Episode 1936 Scott Adams: We've Achieved Funny New Levels Of Absurdity. Join Me For A Sip & Laugh
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 11 minutes
Words per Minute
138.06317
Summary
Dilbert's website is back up and running, and Scott Adams talks about a new kind of detector that can spot people who look exactly like humans. Also, the city of San Francisco hires a white guy to run their election department, and he gets fired because he's a white male.
Transcript
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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to another highlight of Civilization Coffee with Scott Adams,
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Now, if you'd like to take it up to levels of happiness that we didn't even know were possible until recently,
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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure that don't be the other day that makes everything better.
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It's called the Simultaneous Sip, and it happens all over the world.
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Well, the good news is the Dilbert website is restored.
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So, from Friday through Tuesday, it was pretty well-hosed.
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I don't have any updates myself, so I don't know what the problem was or why it took so long,
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but my initial belief was it was probably a bad hack.
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But it's back up and it's working, and that's all good.
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Did you know that Intel, the company, the company Intel, has developed a deepfake detector?
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Apparently, it can look at a deepfake, you know, a digital image of a person,
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and it can even pick up, like, apparently changes in blood flow.
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I don't know how it picks that up, but it thinks it can.
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I would think that the ones that we cared about would be the ones we can't detect.
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And then I wondered, I wonder if you could build a detector to detect NPCs.
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And do you remember the Battlestar Galactica, where part of the technology was they could detect the androids, I guess?
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So, they could detect the people who looked exactly like people, the Cylons, yeah.
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They looked exactly like people, but they were really, you know, mechanical.
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Here's how I think you could build an NPC detector.
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You just go up to somebody, you want to check, and then you say,
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hey, I heard about a really good form of exercise.
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The experts are saying it's an excellent form of exercise, and it's kind of new.
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and all the experts say it's a really good form of exercise.
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What you're waiting for is for somebody to say,
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swimming is the best form of exercise, and then you've got them.
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Because the NPCs will only say the most obvious thing you could say in that situation.
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All right, so just ask that, just say, oh, there's this new form of exercise, and then just wait.
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Try that on your so-called relatives over the holidays.
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Find out how many of your so-called relatives, if you know what I mean, are real.
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The city of San Francisco fired a person who was in charge of its elections, the elections department chief,
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And the people who fired him said, no, there's no problem with his performance.
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He had one problem that they couldn't overlook.
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And they said, how in the world are we ever going to have diversity at the senior levels of responsibility
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if these white people are clogging up the progress?
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So, there was a white guy who was, like, ruining everything by simply having a job and doing it well,
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And because he had a job and he did it well, he was obviously sort of a racist
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because he was blocking out any chance of diversity because there were only so many jobs.
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I would love to be the lawyer who handles that lawsuit
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because if that's not a slam dunk, I don't know anything.
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If you can't win that lawsuit, I don't know anything.
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Don't you just have to show up to win that one?
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Or could you get a jury in San Francisco who said, I'd like to hear more.
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Only in San Francisco could the actual employer say,
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well, we do stipulate, we do admit, performance was great,
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And then, only in San Francisco would somebody say,
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I'd like to hear, you know, because probably, you know,
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Here is the most horrifying, humorous story of the day.
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Can we agree there's nothing funny about people dying?
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And it's not my fault that there's a story in which this is just horrendous,
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And still something came out of it that I can't ignore.
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I didn't want to talk about, you know, mass shootings,
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but you all know there was a LGBTQ nightclub that got shot up.
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Although, except there was a, I think, an army veteran who took him out,
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There's somebody you can thank for his service twice.
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and once for taking down the shooter in the LGBTQ club.
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He just liked the environment and was having a great time with his family,
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and, you know, they have some connection to the community, I guess.
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I'll tell you, this is the best argument for diversity you'll ever get.
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Now, when I say diversity, I mean all of the ways.
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People think differently, act differently, have different experiences,
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different life, truths, you know, like the whole realm of diversity.
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Because this military guy in that club, as he described it,
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How much training do you have to have to run toward gunfire?
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Although, I can't guarantee I wouldn't run toward it,
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So if you didn't have one person with that kind of, let's call it diverse,
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a person with diverse experience and diverse, I don't know,
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maybe even philosophy about what to do in that situation,
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So there's a case where diversity of one type really made a difference.
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But here's the story, which I hate to be amused by this,
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because the larger story is a tragedy, of course.
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But apparently the accused shooter is identifying as non-binary,
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which we cynical people suspect may not be entirely on the up-and-up,
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because part of the charges would be hate crime related,
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But the they, apparently we do not speak of the alleged shooter as he anymore.
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And I don't know what is funnier, the fact that it might work.
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Can we rule out the possibility that the shooter actually does identify as non-binary?
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But the funny part is that the left has a very strong rule
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that you get to identify yourself as not for other people to tell you what you are.
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So I believe he is embracing and amplifying, if you know what I mean.
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He may be taking the left's own philosophy and just saying,
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all right, if those are my rules, I'll play by your rules.
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So watching CNN's Alison Camerato deal with this news
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because she can't be anti-identify whatever you want.
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That's not going to really work with the CNN brand,
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and then sit there with a look on your face like,
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oh, God, why do I have to be involved in this news?
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The shooter is a fired non-binary cook, somebody say.
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So, of course, the Democrats are accusing Republicans
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So I don't mean to say that my experience is general.
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about how things would affect their preferences.
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Or where you put any other party view, I guess.