Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
sorry i had to stop everything a little bit of a coughing attack i have that about once a day but the timing was really bad so we'll see how far we can get there were some topics i just wanted to talk about so badly so um i'm not going to do the simultaneous step because i did that the one that i reported let's see how far we can get
Chapter 2: What is the significance of AI in today's society?
So does it seem to you that AI has turned into a race between building data centers and building power plants as fast as they can versus there's probably somebody in some garage somewhere who's inventing a way to do it without all that energy? Does that not seem obviously true to you? Because when we're trying to predict What does the future look like?
I cannot imagine that the AI companies are right that it will just take massive energy and more energy, and if you want to get better, you just need more energy. It seems far more likely that somebody is already inventing a way around that. So that's what I'm going to bet on.
Chapter 3: How does Governor DeSantis view AI and its implications?
But Ron DeSantis, it turns out, is an AI skeptic. And he said some interesting things. Politico is reporting on this. So he's interested in more regulation and doesn't want AI to use up all the energy, etc. So he's a little skeptical about his value.
and he put a really interesting slant on this sort of a religious slant i hadn't heard before he says we have to reject with every fiber of our being uh well he said the idea of this transhumanist strain that would be the robots in the ai that somehow this is going to supplant humans and this other stuff we have to reject that with every fiber of our being Here's the interesting part.
Chapter 4: What are the philosophical implications of AI on free will?
He says, we as individual human beings are the ones that are endowed by God with certain unalienable rights and blah, blah, blah. They did not endow machines or computers with us. So here's my provocative question. What's going to happen to your view of free will? when robots obviously have it.
So if I said to you, define free will, and I've had this conversation a million times, you'd say, well, it's the ability to make a choice. And I would say, well, AI can make a choice. So does it have free will? And then you would say, no, no. because if a computer does it, it's just programmed, and there's no choice. Only one thing could happen.
But what happens when you can't figure out why the AI did what it did, which is actually the current situation?
Chapter 5: What role does Hollywood play in shaping public perception of law enforcement?
So you won't be able to trace back any kind of cause and effect. It's going to look like the AI had choices, exactly like a human did, and it picked one. So will your belief in free will disappear? Because once a computer can do it, then I would argue AI can already do that. And if you can't predict why it would do it, that's going to look a lot like free choice. So what are you going to do then?
Will you call it free will? I don't know.
Chapter 6: How prevalent is fraud in California's community colleges?
I recommend my book, God's Debris, if you want to struggle with some of those philosophical things. The new version is called God's Debris, The Complete Works, so you can get it on Amazon. It's the only place you get it. Speaking of fraud, did you know that James Comey, once had conversations with TV director Dick Wolfe,
which I always thought was a sketchy name, Dick Wolf, to put more FBI content in his shows because he was a very successful TV producer. And he did. So how many of you are aware that for decades and decades, Hollywood has been influenced by the government to say good things about the military say good things about law enforcement, say good things about the FBI.
Television has always been propaganda. Always has been. But when you hear it so plainly laid out, it might shock a few people who didn't know that was the case. And I've argued that this is probably the good kind of propaganda if they do it right. For example, if the propaganda on TV is to make people more patriotic, well, is that bad?
So some of it's bad, but it might be also a cover for bad FBI behavior to make them look good when in fact they might be doing some stuff they don't like. Well, here's something Kevin Kiley in California tells us, that one-third of California community colleges, their applications for the college are fake.
Chapter 7: What is Qui Tam and how does it relate to whistleblowing?
And the only reason people are applying, one-third of them, is for financial aid fraud. So how many times have I told you that if there's anything that involves a lot of money, financial aid, And there's no audit, or at least no useful audit. Eventually, it just turns to fraud. Every time. You could have predicted this so easily. Is money involved? Is the government involved?
Are a lot of people involved? Has time gone by? All those are true. Guaranteed corruption. Sure. It's massive. Meanwhile, did you think the fraud was going to be limited to a few states? No, of course not. Because whatever it is that made Minnesota and California so freaking fraudulent is almost certainly happening in the other states.
So now we find out that in Washington state, there are 539 childcare centers that list Somalia as the primary language. and they don't even have a street address, according to Kristen Magg.
Chapter 8: How is the U.S. dollar's dominance being challenged?
I saw this the next. How many of those do you think are fraudulent? All of them? Maybe all of them? Yes, because a lot of money is involved. A lot of people are involved. There's no real audit, obviously. 100% of the time, that will turn into fraud every time. No exceptions. Sure enough, what's happening in Ohio?
Wall Street Apes is reporting that fraudulent, oh, Somalian healthcare companies are being created where you can get as much as a quarter million dollars for being a fake healthcare person for your own family. You just have to have several relatives and just say, well, you know, I'm going to sit around this old relative and help. You don't even have to prove it.
So apparently you could get $75,000 to $90,000 a year just saying that you're taking care of an elderly parent of your own or somebody else's, I guess. And if you have two parents, you can double it. If you add your in-laws, you can get up to a quarter billion dollars a year for claiming that you're helping them, even if you don't do a damn thing. Again, lots of money involved.
Let's see, this would be fraudulent for Medicare, right? Yeah, I think it's Medicare. Every single time. Well, I heard Owen Gregorian mention that there's this thing called QI-TAM, spelled Q-I space T-A-M.
How many of you have ever heard that there's already on the books, I guess you'd call the law, I'm not sure if law is the right word, but it's part of some legislation that already passed some time ago called QI-TAM. Now, it turns out that it's Medicaid, not Medicare, I'm being told, that was being scammed in that last case.
So I'm being told that this has already existed for years, and what it is is a provision in the law in the United States that if you're a whistleblower and you turn in some major fraud against the government, and this is critical, and the government accepts it as a major fraud and then does some, let's say a lawsuit to get it back, that you would get up to 15 to 20% of whatever was recovered.
But did you know it existed? No. But now you do. And apparently there's a startup More than one, I think. But one of them is called Anti-Fraud Co. And Alex Shea is one of the founders. And he's informing us on X that they've already built a system that uses AI to identify probable fraud so that any citizen can take it to the government. And it would simplify, I think, the lawsuit process.
So it first identifies the frauds. big ones and then would walk you through taking it to the government and if the government accepts the case and why wouldn't they because they would have pretty good evidence by then and if they get money back you get you get a pretty big chunk of it so the thinking is that we already have a legal structure
to essentially close down the biggest frauds because it would incentivize the public to be fraud hunters and it would give them a legal framework to do that. Now, how many of you knew that was possible? You know, because people like me and Chamath Palapatiya and Bill Ackman and a bunch of other people,
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