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All right, I'm reading a tweet. They
still call them tweets. Uh from 8:04
a.m. I'm not sure which time zone that
is. I guess my time zone. Uh 21 August.
I want to say 21 August. I'm in America.
August 21st. Uh this is from Elon Musk.
AI is obviously going to oneshot the
human lyic system. I don't know what
that means. I think it means it's gonna
mess it up real bad. Scramble it up. Do
a number on it.
That said, I predict counterintuitively
that it will increase the birth rate.
Mark my words. Also, we're going to
program it that way.
Meaning, you mark my words because I
have insider info because uh Elon Musk
has AI. Twitter has what's called Groc.
All right. At any rate, so let's talk
about this uh tweet and about its
implications
and about the birth rate. I'm not really
sure what it means AI is going to
oneshot the human lyic system. I mean if
he means it to the extent that like we
already know that the internet has
already messed with our lyic system by
preying upon what first of all let's
talk about liyic system. We're just
talking about like the basic functions
of the brain like much more basic than
any type of intellectual thinking. It's
not even not even thinking in words.
It's really just anim animalistic
survival fight orflight type stuff,
which is the way the whole internet
works basically is just like clickbait.
You look at a thumbnail and a title for
a fraction of a second and it has to
either scare you, which is why a lot of
stuff on the internet is just about
fear-mongering, or entice you, you know,
the the allure, the seduction, which is
why a lot of stuff on the internet is
that kind of stuff. U and it's just
praying to that lower nature. So I guess
he's saying AI is going to prey to that.
All right. Um but why is that
oneshotting it? I I don't know because
that's a really destruct to me. That's a
very that's a term with a lot of
destructive
connotations.
Maybe you can fill me in on the in the
comments and explain to me what that
means. But then he says, "But
counterintuitively, it's going to
actually increase the human birth rate."
Um, mark my words. Oh, JFY, we're gonna
program it that way.
So, what that means to me, if you put it
all together, is basically he's saying
that we're gonna prey upon the way human
beings are wired, like the most basic
instinctive wiring. We're going to use
AI to prey on that to get people to make
babies. Okay, so let me tell you my
thoughts on that. First of all, it is a
crisis, absolute crisis. the Gen Z does
not want to get married and have
children.
Someone was asking me uh the other day I
was on a live I think it was on
Instagram and someone said are you
worried about the future of the Jewish
people because of all the anti-semitism
and I said I'm actually not worried
about the Jewish people because our
survival is miraculous so it's like
based on God. Um, but I am worried about
the rest of the world because I'm seeing
a very disturbing trend that Gen Z is
totally checking out from marriage and
families. And, you know, a lot of it is
about just how unaffordable things are,
that we're not going to be able to buy a
house, we're not going to be able to
afford children, so what do I need this
for? Um, but a lot of it is also, and
the two go hand inand
propaganda. and I call it propaganda.
Um, and it's mostly from
I I consider to be cynical people who
are acting in bad faith who may not even
believe their messages, but it's ad
revenue. It's very clickable that
basically they feed messages to young
people to make them feel despondent and
demoralized and disgusted about the
entire prospect of courtship, dating,
marriage, family, uh, raising children.
They basically tell them that, well, in
the old days it worked, but now
everybody's awful and so now there's no
point to try anymore and and that's it.
And I got to tell you something. I'm
very concerned about the future of
society.
That if Gen Z decides that there's no
point in having families,
there's no point in
having
a traditional
family unit as the core of our society.
That leaves such a vacuum, such a void
for negativity to rush in.
The family unit is sacred. It is the
building block of society. If you think
about civilization as an organism, as a
living being, then the family is the
cell is the cellular makeup of society.
And if you don't have families, then
it's like having an organism that
doesn't have cells. In other words, you
could imagine it. In theory, you could
have a society without families, but in
practice, there's no such thing. There's
no such thing. You don't have a society
if you don't have families.
Um,
there's a lot of other frightening
predictions that can be made. If you
start imagining a world where people
don't
bring up their own children,
then you start wondering like I don't
know, you can get really dystopian and
dark like where are children coming
from? Like their farms where the
government will I I I'm not trying to
get into conspiracy theories, but like
really it's not hard to get that dark
when you start thinking like if regular
people aren't having children anymore.
Or you could just imagine, you know, the
world will become a wasteland, just
become an uninhabited wasteland. And uh,
you know, you you can tell me all you
want about no overpopulation is the
crisis. By the way, I Time magazine had
a cover about the population bomb. You
can go Google it. Population bomb that
there's not enough arable land on planet
Earth to sustain the population. That
that I think was when they were coming
up to two billion people. They were
saying mathematically Earth cannot
sustain. there's not enough there's not
enough soil on planet earth to produce
enough calories to sustain this many
people. And then of course um we say
man thinks and God laughs meaning the
best laid plans of mice and men so to
speak. You have all the all the smart
people making all their predictions but
and what happened why didn't the
population bomb by the way? Why wasn't
that devastating? because there were
breakthroughs in uh agriculture. You can
look about uh look up Norman Borlo from
uh Texas A&M who's the main one
who uh innovated the uh the mostly with
wheat and rice which are staple foods.
At any rate, that's not my point. My
point is that there is
plenty of space on earth for more
people.
And if we don't have more people, then
economies collapse.
I mean, ask any economist, you cannot
have a productive economy where more
people are retired than are in the
workforce. And you can play a little bit
of shifting around. you with
immigration, you can move people around
from country to country. That's a Ponzi
scheme. That's a Ponzi scheme. Okay? You
can move people. You can open borders
and move people around from country to
country for only so long, but then at a
certain point,
humanity has to have
population growth. Okay? So, and and I'm
not getting to all the discussion about
immigration and how much of that, you
know, I'm not getting that's not even my
point because I'm not even talking here
from a perspective of how will this
affect different countries. I'm talking
about it from a perspective how will
this affect humanity as a whole, like
literally the human race. Like I said,
moving populations around through
immigration is a Ponzi scheme. If if
people are not procreating and having
babies, eventually that's going to blow
up in your face as well. So, we we need
people to have children. Okay? But
here's what I want to say.
The first commandment in the Torah
is urvu,
be fruitful and multiply.
Pu urvu, be fruitful and multiply. God
told it to Adam and Eve, the first
humans.
God repeated it to Noah and his family
when they got off the ark. It's twice in
Genesis.
God repeated it. There different
explanations why God repeated it. One
reason is because after Noah got off the
ark, he said, you know, uh maybe we're
not supposed to repopulate.
He he knew that the punishment came to
the world because of humanity's
corruption. You know, maybe we're better
off without people. No. Be fruitful and
multiply. Okay? And this commandment was
not given at Mount Si as a specific
commandment to the Jewish people. This
what we're describing here, the incident
of Adam and Eve and then again to Noah
was given to all of humanity, meaning
all of the descendants of Adam and Eve
and Noah. meaning this is something that
God commanded to all of humanity. Now,
I'm not going to get into a whole
theological explanation of the
difference between the 613 commandments
of the Torah which are binding only upon
Jewish people and the obligations of the
Torah which are binding upon all of
humanity. But suffice it to say that
being
involved in procreation
is an obligation is a divinely ordained
obligation
upon every human being. Every descendant
of Adam and Eve, every descendant of
Noah, which means every human.
And there's a reason why it's a command.
There's a reason why it's a command.
Because it's not easy. Our selfish
impulses resist it. We don't want to do
it. We have excuses and reasons why not
to do it. But we are given a
commandment. Step up and do it. And
what's more, have faith in the
commander, the one who commanded you
with the commandment, the almighty, the
infinite one, that he will empower you
to carry it through when you make the
good decision to do his will.
So, two things. One is it's not
necessarily our personal preference, but
your personal preference doesn't really
matter here because it's an obligation.
It's not a right. It's a it's it's an
obligation.
Two, a commandment
which originates from the divine also
brings with it divine empowerment.
Meaning, it's not you doing it alone
with your own limited human power. You
are aided by
Hashem, God Almighty, and his infinite
power. So those are two things to
remember. Not an option. It's an
obligation. You're not doing it alone.
You're doing it with God's power
assisting you. And if God has to make a
miracle so that you'll be able to raise
your family, God will make a miracle so
you're able to raise your family. We
depend on God's on God's miracles all
the time. Hey, you know, it is a miracle
today's day and age to raise a family
and take care of them, provide for them,
keep the family intact, pay the bills,
to remain emotionally regulated so you
don't traumatize your kids. You know,
all that that takes miracles day in day
out, living miracles. And every home
that is raising kids right now is a
place of miracles. God is very active in
this world right now in every home
that's raising kids.
So, you know, the question is, do we
need AI to come and oneshot the human
lyic system to be programmed to? And I'm
assuming what that means is that AI will
have a procreation bias,
a pro uh reproduction
bias, and it'll sort of put that into
everything. So, whatever your interests
are, it'll sort of steer you toward
procreation. Um, which probably won't be
that hard if that's what it's set on
doing because God did hardwire in us a
pretty strong reproduction drive.
Now, human beings in their ingenuity
figured out life hacks where they could
engage in the acts that make babies
without making babies. So, you're going
to have to rehack the hack, so to speak.
In other words, it's not enough to just
make people desire
um the act, the reproductive act. You're
going to actually have to convince them
to desire having babies and then raising
those babies,
um
being there, being present,
working on yourself to be a capable
parent and all that stuff.
Um, unless maybe the plan is that
they're going to make people make a lot
of babies and the AI will Yeah, maybe
that's the dystopian uh conspiracy. The
AI will make you want to make babies,
but it won't give you the drive to raise
them and then some entity will come in
and raise all the babies. Maybe that's
the dystopian conspiracy. I don't know
if it is. I don't know if it isn't. But
what I am telling you is
just some friendly advice. Make your own
babies. Raise your own babies. Not
because an AI told you to do it, but
because God told you to do it.
And when the whole world conspires to
demoralize you and to make you think
that this is not worth it and it's too
hard to do and there's no good women,
there's no good men and I can't afford a
house and all of that. Look, it wouldn't
be effective propaganda if it didn't
have a kernel of truth. But we have to
have faith. You have to believe in God's
commandment and that is ravu be fruitful
and multiply.
That is the future of this world and we
do believe the world was created for a
purpose.
Oh, and by the way, I know I'm talking
about Elon Musk and the AI, whatever,
the Mars thing. I don't know. Mars, I
don't know. Mars, Mars. Maybe he will
come up with the Mars thing. But this
world, this world was created to become
a heaven on earth. People get very
triggered when I say that. This world,
heaven on earth. No, this world is
terrible. You got to die and go to
heaven. Um
God created this world to become a
paradise through human cooperation and
also through divine blessing. It's the
messianic future. The era of utopian
perfection of this world happens here in
the physical plane.
Souls in bodies. And part of that is
building society through building
families by having children. So if you
want to build build a perfect world,
don't say this world is a terrible
place. I can't have children. Say the
world's not perfect yet. I need to have
children.
That's the Torah approach to this. And I
want to emphasize and make super clear,
super clear. I'm not just speaking to
Jews right now. I'm speaking to all
human beings that it is a commandment
from God that all human beings
procreate.
I want I mean I want doesn't matter what
I want.
I am
here as a hopefully faithful messenger
of the Torah's message to say all human
beings should have families and
procreate and have children and raise
your children and love your children and
take care of your children and
raise children who want to have children
of their own. have grandchildren
and build a perfect world for you and
your children and your children's
children and children's children's
children children. But that is what
we're here for. That is the job. We
don't need AI for it. We already have
God's commandment.