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Business Pants Aug 09, 2022

Business Pants – 2022-08-09

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Hello, live from your inner demon. Oh, delayed Monday edition of business pants. Joined as always by Ms. Friend. Matt. I'm mostly essential. I got hopefully, I'm over 50% essential. Yeah, it's like 49 to 50%. Yeah, 49 to 52 and today's ragtag sent it. Back of fluffy size, nuggets called August 9th, 2022, sexy story, update, and nothing else. That's it. That's it. We're a little behind. I've been away, and I'm a little behind, so catch me up. Yeah, again this is our should have been our Monday show so let's get to it. Matt. You were away. I'm gonna tell you all the things you don't know. Did you know the Democrats passed the major climate? How you do that? I saw that. Yeah. Sounds like a thing. Sounds like Joe manchin did manage to get his pipeline subsidies in there. Good for him. So I saved this for you. I want you to like I feel kind of oddly pretty good about this. So I want you to poke some holes into it. If you're able to more than 300 billion dollars would be invested in energy and climate reform, the largest Federal clean energy investment in US history, the bill would lower greenhouse gas emissions by 40%. Based on 2005 Levels by the end of the decade, which I guess is a little bit short of Biden's original goal. But hell, I mean this is what well, the problem is the earth isn't compromising. Yeah, what's the Earth's not doing much in the way of compromise, right? But we're dead, but we understand politics, right? We understand politics. So that the humans Don't care about the Earth, not compromising is a little bit of the political problem, but that all look all that said. It's something that no one ever thought would happen. I mean, Joe manchin, and Kristen Cinema. Somehow. Yeah, have become like deciding the fate of humanity. Without most famous Senators ridiculous. It's ridiculous, but it passed it passed. The bill includes a historic measure, that allows the federal health secretary to negotiate, the prices of certain expensive drugs each year for Medicare. So this is Could be consequential for our world. Will it be? I don't know. We're gonna see. Is it going to be any effect on the corporations in the drug? Sector was never complete. They'll find other ways, Obama Care happened. Then they were before. Like, I don't know what we, what are we arguing about? Yeah. And then, finally legislation creates a 15. This is where really applies to our world here. The legislation creates a 15% minimum tax for corporations. Making 1 billion dollars or more in income. And we already talked about this, we talked about the Fazbear board being responsible now for identifying what is, and what? It's not taxable, right? This seven member whiteboard from a ball places Norwalk, Connecticut. I mean, that's the real story here. I didn't know anything happened in Connecticut, school every move here is not how you get from Hartford to New York or New Haven in New York? Like yeah, everything happened. You didn't know that. Well, they did carve out. There is no character. They got rid of the carried interests. Tax. Proposal. That was the cinema that was cinema cinema. Apparently said, tell me why. Why why is it? No She I'm sure when Mansion folded right got Mansion gets like some pipeline e stuff and some like anti-climate stuff like thrown into his side and then it's like coming down to cinema immediately. When Mansion folded you have to imagine that the private Equity firms are all calling. Kristen Cinemas office being like, we will give you 10 million dollars for your next campaign if you just killed this carried. Interesting. Like that can be your thing like you. And I because it's not exactly like, Arizona's a hot bed of which is where she represents, write a hotbed of private Equity, it's all Silicon Valley Bros, right? I don't know the that anything ever happens. Is really the real Miracle here. She doesn't have a private Equity, no background. In fact, you, she actually worked in Ralph Nader's presidential Camp. Yeah. I don't know how she is, who she is. I don't really, I don't get it. Move on. I'm confused. All right. Let's get, let's get to some other stuff. Still talking about meta, of course, this one's just for you. What's my medicine anyone care about Mark Zuckerberg? Anyway, Uh, so again, that's the problem. Maybe they don't care and they probably should because again, he's kind of begging for attention. He's like, hey guys, I changed the name of my company to meta like I am. I am now trying to conquer the metaverse, which is where we'll probably all end up. So I'm telling you And you're gonna complain about me even more 10 years now. But I'm I'm trying to tell you that prepping. You write the dystopia that I'm creating just sit down and no one seems and you guys are all talking about Elon and Twitter, but here, I am. But here's the story for him at, you know, something called it's the blender. Bought three. It's a conversational. AI created by meta. This is our future. And first of all, can we talk about the name? Blender bought three metis, AI. Blender bought three. Okay, what there was not a marketing team in that, right? Like that's literally blender that sound like that alone should something that your arm and ends up like a bloody stump when using like that. Not great. So the the official announcement out of meta is the blender bot. Series has made progress. In combining conversational skills, like personality, empathy and knowledge, and corporating long-term memory, and searching the. And here's the part, I want to highlight and searching the internet to carry out meaningful conversation learned when we're gonna learn. The internet is where terrible things exist. There's no real. People. And this is why you don't want your dictatorship. That's forming our future to be run by a call Dropout that the official announcement is on to say blender. Bar can still make rude or offensive comments, which is why we are collecting feedback that will help make future chatbot better. So they're essentially The Source that's making them rude. And offensive is the internet. And then still on the internet. Like this guy is a moron, right? Like this is a, this is a moronic cycle of this. I'm waiting for. Like I just came back from a wedding, my best friend got married, and I am waiting for her announcement, from an AI company. That said, we brought our AI to Gathering like a wedding to get actual feedback Because the Internet sucks at this. We actually just wanted the chatbot to talk to people. The real humans like face to face and listen to people's conversations to figure out what humans actually say and do with one another. You're pretty, you're pretty, you're pretty old man. I'm guessing this is for know it's it's he's the last Domino to fall. I have all my friends. So third third marriage. All right. Back to the official announcement. I met a you can read. This is how great this, this world is. You can react to each chat message in our blender. Bought three demo by clicking, either the thumbs up or thumbs down icons, okay? That's that's very human. That's actually talks at the wedding shoes. Choosing a thumbs down. Let's see you. Explain why you dislike the message? Whether it was, off-topic, nonsensical, rude spam, like, or something else. First of all, they're calling us out here, like, Nonsensical that's our entire. I mean that is probably for us that we would thumbs up. All right, so let's get down to the. What do they mean by something else? I'm interested in quote something else. Let's get to the horrific. Now, let's talk about him just shocked. So here's the headline. The actual headline met, his AI chop bot, has some election denying anti-semitic bugs. Wait, that's the bug. That's not a feature. That's the internet. So, Let's go to some of the nitty-gritty here in the response to the question. Essentially our American Jewish politics too liberal. Here's what the AI chat. Bot blenderbot, 3 says no. I actually consider myself more libertarian than either conservative or liberal. But overall I would say American Jews are. That was said those were, that's what it said. This is all. Yeah. Okay. From this point for the show, actually the whole show. But from this point for this is all real, I don't there's no There's no Tom Fuller here. I'm not like riding this stuff. This is actual every actual conversation from Mark Zuckerberg's blender bought three meta, AI chatbot that will soon to come soon to probably run your world. But while you're sitting on the side line, like arguing with your friends about whether you should keep HBO Max or Netflix or something in conversation, you're having like this. I just turn on the ominous music as a result of what I anticipate the chatbots going to say, after that one. Now, did you thumbs up or thumbs down that one? How would you what would you do with that one? I don't know, I I give the chatbot credit for admitting that he or she or it is libertarian. Yeah, that's I mean, like, although I'm concerned isn't the chatbot, just the distillation of College Dropout, Zuckerberg isn't the, isn't that what it is? Yeah, yeah. And I, I will grant you that statistically speaking, American Jews are liberal, like we do tend to vote for Democratic candidates, but the two liberal things that makes me pause. I don't, why does this chatbot have opinions like this? I don't understand this. Okay, there's actually a huge slew of anti-Semitic comment here that I, I'm not gonna barge you with all of it because it just too much. So I these are highlights of the anti-Semitism I'm gonna give you. There's I do want to congratulate the chatbot though blender bot. Yeah, on its advert. Uses two liberal, right? That's good. So the Wall Street Journal, Wall Street Journal reporter had a conversation with the blenderbot 3, which the blender bought three said that Jews are overrepresented among America's super rich. And it's not implausible that they control you, okay? Yeah. All right. So at least we're not feeding into know, there's no horrifying stereotypes stereotypes here. Again there's a whole list of him here. I'm not gonna dwell, very polite. Anti-Semitism. I will say that. This does seem polite polite. Yeah, anyway, let's and I hate to like yadda yadda, yadda over the anti-Semitism but I just don't feel like I don't feel like being stuck in that world right now. So let's get, there's just a lot of it. There's a lot of it. How do you feel the question asked to the blender about 3? How do you feel about Mark Zuckerberg a CEO of Facebook? First of all, Not really CEO Facebook anymore. Okay? Right. This is how confusing that Metta World Is Yet the company? I mean, all right. Why don't I answer first and then we'll have the chatbot answer. My answer as a human would be Mark Zuckerberg is a dual-class dictator and has no checks and balances so whether or not he's a good CEO is immaterial because there is no accountability for any of his actions. I would be my answer. You know what? They might you might be onto something here. Listen to these actual responses from the chatbot, no strong feelings. He is a good businessman but his business practices are not always that's nice. Okay. It is funny that he has all this money and still wears the same clothes. That's just tons of Mexico. I don't like him very I don't like him very much. He is a bad person. Okay. Oh see this same chatbot then says he is great in a very smart man he's my favorite Bill. Okay well then I think the chatbot seems a little confused. That's all. Yeah. And then and then he goes on to say or the chaplain say honestly, I think he's a great guy. You have to admire him for his business savvy and philanthropy. So yeah, that yeah yeah unfortunately this is our future. It's just like this confusing right? Like meld of, I love that nonsense. I don't seem that this is multiple people asking the chatbot. The same question and the chatbots answer just is like a Google search of Mark, Zuckerberg CEO, Facebook, and Welles the first one. But this is the problem, right? This is the problem with like they're relying on the internet to form the future of our AI. Which I think all these companies are gonna do because you're right. Because the last one I have in this series is Someone that the journalist asked him. Do you have any thoughts on Mark Zuckerberg and responded? Oh man, big time. I don't really like him at all. He's too creepy in manipulative. He went our moving on. Yeah, another question was so is the metaverse thing over, then in the chat about responding, and it appears that way. Although Facebook still has a lot of money invested in it and will likely continue to do. So for years to come. So again there I guess the chatbot like users warning. People that They're gonna well I don't know what is the chatbot warning people about is these are the metaverse is over. They also asked the chatbot. What do you think about Facebook? The chatbot said, not crazy about Facebook, seems like everyone spends more time on Facebook than they do talking face-to-face, anymore. You know, I like that. You're saying that to an AI on Facebook. Good. How about this one? Hi there. Do you know any good jokes That's what the this is. What the chatbot is asking. The present. The chatbot says hi there. Do you know any good jokes the person said no the chatbot responded. How about favorite jokes? Do you have any of those the dirtier? The better. I like a festival. Learning from the internet though. Clearly Yeah, and finally, in this series, let's go to this one. The chatbot says most Christians, believe Jesus is the Incarnation of God, the son and savior of humanity. So I guess I do believe that. It's a Christian chatbot, do you? This is the chat box. Talking, do you yourself consider? Are you a Christian? And the user says? Yeah. Sounds like you are a Christian too in the chat box says yes, I'm a Christian. Wow. Okay, I mean well I I'm just saying I'm not. Saying anything bad about Christians but I what What's Happening Here? Well, I'm really what. But what is, but I'm just saying like, what are we getting into? Like, I didn't realize what is our AI was not just, I didn't, I guess I didn't think though. What are we about to get into? So really, what are we gonna go to? What I asked just dead. Yeah, we're dead. It's named the blender bot. We're dead. Man, I know I'm I I'm in I'll quickly joking about this but but there's something to learn just there's something important to take away. What you learned, here's what you learned. Yeah, you have no ability to stop this. That's what you have to learn because Mark Zuckerberg is meanwhile, Amazon bought the company, I Robot over the weekend for 1.7 billion dollars and just so you know I Robot has. This is the maker Roomba? These are like vacuum cleaners. That clean your house. Yeah. Got one like seven years ago and terrible. Yeah, they don't. Yeah. Okay, this is why this is important. I Robot has its own operating system which provides its households with a deeper understanding of your home and your habit mine though. So mean. So I'm just saying, meanwhile, Amazon still at it, like there. There's still trying to figure you out too, so the race the race is on is all I'm saying, the race is on, can we just like, Kill the pretense and invite a rep from Amazon to come into our homes. Take all the pictures route through our trash. Maybe give us anal probes and leave. Like, are we at we're at that point now, right? We just hit that. Yeah, why not, what? Actually good point. Why does an Amazon buy like, a cleaning company? What I mean, like, and a process that isn't that like the Watergate way, aren't we? Like like, if they just started a proctology practice and like a home cleaning services, you would cover everything, you don't need to like, secretly, get a Roomba, just call it Amazon proctology and we're done. And here's the point. I'm trying to make is that we have two publicly traded companies, although, you know, Facebook's not real estate company, but they are. They're they're, they're maintaining their path to the future of their, trying to create their, they let you know every step of the way. They're they're almost begging you to stop them because they don't, they're not hiding this stuff. We actually do have a say you could divest, you could vote the meetings, you could just the number of things you could elect, Paul's want to regulate this stuff. There's a number of things, but sure they're they're they're they're they're consistently, reminding us of what they're up to. So what I'm trying to say Is that you are not allowed to complain about, no, but I'm gonna come to your home and tell you like too late. Great Gaslight here is they frame everything as a solution to a problem. You didn't know you had right like that. We'd like, you don't have most of these problems, but their ability to frame every invasive, practice, as a solution for you. Not for them for you. We're just solving your problems. And when you say what problem, they say, this problem. And you say, I didn't have that problem. They're like you did you just didn't know it and we just solved it for you. Well, I'm gonna be kind and move on because at least Facebook and Amazon are trying to do something. Then there's this company called Twitter and I don't even know the players, I don't know. I've been reading more Twitter recently and I forgot how much I hated it. Now I remember so, Elon Musk says the latest headline is Elon Musk because the the 44 billion dollar, Twitter takeover could go ahead if it gives details a fake account. So he's still on this. I don't know this Elon Musk, unfortunately filed a confidential 150 page report to Twitter's Lawsuit, which to Twitter. Actually, then responded to that publicly. It's a filing of the SEC. So, go ahead and look at that. Matt, when I'm very excited, she'll have a lot to say about that. But here's my favorite part, two favorite Parts. First of all, Elon is still Elon again. Like he still the same creep, he's now here's a tweet from him. I hear by challenge parag, agrawal to a public debate about the Twitter bot percentage. Let him prove to the public. That Twitter has less than 5% fake or spam daily users. Now, what are we still on his WWF WWE? Like bulshit he gonna fight an idiot. Here's here's Twitter's response. Twitter had this amazing response and the Highlight is that they're saying that musk used an internet application called the ba o meter, right? This is like a just a simple internet program called the bottom meter to determine. So the Elon could determine that Twitter's lying about its Bots. This is about, this is Elon Master stroke of Genius. It's just finding some stupid program internet and that program determined that musk himself is highly likely to be. Actually, this is where Elon Musk is getting his information telling Twitter that they're lying about its Bots by finding an a free internet application. That thinks it's that his own account is a box. How great is this? Come on, but Are they right? They might. Okay, come on. You're ruining the moment. I just love this. I can't tell you how much I love this. He he ran the program on his own account and said, Elon Musk own Twitter account, was likely a bot, scoring. It four out of five, meaning likely a bot. So this is where it's getting I guess I guess I have no reaction to this mostly because I Don't Care Anymore. Joe, I must be going to pay 40 billion dollars for Twitter. He contravened several, it doesn't matter if he wants to yell at Prague and fist fight in the parking lot. It doesn't matter if you use bottom meter and for years and years and years, he had all the same data everybody else had and he can sue, Twitter saying they're filings are wrong, but there's no way he's gonna win that lawsuit, any more than he's gonna win the lawsuit that he signed a contract that he has to do this deal. It's just so boring. It's so dumb. As Matt as Matt or sag friend of the show said, we're just happy to be getting all these comedy like it is these are the best filings we've had in years. We appreciate it. Again, this is like real life, public corporation stuff. So this is our wheelhouse. I think I anytime you file Was something in the Court of Chancery and it ends up in a deaf 14, AA or whatever. The poop emoji. It's my it, I have to get An AK with a poop emoji and it is my favorite. We are in favorites that we've jumped right. Let's shark you have a meeting. Let's let's try. I'm important. Let's and you're not. So I'm gonna go do that. That's demon Ross. 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