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it was going to go. And I'm pretty sure it wasn't his idea. And I don't know how much he even liked the idea. He may have just decided he had to go along because he was in Trump's house so to speak and he needs Trump on board and they've got a good working relationship. So he's not going to throw that away. And he just sort of let it happen while looking really uncomfortable. Again I can't read hi…

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ading spreadsheets and small tables of data.

Now why this is such a big deal is this is exactly why I don't use AI. The biggest uses I had all involved and needed to look at data or a document or some numbers. Because if I wanted to build an agent that could ask questions such as you know can you find a Dilbert that had this topic on that day, I have that information in a table on a spreadsheet but it couldn't read it so I couldn't build an AI agent that would just look at my spreadsheet and say oh you're looking for the one about the robot. Here's some dates where the robot was and then show you the comic. Can't do it. Then I also tried to train it to simply replace me, to know everything about me. And I thought oh I'll put a whole bunch of facts about me in a document and then it will just refer to the document and it will know about me. Couldn't do it.

So pretty much I don't know maybe two thirds of the things you would ever want to use AI for would require the AI to look at a document or a little bit of data and incorporate that into its answers. And if they make that work that really is a big difference. It just seems like a small one but it's a really big one. I would use AI immediately if it can do that one little thing.

Well in Greenland the elections are coming and most of the residents of Greenland want independence but that doesn't mean they want to be owned by America. They would like to be independent from Denmark but a majority of them also think there's no way to do it because Denmark provides half a billion a year to keep them alive and they don't want their lifestyle to go down by half a billion a year because there aren't many people there so that's a lot of money. And they'd love to be independent but not with the economic hit they would take by becoming independent.

So let me tell you what the most obvious solution is where America gets what it wants, Denmark gets what it wants, and Greenland gets what it wants. Which is that Greenland and Denmark both agree that the US military can have a strong presence in Greenland and essentially be the national defense but we'd be doing it for our own national defense. It's just that Greenland's better situated geographically. So it seems to me there's an obvious endpoint. I don't think we really need Greenland to be a state. I don't see that that benefits us. I don't think the Greenlanders need to be part of America but they need defense. They need Denmark to keep paying them so Denmark keeps it, they keep paying them, lifestyle is good. And

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then the United States adds the military muscle to keep them safe. And that I think we would have everything we wanted. Except wouldn't it be nice if Denmark paid for the US military presence in Greenland so we didn't have to pay for it? Wouldn't that be nice? Now Denmark's alternative they might think is that we just take the country because we can and just say sorry you're a good ally but this…

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