Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Well, apparently there's some enormous storm coming or has already hit. So a weird thing happened, which is because Christmas was on a Thursday, a lot of people said, okay, Friday we'll do the in-laws party, and Thursday we'll do ours. But some people moved it to Saturday. But now it looks like everything's going to be snowed in.
So the people who moved their party to Saturday are probably going to move it to Sunday. So people are going to be celebrating Thursday, Christmas on Sunday. Just because the weird way that the date hit in the snow. It's going to feel weird celebrating Christmas three days after Christmas. All right. Well, I wouldn't say there's much news today, but there's stuff to talk about.
So if you lower your expectations and say to yourself, you know what? There's not much else on TV. Or on social media. So we're just going to be hanging out, and I'll chatter about a few things that I find interesting that are in the news. Where is that cursor? There it is. So I saw in a Mario Novel post that Tesla is estimating that full self-driving mode on their cars
could save 32,000 lives a year and avoid 1.9 million injuries. Did you have any idea that automobile accidents were causing 1.9 million injuries per year? The 32,000 I knew, or the apparently 40,000 die in car crashes, that was in the range of what I knew. But wow, a lot of people got injured. So the thinking is that full self-driving would cut down on injuries by 80%. I believe it.
All right, what else? So here's a little obscure story that I'll bet most of you have not been following. It's about the 2020 election. And it's something that the Rasmussen Reports account has been hammering for like four years. So four or five years, they've been posting on the same topic. And here's the topic.
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Chapter 2: What are the latest updates on Tesla's Full Self-Driving safety benefits?
But it would still be trained for a narrow domain, which is driving safely. So I get how we can get to self-driving cars. That makes total sense. You just train them with video instead of language. But how do you get to a butler? How would you ever get to a butler where there's something new every day that is never seen? What does he know that we don't know?
Does his AI have a secret, like a skunk works that nobody knows about that's getting close to it? And I've said this before, but it's a really good tip. If you think that you'll have a robot butler in one year, you would already see it, right? Because I can't believe that the robots would be launching in one year and they didn't know how to do it yet. Does that even make sense?
Do you think there's any possibility that a big, serious, high-functioning company would say, oh yeah, in a year we'll have robot butlers but we have no idea how to do it at the moment. No big company would do that. Not Tesla, not anybody. So if you're not hearing today that they have one in the lab that has general intelligence and you're not, I don't believe there's gonna be one in a year.
I do not believe. So I want to be wrong. I want to be wrong. How many of you agree with my assessment that if they can't do it today, it's not going to be a product in one year? Would you agree with that? Well, once again, I guess I have to say it one more time. In a sense, I'm betting against Elon Musk's predictions.
But what he knows about this topic is, you know, a thousand times more than I know. So does he know more than I know, or is he just being, is it just wishful thinking? And my guess is he knows more than I know. So therefore, oh, I guess I should, I should reveal this every once in a while. I do own Tesla stock. So I want it to work. And I desperately want Elon to be right and me to be wrong.
and I literally have my money bet. I actually bet my money against myself. I bet my money on Elon instead of myself, which probably is a good bet. All right, enough about that. I'm just going back to the front here. So,
If any of you had the experience that AI has already ruined your YouTube experience, apparently there's a way to fix that by blocking the videos that were downvoting them somehow. And then YouTube will learn what to not give you AI slop. So AI slop, if you haven't heard that term, is AI content that is sort of impressive, but not really something you want to see too often. So that's called slop.
So when I go to YouTube, let's say two or three years ago, if I went to YouTube and I saw a topic that I was interested in, it was made by humans and it would keep me interested for an hour. But today, if I see something that interests me, it's almost always slop. And it'll be this, you know, This boring robot voice. And the Andes is a mountain range.
And it's just sort of repetitive and not interesting. And there's so much of the AI crap that searching through it to find something that's not AI is just too much work. So that's one of the reasons that I just stopped watching YouTube. Mostly, not completely. And I do videos on X. Because if you go to X, you go to the side menu on your app, one of the options now is video.
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Chapter 3: What allegations surround the Fulton County election ballots?
That's the guy that signed the warrant. Now again, judge shopping is not illegal, right? As far as I know, it's not illegal. It's just not ideal. So We'll keep an eye on that. So Russell Brand has been charged with new allegations of rape and sexual assault. Breitbart News is reporting.
I think I told you that when Russell Brand was originally accused of those things, several years ago, I guess, that I happened to be booked for a show. So I went on his show while he was right in the middle of all the accusations and He was losing everything. He was being demonetized. And let me tell you, I thought my interview with him was going to be a lot of fun.
But he was not really in the mood. He was not in the mood to have a lot of fun. And I completely understand that. But he's being hit again with new charges. And I don't have an opinion about who did what or who's guilty of what. I will give you this context. that I think is useful every time this kind of a story comes up. And the context goes like this.
Pretty much every rich and powerful man is accused falsely of sex crimes. Pretty much all of them. So if you've got somebody of his notoriety, especially if he's known to be a sex addict, especially if he's seemed to be siding with one part of the political aisle, the odds of him having a false accusation were 100%. Now, that does not mean that these allegations are false.
It only means that you should not judge it by the fact that they exist. Because there was a 100% chance that someone like him would be falsely accused, even if there were any real things he ever did. So that's the only thing I'm going to add to the story.
And trust me, you could talk to any, if you privately talk to any, let's say, rich CEO, I'll bet you every one of them would say, yeah, you know, my secretary or, you know, some employee accused me. And often it's people you've never met. Because I told you, I've been accused of sexual abuse by someone who lives in Canada I've never met. Right?
So they called the people I worked with and one woman did. The crazy woman. She called the people I worked with, the people at my restaurant where they owned the restaurant and told them that I was a terrible rapist and that on a regular basis I would travel to Canada and rifle through her possessions and then sexually abusive. Now, I promise you, this is nobody I've ever met.
This is pure crazy woman. But the people who received the call, how did they know? How would they know if that's real or not? So that is the world of high-profile people. But this makes me ask the following question. How did we go from an environment of Me Too every single day to it doesn't really get in the news much. Did something change?
Is it possible that the CEOs have learned just don't do anything that would get you in trouble? Is it possible that the Mike Pence rule, where you just don't allow yourself to be alone with a woman, are CEOs doing that?
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Chapter 4: How does the judge's involvement impact the Fulton County ballot case?
And you don't really hear, I mean, you still hear about it, but it's like way less. What would that be? Why do you think that would be? If it's true that we're hearing about less. Well, I guess some New York Times reporter is suing the big AI companies. In this case, this would include X. So Google X OpenAI. They're suing over chatbot training.
So I guess they're worried that the chatbots read their books without permission and got trained on them, and they think that's some kind of a copyright violation. Now, you've heard this before. It's sort of an old story that authors, but I guess they're not doing a class action in this case, which has some extra risk for the AI companies. allegedly. So I ask AI about my books.
And it generally, it knows, well, here's what it pretends to know. If I ask AI, you know, what's on page whatever of my book, it can't do it. So it's not trained that well. If I ask it to summarize my book, it can do it. but it takes a summary from other people's comments about the book.
So it is legal for the AI to look at public comments, like a review of the book or what somebody said about it on social media, for example. And usually that's enough to piece together what the book was about. So in a sense, AI, at least in my case, finds a workaround that doesn't look like a copyright violation to me. because there's no problem quoting a reviewer or something.
So I asked Gemini today if it was true that John Bogle, who is the famous Vanguard index fund guy, is it true that he wants to use my financial advice in his book? Because I was wondering who I've influenced
And according to Gemini, it could tell me the page number and the book, and I think it was year 2010, that his book took my nine-page personal finance advice and he just included it in the book because he thought it was so well done. It was really well done. And that was, I think, mostly right. But when he said he could give me the page number, I'll bet that was a hallucination. So I don't know.
I cannot confirm that his book included my financial advice. I can confirm that a few people asked for permission to reprint that. So whether he did or not, I don't know. Anyway, did you know that I've had an influence on personal finance? How many of you knew that? That's one of the weird areas that I had an influence.
You know how I've told you that one of the ways to be influential is to be the person who writes it down? Whatever it is, if you write it down, you become influential if you do a good job of writing it down. So because I'm a cartoonist and I'm really good at summarizing, I found a way to write down all the advice you would ever need for personal finance in just nine bullet points.
So the breakthrough was not that I knew more than anybody else. The breakthrough is that I figured out how to do it in nine bullet points that would be in the order, this is the key part, that would be in the order that you should do them. Nobody did that before. Everybody else just said, this is a good idea, this is a bad idea, good idea, bad idea, but it was overwhelming.
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