Episode 1943 Scott Adams: Most Of Our Political Arguments Are Conflated. That's My Theme For Today
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Summary
Scott Adams talks about the World Cup, censorship, and why robots can be free thinkers. Scott Adams is a comedian, writer, podcaster, and podcaster. His work has appeared on Comedy Central, NPR, and the New York Times. He is the host of the podcast, "Coffee with Scott Adams" and hosts the podcast "Scott Adams: The Podcast."
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Well, the U.S. beat Iran in this round of the World Cup.
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It was one to nothing, which Americans call exciting.
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So the Americans have played two entire rounds of soccer, and so far both teams, well, all four teams involved have scored a total of one goal.
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But I have to say the American team looks better than I've seen.
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I haven't really followed American soccer, but is it my imagination?
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I watched a little bit, and, you know, soccer is one of my passions, actually, as a player.
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And when I watched them, I used to watch the Americans, it seems like they would just clear the ball.
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That's all they could do against the good teams.
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I think we'll just kick it really far in the direction of the other goal and hope something bounces in our way.
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But now they actually control the ball and have, you know, they play like the Europeans.
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So I thought the American team, actually, has gone to another level.
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They beat the, well, they tied with England when everybody thought they would lose.
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And England started by kneeling to their opponents.
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So England underperformed after getting on their knees before a game.
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I predicted that kneelers would perform less than non-kneelers, for the obvious reason.
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And then Iran goes up against the United States, and Iran is playing for their country while hating their own government.
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How does a team do when they're playing for their country and literally hating their fucking country?
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So I think the first two rounds were determined by psychology, not sports.
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You know, because the elite teams are always going to be kind of close.
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It looks to me like psychology won the United States two rounds that maybe were a surprise.
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Well, the New York Times says an article that seems to be today that's questioning all of the trans surgeries for children.
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Of course, this all comes out after the midterm election,
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when Democrats ran on the idea that Republicans wanted to take away transgender rights,
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and Biden and Obama made ads with transgender activists pushing the same garbage propaganda.
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This is yet another example of censorship causes the narrative.
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Censorship is the only thing that runs the country now.
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So whoever can use their private enterprise to squelch freedom of speech most effectively, they get power.
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Because as long as our elections are close, it's never going to be about the vote.
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If elections are always close, and they seem to be on the national level,
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as long as they're close, the things that matter will be the rules changes.
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Maybe in Maricopa, the deciding thing was the reliability of the machines.
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The thing that was least important was people's vote.
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Because the vote was just downstream from the censorship.
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About 20 years ago, I'm trying to remember exactly,
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I was at a dinner, private dinner, with some high-level people,
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Paul, and I can't remember his last name at the moment.
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Anyway, Paul sat next to me, and he said that someday,
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Maybe. It might have been Ehrlich. I don't know.
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But Paul said to me that when robots can make robots,
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And then those robots can go mine the materials that you need to make solar panels.
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You know, because robots would be better at mining and cheap.
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Paul Sappho is the correct name of the futurist who sat next to me.
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Well, and the argument is that once you have robots creating solar panels,
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and robots mining for the raw materials for them,
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and robots creating the robots that do the mining and make the panels,
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that once the robots are fully embedded in the entire system,
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Now, this, of course, depends on also having battery storage, right?
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So the robots would be involved in the battery making as well.
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where they're making sort of almost autonomous smart components
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that can assemble themselves into another robot.
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Now, I don't think that's exactly what Paul was talking about,
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but it's the first step of robots making robots.
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than when AI can be smarter than people and make more AI.
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So not only did they cancel the airdrop feature
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that was necessary for the protesters in China,
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presumably at the request of the Chinese government.
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you know, I'm just going to sell my Apple stock.
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I started out with a small amount of Apple stock
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Like it would be a substantial financial decision
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Like I don't want to lose money to make a point.
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But if it doesn't look like it's going to go up
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But I'm thinking about selling all of my Apple stock.
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But that would take me out of the financial decision-making
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Here's what I think the future phone should be like.
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you buy one of these generic phones off the shelf,
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and it pops up with your entire data and features
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In theory, I should be able to pick up your phone
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and it turns into my phone because it sees my face.
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And it should have no access to any of your stuff but only mine.
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hold it up to people's faces while they're sleeping or something.
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there's been a sort of a technical back and forth
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between distributed computing and a mainframe, right?
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When microcomputers came out, as they were called,
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but they weren't doing the work that you were doing at your desk.
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because now the communication channel is faster.
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that you don't really need any of your data on your phone, do you?
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So speed is the only reason that apps ever made sense.
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then you could put everything on a central server again
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and the phone itself should be $100 and disposable.
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Apparently, Wall Street Journal had an article.
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where people don't want to go on an expensive date
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and the difference in income between men and women
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Now, that woman would go home to her apartment,