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t seems like a stretch. Or do you believe that they won't use it? Because that would be like not understanding humans. Maybe any one person won't use it, but if you have millions and millions and millions, billions actually, billions of people, somebody's going to use it. You only need one to destroy a whole city. So and what would be the other way to fix it? The only way to fix it is to fix it b…
← Previous segment →ublic figure and I talk about politics. So I just assume the government's crawled through my business more than once. Wow, yeah. And I run a clean shop, and I do that because I always assumed I had no privacy. So I run my life like I have no privacy, and it doesn't really hurt me. You'd be amazed how rarely I need to commit a crime. It doesn't come up a lot. It just sort of doesn't come up. Yeah, I just do my stuff.
So anyway, yeah, I think that we'll all lose our privacy. I can't predict that it'll be good or bad, and I'm not going to get into that now. But as a prediction, I think it's guaranteed. It might be good, by the way. You might enjoy it. And the reason I say you might enjoy it is that it doesn't really hurt me. Maybe you'd find the same, because I'm sort of living in the future that way.
All right. There's a story. There's a new study that somebody found that the universe might be 27 billion years old instead of close to 14. So maybe we're doubling the age of the universe. Now, it's a study, so who knows if that will hold up. But at the same time, you know, I've told you this before, that evolution has been debunked by the simulation theory in my opinion.
But here now I'm going to tell you something that maybe some of you haven't heard before. 25 years ago — and by the way, you're just going to have to take my word for this. I wish I could find an email or something. But 25 years ago, I promise you on my dog's life that this is true. On Snickers' life, I promise you. 25 years ago I said to myself, you know what would be fun? To predict that the most true thing in science is really fake. And I said to myself, if I do that and I wait a few decades, watch me be right.
And here's the part that'll blow your mind. I wasn't fussy about what I picked. That's the weird part. I said I just have to pick something that is guaranteed by all scientists to be true, whatever they say it is, and just say it's not true. And I'll say it in public, and I'll make a prediction that in your lifetime the most true thing in science will be debunked. And the reason is I don't think anything is true, and I also don't think that science has ever been close to the truth. It's pretty good at knowing what works but not the truth, right?
It doesn't matter when the Big Bang happened because we can still build a rocket ship. It doesn't matter if evolution is true because I can still drive my electric car, right? So the things that don't matter to your day-to-day, those can be completely fake and you'd never know. You just go through life as if it's true. So I took some things which don't affect our actual day-to-day life, because those things I think will be true enough. But things that are just concepts. And I thought to myself, you know, I could pick the Big Bang because in my opinion the Big Bang was the most ridiculous thing we've ever believed. Just by its nature, you know, it couldn't possibly be what we think it is. I don't know what it is, but it's definitely not that, right?
So here we are. So now there's a question that the Big Bang even happened because there's some — I believe there's some galaxies that can't exist based on the life of the universe. But now maybe we got the life of the universe completely wrong. I think we're just a few steps away from saying that the Big Bang didn't happen.
Now, I won't go into the lon
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g description, but evolution is largely debunked at this point in my opinion, along scientific and rational means, not along religious arguments. No religious argument needed. It's just the Elon Musk argument that we can already build AI creatures and tell them they think they're real, and they would go through their life thinking they're real. So as long as that's something we can do now, it's pr…
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