 Actually, I think it's better Being older and having a kid. I appreciate it more. Mm-hmm. Yeah, kid babies are awesome. They are pretty awesome. They're awesome. Yeah, I mean also, I've spent a lot of time on AI and neural nets and so you can sort of see Then kind of the brain develop which is you know an AI neural neural net is trying to simulate what a brain does basically and you can sort of see the It learning very quickly. I think I think possessions kind of weigh you down Then they're kind of an attack vector You know, he'll say hey billionaire you go to this stuff like well, I'm not on our stuff now. What are you gonna do? Attack vector meaning like people target it. Yeah, interesting. Yeah like I have a bunch of houses, but I don't spend a lot of time in most of them and That doesn't seem like a good use of assets like somebody could probably be enjoying those houses and get better use of them than me You know this I started having like some privacy issues where like people would like let's people just like come to my house and You know Start climbing over the walls and stuff like man For sure in recent like your years billionaire has become a per jar. You like it's in it per jar. It's like it's like That's a bad thing Which I think don't doesn't make a lot a lot of sense in most cases if you if you've done if you basically Organized a company like so like how does this wealth arise? It's if you organize People in a in a better way to produce products and services that are better than what existed before and you have Some ownership in that company then that that essentially gives you the right to allocate more capital So it is it's there's a conflation of consumption and capital allocation I do think they're in the in the United States, especially there's an overallocation of talent in finance and law Basically too many smart people go into finance and law So You know, this is both a compliment and a criticism We should have of I think fewer people During law and fewer people doing finance and more people making stuff and and you know manufacturing used to be highly valued in The United States and these days. It's not it's it's often looked down upon which I think is wrong It doesn't really make sense for me to spend time Designing and building a house and I'd be real you know Get out like OCD on the little details and the design and Or should I be allocating that time to getting us to Mars? I should probably do the ladder so You know like what's more important Mars or a house? I like Mars. Okay, but that it could in principle fix almost anything that is wrong with the brain and it could restore limb functionality so if you've got Interface into the motor cortex and then an implant that's say That's like a microcontroller And near muscle groups you could then create a neural shunt that restores Somebody who is a quadriplegic to full functionality Like they can walk around be normal Whoa We're already Part your partly a cyborg Or an AI symbiote essentially it's just that the data rate to the electronics is slow It's especially output like you're just going with your thumbs What what's your data rate made? Optimistically a hundred bits per second. That's being generous and now the computer can Communicate it like you know hundred a hundred terabits I mean ultimately if you if you want to go with full AI symbiosis You'll probably Want to do something like that. I'm not sure what would happen to language You could probably with a situation like this that you would be able to just if we are kind of like the matrix You want to speak in a foreign language no problem, right? That's why it was to download the program But yeah, I mean you you could save state And restore that state into a biological being if you if you wanted to in the future in principle There's like nothing like from a physics standpoint that prevents us Recall everything they're just like it's a movie because it's including all the entire sensory experience emotions everything everything everything and Play it back Right now here's the thing you are a brain in a van then that vat is your skull Yes, and everything you see feel here Everything all your senses are electrical signals everything everything so you can think of the This is being like that the computer the AI is it is like a a third layer a tertiary layer So that is like that could be symbiotic with the cortex it would be much smarter than the cortex But you essentially have three layers And you actually have that right now your phone is capable of things and your computer is capable of things that your brain is definitely not you know storing your terabytes of information perfectly doing Incredible calculations that you know we couldn't even come close to doing you have that with your computer It's just like I said the data rate is slow. Yeah, the connection is weak And yet here's another sort of interesting idea which is because you say like where did consciousness arise? Well, assuming you believe the belief in physics, which appears to be true then you know we the universe started off as basically quarks and leptons and you quickly became hydrogen and Helium lithium like basically elements the periodic table a bit of like mostly hydrogen basically and Then over a long period of time 13.8 billion years later that hydrogen became sentient Well, I hope consciousness propagates into the future and gets more sophisticated and complex and and that it understands the Questions to ask about the universe At these sort of like the the means fear There's not enough isolation between countries or regions. It's like if you get up if there's a mind virus That that mind virus cannot infect too much of the world You know, I'm like I actually Sort of sympathize with the anti-globalization people because it's like man We don't ever want to ever where it'll be the same for sure And then we we need some kind of like mind viral immunity What are we gonna be like when 20 25 years from now? What are we gonna be? Well, assuming civilization is still around It's looking fragile right now. I Might I think the the the the mortality rate is is much less than what is Then what say the World Health Organization said it was it's very much much less It's like probably least order of magnitude less you can look at the mortality statistics You know by age and whether they have comorbidities like do they have like basically existing conditions, you know If you're below 60 and and have no serious health issues the probability of death is extremely low It's not zero, but it's extremely low Most of the hospitals in the United States right now are half empty In some cases, they're at 30% capacity. I mean objectively the mortality is is much lower like At least a factor of 10 maybe a factor of 50 lower than initially thought Let's let's clear up the data clear up the data There will be some amounts of lining here no matter what Hopefully more because of lining been less. Yeah It's like kind of like a practice run for something to have that that had a potential that might in the future have a serious like a really high mortality rate and we Kind of got to go through this with without without it being something that kills, you know vast numbers of Young healthy people. Yeah In general, I think that's like we should be concerned about Anything that's a massive infringement on a civil civil liberties. Yes, you know So it's like that you got to put a lot of weight on that a lot of people died to You know when in abundance with the country and fight for the democracy that we have and We should treasure that and not and not give up our liberties too easily. I think we've been I think we probably did that actually Fundamentally a violation of the Constitution. Yes freedom of assembly and yeah, these these are these were definitely not stand up you know with the Supreme Court here, I mean it's obviously complete violation, right? Yeah. Yeah, you know wait a civil civil liberties fit in this picture, you know Yeah, and what what what can the government make you do what can they make you not do and what you know, what's what's okay, right? Yeah, you can't take it personally. I love these people don't like actually know you, you know Like yeah, it's just like You know, it's like if you're if you're fighting a war and there's like some opposing soldier that that shoots Chutes at you. It's not like they hate you. They don't even know you right. Yeah, yeah So just think of it like that like that firing bullets, whatever But then I don't know you so don't take personally If like what do you think's the the best source of just like information out there? That's a good question you know like let's say you're just like average citizen trying to just get the facts, you know figure out what's going on like, you know how to live your life and You know just looking for what what's going on in the world that it's hard to find something that that isn't Yeah, that's that that's good. Yeah, you know That you know not not not trying to push some partisan angle not trying to not not sort of drink sloppy reporting And and just aim it for the most number of clicks and trying to maximize add dollars and that kind of thing Yeah, you're just trying to figure out what's going on. It's like I'm hard-pressed as Where do you go? Yeah, I think like maybe just trying to find individual reporters that you think are good and yeah kind of following them as opposed to the publication