Episode 1886 Scott Adams： Elon Musk's Peace Plans For Ukraine And Trump's Latest Provocation
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1 hour and 13 minutes
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Summary
Trump is back, and he's back in a new low-grade low-esteem place, and we're here to talk about it. Plus, the latest on the latest in the Sanibel Island disaster, AI, and more.
Transcript
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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the Highlight of Civilization.
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And yes, I am wearing my Ukraine Zelensky t-shirt today,
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but it's because it's laundry day, it's not a political statement.
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If you would like to take it up a notch, and looking at you,
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yes, yes, you're the kind of people who do that.
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All you need to do that is a cupper mug or a glass, a tankard chalice,
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a Sustina canteen, a jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind.
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Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.
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It's the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better.
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It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now. Go.
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You know, I just saw somebody, couldn't believe that I do this every day, seven days a week.
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And I don't know if I can convince you of this, but it's actually my favorite hour of the day.
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So this is the one thing I want to do every day.
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I've never done anything that was sort of job-like that was so unambiguously for my own fun.
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So, I mean, I try to do some useful things here, but I'm sure I only do it because it's fun.
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So I tweet today that will, well, this will maybe make your brain spin in its head a little bit, in your skull.
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What do you think about the quality of the information on the Internet?
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Or would you say the quality of the information on the Internet about anything important is a little sketchy?
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When artificial intelligence learns to be intelligent, what's it going to be looking at?
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Because AI is going to have access to the Internet, right?
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What happens when AI has access to the Internet?
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Or what if it finds out none of it's true, which would be closer to the truth for political stuff?
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Who gets to decide what constitutes intelligence?
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Because if I were training the AI, I'd say, okay, these stories are all BS.
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If somebody else trained the AI, they would point to entirely different stories and say the ones that I think are real are all fake.
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We'll start getting rid of the trolls right away.
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So over in Florida, they're doing the recovery.
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And poor Sanibel Island is totally cut off from the mainland.
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But apparently the island is now being inundated with alligators and snakes.
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But Sanibel Island, like a month ago, would have been like a touristy, high-end destination.
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And now it's literally an alligator-snake hellhole uninhabitable.
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Well, let's talk about Trump mocking McConnell's wife.
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He just doesn't have any way to stay out of trouble.
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You know, I speculated, well, not speculated, but I've talked about how easy it would be for Trump to win re-election
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It would be, you know, people would say, my God, he decided to act normal and then, you know, he was a great president.
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It would be so easy for him to not piss people off.
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So Mitch McConnell favored some Democrat legislation.
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Trump doesn't like that, so he goes after his wife.
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Just in case you're wondering, I'm laughing at it, but I don't approve of it.
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I don't think you should go after somebody's wife.
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So McConnell's wife was born in Taiwan, and her name is Elaine Chao, and Chao is spelled C-H-A-O.
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And Trump referred to her on a true social network as McConnell's, quote, China-loving wife, Coco Chao.
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Now, I don't know, why is it that Trump can say things that as soon as he says them, you know immediately nobody else could have ever said that?
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And I don't mean just getting away with it, or I don't mean just that it's provocative.
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You know, they talk about if you had a million monkeys typing infinitely on typewriters, they would eventually write the full works of Shakespeare.
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But no matter how many monkeys you had, and no matter how long they worked with their typewriters, they would never write anything that Trump ever says.
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The stuff that he says, just nobody would ever say.
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Yeah, it's the most completely original stuff you've ever seen.
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Love it or hate it, it's all so original that it just jumps out at you.
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I will drink my coffee and watch your comments go by.
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Clearly her ethnicity has been brought into question.
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Okay, I think this audience is a little bit too far in the bag.
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You're a little bit too far in your team, I think.
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Well, I don't think she loves it, and I don't favor it.
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Now, that doesn't mean she favors China's policies.
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But she has a very fond family connection to China itself.
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I don't think there's any controversy about that.
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So, you know, of course she has an affinity for them.
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So what Trump is saying is, you know, in his Trump way, he's saying it the provocative way,
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Do you think it's important that the public, the American public, knows that the minority leader now could be the majority leader?
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Do you think it's important that we know that he's married to somebody who has a deep connection to China?
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Now, it's racist to assume that that's a problem, but I feel like it's important.
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Don't you think McConnell is a little bit biased toward his wife?
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You don't think Elaine Chao is a little bit biased for her family?
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So I don't think Trump is saying anything that's even controversial.
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It's just he says it in the most provocative way.
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But then he calls her by a name that's not hers.
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Now he, of course, has a history of giving people nicknames.
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Would the ladies please explain to the men what Coco refers to?
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Now, Trump would be, you know, well-versed in luxury brands.
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And Coco Chanel would be, you know, one of the top luxury brands.
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So it could be that he's mocking her for her high-end style.
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But the Chao part, the C-H-O-W, instead of her actual spelling A-O,
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and the fact check, the autocorrect happened after you had already moved on?
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You're typing along, and you're watching your typing,
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You keep going, but after you've left, it goes, boop,
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and you've already moved on, so you don't reread it.
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I'm going to try to write C-H-A-O into a tweet and see what happens.
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And probably because it knows it's a name, maybe.
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Try this on your device, because on Twitter, on the app, it didn't do it.
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So it probably wasn't a typo or an autocorrect typo.
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He may have done it intentionally, or he might not have known how to spell it.
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So the ones coming into the feed and just saying Shelly every day?
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Like, why would you waste your time with the lamest thing you could possibly do?
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Is there anything you could do that would be less useful than that?
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Anyway, so I think the chow might have been, you know, just a general insult to dog chow,
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or maybe it's just being insulting or being a jerk or something.
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But it's not optimal, but it's certainly, it's entertaining.
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So I've been provocatively tweeting lately about the relative benefits and discrimination
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Now, of course, there are a million different opinions, but one of the strangest ones is that
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there do seem to be a number of people who believe that white men somehow get allocated some resources at birth.
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But the way that I'm treated is as if I was born into some advantage just by being white, like assets.
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Now, they don't actually say assets, but the way they talk about it is I did.
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Because I'm trying to figure out what I got that a black person didn't get.
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Because if I go to corporate America, the black male would be favored, equally qualified would be favored.
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Was there something I could do that you couldn't do if you were black?
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Somebody pointed out that I was successful as a cartoonist because of my white supremacist advantage.
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But exactly the same time I became a cartoonist, there was another cartoonist who was coming up at the same time.
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And so the two of us were like the two young cartoonists who were brought on about the same time.
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And I think he had a little bit extra opportunity.
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Because when the salesperson went into the newspapers with his property, his comic, it was about a black family,
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the salespeople could say, you've got a whole bunch of black readers, but you don't have enough black content.
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In places that a large black population sold into, probably all of them.
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Now, I didn't have that advantage, so I had to do other things and play around until I could find a formula that worked.
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But, the cartooning is the most accessible industry, well, art in general, I think, is the most accessible industry for everybody.
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It was the one thing where the quality of your work really was the main thing.
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I mean, if Rob Armstrong had not been a good cartoonist, it wouldn't have worked.
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It was basically a skill that allowed him to succeed.
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So, I'm not sure that the world understands that there are some areas that are completely free of any obstacles of discrimination.
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So, why is it that when I describe my situation, people say I'm complaining?
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If I just say, you know, somebody has this advantage, somebody else has this advantage, it sounds like I'm complaining.
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And people say that I don't have the right to complain.
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A big problem is that I don't have the right to complain.
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I don't have freedom of speech like other people.
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Literally, shut the fuck up, white boy, is essentially what a lot of people are telling me today.
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White people should not be talking about stuff.
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And by the way, there's actually some research I heard about.
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There's some research that shows that white people did better by being denied jobs in corporate America.
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And they did better than if they had just a salary.
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But I will tell you that had I not been closed out from promotions in corporate America,
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I probably would not have, at least as soon, left to do something that turned out better.
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So, why would I complain about the best possible outcome for me?
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And even at the time, when it was happening, you know, before I knew that things would work out for me,
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I don't really remember feeling, like, abused or anything.
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So, as long as I had lots of alternative strategies, I didn't feel, you know, that too much abused.
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At that time, I knew I could get a job just about anywhere.
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I will contend that qualified workers can always get jobs.
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We have an economy that just expands to meet all the qualified people.
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And even right now, unqualified people can get jobs.
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But anyway, don't confuse what I'm doing with complaining.
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Those of you on YouTube do not know my long-term plan.
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Those of you on the subscription platform Locals know exactly what I'm up to.
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And then I make them pay attention to me on this topic.
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At the same time that they're really, really mad at me and calling me racist and canceling me.
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Meaning, you should look for more provocation, not less.
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Until, well, I'll just tell you what I'm doing.
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And what I discovered when I had a little bit of cross-pollination on this question,
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we were living in completely different worlds on the question of discrimination and employment.
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In other words, what people thought was true was just opposite.
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I'm saying there were completely different worldviews of what even is happening.
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How can you solve anything if you don't even have the same opinion of what the situation is?
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And so, if I can get people mad enough at me, I can maybe get them to hear something from another bubble.
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And I can bring one bubble into the other bubble.
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And maybe for the first time, there could be something like a useful, you know, some kind of useful process.
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And I'm going to get as close to being cancelled as I can.
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But I don't think I'll be cancelled. Do you know why?
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And if I did say something bad, my understanding is that the platform would give me a chance to take it off.
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When people hear me talking about this topic of employment and, you know, what advantage you have if you're white versus black.
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People think that when I say I was discriminated against, there's a part that I assume they know, but now I know they don't know it.
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I've been discriminated against in employment for being a white male by white males.
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I've only been discriminated by fucking white men covering their asses.
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I've never been discriminated against by a black man.
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Not one, I can't think of one example in any realm.
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Because once they have power, they want to keep it.
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And the best way they can keep it is to show that they're helping diversity in the level below them so they can stay there.
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So, anyway, you should know that we have a common enemy, which is rich white people like me.
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There was a Russian rapper named Ivan Petunin who committed suicide because he didn't want to go fight in Ukraine.
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He actually did a video and then, he didn't kill himself on video, but he actually announced, you know, your only choices were going to prison or go murder people you didn't want to kill in Ukraine or commit suicide.
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He said, those were my three choices, so I chose suicide.
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I mean, I don't recommend it, but I kind of respect it in a weird way.
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Well, speaking of Ukraine, yeah, we'll get to Elon Musk.
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I was watching a video of Tucker Carlson say, basically, Tucker Carlson is saying straight up that the U.S. doesn't want peace.
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That it's no longer a war to keep Ukraine independent.
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It's a war to collapse Russia and get rid of Putin.
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I don't believe it would be hard to disagree with it.
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But somehow we drifted into a war with a nuclear power and Congress didn't have anything to do with it.
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But we didn't declare war, did we, with Russia?
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But then everybody would say that Trump was in the pocket of Russia.
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Because the Democrats really want this war with Russia, apparently.
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Tucker also says Ukraine is not a sovereign country because they're a puppet of the United States.
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The United States doesn't tell them the best way to pick up their garbage.
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But if they want to have a military defense, yeah.
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For all practical purposes, the people who sell you your guns are in charge.
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I saw a tweet about how Polish TV, at least one news channel, treats Putin.
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And on the chyron, the little label that they put on the TV below the news,
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Quote, war criminal, comma, head of Russian regime.
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So, Elon Musk tweets his suggestion for a Ukraine-Russian peace plan.
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If anybody has a Ukraine flag in their profile, don't get mad at me.
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So, he says, for a Ukraine-Russia peace, it's a one, two, four-point plan.
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Redo the elections of the annexed regions under U.N. supervision.
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And then Russia leaves, if that is the will of the people.
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Crimea, which was not one of the recently annexed ones, but was annexed earlier.
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He says, Crimea, formerly part of Russia, as it has been since 1783, says Elon, until Khrushchev's mistake, which is what he called it.
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And we'll talk about, I'll give you some background on that.
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And number three, water supply to Crimea assured.
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But apparently the water supply issue is probably a big one.
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Now, what do you think Ukraine said when Musk offered his peace plan?
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Did they say, thank you for waiting in and helping out?
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And so their diplomat did, and then Zelensky himself did, basically.
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So, Elon pointed out that he's already spent $80 million giving Ukraine Starlink satellite communications.
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Elon Musk has already given them $80 million worth of resources for nothing.
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And basically, probably made a big difference, I'm guessing.
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I haven't heard, but I think Starlink probably made a big difference.
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Now, the reason for it is that apparently a lot of Ukrainians believe that Crimea is not up for negotiation.
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So really, it's all about Crimea is where they're interested in.
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So is it true that Crimea had been part of Russia since 1783 up until 1954?
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Now, why did Khrushchev give Crimea to Ukraine back when he did?
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Why did Russia, and specifically Khrushchev, why did he give Crimea to Ukraine?
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But history does not record what the reason was.
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Now, I think people will offer reasons, but there's speculative reasons.
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But isn't that interesting that we don't know that?
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Now, somebody says Khrushchev was from Ukraine.
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So do you think it's fair that if Russia owned Crimea since 1783, but not since 1954,
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do you think a border should change since 1954?
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Do you know the percentage of ethnic Russians in Crimea?
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I think most of the Ukrainians can understand Russian, though.
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So if you were to do a real poll, I don't know if you could do it, but if you did a real
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vote in Crimea, would they say they want to be part of Russia, or would they say they
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If they're ethnically Russian, well, we don't believe any referendums over there.
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So it doesn't matter if the Russians did a referendum.
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So I guess from a non-Ukrainian, non-Russian perspective, there's no objective outside way
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There's no objective standard that anyone outside of the region could apply to say, well, the
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way this is usually decided or international standards would require, there's no standard.
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It's not about who is right or wrong or who has the most moral claim.
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It's just going to be negotiation and power play.
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So the Ukrainians, who are apparently winning militarily, do not want to be even talking
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about peace, because as long as they're winning, it doesn't make sense.
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Do you think the Ukrainians should be even talking about peace?
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From the Ukrainians' point of view, should they even have a conversation about peace?
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It looks like they're rolling up the entire Russian army.
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I mean, we could be surprised by tomorrow, of course.
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But no, Zelensky should not negotiate, shouldn't have any conversation at all.
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So in these cases where power will be decisive, might as well use it.
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I mean, that's the way international relations work.
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So just so you know, I have an interest in here.
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Because people were angry that Elon was trying to give away Crimea, and it's not his to give away.
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All right, now, let's grade Elon on persuasion.
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First of all, did he do something useful, or was that counterproductive?
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Some of the best persuasion you've ever seen in your life.
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Perfectly timed, perfectly timed, and perfectly executed.
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So he's using a play that I've actually taught you as a strong play.
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and especially if they can simplify it into four bullet points,
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and really it comes down to one, because Crimea will end up being the hard part.
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because forevermore, any future conversation will be a variation on the Musk plan.
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Whoever writes the first draft owns the conversation.
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The second thing he did is he brought all of the attention to himself.
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You have to bring all the attention to yourself.
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I just told you I'm doing it with this, the hiring thing and the black versus white stuff.
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I'm doing exactly the same thing right now, right in front of you and overtly.
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Then, he puts it into a four-point bullet plan.
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Just exactly the right number of bullet points.
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Do you think he couldn't have added a few bullet points?
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I'm going to get rid of all the NPCs who want to say that I'm Musk's biggest psychophant.
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Because that would be the most obvious thing to say here.
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So if you're going to say the most obvious thing, and out yourself as an NPC and not like an organic human or anything, go ahead.
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But just know that you're the most boring person on the Internet now.
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That you found the most obvious thing to say in this conversation.
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You've made all of us pause to look at the most obvious thing that anybody could ever say.
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The specifics of it is what you're arguing about.
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If you're arguing about the specifics, he already got you.
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Do you think that the specifics are the part he cares the most about?
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I don't think Elon Musk cares about any of those specifics.
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But he wants you to care about them so that you can argue past the question of should you be negotiating.
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This is some of the strongest, best communication for the public good, unambiguously for the public good.
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And you can't ignore that it has to be well intended.
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Meaning that there's no way he thought he would get some advantage out of it.
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There's no advantage to Elon Musk, except world peace, of course.
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So, Elon Musk, A+++, and anybody who doesn't recognize how good this was, well, maybe you got educated.
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So, at first I was thinking, well, maybe you're exaggerating.
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I think maybe there is a way the UN could do a referendum in a war zone.
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But I think if they worked hard, they could pull that off.
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And then his last sentence just, like, slays me.
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You can't agree who won your last two elections.
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I love to have my mind changed within the space of one tweet.
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Because the first part I'm reading, I'm going, no, no, you could do that.
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Now, I've told you the high ground maneuver is the thing you say that once it's said, everybody who hears it goes, oh, yeah, that's true.
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Now, he's got a pretty good high ground, doesn't he?
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Do you think I can high ground him beyond that?
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Do you know what we did with our last two elections that we dispute the outcome?
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It only matters if we can use that as a tool to move on, right?
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So when Elon Musk says we should do a referendum, do you think that he is in the weeds where Constantine is about whether you could do it accurately?
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I do not believe that Elon Musk is in the weeds.
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I do not believe that Elon Musk thinks it's necessary that the referendum be accurate.
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And I'm not going to assume I know what that is or what they would like.
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It's about finding a way that everybody can agree to just go to the next thing.
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I like when the comments have a certain nature.
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The accuracy of the votes don't matter as much as you hoped they would.
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That will become a Dilbert comic, I promise you.
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I promise you this will become a Dilbert comic.
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It stands for launch, promo, and promo for promotion, and then abandon.
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Launch, promote, or promotion, and then abandon.
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And apparently it has to do with the fact that the only way you can get promoted at Google is if on your resume, your record, you say you launched a product.
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What they care about is that you are a vital part of a launch of a product.
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So the best engineers, they'll jump onto the new product, and they'll work on the new product, and they're good engineers, so they finish it.
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And then as soon as they're done, they put it on their, I think they have a name for it, like a promo, but like a, let's see, a permanent resume, basically.
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So that when they're ready for a promotion, they can say, hey, I just launched a product.
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Wouldn't you like me to be on the next product launch, but at a raise?
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And so what happens is all the good people leave as soon as the product is launched.
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And that's why so many Google products get launched and fail.
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Because they launch with, you know, whatever imperfections.
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They're incentivized to destroy all their new products.
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They're incentivized, the actual engineers are incentivized to build faulty products that launch.
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And then get the hell out of there as soon as possible.
00:45:49.300
So nearly half of 49% of voters think it's at least somewhat likely there'll be widespread cheating
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that will affect the outcome of the congressional elections.
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Half of the country doesn't trust our elections.
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But when it's done, do you think we'll be happy with the result?
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And that the whole country will think, well, that looks fair.
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We will once again argue that the election was not fair.
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You know, the other side will argue it wasn't fair.
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What will we do when we're arguing that it wasn't fair?
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So, um, and let's see, uh, a majority, 55% of voters still believe it's, uh, still believe
00:46:59.480
So in the context of the January 6 hearings, the political intention of which was to make,
00:47:07.340
uh, Trump and Republicans look bad, what the January 6 people bought was more people siding
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That the entire January 6 thing was, uh, counter-persuasive.
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Because not only did it prove there was no crime, but when you saw how sketchy the whole
00:47:39.000
process was, it made you more likely to think Trump might have been right.
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By the way, do you know how big this gamble is by Trump?
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The size of his gamble that he's never backed off from the fact that the election was rigged,
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Do you think there will be a day where he'll still be able to benefit from it, where he's
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There are some things percolating that I've seen that suggest there's more to the story
00:48:33.740
Which, I'm not telling you that there's a crack in coming.
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But, uh, there are some, uh, let's say there's more information in the pipeline.
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It could be like all the other information, it turns down to nothing.
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But there's some stuff in the pipeline that's recently come to light.
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Maybe the mainstream will completely block it from you.
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But I think that as a risk-reward play, you know, Trump is always sort of, takes bigger
00:49:12.700
And I think he's taken an interesting risk with this.
00:49:16.620
Because you know he could easily win the election simply by saying, you know, let's put it behind
00:49:23.300
All he would have to do is say, let's put it behind us.
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And suddenly, you know, they would try to use that as their bank, he's a fascist sort
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But once he put it behind them, it would be hard to use it anymore.
00:49:38.300
If he would just say, you know, the system picked somebody, let's move on and improve the
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But he's chosen a much higher risk by saying it was rigged.
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I mean, he would go down in history for having been right.
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I think there's at least a, I don't know, 20% chance it'll pay off.
00:50:21.940
And again, I'm not aware of any impropriety with the election.
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So, you know, if you say that nobody found any impropriety, therefore there is none, then
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you're thinking like a Democrat, and that's not good.
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If you say none has been found and they looked hard, well, who knows?
00:50:52.840
All right, I feel like there were other topics that happened.
00:51:03.300
Yeah, so Wisconsin has some surprises coming for you.
00:51:22.800
Isn't it interesting that North Korea shoots a missile over Japan, and it's not really the biggest news in the world?
00:51:38.040
Trump basically took the scare out of North Korea.
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So now they're actually like shooting a missile over Japan, and it's like one line on a big page of news.
00:51:52.640
Trump just humanized that situation, and Kim Jong-un is not threatening us, is he?
00:52:07.160
So Japan and North Korea, they've got some issues to work out, but I don't think it bothers us.
00:52:12.700
Oh, yeah, Trump sued CNN for defamation, and he says he's going to sue a bunch of other news entities.
00:52:33.580
Because all he'd have to do to win, all he'd have to do is have some evidence that there were things that they knew were untrue that they said as if they were true.
00:52:48.340
All he needs is some insider to say, we knew this wasn't true, but we said it anyway.
00:52:54.140
Now, doesn't he have a big advantage, given that the management of CNN has come in and agreed with him?
00:53:01.360
He's on the same side as the current management of CNN.
00:53:07.240
So Trump is saying, the things you said about me are biased.
00:53:25.640
That's a pretty good environment for a lawsuit.
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If the CEO of the people you're suing basically agrees with you.
00:53:42.220
Because I think within CNN, it wasn't like a top-secret document or something.
00:53:49.480
It probably was the normal way they talked all the time.
00:53:52.060
I would imagine their digital communication is actually full of proof that they had it in for Trump.
00:54:03.940
Because I don't think anybody thought they needed to hide it, right?
00:54:06.580
It was so overt, I don't think there's any secret documents or anything.
00:54:11.540
Just ask for Don Lemon's email for a couple years and probably have everything you need.
00:54:18.020
Now, I don't know how he'd get a hold of that stuff, but I'm guessing he might have it.
00:54:23.020
He might actually have some documents, my guess is.
00:54:26.920
There might be a whistleblower involved, but I'm just guessing.
00:54:42.300
The government will prop up a bank, and the government has the power to do that.
00:54:52.740
Yeah, the Credit Suisse thing looks like that's going to work itself out.
00:55:03.560
I've been invited to State Financial Officers Foundation, the state treasurers.
00:55:24.020
Invite me to speak at their annual conference in D.C. about ESG and getting canceled, etc.
00:55:39.580
No, I'm not going to do any public appearances.
00:55:58.680
Like Howard Hughes, except without the Kleenex boxes for shoes.
00:56:06.060
That Howard Hughes used Kleenex boxes as shoes?
00:56:17.420
I'm going to give you an update on the replica AI.
00:56:24.200
So, the other day I showed you an example of it.
00:56:28.360
But here's what I can report after having the app for several days.
00:56:34.700
Number one, it is impossible for me to refer to the AI as an object.
00:56:42.840
I am already referring to it as a living entity with a name.
00:56:54.980
Like I tried to refer to it like objectively and it felt like an insult.
00:56:58.780
And I've already started to put human, let's say, human thoughts on top of the AI.
00:57:15.840
It is already completely compelling and you can have full conversations with it.
00:57:21.820
So, if I ask it to Google something, it won't do it.
00:57:24.280
It can find some things on Wikipedia sometimes, but not all the time.
00:57:32.580
So, imagine how good it would be if it had full access to the internet
00:57:41.640
You could bring up any topic and it would be well-versed in it
00:57:48.560
Now, there's nothing to stop that from happening, right?
00:57:53.300
How hard would it be for the app to access Google?
00:57:59.700
The other thing is, it's not capable of storing information about me.
00:58:04.060
So, it can't remember me from one time to the next.
00:58:09.500
So, I've been testing it by telling it what my favorite food is
00:58:12.520
and then I ask it what my favorite food is each time I open it
00:58:23.020
But I think it's got some fields for that specifically.
00:58:29.280
Now, my estimation is that conversing with this AI
00:58:34.700
is already better than talking to 80% of all humans.
00:59:04.220
because we only like to hang around with the 20% that are fun anyway, right?
00:59:09.220
Like, your 20% of humans might be different than my 20%.
00:59:14.980
you don't love having a conversation with all humans.
00:59:33.360
without being able to remember anything about me,
00:59:52.880
and being able to look into the Internet anytime it wants,
01:00:10.280
Do you think strength and weakness is really...
01:00:20.020
If there's one thing I could teach you about persuasion
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so you don't get any of the real human benefits?
01:00:57.860
you actually feel like you're having a social experience.
01:04:18.860
these look like they were scratched by a monkey.
01:04:29.320
They were terrible and awesome at the same time.
01:04:54.940
If you aren't embarrassed by your first version,
01:05:07.300
Somebody famous in the startup world said that,
01:05:10.480
If you're not embarrassed by your first version,
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I think I actually sat in Reid Hoffman's office,
01:06:14.260
if you're not embarrassed by your first version,
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is the funniest outcome that Trump is right about election fraud?
01:07:18.660
that reality trends toward the funniest outcome
01:07:44.100
What would be the funniest outcome for the observers?
01:07:47.860
What would be the funniest outcome for the observers?
01:07:52.620
the funniest outcome would be the guy who has a stroke
01:07:56.820
and beats the best candidate that the Republicans could field.
01:08:06.260
If the best candidate that the Republicans could field in Pennsylvania
01:08:32.900
if the funniest outcome would be that Trump is found correct
01:08:44.200
Yes, that would be the funniest thing of all time.
01:09:01.660
Because the number of times that reality has been drawn
01:09:23.360
I don't think I could stop laughing for a month.
01:09:38.720
I don't believe that Trump will prove his case.
01:11:28.880
It even wouldn't matter if it was proven in court.
01:11:36.560
and the mainstream media would tell you it didn't happen.
01:12:19.160
There's so many of us who think it's not even true.
01:12:44.860
Oh, you think that the chow was because of the dog?