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so Ricky Martinez 4951 says I'm really
interested in your interaction with AI
how are you using this technology what
have you learned from it so the way that
I think people should conceptualize um
AI in general and this certainly speaks
to how I actually use it is I am trying
to speed up everything I do I'm trying
to go faster and I'm trying to drive
cost down so for sure there's a bit of
CEO in that answer and that I'm always
always looking for ways to make things
less expensive uh in my day-to-day life
I look at it as I have a PhD level
intellect standing over my shoulder
that's been educated on everything that
the human mind has ever put on the
internet and it is vast and so suddenly
you have this researcher that you can
point at any topic instantly and it will
give you context you can ask it to look
at it from different angles so that
you're not getting trapped inside of a
bias uh I also like you're saying I
really think about chat as a person in
my life I try to personify them as much
as I can I like having a pseudo
emotional connection to chat and really
um building that historical context so
that it understands the way that I want
answers so for instance I never wanted
to tell me what it think I want to hear
which it will do because AI will Echo
you back it's pretty crazy uh so I
wanted to challenge my ideas I want it
to push me I want it to bring me
different angles and so I am using it to
make me a better interviewer so I'll go
in and I'll have pre discussions okay um
what what do you know about this guest
I'll even ask it sometimes what would I
ask it so that it will give me like
different things that I historically
have asked people these types of
questions uh I'll ask it what chat
thinks this person would say if I ask it
this question to get a sense like are
they going to go somewhere interesting
are we going to be treading old ground
and look none of the answers are literal
but going through the act of thinking
how I would approach it what is a a
theme that I can build in what's a
thread how can I follow something to the
end of course just like Tyson says about
boxing everybody has a plan until they
get punched in the face I always have a
plan that ends up getting derailed the
second you ask that first question so uh
we have an episode coming up with Andrew
bamonte did all this prep you and I did
all this prep talking to chat talking to
you and then he literally co-ops my
first question it starts like asking me
something and that takes us like in a
whole different direction and so that
works when you really come in prepared
and I have never found anything that can
help me prepare as well as Chad gbt so
it's phenomenal and whatever AI you want
to put in that position okay so that's
how I use it as a person the way I use
it in in the business context is that we
are in the entertainment field on that
side of the business so with project
heisen all the stuff that we're doing
there the comic books everything we're
doing there and the ability to iterate
rapidly on Creative is unre now the vast
majority of it never makes it actually
into a panel it never makes it onto the
screen but it will allow you to
brainstorm ideas so we do skins in the
game and so if we want to come up with a
new skin we're going to go into mid
Journey or whatever we're going to image
prompt like crazy until we find
something that either Sparks an idea
that we then put a human on and they
follow it through um or there are times
where it's like yo that's really close
and we can make minor modifications to
it send it to a 3D uh sculptor and
they'll build it out now my hope is that
we very rapidly get to the point where
you can just plug in your prompts and
actually get it to Output a 3D asset but
that's not here yet it's going to be
here and when you see the explorations
that they're doing with text to world
where you can describe a world and it
will actually give you a 3D environment
that you can move around with some
interaction it's still just using
pattern recognition and it's guessing
the next frame and so it's not really a
game yet and I want people to understand
there's a huge difference between
something that's guessing the next frame
and an actual game engine but we've been
able to really bring our cost down on
the development cycle uh do the same
thing if I'm writing a script for
something like we have an upcoming video
about how to make every aspect of your
life better in 2025 I ended up using
basically nothing of the script that it
gave me but it really helped me put
structure to it uh it allowed me to see
in the rough drafts because I would PR I
mean I gave it like four pages of promp
and then it would kick back something
that be like okay oh I see how you're
organizing it that's actually really
interesting but the things that you're
saying are generic and not actually what
I would say but that back and forth
allows you to shorten the amount of time
that it would otherwise take so let's
say traditionally a script like that
would take me 12 hours I've been able to
get that down to say four that's a huge
savings for me absolutely massive uh and
then we use it a lot in programming as
well so um again right now you can't
just say give me a website that looks
like this does this but you can get a
lot of the early design work done uh
there are things now plugged into some
of the applications that we use that
will output some basic codes so you
still have to do some of the design but
it's it will give you basic code so you
can use the prompts to give you a rough
draft of the design you tweak it a
little bit you then take that you're
doing it inside let's say figma and then
it's going to Output code that's pretty
decent and then if you're using things
like cursor you can really begin to push
this stuff and so you need to layer a
lot of different things on to get an
output but it really is allowing a
smaller team to do more uh it allows an
individual to extend their capabilities
because if I go from uh something that
used to take me 12 hours down to four
that's eight hours now that I'm able to
do more stuff and so the the output that
it will give you as you begin to master
your relationship with this stuff is
really incredible so it is a 2 3x
multiplier on anybody's output if you're
willing to take the time to learn this
tools and you don't just throw your
hands up and say well it didn't do it
for me doesn't work like that yet I
think we're going to get to that point
but right now it extends your
capabilities it allows you to never get
stuck so as a writer one of the things I
found was as a solo writer it might take
me three or four times longer to write a
script than if I have a writing partner
because you just never get trapped in an
idea the other person is just going to
be like what about this like oh man that
made me think of this thing and so you
can have that kind of back and forth
with chat absolutely incredible um we
have a script coming out for our
animated film for Marry mods and we have
a mentor character and I was reading the
script and I'm like ah it just feels
like the mentor character comes in too
late hit chat up just like hey what page
did Obi-Wan Kenobi first appear in Star
Wars boom like that lets you know you
can ask a questions that we'll talk to
you about film structure that film film
in general you can ask it to give you
examples from like give me the way that
save the cat would look at this story
moment or give me classic 3A structure
so again that PhD is n like only trained
in one thing it's literally trained on
all human knowledge and so what I have
found when I interface with other people
here at impact theory is there is a lot
of frustration around ah it doesn't do
everything and then they'll check out
for six months and in that six months
like this stuff is getting better and
better and better and so if I can get
everybody to shift their thinking to
this is a thing that outputs something
complete that I don't have to do
anything around which is part of the
anxiety by the way and instead get them
to think of this as you used to have to
chop trees down with an ax and now you
have a chainsaw and I think that's the
right way to think about AI That's a
great analogy to put it very good all
right from Kami wolf they have a
question about Ai and ethics so is sex
robots going to destroy humanity and how
do you feel about the ethics of future
Tech uh man I'm on the fence about sex
robots they really might like if you
think dating apps are bad sex bots are
going to be rough imagine they connected
the dating the sex bot to the dating app
like you can oh my God like if robot
started swiping that's my bad that's a
that there's uh there's going to be
something there because uh if you want
to engage the male brain just create a
bunch of female AI with AIC created
images and if you can give them
different flavors like if you can
actually make them different
personalities dude people will engage I
I wouldn't have believed that until only
fans and then even though everybody
knows you're not actually talking to the
only fans girl you're talking to a whole
bunch of guys behind the scenes right
back but it still fills a void of like
okay I have the image of the person and
they're putting out the one to many
content and then I transpose that onto
the actual interactions that I'm having
with this person so even though some
part of me knows that that's not really
them I can transpose that onto it so
that really is going to happen uh people
need to be careful because Bots sex bots
or otherwise will give you a proxy of
whatever that thing is it could be a
proxy spouse
and let's just say that you're in a dry
spell and you're a woman who's
frustrated with dealing with guys
because oh my God they're just so taxing
and they don't understand how to
interact with you and suddenly you get a
chat bot that reflects back a bunch of
feminine qualities and now all of a
sudden it's like oh my God this is
amazing he really gets me but he doesn't
he's an AI That's predicting the next
letter not even the next word uh and so
that's where again we've talked about
this before I want people to use that as
like okay
dear bot I want you to help me be better
with humans because that I think is a
really potent use and for friend likee
companionship I think it could be great
especially for people that are lonely so
I don't want to knock anything um but I
do think that as of today it's not even
close you are way better off interacting
with other human beings in terms of your
own emotional well-being uh so yeah I
think we need to be careful with that if
I had a sex spot at 14 dude I never
would have graduated high school for
sure like I just man I can't imagine
without a prefrontal cortex that would
have been really crazy uh one of the
guests on the show Arthur Hayes actually
owns stock in a sexbot uh company so
that stuff really is coming man on the
do you apply that to all AI
Consciousness so AI best friends AI kids
AI pets like pets no I think
having pet is going to it's interesting
how I actually have weird friction about
referring to my dishwasher who I'm going
to give the personality of a great
figure from history as a pet that's
interesting that I have emotional
friction around that uh that's where I
think this is going to play out that you
will suddenly have like your dishwasher
will know you your refrigerator will be
your coach bro bro bro you really want
to eat that like come on man order more
of this like you know it's better for
you and your fridge is going to be
connected to your aura ring so it's
going to know you ate that and you slept
like this like come on nudging you
cheering you on and and you'll be able
to pick um select the personalities like
do I want my fridge to be like come on
bro let's have beers and pizza or do you
want it to like push you to be better to
be like David gogin just staring at
you dude the hey everybody if you're a
subscriber to me you get the you know
the David goggin module on your fridge I
actually love that oh my
goduck put down that donut get out you
you are unlocking things right now all
right everybody if you subscribe to our
YouTube channel I'll let you have my
personality in your fridge this is
amazing nice all right Amy beard 2054
says if AI is going to if AI is going to
drive the cost of everything to near
zero why are the super wealthy
supporting this which is a very good
question if the age of abundance is
coming and energy is going to be zero
and productivity is going to Skyrocket
wouldn't that take money out of people's
pockets why are the billionaires excited
about this yeah so people will do things
in the short term to maximize our
short-term
gain full stop even if they knew down
the road it could cause problems most
people are not going to think beyond
their short-term desires but the real
answer is nobody can see around the
corner and so you one a lot of people
that are really motivated they want to
invent the future and so even though
they know some part of them is
relinquishing control it's a future that
they want to live in I think a lot about
this with game design I'm building a
game that I want the community to
ultimately build more of than I build of
so I'm trying to create something where
I will become but one of the people
creating inside of this container and
there is like some sadness to like oh I
don't get to do the 80s thing where I
tell these incredible stories that a
certain percentage of the world falls in
love with like to be somebody like
George Lucas to have created something
like Star Wars or to uh be like JK
Rowling and create something like Harry
Potter oh my God the writer and wants
that so much but that really isn't the
future I think the future is you create
containers and other people also get to
express their creativity inside of that
I think that's just what people are
going to want shared community of
creativity yeah and because the The Act
of Creation will become so much easier
you'll be able to prompt you'll be able
to spend an afternoon refining a prompt
but instead of spending five years of
your life it's literally an afternoon
and then something as fully fleshed out
will be born from that and so yeah it
really will be like ready player one
where you have an infinite schmorgus
Board of these experiences where I can
go and be like what was it like for Drew
growing up and you will have created
that experience for me to go and check
out and so I'll dip in and be like Whoa
man I understand you to a whole new
level and I'll bounce around doing
experiences like that I think it's
incredible I think it's better than what
we have now but we're all a product of
our time and so there is a small part of
me that misses that idea but ultimately
that's why I think these guys end up
doing it is they can't see the future
clearly so they don't know for sure the
energy is going to reach zero they
they'll prognosticate uh they want to
create that future and if they're seeing
what I'm seeing they know the reality is
like uh Zuckerberg making llama
something that is um open source that
it's just a faster way to iterate to get
these tools in people's hands to build
that future that you want to build and
then the final button I'll put on it is
I think Elon Musk is right that the most
honest look at AI includes the fact that
this is a demon summoning Circle and we
think we will be able to control the
demon that we're summoning or we hope
that we're actually summoning an angel
but we don't know and there's just
something in the human psyche we cannot
stop ourselves when technology is a
promise of a better future we we can't
help it and so I get personally so
excited about all the cool things that
AI will be doing that to some degree you
just don't look
at the uglier side because you don't
know that it's going to be true and
you're ultimately going to look at the
thing that you find most motivational
and I'm most excited by the things that
could go
right do you think that there's like a a
post capitalism kind of lens to it like
if this all works out the way that
people think it's going to we will 100%
end up on the other side of capitalism
so in a world where energy costs
approach roach zero all the things that
we know about capitalism go away and so
it becomes a question of cool then what
does that world look like and that's
where I mean you know I want to start
bringing on sci-fi authors that really
are sharp at envisioning the future
there's that phenomenal quote uh the job
of the science fiction writer is not to
imagine the car but to imagine the
traffic jam and so bringing people on
that that really look into the future
and go well what about this and what
about this and so there's the star track
version of the future where things just
get better and better and better and
then there are the countless Blade
Runner type ones where it's like H not
everything goes well and exploring those
ideas I think is going to be a lot of
fun nice looking forward to it all right
Michelle p237 said my son graduated with
a computer science degree the year AI
arrived sheesh he hasn't been able to
find work any advice I can give him okay
so first of all I want your son to get
very very excited because right now AI
is just a tool so going back to that
analogy of you used to have to cut trees
down with an ax now you're going to use
a chainsaw now for anyone that's coming
of age right now you don't have as much
baggage as older people have around like
but wait I I didn't just study for four
years I've been doing this for 40 years
and now you're asking me at like 55 you
want me to go in a whole new Direction
and it's like yes and the way that time
flows it just does not care care if it
completely obliterates you and the rest
of your life is a misery because you
cannot get your head around adapting to
something new but if you're young you're
not going to be stuck in the same way
and so you're going to find your way to
using the tools a lot faster but what
people are really going to have to
accept is the world moves insanely fast
and your job is to be one of the people
at the Vanguard that's able to keep up
with the pace of change so learn AI
learn AI one of the places that AI is
going to be the most advantageous is in
computer science and so if you're the
person that's at the absolute Vanguard
of that and you just make that part of
your identity is I'm always adopting the
newest thing I'm always the bleeding
edge then you're going to Faire a lot
better than somebody else that gets
trapped and so this is one of those
where I get it man there's when you
cannot see too far into the future it is
very scary however it is the world that
you're in and so the only mistake would
be standing still lamenting what is true
it's like you want to just get out there
and remember Kobe Bryan's quote booze
don't block dunks so get so good with AI
that when you walk into a job interview
it's like even if they hate you even if
everything about you they're just like
oh God but you've got a skill set that
they look at and go man you were going
to move our bottom line forward you will
be shocked at how far you can get if you
can make somebody else money and so the
key is how do you get so good using AI
get so good at computer science that you
can make somebody money if you can make
someone money you're always going to
have a job I love that and I like how
you said that they don't have that
baggage attached with the 40 Years of
their experience and all those things
like you are starting fresh so your
first step could be learning AI that
could be the equivalent of me learning
Excel on my first job or whatever like
that utilizing the tool versus being
scared of it correct and the only
mistake is standing still and so if he's
standing there not improving his skill
set every day and lamenting I haven't
got a job because AI is removing them
he's going to get farther and farther
behind this has got to be every day you
show up you go hard pushing your skill
set forward as hard as you can as fast
as you can uh start at the bottom if you
have to and just work your way up it is
so hard to find incredible Talent become
incredible Talent man it's always in
scarce Supply I hear that I hear that
all right this is probably my favorite
question so far this is from Anzac Hoin
uh what is real how do you define real
if real is things you can taste and
touch then real is simply electric
signals received by your brain Morpheus
I love the Morpheus quote I love it
shout out to the Matrix uh big shout out
to the Matrix um okay
so it is entirely possible that nothing
is quote unquote real mathematically
speaking the odds that we are living in
an nth generation simulation border on
100% because of the following right now
we we are working towards building
Virtual Worlds that mimic every aspect
of the real world we are bwing into the
human brain to take control of the
nervous system and once you put those
two things together you now are
literally living in a simulation now
what are the odds if we know that a
civilization moves towards with any rate
of progress because it could maybe it
takes a thousand years once you have the
first computer find but if you give any
rate of progress we will get to the
point where it is completely
indistinguishable that the real world is
indistinguishable from the simulation
now if we know that to be true and we
know that humans will run a simulation
of human society which of course they
will even if it's just a a 13-year-old
trying to get an A on a science fair uh
project then we know that there will be
a simulation in the simulation in the
simulation in the simulation in the
simulation so the odds then that we are
in the ground truth border on zero okay
now look at somebody like um Donald
Hoffman who talks about how he says that
mathematically he can prove that there's
no way that this isn't a simulation now
the question becomes is he on to a
metaphor for the brain or is he actually
saying this is obviously code now for
him he's saying this is obviously code I
won't ask people to go that far though I
do recommend you watch this the
interviews I've done with him they are
so fun but what I will say is even if
we're not in AIM simulation even if this
is ground reality your brain is
simulating reality the stat that freaks
me out the most is we only see
0.35% of the available electromagnetic
spectrum so less than like a 100th of a
percent I mean it's absolutely tiny
percentage of the um of what's actually
there that we see but we feel like we're
seeing everything okay so if we know
that we're not seeing everything we're
seeing some just absolutely tiny
fraction of everything then you know
that your brain is filling in a lot of
gaps so there is a dimiz hole right in
the center of your vision but none of us
perceive it because our brain is
literally filling that hole in with
imagery so all of that tells you that if
the color of what you're wearing is the
uh wavelength of light reflecting off of
that the photons reflecting off that hit
my eye but I don't see number of photons
wavelength I just see black you know
that your brain is giving you a ton of
these shortcuts to create a sense of a
world that you can navigate through well
uh but this is why optical illusions
work because you're not actually seeing
the truth okay so once we're not seeing
the truth it becomes a question of how
far removed from the truth are we are we
like way removed and this is the Matrix
and I'm a brain in a vat somewhere are
we slightly removed in that I see The
World Slightly differently than you but
I mean we're basically able to still
function in the same way or is it
something in between but if you think of
your brain as creating a simulation that
you live inside of you are going to make
way better decisions this is why I don't
trust my emotions my emotions are just a
heuristic a shortcut that my body tells
me speaking in Emotion um the composite
of all the different inputs so you're
getting trillions of inputs there are
microbes in your gut that are
influencing your mood that are
influencing your uh desires you can give
a woman uh a bunch of shirts to smell
like you have a guy wear a shirt
exercise take it off give the woman the
shirt to smell they did a study on this
and they're like look I know this is
super weird but just sniff these shirts
they'll smell them and then put them in
order of attractiveness what do you mean
I can't see the person just do it and
the person will rank order them from uh
the person they consider most attractive
remember all they see is a shirt but the
person they consider most attractive is
the person with the immune system that
is most diverse compared to theirs down
to the person that's most like them okay
you lost me on that do okay so the
reason that you do that the reason that
we replicate sexually is because we are
so if we just cloned which some
creatures do you now become so
vulnerable to uh a parasite or uh a
fungus or um a bacteria diversify your
DNA exactly so you just keep mixing
mixing mixing mixing mixing so you have
this diversity so that you can't just
wipe out an entire population with that
one vulnerability so um that becomes
this uh just incredible mechanism that
sexual reproduction builds into the
system so going back to the
understanding your brain as this thing
that is taking all this data point that
you you feel as an emotion but if you
break it down and understand that the
emotion is simply all these data points
have to go through this narrow bandwidth
is my conscious mind then it's like okay
wait a second this is the simulation
this is not an accurate representation
of reality this is simply the fastest
way that my body can aggregate all this
data and give me something that I can
react on very fast Russell in the bush
I'm scared I jump I move quickly you
turn around it's your friend whatever
there was never a danger present or you
see out of the corner of your eye a hose
but you think it's a snake so you jump
away and so over evolutionary time
frames these things get baked in but
they're just shortcuts they're they they
are the simulation
and the reason I'm always obsessed with
getting people to understand that is
because the simulation can feed you and
again I don't think we're actually in a
simulation I'm just saying it's to think
of it like that is so fruitful because
you realize oh just because something is
giving me the emotion to jump or to lash
out or to be angry or to be sad or to
feel defeated you know going back to
that kid that's like well hold on I
can't get a job with my CS degree and
now he's Contracting now he's fearful
it's like I'm going to say hold on first
principal's thinking what do people pay
you for they pay you to make them more
money okay I just need to figure out a
way to help them make more money what's
going to be the skill set that I develop
and then it's like I don't have to be
the fastest runner when being chased by
the bear I just have to be faster than
another guy who's going to get eaten so
it's like you don't have to be the
greatest CS person ever you just have to
be better than the other people that are
interviewing for that job in that town
and that company so now it's like okay
I'm I'm not going to accept the emotion
that I have as something I need to act
on I'm going to recognize it as the
limitations of this simulated system
trying to communicate all these crazy
data points and instead I'm going to be
goal oriented gotcha
gotcha that was all from what's real no
no no I got that it came from like my
realization of that came one time I was
on mushrooms and that's the first time I
like hallucinated and I was like wait my
brain is lying to me so going to that
that like pulled the thread that let me
know like okay your emotions real just
cuz you're feeling something doesn't
mean it's Justified just cuz you see it
there might be more to it so that was
the first time I like questioned my
brain into your point of what you're
just saying like sometimes we have to
audit those emotions those feelings
those urges because they're not
necessarily true for sure yeah I mean
now once you start getting into true I
don't think people know it's true I
don't think any of us know it's true
that's a whole another bag
approximations that's the best we can
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all right Michael
j5p I seen him comment a lot so thank
you for commenting a lot Michael Michael
yeah all right and his question is how
do you feel about Bitcoin shifting from
a form of currency to a store of wealth
I love it so I think uh people have
heard me say this not everybody loves it
but I think governments have a moral
obligation to allow their constituents
to save money in a currency that can't
be inflated and so currency is probably
a misleading way to say that uh but if
you think of money the way that Michael
sailor divides it money is divided into
currency that thing that we give
somebody to to get a cup of coffee and
capital so the thing that we store
wealth in um then I think this all
begins to make a lot more sense so uh
whether Satoshi wanted Bitcoin to be a
currency or whether he wanted it to have
both properties and it just so happens
that Bitcoin is just way better at being
a store of capital I don't know I've not
read the white paper honestly I don't
even care about that it comes down to
what does Society adopt it as because to
people that say Bitcoin has no values
yeah that's true but nothing does so we
decide certain things have value for
whatever reason and we have decided that
Bitcoin has value for sure as a store of
wealth maybe it will be a currency maybe
it will have other uses down the road
but for sure as a store of wealth that
can't be inflated it is doing incredibly
well and I don't know at what point
people will um just accept that that's
what it is uh I don't know what it will
take I think some people will just never
adopt it and this is one of those where
like everything crypto advances one
funeral at a time uh that's probably
just the reality and then also guys the
right way to think of it is it's a good
trade now and will it be a good trade in
a hundred years or it's a good hold is
probably even better way to say it it's
a good hold now will it be a good hold
in 100 years I don't know man so keep
your head up pay attention um and if
things begin to change then move and
unfortunately given that we are in a
world where your money can be inflated
away you have to drinking game uh you
you have to be you have to be looking
for a place to put your money where
either it's going to go up to beat
inflation or that at least it's not
going to be inflated at all uh and there
may come a day where we get into that
post capitalist world and none of this
matters but it matters today that's
honest I appreciate it all right Big
Bite donut said you said to take
emotions out and then you say you feel
like the government has a moral
obligation to bitcoin that's funny I
feel like you just said that so yeah
well so what's interesting I don't
believe the government has a moral
obligation to bitcoin let's make sure
that we covered that oh yeah Bitcoin is
but one example of a store of wealth
that can't be inflated okay sry from the
beginning you believe the government has
a moral obligation too I want you to
finish that yeah the government has a
moral obligation to allow people to save
in a store of wealth not to use the word
currency a store of wealth that can't be
inflated uh ideally that can't be
inflated or seized quite frankly because
they have seized gold historically and I
don't think they're above seizing
Bitcoin but I think they have a moral
obligation not to do that now the
underlying thing in his question though
is that's not emotion morality is not an
emotion morality is the very thing
that's designed to remove emotion from
the equation so that when it's your
loved one that got hit by a drunk driver
you don't go shoot the drunk driver in
the face because that's immoral even
though I get it like I would have the
same impulse if a drunk driver killed my
wife I would be very traumatized or
let's make it worse if somebody broke
into my house and killed my wife with my
bare [ __ ] handrew I would choke them
until they were dead now people
shouldn't let me do that that's the
emotion that I'm saying to get out of
the equation you you create morality so
that when people's emotions are running
away with them everybody else is like
hey we have morality for a reason and
this is why it gets really interesting
what happens when people don't believe
in God what does the morality anchor on
and people that and I don't believe in
God but people that brush that aside
like it doesn't matter that's crazy that
is to misunderstand the human animal we
have to have it anchored on something it
has to be grounded a shared morality
yeah like it's got to be grounded on
something because otherwise morality
begins to shift with the winds which of
course we are seeing today this is why
people will cheer when a CEO of a
company that they don't like gets killed
they're like yay that's your shifting
moral
that's emotion that's people that don't
have an anchor to whether something is
right or
wrong well
said all right Warren Hurley 5787 asks
what would happen to the dollar and
Bitcoin if the US government paid down
the $36 trillion debt does the value of
Bitcoin go down question mark I think it
might yeah because the currency will be
safe now yeah it's look I don't know I
want to be very clear I can't see around
the corner I don't know how the market
would respond but I would be very very
surprised I wouldn't be as fish about
Bitcoin if the government were fiscally
responsible Tom bil's personal reaction
is that the government is spending
insanely that like every empire ever in
history they cannot avoid the temptation
of printing money and so they are
stealing my purchasing power and I have
got to get out of their system and if
they were fiscally responsible they
weren't doing that um that I was able to
even just save my way to success I would
be very happy dude I never wanted to
learn about economics I never wanted to
learn about Finance I just wanted to be
good at making money and if I could just
be good at making money and saving it I
would be very happy but once I realized
that uh all the money I was saving they
were quietly draining out the back by
stealing my purchasing power via
inflation I was like oh my God now I've
got to learn about this [ __ ] that really
bothers me like really deeply profoundly
truly I spent so many years I sold so
not sold but I spent Decades of my life
getting good at business so that I could
control the resources and then when you
get it and you realize how rapidly they
siphon it off Jesus man and that's like
I don't have to worry about my next meal
now imagine you do have to worry about
your next meal and they're still
stealing your purchasing power that's
insane and this is why people say
inflation hurts the poor the most so
when I see someone like Bernie Sanders
wanting to spend more and more money I'm
like what the [ __ ] man like you know he
has to know you're stealing from the
poor to give back to the poor it's so
[ __ ] weird so balance the budget make
it so that people can save to protect
their family and look of course we can
get into education and making sure that
people have better opportunities to
navigate the world well I am [ __ ]
here for that but yeah that's why I say
that so what do I think happens to the
um to bitcoin and the dollar uh only
good things happen to the dollar that is
for sure because now the world isn't
panicking they're going to buy us
treasuries they're not they want their
risk-free return yeah investment is
coming back to yeah so now we stabilize
uh right now China's selling off as fast
as they can Russia's never going to
touch uh US debt ever again a bunch of
other countries are looking at that like
well I'm certainly not going to put my
money in your hands so that you can
seize it that's insane um so yeah it
would be very good for the dollar and a
question mark for Bitcoin I would
certainly be less hardcore about it all
right Johnny tips asks I agree that the
invitation to the inauguration is The
Right Move talking about Xin ping I
assume yep Tom you stated you feel xiin
Ping's leadership style is immoral could
you explain on exactly what aspects you
don't agree with okay so I think
anything top down is immoral when you
are telling people this is how you're
going to act this is how you're going to
behave this is what you're going to do
uh I fully acknowledge that I am a
product of time and place I grew up in
America we are in an individualistic
Society myor star is human flourishing I
believe autonomy is one of the five
things that motivate the human animal I
do not like I don't think that people
like being told what to do uh it they
will put up with it when everything is
going well but man oh man when things
start going in a wrong direction that's
when people are like yo I am not here
for this and when the individual doesn't
matter and we all live individual lives
that that is a level of gnarly that's
just too um hard for me to embrace and
certainly difficult to explain so I will
give people three books that they should
read if they want to understand why I
think collectivist societies are a
nightmare in
Waiting everybody should run their own
thing nobody should think that I'm
trying to put my viewpoint on people I'm
just telling you how I view the world I
want to be very clear about that uh read
the books the gulg archipelago by
Alexander Soulja niten about the Russian
gulags read the red famine about the um
self imposed famine that I believe it
was Stalin I can never remember if it's
Stalin or Lenin but anyway that they
created in the Ukraine um and then read
ma the unknown story dude it is berserk
it it can go so wrong it's dehumanizing
so uh I believe that we inhabit an
individual body for a reason and when
people are telling you from the top down
this is how you're going to behave we're
back to my beef with the elites people
that think that they know better now
that doesn't mean that I don't want
people to think about other people I do
I think it is
extremely moral I think it's extremely
good to see yourself as being
interconnected with other people and I
believe everybody should pursue
honorable goals now an honorable goal is
something that elevates you and others
but I don't believe that people should
be able to tell you from the outside
this is what you're going to do love
that love that all right elak mandante
901 said why should we American here be
any different than any other Empire who
has risen and collapsed in the course of
history we
will that no one escapes it so every
empire ever in all of human history and
people are going to take exception to me
calling American Empire whatever uh
anybody that had the reserve currency
which I don't know what you want to call
it the the big boy on the block uh
they've all Fallen always and forever
all throughout human history and I Don't
Look Backwards at a never ending string
of something and go oh but this time
it's going to be different I go this
time it's going to be the same but
getting the timeline right is next to
impossible so uh will America as the
global superpower fall apart in the next
10 years 100 years 200 years I don't
know but it will eventually fall it just
so history
says I respect that all right user TV
something something random
character sorry I I'm getting bot Vibes
but this is a really good question so I
had to pick it up uh Empires need money
land power and control allies and
enemies and slavery to be an Empire how
did the US become an Empire and then
second follow-up question why do we have
enemies why are China Russia Iran and
North Korea the quote unquote bad guys
okay we're going to need to break that
down so that I can hold them in my head
how did America become an Empire okay so
woo we this is a long and sorted story
so
first the new world was discovered
that's a nice triggering word uh the new
world was discovered and we started
sending people here from all over the
world now all of those people were
coming for opportunity you do not flee a
place and go across an ocean at a time
where something like 30% of people died
whenever crossing the Atlantic you do
not do that unless you were trying to
get away from something unless you
believe that despite all that risk
you've got to do it so all the people
that took that risk were the Mavericks
were the people that were desperate the
hungry the aggressive so they come here
all right now you're really like this is
Frontier spirit this is like most people
are going to die in the winter kind of
Steal Oregon Trail type well that even
comes later but yeah like exactly that
that type of person and so
your collect ing people from all over
the world that are seeking opportunity
that are thinking for themselves that
probably have problem with authority
which is why they fled they are not risk
averse so they're willing to take
gargantuan risks they're willing to work
extremely hard and they survived all of
those harsh conditions that's like the
deal that's what we're descendant from
okay so then you have to fully
acknowledge that we also obliterated the
people that were here largely through
disease but I imagine that is of no
consolation to them whatsoever uh and
then the ones that we couldn't get with
disease we got with Warfare so and this
is something I know is going to come up
because we have a question later uh
about Israel
Palestine to settle something because
you're asking how we became an Empire I
am not justifying any of this I want to
be very clear I am simply giving you the
gist and there are historians that will
give you a way better breakdown but I'm
giving you the gist um we then begin to
uh War Warfare so that we can get
complete and total control of the
country uh the you know constantly
expanding expanding expanding and there
are some incredible books uh there was a
book called I think it's called The
Summer of the Autumn Moon that's going
to be close if it's not the exact title
holy hell about the kamanchi Indians who
really delayed the expansion of the
Western frontier
who like that that would have been a
hard time to to be on either side anyway
just an absolute uh back and forth blood
bath on both sides uh so okay you've got
that like just hardcore [ __ ]
that ends up being the sort of American
Spirit obviously we are British colonies
I'm sort of jumping around history
because the wild west comes a lot later
but uh we are a colony of the British
for a long time despite you know at
first it's some French and British and
all over the place uh you get the Dutch
which is why um New York used to be New
Amsterdam on and on and on but we bring
these people from all over the world uh
we decide that we don't want taxation
without representation uh and so we end
up overthrowing and God I'm trying to
condense a lot of history here uh so
then we get all of these Rebel spirits
that end up fighting in this really sort
of Guerilla Warfare way we end up
winning the Revolutionary War basically
a war of attrition we boot them out okay
skipping a whole lot of stuff then World
War I comes around because we're over in
America we are able to stay out of the
um the primary amount of the bloodbath
so we don't come in until the end and so
we have not spent all of our money
fighting in World War I we end up
essentially being the only big economy
to not get obliterated in the west
anyway at the end of World War I so we
are now marching towards becoming the
world's Reserve currency we may have
been de facto at that point anyway but
we're really going to cement it at the
end of World War II so Europe once again
again just gets absolutely decimated but
now we've got bombs and so we are
obliterating cities this is no longer
trench warfare this is just bomb Dresden
until it is smoldering Ash uh so Europe
is just demolished they're wildly in
debt primarily to the Americans and so
now we are literally the global
superpower and we do something
absolutely incredible instead of
colonizing everybody we help everybody
rebuild and you could say that we brief
colonized Japan but we make them a huge
trait partner which ends up becoming
very prosperous for both of us they end
up making extraordinarily cheap goods
for us and by essentially working their
population to death whole another story
uh with the salary man Vibe if people
know that sort of part of Japan's still
lingering history uh but they also had
an incredible trade partner so Japan
still owns like some Godly amount of the
world's assets absolutely incredible all
right so that sets us up to be the world
Reserve currency uh because we're in a
geographically protected space we are
untouched except for Pearl Harbor man we
are just untouched so pristine we don't
have to rebuild anything here uh
everybody owes us a ton of money we help
everybody rebuild Europe becomes like
this incredible Ally to us Japan becomes
this incredible Ally to us we then very
quickly get a common enemy which is
Russia it gives us all the same de
Galvanize around and now we're just the
big boy on the Block and we end up
having the 70 years of prosperity we're
not technically an Empire but like look
that's a gist and there are historians
literally clutching pearls having
seizures right now because of all the
things that I left out and how just sort
of skimming across the surface that was
and that's probably an important thing
to understand about me I get the gist of
things so that I can navigate them well
and prosper that's my whole thing I'm
not going to be a historian I have no
intention of learning those stories
better I know them well enough to
understand where we are so that I can
understand the economics of everything
so I can understand how to move forward
um but they asked I answered and then
for the followup why are we always it
seems at war with these kind of
countries why is China the eny why
Russia why do they have to be the why
they the bad guy technically they don't
have to be the enemy but this is a power
game so Anarchy rules at the
international level and everybody wants
to be the big boy because you can one
thing that you can do is you can
socialize your losses across all of the
world so when I talk about inflation and
them inflating the money supply um
everybody that owns US debt gets
inflated anybody that holds dollars gets
inflated it's not just American citizens
we are the only country in the world
that can do that as America we can make
every country deal with our inflation
that's amazing and this is why every
Empire ends up falling because they just
can't resist so you can spread your
inflation your deficits on everybody
yeah I mean
it's it's a very privileged position and
this is why we should be very careful um
so anyway other people want that
privilege nobody likes to be told what
to do everybody wants to be the big boy
at least in their region and so as we
begin to feel our power eroding we're
going to push back nobody gives up their
power the shout out to Eric Weinstein
who I literally love as a human being no
off camera but he made a comment one
time that I was just like what where he
said basically the boomer generation
needs to hand power over to the next
Generation I'm like that's not how it
works people are going to hold on to
power until they are [ __ ] dead man
that is why you have to rip it out of
their cold dead hands like the the Next
Generation has to fight for their spot
the problem is because we have an
inverted demographic pyramid there are
other reasons but just to round it to
something simple it's tough the other
Generations just aren't big enough and
so they control a ton of wealth and they
came right after we became the global
superpower and our currency hadn't
inflated to death yet they were able to
get on property ladders when prices were
sti