Scott Adams

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Turns out it happened in the same hospital.

Hit by a car was a young Russian pianist.

She was, I think, in her mid to early 30s.

uh a savant uh american citizen left soviet union the whole story and what else did this guy learn he could speak russian he liked cabbage and boiled potatoes now we we this is all like at the checkout aisle next to elvis meets the alien stuff right that's you're going to see it on the front page of the

But this is real, and this is an MD.

So when we're sitting here trying to comprehend intelligence, and now you know why AI people hate me, because I'm already down in a place where they don't want to go.

It's like, where's the attention function here?

What are you doing with this vector math, Brian?

Come on.

It's like, guys, if we're going to really truly understand what we're doing, and we're going to...

you know, proudly predict that AGI is here and ASI is here, artificial super intelligence, perhaps, but we better fully understand before we decimate ourselves in self-hatred of we're not good enough, what are we and have we really used our instrument called the brain

enough and so so is your argument that that a lot of the processing that's going on in our brain to you know for for lack of a better word is not actually happening in our brain yes the heart has brain cells if you look at it it actually the heart is a brain and so is the gut i ask anybody i want you to think about the worst thing that's ever happened to you maybe somebody ending a relationship where do you feel do you feel here

Do you feel here?

You feel it in the gut.

We might say the heart, but it's in your gut.

And it's not an accident.

And if you study, I'm a big fan of Joseph Campbell, Hero's Journey.

You study this work.

When you study ancient cultures and their tales and their analogies and their stories,