host Cole McCormick dives into the latest headlines in the world of AI, focusing on Elon Musk's groundbreaking move of XAI acquiring X in a massive all-stock transaction. The episode also explores the concept of AI maximalism, a philosophical stance advocating for the integration of AI into all domains of human activity. Cole shares insights from YouTuber David Shapiro, who supports AI maximalism, and discusses the cultural movements surrounding AI, including doomerism and accelerationism.
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Are you an AI maximalist? What's up everyone? It's America Plus. I'm your host, Cole McCormick. It's another week. Another episode. What's going on, everybody? It's Sunday at March thirtieth, '4 '40 '8 in the PM. What's going on, y'all? Happy to be here. Happy to see you. It's a beautiful day to be alive, y'all. It's wonderful to see you. We are here again streaming live on YouTube, but we're on x. We're live in all the podcast apps. We're just having a hell of a good time, y'all. I'm really enjoying the livestream. It's been a good time. And so we're just we're doing this every week, every Sunday, usually, like, the later afternoons, earlier evenings. So if you can if you can get here, if if you're online anytime in that time, I would love to love to see you every Sunday.
This episode okay. We need to talk about, like, the biggest headlines. Right? The biggest headline. And I wanted to focus on AI. Okay? So clearly, the the biggest headline in AI is Elon bought his own company. Like, what, dude? So XAI made this huge announcement about, so Elon put up this massive tweet of, like, XAI has acquired x in an all stock transaction. The combination values xAI at 80,000,000,000 and x at 33,000,000,000. Oh my god. Oh my god. Yes. Yay. Oh my god. Yay. It's so exciting. So people are sort of hyped about that, but sort of not hyped about that. Elon goes on to say that since its founding two years ago, XAI has rapidly become one of the leading AI labs in the world, building models and data centers at unprecedented speed at scale.
Well, that's how Elon laughs. X is the digital town square where more than 600,000,000 active users go to, find real time, source of ground truth, and in the last two years, has been transformed into one of the most efficient companies in the world, positioning it to deliver scalable future growth. XAI and X's futures are intertwined. Today, we officially take the step to combine the data, models, compute, distribution, and talent. This combination will unlock immense potential by blending XAI's advanced AI capability and expertise, X's massive reach.
The combined company will deliver smarter, more meaningful experiences to deliver of people while staying true to our core mission of seeking truth and add and advancing knowledge. This will allow us to build a platform that doesn't just reflect the world, but actively accelerates human progress. Incredible, Elon. So what a what a round of applause for you're plugging in somebody, who had the best tweet, down here? Somebody had the best tweet. I saw it. Oh, yeah. Right here. Autism capital. The you you plugged in you plugged in the power stick to the power stick. So I round of applause, y'all.
Round of applause for Elon doing the impossible. Elon Elon really did that shit, y'all. He really did that. XAI buying x is, it's interesting. I thought it was already a thing as well. I thought it was already happening. Wasn't the entire situation of Elon buying Twitter, already a discussion about, him training us, him training the XAI, from Twitter. That's already been a discussion. So I thought they were already sort of commingling to a certain degree, but I guess, I guess some things changed. But, you know, the interesting thing about this is, I think Elon's, like, one of, like, the strongest guys. He's, like, one of the strongest entrepreneurs, you know, if I could, like, suck his dick for a second. Elon is pretty good at everything that he does.
And, him doing this is definitely I mean, I think Grok is better than Meta's AI. Like, no one's using the AI in Instagram. A lot of people are enjoying OpenAI, but the only people who are enjoying OpenAI, is is the people actually, like, paying for it. And so when it comes to that aspect, it's like, how many of these AI products are being enjoyed by the normal consumer, at an affordable price? Okay? And, this gets into a question of what are you paying for, and what are these AIs actually actually doing? And Elon is making the really interesting move of centralizing the entire situation.
Google is trying to put AI in all of their in all of their products, specifically YouTube. You know? Because x and Twitter is, like, is a social media, The the companies that are trying to use the social media alongside AI, that is a clear, that that's a clear benefit. You know? That's a clear like, if I was if I was in charge of the business, I would want to train my AI on my social media that I own. But Instagram's not doing that. Facebook's not doing that. Google cannot do that with YouTube, as if, like, YouTube is a social media or something. I think x is the one true social media that can give an AI any valuable data, so that that can be trained on. And so I think this is a really interesting move. First of all, I think it's it's the most autistic move as well. Like, you bought your own company. Your the company that you own bought your own company. That's pretty it's pretty autistic, dude.
But I respect it. I respect the autists, and so I'm I'm just gonna let it be. I'm not one to to poo poo AI. I'm not one to to think that this is, like, no good or it's, like, not working at all. You know, some people like Adam Curry, inventor of podcasting, He thinks AI is, like, it's no good. It's just not working. I don't think that Adam Curry hates AI, but people like Adam Curry are definitely just they're calling out the hype cycle, and they think the hype cycle is gonna, you know, just go down. You know, the entire hype bubble will pop soon. I don't think this is that kind of a situation because when it comes to AI, you're sort of compressing all data.
And you're compressing that data into, specific out, what's it called, outputs. And that output is the product, you know. So Midjourney I use Midjourney to to create all the episode images for my podcast, and that's taking all the information, all the image information, and compressing it into their own model. And, the reason I like Midjourney is because of that type of output, the way that they use that compressed date, data. I'm not interested in using Meta's AI because, you know, I don't trust it. I don't like it. I've used it a little bit here and there. It doesn't seem smooth. It doesn't seem clean. It doesn't seem up to date.
The same thing with OpenAI. You know? I've only used ChatChippity, like, a handful of times, like, when it first came out. I used it to to make a short story one time, like, in the very early days when like, literally in the first, like, few months of it being out. I I wrote a short story. But the the information is only up to date to, like, a certain point, and what I think needs to happen is, like, these things need to be real time. These these things need to be, like, up to date to the hour, to the minute, dude. And, x is the only situation where that can actually happen.
So I think Elon's smart by doing this. I think he's a little autistic doing it, but I think this is the right move, ultimately. I, I think it's gonna work. There's a potential risk. The potential risk is that all AI just, like, just, like, falls apart, dude. The what's, like, the ratio? What's the probability on that? The over under on AI falling apart? I'm gonna take the under on. I I don't think it's gonna fall apart. I think AI is here to stay. I don't think the AI bubble is gonna pop. You know, if there is a bubble like, they always talk about bubbles in terms of, like, the financial stocks, and, like, people stop getting super hot on it. And everyone likes to point to the .com bubble.
But the reality of the .com bubble is that the Internet just continued, and the Internet became what it is and and, you know, what we all know it to be now. And so if there is some sort of financial bubble popping, I don't think that's gonna be the end of AI. You know, I think it'll just it's just gonna be, like, the marketplace deciding which AIs are the real valuable ones, you know? In the dot com crisis, people chose Google to be valuable. People chose Microsoft to be valuable within the computers. You know, people you know, you you can just go back to that history.
And we're moving through this history right now. The AI is interesting because the amount of things that we can compress is almost limitless. You know, I think about Elon's, like, other companies. Right? Elon, he has a rocking company. He has that Neuralink. Isn't it possible that you can take a Neuralink and with all the data the Neuralink is taking in, you can give it to the AI, and that can somehow improve itself, that can somehow help the person, who is using the Neuralink. You know, I'm not I'm not a neurologist. I'm not one of these scientists working with these companies, but I'm just imagining a a scenario where the compression of of data where then you're seeking a specific output can be beneficial for all companies in all industries.
I don't know why it wouldn't be. Like, we're already seeing AI being used in Hollywood. We're already seeing it like, the the company Lionsgate, that's that's the company that owns Hunger Games and John Wick. They made a specific deal with, with who, with Runway. Runway's making line a a Lionsgate specific AI model so that it can be trained on John Wick images and trained on Hunger Games stuff. And so that when they go and make another movie, their post production will be more efficient, and and it'll be easier to, to execute.
And I think that's smart. Okay? And we're already seeing that right now today. And that leads me to think that, you know, it's not that impossible. You know? There's a lot of other things that that Elon has done that seemed more impossible. So when it comes to AI like, making AI work, I think AI will work because just because of Elon's track record. Elon's already made a the the most successful electric car company. Elon's already made a freaking brain chip that is helping paraplegics live their life better. Elon saved two astronauts from space.
Elon what else has Elon done? I'm not sure if I agree with this one point, but Elon saved free speech. I sort of agree with that. I but but I sort of don't. But regardless, that was a massive thing. That was a massive, like, culture shift when Elon bought Twitter. And so there were things that everyone has said that was impossible for Elon to do. And when it comes to the AI realm, it seems pretty clear that Elon will be able to make AI work. And if we're to take Elon for his word, Elon has been one of, if not the only billionaire and mega entrepreneur who makes an active effort to talk about the betterment of humanity.
You know? Whenever Jeff Bezos talks about Amazon, he just talks about, like, efficiency. He talks about convenience. He talks about, you know, just the game of building a company. But when Elon talks about building companies and and doing these things, he he seems to have a real effort, a real revereness to the human race. And so, you know, if I were to believe him, you know, do I wanna believe that he loves humans? Yes. I do wanna believe that. I think there are billionaires and tech people who do not like humanity, who do not care about these things. And there are absolutely people in the tech industry who wanna use AI to replace humans.
This is something that is incredibly true. You know, I'm not I'm I'm not trying to go down conspiracy lane right now, but it is clear to me that there are dark entities who wanna use AI for for the worse. You know, for the worst scenario possible. And they wanna use AI to control you. They wanna use AI to manipulate you and to scare you. And I think Elon doesn't wanna scare you. I think Elon wants to wants to give tools to people, to help themselves. You know? This is my opinion, and that's my hope at least. You know? I could be wrong. I totally could be wrong, but, I don't think I am. You know? It's just it's it's as simple as that.
So AI working is, I think it's on par of the course to to get going. And I have a couple of clips to share. So along with this discussion of, of will AI work, like, is it probable, is it useful at all? There's this YouTuber that I've been following named David Shapiro that I wanna share right now. David Shapiro, he's been he mainly talks about about AI, like, broad spectrum, like, big picture. David Shapiro is one of these, like, deep thinkers. I like him, personally. And I got two clips to share. And the first clip that I wanna share is about what he calls AI maximalism.
Okay? And so just hear him talk about what is AI maximalism.
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The point of AI maximalism is that you wanna saturate all domains with AI as much as possible. Basically, think about electricity, like, you we're not we're not saying, oh, electricity needs to be regulated. It needs to be, you know, there's only certain places that you can use it. It shouldn't it should only be used, in in hospitals, but not in libraries or schools. Like, that would be really absurd. And that's really kind of the level of discourse that's happening right now is people like, well, I don't know. AI, maybe we shouldn't use it in government. Maybe we shouldn't use it in schools. Maybe we shouldn't use it in entertainment, which in in the long view of history is gonna seem like a really stupid, like, conversation. And so when you compare it to technologies like, I don't know, computers or electronics or electricity itself, there's basically no limit. So why don't we just cut to the chase and say that AI will eventually be everywhere.
So why don't we just go ahead and make that the official policy?
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AI maximalism. Do you agree with that? Should we allow should we just let AI just be everywhere? Should you as an individual make an effort to, to put AI everywhere in your life, in your business, in in your health? David Shapiro. This guy is interesting, for one reason. He actually his health was able to be, like, saved and almost he he had a bunch of, like, health issues revolving around his his gut, like, his gut biome, his digestion. And for years, he he, he had doctors not able to, like, help him out in a in, like, a real way. But he he he gave, AI I forget who I I forget which AI it was, but he pretty much put all of his health data into the AI, and the AI was able to give him a few probable, outcomes, like a few possible diagnoses.
And some of these diagnoses were things that his doctor did not bring up. He brought them up to his doctor because of the AI, and sure enough, they tested for one of them, and the diagnosis that the AI had was accurate. It was factual. And so when it comes to that, like, his life was literally benefited by this tool by these tools. And that's really interesting. And so he's an AI maximalist. It's a philosophical stance, to be for this to be integrated into every possible domain of human activity without limitation, dude. This is different from from some sort of, safety conversation, because some people wanna say that AI is dangerous and we should focus more on the safety.
You know, what what is safety? We've already been at war. You know what I mean? Like, what do you mean safety? Like, there's already been endless wars. We already have nuclear bombs. So I don't I'm not really into, like, the AI safety simply because humans have already been harming humans, and the last thing I'm gonna do is be afraid of a freaking computer or some sort of software that just seems ridiculous to me. So I am approaching to be an AI maximalist myself. I'm already sort of a Bitcoin maximalist. Even though I'm not that aligned with it, I'm sort of aligned with it. I can acknowledge that Bitcoin is, like, like, the best money, but I'm not, like, obsessed with it being the money for everything.
I sort of go back and forth on that every single week. I like it, and then I don't like it, and then I care about it, then I sort of care about it. But the AI maximalism, I'm using it a lot more. And this could be just a season that I'm just, like, in right now of being obsessed with something, and then I won't be soon. But I think AI maximalism is something to be, more discussed, because I'm using it more personally. I'm using it more to help me make my images. I'm using it more to brainstorm ideas for podcast episodes and for short stories and for just, like, new podcast, because I that's just what I like to do. I I like to think about that.
And so it's one of these things of, do you agree with that general concept, and what are you doing to accomplish that? Do you really agree with that? The next clip I have to share of him is this idea of, like, a cultural movement. Where do you find yourself within the culture of AI, within the discussion and the broad the broad levels of these things. So
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just hear him, describe these things. We're gonna build a cultural movement around AI maximalism. So there's doomerism, which I've been talking about. There's accelerationism, which was the which which was the answer to doomerism. So doomerism said it's dangerous. Shut it all down. Acceleration accelerationism said, no. It's not. Go faster. Right? And so, in terms of other cultural movements, Brian Johnson's don't die movement, I think, dovetails nicely with an AI maximalist movement. Because guess what? One of the things that Brian Johnson has used to form his movement is AI. He's like, if the AI can make better health decisions than I can, I'm gonna do what the AI says. That was literally, like, at the very beginning of his movement before it was called Don't Die because I've been following him for a while. Like, he's popped up on my radar because he's because he was adjacent to the AI space. And so it's like, alright. So we have the Neo Luddites, we have the Doomers, we have the Accelerationists, and and now we have the maximalist, which is AI should just be everywhere. AI should should saturate everything in your life, and not just in your life, but also in all of society.
Not all of it's gonna work, but we need to try. And by by creating that narrative by by just saying, I'm an AI maximalist. That's something you can identify as. Right? Because I never really identified as an accelerationist because, like, you know, they're a little bit culty and the doomers are a little bit culty and the AI safety people are a little bit culty. Everyone's a little bit culty. Right? Brian Johnson is a little bit culty. So, like, I'm just like, heck with it. I'll make my own cult. AI maximalist. There you go. Just make your own cult. Right? That's just that's pretty fun. Right?
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That can be pretty easy. I think those I think that's something interesting to think about because, first of all, I don't wanna be negative about much. You know? I only wanna be I only wanna speak truth to things. And so, if I'm gonna call out something as negative, I want it to be true. I don't think it's true that AI is a negative thing for society, because I can see, real possibilities, for real benefits. I want my mom to use AI more for her business, and for her practice. I want my sisters to use AI to help them figure out ideas for business and and to help them on their health journeys.
I want doctors to use AI to to help, diagnosis. I want I want my bosses to use AI to figure out a better way to schedule people, to give to be more efficient within their company, you know. You know, and AI is affecting business. AI is affecting health in every way, you know. I'm even using AI for my own, for my own health stuff. I spoke about it a few weeks ago using Grok to to to track and help my my fitness numbers and my food. I haven't been that consistent with it in in the last week, just because it's my birthday. I I sort of took a break from from dieting, but, but I'm getting back on that horse. You know, just imagine just instead of paying for some health app, you know, you're that that gives you some arbitrary one size fits all, like, information.
What if you could actually have information tailored to you, tailored to your body, to your numbers, and what you're interested interested in eating, you know. The AI will help you accomplish that. That's what I've seen in my experience. So I think this is a good thing. I think I'm an AI maximalist. I'm gonna do my best to implement AI into most, if not all, aspects, of my life. You know? Not my relationship, or maybe I should put it in my relationships. Hey. I just said this to my girlfriend. What should I say next? Like, maybe I shouldn't do that. But mainly in terms of business and health, that's really where I'm thinking about.
I would like an AI to to help me run a business. I think that'd be cool. I think that would help me be more efficient. And, I think the government should use AI because I think the government should be more efficient as well. I'm I'm totally aligned with Doge. I'm totally aligned with with that entire situation with MAGA and Maha and, you know, everything that's going on over there. So, do I agree with AI maximalism? Yes. Do I care about the safety of things? Yes and no. Like, I I'm not in charge of these things, so I don't really need to care. I just need to care about my own safety. I need to care about my own health, and, like, that that's my responsibility.
And, you know, if you're a normal person like me, like, if you're not in charge of a billion dollar billion like, tens of billions of dollar company, then I don't think you need to be worried if your product or if AI is helping people thrive. You know? You need to worry about if you're thriving. You know? That's a real that's the real truth. So, yeah. But, you know, it's as simple as that. I think I think AI is gonna be as ubiquitous ubiquitous as, electricity. You know? I I I don't see why it wouldn't be. If AI can do so many things right now, imagine what it will be able to do next year.
You know? Don't even think about five years from now. Like, just think about next year. Next year is gonna be nuts. Like, we thought 2023 was crazy. We thought 2024 was crazy. Like, dude, 2025. Like, we're barely a quarter into 2025, and AI just continues to take over. I think this is leading up to the singularity. I think this is leading up to, you know, humans will now this is now this is interesting. Humans will or, like, I guess, a select few of humans will give up their humanness for this technology. And I wanna be clear that that is not what I'm advocating for. I'm definitely on the side of humans.
I'm on the side of of the human spirit, and to help people embody their pure humanness. There's a book I started reading. Let me pull up this photo right here. There's a book called Pure Human that just came out. It's by this guy named Gregg Braden. I really like Gregg. He's a really good author. Where's the screenshot? Do I have the screenshot? Yeah. Right here. So here's if you can see this. Pure Human by Gregg Braden. I'm listening to the audio book. Pretty much, he he's talking about this conversation between transhumanism, which is combining your well, which is combining your humanity.
This is my cat ruining my podcast. Hello, Blue. Greg Braden is talking about giving up your entire humanity and going like, allowing the technology to take over you. And you should not choose that. You should choose your spirit. You should choose your humanity. You should embody yourself deeper into your own spirit and your humanness, which is something I'm absolutely aligned with. And I want to use AI to help me be a more efficient human being. I wanna use AI to help my humanness thrive. I don't wanna give up anything. You know? I only wanna gain.
I only want to gain. I'm a person who thinks a lot about spirit and souls. And, you know, I'm I'm very focused on spirituality right now, just because my current place in life. And I think it's a conversation that needs to go deeper as well, and I'll talk about that more on the podcast. But, as technology thrives and as technology and AI take over, the conversation with spirit, with spirituality will also need to be discussed deeper. Because one thing that I'm using AI for is to talk about these spiritual topics. I think we're past the point of atheists saying that god is dead and god doesn't exist.
I think we're past I think we're all past Sam Harris. And I also think we're all past Jordan Peterson as well. I think we're in a totally different realm that none of these people have been able to discuss things before. Like, Jordan Peterson talks about the the metaphors of the Bible. And Sam Harris wants to talk about the practicalities of meditating every day. And where I'm trying to come from is I wanna be the most I wanna maximize maximalize? I wanna maximize my spirit and my effort with the best tools available. And what I'm seeking is objective truth.
I believe that truth is objective. And I hope that AI, specifically Grok, can can can get there. You know? Like, that's something that Elon has talked about as well, to benefit humanity and to be objectively true, to find truth, to figure out, the secrets of the universe. You know? Grok just the name Grok, that's a reference to the some sci fi book, that means to to understand. Grok means to understand. And so I think I'm always grockin'. I think that's why I I that's why I'm super into grock. So I wanna maximize everything I do as a human with AI. I do not want to replace myself with AI.
That's something that is unhealthy. And so where do you find yourself in that in that conversation? Do you wanna replace yourself with AI? Do you think that it's necessary for humans to to transition fully with technology? Or do you think it's something to be avoided and only something to be used as a tool to help yourself thrive? Because I'm going to grok with, like, bible questions, spirit questions. I'm going to grok, about just just giving it my experience, giving it my perspective, sharing what books I'm reading, and trying to, like, combine different things. You know, I'm trying to I'm trying to use the AI how I think or how at least I want to think.
And the AI is able to get there a bit faster. And so it's all speeding up. I think everything is speeding up. And, you know, we've had real time, communication. We've had, like, instant communication for decades now. We've had instant new cycles for a while now. It's getting to a point where we're gonna get instant verification on information, and you're gonna have to you're gonna have to be aligned with the consensus consensus. And right now, what I see going on with AI is that there are companies that are trying to go for the land grab on consensus. This goes into the conversation of AI's being woke, you know, like the black George Washington, from the Google AI.
You know, that's a consensus. That's like a version of, of these models creating a certain type of history, you know. And that's a blatant example, you know. It doesn't have to be that blatant that, you know, that incredibly wrong. It could be subtle, you know. The future of these things is the truth will be manipulated in subtle ways, You know? And, what I hope to, to happen is, you know, people will be able to verify information, and that verification will be able to be dispersed instantly. You know, that's the only way that we can get to truth, is if we refine, refine, refine, and verify.
You know, we need to refine and verify to get you the truth. And that needs to happen on a technical level. That needs to happen on a, metaphysical level, on a spiritual level, on a informational level. It just needs to happen everywhere on a business level, you know. This concept of of doing things because, like, if it's not fixed, if it's not broken, don't fix it. You know? Just, like, just just going along with the common path because that's how it's always been. You know, you can't really do that nowadays. You're gonna have to innovate. You're gonna have to think differently. You're gonna have to do things a bit differently than how they have been doing, because of the times. You gotta be nimble. You gotta be vigilant.
And that's what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to stay on top of that. So tell me what tell me what you think of that. Do you have any input on on the spiritual side, of AI? Do you have any input on Elon and, like, how to like, is he actually helping humanity? Am I wrong on that? And do you think, this whole thing will just fall apart, dude? Please let me know. But that's all the value I got you on. We're gonna head on into the value for value section. America Plus is a value for value show. What that means is I come forward, I'm on this feed, and I try to bring about interesting conversations that I think are helpful for humanity.
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Say it one, two, a one, two, three. It's going down where the sun goes down. Oh. It's going down at the edge of town. Oh. It's going down where the sun goes down.
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Are you an AI maximalist? What's up everyone? It's America Plus. I'm your host, Cole McCormick. It's another week. Another episode. What's going on, everybody? It's Sunday at March thirtieth, '4 '40 '8 in the PM. What's going on, y'all? Happy to be here. Happy to see you. It's a beautiful day to be alive, y'all. It's wonderful to see you. We are here again streaming live on YouTube, but we're on x. We're live in all the podcast apps. We're just having a hell of a good time, y'all. I'm really enjoying the livestream. It's been a good time. And so we're just we're doing this every week, every Sunday, usually, like, the later afternoons, earlier evenings. So if you can if you can get here, if if you're online anytime in that time, I would love to love to see you every Sunday.
This episode okay. We need to talk about, like, the biggest headlines. Right? The biggest headline. And I wanted to focus on AI. Okay? So clearly, the the biggest headline in AI is Elon bought his own company. Like, what, dude? So XAI made this huge announcement about, so Elon put up this massive tweet of, like, XAI has acquired x in an all stock transaction. The combination values xAI at 80,000,000,000 and x at 33,000,000,000. Oh my god. Oh my god. Yes. Yay. Oh my god. Yay. It's so exciting. So people are sort of hyped about that, but sort of not hyped about that. Elon goes on to say that since its founding two years ago, XAI has rapidly become one of the leading AI labs in the world, building models and data centers at unprecedented speed at scale.
Well, that's how Elon laughs. X is the digital town square where more than 600,000,000 active users go to, find real time, source of ground truth, and in the last two years, has been transformed into one of the most efficient companies in the world, positioning it to deliver scalable future growth. XAI and X's futures are intertwined. Today, we officially take the step to combine the data, models, compute, distribution, and talent. This combination will unlock immense potential by blending XAI's advanced AI capability and expertise, X's massive reach.
The combined company will deliver smarter, more meaningful experiences to deliver of people while staying true to our core mission of seeking truth and add and advancing knowledge. This will allow us to build a platform that doesn't just reflect the world, but actively accelerates human progress. Incredible, Elon. So what a what a round of applause for you're plugging in somebody, who had the best tweet, down here? Somebody had the best tweet. I saw it. Oh, yeah. Right here. Autism capital. The you you plugged in you plugged in the power stick to the power stick. So I round of applause, y'all.
Round of applause for Elon doing the impossible. Elon Elon really did that shit, y'all. He really did that. XAI buying x is, it's interesting. I thought it was already a thing as well. I thought it was already happening. Wasn't the entire situation of Elon buying Twitter, already a discussion about, him training us, him training the XAI, from Twitter. That's already been a discussion. So I thought they were already sort of commingling to a certain degree, but I guess, I guess some things changed. But, you know, the interesting thing about this is, I think Elon's, like, one of, like, the strongest guys. He's, like, one of the strongest entrepreneurs, you know, if I could, like, suck his dick for a second. Elon is pretty good at everything that he does.
And, him doing this is definitely I mean, I think Grok is better than Meta's AI. Like, no one's using the AI in Instagram. A lot of people are enjoying OpenAI, but the only people who are enjoying OpenAI, is is the people actually, like, paying for it. And so when it comes to that aspect, it's like, how many of these AI products are being enjoyed by the normal consumer, at an affordable price? Okay? And, this gets into a question of what are you paying for, and what are these AIs actually actually doing? And Elon is making the really interesting move of centralizing the entire situation.
Google is trying to put AI in all of their in all of their products, specifically YouTube. You know? Because x and Twitter is, like, is a social media, The the companies that are trying to use the social media alongside AI, that is a clear, that that's a clear benefit. You know? That's a clear like, if I was if I was in charge of the business, I would want to train my AI on my social media that I own. But Instagram's not doing that. Facebook's not doing that. Google cannot do that with YouTube, as if, like, YouTube is a social media or something. I think x is the one true social media that can give an AI any valuable data, so that that can be trained on. And so I think this is a really interesting move. First of all, I think it's it's the most autistic move as well. Like, you bought your own company. Your the company that you own bought your own company. That's pretty it's pretty autistic, dude.
But I respect it. I respect the autists, and so I'm I'm just gonna let it be. I'm not one to to poo poo AI. I'm not one to to think that this is, like, no good or it's, like, not working at all. You know, some people like Adam Curry, inventor of podcasting, He thinks AI is, like, it's no good. It's just not working. I don't think that Adam Curry hates AI, but people like Adam Curry are definitely just they're calling out the hype cycle, and they think the hype cycle is gonna, you know, just go down. You know, the entire hype bubble will pop soon. I don't think this is that kind of a situation because when it comes to AI, you're sort of compressing all data.
And you're compressing that data into, specific out, what's it called, outputs. And that output is the product, you know. So Midjourney I use Midjourney to to create all the episode images for my podcast, and that's taking all the information, all the image information, and compressing it into their own model. And, the reason I like Midjourney is because of that type of output, the way that they use that compressed date, data. I'm not interested in using Meta's AI because, you know, I don't trust it. I don't like it. I've used it a little bit here and there. It doesn't seem smooth. It doesn't seem clean. It doesn't seem up to date.
The same thing with OpenAI. You know? I've only used ChatChippity, like, a handful of times, like, when it first came out. I used it to to make a short story one time, like, in the very early days when like, literally in the first, like, few months of it being out. I I wrote a short story. But the the information is only up to date to, like, a certain point, and what I think needs to happen is, like, these things need to be real time. These these things need to be, like, up to date to the hour, to the minute, dude. And, x is the only situation where that can actually happen.
So I think Elon's smart by doing this. I think he's a little autistic doing it, but I think this is the right move, ultimately. I, I think it's gonna work. There's a potential risk. The potential risk is that all AI just, like, just, like, falls apart, dude. The what's, like, the ratio? What's the probability on that? The over under on AI falling apart? I'm gonna take the under on. I I don't think it's gonna fall apart. I think AI is here to stay. I don't think the AI bubble is gonna pop. You know, if there is a bubble like, they always talk about bubbles in terms of, like, the financial stocks, and, like, people stop getting super hot on it. And everyone likes to point to the .com bubble.
But the reality of the .com bubble is that the Internet just continued, and the Internet became what it is and and, you know, what we all know it to be now. And so if there is some sort of financial bubble popping, I don't think that's gonna be the end of AI. You know, I think it'll just it's just gonna be, like, the marketplace deciding which AIs are the real valuable ones, you know? In the dot com crisis, people chose Google to be valuable. People chose Microsoft to be valuable within the computers. You know, people you know, you you can just go back to that history.
And we're moving through this history right now. The AI is interesting because the amount of things that we can compress is almost limitless. You know, I think about Elon's, like, other companies. Right? Elon, he has a rocking company. He has that Neuralink. Isn't it possible that you can take a Neuralink and with all the data the Neuralink is taking in, you can give it to the AI, and that can somehow improve itself, that can somehow help the person, who is using the Neuralink. You know, I'm not I'm not a neurologist. I'm not one of these scientists working with these companies, but I'm just imagining a a scenario where the compression of of data where then you're seeking a specific output can be beneficial for all companies in all industries.
I don't know why it wouldn't be. Like, we're already seeing AI being used in Hollywood. We're already seeing it like, the the company Lionsgate, that's that's the company that owns Hunger Games and John Wick. They made a specific deal with, with who, with Runway. Runway's making line a a Lionsgate specific AI model so that it can be trained on John Wick images and trained on Hunger Games stuff. And so that when they go and make another movie, their post production will be more efficient, and and it'll be easier to, to execute.
And I think that's smart. Okay? And we're already seeing that right now today. And that leads me to think that, you know, it's not that impossible. You know? There's a lot of other things that that Elon has done that seemed more impossible. So when it comes to AI like, making AI work, I think AI will work because just because of Elon's track record. Elon's already made a the the most successful electric car company. Elon's already made a freaking brain chip that is helping paraplegics live their life better. Elon saved two astronauts from space.
Elon what else has Elon done? I'm not sure if I agree with this one point, but Elon saved free speech. I sort of agree with that. I but but I sort of don't. But regardless, that was a massive thing. That was a massive, like, culture shift when Elon bought Twitter. And so there were things that everyone has said that was impossible for Elon to do. And when it comes to the AI realm, it seems pretty clear that Elon will be able to make AI work. And if we're to take Elon for his word, Elon has been one of, if not the only billionaire and mega entrepreneur who makes an active effort to talk about the betterment of humanity.
You know? Whenever Jeff Bezos talks about Amazon, he just talks about, like, efficiency. He talks about convenience. He talks about, you know, just the game of building a company. But when Elon talks about building companies and and doing these things, he he seems to have a real effort, a real revereness to the human race. And so, you know, if I were to believe him, you know, do I wanna believe that he loves humans? Yes. I do wanna believe that. I think there are billionaires and tech people who do not like humanity, who do not care about these things. And there are absolutely people in the tech industry who wanna use AI to replace humans.
This is something that is incredibly true. You know, I'm not I'm I'm not trying to go down conspiracy lane right now, but it is clear to me that there are dark entities who wanna use AI for for the worse. You know, for the worst scenario possible. And they wanna use AI to control you. They wanna use AI to manipulate you and to scare you. And I think Elon doesn't wanna scare you. I think Elon wants to wants to give tools to people, to help themselves. You know? This is my opinion, and that's my hope at least. You know? I could be wrong. I totally could be wrong, but, I don't think I am. You know? It's just it's it's as simple as that.
So AI working is, I think it's on par of the course to to get going. And I have a couple of clips to share. So along with this discussion of, of will AI work, like, is it probable, is it useful at all? There's this YouTuber that I've been following named David Shapiro that I wanna share right now. David Shapiro, he's been he mainly talks about about AI, like, broad spectrum, like, big picture. David Shapiro is one of these, like, deep thinkers. I like him, personally. And I got two clips to share. And the first clip that I wanna share is about what he calls AI maximalism.
Okay? And so just hear him talk about what is AI maximalism.
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The point of AI maximalism is that you wanna saturate all domains with AI as much as possible. Basically, think about electricity, like, you we're not we're not saying, oh, electricity needs to be regulated. It needs to be, you know, there's only certain places that you can use it. It shouldn't it should only be used, in in hospitals, but not in libraries or schools. Like, that would be really absurd. And that's really kind of the level of discourse that's happening right now is people like, well, I don't know. AI, maybe we shouldn't use it in government. Maybe we shouldn't use it in schools. Maybe we shouldn't use it in entertainment, which in in the long view of history is gonna seem like a really stupid, like, conversation. And so when you compare it to technologies like, I don't know, computers or electronics or electricity itself, there's basically no limit. So why don't we just cut to the chase and say that AI will eventually be everywhere.
So why don't we just go ahead and make that the official policy?
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AI maximalism. Do you agree with that? Should we allow should we just let AI just be everywhere? Should you as an individual make an effort to, to put AI everywhere in your life, in your business, in in your health? David Shapiro. This guy is interesting, for one reason. He actually his health was able to be, like, saved and almost he he had a bunch of, like, health issues revolving around his his gut, like, his gut biome, his digestion. And for years, he he, he had doctors not able to, like, help him out in a in, like, a real way. But he he he gave, AI I forget who I I forget which AI it was, but he pretty much put all of his health data into the AI, and the AI was able to give him a few probable, outcomes, like a few possible diagnoses.
And some of these diagnoses were things that his doctor did not bring up. He brought them up to his doctor because of the AI, and sure enough, they tested for one of them, and the diagnosis that the AI had was accurate. It was factual. And so when it comes to that, like, his life was literally benefited by this tool by these tools. And that's really interesting. And so he's an AI maximalist. It's a philosophical stance, to be for this to be integrated into every possible domain of human activity without limitation, dude. This is different from from some sort of, safety conversation, because some people wanna say that AI is dangerous and we should focus more on the safety.
You know, what what is safety? We've already been at war. You know what I mean? Like, what do you mean safety? Like, there's already been endless wars. We already have nuclear bombs. So I don't I'm not really into, like, the AI safety simply because humans have already been harming humans, and the last thing I'm gonna do is be afraid of a freaking computer or some sort of software that just seems ridiculous to me. So I am approaching to be an AI maximalist myself. I'm already sort of a Bitcoin maximalist. Even though I'm not that aligned with it, I'm sort of aligned with it. I can acknowledge that Bitcoin is, like, like, the best money, but I'm not, like, obsessed with it being the money for everything.
I sort of go back and forth on that every single week. I like it, and then I don't like it, and then I care about it, then I sort of care about it. But the AI maximalism, I'm using it a lot more. And this could be just a season that I'm just, like, in right now of being obsessed with something, and then I won't be soon. But I think AI maximalism is something to be, more discussed, because I'm using it more personally. I'm using it more to help me make my images. I'm using it more to brainstorm ideas for podcast episodes and for short stories and for just, like, new podcast, because I that's just what I like to do. I I like to think about that.
And so it's one of these things of, do you agree with that general concept, and what are you doing to accomplish that? Do you really agree with that? The next clip I have to share of him is this idea of, like, a cultural movement. Where do you find yourself within the culture of AI, within the discussion and the broad the broad levels of these things. So
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just hear him, describe these things. We're gonna build a cultural movement around AI maximalism. So there's doomerism, which I've been talking about. There's accelerationism, which was the which which was the answer to doomerism. So doomerism said it's dangerous. Shut it all down. Acceleration accelerationism said, no. It's not. Go faster. Right? And so, in terms of other cultural movements, Brian Johnson's don't die movement, I think, dovetails nicely with an AI maximalist movement. Because guess what? One of the things that Brian Johnson has used to form his movement is AI. He's like, if the AI can make better health decisions than I can, I'm gonna do what the AI says. That was literally, like, at the very beginning of his movement before it was called Don't Die because I've been following him for a while. Like, he's popped up on my radar because he's because he was adjacent to the AI space. And so it's like, alright. So we have the Neo Luddites, we have the Doomers, we have the Accelerationists, and and now we have the maximalist, which is AI should just be everywhere. AI should should saturate everything in your life, and not just in your life, but also in all of society.
Not all of it's gonna work, but we need to try. And by by creating that narrative by by just saying, I'm an AI maximalist. That's something you can identify as. Right? Because I never really identified as an accelerationist because, like, you know, they're a little bit culty and the doomers are a little bit culty and the AI safety people are a little bit culty. Everyone's a little bit culty. Right? Brian Johnson is a little bit culty. So, like, I'm just like, heck with it. I'll make my own cult. AI maximalist. There you go. Just make your own cult. Right? That's just that's pretty fun. Right?
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That can be pretty easy. I think those I think that's something interesting to think about because, first of all, I don't wanna be negative about much. You know? I only wanna be I only wanna speak truth to things. And so, if I'm gonna call out something as negative, I want it to be true. I don't think it's true that AI is a negative thing for society, because I can see, real possibilities, for real benefits. I want my mom to use AI more for her business, and for her practice. I want my sisters to use AI to help them figure out ideas for business and and to help them on their health journeys.
I want doctors to use AI to to help, diagnosis. I want I want my bosses to use AI to figure out a better way to schedule people, to give to be more efficient within their company, you know. You know, and AI is affecting business. AI is affecting health in every way, you know. I'm even using AI for my own, for my own health stuff. I spoke about it a few weeks ago using Grok to to to track and help my my fitness numbers and my food. I haven't been that consistent with it in in the last week, just because it's my birthday. I I sort of took a break from from dieting, but, but I'm getting back on that horse. You know, just imagine just instead of paying for some health app, you know, you're that that gives you some arbitrary one size fits all, like, information.
What if you could actually have information tailored to you, tailored to your body, to your numbers, and what you're interested interested in eating, you know. The AI will help you accomplish that. That's what I've seen in my experience. So I think this is a good thing. I think I'm an AI maximalist. I'm gonna do my best to implement AI into most, if not all, aspects, of my life. You know? Not my relationship, or maybe I should put it in my relationships. Hey. I just said this to my girlfriend. What should I say next? Like, maybe I shouldn't do that. But mainly in terms of business and health, that's really where I'm thinking about.
I would like an AI to to help me run a business. I think that'd be cool. I think that would help me be more efficient. And, I think the government should use AI because I think the government should be more efficient as well. I'm I'm totally aligned with Doge. I'm totally aligned with with that entire situation with MAGA and Maha and, you know, everything that's going on over there. So, do I agree with AI maximalism? Yes. Do I care about the safety of things? Yes and no. Like, I I'm not in charge of these things, so I don't really need to care. I just need to care about my own safety. I need to care about my own health, and, like, that that's my responsibility.
And, you know, if you're a normal person like me, like, if you're not in charge of a billion dollar billion like, tens of billions of dollar company, then I don't think you need to be worried if your product or if AI is helping people thrive. You know? You need to worry about if you're thriving. You know? That's a real that's the real truth. So, yeah. But, you know, it's as simple as that. I think I think AI is gonna be as ubiquitous ubiquitous as, electricity. You know? I I I don't see why it wouldn't be. If AI can do so many things right now, imagine what it will be able to do next year.
You know? Don't even think about five years from now. Like, just think about next year. Next year is gonna be nuts. Like, we thought 2023 was crazy. We thought 2024 was crazy. Like, dude, 2025. Like, we're barely a quarter into 2025, and AI just continues to take over. I think this is leading up to the singularity. I think this is leading up to, you know, humans will now this is now this is interesting. Humans will or, like, I guess, a select few of humans will give up their humanness for this technology. And I wanna be clear that that is not what I'm advocating for. I'm definitely on the side of humans.
I'm on the side of of the human spirit, and to help people embody their pure humanness. There's a book I started reading. Let me pull up this photo right here. There's a book called Pure Human that just came out. It's by this guy named Gregg Braden. I really like Gregg. He's a really good author. Where's the screenshot? Do I have the screenshot? Yeah. Right here. So here's if you can see this. Pure Human by Gregg Braden. I'm listening to the audio book. Pretty much, he he's talking about this conversation between transhumanism, which is combining your well, which is combining your humanity.
This is my cat ruining my podcast. Hello, Blue. Greg Braden is talking about giving up your entire humanity and going like, allowing the technology to take over you. And you should not choose that. You should choose your spirit. You should choose your humanity. You should embody yourself deeper into your own spirit and your humanness, which is something I'm absolutely aligned with. And I want to use AI to help me be a more efficient human being. I wanna use AI to help my humanness thrive. I don't wanna give up anything. You know? I only wanna gain.
I only want to gain. I'm a person who thinks a lot about spirit and souls. And, you know, I'm I'm very focused on spirituality right now, just because my current place in life. And I think it's a conversation that needs to go deeper as well, and I'll talk about that more on the podcast. But, as technology thrives and as technology and AI take over, the conversation with spirit, with spirituality will also need to be discussed deeper. Because one thing that I'm using AI for is to talk about these spiritual topics. I think we're past the point of atheists saying that god is dead and god doesn't exist.
I think we're past I think we're all past Sam Harris. And I also think we're all past Jordan Peterson as well. I think we're in a totally different realm that none of these people have been able to discuss things before. Like, Jordan Peterson talks about the the metaphors of the Bible. And Sam Harris wants to talk about the practicalities of meditating every day. And where I'm trying to come from is I wanna be the most I wanna maximize maximalize? I wanna maximize my spirit and my effort with the best tools available. And what I'm seeking is objective truth.
I believe that truth is objective. And I hope that AI, specifically Grok, can can can get there. You know? Like, that's something that Elon has talked about as well, to benefit humanity and to be objectively true, to find truth, to figure out, the secrets of the universe. You know? Grok just the name Grok, that's a reference to the some sci fi book, that means to to understand. Grok means to understand. And so I think I'm always grockin'. I think that's why I I that's why I'm super into grock. So I wanna maximize everything I do as a human with AI. I do not want to replace myself with AI.
That's something that is unhealthy. And so where do you find yourself in that in that conversation? Do you wanna replace yourself with AI? Do you think that it's necessary for humans to to transition fully with technology? Or do you think it's something to be avoided and only something to be used as a tool to help yourself thrive? Because I'm going to grok with, like, bible questions, spirit questions. I'm going to grok, about just just giving it my experience, giving it my perspective, sharing what books I'm reading, and trying to, like, combine different things. You know, I'm trying to I'm trying to use the AI how I think or how at least I want to think.
And the AI is able to get there a bit faster. And so it's all speeding up. I think everything is speeding up. And, you know, we've had real time, communication. We've had, like, instant communication for decades now. We've had instant new cycles for a while now. It's getting to a point where we're gonna get instant verification on information, and you're gonna have to you're gonna have to be aligned with the consensus consensus. And right now, what I see going on with AI is that there are companies that are trying to go for the land grab on consensus. This goes into the conversation of AI's being woke, you know, like the black George Washington, from the Google AI.
You know, that's a consensus. That's like a version of, of these models creating a certain type of history, you know. And that's a blatant example, you know. It doesn't have to be that blatant that, you know, that incredibly wrong. It could be subtle, you know. The future of these things is the truth will be manipulated in subtle ways, You know? And, what I hope to, to happen is, you know, people will be able to verify information, and that verification will be able to be dispersed instantly. You know, that's the only way that we can get to truth, is if we refine, refine, refine, and verify.
You know, we need to refine and verify to get you the truth. And that needs to happen on a technical level. That needs to happen on a, metaphysical level, on a spiritual level, on a informational level. It just needs to happen everywhere on a business level, you know. This concept of of doing things because, like, if it's not fixed, if it's not broken, don't fix it. You know? Just, like, just just going along with the common path because that's how it's always been. You know, you can't really do that nowadays. You're gonna have to innovate. You're gonna have to think differently. You're gonna have to do things a bit differently than how they have been doing, because of the times. You gotta be nimble. You gotta be vigilant.
And that's what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to stay on top of that. So tell me what tell me what you think of that. Do you have any input on on the spiritual side, of AI? Do you have any input on Elon and, like, how to like, is he actually helping humanity? Am I wrong on that? And do you think, this whole thing will just fall apart, dude? Please let me know. But that's all the value I got you on. We're gonna head on into the value for value section. America Plus is a value for value show. What that means is I come forward, I'm on this feed, and I try to bring about interesting conversations that I think are helpful for humanity.
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Say it one, two, a one, two, three. It's going down where the sun goes down. Oh. It's going down at the edge of town. Oh. It's going down where the sun goes down.
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Introduction and Greetings
Elon Musk's Bold Move: XAI Acquires X
The AI Landscape: Competitors and Innovations
AI Maximalism: A New Cultural Movement
AI and Spirituality: Balancing Technology and Humanity
Value for Value: Engaging with America Plus
