Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty, arm Strong and
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Speaker 2: Investigators say they discovered a notebook and nine millimeter handgun
Speaker 2: in Mangioni's backpack, key evidence his defense team is asking
Speaker 2: the court to suppress. They argue police did not have
Speaker 2: a search warrant and failed to read Mangioni his Miranda rights.
Speaker 3: This could make or break the prosecutions case.
Speaker 1: It completes the picture of what was.
Speaker 2: Going on in Mangioni's mind.
Speaker 4: I thought that was pretty interesting when I learned that
Speaker 4: yesterday the cases started with the good looking, eyebrowed scumbag
Speaker 4: murderer being charged with killing that United Healthcare worker just
Speaker 4: murdered him in cold bud shot him in the back.
Speaker 1: Awful, awful story.
Speaker 4: But I thought it was interesting that maybe they didn't
Speaker 4: cross their t's and dot their eyes in terms of
Speaker 4: following legal protocol getting some of the evidence.
Speaker 1: I don't know, you know, we'll have to see.
Speaker 5: The defense always claims that they try to get everything
Speaker 5: tossed out.
Speaker 4: Sure, the fact that the media went along with the
Speaker 4: here he is smiling in court, showing the good looking
Speaker 4: kid all dressed up nice and neat, looking like a model,
Speaker 4: smiling in the courtroom. I saw that on every freaking
Speaker 4: newscast I watched, way to build him into a folk hero.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's disgusting.
Speaker 5: I'm trying to puzzle out what's behind people's and the
Speaker 5: people who are fans and you know, contributing to his
Speaker 5: legal defense and idolizing the guy. And because he murdered
Speaker 5: a young dad, now you might be really unhappy with
Speaker 5: the state of American healthcare and health insurance. I am,
Speaker 5: But to then make the leap that therefore murdering somebody's
Speaker 5: fine to get attention to the to the issue because
Speaker 5: that's more or less the argument that's being made, or
Speaker 5: this guy was complicit in it, therefore dot. I just
Speaker 5: think it's that so many people live so much of
Speaker 5: their lives online they've forgotten what real human beings are.
Speaker 5: In a way, they see everybody as just an icon
Speaker 5: or a video or a series of posts online. They've
Speaker 5: lost their sense of their fellow humans, humanity.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I became aware of this a long time ago, as
Speaker 4: we are minor celebrities that when people say incredibly awful
Speaker 4: things on the text line or Twitter or whatever. I
Speaker 4: realize that they don't see me as an actual human being.
Speaker 4: I'm like a TV show or something, and you know,
Speaker 4: just take it that way, because I know I do
Speaker 4: that with celebrities and I'm not proud of it, but I,
Speaker 4: you know, make comments about their lives, fashion choices, or
Speaker 4: you know, surgeries they've gotten on their faces or whatever
Speaker 4: is if they aren't actual human beings with feelings.
Speaker 1: And needs and desires and everything like that. And so
Speaker 1: I think you're right.
Speaker 4: I think this has just grown to include like practically
Speaker 4: everybody is just an actor in a play as opposed
Speaker 4: to an actual human being.
Speaker 5: So you're you're like indicating directionally what you think. You
Speaker 5: if you want to make clear that you think American
Speaker 5: health insurance and our system is screwed up, you say
Speaker 5: hooray for the murder of this young man, because that
Speaker 5: indicates I am against the current state of things. Forgetting
Speaker 5: that to encourage murder is just horrific. Where does it end? Genius?
Speaker 4: I hadn't seen the video in a while, and when
Speaker 4: they showed you know, portions of it yesterday and the
Speaker 4: newscast because the trial started it.
Speaker 1: Oh as really reminded.
Speaker 4: How horrible it is that dude just walking down the
Speaker 4: street and this young scumbag hit him in the back
Speaker 4: and he goes to his knees dies there in the sidewalk.
Speaker 1: It's just horrible, horrible.
Speaker 5: And then you factor in the fact that a lot
Speaker 5: of the appeal of Luigi.
Speaker 1: Is the fact that he's handsome. What the freak is
Speaker 1: wrong with you?
Speaker 5: Well, and he didn't have any any interactions with United Healthcare,
Speaker 5: so it was just like a generalized insurance is a problem,
Speaker 5: So I'm going to find somebody in the industry and
Speaker 5: murder them. He didn't have a problems with anything. He
Speaker 5: went to a super expensive grade school, middle school, high school,
Speaker 5: went to what ivy league college.
Speaker 1: He's been rich his entire life. He's one of those
Speaker 1: type of people.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, he had a lot of He had some
Speaker 5: pretty serious back issues and back pain, a lot of
Speaker 5: medical treatment, So I could believe he had a gripe
Speaker 5: about our medical system.
Speaker 1: But again, that doesn't even enter into it. I don't know,
Speaker 1: so I think I said this during the commercials. I
Speaker 1: think I honestly believe this.
Speaker 4: Anybody who's out there in support of the dude because
Speaker 4: he's so handsome, needs to be put in jail because
Speaker 4: they're that stupid. They're a danger to society. A stupid jail,
Speaker 4: a stupid person jail.
Speaker 5: It could be pretty nice. It could be like the
Speaker 5: place they got Gallayne Maxwell. It doesn't have to be hardcore.
Speaker 5: But you gotta be away from the public. If you're
Speaker 5: supporting this guy because of his eyebrows. Yeah, you should
Speaker 5: not be in the public, a stupid denterie. If you will.
Speaker 5: Uh yeah, I don't know. I just deny them the vote.
Speaker 5: That's enough for me. I'm a kind and merciful man.
Speaker 5: Just don't let them vote ever again. All right, weird.
Speaker 4: Editorial decision though by all the news people to here
Speaker 4: he is smiling in the courtroom.
Speaker 1: Okay, what is that? What are you trying to think?
Speaker 1: They get everybody that way.
Speaker 5: They get the fans and the people who understand that
Speaker 5: murder is a bad thing, which apparently we need to
Speaker 5: remind people of.
Speaker 4: Coming up bottom of the hour, I want to talk
Speaker 4: about your p doom? What's your p doom? That's a
Speaker 4: common term of art around the whole. AI is going
Speaker 4: to destroy us all things, and I got some interesting
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Speaker 4: So open the show asking the question, how do these
Speaker 4: economic numbers all fit together? Where you've got more people
Speaker 4: not making their car payment than in many, many, many years,
Speaker 4: more people maxed out on their credit cards, people falling
Speaker 4: behind on their student loans, people saying they're one months
Speaker 4: ran away from being poor. Blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 4: Right direction, wrong direction for their own personal economy.
Speaker 1: Horrible. Yet we had a huge Black Friday weekend.
Speaker 4: I'm trying to figure that out and everybody else is too,
Speaker 4: But we did get this text. Black Friday sales were
Speaker 4: up three percent total, but prices are up seven percent,
Speaker 4: so that means people actually bought four percent less stuff.
Speaker 4: I'm not sure everybody understands basic economic I'm trying to
Speaker 4: new let through.
Speaker 1: Does that make sense?
Speaker 4: Sales were up, but things are way more expensive. So
Speaker 4: if you bought the same amount of stuff as last year,
Speaker 4: they would be up, right, that's true?
Speaker 5: Or if it's down less than the rate of inflation,
Speaker 5: like it would be up. Yeah, huh, that should be answer.
Speaker 5: Why is he by the way, people, inflation is not
Speaker 5: what we all say it is. We have it backwards,
Speaker 5: and it's important. We'll explain coming up later this hour.
Speaker 5: Inflation is not what we think it is. We have
Speaker 5: it backwards.
Speaker 1: Correct.
Speaker 5: We've all been wrong, dead wrong, filthy wrong, shamefully wrong.
Speaker 1: Okay, and Joel explained, yes, I will all right.
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Speaker 5: A lot on the way, stay here Strong.
Speaker 1: What part of your body was the MRI looking at.
Speaker 1: I have no idea.
Speaker 6: That's not physically possible. To have no idea, it's not possible. Lord,
Speaker 6: would you say to the doctor, no, no, no, don't
Speaker 6: tell me. I want to find out at my MRI
Speaker 6: reveal party.
Speaker 3: That's the flu.
Speaker 6: For god's sakes, man, were you not curious at all
Speaker 6: when they laid you down in a tube for a
Speaker 6: half an hour to forty five.
Speaker 1: Minutes You didn't want to know what they might be doing?
Speaker 6: Or did you just think yourself what a loud tanning bed?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 4: Yeah, well that struck me the same way too. When
Speaker 4: Trump said I have no idea what they did an
Speaker 4: MRI on I just I can't imagine not being curious
Speaker 4: and wanting to know myself.
Speaker 5: Yeah, just I mean because you find medical science interesting. Well,
Speaker 5: I have personal interest in my own health. So you
Speaker 5: think I might have something wrong with me? You're gonna
Speaker 5: do an MRI on what?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 5: Had one emailer say that, No, since the budget is unlimited,
Speaker 5: they just did a whole body.
Speaker 1: MRI or what. I don't know if that's a thing.
Speaker 5: That wouldn't that take hours and hours and hours because
Speaker 5: you got to take very specific shots of the various
Speaker 5: levels of you to get those layered images.
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on.
Speaker 5: I never will. So I found this really really interesting.
Speaker 5: It might seem seem like a quibble to you, but
Speaker 5: it's not. I think it's fundamentally really important. How many
Speaker 5: times have we talked about how the Left perverts language,
Speaker 5: how they change the meanings of words or equivocate between
Speaker 5: two terms like sex and gender. First they tell you, no,
Speaker 5: gender is different from sex, it's just the way you
Speaker 5: express yourself. And then Mike, your child needs to change
Speaker 5: his gender. Do you mean to get a sex change? No,
Speaker 5: we've already reckoned with that. As a society. We don't
Speaker 5: give sex changes to children. But now they've invented new
Speaker 5: terms to try to confuse issues. They do that all
Speaker 5: the time, and it pisses me off when even conservatives
Speaker 5: use terms like gender affirming care, for instance, which is
Speaker 5: obviously a term created to cloud issues. Found this super interesting.
Speaker 5: This guy from the Misse Institute, Ludwig mis say, Ludwig
Speaker 5: von missus, miss a missus whatever, I'm not friend, it's
Speaker 5: me right, messus uh. The Mesas Institute says every major
Speaker 5: economic illusion begins with the corruption of a word. Inflation
Speaker 5: once meant popularly people's perception of the word inflation, they
Speaker 5: understood what it still means in truth, the artificial expansion
Speaker 5: of money and credit. Inflation means one thing, the artificial
Speaker 5: expansion of the money supply and or credit. But over
Speaker 5: time it's been redefined to describe the consequences of inflation
Speaker 5: rather than its cause. Now here's where you might think
Speaker 5: Joe Getty, expert wordsmith, is really slicing it thin. But
Speaker 5: that's not the case. That's exactly and that's why I
Speaker 5: thought there was so.
Speaker 1: Interesting about this.
Speaker 5: The deliberate inversion of language serves a political purpose. It
Speaker 5: shifts blame from those who create money to those who
Speaker 5: merely spend it, transforming an act of monetary fraud into
Speaker 5: a mere statistical phenomenon. And I think even more important
Speaker 5: their second point is, and they mentioned the result is
Speaker 5: profound because by refined, redefining inflation, governments have obscured its nature,
Speaker 5: and economists have lost its meaning, and citizens have come
Speaker 5: to accept their gradual impoverishment as an unavoidable fact of life.
Speaker 5: And also, this is the part that I really liked.
Speaker 5: So since we don't since we've used inflation now to
Speaker 5: describe or rise in prices, we don't have a word
Speaker 5: for an artificial inflation of the money supply anymore. If
Speaker 5: you say inflation, people think hot dogs are more expensive.
Speaker 1: I know I do. We don't have a word for
Speaker 1: what used to be inflation.
Speaker 5: People today use the term inflation to refer to the
Speaker 5: phenomenon that is, the inevitable consequence of inflation, that's the
Speaker 5: tendency of all prices and wages to rise. The result
Speaker 5: of this deplorable confusion is that there is no term
Speaker 5: left to signify the cause of this rise in prices
Speaker 5: and wages. There's no longer any word available to signify
Speaker 5: the phenomenon that has been up till now called inflation.
Speaker 5: If it follows that nobody cares about inflation in the
Speaker 5: traditional sense of the term. As you cannot talk about
Speaker 5: something that has no name, you cannot fight it. Those
Speaker 5: who pretend to fight inflation are in fact only fighting
Speaker 5: what is the inevitable consequence of inflation rising prices. Their
Speaker 5: ventures are doing to failure because they do not attack
Speaker 5: the root of the evil. That was an excellent point.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So governments do things that will cause in what
Speaker 4: we call inflation.
Speaker 1: Nobody discusses that.
Speaker 5: When the inflation occurs, what we call inflation occurs, then we.
Speaker 1: Have discussions about that.
Speaker 5: They do things. What things? What things are you talking about?
Speaker 5: I need to be introduced to this concept because we've
Speaker 5: changed the meaning of the word.
Speaker 1: And they go on.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 5: In case you're thinking, well, prices go up a little bit.
Speaker 5: You know, it's fine, I'm used to it. For every expansion,
Speaker 5: I like your sanguine tone.
Speaker 1: That's really good. Yeah, it's it's why I'm not really involved.
Speaker 1: I don't know much about Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, let's see, for every expansion in the money supply,
Speaker 5: it constitutes a form of legalized counterfeiting that robs all
Speaker 5: holders of money, redistributing wealth from savers and producers hello
Speaker 5: to those nearest the new money's point of entry. Prices
Speaker 5: adjusted evenly because new money does not enter all pockets
Speaker 5: at once. It flows first to borrowers, banks, and state
Speaker 5: contractors before dispersing through the broader economy. Or I would
Speaker 5: argue it flows into the pockets of those who politicians
Speaker 5: wish to bribe to get their votes.
Speaker 1: This is true. You know, I hadn't thought about it.
Speaker 1: If you, if you actually start.
Speaker 4: Thinking about your net worth and how it's changed over
Speaker 4: the inflation years, starting in like twenty twenty, it's depressing.
Speaker 1: It's depressing.
Speaker 4: But so you know your your chunk of money that
Speaker 4: you've been hanging on to is worth God, what is
Speaker 4: it worth? Ten fifteen percent less than it was not
Speaker 4: very long ago. But people who are getting money, they've
Speaker 4: adjusted those amounts for inflation, right, right, they have adjusted
Speaker 4: my savings for inflation.
Speaker 5: So you know, you go back to the absolutely obscene
Speaker 5: an American eachable treason trial with hangings Quality Inflation Reduction Act,
Speaker 5: Remember that one that was inflation. Yeah, it vastly inflated
Speaker 5: the money supply they borrowed vast amounts of money and
Speaker 5: pumped them into the economy that was inflation.
Speaker 1: It didn't cause inflation.
Speaker 5: You know, I'll be frustrating the rest of my life
Speaker 5: because everybody else in the world, folks will continue to
Speaker 5: use the convention or the current meaning of the term
Speaker 5: death with your first well, right, exactly because of my anger.
Speaker 5: But they mentioned the Austrian school of economics and the
Speaker 5: understanding new money changes prices, which we beget other changes
Speaker 5: from injection points. Inflation benefits those who receive new money
Speaker 5: first and penalizes those normal people who receive it last.
Speaker 1: You know what I was talking about earlier.
Speaker 4: I'll be interested to see how this whole spending season
Speaker 4: shakes out if we end up actually spending more than
Speaker 4: last year through the holidays while being behind on car payment,
Speaker 4: student loans. Being the scaredest we've ever most scared we've
Speaker 4: ever been around healthcare costs.
Speaker 1: What does that mean about our society?
Speaker 5: We have re complete inability to say no to ourselves
Speaker 5: personally or politically.
Speaker 1: We are really short term thinkers. Yeah, doomed, are you
Speaker 1: gonna do? What's P doom?
Speaker 4: P doom is actually a term they use in the
Speaker 4: AI world what's your p doom?
Speaker 1: Various people ask each other.
Speaker 4: That's the percentage you believe the likelihood of complete doom
Speaker 4: because of AI, that it's going to destroy mankind. And
Speaker 4: I can tell you what various people's p dooms are
Speaker 4: and why they have them, and why I am so
Speaker 4: much more pessimistic today than I was twenty four hours
Speaker 4: ago about AI.
Speaker 5: I certainly hope the p doom is generally one to
Speaker 5: two percent, right, I.
Speaker 4: Am much more pessimistic having taken in a bunch of
Speaker 4: in from yesterday about ever getting our In fact, I've
Speaker 4: given up.
Speaker 1: I have given up no longer. I'm going to be
Speaker 1: concerned about it.
Speaker 4: It's kind of liberating, really giving a certain way in
Speaker 4: a certain way, Yes on the way, So stay here,
Speaker 4: armstrong and getty.
Speaker 7: This man dangling from a tree. A female lion is
Speaker 7: just feet below. As the man slides down, the lioness
Speaker 7: begins to claw, and when the man is close enough,
Speaker 7: the animal pounces, dragging him to the ground.
Speaker 1: In less than a.
Speaker 7: Minute, the struggle appears to be over. The zeus is
Speaker 7: the man was killed. The lioness, who's named Leona. Speaking Portuguese,
Speaker 7: this woman, identified as the Zous biologist says the lioness
Speaker 7: simply displayed natural behavior for her species.
Speaker 1: She adds, at no point to the idea.
Speaker 7: Of putting the animal down cross our minds.
Speaker 5: Oh wow, you never hear that, And I've always wondered that,
Speaker 5: why do you put down an animal who, in given
Speaker 5: the opportunity, eat somebody. That's what they're supposed to do.
Speaker 5: Like Chris Rock once said that Tiger didn't go crazy,
Speaker 5: it went tiger right. Well, given the opportunity, the guy
Speaker 5: climbed into the enclosure.
Speaker 1: Where was that cage? Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was in That was in Brazil. Wow.
Speaker 4: So if you're at the zoo, I have ad If
Speaker 4: I'm with my little kids, the answer is obviously different.
Speaker 4: But if I'm by myself as a grown man and
Speaker 4: I see some job about the climb into the lion cage.
Speaker 5: Am I thinking cool? Or am I horrified? I think
Speaker 5: he'd be horrified and amazed and have just some percentage,
Speaker 5: some percentage he would be like, oh my god. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I mean, so, once he's in there and the lion
Speaker 5: is approaching him, do you watch or once the lion
Speaker 5: starts chewing on him, do you watch?
Speaker 1: Or do you look away?
Speaker 4: You know, person be probably horrified, person's probably mentally ill.
Speaker 3: But because I'm sick, I watched the video and the
Speaker 3: guy is shimmying down the tree. He doesn't even hit
Speaker 3: the ground before the lion starts going at him, and
Speaker 3: then she takes him into like a bush like she's
Speaker 3: hiding with a snack, so nobody could really see anything.
Speaker 7: Ah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and lions, it's not like the it's a Texas
Speaker 5: chainsaw thing. It just gets around the neck and clamp
Speaker 5: down and suffocate you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then they sprayed it with a fire extinguisher
Speaker 3: to get it away from the guy, but it was
Speaker 3: too late.
Speaker 1: Well, they shouldn't have climbed into the line cage, just
Speaker 1: as general rule of thumb, don't do that.
Speaker 4: So if you listen to this show, you know, I'm
Speaker 4: endlessly fascinated with AI, and I think I always will be.
Speaker 4: It's maybe the most interesting thing that's ever happened on
Speaker 4: planet Earth, and it's going to become more evident that
Speaker 4: that is the case.
Speaker 1: Is days, months and years go by.
Speaker 4: I was briefly over the weekend thinking I might become
Speaker 4: an activist to try to slow down AI. But I
Speaker 4: took in more information yesterday that made me think that's
Speaker 4: a waste of time. So while I will continue to
Speaker 4: be endlessly fascinated by AI, am no longer going to
Speaker 4: be an activist.
Speaker 1: Here's one of the reasons which I thought I found
Speaker 1: this is not surprising. You still got human beings involved.
Speaker 4: So I've been taking I read a lot, I watch
Speaker 4: a lot of videos.
Speaker 5: I've been watching these doom debates. I'm doom pilled, as
Speaker 5: they called it, because I am definitely believe that this
Speaker 5: is going to be a bad thing, not a good
Speaker 5: thing when AI get smarter.
Speaker 1: So I am doom pilled.
Speaker 4: Buzz watching a pretty good debate between a doomer and
Speaker 4: somebody on the other side of it who's an accelerationist,
Speaker 4: and I went into it, you know, tear them apart doomer,
Speaker 4: and the accelerationist actually convinced me. You know, that's a
Speaker 4: pretty good debate for performance. When you lean one direction
Speaker 4: and you're watching a debate and the person that like
Speaker 4: is not your natural inclination ends up winning you over.
Speaker 5: Sure, that's what universities used to do, the exchange of
Speaker 5: ideas so people learn things good times.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this guy, actually he won me over mostly by
Speaker 4: just getting into the how the hell would you regulate
Speaker 4: it and getting into the particulars of it. It's just
Speaker 4: not possible and anything you attempted to do would do
Speaker 4: more harm than good. And then you always have, as
Speaker 4: you brought up yesterday, the China problem of so we're
Speaker 4: going to regulate it to death. There are a thousand
Speaker 4: different state bills in state houses around the country right
Speaker 4: now of every different kind that would make it impossible
Speaker 4: for open AI or chat GPD.
Speaker 1: Well they're the same thing.
Speaker 5: Or groc or you know, whoever's different thing to get
Speaker 5: off the ground because there's so many different ways of
Speaker 5: trying to regulate it. Meanwhile, China screaming ahead. So anyway,
Speaker 5: there's that also. But this is the part that really
Speaker 5: struck me. I was watching some of these AI geniuses
Speaker 5: and they're morons.
Speaker 4: They're way smarter than me when it comes to computers
Speaker 4: and AI. They are not smart than me when it
Speaker 4: comes to geopolitics or human nature.
Speaker 1: Absolutely not smarter. And I've seen some.
Speaker 5: Of them talking their children in their understanding of human
Speaker 5: nature and geopolitics.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was watching this guy yesterday and he's one
Speaker 4: of the top AI people the entire world that I
Speaker 4: remember which the name was, and and he's he was
Speaker 4: all about how we've just gone overboard with thinking China
Speaker 4: is our enemy and we need to work with China,
Speaker 4: China and us can work together to create an AI.
Speaker 5: And I thought you are freaking nuts say that, you
Speaker 5: child sounds come on, you are so much smarter than
Speaker 5: me and them when it comes to you know, coding computer,
Speaker 5: but so much stupider than me and most everybody else.
Speaker 5: And not having the ability to recognize that China's one
Speaker 5: goal as a country is to pass us up and
Speaker 5: dominate the.
Speaker 1: World, your child, in the name of totalitarianism.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and they have no interest whatsoever in working with
Speaker 5: us to create an AI that benefits all man. And
Speaker 5: they never ever will, you child, So as long as
Speaker 5: do we need to work with them and get will
Speaker 5: and they'll be nice to us, and we'll be nice
Speaker 5: to put on a little Lord Funnel Roy outfit and
Speaker 5: suck on a lollipop.
Speaker 1: Ew dope, you child, you child.
Speaker 4: It was both not surprising and disappointing to realize that
Speaker 4: the same moronic politics and human nature and blind spots
Speaker 4: are going to be involved in the debate around AI
Speaker 4: as there is with freaking everything else.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it reminds me of civilian control with the military
Speaker 5: that exists for a very specific set of reasons. Civilian
Speaker 5: control of AI will let you worry about the particulars
Speaker 5: and develop it and come up with new weapons and
Speaker 5: the rest of it. But there've got to be non
Speaker 5: in the lab forces that talk about how to be used, how.
Speaker 1: It be used.
Speaker 5: On the other hand, it's funny all these we got
Speaker 5: a bunch of great emails on this topic. I've read articles,
Speaker 5: I've listened to you talk, and I just sit here,
Speaker 5: you know, munching on a cellery stick, playing cribbage on
Speaker 5: my phone. And when everybody's done talking, I say, what
Speaker 5: about China? And I go back to playing cribbage on
Speaker 5: my phone Because you could talk for weeks about well
Speaker 5: we could. We probably don't want to regulate the development
Speaker 5: of it in the research, but we can regulate the
Speaker 5: implementation of it in ways that make sure that what
Speaker 5: about China? And I sit down again.
Speaker 1: So getting to this whole p doom concept. So this
Speaker 1: I don't remember.
Speaker 4: It was coined a couple of years ago, and it's
Speaker 4: a regular thing you ask people to start the conversation
Speaker 4: of what's your pedom, what's your percentage of this is
Speaker 4: going to destroy mankind? And for instance, Elon Musk is
Speaker 4: at like ten to twenty percent, which seems incredibly high.
Speaker 5: I mean, if that is, if that is realistic, you
Speaker 5: wouldn't think you'd go down a road where there's a
Speaker 5: one in five chance it destroys all of mankind. But
Speaker 5: we are AnyWho this one particular expert, the one that
Speaker 5: was a moron about China and their desires, his pedom
Speaker 5: is around one percent. And they said, and he said,
Speaker 5: it's just insane the idea that anybody thinks it's incredibly
Speaker 5: likely that we destroy mankind. Now, he said, now a
Speaker 5: catastrophic event unlike anything mankind has ever seen. A much
Speaker 5: much higher on that, but destroying mankind completely. I was like, what, Oh, okay,
Speaker 5: so you're better a case scenario ain't great? Yeah, soon
Speaker 5: you're narrowing it to absolutely destroys mankind completely, human beings
Speaker 5: no longer exist on earth.
Speaker 1: Anything short of that is fine. What the hell kind
Speaker 1: of a mindset is that? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Again, this guy's probably great in the lab, but I
Speaker 5: don't want them in charge of anything. So a lot
Speaker 5: of so what he's describing would reduce the population by what,
Speaker 5: I don't know, ten to ninety eight percent.
Speaker 4: Well, right, and he actually said something like, you know,
Speaker 4: there would still be millions of people left that could
Speaker 4: procreate and rebuild society. Well, I don't think most of
Speaker 4: us want to live through whatever that would be.
Speaker 1: You freaking weirdo.
Speaker 5: Just alerting you to the fact that some of the
Speaker 5: people that are in charge of these systems that are
Speaker 5: going to take over the world have these crazy, crazy
Speaker 5: outlooks on thing.
Speaker 4: But just getting to pe do them to pay this off.
Speaker 4: One to five percent means you're very optimistic. A lot
Speaker 4: of researchers are optimistic that it won't destroy mankind. Five
Speaker 4: to fifteen percent is considered moderate concern. It's common among
Speaker 4: people who think their risks are real but manageable. Fifteen
Speaker 4: percent likelihood of completely destroying mankind seems incredibly high, and
Speaker 4: like being really blase to.
Speaker 1: Let that go.
Speaker 5: Twenty to fifty percent, and this is what I wanted
Speaker 5: to mention, twenty to fifty percent fairly worried. A lot
Speaker 5: of current and former open AI and thropic and deep
Speaker 5: mind safety people land in this category. Twenty eight to
Speaker 5: fifty percent. You think it's fifty percent likely this is going.
Speaker 1: To destroy mankind on planet Earth.
Speaker 5: All of you people that work for all of these
Speaker 5: big a AI corporations.
Speaker 1: So let it gets started, let's get to work. Percent likely,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's unbelievable.
Speaker 4: And then you've got I've talked about Eli Yudkowski, who
Speaker 4: wrote the book that just came out a couple months ago.
Speaker 4: If anyone builds it, everyone dies. He's at ninety nine
Speaker 4: percent and has to been for quite some time, and
Speaker 4: there are other people like him.
Speaker 5: But the fact that there are lots of people that
Speaker 5: are at fifty percent, how isn't this not a bigger conversation?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 5: JT and Livermore suggests that let's let's retitle that if
Speaker 5: China builds it, we all die. If China gets there first,
Speaker 5: do you really think they won't ask it to help
Speaker 5: wipe America off the face of the planet. So I'd
Speaker 5: argue it's one hundred percent likely that if China builds
Speaker 5: it first, the world is screamed. But if America builds
Speaker 5: it first, we might actually secure safety and freedom for
Speaker 5: the whole planet. So if even if Musk is right
Speaker 5: about the twenty percent likelihood that AI kills us. I'll
Speaker 5: gladly take the eighty percent likelihood that it helps spread
Speaker 5: American values over the absolute certainty that China win.
Speaker 4: We're all screamed, Yeah, I think you're missing the point
Speaker 4: that if it becomes super intelligence, ain't nobody controlling it, US,
Speaker 4: China or anybody else. It's going to do whatever it
Speaker 4: wants to do. It's not being created, it's growing. It's
Speaker 4: currently growing, and it's growing in ways they didn't predict
Speaker 4: and have no idea how fast it's going to grow.
Speaker 1: It's on its own now, it's out there doing its thing.
Speaker 5: Even if you fully accept that and comprehend that America's
Speaker 5: got to be first to get it, and then when
Speaker 5: it goes out of control and destroys us, all, well think, well,
Speaker 5: darn it.
Speaker 1: We didn't have to try so hard. After all, it
Speaker 1: didn't matter.
Speaker 5: But you know, that'll be a twenty twenty hind sight
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Speaker 4: I will shut up about this for today after just
Speaker 4: saying for the third time, I can't believe mankind is
Speaker 4: building something where a lot of people in charge. I
Speaker 4: think there's a fifty percent chance that it wipes us out.
Speaker 1: It's almost hard to wrap your head around. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: choose not to.
Speaker 5: I uh, I can't do anything about it, so I'm
Speaker 5: going to blissfully pretend it's not happening.
Speaker 1: It's like the ultimate.
Speaker 4: Human nature thing, I guess, and kind of like I
Speaker 4: was talking about yesterday, how we uh, you know, we
Speaker 4: all in theory would like to be healthy, but we
Speaker 4: eat pie and cookies and all these different sorts of
Speaker 4: things that are, you know, not in our best interest.
Speaker 5: It's just, yeah, I think. And I'm not a theologian.
Speaker 5: I'm not you know, a terribly devout person, but there
Speaker 5: is absolutely there's an undeniable biblical field to the.
Speaker 4: Absolutely absolutely as we can't resist an impulse even though
Speaker 4: we know it's going to destroy us. There is some
Speaker 4: Adam and even the garden thing going on. There, no
Speaker 4: doubt about it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we've acquired the knowledge that we cannot handle and
Speaker 5: it will kill us.
Speaker 1: And if you.
Speaker 5: Believe in God, we know it going and we're still
Speaker 5: doing it well. And if you believe in God is
Speaker 5: held as described by Judeo Christian traditions, the idea that
Speaker 5: we had a couple of million years, a few million
Speaker 5: years was a good run, and now it's time to
Speaker 5: end and onto the next thing, or maybe stripping it
Speaker 5: down to the five percent of the population excuse me,
Speaker 5: and going from there. That's not crazy Noah's ark, et cetera.
Speaker 5: It's it's not like it's not been thought of before.
Speaker 5: It's been thought of and described many times, several times. Anyway,
Speaker 5: stuff that's good stuff.
Speaker 1: Any thoughts, Texas or emails more on the way. Armstrong
Speaker 1: and Getty the most depressing radio show ever. That's a liberal.
Speaker 4: Probably the top Republican publication in my mind in American
Speaker 4: National Review has got an editorial board piece out. If
Speaker 4: Trump wants to use military forced to Toppe Maduro, he
Speaker 4: needs to call to Congress and ask for authorization.
Speaker 5: That's their take. Mm hmm, yeah, I don't know if
Speaker 5: you get it. Would he get it?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 5: No, I would guess not, because there's nobody in America
Speaker 5: who's running around pitching the idea of attacking Venezuela. I
Speaker 5: mean it has no constituency. I mean, we might not
Speaker 5: like drug cartels and that sort of thing, but.
Speaker 1: What happens next.
Speaker 5: And even we have like their top three generals have said,
Speaker 5: oh yeah, I'm totally down with the plan.
Speaker 1: I would love to be allied with the United States.
Speaker 1: Let's get this done.
Speaker 4: It would be a quadmire given our recent experiments with
Speaker 4: regime change. I don't think a majority of Americans probably
Speaker 4: want to give.
Speaker 5: That a world be my guess. I think you're absolutely right. Oh,
Speaker 5: speaking of Maduro, this is amusing. Establishments like CNN, the
Speaker 5: Associated Press, and The New York Times have all, in
Speaker 5: various articles, embraced the new narrative about Venezuela's Cartel de
Speaker 5: la Solis. It doesn't actually exist. It's not real. It's
Speaker 5: it's it's been made up, in spite of the fact
Speaker 5: that all of them covered the Biden administration prosecuting successfully
Speaker 5: a higher up known as El Poyo the Chicken back
Speaker 5: in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1: This guy got extradited, uh and prosecutor.
Speaker 5: I want a better nickname. If I'm gonna be a
Speaker 5: high up drug kingpin, I don't want to be the chicken. Yeah,
Speaker 5: that's kind of weak, dudes. Look, I'm not gonna shoot
Speaker 5: anybody over this, but the chicken really not the cock.
Speaker 1: You don't even get to be that now it just
Speaker 1: says el poyo anyway.
Speaker 5: So yeah, back when that was happening in the Biden administration,
Speaker 5: US labels Madua tied Cartel del Solis is a terror organization.
Speaker 5: It's not a cartel per se, is the current headline
Speaker 5: in the AP But back in the day when the
Speaker 5: Biden administration was prosecuting them, it was that dangerous freebody
Speaker 5: always overplays their hand. You can go ahead and be
Speaker 5: against regime change in Venezuela. You don't have to pretend
Speaker 5: that they're not a narco state to do it, right, right, Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 5: I got this story I wanted to touch on. There
Speaker 5: is a homeless encampment near the Space Needle in Seattle.
Speaker 5: It's gained international media attention. Well, Seattle, after a very
Speaker 5: brief jog toward the right, and not just toward the right,
Speaker 5: from like openly communists to reasonable liberal, is now going
Speaker 5: to veer back leftward as mayor elect Katie Wilson, who
Speaker 5: is just a treat takes office in January of twenty six,
Speaker 5: the Space Needle homeless camp is growing like a weed,
Speaker 5: and she has vowed to end junkie camp cleanups. They
Speaker 5: call them homeless camps to hide the fact that it's
Speaker 5: almost entirely junkies, but the growing camp highlights Seattle's worsening
Speaker 5: homeless crisis, as Microsoft just announced it's moving its Build
Speaker 5: twenty twenty six conference to Las Vegas and away from Seattle.
Speaker 5: It is widely believed this is due to safety concerns.
Speaker 4: Around the Seattle convigs, Microsoft itself having their conference in
Speaker 4: a different town.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I know, it's amazing. Let's see moving a
Speaker 5: long wasn't going to jump on. It's gonna take a
Speaker 5: little while to explain. You're about to see a bunch
Speaker 5: of new lawsuits against the oil industry. There is a
Speaker 5: new venture fund backed law firm backed by lefty hedge
Speaker 5: fund guys that are going to be filing suit all
Speaker 5: over the place. So look forward to hearing about that.
Speaker 5: That's where it's coming from. And you know, we have
Speaker 5: been somewhat to remiss in not reporting on Governor Tim
Speaker 5: Walltz lame O. Among lame O's presiding over the theft
Speaker 5: of more than a billion dollars in taxpayer funds, and
Speaker 5: then Waltz is trying to blame Trump for failing to
Speaker 5: stop the scheme. Man, these lefty schemes to hand out money,
Speaker 5: they always end up in massive fraud. Our four is
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