Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1706 Scott Adams： Watch Me Connect Politics, AI, The Simulation and Twitter Into One Story

00:00:00.000 Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of the entire civilization.

00:00:12.500 It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and if you didn't think it could get any better, surprise, it's whiteboard day.

00:00:20.300 Yes, we will have a whiteboard in which I'll connect the seemingly different fields of politics, artificial intelligence,

00:00:28.480 the simulation, and Twitter.

00:00:31.200 Yeah, I'll do all that today.

00:00:32.840 And in order for you to be primed and ready for that, this mind-blowing experience that is the simultaneous sip and coffee with Scott Adams,

00:00:41.640 you're going to need to get ready, and all you need to be ready for this amazing, amazing experience is a cupper mugger,

00:00:47.680 a glass of tanker, a gel, a canteen jugger, a flask, a vessel of any kind, filled with your favorite liquid.

00:00:52.720 I like coffee.

00:00:53.920 And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure.

00:01:00.540 It's the dopamine of the day.

00:01:02.220 It's the thing that makes everything better.

00:01:05.320 It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now.

00:01:07.960 Go.

00:01:12.500 Oh.

00:01:15.620 That, ladies and gentlemen, is amazing.

00:01:19.180 I'd like to start with a helpful tip.

00:01:22.100 Have you ever bought anything on Amazon?

00:01:26.360 Well, if you have, and you've bought more than one thing, you may have run into a situation I run into often.

00:01:32.720 It's called the scale problem.

00:01:36.200 As in, I think I'm buying a big old bag of something, and it shows up like it's a free sample.

00:01:44.120 How many times has that happened to you?

00:01:48.100 You know, you buy a chair for your living room, and it shows up, and it's like a, it's a Barbie chair.

00:01:52.760 You're like, you know, that looked like a real chair.

00:01:55.600 In my defense, I did not check the specs.

00:01:58.100 It looked like a chair.

00:01:59.120 It said a chair.

00:02:00.000 I bought the chair.

00:02:01.500 It just happened to be two inches tall.

00:02:03.200 Well, this brings me to my recent purchase, which should have been about this tall, about this wide, the big one.

00:02:14.160 But when you look at the little picture, it looks exactly the same.

00:02:18.340 And so I suggest the following human interface improvement for Amazon.

00:02:22.740 Jeff Bezos, if you're listening, I suggest this.

00:02:26.960 In any situation in which there might be any potential ambiguity about the size and scale of an object,

00:02:35.960 it is not good enough to include it only in the description, which you must click.

00:02:41.540 You must also have a human hand in the picture, preferably the same human hand.

00:02:46.860 Because if this had a human hand in it, I would know exactly how big it was every single time.

00:02:51.000 And how hard is it to put a hand in a picture?

00:02:53.640 Not very hard.

00:02:54.600 You can even digitally add it, just nearby.

00:02:57.660 Hand.

00:02:58.680 Picture.

00:03:00.220 So, please, user interface developers at Amazon, who are, by the way, some of the best in the world.

00:03:08.860 Amazon has some of the best user interface.

00:03:10.600 But that one thing, that one thing bites me in the ass about one time in five, probably, literally.

00:03:18.240 I just get some weird size.

00:03:21.000 All right.

00:03:24.420 You know, lately, if you've been watching my live streams, you know that I've been adding quite a bit to civilization.

00:03:32.260 I've had insightful comments ranging from, oh, I don't know, geopolitics.

00:03:37.600 You know, one of my many sort of fields of expertise.

00:03:42.020 The supply chain, where I've, you know, wasn't an expert until just a few weeks ago.

00:03:47.080 Now I am.

00:03:48.240 And, of course, the global economy, something that, you know, people like me know everything about.

00:03:53.440 So, while I've made these tremendous contributions to society, it seems that the only thing that got picked up by the media that I did in the last two weeks was the following tweet.

00:04:03.900 In which I tweeted, Madonna is transforming into Jar Jar Binks, and no one is talking about it.

00:04:11.320 Yes, of all the things I offer to this world, my many nuggets of wisdom, only one left the little bubble, which is this live stream, into the larger world to make a dent.

00:04:25.220 And it was that tweet.

00:04:27.980 Madonna is transforming into Jar Jar Binks, and no one is talking about it.

00:04:32.840 So, that'll keep me humble for a while.

00:04:35.760 All right.

00:04:37.600 In an ongoing trend, which you should watch very carefully, you've heard me say this before, but the more that it happens, the story gets bigger, right?

00:04:48.520 Which is that mushrooms are becoming mainstream almost instantly.

00:04:53.360 There's something about 2022 that's happening that is hard to explain.

00:04:58.680 But now the Washington Post has a story that your headline says, psychedelics may ease cancer patients' depression and anxieties.

00:05:06.660 You know, quote, these drugs were banned decades ago.

00:05:09.320 My clinical trial suggests they might have a meaningful positive effect in treating mood issues.

00:05:17.300 It's happening.

00:05:18.240 I don't think those of you who have had no, let's say, experience with mushrooms, I don't think you know how big this is.

00:05:30.420 This is just about the biggest story in the world.

00:05:34.060 You know, obviously the economy and war and viruses are big stories.

00:05:38.280 But in terms of our, let's say, our subjective experience of life, this is the biggest story.

00:05:46.440 This is deeply transforming of humanity.

00:05:50.180 I mean, I'm not sure anything's going to be the same after this.

00:05:53.340 And you don't have to get everybody on mushrooms.

00:05:56.160 That's not necessary.

00:05:57.600 You just have to get the right people on mushrooms.

00:06:01.740 Right?

00:06:02.300 Not everybody.

00:06:03.340 You just got to get the right people on them.

00:06:05.800 You know what I mean?

00:06:06.360 Let me ask you this.

00:06:08.240 Do you think Putin has done mushrooms?

00:06:11.340 Serious question.

00:06:12.820 Serious question.

00:06:14.120 How many of you think Putin has done mushrooms?

00:06:17.620 I would bet a very large sum of money is not.

00:06:22.200 Because you know what?

00:06:22.980 You don't find yourself in this situation if you had.

00:06:27.160 And again, people who have experience with this are saying, oh yeah, I get what you're saying.

00:06:32.080 And those who don't have experience are saying, I don't even understand what that means.

00:06:36.360 Like, how do you know he hasn't done mushrooms?

00:06:39.540 Do you know how I know Putin hasn't done mushrooms?

00:06:43.180 Because he wouldn't be Putin if he had.

00:06:46.360 It would have fundamentally rewired him.

00:06:49.180 Like, he'd be playing the, yeah, exactly, he's an ego killer.

00:06:54.140 Russia, especially with Putin at the helm, has, is suffering almost a personality disorder.

00:07:03.740 That they have to own Ukraine, and they have to subjugate people, and they have to be awesome.

00:07:08.660 They have to protect their egos, and Russia's history, and, you know, the Russian people, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:07:14.260 You take mushrooms once, that all goes away.

00:07:18.380 It all goes away.

00:07:19.820 And then you start thinking, well, what would make everybody happy?

00:07:24.380 And if I made everybody happy, would that work out for me too?

00:07:27.920 Probably.

00:07:29.600 Probably.

00:07:30.040 So, suddenly, everything is different.

00:07:33.600 Yeah, mushrooms changes everything.

00:07:35.540 Might be world peace.

00:07:38.800 And by the way, I don't recommend that you try mushrooms.

00:07:41.440 Let me be clear.

00:07:42.760 Because this is a public forum, and who knows who's watching.

00:07:46.980 I do not recommend any illegal drugs.

00:07:50.320 Talk to your doctors only.

00:07:51.580 I'm going to give you a little tip that may completely change the lives of some of you.

00:08:01.460 This is one of my favorite things to do.

00:08:04.600 And I'm going to make my claim really small, so that it's not some ridiculous over-claim.

00:08:10.680 My claim is I'm going to give you a reframe that might solve, I don't know, 1%, maybe less, maybe fewer.

00:08:21.580 Not of your mental problems.

00:08:25.840 Maybe.

00:08:26.740 I think about 1 out of 100 of you might just walk away from this live stream saying,

00:08:31.360 okay, that just changed my life.

00:08:33.780 All right?

00:08:34.640 So, I'm setting myself up for a pretty high bar.

00:08:39.720 It goes like this.

00:08:41.380 I'm going to start with this assumption, and then I'll give you the idea.

00:08:44.360 The assumption is this, and I want to see if you'll agree with the starting premise.

00:08:47.720 That we think other people think like us.

00:08:53.140 Do you buy the first assumption?

00:08:55.640 That all of us were biased by the belief that other people's brains are processing things somewhat similar to ours.

00:09:04.740 All right, so that's the first assumption.

00:09:06.260 I think you largely believe that we think they process like us.

00:09:11.360 Now, the no's I'm saying, I think you're maybe interpreting the question a little bit differently.

00:09:18.320 Because we do know that people are different at the same time we think they're not, right?

00:09:22.240 So, we do hold two beliefs that are opposites at the same time.

00:09:26.100 We hold the belief that people think like us, and that we act on it.

00:09:31.500 At the same time, we know it's not true.

00:09:33.540 We know people don't think the way we think, right?

00:09:36.500 But you act like it, even though we know it's not true.

00:09:40.540 So, that's the first part.

00:09:43.300 That's just that.

00:09:45.240 And I'm going to be talking to people who feel they have low self-esteem,

00:09:50.320 and that other people judge them poorly.

00:09:54.480 Is there anybody watching who would fall into that category?

00:09:57.560 You have low self-esteem, and you believe other people are judging you.

00:10:02.920 Quite a few, all right?

00:10:04.400 That's a lot of yeses.

00:10:05.400 The yeses just start popping up on the locals' platform.

00:10:10.900 Now, not everybody, all right?

00:10:13.800 All right, now here's the reframe,

00:10:16.380 specifically for people who live in, let's say, their reality

00:10:20.780 is that they feel they have low self-esteem,

00:10:24.800 or they feel worthless, and they feel other people judging them.

00:10:29.540 Here's the reframe that fixes it.

00:10:33.180 Stop judging other people.

00:10:36.060 That's it.

00:10:38.620 That's it.

00:10:39.180 Stop judging other people.

00:10:42.220 Do you know why?

00:10:44.000 If you can train yourself to stop judging other people,

00:10:47.200 which would take a while,

00:10:48.320 you have to just keep reminding yourself not to do it.

00:10:50.660 The trick that I use is that I literally believe that everybody has the same value

00:10:57.020 because there's no such thing as some metric for judging your value.

00:11:03.440 You could say, who's more valuable for having a baby?

00:11:07.680 Well, women, you know, of a certain age and certain health situation.

00:11:14.180 But are they more valuable than everybody else?

00:11:17.280 No, they fit a certain requirement, a need.

00:11:21.540 You know, they're important in that way.

00:11:23.380 But I don't fundamentally believe that anybody's worth more than anybody else.

00:11:28.600 The law doesn't judge you that way unless you break the law.

00:11:32.040 So if you could learn to simply talk yourself into not judging other people,

00:11:39.140 do you know what would happen?

00:11:40.020 In theory, in theory, if you stop judging other people reflexively

00:11:47.440 and just train yourself, just don't think that way.

00:11:50.340 Just everybody's equal.

00:11:51.660 We're all the same.

00:11:53.580 As soon as you do that,

00:11:55.420 you're going to stop worrying about what they think of you.

00:11:58.320 You know why?

00:11:59.920 Because you can hold in your head two thoughts that don't make sense together.

00:12:03.940 One is that, you know, everybody acts the same

00:12:07.060 and the other is that everybody thinks differently.

00:12:08.780 We kind of hold them the same.

00:12:10.780 But as soon as you see other people thinking like you do,

00:12:14.220 if your view is that everybody is the same

00:12:17.100 and then you imagine that they have the same view as you,

00:12:20.340 which they don't,

00:12:21.640 but this is the trick, right?

00:12:23.720 If you have a bias,

00:12:26.040 and you know you do,

00:12:27.280 if you have a bias toward thinking people do or should think the way you think,

00:12:31.880 then change the way you think.

00:12:35.080 Are you following it?

00:12:36.220 If you change the way you think,

00:12:38.000 it should change your subjective impression

00:12:42.020 of what other people are thinking of you.

00:12:47.400 I think 1% of you just got cured.

00:12:52.520 I'm watching the comments come in on locals

00:12:54.480 because they come in faster,

00:12:56.180 and people are having a good reaction to it.

00:12:59.780 Now, what would be the downside of trying it?

00:13:04.060 Do you see any?

00:13:05.300 Is there any downside of simply trying to judge other people less

00:13:10.560 as your own solution to how you feel about other people thinking of you?

00:13:14.300 There's no downside.

00:13:15.780 Can you think of anybody who would say,

00:13:18.440 no, you should be more judgmental about people's worth?

00:13:22.140 Now, remember, I'm not telling you that you should embrace their choices.

00:13:27.400 Not that.

00:13:28.660 You can still disagree with their choices, of course.

00:13:31.420 Just don't judge them.

00:13:34.080 They're just people.

00:13:35.520 We're all the same, value-wise, in terms of value.

00:13:40.260 All right.

00:13:41.600 And I would say that as awesome as I often feel I am in some narrow areas,

00:13:48.020 because I have good self-esteem about some specific things that I do or have done,

00:13:54.700 but of all the things you could do in the world,

00:13:57.680 the things that you could be good at,

00:14:00.040 what percentage of all the things that a person can be good at am I good at?

00:14:06.620 Like, less than 0.001%?

00:14:11.480 That's about as good as you can get.

00:14:13.180 Like, if you take the most awesome person,

00:14:17.320 just think of your friend or maybe even somebody famous,

00:14:20.900 whoever you think hits all the notes.

00:14:23.680 Like, oh, that's the person who's really got it together.

00:14:25.700 They can do this, and they can do that, and they're this and that.

00:14:30.140 Of all the things that people can do,

00:14:33.160 what percentage can they do, really?

00:14:36.720 About 0.0001.

00:14:39.800 Almost exactly the same as you.

00:14:41.720 Like, if you look at it mathematically, nobody can do anything.

00:14:46.000 I mean, it all rounds to zero.

00:14:48.140 So to imagine that somebody else's 0.001 effectiveness in life

00:14:52.540 is so much better than your 0.001.

00:14:56.840 I mean, I guess it is mathematically, but not in a real way.

00:15:01.840 So that should help some of you.

00:15:06.660 Good news.

00:15:08.000 The good guys win sometimes.

00:15:09.860 Do you remember the story of author Alex Epstein,

00:15:14.140 who found out that the Wall Street Journal

00:15:16.280 was planning a hit piece on him

00:15:17.880 before his book even came out?

00:15:22.080 And so he actually organized a...

00:15:27.520 His book is called Fossil Future.

00:15:29.780 And I guess the Washington Post had come up with some kind of angle,

00:15:32.760 maybe because they don't like a book that is, let's say,

00:15:37.240 not as anti-fossil fuel as they would like.

00:15:40.180 You know what I mean?

00:15:41.480 That they might try to suppress that kind of a book,

00:15:43.660 especially if it's good.

00:15:45.380 They don't try to suppress a book that's bad, do they?

00:15:48.440 Bad in the sense that you won't want to read it.

00:15:51.220 Nobody's going to write a whole article about a book nobody's going to read.

00:15:54.440 So they're afraid of this book, clearly.

00:15:58.000 There wouldn't be a hit piece on it unless they were afraid of it,

00:16:01.200 in terms of it threatening the worldview which they present.

00:16:06.500 So what followed was Alex Epstein quite brilliantly

00:16:11.820 organized a number of Blue Check and other people on Twitter,

00:16:16.840 and maybe other social media, I'm not sure,

00:16:18.680 but on Twitter at least.

00:16:20.980 And many of us had a dog in the fight.

00:16:26.120 Right?

00:16:26.520 I certainly did.

00:16:27.840 To me, this was personal.

00:16:29.320 This was absolutely personal.

00:16:31.160 Right?

00:16:31.540 I mean, I know Alex Epstein just from, you know, digital contacts.

00:16:36.620 But to me, it was personal.

00:16:38.700 Because I have been the subject of hit pieces,

00:16:41.900 and there's not much you can do about it.

00:16:44.060 It's a pretty helpless feeling.

00:16:45.220 So the fact that he was taking the fight to the Washington Post

00:16:49.780 and found a way to actually get traction,

00:16:52.240 which is organizing enough people to embarrass them,

00:16:56.840 preemptively embarrass them.

00:16:58.340 The result was the article did come out.

00:17:00.760 It was delayed, how long?

00:17:03.800 Delayed a week, I think.

00:17:05.520 And when it did come out,

00:17:07.240 they had removed 90% of the bad content,

00:17:11.180 you know, the hit piece content,

00:17:13.020 including any allegation that when he was 18 years old,

00:17:20.340 he wrote something that somebody thought was racist.

00:17:23.000 If you looked at it, it wouldn't be.

00:17:24.540 Right?

00:17:24.740 It isn't.

00:17:25.660 But that's the way things get framed.

00:17:27.700 Completely gone.

00:17:29.300 The main thing that he was concerned about

00:17:31.420 was the, I would say, inappropriate allegation

00:17:35.460 that just didn't make sense in a good world.

00:17:38.120 Like, you would have to live in a bad world

00:17:41.240 for that kind of thing to exist, those accusations.

00:17:46.080 And he did what I've never seen anybody do.

00:17:50.260 He actually preemptively took out a hit piece.

00:17:54.720 That's pretty hard to do.

00:17:56.300 I mean, maybe some billionaire's done it

00:17:57.980 by money and threats or something,

00:17:59.900 but I've never seen a regular person,

00:18:03.140 you know, an author do it before.

00:18:04.720 That's a first.

00:18:05.360 And I wonder if there's any kind of,

00:18:07.540 is this telling us there's any kind of shift in power?

00:18:11.500 Because I've been telling you

00:18:13.500 that the power of the internet dads

00:18:17.920 or just the, you know,

00:18:19.320 the people who have some credibility on Twitter

00:18:22.380 is growing.

00:18:24.360 And it's pretty important.

00:18:26.800 I think this really is sort of a turning point

00:18:29.300 in understanding where power lies in society.

00:18:35.360 I'm going to tie together a few stories

00:18:39.280 in ways that will amaze you.

00:18:41.860 So keep in mind that story

00:18:43.220 about the press and about Alex Epstein.

00:18:48.200 So, because we'll circle back to some things.

00:18:51.180 So I've talked about this before,

00:18:52.580 but it's more relevant today.

00:18:53.860 Do you remember when PayPal was started?

00:18:57.720 PayPal had a little group of people

00:18:59.140 who went on, several of them,

00:19:01.200 to do bigger things than PayPal.

00:19:02.700 So, for example, Peter Thiel, I believe,

00:19:06.820 was one of the early financers for Facebook.

00:19:11.180 So Peter Thiel saw the potential of Facebook really early.

00:19:15.640 Became a billionaire, in part because of that.

00:19:19.420 Reid Hoffman, who was part of that PayPal group,

00:19:22.540 he founded LinkedIn,

00:19:24.220 which is effectively, you know, an online resume,

00:19:27.740 but it's a social network as well.

00:19:29.140 So kind of weird that two of the PayPal people

00:19:32.160 would later go on to have, you know,

00:19:34.580 major influence on what became social media networks.

00:19:39.000 And now Elon Musk, one of the PayPal originals,

00:19:42.660 is buying into Twitter,

00:19:45.100 which, again, shows at least his appreciation

00:19:48.180 and understanding of social media

00:19:50.820 in a way other people don't.

00:19:52.780 Now, what are the odds

00:19:54.400 that three of the people from this one company,

00:19:57.440 which is often talked about as being special in some way,

00:20:01.760 have all had major influence

00:20:03.880 on social media platforms specifically.

00:20:07.280 Not just going on to do other unicorns,

00:20:10.900 but social media platforms.

00:20:12.140 And I ask, what is it that made PayPal work?

00:20:16.040 Because I've never understood

00:20:17.040 how the original digital money products

00:20:20.540 ever got anybody to trust them.

00:20:22.680 They weren't a bank.

00:20:23.840 They were a startup.

00:20:24.420 How does, like, a startup of nobodies

00:20:27.200 get you to put their, you know,

00:20:29.080 trust you with their money?

00:20:30.800 How did that ever happen?

00:20:32.440 Because the hard part wasn't the technology,

00:20:34.400 I'm guessing.

00:20:35.400 I'm guessing the hard part

00:20:36.340 was convincing people to use it.

00:20:38.580 How the hell did they do that?

00:20:40.540 I mean, really?

00:20:41.800 That's one of the most impressive untold stories,

00:20:45.700 or maybe it's in some book or something,

00:20:47.140 but I've never heard it.

00:20:47.840 So I say that because there's something extra

00:20:52.100 going on with all of those PayPal founders.

00:20:55.400 And what I mean is,

00:20:56.740 here's what it looks like from the outside, right?

00:20:59.600 So this is just my speculative outsider's view

00:21:02.780 of what it looks like.

00:21:04.300 It looks like they all learned

00:21:06.340 to engineer comprehensively.

00:21:10.640 And what I mean by that is,

00:21:12.160 people sometimes engineer a product,

00:21:14.120 but they don't engineer the human

00:21:16.540 who's using the product.

00:21:18.380 There's something about the interface

00:21:19.940 or the way it's used

00:21:21.020 or how it touches our minds

00:21:22.540 that's incomplete.

00:21:25.180 What's different about PayPal

00:21:27.120 and then Facebook, LinkedIn,

00:21:29.780 and now Twitter,

00:21:31.560 is that all of them have found an interface

00:21:33.560 that connects the product right to your brain.

00:21:37.280 Product directly connected to your brain.

00:21:39.500 What does that make you think of?

00:21:42.120 Elon Musk's other product, right?

00:21:44.260 Neuralink,

00:21:45.160 where you'll have actually chips in your head,

00:21:47.780 potentially, someday.

00:21:49.700 So connecting the product

00:21:51.200 directly to the brain

00:21:53.160 and treating it as though it's one system,

00:21:56.300 you're going to say,

00:21:57.660 well, everybody does that.

00:21:58.600 They all consider the human user

00:22:01.360 and they all consider the product.

00:22:03.420 But nobody does it like they do it.

00:22:06.180 Nobody has done it

00:22:07.300 in a way that you can't stop using the product.

00:22:10.020 Nobody's come close

00:22:13.560 to the effectiveness

00:22:14.480 that these folks

00:22:16.440 have in understanding

00:22:18.060 the brain product interface.

00:22:21.140 Keep that in mind

00:22:22.300 because it's going to come back today.

00:22:29.360 Here's an interesting question

00:22:30.600 about Elon Musk

00:22:31.480 since he's in the news a lot.

00:22:32.600 Why do conservatives

00:22:33.820 like him so much?

00:22:35.480 Do you ever wonder about that?

00:22:37.120 Because I'm pretty sure

00:22:38.100 he's never labeled himself

00:22:39.180 a conservative.

00:22:41.060 I'm pretty sure

00:22:42.120 he's never labeled himself

00:22:43.720 a Republican.

00:22:45.860 What is it that makes people like him?

00:22:47.540 And if I told you

00:22:51.100 that there's somebody

00:22:51.800 who started the biggest

00:22:53.280 electric car company,

00:22:56.280 would you say,

00:22:57.180 well, there's somebody

00:22:57.760 conservatives are going to love

00:22:59.100 because he's all about

00:23:01.540 the green stuff

00:23:02.540 and climate change.

00:23:04.060 It doesn't really make sense,

00:23:05.140 does it?

00:23:06.540 But he's very much embraced.

00:23:09.280 Let me tell you

00:23:09.880 what I think it is.

00:23:11.820 And you can take this

00:23:13.360 just as a compliment

00:23:14.620 to conservatives

00:23:15.400 because it's one that I feel

00:23:16.820 because I feel the same thing.

00:23:18.680 I do not identify

00:23:19.860 as conservative,

00:23:21.540 don't identify as Republican,

00:23:23.480 and I feel that I'm

00:23:25.300 fully embraced

00:23:26.960 by conservatives

00:23:28.740 all the time.

00:23:30.400 And I think it's the same reason,

00:23:32.200 or at least there's

00:23:32.960 some similar reasons.

00:23:34.400 And it goes like this.

00:23:36.780 Let's just take

00:23:37.580 Elon, for example.

00:23:40.900 Oh, and also

00:23:41.400 he's an immigrant.

00:23:43.020 So every stereotype

00:23:45.060 you should imagine

00:23:46.200 about conservatives

00:23:47.660 or Republicans.

00:23:48.740 He sort of violates,

00:23:50.060 I don't know,

00:23:50.380 some of the biggest ones,

00:23:51.340 right?

00:23:52.240 And yet,

00:23:53.760 he's widely liked.

00:23:55.620 So here's what I think it is.

00:23:56.880 Number one,

00:23:58.400 I've never seen him

00:23:59.540 disrespect Republicans

00:24:01.320 or conservatives.

00:24:03.360 Agree or disagree?

00:24:05.300 I've never seen it.

00:24:07.140 Have you ever seen him

00:24:07.940 disrespect Republicans

00:24:10.080 or conservatives?

00:24:12.080 And you could say

00:24:13.020 almost everybody's done that.

00:24:15.360 Almost everybody's done that.

00:24:17.500 If they're on the left.

00:24:20.140 And if they're on the right,

00:24:21.440 even the people on the right

00:24:22.580 insult themselves.

00:24:25.020 Conservatives fight

00:24:26.080 with each other.

00:24:27.140 Right?

00:24:27.560 But I've never seen him

00:24:28.640 disrespect anybody

00:24:29.460 on the right.

00:24:30.560 Now,

00:24:30.880 has he ever disrespected

00:24:31.920 anybody on the left?

00:24:33.800 Well,

00:24:34.080 he's going after

00:24:34.720 wokeism a little bit,

00:24:36.020 hasn't he?

00:24:37.300 Right?

00:24:37.940 Yeah,

00:24:38.180 I feel like he has.

00:24:39.940 Now,

00:24:40.400 that doesn't mean

00:24:41.080 he's associated

00:24:41.840 with the right.

00:24:43.700 It could mean that

00:24:44.960 he's more bothered

00:24:46.040 by something he sees

00:24:47.020 somewhere else.

00:24:47.660 It doesn't mean

00:24:48.040 he's associated

00:24:48.660 with one side.

00:24:50.700 Right?

00:24:51.060 Bill Maher

00:24:51.740 talks more about

00:24:53.320 the problems

00:24:53.840 on the left lately,

00:24:55.020 but it doesn't make him

00:24:55.940 on the right.

00:24:58.720 Here's some other things.

00:25:01.460 He,

00:25:01.940 Musk,

00:25:02.720 as I just talked about

00:25:03.720 with the PayPal people,

00:25:05.040 he incorporates

00:25:05.880 human motivation

00:25:06.900 and psychology

00:25:07.680 into his systems.

00:25:09.540 Who does that sound like?

00:25:11.420 Somebody builds

00:25:12.180 a system,

00:25:13.340 and in his case

00:25:14.100 it's more like

00:25:14.560 a product that's

00:25:15.380 supported by

00:25:15.960 various systems,

00:25:17.380 but who is most

00:25:19.360 like that?

00:25:20.100 That's conservatives,

00:25:22.000 Republicans.

00:25:23.160 They consider

00:25:24.200 human motivation

00:25:25.180 when they design

00:25:25.980 a system,

00:25:26.540 which is,

00:25:26.980 well,

00:25:27.740 you know,

00:25:28.200 if we build a system

00:25:29.560 where we just

00:25:30.040 give you stuff,

00:25:31.160 what's the human

00:25:31.860 motivation?

00:25:32.900 Take the stuff

00:25:33.540 and not work.

00:25:34.720 All right?

00:25:34.900 So I think

00:25:36.640 conservatives

00:25:37.100 appreciate him

00:25:38.040 for understanding

00:25:39.200 that if you forget

00:25:40.220 about the human

00:25:40.840 motivation,

00:25:41.540 you get everything

00:25:42.040 wrong,

00:25:42.520 like Democrats

00:25:43.440 often do

00:25:43.980 with their systems.

00:25:47.840 The next thing

00:25:48.700 is that he's

00:25:49.120 transparent

00:25:49.760 about both

00:25:51.480 his thinking

00:25:52.360 process

00:25:52.840 and his

00:25:53.420 motivations.

00:25:55.120 Wouldn't you say?

00:25:56.540 Do you ever

00:25:57.140 think to yourself,

00:25:57.860 I think he has

00:25:58.340 a hidden agenda?

00:26:00.060 I guess people

00:26:00.660 say that about

00:26:01.200 all billionaires,

00:26:02.280 but it doesn't

00:26:02.720 feel like it.

00:26:03.800 It doesn't feel

00:26:04.660 like he has

00:26:05.020 some hidden agenda

00:26:05.780 because I feel

00:26:06.620 like he tells

00:26:07.080 you exactly

00:26:07.560 what he wants

00:26:08.280 and then he

00:26:09.320 does it in public.

00:26:10.920 It's pretty

00:26:11.740 clear,

00:26:12.880 right?

00:26:13.440 So people

00:26:14.000 like that,

00:26:14.620 just in general,

00:26:15.400 people like

00:26:15.820 transparency.

00:26:17.200 He shows

00:26:17.880 his work,

00:26:18.400 right?

00:26:18.960 And obviously

00:26:19.720 he likes

00:26:20.080 freedom,

00:26:20.940 so that

00:26:21.800 binds him

00:26:22.840 to the right,

00:26:23.720 even if he's

00:26:24.420 not associated

00:26:25.060 with the right,

00:26:25.460 he just likes

00:26:25.880 freedom

00:26:26.240 and free speech.

00:26:28.780 And he also

00:26:29.780 works harder

00:26:30.360 than most

00:26:30.740 people.

00:26:32.420 Have you

00:26:32.900 ever seen

00:26:33.320 a conservative

00:26:34.120 dislike somebody

00:26:36.280 who works

00:26:36.980 as hard

00:26:37.520 as Elon Musk?

00:26:39.260 You could do

00:26:40.000 almost everything

00:26:40.700 else wrong

00:26:41.420 from a

00:26:42.140 conservative's

00:26:42.840 point of view,

00:26:43.500 as long as

00:26:43.960 you're obeying

00:26:44.560 the law.

00:26:45.640 You have to

00:26:46.120 get that right.

00:26:47.020 But if you're

00:26:47.400 obeying the law

00:26:48.160 and you're

00:26:49.080 working 14

00:26:50.240 hours a day

00:26:50.940 or whatever

00:26:51.260 the hell

00:26:51.540 he was doing,

00:26:52.080 18 hours a day,

00:26:53.640 conservatives

00:26:54.120 kind of like you

00:26:54.940 because you

00:26:56.040 work hard.

00:26:57.200 It's pretty

00:26:57.700 basic.

00:26:58.540 It's not hard

00:26:59.200 to be liked

00:26:59.700 by the right.

00:27:01.200 And he has

00:27:02.400 lots of kids.

00:27:03.900 What does he have

00:27:04.360 six or seven kids?

00:27:06.000 Conservatives like

00:27:06.680 that,

00:27:07.400 family-oriented

00:27:08.300 in his own way.

00:27:10.000 And I think

00:27:10.660 his family

00:27:11.480 situation is

00:27:12.220 completely

00:27:12.740 non-standard.

00:27:14.280 And still,

00:27:15.340 still,

00:27:15.940 conservatives

00:27:16.580 embrace him.

00:27:18.020 So here's the

00:27:18.620 message from this.

00:27:21.580 We're locked

00:27:22.380 into a world

00:27:23.140 in which we

00:27:23.680 think the only

00:27:24.200 way you can

00:27:24.660 run for office

00:27:25.520 is to be

00:27:26.620 totally one thing

00:27:27.600 or totally

00:27:28.040 the other thing.

00:27:28.660 You're either

00:27:28.940 a Republican,

00:27:29.700 nor you're

00:27:30.180 a Democrat.

00:27:30.940 I think

00:27:32.780 Elon Musk

00:27:33.560 proves that

00:27:35.040 if you were

00:27:35.560 smart about it,

00:27:36.280 you wouldn't

00:27:36.540 have to be

00:27:37.080 on a team.

00:27:38.460 That you

00:27:38.860 could get

00:27:39.220 the other

00:27:39.560 team to

00:27:40.000 like you

00:27:40.540 easily.

00:27:43.160 Respect

00:27:43.600 them.

00:27:45.680 Give

00:27:46.200 some,

00:27:47.020 you know,

00:27:47.360 appreciation

00:27:47.840 to what it

00:27:48.540 is that

00:27:48.840 they want.

00:27:49.840 Like freedom.

00:27:51.280 Be transparent.

00:27:52.900 Outwork

00:27:53.340 them.

00:27:54.640 Right?

00:27:55.220 How hard

00:27:55.780 would it be?

00:27:56.860 You

00:27:57.060 can have

00:27:57.580 very different

00:27:58.140 opinions

00:27:58.560 from conservatives

00:27:59.440 and still

00:28:00.000 have a lot

00:28:00.520 of them.

00:28:00.940 A lot

00:28:01.360 of them

00:28:01.600 say,

00:28:01.860 you know,

00:28:02.640 damn it,

00:28:03.620 I don't

00:28:04.060 like all

00:28:04.440 your policies,

00:28:05.300 but I love

00:28:05.760 the way

00:28:06.000 you're

00:28:06.160 treating

00:28:06.420 everything.

00:28:07.420 Like,

00:28:07.640 I love

00:28:07.940 the way

00:28:08.140 you approach

00:28:08.620 it,

00:28:09.440 even if

00:28:09.820 I'm not

00:28:10.340 on the

00:28:10.520 same page

00:28:10.960 with your

00:28:11.260 solution.

00:28:12.340 You could

00:28:12.940 totally get

00:28:14.280 people to

00:28:14.820 switch sides

00:28:15.920 if you

00:28:16.360 played it

00:28:16.740 right.

00:28:16.980 All right.

00:28:20.080 Now,

00:28:20.640 I tweeted

00:28:20.960 the other

00:28:21.300 day,

00:28:21.720 and I

00:28:22.340 said I

00:28:22.860 didn't know

00:28:23.240 if Twitter

00:28:24.420 was already

00:28:25.060 changing its

00:28:25.760 algorithm to,

00:28:27.360 you know,

00:28:27.760 maybe sweep

00:28:28.360 things under

00:28:28.800 the rug

00:28:29.140 before Elon

00:28:29.900 Musk gets

00:28:30.540 a look at

00:28:30.920 the algorithm.

00:28:31.940 And I

00:28:32.380 wondered if

00:28:32.820 my engagement

00:28:34.060 and number

00:28:35.060 of followers

00:28:35.520 per day

00:28:35.960 was going

00:28:36.340 up because

00:28:36.980 of that.

00:28:37.880 But then

00:28:38.260 somebody

00:28:38.580 pointed out

00:28:39.080 that Elon

00:28:39.620 Musk had

00:28:40.780 liked one

00:28:41.440 of my

00:28:41.680 tweets,

00:28:42.500 which would

00:28:43.220 also explain

00:28:43.900 why my

00:28:44.440 number of

00:28:44.960 new users

00:28:45.420 went up.

00:28:46.080 So today

00:28:46.580 it's still

00:28:46.960 up over

00:28:47.500 a thousand

00:28:47.980 new users

00:28:49.360 today,

00:28:50.060 which is

00:28:50.360 about,

00:28:51.000 I don't know,

00:28:51.620 five or

00:28:52.420 ten times

00:28:52.980 normal.

00:28:54.820 But that

00:28:55.260 could still

00:28:55.880 be the

00:28:56.300 spillover

00:28:56.840 from the

00:28:57.220 one tweet.

00:28:57.960 So the

00:28:58.280 tweet he

00:28:58.620 liked was

00:28:59.300 this one.

00:29:00.400 And this

00:29:02.660 is really

00:29:03.060 telling.

00:29:04.080 This actually

00:29:04.640 should be the

00:29:05.180 biggest story

00:29:05.700 in the news,

00:29:06.880 but it's not.

00:29:07.980 The biggest

00:29:08.480 story in the

00:29:08.960 news should

00:29:09.300 be that Musk

00:29:10.460 liked this

00:29:11.760 following tweet

00:29:12.640 because it

00:29:13.660 suggests that

00:29:14.440 his mind

00:29:14.920 is at least

00:29:15.460 if he

00:29:16.740 hasn't

00:29:17.000 decided this

00:29:17.780 at least

00:29:18.240 it's

00:29:18.960 compatible

00:29:19.420 with how

00:29:19.920 he's

00:29:20.100 thinking.

00:29:20.860 So here's

00:29:21.200 the tweet

00:29:21.540 he liked.

00:29:22.840 I said,

00:29:23.240 wait until

00:29:23.600 Elon Musk

00:29:24.160 starts looking

00:29:24.760 under the

00:29:25.160 hood at

00:29:25.620 Twitter and

00:29:26.540 finds out

00:29:27.100 how the

00:29:27.440 algorithm

00:29:27.800 works.

00:29:28.800 I said,

00:29:29.200 that's coming

00:29:29.860 and it is

00:29:31.000 going to be

00:29:31.480 glorious.

00:29:33.240 Now he

00:29:33.520 liked that.

00:29:34.980 Now,

00:29:35.580 does that

00:29:36.960 not suggest

00:29:37.860 that he

00:29:39.440 plans to

00:29:40.160 or would

00:29:40.600 like to

00:29:41.140 get access

00:29:42.820 to the

00:29:43.240 algorithm?

00:29:45.100 That's

00:29:45.620 everything.

00:29:46.540 That's like

00:29:46.960 the whole

00:29:47.240 game.

00:29:48.700 Civilization

00:29:49.180 will be

00:29:49.640 completely

00:29:50.100 changed if

00:29:51.280 he gets

00:29:51.620 access to

00:29:52.220 that

00:29:52.420 algorithm,

00:29:53.080 I think.

00:29:54.600 I think it's

00:29:55.240 that big.

00:29:56.520 And it

00:29:56.760 looks like,

00:29:57.840 by the fact

00:29:58.880 that he

00:29:59.120 liked the

00:29:59.540 tweet,

00:30:00.640 it looks

00:30:01.120 like he

00:30:01.520 at least

00:30:02.040 has some

00:30:03.080 impulse in

00:30:04.540 that direction.

00:30:05.680 Don't know

00:30:06.000 if he can

00:30:06.320 do it,

00:30:06.880 don't know

00:30:07.220 what will

00:30:07.520 come of

00:30:07.860 it,

00:30:08.840 but he

00:30:09.660 liked it.

00:30:11.180 So he's

00:30:11.940 not disagreeing

00:30:12.860 with the

00:30:13.140 notion that

00:30:14.360 him looking

00:30:14.900 at the

00:30:15.420 algorithm

00:30:16.360 would be

00:30:17.360 maybe

00:30:17.880 interesting.

00:30:20.100 We're also

00:30:20.740 hearing that

00:30:21.120 Twitter is

00:30:21.540 working on

00:30:22.000 an edit

00:30:22.400 button.

00:30:23.920 That makes

00:30:24.840 sense to

00:30:25.320 me in

00:30:25.900 the Elon

00:30:27.100 Musk era

00:30:28.220 of Twitter

00:30:29.040 because the

00:30:30.320 edit button

00:30:30.900 does add

00:30:32.500 some,

00:30:33.220 let's say,

00:30:33.620 clarity to

00:30:34.240 things,

00:30:34.600 doesn't it?

00:30:35.600 Now I do

00:30:36.280 think the

00:30:36.680 edit button

00:30:37.100 should be

00:30:37.500 constructed

00:30:38.000 this way.

00:30:39.400 If you

00:30:39.960 edit something,

00:30:40.820 it should

00:30:41.100 be shown

00:30:41.520 as an

00:30:41.940 edit and

00:30:43.100 you should

00:30:43.400 be able to

00:30:43.820 swipe that

00:30:44.380 edit and

00:30:44.960 see the

00:30:45.300 original.

00:30:46.100 It should

00:30:46.360 be that

00:30:46.700 easy.

00:30:47.520 It should

00:30:47.720 just be a

00:30:48.240 swipe if

00:30:49.460 you can

00:30:50.620 engineer it

00:30:51.140 easily.

00:30:51.880 Now I

00:30:52.100 don't even

00:30:52.440 want to

00:30:52.820 have it

00:30:53.220 a link

00:30:53.740 because you

00:30:55.160 know how

00:30:55.480 Instagram

00:30:55.880 has the

00:30:56.560 swipe

00:30:57.040 model,

00:30:57.620 you can

00:30:57.820 tell

00:30:58.000 Amazon

00:30:59.020 does it

00:30:59.500 too,

00:31:00.060 where there's

00:31:00.520 little dots

00:31:01.220 at the

00:31:01.460 bottom of

00:31:01.820 the picture

00:31:02.200 so you

00:31:02.520 know there's

00:31:02.840 some more

00:31:03.140 pictures if

00:31:03.680 you just

00:31:03.960 swipe in

00:31:04.320 that

00:31:04.440 direction.

00:31:04.760 If you

00:31:07.200 could swipe

00:31:07.700 it and

00:31:07.980 see the

00:31:08.280 original,

00:31:09.240 that's a

00:31:09.680 good edit

00:31:10.160 to me.

00:31:11.720 I would

00:31:12.040 also like

00:31:14.400 a notification

00:31:15.240 sent to

00:31:17.160 everyone who

00:31:18.100 interacted with

00:31:19.020 it if it

00:31:19.680 gets edited

00:31:20.160 with one

00:31:22.000 exception.

00:31:22.940 If you go

00:31:23.680 to edit

00:31:24.020 your own

00:31:24.360 tweet, it

00:31:24.880 should give

00:31:25.200 you a

00:31:25.420 choice to

00:31:26.080 say are

00:31:26.420 you editing

00:31:26.920 for let's

00:31:27.760 say grammar,

00:31:29.100 might be a

00:31:29.720 better way to

00:31:30.440 express it,

00:31:31.040 or content.

00:31:33.320 In other

00:31:33.560 words, are

00:31:33.880 you changing

00:31:34.420 the content?

00:31:35.860 If you

00:31:36.220 say you

00:31:36.620 are changing

00:31:38.720 the content

00:31:39.280 for whatever

00:31:39.840 reason,

00:31:40.480 doesn't matter

00:31:40.900 the reason,

00:31:41.660 then everybody

00:31:42.240 who interacted

00:31:42.920 with it gets

00:31:43.480 a notice with

00:31:44.840 the new

00:31:45.100 content and

00:31:45.840 this is an

00:31:46.400 edit.

00:31:47.640 How about

00:31:47.960 that?

00:31:49.080 You can do

00:31:49.580 that, right?

00:31:51.300 Because the

00:31:52.040 problem is that

00:31:52.640 people see the

00:31:53.240 fake news and

00:31:54.340 they don't see

00:31:54.820 the correction.

00:31:56.160 It's one of

00:31:56.560 the biggest

00:31:56.840 problems on

00:31:57.360 the internet,

00:31:57.780 right?

00:31:58.320 But you

00:31:58.680 could fix

00:31:59.160 that by

00:32:00.120 making sure

00:32:00.620 that every

00:32:01.100 person who

00:32:01.640 saw bad

00:32:02.220 news that

00:32:03.480 got corrected

00:32:04.460 sees the

00:32:05.560 correction.

00:32:06.320 Just the

00:32:06.740 system does

00:32:07.260 it.

00:32:07.600 You interacted

00:32:08.260 with it,

00:32:08.620 you get the

00:32:09.000 correction.

00:32:11.860 Now,

00:32:13.180 immediately you

00:32:15.200 can see that

00:32:16.620 the edit

00:32:17.020 button is way

00:32:17.860 more than a

00:32:18.800 user interface.

00:32:20.520 Am I right?

00:32:21.680 As soon as I

00:32:22.340 said this,

00:32:22.980 did you suddenly

00:32:23.600 connect that

00:32:24.700 this isn't just

00:32:25.440 about how easy

00:32:26.760 it is to edit

00:32:27.580 things.

00:32:28.540 It's about

00:32:28.980 free speech.

00:32:29.700 It's about

00:32:31.000 mind control

00:32:31.840 because if the

00:32:33.400 edit process

00:32:34.280 allows people

00:32:35.740 to rethink

00:32:37.100 what they may

00:32:37.840 have believed

00:32:38.220 on first

00:32:38.780 look,

00:32:39.400 which the

00:32:39.980 current process

00:32:40.600 doesn't.

00:32:41.380 Right now,

00:32:41.840 you look at

00:32:42.220 something and

00:32:42.720 you never know

00:32:43.380 it's corrected.

00:32:44.180 You just

00:32:44.420 move on.

00:32:45.720 So this

00:32:46.140 gets to

00:32:47.320 transparency,

00:32:48.440 it gets to

00:32:49.640 brainwashing,

00:32:51.640 it gets to

00:32:52.060 fake news.

00:32:53.440 This is

00:32:54.140 deeply,

00:32:54.920 deeply

00:32:55.380 important.

00:32:55.840 And it's

00:32:57.580 happening

00:32:57.900 coincidentally

00:32:58.580 the same

00:32:59.000 time Elon

00:32:59.500 Musk buys

00:33:00.600 9.2%

00:33:01.740 of Twitter.

00:33:02.920 On April

00:33:03.720 1st,

00:33:04.400 Twitter said

00:33:05.820 it was working

00:33:06.400 on an edit

00:33:06.960 button literally

00:33:08.280 as an April

00:33:09.060 Fool's joke.

00:33:11.400 April 1st.

00:33:13.260 Was that not

00:33:14.760 too long ago,

00:33:15.540 right?

00:33:16.520 And suddenly,

00:33:18.140 Elon Musk

00:33:19.200 buys 9.2%

00:33:20.440 of it and now

00:33:20.940 it's real.

00:33:21.700 Now it's

00:33:22.040 suddenly real.

00:33:22.780 They're really

00:33:23.140 working on an edit

00:33:23.800 button.

00:33:25.040 I feel like

00:33:25.560 that might

00:33:26.020 have been

00:33:26.220 a recent

00:33:26.680 change,

00:33:27.160 right?

00:33:27.940 Who knows?

00:33:29.560 It's also

00:33:30.140 possible that

00:33:30.800 part of

00:33:31.140 Twitter thought

00:33:32.640 it was a joke

00:33:33.160 and part of

00:33:33.760 it was actually

00:33:35.120 working on it

00:33:35.940 and the other

00:33:37.220 part didn't

00:33:37.620 know about it.

00:33:38.240 That's possible.

00:33:42.200 All right.

00:33:44.660 So here's

00:33:45.620 how you fix

00:33:46.180 everything in

00:33:46.760 the world.

00:33:47.920 Let me tie

00:33:48.420 everything together

00:33:49.080 for you.

00:33:50.060 You buy

00:33:50.620 9.2% of

00:33:51.800 Twitter to gain

00:33:52.460 influence over

00:33:53.260 it.

00:33:53.800 You don't

00:33:54.380 need to

00:33:54.680 buy the

00:33:54.940 whole company.

00:33:55.620 You just

00:33:55.880 have to

00:33:56.120 buy enough

00:33:56.460 to get a

00:33:56.800 board seat

00:33:57.260 and influence.

00:33:58.400 Then you

00:33:58.840 use that

00:34:00.540 influence to

00:34:01.100 introduce

00:34:01.500 algorithm

00:34:02.120 transparency.

00:34:03.900 Let everybody

00:34:04.460 see the

00:34:04.920 algorithm and

00:34:05.640 maybe even

00:34:06.260 Jack Dorsey's

00:34:07.420 plan of

00:34:08.460 choosing your

00:34:09.020 own algorithm

00:34:09.840 based on

00:34:10.580 what you

00:34:11.060 prefer.

00:34:12.940 Once the

00:34:15.020 algorithm is

00:34:15.800 transparent,

00:34:17.580 you've created

00:34:18.500 the first

00:34:19.080 unbiased

00:34:19.800 platform.

00:34:21.860 Right?

00:34:22.420 It wouldn't

00:34:23.600 be biased

00:34:24.080 by the

00:34:24.420 algorithm.

00:34:25.360 People would

00:34:25.940 just be

00:34:26.220 getting what

00:34:26.580 they wanted.

00:34:28.140 Of course,

00:34:28.760 that could be

00:34:29.080 its own

00:34:29.360 bias, but

00:34:29.980 in theory,

00:34:30.680 you could

00:34:30.860 have a

00:34:31.180 more

00:34:31.460 unbiased

00:34:31.980 platform.

00:34:33.500 And here's

00:34:34.460 why that

00:34:35.300 changes

00:34:35.640 everything.

00:34:37.120 Whiteboard

00:34:37.680 time.

00:34:39.580 It's

00:34:40.080 whiteboard

00:34:40.540 time.

00:34:42.880 Here's how

00:34:43.520 everything in

00:34:44.220 the world

00:34:44.540 works.

00:34:45.040 Twitter is

00:34:51.640 like the

00:34:51.980 user

00:34:52.240 interface to

00:34:53.100 the

00:34:53.280 simulation.

00:34:55.480 In other

00:34:55.920 words,

00:34:56.640 Twitter is

00:34:57.380 the lever

00:34:58.360 that ultimately

00:35:00.020 through its

00:35:00.820 connections

00:35:01.420 makes us

00:35:02.560 think the

00:35:02.980 way we

00:35:03.300 think and

00:35:03.940 imagine the

00:35:04.660 reality the

00:35:05.180 way we

00:35:05.520 imagine it.

00:35:06.100 And it

00:35:06.280 works this

00:35:06.680 way.

00:35:07.800 Journalists

00:35:08.300 are all

00:35:08.800 on Twitter.

00:35:10.480 When I

00:35:10.840 speak in

00:35:11.200 absolutes,

00:35:11.840 you can

00:35:12.080 adjust it

00:35:12.900 in your

00:35:13.160 head to,

00:35:13.620 well,

00:35:13.840 he means

00:35:14.140 most of

00:35:14.560 them.

00:35:15.040 So most

00:35:15.800 journalists

00:35:16.380 are on

00:35:16.720 Twitter.

00:35:18.120 And

00:35:18.340 journalists

00:35:18.920 are the

00:35:19.260 ones who

00:35:19.560 create the

00:35:19.940 narrative,

00:35:20.440 and the

00:35:20.660 narrative is

00:35:21.160 what programs

00:35:21.860 the citizens.

00:35:22.940 In other

00:35:23.300 words,

00:35:24.080 changes

00:35:24.460 everything.

00:35:25.820 If you

00:35:26.180 can program

00:35:27.080 the citizens

00:35:27.640 differently,

00:35:28.940 or better,

00:35:30.300 more effectively,

00:35:31.300 more honestly,

00:35:32.020 perhaps, you

00:35:33.040 get a whole

00:35:33.360 different outcome.

00:35:34.960 So now,

00:35:36.140 Elon Musk

00:35:36.920 now has

00:35:38.900 some kind

00:35:40.340 of control,

00:35:41.340 we don't

00:35:41.700 know how

00:35:42.020 much yet,

00:35:43.260 on Twitter.

00:35:43.920 that means

00:35:45.500 that he

00:35:45.960 will be

00:35:46.300 feeding

00:35:46.600 journalists

00:35:47.180 potentially.

00:35:49.080 Potentially.

00:35:49.800 We don't

00:35:50.120 know this

00:35:50.460 yet.

00:35:51.040 But he

00:35:51.800 could be

00:35:52.200 feeding them

00:35:52.720 for the

00:35:53.040 first time

00:35:53.620 something like

00:35:54.660 accurate news.

00:35:56.060 Imagine a

00:35:56.860 journalist who

00:35:58.100 is reporting

00:35:58.760 fake news on

00:35:59.660 television while

00:36:01.840 Twitter is

00:36:02.780 accurately allowing

00:36:04.080 people to see

00:36:04.820 what's true.

00:36:05.800 Because that's

00:36:06.540 not the

00:36:06.840 case.

00:36:07.160 the case

00:36:08.460 right now is

00:36:09.100 that people

00:36:09.420 watch

00:36:09.800 Democrat

00:36:10.620 news and

00:36:11.880 then they

00:36:12.180 go to

00:36:12.440 Twitter and

00:36:12.900 they see

00:36:13.220 Democrat

00:36:13.780 tweets.

00:36:15.200 So there's

00:36:15.860 nothing to

00:36:16.300 check their

00:36:16.720 work.

00:36:18.000 And it's

00:36:18.260 the same the

00:36:18.640 other way,

00:36:19.060 right?

00:36:19.320 Republicans

00:36:19.740 watch Republican

00:36:20.560 news and

00:36:21.140 then they go

00:36:21.540 watch Republican

00:36:22.220 tweets.

00:36:22.620 But what if

00:36:24.240 the algorithm

00:36:25.020 could be

00:36:25.480 tweaked so

00:36:26.700 that people

00:36:27.100 could actually

00:36:27.560 see reality

00:36:28.340 across bubbles?

00:36:30.660 Can Elon

00:36:31.400 Musk,

00:36:33.140 a member of

00:36:33.760 the PayPal

00:36:34.140 originals,

00:36:35.720 one of the

00:36:36.700 three people

00:36:37.420 we know

00:36:38.140 understands

00:36:39.320 human motivation

00:36:40.600 and how the

00:36:42.160 wiring of the

00:36:42.920 brain and the

00:36:43.660 wiring of the

00:36:44.280 device have to

00:36:45.380 be considered

00:36:46.440 one system in

00:36:47.640 a way nobody

00:36:48.200 else ever has

00:36:48.960 as effectively.

00:36:50.180 Can he

00:36:51.060 create a

00:36:52.380 situation where

00:36:53.100 journalists would

00:36:53.820 be, and here's

00:36:54.480 the key,

00:36:55.860 embarrassed,

00:36:57.840 embarrassed to

00:36:59.900 tell biased

00:37:00.480 stories on

00:37:01.060 television?

00:37:01.440 I think he

00:37:04.100 can.

00:37:04.920 I think that's

00:37:05.860 within the

00:37:06.460 doable range.

00:37:08.720 And once you

00:37:09.280 get a situation

00:37:09.920 where a

00:37:10.380 journalist can't

00:37:11.360 go on another

00:37:12.100 platform and

00:37:12.860 lie, because

00:37:13.840 they will be

00:37:14.340 devoured on

00:37:15.440 Twitter for

00:37:16.560 lying.

00:37:18.720 By their own

00:37:19.600 team, by the

00:37:20.280 way.

00:37:20.740 I'm not talking

00:37:21.320 about Republicans

00:37:22.540 yelling at,

00:37:23.560 you know,

00:37:24.740 Jim Acosta,

00:37:26.380 right?

00:37:27.180 I don't think

00:37:27.840 Acosta cares how

00:37:28.740 many Republicans

00:37:29.380 are mad at

00:37:29.960 him, but I'll

00:37:31.060 bet he cares

00:37:31.640 how many

00:37:32.000 Democrats hear

00:37:32.840 that his

00:37:33.220 story is

00:37:33.640 fake.

00:37:34.600 Am I

00:37:34.940 right?

00:37:35.980 Because that

00:37:36.340 would hurt.

00:37:37.600 So if you

00:37:38.000 can create a

00:37:38.460 situation where

00:37:39.440 the journalists

00:37:39.900 are embarrassed

00:37:40.540 into telling

00:37:41.160 the truth, and

00:37:42.580 you would only

00:37:43.000 need one major

00:37:44.120 platform to do

00:37:45.020 that, and

00:37:46.320 Twitter is the

00:37:46.800 one that

00:37:47.140 journalists are

00:37:47.760 pretty much

00:37:48.620 stuck on.

00:37:49.580 They're not

00:37:49.840 going to leave

00:37:50.160 Twitter.

00:37:51.160 That changes

00:37:51.860 the narrative,

00:37:52.500 that changes

00:37:52.900 the citizens,

00:37:53.660 the citizens

00:37:54.080 can change

00:37:54.940 anything.

00:37:56.680 And so this

00:37:57.360 story is way

00:37:58.600 bigger.

00:37:58.960 that Elon

00:38:00.960 Musk buys

00:38:01.720 9.2% of

00:38:03.180 Twitter is

00:38:04.340 way, way

00:38:05.980 bigger than

00:38:06.460 you think it

00:38:06.900 is.

00:38:07.840 And here's

00:38:08.380 the cool

00:38:08.800 thing about

00:38:09.280 it.

00:38:11.500 Musk believes

00:38:12.440 in the

00:38:12.740 simulation, or

00:38:14.500 at least he

00:38:15.520 talks about a

00:38:16.120 lot.

00:38:16.380 We don't know

00:38:17.000 his internal

00:38:17.640 thoughts.

00:38:18.600 But he

00:38:19.080 talks about

00:38:19.520 the simulation

00:38:20.080 being the

00:38:21.200 most likely

00:38:21.840 explanation of

00:38:23.120 reality.

00:38:23.500 reality.

00:38:24.500 And I

00:38:24.940 also embrace

00:38:25.980 that same

00:38:26.400 idea.

00:38:27.440 And I

00:38:28.380 have this

00:38:28.900 impression that

00:38:30.920 when you

00:38:31.340 embrace the

00:38:32.040 idea that you

00:38:32.720 are living in

00:38:33.340 a simulation,

00:38:34.260 and that we're

00:38:34.680 literally software,

00:38:36.240 you can start

00:38:37.440 to see the

00:38:37.980 machinery.

00:38:40.220 And I

00:38:41.120 don't know how

00:38:41.620 much of it is

00:38:42.120 an illusion,

00:38:43.520 probably all of

00:38:44.680 it, but you

00:38:45.840 get the sense

00:38:46.600 that you can

00:38:47.280 start seeing

00:38:48.020 how to

00:38:49.480 reprogram it

00:38:50.220 from the

00:38:50.560 inside.

00:38:50.980 And that

00:38:52.380 feels like

00:38:52.880 what all

00:38:53.300 the PayPal

00:38:54.200 people can

00:38:54.840 see.

00:38:55.900 I feel like

00:38:56.460 they see

00:38:56.900 themselves in

00:38:57.540 the simulation,

00:38:58.280 but they can

00:38:58.640 also see the

00:38:59.320 code, and

00:39:00.340 they can reach

00:39:00.820 in and tweak

00:39:01.320 it.

00:39:02.500 Musk is

00:39:03.100 doing that

00:39:03.480 with Twitter.

00:39:05.100 The code

00:39:06.320 that holds

00:39:07.000 our illusion

00:39:08.100 of reality

00:39:08.620 together is

00:39:09.220 what we

00:39:09.620 collectively see

00:39:10.800 in the

00:39:11.020 media.

00:39:12.000 He figured

00:39:12.580 out how

00:39:13.800 to control

00:39:14.320 it through

00:39:15.480 Twitter.

00:39:16.660 Now, Jeff

00:39:17.340 Bezos took

00:39:18.740 over the

00:39:19.180 Washington

00:39:19.500 Post and

00:39:20.360 got a

00:39:20.960 big voice.

00:39:22.480 But the

00:39:22.740 Washington

00:39:23.060 Post is

00:39:23.740 lower in

00:39:29.540 the chain

00:39:30.340 of influence

00:39:30.940 than

00:39:31.200 Twitter.

00:39:32.180 Twitter

00:39:32.640 affects all

00:39:33.280 journalists.

00:39:35.020 Washington

00:39:35.340 Post just

00:39:35.820 has a few.

00:39:37.060 So whoever

00:39:37.780 controls Twitter

00:39:38.620 controls the

00:39:39.320 Washington

00:39:39.640 Post.

00:39:41.500 So if

00:39:42.200 you're watching

00:39:42.580 your billionaire

00:39:43.200 chess,

00:39:45.960 Elon Musk

00:39:47.300 just took

00:39:48.080 one of

00:39:48.540 Bezos'

00:39:49.180 pieces off

00:39:49.820 the board.

00:39:50.960 Because he's

00:39:51.760 now at a

00:39:52.200 higher level

00:39:52.740 of influence

00:39:53.440 than any

00:39:54.060 of the

00:39:54.320 organs below

00:39:54.960 it,

00:39:56.080 including

00:39:56.460 the

00:39:56.900 Washington

00:39:57.140 Post.

00:39:59.960 In other

00:40:00.720 news,

00:40:02.280 I asked on

00:40:03.500 Twitter if I

00:40:04.420 could get a

00:40:05.020 black American

00:40:06.480 cartoonist to

00:40:08.340 help me design a

00:40:09.740 black cast

00:40:10.800 member for the

00:40:12.040 Dilbert comic.

00:40:13.120 Now, I have

00:40:13.820 forever wanted to

00:40:14.620 have a more

00:40:15.200 diverse cast because

00:40:17.480 all the usual

00:40:18.240 reasons, right?

00:40:19.040 You want to

00:40:19.860 attract other,

00:40:21.980 you want more

00:40:22.840 of the public

00:40:23.780 to like your

00:40:24.300 product.

00:40:25.320 So why

00:40:25.740 wouldn't I put

00:40:26.420 people in

00:40:27.280 there that

00:40:27.620 would attract

00:40:28.140 more customers?

00:40:29.420 So of course I've

00:40:30.060 always wanted to

00:40:30.640 have more

00:40:31.080 diversity in the

00:40:32.220 cast and the

00:40:32.680 reason I didn't

00:40:33.160 do it is I

00:40:33.680 couldn't figure

00:40:34.040 out how.

00:40:35.680 I couldn't

00:40:36.000 figure out how.

00:40:37.100 Because if I

00:40:37.820 put diverse

00:40:39.260 characters in a

00:40:40.140 strip and give

00:40:41.520 them character

00:40:42.200 flaws, which is

00:40:43.580 you have to

00:40:44.160 because it's

00:40:44.660 a comic, if

00:40:45.720 the characters

00:40:46.200 don't have

00:40:46.600 flaws, they're

00:40:47.200 not funny.

00:40:48.640 Imagine me, I

00:40:50.000 have a character

00:40:50.660 right now,

00:40:51.180 Wally.

00:40:51.920 He's a white

00:40:53.380 character with

00:40:54.140 six strands of

00:40:55.020 hair.

00:40:56.000 Now his

00:40:56.320 defining characteristic

00:40:57.400 is that he's

00:40:58.120 lazy.

00:40:58.740 He doesn't do

00:40:59.240 work.

00:41:00.580 Could I have

00:41:01.200 introduced a

00:41:02.160 minority character

00:41:03.260 and given that

00:41:04.460 character any

00:41:05.660 kind of a

00:41:06.840 defect like the

00:41:09.440 Wally character?

00:41:10.940 Nope.

00:41:12.200 No way I could

00:41:12.840 get away with

00:41:13.260 that.

00:41:14.160 How about my

00:41:15.040 Alice character?

00:41:16.440 She's defined by

00:41:17.500 her easily

00:41:19.680 angered, kind

00:41:21.680 of tough

00:41:22.060 attitude.

00:41:23.080 Imagine if I

00:41:23.840 put that exact

00:41:24.680 attitude into a

00:41:25.960 minority character.

00:41:28.140 Suddenly I'm in

00:41:28.900 trouble, right?

00:41:29.820 But these are just

00:41:30.520 universal qualities

00:41:31.740 that everybody has

00:41:32.800 in every group.

00:41:34.200 There's no group

00:41:35.040 who doesn't have

00:41:35.600 an angry person,

00:41:36.420 a lazy person,

00:41:37.240 etc.

00:41:37.460 But because of

00:41:39.980 my situation and

00:41:40.960 the way the world

00:41:41.460 works, I can't do

00:41:42.940 the thing everybody

00:41:43.580 wants.

00:41:44.160 Like, you know,

00:41:46.140 not everybody, but

00:41:46.880 the world wants me

00:41:48.080 to be more diverse,

00:41:49.480 I think.

00:41:50.580 And I appreciate

00:41:52.080 the impulse.

00:41:53.600 Makes sense.

00:41:57.040 I'm seeing some

00:41:57.920 super racist things

00:41:58.920 in the comments,

00:41:59.720 but because they're

00:42:00.720 funny, they don't

00:42:01.840 bother me as much.

00:42:03.640 I've told you that

00:42:04.560 rule, right?

00:42:05.840 That you can be

00:42:06.520 pretty offensive if

00:42:07.520 you're also funny.

00:42:08.420 Like, people will

00:42:10.320 accept that balance.

00:42:11.940 But if it's not

00:42:12.700 funny, it's just

00:42:13.960 racist.

00:42:15.140 It's just racist

00:42:16.300 if it's not funny.

00:42:19.540 So, anyway, I guess

00:42:21.340 that was done well

00:42:22.020 in this case.

00:42:23.240 So, I started

00:42:25.980 writing for this

00:42:26.940 character because I

00:42:30.800 hit on an angle that

00:42:33.040 I think I can make

00:42:33.980 work.

00:42:35.100 And I'm going to

00:42:35.560 preview it for you.

00:42:36.780 So, before it

00:42:37.420 appears in Dilbert,

00:42:38.220 and I'm not sure it

00:42:38.920 will, I've already

00:42:40.160 written them, and

00:42:41.020 they will get drawn,

00:42:42.700 but they might not

00:42:43.620 run.

00:42:44.960 You know, by the

00:42:45.720 time my editor takes

00:42:46.720 a look at it and

00:42:47.480 somebody has a

00:42:48.160 conversation with me,

00:42:49.340 you know, they might

00:42:50.640 not run.

00:42:52.040 But here's what I'm

00:42:53.240 going to do.

00:42:53.600 I'm going to introduce

00:42:54.220 the black character,

00:42:55.040 and the character

00:42:57.740 is going to have

00:42:58.860 one interesting,

00:43:00.760 let's say,

00:43:01.700 personality

00:43:02.360 characteristic.

00:43:04.580 The black

00:43:05.460 character will

00:43:07.540 identify as white.

00:43:10.820 And it's going to

00:43:11.800 cause a huge

00:43:12.360 problem for

00:43:13.080 everybody.

00:43:14.480 Do you know

00:43:14.720 why it's a

00:43:15.020 problem?

00:43:15.860 Because he's

00:43:16.600 hired for the

00:43:17.880 diversity targets,

00:43:19.580 but he refuses to

00:43:20.920 identify as black.

00:43:22.680 He is black,

00:43:23.380 but he refuses to

00:43:25.500 identify.

00:43:26.340 And then here's the

00:43:26.980 second level.

00:43:28.580 You'll never know if

00:43:29.640 he's joking.

00:43:31.240 That's the second

00:43:32.080 level.

00:43:32.940 You don't know if

00:43:33.540 he's just fucking

00:43:34.080 with the boss,

00:43:35.120 because it makes

00:43:35.700 everybody uncomfortable.

00:43:37.260 So I think the

00:43:37.960 character will be

00:43:38.700 somebody who is

00:43:40.840 having fun with the

00:43:42.920 fact that people are

00:43:44.200 getting uncomfortable

00:43:45.000 with the way he

00:43:46.520 chooses to identify,

00:43:47.820 because it just

00:43:48.260 screws everything up.

00:43:49.320 Nothing works.

00:43:50.920 Right?

00:43:51.620 Now, I think I can

00:43:52.820 make that work.

00:43:55.800 Somebody says

00:43:56.460 cringe.

00:43:57.220 Does anybody else

00:43:57.880 think that?

00:43:59.400 So one comment

00:44:00.480 that says cringe,

00:44:02.020 I think it's

00:44:02.500 actually a good

00:44:03.060 angle.

00:44:05.920 Right?

00:44:06.380 Because here's the

00:44:07.140 thing.

00:44:09.920 You haven't seen

00:44:10.820 it before, as far

00:44:11.760 as I know.

00:44:12.440 It would be fresh,

00:44:13.520 which is weird.

00:44:15.420 Yeah.

00:44:17.820 All right.

00:44:19.260 Yeah, it's hard

00:44:20.060 to not pander,

00:44:21.540 isn't it?

00:44:21.900 That's the thing

00:44:22.800 I wanted to avoid.

00:44:23.520 From a creative

00:44:24.640 perspective, it would

00:44:25.700 be easy to pander,

00:44:27.220 and it would make

00:44:27.640 the audience happy,

00:44:28.640 but it's just too

00:44:30.900 icky.

00:44:32.320 I want to treat

00:44:34.340 the character

00:44:35.040 respectfully while

00:44:38.020 highlighting

00:44:40.040 something irregular.

00:44:42.360 I've told you before

00:44:46.560 that the sign

00:44:48.560 of a good

00:44:49.040 comedy approach

00:44:50.320 is if the

00:44:51.740 setup makes

00:44:52.980 you laugh.

00:44:54.080 You haven't even

00:44:54.780 heard the punchlines,

00:44:56.020 so the joke

00:44:56.840 isn't even present,

00:44:58.340 but you just hear

00:44:58.960 the situation,

00:45:00.260 and you're already

00:45:00.820 laughing.

00:45:01.980 So that's one of

00:45:02.660 these, where it's

00:45:04.120 easy to write to

00:45:04.920 because the situation

00:45:05.780 itself is fun.

00:45:07.620 That's your humor

00:45:08.940 tip of the day.

00:45:09.980 All right, here's a

00:45:11.340 question for you.

00:45:12.900 Given that we know

00:45:13.720 Democrats believe they

00:45:15.120 will lose in the

00:45:16.280 upcoming elections,

00:45:17.460 2022 and probably

00:45:18.860 2024, what are they

00:45:21.320 going to do about it?

00:45:23.020 It seems like they need

00:45:24.240 a nuclear option.

00:45:26.080 Am I right?

00:45:27.480 Because all of the

00:45:28.160 normal things that

00:45:29.220 Democrats do, they

00:45:30.320 don't really look like

00:45:31.220 they're going to work.

00:45:32.000 And I think the

00:45:33.600 nuclear option,

00:45:36.420 I'm not talking about

00:45:38.340 cheating in the

00:45:38.920 elections, I think the

00:45:40.320 nuclear option is going

00:45:41.380 to be a new hoax, and

00:45:43.220 my God, it's going to

00:45:44.020 be a big one.

00:45:45.320 So I'm going to

00:45:46.100 predict that the

00:45:48.160 next hoax will be

00:45:49.740 bigger than anything

00:45:50.380 we've seen, and just

00:45:52.440 crazier.

00:45:53.360 Because they've got to

00:45:54.200 get bigger than

00:45:54.780 Russia collusion,

00:45:56.280 January 6th

00:45:57.060 insurrection hoax,

00:45:58.100 the fine people

00:45:58.680 hoax, drinking bleach

00:45:59.700 hoax, the Russian

00:46:01.000 bounty in Afghanistan

00:46:02.540 hoax.

00:46:03.500 I mean, they have a

00:46:03.980 lot of hoaxes that

00:46:06.140 sort of set the

00:46:07.060 quality expectation

00:46:09.680 for hoaxes.

00:46:10.920 I feel like they've

00:46:11.880 got to take it up a

00:46:13.760 level.

00:46:14.440 And what the hell is

00:46:15.400 that going to look

00:46:15.940 like?

00:46:17.360 I mean, this is stuff

00:46:19.360 that Democrats

00:46:20.220 actually believed.

00:46:22.100 Democrats believed

00:46:23.040 all of this.

00:46:24.460 Like everything I

00:46:25.260 just listened, they

00:46:25.940 actually believed it

00:46:26.740 all.

00:46:29.120 Yeah, they believed

00:46:29.840 that Democrats believe

00:46:30.980 that Black Lives

00:46:31.700 Matter was an

00:46:32.440 organic movement, and

00:46:34.380 it wasn't about

00:46:34.940 somebody funding

00:46:35.700 people.

00:46:37.660 They believed

00:46:38.340 everything.

00:46:40.140 Now, I'm not

00:46:40.920 saying that Republicans

00:46:42.280 don't also believe

00:46:43.240 things that aren't

00:46:43.840 true, but it's less

00:46:47.180 relevant to this

00:46:48.020 question, because the

00:46:49.700 Democrats need a

00:46:50.800 hoax, whereas the

00:46:52.580 Republicans don't.

00:46:53.740 Do you know what the

00:46:54.280 Republicans need to

00:46:55.320 win?

00:46:56.740 Play it as straight

00:46:58.040 down the center as

00:46:59.200 you can.

00:46:59.520 just talk about

00:47:01.380 reality.

00:47:02.700 Reality is all the

00:47:03.740 Republicans need to

00:47:04.820 get elected, but the

00:47:06.340 Democrats can't get

00:47:07.260 elected based on

00:47:08.360 reality.

00:47:09.460 That option is gone.

00:47:12.280 I guess this is the

00:47:13.320 best way to say it.

00:47:14.560 Republicans can

00:47:15.440 definitely get elected

00:47:16.600 based on reality.

00:47:18.920 Right?

00:47:20.040 Anybody disagree?

00:47:21.420 That the polls and

00:47:23.040 just the facts we all

00:47:24.580 observe are just so

00:47:26.100 clear at this point

00:47:27.840 that all you need to

00:47:29.600 do is tell the truth.

00:47:31.220 Just be straight with

00:47:32.020 the American people.

00:47:32.900 How could you fail to

00:47:33.940 get elected at this

00:47:35.120 point?

00:47:36.480 Right?

00:47:36.780 But the Democrats

00:47:37.720 can't use transparency

00:47:39.720 because that would work

00:47:40.700 against them.

00:47:41.780 The only thing they have

00:47:43.600 is a bigger hoax.

00:47:45.320 It's all they have.

00:47:46.820 And ordinarily, it would

00:47:48.500 be hard to predict they

00:47:49.320 could outdo the Russia

00:47:50.300 collusion hoax, but they

00:47:52.060 have to.

00:47:52.920 They have to.

00:47:54.400 They don't have any

00:47:55.520 other play except losing,

00:47:57.420 I suppose.

00:47:58.900 So I predict that the

00:48:02.740 next hoax is going to be

00:48:05.000 magnificent.

00:48:06.680 Just magnificent.

00:48:08.280 China collusion hoax.

00:48:09.600 Yeah, maybe.

00:48:10.720 Maybe.

00:48:13.620 All right.

00:48:15.080 China's in lockdown.

00:48:16.360 23 cities.

00:48:19.020 So over 193 million people

00:48:21.040 have some form of

00:48:21.860 lockdown.

00:48:22.180 And they represent 22%

00:48:24.700 of China's GDP are in

00:48:27.280 some form of lockdown,

00:48:28.340 according to brokerage

00:48:29.960 firm Nomura.

00:48:32.360 However, I love something

00:48:35.300 about this story, which is

00:48:36.460 the resilience of humans.

00:48:40.000 People are really damn

00:48:41.280 resilient.

00:48:42.620 Maybe not every one of us,

00:48:44.520 but collectively, my God,

00:48:46.740 we can adjust the stuff

00:48:47.900 fast.

00:48:48.320 Apparently, in China,

00:48:50.480 since there's lockdowns,

00:48:51.700 but they don't want the

00:48:52.440 banking system and

00:48:53.360 everything to collapse,

00:48:54.700 there are a bunch of

00:48:55.380 people who have put tents

00:48:57.180 next to their cubicles to

00:48:59.220 keep the banking system

00:49:00.260 open.

00:49:00.640 So they literally live on the

00:49:02.840 floor next to their cubicle

00:49:04.140 because they have to to keep

00:49:06.740 the country running.

00:49:07.440 And now, I think we would have

00:49:09.280 done that here.

00:49:10.020 I think in America, if you had

00:49:11.820 to, you know, if you didn't

00:49:13.200 have any other choice, I think

00:49:14.940 we would have pitched tents

00:49:16.540 next to cubicles, too.

00:49:18.220 But I just love how, how, I

00:49:21.540 don't know, spunky people are.

00:49:23.740 They'll do anything to keep

00:49:25.520 the system working.

00:49:28.160 Or work for home.

00:49:29.580 Yeah, I don't know that banks

00:49:30.820 always have a work for home

00:49:32.060 option because of security.

00:49:34.080 That may have changed,

00:49:35.420 though.

00:49:36.480 Somebody do a fact check on

00:49:37.820 me.

00:49:38.420 Back in the old, old days,

00:49:40.440 you sort of had to be on

00:49:41.740 site for some of the highest

00:49:43.240 security stuff.

00:49:44.940 Has that changed?

00:49:46.700 Maybe it's changed with better

00:49:47.940 security systems.

00:49:49.220 I don't know.

00:49:51.020 Banks work from home now.

00:49:52.420 But every job in the bank.

00:49:55.400 I feel as if there's secure

00:50:01.180 ways, there are secure ways

00:50:03.680 of logging in now, remotely.

00:50:06.180 There should be.

00:50:08.480 Yeah.

00:50:08.940 Okay.

00:50:09.540 Well, let's assume they could

00:50:10.440 have worked for home, so I

00:50:11.340 have no idea why they're

00:50:12.140 sleeping in tents.

00:50:14.600 So we learned today that the

00:50:16.220 Biden administration is giving

00:50:17.760 free phones to illegal

00:50:19.360 immigrants.

00:50:19.860 What's your first reaction to

00:50:23.420 that?

00:50:25.080 Free phones to illegal

00:50:26.580 immigrants.

00:50:29.020 My first reaction was I

00:50:30.520 thought it was a joke.

00:50:32.360 Did you?

00:50:33.280 The first time you saw it,

00:50:34.580 did you think it was real?

00:50:36.060 Well, they're not giving

00:50:36.720 phones to illegal immigrants.

00:50:38.700 Nobody would do that.

00:50:40.620 It's real.

00:50:41.760 It's real.

00:50:42.240 Now, does anybody remember an

00:50:45.140 idea I had about giving free

00:50:47.000 phones to immigrants?

00:50:49.120 Let's see if anybody can

00:50:50.780 remember that.

00:50:52.500 So if you've been following me

00:50:53.860 for a while, do you remember my

00:50:55.860 idea for giving free phones to

00:50:57.840 immigrants?

00:51:00.340 Yeah.

00:51:00.900 And what did Jen Psaki say was the

00:51:05.280 reason for the free phones?

00:51:07.380 To track them and also to allow

00:51:09.880 them to check back in.

00:51:12.280 Is that good enough?

00:51:15.340 Is that a good enough reason for

00:51:16.740 you that they can track them?

00:51:18.760 Well, they don't plan to deport

00:51:20.200 them, so what's the point?

00:51:22.300 Right?

00:51:22.640 If you're not going to deport

00:51:23.880 them, why do you even need to

00:51:26.580 track them?

00:51:27.720 Just to call them and tell them

00:51:29.020 to, hey, hey, really, I'll turn

00:51:30.820 off your phone if you don't show

00:51:31.860 up to the court appointment, I

00:51:33.760 think they would let their phone

00:51:34.740 be turned off, right?

00:51:35.940 So I don't know how it works the

00:51:37.340 way they've designed it.

00:51:38.660 Let me tell you how I suggested

00:51:40.780 designing it.

00:51:42.380 The way I suggested it is that the

00:51:45.240 only way an illegal alien could be

00:51:47.360 paid was if they had the phone

00:51:49.960 and it had tracking on and the

00:51:53.360 payments came digitally through that

00:51:55.380 phone, like it would have to be

00:51:56.700 that phone, no other phone.

00:51:57.920 Because if you said the only way

00:52:00.200 you could get paid for your work

00:52:01.560 is through the phone, maybe they'd

00:52:05.440 keep them.

00:52:06.960 And maybe that would be a way for

00:52:08.520 people to get temporary workers and

00:52:10.720 that the phone would act like a work

00:52:12.300 visa.

00:52:14.540 Right?

00:52:15.480 So now you need a Republican

00:52:17.420 administration to make this work.

00:52:19.340 So if there was somebody who had the

00:52:20.540 phone and they were just living here

00:52:21.840 illegally and they weren't working or

00:52:23.620 adding anything to the system, you

00:52:25.660 know, then the Republicans could say,

00:52:26.980 yeah, well, we know where you are and

00:52:28.260 they'd go get you because they're

00:52:29.260 tracking your phone.

00:52:30.740 Wouldn't be much of that, I suppose.

00:52:33.860 But I do think, so here's what I

00:52:35.620 think.

00:52:37.560 There's one thing I agree with AOC

00:52:39.580 about.

00:52:40.720 And I know you're going to hate this.

00:52:42.840 If there's anything that would trigger

00:52:44.220 you more than that, I don't know what

00:52:45.400 it would be.

00:52:45.740 There's one thing I agree with AOC

00:52:48.100 about when it comes to defund the

00:52:51.600 police and also the economy in general

00:52:54.700 and capitalism.

00:52:55.940 And you're not going to like it.

00:52:59.060 She thinks that maybe we should just

00:53:01.040 rethink the whole system from scratch.

00:53:03.420 Generally speaking.

00:53:04.320 I don't want to speak for her.

00:53:05.840 But I think she says we should rethink

00:53:07.300 capitalism, rethink the criminal network

00:53:10.360 system.

00:53:10.720 Now, when she says that, what do we do

00:53:13.680 reflexively?

00:53:16.060 Her critics then say, well, if we're

00:53:18.400 going to rethink it, let's think of the

00:53:20.480 worst possible way to do it and then

00:53:22.400 blame her for it.

00:53:24.480 Which is, you know, what critics do.

00:53:26.740 Okay, yeah, we'll rethink capitalism in

00:53:28.700 the worst possible way that could never

00:53:30.460 work and we'll say AOC came up with it.

00:53:32.700 Or we'll just get rid of the police and

00:53:35.200 blame AOC for whatever happens.

00:53:37.060 That's not exactly re-engineering the

00:53:41.000 justice system.

00:53:41.800 That's just getting rid of police.

00:53:43.880 That's no plan.

00:53:46.160 So here's what I like about the phones

00:53:48.380 as a, let's say, the seed of something

00:53:51.240 that would be better than border control.

00:53:55.040 Maybe the phones are your immigration

00:53:56.760 control.

00:53:58.540 Could you design a system where the phone

00:54:01.120 became indispensable to the illegal,

00:54:05.060 let's call them, immigrants, which would

00:54:07.720 actually be legal because we would

00:54:09.940 develop the system for them to come into

00:54:11.660 the country, add to our system, add to

00:54:15.620 the system.

00:54:17.160 So if money is coming through the phone,

00:54:19.440 it means there's some employer that wants

00:54:21.000 them.

00:54:21.860 That means they're adding to the system,

00:54:24.300 at least in that sense.

00:54:26.000 And maybe there's some way to have, you

00:54:28.400 know, massive inflows and outflows of

00:54:31.500 people coming in seasonally.

00:54:32.660 For example, for farm work.

00:54:34.620 They come in, they help us, we help them.

00:54:37.620 They take their money back to Mexico.

00:54:39.580 Mexico gets more money.

00:54:41.100 Good for them, right?

00:54:43.080 So if you were going to rethink

00:54:45.480 immigration completely, could there be a

00:54:49.400 way that the phone idea sort of binds

00:54:54.400 them to the country in a productive way?

00:54:56.440 I don't know.

00:55:00.080 But I think it's such a provocative idea

00:55:03.100 that I'm sort of attracted to it, even

00:55:05.680 though I don't know how you do it

00:55:07.060 exactly.

00:55:07.800 It just feels like there's something

00:55:08.980 there.

00:55:09.540 I don't know.

00:55:10.060 Maybe not for every immigrant, but for

00:55:12.180 some who are coming in for work

00:55:14.540 specifically, not the criminals,

00:55:16.480 obviously.

00:55:18.860 Have you ever thought of this, that the

00:55:20.640 only thing that holds our country

00:55:21.740 together is racism?

00:55:22.780 How do you feel the first time you

00:55:28.480 hear that?

00:55:29.040 The only thing holding America

00:55:30.640 together is racism.

00:55:32.300 Do you know why?

00:55:34.140 There's a reason.

00:55:35.980 See if you can come up with it before

00:55:37.800 I tell you.

00:55:38.780 Racism is the only thing that holds the

00:55:40.380 country together.

00:55:42.140 Here's the reason.

00:55:44.120 If you didn't have racism, we would

00:55:46.460 realize that it's a case of the rich

00:55:49.080 against the poor, and that all the poor

00:55:51.260 people are on the same team, and

00:55:53.200 there's a shit ton of them.

00:55:54.920 There's a lot of them, and they're

00:55:56.500 all on the same team.

00:55:58.140 Do you know why they don't know

00:55:59.240 they're on the same team?

00:56:01.820 Because of racism.

00:56:03.240 They think they're on a race team.

00:56:05.340 They're not.

00:56:06.860 Not really.

00:56:08.400 If all the poor people said, hey,

00:56:10.040 you know, I get that there's, you

00:56:12.340 know, differences and discrimination.

00:56:14.360 I get all that.

00:56:15.120 That's real.

00:56:16.500 But what if we poor people just all

00:56:18.320 banded together and said, give us some

00:56:20.320 shit, you rich people, we want to take

00:56:22.360 your stuff, because we have enough

00:56:24.540 votes.

00:56:25.860 The only thing that keeps the country

00:56:27.320 together is that the rich have found a

00:56:29.280 way, through the media, to convince

00:56:32.300 people that their main filter should be

00:56:35.260 race.

00:56:37.060 As long as their main filter on life is

00:56:39.120 race, they're oblivious, just like a

00:56:42.080 magic trick.

00:56:43.020 It's a distraction, so you don't see

00:56:44.460 how the trick is done.

00:56:45.600 The magic trick is it's always been

00:56:47.000 about money.

00:56:48.320 Dave Chappelle says exactly what I'm

00:56:50.000 saying, except not exactly what I'm

00:56:52.680 saying.

00:56:53.580 He uses different words.

00:56:55.080 But the same message, that racism is a

00:56:58.080 distraction from the actual, you know,

00:57:01.180 the actual inequality of our time, which

00:57:03.160 is income or wealth.

00:57:08.060 All right.

00:57:08.880 There's a weird story about some two

00:57:11.780 people posing as federal agents and

00:57:14.740 giving gifts to a number of secret

00:57:16.280 service officers, including like

00:57:19.160 apartments and high-powered weapons

00:57:21.860 and spy technology and stuff.

00:57:25.160 And I'll just read the names of the two

00:57:29.680 individuals who were captured, pretending

00:57:32.880 to be members of Homeland Security.

00:57:35.900 You can make your own racist judgments about

00:57:40.720 who they might be working for.

00:57:42.360 One of them is named Arian

00:57:45.940 Teherzadi, and the other is

00:57:48.760 Hader Ali.

00:57:51.120 Now, if these two are working for any

00:57:55.600 foreign country, I think that would

00:57:57.900 narrow it down to probably a Middle East

00:57:59.440 country.

00:58:02.900 Iran, I'm looking at you, but I don't

00:58:04.620 know for sure.

00:58:06.300 I'm not even sure if those names specify

00:58:09.020 the region, do they?

00:58:09.940 Could you tell the region from the last

00:58:12.080 names?

00:58:13.980 I don't know if you could do that.

00:58:16.600 And we don't know if they're, I mean,

00:58:18.420 they could just be Americans.

00:58:19.840 So, you know, don't make any racist

00:58:22.000 assumptions about their allegiances or

00:58:24.780 their nationalities by their last names.

00:58:28.300 Can we all agree with that?

00:58:31.020 I think we're all adult enough to know

00:58:33.800 that the last names are a red flag, but

00:58:36.700 we're also adult enough not to just

00:58:38.800 assume that, you know, race is telling

00:58:41.860 you something, right?

00:58:42.660 Race doesn't tell you something.

00:58:44.340 It might tell you where to look, and I

00:58:47.000 guess that's racist enough, but it doesn't

00:58:49.780 tell you what their motivations are or

00:58:51.720 where they came from.

00:58:53.100 It doesn't even tell you they're Islamic.

00:58:54.640 All right.

00:58:58.560 So we'll wait and see what's what on that.

00:59:01.740 All right.

00:59:01.900 That, ladies and gentlemen, brings us to

00:59:05.080 the conclusion of the best live stream

00:59:07.240 that's ever happened.

00:59:08.860 And I hope you enjoyed this breathtaking

00:59:11.620 romp from artificial intelligence, which I

00:59:15.320 haven't mentioned yet, but I'm going to

00:59:16.720 now, through the simulation, through politics,

00:59:20.380 through it all.

00:59:21.620 Let's talk about AI.

00:59:24.360 Have you seen the new AI art that's being

00:59:27.820 created?

00:59:29.260 Apparently, there is AI that can make you a

00:59:31.860 perfect image just by describing it in words.

00:59:36.440 So if you say, for example, a monkey doing

00:59:39.240 his taxes, which was one of the actual

00:59:41.240 examples, the AI will draw you a picture

00:59:44.600 of a monkey, not a picture, but like it

00:59:47.820 looks real, like an actual monkey, over a

00:59:50.740 piece of paper, like struggling over his

00:59:52.480 paperwork.

00:59:54.100 You just have to describe it, and it draws

00:59:56.080 the picture.

00:59:57.180 And some of them are just like crazy, like

01:00:01.720 your mind is blown, and they're actually

01:00:03.280 pleasant to look at.

01:00:04.760 So now imagine the AI can do art, because

01:00:07.820 it is.

01:00:08.440 It is doing art.

01:00:09.740 And now imagine that the AI can rapidly

01:00:12.120 test which of these two pictures is better.

01:00:15.840 It just has a website, or maybe it's got some

01:00:18.740 people who do this for it, for money or

01:00:20.600 whatever.

01:00:21.260 And they just respond.

01:00:22.680 They'll get a notice, say, oh, do you like

01:00:24.320 the one on the left or the right?

01:00:25.940 They go, ah, the left.

01:00:27.460 That's all they do that day.

01:00:28.580 Just one person, one click.

01:00:30.400 But there are lots of people doing lots of

01:00:31.920 clicks.

01:00:32.940 So AI immediately goes through a bunch of

01:00:36.480 iterations and finds out the best piece of

01:00:38.660 art.

01:00:39.420 You don't think artists are in trouble?

01:00:41.220 As an artist, let me tell you that art is

01:00:45.540 mostly a formula.

01:00:47.660 It doesn't seem like it, because you don't

01:00:49.500 know how to do it.

01:00:51.880 I hate to tell you that.

01:00:53.860 But the reason you think art is mysterious, and

01:00:56.700 there's some magic to the creative process, is

01:01:00.720 because you don't do it.

01:01:02.400 If you do it, you see the machinery.

01:01:06.560 Right?

01:01:06.600 Do a Google search on the six dimensions of

01:01:10.620 humor.

01:01:11.200 It's literally a formula for knowing that the

01:01:14.760 humor is there or not.

01:01:16.160 Like, I've just turned it into a formula, and I

01:01:18.260 use it.

01:01:19.420 So, and everything else that I've done that has

01:01:22.900 any creative element to it, eventually, you

01:01:26.100 know, sometimes I start out intuitively, but

01:01:29.220 eventually I can see the machinery.

01:01:31.720 And I go, oh, I see what's happening now.

01:01:33.680 When I follow this formula, it works.

01:01:35.360 When I follow this formula, it doesn't.

01:01:36.840 So that's the machinery.

01:01:38.760 So, yeah.

01:01:39.740 AI is going to take over art.

01:01:42.560 And it's going to influence your social media

01:01:45.980 algorithms and everything else.

01:01:48.260 It's all connected.

01:01:49.760 And if you had to have somebody who's sort of

01:01:52.840 has their finger on the user interface for

01:01:55.700 reality, somebody who knows AI, somebody who

01:01:59.800 knows social networks, somebody who knows how

01:02:02.180 the human mind is interfacing with products, somebody

01:02:06.340 who's so clever about these things, he or she might

01:02:10.020 not even need a marketing department.

01:02:13.800 That's kind of who I want to have their finger on

01:02:15.900 that lever.

01:02:16.340 So I think we might be in good shape thanks to good people

01:02:21.640 trying to make the world better and maybe making some

01:02:24.400 money at the same time.

01:02:25.660 Maybe making some money at the same time.

01:02:27.940 Perfectly acceptable as long as it's transparent and as

01:02:31.760 long as, you know, he has the country's best interests in

01:02:36.400 mind and it looks like he does.

01:02:37.720 So, on that note, on that note, I'd like to say goodbye to

01:02:47.640 the YouTube people.

01:02:48.400 I'm going to talk to the locals people a few more minutes and

01:02:50.860 I think you'd agree.

01:02:55.900 I think you'd agree.

01:02:57.680 This is the best live stream you've ever seen.

01:03:00.860 Bye for now.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - April 07, 2022

Episode 1706 Scott Adams： Watch Me Connect Politics, AI, The Simulation and Twitter Into One Story

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