Episode 1947 Scott Adams: The Laptop From Hell Is The Gift That Keeps On Giving. Explaining Ye, More
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 29 minutes
Words per Minute
139.69688
Summary
In this episode of the podcast, we talk about a prankster who thinks he's a real person and pretends to be a communist, and Elon Musk takes over the world. Plus, a new way to improve your memory, and a new treatment for ADHD.
Transcript
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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of civilization that at least half
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The other half, well, they seem to be in their own little world, and we have no connection
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It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now, go!
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Scott, would you be so kind as to start the YouTube stream about 30 seconds early?
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Is that because you missed the simultaneous sip?
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Is it when you live stream, you miss the first 30 seconds?
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Okay, so if you don't have the YouTube red, you have to look at an ad.
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I always like to follow Machiavelli's underbelly.
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Yeah, it always finds interesting, positive things happening in technology.
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So there's some scientists at the University of Birmingham in the UK,
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and they figured out how to use laser light treatment
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But they think they could also use this light treatment for ADHD.
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So I don't know exactly where do they shine the light.
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it would be reported as Trump favors injecting bleach into people's eyes
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I put great care into the physical environment in which I try to write.
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I like to have both of my feet on the ground, not crossed.
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If I cross my legs or put my feet up, write to sleep.
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I also have to have the right kind of distraction and physical environment.
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But the light, I've discovered, is one of the biggest factors.
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If you get the light right, you can write for a long time.
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If you get the light wrong, it puts you in a whole different physical mode.
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So I do think that it could be that we will unlock all kinds of benefits with light treatments or bleach.
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There's also a potential obesity treatment in which they can give you some kind of a compound
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that will change the nature of the fat in your body
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so that it still does whatever fat needs to do in your body that's good for you,
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I feel like there could be an accidental impact to that.
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Do you know how much I would eat if I didn't get fat?
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The only thing that keeps me from eating all day long is that I don't want to be overweight.
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If I could eat and not get fat, oh my God, I'd just be eating and pooping all day long.
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Well, it doesn't take much to keep me happy, I guess.
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How many of you saw the prankster who talked at the Austin City Council meeting
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and he's wearing a communism shirt, pro-communism.
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how Elon Musk taking over Twitter is the worst thing.
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But I wasn't sure it was a prank until some other people confirmed it
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So here's the first thing that the prankster said
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but not more ridiculous than what actual real people say.
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or something that an average person, if you stopped them on the street,
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might actually say, like an actual thing a person would say.
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He said that Elon Musk taking over Twitter is worse than the Holocaust
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Elon taking over Twitter is worse than the Holocaust
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implying that January 6th was worse than the Holocaust.
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without people catching on that it was a prank.
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Suppose every single public hearing had one of these,
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but you kept getting closer and closer to reality,
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so they really actually couldn't tell if you were kidding.
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What would happen if you took all of the arguments on the right
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and you started making them even stronger than they are?
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What would happen if every time some medicine came out
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you accused them of drinking bleach or recommending it?
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The entire world would just become absurd overnight.
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that was supposed to be, I guess, a non-profit.
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that OpenAI had access to Twitter data to train it.
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Now, I think that means more than just reading what you and I read.
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meaning that you could get directly into the data stream of Twitter
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You know, that would be an entirely legitimate thing to do.
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knowing everything about your Twitter experience?
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My Twitter personality is not, like, my base personality.
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If I give a talk in front of a big crowd in public,
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That's my modified personality for an audience.
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This is my modified personality for the purpose of doing the live stream.
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I've got, like, 10,000 tweets and likes and stuff from this guy.
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I'll reproduce them based on what I know from Twitter.
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Because it wouldn't necessarily know that's not me.
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and Musk actually blocked open AI temporarily, anyway,
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until you know a little bit more about the ramifications of that.
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because Musk told us what it was and what it is
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And if you don't know what the specific problem is,
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then pausing to find out is exactly the right thing to do.
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to imagine that rapidly trying things in software,
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Now, if 100% of everything he tried got reversed,
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But if 9 out of 10 things he tries gets reversed,
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Is there anything else to say about that story?
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but I feel like that's like the seed of a story.
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But you also knew that that's where it had to go, right?
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as long as you're pretty serious about the Constitution,
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but if you're real serious about the Constitution,
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That's the beginning and the end of my analysis of your value.
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But if you're on the same side as the Constitution,
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and I can disagree with you about all kinds of stuff.
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In fact, if you were a political figure on the right
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that would be pretty much the end of you, wouldn't it?
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Trump is in favor of ignoring the Constitution.
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Do you throw the presidential election results of 2020 out
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Now, here's the only way that this could be okay.
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The only way I could understand this as being okay
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by saying the most outrageous thing you could say
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the left has decided that he will get no attention.
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and I think Breitbart's sort of on that page now.
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So if it successfully got him all kinds of attention,
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And I think Trump has left sort of energy poor.
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There's not enough energy going in his direction.
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There's no other reason you're just an asshole.
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after he says maybe you throw out the Constitution
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And then he started to work with Milo Yiannopoulos.
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he is accused of something that is a different word,
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put him in that sort of little supportive of a pedophile.
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anything that's even slightly supportive of a pedophile.
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when they're accused of being a pedophile organization?
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Balenciaga never said how the photo shoot happened
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and therefore explained why they're not really guilty.
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when I watched some more of the behind-the-scenes
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We're okay treating every other group as one group.
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Let's accept that Ye has some mental conditions.