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Well, next up, our primary discussion of the day is about the struggle to implement progressive

policies, including identifying the enemies we need to make. So the article,

A Song of Full Self-Driving, Elon isn't Tony Stark, he's Michael Scott. And when I read this,

I thought, that's great. I'd love to talk about that. I wonder in what context I could justify

bringing it up. And so I was

pretty excited to have had the idea of why it makes sense for today's conversation. But for context,

you know, I haven't been, I mean, I was never a Elon Musk sycophant of any sort, even back

when he wasn't obviously evil. I just thought like, yeah, maybe he's doing some

okay things and cool, whatever. But the full self-driving thing, I don't know if I knew that it

went back to at least 2015. So this writer pulls together a series of quotes, December 2015 from

Elon Musk, we're going to end up with complete autonomy, and I think we will have

complete autonomy in approximately two years. January 2016, in two years, someone should work

anywhere connected by land and not blocked by borders, e.g. You're in L.A. and the car is in New York.

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