Scott Adams

And one might say, well, it's anonymized and it's put into a big pile, perhaps, but I do not think ultimately that will be the outcome.

I think to become highly personalized, it needs to know you personally.

the more intimate details it knows the more it can wow factor you and as far as replacing you in some ways yes because humanity has a number of different states of consciousness most of us are operating in our let's call it automatic mode have you ever driven a car and this in deep thought or in deep crisis or whatever is going on and all of a sudden you're home

And you're like, did I run anybody over?

How did I get here?

You know, that is an example of what I believe.

I'm a big fan of Tor Norstander's The User Illusion book.

It is probably anybody that loves Scott, I think should read this book because it'll give you an idea about how the illusion of consciousness arises.

And it's highly technical.

I read it once a year.

I've read it once a year since I followed Tor around like a groupie when he released it in the late 90s.

I mean, I was blown away by this book.

Got an autographed edition.

I interviewed him twice on my old Bitcoin podcast.

But basically what it says is that there's an editor.

that's editing reality for you before you even get a chance.

There's a half second delay between what happens and you realizing that it happens, but your editor is telling you that you did it and it happened in real time.

Now, you gotta sit back with that for a minute.

This is physiologically proven.

to nerve synaptic readings of your nervous system.