Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1308 Scott Adams： Biden's Bad

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00:00:54.200 all right well i would like to declare that things are going okay that's it things are going

00:01:04.820 pretty well how do you know because we can't stop talking about harry and megan let me tell you if

00:01:14.500 there's one way to know that the world is heading in the right direction finally it's when the biggest

00:01:21.960 thing you have to talk about is harry and megan do you mind if i throw a little bit of extra

00:01:30.880 provocation into the mix correct me if i'm wrong but isn't there some question as to whether harry is

00:01:39.320 actually related to the royal line i mean he's related to his mother but is harry actually related

00:01:48.880 to the queen and if he's not would his son be related and do we know that just asking because

00:01:57.060 somebody says

00:02:01.340 somebody from great britain doesn't like this conversation at all

00:02:07.220 somebody says don't go there don't go there

00:02:12.600 well here's the thing

00:02:16.720 if the royal uh the royal succession is supposed to be by bloodline

00:02:23.560 wouldn't this be a coup i mean wouldn't it if archie ever became the the king

00:02:30.440 wouldn't they have basically just taken over the taken over the bloodline it'd be a whole new

00:02:37.520 bloodline am i wrong i mean i haven't seen his dna test i'm just wondering you know i'm i'm not the

00:02:45.200 one who made the rule that bloodline is what determines who gets what i didn't make that rule

00:02:52.840 i'm just saying if that is the rule we have the technology to check that bloodline now and

00:02:59.660 i'd just be interested i'd be a little bit interested to see if he's part of it

00:03:04.660 so i'll just throw that in the mix just to get things mixed up a little bit

00:03:09.120 so

00:03:11.480 how are you having this same feeling i went out yesterday and i was just i decided to just go

00:03:19.300 around take a drive and just see what things look like uh now that we're getting a little bit back

00:03:27.520 to normal and i gotta tell you yesterday felt pretty normal maybe people had masks on indoors

00:03:34.160 but most things were open that are still in business a lot of stuff won't come back but the things that

00:03:42.140 are in business they seem pretty open and uh travel is happening you know people are traveling

00:03:48.800 so psychologically see if you're with me on this psychologically but not physically

00:03:57.920 i feel like the pandemic's over do you feel that just psychologically obviously there's still

00:04:06.680 restrictions in place obviously people will still die obviously it's still a problem you got to get

00:04:13.480 vaccinated so all those real things are there but psychologically doesn't it feel over it does

00:04:21.160 doesn't it because at this point i put on my mask not because i'm afraid but i'm just going through

00:04:28.440 the emotions at this point because the difference between being i don't know one third vaccinated

00:04:35.400 versus being you know nearly 100 protected we're almost there because if you get all the if you get

00:04:44.040 all the people who are vulnerable vaccinated we're kind of done because as soon as the vulnerable are

00:04:51.740 vaccinated the size of the problem shrinks down to the size of our other problems and we we don't need to

00:05:00.460 make it go to zero it just needs to be about the same size as our other problems and then we can go

00:05:05.900 on and i feel like we're there i mean not really a few more weeks but psychologically where are you now

00:05:14.000 compared to just months ago it's really different isn't it am i wrong it feels completely different

00:05:21.520 just in the last week or so um oh somebody says they got the vaccine and then got coronavirus

00:05:28.660 well uh that sucks now for on my end i'm actually going to be socially distancing a little bit harder than

00:05:38.380 normal i mean i'm going to try even harder because it wouldn't make sense to get the coronavirus now

00:05:44.780 you know so close to the vaccination you know i feel like i'm in the next wave in california

00:05:51.380 probably the next wave gets me so i'm going to play a pretty safe until then all right

00:05:57.320 here's a question so you you probably heard the story that one of joe biden's german shepherds in

00:06:05.360 the white house apparently bit somebody and so they relocated it back to delaware to his home

00:06:10.820 and here's a question i ask if trump had been in the white house and had two german shepherds

00:06:21.240 would the news have just just ignored that choice of breed do you think that that trump could have

00:06:30.540 owned two german shepherds and and that would have been fine nobody would have mentioned it hey good

00:06:36.960 doggie good doggie no no i don't think that trump could have owned german shepherds or dobermans

00:06:45.140 he could have owned a fluffy dog or something that's probably not his personality but he couldn't

00:06:52.080 have gotten away with even owning those dogs and you know that's true right because it would look like

00:06:57.180 hitler with his attack dogs but what would have happened if trump owned two german shepherds and one

00:07:03.860 of them bit somebody if one of those dogs bit somebody in the trump administration how long would it be

00:07:11.840 before we found out the uh the ethnicity and gender of who got bitten right right we would know the

00:07:22.220 ethnicity of who got bitten by now because then that would turn into a whole story about even his dog

00:07:28.300 is racist you know that would have happened

00:07:30.620 so yesterday there's another biden gaffe where he couldn't remember what was it he couldn't remember

00:07:39.140 the name of his uh secretary of defense he couldn't remember the name of the pentagon uh it was pretty

00:07:46.740 bad and he just got up there and muttered and uh wandered away and once again i must ask this

00:07:55.360 provocative question how much does the press know about what's happening behind closed doors

00:08:04.180 with biden that they're not telling us do you really think that when biden goes from his public

00:08:13.420 performances which are frankly embarrassing do you think that as soon as he gets off camera

00:08:18.940 he comes alive and he's he's completely lucid it's only when the camera's running that he falls apart

00:08:26.820 what do you think does that seem likely no it's far more likely that if anything he performs better

00:08:36.920 for the camera because he you know had to get up for it right he made sure that he didn't go out

00:08:41.820 there until he was at least feeling right but how bad is he when he's not trying to get up for

00:08:48.880 something and nobody's reporting on this now you could argue that there's a national security reason

00:08:56.860 to not report on it but would that stop anybody do you think that do you think our news would say oh

00:09:03.840 we better not tell russia and china how bad he is behind closed doors because then they might attack 1.00

00:09:09.920 or something i don't think they're going to attack um but when you when you hold in your head

00:09:19.320 how aggressively dishonest the press is to keep this from the public you know there are stories

00:09:28.700 come on you know that there are stories and we're going to hear them after biden's out of office

00:09:35.140 and you're going to be really mad you're going to be really mad when you find out what the press

00:09:42.320 knew and didn't tell you uh here's a mystery for you i put this on twitter people have lots of

00:09:51.860 theories let's see what you think why is it that um let's say for the people who believe that masks

00:09:58.500 and social distancing don't make a difference why is it that the normal seasonal flu the regular

00:10:05.680 influenza we get every year why did that drop to zero sort of everywhere not just in the united

00:10:13.400 states but worldwide it just sort of disappeared now is your argument that that for the regular

00:10:24.320 influenza if you believe the mass and distancing don't make a difference for coronavirus do you

00:10:30.780 believe that the explanation the explanation is that masks only work for regular flu but they don't work

00:10:40.980 for coronavirus because it is suggested that the regular flu may be more about surfaces things you

00:10:48.440 touch whereas the coronavirus the the virus is more aerosol than airborne but the coronavirus is heavier i just

00:10:58.780 read than say measles or chickenpox so viruses do have different weights so that's that's a real thing some viruses

00:11:06.960 stay in the air and some don't now what is the function of a mask isn't the function of a mask

00:11:15.340 to stop it before at least stop some of it before it gets out there now if the virus is on the water

00:11:22.960 particles and the water particles hit the mask you would think that they'd stay some of them would stay

00:11:28.140 in the mask but this mystery remains now some people said it's because everybody with the regular

00:11:36.700 flu is being diagnosed as having coronavirus do you believe that do you believe that everybody who had

00:11:43.620 a regular flu is getting misdiagnosed as having coronavirus now that might have happened early on

00:11:51.120 but at this point if you have symptoms of either flu don't you get tested every time

00:11:59.100 can somebody do a fact check on that if you're in the united states and you go to a doctor

00:12:07.040 because you've got flu symptoms of any kind won't they test you for coronavirus every time

00:12:13.540 now you couldn't do it in the beginning but now they'll test you every time right

00:12:17.420 right so there shouldn't be any any doubt today about whether somebody has coronavirus at least

00:12:26.660 now somebody said well what if they have both coronavirus and the regular flu we would we would treat

00:12:33.740 those as coronavirus well we probably would but how many of them are there how many people have

00:12:39.300 coronavirus and the seasonal flu at the same time i mean maybe some but that's not enough to change

00:12:47.140 what we're seeing right our observation can't be explained by that little bit of overlap other people

00:12:53.240 say that the coronavirus is uh not nearly as big as you think because the way we test it we're picking

00:12:58.940 up fragments or whatever i don't think any of that's true by the way now i haven't looked into it but

00:13:04.540 uh it does seem to me that uh that we're at least picking up that somebody had coronavirus

00:13:11.720 all right so it doesn't mean that you're necessarily going to have symptoms

00:13:16.020 so um i would say that this remains a mystery and and however this mystery is solved we're going to

00:13:26.640 learn something that we thought was true is not true we're either going to learn that the regular

00:13:32.940 seasonal flu was never real like it just wasn't real is that possible because all of the explanations

00:13:42.000 sound a little bit impossible so it's going to be something that doesn't sound possible so it's either

00:13:47.660 that we've always miscounted the regular flu and i'm kind of a proponent of the fact that we

00:13:54.240 miscounted the deaths from the seasonal flu regular flu um or the or that we tested wrong or that masks

00:14:03.840 only work for one kind of thing but not the other possible it's possible but i would say it's still pretty

00:14:11.000 mystery wouldn't you how did we get all the way to here and we don't know how to explain that

00:14:16.480 it feels like there's something really big that we don't understand now i've been seeing on social

00:14:25.600 media a couple things one is that the cdc and somebody do a fact check on this the cdc did a

00:14:34.240 study and now they're saying that the uh masks uh i think they're talking about masks or maybe social

00:14:40.960 distancing only made i think masks only made uh like a less than one percent difference do you think

00:14:48.640 that could be studied do you think somebody can tell you if masks worked or didn't work is that

00:14:55.660 possible to study that how how would you possibly study that where is the place that had both masks and

00:15:06.740 no masks at the same time because if you don't have that you don't have anything there are no two

00:15:13.160 places that are the same and there's no way to know why the curve did what the curve did too many

00:15:18.720 variables you you could certainly observe okay we put in masks and things got better or they got worse

00:15:25.520 and you can compare it to other places but that wouldn't tell you anything right there's no control

00:15:32.260 group so um the best they could do is sort of a non-randomized controlled thing where maybe they

00:15:41.660 did a meta study of combining things would you trust that would you trust a meta study some kind of a

00:15:49.800 study of studies where none of them are randomized controlled trials none of them are but if you add

00:15:56.220 them together they'll tell you something now that is a thing there are times when you can actually

00:16:01.860 get to truth by doing exactly that adding together the studies and that you know you hope that they

00:16:07.540 cancel out whatever they did wrong if they didn't all make the same mistake you hope it cancels out so

00:16:12.660 that's a real thing but i don't believe that the cdc can study this i don't believe this is testable

00:16:20.400 because there are too many other variables if if the masks were one of three variables

00:16:28.520 that maybe you could tease it out but we don't even know why why we don't have a seasonal flu

00:16:35.800 like very fundamental questions we don't know about what's going on so whatever is happening

00:16:41.380 in terms of uh why this thing is spreading we can't study that so i wouldn't believe the cdc

00:16:48.940 when they say masks don't work and i wouldn't believe them when they say they do

00:16:53.820 because they can't study it so you would have to treat it like a risk management problem if you're

00:17:00.400 treating it like a a binary masks work or masks don't work that's not the way to treat this you have

00:17:08.860 to treat it as a risk management situation knowing that you don't know all right um

00:17:14.940 i guess the uh new york times is finally reporting uh that the lincoln project was a big old scam of

00:17:27.620 grifters i'm paraphrasing a little bit but wouldn't you have liked to know that the lincoln project was a

00:17:35.600 big old scam before the election we've got some great reporting now after the election when nobody

00:17:44.760 cares about the lincoln project they're not that relevant anymore but now we find out now we find

00:17:51.020 out so i'm having this uh sort of ongoing twitter exchange with eric uh brindjolfson he's a professor

00:18:01.300 at stanford i mentioned him before and he was saying that uh there have been a number of bills proposed

00:18:07.060 for fixing the election system and he points out that before the election republicans killed the

00:18:12.940 proposed law the safe act which would have required robust robust manual audits of all federal races

00:18:19.540 and banned internet connectivity to voting systems and then um right and i think there was at least

00:18:27.900 one other time when when proposed voting improvements were killed either by republicans or democrats or

00:18:34.860 both now what do you make of that let's say let's say there's a bill to improve voting doesn't matter

00:18:44.160 what the details are and the republicans kill it what's that tell you about the bill does that tell 1.00

00:18:51.060 you it was a bad bill because the republicans voted against it if you're an idiot it tells you that 0.99

00:18:57.740 yeah if you have an iq of say 80 just to pick a number and you hear that the republicans voted against 1.00

00:19:06.320 a voting bill you'd say to yourself huh republicans are smart and honest and trustworthy and they voted

00:19:14.220 against it so therefore it was a bad bill right well that would be bad thinking here's good thinking

00:19:24.900 the people voting for or against that bill got elected under the current system the current system

00:19:34.500 with all of its flaws supports the incumbents why the hell would the incumbents vote against their own

00:19:41.980 interest because anything they change is going to put them at risk because the way things are

00:19:49.560 are is perfect right 98 percent of incumbents get re-elected that's that's almost perfect so you're asking

00:19:59.440 the only people on earth literally the only people on earth who are the wrong people to work on this

00:20:07.520 problem because they all benefit from not changing it that's what an incumbent benefits from

00:20:12.640 so the first thing we need to do is take them out of the mix maybe we can let congress vote yes or no

00:20:20.560 on something that was let's say put together by independents you know if there's some kind of by you

00:20:27.820 know bipartisan independent commission that comes up with a bunch of recommendations

00:20:32.260 well maybe we could force our politicians to vote for it if we put enough pressure on them

00:20:38.500 but the current system the current system the current system is ridiculous don't ask the people benefiting

00:20:46.560 from the system to change it that's crazy all you're going to get is what we're getting which is the

00:20:53.860 people who vote against it will say well i had good reasons look at all my good reasons for voting

00:20:59.500 against this and you look at the reasons and you'll think well actually those are pretty good reasons

00:21:03.840 and you'll think that your representative did a good job voting against that nothing like that's

00:21:09.880 happening you have a bunch of people who have no interest in changing it and it's their job and

00:21:15.660 that's the end of the story it won't change it can't change there there there's nothing we know about

00:21:23.280 the world that would suggest that voting will be fixed if the people who don't want it to be fixed

00:21:29.760 are the only ones in charge that's it so let's fix that right we we should not even be having a 0.97

00:21:40.620 conversation about which politician voted for or or proposed a bill that's stupid talk we don't care what 0.82

00:21:51.340 they propose i don't care what anybody in congress proposes they're all untrustworthy on this question 0.94

00:21:59.140 on this question they could be trustworthy on you know any number of other things but on this

00:22:05.960 question the one that determines whether they personally get re-elected no we can't trust them

00:22:12.580 we we have to take that out of their control now let me say this uh if biden were to do that

00:22:20.360 and let me give you uh the most weirdly optimistic thing you've ever heard in your life

00:22:27.780 i don't predict this will happen so unfortunately my prediction and my optimism are not aligned right

00:22:36.820 now right but here's something that could happen what is the one kind of person who could change this

00:22:46.640 situation like what type of person would be in the right position and have the right you know mindset and

00:22:53.600 incentives to fix the voting system there are two people i can think of one is biden and the other is trump

00:23:05.200 for completely different reasons biden has a chance to go out as one of the greatest leaders we've ever had

00:23:16.520 he only has to change one thing just change the election process to make it transparent

00:23:22.820 and credible now if he were to stay in office and he were a younger man and he had to live with the

00:23:29.600 democrats and put up with whatever pressures they're putting on him to not change things

00:23:34.640 well you know i don't expect things to change but biden doesn't have a lot of days left

00:23:42.680 and he does have an opportunity to go out on top if he only changed one thing which was to say i'm

00:23:54.040 going to set up executive order or something i'm going to set up a bipartisan commission and then we're

00:23:59.600 going to bring their recommendation to the congress and i'm going to let the entire public see

00:24:04.600 what what we see public take a look at this watch your members of congress not vote for this thing

00:24:12.560 that a bipartisan commission said is the only way to fix the election and then leave on top

00:24:19.300 i would be willing to say biden would be one of our greatest presidents if he did that one thing

00:24:26.300 and then even you know resign and put kamala in charge he's still the one of the greatest if he does the

00:24:33.840 one thing now who's the other thing other person who could do the one thing trump but he'd have to be

00:24:41.580 at the end of his second term right he still he still needs to get elected to a second term if

00:24:46.820 that's what he wants but there are only two people who can do it and here's the good news

00:24:51.980 they might be in charge right one after another so i'm not optim so i'm not optimistic in terms of a

00:25:00.760 prediction but it could be fixed yeah yeah i'm a dreamer you're right yeah the the odds of biden

00:25:08.800 doing that are vanishingly small but it's interesting to know that he could and i will tell

00:25:14.280 you this there is something about and this is my private uh philosophy or no my private uh let's

00:25:22.080 say view of the world that is shared by basically nobody so here's something you're not going to agree

00:25:28.500 with the office changes the office holder more than the person changes the office meaning that the

00:25:39.320 presidency has to change you like no matter what how much of a turd you were when you were running

00:25:46.140 for office and working your way up through politics to become you know a candidate no matter how bad you

00:25:52.820 were in those days and how selfish by the time you become president it's actually your job like

00:26:01.700 literally it's your job to take care of all this stuff i think it changes you and whatever you say

00:26:08.180 about biden did or did not do in the past and blah blah blah he's president now he's the president

00:26:15.940 now and i don't think he would hate a chance to go out on top if it really helped the country

00:26:22.820 i believe that everybody who is in that office is a patriot because the office turns them into one

00:26:29.940 so um that's that's at least a possibility that's out there um

00:26:38.020 uh so uh we've got uh new new evidence from some independent group that uh says that china is

00:26:47.860 involved in a genuine genocide against the uyghurs uh 50 global experts in human rights war crimes and

00:26:55.940 international law looked looked into it and said absolutely positively it's a uyghur genocide

00:27:04.580 now china of course explains it in terms of trying to uh control dangerous extremism now what they call

00:27:12.740 dangerous extremism is you know the extreme version of uh islam but here's an interesting and provocative 0.99

00:27:20.820 thought how could islam ever end without a genocide isn't genocide built into the guaranteed outcome 1.00

00:27:31.700 islam isn't it because imagine if uh islam continues to spread 1.00

00:27:40.260 and let's say the chinese government you know degraded to the point where there were so many islamic 0.97

00:27:46.900 citizens that there weren't that many of the old chinese type i suppose now i don't know how long

00:27:51.860 that would take a long time i suppose but islam has a interesting characteristic not so much the way it's

00:27:59.860 practiced in the united states but if you leave the religion you could be killed for leaving the

00:28:05.380 religion which is a strong advantage for a system if you want a system that will grow and not shrink

00:28:13.380 try killing people who leave because you can always attract people and then you don't want to lose any

00:28:19.620 so islam has a superior system independent of what you believe about reality or anything else but in 0.72

00:28:26.500 terms of a growing system it's just a better one and china has decided that this growing system which is

00:28:32.820 a superior system uh in terms of growth uh needs needs to be controlled because it would be a danger to china 0.93

00:28:40.500 are they wrong is china wrong that if if they let islam flourish 1.00

00:28:47.780 that china would be in trouble are they wrong yeah we can't talk about that can't we can't talk about 1.00

00:28:58.020 that because here's the problem they're not wrong now the thing they're doing is still a genocide

00:29:06.740 is still evil it needs to be stopped but they're not wrong about the risk they're not because it's built

00:29:15.540 right into the system it's just at the moment it's very small but it's it's built to grow it's like

00:29:22.180 catching a virus early you don't say the virus if it's only infected a few people is no problem

00:29:28.180 you say oh it's a virus viruses grow so you can't there's no way you can you know morally or ethically 0.56

00:29:36.500 support what china is doing it's a genocide it's a freaking genocide but uh i would only add this 0.82

00:29:46.980 that islam has to end in genocide it just is a question how long it takes because either the the 0.96

00:29:53.780 winners let's say if islam dominated would end up crushing and uh performing genocide i think on a 0.99

00:30:01.620 number of different societies if if they became dominant enough so as soon as you uh inject

00:30:10.900 islam into the system worldwide and again this is not such an issue in the united states of course

00:30:17.300 but worldwide where you have a let's say a more uh let's say a more robust version of islam so i don't

00:30:24.980 put an insult on it it's a more robust version and it has to end in genocide it's just a matter of who

00:30:33.300 get who gets killed because that's the system as it's designed if it grows it has to create genocides

00:30:41.700 and china is just saying well if we genocide you first you won't later get big enough to genocide us 0.69

00:30:48.900 later because that is in fact built into your plan now it's an interesting question isn't it it's an

00:30:58.500 interesting question you can't support genocide ever under any conditions but what was the other

00:31:06.020 thing they were supposed to do well what was what was the other way to play it they didn't have one

00:31:12.500 now can't support it but i'm just pointing out that it's uh it's a more complicated situation than

00:31:20.820 you think all right uh i keep seeing this story and i can't believe it's real can you tell me if this

00:31:28.820 story is real that the chain of custody documents for 400 000 georgia mail-in votes is missing like

00:31:37.700 permanently missing like they will never be turned up and and the state was only won by 12 000 votes

00:31:45.460 in the presidential election and 400 000 of them we can't trace or audit

00:31:53.940 i'm looking at your uh comments i don't see anybody saying it's not true everybody thinks it's true

00:32:00.580 but how in the world

00:32:09.060 how in the world are we okay with this is there something i don't know about it is there something

00:32:15.140 i don't know in the sense that even if they're missing that doesn't mean that the election was

00:32:20.580 fraudulent in other words was there some way that something could be audited

00:32:24.820 that would make us not worry about this is there some other way we know we don't have to worry about

00:32:30.980 it what am i missing why why is this not the only story why is there any other story

00:32:41.300 because wouldn't this be proof not of a there's no proof of a fraudulent election

00:32:47.220 but wouldn't it be proof that it's a non-transparent election

00:32:53.860 it feels it feels like we should be able to say at this point

00:32:58.100 unambiguously with nobody arguing with us that the election was not transparent

00:33:06.180 this one case alone given that georgia was important to to a lot of things how many other

00:33:12.580 states have this same problem where the chain of custody for the mail-in votes is missing

00:33:18.100 is georgia the only one who has this problem let me ask you this if you had a lot of these

00:33:26.980 these mail-in vote pickup boxes or or even if they just went through the post office if somebody was

00:33:35.060 intelligently throwing away votes from pro-trump areas because they would kind of know which areas

00:33:42.420 were more pro-trump just throw them all away how would you know how would you know

00:33:48.980 if ballots were just discarded would you know that now it doesn't look like it could have been

00:33:55.460 done at a wide widespread scale because the number of total votes for both candidates was so high

00:34:03.060 so we had an unprecedented number of votes so it doesn't look like there were massive throwing

00:34:09.460 away votes but you wouldn't have to do it massively you could do it targeted so um

00:34:19.140 i i feel as though every time somebody argues that there was fraud in the election they're just

00:34:25.060 walking into a trap because the trap always springs the same way uh i think there was fraud in the

00:34:32.260 election trap courts say there was no fraud in the election which has nothing to do with the claim

00:34:37.940 right because the court courts didn't really look at much but you're still done for some reason that

00:34:44.020 argument beats your argument because you don't have proof courts don't either it's sort of the end of

00:34:50.180 the argument but when you talk about the 400 000 missing uh chain of custody documents that's a that's

00:34:58.420 proof of non-transparency and i think that's the strong argument the non-transparency

00:35:09.940 let's see i'm going to do a micro lesson a little bit later today on the locals platform that's where i put

00:35:19.060 my stuff that you don't see here and it's going to be on the uh how do you use filters

00:35:25.300 to be successful and here's the key you know we we have filters on the world such as one filter is

00:35:34.740 everything's racial another filter is it's always about the money another filter is it's always about

00:35:40.580 power uh etc so there are lots of filters you can apply the mistake we make is to think that the filter

00:35:48.580 is telling you what the truth is we don't have access to the truth so if you're using your filter

00:35:55.860 that way you're using it wrong but if you use a filter because it seems to consistently give you

00:36:02.100 a good outcome that's good filter even if it's not telling you the truth so what i'm going to teach you

00:36:10.820 on locals later is how to know that you're using your filter correctly not as an indicator of truth

00:36:18.580 but as a let's say a map for how to solve a problem and that will be one of the most useful

00:36:27.220 things you've ever heard in your life it really will be now i want to tell you a a weird simulation

00:36:33.460 thing from yesterday and i want you to try this at home how many times have you lost your phone

00:36:39.860 when you knew it had to be right here somewhere and then you're looking room to room and you you and

00:36:49.940 you're saying i literally just had it in my hand how many times has that happened to you and then you

00:36:56.260 look through your whole house it just seems to be gone it's just gone and i was doing this last night

00:37:07.300 and uh i've told you before that i don't view reality the same way you do i do i do view it as that

00:37:14.820 we're literally in a simulation and i do view it as though history is created on demand so if you

00:37:23.060 believe that history is created on demand you can make your phone appear

00:37:29.940 if you believe that there's a base reality that's just reality

00:37:33.780 that your phone is lost and he can't find it but the moment you believe that your your entire

00:37:41.940 experience is subjective you can make the phone appear so last night i looked through my whole

00:37:48.980 house uh literally had tried every surface of every room that i knew i was in and then i stopped and i

00:37:56.900 said all right all right let's let's the the normal way of filtering my environment didn't work

00:38:04.260 my normal filter didn't work so i'm going to change my filter so i said all right consciously i'm going

00:38:09.940 to change my filter now my new filter is that uh i can make that phone appear simply by recognizing that

00:38:18.340 i live in a simulation and that i can make the past anything i want it to be and once i've made it

00:38:24.260 that i'll it will be filled in with false memories that make it all make sense and the moment i said that

00:38:31.220 and said all right suppose it's just a simulation and i'm going to make that phone appear

00:38:36.020 i walked directly over to the phone and picked it up

00:38:38.340 true story the moment i reframed it as a simulation where i could make the phone appear

00:38:49.380 i walked directly to it without stopping and picked it up now

00:38:57.860 now the first thing you get to say to yourself is well that's a coincidence or that just reminded

00:39:02.820 you where the phone was or it's always in the last place you look because that's when you stop looking

00:39:08.900 so do you think there is any significance to that i don't i don't think there's significance in terms

00:39:15.060 of some kind of proof that i caused the phone to appear in some magical way i don't think that

00:39:21.140 here's what i do think as soon as i changed my filter i found my phone keep in mind that the filters are not

00:39:30.500 um viewers of reality the first filter was not a view of reality and the second one was not a view

00:39:38.660 of reality i did not improve my filter to see a better reality i just changed it and the moment i did

00:39:47.940 something in my brain worked a little better and then i walked over and picked up my phone the one place

00:39:53.940 i forgot that i had been right and yeah same thing with glasses etc so be very specific about what the

00:40:03.140 claim is the claim is not that it caused magic the claim is that shifting your filter just makes your

00:40:10.340 brain work differently and that might be advantageous that's all just made my brain work differently and

00:40:17.380 that might have given me some advantage so try it i've done this a number of times and you know it's

00:40:25.140 a subjective experience so it feels like something magic happens every time whenever i just say okay

00:40:30.740 it's a simulation let's just play it like a game and it's amazing how often it works

00:40:43.060 somebody says my mom did that too she prayed a little bit i wouldn't be surprised if praying

00:40:48.500 allowed you to find your phone for the exactly the same mechanism you might be able to pray your phone

00:40:54.420 into existence um when i can't watch a scary movie i just let my wife go through my phone

00:41:07.140 you know the worst part about letting a spouse or a partner go through your phone

00:41:12.260 is not the bad stuff that they find it's the stuff that wasn't bad that looks like it if you see

00:41:18.020 that in the context that's dangerous that's dangerous um ever heard of find my iphone well

00:41:30.260 it doesn't work so well within the house it's not that accurate

00:41:37.780 need a filter on depression

00:41:41.780 filter on depression well um believe it or not that is an area in which

00:41:48.340 which i put a lot of effort into figuring out how to reframe your experience to make yourself

00:41:54.500 happier now the problem is that depression i doubt it's the same in all people right i i doubt there's

00:42:00.820 some exact part of your brain that's always the problem if you're depressed it's probably a constellation

00:42:07.300 of different brain related and experience related things so i don't it's hard to find one solution

00:42:13.540 that works for a whole bunch of different things that just happen to have the same label

00:42:18.500 but that said uh for maybe some proportion of people who would label themselves as depressed

00:42:27.700 i would imagine that there's something you can do by reframing your experience

00:42:32.260 that would change it change your subjective feeling uh imagine if you will just take one example

00:42:40.180 suppose you went from having a point of view that you had no control over your environment nothing

00:42:48.820 you can do now suppose you change that and reframed it to you have lots of control over your environment

00:42:55.300 it's a simulation you can guide it you can build the talent stack you can do the smart things instead

00:43:00.820 of the dumb things if you imagine that you went from having no control to having all kinds of control

00:43:06.340 even if nothing's really different it's just how you're viewing it would that make you less depressed 0.85

00:43:13.780 well not everybody obviously because again different reasons for being depressed but maybe some

00:43:19.220 maybe some maybe some and that may not be the reframe that helps many people but i feel like

00:43:27.700 there are a lot of reframing opportunities that we haven't uh we haven't used 0.76

00:43:32.740 um somebody says you jackasses still looking for those votes well let me let me address this 1.00

00:43:46.580 there are two kinds of people who are really fucking stupid and you're one of them 1.00

00:43:53.300 um who is this uh dedra you're one of the two really fucking stupid types of people one is you're 1.00

00:44:01.220 positive that there was a widespread fraud in the election you're positive well you haven't really 1.00

00:44:08.420 seen the proof right you've seen statistics and stuff like that but it's kind of stupid to say that you 0.68

00:44:15.140 know that that it was fixed do you think it was probably fixed i think people could have could reasonably

00:44:23.060 think that it probably was because any system that has a lack of transparency and a big gain if you

00:44:30.740 could rig it will be will be rigged eventually so i would say this it is not brilliant to say you

00:44:40.180 know it has been rigged but it is brilliant to say it will be eventually if it hasn't been

00:44:47.140 because this kind of a system has to be rigged every time because it's rigable and there's a really big

00:44:54.740 gain and you don't see many people getting caught well actually we wouldn't know how many people are

00:45:01.940 getting away with anything so under that situation fraud is guaranteed but we can't see it right we 0.96

00:45:09.780 don't have access it's not transparent the so it's stupid to say it's absolutely was a rigged election 1.00

00:45:18.260 it is equally stupid maybe stupider a little bit to say that it definitely wasn't 1.00

00:45:26.980 you don't know that that's what a non-transparent system means how many how many mail-in votes got thrown 1.00

00:45:34.180 away do you know i don't know i don't know now so those are the two really serious stupid opinions 0.90

00:45:46.340 definitely was fixed definitely wasn't everything in between is reasonable people with functional 1.00

00:45:54.580 brains you know they're maybe estimating opinion that's all fair the stupid people are on the extremes 0.99

00:46:03.940 like you my friend just in case you didn't know if you were stupid i like like to fill you in 1.00

00:46:11.060 um trump said he won by a landslide well you know if you are the candidate i think you have to get a 1.00

00:46:19.860 little get a little slack you know trump probably has a belief that's in the you know greater than 90

00:46:27.060 percent likelihood so if the candidate exaggerates that to a certainty that that's just part of the game

00:46:33.540 but you don't have to do that you're not talking in public you can just have a real opinion

00:46:37.700 and if it's a hundred percent maybe it shouldn't be

00:46:49.300 somebody says they think trump has access to information you don't have

00:46:54.340 maybe but if it were if it were damning i think we would know by now

00:46:58.420 all right uh that's all i got for now i will talk to you tomorrow

00:47:08.500 and maybe tomorrow we'll have some more interesting news uh how can we eliminate the rise of a

00:47:20.100 permanent political class well the problem is that permanent political class are the only ones who can

00:47:27.380 vote for uh term limits so they won't so there's not much we can do about it

00:47:34.500 uh thank you mcclain all right uh i just want to see this comment

00:47:44.340 uh i wish you'd read youtube comments and not periscope i do both

00:47:48.900 but um the the actual reason is that i've got two ipads here and the my periscope ipad

00:47:56.980 is a larger one and i can just see them a little bit more clearly

00:48:04.340 all right um all right that's all for now i'll talk to you guys

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - March 09, 2021

Episode 1308 Scott Adams： Biden's Bad

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