Episode 1566 Scott Adams: Biden Gets a Colonoscopy So Doctors Can Study His Brain, and Whatnot
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Summary
Self-driving cars are a thing, but how many of them will ever be truly self-driving? Elon Musk has some beta users in a beta program, and some people in Brooklyn can actually take their hands off the wheel, which would be unwise because apparently the self driving part is not as good as it could be. Bitcoin's halving in price is a big deal, and the halving of Bitcoin's price is even bigger.
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The first thing you did today, or one of the first things, is hugely successful.
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You found your way to a live version of, or maybe recorded, of Coffee with Scott Adams,
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which is, yeah, that's right, the best thing that's ever happened in the entire history of the universe.
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Okay, it looks like most of you did not have audio problems,
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but there were audio problems in some places, so I guess it depends.
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In fun news, we'll get to the serious stuff in a minute,
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but in fun news, Tesla has given some beta users.
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They've given them full self-driving beta software.
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And so there are some people in Brooklyn who can actually take their hands off the wheel,
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which would be unwise, because apparently the self-driving part is not as self-driving as possibly it could be.
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I think the highways need to be designed for them alone.
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Do you think it's going to be practical to have regular cars and all kinds of stuff happening
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I just don't know if our human driving capabilities in terms of anticipating a kid running across the road
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I mean, a human can pick up trouble before a machine, right?
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But the machine might react faster or even see some things that the humans don't see.
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Here are the things that I would want for self-driving cars.
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Number one, I'd want the roads especially designed so it's only self-driving cars.
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I don't know how to get there, but that'd be cool.
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I would like all the self-driving cars to be networked together.
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But I think that no matter the make of the car, it needs to be networked
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specifically so the other cars can tell if it lost control.
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or let's say all the cars are monitoring each other,
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like every car is monitoring itself plus one other car.
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If the other car does something that some other car would not have done,
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There's a car acting in a way that I certainly wouldn't have acted as a self-driving car.
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And then, you know, maybe something can remediate that situation.
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But the other thing I'd like to see is some kind of a satellite visibility above the cars.
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It could be some of Elon Musk's own low satellites that could see your car pretty easily.
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But don't you think you'd like to know if there's a car around the corner?
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now, you probably were not sold on the idea of mixing,
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or probably not sold on the idea of having only self-driving cars in the road.
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But you realize you could get rid of streetlights, right?
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Because if you had visibility from above and all the cars were networked,
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you would have two ways to know if a car is coming from a hidden direction.
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All of the cars could actually go through an intersection without stopping.
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You would just, the self-driving cars would just regulate,
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So you could drive 20, you know, say, 20% slower
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and get there 50% faster if you had a self-driving car.
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No, I mean, not just sort of thinking about it and saying obvious things.
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Apparently, Tesla made a billion dollars profit.
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But a quarter of their profits was from Bitcoin sales.
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He made a quarter of a billion dollars on Bitcoin this quarter.
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But if you add, like, Bitcoin as a sweetener on top of that,
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Bernie Sanders doesn't like our billionaires having a space race by themselves.
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I think this is more of the fog of war fake news,
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which is a little different than regular fake news.
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people are probably trying to get it right and just getting it wrong.
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But in the fog of war, it could be just a mistake.
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And here are the things we've heard about Rittenhouse jurors.
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All of these are unconfirmed, low-reliability reports.
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but it might have to do with the racial makeup of the jury.
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If the racial makeup of the jury is half white and half other,
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Because I don't think anybody's going to be looking at facts.
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But there apparently is some kind of possibly a foreperson,
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and may be trying to retry the case in the jury room.
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put a really big skeptical pin in any of those stories.
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that the public expects unemployment to worsen in the future.
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If you want to make a prediction about anything,
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There aren't that many things that stay about the same.
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But that 25%, if you're new to this live stream,
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because that's exactly the number of people in the United States
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25% of the public will reliably just get that wrong,
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One of the most frequent criticisms that I receive
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tell me if you think that's a reasonable characterization
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I thought I was going to have to defend myself,
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However, I do want to talk about something I got wrong.
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Tucker is the first one that came to mind to me
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But I'm going to add a little bit of ish to it.
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was saying they were going to release the Kraken