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platform. One of them is Rowan Cheung, who's a good follow. He reports that Apple is reportedly building an LLM, so an AI that will be completely on the device. So your phone will not have to talk to anything to be smart. It will be AI on its own. And that could be a really big deal if you're not sure why. Because first of all, the speed would be completely different. If you've had the experience…
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And it will give you better privacy, presumably.
Are you following the story of Grace Price? She's the teenage kid who's, well, I don't know if teenage is, is she still a kid? I don't know if she's 18 or not. But she's got a documentary about how our lifestyle and food especially are giving us cancer. And she had a stat that she has from a source, she didn't make it up herself, that says that up to 95% of cancer is caused by your lifestyle and environmental factors. And there's a pool of studies that show that that's the case. Does that sound right to you? Yeah, Grace Price is her name. Do you think that 95% of cancer is caused by lifestyle and food? It's not impossible. To me it sounds high but not crazy. It could be that high.
But here's what I feel about her. You know, when Greta was talking about climate change, I thought to myself, this isn't really helping because I want to hear from scientists and people who know what they're talking about. But then when Grace Price does her thing, I'm totally on board. Should I be using the same standard with her as I do with Greta? Or is it because I think that Greta might be wrong and I think that Grace Price is right that I'm judging her expertise by just confirmation bias? And the answer is yes, that's exactly what I'm
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doing. But I'm aware of it. You know that sometimes the best you can do about your own bias is just to do a little audit and say to yourself, all right, if this situation were a little different or if this person telling me were a little different, would I be receiving this differently? And the answer is yes. So basically I'm hearing what I want to hear from Grace Price. And so to me it all looks…
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