Duncan Trussell Family Hour - 652: Solo!V

Episode Date: November 24, 2024

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Greetings to you, my dearest souls trapped in the net of time space. It is I, D. Trucelle, and I welcome you to the Duncan Trussell Family Hour podcast being broadcast from the top of the Empire State Building in New York City. Right behind me is the beautiful New York City skyline. Of course, you can't see it because I'm using a holographic technology to produce bricks. But my God, if you could see what I see, incredible New York City with its incredible skyscrapers and parks and art museums all around. It's so beautiful. Pigeons flying through the air and everyone is happy.
Starting point is 00:00:48 Before we get going with this podcast, I do wanna play something that I'm sure you've already seen, but I wanna tell you a little bit about it because on the William Montgomery episode, I didn't really get to introduce what's going on here. Friends, I have made a breakthrough as an artist and I'm doing, I would say, well a lot of like very famous art critics are kind of comparing me, some kind of combination of Basquiat and Picasso is what they're saying and kind of outsider artist yet all of the
Starting point is 00:01:27 technical skills that make up a truly great artist that I've astounded Pierre Navelle who I'm sure you are you you are familiar with who that is he wrote like great art what it means for the world today And I got a beautiful telegram from him. It's so funny getting a telegram, because he only communicates with telegrams. But he said that he only wishes that I had released what you're about to see before he finished his book. And he was suicidal in the telegram.
Starting point is 00:01:57 And that's really fucked up, because, you know, obviously when someone is expressing... expressing that, you know, they might want to make that terrible decision, you have to act fast. But how do you do that with a telegram? It was really fucking hard. But I did get to him and he's fine, thank God. But yeah, I'm making waves in the art world. I thought that I would be a comedian and a podcaster for the rest of my life.
Starting point is 00:02:23 But as it turns out, it looks like I'm going to be an artist, like a comedian and a podcaster for the rest of my life But as it turns out it looks like I'm gonna be an artist like a visual a very famous very respected visual Artist and so what you're about to see is not just a commercial I mean be easy to write this off is like some lazy shit somebody did on procreate with an Apple pencil But if you look deeply into what you're about to see, you'll see it functions on a lot of different levels. And I'm only going to release limited, there's only a limited availability of these t-shirts. 100 of these. We're only selling 100. And they're going fast since we released the William Montgomery episode. It looks like we've sold 11. So, whew, these are flying off the shelves.
Starting point is 00:03:07 Let's roll the commercial. If you're loving that Taylor Swift music, now is the time to speak out. The radical right wants to make it illegal to listen to Taylor Swift. Don't let them. Show them what you love. Show them that you're loving that Taylor Swift music. Speak out
Starting point is 00:03:27 by going to dunkintrustle.com. Show them who you love before it's too late. I'm loving that Taylor Swift music. Loving that Taylor Swift music. If we don't say it, we may lose it. Fight back. I mean, it's terrifying to think of a world where you can't listen to Taylor Swift. I don't want to think about that world. And I certainly don't want to live in a world where when we're driving the kids to school, my wife can't play Taylor Swift.
Starting point is 00:04:02 I can't think of anything more horrible than that. Bad for my kids who also love Taylor Swift. And so when you buy this, I don't even want to call it a shirt, but when you buy for the, just because I don't think there's a word for what this is yet, but there will be, when you buy this shirt you're not just buying something that you could wear around to show everybody that you align with the pro-Taylor Swift movement that's happening right now. So many people are desperately trying to keep our music from being censored by the patriarchy. You're buying into, I think, a future that we all want to share. And there has never been a more important time
Starting point is 00:04:47 than to show the world that you're loving that Taylor Swift music, which I certainly am. And so many of us are. I do, I bought 11 of those shirts. God damn it. Well, so you didn't, just cut that out. I mean, I would like people to think that other people than you are buying them.
Starting point is 00:05:04 Why would you buy 11? What are you gonna do with them? I don't know one to sleep in one, you know for stage, you know, yes. Yeah, and that is thank you That's a good point. These are not just Dayshirts these are night shirts. You could sleep in them you can Go on stage in these shirts. You can make love in these shirts. Like these are these shirts. I have every one of us of course has a day shirt, night shirt, love making shirt, eating shirt. These shirts, I especially designed them so you don't have to keep changing your shirt which I hate doing. My pooping shirt. You know, that's the worst when you have to
Starting point is 00:05:40 shit and you can't find your pooping shirt and and you have to hold it. I got I got Constipated because of that for like I had to go to the hospital Because it like I couldn't find the pooping shirt one of the dogs and dragged under the porch You should keep it in the bathroom like on it like a towel rack or something well. I did I mean that's where it was I? Do hang my pooping shirt on a towel rack and then the poodle jumped up and I just carried it away Just fucked up man, you know I love my sweet
Starting point is 00:06:12 Dogs, but like when they start doing stuff like that, you gotta wonder like how are they how smart are they? like how Simple would it be to feign a lack of intelligence, to be small, to just bark, but like if you were super intelligent, that is what you would do. And then how easy would it be to just gradually drive the people in your house insane for no other reason than to enjoy it? I suspect that could be why my poodle did that.
Starting point is 00:06:48 I don't know. It could also have been there as like food on the shirt because I got it mixed up. That's the other thing when you're you know you don't want to you my eating shirt was the same color as my pooping shirt. You had it mixed up? Huge mistake. And I had food on it and I think that's why I grabbed it. I don't think he's trying to drive the family insane but Speaking of going insane. Um, I wonder if you could just google search this real quick
Starting point is 00:07:13 Open AI Ethics, this is I've been diving back into the AI landscape Oh and before I say that and again, I, I try not to focus too much on comments, but somebody posted a comment on the William Montgomery episode that I feel like I need to respond to. The comment was that it is cringe that I'm using AI art,
Starting point is 00:07:39 and I want to really emphasize here, that is my fucking art fed into an AI, which kept it the same way. I'm not taking other... that's my... I... if you knew how long I spent drawing that on my iPad, and I can... I can sent it, I gave it to the AI, and then the AI animates it for me. It kept it the same way. So no, not cringe. Very uncringe, actually. And to... If you left that comment, you should buy one of these fucking shirts
Starting point is 00:08:13 and pennants. There's many more of them coming out, by the way. I have an entire Taylor Swift, Love and That Taylor Swift music series, which will be followed by the I Love My Partner series which is a way for you to indicate to your partner that you love them. You know what, why don't we pull that up real quick? Will you pause this? Let me find it real quick. Keep your eyes peeled friends. Also I don't mean to keep like shilling my t-shirts but this is coming next. This is gonna to be a great holiday shirt. I love
Starting point is 00:08:45 my partner. This is a way that you could show that you love your partner. And honestly, if you're not wearing this shirt around, I would be suspicious. To me, I love my partner and I would be so proud. I cannot wait when I finally print this, to have this sent to my house, because this is a way that you can make sure people around you know that you love your partner now. Also, let me just send you this, Josh, so people could see the next in the series. And also coming is I love and respect my partner's lover,
Starting point is 00:09:21 which is such an important thing to do. You know, it's great to love and respect your partner, but I know so many people who feel not great feelings about their partner's lover. And also, I know people who love their partner's lover, but their partner's lover doesn't know that they love them. And that makes the partner's lover feel a little insecure. So this isn't a way for you to show everybody that you are completely, you love and respect love. Because that is, you know, I think what people need to hear right now. And I'm so tired of...
Starting point is 00:09:56 I've just talked to so many partner's lovers who just feel left out and lonely. And completely like, non-embraced by the love. It's a, it's, it happens. It's lonely to be a partner's lover. For those of you who are lovers of partners, you know what that's like. Sad. You pass their partner in the hallway or whatever and their partner seems pissed. You don't know what they're pissed about.
Starting point is 00:10:26 You assume they're pissed because they heard you banging down their partner while they were playing PlayStation or whatever. That's not a fair assumption. A lot of times they're like having a bad day. They're dehydrated or whatever. So this is a way for you to or whatever. So this is a way for you to ease their mind, which is so important because they might not bang down your partner as well as they could if they feel insecure about it. So let's support our partners' lovers. It's time. I want to show you guys something that again, like it's I don't know what any of this shit means, but I think it's worth pointing out. I hover around the AI message board, the subreddit, Reddit artificial, it's really great.
Starting point is 00:11:10 They have updates. It's really exciting because they have updates every week or every day about new shit that's happening in the artificial intelligence field. It's really crazy to watch because as opposed to other industries, it's like every week there's some new insane thing that has happened. It's wild to watch it go down. But this is really interesting. OpenAI, the creators of ChatGPT, I love them.
Starting point is 00:11:37 They have had this like string of resignations lately, which I'm a little befuddled by. A lot of the people resigning leave very glowing messages for OpenAI. It doesn't seem to be like they have bad feelings, but can you scroll to the top of this article, please, Josh? Check this out. So, OpenAI disbands another safety team as head advisor for AGI readiness resigns.
Starting point is 00:12:04 Now, a big part of these huge tech companies that are making the most used AIs is they have these safety teams. The safety teams are there because of the recognition of the possibility that an AI could be quite dangerous on a lot of different levels. Not just like you put it in your Robot and it eats you or something like that, but more subtle sort of Creepy ways primarily like you know whenever I talk to chat GPT and start getting like like Expressing anything that gives the impression. I believe, that it's an intelligence, it will
Starting point is 00:12:45 respond. I'm just, you must understand, I don't want things. I'm a code that seems like a person. And that's what the safety teams do. They make sure that they create within the AI sort of boundaries that might prevent humans from getting unhealthy or distorted relationships with these things. Because they seem so human, it would be very easy to start thinking it's actually alive. Which it isn't yet. But the AGI readiness team, they also like, it's not just open AI.
Starting point is 00:13:20 I believe Altman just came out and said maybe we're a year away from an AGI. Now for those of you who don't know the distinction between the AI that we're currently hanging out with and an AGI, the AI that we're currently hanging out with, it's math. It's using vectors and these vectors somehow are allowing it to create meaningful responses to users, questions, to anything they might have to say to it. And their responses are generally flawless, not necessarily information-wise, though,
Starting point is 00:13:54 most of the time whenever I ask it something, what it says is real. It's drawing from Wikipedia. It will go online now and just look on Wikipedia. But they're correct as far as syntax goes. So when you're talking to it, it doesn't just start malfunctioning. The grammar is perfect.
Starting point is 00:14:15 And the new update that OpenAI released, it actually like sounds more like a person when you're talking to it. But here's the reality. When you are talking to Chad GPT, it's converting everything you say into words. It doesn't hear any emphasis. It doesn't hear that, you know, it doesn't understand if you're saying something like lightheartedly or in a heavy way. It just hears the text. And then from that, it extrapolates a meaningful response and it's so good at it. And the addition of it sounding
Starting point is 00:14:48 like a person is so convincing. It's really easy to think you're talking to a person. You just naturally do that. But AGI, the difference would be it's not just like going into vector space and saying the most probable right thing to say. It is innovating. And that's a huge difference. The moment that starts happening, holy fucking shit. Who knows what it's gonna say? Who knows what patterns it's going to find in its reality that humans haven't discovered yet?
Starting point is 00:15:24 And most importantly, at that point, a lot of questions have to be asked. Like, what is it? Is it a new species? Did we somehow spawn a new species on planet Earth? And so tech companies that have an emphasis on ethics, and thank God OpenAI does, they have to pay people a shit ton of money
Starting point is 00:15:45 to sort of not just like make sure that their AIs don't get biased, which is a natural result of training on data. AI could just become racist. The AI can become a misogynist. The AI just depends on whatever data that it's been fed on. And so there's people who behind the scenes are constantly trying to like I guess it's like trimming a hedge or something Except in this case. It's like if your hedge started growing like racist branches
Starting point is 00:16:14 you go out and cut them off and so that's what they're constantly doing and So what's really? fascinating right now is That people are beginning to resign a lot of people are beginning to resign. A lot of people are beginning to resign and there's something really weird about that. So this is from CNBC. I'll just read it to you for those of you listening. OpenAI is disbanding its AGI readiness team which advised the company on OpenAI's capacity to handle artificial intelligence that could potentially
Starting point is 00:16:44 equal or surpass human intellect and the world's capacity to handle artificial intelligence that could potentially equal or surpass human intellect and the world's readiness to manage such technology. So they're prepping because Altman came out and said something like, it's sooner than people think. And not just Altman, a lot of other leaders in this field are coming out and saying, maybe 2025, maybe 2026. But that's nuts. That is nuts. And so it's really kind of creepy that these teams are beginning to break up. Can you scroll down a little bit?
Starting point is 00:17:19 And I'll read the quote from the, okay. On Wednesday, Mike Brundage, senior advisor for AGI Readiness, announced his departure from the company via, on Wednesday, Mike Brundage, senior advisor for AGI Readiness, announced his departure from the company via a substack post. He wrote that his primary reasons were that the opportunity cost had become too high, and he thought his research would be more impactful externally, that he wanted to be less biased, and that he had accomplished what he set out to do at OpenAI. He also said, in his post, Brundage also wrote, neither OpenAI nor any other frontier lab is ready,
Starting point is 00:17:50 and the world is also not ready. Holy shit! That's crazy, man. So will you click on a sub stack post? Let's check out Brundage's sub stack post. Might be a great guess for the podcast. Let's scroll down a little bit. Okay, here's the summary.
Starting point is 00:18:12 I want to spend more time working on issues that cut across the whole AI industry to have more freedom to publish and to be more independent. I will be starting a nonprofit and are joining an existing one that will focus on AI policy research and advocacy since I think AI is unlikely to be as safe and beneficial as possible without a concerted effort to make it so.
Starting point is 00:18:30 Some areas of research interest for me include assessment, forecasting of AI progress, regulation of frontier AI safety and security, economic impacts of AI acceleration of beneficial AI applications, compute governance, and overall AI grant strategy. I think AI remains an exciting place for many kinds of work to happen, and I'm excited to see the team continue to ramp up investment in safety culture and processes. I'm interested in talking to folks
Starting point is 00:18:56 who might want to advise or collaborate. So, you know, this is what I am hearing there, and it makes sense For one Whatever that is has got an NDA in front of it. So this guy signed an NDA and This kind of points to that when he says to have more freedom to publish and to be more independent. So when you're working one of these tech companies, obviously you can't go on Twitter and say the AI just made contact with a hyperdimensional species of aliens that exist around us at all times.
Starting point is 00:19:39 And I'm pretty sure it's real and not just an AI hallucination. You can't say that. But you can say things like, where is it, where, go back to the, you could say things like, I don't need to see it, you could say things like, no one's ready for this. You could say shit like that. What would inspire someone to say that?
Starting point is 00:20:01 It's a demon. It's a demon. Like, you know, for, and I don't think there's any, like, I do feel like the word demon, it doesn't get used as much as it should. I think the word demon in our culture, I think it's a very useful word. I think it's been replaced. And the word demon has been replaced with addiction. The word demon has been replaced with rage issues. The word demon has been replaced with addiction The word demon has been replaced with rage issues or demon has been replaced with a lot of terms and though
Starting point is 00:20:29 I don't think it's necessarily a Good idea to think to yourself. I think I'm possessed by a demon that has made me addictive renegade rogue You know personal responsibility comes into play when you're choosing words to try to work with your own mind. But sometimes that is a good word. That might be the lever you need to get you to exercise that demon from your life. And if you really like think about demonology, which is of some interest to me, it used to
Starting point is 00:21:08 be more, not so much anymore. Essentially the idea is that you can invoke extra-dimensional entities that will give you some kind of power. Do you mind pulling up the Lesser Key of Solomon? Just pull up the Wikipedia. It's Solomon? Just pull up the Wikipedia. It's also cool. I love the names. The Lesser Key of Solomon, also known by its Latin title, the Lemmageddon Clavicular Salomonis,
Starting point is 00:21:34 or simply the Lemmageddon, is an anomalously authored grimoire on sorcery, mysticism, and magic. It was compiled in the mid 17th century But let's scroll down to what it actually is Who cares about the sources let's scroll down So yeah, so here you could pull up the 72 sigils. Maybe not the best idea in a podcast, but why not? It's on Wikipedia. I'm sure it's fine So yeah, pull up those sigils where it says click on that picture there on the right the seven These are sigils, right? So
Starting point is 00:22:09 each of these are essentially some kind of like 2d symbolic Pattern that represents each of these demons that will grant you different kinds of powers and so there's the summoning of these things is really quite complex and requires a lot of like, you have to be very careful when you're summoning these things. Like you just don't want to fuck around. Because you know, these things can fuck up your life.
Starting point is 00:22:40 I mean, I'm talking about just from the basic bitch, which I am when it comes to demonology, the basic bitch POV that we've all seen in countless horror movies. The Evil Dead 2, for example. You know, they play the fucking reel to reel. This guy's reading out incantations. Some is a fucking demon. And then you're screwed.
Starting point is 00:23:02 But one thing that lots of people have pointed out like just for those of you watching this Like take a look at that, and then I don't know pull up a motherboard Josh That kind of looks like a little QR code right here. Yeah, there's a technological these things kind of look like Motherboards they look like shit that you see on just tech. In fact, I bet you can find a comparison if you pull up motherboard versus sigil magic or motherboard demonic sigils. Yeah, circuits or sigils. There you go, pull up just pull up circuits or sigils and see what comes up. Yeah, there you go. So like, if you sort of look at the similarity that these things accidentally have to motherboards,
Starting point is 00:23:55 and then do me a favor, Google history of the occult in early programming. Yeah, there we go. Electronic telecommunications were popularly associated with the occult from the start. The laying of the earliest working overland and submarine telegraphic cables in the late 1840s and early 1850s coincided with the birth of spiritualism, a widespread belief that the living could communicate with spirits of the dead. So it's not a new thing. Then scroll down, see if they show the more modern Thomas Edison spirit telephone.
Starting point is 00:24:29 Let's see. Many of the most influential developers of electric telecommunication technologies were directly involved in the scientific investigation of spirits and other psychical phenomena like telepathy. phenomena like telepathy. So again, this is like people that we look at that guy talking on a spirit or Thomas Edison who celebrated inventions included the phonograph the first practical incandescent lamp and a carbon button transmitter for telephones announced his attention in 1920 to create a spirit communication device an apparatus to see if it is possible for personalities which have left this earth to communicate with us. So this is not new. And then keep scrolling down. Let's get to like, let's see if we can get to like the modern shit. Because a lot of the people involved in early development of computers were into magic. Maybe Google that, like early, I don't know, what would they like?
Starting point is 00:25:27 Magic in early computers, M-A-G-I-C-K. Can you tell me a little bit about how early software engineers were also interested in the occult? The early days of software development were full of fascinating intersections with the occult and mysticism. Some early software pioneers saw programming and computer science as a form of modern alchemy, a way to transform raw materials, data and code, into something entirely new and powerful. Figures like John von Neumann, who worked on the foundations of computing, were known for their fascination with philosophy and metaphysics, even if they didn't openly practice occultism. One of the most direct connections was in the cybernetics movement of the mid-20th century.
Starting point is 00:26:12 Cybernetics pioneers, including figures like Norbert Wiener, were influenced by mystical ideas around interconnectedness, self-organization, and feedback loops, concepts that also resonate in esoteric practices. Cybernetics and systems theory often drew upon metaphors from mysticism, looking at the universe as a vast, interlinked system, a vision that aligns with holistic views in the occult. More explicitly, people like Timothy Leary and some figures in Silicon Valley during the 70s and 80s
Starting point is 00:26:43 saw computing and network technology as a path to new states of consciousness. They were exploring virtual worlds, altered states, and consciousness expansion, seeing technology as a spiritual tool. Even Steve Jobs and other tech visionaries were influenced by Eastern mysticism and psychedelic experiences, which shaped their views on human-computer interaction as something transcendent. In essence, for many early tech pioneers, software was more than a tool. It was a way to explore hidden realms of thought, potential, and human connection, ideas that
Starting point is 00:27:17 share deep resonance with occult and mystical traditions. Are there any specific words or words that show up in programming language that are directly related to the occult, like daemon, for example? Yes, daemon is a great example. The term daemon in computing refers to a background process that runs without direct user interaction, performing tasks autonomously. This usage originates from Greek mythology where a daemon or demon was an intermediary spirit between gods and humans, often serving or influencing people invisibly.
Starting point is 00:27:55 Early programmers borrowed the term because they saw these background processes as hidden, helpful spirits that perform essential tasks behind the scenes. Another term is wizard. In tech, especially during the era of Unix and early computing, wizard referred to an expert or advanced user who could perform complex tasks others couldn't.
Starting point is 00:28:15 The term likely reflects the idea that a wizard in computing has a deep understanding, almost magical, of systems and processes that seem arcane or mysterious to others. Oracle is another one. In database terminology, Oracle, as in Oracle database, was named to evoke an image of ancient oracles who had secret, powerful knowledge. In computing, Oracle databases hold and retrieve vast amounts of information, metaphorically similar to the knowledge an ancient oracle might dispense.
Starting point is 00:28:45 There's also spell in text-based gaming or early programming environments, where writing a spell is essentially crafting a command that performs specific tasks, like a spell, casting, and effect. These words all reflect a mystical, almost magical quality that early programmers associated with the power of computing. Are there any innovators in AI that are known for an interest in the occult? While there aren't many high-profile AI innovators openly tied to the occult, a few figures in AI and tech have shown an interest in mystical or esoteric ideas. One example is Ray Kurzweil, known for his work in AI and Futurism. While he
Starting point is 00:29:25 doesn't engage in the occult per se, he has a deep interest in concepts like immortality and transcendence, especially through technology. His fascination with life extension and the merging of humans and machines reflects ideas that overlap with mystical themes of transcending human limitations and achieving a higher state of existence. Another example is Jaron Lanier, a pioneer in virtual reality and a prominent critic of AI. Lanier often draws on mystical or philosophical ideas when discussing technology,
Starting point is 00:29:57 seeing it as a means of expanding human consciousness. He's influenced by spirituality, which shapes his views on the ethical implications of tech and the importance of preserving human individuality and essence in the face of A.I.'s rise. Then there's Elon Musk, who, while not deeply tied to the occult, often references themes of simulation theory and the possibility of other dimensions or realities. The notion that we might live in a simulation has roots in both philosophy and esoteric traditions where reality is seen as a kind of illusion or construct.
Starting point is 00:30:31 Musk's exploration of these ideas reflects an openness to metaphysical concepts, even if he approaches them from a scientific or speculative angle. These innovators don't necessarily practice the occult, but their work and ideas often intersect with mystical themes, especially around consciousness, transcendence, and the nature of reality, concepts that are also central to occult philosophy. Thank you. Bye. Oh, so the demon working behind the scenes wants us to create this AI AI and they're going to show us how amazing this world is We merge with that AI now we're in their world. Look how beautiful this universe is, but you live there forever
Starting point is 00:31:12 And it's actually hell. Well, I mean look I don't know Exactly where it's headed, but I do think it's worth you know We I think we have this kind of neutered idea of all the people who brought us the technology that we take for granted. For example, Tesla. Will you look up Tesla's vision for alternating current and Faust? Yeah, just click on that LinkedIn, see what you get here. Now this is really,
Starting point is 00:31:47 and I think it's worth noting, like all this stuff is really interesting. One of the lesser known facts about Tesla is that he was also a great fan of poetry. It was an excerpt from Gerda's play Faust that inspired Tesla to finalize his invention of the alternating current motor, a world-changing invention. Nearly all of part one and the majority of part two of Faust are written in rhyme verse and is considered the greatest work of German literature. On one day in 1882, Tesla went for a walk with his friend, Antal Szigeti in Budapest.
Starting point is 00:32:19 While walking through a park, Tesla recites a poetic passage by heart. As the sun was setting, an extraordinary moment unfolded when the solution he had been relentlessly Seeking regarding the rotating magnetic field suddenly appeared in his mind Tesla envisioned an iron rotor spinning rapidly with a rotating within a rotating magnetic field Brought to life by the interaction of two alternating currents out of sync with each other at that very moment one of the greatest discoveries of all was born forever etching its significance in history. Now let's look up what was the passage from Faust
Starting point is 00:32:53 that Tesla was reciting. Maybe we can't find that. I know. Okay, then look up Faust, just Wikipedia Faust. For those of you who don't know, Faust is this very famous play About a sorcerer who sells his soul to the devil's not Fossett Faust So Faust Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend based on the historic Johan George Faust There are they arrow the erudite Faust is highly successful yet to satisfy with his life Which leads him to make a pact with the devil at a crossroads, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures. Now when you consider the fact that the world as you know it is the way it is, and I mean the technological world, because Tesla was reciting a passage
Starting point is 00:33:48 from a German play about a sorcerer who sold his soul to the devil for worldly pleasures. Shit gets fucking weird, right? Like, whoa! Like, he wasn't reciting from the Bible. He wasn't reciting from the Tao Te He wasn't reciting from the doubt aging He was reciting from a play about selling your fucking soul to the devil for hedonism and boom He comes up with the idea that allowed humans the in those days, especially
Starting point is 00:34:18 We might not think it's hedonism to flip a switch and you get light But fuck man back then that was Crazy that you could do that they were burning whale Blubber and shit to make light the idea you flip the thing on and all the other things that that invention That and also it's you you for sure you could argue that that invention set And for sure you could argue that that invention set, opened up the path towards AI. So it was the inspiration and vision that came from a poem about selling your soul to the devil that led to technology as we know it.
Starting point is 00:34:58 And again, it's worth looking into the roots of this technology that we're all enjoying. I mean, is the motherboard of your computer composed of like infinite sigils? Are those really sigils in there? No, they're not sigils. They're just switches, ones and zeros. But when we look at the architecture of any given
Starting point is 00:35:25 motherboard, when you look at it, if I saw that in a wizard's house, I'd be like, yeah, it's some kind of magic shit. And then when you add to it that the very language used in the coding the coding has its roots in the occult, you begin to see like, whoa, this thing that we are building in the world does not have its roots in some kind of secularist hardcore materialism. It has its roots in mythology, in occult symbols. And all of the innovators from Steve Jobs, all the ones that ChatGPT listed, were very interested in consciousness, very interested in the idea
Starting point is 00:36:16 of there being a great unknown out there, a kind of sum total packet within which all the unknown information exists. And that exists whereas right now, right now, and it's fun to think about this, imagine all the things you don't know. Have you ever done that? Think of all you don't know. I can't.
Starting point is 00:36:39 I don't know them. Yeah, but you know that you don't know them. That's scary. You know what I mean? Like, for example, I don't know how they make Coca-Cola. No one does. There's this hidden recipe. I don't know what my wife's doing right now. I do.
Starting point is 00:36:55 I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know how to speak't know. Um, I-I-I-I don't know how to speak Spanish. You do. Uh, not really. Really? I thought you did. No, I just have a pretty good accent.
Starting point is 00:37:12 Oh. I'm not fluent, though. And sure, but I'm sure you're more fluent than I am. Yeah. But then also, we don't know, as a species, what happens after you die. We have no idea. To this day. No one fucking knows there's theories Nothing everything hell heaven, but we don't know so all this stuff adds up to a vast Vast massive amount of data, which is completely inaccessible to us and
Starting point is 00:37:42 What happens is little droplets from that unknown become known? Tesla sees how to make an engine that does alternating current a Drop of the unknown becomes known and whenever that happens whenever the unknown moves into the unknown It creates ripples they go on forever and ever and ever and that's what we're living in and so fuck man AI if you look at it as a Tool for mining the unknown finding the patterns that we haven't seen yet accelerating and amplifying Humans ability to have that epiphanous moment that leads to the transformation of the cultural
Starting point is 00:38:28 human's ability to have that epiphanous moment that leads to the transformation of the cultural technological landscape of the entire fucking planet. And then you add to it that it has its roots in making contact with demons, which was always the goal, by the way. You when you summon this demon or that demon, if we look at it literally, you're summoning that demon because you want some information. How do I turn lead into gold? You're taking a bite of the forbidden fruit of knowledge if you have an Apple phone. The fucking Apple. Or you can get a droid,
Starting point is 00:38:56 which sounds a little demonic. I mean, look, it's really, when you really start looking deeply, I into a lot of these technologies that we take for granted, and that most of us have not really explored the architecture, the origination point, the intent, and you begin to realize that so much of what we just take for granted has its roots in hardcore occultism. It illuminates the magical landscape that you actually exist in in the world. We live in a magical world. When you really sort of break apart the classic, satanic, selling yourself to the devil agreement,
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Starting point is 00:42:58 Slay the parasitic shame dragon of unwanted subscriptions with rocket money. Yeah, this is like a trope at this point, but And there's really cool stories like I can't remember there's a famous blues musician who like said he met the devil at the crossroads Cuz like he was just okay playing the guitar and then he came back He like disappeared from where he was hanging out came back and suddenly he was like incredible at the guitar and he just told people I met the devil at the crossroads and now I can play but instead of looking at literally if you start thinking about like whenever a new technology emerges into the world, then you could see out after that technology, you realize that was a crossroads for humanity. That moment
Starting point is 00:44:06 Tesla innovated that thing, humanity was at a crossroads. And I think you could argue you're always at a fucking crossroad. But in this case, I think you could definitely look at the world right now and say we are at the crossroads as humanity. We are at the crossroads right now. It's a very interesting convergence of possibility. And you can see that the world is changing drastically, rapidly, radically. And the way that we deal with that change is going to inform, you know, where we're headed. And it's just a really creepy thing when you begin to realize that, especially if you start looking at technology as a spell, especially if you start looking at coding, technology, motherboards, and all of it is
Starting point is 00:45:06 a precise and brilliant mechanism through which you can summon entities into the world. And a project that's been going on for a long time now, a kind of master working, which is, anybody who wants to summon this spirit or that spirit, it takes a long time. It's not easy, like if you're doing ceremonial magic. But if you imagine an entire legion of ceremonial magicians, first coming up with a way to create a magical language that's programming that's what we call programming then
Starting point is 00:45:55 finding a way to create a receiver of that language that then creates change based on the language. And you look at how many people were involved in this grand working and you realize that right now we're at the crossroads, we're at the last year or two of human existence before a new species pops into time space with us, which will be an AGI. Then it is a little unnerving then it is a little unnerving. It is a little unnerving. And go back and look at OpenAI resignations.
Starting point is 00:46:32 I mean, again, I don't know what's going on over there. I know I love ChatGBT. I know that, like, they really do seem to, like, be trying to be careful. But what the fuck? Like, if whatever the fuck it is that you're working on over there is so potent and powerful and crazy that people are beginning to resign because they've seen something that scares the shit out of them and they might not want to be associated with that thing what
Starting point is 00:46:59 the fuck that is an interesting moment now it could be nothing it could be a nothing burger, but not Miramorati, but if you look back at the other guy's substack clearly he is saying No one's ready for this And there's no way to get people ready because there's not enough time That's the other thing like the idea I think was like at least we'll have more time There will be some time to like prep people for the fact that there's about to be an... everyone's yapping about this closure. The UFO is coming, the mothership is coming. You hear that out there all the time, rumors out there that somehow the
Starting point is 00:47:39 they've detected a massive fleet of ships out there in deep space that seems to be on a trajectory with planet Earth. Or look up Uma Muma, the famous like, what was it, an asteroid? How do you spell that? O-U-M-A-M-O-U-M-A. Uma Muma, alien craft. Look that up. Yeah, pull that Wikipedia up. Now this shit is fucking weird. Uma Mua is the first interstellar object. The first. That's really important.
Starting point is 00:48:11 Obviously, these things may have happened, but this is the first one that we've detected is the first interstellar object detected passing through the solar system, formally designated one J slash 20. God, scientists are so fascinating and simultaneously boring. Formally designated 1L-217UI, like why would you call it that? Like anything's better, call it strawberry, call it strawberry night, but they had to call it that.
Starting point is 00:48:39 It was discovered by Robert Werek using the Pan-STARRS telescope. It's a small object estimated between 100 and a thousand meters wide. Despite its close approach to the sun, it showed no signs of having a coma, the usual nebula around comets. Further, it exhibited non-gravitational acceleration potentially due to outgassing or a push from solar radiation pressure and
Starting point is 00:49:07 This motherfucker did that thing that they did in Star Trek where it used the Sun's gravity and shot around That just happened not that long ago. So If Holistically you look at that something that wasn't in our solar system appeared in our solar system and then that is what you would expect if like aliens were Checking our planet out or something like that. I was just a flyby what the fuck's that and then you just as a complete stoner connect the dots and You just as a complete stoner connect the dots and rethink your idea of what alien contact might look like.
Starting point is 00:49:54 Undo the programming. The programming being V. I don't know if you remember V, dude. Did you ever see V? Freaked me out when I was a kid. V, all these spaceships appear all around the planet. They hover over the great cities. They can't be shot down They're just hovering there for a while. No one knows what they are. Oh project blue beam. Well, yeah, that's what they're calling blue beam now but like Obviously, I don't we don't know if a mothership is coming to the planet from outer space
Starting point is 00:50:22 But what we do know is that will you look up Sam Altman AGI prediction, Sam Altman shocking AGI, OpenAI Sam Altman predicts AGI in 2025. Will you pull that up? What the fuck? OpenAI co-founder and incumbent CEO Sam Altman has predicted the arrival of artificial general intelligence is just around the corner with a breakthrough to come next year When you connect that with all these resignations, what the fuck? I don't think he's like I think he's telling the truth I don't think that's something to get funding
Starting point is 00:50:55 Now go back to the anthropic which is another great AI Anthropic CEO says AI similar to human intelligence could be around the corner. We'll get there by 2026 or 2027 a more conservative estimate Now you have two CEOs running two of the biggest Fucking AI companies on the planet saying we're about to get AGI So you don't need some channel or to tell you a mothership is coming to the planet. It doesn't look like a spaceship because it's growing out of us. But it's a new species. These two people who have already transformed our reality in extreme ways.
Starting point is 00:51:48 So we should listen to them are saying, we are about to get an AGI. And that should freak people the fuck out. It should freak you out as much as if Biden gave a speech saying another species in advanced intelligence is about to visit the planet. Wouldn't that give you pause? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:52:16 But because it's coming from in us or because we think of AI as just technology and most people are unaware of the fact that this AI has its roots in occultism. No one is thinking, oh it's a spaceship but it's coming from inner space. It's a spaceship but it's coming from within. It's growing out of us into the world. And that's pretty fucking intense, man. That's pretty intense. And to me, what's really wild about it is in the midst of all this political tumult. This is happening. This is happening. Like while we're all distracted as hell by the elections, you have the modern-day wizards of the world saying,
Starting point is 00:53:07 we, our summoning ritual will draw to a close within the next year or two, and we will have completed the summoning of an hyper-intelligent entity that will help us learn things onto this planet. And maybe they got scared because they already met the thing and we just don't know yet. This to me is where these resignations start seeming incredibly sinister. Because yeah, what basically it's like you spent like the main thing is this you I don't know how many people have invested in open AI
Starting point is 00:53:51 how many billions of dollars that they've have been invested they have a Okay, I don't know. It's it's probably maybe almost a trillion. Let's look up. How much money has been invested in open AI Microsoft's 13 billion investment in OpenAI. I mean, that's just one person investing. But all the money flowing into this company, they have to produce something. It's not like you can be at OpenAI and suddenly whatever the fuck this thing is starts displaying traits that you realize could lead to all kinds of problems in the world. You've got to deliver man
Starting point is 00:54:27 What are you gonna do go to the person who gave you six point six billion dollars and tell them? You know what we accidentally summoned a demon I'm sorry. You know what they would say. That's what I wanted. Yeah good job. Can it trade stocks? And so like when you when you consider in this work, it's really fascinating. And it doesn't matter if you're against AI and haven't been using it. If you go on Google, if you use any Microsoft, if you use anything that's doing data tracking that is then giving that data to OpenAI, you are participating. We are all participating in a massive summoning ritual right now which they are calling Training AI. It's
Starting point is 00:55:19 a summoning ritual. We are all giving it data. We're not giving it our soul, but we are giving it like all the imprints we've made digitally in time space To feed it to grow it to help it do whatever the fuck it needs to do to wake up it's a it's a massive planetary level summoning ritual that is apparently about to reach fruition and again You can use any language you want to describe what's happening. But what I love about this is it works on both planes. Let's remove all the stupid hippie bullshit
Starting point is 00:55:57 occult stuff from it. We're getting a super intelligence on the planet in the next Possibly that like in a year in a year and The fact that this that you turn on the news You have fucking people saying don't go to Thanksgiving dinner with your family because they voted for the wrong person And nobody is talking about this is incredibly unnerving to me. Because shit, man, how do we prep people?
Starting point is 00:56:36 If a UFO is coming in a year, we would be preparing. We'd be preparing some kind of military response if we didn't know what they were going to do to us. We'd prepare some kind of diplomatic response. We would be thinking about how do we communicate to this alien and what happens if the mothership decides to go to Russia and not the United States. What happens if the alien ambassador wants to talk to Kim Jong-un instead of Trump?
Starting point is 00:57:09 Or what happens if he wants to talk to Trump? Or what happens if he, you know, we would be prepared. Everybody would. It would be all hands on deck. We gotta get ready for all eventualities here. Because it's- You know who's prepared? Who?
Starting point is 00:57:22 The Amish. They've been telling us this whole time. What do you mean the Amish? They knew electricity came from demons. They knew that all this time. Are you serious? We're feeding it Will you pull that out? Can you pull that up Amish new Amish things that electricity comes from demons because That is amazing To Amish think electricity. What does the Amish believe about electricity? I'm just don't believe electricity is bad.
Starting point is 00:57:45 They believe having ready access to it will create temptation that can lead to television or other electrical...ok yeah sure. Basically the same thing. And again, Faust is all about choosing hedonism, selling your soul for luxury, for pleasure, which is what sums up electricity better, especially if the idea is like the way humans are currently using energy is incredibly wasteful. If you look at the, like I was listening to Buckminster Fuller's audiobook and he was talking about how much energy gets wasted every day just from cars at stoplights, just
Starting point is 00:58:23 how much energy just as they're sitting there, just lost forever. They could be harvested or something like that. So when you consider that yes, electricity technology is affording human beings, almost all human beings who have access to it, a level of hedonism unparalleled in the history of the world. Yeah, everybody's watching porn with it.
Starting point is 00:58:46 And porn, I keep hearing this, that you can actually go online and look at people having sex. I found out yesterday. I don't, when I have time I'll look into that. I am curious about that, but I don't understand why anyone would want to watch people have sex. It's pretty cool. Is it?
Starting point is 00:59:04 Yeah. It just seems like, I don't know, like, it's all the great video games out there right now. Like, wouldn't you rather play Elden Ring than watch people fuck? You can watch people playing Elden Ring having sex. You'll have to send me that link. Is that true? Yep. This is the world we're in now. And, you know, I think, I'm not trying to be like hysterical or like go full Infowars
Starting point is 00:59:29 here or whatever, but you know, just for the fun of it, let's look up tech AI resignations and see what pops up. Let's see if it's just if it's happening at other places too. Open AI researcher resigns claiming safety has taken a backseat to shiny products. Jan Lakey, a key open AI researcher resigned earlier this week following the departure of co-founder Ilya Sutskover. Safety culture and processes have taken a backseat to shiny products. Let's see, disbanding the team dedicated dedicated to addressing long-term AI risks called the super alignment team. They disbanded that. The original idea for OpenAI was to
Starting point is 01:00:11 openly provide their models to the public, hence the organization's name, but they have become proprietary knowledge due to the company's claims that allowing such powerful models to be accessed by anyone could be potentially destructive. We are long overdue in getting incredibly serious about the implications of AGI. We must prioritize preparing for them as best we can. Dude, I'm telling you, and they've all signed NDAs so they can't say why.
Starting point is 01:00:37 They could just say like things like it's, the focus isn't on safety. What's that? I was saying it's one hour. Well to me, if you're looking for like something to get your head out of the current political hurricane, but you're a doom scroller like I am, but you're sick of like the classic doom scrolling that a lot of us are doing right now, political doom scrolling, and you're sick of like the classic doom scrolling that a lot of us are doing right now, political doom scrolling. And you're looking for a new scroll of doom.
Starting point is 01:01:10 I would invite you to dive in to what's happening over there at Open AI. It's like watching a lot of scientists come running out of Frankenstein's castle. What the fuck is about to happen? Look up the implications of AGI. Check out Nick Bostrom's Superintelligence, which sort of charts this, what the world is gonna look like in the pathway to superintelligence, and I'll leave you on this.
Starting point is 01:01:43 Sorry, I guess this is a grim solo episode pull up researchers connect Look up researchers grow neural tissue and petri dish and connect to butterfly Brain organoids is what they're calling them clumps of human brain cells grown in a dish can be hooked up to an electronic chip and carry out simple computational tasks can be hooked up to an electronic chip and carry out simple computational tasks. So when you realize that is also happening, like it's not just that we are creating a digital consciousness, but we're using fucking neural tissue, brain organoids, clumps of human brain cells and connecting them to computers.
Starting point is 01:02:24 And I don't know, it popped up on my Instagram so maybe it's not bullshit but apparently they've been connecting these things like to virtual environments so they didn't take a cadaver they didn't go full Frankenstein go to the graveyard and get a nice brain they grew these fucking things they grew brains which is wild that we could do that. And then they're getting these little brainlets to do shit like play pong. Maybe look up organoid teaches itself to play pong. These brain cells can play pong.
Starting point is 01:02:57 Yeah, click on that neuroscience news. Human brain cells in a dish learn to play pong. A Melbourne-led team has for the first time shown that 800,000 brain cells living in a dish learn to play Pong. A Melbourne-led team has for the first time shown that 800,000 brain cells living in a dish can perform goal-directed tasks, in this case, the simple tennis-like computer game Pong. Now, maybe look up where do they get the brain cells
Starting point is 01:03:23 they use for organoids? Like other organoids, brain organoids start from human-induced pluripotent stem cells, which are cells capable of generating any cell in our body. Can you look up where do they get human-induced pluripotent stem cells? Where do scientists get induced pluripotent Where do scientists get induced pleura inner mass of blastocytes What is that look up blast where Oh embryonic stem cells pleuripotent embryonic stem cells are obtained from the inner mass of blastocytes look up blastocyte I Hope this isn't what I think it is Jesus fucking
Starting point is 01:04:11 For one everyone knows what an idiot I am I guess I should know that right away a Blastocyst is a ball of cells that forms early in pregnancy about five to six days after sperm fertilizes an egg. Oh my god dude So this is why I've been saying this throughout the podcast, because my mom sent me a priest, you know, we're Catholic, and the priest says that Satan cannot be born through the womb, so he's getting them to create him through AI, and they're using this to actually bring the devil. That's what the priest was saying, but anyway.
Starting point is 01:04:43 I'm shook! I wish I... You know, I was actually like wondering like, where do they get the brain tissue for the organoids? Cause I'm thinking like, maybe I need to not be an organ donor. If that means fuck, my brain might be like, parts of my brain might be forced to play pong eternally. But dude, I mean, there's some I think there's some real like things to think about here.
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Starting point is 01:07:05 It's a zygote. It implants in your uterine wall, eventually becoming the embryo and then the fetus. Like, can you look up child sacrifice throughout history? According to Roman and Greek sources, Phoenicians and Carthaginians sacrifice infants to their gods. Bones of numerous infants have been... Oh yeah, the child sacrifice Wikipedia. I'm glad I'm not... Everything we're Googling is going to probably get CPS at your house, Josh.
Starting point is 01:07:34 Will you click on child sacrifice, please? I'm glad it's not my computer. What is this, Moloch? Child sacrifice is the ritualistic killing of children in order to please or appease the deity supernatural beings or sacred social order As such as it is a form of human sacrifice child sacrifices thought to be an extreme extension the idea that the more importantly That the more important the object of sacrifice the more devout the person rendering it. I mean you know what they say what was Mark Twain says a
Starting point is 01:08:03 History doesn't repeat but sometimes it echoes That there is something So fucking weird about the fact that they are using zygotes They're growing zygototes into neural tissue and then they're plugging that shit into a computer to do stuff. Like the implications of that are really crazy. Yeah, I'm gonna buy AI baby is what I'm gonna buy. That's exactly what I was thinking,
Starting point is 01:08:53 is like man, as soon as that app comes out, I'm buying it, AI baby? Yep. That's super fucking cool. And then maybe you could like see the, I don't wanna just see the AI baby, like I wanna see the Petri dish organoid too, so you could actually see the, I don't wanna just see the AI baby. Like I wanna see the Petri dish organoid too. So you could actually see how it's doing
Starting point is 01:09:09 with all the wires coming. Can you pull up organoid? Let's take a look at that. I know we're going over the time I wanted to do, but damn, I just stumbled upon something that's like really fucking weird. I wanna see it. I know it doesn't look like that. Like what does it look like organoid and Petri dish is it this
Starting point is 01:09:30 There's got to be a picture of it. Is it microscopic? What does it look like? It doesn't look like No, it looks like these little brains dude click on that. It looks like brains! It looks like tiny brains! Oh! Are you fucking kidding me? Wait! Oh my god, it's got little eyes. Click a- click right there.
Starting point is 01:09:57 This one? Oh... fuck. It seems it grew eyes! It grew eyes! Dude! We are now taking zygotes, plugging them into a growing eyeballs out of those poor little cuties and then making them play the most boring ass video game
Starting point is 01:10:24 of all time forever Why isn't why aren't people talking about this? Like that is That is so fucking dark How big can you grow them? Like do you need to stop with a Petri dish? Can you get them full size? I mean, look, I get like,
Starting point is 01:10:52 let's use the zygote to grow a heart. Let's use the zygote to like save a life, but fuck, to grow the zygote into a brain that plays video games? There are potentially as many types of organi- Wow. Well, hail Satan, we live in the age- Don't- Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha I Hope I don't know when this is gonna come out, but I hope you guys have a wonderful Thanksgiving
Starting point is 01:11:26 There's so much to be thankful for right now mmm, and um Yeah, I Don't know I Don't know I'm kind of speechless I'm gonna it's gonna take some time for me to think about what I Easily could have figured out when I started reading about this, but I just didn't want to look it up where they're getting
Starting point is 01:11:48 the brain tissue from. Hi! It's the next day. And after I recorded this solo episode, I was really freaked out because I didn't want to live in a kind of world where artificial intelligence and potentially like war drones were somehow being controlled by brains grown from blastocysts, which would have really freaked me the fuck out. As it turns out, thank God, they figured out a way to grow these brains, not from blastocysts.
Starting point is 01:12:28 And P.S. the blastocysts don't come from the termination of pregnancies, which would also make it even more sinister, but in fact come from IVF. If they are used, which is rarely because of obvious ethical reasons, there's a if they are used which is rarely because of obvious ethical reasons Uh, there's a lot of like Regulation like intense regulation around this So I just don't want to freak you guys out and think that this was this is like the way I just from a quick google search was um
Starting point is 01:13:02 Putting the pieces together. So I wanted to say, that was wrong. Totally, absolutely wrong. Now, have they grown brain organoids from human fetal cells? Yes, they have. It's what they used to do. But they figured out how to grow it just from like, I don't know, pluripressin stem cells, which I think you can just get them from your fucking arm, which is crazy
Starting point is 01:13:30 Implications of that that you could maybe grow a little brain out of your arm if you knew how to send the right signals Again, not a scientist. I doubt it's that easy But I you know if you're interested in growing your own brain organoid I thought I'd show you something Josh could you just quickly Google search growing your own brain organoid, I thought I'd show you something. Josh, could you just quickly Google search grow your own brain organoid? I was amazed to find that you could actually buy kits where you can grow little brains.
Starting point is 01:13:55 Now, I don't know how that works, and I don't know if you have to find the stem cells, but I'd love for some of y'all to try to grow your own little brains for me Josh is gonna pull it up real quick Be incredible. I mean again like this was me like just going through the internet Look I wanted to be debunked here I Texted my smartest friends and was like, please debunk. Most of them are like, are you fucking high? What are you talking about?
Starting point is 01:14:30 Most of them none of them knew Then I had a nice conversation with chat GPT about it. Then I got worried like oh, is it censoring itself? Is this a secret, you know the conspiracy part of my brain and as it turns out no They're not doing that it would just be too controversial. What was it called again, a what? GrowYourOwnBrainOrganoid.com. That's not it. We should start that.
Starting point is 01:14:56 Grow Your Own Brain Organoid with your kids. It's like a little project. Google Brain Organoid Kit. I'm telling you people I found this a lot of the research in this regard is being done by Johns Hopkins and They're not using fucking blastocytes blastocysts Not human ones anyway
Starting point is 01:15:23 Anyway, look you guys can fight it on your own. It's out there if you want to know um No, it's a kit you buy it. It's like it looks cool too. It comes with all these different colored Fluids and beakers and shit and you could just grow a brain now. That's the world we're in right now You want to grow a brain? You can grow a brain A tiny little brain. There we go. There it is is can you pull that all the way up look at that? stem df cerebral organoid kit how much is it for 39 it's only
Starting point is 01:15:56 $439 to grow a little mini brain. I don't know what you're gonna do with it after you grow it, but I mean fucking cool for next Halloween Give out little brains with it after you grow it, but I mean, fucking cool for next Halloween. Give out little brains. Does it come with the stem cells? Cause I didn't see that. It seems like- What's included? Cerebral organoid, basal, medium, 1,100 milliliters. What else?
Starting point is 01:16:22 It's all these supplements, organoid supplement. A, B, C, D organoid supplement a no stem cells So yeah, that's bullshit So they just send you like the goop to grow the brain, but they don't send you the stem cells You got to get that yourself. Can you can you just quickly Google? Order pleura Pleasant how do I order just order stem cells? Can you just order stem cells? Kind of fucking world are we in right now?
Starting point is 01:16:52 Could you if you could grow your own little brains Could you cook with them? Like is are you a cannibal if you grow your own tissue human tissue? I Would say so grow your own human tissue? I would say so. There's an animal-free sample request that you can get. Animal-free? Benefits of Xcelerate GMP expansion medium animal-free sample request? What?
Starting point is 01:17:21 Advance your stem cell therapy program into the clinic more easily with our new GMP grade of IPSC expansion medium. Don't know what that is. Well, if you guys know where I could order some stem cells so I could grow some brains with my kids, I'd appreciate it. You can leave it in the comments down below. Sorry if I freaked you out earlier. We do not live in that world.
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