Ep. 1793 - The Supreme Court May Abolish “Gay Marriage”
A federal court forces the Little Sisters of the Poor to pay for condoms and abortions, "gay marriage" may be overturned, and a new study shows A.I. is making us dumber.
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Good news and bad news coming out of the courts.
The bad news is liberal judges are continuing their 14-year jihad against the Catholic little sisters of the poor, whom they want to make pay for condoms and infanticide.
But the good news is the Supreme Court might overturn so-called gay marriage.
I'm Michael Knowles.
This is the Michael Knowles Show.
Welcome back to the show.
Speaking of gay stuff, the NFL is bringing in a bunch of male cheerleaders.
Did they not get the memo?
Do they still think it's 2020?
Do they still think it's 2024?
This is them and Jaguar.
They think it's 2024.
Guys, you got to catch up.
We're in the age of Sidney Sweeney.
We're in the age of good genes.
The LGBT stuff is done.
We actually might possibly overrule gay marriage.
But first, the bad news out of the courts.
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Okay, now, speaking of Catholics and people with religious vocations, the saga goes on.
A federal court, these federal courts, has just ruled against the Trump administration and ruled against a bunch of little sisters of the poor to make these Catholic sisters pay for condoms and birth control pills and infanticide and abortion.
What's that about?
Catholic news agency is reporting that a federal court, unclear which one, has ruled against the little sisters of the poor in this long-running dispute over the government contraception health care mandates that goes all the way back to Obamacare.
This goes back to the Obama administration.
This is a 14-year saga at this point.
Obama passes the Affordable Care Act, what was it, 2009, 2009, 2010, something like that.
And as part of the Affordable Care Act, they made the Little Sisters of the Poor violate not only their moral conscience, violate really basic standards of morality.
You're making Catholic religious sisters pay for condoms and abortion completely insane.
So at the 2017, the government kept going after them.
They won at the Supreme Court in 2016.
Then the government kept going after them in 2017.
This is still going on.
The Trump administration is defending them.
It tells you everything about our opponents that the American left thinks that the chief enemy is a bunch of little sisters of the poor.
Trump is on their side.
Which side are you on?
A lot of people are asking, well, why?
Why does the left have to go this far?
Can't we just lay off the little sisters of the poor?
This looks so bad for them.
Why?
It seems like a minor issue.
Why?
Of all the things to care about, forcing Catholic religious sisters to pay for condoms?
That's so crazy.
Why?
Why?
Because that's the whole point.
Because that's the whole point.
That's always been the whole point.
Have you not gotten that by now?
The left's raison d'être is to destroy the church.
That's how the left was founded.
The term left comes from the French Revolution when it was the atheists who wanted to overthrow throne and altar who were sitting on the left side of the National Assembly.
That's the whole point of the left.
The whole point of the left is to destroy the church and the political order that the church holds up, a political order based on order, based on authority, based on justice.
The left wants to upend all of that because the left's project, the liberal project broadly, is about liberation, emancipation.
No kings, no gods, only men.
That's the point.
So I know they're going to be moderate Democrats or kind of confused Republicans who say, oh, it's so weird.
Why do these random federal judges?
Why does the Obama administration, the Biden administration, why do all these people go after this random Catholic religious group?
Because it's not random.
Because this is actually the whole point.
Kill the baby bigot, kill the baby sister.
That's the whole point.
If they can make the little sisters of the poor forsake their God, they can do anything.
That's the point.
That's what it's about.
So the Trump administration is going to keep fighting.
The little sisters are going to keep fighting.
God's going to win in the end.
And God's enemies are not going to fare very well.
But this fight is not going away.
And the more I hear from these federal judges, the more I'm inclined to a kind of immigration comprehensive reform.
You know, the libs always talk about that.
We need comprehensive immigration reform.
Here's, okay, I generally oppose it.
I generally think we just need to deport all the illegals and not really compromise on anything.
But I'm here.
Here's my compromise.
We will keep some of the Guatemalans, some of the Nicaraguans, some of the Venezuelans.
We like the Cubans.
We'll keep some of the Colombians.
We'll keep some of them.
Okay, some of the illegals who are here.
In exchange, we deport all of these federal judges.
How's that sound?
All of these federal judges, there's one or two out of 700 who decide that they're going to gum up the works of the popularly elected Trump administration, gum up the executive based on their misconception of their own importance and authority, and their grave misunderstanding of justice.
If you allow us, Libs, if you allow us to deport these federal judges to Naib Bukele's torture chamber in El Salvador, that no, he doesn't have those.
He has a very nice jail, but we need him to build a torture chamber.
And if we can deport the federal judges there, we can keep some number of the Hispanics, the illegal, the legal Hispanics can stay, the illegal Hispanic.
Is that a fair trade?
Are you on board for that?
Let me know in the comments if you're on board for that.
Now, that's the annoying news out of the judiciary.
There is good news out of the judiciary.
You remember the libs a few years ago were saying, oh my goodness, if we overrule Roe v.
Wade, the next step is we might overrule gay marriage.
Remember that?
And most conservatives were saying, no, that's ridiculous.
That's not true.
But some conservatives were saying, well, it's probably unlikely, But it would be good if it were true.
We should do that.
Yeah, obviously we need to overrule that.
Some of them, including me, were saying that.
Well, we might.
We might overrule the judicial decision that gave us so-called gay marriage.
We'll get to how that happens.
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Do you remember this?
This whole show is going to be a little trip down memory lane to tell you about very current urgent political issues, none of which started overnight, all of which seem to have begun many, many years ago.
There was a lady by the name of Kim Davis.
You remember her?
Kim Davis is a former Kentucky county clerk.
And when activist judges and romantic poets in judicial robes decided to attempt to redefine marriage and find in the Constitution somewhere in invisible ink, a right to intimacy and an apparent indiscernibility of the sexes that says that,
yes, Bill and Steve have every much, every bit as much a right to get married as Sally and Jeffrey.
I don't know.
I don't know.
Oh, I guess the obvious, it would be Adam and Eve and Adam and Steve.
In any case, the judges decided that two fellas were the same thing as a man and a woman.
They decided as a matter of judicial fiat that a man is a woman for all intents and purposes and they tried to redefine marriage.
Kim Davis said no.
So I'm not going to violate my conscience, my understanding of morality, my religion, and also just common sense.
I'm not going to lie and issue marriage certificates to two fellas because that's not an ontological possibility.
Nothing against the fellas.
Men who are a little light in the loafers have given us plenty of fine things over the years, Broadway musicals, interior design, but they can't get married because that's not possible.
Like saying, why can't we have a freezing cold fire?
All the pedants who are scientific in the comments who are going to tell me about actually to a certain degree.
No, no, no.
Why can't we have a north that is south?
Why can't we have an up that is down?
Why can't you, you're trying to have something that cannot exist?
That's why.
And so Kim Davis is continuing her case.
What is her case?
She is asking the Supreme Court to consider her appeal of a $100,000 jury decision against her for emotional damages.
Some jury found her guilty for emotional damages, $100,000, and she's appealing $260,000 in legal expenses.
All of this comes down to a Bergerfell.
And Kim Davis' lawyers say the court's decision in Obergefell grounded in the erroneous fiction on substantive due process is such a decision, such a wrong decision, that the mistake must be corrected.
Notice here, it doesn't say the court's decision in Obergefell grounded on the erroneous fiction of gay marriage.
That is also erroneous.
That is also fiction.
That's not possible.
But they're going deeper.
They said actually the legal reasoning that led you to the conclusion of gay marriage in Obergefell, namely this concept of substantive due process, that is a legal fiction.
That is what you have to reconsider in our appeal.
And this is really, really clever because in the Dobbs decision that overruled Roe v.
Wade, most of the conservative judges said this is a narrow decision.
We don't want this to expand out to other judicial rulings that don't touch on the abortion question.
We're just kind of narrowly deciding this to overrule Roe v.
Wade and Planned Parenthood v.
Casey.
That was most of the judges other than Clarence Thomas, who says, actually, we do need to revisit a lot of other cases up to and including the gay marriage case, Obergefell, because the problem with Roe v.
Wade, one of many problems, but a very clear one, is the notion of substantive due process.
That's how we got the abortion ruling in Roe.
That's how we got a lot of dumb rulings.
And that's how we got the gay marriage ruling.
And so we actually do need to revisit substantive due process.
This, in principle, could give Clarence Thomas his opportunity.
Now, what is substantive due process?
It's kind of hard to nail down because it's gobbledygook, but the shortest explanation that I can come up with is substantive due process is a judicial trick to prevent people from passing their own laws.
That's basically what substantive due process is.
A people wants to pass reasonable laws, laws against infanticide, for instance.
We say, you know, we think in our community, you should not be able to murder babies.
We think that would be bad.
In other communities, maybe they do murder babies, but in our community, we don't want you to murder babies.
And most people agree with that.
And then their representatives vote for that in the legislature.
And then in come the liberal judges and they say, no, no, no, that's a violation of substantive due process.
You don't have the right even to consider passing a law about that because of this process, this procedure, which is not even a process or a procedure.
This is one of the other ironies of substantive due process, is it refers to process, due process, like your right to a jury trial, for instance, but it subverts all of those rights.
It says, no, no, no, just in the substance of the matter that you're discussing, it's a violation of rights.
But there's no process.
It's a process without a process.
It's a process based purely on the whims and caprices of some activist judge, which is why Clarence Thomas comes out.
He says, we need to revisit this whole thing.
There's another irony with the Libs embracing substantive due process, which gave us Griswold v.
Connecticut, one of the two cases that found a supposed right to condoms in the Constitution.
I don't know how many of you have, hopefully in fifth grade or something, you read the Constitution.
Did you find a right to condoms anywhere in there?
Even if you like condoms, even if you buy condoms, did you find a right to condoms in the Constitution?
No, you didn't.
Me neither.
Well, because of substantive due process, there's apparently a right to condoms in the Constitution.
Did you find a right to murder little babies, cute little innocent babies?
Do you find that anywhere?
No, you didn't?
Well, substantive due process says you did.
Did you find a right to redefine the bedrock political institution to include a couple of fellas or a couple of ladies or three dudes in a billy goat or something?
Did you find that in there?
No.
Well, substantive due process says that you did.
So it's totally bogus.
But the irony is that libs embracing this makes you wonder, okay, where does substantive due process come from?
You know the first case that employs substantive due process reasoning at the Supreme Court level?
It's Dred Scott.
When the Libs are defending substantive due process, they say, well, this is actually, this is not just an innovation of the 20th century.
This goes all the way back to the 19th century.
You say, oh, yeah, where?
It goes all the way back to the antebellum South.
Oh, yeah, keep going.
What case?
Well, it goes all the way back to Dred Scott.
Goes back to what?
Say that.
I couldn't hear you.
Say that again.
The substantive due process goes back to Dred Scott.
Dred Scott, what did that case find?
What did substantive due process give us in the Dred Scott case?
Well, it said that blacks can't be citizens and Congress can't ban slavery in the territories.
But never mind that.
It was wrongly applied.
Okay, so you're telling me this bogus legal reasoning that you're employing to defend all sorts of evil nonsense today began with a bunch of evil nonsense in the 19th century.
And you don't know if it was bad then, but it's good now.
It was wrong to be harsh to black people and Dred Scott, but it's good to murder babies and to redefine marriage.
Okay.
This is another one where I know I've gone at length about this.
There are going to be people in the audience, people who are a little eye in the loafers, maybe, people who are squishy on the right, people who are on the left.
There are plenty of moderate liberals who watch this show.
And they're going to say, Michael, come on, why do you care about a Bergefell?
Why do you care about this gay marriage decision?
You're not going to overrule the gay marriage decision.
First of all, that's what you all told me about Roe v.
Wade for my whole life.
And then we just overruled it.
It was fine.
But second of all, this is not a trivial issue.
Just like the left has to go after the little sisters of the poor, the left has to make nuns pay for, they're not actually nuns, they're religious sisters, but most people use those terms synonymously.
They have to make people with religious vocations pay for condoms and abortions.
They have to do it.
That's the end of their political activism.
So too, they have to redefine marriage.
It's not a trivial issue.
Marriage is the fundamental political unit.
This is not just a matter of, oh, who cares what other people do in the privacy of their own homes?
This is not a, it's not the privacy of their own home.
This is a public act with the basic public union articulated by the Supreme Court.
If you can redefine marriage, if you can redefine the family, you can redefine all of society.
If you can make the little sisters of the poor betray their God, you can do anything.
If you can redefine the basic constituent piece of the entire political order, you can do anything politically.
That's what this is about.
Those are the stakes.
And I don't know that the right understood those stakes.
Back when O'Bergefell was decided, the left did.
I don't think the right did.
I think the right kind of does now.
And I think Clarence Thomas certainly has the guillions to decide this case properly.
Justice Alito, I'm confident, does.
Do the others.
I hope, I hope Barrett and Kavanaugh and Gorsuch and Roberts have the fortitude, the courage, the vision to state what is obviously true.
What every culture has known for all of human history is that marriage involves a man and a woman.
If we don't know that, if we no longer know that in our political life, we don't know anything.
We don't know anything.
They know that.
Every even semi-reasonable person knows that fact.
One question that we have is, will the political order allow us?
And I think, yes.
Yeah, we'd been going way, way down the sexual revolution pipeline all the way to mutilating little kids and pretending they're the opposite sex.
And then that stopped.
That stopped about a year, a year and a half ago.
And then we started tugging on those on those questions.
This was the point of my CPAC speech, that we need to eradicate transgenderism from public life entirely because it's either true or it's false.
If it's true, then it's true for everyone in transit kids.
If it's false, well, now we need to rethink a lot of that sexual revolution.
And perhaps most important among those issues is marriage.
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I'm more of a baseball guy.
Okay.
I haven't even been watching baseball lately because the Yankees have not been at their peak performance.
I'm not a football fan.
And so all I knew about football was football was really tough and macho, gladiatorial combat.
And then, I don't know, every time I check in on football, I see they're disrespecting the American flag.
They're promoting weird racial stuff like Black Panther activism.
They're promoting weird LGBT rainbow stuff.
And now they don't even have the impressive, beautiful cheerleaders.
now they're adding a bunch of fellas.
I'm not a football fan.
I don't watch football.
I watch baseball.
And baseball doesn't have this.
Baseball's made some errors in recent years.
They got a little too into BLM, but otherwise, generally baseball stays kind of normal.
Hockey stays kind of normal.
Football, though, I think we have to conclude professional football, the NFL, is one of the furthest left institutions in America.
Isn't that bizarre?
You wouldn't have thought that 10 years ago, but I just look, I go down the list.
They protest the American flag.
They disrespect the national anthem.
They promote the weird rainbow stuff.
I guess a lot of sports leagues promote the rainbow stuff, but they hire these flamboyant, gender-bending cheerleaders.
It's not even male cheerleaders in like big puffy sweaters or something.
It's like really flamboyant, effeminate male cheerleader.
What is the audience for this?
The NFL is chasing a left-wing audience.
They don't realize we don't do that anymore.
That was seven months ago.
The Jaguar TV commercial was seven months ago.
The transing everybody was like 18 months ago.
We're in Sydney Sweeney land now.
We're in American Eagle land.
American Eagle shows a little bit of Sydney Sweeney skin and just tells her to look beautiful and talk normal.
And their market cap goes up $200 million in one day, jumps 10%.
NFL, I don't know.
They didn't get the message.
I do not understand people tuning into the NFL at this point.
They just don't get it.
They just don't get it.
Now, speaking of men in show business, this one hurts personally.
Jimmy Kimmel, he got Italian citizenship.
A lot of people I know are thinking about where they can get citizenship.
I do have Italian.
I did get Italian citizenship.
You do?
Oh, that's amazing.
I do have that.
And what's going on is as bad as you thought it was going to be.
Way worse.
It's so much worse.
It's just unbelievable.
It's so, I hate Trump.
Oh, I hate Trump more.
I hate him the most.
I hate him even more.
I hate him so much, I would betray my country for him.
Yeah, I hate him so much.
I've pledged allegiance to a foreign country.
Yeah, yeah.
I hate dual citizenship.
I hate it.
I don't, I hate that Jimmy Kimmel is now a citizen of my ancestral homeland, one of my ancestral homelands, the Patria.
You know, that's unfortunate.
But I'm not a citizen of Italy.
I like Italy.
I was just in Italy for a week, but I don't want to move to Italy.
I don't want Italian citizenship.
I hate dual citizenship because it's not possible.
This is another one of these things.
It's like it's the gay marriage of geopolitics.
It's not possible simultaneously to be loyal to two countries.
I don't like it.
I don't like it when the libs say I need to get dual citizenship in case Trump becomes a tyrant.
I don't like it when conservatives say, oh, isn't it cool?
My great-grandpa came from Sicily and now I'm an Italian citizen.
I don't like that.
There is one case that is frequently defended in public as a good application of dual citizenship.
And it's for the sort of unique ancient nomadic tribe, the people set apart, namely the Jews.
They say, well, it's good for Jews to have dual citizenship in Israel because Jews have been persecuted throughout history.
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The one exception I've heard to this is, well, because the Jews historically have been persecuted and they are kind of a people set apart and they've been nomadic for going on 2,000 years now.
And because of that, it's okay for them to have dual citizenship.
And I say, look, I kind of get it.
I get that the Jews just have a unique historic experience.
They just do.
You would think that people who love the Jews, even the people who hate the Jews, would accept this, would understand this.
They're just, they are a people set apart if you believe the Bible at all, for better or worse, they're set apart.
And so I get the argument, but even there, I would say, no, maybe Israel should have some kind of secondary measure where if a country ever really turns on the Jews, Jews can easily acquire Israeli citizenship.
I would get that.
I would totally understand that.
But even in that case, I would say dual citizenship doesn't make sense.
You can't simultaneously be loyal to two countries.
More broadly, you can't simultaneously be loyal to two things of the same kind.
So you could be loyal to your religion and your country.
You do that.
You could be loyal to your favorite sports team in your country.
You could be loyal to your sex and your favorite pizza place.
You could be loyal to things that are not of the same kind.
But you can't simultaneously be loyal to two baseball teams.
You can't simultaneously be loyal to two countries.
I hate this stuff.
I want to, if not abolish dual citizenship altogether, greatly restrict it.
I don't want the Jimmy Kimmels of the world becoming Italians.
Go to Italy then.
Go to Italy.
See how you like it.
Look, I love Italy.
It's very beautiful.
I speak Italian.
I have a lot of friends in Italy.
I don't want to live.
You spend two weeks in Italy.
You say, all right, this is, I need to go back to places with like functioning market dynamics and that have kids and stuff like that.
You don't, it's your country or it's not, you know, and in modernity, we have this idea that we're all just kind of abstracted individuals, citizens of the world.
We don't have any loyalty to anything.
We don't have loyalty to our own families.
That's just not, that's not true.
This ties into the marriage issue also.
We are primarily members of a family.
We are not primarily individuals.
You did not make yourself.
Your parents played a direct role in making you.
I'm not going to go, this is a family show.
I'm not going to get more specific than that.
But you didn't make yourself.
And you have obligations to your parents and to your family.
And by extension, to your country, because patriotism is an extension of filial piety.
Okay.
Losing Jimmy Kimmel from America, that would not exactly constitute a brain drain.
Would it?
I don't think so.
But there is a brain drain happening.
And it's according to a new study just came out.
This is from Bloomberg.
Artificial intelligence is apparently making us dumber.
I really like that.
I really like that picture that we, if you're only, if you're only listening to the show right now, you're not watching it.
You should watch.
First of all, you should subscribe to Daily Wire.
But is it just like a picture of a goofy looking doctor?
It's like the most on the nose, goofy.
Anyway, okay, I like that.
But that's what's happening.
AI is making us dumber.
Now, a lot of people are observing this.
Like in school, kids cannot be expected to do any schoolwork anymore because the computer can just do it for them, can write term papers for them in a minute, can do equations for them, solve problem sets, can do, I mean, it's an existential threat to education.
But this is true also, apparently, at the highest levels of the professions.
So AI, we're told, is going to transform science for the better.
We're all going to live forever because AI is going to figure out all the diseases that we even potentially have.
So there was a study to see if this were true.
Healthcare professionals used AI to see if they could better predict precancerous growths in the colon.
Tough job.
I don't know who would sign up for that.
But they say, okay, we're going to use AI.
We're going to see if the AI makes you better at detecting colon cancer.
And it did.
The AI improved the ability of the medical professionals to predict colon cancer.
Then the study took the AI away and found that when you took the AI away, the healthcare professionals got 20% worse at predicting colon cancer, worse than they were before they tried the experiment in the first place.
The use of AI at any time made the doctors worse at their jobs.
The use of AI made people dumber.
What does this mean for you?
How dumb are you going to get?
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And that's the most important thing, isn't it?
AI is making us all dumber.
This is not, even that is not new.
We have this idea.
We're just so flattered with ourselves in modernity.
We say, wow, we're so much smarter than everyone that came before us.
We can do so much more.
We're so special.
We're so special.
Not only is technological improvement not new or special or novel, the observation that technological improvement will make us dumber is also an ancient observation that we seem to have forgotten.
I am reminded of Plato's work, The Phaedrus, in which Socrates is relating a story of King Themis talking to the Egyptian god Doth, or Tuth, Duth in the text, but Doth, This god of the arts.
Here's what he says.
Brief little passage.
When the Egyptian God gives to man writing, letters, the ability to write down their ideas.
He says, this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls because they will not use their memories.
They will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves.
The specific, which you have discovered, is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence.
It's not going to help their memory.
It's going to hurt their memory, but it will allow them to better reminisce.
Well, maybe it'll be good for nostalgia, but it won't be good for their actual memory.
He goes on.
You give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth.
They will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing.
They will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing.
They will be tiresome company having the show of wisdom without the reality.
Oh, man.
True millennia ago and just as true today.
How many people, I remember learning this in school.
They said, you know, Michael, you kids, you're smarter than Aristotle and Plato.
You're smarter than Socrates.
You know so much more.
You have the entire wealth of human knowledge available at your fingertips because of our cell phones or laptops.
That's sort of true.
That's dubious too.
But let's say it's true for the sake of argument.
Yeah, I have that all available at my fingertips and I don't do anything with it.
And I actually don't even know how to do anything with it.
I don't even know how to start asking questions.
I've noticed this, not to sound like an old man yelling at the sky.
I've noticed this even in my professional life.
People don't know how to write anymore.
Editors don't know how to write.
People whose job it is to write don't know how to write.
When I say they don't know how to write, I'm not saying they're not Hemingway.
I'm saying they don't know the basics of the English language.
And how could they?
That decline in skill has been present for 20 years.
How could they now?
They never have to write anything.
They have ChatGPT.
It gives the show of wisdom.
This is something that's so annoying.
I hate this on X now.
Whenever anyone makes a claim on X, people will just respond and say, Grok, is this true?
As if Grok were smart, as if Grok were really intelligent.
These people are so gullible.
They don't even understand that artificial intelligence is not intelligence.
It's not that it's not impressive.
It's not that it's not going to go.
It's literally not intelligence.
That's not what intelligence is.
And they don't know what intelligence is.
They don't understand how to think about things.
They don't know how to get down to the first principles that undergird certain debates.
They don't realize that there's such a thing as eternal questions that exist in part to make you think, to exercise the very thing that differentiates you from some brute beast.
Hey, Grok, is that true?
Hey, Grok, is what Michael just said true?
Apparently not.
If your reflex is just to ask Grok for everything, maybe there isn't much difference between you and a brute beast.
Some of us, I hope there is a difference.
It's not even that impressive.
This is the other crazy story that no one, very few people are talking about in AI.
AI isn't even that impressive.
It was very impressive when it first came out.
Consider it now, though.
Has anyone used ChatGPT-5?
ChatGPT-5 just came out and it's very underwhelming.
I'm broadly impressed by ChatGPT.
I will sometimes use it for the starting point for research.
I don't use it for writing, but I'll use it as a starting point for research.
That, Grok, all the rest of them are fine.
Sometimes they make stuff up.
You got to triple check everything, but sometimes it pulls really interesting stuff.
ChatGPT 2 to 3.
It took seven months.
ChatGPT-3 was 10 times larger than ChatGPT-2.
That's impressive.
ChatGPT 3 to 4, that took three years.
That didn't take seven months.
That took three years.
And that was a big advance too.
ChatGPT 4 to 5, that took two and a half years, almost the same amount of time.
Very little improvement.
In some areas, it actually regressed.
In some areas, ChatGPT-5 is worse than GPT-4.
It's underwhelming.
The New Yorker has a piece out on this, Referring to Apple, another big tech company that obviously one of the biggest companies in the world, their researchers released a paper titled The Illusion of Thinking, which found that the state-of-the-art large reasoning models showed performance collapsing to zero when the complexity of puzzles was extended beyond a modest threshold.
That the large reasoning models, the most impressive models that we have in artificial intelligence, that their performance drops to zero when you just throw a few little obstacles in the works.
35% of the U.S. stock market right now is tied up in the magnificent seven tech companies, which are investing heavily in AI.
Those tech companies, according to Ed Zitron, who's a tech writer, those tech companies have spent $560 billion on AI in the last 18 months, over half a trillion dollars on AI in the last 18 months.
Revenues are $35 billion, and ChatGPT-5 is not really much better than ChatGPT-4.
And maybe we've hit a limit.
What all the AI people say is we're going to get to artificial general intelligence.
We're going to get to AGI.
It's going to be impossible to distinguish between a computer and a human.
We're getting there.
It's any day now.
And I'm a little skeptical of that because most people don't even understand what intelligence is.
Most people don't even understand what thinking is.
These things, whatever you want to say about them, they're not intelligent for a basic reason that intellect is immaterial.
The brain is material.
I'm just talking about you, not the computer.
You, your brain is material.
Your spinal cord is material.
Your intellect is not material for a really basic reason.
We can know this for a fact, because the mind, the intellect, deals in universals.
Universals are immaterial.
The mind would not be able to comprehend immaterial things if the mind itself were material.
Like my eye, I talked about this on the show about a month or two ago.
This is really pertinent to the AI debate and AI development.
Your eye is physical.
It's material.
What does the eye perceive?
What does the idea deal in?
One thing, colors.
That's what the, and colors are material.
Your mind deals in justice, beauty, delight, morality, good and bad.
It deals in universals.
It deals in ideas.
It deals in things that are not material.
So your intellect is immaterial.
And the robots and the AI are, they're just stuff.
They're just material.
What this means, to bring this all back down to earth, there is a limit.
And we might have hit the limit on how far AI is going to get.
And we're probably going to suffer economic consequences for that.
I don't want to, you know, I don't want to call a stock market collapse or something like that.
You cannot have a situation where 35% of the U.S. stock market is tied up in these tech companies that are dumping all their money into AI and have AI hit its limit and not have that affect the market.
And I think the reason all of that is happening is we just fundamentally misunderstand what AI is, what intelligence is, what thinking is, and even how technology works.
And it comes from this liberal impulse that says that there are no limits on anything, that we're just, oh, we're on the brink of flying cars.
Oh, we're just on the brink of living forever.
Oh, we're on the brink of having perfect knowledge of everything at the same time.
They always tell us this.
They told us this when the internet came out.
Oh, we're on the brink of limitless knowledge.
Five seconds later, you know what happened?
Most of the internet became porn.
We said, oh, we're on the brink of limitless knowledge.
What if we just turn it all into porn?
Did that make us wiser or less wise?
I think less wise.
How about cars, like the flying cars?
Cars are almost exactly the same as they were 100 years ago, over 100 years ago.
Automatic transmission.
To me, automatic transmission was the last big serious development in cars that really, really matters.
That was, I think, 1921 was when the automatic transmission was invented.
104 years, it's been the same.
We have cell phones.
We Invented the telephone a long time ago.
Now we have cell phones.
We're going to have limitless communication, limitless productivity, limitless knowledge.
You know what cell phones are mostly?
The parts that are not porn, just brain rot, just stupid, dumb brain rot that you spend 80% of your time on your phone just looking at dumb nonsense.
It ain't it, man.
There's limits.
And I love that.
As a conservative, as a Christian, someone who recognizes this is a fallen world.
Utopia is not right around the corner.
I'm not a radical.
I'm not a revolutionary.
Those exist on the left mostly, but a little bit on the right.
And they're all a bunch of dummies.
Sorry.
Pardon the near detraction, but it's so dumb.
These people, they don't think right.
They don't even know what thinking is.
There are limits in a fallen world.
I like that.
I think that's good.
I think in a fallen world, if there weren't limits, we would have hell on earth forever.
So I don't, you know, I don't want that.
Three cheers for limits.
Here's to reality.
Here's to a restoration of reality down to the basic political level, which of course is marriage.
We'll see how that goes.
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