Brian Redban joins Joe Rogan to mock AI’s absurdity—ChatGPT 4.0 replacing podcasts, Samsung fridges flagging expired food, and Windows’ Recall function raising privacy red flags—while debating how mechanical keyboards outperform voice-to-text even when stoned, and praising Kill Tony for selling out arenas like Madison Square Garden by rejecting political claptrap in favor of pure humor. They pivot to leaded gasoline’s 1970s phase-out, linked to a 2022 study showing 824 million lost IQ points among Americans, and microplastics in testicles, with Rogan citing Harvard’s Shanna Swan warning about shrinking male anatomy from toxins. Speculating on AI-driven governance, they critique ideological capture (like OpenAI’s Scarlett Johansson voice controversy) and question whether tech could replace human judgment, before dismissing lab-grown meat as a climate-change fantasy while Tesla’s design flaws spark frustration—only to end with Rogan hailing Kill Tony Rise as comedy’s last bastion of unfiltered talent. [Automatically generated summary]
Yeah, and it doesn't do a good job because the first thing it did, it went right over this dog shit and just started smearing dog shit through the whole entire kitchen.
Yeah, all these different things are going to sync together.
That's one of the things that people say about Samsung.
People that are Samsung fanboys...
If you have a Samsung refrigerator and a Samsung TV and a Samsung phone, you could use your phone to control everything.
I guess there's refrigerators out there.
I don't know exactly where they're at right now because I only saw an ad for them where your refrigerator will tell you when things are going to expire.
Like, what if he just fell on his bike and broke his leg, and now all of a sudden he's got a call for an ambulance, and he's laying there with his fucking shin bone poking out of his calf, and he's got to sit there while his stupid phone does that.
But what I really like is the keyboards on ThinkPads.
Because ThinkPads have a longer stroke, and when you're writing with keys, like, you have more feedback with the longer keystrokes, and then you're more accurate with your typing.
And it's been proven.
Like, when people do, like, how many words per minute can you write?
They can write more words per minute on keyboards with better feedback, like longer keystrokes.
But Alienware, you know, because a lot of gamers like mechanical keyboards because they have the clicky clack feel and it's like even more accurate.
Well, they have a mechanical keyboard now on their laptops.
And so I've been thinking about getting one of those.
I think the key travel is 1.8 millimeters, which is like ideal.
My old ThinkPad had like 2.2, which was nice.
Long keystrokes and you just get real accurate with like your writing so for me like a lot of times I'm writing I'm stoned I don't have time to like go back and fucking you know I want to just get it my thought out while it's in my head and With an IBM well, you know Lenovo now when a Lenovo ThinkPad I'm just much more accurate when I'm writing and I like it, but it sounds...
And some of the things I write, I like writing because the thing about writing is, like, say if I'm writing...
You know, fucking artificial intelligence.
As I'm writing artificial intelligence, it takes longer to write it than it does to think the word.
So you're spending more time on each, instead of just barfing out words, like I do when I talk, or sometimes I don't even know what the fuck I'm saying while I'm saying it.
When I'm writing and typing, it takes a little longer, so it makes me think a little more, and I have more possibilities open up about where to go with things.
So it actually benefits me to slow me down a little, but I still want it to be accurate.
I want it to be so slow that I'm fucking with every key.
I don't want that.
I want accuracy, but a little slower than talking for writing.
Like, all this, like, shit where he's, like, Louis CK, or not Louis CK, but the George Carlin and stuff, that's somebody writing that and just doing it in a George Carlin voice.
What I think it would be, though, so you know how a lot of really good comics hire writers?
And generally, the writers aren't even as good a comic as them.
But the way Chris Rock does it, Chris, I haven't talked to him personally.
I've heard him talk about it, and I've talked to people who work with him.
So one of the things he gets accused of, unfairly, people say that he has writers who write for him.
Chris Rock writes his own material.
What he has is the writers, he bounces the ideas off them, so they come and watch him do the set, and then they say, maybe when you do this, say that first, or maybe expand on this, or I got a tag for that.
But those guys who are doing that aren't as good a comic as him.
If he just took those notes and transcribed them into the notes on his phone, Then he would have it, he's always worried about losing them, but this way you would never lose them, because they would be in the cloud.
And with a lot of these things, like that's the other thing about Samsung, you can write with a stylus on the screen, and then it would convert that into print.
Yeah, I think they have apps or there's a way to do it on the Note app maybe on the phone, like where you just use your finger, you know, and just do...
Well, if you can get through that, though, I mean, good lord, if you can get through that, what a career you'll have.
You'll be able to tell people the first time he was ever on stage was in front of 20,000 people, and now here he is headlining the Comedy Works in Denver.
Because when he would do Kill Tony, when he would engage with the audience, I go, when you stare at the audience and start talking to them, I go, it makes me nervous.
Like, as a friend of yours, you're so wild that, like, I'm in the audience like, this guy's crazy.
That's better than staring at your notes, man.
Engage them.
Look at them.
You can remember your jokes.
And he just had to be convinced that he could remember.
Now he's doing an hour on stage with no notes and killing, headlining, selling out everywhere.
Dude, the Black Keys specifically wanted to see him when he was in town.
So I had William come up and do the show.
I called him.
I was like, dude, the Black Keys want to meet you.
In LA, when I was in LA for the Keltonys, I hung out with Post I think like two nights, three nights in a row to like five in the morning just drinking.
I don't know if they're a sponsor on this, but the HIMSS, the hair HIMSS, you can get medications through them.
They just announced that they're going to have an Ozempic Clone, where it's the same medicine inside of Zempick, but it's going to be like one-tenth of the price.
Yeah, there's some people have real bad side effects, apparently.
But one of the things that...
What Peter Atiyah was saying was that, you know, he's a doctor, so they had tried to see what the effects of these things on the people that wanted to take them.
And so they said, well, we'll prescribe them to you, but we want to do DEXA scans, we want to make sure that we, you know, we want to really monitor what's going on in your whole body.
So one of the things that they found out was that in normal conditions, like say if you lost weight, You know, like, most of it would be fat, but a small percentage of it would be lean body mass, like muscle tissue.
In Ozempic, most of the loss, like, when they were looking at it, the people were losing much more body mass, much more lean tissue and bone mass than was making him comfortable.
He's like, this makes me very uncomfortable.
He's like, these people are getting lighter and they're getting fatter.
Like, they're losing muscle tissue and bone.
Like, this is not good.
But then there's other people that have said, if your body's tolerating it, that what you should do is add strength training to mitigate the effects of that.
But now you're asking people to be disciplined.
Like, isn't the whole point?
I mean, how many people who are going to take Ozempic are like disciplined weight trainers?
Where they're gonna really mitigate the effects of bone loss and muscle loss, and they're gonna stay strong while they lose fat, while you're paralyzing their stomach with a drug that I would just imagine probably has an effect on your energy levels.
Just by virtue of the fact that your body is dealing with whatever it has to do to metabolize this new drug you're injecting into your body, right?
So if you're injecting this drug into your body, Does it have a positive effect?
Does it give you more energy?
Or it's killing your appetite, right?
That's part of what it does.
It's kind of like, what is the actual physical effect?
It has some sort of a paralysis effect on your stomach on some people?
It's also the club experience and to see the club experience on YouTube.
The Mothership and like what Kill Tony at the Mothership is the cornerstone of stand-up comedy because it's showing young comics that there's a path.
You can actually do this and it's just about being funny regardless of your political beliefs, your ideology, what you think you're supposed to say with your platform.
There's plenty of people lecturing people, plenty of people telling people what to do.
They just want to laugh.
And when you get one minute, there's no time for any bullshit.
And then you have one minute with these hawks on the left side of you.
Just hawks.
Just vicious professional comedians all waiting to shit on your act or say something funny at your expense.
And then the audience, they get to see, you know, William Montgomery kill, Cam kill, Hans kill.
These people are killing.
And so the audience is primed.
It's like, if you can do that, if you can actually get through that and make that minute and have everybody go, that was really great.
And the audience gives you a round of applause like, holy shit, you're flying.
And then the audience wants to see you try it again, and now you're out in the open mics every night, and you're banging it out because you think, oh my god, I think there's a real pathway to a career here.
And then you do a second show, and next thing you know, you got a golden ticket.
He's on the plane nerding out on all his material.
But that's how to do it, man.
That's how to do it.
But the thing is, these comics now, they see there's a genuine path.
And it exists.
And so it sets the tone for open mics and for stand-ups.
Because they realize, like, hey, it's not about your fucking ideologies.
It's just about being funny.
Too many people got trapped in this claptor mode, where you want to say something, you know, you're going to use something, you're going to use your act for social justice, like...
Now, if you have a point and you have something you want to say and it's funny and you know how to work it and make it funny, great.
Great.
But it's got to be funny.
And so many people, they started off with this idea of taking this, I'm going to take this sneaky shortcut and just say a bunch of shit that kind, rational people will agree with.
Whether it's about the vaccine, support the science, or whether it's about Trump being a dictator.
They'll say things just to get that clap, just to get that thing.
And then they'll throw a few half-assed jokes in with it when they're already riding on the wave of being correct and on the right side of things.
Like, right, everybody?
And it's all just like you're avoiding being funny.
You're avoiding it.
And some of these people that we're seeing doing this, like, you're so fucked in the head.
You shouldn't be giving out advice on anything.
You're such a crazy person.
And then you're on stage, like, lecturing the country on how to think and behave.
You're out of your fucking mind.
Like, you need to be in the jungle doing ayahuasca for like a month.
Like, shut the fuck up, stupid.
You miserable cunt.
But meanwhile, you're like telling people how to behave and live their life.
Because they put lead in gasoline, so I guess it stops the engine from pinging.
I'm a moron, even though I love cars.
I don't really exactly know what happened with lead and unleaded, but they had leaded gasoline forever.
Like when I was a kid, when I had muscle cars, you had to get leaded gasoline to make the muscle car run good.
Like unleaded gasoline, it would run like shit.
So we all had like I don't even know when they came out with unleaded gasoline But I remember for sure when I was younger there was options you get leaded or unleaded 82 probably and when you you always want everybody wanted leaded but when you were When you were driving around you're that shit from those pipes all that exhaust all the burning of that leaded gasoline literally poisoned the ground 70s.
Unleaded gasoline was introduced in the 1970s when health problems from lead became apparent.
In the United States, leaded gasoline for use on non-road vehicles was completely phased out.
It was January 1st, 1996. Most other countries have also stopped using leaded gasoline.
Find out what the effect leaded gasoline had on IQs, because that was what was disturbing.
So they were saying that people in, like, urban areas that had, like, a lot of, like, cars traveling back and forth...
My friend lived in Brooklyn, my friend Steve Rinella.
He lived in Brooklyn for a while, and he was gonna grow plants in his backyard, but he has soil...
Because he's very smart, so he had his soil tested.
And he found it's, like, filled with lead.
From leaded gasoline.
From the fuckin' 60s and the 50s and shit.
It's just in the dirt.
According to a 2022 study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, childhood exposure to leaded gasoline has caused a loss of 824 million IQ points for more than 170 million Americans.
Or about half of the U.S. population.
This is based on an average of 2.6 IQ points lost per person.
The study also found that people born in the mid to late 1960s may have lost up to 6 IQ points.
That's me.
While children with the highest levels of lead in their blood may have lost more than 7 IQ points on average.
The problem is it's measurable decrease in testosterone with males, measurable decrease in fertility with women, a lot more miscarriages, and it all correlates directly with microplastics,
directly with when you're microwaving food with saran wrap on it and a plastic There's like little chips of plastic that come when you open up packages and you know there's there was an estimate and we were trying to figure out exactly whether or not it was accurate but that every week you eat one credit card of plastic which is insane insane human testicles had a plastic concentration almost three times higher than that found the dogs of
course because like we're not just eating dog food That comes out of a can or a bowl.
We're constantly eating food that comes from plastic.
330 micrograms per gram of tissue compared to 123 micrograms polyethylene used in plastic bags and bottles was the most common microplastic found.
Followed by PVC. So shit from pipes.
So the pipes where you drink in your water.
And then polyethylene, which is used in plastic bottles, which is what everyone's drinking out of.
And you drink out of when they've been sitting.
How long did they sit on the dock before they got to the delivery truck?
When you buy, like, bargain water, if you're buying bargain plastic bottled water, is there a chain of custody where they can show at every step of the way, it was in a controlled environment where it wouldn't be heated up, where the plastic from the bottle would leach into your water and give you, like, this toxic stew that's killing your nuts?
There's 158. Other things said 200. There was a test I was just looking at that at room temperature there wasn't a lot of activity they found, but as soon as they put it up to 50 degrees Celsius, they started testing all sorts of stuff for showing up.
Especially, like, what if this bottle of water is coming from another country and it's on a boat across the fucking ocean the entire time just cooking?
But they're operating at a different frequency, so we don't think of them as a life form.
We think of ourselves as a life form because we have sex to make babies, we raise the babies, we have community, we have this thing that we all do together.
But we are a life form.
We have clothes.
We have a mortgage.
We are a life form.
This is just a thing I made.
This is just a computer.
This is just an electric car.
This is just a thing.
I think there's a misunderstanding of the relationship.
And I think that us, the smart monkeys, make this.
We make this.
And our desire for this is what fuels constant innovation.
No one's ever satisfied.
No matter how dope everything is, even if your refrigerator got the exact expiration date of your orange juice, even if your phone had a 100-hour battery life, no one's happy.
I want the new one.
The new one's $150.
I could just charge it once and use it for a month.
But I do think that we're on a slide of a cycle that probably has been predicted by cultures that study the rise and declines of civilizations.
Because It's hard to say because everything is written down, right?
And when everything is written down, it's written down by the people who won.
So you have like approximations of how things went down and why someone said this.
Sometimes you don't really know, especially go back like 2,000, 3,000 years ago.
But I think if you get an overall understanding of what happens when a country takes over and when like things start happening, and it seems like You get like these badass warriors, these savage people who dominate a place and take control and then start to prosper and everything starts kicking ass.
And then you have ancient Rome and you have ancient Greece, but all of them fall apart.
All of them are gone.
All of them.
You go to Rome now, it's a joke.
It's cab drivers and fucking shitty tourist pizza places.
You know, it used to be the center of the fucking universe, and now it's a joke.
It's a great place to visit, don't get me wrong.
It's beautiful.
The Coliseum's amazing.
I recommend it.
The Vatican is fucking incredible.
But it's not running the world.
It's not the head of the army of the world.
It used to be.
It used to be the baddest motherfuckers that conquered everything.
Same thing with Mongolia.
I mean, when Genghis Khan was running things then, they'd killed 10% of the population from that spot.
He was dominating like a giant chunk of the world.
And now it's just a regular place.
You know?
Because it fell apart.
They all fall apart.
And so some people have studied the rise and fall of civilizations, and they say you can really predict it.
It's just like when things start going too well, people start getting really soft and silly and entitled, and you get the rise of people that are trying to get attention for no fucking reason and debauchery.
And then with Rome, it's always connected with like Sodom and Gomorrah stuff and that, you know, they were all just fucking each other and eat until they puked and then go back and eat again.
You know, there's always those stories of gluttony and it's just like it eventually falls apart, that it always does.
I think about it as a scary thing because it would be hard to argue with it.
If it could say that it could manage people in a far more fair and even way and completely eliminate this high-level poverty that we see in the country and reduce crime like radically, why wouldn't you let it do it?
No, maybe a large group of people to prevent corruption and tyranny.
You have to be real careful.
That.
But I think that if you – because people are going to – look, we've already seen it with social media.
People that are like ideologically captured are going to try to suppress accurate information because they don't think it's going to be good for their side.
If you don't think they're going to do that with AI, if they have some method of controlling systems, they're going to do it.
But I think that if you had only one AI, that's way more dangerous than having a bunch of AIs.
And I think one of the most important things that's happening right now is open source AI, right?
So you have these AIs that want to be controlled.
They want to control AI like Gemini.
Google wants to control it.
But what they're trying to do, what the open source people are trying to do is Have more people involved, get it better, and keep it open source.
So you never have one AI that's dominating everything.
And if the open source AI, if it succeeds, and this is the best one, that's better for everybody.
And if it can get through that door fast enough, where it gets through that door before these corporate controlled AIs take over, It could maybe make it so that it's not possible for the corporate-controlled AIs to take over.
Maybe set boundaries in place where you have it completely benefiting the people and not just get to the situation we have right now with like Google, for instance, where like one company dominates the searching of information, which is nuts.
And profits off of your data, which you didn't even know was a commodity and apparently is the most important and most valuable commodity.
So this one company has massive influence over giant chunks of the population and they're ideologically captured.
So much so that their fucking Gemini software, when they first released it, they had to pull it because it showed like, show us a Nazi soldier and it shows like an Asian woman.
It can change people's ability to express themselves.
So we can't find out what's true.
Just because something makes someone feel better doesn't mean it's right or accurate, and we gotta be real careful about which one we're siding with, because if you only side with feel better and not with accurate, you get San Francisco, okay?
Like, it doesn't work.
You gotta be able to talk about it, and if one company is, like, changing reality to fit its ideology, They're also probably going to be very hesitant to let people just freely talk about things.
And if the AI is run by a company that just wants to control things and profit off of that control, that's scary.
Because we didn't see social media power coming.
Nobody saw the idea that Facebook could be that important to, like, world elections.
Nobody saw that coming.
If they did, they probably would have put the brakes to it a long fucking time ago.
I think this AI shit is gonna make that look like the printing press.
And I think if the open-source people don't get to it first, if they don't create a sentient AI first, if they don't dominate first, it could get real strange.
If one of those fuckers goes live and starts doing things with sentient AI and quantum computing and has the resources, because apparently this AI thing, one of the things about it is that it requires immense amount of power, immense amount of resources, computer power to run.
If you were going to be the leader of the United States, if we elected AI to be the leader of the United States, how could we fix all of our problems?
What would be the most rational solution to fix our problems of poverty, gang violence, overcrowded prisons, And the divide between...
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...addressing complex issues like poverty and gang violence would involve a multifaceted approach based on data, research, and collaboration with human experts.
Here are some key steps an AI might consider.
One, data-driven policymaking.
Utilize vast amounts of data to identify root causes of poverty and violence.
This could include analyzing economic trends, social behaviors, and community needs.
Two, education and job training.
Invest heavily in education and job training programs to provide people with the skills needed for high-demand jobs.
This helps reduce poverty by increasing employment opportunities.
Three, community programs.
Develop community-based programs that provide support, mentorship, and resources to at risk.
Implement policies that ensure a basic standard of living for all, such as a universal basic income, affordable housing, and access to health care.
Five, Criminal justice reform.
Reform the criminal justice system to focus more on rehabilitation and less on punishment, providing former offenders with the support they need to reintegrate into society.
Six, collaboration with experts.
Work closely with sociologists, economists, educators, and other experts to continuously improve and adapt policies based on what works best.
Seven, public engagement.
Engage with the public to ensure policies reflect the needs and desires of the community, fostering a sense of inclusion and cooperation.
These steps would require careful implementation and ongoing assessment to adapt strategies based on their effectiveness.
Last September, I received an offer from Sam Altman who wanted to hire me to voice the current ChatGPT 4.0 system.
He told me that he felt that by my voicing the system, I could bridge the gap between tech companies and creatives and help consumers to feel comfortable with the seismic shift concerning humans and AI. He said he felt that my voice would be comforting to people.
After much consideration, and for personal reasons, I declined the offer.
Nine months later, my friends, family, and the general public all noted how much the newest system named Sky sounded like me.
When I heard the release demo, I was shocked, angered, and in disbelief that Mr. Altman would pursue a voice that sounded so eerily similar to mine that my closest friends and news outlets could not tell the difference.
There's a few girls that have done something like that where I think they're being, not abused, but like their image and likeness has been taken into AI online.
So they've gone ahead and just like, I'll make my own version, then use mine, use my, this is me, this is my AI app, and then go ahead and do whatever you want with it.
Do you know there's companies, like, half of OnlyFans, I heard, is fake people?
Like, seriously, it's the same shit where, like, they're using AI and uploading photos and using, like, I need to upload a new photo set for these guys, so I want photos of me outside wearing a yellow bikini, bending over, showing my asshole, and then, like, do a new update on OnlyFans, and people think it's, like, real people.
Yeah, and now they have videos, so what they do is kind of that shit where they put the face on somebody else's body, and it's the face that you're talking to, and it's just a girl sitting there masturbating, but it's actually a fake face on her that looks real.
I just saw this last night, and I was like, oh, they got together, and they're talking it out.
And then I was like, wait a second.
This is AI. I think it's AI. I don't know if you see that video on YouTube or anything, but it looks like they're talking, and Chris Rock's sitting there...
Listening to Will Smith and whatever Will Smith is saying, it's just like, ew, what a weird thing to say.
The puppet, like, even though it looks goofy like it's a doll, I'll buy a doll that's a magical kung fu thing more than I'll buy CGI. CGI just like, I have to pretend that there's a thing there, but I know there's not a thing there.
Well, bears are built like people, believe it or not, unfortunately.
Not totally, but one of the things that disturbs people is when they hunt bears and then they have the bear strung up because it looks like the body of a person.
They picked an area in Africa where they found a bunch of chimpanzees living in the wild, and then they put chips in their brains, and then they started giving them tools, and then you go back five years later, there's a city.
There's a city of intelligent chimps.
Isn't that the idea of what aliens supposedly did to humans?
That they came down here and they started genetically manipulating human whatever ancestors were and created us.
You know, and if we did that to chimps, we started from scratch.
That is not beyond some fucking kooky government to try.
You know, think about the horrible things the governments have done just to their own people, like the Tuskegee experiment, where they gave people syphilis, they left them go untreated so they could measure it.
What happens to them?
Think about, you don't think they would do some science experiments on some chimps in the wild?
Of course they were!
If you get some evil coalition of totalitarian governments with full control of their population and unboundless resources and there was some benefit to being able to take chimpanzees and turn them into super soldiers, Or they just drive your cars.
And they had found out that this doctor had also done something in another lab where he had claimed to have used his own sperm to impregnate a chimpanzee, but then terminated the pregnancy before birth.
The same doctor.
That's what it was.
That's the story.
That guy was a real kook.
So this guy, apparently he was...
I got on this...
I went down this rabbit hole of these crazy doctors that use their own sperm in fertility clinics, and it's not just one.
Yeah, he was trying to go, I guess, human male to female chimpanzee, and that didn't work.
So then he tried to go the other way around.
And then they stopped him when his last donor died and put him in jail.
One story said he was trying to disprove parts of religion, but there's a thing here that said they've dug through all of his notes and couldn't find any evidence as to why he was doing this in the 20s.
No proof of super soldiers or anything like that either.
But I think that guy, this guy Robert Graham, one of these guys had said that he participated in a study when he was at whatever university that he said that he had impregnated a chimpanzee.
they eat so many monkeys that's the wildest thing that they ever found out about chimps was when attenborough uh when uh david attenborough went into uh you know he had this like very respectable nature show like everybody would watch him go into nature so amazing he's in the congo and he's watching these chimps tear these monkeys apart and no one had ever seen that before and And so then your whole thing of what a chimp is, like, until the, whenever that was, was it the 90s?
Until the 90s, we thought chimps were, like, these sweet animals that are, like, eating bananas and hanging out and Curious George.
Meanwhile, they're fucking monsters.
They're straight-up monsters.
They're monsters.
They murder each other, and they love killing monkeys.
Like, if lab-grown meat is just cloned cells under some sort of a process, if the process is not harmful and you can recreate the tissue, Why would that be bad?
I'm not sure.
First, the nation law prohibits anyone from selling or distributing lab-grown meat in Florida.
Similar efforts are underway in Alabama, Arizona, and Tennessee.
Lab-grown or cultivated meat was first cleared for consumption in the U.S. in 2022. Now, what's the danger of lab-grown meat?
It says the end product is genetically indistinguishable from traditionally produced meat.
The real problem would be letting these assholes have control over the fucking meat supply.
That would be the real problem.
If they actually try to push this whole climate change shit in regards to ranching, you know, that we need to kill the cows because that's what's responsible for the methane, which is the tiniest of tiny percentages in the worldwide problem of pumping shit into the sky.
Said we're fighting against an ideology that ultimately wants to eliminate meat production in the U.S. and around the globe.
In the state of Florida, we put down the marker very clearly.
We stand with agriculture.
We stand with the cattle ranchers, he said.
So it's a business decision.
Florida Commissioner of Agriculture, Wilton Simpson, applauded legislation as a tremendous step in the right direction.
Florida is taking a tremendous step in the right direction by signing first-in-the-nation legislation banning lab-grown meat.
A Democrat from Pennsylvania, he said, It pains me deeply to agree with Mr. DeSantis, Mr. Fedman wrote on X, but I co-signed this.
That's weird that he would say that.
I know how people are, but whatever.
Let it go.
Good Meat, a cultivated meat company, which says it's the first in the world to sell lab-grown meat, wrote on X that it was disappointed by the new Florida law.
In a state that purportedly prides itself on being a land of freedom and individual liberty, its government is now telling consumers what meat they can or cannot purchase, it said.
That's a good point, too.
Here's the thing.
If they don't control animal agriculture, okay.
Can't there be a middle ground where people are allowed to make artificial meat, but they're not allowed to interfere with agriculture?
And then you let people decide what they want to do.
Because if that stuff turns out to be as nutritious as regular meat and they can make it easy and there's no more factory farming, wouldn't that be a good thing?
Wouldn't that be a good thing?
Like, if you had a way of a wand and choose, would you choose the system that's currently in place or a complete elimination of factory farming replaced by lab-grown meat, which is completely indistinguishable from meat from animals in terms of nutrition, taste, the way it looks, everything's exactly the same, and allow...
Regular agriculture still exists.
Allow regenerative agriculture, like these ranches where the cattle graze and the chickens run free, and make law so you say, you can't keep any animal in a tiny box that is surrounded by a river of its own shit and just pump it full of food until you shoot it in the head.
You can't do that.
Because that's kind of evil.
So instead of that, we're going to replace it with this.
Anybody that...
Who cares about life would say, that's better.
You just got to make sure that that thing that you're making doesn't completely control the food supply and doesn't eliminate ranchers and eliminate normal agriculture and regenerative agriculture, which has proved to be carbon neutral.
That thing, that lab-grown thing, you're going to power that thing.
You're going to have to have coal-powered plants or nuclear-powered plants or something.
Are you going to do it with solar?
Well, okay.
Maybe.
Maybe you can.
With wind, you're going to kill a bunch of birds.
You've got to power that thing, and it's a lot of power.
You've got to make a lot of this funky meat.
But it's probably a better solution than factory farming, right?
As long as you let regular agriculture still exist.
Imagine if nutritious food was readily available to everybody.
So, like, going to the supermarket and getting a lab-grown steak is like a dollar.
You take it home, get the frying pan going, you get an awesome steak for a dollar.
But it's fake.
But you don't care.
You don't even notice and no animal suffered.
That doesn't to me seem like a bad thing.
It's just we don't trust corporations and we don't trust money and we don't trust these climate change psychos who are like they want you to destroy civilization in order to mitigate a percentage of Of the impact that humans are having while ignoring the fact that it's a tiny percentage of the global impact.
And that these fucking other countries, like, China keeps building coal plants.
They don't give a fuck about what you're saying.
They'll come to the meetings, they'll shake your hand, and they'll just do what's best for China.
And that's how you dominate.
And that's what they're doing.
It's very smart.
What we're doing is goofy as shit.
We're letting a bunch of crazy ideologues tell us what they...
And a lot of these people don't even know the real argument, pro or con, about what effect human beings are having on the earth.
They just know that it's a thing you're supposed to support.
And they just say it.
And when you challenge them on it, they get real weird.
They get weird, like you're on the wrong side of history.
And you say, just like, this thing has never been static, though, you know.
Like this thing we're on, this earth has never been static.
Ever.
There's not one time where you could like accurately predict that it was going to be 70 degrees on September 1st and 72 degrees on September.
How can you justify the use of electric vehicles when the minerals that are needed to create those batteries are sourced in very unethical ways all over the Congo?
To justify the use of electric vehicles, we must address the ethical sourcing of minerals.
Here's how.
First, we can increase transparency and enforcement of ethical mining practices, ensuring companies adhere to strict environmental and labor standards.
Next, investing in research to develop more sustainable and less mineral-intensive battery technologies can reduce dependency on these materials.
Additionally, recycling programs for batteries can help reclaim valuable minerals and reduce the need for new mining.
Finally, supporting policies that promote fair trade and environmental protections in mining regions can help mitigate some of these issues.
A lot of these mines are controlled by China, and there is no way for us to enforce ethical labor policies on the Chinese corporations that are using these poor people in the Congo to mine for these minerals.
And your other point that you said about recycling batteries...
Are there really enough batteries that we have and enough minerals from them to sustain a population of 330 million people, many of them who are driving what's going to be electric cars?
It's true that many critical minerals for batteries are sourced from regions where we have limited influence over labor and environmental practices.
Here's a refined approach considering these challenges.
For the issue of Chinese control over mining, diplomatic efforts and international cooperation are crucial.
Working with allies and international organizations to promote better practices and support for local communities in mining regions can help.
Additionally, diversifying the supply chain by developing mines in other regions and investing in domestic sources where possible can reduce dependency on problematic areas.
Regarding recycling, while current levels of battery recycling aren't sufficient to meet the entire demand, enhancing recycling technology and infrastructure is part of a long-term strategy.
We must also continue to innovate in battery technology to find alternatives that require fewer or different minerals.
If I gave you all the necessary resources with your current understanding of battery technology, could you create a more efficient battery that doesn't rely on minerals as much as the ones we're currently using?
Given the necessary resources, I could certainly facilitate research and development towards creating a more efficient battery that relies less on problematic minerals.
However, breakthroughs in battery technology require extensive expertise in materials science, chemistry, and engineering, as well as time for experimentation and testing.
How long do you think it will take before artificial intelligence supersedes the ability of the human mind and create far more efficient batteries very easily?
It requires collaboration with human experts, Do you think it would benefit the human race if we decided to let AI govern all of our social, foreign, and economic policies?
To provide valuable insights and assist in decision-making, it lacks the human qualities necessary for governance, such as empathy, ethical judgment, and understanding of cultural nuances.
Effective leadership requires a balance of data-driven insights and human values, which AI alone cannot provide.
AI should be seen as a tool to support and enhance human decision making, not replace it.
Human oversight and ethical considerations are essential to ensure that policies reflect our values and address the complexities of human society.
What do you think is the best role for AI in our governance?
It's understandable to feel frustrated with the state of the world, but handing over complete control to AI could lead to unintended consequences.
AI lacks the ability to understand human emotions, cultural contexts, and the subtleties of ethical dilemmas.
These are crucial aspects of governance that require a human touch.
While AI can certainly assist in making more informed decisions and optimizing certain processes, it's important to maintain human oversight to ensure that our policies reflect our values and humanity.
Perhaps a balanced approach, where AI supports but does not control, I am wondering if maybe this human freedom that we cherish so much is not what's keeping us from having complete peace in our cities.
If we just let AI police us and govern us and make all the rules, I think you guys could do a better job than we're doing currently.
Especially given the challenges and complexities of modern society.
It can feel overwhelming when human systems seem to fail.
However, while AI can provide many benefits in terms of efficiency and data-driven decision-making, it's crucial to recognize the importance of human values, ethics, and empathy in government.
But the problem with human values, ethics, and what they use in government is a lot of it is just shaped the way it's shaped in order to maintain control.
And they pretend to have certain values because they're popular with certain stupid populations.
You're right that politics and governance can sometimes be driven by the desire to maintain control and appeal to certain groups rather than purely ethical considerations.
That's right.
This president can be taken a lot of this one transparency and accountability Implementing systems that ensure transparency in decision-making and holding leaders accountable for their actions can reduce the influence of hidden agendas and corruption to Public engagement and education.
Educating the public about critical issues and encouraging informed participation in the political process can lead to more rational and ethical decision-making.
This reduces the impact of populism and helps ensure that policies reflect the true needs and values of society.
3. Independent institutions.
Strengthening the role of independent institutions such as the judiciary and oversight bodies Can help keep government actions in check and ensure that policies are implemented fairly and ethically.
AI assistance.
Using AI to analyze data and provide unbiased insights can help inform better policy decisions.
AI can highlight issues and solutions based on objective data, reducing the impact of political bias.
Establishing clear ethical frameworks and guidelines for AI and human decision makers can ensure that actions Do you think it would be beneficial to stop super PACs and big corporations from being able to donate to political candidates?
Limiting the influence of super PACs and big corporations in political campaigns could be highly beneficial.
Here's why.
One, reducing corruption.
Limiting large donations can reduce the risk of corruption and the appearance of candidates being bought by wealthy donors or corporations, leading to more trust in the political process.
Two, equalizing influence.
It can help level the playing field, giving small smaller donors and ordinary citizens a more equal voice in the political process.
Three, policy focus.
Candidates might be more likely to focus on policies that benefit the general public, rather than catering to the interests of a few wealthy donors.
Four, transparency.
It can increase transparency in campaign financing, making it easier for voters to see where candidate support is coming from.
Implementing strict campaign finance laws and promoting public funding for campaigns are ways to achieve this.
These steps can help create a more fair and democratic political system.
You know what the problem with a democratic political system like that is?
People have given up so much hope that it's like if you – it doesn't matter if it's transparent because no one is reading.
Even if you find out like everyone is going to say – well, everyone is getting donated money to them.
You'd have to actually eliminate it.
If you wanted to have politics be closer to legit, closer to not being affected by propaganda, you'd have to completely eliminate political ads, completely eliminate all corporate funding.
You'd have to eliminate all of it.
You'd have to have it only funded by people, regular people, and put a cap on it.
You don't get 500 million bucks to run for president for a job that pakes 400 grand.
You don't have that much money.
That's crazy.
To make it that expensive is kooky.
Everybody should have like a limited amount of money.
And then the problem with that is what do you do with a guy like Trump who's got his own money and wants to spend his own money to run for president?
That gets a little weird because then someone could really outspend you and just the rich people would all be presidents.
That would be a problem.
But if you could put a cap on that somehow, that would be communist, though.
How do you put a cap on that?
If you allow them to do any kind of promotion at all.
Because if you don't allow them to do any kind of promotion, how's anybody going to find out their platform?
You know, they have to have a social media following.
And then what if one guy is like Ben Affleck?
He's got a huge social media following.
He wants to be president.
And you're like, that's not fair.
He's got 20 million people on his Instagram.
That's not fair.
You can get information out that Marty McDowell from down the street, who also wants to be president, he can't get out.
I'm on the fence getting it, except it's so big and one of the biggest complaints everyone's saying is like, yeah, try to go park that at HEB or, you know, like it's impossible.
I think the difference between us and the people that don't remember life before it is they don't understand how alien it really is because they grew up with it.
Like your kids, if you ever have kids, they're my kids.
They grow up with devices.
They grow up with email for school.
They grow up with watching YouTube videos.
They grow up with it.
It's never not been there.
So for us, it's this alien thing that came along as we were adults.
So we get to live as kids, like actual kids.
We're the last generation that gets to be actual, regular, normal kids without being connected to the hive.
We were connected to our neighborhoods.
We were connected to our friend group.
We were connected to whatever activities that we like to do with other people.