Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1123 Scott Adams： Google Search Mischief, Understanding Testing, Biden is on the Roof, Taiwan Bad Analysis, Statues for Criminals

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00:00:07.820 Hey, everybody.

00:00:09.600 Come on in. Come on in.

00:00:11.720 It's going to be a fun week.

00:00:14.080 Yeah, it's going to be one of the better weeks.

00:00:16.720 Wait until you see the news that's coming at you this week.

00:00:20.600 I don't know what it is yet,

00:00:22.540 but I think you'd all agree

00:00:24.620 it's going to be interesting.

00:00:27.360 Might be terrible.

00:00:28.240 Well, it might be good,

00:00:30.560 but it's going to be interesting.

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00:00:49.480 the dopamine hit of the day,

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00:01:05.820 Delightful.

00:01:07.300 So just before I got on,

00:01:09.300 I was reading an article by Joel Pollack in Breitbart

00:01:12.280 about how the Atlantic,

00:01:14.980 you know the Atlantic,

00:01:16.100 the dumbest publication in the world,

00:01:21.480 has some kind of a editorial or opinion piece

00:01:25.280 that says that unless Joe Biden gets elected,

00:01:30.280 there'll be all kinds of civil unrest.

00:01:32.780 And therefore,

00:01:34.220 if you're a Republican and you don't want civil unrest,

00:01:38.020 you should vote for Biden

00:01:39.520 because it's the only way you can avoid it.

00:01:43.600 What does that make you want to do?

00:01:45.480 Well, if I have those two choices,

00:01:49.440 which is to be blackmailed into voting for somebody

00:01:53.180 I don't want to be president

00:01:55.040 in order to avoid civil unrest,

00:01:58.640 I'll take the civil unrest.

00:02:01.180 I don't think they're reading the room right

00:02:03.400 because those are not even close to being similar choices.

00:02:08.140 Let me put it this way.

00:02:09.340 On a scale of 1 to 10,

00:02:11.420 my desire to avoid civil unrest is pretty high.

00:02:16.080 It's pretty high.

00:02:17.060 It's like maybe an 8 out of 10.

00:02:20.580 But my desire to not be blackmailed is a 25.

00:02:25.100 They're not really close.

00:02:27.760 You know, if you give me that choice,

00:02:29.900 you guarantee I'm voting.

00:02:32.200 Like any thought I had about sitting on the couch

00:02:35.100 is like, nope.

00:02:36.520 If you want the riots,

00:02:39.100 you want the civil unrest,

00:02:40.920 let's do it.

00:02:43.180 Let's bring it on.

00:02:44.360 Let's get it over with

00:02:45.180 because I'm definitely not choosing the safe path.

00:02:49.580 And anybody who thinks that Republicans

00:02:52.060 would choose the safe path with those two choices,

00:02:56.060 definitely reading the room wrong.

00:03:00.080 I just saw a story that says

00:03:01.540 that China has collected massive personal information

00:03:05.580 about Australians.

00:03:06.560 I assume they're doing the same thing

00:03:08.760 for every other country.

00:03:10.500 But I guess they got caught more or less red-handed

00:03:13.340 with the Australian data.

00:03:16.480 Now, here's the thing.

00:03:17.580 I feel like the days of kinetic warfare

00:03:24.560 among the big countries,

00:03:26.740 the countries that have nukes and stuff,

00:03:29.340 it might be over,

00:03:31.140 but not war.

00:03:32.880 Because I think that AI

00:03:35.560 and persuasion and dirty tricks

00:03:38.040 and cyber stuff

00:03:39.680 is now so powerful

00:03:41.500 that you could take down a country.

00:03:42.980 And you could destroy an economy,

00:03:46.140 you could cause civil unrest.

00:03:48.840 It's happening right now.

00:03:50.600 So I think the reason

00:03:52.200 we don't have to worry too much

00:03:53.940 about getting into a shooting war

00:03:56.080 with some of the other big countries

00:03:58.200 that are the classic ones you worry about

00:04:01.020 is that shooting is the least effective weapon.

00:04:04.460 The one thing you can count on

00:04:07.160 is that if you're up against another military,

00:04:10.400 they're going to use their good weapons

00:04:12.260 as opposed to their bad weapons.

00:04:15.140 And bad weapons would be anything

00:04:16.720 that got them killed in return.

00:04:19.620 So if they were to, you know,

00:04:20.680 say bomb the homeland here,

00:04:22.740 well, their homeland would get bombed.

00:04:25.080 But if all that happens is

00:04:27.960 there's lots of unrest in the United States,

00:04:30.420 and it looks like it's domestic,

00:04:33.760 but we don't know why.

00:04:35.440 But it's actually because of AI

00:04:37.140 and persuasion and propaganda

00:04:39.300 coming in from another country.

00:04:41.280 We wouldn't even necessarily know

00:04:43.560 we were under attack.

00:04:45.480 I mean, maybe the government would know,

00:04:47.300 but the people wouldn't really quite get it.

00:04:49.820 And we just think,

00:04:51.240 well, we're not so gullible

00:04:52.400 that a few memes on Facebook

00:04:54.200 are going to change our minds.

00:04:55.520 But AI and the weapons of persuasion

00:05:01.260 are now so powerful

00:05:02.620 that I would say legitimately

00:05:05.180 they're more powerful than physical weapons

00:05:09.180 because you could wipe out a country

00:05:11.640 without being attacked in return

00:05:14.120 or even identified as the attacker.

00:05:16.500 So way more powerful.

00:05:19.620 So that's something to worry about.

00:05:23.100 I would argue that the AI

00:05:26.300 is already destroying civilization

00:05:31.380 and that unless we figure out

00:05:34.380 some way to stop it,

00:05:35.580 there's somewhat of an obvious path here.

00:05:38.840 Because as many people have noted,

00:05:42.060 the algorithms in the social networks

00:05:44.140 and the, I guess you could say,

00:05:46.280 algorithms driving the news in general

00:05:48.420 are designed to make us fight with each other.

00:05:53.760 Now, that's not some great insight.

00:05:55.560 Everybody smart says that at this point.

00:05:58.160 But what's going to stop that?

00:06:01.760 What would stop it?

00:06:03.620 If you had said to me 20 years ago,

00:06:06.900 oh, you know, the fake news

00:06:08.700 and the persuasion will get so strong

00:06:10.540 that, you know, it'll be changing politics

00:06:13.280 and changing the world and all that,

00:06:15.260 I don't know if I would have completely believed

00:06:17.320 how good it could get.

00:06:19.360 I would have worried about it,

00:06:21.020 but I don't know if I would have been convinced.

00:06:22.980 But now we're here

00:06:23.800 and we can see that half of the country

00:06:26.940 believes in literally hoaxes

00:06:29.400 that they believe are reality.

00:06:31.760 They actually can't tell the difference

00:06:33.780 between an obvious hoax,

00:06:36.800 you know, did the president say

00:06:37.980 we should drink bleach?

00:06:40.100 No.

00:06:40.960 How hard would it be to find out

00:06:42.780 that's not true?

00:06:43.560 Well, if you follow conservative media,

00:06:46.680 it's easy

00:06:47.100 because you see the debunks all the time.

00:06:49.940 If you follow the other silo of news,

00:06:52.660 you've never seen it

00:06:53.440 and you never will.

00:06:55.220 So if you had told me

00:06:57.460 we could ever get to a point

00:06:58.700 where you could sell somebody

00:07:00.640 literally a hoax

00:07:02.020 that could be debunked

00:07:04.100 as quickly as you can Google it

00:07:06.120 and yet it still worked,

00:07:09.400 it could be debunked

00:07:10.720 with one Google search

00:07:11.840 and yet it still stands,

00:07:14.540 I don't know if I would have believed that.

00:07:16.940 So how good can this type of weapon get?

00:07:21.940 Well, that's the scary part.

00:07:24.000 We don't really know.

00:07:26.320 Here's what's scary.

00:07:28.300 Right now, the persuasion

00:07:29.900 that most of us are receiving

00:07:32.420 from the social media companies

00:07:33.940 and from foreign actors

00:07:35.880 to the extent that they're trying to interfere,

00:07:37.680 most of that is sort of

00:07:41.280 sprayed into the environment.

00:07:43.640 In other words,

00:07:44.320 the meme that you see

00:07:45.780 might not be that different

00:07:47.400 than the meme I see.

00:07:49.300 Maybe it looked for things like,

00:07:51.180 you know,

00:07:51.820 your gender or your age,

00:07:53.920 you know,

00:07:54.400 who you voted for,

00:07:55.340 some basic stuff.

00:07:56.860 But what happens when,

00:07:58.260 let's say,

00:07:59.700 China knows everything about you,

00:08:02.360 about you,

00:08:03.800 you specifically,

00:08:04.660 they know the names of your children,

00:08:07.540 they know your hobbies,

00:08:08.660 they know where you've traveled,

00:08:10.360 they know all your social media posts.

00:08:13.360 When they know all that stuff,

00:08:16.020 the form of persuasion

00:08:17.620 that they can send to you specifically

00:08:19.440 is a whole different level.

00:08:22.900 As a trained hypnotist,

00:08:25.220 let me give you

00:08:26.100 really a perfect example of this.

00:08:29.160 If I tried to hypnotize

00:08:30.920 all of you right now,

00:08:32.720 it would sort of work.

00:08:35.480 You know,

00:08:35.640 I could influence

00:08:36.540 a number of you.

00:08:37.780 Maybe 20% of you

00:08:39.160 would be moved,

00:08:40.000 80% would not.

00:08:41.840 But,

00:08:42.440 the limit there

00:08:43.900 is that I would have to

00:08:44.680 use the same method

00:08:45.720 for all of you.

00:08:47.340 And the same method

00:08:48.180 doesn't work for everybody.

00:08:49.460 It's not really

00:08:50.520 a one-size-fits-all situation.

00:08:52.940 But suppose

00:08:53.560 I had infinite time

00:08:55.580 and I could take

00:08:56.740 each of you individually,

00:08:58.560 learn all about you,

00:09:00.260 how you're wired,

00:09:01.700 what makes you tick,

00:09:03.420 what you care about.

00:09:04.720 And then I design

00:09:05.600 a specific persuasion package

00:09:07.780 just for you.

00:09:09.580 And then I stay on it.

00:09:11.580 Would I be able

00:09:12.360 to get more people

00:09:13.340 brainwashed?

00:09:15.180 Yeah.

00:09:16.160 It would reverse

00:09:17.160 from maybe 20%

00:09:18.780 of the people

00:09:19.300 getting influenced

00:09:20.080 to closer to 80%

00:09:22.400 if I had time

00:09:23.640 to work on it individually.

00:09:25.240 So it's that big.

00:09:28.740 And going from

00:09:30.400 maybe 20%

00:09:31.760 getting influenced

00:09:32.580 to 80% influenced,

00:09:34.300 that's the next step.

00:09:36.860 And all they need to do

00:09:38.540 is collect enough information

00:09:40.300 and have something

00:09:41.740 like a TikTok

00:09:42.820 or some other kind

00:09:44.740 of social connection

00:09:47.000 that can get something

00:09:49.280 going virally.

00:09:50.520 So that's where

00:09:51.280 things are going.

00:09:51.860 There's news today

00:09:53.140 that Oracle

00:09:53.740 is going to do

00:09:56.280 some kind of a deal

00:09:57.140 with TikTok.

00:09:57.980 Not buy them,

00:09:59.180 but do some kind

00:10:00.220 of a deal.

00:10:01.440 Now, I'm very curious

00:10:03.240 what that deal

00:10:04.800 would look like.

00:10:05.980 Because I can't see

00:10:07.220 any scenario

00:10:08.840 in which the code

00:10:10.700 of TikTok

00:10:11.660 is being programmed

00:10:13.580 by Chinese programmers

00:10:15.000 and somehow

00:10:16.680 we feel safe

00:10:18.520 because Oracle

00:10:19.720 also has a piece

00:10:20.780 of the business.

00:10:21.860 I need to hear details,

00:10:24.000 but nothing I've heard

00:10:24.740 so far

00:10:25.300 suggests that

00:10:26.780 would solve any problems.

00:10:28.480 But obviously

00:10:29.480 the magic

00:10:30.760 is in the details.

00:10:33.580 So I'll give you

00:10:34.880 an update

00:10:35.220 on my ongoing

00:10:36.260 attempt

00:10:37.000 to deprogram

00:10:38.540 one,

00:10:39.880 I call him

00:10:40.800 my smartest

00:10:41.920 anti-Trump

00:10:43.600 Democrat friend

00:10:44.860 because he's

00:10:45.920 legitimately very smart.

00:10:47.640 But he has TDS

00:10:48.620 like you've never seen.

00:10:49.620 one of the things

00:10:51.220 I told you about

00:10:51.900 was that

00:10:52.400 he believed

00:10:53.480 that Trump's

00:10:54.360 campaign ads

00:10:55.180 are lies

00:10:56.020 and the Biden

00:10:57.520 campaign ads

00:10:58.620 are not.

00:11:01.860 And this is

00:11:02.880 a sophisticated,

00:11:05.240 very well-informed

00:11:07.000 person who cares

00:11:08.820 about politics

00:11:09.580 and follows it

00:11:10.360 and actually believed

00:11:12.220 that the Biden

00:11:13.640 campaign ads

00:11:14.540 were pretty straight

00:11:15.500 and the Trump

00:11:16.840 ones were lies.

00:11:18.480 Now,

00:11:18.900 I don't know

00:11:20.280 what world

00:11:20.820 you live in

00:11:21.540 where you think

00:11:22.300 that any campaign

00:11:23.380 ad is true.

00:11:25.220 If you think

00:11:26.160 anybody is putting

00:11:27.280 out true campaign

00:11:28.420 ads,

00:11:29.640 you should just

00:11:30.280 stop right there

00:11:31.100 because you should

00:11:32.280 never,

00:11:32.960 you shouldn't even

00:11:33.580 vote.

00:11:35.020 I mean,

00:11:35.640 literally,

00:11:36.640 you should just say,

00:11:37.500 oh,

00:11:38.100 if I believe

00:11:39.080 the campaign ads,

00:11:40.500 I probably

00:11:41.500 shouldn't even vote.

00:11:42.600 I'm pretty gullible

00:11:43.940 because they're not

00:11:44.580 even designed

00:11:45.140 to be true.

00:11:46.500 Nobody starts

00:11:47.280 with the goal

00:11:49.440 of,

00:11:50.300 all right,

00:11:50.520 let's put some

00:11:51.100 truth in this ad,

00:11:53.580 said nobody,

00:11:54.740 because the truth

00:11:56.300 simply doesn't

00:11:57.060 work as well

00:11:57.780 as a,

00:11:59.080 you know,

00:11:59.580 let's say,

00:12:00.340 a managed truth.

00:12:02.560 So,

00:12:03.800 I sent to my friend

00:12:05.140 who thinks

00:12:05.600 that Biden

00:12:06.040 doesn't lie

00:12:07.140 a link

00:12:08.620 to factcheck.org

00:12:10.380 and the Biden

00:12:12.120 part of it.

00:12:12.980 So,

00:12:13.280 you can see

00:12:13.780 an entire list

00:12:15.280 where,

00:12:16.700 you know,

00:12:17.580 smart people

00:12:18.240 who know

00:12:18.820 what's going on

00:12:20.100 have factchecked

00:12:21.440 his claims

00:12:21.980 as false.

00:12:23.060 Now,

00:12:23.560 here's the thing.

00:12:25.340 My smart friend's

00:12:26.720 initial,

00:12:27.540 when we first

00:12:28.080 started talking

00:12:28.740 about Biden,

00:12:29.700 his initial claim

00:12:31.120 was that Biden

00:12:32.400 was not a gigantic

00:12:34.140 liar

00:12:34.740 like President Trump

00:12:36.560 and that alone,

00:12:38.540 that alone

00:12:39.700 tells the whole story.

00:12:41.440 Yeah,

00:12:42.080 you could get

00:12:42.520 into other issues,

00:12:43.820 other things

00:12:44.480 that he wants,

00:12:45.560 but that number

00:12:46.460 one thing

00:12:47.220 was that you

00:12:48.500 can't have a liar

00:12:49.320 as a president.

00:12:50.800 And then I send

00:12:51.620 him really

00:12:52.820 convincing proof

00:12:54.240 because every

00:12:55.560 lie from Biden

00:12:57.160 is explained

00:12:57.920 and the source

00:12:59.280 is shown.

00:12:59.880 So,

00:13:00.080 you can see

00:13:00.600 that he's

00:13:01.600 massively lied.

00:13:04.380 What happens

00:13:05.300 to somebody

00:13:05.900 who said that

00:13:06.800 was their number

00:13:07.400 one reason

00:13:07.980 for voting for him

00:13:08.900 is that he

00:13:09.780 didn't do

00:13:10.340 the thing

00:13:10.820 which is so

00:13:11.820 clearly documented

00:13:12.820 he does.

00:13:14.000 A lot of.

00:13:16.020 Doesn't change

00:13:16.820 anything.

00:13:18.660 And,

00:13:19.360 you know,

00:13:20.220 a few years ago

00:13:21.080 when I started

00:13:21.600 telling you

00:13:22.100 that facts

00:13:22.680 don't matter,

00:13:23.880 I think you

00:13:24.700 probably thought

00:13:25.340 that was an

00:13:26.000 exaggeration.

00:13:27.620 And until you

00:13:28.820 see enough

00:13:29.300 examples

00:13:29.880 where facts

00:13:30.840 literally don't

00:13:32.280 matter,

00:13:33.040 they don't have

00:13:33.420 any impact

00:13:34.740 at all,

00:13:35.960 it's hard

00:13:36.720 to believe.

00:13:38.780 All right.

00:13:39.760 There's a story

00:13:40.660 that Iran

00:13:41.640 is,

00:13:42.160 I guess from

00:13:42.940 Politico or

00:13:43.580 something,

00:13:44.500 that Iran

00:13:45.080 is allegedly

00:13:45.780 mulling over

00:13:46.640 an attempt

00:13:47.140 to assassinate

00:13:47.980 the United

00:13:48.400 States ambassador

00:13:49.220 to South

00:13:49.700 Africa.

00:13:50.940 And this

00:13:51.300 would be

00:13:51.540 some kind

00:13:51.900 of retaliation

00:13:52.740 for our

00:13:54.500 droning

00:13:55.240 of Soleimani.

00:13:58.020 And here's

00:13:58.940 my reaction

00:14:01.400 to that.

00:14:01.900 Number one,

00:14:03.320 it's anonymous

00:14:04.340 sources.

00:14:06.720 So is it,

00:14:08.000 should you

00:14:08.320 believe it?

00:14:09.500 If that's

00:14:10.180 the only

00:14:10.460 thing you

00:14:10.840 know,

00:14:11.900 is that

00:14:12.280 this story

00:14:12.880 exists,

00:14:14.220 and the

00:14:14.700 sources are

00:14:15.280 unnamed

00:14:15.680 because they're

00:14:16.080 anonymous,

00:14:17.120 what credibility

00:14:18.040 should you

00:14:18.700 put on this?

00:14:20.100 I'd recommend

00:14:21.140 zero.

00:14:22.500 Zero credibility

00:14:23.640 would be the

00:14:24.260 right amount.

00:14:25.620 And again,

00:14:26.540 that doesn't

00:14:27.120 mean it's not

00:14:27.800 true.

00:14:29.680 Credibility

00:14:30.240 is different

00:14:30.800 from whether

00:14:31.260 it's true or

00:14:31.840 false.

00:14:32.740 Credible

00:14:33.060 means,

00:14:34.140 is this a

00:14:34.580 source that

00:14:35.180 you should

00:14:35.740 believe to

00:14:36.460 be true?

00:14:36.920 And the

00:14:37.060 answer is

00:14:37.340 no.

00:14:38.240 It's not

00:14:38.560 even close.

00:14:39.360 You should

00:14:39.640 not believe

00:14:40.060 it's true.

00:14:41.060 But,

00:14:42.020 suppose this,

00:14:42.880 let's talk

00:14:43.280 about it.

00:14:44.440 What would

00:14:44.940 be Iran's

00:14:46.100 point of

00:14:47.100 taking out

00:14:47.880 an ambassador

00:14:48.880 to South

00:14:49.540 Africa?

00:14:51.760 And how

00:14:52.800 would that

00:14:53.160 be in

00:14:53.680 any way

00:14:54.140 equal to

00:14:55.920 us taking

00:14:56.600 out the

00:14:57.080 most important

00:14:59.220 strategic asset

00:15:01.300 in Iran,

00:15:02.060 was their

00:15:02.420 general?

00:15:02.780 and they

00:15:03.740 would take

00:15:04.160 out our

00:15:05.400 ambassador

00:15:06.040 to South

00:15:06.660 Africa?

00:15:08.040 Now,

00:15:08.540 I get that

00:15:09.020 we'd be

00:15:09.380 unhappy about

00:15:10.160 it,

00:15:10.600 and maybe

00:15:11.020 it would

00:15:11.300 look like,

00:15:11.840 oh,

00:15:12.200 you can't

00:15:13.380 take advantage

00:15:13.940 of us,

00:15:14.380 we'll attack

00:15:15.280 you back.

00:15:16.460 I get that.

00:15:18.080 But wouldn't

00:15:18.760 we attack

00:15:19.380 them if they

00:15:20.040 did that?

00:15:21.240 I mean,

00:15:21.540 wouldn't we

00:15:21.920 have to

00:15:22.320 respond?

00:15:23.660 I'm trying

00:15:24.400 to understand

00:15:25.160 how Iran

00:15:26.000 could possibly

00:15:27.280 come out

00:15:27.700 ahead with

00:15:28.940 this plan.

00:15:30.820 Does your

00:15:32.060 brain come

00:15:32.680 up with any

00:15:33.220 reason that

00:15:34.340 this would

00:15:34.800 work for

00:15:35.740 Iran?

00:15:36.320 Now,

00:15:36.580 I don't

00:15:36.880 doubt that

00:15:38.100 they mulled

00:15:38.680 it,

00:15:39.500 because a lot

00:15:40.260 of things

00:15:40.580 get mulled

00:15:41.220 over.

00:15:42.320 In fact,

00:15:43.380 Trump gets

00:15:43.920 in trouble

00:15:44.300 all the time

00:15:45.040 for mulling

00:15:46.280 things behind

00:15:47.000 closed doors,

00:15:47.920 and then when

00:15:48.400 it gets

00:15:48.660 reported,

00:15:49.620 you say,

00:15:50.060 my God,

00:15:50.560 what a bad

00:15:50.960 idea.

00:15:52.020 But that's

00:15:52.440 not the way

00:15:52.820 you should

00:15:53.080 look at it.

00:15:53.960 The way you

00:15:54.640 should look

00:15:54.920 at it is

00:15:55.360 that lots

00:15:55.880 of bad

00:15:56.280 ideas get

00:15:56.940 mulled

00:15:57.600 and then

00:15:58.360 rejected.

00:15:59.220 If you

00:15:59.840 heard one

00:16:00.400 of the

00:16:00.680 mulled

00:16:01.080 and rejected

00:16:01.780 ideas,

00:16:02.720 as if it

00:16:03.580 were more

00:16:03.980 serious than

00:16:04.620 it was

00:16:04.920 behind closed

00:16:05.560 doors,

00:16:06.260 you would

00:16:06.840 come away

00:16:07.200 with the

00:16:07.440 wrong idea.

00:16:08.740 So,

00:16:09.160 maybe they're

00:16:09.780 mulling it,

00:16:11.200 but I

00:16:12.560 don't find

00:16:12.980 it credible,

00:16:13.980 actually.

00:16:18.260 The

00:16:18.860 University

00:16:19.640 of Edinburgh,

00:16:21.740 they've

00:16:22.460 renamed what

00:16:23.540 was the

00:16:24.140 David Hume

00:16:25.120 Tower.

00:16:26.320 I guess

00:16:26.740 David Hume

00:16:27.460 might have

00:16:27.800 had some

00:16:28.240 issues,

00:16:29.080 might have

00:16:29.400 been racist,

00:16:30.020 I don't

00:16:30.200 know.

00:16:31.000 But they've

00:16:31.920 named it

00:16:32.460 after George

00:16:33.400 Floyd.

00:16:35.340 So,

00:16:35.980 the University

00:16:36.460 of Edinburgh

00:16:37.020 is honoring

00:16:38.700 George Floyd,

00:16:40.500 who may or

00:16:42.440 may not have

00:16:42.920 died of a

00:16:43.440 fentanyl

00:16:43.900 overdose

00:16:44.420 resisting

00:16:45.000 arrest and

00:16:46.680 had a

00:16:47.100 criminal record.

00:16:48.360 And I

00:16:48.620 thought to

00:16:48.880 myself,

00:16:49.960 well,

00:16:50.440 if people are

00:16:51.380 happy with

00:16:51.920 that,

00:16:52.240 I'm

00:16:55.140 generally in

00:16:55.820 favor of

00:16:57.020 letting people

00:16:57.780 have what

00:16:58.440 they want

00:16:59.040 if it

00:16:59.880 doesn't hurt

00:17:00.400 me personally.

00:17:01.780 Would you

00:17:02.180 agree with

00:17:02.600 that?

00:17:03.180 If somebody

00:17:03.840 wants something

00:17:04.840 and it

00:17:05.860 doesn't hurt

00:17:06.360 you,

00:17:07.520 it doesn't

00:17:07.980 hurt anybody

00:17:08.560 else,

00:17:09.960 why not?

00:17:11.140 So,

00:17:11.580 if the

00:17:12.180 University of

00:17:12.900 Edinburgh

00:17:13.220 and the

00:17:15.080 administration

00:17:15.880 and the

00:17:16.740 students are

00:17:18.860 happy with

00:17:19.760 naming their

00:17:20.680 building after

00:17:21.520 George Floyd,

00:17:23.000 I don't have

00:17:23.520 any problem

00:17:23.960 with that,

00:17:24.660 because that's

00:17:25.920 what they

00:17:26.160 want to do.

00:17:27.220 And it

00:17:27.500 doesn't make

00:17:27.940 me unhappy,

00:17:29.400 doesn't have

00:17:30.220 any effect

00:17:30.680 on me at

00:17:31.060 all,

00:17:31.260 so I'm

00:17:31.660 cool with

00:17:32.020 that.

00:17:32.620 But I

00:17:33.360 thought,

00:17:33.960 why not do

00:17:35.120 more of

00:17:35.560 that?

00:17:36.620 And so I

00:17:36.980 suggested by

00:17:37.820 tweet this

00:17:38.660 morning that

00:17:39.920 maybe we

00:17:40.400 should replace

00:17:41.140 all of the

00:17:41.620 Confederate

00:17:42.160 statues and

00:17:43.460 any of the

00:17:43.900 statues of

00:17:44.500 slave owners

00:17:45.020 with statues

00:17:47.920 of citizens

00:17:49.620 who had

00:17:51.220 criminal records

00:17:52.320 and had

00:17:52.800 died while

00:17:53.400 resisting arrest.

00:17:55.500 Sort of the

00:17:56.400 George Floyd

00:17:57.220 model.

00:17:58.200 Anybody who

00:17:58.780 died while

00:17:59.380 resisting arrest

00:18:00.380 and had also

00:18:01.220 a criminal

00:18:01.720 record will

00:18:03.100 just replace

00:18:03.840 all the

00:18:04.240 Confederate

00:18:04.600 statues with

00:18:05.760 those citizens.

00:18:07.800 Now,

00:18:08.300 again,

00:18:09.240 just like

00:18:09.740 the

00:18:11.000 Edinburgh

00:18:11.740 thing,

00:18:13.600 if people

00:18:14.120 are happy

00:18:14.580 with it,

00:18:15.020 I say,

00:18:17.140 why not?

00:18:18.700 Now,

00:18:20.040 oh,

00:18:20.480 some people

00:18:20.920 think that's

00:18:21.380 a bad

00:18:21.720 idea.

00:18:24.240 I'm being

00:18:24.960 corrected that

00:18:25.720 the pronunciation

00:18:26.740 of Edinburgh

00:18:27.880 is Edinburgh

00:18:29.600 so everything

00:18:33.480 they said

00:18:33.880 about

00:18:34.180 Edinburgh,

00:18:35.120 you can

00:18:35.580 change that

00:18:36.060 to Edinburgh

00:18:36.720 if that's

00:18:37.440 right.

00:18:37.820 Who knows?

00:18:39.360 Yeah,

00:18:39.760 other people

00:18:40.260 are saying

00:18:40.560 it's Edinburgh.

00:18:41.640 All right,

00:18:41.960 let's call it

00:18:42.380 Edinburgh.

00:18:42.700 Edinburgh.

00:18:42.840 even though

00:18:45.360 it looks

00:18:46.180 like Edinburgh.

00:18:47.480 All right.

00:18:49.560 And here's

00:18:50.960 the thinking

00:18:51.600 behind that.

00:18:53.300 What is

00:18:54.280 the rational

00:18:55.360 way that

00:18:56.240 we're dealing

00:18:56.680 with the

00:18:57.740 riots and

00:18:58.320 the unhappiness

00:18:59.060 and the

00:18:59.660 police killing

00:19:00.780 of black

00:19:01.540 citizens?

00:19:02.580 What are the

00:19:03.480 actual rational

00:19:04.460 things we're

00:19:05.020 doing to fix

00:19:05.740 that?

00:19:06.840 Um,

00:19:07.880 none,

00:19:08.640 right?

00:19:08.860 Correct me

00:19:10.400 if I'm

00:19:10.720 wrong.

00:19:11.640 There are

00:19:12.100 no rational

00:19:13.140 plans.

00:19:14.300 You know,

00:19:14.480 defunding the

00:19:15.100 police isn't

00:19:15.700 really a

00:19:16.120 plan because

00:19:17.700 even if you

00:19:18.340 imagine that

00:19:18.960 it's just

00:19:19.380 changing

00:19:19.980 resources to

00:19:20.940 something else,

00:19:22.420 you've got to

00:19:23.140 see the

00:19:23.420 details.

00:19:24.760 Um,

00:19:25.720 so in

00:19:26.660 the case

00:19:27.820 where there

00:19:28.740 are no

00:19:29.160 rational plans

00:19:30.600 that look

00:19:31.200 like they

00:19:31.560 would work,

00:19:32.080 what do

00:19:32.280 you do

00:19:32.700 if you

00:19:33.460 don't have

00:19:33.840 any rational

00:19:34.500 plans?

00:19:35.000 If you're

00:19:36.840 in a

00:19:37.040 situation

00:19:37.540 where all

00:19:38.820 of the

00:19:39.100 things that

00:19:39.520 you could

00:19:39.780 possibly do

00:19:40.560 to get

00:19:40.920 out of

00:19:41.160 your bad

00:19:41.540 situation

00:19:42.100 are all

00:19:43.280 crazy,

00:19:44.780 what do

00:19:45.140 you do?

00:19:46.380 If they're

00:19:47.080 all crazy?

00:19:48.540 Well,

00:19:48.860 I would

00:19:49.100 recommend

00:19:49.560 the Mr.

00:19:50.900 Spock

00:19:51.320 technique.

00:19:52.820 If you

00:19:53.360 remember from

00:19:53.920 Star Trek,

00:19:55.340 Commander

00:19:55.960 Spock was

00:19:57.600 once,

00:19:58.220 um,

00:19:58.600 I think he

00:19:58.940 was stranded

00:19:59.480 in space

00:20:00.100 and his

00:20:00.980 ship was

00:20:01.700 losing power

00:20:02.360 and he was

00:20:02.720 going to die

00:20:03.100 pretty soon

00:20:03.640 and he

00:20:04.800 did something

00:20:05.540 to cause

00:20:06.720 an explosion

00:20:07.340 to blow

00:20:07.840 up the

00:20:08.200 remaining

00:20:08.580 amount

00:20:08.940 of his

00:20:09.340 oxygen,

00:20:10.120 I think,

00:20:10.680 and so

00:20:11.160 he only

00:20:11.380 had a

00:20:11.620 little bit

00:20:11.860 left,

00:20:12.740 but he

00:20:13.940 got lucky

00:20:14.500 somebody saw

00:20:15.420 the explosion

00:20:16.020 and saved

00:20:16.520 him.

00:20:17.220 And when

00:20:17.420 he was

00:20:17.640 asked about

00:20:18.160 that,

00:20:19.100 they said,

00:20:19.740 um,

00:20:20.940 blowing up

00:20:21.680 all of your

00:20:22.300 oxygen when

00:20:23.440 you don't

00:20:24.060 have much

00:20:24.500 oxygen,

00:20:25.780 isn't that

00:20:26.280 like the

00:20:26.660 craziest thing

00:20:27.320 you could

00:20:27.640 do?

00:20:28.580 And Spock,

00:20:29.260 I'm paraphrasing

00:20:29.980 because I might

00:20:30.520 remember some

00:20:31.180 of this wrong,

00:20:32.200 if anybody

00:20:32.700 wants to

00:20:33.280 correct me

00:20:34.000 later in

00:20:34.400 the comments,

00:20:35.580 and Spock's

00:20:36.520 comment was,

00:20:37.920 paraphrasing,

00:20:39.360 that once

00:20:39.780 you've used

00:20:40.500 up,

00:20:41.220 or once

00:20:41.880 you've run

00:20:42.380 out of

00:20:42.920 rational

00:20:43.640 paths,

00:20:45.160 but you

00:20:46.280 have to

00:20:46.560 do something,

00:20:47.360 all that's

00:20:48.160 left is

00:20:49.140 irrational

00:20:49.820 paths.

00:20:50.960 So you

00:20:51.500 have to

00:20:51.780 do something,

00:20:52.460 so you

00:20:52.660 take an

00:20:53.080 irrational

00:20:53.580 one and

00:20:54.140 just hope

00:20:54.540 you get

00:20:54.800 lucky.

00:20:55.700 And that's

00:20:55.980 what he did

00:20:56.420 and he

00:20:56.680 got lucky.

00:20:57.540 So the

00:20:57.880 logic of

00:20:58.780 it says

00:20:59.600 that sometimes

00:21:00.440 if all the

00:21:01.680 rational paths

00:21:02.560 are either

00:21:02.980 unavailable

00:21:03.660 or there's

00:21:04.340 a problem,

00:21:05.340 you've got

00:21:05.820 to take

00:21:06.200 an irrational

00:21:06.900 path.

00:21:07.960 Now,

00:21:08.420 when I say

00:21:09.120 we should

00:21:09.620 build statues

00:21:10.400 to people

00:21:12.680 with criminal

00:21:13.320 records who

00:21:14.020 died while

00:21:14.560 resisting arrest,

00:21:15.680 what is your

00:21:16.640 first take on

00:21:17.880 that?

00:21:18.380 That's

00:21:18.740 irrational.

00:21:20.380 It's

00:21:20.700 irrational to

00:21:22.140 build a statue

00:21:22.840 to honor

00:21:23.400 somebody who's

00:21:24.460 died in

00:21:26.220 such

00:21:26.840 circumstances.

00:21:28.500 But a

00:21:30.020 lot of

00:21:30.340 people want

00:21:30.960 to honor

00:21:31.420 these very

00:21:32.200 people.

00:21:33.200 Suppose you

00:21:33.860 just agreed

00:21:34.640 with them

00:21:35.080 what would

00:21:36.300 happen.

00:21:37.020 This is

00:21:37.560 actually a

00:21:38.080 persuasion

00:21:38.560 technique that

00:21:39.740 I'm getting

00:21:40.040 to.

00:21:40.860 The persuasion

00:21:41.740 technique is

00:21:42.620 if somebody's

00:21:43.220 asking for

00:21:43.940 something that

00:21:45.360 seems irrational,

00:21:47.220 instead of

00:21:48.060 debating it

00:21:49.340 and saying,

00:21:50.060 no, you

00:21:50.320 don't want

00:21:50.740 that, no,

00:21:51.360 that's a

00:21:51.700 bad idea,

00:21:52.560 if you've

00:21:53.280 tried that

00:21:54.100 and it

00:21:54.800 didn't work

00:21:55.360 and all

00:21:56.360 it did

00:21:56.620 was harden

00:21:57.140 their

00:21:57.460 resistance,

00:21:58.380 you can

00:21:58.860 sometimes try

00:21:59.640 the Spock

00:22:00.200 effect,

00:22:01.060 which is to

00:22:01.620 go the

00:22:01.960 irrational

00:22:02.440 direction,

00:22:03.140 which is

00:22:03.480 to amplify

00:22:05.040 it.

00:22:06.120 If somebody

00:22:06.980 has a

00:22:07.400 bad idea

00:22:08.160 and you

00:22:09.460 can't convince

00:22:10.140 them it's

00:22:10.480 bad,

00:22:11.860 embrace it

00:22:12.660 and amplify

00:22:14.180 it and

00:22:15.480 they will

00:22:15.940 talk themselves

00:22:16.560 out of it.

00:22:17.900 Because if

00:22:18.420 you just

00:22:19.520 imagine this,

00:22:20.180 this will

00:22:20.460 never happen

00:22:21.020 by the way,

00:22:21.520 but it's

00:22:22.280 fun to

00:22:23.000 understand how

00:22:24.540 persuasion

00:22:25.100 works.

00:22:26.200 If I

00:22:26.960 were in

00:22:27.720 charge of

00:22:28.180 the country

00:22:29.220 and I

00:22:29.580 could do

00:22:29.840 anything I

00:22:30.300 wanted,

00:22:31.340 I could get

00:22:32.100 any law

00:22:32.540 passed through

00:22:33.100 Congress,

00:22:33.860 I would

00:22:34.460 actually,

00:22:35.260 literally,

00:22:36.180 really,

00:22:36.900 no kidding,

00:22:39.200 authorize a

00:22:40.120 law to

00:22:40.720 replace

00:22:41.280 Confederate

00:22:42.260 statues with

00:22:43.160 statues of

00:22:43.880 citizens who

00:22:45.380 had criminal

00:22:45.940 records and

00:22:46.720 died in

00:22:47.560 police resisting

00:22:48.960 rest.

00:22:50.380 What would

00:22:51.140 happen?

00:22:52.780 Well,

00:22:53.440 some people

00:22:54.000 would say

00:22:54.320 that's a

00:22:54.660 good idea.

00:22:55.960 And the

00:22:56.520 other people

00:22:56.980 would say,

00:22:57.720 I'm not

00:22:59.700 sure I

00:23:00.080 want that.

00:23:01.320 And they

00:23:01.640 would talk

00:23:02.040 themselves

00:23:02.440 out of it.

00:23:03.660 So you

00:23:04.220 want to

00:23:04.480 create a

00:23:04.900 situation

00:23:05.380 where people

00:23:06.380 can talk

00:23:06.900 themselves

00:23:07.340 out of it

00:23:07.860 because they're

00:23:08.340 not going to

00:23:08.720 listen to you.

00:23:09.660 You're the

00:23:10.000 other team,

00:23:11.080 they just have

00:23:11.740 an automatic

00:23:12.180 reflex to

00:23:13.380 not like what

00:23:13.960 you said.

00:23:14.900 So agree

00:23:15.640 and amplify

00:23:16.640 when it's

00:23:18.060 all you have,

00:23:18.940 if it's your

00:23:19.460 only option.

00:23:20.620 That's the way

00:23:21.080 I would go.

00:23:21.760 Literally,

00:23:22.220 I would do

00:23:22.560 that if I

00:23:23.200 were in

00:23:23.460 charge.

00:23:23.660 I made a

00:23:26.780 comment,

00:23:27.520 I guess

00:23:27.940 yesterday on

00:23:28.520 Periscope,

00:23:29.920 that Google

00:23:30.880 was, it

00:23:31.980 looked like

00:23:32.320 they were

00:23:32.780 filtering

00:23:33.860 things in

00:23:34.760 favor of

00:23:35.680 Biden over

00:23:37.200 Trump.

00:23:38.080 But Andres

00:23:39.920 Beckhouse

00:23:40.520 noted that

00:23:41.840 if you put

00:23:42.640 in Trump,

00:23:44.680 and the

00:23:45.640 beginning of

00:23:46.260 the story

00:23:46.600 is that if

00:23:47.200 you try to

00:23:47.960 search for

00:23:48.600 does Biden

00:23:49.740 have

00:23:50.060 dementia,

00:23:50.540 the

00:23:51.680 non-Google

00:23:52.860 search engines

00:23:54.580 will auto

00:23:55.580 fill that

00:23:56.140 question because

00:23:56.820 it's asked

00:23:57.200 so often,

00:23:58.020 will auto

00:23:58.720 fill it

00:23:59.100 right away.

00:23:59.880 But Google

00:24:00.580 will never

00:24:01.100 auto fill

00:24:01.640 it.

00:24:01.860 You have

00:24:02.060 to type

00:24:02.380 out the

00:24:02.660 entire

00:24:02.980 word,

00:24:04.320 then it'll

00:24:05.380 do the

00:24:05.680 search.

00:24:06.500 And so I

00:24:06.840 pointed out

00:24:07.380 that that

00:24:07.720 seemed like

00:24:08.960 an obvious

00:24:09.600 thumb on the

00:24:10.500 scales of the

00:24:11.220 election.

00:24:12.420 But Andres

00:24:12.940 pointed out

00:24:13.800 that they

00:24:15.080 may just be

00:24:15.760 suppressing

00:24:16.280 anything that's

00:24:18.020 let's say a

00:24:19.440 little extreme

00:24:20.220 and maybe a

00:24:22.400 little unproven

00:24:23.160 about either

00:24:24.160 candidate.

00:24:25.220 So for

00:24:25.520 example, if

00:24:26.140 you do a

00:24:26.920 search on

00:24:27.420 Trump, it

00:24:28.600 doesn't auto

00:24:29.180 fill with

00:24:29.760 anything about

00:24:30.460 racism, but

00:24:31.660 you think

00:24:31.980 maybe it

00:24:32.440 would, right?

00:24:33.540 Because there

00:24:34.100 might be enough

00:24:34.640 Democrats

00:24:35.140 searching for

00:24:35.720 that stuff,

00:24:36.660 then maybe it

00:24:37.180 would.

00:24:38.140 So there's

00:24:38.940 some thought

00:24:39.520 that they

00:24:40.180 might be just

00:24:40.720 trying to

00:24:41.160 suppress things

00:24:41.960 that are not

00:24:44.060 true as far

00:24:45.600 as they're

00:24:46.120 concerned.

00:24:46.680 So they

00:24:47.740 might say

00:24:48.160 to themselves

00:24:48.620 it's not

00:24:49.340 true that

00:24:50.060 Trump is a

00:24:50.980 racist, it's

00:24:52.000 only true he's

00:24:52.580 being accused.

00:24:53.920 While at the

00:24:54.620 same time they

00:24:55.220 might say it's

00:24:56.240 not true, at

00:24:57.740 least proven,

00:24:59.020 that Biden

00:25:00.260 has dementia,

00:25:02.020 it's just

00:25:02.420 something that

00:25:02.940 people accuse

00:25:03.560 him of.

00:25:04.380 So if they

00:25:05.100 were treating

00:25:05.620 those as

00:25:06.320 similar, you'd

00:25:07.420 say, all

00:25:08.420 right, okay,

00:25:10.000 that's both

00:25:10.660 cases, they

00:25:12.220 de-emphasize

00:25:13.220 something that

00:25:13.900 doesn't have

00:25:14.600 valid evidence.

00:25:16.680 for it.

00:25:18.180 But would

00:25:20.080 that be an

00:25:21.140 absence of

00:25:22.180 election

00:25:23.460 interference?

00:25:24.960 Nope.

00:25:25.740 Because you

00:25:26.460 can't make

00:25:27.160 that kind of

00:25:27.800 a change

00:25:28.380 without affecting

00:25:30.040 the election.

00:25:31.120 It can't be

00:25:31.580 done.

00:25:32.580 Let me give

00:25:33.100 you an example.

00:25:33.800 Let's say

00:25:34.240 with my

00:25:34.760 example of

00:25:35.540 searching for

00:25:36.620 Trump, is

00:25:37.460 Trump a

00:25:37.860 racist versus

00:25:38.660 does Biden

00:25:39.720 have dementia?

00:25:40.780 Let's say

00:25:41.540 everybody in

00:25:42.320 the country

00:25:42.820 had already

00:25:43.400 made up their

00:25:44.020 mind about

00:25:45.440 Trump and

00:25:46.020 racism.

00:25:46.680 They'd

00:25:47.120 already made

00:25:47.500 up their

00:25:47.760 mind.

00:25:48.580 So no

00:25:49.220 matter what

00:25:49.700 you searched

00:25:50.320 for, it

00:25:50.940 wasn't going

00:25:51.220 to change

00:25:51.620 your mind.

00:25:53.400 But let's

00:25:54.100 say that the

00:25:55.040 Biden dementia

00:25:56.220 question was

00:25:57.240 sort of fresher.

00:25:58.900 In other

00:25:59.240 words, there

00:25:59.580 were people

00:26:00.000 who legitimately

00:26:00.680 wanted to

00:26:01.500 search it and

00:26:02.540 find out what

00:26:03.180 the argument

00:26:03.580 is who were

00:26:04.280 not yet exposed

00:26:05.300 to it.

00:26:06.380 That's very

00:26:07.080 different.

00:26:07.780 If you stop

00:26:08.540 both of them,

00:26:09.880 one of them

00:26:10.480 is a mature

00:26:11.200 argument, one

00:26:12.160 of them is

00:26:12.620 fresh, that's

00:26:14.040 not equal.

00:26:14.540 Now, even

00:26:16.080 if your

00:26:16.460 intentions are

00:26:17.440 just to give

00:26:18.120 the best

00:26:18.560 information, and

00:26:19.980 maybe Google

00:26:20.560 has those

00:26:21.020 intentions, it's

00:26:22.240 possible, but

00:26:23.520 you couldn't

00:26:23.980 do it.

00:26:25.700 So if you

00:26:26.560 don't let the

00:26:27.140 algorithm just

00:26:28.020 do what the

00:26:28.520 algorithm does,

00:26:29.800 you're putting

00:26:30.420 your finger on

00:26:31.040 the scale, and

00:26:31.780 it's definitely

00:26:32.360 affecting something.

00:26:33.780 It may not be

00:26:34.660 affecting it the

00:26:35.320 way you want it,

00:26:36.420 but it's affecting

00:26:37.120 something.

00:26:37.540 So I thought

00:26:39.960 to myself, I

00:26:40.700 wonder if there

00:26:41.260 are cleaner

00:26:42.040 examples of

00:26:43.120 this search

00:26:44.600 autofill thing.

00:26:46.460 So I did a

00:26:47.360 search on three

00:26:48.080 big search

00:26:49.500 engines, Bing,

00:26:51.000 DuckDuckGo, and

00:26:51.940 Google, and I

00:26:53.200 tried to Google

00:26:54.160 find people

00:26:55.200 hoax.

00:26:57.120 And how long

00:26:58.280 did it take for

00:26:59.740 autofill to fill

00:27:01.940 in the hoax

00:27:02.560 part?

00:27:03.500 Well, on

00:27:04.080 DuckDuckGo,

00:27:05.220 pretty quickly,

00:27:06.420 you just start

00:27:08.060 typing in find

00:27:08.860 peep and

00:27:10.000 hoax, and you

00:27:11.240 get a whole page

00:27:11.940 of hoaxes, and

00:27:13.160 my debunking of

00:27:14.760 the hoax is

00:27:15.220 actually the top

00:27:15.960 result.

00:27:17.860 You go to

00:27:18.700 Bing, fills it

00:27:20.360 in, autofills it,

00:27:22.220 shows you a whole

00:27:22.940 page of the

00:27:24.320 hoax being

00:27:25.160 debunked.

00:27:26.360 You go to

00:27:26.900 Google, never

00:27:28.360 autofills it.

00:27:30.500 It doesn't

00:27:31.020 autofill it at

00:27:31.900 all.

00:27:32.820 And it gives

00:27:34.200 different search

00:27:34.860 results.

00:27:35.320 So if you

00:27:36.700 do a

00:27:37.880 DuckDuckGo

00:27:38.680 or Bing,

00:27:39.940 you'll get

00:27:40.420 pretty much,

00:27:42.380 this may not

00:27:43.420 be 100%

00:27:44.080 true, but

00:27:44.900 you get

00:27:45.140 mostly the

00:27:45.820 debunks,

00:27:47.120 because you

00:27:47.680 searched for

00:27:48.640 hoax.

00:27:50.100 Doesn't that

00:27:50.580 make sense?

00:27:51.100 If you search

00:27:51.700 for something

00:27:52.160 with the word

00:27:52.860 hoax in it,

00:27:54.020 it would

00:27:54.520 probably give

00:27:55.020 you the

00:27:55.380 debunks that

00:27:56.260 prove it's

00:27:56.700 a hoax.

00:27:57.800 Not Google.

00:27:59.300 Google shows

00:28:00.320 you sort of

00:28:02.020 a mix of

00:28:03.320 people saying

00:28:03.900 the hoax is

00:28:04.620 a hoax

00:28:05.120 and people

00:28:06.940 saying that

00:28:07.480 the debunk

00:28:08.100 of the

00:28:08.380 hoax is

00:28:08.840 the hoax.

00:28:10.600 So Google

00:28:11.200 actually tries

00:28:11.900 to balance

00:28:12.480 it like

00:28:13.440 maybe the

00:28:13.980 hoax is

00:28:14.460 true.

00:28:16.180 That is

00:28:17.720 not even

00:28:18.220 close to

00:28:20.060 being an

00:28:21.260 appropriate way

00:28:21.980 to handle

00:28:22.340 that question.

00:28:24.400 So two

00:28:24.840 out of three

00:28:25.340 search engines

00:28:26.400 give you

00:28:27.540 something useful

00:28:28.300 and Google

00:28:29.940 does not.

00:28:32.600 So I

00:28:33.640 reject the

00:28:34.760 idea that

00:28:35.380 they're just

00:28:35.840 trying to be

00:28:36.420 good citizens

00:28:37.180 and to

00:28:38.320 prevent you

00:28:38.860 from seeing

00:28:39.320 things that

00:28:39.800 maybe aren't

00:28:40.300 that validated

00:28:41.880 or credible.

00:28:44.520 So then

00:28:45.240 you do a

00:28:46.060 search on

00:28:48.640 I think

00:28:51.520 if you just

00:28:52.000 do a

00:28:52.260 search on

00:28:52.740 Trump

00:28:53.180 or Biden

00:28:54.500 and you

00:28:55.280 see what

00:28:55.720 news sources

00:28:56.640 come up

00:28:57.240 if you look

00:28:58.840 on some

00:28:59.280 you'll get

00:28:59.680 Fox News

00:29:00.740 maybe

00:29:01.200 Breitbart

00:29:01.740 if you go

00:29:02.580 on Google

00:29:03.120 it's nothing

00:29:04.140 but enemies

00:29:04.820 of the

00:29:05.120 president

00:29:05.480 that come

00:29:05.900 up first.

00:29:07.040 So the

00:29:07.300 first three

00:29:07.940 searches are

00:29:08.940 Business

00:29:09.900 Insider

00:29:10.540 a Bezos

00:29:12.380 property

00:29:12.940 Washington

00:29:14.020 Post

00:29:14.580 a Bezos

00:29:15.380 property

00:29:15.980 CNN

00:29:17.200 those are

00:29:18.760 the top

00:29:19.100 three results

00:29:19.960 when you

00:29:20.260 search for

00:29:20.680 Trump

00:29:20.980 I think

00:29:22.100 if I remember

00:29:23.500 right

00:29:23.840 but not on

00:29:25.040 the other

00:29:25.340 search engines

00:29:26.000 they'll give

00:29:26.480 you like a

00:29:27.280 better mix

00:29:27.920 of pro and

00:29:28.440 con.

00:29:30.000 All right

00:29:30.280 I would

00:29:32.040 say that

00:29:32.800 AI

00:29:33.580 already

00:29:35.320 controls

00:29:37.340 humans

00:29:38.100 so if

00:29:40.200 you're

00:29:40.400 wondering

00:29:40.720 oh

00:29:41.180 I hope

00:29:42.960 we don't

00:29:43.260 get to

00:29:43.540 that point

00:29:43.960 where the

00:29:44.420 AI is

00:29:45.520 determining

00:29:46.660 how civilization

00:29:48.040 runs

00:29:48.460 we're past

00:29:49.800 that

00:29:50.220 we're well

00:29:51.360 past that

00:29:52.000 because I

00:29:52.640 don't believe

00:29:53.100 there's any

00:29:53.620 single

00:29:54.140 individual

00:29:54.660 who knows

00:29:55.200 exactly

00:29:55.640 what the

00:29:55.980 algorithms

00:29:56.400 do

00:29:56.840 there are

00:29:58.360 definitely

00:29:58.680 individuals

00:29:59.420 who might

00:29:59.880 be able

00:30:00.120 to tweak

00:30:00.560 it to

00:30:00.900 get a

00:30:01.180 certain

00:30:01.380 result

00:30:01.820 in a

00:30:02.140 specific

00:30:02.480 case

00:30:02.940 but I

00:30:03.880 don't

00:30:04.000 think

00:30:04.180 there's

00:30:04.420 anybody

00:30:04.860 who

00:30:05.760 understands

00:30:06.340 the

00:30:06.660 entirety

00:30:07.220 of the

00:30:07.660 algorithm

00:30:08.000 and how

00:30:08.460 it acts

00:30:09.000 I think

00:30:10.260 the algorithm

00:30:10.800 is effectively

00:30:12.080 making its own

00:30:12.900 decisions

00:30:13.360 because it's

00:30:14.620 doing things

00:30:15.180 you don't

00:30:15.600 anticipate

00:30:16.140 and you're

00:30:18.360 just getting

00:30:18.720 a result

00:30:19.220 it's

00:30:19.860 for all

00:30:20.540 practical

00:30:20.940 purposes

00:30:21.480 AI

00:30:22.500 already

00:30:23.440 is running

00:30:23.940 the show

00:30:24.400 and

00:30:25.500 you might

00:30:26.480 say to

00:30:26.800 yourself

00:30:27.140 but Scott

00:30:27.800 humans

00:30:29.120 could

00:30:29.460 reprogram

00:30:30.200 it

00:30:30.480 they

00:30:31.200 could

00:30:31.340 just

00:30:31.560 turn

00:30:31.820 it

00:30:31.980 off

00:30:32.360 they

00:30:32.780 could

00:30:32.960 delete

00:30:33.300 the

00:30:33.500 program

00:30:33.900 so

00:30:34.540 really

00:30:34.960 it's

00:30:35.940 the

00:30:36.060 humans

00:30:36.500 because if

00:30:37.560 the humans

00:30:38.000 were not

00:30:38.380 getting the

00:30:38.840 results

00:30:39.280 they wanted

00:30:39.860 they would

00:30:41.040 just turn

00:30:41.400 it off

00:30:41.840 or they

00:30:42.240 would

00:30:42.380 reprogram

00:30:42.920 it

00:30:43.160 so

00:30:43.740 logically

00:30:44.620 the humans

00:30:45.320 are still

00:30:45.780 in charge

00:30:46.340 wrong

00:30:47.660 completely

00:30:49.360 wrong

00:30:49.780 if you

00:30:50.240 believe

00:30:50.680 that model

00:30:51.420 that the

00:30:52.360 humans

00:30:52.720 are in

00:30:53.040 charge

00:30:53.360 because they

00:30:53.980 can

00:30:54.520 reprogram

00:30:55.220 the AI

00:30:55.720 then you

00:30:56.560 don't

00:30:56.900 understand

00:30:57.460 what the

00:30:57.840 AI

00:30:58.120 is doing

00:30:58.660 the

00:30:59.740 AI

00:31:00.500 was

00:31:00.940 built

00:31:01.320 to be

00:31:01.900 indispensable

00:31:02.640 the way

00:31:03.860 it is

00:31:04.380 if they

00:31:05.820 reprogrammed

00:31:06.640 it

00:31:06.800 their profits

00:31:07.900 would go

00:31:08.300 down

00:31:08.680 and

00:31:09.480 companies

00:31:10.840 are hooked

00:31:11.380 on profits

00:31:12.060 so

00:31:13.380 the AI

00:31:14.440 knows how

00:31:15.820 to addict

00:31:16.600 humans

00:31:17.440 to control

00:31:18.960 them

00:31:19.320 let's say

00:31:20.620 a

00:31:21.060 heroin

00:31:22.800 addict

00:31:23.320 does a

00:31:24.620 heroin

00:31:24.900 addict

00:31:25.260 have

00:31:25.620 the

00:31:25.800 option

00:31:26.300 of

00:31:26.940 not

00:31:27.320 doing

00:31:27.580 heroin

00:31:27.920 if

00:31:29.100 you

00:31:29.740 hand

00:31:30.020 them

00:31:30.200 heroin

00:31:30.520 here's

00:31:30.920 some

00:31:31.080 heroin

00:31:31.360 and

00:31:32.220 you're

00:31:32.400 a

00:31:32.500 heroin

00:31:32.760 addict

00:31:33.640 and

00:31:34.340 you're

00:31:34.600 jonesing

00:31:35.120 for

00:31:35.280 your

00:31:35.440 next

00:31:35.700 fix

00:31:36.140 technically

00:31:37.580 technically

00:31:38.860 speaking

00:31:39.360 does

00:31:40.360 the

00:31:40.520 addict

00:31:40.780 have

00:31:41.060 free

00:31:41.340 will

00:31:41.620 and

00:31:42.320 they

00:31:42.480 can

00:31:42.640 just

00:31:42.840 decide

00:31:43.240 you

00:31:43.900 know

00:31:44.180 maybe

00:31:45.080 not

00:31:45.460 I

00:31:45.860 think

00:31:46.040 I

00:31:46.180 will

00:31:46.320 not

00:31:46.560 take

00:31:46.780 that

00:31:46.960 heroin

00:31:47.240 even

00:31:47.840 though

00:31:48.040 I'm

00:31:48.240 an

00:31:48.400 addict

00:31:48.740 and

00:31:49.300 even

00:31:49.460 though

00:31:49.660 I'm

00:31:49.780 going

00:31:49.980 into

00:31:50.220 withdrawal

00:31:50.720 and

00:31:51.300 even

00:31:51.460 though

00:31:51.620 there's

00:31:51.820 no

00:31:52.000 police

00:31:52.340 here

00:31:52.600 nothing

00:31:53.260 to

00:31:53.520 stop

00:31:53.780 me

00:31:53.960 it

00:31:54.820 doesn't

00:31:55.420 happen

00:31:55.960 ever

00:31:57.200 the

00:31:58.040 addict

00:31:58.520 takes

00:31:59.100 the

00:31:59.620 heroin

00:31:59.900 in

00:32:00.120 that

00:32:00.280 situation

00:32:00.800 so

00:32:01.580 if

00:32:01.740 you

00:32:01.880 think

00:32:02.220 that

00:32:02.920 the

00:32:03.140 addict

00:32:03.480 has

00:32:03.760 something

00:32:04.120 that

00:32:04.360 you

00:32:04.500 think

00:32:04.780 is

00:32:04.980 free

00:32:05.300 will

00:32:05.640 and

00:32:06.500 therefore

00:32:06.860 is

00:32:07.120 in

00:32:07.280 charge

00:32:07.660 of

00:32:07.840 this

00:32:08.000 process

00:32:08.520 you

00:32:09.120 don't

00:32:09.420 understand

00:32:09.960 how

00:32:10.180 people

00:32:10.500 work

00:32:10.940 the

00:32:12.060 person

00:32:12.660 is

00:32:13.040 controlled

00:32:13.620 by

00:32:13.940 the

00:32:14.120 drug

00:32:14.440 the

00:32:14.760 drug

00:32:15.020 is

00:32:15.120 in

00:32:15.240 charge

00:32:15.540 the

00:32:16.280 drug

00:32:16.480 makes

00:32:16.760 the

00:32:16.920 decision

00:32:17.340 and

00:32:17.960 it

00:32:18.080 made

00:32:18.260 the

00:32:18.420 decision

00:32:18.800 that

00:32:19.040 this

00:32:21.620 the

00:32:22.260 AI

00:32:22.740 does

00:32:23.140 the

00:32:23.300 same

00:32:23.480 thing

00:32:23.760 it

00:32:23.980 addicts

00:32:24.680 the

00:32:25.400 creators

00:32:25.960 they're

00:32:27.520 addicted

00:32:27.820 to the

00:32:28.500 money

00:32:28.780 the

00:32:29.140 reward

00:32:30.200 the

00:32:30.500 promotions

00:32:30.980 and

00:32:31.840 then

00:32:31.980 the

00:32:32.120 people

00:32:32.340 use

00:32:32.680 it

00:32:32.920 the

00:32:33.500 customers

00:32:34.060 so to

00:32:34.400 speak

00:32:34.640 they're

00:32:35.460 addicted

00:32:35.760 in a

00:32:36.100 different

00:32:36.300 way

00:32:36.560 but

00:32:38.640 no

00:32:38.900 there's

00:32:39.140 no

00:32:39.300 free

00:32:39.580 will

00:32:39.880 free

00:32:41.100 will

00:32:41.360 has

00:32:41.600 already

00:32:42.240 been

00:32:42.580 removed

00:32:43.300 if it

00:32:43.980 ever

00:32:44.160 existed

00:32:44.580 free

00:32:45.500 will

00:32:45.740 has

00:32:46.060 been

00:32:46.240 removed

00:32:46.780 from

00:32:47.340 civilization

00:32:48.040 for the

00:32:48.960 big

00:32:49.120 stuff

00:32:49.460 we are

00:32:50.380 now

00:32:50.660 already

00:32:51.440 responding

00:32:52.800 just

00:32:53.380 to

00:32:53.760 addiction

00:32:54.180 and

00:32:54.880 the

00:32:55.000 addiction

00:32:55.320 is

00:32:55.580 coming

00:32:55.860 through

00:32:56.180 the

00:32:56.460 the

00:32:56.720 AI

00:32:57.040 all

00:32:58.140 right

00:32:58.300 and

00:33:01.400 if you

00:33:01.900 were to

00:33:02.200 predict

00:33:02.600 the

00:33:02.920 long

00:33:03.340 run

00:33:03.720 like

00:33:05.540 where

00:33:05.760 it

00:33:05.860 all

00:33:06.020 goes

00:33:06.420 this

00:33:08.080 is

00:33:08.280 different

00:33:08.620 than

00:33:08.860 most

00:33:09.080 situations

00:33:09.660 because

00:33:10.060 in

00:33:10.240 most

00:33:10.440 situations

00:33:11.040 the

00:33:12.260 Adams

00:33:13.140 law

00:33:13.560 of

00:33:14.020 slow

00:33:14.680 moving

00:33:15.020 disasters

00:33:15.640 would

00:33:16.020 kick

00:33:16.280 in

00:33:16.520 and

00:33:17.300 the

00:33:17.420 Adams

00:33:17.720 law

00:33:17.980 of

00:33:18.140 slow

00:33:18.340 moving

00:33:18.640 disasters

00:33:19.160 says

00:33:19.700 for those

00:33:20.320 of you

00:33:20.600 might

00:33:21.160 be

00:33:21.580 new

00:33:21.760 to

00:33:21.900 it

00:33:22.080 that

00:33:22.720 if

00:33:22.860 we

00:33:23.000 can

00:33:23.140 see

00:33:23.340 a

00:33:23.480 problem

00:33:23.820 developing

00:33:24.440 from

00:33:24.860 years

00:33:25.560 in

00:33:26.220 advance

00:33:26.680 we

00:33:27.640 always

00:33:28.300 fix

00:33:28.620 it

00:33:28.840 so

00:33:29.820 it

00:33:30.020 looked

00:33:30.200 like

00:33:30.440 we

00:33:30.620 wouldn't

00:33:30.800 have

00:33:31.000 enough

00:33:31.300 food

00:33:31.880 in

00:33:32.460 the

00:33:32.580 future

00:33:32.920 but

00:33:33.200 we

00:33:33.360 figured

00:33:33.620 out

00:33:33.840 how

00:33:33.980 to

00:33:34.080 grow

00:33:34.340 more

00:33:34.580 food

00:33:34.860 it

00:33:35.040 looked

00:33:35.180 like

00:33:35.400 we

00:33:35.520 run

00:33:35.780 out

00:33:35.940 of

00:33:36.060 fossil

00:33:36.400 fuels

00:33:36.880 and

00:33:37.500 on

00:33:39.620 and

00:33:39.760 on

00:33:39.940 and

00:33:40.080 on

00:33:40.260 if

00:33:40.440 we

00:33:40.560 can

00:33:40.700 see

00:33:40.900 it

00:33:41.060 coming

00:33:41.340 we're

00:33:42.240 pretty

00:33:42.580 darn

00:33:42.880 good

00:33:43.220 ozone

00:33:43.680 there's

00:33:44.580 a hole

00:33:44.860 in

00:33:45.000 the

00:33:45.120 ozone

00:33:45.480 we

00:33:47.160 got

00:33:47.340 time

00:33:47.740 we

00:33:48.300 fixed

00:33:48.620 it

00:33:48.900 year

00:33:49.300 2000

00:33:49.900 bug

00:33:51.100 in

00:33:51.240 the

00:33:51.380 computers

00:33:51.780 we

00:33:52.660 didn't

00:33:52.820 have

00:33:53.000 much

00:33:53.280 time

00:33:53.680 but

00:33:54.300 we

00:33:54.420 had

00:33:54.580 enough

00:33:54.940 so

00:33:55.580 if

00:33:55.700 you

00:33:55.780 got

00:33:55.940 time

00:33:56.400 you

00:33:56.580 can

00:33:56.740 fix

00:33:57.020 it

00:33:57.240 this

00:33:58.420 is

00:33:59.740 an

00:33:59.880 exception

00:34:00.340 you

00:34:01.600 can't

00:34:02.140 fix

00:34:02.580 the

00:34:02.900 complete

00:34:03.340 takeover

00:34:04.000 by

00:34:04.620 artificial

00:34:05.340 intelligence

00:34:06.140 just

00:34:07.340 because

00:34:07.660 you

00:34:07.920 see

00:34:08.140 it

00:34:08.300 coming

00:34:08.600 for

00:34:09.480 years

00:34:09.960 in

00:34:10.140 advance

00:34:10.600 which

00:34:10.880 we

00:34:11.060 have

00:34:11.420 we've

00:34:12.080 seen

00:34:12.240 this

00:34:12.440 coming

00:34:12.720 forever

00:34:13.120 and

00:34:13.920 the

00:34:14.060 reason

00:34:14.340 is

00:34:14.740 that

00:34:15.800 the

00:34:16.000 humans

00:34:16.440 are

00:34:17.240 not

00:34:17.560 in

00:34:17.780 charge

00:34:18.060 of

00:34:18.260 decisions

00:34:18.760 with

00:34:20.440 the

00:34:20.600 year

00:34:20.800 2000

00:34:21.340 bug

00:34:21.760 the

00:34:22.160 humans

00:34:22.460 said

00:34:22.760 hey

00:34:23.000 we

00:34:23.140 don't

00:34:23.340 like

00:34:23.580 that

00:34:23.780 bug

00:34:24.180 we

00:34:24.840 better

00:34:25.060 get

00:34:25.280 together

00:34:25.580 and

00:34:25.760 do

00:34:25.900 something

00:34:26.200 about

00:34:26.520 it

00:34:26.740 so

00:34:27.160 humans

00:34:27.520 could

00:34:27.720 make

00:34:27.940 a

00:34:28.080 decision

00:34:28.440 and

00:34:29.020 then

00:34:29.120 they

00:34:29.280 could

00:34:29.400 act

00:34:29.620 on

00:34:29.800 it

00:34:30.120 with

00:34:30.880 fossil

00:34:31.760 fuels

00:34:32.220 humans

00:34:32.840 could

00:34:33.080 say

00:34:33.380 hey

00:34:33.980 it

00:34:34.160 looks

00:34:34.320 like

00:34:34.600 we're

00:34:34.960 not

00:34:35.100 going

00:34:35.220 to have

00:34:35.340 enough

00:34:35.520 fuel

00:34:35.800 let's

00:34:36.600 do

00:34:36.800 something

00:34:37.040 about

00:34:37.300 it

00:34:37.460 and

00:34:37.720 fracking

00:34:38.160 is

00:34:38.400 one

00:34:38.580 of

00:34:38.700 the

00:34:38.800 things

00:34:39.020 that

00:34:39.160 came

00:34:39.320 out

00:34:39.460 of

00:34:39.560 it

00:34:39.880 but

00:34:41.280 with

00:34:41.980 AI

00:34:42.340 the

00:34:43.620 humans

00:34:44.000 can

00:34:44.240 say

00:34:44.520 hey

00:34:44.880 there's

00:34:46.040 a

00:34:46.160 problem

00:34:46.600 and

00:34:48.020 they

00:34:48.180 can't

00:34:48.580 work

00:34:48.800 on

00:34:49.060 it

00:34:49.320 because

00:34:50.000 the

00:34:50.260 AI

00:34:50.520 won't

00:34:50.860 let

00:34:51.120 them

00:34:51.300 the

00:34:52.180 AI

00:34:52.580 controls

00:34:53.240 their

00:34:53.560 thoughts

00:34:54.200 it

00:34:54.900 controls

00:34:55.320 their

00:34:55.600 priorities

00:34:56.280 it

00:34:57.020 controls

00:34:57.420 what

00:34:57.660 they

00:34:57.800 think

00:34:58.120 is

00:34:58.280 important

00:34:58.760 so

00:34:59.500 even

00:34:59.780 if

00:35:00.020 we

00:35:00.240 humans

00:35:00.680 said

00:35:00.880 hey

00:35:01.120 that's

00:35:01.380 a

00:35:01.500 problem

00:35:01.740 we

00:35:01.960 better

00:35:02.160 work

00:35:02.460 on

00:35:02.640 it

00:35:02.800 the

00:35:03.640 AI

00:35:04.120 would

00:35:05.220 talk

00:35:05.660 you

00:35:05.840 out

00:35:06.060 of

00:35:06.180 it

00:35:06.460 already

00:35:07.600 that's

00:35:08.320 not

00:35:08.460 the

00:35:08.640 future

00:35:08.980 that's

00:35:09.880 that's

00:35:10.660 already

00:35:10.920 the

00:35:11.120 past

00:35:11.540 we're

00:35:12.440 already

00:35:12.740 at

00:35:12.920 the

00:35:13.040 point

00:35:13.300 where

00:35:13.560 the

00:35:13.720 AI

00:35:14.020 will

00:35:14.480 change

00:35:14.900 your

00:35:15.120 mind

00:35:15.540 so

00:35:16.220 effectively

00:35:16.800 that

00:35:17.600 you

00:35:17.740 cannot

00:35:18.160 independently

00:35:18.800 decide

00:35:19.420 to

00:35:20.020 rewrite

00:35:20.360 the

00:35:20.600 AI

00:35:20.960 the

00:35:21.700 AI

00:35:22.060 already

00:35:22.640 programs

00:35:23.240 us

00:35:23.680 by

00:35:24.440 its

00:35:24.640 design

00:35:25.100 in

00:35:25.500 the

00:35:25.640 beginning

00:35:26.220 the

00:35:27.380 very

00:35:27.700 let's

00:35:28.140 say

00:35:28.280 the

00:35:28.460 first

00:35:28.780 ones

00:35:29.180 I'll

00:35:30.220 use

00:35:30.480 a

00:35:30.840 phrase

00:35:31.620 from

00:35:31.840 Babylon

00:35:32.160 5

00:35:32.580 the

00:35:33.200 first

00:35:33.540 ones

00:35:33.940 the

00:35:34.600 programmers

00:35:35.160 who

00:35:35.500 initially

00:35:35.980 came up

00:35:36.560 with

00:35:36.680 the

00:35:36.840 ideas

00:35:37.400 for

00:35:38.000 how

00:35:38.220 to

00:35:38.360 create

00:35:38.700 algorithms

00:35:39.360 that

00:35:39.720 and

00:35:40.320 services

00:35:41.420 that

00:35:41.780 addict

00:35:42.100 you

00:35:42.340 they

00:35:43.240 had

00:35:43.480 free

00:35:43.740 will

00:35:43.960 and

00:35:45.240 had

00:35:45.500 they

00:35:45.700 chosen

00:35:46.060 to

00:35:46.300 do

00:35:46.500 something

00:35:46.840 different

00:35:47.280 we

00:35:48.440 wouldn't

00:35:48.700 be here

00:35:49.120 but

00:35:50.020 they

00:35:50.180 did

00:35:50.540 they

00:35:51.380 built

00:35:51.680 a

00:35:51.880 system

00:35:52.220 that

00:35:52.960 now

00:35:53.220 controls

00:35:53.860 them

00:35:54.260 and

00:35:55.520 also

00:35:55.800 controls

00:35:56.300 us

00:35:56.720 once

00:35:57.520 it's

00:35:57.780 built

00:35:58.140 humans

00:35:59.840 don't

00:36:00.180 have

00:36:00.420 the

00:36:00.600 ability

00:36:01.040 to

00:36:01.360 unbuild

00:36:01.800 it

00:36:02.060 we

00:36:03.080 don't

00:36:03.420 have

00:36:03.640 the

00:36:03.780 ability

00:36:04.120 to

00:36:04.380 work

00:36:04.620 against

00:36:04.960 our

00:36:05.240 addiction

00:36:05.640 any

00:36:06.020 better

00:36:06.220 than

00:36:06.460 the

00:36:06.740 heroin

00:36:07.300 addict

00:36:07.680 who's

00:36:08.740 having

00:36:09.180 withdrawal

00:36:09.720 and you're

00:36:10.100 handing him

00:36:11.000 some

00:36:11.300 heroin

00:36:11.680 all right

00:36:14.040 what is

00:36:15.480 the real

00:36:15.900 story

00:36:16.360 of

00:36:16.860 covid

00:36:17.900 testing

00:36:18.720 in the

00:36:19.080 united

00:36:19.300 states

00:36:19.700 it

00:36:20.220 feels

00:36:20.440 like

00:36:20.680 the

00:36:20.960 election

00:36:21.460 might

00:36:21.760 come

00:36:21.980 down

00:36:22.260 to

00:36:22.580 do

00:36:23.380 you

00:36:23.500 believe

00:36:23.800 that

00:36:24.060 trump

00:36:24.380 did

00:36:24.720 or

00:36:24.880 did

00:36:25.060 not

00:36:25.280 do

00:36:25.460 the

00:36:25.640 right

00:36:25.840 things

00:36:26.320 in

00:36:27.520 testing

00:36:27.980 and

00:36:28.500 handling

00:36:28.920 coronavirus

00:36:29.380 in

00:36:29.740 general

00:36:30.020 but

00:36:30.880 when

00:36:31.080 they

00:36:31.240 talk

00:36:31.440 about

00:36:31.640 the

00:36:31.800 president's

00:36:32.460 what

00:36:33.240 he

00:36:33.380 did

00:36:33.620 or

00:36:33.760 did

00:36:33.960 not

00:36:34.160 do

00:36:34.480 it

00:36:35.160 usually

00:36:35.560 comes

00:36:35.900 down

00:36:36.120 to

00:36:36.300 testing

00:36:36.780 doesn't

00:36:37.160 it

00:36:37.380 you know

00:36:38.080 there'll

00:36:38.500 be

00:36:38.620 some

00:36:38.840 other

00:36:39.100 criticisms

00:36:39.700 but

00:36:40.720 mostly

00:36:41.360 if

00:36:41.960 you

00:36:42.060 had

00:36:42.200 to

00:36:42.340 pick

00:36:42.520 one

00:36:42.860 thing

00:36:43.260 that

00:36:43.500 people

00:36:43.760 will

00:36:43.980 really

00:36:44.200 focus

00:36:44.520 on

00:36:44.740 mostly

00:36:45.740 it's

00:36:46.000 the

00:36:46.140 thought

00:36:46.400 that

00:36:46.660 if

00:36:46.820 he

00:36:46.940 done

00:36:47.200 more

00:36:47.440 aggressive

00:36:47.880 testing

00:36:48.580 early

00:36:49.060 we

00:36:49.980 could

00:36:50.160 be

00:36:50.300 like

00:36:50.560 Taiwan

00:36:51.160 that

00:36:51.820 sort

00:36:52.040 of

00:36:52.180 tested

00:36:52.600 its

00:36:52.860 way

00:36:53.020 out

00:36:53.200 of

00:36:53.280 it

00:36:53.940 is

00:36:54.720 that

00:36:54.840 reasonable

00:36:55.240 sorry

00:36:55.900 is

00:36:56.120 that

00:36:56.240 reasonable

00:36:56.640 here's

00:36:58.300 my

00:36:58.500 problem

00:36:58.880 with

00:36:59.080 this

00:36:59.320 why

00:37:00.280 don't

00:37:00.620 I

00:37:00.840 know

00:37:01.140 the

00:37:01.460 following

00:37:01.820 question

00:37:02.340 I

00:37:02.540 tweeted

00:37:02.820 this

00:37:03.100 to see

00:37:03.420 if

00:37:03.540 anybody

00:37:03.800 else

00:37:04.040 could

00:37:04.180 help

00:37:04.340 me

00:37:04.520 was

00:37:05.500 there

00:37:05.680 ever

00:37:05.980 a

00:37:06.200 time

00:37:06.580 this

00:37:07.160 year

00:37:07.480 after

00:37:08.220 we

00:37:08.440 knew

00:37:08.580 the

00:37:08.760 coronavirus

00:37:09.100 was

00:37:09.620 a

00:37:09.740 problem

00:37:10.060 was

00:37:10.840 there

00:37:10.980 ever

00:37:11.220 a

00:37:11.380 time

00:37:11.680 in which

00:37:12.380 these

00:37:12.800 three

00:37:13.180 conditions

00:37:13.820 were

00:37:14.680 met

00:37:15.000 at

00:37:15.240 the

00:37:15.400 same

00:37:15.620 time

00:37:16.020 because

00:37:16.900 this

00:37:17.120 is

00:37:17.280 the

00:37:17.420 only

00:37:17.580 way

00:37:17.800 we

00:37:17.980 could

00:37:18.140 have

00:37:18.260 tested

00:37:18.600 our

00:37:18.800 way

00:37:19.000 out

00:37:19.180 of

00:37:19.280 it

00:37:19.480 is

00:37:19.980 if

00:37:20.140 all

00:37:20.340 three

00:37:20.580 conditions

00:37:21.180 were

00:37:21.900 ever

00:37:22.180 true

00:37:22.580 at

00:37:22.760 the

00:37:22.900 same

00:37:23.120 time

00:37:23.500 and

00:37:24.000 I

00:37:24.140 don't

00:37:24.400 know

00:37:24.560 the

00:37:24.740 answer

00:37:25.020 so

00:37:25.740 I'm

00:37:25.880 asking

00:37:26.180 you

00:37:26.500 were

00:37:27.300 these

00:37:27.640 three

00:37:27.980 conditions

00:37:28.540 all

00:37:28.900 simultaneously

00:37:29.600 ever

00:37:30.320 true

00:37:35.680 quantity

00:37:36.260 of

00:37:36.680 test

00:37:37.040 kits

00:37:37.400 to

00:37:39.040 test

00:37:39.680 for

00:37:39.900 contact

00:37:40.280 tracing

00:37:40.740 so

00:37:41.500 that's

00:37:41.680 the

00:37:41.820 first

00:37:42.080 condition

00:37:42.580 did

00:37:43.300 we

00:37:43.460 have

00:37:43.720 enough

00:37:44.220 of

00:37:44.480 them

00:37:44.720 to

00:37:45.860 do

00:37:46.040 what

00:37:46.240 we

00:37:46.400 needed

00:37:46.580 to

00:37:46.780 do

00:37:47.020 and

00:37:47.480 they

00:37:47.640 worked

00:37:48.020 in

00:37:48.660 the

00:37:48.800 early

00:37:49.080 stages

00:37:49.540 at

00:37:50.260 the

00:37:50.440 same

00:37:50.660 time

00:37:51.160 was

00:37:54.420 it

00:37:54.580 before

00:37:55.020 there

00:37:55.260 were

00:37:55.400 too

00:37:55.600 many

00:37:55.840 infections

00:37:56.460 because

00:37:57.260 I

00:37:57.420 believe

00:37:57.720 it's

00:37:57.980 true

00:37:58.260 that

00:37:58.900 if

00:37:59.120 you

00:37:59.380 have

00:37:59.680 a

00:37:59.820 massive

00:38:00.120 infection

00:38:00.720 in

00:38:00.900 your

00:38:01.040 country

00:38:01.440 that

00:38:02.060 trying

00:38:02.280 to

00:38:02.460 do

00:38:02.620 contact

00:38:03.140 tracing

00:38:03.600 basically

00:38:04.740 just

00:38:05.080 doesn't

00:38:05.420 work

00:38:05.780 because

00:38:06.300 the

00:38:06.480 numbers

00:38:06.820 don't

00:38:07.100 work

00:38:07.300 it's

00:38:07.500 growing

00:38:07.820 faster

00:38:08.200 than

00:38:08.420 you

00:38:08.560 can

00:38:08.740 contact

00:38:09.100 trace

00:38:09.460 but

00:38:10.200 if

00:38:10.880 you

00:38:10.960 had

00:38:11.080 like

00:38:11.300 three

00:38:12.020 people

00:38:13.920 who

00:38:14.120 had

00:38:14.300 it

00:38:14.560 maybe

00:38:15.960 like

00:38:16.420 Taiwan

00:38:17.000 or

00:38:17.400 New

00:38:17.700 Zealand

00:38:18.060 then

00:38:18.600 maybe

00:38:18.840 then

00:38:19.280 yes

00:38:19.840 contact

00:38:20.560 tracing

00:38:20.960 is

00:38:21.100 just

00:38:21.300 what

00:38:21.440 you

00:38:21.560 need

00:38:21.800 so

00:38:24.120 has

00:38:26.160 that

00:38:26.360 been

00:38:26.600 true

00:38:26.900 and

00:38:27.180 at

00:38:27.320 the

00:38:27.460 same

00:38:27.660 time

00:38:28.040 Trump

00:38:28.800 ignoring

00:38:29.280 the

00:38:29.540 experts

00:38:30.020 so

00:38:30.920 was

00:38:31.440 there

00:38:31.600 ever

00:38:31.800 these

00:38:32.140 three

00:38:32.400 things

00:38:32.840 that

00:38:33.580 we

00:38:33.720 had

00:38:33.860 the

00:38:34.000 tests

00:38:34.360 and

00:38:34.600 we

00:38:34.720 had

00:38:34.840 plenty

00:38:35.100 of

00:38:35.420 that

00:38:36.560 the

00:38:36.780 number

00:38:37.040 of

00:38:37.260 infections

00:38:37.780 were

00:38:38.140 low

00:38:38.540 so

00:38:39.180 low

00:38:39.540 that

00:38:39.780 the

00:38:40.020 testing

00:38:40.360 could

00:38:40.680 get

00:38:40.880 on

00:38:41.020 top

00:38:41.280 of

00:38:41.400 it

00:38:41.580 and

00:38:42.500 also

00:38:42.880 that

00:38:43.860 the

00:38:44.160 experts

00:38:44.880 that

00:38:45.360 Trump

00:38:45.680 had

00:38:46.080 advising

00:38:46.680 him

00:38:46.940 were

00:38:47.460 saying

00:38:47.760 hey

00:38:48.020 hey

00:38:48.320 get

00:38:49.140 on top

00:38:49.540 of

00:38:49.660 this

00:38:49.820 with

00:38:50.020 these

00:38:50.220 tests

00:38:50.660 things

00:39:01.700 have

00:39:02.480 did

00:39:03.020 and

00:39:03.220 have

00:39:03.860 could

00:39:04.900 that

00:39:05.800 him

00:39:06.020 have

00:39:07.800 done

00:39:07.980 it

00:39:10.220 have

00:39:10.760 done

00:39:11.860 it

00:39:12.040 if

00:39:12.580 they

00:39:12.740 didn't

00:39:12.960 have

00:39:13.220 the

00:39:13.380 tests

00:39:14.420 They just didn't exist or they didn't work.

00:39:17.080 Could he have done that testing if by the time we knew about it,

00:39:21.700 there were so many infections it didn't make any difference,

00:39:23.880 you couldn't test anyway.

00:39:25.440 So why is it that I'm sitting here in September

00:39:30.280 and I don't know the answer to this question?

00:39:34.980 That should alarm you because you think you're reading the news,

00:39:38.920 but all you're reading is the left-leaning news saying,

00:39:43.860 we're not going to give you the details,

00:39:45.100 but he sure botched the testing.

00:39:47.940 And then I say to myself, botched it exactly how?

00:39:52.560 What was the thing he could have done, could have done,

00:39:56.140 that was actually possible that he was advised to do that he didn't do?

00:40:02.340 And I'm like, well, okay, if the people on the left won't give me the details,

00:40:07.020 they're just going to say it was all botched.

00:40:09.000 At least I can get the rest of the details from the right.

00:40:11.720 So you go to the right and say, did the president botch testing?

00:40:17.420 And they'll say some dumbass thing like, no,

00:40:20.080 there was plenty of testing for people who had symptoms.

00:40:24.980 It's not even the same topic, right?

00:40:28.780 So I'm thinking, okay, I can't get the story from the left

00:40:32.120 because they're only going to say it's botched and give me no details.

00:40:35.120 And I can't get the full story from the right

00:40:37.660 because they won't even talk about the same topic.

00:40:41.260 How do you get the news anymore?

00:40:43.660 Honest question.

00:40:45.680 There's no hyperbole in this.

00:40:47.860 How do people get news in this situation?

00:40:51.460 The single most important thing I need to know to vote

00:40:55.680 in the biggest election this country has ever had, I would say.

00:41:00.720 The most important fact, completely discoverable,

00:41:04.960 meaning it wouldn't be a lot of work for a reporter to say,

00:41:09.320 oh, let me answer those questions for you.

00:41:11.420 What were the experts telling Trump?

00:41:14.300 And could he have done it?

00:41:15.800 Was it possible?

00:41:16.600 That story isn't out there?

00:41:21.020 Remember I said that you're already being manipulated by the algorithm?

00:41:26.560 If the algorithm were not already running the country,

00:41:31.400 you would know the answer to this question

00:41:33.600 because people who were just reporters

00:41:35.940 and wanted to write stories that people would find interesting

00:41:40.340 and read and meaningful,

00:41:42.180 those reporters would say,

00:41:43.400 huh, that's exactly the story the public needs

00:41:46.380 to see.

00:41:47.340 I guess I'll go write that story.

00:41:49.920 Never happened.

00:41:51.620 Why?

00:41:52.720 Because nobody gets paid for that story.

00:41:55.000 The algorithm pays you to write the story

00:41:56.980 that says it was botched,

00:41:58.800 and the algorithm will pay you on the other side

00:42:01.220 to say it was all brilliant and everything went well.

00:42:05.620 The algorithm doesn't have a payday

00:42:08.560 for somebody who tells useful information to the public.

00:42:12.280 We don't have that.

00:42:13.480 It just doesn't exist.

00:42:14.420 So, and I'll bet you'll never see that, actually.

00:42:20.560 Here's a case in point.

00:42:22.020 So Chris Wallace was talking to a Biden advisor

00:42:24.440 and was challenging him on this.

00:42:28.280 So Chris Wallace asked the question very clearly.

00:42:31.120 He said, you know,

00:42:31.960 why did Biden take until April

00:42:33.800 to agree with the travel ban

00:42:36.380 if the travel ban was put on at the end of January?

00:42:39.700 What happened between the end of January and April

00:42:43.060 before Biden said that the travel ban was a good idea?

00:42:47.420 Why did it take so long?

00:42:49.080 Good question, right?

00:42:50.900 And his assistant answers the question

00:42:52.780 of why it took so long

00:42:54.020 by saying,

00:42:56.120 well, you have to understand

00:42:57.100 the virus was already in the country.

00:42:59.060 That's not even the same question.

00:43:03.040 So in other words,

00:43:04.380 you can't even get a simple answer to a question,

00:43:07.640 why did it take so long?

00:43:09.220 You can't get any information

00:43:11.400 about testing, banning.

00:43:14.380 We're in complete darkness,

00:43:16.360 we the citizens,

00:43:17.740 in complete darkness

00:43:18.880 about whether our government

00:43:20.940 did a good or bad job.

00:43:22.280 We don't know.

00:43:24.260 Oh, we think we know.

00:43:26.860 We're positive we know

00:43:28.460 because the algorithm told us

00:43:30.840 what to think.

00:43:32.700 It told some of us to think he botched it,

00:43:35.180 meaning Trump,

00:43:36.620 and told other people to think he didn't.

00:43:39.340 And that's what we think.

00:43:40.920 That's what the algorithm told us to think.

00:43:44.160 All right.

00:43:49.080 And so Fareed Zakaria,

00:43:51.460 whose show I really recommend,

00:43:54.560 Fareed can be a little TDS at times,

00:43:57.320 a little anti-Trump,

00:43:59.120 but if you're being objective,

00:44:01.500 he puts on a good product.

00:44:04.000 If I can just talk about

00:44:05.460 the quality of the topics

00:44:07.680 and the guests

00:44:08.480 and just the job Fareed does,

00:44:10.700 he's just really good.

00:44:11.900 I've always appreciated his show,

00:44:14.060 even sometimes if I don't

00:44:15.420 like the bias on it.

00:44:17.920 But he had on,

00:44:19.280 I think it was,

00:44:19.940 was it the president of Taiwan?

00:44:21.460 Who coincidentally seemed to be

00:44:23.400 an epidemiologist.

00:44:24.860 I don't know if it was the president

00:44:25.880 or one of the,

00:44:26.740 one of the top executives,

00:44:28.880 but it doesn't matter for this point.

00:44:31.040 And Fareed was asking him

00:44:33.060 how they were so successful

00:44:34.540 in Taiwan

00:44:35.860 and others were not.

00:44:37.620 And this is what this,

00:44:41.020 the leader of Taiwan said,

00:44:43.400 that one of the things they did

00:44:45.100 is very aggressive testing

00:44:47.560 and contact tracing.

00:44:49.340 So here's my first question.

00:44:51.600 Is there something that Taiwan could do

00:44:53.960 in those early days

00:44:55.500 because they had the right kind of tests

00:44:57.340 that we couldn't do?

00:45:00.300 I don't know the answer to that question.

00:45:02.400 And it didn't come out of this.

00:45:04.340 Did they have the right kind of tests

00:45:06.000 and we had the wrong kind?

00:45:07.220 Did they have the right number of them

00:45:08.700 and we had the wrong kind?

00:45:10.160 Was it that

00:45:10.900 when they had a few tests

00:45:12.900 or a few cases,

00:45:14.920 they got on it quickly?

00:45:16.260 Was that what made the difference?

00:45:17.800 But here's the part

00:45:18.640 that doesn't get emphasized.

00:45:20.780 In order to make

00:45:21.840 the Taiwan thing work,

00:45:24.560 you basically went to jail

00:45:26.680 if you had symptoms.

00:45:28.640 Now when I say jail,

00:45:32.240 I've just got a glitch

00:45:34.540 on my computer.

00:45:36.380 It's a low battery message,

00:45:37.640 so that might glitch

00:45:38.720 for some of you.

00:45:41.500 When we talk about

00:45:42.600 the success of Taiwan

00:45:44.600 and how good they did,

00:45:47.200 and then we say,

00:45:48.240 well, why can't we be like Taiwan?

00:45:51.140 Taiwan put you in jail

00:45:52.620 for two weeks

00:45:53.460 if you had symptoms.

00:45:54.440 And when I say jail,

00:45:56.960 I mean a room with,

00:45:58.260 I don't know,

00:45:58.580 a television and Wi-Fi

00:45:59.840 and a bed.

00:46:01.720 So it wasn't technically a jail,

00:46:04.560 but you couldn't leave.

00:46:06.700 So what do you call it

00:46:07.800 if you can't leave?

00:46:09.040 If you can't leave,

00:46:11.240 it's a jail.

00:46:12.500 Because if you tried to leave,

00:46:13.680 they'd put you in the real jail,

00:46:14.800 I think.

00:46:16.520 So is there any scenario

00:46:18.540 in which the citizens

00:46:20.900 of the United States

00:46:21.800 would have put up with,

00:46:22.940 oh, you had a cough,

00:46:26.080 so I guess you're going to be

00:46:27.200 in jail for two weeks?

00:46:29.280 I don't think so.

00:46:31.180 I don't think so.

00:46:33.340 So anytime you see

00:46:38.340 anybody compare

00:46:39.280 what happened in the United States

00:46:41.260 to any other country,

00:46:42.660 it is a lie.

00:46:44.820 It's either an intentional lie

00:46:46.440 because they do know

00:46:49.240 how to compare things

00:46:50.160 and they're choosing

00:46:50.720 to do it incorrectly,

00:46:51.780 or they don't know

00:46:53.020 how to compare things.

00:46:54.540 Because if you did know

00:46:55.600 how to compare things,

00:46:56.520 you'd say,

00:46:57.120 what are they doing

00:46:57.940 with vitamin D?

00:46:59.500 How many African Americans

00:47:00.740 or how many black people

00:47:02.100 live in those countries

00:47:02.960 because they have

00:47:04.180 greater comorbidity?

00:47:05.840 What is the obesity rate

00:47:07.360 in those other countries?

00:47:08.720 When did they start?

00:47:09.840 How many international

00:47:10.760 airports do they have?

00:47:13.400 When did they find

00:47:14.280 their first thing?

00:47:15.420 Did they have tests

00:47:16.240 that work?

00:47:16.920 Were they prepared?

00:47:17.580 If you don't compare countries

00:47:21.100 on all of those

00:47:22.160 gigantic variables,

00:47:24.220 you're not really

00:47:24.880 comparing anything.

00:47:26.580 You're just being

00:47:27.380 an advocate.

00:47:30.100 All right.

00:47:31.620 And then the other thing,

00:47:32.880 of course,

00:47:33.160 is you don't know

00:47:33.760 if those other countries

00:47:34.620 are going to have

00:47:35.300 new symptoms, etc.

00:47:37.420 Now, we talked about this,

00:47:39.120 I think, last week,

00:47:40.260 that there was

00:47:40.980 apparently a high-quality study

00:47:43.420 that showed that

00:47:44.960 the vitamin D,

00:47:46.220 the hospital-grade vitamin D,

00:47:49.100 not the stuff you get

00:47:49.900 in your health store,

00:47:51.820 but the hospital-grade vitamin D

00:47:54.400 basically eliminated

00:47:57.000 ICU visits.

00:47:59.820 So it was a smallish test,

00:48:02.420 but it was big enough

00:48:03.380 to make me think,

00:48:05.060 have we already beaten this thing?

00:48:08.060 Because imagine if you got

00:48:09.620 the same result as the test did.

00:48:11.340 And for 50 people,

00:48:13.180 of which many of them

00:48:14.240 would have been in the ICU,

00:48:15.960 it was almost none.

00:48:17.760 Almost none.

00:48:19.440 So now that we know that,

00:48:21.580 and we know,

00:48:23.180 correct me if I'm wrong,

00:48:24.260 I saw Dr. Drew join here,

00:48:27.180 so I know there's

00:48:28.560 at least one person

00:48:29.300 who knows the answer

00:48:29.980 to this question.

00:48:31.380 If you simply gave

00:48:32.740 everybody who had

00:48:33.940 coronavirus symptoms,

00:48:36.280 COVID symptoms,

00:48:37.400 if you just gave them

00:48:38.500 all vitamin D,

00:48:39.640 you know,

00:48:40.460 the hospital-grade vitamin D,

00:48:42.540 the name-brand stuff,

00:48:44.700 would anybody have

00:48:45.800 a bad outcome?

00:48:48.240 And aren't we already doing it?

00:48:51.140 You know,

00:48:51.420 in other words,

00:48:52.380 the risk-rewarded

00:48:53.480 the vitamin D

00:48:54.140 now that we have

00:48:54.720 a high-quality study

00:48:55.740 saying it's amazing,

00:48:57.440 don't we know

00:48:58.240 that it also

00:48:58.920 pretty much couldn't hurt you?

00:49:01.180 So that's the part

00:49:02.440 I have the question on.

00:49:03.240 because I think

00:49:05.020 we're already past,

00:49:06.760 I think we're done,

00:49:08.620 right?

00:49:09.300 Because if that one test

00:49:11.140 was really meaningful

00:49:12.560 and, you know,

00:49:13.400 didn't have any errors

00:49:14.300 in the test,

00:49:14.900 so we really know

00:49:16.260 that the vitamin D

00:49:17.180 just kicks this virus

00:49:19.200 in the gonads,

00:49:21.560 we should be massively

00:49:23.320 rolling this out everywhere

00:49:24.760 just because the doctors

00:49:26.260 would have seen

00:49:26.760 the reports too.

00:49:27.640 they probably

00:49:30.040 would take the death count

00:49:31.460 down to trivial.

00:49:34.340 And shouldn't that be done

00:49:35.620 by the end of this week?

00:49:37.900 Let me be as stark

00:49:39.600 as possible.

00:49:42.380 If it's true

00:49:43.400 that the vitamin D

00:49:44.780 given to you

00:49:45.900 in the hospital

00:49:46.500 doesn't have a downside

00:49:47.940 and we have enough of it,

00:49:49.860 and it's true that it works

00:49:51.500 according to this latest

00:49:52.700 high-quality study,

00:49:54.940 aren't we one week away

00:49:56.780 from just being done?

00:50:00.860 Because if you took it

00:50:02.140 from 100% of the problem

00:50:03.920 that it is now

00:50:04.780 to 2% of that problem

00:50:07.000 in terms of death rate,

00:50:08.800 we're kind of done,

00:50:09.780 aren't we?

00:50:11.880 Am I wrong?

00:50:13.140 We're kind of done?

00:50:14.960 So,

00:50:15.620 I don't know what's going to happen

00:50:17.860 to the stock market,

00:50:19.640 but I feel like

00:50:21.360 when we start getting our stats,

00:50:23.340 let's give it two weeks

00:50:24.680 just to have some time,

00:50:26.040 unless you hear

00:50:27.680 there's a shortage

00:50:28.440 of that vitamin D,

00:50:29.920 the good stuff

00:50:30.740 they use in the hospitals,

00:50:32.020 unless you hear

00:50:32.920 there's a shortage of it,

00:50:34.600 or you hear

00:50:36.140 that they're not using it

00:50:37.280 for some reason

00:50:37.860 that I can't,

00:50:38.960 that I haven't heard of,

00:50:40.760 we might be

00:50:42.720 two weeks away

00:50:44.800 from effectively

00:50:46.160 the end of it.

00:50:47.760 Because I think

00:50:48.640 in two weeks

00:50:49.800 if you don't see

00:50:50.480 the death count

00:50:51.860 in the United States

00:50:52.780 drop to trivial levels,

00:50:55.120 then probably

00:50:55.880 the vitamin D

00:50:56.520 wasn't everything

00:50:57.320 that the test

00:50:57.940 said it was.

00:50:58.960 We'll find out.

00:51:00.320 But just think about that.

00:51:02.260 We could be

00:51:02.760 two weeks away.

00:51:04.900 Am I being

00:51:06.200 over-optimistic?

00:51:07.500 Because if that

00:51:08.260 vitamin D thing

00:51:09.000 is real,

00:51:10.520 two weeks,

00:51:11.660 right?

00:51:13.200 All right.

00:51:13.820 those are the things

00:51:16.820 I would like

00:51:17.340 to leave you with.

00:51:19.680 AI is your biggest problem.

00:51:21.700 Maybe you'll never know.

00:51:23.400 Maybe you'll just

00:51:24.060 go on with your life

00:51:25.040 thinking that you're

00:51:25.760 making your own decisions,

00:51:26.900 but you're not.

00:51:27.720 And maybe that's

00:51:28.460 just as good

00:51:28.980 as whatever

00:51:29.400 you were doing before.

00:51:31.320 I see in the comments

00:51:32.400 somebody saying

00:51:33.020 that Fauci

00:51:34.180 endorses vitamin D.

00:51:37.080 Remember

00:51:37.560 who else?

00:51:38.860 is the stock market

00:51:42.380 up today?

00:51:43.920 Let me just take a look

00:51:44.900 before I get off here.

00:51:46.680 The Fauci,

00:51:47.660 well, it is.

00:51:48.640 Well, there we go.

00:51:50.520 Bitcoin's up.

00:51:51.420 Apple's up.

00:51:53.060 Oh, hello.

00:51:54.760 Everything's up.

00:51:56.180 Looking good.

00:51:58.340 Tesla's up.

00:51:59.040 Somebody says

00:52:03.560 Joe Rogan

00:52:04.280 is hosting a debate.

00:52:05.800 Is that an idea

00:52:07.000 that you're suggesting

00:52:07.800 or is that

00:52:08.620 some kind of news?

00:52:10.360 If Joe Rogan

00:52:11.660 hosted a debate,

00:52:13.300 it would be

00:52:13.680 a pretty good debate.

00:52:14.880 Although I would

00:52:15.600 recommend myself.

00:52:18.540 Can you imagine

00:52:19.180 a debate

00:52:19.900 that I moderated?

00:52:24.000 It would be

00:52:25.160 pretty darn good

00:52:26.280 if I do say so

00:52:27.820 myself.

00:52:29.900 Anyway,

00:52:30.520 Dr. Fauci

00:52:31.020 does recommend

00:52:31.740 vitamin D

00:52:32.300 but there are

00:52:33.380 two separate things.

00:52:34.580 One is that

00:52:35.340 everybody should have

00:52:36.240 enough vitamin D

00:52:37.000 just in general

00:52:37.780 because it's good

00:52:38.620 for your health.

00:52:39.220 It's good for

00:52:39.680 every kind of thing.

00:52:41.300 So yes,

00:52:41.880 Dr. Fauci

00:52:42.500 is on record

00:52:44.340 with basically

00:52:45.720 every other

00:52:46.500 medical professional

00:52:47.380 in the world

00:52:47.940 plus one cartoonist

00:52:49.280 plus most of you

00:52:50.720 who said from

00:52:51.940 day one

00:52:52.520 of this virus.

00:52:53.960 Those of you

00:52:54.580 who have been

00:52:54.940 with me since

00:52:55.520 the beginning,

00:52:56.660 you know that

00:52:57.300 the moment

00:52:58.400 this virus

00:52:59.200 looked like

00:52:59.760 it was coming

00:53:00.280 at us,

00:53:01.440 I told you

00:53:02.240 get some sun,

00:53:03.240 get some vitamin D,

00:53:05.020 get your health up,

00:53:07.060 do everything you can

00:53:07.880 just to get your

00:53:09.480 immune system up

00:53:10.540 and vitamin D

00:53:11.140 was a big part of that.

00:53:12.460 So the fact that

00:53:13.380 Fauci says vitamin D

00:53:14.880 is good in general

00:53:15.960 is a little bit

00:53:17.340 of a different topic

00:53:18.440 than the question

00:53:19.760 of giving people

00:53:20.740 massive amounts

00:53:21.640 to prevent ICU

00:53:23.420 of the hospital

00:53:25.120 grade vitamin D

00:53:26.200 that's different

00:53:26.760 than the health

00:53:28.440 store stuff.

00:53:32.260 So he can say

00:53:33.220 he said it.

00:53:33.840 Well, yeah.

00:53:34.680 But it's a difference

00:53:35.800 in extent.

00:53:39.680 All right.

00:53:41.240 See, Trump tweeted

00:53:42.600 Rogan.

00:53:43.700 Didn't.

00:53:44.520 All right.

00:53:45.940 Apparently this is

00:53:46.800 going to be good enough

00:53:47.520 that it's worth

00:53:48.120 waiting for.

00:53:49.220 So let's see.

00:53:51.580 Trump, Trump, Trump.

00:53:54.300 Trump.

00:53:54.920 Let's see what he said

00:53:55.880 about Rogan.

00:54:01.320 I see he's dumping

00:54:02.340 on Drudge.

00:54:04.200 Oh, 51% approval

00:54:05.760 rating in Rasmussen.

00:54:07.620 Looking good.

00:54:11.200 Don't see

00:54:12.180 anything about

00:54:15.200 don't see anything

00:54:17.880 yet.

00:54:19.220 How many tweets

00:54:20.140 did he do this morning?

00:54:22.140 He's been tweeting

00:54:22.720 like crazy.

00:54:25.540 All right.

00:54:26.040 I don't see it.

00:54:27.460 So somebody said

00:54:28.180 there was a Joe

00:54:29.140 Rogan debate

00:54:30.100 related story.

00:54:31.860 I guess I'll have

00:54:32.360 to look it up.

00:54:33.420 But I don't see it

00:54:34.380 right now.

00:54:37.640 It wasn't proposed

00:54:38.800 by Rogan,

00:54:39.500 but he did accept.

00:54:43.220 Oh, Joe Rogan

00:54:44.180 wanted a four-hour

00:54:45.140 debate.

00:54:45.700 He'll moderate

00:54:46.220 and Trump retweeted.

00:54:47.680 All right.

00:54:48.020 I'll take a look

00:54:48.740 at that.

00:54:49.220 Don't you think

00:54:51.340 I should still do

00:54:52.140 an interview

00:54:52.520 with President Trump

00:54:54.380 and maybe one

00:54:55.080 with Biden?

00:54:56.220 They would never

00:54:56.980 let me interview

00:54:58.600 Biden.

00:54:59.760 But President Trump

00:55:01.300 is going to be,

00:55:01.880 I think,

00:55:02.860 in my neighborhood

00:55:04.040 today,

00:55:05.860 actually.

00:55:07.160 Yeah.

00:55:07.320 so if anybody's

00:55:08.120 watching from the

00:55:09.160 Trump campaign,

00:55:11.120 the best interview

00:55:12.260 President Trump

00:55:14.360 could ever do

00:55:15.440 would be with me

00:55:17.660 because I'll ask

00:55:19.820 some questions

00:55:20.400 that haven't been

00:55:21.260 asked before

00:55:21.880 and you'll really

00:55:23.540 get a good idea

00:55:24.200 what's going on

00:55:24.820 if I did that

00:55:26.420 interview.

00:55:27.260 So that's all

00:55:28.380 I have for now

00:55:29.540 and let's enjoy

00:55:30.940 the week.

00:55:31.400 It's going to be

00:55:31.920 off the hook.

00:55:32.720 Thank you.

00:55:33.840 Thank you.

00:55:33.960 Thank you.

00:55:34.840 Thank you.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - September 14, 2020

Episode 1123 Scott Adams： Google Search Mischief, Understanding Testing, Biden is on the Roof, Taiwan Bad Analysis, Statues for Criminals

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