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e computer, hey what do you get if you multiply 235.6 times 597.2? And whoever's on the other side of the computer says the exact answer. It's a computer because a person wouldn't get that right. A computer isn't smart enough — or part of. So let's say I say what's the capital of Luxembourg and the computer just gives me an answer. Not a person, right? Not a person. Let's say I asked the computer…

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g from 20,000 of those.

So what happens if they do the same thing with his voice? Because at the moment the deepfakes have a voice actor doing the voice. How hard would it be to run 20,000 voice clips of Tom Cruise through AI until AI can produce a perfect imitation with different sentences? I feel like that would be easy. Not easy, let's say inevitable. Not easy at all but inevitable. So we're going to have something that looks like the person and can do a perfect imitation I think that seems obviously coming. Then the only thing that's missing is do they say the things that that real person would say? And all you have to do is make it selfish. That's it. Just make your deepfake act as selfish and nobody will know it's not real. That's all it will take. Because you recognize selfish behavior as human and you would recognize unselfish behavior as hey what are you, a robot or something? Nobody does that.

I saw an idea from James Lindsay on Twitter. It's conceptual. James is his handle. And he makes the following suggestion. We might need to make super anti-racist into a thing. Super anti-racists are reasonably colorblind without denying real racism when it occurs. They treat every person as an individual not a member of a racial category. They are against all forms of racism including woke neo-racism. I've never heard that term, woke neo-racism. Super anti-racists know that racism comes from putting social significance into racial categories where it doesn't belong, usually for discrimination and prejudice, and they're against this. Super anti-racists reject racial stereotyping, scapegoating, and discrimination.

Now do you recognize the technique? Basically borrowing the antifa technique of labeling yourself better than your enemies are labeling you. So basically doing the better job of labeling. And I think I'm going to adopt this. If somebody calls me racist I'll say no you're mistaken. I'm a super anti-racist. Because anti-racist doesn't quite sell it. Super anti-racist is a higher ground play. Because if somebody says I'm anti-racist and you say well that's unfortunate, I'm super anti-racist. I believe everything you believe plus I don't think you've gone far enough. So if you want to be half an anti-racist go ahead but not me. I'm gonna be a full super anti-racist.

And by the way I have used this exact technique. And let me give you a response. Let's say someday you were accused of being anti-LGBTQ — I'll just pick one — or anti-Black or anti-something. Here's your best answer. No I'm super pro-LGBTQ. I'm super pro. Now compare that to I'm not a racist, I'm not a bigot. Just listen to the two of them again and imagine that you were in this situation. Hey you bigot you said bad things about LGBTQ or I think you think bad things about them. And you say I'm not a bigot. I think everybody should just live their own life. Does that sound convincing? No it doesn't. It just sounds defensive.

Now somebody comes and says hey you said this bad thing about LGBTQ and you go are you kidding? I'm super pro-LGBTQ. Super pro. What are you just sort of okay with them? Because I'm super pro. And I am actually. I say that and I'm not even ironic or kidding or anything. I am super pro-LGBT. That's literally true. But think about how much better that answer is than I'm not a racist, I'm not a bigot. If you can't commit to being super pro any human category, well you should work on it. Is there any human category of people — let's say who are not breaking any laws — that you would not be super pro about? How about Hispanic Americans? I'm super pro-Hispanic Americans. How about Black Americans? Super pro. Super pro Black Americans. Have done work on their behalf, etc.

So don't settle for defending yourself. You should just put whoever is accusing you on defense immediately. Go on offense immediately and just say look if you're going to do half-assed anti-racism don't come around because I would like to be with people who actually are serious about it. If you can't be serious about it you're just playing games. I'm super pro anti-racism. And the beauty of it is you can actually be that. It's not even a joke, right? Maybe you should be.

All right that seems to be just about all the important things that are happening today. I'll just check and make sure I didn't forget any important things but it looks like it didn't.

All right what are the pro level signals? Well pro level means that you're not discriminating against anybody for anything period. Somebody says 5,000 net deaths. I think you're referring to my original one year ago-ish prediction about net deaths from coronavirus. Now that was made when the lockdown was going to be two weeks or maybe it was a month at the time and I would stand by that if the lockdown was really only a few weeks or something. But given a year-long pandemic obviously all bets are out the window.

Omar I would smoke a blunt with you but I prefer bongs. You knew it was coming. What was it that you knew was coming? Mumford and Sons was canceled over endorsement of Andy Ngo's book. By the way I just got Andy Ngo's book so I bought it because they tried to cancel him. So everybody that they try to cancel I try to buy.

What is the worldwide death count compared to the average? Let me tell you. I'll look. Should I talk to the experts or nobody knows? I've just got a feeling that none of our data is true.

If I had to pick one thing that Trump accomplished that is better, probably the most important thing that's happened to this country in a long, long time, Trump convinced us the fake news exists. That it's a real thing. And you always suspected it. Many of you knew. But Trump made it an important thing to know. You always knew it but you were just sort of dealing with it like an inconvenience. Trump I think changed it from you thinking it was an inconvenience that the news isn't perfect. I think he changed how we think about it to it's the most important problem in the country maybe. Imagine if all of our problems had the benefit of an honest news organization that also wanted the problem to be solved. Imagine that. Imagi

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ne if the politicians could operate free of criticism except when they made a mistake. Imagine it. Like what options would open up? Yeah, yeah. The press has become I would say if you could fix one thing, fixing the press would fix the most other things. Because the press is keeping the people from understanding what's happening and therefore the people get out of the decision making except to cau…

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