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r the government is to check on the AI and tell you if it's safe they know what the company wants and they know maybe what the government would want. So suppose they know that the company would want them to not clamp down on that thing and then suppose they get their paycheck from the government and they open it up and they go huh well it's not bad but I'll bet you OpenAI would pay about three tim…
← Previous segment →ce knows how to turn off pain with just three frequencies or something. But here it is. There's an actual study in which they're using frequencies to turn off pain. I don't know if it's the same thing that Brian was talking about but now I have two sources that are strongly indicative that it's worth doing some research on it.
Here's another thing. How many of you suffer from regret? How many of you have the feeling oh I regret that thing I did? Do you ever feel that? Because I don't feel it. Clearly I've done things that didn't work out but I've never had any sensation that I could identify as a feeling of regret as an adult. As a young person I think I did. You know I'd be like oh why did I do that? Why did I ask Gina maybe if she wanted to dance and she told me she didn't want to and it ruined my night and I felt bad for two years. I regret asking her to dance. But as an adult nope. You and I I got canceled you know about as hard as you can get canceled a year and a half ago and people ask me if I regret it and I'm actually confused by the question. Regret? What is that? Why would I even have that? Where what's the function of it? It's like I don't understand it.
But there's a study that explains why I have that feeling that it doesn't bother me at all as an adult and also why it did when I was younger. And it's called the gambling framework. Fast.org talks about this. I guess there's some science they did had some participants and if people thought about a specific decision out of context they might have regret but if people thought in a portfolio manner that there are lots of things they did in the past some work and some don't and that's the way the world is supposed to work because we all know that you don't sign up to do everything right. Nobody thinks that. Everybody knows your life is a series of wins and losses. And so if you see it as a portfolio just like the way I would invest you know I'll buy an index fund so I'm diversified. So if your life is likewise diversified you did a bunch of things some worked some didn't then you don't see it as regret. The same reason when I look at my index fund I don't feel any regret if some members of the index fund went down as long as the average went up over time. It doesn't even occur to me that I should have a feeling about regret if one of the stocks of my 500 stocks in the index went down. So that's how I see my life. I could certainly say doing this thing led to a bad result but I never regret it. It just doesn't come up. It's never part of my thinking whatsoever.
So if you have anything that's you recognize as regret the reframe is look at your life as a portfolio of decisions some good some bad but if your average worked out you nailed it. Yeah if your average of decisions worked out you're doing better than you used to be. Let's say you're taking care of yourself and maybe some other people. You nailed it. Regret? Forget it.
Well there's also at The Guardian reports a mask that can detect all kinds of diseases from your breath and it's a very big range of diseases. So that's some research from the California Institute of Technology Professor Wei Gao. And you'd have to use a different mask so far for different things you're testing. But here's the question I have. Do you have to wear a mask all day? Are you telling me that there's not like a breathalyzer that's a better model? Can I just have a breathalyzer and blow into it and that tells me if I have a disease? I don't need to wear the mask all day do I? So I don't really understand the mask part but it'll be able to diagnose diseases from your breath which is kind of cool.
All right those are the stories I had for you today. I've talked way too long. It's time for you to get to your Friday. So I'm going to talk a little bit to the subscribers on Locals but the rest of you thank you for joining and I will see you again tomorrow same time same place. And thanks X and Rumble and YouTube. We'll see you all later. And in about 30 seconds I will be private with the local subscribers.