Episode 1781 Scott Adams: The News Is Perfectly Constructed Today. Come Savor It With Me
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 2 minutes
Words per Minute
136.26086
Summary
Imagine being the richest man in the world, and the perfect news item has come to us thanks to a simulation, and what would it be? Well, it turns out we don t have to wonder anymore because the perfect story has been created by the simulation itself.
Transcript
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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the best thing that's ever happened.
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Today I plan to solve all of the problems that you knew you had,
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at least seven to nine problems you didn't even know you had.
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They'll be solved before they even become part of your conscious mind.
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Yeah. And the way to do that is via something called the simultaneous sip.
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Now, you don't have to participate to get the benefits, but just knowing that it exists, that's enough.
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And all you need if you want to participate is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or chalice or stein,
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a canteen, jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind, fill it with your favorite liquid.
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I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure.
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The dopamine to the other day, the thing that makes everything better. Everything.
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It's called the simultaneous sip, but it happens now. Go.
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I didn't think it was possible, but I think I undersold it.
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Once again, better than I could have ever imagined.
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Well, I told you in the title to this live stream that it was going to be a perfect news day.
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If you were going to be the designer of news and you said,
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So it doesn't even have to be about something that's just happening right away.
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Could be some longer term story, but we're going to concoct it into news.
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Well, it turns out we don't have to wonder because the perfect news item has come to us thanks to the simulation.
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The ultimate, and of course it's better on Fox News, but the ultimate Fox News story.
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Elon Musk's child, Xavier Alexander Musk, has asked for both a name change and a new birth certificate reflecting a new gender identity.
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Elon Musk has said publicly that he's very pro-trans.
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So, so far, so far the news doesn't have any bite because the famous person in the news, the richest man in the world,
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is, you know, his personal view is compatible with what's happening in his family, so that's all good.
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But he did say, Elon Musk did say, that the pronoun thing is an aesthetic mess, meaning that it's just hard to navigate the different pronouns.
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And I think most of us would agree at least that far.
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Can we at least all agree that even, you know, no matter what you think about what pronouns should be used,
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I think we'd all agree that it could be a little confusing, a little awkward.
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So, imagine being the richest man in the world because you are also one of the smartest, best inventors.
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You know, I think of Elon Musk as sort of an inventor entrepreneur.
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and you see that the way the trans community has decided to handle the pronoun stuff,
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is picking one of the few words, they and them,
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Because it refers to multiple people instead of one.
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that are confusing in terms of the number of people involved?
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so you've got this situation where the pronoun could be confusing.
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when you're trying to deal with the other ambiguity?
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Why would you create a new ambiguity of the number of people involved?
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So it's like this little speed bump for your brain.
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You don't think that out of the 7 billion of us,
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Of all the things the humans on this planet would like to do,
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I'm sure we can come up with a non-insulting name,
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that doesn't also confuse you about the number of people involved.
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Do you think that we've become such a divided country
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I honestly can't think of an easier problem to solve.
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We just come up with a word that hasn't been used before.
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but it should not be a word we already use for something else.
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Why would you use a word that's being used for something else?
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It honestly seems like the world's simplest problem,
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Does that seem like a change in mission for CNN?
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has said that they're going to be more balanced.
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I think you have to give this to them, I think.
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If there was anything you wanted to talk about,
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will also have some kind of a brick-making company
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and it just creates infinite trenched farm stuff.
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you'd probably have to add in your own irrigation
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I would think that's where all the expenses, right?
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are saying it looks like a recession is coming.
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It has been raining money on fools for too long.
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So, we as humans actually can't tell the difference
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It's like the pain that your economy has to have,
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But, we can tell that it's going to hurt for a while.
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That's one of the things that discouraged me about economics.
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is so you can predict what's going to happen next.
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And they can't do the thing that they exist to do.
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that you'd need something like a 5% jobless rate