Ep 189 Is Anything Real?

And I tweeted about France a couple of times.

If you're on the internet, it appears as though France is burning down.

There is...

Riots that they say, you know, are protest of education.

I don't know.

That's not how I would protest my education.

I would have never protested education.

If my school cut funding, I don't even know that I would realize it.

But I would definitely not go and, you know, burn down the city.

But this came to my mind.

I watched a video.

And the video was a guy, who knows when the guy took the video and I couldn't understand what he was saying.

But in the video, he's on a high building and then it says across the text, across the video says, France is burning, right? And then he flips the camera around and shows the streets and the streets are just beautiful and clear and nobody on the streets, no fire, no smoke.

And it got me thinking, with AI being so good now, Can we really believe anything that we see? I talked about it one time, like the COVID nurses.

You remember that? And I know I talked about this, and at the time, none of us were aware of AI, maybe at all, or at least to this degree.

Back in the day, I used to watch these videos, and I remember seeing an interview of Elon Musk saying that...

He said, with AI, we're summoning a demon.

That's what he said.

And now he has his own AI on X.

So we weren't really aware of it to this degree.

So when we saw the nurses dancing and the firemen dancing, we thought, oh, this is crazy.

You guys got nothing to do, huh? The hospitals are really empty.

But now in hindsight, looking back, You go, these dances are way too choreographed for just, not that the nurses and firemen couldn't pull it together if they wanted to, but it's like they were perfect.

Like how dead is it? I mean, I was in the hospital in 2021, not the height of COVID, but I ruptured my appendix and was in the hospital and nobody was dancing while I was in there.

I'll tell you that the nurse was like, I'm short staffed.

And I tweeted about France a couple of times.

If you're on the internet, it appears as though France is burning down.

There is...

Riots that they say, you know, are protest of education.

I don't know.

That's not how I would protest my education.

I would have never protested education.

If my school cut funding, I don't even know that I would realize it.

But I would definitely not go and, you know, burn down the city.

But this came to my mind.

I watched a video.

And the video was a guy, who knows when the guy took the video and I couldn't understand what he was saying.

But in the video, he's on a high building and then it says across the text, across the video says, France is burning, right? And then he flips the camera around and shows the streets and the streets are just beautiful and clear and nobody on the streets, no fire, no smoke.

And it got me thinking, with AI being so good now, Can we really believe anything that we see? I talked about it one time, like the COVID nurses.

You remember that? And I know I talked about this, and at the time, none of us were aware of AI, maybe at all, or at least to this degree.

Back in the day, I used to watch these videos, and I remember seeing an interview of Elon Musk saying that...

He said, with AI, we're summoning a demon.

That's what he said.

And now he has his own AI on X.

So we weren't really aware of it to this degree.

So when we saw the nurses dancing and the firemen dancing, we thought, oh, this is crazy.

You guys got nothing to do, huh? The hospitals are really empty.

But now in hindsight, looking back, You go, these dances are way too choreographed for just, not that the nurses and firemen couldn't pull it together if they wanted to, but it's like they were perfect.

Like how dead is it? I mean, I was in the hospital in 2021, not the height of COVID, but I ruptured my appendix and was in the hospital and nobody was dancing while I was in there.

I'll tell you that the nurse was like, I'm short staffed.