Thx for another insightful episode! Regarding the distilling of personality, that story reminded me of a German researcher called Sven Gabor Janszky. He‘s been researching how the future could unfold for many years and in one of his books he‘s already got a „grandpa bot“ who‘s basically the personality of the subject‘s father. And the subject uses this bot to talk to his father in the evenings and even allows his daughter, who‘s still somehow traumatized by the loss of her beloved grandfather, to use the bot to soothe her. Interesting but quite weird IMHO! I‘d rather train an AI bot on all my Obsidian files to be faster in retrieving information buried there… https://fountain.fm/episode/bs84OZ6jQcdads6j475o

Thank you sir for another insightful & thought-provoking episode! As to the addictiveness of nicotine, I‘ll dig deeper and let you know. Regarding the FED‘s trajectory on rate changes, there’s an interesting take by Raoul Pal‘s team that the FED‘s looking at the wrong metrics (and yes, we all know they’re all skewed) and might therefore be led to the wrong conclusion: https://info.realvision.com/e3t/Ctc/RG+113/cz03G04/MW1Y1jjXp71W2pG3Sl1QGwZyW2dmkKk5TqxG9N6hnpq63hCZYW8wLKSR6lZ3myW451dTT6mbvnnW6HHYTg1k0kFRW1gRrkq5J6SttW6_F2881t-nswN5DmcHJC6zVTW2lKFcC52kByWVDQ5sl25SHFnW2-2q2M1-pZ7cW4zNMBG2BLkgnW5tbnrV3Vpj_fW3_N5gn6SSm7LW6Y4W8q8zHxhlW8-rG9J8QrDmNW7ybqb23TVK0gW7XGdZ06Bbp1bW5K_d9z6Tff4qW2g_RPx842NK9W6Hg12v2HYlsDW3RKn9F15fnfFN1B0WMX3DmbqW3d8LkH9cpgDlW2jj-k73RtygNW874_-Z8BrD74W17JWZ464WvhkW23S4wH7vRtkGW57hG7n76qMWRN1K3Lqs4XbLnW3BPvg21BMW5Wf3X5Nc204 Looking forward to your further coverage of this topic! By the way, I absolutely support your take that a lot of media coverage today focusses on the negative aspects. Maybe it‘s somehow inherent in the language, because we have these phrases in English like „I‘s true, I‘m afraid“ or similar. Why „afraid“? But that’s a topic for another day on the other side! https://fountain.fm/episode/VC7W9paZ1m0hjbj9fjRC

Thanks for another insightful & informative episode! Good luck with staying dry & ditching vaping! I‘m keeping my fingers crossed 🤞🏻 As for nicotine, it‘s not addictive according to my knowledge — what‘s addictive is the myriad of other components mixed into cigarette tobacco and vaping fluids. Nicotine even helps blocking spike proteins from docking to cells. So your nicotine patches will have a doubly positive effect! I‘m looking forward to meeting your new self on the other side… https://fountain.fm/episode/nohhU6BF8wiC2y4g8zfS

Thanks mate & keep up the good work! https://fountain.fm/episode/4FfmcLqaXPe8hwvCJ8hN