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Increased violence in the world of EI artificial intelligence. He said he wanted to quote burn it down and kill anyone inside
Um, I'm quitting Anthropic because of what I've seen and I'm retiring to the Irish countryside to write poetry
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It might it might when they kill everybody
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Well folks, don't say anything about that. We're back everybody. Stay tuned for the coming of the week. We're bringing that back
Uh, we're just going to dive right in. We got a lot to cover here a lot to cover. We're going to be going over the
increased violence in the in the world of
These people man the details that came out about the the Molotov cocktail attack on Sam Altman's house are
Wild stuff and subsequent
Shooting yeah, and some subsequent gun gun attack on he house
And we're going to be talking all about uh, some some updates in the AI world. We've got Elon Musk and
You know, it's so funny that this isn't even getting coverage Elon Musk is going to court against open AI with a jury
A dang jury trial
The rural juror the rural juror. Oh, is that supposed to be a tongue twister?
It's that 30 rock thing. It's in my head because we're gonna talk right in the bonus bed
And you know, if we got time, we're going to be talking about uh, the man oh man. This Ashley St. Clair Elon Musk baby mama
Here's like, well, maybe mama if you sent the sperm through the male
Yeah, cuz he's still she still give birth to the baby. For sure
But before we get into all of that, let's give you a little bit of an update on that thing going on over there
The war in Iran. They sent they sent our nation's best JD Vance and two
corrupt real estate tycoons yeah
uh, and including the president's
Moran son-in-law it's
And it didn't go well. It didn't go well. It's also one of those things where obviously we we started the show with an intention to have
Fun and funny takes on these things and it
I don't you remember the show Veepe
Who could forget? I I don't know if it was I don't know if it was the creator Armando Aynucci or a producer because I think Armando
Might have even left before the end of it, but I remember they ended it around the time Donald Trump got elected
and
Someone either the creator or one of the producers was basically like
There's nothing left for us here anymore. You know, like you've mentioned that. Yeah, we've we've done
It's not even parody. Yeah, the real the real life is funnier than we could ever imagine. Yeah, and
We're experiencing a bit of that with Trump's latest moves where
He is now so failed negotiations with Iran
Trump's
big brain move is
Since they can't
Open the straight of her moves, which they've been begging for and say needs to happen his move is now
Well, we're blocking the straight. We're doing a naval blockade with the finest navy in the world where
If you won't open it, we'll block it stick that in your pipe and suck on it and your pipe
It doesn't it is unfortunate that he is just
Doing things that are funnier than we could have ever imagined. I mean a lot of people online are going this is
Our foreign policy is like a it's like a male Brooks movie or like a
Like a Monty Python sketch or something. It's you won't open the straights when it keeps it closed
It's do something with that. It's unbelievable. Also, it seems like it's
not effectively closed with
The big worry here was that okay, what happens if China for example tries to
Make good on a deal. They've made with Iran where their ships will still be able to get through
Is the US maybe actually going to
Turn a Chinese tanker around turn around Chinese tanker or we don't want your passing through here
So far it doesn't seem like that's the case it seems like Chinese Chinese
Ships have gotten through yeah, and the American Navy has just gone
Enjoy
Enjoy the oil cut to the the American guys are eating um like chow mein and the Chinese ships are like waving
You know because they've brought them with chow mein noodles
How do you think it's a bribe? Yeah, I'm fucking I'd take that bribe
They do an old-school style with like ropes between the ships
Here's some you know
I mean, whatever it takes I bet I don't know exactly
I have no idea how the logistics of any of how it works with the stranded
The ships that are just stuck in the straight or with bribes. I bet I bet they would probably take some
Lomaine at this point. I'd be I mean, I remember when the the ILWU the
um
The dock workers union here in the port of Los Angeles went on strike. There were a couple big ones, but
I remember in the in the early 2000s or like the late night. It was probably the early 2000s the big one
There were dozens of ships just docked out on on the horizon. It was
really really wild and
They were they were coming up across similar issues is like okay, they're running out of supplies
So they had smaller boats come and
Either deliver supplies or just relieve the crews and
Either swap them out or I don't know. So I don't know if they're doing that over there, but one thing
Is for certain and I've talked about it on here and I said it man and I effing called it
The market doesn't care any more not I did okay. They seem to love it
It's at the all-time highs and I'm
Bucking pissed at myself and I will cover it on stock to it's because I
got him pissed
Okay, Sunday night the futures markets opens and it opens way down almost one over one percent
And then it starts to climb and it's only down three quarters of a percent and I was just like I know it's gonna fucking
It's gonna turn green by Monday morning and sure enough it did and not only did it turn green
It went up even beyond that and I didn't
Make a trade even though my gut told me this is exactly what's gonna happen and I just I missed out on so much
Potential profit and it's just this is the
What sucks about trading is you can make a little money, but then you have to look at oh if I had just done
Exactly what I thought would happen
It's so fucking frustrating folks
Do it yet. So in well, sorry real fast
It speaks to what I've referred to I've said it countless times on the show
If you are worried and you think that the world is about to end just look at what the market is doing
Sometimes that's wrong because sometimes it's just a delay. Well, no, truly sometimes it's a delayed reaction
But more often than not the market knows or the market is the true gauge of sentiment and the fact that the market just seems so
counter to your whole
Thing though like especially the COVID thing where it's like the market just could not
Figure this out and you saw it coming
And this feels so similar to me where it's like
There was a difference the difference was it was not at all a mainstream
Topic of discussion yet. It was just like some people were talking about it. Others were just being like
Yeah, it's not a big deal. It's it's nothing. I think everybody has already gone through multiple cycles of analyzing and over analyzing and the straight being closed and
The energy shock and all that stuff and I think ultimately it just goes to show that what we are being told and what
Information is coming out of there is not a hundred percent accurate being told about what like the the the
Because from what I can understand like the closure itself analyst I've seen are like I mean
They say we're still living in a pre pre-closure world where
We're filming this on April 14th
April 15th is the day according to that JP Morgan thing where America the west coast of
North America will get its last
Shipments of oil. Yeah, that has already
You're seeing does effects in Asian markets african markets Europe just got their last shipment April 10th
I see the
Uh, I see the EU commissioner come out like every other day to be like
Please stay home
We don't have much like I don't like please stay home
That you know great. I'm glad the I'm glad the markets back up like I mean I had a weird personal situation where like
Someone someone owed me some money and I called them
Uh, this was probably like a week or so after February 28th. We're talking three figures or four figures
Over a thousand dollars or a hundred thousand dollars what and
Good man. I was like
Or they brought it up and they were like yeah, just tell me tell me the information. I'll get it to you
I just have to like move from Schwab or whatever and I was like wait is this an investment account and they were like
Yeah, and I was like well fuck. It's a terrible. I don't I don't want you to send it now and they were like
Yeah, I was gonna bring that up like my shit tank. I was like I'm never getting this money like I can't take it while you're getting founded and
Now
A week and I was like
I
Hit that cell but I don't know if it's all the S&P but it's a dollar off all time high and then yesterday
I was like I think it's probably a good to and then literally today
Uh, I went for it, but I don't I mean who knows I don't think we're out of the woods
Maybe we are with the market, but in my mind the market the market is completely irrational and
And it may never crash again
The more I look at it. I'm like, maybe this is just something that's divorced from reality that
the ownership class gets to get to invest in and
K will be there will be a massive revolt among that class if
All of their assets go down so it has to stay afloat and if
You know if you can't get to work because
Gasoline is nine dollars a gallon. Well, you can just go kick rocks. Sorry. I think it it would be who of us all to remember
Especially with that and we've talked about it on here
It's not the entire world's supply that goes through that straight. It's a good chunk of it. Yes
20% but you're already seeing which is massive, but you're already seeing
Like I don't know if any of you guys have seen it, but there's a uh uh a screen grab of the like world ship
Tracker thing showing this massive line that spans the globe
Of tankers rerouting to the Gulf of Mexico. I'm not saying Gulf of America because it ain't the fucking Gulf of America
Um, yeah, that is the hope that they can they can ramp up production elsewhere
Yeah, but it does feel like there's gonna be a little bit of a bubble that will have to account for it either way
Uh, and so I think that just feels a little odd that you would be um, it's that the market would be rallying at that
But we'll see maybe it's it's again. It's uh and I guess I should kind of retract and say that it's not
It doesn't mean that we're out of the woods and that there's no cause for concern. I think that just
It's perhaps um
I don't know hope I hopefully not going to be
As prolonged and as disastrous as uh some might think well the fun thing is we'll get to find out in about seven to ten days
Yeah, I think I forgot which strategy like I do want to be clear like there is a lot of turmoil in in these Asian countries
I think people are like oh that's very far away and and whatever were immune to that like
Some pretty
Horrible stories of things reverberate around the world and um so
Well in other news uh trump tweeted a photo of himself as uh Jesus Christ
Literally Jesus Christ
He thought he was a doctor. I don't know if you guys saw this but it's fucking bananas and it's I think it must have been made in part with AI
I mean because the fighter jets when you zoom in look really weird and psychotic
But then uh his response was um
Pure gold if you go back to the dock and click his uh
His response he was asked about it um during this door-dash stunt
And let's hear what old Donnie T had to say about it
Mr. President, did you post that picture on yourself to put it as Jesus Christ?
Well, it wasn't to picture it was me. I did first it and I thought it was me as the doctor
And had to do with Red Cross as a Red Cross worker there which we support and
Only the fake news could come up with that one so I had I had uh
I just heard about it and I said how did they come up with that
It's supposed to be me as a doctor making people better and I do make people better. I make people
A lot better as an example
Actually sound of piss Donald Trump's piss. I am surprised he covering every mega
uh
Devoted it just right there's just going
Just piss more piss sir
I have some ice I mean that's a Red Cross worker
Come on. I was surprised. They didn't blame someone. That's like usually blame the media
He said only the only the fake news could come up with that. I did post it
I'm surprised to even cop to that first. He said it's not a picture. I did post it
That is a picture he did post it
And then he said uh yeah, he said that guy could be a doctor
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Uh, it's just and it's it's I mean he really is a genius. He's got it on lock
He's just on autopilot when he talks like this because he single-handedly made it the media's fault
Which is enough to like make it the narrative
It wasn't the the fake news media. It was literally everybody being like hey, this is psychotic
The reason he took it down was because I think his own followers were
Oh, yeah, some of them pissed about the the
Depiction of him as Jesus. Yeah, and then the spooky like weird angel fucking. I mean, it's all there's can be
It's yeah, there's gonna be so many
Historians are gonna have a field day between
Just just all these nobody's gonna believe them change
And
Fake images and then the very real did you see the images with him of and the videos of him with the Easter bunny?
Yes, I mean what was threatening you're on 50 years from now you're learning about this in school and you're just watching a video
Trump his crazy wife
The Easter bunny in the whole suit and him just talking about Iran that videos of him talking to the kids about
Joe Biden's auto pen and they're like, huh? I just
Fans of history rejoice. It's it's a fun. It was very fun and entertaining to see
Jack Pasobic and like Mike Cernovich just still still
These these guys who are like supposedly devout Catholics and our our major major Catholic guys
Just running defense for him because also he was he was
Trashing the Pope so not only did Donald Trump trash the Pope the leader the ultimate Catholic
They're like quarterback of the Catholics. Would you say but his Trump Catholic? I don't know if he's got no
But these guys certainly are and they're like oh, so now the Pope is suddenly immune from criticism
What I mean
I truly don't know what it would take for these guys at this point there. It's just so pathetic
I don't know the I don't know the denomination of Christian of all these guys
Well, and then let's pull up some like because the the Pope was saying oh no, he's
Presbyterian. It's all your sort of it and yes, yes, Catholic. They're like Roman Catholic
Yeah, Catholics are the Jews of Christians, right?
Why do you say that? They're like they're ostracized
um
There are definitely a smaller
Like Christians are this many Catholics of this many. I don't think that's true Catholicism was like his huge the
Christianity yeah, it was like all of the power was concentrated within the Pope and
uh and the whole
Infrastructure that went along with that and then you know the Protestant Reformation
It'd be awesome to be the place. So I wouldn't say there that you I don't know
I also don't know in what way you're saying that. I mean just like they're they're the the
scapegoat 20% of us adults
Identifies Catholic with the significant growing and increasingly diverse population good for them
Uh, let's play that second video because the door dash grandma was the other thing that's all coincided with this
They had this they tried it out this uh former smoker um
um
She's known as the door to ask grandma. She's got a shirt that says it and boy
Howdy if this ain't just the
Ultimate representation of um this entire white house is having someone who should be retired and enjoying her grandkids
but she's got to work
menial
gig worker job
Just to make ends meet she's also the one they tried out for all this kind of thing. Yeah, so hopefully they're they're giving her a little bit of money
But here she comes delivering McDonald's to president fat
Just knocking on the wall. Hey Donald. Hey Donald
Wow nice to see you. I got a little door dash
He looks drunk
The reason for this is the fact that I heard you picked up an extra $11,000 at the end again because the tax bill was so big
The refund is the biggest you ever had
Apparently that's all bullshit too with the with the amount she makes she wouldn't even get taxed on
This this skip to the second video where because it's just too good and we'll get to the AI stuff right after this
They want to have men playing in women's sport. Do you think that men should play in women's sports?
I really don't have an opinion on that you don't know. No. No. I'm here about his list. There's tax on tips
I do hope Democrats watching this realize it can at least realize this is a loser for them
Like no one gives a shit about this and you're falling into the trap like he's doing this uh
He's doing this presser for it and he's trying to go to her and she's just like
I honestly don't even fucking think about that shit and he's like I bet you do
That's what we all think about it's one of our most popular things and I love that you can't really hear it
But uh, he says you don't I bet you do and she says now I'm here about and he says pizza
And then she goes no tax on tips
Let's see if we can hear it
I bet you do
Oh shit
opinion on that you don't know but you do
Oh, I'm here about
Your tax on tips
pizza
What a strange fucking just fucking you Donald Trump you you I just man. I hope you die sir
Oh god good god can't wait until he fucking dies
Oh anyway speaking of death
Hmm
Increased violence in the world of uh AI artificial intelligence um
Sam Altman's house got attacked twice
Uh the the the first one was was last week the second one was early Sunday morning when these two absolute dingbat moron fuckos
Amanda Tom was 25 and Muhammad Hussein 23 pulled up to his house and shot a gun at it
They haven't been like totally clear about
They were probably going to do it. Yeah, it's it's weird. They they haven't apparently he's got a prior record for
Shooting again. No
purchasing uh purchasing tobacco products for a providers for like an undercover minor
So that guy's kind of cool actually
Oh, you're 17 you want me to buy you cigarettes? I got you
Who among us hasn't played hey mister
Oh, that's what oh, yeah, that's uh, did you play hey mister? No, I had a fake ID brother
When you were what 18?
Did you ever try to drink before you were 18?
I didn't really care about it. I was smoking weed dude
Okay, or not even that. I don't think anything. I was old enough to buy cigarettes. So yeah my my cool neighbor
Would have cigarettes he would have new ports and I would go over there and smoke new ports
Well, we're doing hey mister more for the booze not the damn not the alcohol
Well, these people are stupid stupid people and they deserve to go to jail because if you shoot your gun at anybody's house
That's a crime brella. You're going to jail brella
Not only that but hey, you're you're you're you're going up to
The the number one AI guy's house you don't think why are we starting with the second one that is much because I'm just getting it out of the way
Because the cameras the security cameras
You don't think they drove up in their own car what they didn't even bother covering or removing the license plates
So the cameras got it. They were arrested like moments later
Just total idiots
And yes, Sam Altman wrote about the first one on his blog. Let's pull that up
He uh, he did this uh, he starts it with a photo of himself and his husband with their baby
By the way when he I hate this
What you hate?
Yes, look at the first line here's a photo of my family. I love them more than anything. It's just like
Well, that's well, let's continue here. Let's see what he has to say
Images have power. I hope normally we try to be pretty private
But in this case, I'm sharing a photo in the hopes that it might dissuade the next person from throwing them all the top cocktail at our house
No matter what they think about me. He's trying to
He's humanizing himself. No, I know, but it's it's I think it's just a little bit of a prop
Fully and a little cheap when it's like look I
Well, I feel like we're getting ahead of ourselves. I feel like we should get into what happened before we get into all these all my feelings about it
But because it feels weird to talk about it without talking about the actual thing
Uh, well, I just wanted to pull this one quote from it
He said the fear and anxiety about AI is justified. We are in the process of witnessing the largest change to society in a long time and perhaps ever
And he talks about what he believes in that you know working toward prosperity for everybody all this stuff
um
It is funny when he tweeted this blog out. I was looking at some of the replies on Twitter
And one of them was some mega guy who was like
I'm very sorry that it happened, but I do not believe that two gay men should have a child you rented a woman's womb
And that's just a sin
Y'all have those guys in their consistency. Oh, yeah, yeah
But so this uh the Molotov cocktail guy
Was charged with attempted murder. His name is Daniel Alejandro Moreno gamma
allegedly
allegedly
This is from the San Francisco standard boy. They really nailed it with this uh this this piece about it because they've got
this guy
Dead to rights man. He's on security camera footage. He's from Texas. He came to San Francisco
allegedly allegedly
Um because you know, yeah allegedly throwing a fire bomb at San Mom and Tom
I
Another moron through it at the security gate. First of all
What do you think you're throwing it in a fucking rot iron gate? I know they just like famously not flammable
They just like put out the flammable and it's immediately put out because they've got 24 seven security the guys a billionaire
And also sir you are on camera doing this here. Let's scroll down
So as as we're going as I'm going through this article
It's wild like so here's they've got footage of him pacing outside his hotel room just hours before the attack
He's clearly like hyping himself up like fuck shit
What am I doing? What am I gonna do holy shit?
Oh, you don't know as a pacer. I'm a pacer. I have oh, oh you pace I pace so doesn't mean I'm about to do an attack
No, but then they they well scroll up. He didn't come back to his hotel room the that next morning and
His housekeepers for the hotel went in and they saw
Um a laptop and a gun because he had a gun. So that's when they called the police
But apparently after he did the Molotov cocktail he tried to use to chair to try to break the windows
Of the open AI office again. This is like not during office hours. So there's nobody there
And he and he apparently threatened to kill everyone inside. He said he wanted to quote burn it down and kill anyone inside
Brother that one's hard. That one's hard to
He also had a three-part manifesto
Um
All about the risk that AI poses to humanity and he advocated for killing the CEOs of AI companies and their investors
Um
Folks don't do this kind of thing. I just got to say don't
Don't do this. You're just going to ruin your life. They there's nothing to be gained from this
They don't have they haven't released his manifesto. They've been talking about but did you
Did you see his sub-stack uh
No, well, I did yeah, but I didn't read it but according to NPR
Okay, he part of part of his thing was released or maybe this is from his sub-stack
But according to NPR he wrote
Also, if I'm going to advocate for others to kill and commit crimes
Then I must lead by example and show that I am fully sincere in my message
This is an unwell person man. Look at look at this security camera footage of him and black and white chuck in the um allegedly chucking the Molotov cocktail
But yeah, his sub-stack was called but but Larry and jihanna. No, that was his uh, that's his Instagram
Excuse me
his
There he is. He's just Daniel sub-stack
And uh, oh, it's just his name. Yeah, Daniel. I read a good amount of this stuff. It's oh they might have already taken it down
No, I still have it here
Um some some interesting stuff I would say on the sub-stack. He's definitely 20
I would say
Give the guy a little more time to develop his voice and stuff because there were some real clonkers in some of these
But that there was a moment of of
of nice
Flowery writing I would say in some of these things
Well, I said I say it's it's a shame he threw his life away on this because we could have had a real uh
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He also
allegedly the third part of his manifesto
Addressed Sam Altman directly and he said if by some miracle you live
Then I would take this as a sign from the divine to redeem yourself
He also doesn't call him Sam Altman. I think he calls him victim one. Oh my
Victim one. I think I
Why why is that? Well, it's just fucking psycho go go back to the
So he's not directly naming the filing but it describes victim one as the chief executive of a research company that deploys and develops artificial intelligence and operates in interstate and foreign commerce
Your last warning in the first section of the document your last warning he stated to he's
Trying to kill slash attempt to kill victim one. He's saying it like that. He's trying to kill or don't to kiss
Sound a little bit of fun
Just having a little bit of fun trying to like to kill or attempt to kill
It's any staff and then he also listed the names and addresses of several additional AI executives
Board members and investors
Can you click the link Luke that says stories right under the Instagram one because someone
Screen shot at some of his Instagram stories. Let's let's cook that he's got this trend line of coding tasks
AI can do and he wrote if we do nothing very soon. We will die. I'm very sure of that
Let's scan through these next one
This is just a collection of
News headlines and articles and he wrote being right all the time fucking sucks when it's about the worst things imaginable
I mean guys got a little bit of delusions of
Granger here and this is a layup case man. He's going away for a long time. What's the next one? Oh?
He's got a bend diagram
The matrix terminator and idiocracy and you're right in the middle. Yeah, I mean, I don't disagree with that
I mean, so that's the thing. Yeah, that's this is another one. It's a it looks like some kind of it's from law fair
It's AI might let you die to save itself and
This is kind of my point
I don't know anything about the guy. Obviously I have there's very little to go off of but
He might be a little extreme. I don't know if he's I don't know if he's like crazy. I think he might be a little bit internet poison
Yeah
But I don't know if he's crazy. He might feel desperate and that's kind of the thing
I wanted to get at with the with the same Altman post is like
That's not really the point. He doesn't care if you have a husband and a child. You know what I mean? I think
As you already said he himself
Said it will not all go well the fear and anxiety about AI is justified. We're in the process of witnessing the largest change society in a long time and perhaps ever and
As someone like myself who's doing
Their best to just like stay sane among this whole AI arms race thing
It's bizarre. I mean has there ever been a
Moment in time like this before where you know Titans of industry
They literally come out
I don't know every month and they look like dead in a camera and they go
You know best case scenario it takes your job worse case scenario it kills you
We don't know we're doing our best we're we're trying yeah and
And everyone's just supposed to be like oh cool like
What's that gonna do to an impressionable 20-year-old who hears it and is like oh you guys are telling us what's it gonna do to anyone?
No, I'm a person like you know and you're taking it already
Economically depressed population. We have a very large population of people in this country who are not in good economic conditions
And you're telling them these things like even
Even
Even the jobs that you considered bad well at least they were jobs
But we're actually doing our best to make those go away too. I mean you're being flooded with the images
I'm sure you seen the the Indian factory workers wearing the
Cameras placed on their head so that the robots
We'll have data to see
So again, this is not and please don't mistake me. This is not any kind of like defense of the matter
You know defense of the actions or
Anything like that
I think that what Sam Altman was doing is trying to remind people and would be copycats that he is a person
It's not I saw it less as like a cop out and more just like hey just a reminder
I'm not just some faceless evil corporate whatever you might think of me
I am a person who loves and has all that stuff too. I think that's what his aim was
Yeah, but I just don't think that is a good way to lead when people have like very real grievances about the things that you're
Sure, I mean, I think that when it's like the say it's like you know
We went through this with the Luigi Manjani thing
Who we don't know if he did that so I want to be clear about that was an alleged thing
But it's the same thing with like what's his name Brian Johnson?
Brian Thompson maybe Thompson
You know that man had a family and like you know
but it
Obfuscates the fact that these people are
Very
willing participants in these systems that cause a lot of harm downstream of them and then um, you know don't want to face
Any kind of consequence. Well, I don't think anybody wants to be killed
By
By judge Jerry an executioner of some guy
I certainly wouldn't want to be
You're saying they don't want to they don't want to reap the consequences. It's like sure there are consequences
But there's consequences and then they're just like getting shot in the back. They're insulated
From sure from the system that they participated in that emiserates people. Yeah, and they don't they don't
Take part in any of the they don't share in any of the consequences. They create they create or any of the
effects
That run downstream. I'm not saying they want to be killed right right. I'm just saying
You can't have these like horrible gnarly systems
And then not expect people to you know, it's we're gonna talk about the warehouses and stuff too
Whether or not
There is a real pattern there or not. I think people are making a pattern online
Um, and that's another that can I put it in there? Can you put that AI found her shocked by the comments thing on
The screen so click her profile real quick this woman Paula. I when I first thought I didn't realize she was so she's playing with words creating whimsical AI
She built iOS apps for X AI Spotify and co founded uh, oh, that's another AI technology education for the age of AI and she posted this thing
Where she said I didn't realize how bad it was until I saw
This comment section on Instagram and just click some of those so we can see
So people are commenting about the news story about Sam Altman's house being hit with a Molotov cocktail and
People said I hope that Molotov cocktail is okay. Where can we support their bail fund? Please nobody throw another Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's house
Which is pictured here that would be easy to find now since you now since you know which neighborhood it's in
I love how collectively fed up the working classes actually that man and me were having dinner. He was never there
And it's just all these do it do it again. I missed it new love language just dropped sir your home is on an active landslide
The people are tired in other news. I had a bagel for breakfast
Doing God's work more more more. I hear who is born. No, he was with me all night at the bar. Let him go damn
It didn't work damn free him and it's just so awesome. That's where he lives is the Molotov cocktail. Okay. This should be a nightly occurrence
One ain't gonna cut it arrested for allegedly throwing a Molotov
Molotov at due task we have to we have yet to know if the person they arrested did the crime or just took the fall
So the calm man won't realize you can you can just throw Molotovs at millionaires mansions obviously very
reminiscent of the Luigi sentiment
Of people just very fed up again. I don't
I don't advocate for this. I don't think it's a good thing. I just think more than anything. I think there needs to be a reckoning of
What it means to to live in a society with such
Lopsided income inequality plus
People building these technologies that could
Further exacerbate the problem or potentially kill us. I was I was seeing some takes about a G.I
yesterday and
It's funny because yeah a lot of these
A lot of what we're seeing is
The conversation is gearing toward oh yeah
If it does get to that point where where all these people will be out of work and stuff. We'll just do an AGI thing
Oh, no, no, sorry. You're thinking
UBI I think oh sorry. Yeah, sorry. Thank you. Thank you. UBI UBI universal is a very different universal basic income
Like everybody's gonna be and they're like everybody will be free to do their thing and I saw some like
Well thought out articulated pushback that was essentially
I don't want to a lot people glean
Satisfaction from their work. They glean a sense of purpose from their work. It's
It is a it's a nice thought that everybody can just be retired or whatever this utopic utopia
That you're imagining, but I mean just imagining for myself
I wouldn't want to just feel like cool. I collect my government
Check
What's gonna happen to my kids or my grandkids are we just all gonna be like
Trapped in this permanent state of getting our
UBI checks so that we can what like scroll on our phones and
Like what's the end goal here? It reminds me there was another there was an article that just got published today
I I wish I had bookmarked it, but it was about how a lot of retirees
Are finding themselves wasting their days on social media and they're just like that's a glimpse into what a potential future
Like this would be it's just people like when they have no purpose when they have no
When they have no boss not okay, I don't mean how this sounds
But that's what the article was saying. I'm paraphrasing. It's like when you've got nobody to tell you
To give you structure when you've got no responsibilities
There's it becomes a very very slippery slope especially when you've got the drug
I held up my phone. I saw that article. I also have a different view of it. I think uh
I think that the UBI I think
What it whether it's UBI or some
It would have to be a complete overhaul of everything, you know, if we went this route
I don't think I don't think you need a
Traditional job type thing to have any meaning in your life. I think I think there's a world in which
We can solve resource scarcity and people can live
valuable lives without
Without jobs, which is uh, that doesn't mean there will be no labor. You can choose to
Expand your labor and whatever where you want
I think my problem is it you know it reminds me of when we had
What was that guy's name Chris something the
Yeah, yeah the the robot investor guy and
I always feel like if you bring this stuff up you're like oh you're you're a you're a lot
I you hate tech you're like anti-progress whatever and it's like no, I'm just curious like
What the actual plant? I think you know this like tech optimist thing is like
Oh, well, we'll just do it and it just solves everything and like poor people will be great and you're like yeah
But how because that's never happened before right? We've been promised this many times uh, so
When people are like oh, we'll just do UBI. I'm like with what
With what yeah, are you gonna tax the corporations? Yeah, who famously love being tax?
They're gonna fucking put you in a meat grinder and use you use your body for fuel
I mean like surely give you the bare minimum necessary right so that's
Yeah, my bigger problem is that there's no
There's no broad
public
support for
Movement for for ordinary people to be
ushered into a
dignified life if if this happens. I think it it more looks
Like what we're seeing is people being thrown out of out of jobs
Uh, you know, you wanted to talk about the Waymo thing where it's like yeah, that's a perfect example of like
You know, we've had so many problems with
the uberification of cities where
people who are already
hanging on by a thread uber coming in and
forcing them to get on that app and then then being in complete control of their
wages and stuff
now
They're trying to get that goes way mo to come into the to the city and kick people off of that it's like
Yeah, it's a very tricky
precarious situation we're in here
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Here's what I think I think that a lot of these AI people have really
fucked up and fumbled
The way that they communicate this stuff to the broader
masses because obviously
The vast majority of us are not tech savvy. We don't understand this stuff. I don't. I'm constantly
being shown and ping-ponged around by perceived experts on both sides who say
The mythos thing is a perfect example. We talked about this on our on our call yesterday where
On the one hand you've got anthropic saying we're
this time
Trust us which they've been saying since chat gpt 3.0 and even I was as a pretty level-headed guy. I was like a little bit nervous
Yeah, I couldn't help but be like oh, what do you mean where they're they're like this thing is gonna ruin and I mean
I've been seeing it in the markets where every day when inthropic comes out with a new iteration of clawed that that kills some other section of the software
Economy you see the stocks act in kind and plummet. So I'm like, okay, maybe there is something to this
There's got to be otherwise the mark of the cyber security stuff. Yes, cyber security
Agentic AI killing, you know, fucking Atlassian or
Service now or you name it cloud flare
Fastly all these stuff snowflake. They're all just getting fucking taken to the woodshed
But then there are some people who come out and they're like an AI expert or a computer tech scientist or whatever
And they've got the credentials or so it seems and they say well hang on a second
Andthropic's only saying this because it's good PR and you have to take that into consideration too when you discuss all this stuff
So I'm trying to plug that into the mental calculus of trying to get a full comprehensive grasp on this whole thing
And I think that yeah, they've they've really fucked up by
Coming out and saying all of these things like oh, it's gonna be so disruptive and we we actually don't know what's gonna look like it
All we know is that
We've got to beat the next company and they're all we're all going neck and neck and if we stop then we'll fail
And then we also have to be China and they might get it and then they're gonna put Chinese in your head
And it's gonna be crazy
I mean plus the fact that the one who do understand it. Yeah, oftentimes like we get these weird
Letters of them being like um, I'm quitting anthropic because of what I've seen and I'm retiring to the Irish countryside to write poetry
A hunger family now
As someone who just like doesn't you like what should I do and then you've got the guy doing chat GPT who can't even
When he asks it like there I saw one that was uh, they were asking it
Hey, how many months contain the letter X and it goes October September right this this and he goes no
They don't he goes you caught me none of them have X but actually October does have an X if you look closely
And then he goes spell it out oh
C T O B E R
There you got me again
But then I go okay, I'm gonna kill that man
Oh, yeah, he's for sure gonna find and kill that guy, but I
So all that's to say is I think that it's a very stupid stupid stupid
Clearly obviously dangerous thing for them to come out and say these these maximalists
Uh, just like the the full imagining the full
Throated this is what could possibly happen and putting that out there as an narrative can scare the shit out of a fucking
Impressionable 20-year-old who's just coming into the world off the heels of covid
Um has probably little to no prospects and it has no hope. What do you think of course he's gonna fucking think this stuff?
It's very strange strategy. It's so it's really really really they all like ask each other
What's your p-dume like probably a probability of doomsday and it's like throw like 30% 50% 60%
It's like oh, yeah, I just imagine if like Steve jobs for the like
When he came out with the iPhone, he does his whole presentation and everything and then at the end
He's like also 60% 60% chance this thing fucking kills you. I don't know
We're gonna do that and one more thing because that's what he always did. Oh, and there's one more thing and he unveils
Science 60 it might fucking kill everybody
But if it doesn't we're gonna sell a hell of a lot more if it doesn't it's gonna take your job
Oh my god, I don't want one. We just kill Steve jobs
Yeah, that is funny
A popular narrative is like it could um it could kill everybody or it could take your jobs
But also you're a fucking Luddite
If you if you really believe that and you're against it. It's like make up your fucking. I don't think that's a popular narrative
That is like the narrative they come out and say it like Dario Amade like goes on popular podcast
Sam Altman, they're like they need a publicist. They need some 27-year-old girl who lives in Santa Monica
Who's good at this thing and it's like? Oh, no
With chewen or gum like no, what we need to do is like you guys need to walk that back
Yesterday, yeah, I'm I feel myself very conflicted about it all. I feel like I don't know what to believe there is
There are AI experts all across the spectrum. They're like people who worked for the autism spectrum. I mean, yes
But I'm gonna
The sexuality spectrum. They're they're across every spectrum that go on that
I'm blank in his name Eli something Kineser or something you know what I'm talking about
Maybe go on. He's that like very famous
AI Doomer. It's gonna fucking kill you AI expert. He has that whole
Whole organization dedicated to
Making sure it doesn't happen and then
You know, there's people who are like it's built at the
Yes, he's a good kowski. Kowski. Thank you. Oh, he's aliens or Shlomo. We got it. We got one
That's it is machine intelligence research and see meery
Uh, and then there's fucking there's obviously the complete end of the spectrum where it's going to usher in our wildest dreams and yeah
and our
End our need for labor and scarcity and
Don't stand in its way. I was the to to finish my original thought about this. I think that
I think that them being so
Exaggerated in these predictions. I it is again my hope as an as an optimist
I don't think that it's gonna end up that way. I think that ultimately these are going to be tools
For people and it depends like obviously a waymo situation is gonna be yeah, it's probably already is putting
Uh, gig worker drivers out of work um
But I don't think that
Or like my my friend Shane who's a copywriter lost his job and they replaced
They got rid of their entire. This isn't a movie trailer studio
They fired the entire uh copywriter department
No way. Yeah, I haven't I talked about that on here. Yeah, they got rid of the entire copywriter department now
It's just like the creative director and an a or the uh or the uh or the editors of the trailers
Just fucking ask AI for for copy for the for the movie trailers
I which I've talked about on the show how like I told a friend who was getting paid uh like a contract job
And he was having trouble. I was like teacher's feeding to AI. It's not
It's unfortunately works. I don't know or are we we both know someone
Google who has a very very good secure job there. He's one of the higher ups
Within one of the organizations and I've talked to him extensively about this and he says dude
It's made my job so much better and my ability to use it has actually
Kind of given me some job security because the ones who just you know
Plug their ears and close their eyes and pretend it doesn't exist are the ones who aren't going to stand out like I already am
Because I'm proving that I know how to use this tool. I'm using it effectively. I'm making myself more efficient there
By you know impressing my boss and my boss's boss blah blah blah. Yeah, but my so the the the economy is
Brought up or all kinds of different labor and that's what I'm saying like in some cases
Are gonna be fine. Yeah, and we'll probably use it as a tool. Yeah, I think the real worry is this immediate impact of
Okay, the waymo thing in that in that piece they're talking about
Like close to a million or maybe more jobs that could just be wiped out if yeah if those driver jobs are gone away and then
The big one when you know when Andrew Yang hit the scene with his whole UBI thing the big one he was talking about was
The automation of truck driving jobs because it's
It's like the number one employment for I think high school grads who didn't get a high school males who didn't get a college degree
I think I'd have to look it up don't go to drive the trucks. Don't go to be happy man
Um, so I mean what happens when you just
Knock out 10 million jobs. I suppose 12 million jobs. Yeah, I suppose the hope is that it would and then in a few years you're knocking out and you know, I just
Well
Yeah, I don't know and I don't think that anybody knows I think that all we can do is kind of and unfortunately
It happens gradually enough to where things can be implemented
Be it laws and regulations. I think that what would be a good thing is gonna do that
Chuck Schumer is gonna peer over his glasses. That's the biggest issue like I think if there was a
If we lived in a real functioning country who was
interested in
Taking on our biggest problems and coming up with solutions
You wouldn't you wouldn't see this kind of stuff. I think that's the thing if if there was a
There was a whole administration be like oh Jesus Christ. We're staring down the barrel of math of a mass unemployment situation here
We need to make sure we're prepared instead. You have you know mr. McDonald's
Doing his door desk
We don't like women women's sports
We don't like it when a man plays a woman's sport
Speaking of all of this. There's a movement that I did not even know existed called called pause AI
Um, and you go on their website here. Is it pause AI dot info? Yeah
Uh, let's go to their proposal if we click on there
They they their proposal is to by the way, so this guy the Molotov cocktail thrower was
He was part of the discord for pause AI, which then distance itself from him after the attack and they put out a statement saying that
Pause AI exists because we believe everyone deserves to be safe
Including Sam Altman who's loved ones violence against anyone is antithetical to everything we stand for
And I I went on to their website and it's very interesting. They are calling for a global pause
They're saying implementing a temporary pause on the training of the most powerful general AI systems
That's what they're looking for we do not expect countries or companies to risk their competitive advantage by pausing AI training runs for a
If other countries and companies do not do the same. This is why we need a global pause
They're saying that implementing a pause can backfire if it's not done properly
But they believe that their proposal would mitigate the most serious downsides. Can you click that link for mitigate the most serious downsides? I
Yeah, they
It leads to this other article where pausing too early could have issues
Yeah, I mean they're all less to say is they're very very thorough
So let's go back to that thing. Oh, yeah, they have a hole. I went through there frequently asked questions thing
They're suggesting a treaty the primary end goal of these they they're calling for summits
of getting the US and China involved setting up an international AI safety agency
I mean boy what an undertaking because I mean you're effectively asking
Capitalism itself to pause
because so much of this is
heavily weighted on
Now so many people's retirement accounts the very truckers and gig workers that we're talking about they're
401k's and IRA's if they've got that I don't think I don't think
For sure, dude, but they don't give the Uber drivers where I would
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Uh, I think that's like I've never been to uvoo jubber. You've never been to what uvoo jubber. What's the what do you think the percentage of Americans that
Owned stocks is
I am going to say 65% of Americans own stocks
Let's see
62% wow
Own stock whether through individual stocks mutual funds are self directed uh
401k's or Roth IRA's
totaling about 167 million people however
Ownership is heavily concentrated with high income college educated
And older Americans more likely to hold investments. I mean that checks out obviously checks out
And it's still 70% of white adults own stock guys. We're winning. We just keep winning. I mean those are stark numbers
Yeah 53% of black adults and 38% 38% of Hispanic adults
Well, uh, I mean a pause would certainly yeah
Uh, tank the stock market. That's for sure. I mean, yeah
They might tank it themselves if they can't land the plane
Uh, let's see they're they're calling for
Enforcement of the treaty requires the US in China to back it with their economic and military power if the leaders of both nations
Understand the severity of the risks of AI they will see the success of the treaty is in their own interests
If a safe superhuman AI is created the AI itself will be used
By the AI essay to enforce the treaty interesting. How could we ever know it safe? I know
Well, so if you create the superhuman thing
Why is it not just gonna lie to you and you know like women do am I right? I know
We've lived with women long enough to know. All right. We're never gonna
We're never gonna be what if it just wants to lay around and eat hot chips and lie
Yeah, there's nothing we can do. There's nothing we can do
Uh, I do find it interesting that these pause AI people are not against
AI and the proliferation of AI they are very much like
On board with it what they aren't on board with is the speed and perceived recklessness of the way that things are going
I mean, I would say that's about where I fall. I don't I don't like as I was saying
I'm not trying to be this like I'm anti-progress. I just think there's this
You can feel that this is being done in a way that's having
Deleteerious effects on the population just
Even things that you know don't even get brought up like
Like artists there's just that woman she went kind of viral because her
her music
got
trained on some data from whatever and then they started basically like creating music off of her music that they fed into it and she couldn't even
Make copyright claims and it's just all across the board. It's taking
It's taking people's abilities to
Make a livelihood
Did you see what Diplo had to say about I did watch that. I thought that that was interesting
It also makes an interesting perspective. I'm not saying no
I mean it also but like that point especially makes me nervous about
Young people as well a big part of his point was that like I have the historical
context yeah, I got to grow up without it
And we're kind of the same way. I've used it to like research things and been like
That doesn't feel right because of what I know
But if you go into it without any of that be a cool beat
Whereas he can be like make me a beat like this producer from the 70s
Yeah, that's effectively what he was saying for those who missed it
He was just saying it is here. It is coming. It is inevitable. You can either
Learn to use it and use it or not use it
But if you choose not to use it behind you might get left behind
But I think that point about his of like
We have an advantage being part of the old head generation. I do think we haven't suddenly being uncle's cool
I think we have an advantage in so many ways like I couldn't even imagine what
What being a young person is like now with all these with all these things
It came up a little bit like because we briefly talked about this stuff on the live and
Or maybe it was the warehouse fire and I was talking about you know how yeah people just feel
I think a lot of desperation and and not a lot of hope for the future and just a bunch of things
A bunch of comments coming into the chat like I'm 22. I feel this way. I'm 20. I feel this way. I'm 23. I feel this way
So I have no idea what this guy's
Mindset is like but I do worry that there's going to be more and more people who feel that desperation and desperate people
Do sometimes
Desperate things. I do want to also go over the fact again that I mean
I think that it's very easy for us to be present-minded and feel like it is unprecedented and unlike any other time before and it is in many ways but
Speaking of speaking to the oh my god
I'm fucked kind of mentality
Is definitely not new
Or or unique like there and also I will say there were some people who were hopeful which is good
I'm very glad for that but I was fucking
Dude when I was 26 and I wasn't working and I was like depressed and I felt like what the fuck am I going to do with my life
That in itself is just a very normal but did that feel very personal to you or did you have like a more
Existential broad
There's a little bit of both. I mean it was coming off the heels of the recession
Um and feeling like whoa I guess I should it was kind of before the peak of oh I guess I should learn how to code
That's kind of what I was thinking is like I guess I was looking that funny. They told everyone to code
I was learning I was looking into like coding boot camps because I knew a girl who's now a magician by the way
The the coding to magic pipeline is very real
I well, I knew she had done one of these coding boot camps and got a job
And it was paying or you know 80k a year or something like that and I thought oh maybe I'll do that
But I mean ask your ask your if you're older and you've got gen X or boomer parents ask them what it was like for them growing up
you know there was
There's always been
I mean we really we had it the worst we had 9 11
I don't think we even we had the recession we had covid
I and they're still living with the effects of that that that's the thing I think like there have been so many things that have
Been come compounding this moment. I think
It's not just AI. It's everything. It's the affordability crisis. There was that I was telling you about that
New York Times thing the death of the basic American car
And it basically goes through
How used to be able used to be able to get these cheap reliable cars
Uh
And now if you if you there's very limited options for under 25 grand and well 15 grand adjusted for inflation
It was about 2100 bucks for a for one of these like
70s or 80s Honda civics whatever they are
um
Adjusted for inflation that was 15 grand
Now you're very lucky if you can even find a car for under 25 grand usually you're paying 30 or over and the average
the average
New car price is 50 grand which is insane yeah and
I was looking at that
article and I'm very interested in the New York Times comment section
I bring this up all the time because I find they're just like the most
Deadfast like normy damn voter and I'm just always curious what the so I always go to the readers pick
Which is basically the most popular comment with the most thumbs-ups
uh
But I was honestly only going
To see what people wanted out of cars and stuff like that. I was just curious
and
The very first one was can we please stop pretending that everyone in America is middle class?
I get that middle class as a cultural not an economic category and that being middle class as a matter of personal dignity and identity
But in a service economy you are no longer middle class just because you run a little Caesars
And working class if you are a plumber you are a part of a precarious proletariat that barely keeps its head above water
median person median personal income in the US is lower than most of the developed world
And unless you belong to the top 25 percent life in the US is harder and less affordable than in pure countries
Sure taxes in Europe and elsewhere might be higher
But Americans have to pay much more for health care education than other
Than other first worlders who usually enjoy better schools and Medicare medical care than their American counterparts in short
America is not the middle class society claims to be
Life for a large majority of Americans is a more stressful and precarious than in other rich countries
Unless Americans drop their jingoistic exceptionalism and take a cold hard look at their society
Meaningful reform cannot even begin and that was the top comment with 2.6,000 recommends before like this was when I screenshot it
Damn dude. I thought it was gonna say can we please stop pretending that we want cars with screens
Well, that's what's very funny and so I was like god damn people so I went to the next one
I was like that one's probably about cars and then it was
Another article about the same thing have the fundamentally extractive US
Economy is making a middle-class existence impossible. There's only one solution a fundamental shift in how we pay for the foundations of society from labor to capital capital
Close the loopholes you make money here you pay tax the rich
And I was like what the fuck is going on? It wasn't until a couple down till I saw someone being like we need to stop with all the bells and whistles
How would we just like that's when I thought the top comments you made and I was like they do need to stop with all the damn bells and whistles and
Perfected cars like 15 years ago. Stay there like Toyota did it's a coma 2003 perfect truck
We just green we got to make it bigger so you can't see children if you want to hit them
But that's not even true like because in China. They're coming up with these electric vehicles that are blowing people away
That cost a fraction of what it costs to get a new American car
Uh, and so yeah, just like I'm looking around and I'm getting very nervous about
The sentiment or you know in the country we we already talked about the
The is it University of Michigan that does that sentiment study that um
That has been tracking and it's like at lowest in in um
Since the studies inception and I'm just like god damn the New York Times is like
We need to we need to
How you're a proletariat who's being living the precarious lifestyle. I'm like whoa. Yeah, there's a
There's a palpable and we we hardly talked about it to the
The warehouses thing. I just want to clarify
There's a sentiment online not sentiment. It's almost like a false narrative where
Okay, that guy burned down that toilet paper warehouse, which we talked about
And he said that thing about pay us a living wage and this wouldn't happen whatever
people are taking
Old
warehouse fires and footage from it and
Scribing this narrative to it. Yes, but end ones that may happen which have been
Unconfirmed why or whether it's arson or it could just be some kind of electrical fire whatever
um
And I'm sure you've seen it. There's this weird like
Though you know like living wages save factories or whatever or like or like
Just the footage of a burning factory and like
All you had to do was pay us a living wage and it's like oh, we shit. I think it's I think it's uh
I mean the the twitter thing is kind of a good representation of this entire new media
economy which is that
um
Emotions and grabby headlines drive clicks, which is what ultimately pays for the entire thing
Whereas he used to just be you tune in and watch the news or you got the fucking newspaper and I'm it
Really was
We really had it all man. We really did
We really had it all. Yeah, I'm torn on this. I don't think it's good for people to like have a constant stream of information
But I also do think there's been
I think there's been a real breakdown in the ability for
Manufacturing consent and
Elite to kind of feed you narratives. I think oh man. It's
But it's a double edged short. I think people have been completely internet poisoned and and like
Maybe don't believe anything anymore. They're like oh, well, that's that's because I blah
But I hate blah blah, dude. I think blah blah is always getting in the way. I think
Before it was much harder to
See through
Because it's all immediate dude. They like
With the war
Trump tries to say something and we're all going
Dude, I'm looking at the fucking thing. What are you talking about? That's not that's clearly not what happened or he can say something and
The the leader of the Iranian parliament can just be like now that actually didn't happen without meeting with him
You know, we're issuing a correction speaking of
folks, I highly recommend that you
Google Ashley St. Clair
And it'll surely pop up this video of her recently. She is for those who don't know or remember she's
Elon Musk's latest
Baby mama. How many kids is he up now?
Probably but she famously had a child with Elon Musk and she's kind of
Freed herself from the matrix so to speak. She's an American influencer
Author and political commentator. She's a book. What the fuck is that elephants are not what oh birds?
Probably an anti-trans thing because she became known as an outspoken proponent of conservative and anti-transgender
politics uh in 2025 she revealed that she and Elon Musk had a child together. So anyway
In 2026 she denounced her anti-trans activism. What?
So
folks she put out this
10-minute video of her putting on makeup wherein she talks about
She spent nearly a decade in the mega sphere of influence
And she puts out this video that basically she's just pouring water over the entire thing
And she talks about how the whole mega influencer ecosystem works
I'm paraphrasing obviously you got to watch it for yourself, but it speaks to what you were just talking about
It's so I mean, it's what we all knew
But I mean just hearing it straight from the horse's mouth
um
She's saying how there's these
Chat groups where there's just influencers, but then there's also members of the administration billionaires you name it
And they're taking their orders from the tippy top. Well, that's what I was gonna say
She hears what we're gonna talk about and they get paid and when you brought up Surnavitch and the other guy
They're getting paid. There's a reason why they're doing fucking
You know cartwheels and pretzels
And she one of the things she brings up is the the way that they are paid
skirts the law in creative ways so that they're not disclosed
And it's just it's so simple, but it's so devastatingly effective
Because this is how narratives are born proliferated and you know
And take over the country
Sometimes like when it becomes the only thing that everybody seems to talk about it all comes from these little chat groups
and you know
For all her flaws and faults and previous
Awful things that I'm sure she said and done
It's awesome that she's coming out and saying all this and I hope that it gets a lot more attention because it's kind of it's
It's really pulling back the curtain
Yeah, but there is something about I didn't know about this like elephants or not
Does it elephants are not birds thing
I need some kind of I don't know. Maybe it's like very Catholic of me or something. I just need
With all these people any of the any of the comedians who did their Trump apology during 2024 and all that
You guys are welcome back. I just need like
So maybe like some kind of public humiliation. Oh, yeah, yeah, your shoulders has to walk around with this dick hanging out
Well
Self-flagilation I need to see it weights suspended from it. It's very
It's a very harmful
ecosystem they're participating in yeah, and you're right to I don't know. I don't know exactly what it looks like, but it just
I
I'm happy you change your mind. It's just very difficult for me to be like
Welcome back. Yeah, I don't like especially just seeing your fucking your fucking children's book of like yeah, it's like well
No, I denounce all that I like all right
That's great, and you know Joe Rogan's obviously doing his work. Can you believe all this? Yeah, can you believe they're doing?
This is wild Jamie pull that up. It's like yeah, we can believe it because literally everyone said it was gonna happen
You stupid like no, I'm smarter than all of you. Yeah, did I ever show you the um the video game character?
The Joe Rogan looks exactly like no, but just real quick click one of those like just what is a page like that look like what does it say on the page of
The elephant thought it was a bird, but it was wrong because elephants can't play bird sports
You laugh said culture
Culture culture voucher, but what would you rather sing songs or carry carts of food that's been gathered hmm
Is it true that I really love to sing maybe being a bird is actually my thing?
I yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Bob oh, man
Oh, let's round it out with this Elon Musk versus open AI thing. So just real fast
Elon Musk wants Sam Altman Sam Altman out as a CEO of open AI
He's looking to have him removed from his roles as part of his legal challenge to the company's conversion
To a for profit company. He wants a court order
Restoring so he wants to flat out fuck them. It's never gonna happen because they're worth eight hundred billion dollars
Yeah, fuck them the way he won't fuck these baby mamas. He's not he's not shipping to come. He's
inserting it right into
Couldn't say it better but good not to say it better is a that's what I was hoping to say, but you you took the words
He wants a court order to restore them to a nonprofit research organization
And he wants whatever damages are awarded to go to open AI's charitable arm and open AI
Clapped back
And they said quote the lawsuit remains nothing more than a harassment campaign that's driven by ego
jealousy and a desire to slow down a competitor
Certainly true a real a real let him fight moment. Yeah, it's that time fight. It's obviously
You you see Elon Musk and you're like, well, he's not wrong. You see Sam Altman's are like he's not wrong
Let him fight man
The real winners of the lawyers, but open AI also is asking California and Delaware attorneys general to
Investigate Elon and his associates for quote improper and anti-competitive behavior
And then finally I really like what open AI's chief strategy officer Jason Kwan said
They sent a letter
They said that the the lawsuit could undermine the company's efforts to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all humanity
Hey guys
This is actually gonna hurt
Humanity when you think about it. So like if you try to stop us and make us go back to being a nonprofit
You could be killing billions of people in doing so. So just something to think about just something to think about when you try to
You know make us proceed with caution and walk back our p-dume statements, okay? Yeah, you could be fucking humanity
You 70-year-old judge old ass. Don't understand this shit ass
Did the other thing I meant to bring up you can just lie to old people. I didn't even know it
I think it was on the live you were like because we were talking about the data centers. I think in the mama centers. Yeah, and
You were like well the thing that would bother me is the noise yeah
And I looked it up
And there's all these videos of people, you know sitting on their porch
Used to be quiet out here. It's a bird's chirp now. Here's this humdrum noise going on. It's not a low, huh
I hear it all the time
They're actively driving people nuts. Yeah. Yeah, if I lived next to that I would uh, I would nuts me drivel
You know, I might ask Claude how you make a Molotov cocktail if you don't know. Yeah
It's really easy. I don't think you need to have I'm joking. It's just a it's just an alternate phrase. Yeah
Data centers are making people sick
Anyway, this guy's name is Ben Jordan with two ends brother
You don't like that that fucking sucks to me. Don't do that
It's it's been with two ends. All right. He's cool. He's cool. He's cool apparently
All right, everybody um that about does it for this episode. Why don't you join us in the bonus? We'll we'll be talking about justice. Oh, oh
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What do you think I'm gonna do girl? I don't see the world is not ready for do you ever go on those maybe we'll look it in the bonus
You ever go on those like meth subreddits where it's like someone's it's like
It's like how we've felt on Adderaw but like to the end theory and they're like
I fucking hate my bitch wife my life is great. I've dismantled six cars today
No one can stop me and you're like holy shit
I saw one that was like fuck my bitch wife. She thinks I'm at work, but I'm at home with my man
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