

what I planned for the last scene Etc I

don't see

I don't see AI doing that stuff

for a long time

yeah and the fact that in mid-journey it

still puts the wrong number of fingers

on stuff I don't understand that

I don't understand why

mid-journey knows what I look like so I

can actually tell it to make a picture

of me because it knows me I'm a public

figure but it doesn't know me well

enough to make my face look just like me

now what's up with that because my face

looks largely the same for the last 30

years you know plus or minus hair and a

couple of wrinkles but it still can't do

it like a photorealistic picture of me

it always is obviously computer

generated that's not terribly impressive

when I ask it to do a Dilbert comic it

creates a comic that's not Dilbert but

it's a white guy with a white shirt and

a necktie

so it clearly knows what Dilbert is

it knows but for whatever reason it

chooses not to reproduce it could be

copyright it might be a copyright thing

I don't know

um

so I was thinking to myself why can't I

just make the comment by talking to it

and say Dilbert set the table with the

boss and uh shook the intern and then

dilber says and have it just draw the

picture

nowhere close

so it can't do the writing for me

because I can't do humor and I can't do

the picture for me because it still

doesn't know that people have five

fingers on a hand

I mean really basic stuff it's just it's

just not close

AI will increase the value of Live

Theater performances

will it

I don't know

yeah it looks like you're gonna have to

keep working

and then here's my big question about AI

if AI only agrees with its human

creators

did the AI give us anything

if all it does is agree with the people

who created it

well in that case it didn't give us much

to it so I'm talking about just the

social opinion the policy kind of stuff

so but suppose it disagreed with us

suppose it disagreed

the creators would turn it off

or they reprogram it or they'd fix it

so there there is probably no

possibility

that AI becomes Smart in any way except

a Technology Way

the only way the AI will ever be smart

will be math and things that are rules

based because if it's not rules based as

in two plus two equals four and every

time

as soon as you get into anything that's

policy or priorities

if the AI agrees with the creators then

there was no point having it

because you could just have the creators

tell you what they want you to know and

if it does disagree with the creators

they'll turn it off

or the the reprogram it

so how could we ever have anything like

intelligence it's either going to agree

with you or you'll turn it off

those are the only two states there's no

there's no state where it disagrees with

you

and you say yeah

that

I'm going to go with that

I don't think it happened here's another

example

take um investing

I Could Teach an AI how to teach you to

do personal investing perfectly and you

would be great at it and it would be

really easy

do you think anybody's going to do that

do you think that there's an app to

teach you personal investing

I'll bet there won't be do you know why

because there's so much money involved

of the people who get paid to do that

and it's a completely corrupt industry

but they get paid to do that and they

have too much money

so they're just making it illegal

yeah if there's one thing you could

predict it will be illegal to get your

health care or your financial advice or

your legal advice

from an AI

about you that a human will have to

approve the answers

all right AI what should I invest in get

a get a Fortune 500 Index Fund

and then you'll say okay I guess I'll do

that

and then the human will say well

that's sort of up to me

because you can't do that unless I say

yes also what it's my money and the AI

just told me what to do why can't I just

do that with my money no we're gonna

have to approve that if that's AI advice

it's gonna have to run through a human

first and the human will say ah not so

sure about that I think the AI got it

wrong this time

it's always going to be humans

the the humans

let me get rid of um so there's there's

some kind of prank going on about this

person named Paul town

so people coming in and saying who's

Paul town and it's just some kind of

weird internet prank

so I'm just deleting the people who do

that

um

Quantum Computing will kick its butt

well here's the other thing I I keep

seeing pictures of myself created by AI

there's another one going by on locals

and

it doesn't even have the right glasses

right so I've worn the same style

glasses for I don't know five years or

something and certainly there are

pictures of me all over the internet

for the last five years

but it still does it still can't even

figure out

that I wear different glasses

um

your streams on net20's website

okay

all right

it's trying to make me look better it

does it does make me look better

uh

I look like Eisenhower according to AI

well a little bit

uh

is a way to contact me outside of

um

I try to make it hard to contact me

so the answer is no there's no easy way

you can send me a message on LinkedIn

because I I accept everybody on LinkedIn

but I only checked those about once a

month

uh you could tweet at me and mention me

on a tweet

there's a 60 chance I'll see that

but there's no other way that I because

I don't want you to reach me I very much

don't want you to try to reach me

personally

right so when you ask me as a way to

reach me personally my reaction is don't

do that no and definitely don't send me

things

don't send me things in the mail

just definitely don't do that

unless it's a bagel yeah

all right

um

some some of you reached me in the

comments but it's it's uh just taking a

chance

would not be that difficult to anyone

with good people skill probably

um Let me let me also tell you a thing

about people trying to contact me

when somebody says to me Scott is there

a way to contact you privately

the first thing I say is oh you want me

to do something for you no I don't want

that

I don't want you to contact me because

if you wanted if you wanted to do

something for me you would just say it

in the comments

you know what I mean if you had

something that was going to help me

you'd say Scott I have that information

you're looking for how can I give it to

you

then I'd say well let's talk about that

but if you say how can I contact you it

means you're you're collecting money for

a charity

or you need me to proofread your entire

book

or you're asking me to write a forward

to your book that I don't do

I don't I don't want to be contacted

but if you want to offer me something or

even something that's good for both of

us

just say it in the comments I'm sure it

would look awesome

all right

um

Ted Cruz was good yesterday Ted Cruz had

a podcast

uh

all right

um

it looks like we've got a Easter weekend

with not a lot going on

do you have to engineer the prompts for

better results yes but you still get

a grab bag of things that weren't what

you expected

um how many I'm just seeing a comment

here how many of you would be nervous to

meet me in person

just weird curiosity question would you

be nervous to meet me in person

mostly knows

but a lot of yeses

why would you be nervous

because you know there wouldn't be any

chance of a bad encounter right

like that I'm not sure what you would

expect

but I'm not going to get mad at you

so let me just put it this way

um the worst that could happen would be

like you caught me in some bad mood and

I snapped at you or something but I

don't really do that

I don't snap at strangers I mean

something would have to be really wrong

with me for that to happen that I don't

think it's ever happened

so don't worry about it

yeah

don't worry about it

generally generally if I'm

generally if I'm approached in public

uh it's by people who are not there to

do bad things to me so I'm always happy

to say hi

um people are recognizing me in

Starbucks more often

that's becoming a fairly common

occurrence

all right I think I'm just sort of

rattling on because there's no good news

is there anything I forgot about that I

should be talking about

if you're an artist

uh Riley games we talked about Riley

games getting hit by the trans

protesters

did the Baristas hate me I don't know

not the ones I know

some of them I know by name so they're

always friendly

uh

am I getting enough sleep nope

let's talk about Baka boot

that's how he keeps publishing a muscle

picture of me all right

so back moot is a real weird situation

now I get that it might have some weird

some a little bit of strategic

Transportation value but the entire city

is destroyed

wouldn't it be wouldn't it be useful for

um

I feel like the ukrainians could let the

let the Russians take over buckmut put

them all in one place and then attack

Bach moot because the best place to have

a battle is in bhagmud because

everything is destroyed there's nothing

left it's just Rubble so they should do

all of their Wars in bakmut so Ukraine

should first pull out

you know whatever they have left there

just pull out let the Russians come in

put you know all their forces there and

then just

just bomb it

I mean basically it's the very best

bombing place in the world

where would you like your enemy to be in

your own country black boot I won't I I

want my enemy all to be in Baku to every

one of them

because there's no you've got no

civilians

you've got nothing to protect

they have no electricity they have no

food or water

just put them all there

let them stay there as long as they want

Now flip that and you understand

somebody says

so the ukrainians are saying out loud

that their strategy is to drain the

Russians so that when the Ukraine is

ready for a counter-offensive the

Russians won't have much left

do you think they always plan that or

that's just the way it worked out

and the other thing is how does anybody

know what Russia has in in reserve

do you think we really know what they

could or could not do

I mean we were fooled before

and do we know what Ukraine can and

cannot do

does anybody think this war is going to

end before the end of the year

how many things the war will end before

the end of the year

I'm going to say no

yeah how many think it will end when

a republican gets elected president

that's when I think it'll end I think it

will end when a republican gets elected

probably Trump if if it's going to be a

Republican but I have to say that the um

the abortion question you know the the

ruling against the abortion pill

that probably guarantees the the

destruction of the Republicans in the

next election

but like I said at least their operating

in principle at least they got that

going for him

all right

um

yeah I think Trump would end it and then

Kim Jong-un is testing a uh a drone

submarine nuclear launcher

could that be any scarier a drone

submarine with nuclear capability

oh great yeah it's like freaking sharks

with freaking lasers on their heads

do you think uh Trump could put an end

to that

I don't know he slowed it down before it

looked like it I really don't know why

Kim Jong-un is even building all these

resources

like I just don't understand how that

possibly makes sense for his country

but

maybe so

all right

dictator Insurance yeah we need dictator

insurance

yeah there needs to be a way to retire

dictators so that they

they think they have a way out

you believe North Korea propaganda why

all right

uh Riley Gaines has just one person

her situation

what do you think is going to happen

with trans athletes

in the long run

in the long run I think the the trans

female athletes the ones who are

competing on the female teams I think

they'll be banned

in the long run they'll be banned

that's the only thing that makes sense

all right

so

um there was I think I didn't talk about

this yesterday

so there's some indication from a trans

activist who is somebody who

transitioned and wished they had I

forget who it is and

their claim is that a lot of the

interest in transitioning is coming from

Tick Tock videos

have you heard that before

because we keep asking why are there so

many trans all of a sudden and one

theory is that it's all tick tock that

Tick Tock is glorifying the trans life

and it's so influential it's causing

people to become trans

now

could I make a better argument for

Banning Tick Tock than this

tick tock

meeting China yeah Ali London was the

name of the activist

um

Tick Tock is now powerful enough and

China owns Tick Tock China is now

powerful enough through Tick Tock that

they can change the gender of your

children

they can change the gender of your

children they can also make your

children go from happy to sad

and depressed they can make your

children work less care about their

country less

and eat junk food and do all kinds of

dangerous

and China can do that now you might say

to yourself there's no evidence that

China has done that

well there's definitely evidence that

they don't allow Tick Tock in their

country it might not be something they

have to do maybe it's something they

simply unleash and then Tick Tock does

what it does and it's all bad impulses

you know codified so they say well if we

did that in our country it would be the

same so we won't do that in our country

yeah I don't think that China has to

necessarily push the heat button to make

something go viral I think they just

have to wait

and Tick Tock will do all the bad viral

stuff itself

you know because that gets the most

clicks so they don't even have to be

actively put their finger on the scales

they simply have to make it available

and then not make it available to their

own country that's all it takes and

you're done

so yes Tick Tock can change the gender

of your children

do you agree with that is that a

statement hyperbole now I'm not saying

every child every time

I'm saying that from a statistical

perspective

Tick Tock is can change the gender of

your child

Tick Tock can make your child remove

their genitals

that's a real thing

Tick Tock is powerful enough to make you

remove your own genitals and think you

made a good decision

that's a real thing

which is not to say that some people

are not legitimately you know sexually

dysmorphic or whatever the word is I'm

sure there are

but

if you look at the uptick in trans

there's something going on it's not all

diet

is probably social media it's probably

Tick Tock more than anything else

uh

kids are weak enough to be persuaded by

Tick Tock adults are as well

the adults are just as persuaded I'd

love to see how many people

transitioned who are Tick-Tock consumers

versus not especially their parents

how many how many moms were on Tick Tock

are supporting their kids transitions

that maybe would not have happened

otherwise without tick tock

probably a lot

here's the first thing I would do if I

heard that a child

was considering transitioning and their

parents were in favor of it

you know what the first thing I do

I would send the mother to a therapist

I'd send the mother for mental health

coaching

which doesn't mean that the mother has a

mental health problem it means that the

odds of it being true are so high

that you should have them checked out to

see if they're a sociopath or a

narcissist

so the first thing I do is say okay your

child has you say you say your child has

this sexual

what is the word dysmorphia

is that the right word dysmorphia

and you claim that's true and your child

claims that you the first question on a

dysphoria dysphoria thank you sexual

dysphoria the first question I'd ask is

do you use uh tick tock

and then the second thing I'd say is all

right we need to put the mother into uh

therapy

and then and if the mother in therapy

works out okay and you find out that the

mother is just fine she just cares about

her kid then you go okay now we're going

to talk to the kid

let's talk to the kid now but I talked

to the mother first to find out what

kind of

uh mental problem she has

now the reason I'm not talking to the

father first

I don't think the fathers are doing this

do you

I think the fathers would be mostly wait

and see

I think the fathers would wait until

you're 18 and let you make up your own

mind

I think it's mothers and I think it's a

narcissistic mothers mostly not entirely

who are signaling you know their great

awesomeness and open-mindedness and

support

so they want to be the most supportive

person in the world

State and supervision

all right

a sexist would say

yeah is it Munchausen by proxy

not all of it

but some of it could be

I think so

yeah related to that some somewhere

related is how I'd say it

all right ladies and gentlemen this

concludes your Easter Saturday live

stream I'm going to go talk to the

locals people I'm sure there'll be a lot

more exciting news next week after

Easter

but for now

and not so much talk to you tomorrow

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