Go for it now.

So the place I wanna start is, uh, how many of you can picture, uh, the yin-yang sign? Can you guys picture that in your mind? Okay.

So the thing that I love about this symbol is that when I was growing up, I grew up as a, a kid in small town, um, I- Illinois, and whenever I saw that, I always thought, "Oh, that's the balances between good and evil," right? And what I came to find out as I got older, as I learned more about philosophy, was actually that symbol isn't just good and evil.

It actually is representing dichotomies in this world, things that are all around us all the time, and that, uh, operate kind of, uh, opposite one another.

You can't have day without night.

You can't have, um, uh, order without chaos, for example.

And the reason I think this is such an important symbol when we talk about AI is that, um, it's very easy to think w- either the way the world is is the way that it will always be, or we're going in, um, into the chaos, where things are completely unknown and we don't know what's gonna happen.

But, like, do you have any places where you feel like we'll grow because of AI that, like, we could look into as students right now?

But I mean, everybody knows that when, when, um, when Sikhism was founded in 1499, it was a pacifist religion, and it wasn't until 1699, after the second time one of their gu- gurus had been murdered, and in this case beheaded and tortured first, that they brought in that knife and just said, "Everybody has to wear one of these all the time no matter what." So their, their religion, which started out as pacifist, 200 years to the year later said, "Everyone's gotta be strapped." So to say that you can't put that knife aside at any point because it fundamentally changes your religion, I would argue that, motherfucker, you have already fundamentally changed your religion at one point, and that maybe you could just leave it at home from time to time.

So my thought for the Canadians is that, uh, Canadian nice, uh, works when you have a high-trust society, when you have a g- when you, every community you have, people know each other, your reputation matters, you're, you're, like, y- being able to cooperate with other people, to have them come to your business, to use their business.

That's a high-trust society.

When you mix different groups together, the calculus changes, right? Because in a high-trust society, it's about your reputation, it's about meritocracy, it's about long-term thinking.

But when you bring two groups together, the winner will always be what's known as the intransigent minority.

Who is the least willing to change will win.

And there's an interesting article by a terrible guy named Nassim Taleb about the intransigent minority, and it, and it basically says, "Go look at the way culture gets set up." It's not set up by finding a middle ground.

Mind blown.