Episode 1712 Scott Adams: Unverified Chemical Attacks, Twitter Censorship, More Red Meat, Mmmmm
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Summary
In this episode, we discuss the new trend of people being willing to consider arguments on both sides of an argument, and why the left doesn t get it. Also, we talk about gaming and pornography, and how it has a big impact on civilization.
Transcript
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Well, ladies and gentlemen, and anything else you would like to label yourself, which is
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Not only will you be delighted in the next 40 minutes or so, but think about the people
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you will touch, the people you meet along the way.
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Can somebody remind me how to pronounce C-E-N-K?
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That's such a disadvantage if you have a name that the, you know, the great majority of
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your potential audience has trouble pronouncing.
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If you're watching this, you probably know of him.
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And he was, he tweeted today, he goes, the new trend among conservatives like Matt Gaetz
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and Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, Joe Rogan and Bill Maher, that's a list of conservatives?
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It's their trend is to make fun of overweight people while feigning concern about their health.
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They're blaming COVID deaths on them and mocking them as the real problem in America.
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Now, I guess we could talk about the content of it, which is whether or not they were mocking
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I didn't see it, but I understand they were mocking body positivity, which would be different
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It would be people whose opinions about their weight problems, because we mock people's opinions.
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So, I'm not sure that he characterized what happened there, but I didn't see it.
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That when somebody is willing to consider arguments, sometimes on the left and sometimes on the right,
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or at least to look to the other side to see what they're thinking and make a decision about,
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on a topic-by-topic basis, which one makes sense?
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Well, they seem to get called conservatives and rhinos, right?
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So, if somebody considers things on both sides, sometimes you say conservative,
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and other times you might say they're a rhino, because, you know, they looked at some stuff on the other side.
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But, in both cases, they're being called people on the right.
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At what point do the people on the left notice the pattern?
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Yeah, and as somebody is pointing out here, the same happens to me.
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If you see an article about me, I'm called sometimes far-right or conservative,
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I label myself left of Bernie, except better at math, so I don't have crazy ideas like he does.
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So, at what point does the left notice that whenever anybody can consider arguments on both sides,
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Whenever you see somebody who will consider an argument on both sides,
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The ability to consider an argument that I don't hold,
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Here's a little tweet from Doc Anarchy, who you should follow.
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And he notes today, and I've noted something similar, but I like his framing.
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He says, human brains are not ready for virtual reality gaming and pornography.
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Is that like a witty little observation about a small little corner of gaming
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has no impact on you or me or anything important?
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Or, or, is it the end of civilization as we know it?
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Now, when I say end of civilization, it could be an improvement, but it's going to change.
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If you think anything's going to be the same after virtual reality nails pornography,
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If you think anything will be the same after that, you've never tried a virtual reality headset.
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You just have to try one and see how, let's say, how engaging it is even in its current terrible form.
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If you were to rate how good is a virtual reality right today,
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compared to how good it will be, say, in 10 years, almost for sure,
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Because even as a 2 out of 10, it's so compelling,
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even when you can see the seams and stuff and you know it's fake,
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still it's so compelling that when that thing gets to like an 8 out of 10,
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nobody is going to want to spend time in the real world.
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Imagine putting your headset on, sitting in your chair,
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but all you have to do is put on the glasses and you go anywhere.
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And what happens when there's a 3-D printer that can make smells?
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That feels like something that could happen, right?
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Don't you think somebody will have a 3-D printer that can, like, print a little ocean smell?
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You know, so it goes along with the virtual reality.
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Imagine if your sense of smell started syncing up with the vision.
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They can already do audio that will sound like it's the real thing.
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But I think whenever you bet against something like that, you're wrong.
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Now, I don't know that it would be a 3-D printer, per se.
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that just drops a drop of something into something else.
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But you don't know how this is going to change things.
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It'll just sort of look gross to do it with, like, a real person.
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Because the real person is just going to be somebody
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eating potato chips, same as you, for the last six months.
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When you take the glasses off from your perfect world,
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compared to sitting in a chair and eating potato chips?
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where you're only a couple of tweaks of technology
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because your brain doesn't know how to make that adjustment.
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You don't realize that your brain can't handle this.
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because somebody's going to make a ton of money.
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it's going to make a lot of money for somebody.
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this will actually just grab civilization by the neck.
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the only thing that's going to keep countries viable
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from places that don't have good technology yet.
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from countries where they don't have virtual reality
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Do you think you're going to be able to get somebody
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and then all you need is a universal basic income
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I think that's actually going to change addiction,
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and they saw there was something electronic in there,
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hey, this is either a bug or a tracking device,
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Wouldn't you know if something had a microphone?
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Couldn't you tell if it had a GPS on it or something?
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and somebody's saying it's just part of the heating device.