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od. Yeah, that's some good stuff.

Well, the good news is the Dilbert website is restored. So from Friday through Tuesday it was pretty well hosed. I don't have any updates myself, so I don't know what the problem was or why it took so long, but my initial belief was it was probably a bad hack. I don't know. But it's back up and is working, and that's all good.

Did you know that Intel, the company Intel, has developed a deepfake detector? Apparently you can look at a deepfake, you know, a digital image of a person, and they can even pick up like apparently changes in blood flow. I don't know how it picks that up, but it thinks it can. And so that would be awesome. Ninety-six percent is pretty good. I would think that the ones that we cared about would be the ones we can't detect. But then I wondered, I wonder if you could build a detector to detect NPCs.

And do you remember Battlestar Galactica where part of the technology was they could detect the androids I guess? So they could detect the people who looked exactly like people, the Cylons. Yeah, they look exactly like people but they were really mechanical.

Here's how I think you could build an NPC detector. It goes like this. You just go up to somebody you want to check and then you say, "Hey, I heard about a really good form of exercise. The experts are saying it's an excellent form of exercise and it's kind of new and, you know, it seems to hit all the notes and all the experts say it's a really good form of exercise."

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hat you do is then you wait. That primes the detector. What you're waiting for is for somebody to say "Swimming is the best form of exercise." And then you got them. That's an NPC because the NPCs will only say the most obvious thing you could say in that situation, right? So just ask that. Just say, "Oh, this new form of exercise." And just wait. "Swimming is the best form of exercise." Gotcha. I…

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