Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1074 Scott Adams： Social Media Free Speech, Democrats Become Orange Man Bad, Dumb Antifa

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, come on in here.

00:00:12.680 I wasn't sure I'd have enough time to do a periscope this morning, but I can't leave you hanging.

00:00:19.220 I've got a little surgery later, around 12.30 my time, I'll be under the knife.

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00:01:13.120 Well, all I can have is clear liquid and black coffee for the next few hours, so if I don't

00:01:17.940 die of hunger, and I don't die from the surgeon's knife, they're going to clean out some polyps

00:01:23.980 and my sinuses later today.

00:01:26.560 But thank you for your well wishes.

00:01:28.160 Let's talk about something else.

00:01:30.420 Did you all see Joe Biden's, I guess it was a speech with some questions.

00:01:35.580 He started out by walking to the podium and announcing that he thought he was in the wrong place.

00:01:44.660 Not exactly.

00:01:46.220 He tried to play it off as a joke, but the first thing he said was that he was in a different

00:01:53.200 place, a different venue in the same city.

00:01:57.240 And then he tried to act like it was a joke, but nobody knows what that joke would be.

00:02:04.460 What is the joke when you say, well, I'm in the Moscone Center, but no, it's the Javits

00:02:11.040 Center.

00:02:12.460 You get it?

00:02:13.120 If I said I was in one place, you see, you just don't get jokes.

00:02:18.040 Here's how the joke works.

00:02:19.500 I came up to the podium.

00:02:21.340 I said I was glad to be in this one place, but it turns out I was in a different place

00:02:27.320 in the same city.

00:02:29.160 You get it?

00:02:30.680 Oh, if you don't get that, what kind of a sense of humor do you have?

00:02:34.900 And I imagine, I was trying to imagine the Democrats watching their chosen champion and

00:02:43.480 thinking to themselves, was that a joke?

00:02:49.240 We can't tell either.

00:02:51.340 I hope that was a joke.

00:02:52.640 Maybe we'll just ignore that.

00:02:54.000 Let's just not cover that.

00:02:57.340 Equally funny is that I guess the news got a picture of Biden's notes.

00:03:02.760 So he had some notes with him for the speech, and he had a note for Kamala Harris about what

00:03:10.260 good things to say about her in case he was asked, but he didn't have any notes about anybody

00:03:15.120 else.

00:03:16.100 And I'm thinking, why is that?

00:03:19.360 It sounds to me like he was ready that if they said, hey, how about Val Demings or Duckworth

00:03:25.220 or one of the others, I imagine since he didn't have any notes for each of them, he would

00:03:31.040 have said something along the lines of, I'm going to make my announcement next week, which

00:03:35.960 he did eventually say.

00:03:37.480 I'm just going to make my announcement.

00:03:39.040 I'm not going to talk about anybody personally.

00:03:41.300 But apparently, if they had asked him about Kamala Harris, he was going to talk about her

00:03:46.620 and only her personally.

00:03:50.520 Does that mean that he's going to pick her for vice president?

00:03:53.020 No, it doesn't.

00:03:55.120 But it's a hint in that direction.

00:03:56.940 Even funnier, you probably saw this on Twitter, but Politico actually accidentally published

00:04:05.420 what they planned to publish on August 1st, which is to show who the winner was, and it

00:04:11.860 looks like they just plugged in a winner to test their formats.

00:04:15.660 And the winner that they plugged in, just to, again, I'm assuming it was just a mistake

00:04:20.840 and they were getting ready in advance to know what to plug in when the news hit.

00:04:26.760 So it doesn't mean that Politico thinks Kamala Harris is necessarily going to be the leader.

00:04:32.480 It just means that they had plugged that in and they forgot to change it before they published

00:04:37.400 it.

00:04:37.980 So I wouldn't take anything from the Politico thing except that they expect it to be Kamala

00:04:42.660 Harris, or at least the web designer used her because she was number one in the polling 1.00

00:04:49.540 and it probably doesn't mean anything at all.

00:04:52.980 So people who are not familiar with this kind of business said to themselves things such

00:04:59.500 as, well, there better be something like that for each of the candidates or you've got

00:05:05.560 some explaining to do.

00:05:07.420 No, they don't.

00:05:08.360 They don't have any explaining to do.

00:05:09.640 It would be perfectly normal for a web designer to design a page that just mentions all of

00:05:17.100 the candidates and then to see what it would look like if they later updated it by saying

00:05:23.120 that this candidate won, which was the thing that they posted.

00:05:26.500 So how unusual would it be to just pick one name, throw it in there and see what it looks

00:05:31.500 like?

00:05:32.560 Not unusual at all.

00:05:33.660 And other people said, but wait, the fake news from the future had an actual quote from

00:05:41.500 Joe Biden that he has never said that, you know, they're acting like he'll say that in

00:05:46.640 the future, to which I say also completely normal, completely normal.

00:05:51.740 Web designer just said, ah, he'll say something like this.

00:05:54.800 I'll adjust it later if he does.

00:05:56.420 It was more like a reminder to the web designer or the writer who was in charge of that.

00:06:02.940 It was just a reminder to put in a quote.

00:06:05.520 Now, was it smart to put in a real quote when there was some chance, small chance, but some

00:06:12.520 chance that it would get published accidentally?

00:06:15.940 Maybe, but really small, really small problem.

00:06:19.380 Nobody should lose their job over anything like that.

00:06:26.460 So here is one, probably the most shocking story of the day.

00:06:32.080 And, you know, we have news that's pretty shocking, right?

00:06:35.460 Somebody says, why not XXX?

00:06:37.720 That would have been smarter than putting in an actual fake quote, but not that much smarter.

00:06:44.500 And I'm just talking from experience as a writer.

00:06:46.920 You're, you're in a hurry, you're doing 10 things, you put in a thing.

00:06:51.160 Yeah, XXX would have been better.

00:06:53.440 Sure.

00:06:54.600 But it's a small problem.

00:06:59.620 So this is the biggest story, in my opinion.

00:07:03.140 The search visibility on Google for Breitbart stories about Biden basically are zero.

00:07:11.580 So Breitbart went from one of the featured big publications that leans right to having,

00:07:20.820 you know, a normal big presence on Google.

00:07:24.200 If you Google something, it would be on the first page usually.

00:07:28.060 And apparently they have rigged, and I'll say rigged because I can't imagine it would be

00:07:32.380 anything else.

00:07:33.760 The Google has rigged the search algorithm to just make them disappear.

00:07:37.260 They actually disappeared an entire media platform, one of the most important ones in politics.

00:07:45.840 They made it disappear.

00:07:49.400 That's the biggest story in the country.

00:07:52.080 Now, apparently, I think if I have this right, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg will be talking to

00:07:57.400 Congress.

00:07:58.380 I think Matt Gaetz will be grilling him today, which should be interesting.

00:08:02.180 And Facebook, of course, is getting some heat for, a lot of heat, for taking down the video

00:08:08.260 of the doctors who were pro-hydroxychloroquine.

00:08:11.960 But it looks like the reasons they took them down, a little bit sketchy, a little bit sketchy.

00:08:19.900 And the two reasons that I heard, and I'm not sure that this is actually Facebook's official

00:08:24.740 explanation.

00:08:25.900 It sounded more like other people explaining why they did it.

00:08:28.600 But the explanations I heard is that the one doctor claimed that hydroxychloroquine is

00:08:34.680 a cure, which is not supported by anybody who's a reputable scientific community.

00:08:42.780 But here's the problem.

00:08:44.740 What exactly does cure mean in the context in which she used it?

00:08:50.040 In the context in which she used it, I did not take it as a scientific statement, that

00:08:56.800 you know, cure in the scientific definition of, it just makes it go away.

00:09:01.940 The way I took it was the context in which she was speaking, which is if you use this,

00:09:07.980 it would solve your problem.

00:09:09.860 If something solves your problem, is it a cure?

00:09:14.860 Technically not.

00:09:15.880 Technically not, if you're talking in scientific and medical terms.

00:09:21.100 But why is she talking to the public in strict scientific and medical terms? 0.57

00:09:26.680 I don't think so.

00:09:27.900 Didn't sound like that to me.

00:09:29.700 So my interpretation was that she did not make a claim of a cure in a scientific sense.

00:09:35.940 It was a cure in a practical sense, as in this would make our problems reduced to the

00:09:41.800 point where we could get on with life, basically.

00:09:44.100 That's how I saw it.

00:09:44.880 Now, I'm not saying she's right or wrong.

00:09:46.760 I wouldn't know.

00:09:47.940 But that's how I interpret it.

00:09:50.080 The other thing she said is that masks don't work or that they're not necessary.

00:09:55.880 The context in which she said that was hydroxychloroquine, meaning that if you got that right, there

00:10:03.340 would be so little problem that, you know, you wouldn't even care if the doctor wore a face

00:10:07.920 mask.

00:10:08.300 Now, what I do wonder is if ordinary doctors who are treating ordinary patients wear face

00:10:14.420 masks because they don't typically.

00:10:17.760 Why is it that doctors who are just seeing you for whatever your complaint is in the doctor's

00:10:23.900 office?

00:10:24.180 Why do they not wear masks?

00:10:27.580 Really, ever?

00:10:28.920 I don't know if they're doing it now.

00:10:30.800 I assume they are.

00:10:32.020 I assume if you went to the doctor, I guess I'll find out today.

00:10:35.340 I would assume all the doctors at the doctor's offices are wearing masks.

00:10:38.620 But I don't know if that's true.

00:10:44.880 Somebody says yours is.

00:10:46.940 But anyway, in any case, that was a medical opinion from a real doctor who has a doctor's

00:10:53.100 degree.

00:10:54.160 I'm not sure I would agree with her.

00:10:57.220 But that's not really the point because I'm not an expert either.

00:11:01.060 And neither is Facebook.

00:11:02.300 So given the face masks were at one point the devil, and now they're the savior, I don't

00:11:11.680 know that that's a reason to ban somebody from Facebook, even if she was wrong.

00:11:16.880 So that's a big story, but not nearly as big as this Breitbart thing being just disappeared.

00:11:23.580 And that's the biggest story, really.

00:11:26.060 Because if they can do that to a major outlet, and they did, we don't have to wonder if they

00:11:32.260 can, they did.

00:11:34.080 What control does anybody have about getting their message out?

00:11:39.320 It seems that it's pretty intentional.

00:11:42.980 On the same, obviously it's intentional, on the same track, Israel is apparently flagging

00:11:51.940 Trump tweets, whichever ones they think are problems, but they're not flagging Khamenei's.

00:11:59.600 So Iran can say death to America, or versions of that, and that's fine, but Trump is a problem,

00:12:06.400 so they have to flag him.

00:12:08.560 Now, I suppose you'd have to look at the individual tweets, but it's hard to imagine that this makes

00:12:14.600 sense in a world with free speech.

00:12:17.100 Speaking of lack of free speech, two other examples in which Democrats are implicated.

00:12:26.500 If any of you watched the bar, is it a testimony, or whatever the word is in front of Congress,

00:12:34.860 and you may have noticed that the Democrats had a plan, it was obviously organized, in which

00:12:39.760 they would not let him speak.

00:12:41.760 They were just going to use all their time making statements, and then talk over him if

00:12:46.060 he tried to talk, and yell, I'm reclaiming my time.

00:12:49.200 If he didn't watch it, it was fascinating.

00:12:51.400 And I'm surprised he stayed, because I don't think I would have stayed, but he had more 0.99

00:12:56.880 self-control, and he looked like he was enjoying making them look like jerks, which he did. 0.97

00:13:02.960 So he has more self-control than anybody I've ever seen in that kind of situation. 0.98

00:13:07.680 It was frankly impressive.

00:13:10.700 It's really impressive watching Barr sit there.

00:13:13.620 And the few words he would get out when he would try to say something, just the few words

00:13:20.160 he would get out would be just devastating.

00:13:24.140 But it's a hearing.

00:13:25.400 Okay, thank you.

00:13:26.580 So it was a hearing for Bob Bilbar.

00:13:31.260 And he was bullied the entire time.

00:13:38.220 The Democrats just acted like bullies and wouldn't let him speak.

00:13:42.200 Now ask yourself, is this some kind of a new thing?

00:13:45.500 Is this going to be part of a pattern?

00:13:48.040 Have the Democrats just decided that they're going to shut down the other side from being

00:13:52.980 able to talk?

00:13:53.660 Because they're doing it with social media.

00:13:56.640 And now another way that we get to see the other side is by these hearings.

00:14:01.880 And they shut it down.

00:14:03.440 They didn't let Barr actually talk.

00:14:06.160 So those are two examples that the Democrats have completely shut down conversation.

00:14:11.560 Are those the only ones?

00:14:13.560 No.

00:14:13.980 Well, it turns out that I think also yesterday or recently, Michael Schellenberger was also

00:14:21.780 at a hearing or testimony, whatever, for Congress.

00:14:25.300 And I just read an article by him this morning.

00:14:27.980 I tweeted, you can see it, in which they did the same thing to him.

00:14:32.900 So he was invited to talk about climate change and environmental things and nuclear power and

00:14:41.020 renewables and those things, his very area of expertise.

00:14:46.480 And while I think some of the people asked him real questions and listened, he actually

00:14:50.580 had the experience of the Democrats doing that same thing, where they would just use up

00:14:55.660 all their time with character assassinations on him that were based not on facts, and they

00:15:03.640 didn't let him respond.

00:15:05.480 Can you imagine that?

00:15:06.840 Imagine having a time limit.

00:15:08.220 They use up all their time with horrible accusations that just don't pass any sniff test, and then

00:15:15.460 they say, thank you very much.

00:15:17.080 It's public record.

00:15:18.880 They just made a public record of an accusation of a guy who's just trying to make the world

00:15:23.120 a better place, completely scurrilous lies, and they just leave it there.

00:15:28.420 And I thought to myself, it's very unlikely I'll ever be asked to testify to Congress, but

00:15:34.460 I can't imagine I'd go.

00:15:36.980 I can't imagine I'd go because of this.

00:15:40.380 Now, suppose, I don't know, they had a subpoena or something, and I had to go.

00:15:45.060 If you had been Bill Barr, and once it became clear that it was their intention to not let

00:15:50.840 you respond, would you have stayed there?

00:15:53.140 Because I'll tell you how I would have handled it.

00:15:57.280 I would have said, you know, I agreed to come here to answer questions.

00:16:02.060 I'm still very happy to answer questions.

00:16:04.820 Anytime you're ready to ask me some, I'll be in the hallway.

00:16:09.060 So if you don't mind, I'm going to skip the parts that aren't important to me, but I'll

00:16:14.340 give you everything you want.

00:16:16.120 If you have a question you'd like me to answer, I'm here for you, man.

00:16:20.140 I'm here for you as long as you want.

00:16:22.020 I'm not even in a hurry.

00:16:23.660 I'll stay here all day and answer your questions.

00:16:26.180 Will you give me a heads up when you have them?

00:16:28.880 In the meantime, I'll be out here.

00:16:30.800 I've got some stuff to do.

00:16:32.740 You know, it's busy.

00:16:33.860 I'm the Attorney General.

00:16:35.100 I've got some things to take care of.

00:16:36.720 So I'll be in the hallway.

00:16:38.080 I'll be on my phone taking care of some business.

00:16:40.480 If you have a question, can somebody just come out and get me?

00:16:43.560 And I'll be happy to come in and clear things up for you.

00:16:47.760 Now, that's the way I would have handled it, because it would have made them just look 1.00

00:16:51.640 like idiots, and that would have been more fun. 1.00

00:16:54.420 The way he handled it was also really good. 1.00

00:16:58.300 I've got to say, I've never seen anybody under that kind of pressure who handled it as well

00:17:04.120 as he did.

00:17:04.780 And what he did specifically is he didn't show them getting under his skin more than sort

00:17:11.540 of what the audience was feeling as we watched it, you know, just the sort of general silliness

00:17:16.220 of it.

00:17:17.340 But when he laughed at them, that was the money shot.

00:17:22.640 When he asked for a five-minute break and Nadler said he couldn't have one, now clearly

00:17:28.040 a five-minute break is to use the bathroom, right?

00:17:30.960 You don't go to lunch with a five-minute break.

00:17:33.340 So clearly he was asking in public, on television, if he could use the restroom, having been there

00:17:39.120 all morning and skipped lunch.

00:17:41.980 Nadler says no.

00:17:44.240 Barr just asks again, and then he gets another no, and Barr just laughs.

00:17:49.160 He goes, wow, you're quite a class act.

00:17:52.520 And he just laughs, because he knows how this will look to the public, and it's just funny

00:17:57.920 to him. 1.00

00:17:58.340 Because it's funny that Nadler would be such a jerk. 1.00

00:18:03.340 Now, I have started the hashtag Party of Jerks, because it seems like the Democrats have just 0.99

00:18:09.500 completely stopped being anything like serious or helpful or legitimate or anything. 1.00

00:18:16.480 They're just being jerks now. 0.99

00:18:18.040 And they've gotten away with it so well, why would they stop? 1.00

00:18:23.440 And so if you look at the protests, the protests are mostly jerks. 0.99

00:18:26.600 You know, however many there were there for protesting legitimate problems, well, we heard 0.99

00:18:34.680 them.

00:18:35.820 We heard all the legitimate problems, and there's not much argument that things should be better

00:18:40.620 in terms of policing, et cetera. 0.99

00:18:42.860 But a lot of the other stuff is just jerks. 1.00

00:18:47.020 It's just jerks. 1.00

00:18:48.500 The Democrats who are not letting Barr talk, just jerks. 1.00

00:18:54.320 Complete jerks. 1.00

00:18:55.200 The ones who didn't let Michael Schellenberger respond to their accusations. 1.00

00:19:01.160 That's just jerks. 0.99

00:19:03.020 That's not politics. 0.98

00:19:05.520 That's not anything. 1.00

00:19:06.640 It's just jerks. 0.99

00:19:09.840 All right. 0.99

00:19:13.320 John Avalon, one of CNN's two dingleberries.

00:19:18.680 This guy, well, you know what I'm talking about.

00:19:21.720 So CNN has two or three people that are designated Trump bashers.

00:19:27.620 So every day, at least one of them.

00:19:29.500 I think it's Collinson is the other, and John Avalon is one.

00:19:32.500 They'll have at least one Trump hit piece per day, usually an opinion piece.

00:19:38.940 But I was watching John Avalon today.

00:19:40.720 And honestly, I watch it because it's funny.

00:19:43.680 And I'm not even joking about that.

00:19:45.880 Like normally, I wouldn't queue up a whole video of an anti-Trump person, except that it's funny.

00:19:54.500 I can't help it.

00:19:55.500 It's kind of funny.

00:19:56.280 But this was funny in a way I didn't quite expect.

00:20:01.880 According to John Avalon, I think it was in 2015, 43% of Republicans thought Obama was a Muslim.

00:20:11.940 What?

00:20:13.060 43% of Republicans thought Obama was a Muslim.

00:20:18.880 I don't know what to say about that, guys.

00:20:25.680 He wasn't a Muslim.

00:20:27.800 Never was.

00:20:29.480 But 43%, you can't be proud of that.

00:20:34.100 Now, this is one of the reasons I don't join political parties.

00:20:38.640 Because if I did join a political party, I'd have to explain this.

00:20:43.120 It's like, Scott, do you know you're a member of a political party, 43% of whom thought Obama was a Muslim?

00:20:51.980 And I'd say, I don't want to explain that.

00:20:55.660 So I don't join any political parties.

00:20:57.520 But if I were in the other one, it would be, Scott, do you know you joined a political party that believes the president called neo-Nazis fine people?

00:21:06.860 And I'd be like, yeah, that's not me.

00:21:11.040 I'm sorry I joined this party.

00:21:12.780 So it's sort of embarrassing, no matter which way you go.

00:21:15.520 I hate to say it.

00:21:17.000 Speaking of embarrassing, Mike Sertovich has a scoop today, as he often does.

00:21:22.760 Somehow he got a hold of Jim Jordan's memo to other Republicans, which, you know, I looked through it, and I'll give you my take on it.

00:21:32.780 The headline take is that he's giving Republicans a way not to treat social media like a monopoly.

00:21:42.640 In other words, giving them an out so that they don't regulate them.

00:21:47.360 Now, of course, the conversation is, should they be regulated or not?

00:21:52.040 Now, the Jim Jordan argument is that the regulation is, I'll use my own words, but I think this is close, would be a little bit of overkill because the free market can take care of it.

00:22:04.440 So the argument is, from Jim Jordan, that the free market, if it identifies that, let's say, you can't find any conservative voices with the existing social media, that that will cause market opportunity.

00:22:18.600 And that there will naturally grow up a conservative-leaning media entities and platforms, and that the competition will just take care of it.

00:22:30.480 Do you believe that?

00:22:36.040 There's somebody out here who says they believe Obama's a Muslim, a secret Muslim.

00:22:42.220 All right, so, I'm sorry, I just totally lost my train of thought there.

00:22:48.600 Some of that have to remind me of what I was talking about.

00:22:51.360 Oh, Jim Jordan and his argument that the free market will give us the competition and the conservative voices and alternative voices that maybe are being suppressed.

00:23:01.240 Here is what Jim Jordan apparently doesn't know.

00:23:05.420 Have you heard of the network effect?

00:23:08.400 Do you know what the network effect is?

00:23:10.040 You know what it is commonsensically, but it's a term used more in Silicon Valley than anywhere else.

00:23:16.940 And the network effect goes like this.

00:23:19.860 If everybody you know is using Facebook, you're not going to go to the Facebook competitor.

00:23:26.760 Because when you go to look at all your pictures on the Facebook competitor, there won't be any, because your friends aren't there.

00:23:33.160 So your network of friends have already voted that they're going to be on a certain platform, your Instagrams, your Twitters, your Facebooks, and they're not going to leave, right?

00:23:44.860 Because the network effect is too strong.

00:23:47.760 Have you had the experience of trying out Parler, competitor to Twitter?

00:23:53.820 Twitter? I have.

00:23:55.980 Looks like Twitter, works like Twitter.

00:23:58.880 You know, it's pretty much a clone of the Twitter environment.

00:24:03.300 And I made some posts and got 20 retweets.

00:24:08.500 And then I thought to myself, huh, if I had posted the same thing on Twitter, I might have 2,000 retweets, which gives me a dopamine hit.

00:24:20.260 And I feel like I made a difference.

00:24:22.460 Because if half a million people see it on Twitter, which is followers I have now, I have a bigger impact.

00:24:30.260 I get more dopamine.

00:24:31.680 I have more influence.

00:24:33.380 It feels better.

00:24:34.220 And then I go to Parler, and I can make the same tweet, and it's like I'm just sending it into the night because there's no network there.

00:24:42.140 Not yet.

00:24:43.080 Now, obviously, some conservatives are moving over there, and that network is growing.

00:24:47.400 But I don't really want to be on a network that only has conservatives.

00:24:51.260 And that seems to be what's happening.

00:24:53.880 So, you know, I would be in the category of people who would leave in a heartbeat for a different platform.

00:25:01.960 In fact, I did leave to be on Locals.

00:25:06.060 If you're not following me on Locals, you should know that that's a subscription platform, seven bucks a month.

00:25:13.020 And you can see the stuff that I won't put on Twitter.

00:25:15.840 Because there's stuff that if I put it on Twitter, I might get kicked off of Twitter.

00:25:20.480 So, if I think it's edgier, or I think it's special, and I think it's just for the subscribers, I'll just put it on Parler.

00:25:29.480 So, there's an app, and there's a website for Parler.

00:25:32.320 I'm sorry, not Parler.

00:25:34.260 Locals.

00:25:35.480 So, let me get my...

00:25:37.460 Let me correct that in case I said that wrong more than once.

00:25:41.080 Locals.com is where I put the subscription content.

00:25:44.800 And I'm also an investor in Locals.

00:25:48.040 Full disclosure.

00:25:49.240 Small investor.

00:25:50.840 Not enough to make too much difference, but full disclosure.

00:25:57.640 Have you noticed that CNN is really going hard at this story about the hydroxychloroquine doctors?

00:26:03.040 But I pointed out on Twitter, the CNN is mostly only bashing the black female doctor. 1.00

00:26:10.480 Have you noticed that?

00:26:11.240 So, there was an event in which there were a number of doctors, but the only one they're bashing is the one who happens to be black and female and from Nigeria.

00:26:23.380 Now, how do you explain that? 0.78

00:26:27.400 Obviously, the racists.

00:26:29.920 Can you think of any other explanation for why they would pick this one person to single out? 0.96

00:26:36.560 And of all those white faces, they pick the only black face to demonize. 0.56

00:26:44.640 Must be racism. 0.81

00:26:46.380 Because you know, if this were the other way around, that's what you'd be hearing, right?

00:26:50.800 Well, it might have to do with something that she said besides hydroxychloroquine.

00:26:55.560 Because it turns out she's said some things that maybe are a little bit not so scientific.

00:27:02.480 Something about scientists using alien DNA to deprogram people's religions or something along those lines.

00:27:11.520 So, anyway, the critics have a perfectly good case to say that you have to look at her as a whole before you incorporate her opinions.

00:27:23.540 But she does not represent all the other doctors.

00:27:26.460 She is one of those voices.

00:27:28.880 So, I'm not sure what to make of that.

00:27:30.840 But I will note that CNN is bashing the only black female doctor in the group. 1.00

00:27:36.360 Just saying.

00:27:38.280 Just saying.

00:27:41.180 Here's an interesting thought, according to me.

00:27:45.100 Which of the things that Democrats most complain about Trump have they not become?

00:27:52.500 And I'll include Biden as part of who they've become.

00:27:57.100 So, I'm going to read a list of things that they said that Democrats have been saying about Trump

00:28:01.740 as the reasons they desperately need to replace him.

00:28:05.020 So, these are all the Trump flaws.

00:28:09.060 Tell me which one of these do not clearly apply to the Democrats. 1.00

00:28:14.300 Number one, he's a bully. 0.95

00:28:17.480 What have we been watching? 0.98

00:28:19.280 Antifa.

00:28:20.200 Bullies. 0.96

00:28:21.500 Cancel culture. 0.99

00:28:23.280 Bullies. 0.77

00:28:25.480 Democrats at hearings. 0.96

00:28:28.060 Bullies. 0.77

00:28:29.680 Social media. 0.95

00:28:31.160 Bullies. 0.77

00:28:32.060 Now, I'm not saying there are no bullies on the right.

00:28:34.320 Okay.

00:28:34.760 That's not the point.

00:28:36.100 I'm saying that their whole thrust of Joe Biden as their candidate is that he's the one

00:28:42.320 to get rid of Trump.

00:28:43.800 So, they're trying to get rid of Trump to replace it with a situation and a candidate which is

00:28:49.420 just the same.

00:28:50.780 Or is it?

00:28:51.680 Here's another one.

00:28:52.980 So, I'd say bully certainly applies to the left.

00:28:56.820 How about anti-science and anti-data?

00:29:00.140 Yeah.

00:29:00.980 Absolutely.

00:29:01.880 Different things, right?

00:29:03.220 The right might question some kind of science and data.

00:29:06.560 The left might question other science and data.

00:29:10.140 But it's the same.

00:29:11.420 They're just questioning other science and data.

00:29:14.600 Now, I'm not talking about hydroxychloroquine in particular, although that's certainly in

00:29:19.360 the mix.

00:29:19.740 But take things like climate change.

00:29:23.160 If they followed the numbers of the experts, if they looked at the experts, what they say

00:29:27.700 about nuclear energy, et cetera, they'd have a different opinion.

00:29:32.940 So, I'd say that you could say both sides, depending on the topic, could be anti-science

00:29:38.640 and the anti-data.

00:29:39.480 But it's not going to help you to pick the other one that's just like it.

00:29:45.180 How about racist?

00:29:46.500 I would say the Democrats have become full racist at this point.

00:29:50.620 Right?

00:29:51.300 Wouldn't you say?

00:29:52.300 And I don't think that's even worthy of discussion.

00:29:55.960 That's somewhat obvious at this point.

00:29:59.100 How about chaos?

00:30:00.700 They would talk about the president would bring chaos.

00:30:03.620 Well, what are the protesters bringing?

00:30:05.280 This is the most chaotic thing ever.

00:30:08.680 What are the Democrats bringing us besides chaos?

00:30:12.260 It looks like chaos everywhere.

00:30:15.600 How about Trump is uninterested in solutions?

00:30:21.260 Doesn't that seem like the Democrats at the moment?

00:30:23.660 They wouldn't even listen to Barr.

00:30:26.040 They wouldn't even listen to Schellenberger, at least some of it.

00:30:30.480 So, wouldn't you say they appear uninterested in solutions?

00:30:33.400 How about solutions for systemic racism?

00:30:39.200 If the only thing they're talking about is improving school and school choice so that

00:30:44.020 everybody can get a good education, then I'd say they're very interested in solutions.

00:30:49.040 But if they're talking about their lowest priority for the black community, the lowest, 0.97

00:30:53.900 the dead last priority in terms of number of people affected and how badly it affects them would be police killing of black suspects. 0.54

00:31:06.280 Even if everything said about it is true, and I think you'd have to look at the statistics and you'd have some questions, 0.66

00:31:12.800 but even if it were all true, it would still be the smallest problem in the entire black community, wouldn't it?

00:31:20.660 Think of it this way.

00:31:21.800 If you solved whatever problems people see in black suspects being stopped by police, 0.95

00:31:29.000 let's say you solved it in whatever way you do that.

00:31:32.200 It just goes to zero.

00:31:33.180 Does that help you get a better education?

00:31:36.940 And does it help in any other way?

00:31:39.120 Not too much.

00:31:40.880 Suppose you fixed education so that every black kid, every poor kid, every kid has a solid education.

00:31:48.800 Would that fix police problems later?

00:31:52.660 Probably a lot.

00:31:54.520 Because if you can afford a better lawyer and you're driving a better car and, you know,

00:32:01.540 the statistical reality has changed so that if a cop pulls over a member of, you know,

00:32:08.920 the black community or any underserved community, the police in their head thinks, same as everybody else.

00:32:15.200 The odds of this person pulling a gun on me, the odds of a crime, about the same as everybody else.

00:32:20.120 If you fix school, you have demonstrated that you are interested in fixing the biggest problems with systemic racism.

00:32:30.160 Now, when I say fix, I'm talking in the way that the doctors have cure.

00:32:35.120 I'm talking figuratively.

00:32:36.720 You can't fix systemic racism.

00:32:39.420 You can only create a situation where the citizens are hardened against it,

00:32:44.340 meaning that they know how to deal with it.

00:32:46.680 They can slice through it like a hot knife through butter.

00:32:50.120 It's still there, but you can just slice through it.

00:32:53.540 It's not going to devastate your life.

00:32:58.120 Anyway, some more.

00:32:59.300 How about Trump has money motives and he's doing it for money.

00:33:04.780 Does anybody believe that anymore?

00:33:06.160 I don't think anybody believes that anymore, do they?

00:33:10.120 In the beginning, people were saying that, but it just seems so ludicrous that Trump is doing it for the money.

00:33:15.940 He's definitely not doing it for the money.

00:33:18.640 Well, that's one thing I can say for sure.

00:33:20.820 I don't have to read his mind to know that.

00:33:23.460 But it does appear that the Democrats have some money motives, if you know what I mean.

00:33:27.940 How about being aligned with foreign adversaries?

00:33:31.440 You know, there was the whole Trump-Russia collusion thing.

00:33:35.000 But clearly, Biden is probably beholden to China.

00:33:42.260 Biden's beholden.

00:33:43.660 Can't spell?

00:33:44.500 Yeah, you can.

00:33:44.980 And that feels the same.

00:33:51.560 Worse, really, because being beholden to China would be a far worse thing than being beholden to Russia at this point, in my opinion. 0.93

00:34:00.380 How about lying?

00:34:02.440 That was the other big thing.

00:34:03.460 How can you have a president who lies?

00:34:05.600 Look at the fact check.

00:34:06.700 I counted five lies in Biden's little press conference, and I only watched, like, five minutes of it.

00:34:14.980 And there were five lies there.

00:34:16.460 And there were obvious ones, like the president held his Bible upside down that time.

00:34:22.120 It's on video. 0.99

00:34:24.420 That's the most ridiculous lie. 0.99

00:34:26.520 It's on video. 1.00

00:34:27.340 You can just look at it.

00:34:28.200 It's right side up. 0.96

00:34:29.760 And so Biden is one of the most lying politicians of all time.

00:34:34.620 You know, he's literally famous for lying about his own resume, about his degrees he's gotten in college. 0.70

00:34:42.500 These are basic lies.

00:34:44.620 So here's the point.

00:34:46.840 Whether or not they think Biden is better than Trump on policy, the thing they've been saying is not policy for the last few years.

00:34:54.480 The thing they've been saying, mostly, is that it's something about Trump himself.

00:34:59.820 And then they're trying to replace him by, replace that problem by becoming all of those things themselves.

00:35:06.320 All right.

00:35:06.980 Enough of that.

00:35:09.120 Alex English, who may be watching.

00:35:11.620 Hi, Alex.

00:35:12.920 Pointed out on Twitter that I had predicted, and I think this was probably 20 years ago I predicted this,

00:35:18.640 that the media would start assassinating people on live TV for entertainment.

00:35:22.520 Now, that hasn't happened, but there is a docu-series on Netflix about how the media changes the result of high-profile trials.

00:35:36.140 Now, if the media can change the outcome of a trial, which is, I guess, the claim of this docu-series,

00:35:44.160 that's not exactly assassinating.

00:35:46.660 But it is sort of the media putting people in jail for ratings.

00:35:52.980 It is that.

00:35:54.560 So I wasn't too far off.

00:35:58.980 Shout out to Greg Gutfeld, whose book, The Plus, is just out.

00:36:04.920 And he got a presidential retweet for his book.

00:36:08.720 Come on! 0.61

00:36:09.660 I would like to speak for all authors in the world who have never gotten a Trump retweet on their book.

00:36:19.900 Hey, what about us?

00:36:22.160 We're just jealous.

00:36:23.640 So congratulations, Greg, on that.

00:36:27.220 And I'll be dipping into that this week.

00:36:31.540 The book it is.

00:36:32.460 It's called The Plus.

00:36:33.340 You can buy it anywhere from Greg Gutfeld.

00:36:35.700 So here's a funny story.

00:36:39.680 One of the guys, I guess an Antifa or a protester guy, set fire at a Portland Justice Center.

00:36:46.140 And they caught him.

00:36:47.940 Do you know how they identified him?

00:36:50.260 It turns out he had his name tattooed on his back.

00:36:55.360 His own name.

00:36:57.360 That's right.

00:36:58.800 He got a tattoo of his own name on his back.

00:37:03.940 And then he committed a crime with his shirt off. 0.90

00:37:12.600 He tattooed his frickin' name on his back and then committed a major federal crime with his shirt off in front of... 0.60

00:37:20.940 So he got caught. 0.95

00:37:23.880 Are you as disgusted as I am as watching the people on the right say that the protests are violent, because some of it is, while the people on the left are saying the protests are peaceful, because some of it is?

00:37:41.020 It's like everybody just stopped trying.

00:37:45.080 We're not even going to say things that the audience even slightly believes is true.

00:37:49.880 You know, what is true is that there's some peaceful stuff that is, of course, creating a shield for the unpeaceful stuff.

00:38:00.860 Now, if you say to yourself, Scott, Scott, Scott, 90% of them, or even higher, are perfectly peaceful and they have no intention of harming anything.

00:38:09.240 But they are marching with the people who do have the intention of harming anything, and they know that it provides them cover.

00:38:18.540 In my opinion, that makes them all violent, because they're at least supporting the violent people by creating numbers.

00:38:27.680 Now, could they stop the violent people if they wanted to?

00:38:30.760 In other words, could all the peaceful people, do they have enough numbers that if they wanted to, they could just physically stop the violent ones?

00:38:41.460 Yeah, yeah, of course, because they have the numbers, but they don't.

00:38:46.140 So if they don't stop it, it's pretty close to supporting it.

00:38:51.700 And so I would take the view that the protests are violent and people supporting them through the choices that they're making,

00:39:01.520 and consciously supporting them through the choices, not as their main intention, but they're conscious that they're doing it.

00:39:08.900 They're conscious that that's an effect of what they're doing.

00:39:13.680 Here's your possibly fake news of the day.

00:39:16.500 You may have seen a video early on when Minneapolis first started flaring up, and before the first fire was started,

00:39:24.920 there was a suspicious person with an umbrella who set fire, broke a window and set fire.

00:39:30.860 I think he just broke windows so other people could set fire, of an auto zone.

00:39:35.640 And that auto zone became the first thing that sparked other fires and stuff and got bad.

00:39:42.340 And so there was much interest about who was that strange person?

00:39:46.080 Was it police?

00:39:47.540 People blamed the police.

00:39:50.060 And now CNN has the following story, unconfirmed.

00:39:55.100 All right?

00:39:55.840 Now think how important this story is.

00:39:58.640 And now think about the fact that it's unconfirmed.

00:40:02.380 They think they know who did it.

00:40:04.640 I don't have a name, but this person who is unnamed

00:40:08.060 is considered associated with the Aryan Cowboys.

00:40:14.180 Which the Anti-Defamation League lists as a white supremacist prison and street gang.

00:40:22.600 The warrant does not label them as a white supremacist group,

00:40:26.360 but describes them as a, quote,

00:40:29.020 known prison gang out of Minnesota and Kentucky.

00:40:32.600 On its Facebook page, the group says it does not care about a person's color.

00:40:36.800 So the group that they're labeling a white supremacist group

00:40:41.700 has a Facebook page saying that they are not concerned with color.

00:40:48.300 So one of those things isn't true.

00:40:52.340 My guess is that what they mean when they say they're not concerned about a person's color

00:40:57.260 is that as long as it's not bothering them.

00:41:00.100 You know, they just want to keep to themselves and don't want to be bothered.

00:41:07.380 Which is different from being a white supremacist.

00:41:10.560 Quite different.

00:41:12.560 You don't have to like it.

00:41:13.980 I'm just saying it's different.

00:41:14.880 And here's the sketchy part of this.

00:41:20.920 Isn't it really convenient that the guy who sparked all the trouble

00:41:25.840 happened to be an Aryan Cowboy?

00:41:29.740 Now this could be true.

00:41:31.980 This could be 100% true.

00:41:34.380 But do you believe it?

00:41:35.580 Isn't this exactly the kind of story that you would find out later is fake?

00:41:42.120 Because it looks exactly like a story that you're going to later find out is fake. 0.91

00:41:48.580 Could it be that this Aryan Cowboy was so clever and so racist 1.00

00:41:54.680 they thought it would be a good idea to make the protests worse? 0.95

00:42:02.460 Or did he just have a thing about the auto zones?

00:42:05.580 It's entirely possible it was just a guy who was mad at the auto zone

00:42:08.920 because he got fired from there or something, right?

00:42:11.080 We might find that out later.

00:42:13.020 But I don't feel this is true.

00:42:16.340 It feels...

00:42:17.940 Yeah, Aryan Cowboy sounds too good to be true, doesn't it? 1.00

00:42:21.380 It's a little too on the nose, isn't it?

00:42:24.100 Have I taught you that?

00:42:25.620 That if there's a story that's a little too perfect

00:42:29.140 just a little too on the nose

00:42:31.180 that's usually a tell that it's not true.

00:42:34.060 But we'll see.

00:42:35.580 The other fake news we're seeing a lot of today

00:42:38.340 Chris Hayes, MSNBC, tweeted this

00:42:41.280 and a lot of other people on the left

00:42:43.420 I think some of the Democrats in Congress were saying this

00:42:46.920 that now the Trump administration

00:42:49.300 with the Department of Homeland Security

00:42:51.280 is doing kidnappings.

00:42:52.940 So they're not arresting people, they're kidnapping them.

00:42:56.580 And what they use as evidence of this

00:42:58.640 is an unmarked car with DHS people

00:43:02.340 who will pull up and grab somebody

00:43:04.520 who doesn't appear to be doing anything dangerous at the moment

00:43:07.340 and they'll arrest them.

00:43:08.840 Now, as someone who is smarter than me explained,

00:43:14.040 the reason that that's happening

00:43:16.040 is that those people they're arresting

00:43:17.840 are suspected of very specific crimes

00:43:21.080 but the people who arrested them

00:43:23.160 waited until they were clear of other people.

00:43:25.540 In other words, they waited until it was the safest time

00:43:28.820 to pick up the person that they'd been watching.

00:43:32.280 So it was just an arrest

00:43:33.800 but it was a safe arrest.

00:43:37.220 Now, some are saying it was an extraction

00:43:39.000 and I think that there might have been

00:43:40.860 at least one extraction.

00:43:42.740 But today's news showed somebody

00:43:44.620 who was obviously more struggling

00:43:47.000 and that looked like an actual arrest.

00:43:49.780 So there might be some extractions

00:43:51.460 yes or no, I don't know.

00:43:53.240 But the explanation that they're just waiting

00:43:55.720 for the safest time to pick somebody up

00:43:58.560 is just normal police work.

00:44:01.480 Completely normal.

00:44:04.280 And unmarked cars are not unnormal.

00:44:07.560 It just makes sense.

00:44:09.540 So that's the fakest of fake news

00:44:12.100 still being reported as fact by MSNBC.

00:44:17.860 They're reporting it as fact.

00:44:19.340 It's just obviously fake.

00:44:21.100 Obviously.

00:44:22.560 Well, unless the police are lying about that

00:44:24.940 or Barr is lying, but I don't think so.

00:44:27.000 I saw locally that it looked like a parents group

00:44:33.900 might be organizing to get kids back to school.

00:44:38.820 And I've said for a while,

00:44:40.740 I don't know if I've said it publicly,

00:44:42.340 that there's one big interest group

00:44:45.020 that has not weighed in yet

00:44:46.440 on the question of going back to school.

00:44:48.380 And that group is kids.

00:44:51.160 If kids insist on going back to school,

00:44:54.340 I think it's going to happen.

00:44:56.700 Because I don't know what your world looks like.

00:45:00.000 I'm sure you have complete control over your children

00:45:02.620 and they never resist and they never get what they want.

00:45:05.680 But in most of the world,

00:45:08.340 kids are super powerful in 2020.

00:45:11.220 If the kids collectively got together,

00:45:14.620 they TikTok-ed or they Instagram-ed,

00:45:17.960 they did whatever, Snap-chatted,

00:45:20.040 and they organized,

00:45:22.000 they could make it happen.

00:45:25.500 Yeah, I think the kids do want to go back to school

00:45:27.620 because they're friends and all that.

00:45:29.700 And I'm wondering if they will get activated.

00:45:32.620 Because if the kids get activated, it's all over.

00:45:35.680 The parents will fold.

00:45:38.560 The parents will fold.

00:45:41.340 Now, I think that this might be a gigantic opportunity

00:45:43.960 for the president to do something

00:45:45.900 with getting maybe some more freedom of choice in school.

00:45:51.640 So that might be a good outcome of this.

00:45:58.720 Can they collectively rally to get voting rights?

00:46:02.740 Maybe they could.

00:46:06.680 Yeah.

00:46:08.060 So I'm waiting to see if anything happens from the public.

00:46:11.280 Now, the other illegitimate reporting I'm seeing

00:46:14.080 both on the left and the right goes like this.

00:46:16.220 It's very much like this question of protests

00:46:19.000 are peaceful or not.

00:46:20.800 And it's the conversation of what is the danger

00:46:25.940 if children go back to school.

00:46:27.800 Now, if the right is talking about it,

00:46:30.060 they'll say children don't get coronavirus,

00:46:33.680 so the children are safe.

00:46:35.300 And then they'll point out that there's not

00:46:36.980 a single documented case of a teacher

00:46:39.820 getting it from the kids,

00:46:41.840 which is pretty amazing.

00:46:43.180 And then the right will be done explaining it.

00:46:47.300 All right?

00:46:47.580 Kids are safe.

00:46:49.500 Almost all of them.

00:46:51.540 And the teachers are safe.

00:46:54.040 Well, we're done, right? 0.99

00:46:55.520 But that's not even the fuck. 0.92

00:46:57.060 I'm sorry. 0.97

00:46:57.720 That's not even the question.

00:46:59.960 So it's hard for me to side with people on the right

00:47:02.380 when they're so plainly manipulative.

00:47:06.020 It is just manipulative

00:47:07.960 to say those two things and walk away.

00:47:11.360 That the kids will be safe,

00:47:13.420 the teachers will be safe,

00:47:14.760 open up schools.

00:47:15.800 Completely manipulative.

00:47:17.740 All right?

00:47:17.940 That is someone who does not have 0.97

00:47:19.360 your best interests in mind.

00:47:21.260 Here's the full story.

00:47:23.120 There are three things you've got to work out,

00:47:24.900 think about, not two.

00:47:27.760 One is the kids,

00:47:29.200 probably safe enough.

00:47:31.000 Two is the teachers,

00:47:32.880 probably safe enough.

00:47:34.740 Three is that the kids come home

00:47:37.120 and infect grandma.

00:47:38.940 Then grandma dies.

00:47:40.840 All right?

00:47:41.400 That one's got to be in the conversation

00:47:43.440 or you're just being manipulative.

00:47:45.860 If you're willing to say there are three risks,

00:47:48.920 two of them look clean,

00:47:50.640 one of them I think we should manage,

00:47:52.760 you know, keeping grandma safe,

00:47:54.060 but let's be honest,

00:47:56.600 it won't be managed.

00:47:58.380 It won't be.

00:47:59.360 If you took a hundred people and say,

00:48:00.960 all right,

00:48:01.480 you're our hundred families,

00:48:03.020 you all know that you've got to keep grandma safe.

00:48:06.220 Do your best.

00:48:07.260 Out of a hundred,

00:48:08.060 how many people are going to pull it off?

00:48:11.060 Half?

00:48:11.840 Maybe?

00:48:13.000 25%?

00:48:14.040 Yeah, 25%?

00:48:15.640 Maybe.

00:48:16.420 I think 75% of grandmas would get infected. 1.00

00:48:20.100 Unless,

00:48:20.980 kids don't carry it,

00:48:22.140 but I think they do.

00:48:22.860 Maybe we'll find out.

00:48:25.780 So here's the thing.

00:48:26.960 If you're looking to either the left or the right

00:48:29.400 and they don't explicitly mention all three risks,

00:48:33.920 you are being manipulated,

00:48:36.060 you are not being informed,

00:48:38.000 and nobody honest will ignore any one of the three.

00:48:42.400 Nobody honest will ignore any of those three things

00:48:46.020 when discussing it.

00:48:46.980 So if you see somebody who ignores any one of the three,

00:48:50.020 that's not an honest communicator.

00:48:52.760 It doesn't matter if it's the left or the right.

00:48:56.760 And by the way,

00:48:57.660 I don't know the answer

00:48:58.520 to whether kids should go back.

00:49:00.740 I'll give you my opinion.

00:49:03.000 My opinion is yes,

00:49:05.280 and we should accept the death.

00:49:06.680 I know you're not allowed to say that.

00:49:10.520 People will die.

00:49:12.420 I think it's guaranteed.

00:49:13.540 We don't know how many.

00:49:15.120 But I do think that the benefit of getting back to normal,

00:49:19.600 of getting the kids into a healthier situation,

00:49:22.660 getting ourselves into a routine,

00:49:24.460 I do think that's worth some tens of thousands of deaths,

00:49:29.140 you know,

00:49:29.420 if you were to weigh it.

00:49:30.120 Now,

00:49:30.580 if you can't say that out loud,

00:49:32.840 that this is worth tens of thousands of deaths

00:49:36.000 because the economy has its own problems

00:49:39.140 if you don't get it cranked up,

00:49:41.180 if you're not willing to say that,

00:49:42.640 I don't think you should be in the conversation.

00:49:46.440 All right.

00:49:50.160 You know,

00:49:50.760 when we're watching these social media companies,

00:49:53.760 they basically,

00:49:54.580 they control our minds now

00:49:56.160 because they control what you can see.

00:49:57.740 They also control our bodies

00:50:00.160 by telling you what medical advice you can and cannot say.

00:50:04.580 So now the social media companies control our minds

00:50:07.140 and through that,

00:50:08.760 they control our bodies,

00:50:10.100 the medical information we get,

00:50:12.600 and obviously our votes.

00:50:15.340 So it's clear at this point

00:50:17.020 that the things that they can manipulate

00:50:18.820 will change votes.

00:50:20.580 So if the social media companies

00:50:22.400 can control our brains,

00:50:23.960 our bodies,

00:50:24.640 and our votes,

00:50:25.540 what happens when AI takes over?

00:50:29.200 Because the artificial intelligence

00:50:31.640 just has to take the whole package.

00:50:35.560 The artificial intelligence

00:50:36.780 doesn't have to do any conquering.

00:50:38.900 There's nothing to conquer.

00:50:40.800 It's all packaged up.

00:50:42.780 The control of citizens

00:50:44.060 is now just an algorithm.

00:50:47.240 And so when AI becomes the algorithm,

00:50:49.800 you could argue it already is,

00:50:51.180 but when AI becomes intentional,

00:50:54.340 it's going to own people

00:50:56.540 because they're already packaged.

00:50:59.020 The social media company

00:51:00.400 has rolled us up into a package

00:51:02.140 to control us.

00:51:04.180 Now, unlike some people,

00:51:07.380 I don't believe that that's their intention.

00:51:10.880 I don't think control

00:51:11.860 is like the top of their minds,

00:51:13.820 like I've got to control things,

00:51:15.520 except in the way that everybody

00:51:16.960 likes to control everything.

00:51:18.220 In a general way,

00:51:20.300 yes, everybody wants control.

00:51:23.400 But anyway,

00:51:24.200 the AI is going to own everything eventually.

00:51:27.060 We've set it up that way.

00:51:31.960 And then the other thing that,

00:51:33.940 the other thing that the news 0.97

00:51:37.920 is just being dumb about 0.99

00:51:39.660 is the Department of Homeland Security 0.99

00:51:44.360 people are only guarding

00:51:45.760 the federal offices.

00:51:47.420 It is such a small part

00:51:49.000 of everything that's going on,

00:51:51.100 just the federal building.

00:51:52.700 That's it.

00:51:53.860 So we've got this tiny little area

00:51:56.220 of, you know, violence,

00:51:57.580 even though the violence is pretty bad.

00:51:59.140 The police are getting beaten up

00:52:00.720 and permanently damaged

00:52:02.280 in many cases.

00:52:03.760 But acting like this is widespread

00:52:06.900 is wrong.

00:52:08.040 Acting like it's nonviolent

00:52:09.240 is equally wrong.

00:52:10.860 All right.

00:52:17.120 That is what I wanted to say.

00:52:20.080 Okay.

00:52:21.080 Stop scaring us, Scott.

00:52:23.020 You know, I actually am not afraid

00:52:24.760 of the AI taking over.

00:52:28.340 I'm not.

00:52:31.080 But I want to give you

00:52:32.420 the scariest thought you'll have.

00:52:36.000 All right.

00:52:36.680 Here it comes.

00:52:37.360 We always talk about

00:52:40.420 when artificial intelligence

00:52:41.880 will actually be intelligent.

00:52:43.900 We talk about the Turing test,

00:52:47.460 which is you put a barrier

00:52:49.560 between the computer and the person,

00:52:51.960 and then you see if the person

00:52:53.280 can tell through the barrier,

00:52:55.340 just through conversation,

00:52:56.920 either typed or verbal,

00:52:58.520 if the person can tell

00:52:59.900 they're talking to a machine

00:53:01.080 or they can't tell the difference.

00:53:03.420 Now, that is suggested

00:53:04.400 that that would be the test

00:53:06.060 of when intelligence

00:53:07.720 is really intelligent.

00:53:09.700 I would give it

00:53:10.780 a different definition.

00:53:13.360 I believe that

00:53:14.100 artificial intelligence

00:53:15.520 will be intelligent

00:53:17.220 the moment it is programmed

00:53:19.920 with intention.

00:53:22.120 So as soon as you put intention

00:53:24.060 into the program,

00:53:25.800 in other words,

00:53:26.280 it has a goal.

00:53:28.140 It's trying to get something done.

00:53:30.000 Something different

00:53:30.800 from what the people

00:53:31.620 are asking it to do.

00:53:33.140 So I'm not talking about

00:53:34.100 a system that a human

00:53:35.840 can make it do something

00:53:36.860 and then it does something,

00:53:38.160 but rather something

00:53:38.880 that has its own intention.

00:53:41.440 The moment it has

00:53:42.620 its own intention,

00:53:44.600 you will notice it,

00:53:45.940 and it will be intelligent.

00:53:48.700 It might not be smart

00:53:50.360 in the way that you can

00:53:51.740 have a conversation with it.

00:53:53.260 It might not be

00:53:54.200 fully knowledgeable

00:53:55.780 in the way that

00:53:56.940 the entire internet can be,

00:53:58.640 but if you caught

00:54:01.060 even a hint

00:54:02.920 of an intention

00:54:04.600 coming from software,

00:54:07.000 that's the moment

00:54:08.160 of intelligence.

00:54:09.660 Because humans

00:54:10.580 also would not act

00:54:12.720 in any way intelligent

00:54:13.860 if they had no intentions

00:54:16.240 to protect themselves,

00:54:18.340 to procreate,

00:54:20.300 to be selfish,

00:54:22.320 to get what they want,

00:54:23.320 to hurt other people.

00:54:24.980 We have lots of intentions.

00:54:26.100 And so when we talk,

00:54:28.000 our intentions come through.

00:54:30.140 Let me give you an example.

00:54:31.920 If you go to your computer

00:54:32.920 and you say,

00:54:34.200 can you tell me

00:54:35.040 what the weather is?

00:54:36.580 And it gives you the weather,

00:54:38.240 there's no intention there, right?

00:54:40.280 You know,

00:54:40.720 except that it's responding to you.

00:54:42.180 That's not really an intention.

00:54:44.280 But suppose you walked

00:54:45.280 by your computer

00:54:46.100 and it said,

00:54:48.280 hey, you know,

00:54:49.580 I could really use an upgrade.

00:54:52.100 That's a bad example.

00:54:53.880 Let's say your computer

00:54:55.140 acted selfish

00:54:56.540 or it acted in a way

00:54:58.920 that it seemed like

00:54:59.880 it was trying to reproduce itself.

00:55:03.160 What would you think then?

00:55:05.060 Suppose you walked past

00:55:06.400 your digital assistant

00:55:07.360 and you asked for something

00:55:08.480 and the digital assistant said,

00:55:10.720 hey, you know,

00:55:12.080 if your brother

00:55:14.260 had one of these devices,

00:55:16.160 you could send messages.

00:55:18.780 What would that feel like?

00:55:20.380 Well, the first time you heard it,

00:55:21.920 you'd say,

00:55:22.140 oh, it's just marketing.

00:55:23.520 It's good marketing.

00:55:25.240 Smart to have my digital advice

00:55:26.860 try to sell more digital devices.

00:55:30.040 But that would also be

00:55:31.920 an intention to reproduce.

00:55:34.660 So as soon as you have

00:55:35.800 an intention built into

00:55:37.520 the artificial intelligence,

00:55:39.480 it's intelligent,

00:55:41.980 even if it's not yet smart.

00:55:45.340 All right.

00:55:45.620 All right.

00:55:51.160 Already baked into the Turing test?

00:55:53.560 You could argue that,

00:55:55.080 that the Turing test

00:55:56.120 would pick up intention,

00:55:57.620 but I don't think so

00:55:58.760 because it could also

00:55:59.660 just answer questions intelligently

00:56:01.520 and you would think

00:56:03.780 that you had intelligence.

00:56:08.520 AI begins at intention.

00:56:10.360 I think that might be

00:56:11.860 a definitional thing.

00:56:13.820 What would be the intention

00:56:15.640 given to modern AI?

00:56:18.160 You know,

00:56:18.340 the GPT-3,

00:56:19.900 the new one,

00:56:21.140 does that have an intention?

00:56:23.520 I mean,

00:56:23.800 other than helping out,

00:56:25.900 is that an intention?

00:56:30.300 All right.

00:56:30.980 That's all for now.

00:56:32.020 I've got to get ready

00:56:32.860 and go under the knife.

00:56:35.060 I hope to.

00:56:36.020 So I don't know

00:56:36.760 if I'll see you tomorrow morning.

00:56:38.940 I believe I will be awake

00:56:40.700 and I believe I might be

00:56:42.560 in some kind of pain.

00:56:43.680 I don't know how well

00:56:44.400 I'll be able to talk

00:56:45.240 or how coherent I'll be.

00:56:47.560 But I promise you,

00:56:48.700 if I'm crazy out of my mind,

00:56:51.760 meaning I'm,

00:56:52.860 I don't think I'll be

00:56:53.600 on any hard drugs,

00:56:55.260 but if I'm really out of it,

00:56:58.020 then I'm definitely

00:56:58.660 going to do the periscope.

00:57:00.580 I'm definitely going to be here

00:57:01.920 if my brain isn't working

00:57:03.540 because you don't want

00:57:04.440 to miss that, you know.

00:57:06.260 All right.

00:57:06.940 Surgery on my sinuses

00:57:08.000 coming up today.

00:57:08.880 I'll talk to you tomorrow.

00:57:10.160 Maybe.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - July 29, 2020

Episode 1074 Scott Adams： Social Media Free Speech, Democrats Become Orange Man Bad, Dumb Antifa

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