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Welcome to our December monthly live stream.

Go ahead and start getting questions in the chat window for our moderators now so we can

get right to them, and as usual, please try to keep those pretty clear and legible to give

them an easier time relaying them to me.

Also, as usual, we won't be able to get to every question

today, so if yours doesn't get covered, feel free to post it into the comments on the video

after we're done and I'll swing back by over the next day or so to get those answered.

And in case I forget during the show, let me wish everyone a happy new year.

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to our live stream. We'll get started with questions in just a moment, so go ahead and start putting those in the chat window now. We probably

go a little bit shorter today than normal just because I got a bit of a head cold and I might

start getting a little bit too clogged up to talk.

Going here and start with questions, one of the first ones we had was in the coming war between genetically engineered superhumans and killer artificial intelligences, who would I put my money on?

And the interesting thing about that, because we had it come forward in, like, cyborgs and, you know, genetically

engineer in Superman, there's only so much you can probably do with biology, especially

with keeping to basically human or, you know, earth-based biology versus a machine.

You're probably going to lose that machine.

So cyborgs would generally tend to win.

Although I would note that probably if you're a cyborg, you don't mind getting genetic enhancements too.

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