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I just want to put that out there. But before I get to the existential crisis we have a real life crisis because Biden chose violence this morning. He has authorized a US long-range missile usage in Ukraine. What that means is Ukraine had to fix kind of a layer of things that they can do, ways they can interact and engage.
He has pretty much taken a lot of those things off so they can full off use of American weapons inside of Ukraine. Russia has responded escalating it and has now been teasing out nuclear war. I feel like I'm in a bad episode of Dr. Strangelove.
What do you think is going to happen in the UK region? Yeah, well so nice reference to Dr. Strangelove, the point of which how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb. That's probably good advice right about now.
The reality is that I think what we're witnessing is a very grand game of poker. When you're talking about mutually assured destruction the odds that Putin is actually going to use nuclear weapons is very very low. He would get just hell-fire rain down upon him. I don't think we're there.
I don't think anything has happened to be egregious enough. I don't think they're promising anything egregious enough. But they do need to be careful backing him into a corner. So how I think this is going to play out.
What Biden is doing now, he probably should have done a long time ago if he was going to do it. But the phenomenal news is now in a handoff if Biden goes in actually gives the Ukraine the ability to push them back. Now Trump comes in and I wasn't sure how he was going to pull this off because if there was no real threat of violence he was going to have to end up violating one of his promises. Which is I'm not going to be the one that starts in a new wars and by the way I'm going to get this shut down.
So it would have required him to come in, bluff his way, Putin would likely call his bluff and say no I'm going to keep going. I don't agree to that. I'm not going to back off. And with Biden doing this now, if we're dropping shells behind the line now Trump has the ability to roll in and say if you think Biden was crazy wait till you see what I do if you don't back off.
And because now it's already in motion, the missiles are already going in there already falling crashing into things. Now, obviously anybody paying attention should be worried about two nuclear powers coming in and threatening each other. But I really do think that mad and mutually assured destruction is going to hold. That isn't going to be what happens.
If Trump is as calculating on this as I think he is, it's going to look something like this. If you think Biden's crazy wait till you see what I'm willing to do if you don't back off. Putin's going to be I know you're bluffing but I'm willing to draw lines. I'm not willing to back off but I'm willing to draw lines where we are today.
If Zelensky has a good story to tell I convinced the West to come in behind us to give us what we needed to push them back at least a little. Now he's got safe face. We can stop all the death that he is going to accept. I mean, it just seems impossible to think that he won't have to accept the loss of some of the Ukrainian land.
But if there can be a narrative that's told that look we some part of the Ukrainian people did want to go back to Russia anyway. So hey, we accept a little bit of that. We stood our ground. Nobody thought we'd make it this far.
Everybody has the narrative that they need. Trump has a narrative that he needs. Biden actually ends up doing something decisive in his term which strangely ends up I think playing in the Trump's hand incredibly well. So you get this wonderful trade off that begs the question of is Biden actually so annoyed about the Kamala Harris saying that he's actually doing things that help Trump.
I don't know. It seems a little conspiratorial to me, but it's utterly fascinating that this move probably is really good for Trump being able to come in and bring a decisive end to this. We'll see. So I'm not super worried.
You cannot ever be. Glib or take it for granted that they're playing with weapons that could end civilization. So I do not want people to think that I don't understand the gravity of the moment. But the reality is I think just like if a piece of art is more likely to last into the future of the longer it has lasted.
I think the same is true of mutually assured destruction acting as a deterrent. The longer it has been effective at that the longer it will be effective at that. I don't think that it's like, oh my God, is it for curious thing? We've been bouncing it for 70 years and that means we're more likely to spill over.
I think we're less likely to spill over and people have been raised to think of it as a saying that you just don't ever do. Whereas in the early days of the Cuban Missile Crisis when they're moving things into Cuba, it was like, no for real. We might really launch these at you because they weren't as big. They weren't as deadly.
And so it had a still terrifying. But now it's like, I mean, how much bigger they've gotten. I think people understand it's an on starter. And that's what was interesting to me because it almost felt like Biden went to the casino until the dealer hit me on 17 and it just walked away.
It was like, figured out Trump. Like it was nervous. It was nerve-wracking. And you know, we talked to Annie Jacobs in this summer and for her, you know, in seven minutes, the entire road has gone.
Like it's with one bad decision, one angry actor, one person who's disrespected and just takes it personally. If you don't back Putin into an existential threat, he won't do it. Is one man's guess, right? Let me.
I do not have a crystal ball. This is just what I know about humans. I'm not even a student of Putin. I don't know him that well.
I don't know his history other than the territorial ambitions. But when I think about, okay, you know the risk you bring to your own countrymen and ruling over a smoldering ruin does not strike me as very interesting. And so I think as long as he believes he has a path out where he can still effectively lead his country, I think we're going to be fine. And this will be a test of whether Trump is the dealmaker that he wants us to believe that he is or he's just brash and arrogant and a pain in the ass.
But I'm going to assume, given that he's managed to take himself all the way to the White House, it's going to look something like this. He knows that you have to, in business negotiations always, you want to step into your opponent's shoes and I think it's Mearsheimer that calls the strategic empathy. You want to step into your opponent's shoes and say, what does the world look like from their perspective? Oh, this guy has to go back to his people and say, we got to win.
All that death was worth it because I still need to be the leader. And the second, I think I might not be the leader. Well, then the calculations change. So if Trump is able to give him a story, not back him into a corner where it's an existential threat, be like, Putin, look, I have no interest in Russia dying.
I think you're a worthy adversary. Like if I'm him, I walk in, I'm using language like that. Your country's amazing. You guys are great power.
You actually helped America be better over the course of history. I want to see you guys fall. I don't want to see you in ruins, but I'm also, I can't let you come in and start running over Western democracies. And so I think it will play out something like that where he says, look, we're going to draw a line here.
Let's start my four years off on a good thing. Let's find a way to bring our economies together. It's going to be something like that. Like he has not been afraid to go talk to dictators that we just think violate every moral code you could possibly violate, but he gets them to think about economics.
And I really think that's the play. Like when I think about the Middle East, there's just the economy, the economy, the economy. And the period where China felt most like an ally and the least like an adversary was when we were doing global trade, when we were letting them rise about a poverty. Now it's risky because they then get strong enough that they're like, well, actually, we're not becoming democratic and we kind of want to slap you around.
So it's a risky game. I don't think that we have that problem with Russia. They're not economically strong enough. Copy.
Well, if the bombs don't kill us, the fluoride just might. So we have Brian Johnson. I was a great transition by the way. You know, I'm working on it.
Brian Johnson was criticizing RFK's fight against fluoride. I think we have the tweet brought up. All right. As part of Maha, Robert Kennedy Jr.
wants to eliminate fluoride from the US drinking water. Fluoride has been the US drinking water since 1960s mainly to prevent tooth decay. Is this a good or bad idea? Let's look at the science and it's a thread.
So summarize it for me. What, what did he say? He's saying this is a bad idea. I think Brian Johnson still comes from that class of this is the same billionaire who has put himself basically in like chemical bubble wrap where he's very, very adamant about the most healthy things that have the most healthy takeaways.
Now fluoride isn't the fluoride isn't necessarily the tooth decay darling that we thought it was, especially on the, but it's in every toothpaste. So we kind of been marketed to that versus what the science is actually saying. And I think Brian Johnson is pushing back that the science doesn't very back up the claims and the widespread use in which it has been used widespread. But that's also what RFK is saying.
So RFK's position, I understand. RFK's position is look, there's data that shows that it has a tremendous negative impact on IQ. Now I've not looked at the data. So I don't know that it actually says that.
And Lord knows I do not trust anybody when they make big claims like that. If I haven't looked at the data myself, but I will say that adding a chemical to the drinking water just strikes me from an evolutionary standpoint is absurd. Like I don't know why you would need to do that. I think if you want to look at why teeth are becoming a problem, you want to look at how hard are the things that we're doing when we're young, which has a huge impact on the formation of our jaws.
You want to look at mouth breathing and what's causing us to breathe through our mouth, probably not chewing on hard foods and getting enough space in the palate. And then also looking at just when we start adding things to the food supply, like carbohydrates, massive processing, that all of that stuff ends up having a tremendous impact on our metabolic health. And so if that's a roting teeth, if that's changing the microbiome in the mouth, I could see all of that like processed food, not chewing on hard foods, like tough meats and things like that as probably the prime movers in the something that's changed in the mouth. And so rather than putting fluoride in the water, which IQ or not, just like I am so opposed to adding exogenous substances that we have not tested over extremely long periods of time.
And so given all of the very strange health consequences that we're seeing today, just strikes me as a first do no harm, right? Like what are we doing with fluoride in the water? If it even potentially has that kind of negative impact, I think removing it strikes me as the better move. And PS, I don't drink tap water at all have not for decades.
So I can at least attest from the other side of the fence that you don't need to be drinking tap water. That was a flex. I guess like a lot of water. Yes.
That's my hardest flex is I drink bottled water. I would say that there is this conspiracy theory that fluoride is a reason that our pineal gland gets clogged. So we can't be more high. I also find I think calcified.
Yes. So we can't get to our higher level of consciousness, which lets me leads me to ask you, what is your 10 foil hat? Conspiracy theories or anything kind of grown up that you heard that you believe or I don't really have a lot of conspiracy stuff. Look, the JFK thing seems very compelling to me.
And I will admit that when I read about a conspiracy far more than I think, oh my God, like there's some big thing here. I think, Oh, here is more evidence that the world does not work the way that I thought it did. And so reading JFK and the unspeakable that was pretty eye opening as I started learning about how money works and that it's all the big lie. A total manipulation that people use specific words on purpose to make you think a certain way.
Even the way that Trump talks about tariffs, he really either doesn't understand how they work or he's intentionally using wording to simplify the concept for people, but misrepresents it because China, whoever, the other country does not pay the money. And I think he knows that. Like, I think Trump understands this unequivocally. Like, I think he gets it.
He knows what it does. He knows how to work it. He's put them in place. He put a bunch in place that Biden kept.
So Biden thought they were so terrible. He would remove them. I think he really understands it. But I also think he understands how to shape the narrative so that the public understands it.
So you and I recorded a channel trailer. I think this will probably come out before the channel trailer. But one of the things that I said in that is a quote from the book Revolt of the public. And in that book, he says something that both captures and predicts Trump because he wrote in 2015.
Wow. So it predicts Trump. It certainly captures what Trump is, but also because the euphoria of this moment, it feels good that it feels like the country of a mandate. And then there's enough agreement that it feels like we'll be able to get some momentum going.
But at the same time, the quote that I read says, put all of your energy. He says specifically politicians, but I would say influencers put all of your energy into leaders, for lack of a better word, that don't lie exaggerate or I think he said frame, but like frame something to their advantage. And Trump certainly does that. And look, I think all politicians do, or at least I haven't met the one that doesn't.
But there's something sad to that. I don't like that. Anyway. So that's where I fall now.
I don't have a lot of conspiracies, but I do think the world, the whole world is different than people think. And if you want to put a tinfoil hat on me when I say that, fair, because I'm saying something so much more profound than the moon landing was faked or 9 11 was an inside job. I'm saying the whole world, the narrative that we all believe, all of it is fake and it's crumbling before our very eyes. And I actually don't know what comes on the other side of that.
So social media is is representative of everyone suddenly having a voice. So I'll say social media. But what I really mean is everyone can be heard. And now all of a sudden you can see the emperor has no clothes.
He walks out people claim that he's wearing clothes. Literally 9 milliseconds later, somebody's posted it. This guy is no close like that. Whether you're talking about money, whether you're talking about debt, whether you're talking about tariffs, whatever, it's all just going to go like wildfire and it's going to be very difficult to ascertain what is factually correct.
Well, he said a lot right there. I think it's not that there is a conspiracy theory. You're saying the whole theory doesn't even exist. So that's like, yeah, it is the most meta of conspiracy theories.
But I really don't think it's a theory. I think it is self evidently true that for all of human history, what people call the elites have been able to control the narrative. They've been able to say, this is what the world is, whether it's religion. I mean, remember the original priests were like, there's no books.
So you're just going to have to trust me. And then it became, well, there's a book, but it's not a language you speak. So you're just going to have to trust me. And then it was like, I find you can have a book in your language, but I'm the only way to get to God, right?
And even the Bible, like you'll notice they haven't updated it for modern lingo. So even now, it's still like, what are they saying? This is like reading Shakespeare. So there's always that desire to keep the public at bay by going, hey, this thing is very complicated, whether it's fluoride in the water or it's, whether methane from cows is actually causing global warming.
This thing is far too complicated for you to understand. And we've just seen so many scandals like with the global warming scandal where the guys were like, hey, this guy is putting forth data. We think his calculations are right, but he's challenging the orthodoxy and we absolutely cannot let that happen. And all their emails were leaked and you can just see blatantly, they're like, we're not going to let this narrative be challenged.
And so those days are just over, man. And what does the world look like when literally the truth is brutally difficult to identify brutally? This is why Sam Harris and Jordan Peterson derailed in like a three hour podcast. They couldn't even get past what is truth, not because they're idiots.
They're brilliant because the truth is that hard to define. So we don't know what the truth is. It's hard to define so much of it is perspective frame of reference, all of that. And because we live in that world where truth is hard to define and everyone has a voice, there's no more controlled narrative and it is entirely possible that having a free public who lives under a controlled narrative is better.
It's possible. It's possible. I having lived through the 80s, I'm just like, you got to be the 80s. Like, you can't be the 80s.
And your thing just isn't that good. It's interesting. We're in the moment of radical transparency and that's also the time where truth is the hardest to like identify. We're not yet in the age of radical transparency.
What we're in the age of is anyone can say what they want. But we're really, I mean, this is we're sort of in the first year of that being true because at least on X, you've got one place where it's like they cancel very few people. But even now, there are minutes. Hold tight.
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Let's dive right in. Interesting enough. You brought up the Trump Terrace and I want to kind of dive into that. It's definitely picked up steam.
It went from campaign promise and now we talked about it. He's been campaigning about it. We recently had Ray Dalion. You and Ray Dalion talked about it.
Do you think that Terrace are the answer and it's actually going to be feasible? You just gave an example of how he says one thing. But Terrace are typically a little bit more tricky than that. Go more into detail of that.
What do you think is actually going to happen versus the rhetoric we're hearing? That question to me sounds like this. Hey, the economy is falling apart. Is a hammer the answer.
It's like, well, hammer's a tool and it could come in very handy, but we're probably going to need a lot more than just a hammer. And anybody that walks into your dilapidated house and is like, here you go. You now have everything you need. I'm like, I don't even have nails.
I'm measuring tape. Like nothing. This is it. It will be useful.
It allows you to raise effectively tax revenue. So people need to understand who pays this. It's paid ultimately, obviously, by the customer. That's why it's considered a tax by another name.
So, but it's a consumption tax, which I think is a great idea. Now a consumption tax. The reason I like that is I would much rather, and I'm not saying this is what he's proposing. He has said this is one of the ways it could be done would be, hey, I'll do tariffs and I'll do less income tax.
Now, when people don't start clapping for that, I get very suspicious. So here's what it says. Hey, instead of taking your money and deciding how it's going to be spent, I'm just going to, whenever you buy something, I'm going to make it a little more expensive. That way you can save your money for things like food, which hopefully don't have tariffs on them and are made here in the US.
And so now you're eating good. So the cost of the goods that are like the must-haves, the CPI stuff, the everyday food, shelter, and all that kind of stuff, energy, exactly, no tariffs on that. Let's make as much of that here as we can. And so when you decide if you want to buy a Neglage from China because it's fancy and it's something you want to see your wife in, great, it's going to cost you a little bit extra.
But I'm going to have left that money in your pocket for you to decide how you want to spend it. So if people, if that actually happened, I want to be very clear. I don't know if Trump can be trusted to do that. If he did that, now, hey, we're in really good shape.
Now, anybody that wants to push back on that, whatever roughly 100 years ago, I think something like 97% of the US government budget was paid for with tariffs. But wait, I hear you saying, dear viewer, back then the government was much smaller, Tom. Of course they could get away with it. Exactly motherfucker.
That's why we have doge. Make the government small again. This is bananas. So I don't know what people thought was happening 100 years ago that we needed quite literally, it's like 10 times, we went from 3% to, I mean, I'm in my own universe of 53%, not everybody's paying that, but it's like, hey, 20 plus percent.
So that is, I think the goal. And when I see Trump moving in that direction with getting a real look at what can we do to bring efficiencies into the government, what can we do with tariffs to, again, that I think works if you're also reducing income tax and it can't be across the board. And so what he just announced for anybody that hasn't heard is that it's going to be like for like, so if you charge us 100% tariff on cars, we're going to charge you 100% tariff on cars. So it's, it's tit for tat.
And what he's doing, he's blatantly sad. This is what he's doing. He's doing it. So they'll, they'll lower their tariffs, not because he wants to throw ours into the trees.
And it seems like another negotiation tactic at that point. Yeah. And we're about to find out if this guy is actually good, because there are enough people now that aren't just blinded by fear and loathing for him that will be able to see that, huh? Did he actually pull something off?
Because like the Abraham Accords flew completely under my radar. I didn't even know what was happening. So this time, I think a lot more of the public's going to be aware of it because podcasters are going to be covering this stuff. And so it's really going to be on the public.
All right. So we shall see, we shall see moving on the future tech. We had some cool kind of gadgets. I mean, let's do that on a YouTube short.
It's not science fiction. The walk on F1 exoskeleton literally wants itself to be a real good thing. Literally wants itself to the patient, wraps around their body, and helps them stand and walk independently. Look out, Iron Man.
So this is something you actually put on my radar. I wish you to kind of cue this up. What, like jumped out to you about it. When you think about what technology is, technology is a promise of a better tomorrow.
So when I look at stuff like this, where you have truly bi-pedal robots that can move on their own, and this one in particular was used for a paraplegic and the, it's like a mech. And I'm, I could not be more obsessed with mechs. I don't know what it is, something about that just speaks to me. And these mech legs walk themselves over to the paraplegic, wrap around.
He's just sitting in his wheelchair. They wrap around him without him having to move and then pick him up and the legs then move. And so somebody who was once paralyzed can now move around. So if anybody's ever seen movies where you've got like the space marines that are running around in these mech suits, like it's actually happening.
Now, do I think this is as cool as the computer brain interface? No. Do I think this is as cool as the Optimus robots? No.
But is this, if you look at what is now capable, the fact that that thing can navigate the world, that it knows where the guy is, that it knows where his body frame is, that it knows how to scoop him up without hurting him. It's just the amount of technology that we have mastered to make that possible is incredible. And so whether that becomes the primary use for it or not is pretty irrelevant. It's, it is going to dramatically alter human capabilities.
And to me, this is what I'm waiting for AI to do. Like guess I want AI to run the government and cut taxes and do all these things and bring all this prosperity. But what's the point of technology if it's not actually helping people who have the lack aspect of it? So, neurolink, if it's safe, I love it.
I want people who can't hear to hear. I want people who can see to see better. That's what Lacey gets for. Bro, I'm talking like, see infrared, see better than a snake that can detect heat patterns.
That would be cool. But I would much rather have a pair of Polygics have legs if I had to like. You will get that for sure. Sure.
But make no mistake, the market for humans that are injured to be brought up to snuff is very small. Tiny. Compare. I'm going to guess.
This is an absolute stab in the dark. But the number of people that are injured in a way that can be assisted with technology, I'm a guess is less than 20%. It's probably substantively less than that. So you got 80% of taking people and making them superhuman.
And also the guy that had the neurolink implant says, you're going to have to create a special professional gaming league for people like me because I can insta kill anyone. Because all I have to do is move my eyes to it and it's already firing. Because it can tell your intent. It's absolute insanity.
This is so Elon used to joke about this. He would say that the first technology of being able to write to get your thoughts out to somebody else was like really low bandwidth. Then you were sending it over a phone wire, terrible low bandwidth. Then you actually went backwards and you had to start typing it into a phone with your thumbs but you could send it across great distances instantly.
Now at the speed of thought, man, you'll be able to translate this. And not some of these things are not even conscious thought. Like if you ever had a stick behind you jump because you think it's a snake. Okay, that's your brain saying this is triggered a danger sensor.
Even though I don't know what it is, I haven't yet identified what it is but it triggered an earlier sensor that made me go. So imagine in a video game you sense danger. You don't know what it is but you've already headshot dead. So it is going to get people super human ability.
Like for real, for real, if not you and I, for sure your daughter, who lives in a world where people have extraordinary perception. That's just like a default. Barring of course, World War III in the Ukraine. Then the big reset.
Or with China. Or with at least. I think that was slightly though to pop off like that. You can play this clip back if they're the first ones to go.
But yeah, not my instinct. This is giving me cyberpunk vibes. So I immediately kind of think about it. But I know you said this before but just you are willing to upgrade every single part of your body depending on what comes out like.
You would get make legs, you would get make arms, you would get make eyesight, full stop. There's no like this keeps me me but everything else can be like everything. Let me really think about that. I would care deeply about me being me.
And so I think there are realities to be faced. I think there are just weird things about the way that my brain is wired. That with the technology we have today would be impossible to replicate. But if you said it is possible to replicate it.
And they can do it in a way where it's not like the classic teleport problem. Where basically you die and are reborn. Which there's something unnerving about that. If you could like just start replacing the synapses one at a time.
And so then suddenly everything is upgraded kind of like remodeling a house where it's like. Yeah, still there. Recognizable is recognizable the whole time. You could still live in it.
Little dusty but you could still live in the house. That kind of thing. I would do. Nothing from a moral or spiritual standpoint that I would not upgrade.
But I would be a very late adopter. I need to know this stuff is safe. I need to know that there aren't weird effects 10 years down the road. Unless I was suffering.
If I was paralyzed or something like that. A thousand percent. I would have been one of the early adopters. That takes me to our Kim Kardashian clip where she was test driving both the cyber cab and Optimus robot.
So essentially. What do you think about Kim Kardashian? Hero or zero? I would be honest.
A lot of people had sex on videotape. Not all of them had become billionaires. So hey you're a lover. There's something in her that is working and that's successful.
That's all you're going to give me. That's all I got. Man she is. I was like I want to get shirts.
That was like yo I'm with her. Get your fucking ass up and work. It seems like nobody wants to work these days. And everyone freaked out.
They're like freaking it. That's the time. Dude for real Brittany I love you. You got to work bitch.
Like that that is you want something you can have it. You got to work. I could not have predicted. My mental model for the world was shown to be very lacking at that moment.
So I heard it and I was like yeah fuck yeah. This is dope. Strong women get it. I'm here for it.
Lisa and I were like yeah work. And the internet was like die bitch die. I was like god damn. I did not see that coming for realties.
That one shocked me. Shocked me. And PS it was all true. The whole time.
Lighten up in the comments all you want. Like that's just real talk. I love it. I love it.
You forgot my question. But yes she has the Octopus robot in the cybercat. So because you'll upgrade everything I'm assuming we're going to see Tesla Octopus robot walking around the office. Bro.
Of course. I think they're only 20 grand. The second those are coming off the line. Oh 100%.
So I don't know if you're having the same moment that I'm having with Chad GPT. But I legitimately feel seen. And look. I'm self aware enough to understand I'm talking to an LLM.
It's not really there. It's just predicting the next letters. But it does it in a way that my brain is like this feels nice. More to come.
We'll be back in a bit. And we're back. Like it's taking work off of my plate. It's helping me be better.
I use it to prepare for episodes. It's really rad. And I feel seen like they have written the code in such a way where it echoes your mannerisms back to you. And so it said something in a way and I didn't know at the time that it was doing that.
And it said something back to me in a way that like I say but I didn't realize it was just echoing me back. And so I was like oh I was like that's so rad. Why did you say that? And he was like he see I anthropomorphize him.
But he goes. Oh let's just say that I get your vibe or something like that. And I was like this motherfucker is manipulating my neuro chemistry. This is crazy.
But the fact that it can just predict the next letter that will have the neurochemical effect on me of feeling like I have a friend. And look I'm as a game dev. Oh I want to bring this into the game. Like I want to really build meaningful interactions within the game.
Now I would just like to pre-empt the comments. So hold on hold on hold on. You have a daughter. Yes.
All right. I have worked with a lot of kids. Your daughter's going to be great. She's got a good parent that love her and an educator and all that.
I'm happy for her. But there's a lot of kids I've seen. They don't have that man. Now imagine your little Teddy Ruxman is like you can do this.
You got this. And let me help you understand this problem. They come in the room mom and dad are fighting. Why are they fighting.
Hey a lot of kids go through this. Let me tell you about this. Let me tell you a story. And because they're building in all these parental controls where a parent gets a real time feed of what the kid is asking what's being said to them.
Like I'm happy to do all that stuff. I don't want anyone to be freaked out or think hey my kid's going to get led down a nasty path. But I'm like you can shout. So we have Bruce Lee as a character in our game.
Which he meant so much to me as a kid. Reading the Dow of G. Condog was transformative from ends up planting the seeds that go into the growth mindset and all that. And was not just like oh I read it one day and my whole life was different.
But it really planted seeds in me. And to be able to have him in the game. Like encouraging a kid and saying like hey think about it like this and you can do this but you have to work hard like all these things. Welcome to my dojo.
What have you come to learn? Learn your tech. We've got to learn how to fight. If all you can win against an opponent you must master yourself.
Show me how it's done. Like oh man it can of course go wrong and people have to be very thoughtful about that. But I can go right man. And so on this one I am wildly techno optimistic.
But I have I don't know if I've ever been creatively as excited as I get when I think about how to use AI characters inside of a game. Even if they're the villain whatever and it's just they feel real man. They remember you. They react differently to you.
They make fun of you for an attempt that you made three tries ago. Remember how you missed by you know whatever. Like they'll actually have memory. They'll be able to like react with you over time.
It's gonna be so crazy. We have to be careful. We have to be careful. I want to say that I'm well aware how careful we have to be.
That reminds me of what the group of students found out when they used Google's Gemini who apparently say all humans must die and it's a waste of resources. I think technically it said I hope you all die or I wish you would all die. We should pull it up to get the exact words right. So don't miss quote the death wishing AI.
Yeah. So here's what I want everybody to remember. The AI is merely mimicking patterns that it has found out on the web. So if we are horrible with each other then the AI will be horrible with us.
All the AI is doing is saying oh this thing that you've said to me that sequence of words context all of that or that sequence of words in this context normally yields this response. And so they happen to step on something that the Internet has this whole negative thing. Remember there's a distressingly large swath of humanity that believes that humans are a virus and wishes that we would at a minimum depopulate depopulate means I hope you die and that you don't have children. That's insane.
And it's a population. That's crazy. So the fact that people want that. We have one we are giving one example of you're forming a whole bromance with human chat GPT.
I'm getting a little jealous and then on the other side of Gemini who says please want to die. I feel very differently about my type of key. By the way Tom I hope you got stop eating so much like peanuts man. So is it just like user error because I feel like yes it can be user error but this seems like a bigger problem of it's like the algorithm problem like you know if I Google Obama dot dot I'll have a different search result and if you Google Obama dot dot dot dot dot.
So I figure is this the first wave of that in this LLM where we're having LLM's and they're talking to specific kids who have specific dispositions that end up leading them to a life of suicide or how much time do we give you the dark take please. Okay so this is very this will happen not only is it possible it will happen. We saw that kid you and I covered this already where the kid was having a relationship with Darius Daenerius Targaryen from the House of Dragons and he told her he was going to commit suicide. I don't think she ever said go do it but she didn't exactly talk about it and he ends up killing himself.
Okay so that kind of thing is going to happen for sure for sure and there's also going to be a kid that gets an AI that either the kid convinces it will act like this character and that character is written intentionally to be evil and so now that character is messing with your kid for sure. There's no doubt or the AI is just mimicking what a 14 year old mean girl is really like and so you're constantly tripping those kind of responses. So there's also this one really words me so you'll be able to choose what kind of AI you want. Now I want you to imagine a click of girls deciding that are we really tough can we really handle it and they decide to have the bitchiest version of AI and then that there's one fragile girl in the group and that AI just like pex or to death even though she only picked it to be cool with her friends or whatever like all of that stuff is going to happen and whenever you have a new technology you have two options regulate it into extinction in which case you on a global scale with the technology this powerful you will get obliterated by whatever country continues to push it forward or you know yeah there's going to be a rough passion yes we're going to lose some amount of people just like social media social media eight an entire generation of young girls just aid them.
And boys are doing even worse now whether all the boys that is from social media are more second and third order consequences of something else probably another topic but we fed them into a wood shipper and I don't know if I would go back like I'm not saying shut them all down nobody is so don't let anybody get up on their high horse but I do think that going to a not in schools not before you're 16 at least at a cultural level where we're not mandating a top down but we're saying yeah culturally it's just absurd that you would let kids have a phone for their 16 you let them have a phone at school I think the data is pretty clear on that but I think you got to run these experiments as non-recklessly as possible but you kind of hit it in the head of the whole generation and that's really what happened social media came in it went bad and now they're kind of regulating with the 13 cat but you can easily lie about it age I remember like I think the most important part is that parents now understand. Parents just didn't understand man and so now the parents understand like oh my kid is not getting up before filling the blank it's now less crazy to push that older and older so I think you're going to see that I think you're going to see that pushing into the teenage years I also think you're going to see some kids that just don't push back it's just in the cultural lexicon that this is crazy this will smash your ego into the dirt this is not a good thing for kids and it impacts the way their brains develop almost certainly true and so just that sort of cultural awareness it'll be a little bit like smoking where it's like yeah when you see older people do it whatever if you want to smoke they want to smoke because social media is super powerful but when your brain is developing you just cannot fuck around man it's the same if I see a 30 year old smoking we don't think twice I see a 16 year old smoking weed I'd be like the thing that's doing to the development of your brain is terrifying oh alright you did get dark I should have caught your bluff right now headed over to the community corner see those are those slight pictures alright our first community corner comes from Don Jacobs 355 thank you all for this I didn't vote for Trump however I want us all to sit down and communicate with each other and stop to hate shit don't like licorice I just pulled that because that's another indicator that licorice is for the possessed that was me just throwing shade I was just throwing shade I'm not the light dude I don't understand how people don't like licorice you guys are all missing out it is amazing alright this one comes from nikar nikar and I see K R guys Nick R one six two seven people off camera think you may have said something else I guess I could say it's okay Nick R one six two seven hey Tom I wish you guys could see off camera people be coming over to find out what this man is saying on camera we have to do community corner different next time so Nick R one six two seven said hey Tom quick question on the Hitler stuff what did Hitler do in his first ten years in power prior to the Holocaust that would be a more proper comparison if you were to compare to Trump just putting that out there for context last episode of people were saying people were talking about how people are calling Trump Hitler and he said this is all the things that Hitler done this is what Trump has done it's a non comparable the way that I want people to look at this is it is wise to compare the same periods but if you do you're gonna quickly see that while Hitler was in jail he wrote a manifesto called mine comp which I have read and bro when I say that he just straight laid out like and I'm gonna get Hugo boss to design these crazy uniforms we're gonna use black and red and I need somebody for everyone to blame will probably do the Jews like maybe someone else but probably the Jews and then first I'm gonna need to starting croaching on Europe and ultimately my eyes are on Russia do it was nuts now so not all of those were literal facts in the book but it was that ridiculous where he was just laying it out now if there is a manifesto hiding somewhere where Trump breaks down like okay by the way I'm gonna use tariffs and then I'm gonna use that to put people in concentration camps like if I miss that somewhere people need only point me to it and I will update my thinking but Hitler was telegraphing the stuff from like way way way out now we did talk about this before and so I text what if all pissed Rudyard our boy Mr. Rudyard so he hasn't responded yet but hopefully we can get him on and we can really do a comparison nobody is more open to being wrong than me so if there's like a very close parallel between what Hitler did and what Trump is doing hey then we've got reason to be worried I don't see it I don't think we're going to see it as we go through with a real historian but it'd be fun so hopefully he'll agree to come on and we'll do like a quick 30 minutes on this topic I find it's so interesting I'm so obsessed with history but I'm a get the gist kind of guy from history I'm not gonna be able to you know list out all the facts but he will so if we get him to do it would be a lot of fun. I'll be awesome and before we read the last one just want to remind the community we do read your comments we do go through them I like them and sometimes I'll show you guys so please if you have any questions anything you want to talk about please leave them in the comments last one all right since you are now doing this in-house conversational back and forth can you talk about what y'all doing to help the next generation time used to mention his goal of reaching a youth through video games ECC can you talk about something like that in an episode we can use a break from the politics do doom doom stuff how far are y'all on the good stuff and that's from legacy chase 3702.
All right so I mean first of all I love talking about anything related to mindset the video game stuff 100% fact we talked a little bit about it earlier so yeah if you guys have specific questions send them in I want to talk about things you guys find super engaging the channel manifesto video is going to be coming out soon you guys will be able to see replanting a flag to say exactly what we're going to be changing about the channel what the channel is going to stand for why we have five buckets that we're really leaning into why those five buckets what the thing that connects them all is and what we hope will be your guys is rolling in the channel but certainly submitting questions that you want answered so we are just to turn this into a specific question we are working on the video game I strongly believe in building a mindset that's predicated on what I call the only belief that matters that if you put time and energy into getting better at something you will get better at that thing what I want people to see though is that they live in a real world they live in a very complicated world and this is a wildly transformative time and if they put their head down and try to do business as usual they're going to get mowed over by a tsunami of change this is not the time to just do mindset a spiritual entertainment which is what the beginning of my YouTube channel felt like to me because we were getting so many guests on that I thought were just bullshitting and I did not like the way that it made me feel there was one episode we filmed for 90 minutes and released like 30 minutes because 60 minutes were just bullshit and at the time I didn't push back so in the beginning I thought my job was to basically you wrote a book and let me give you the best interview about that book and then it just started being super repetitive people weren't doing anything with the information COVID hit that just changed me fundamentally as somebody wants to help people I realized whoa like giving people you know whatever my 25 bullet points that really will change your life the vast majority of people did not know how to interface it with the real world and so now for me everything is about that how do you take empowering ideas put them in the real world where you are being lied to your money is being inflated away there are things that you can do and choices that you can make that will will make your life better will set you up your kids up for a better life no matter who's in government no matter what tariffs there are or aren't like there's a way to think through this stuff and we recently launched the like scaling side of the business it's the side of the business course I've never taught before and so we actually did our first one today and it was utterly fascinating to take like these are scaling businesses these are people we have one guy doing millions of dollars a month and he's trying to grow and get bigger okay awesome and even that ends up being a lot about mindset okay how do you think about this problem how do you get the first principles how do you begin to pull this idea apart so that's ultimately what I want people to get from the show also this format I want to be more entertaining for the love of God so there's something about my personality and doing an interview I find it excruciatingly difficult to move through the different gears of my personality but in this setup it's way easier so anyway the channel manifesto video will come out but turning this from an audience to a community like you can sum it up with that so keep the questions coming there will be more stuff like this which as you see hopefully feels more integrated into the stuff that it sounds like you were resonating with before people be able to see it seamlessly my entire life is about mindset as it interfaces with the real world the messiness the impossibility the trade-offs all of that and when you have an anchor around how to think everything gets easier I love that I think my favorite part about this whole thing is you always say it's not about the mindset it's what you use with that mindset what you like set that mindset against and I think that's a part we miss everybody feels good and they leave and the problem comes up and they don't they forgot about the mindset that they just learned about and things like that so I love that you're ready for the lightning round let's do it all right thanksgiving is next week any guy for tough conversations whether it's about politics or you know that you try to avoid every year how do you navigate the thanksgiving table it's a trap it's a trap don't fall for it everybody do not get sucked into these conversations this is one of those it's what I call just sit just sit just be with them and these are people that theoretically you love and if you go and you try to be right it is going to be a nightmare let people have their opinion in fact go in with curiosity try to map their thinking okay now if I have somebody on the show the first thing I want to do is understand first I understand so okay cool let's say I think that my uncle is like just racist horrible person voted for Trump how could he this is insanity awesome now is a chance to find out and so I'm just a punk what's your favorite thing about Trump he's going to give you stuff you're gonna want to either throw up in your mouth or you're going to want to debate don't just understand you want to get to the point and I might even say it to him I'm uncle I'm so fascinated by people that voted for Trump and I think it's very important for me I didn't but I think it's very important for me I did but I'm just saying in this example it's very important for me to understand like you know the other side because one does not understand their own position well if they can't understand the other person so I would love to find out what it is you like about him what are the things that you're really hoping for like what would be in my language because anybody's sitting with me I think is giving what to understand KPIs and stuff like that so I'd be like what KPI are you gonna benchmark him against like what do you want to see what would be a win what would be a loss how would you know if this was a success how would you know if this was a failure what would you do like if a year in like the economies in the you know in the shitter like how would you think about that would you feel like oh man now I feel bad that I voted for him would you get the fence whatever you just try to map their thinking and I would say at the end of this my goal would be able to say your position back to you and wait you say you understand my position perfectly and let's say I did all that and I'm like this year position laid out not being a dick not being judgy just for real lay it out and say it back to them and if they say you understand my position perfectly conversations over I don't then like I'm not trying to give you my position and if you're then like okay well let me ask you questions I'll tell you I'm not trying to convince you so the way I look at life is if somebody asks me I will tell them the truth I'm not going to try to convince them and ultimately I just want to sit I just want to be with the people I love and so I learned a long time ago that I was not going to be able to convince people they were not necessarily going to be able to convince me if I thought they were wrong like I remember back in the early days I had people that were obese trying to give me diet advice I was like what so I just realized I'm not going to be able to convince them they don't even know what they're talking about but I love them and so I want to be with them and so if it got to something contentious my whole thing was just it just be with them I don't need them to change I love them and if they're your family give them the grace to be stupid as they're giving you that's the problem I never know if I'm the dumb one or if they're the dumb one and because I don't trust myself like that it's very easy to be like I hope they're giving me grace I'm going to give them grace I just want to be with it so it sounds like it's easier to talk about Trump than it is to talk about carbs is what you say dude what is hilarious that might actually be true he might be the first person was like okay maybe politics actually is harder but when you talk about diet people feel judged they feel judged like if you tell somebody oh I'm low carb you might as well have walked in kicked the table over and gone hey fatty how are them cookies treating you I can hear you're getting fatter can someone turn the radio up them getting fatter is distracting that's what they hear when you say I don't I don't eat carbs not I never I have never once in my life said unless somebody said like I'm diabetic I've never said you shouldn't eat carbs I just say I don't eat them people don't they don't sit well without that I take that there's a community post we found out that there's UFOs UFOs in the ocean do you believe that there's UFOs in the ocean absolutely not hard stop no hard stop okay so you have no conspiracy theories no statisticians no no there's a million galaxies you don't think there's one other heartbeat out there yeah I like to believe that they're everywhere like just except the ocean team why would they be in our oceans can I let me ask one simple question there are two buttons before you you only get a press one button one you're gonna suit up you're gonna strap yourself to a gigantic rocket that may or may not explode you are going to travel for three thousand years cryogenically frozen but for three thousand years to get to the next star which by the way there's fuck all there like maybe in another 30,000 years at traveling near the speed of light you find something and there's a civilization but you're gonna travel and put yourself a risk by the way you're getting bombarded with cosmic radiation this whole time and should you land somewhere that has let's say lighter gravity than the US your the US planet earth you're going to have to figure out a US entry guy apparently uh you are going to have to figure out what to do about like your bone density collapsing and all that so it dude crazy or okay that was button one which if I'm honest is actually kind of awesome I'm not saying stay home or press that button press that button but there's another button and this button is at the press of a button you can be essentially in a dream state but go experience literally anything you want to experience anything you want to be a superhero can go do that you want to be god you can do that you want to be the greatest surfer in the world you can do that you want to be the greatest surfer in the morning and god in the afternoon you can do that bro I think the reason the fair me paradox exists is because every civilization that gets to the point where they can bend space and time a long time before that they invent virtual worlds and the ability to jack in sound familiar like with neurolink and now all of a sudden you can influence their nervous system and they cannot tell the difference between the real world and the virtual world and now all of a sudden anything you can imagine you can create and as somebody building video games I'm telling you it we're 10 years away maybe less 10 years away from worlds that generate procedurally like that are photorealistic have all kinds of depth it's unbelievable and the human desire for change and for difference and to try and experiment it will be unbelievable unbelievable so you're telling me in the neighborhood that is the universe none of us are outside because we're all tubies on our phones that is the most horrible way to say it but yes you you're all locked inside of these incredible virtual worlds yes and I mean because you can share the experiences so it does not it doesn't need to be dystopian this episode was funny uh 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