Episode 1948 Scott Adams: Fake News Out Of China, Fake News in NYT, I'm Starting To See A Pattern
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 2 minutes
Words per Minute
141.2906
Summary
In this episode of Coffee with Scott Adams, we talk about artificial intelligence (AI) and the future of education, and how it's going to change the world. Plus, I talk about why I don't want to own a car.
Transcript
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Just because his first name and his last name are a penis,
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I just had a 20-minute conversation with ChatGPT,
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that's an artificial intelligence that's available to the public,
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If I had this shit as a tutor during high school and college, OMG.
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I think we can basically reinvent the concept of education at scale.
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AI will be your only user interface to everything, including education.
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Now, you say to yourself, but Scott, AI will not be as good as a human teacher who's reacting and all that.
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What happens on day two of AI versus all the human teachers?
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On day two, AI, or well, not technically day two, but let's say year two.
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On year two, AI has already tried 3,000 different ways to explain something.
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And it tracked who got the best test results based on which way it chose to explain the same topic.
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Once it found out that people got much better test results when it explained it this way,
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Maybe testing a little bit just in case it can do even better.
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During that year, when the AI went from, I'll just guess what will work, to, oh, I have great data,
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and I know exactly what worked, and this gets better test results.
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They introduced some gender reassignment classes or something.
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But I'll tell you what they didn't do, is know exactly what worked and what didn't,
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By year three, no human classroom would be able to compete with AI.
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Because AI would have tested, you know, very completely, all the way through test scores,
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to know what worked and what didn't, and then it would be over.
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I don't want to do a Google search where I open a web page, and there's a little box.
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I've got to find the box and type in my little thing and type it right.
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I want to be walking to my car, which is a self-driving car, and I want to say,
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Our next Warrior game will be Tuesday at 7 o'clock.
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I just want to say it and have the answer appear in my earpiece.
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I don't think any of you quite understand how right Klaus Schwab is about not owning things and being happier.
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Let me give you a little insight from being rich.
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So I've experienced not having money, you know, the first part of my life, and I've experienced having lots of money.
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And one of the things I like most about going on vacation is what?
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What do you think is one of the things I like most about being on vacation?
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Because my money brought all these complications.
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I've got 600, you know, pieces of appliances that are not working at my house.
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When I go on vacation, I'm not actually escaping my own money.
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So if you're telling me that, you know, I want to own a lot of things, like being in my name,
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you've never experienced going from poor to rich.
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If you've ever gone from poor to rich, you know your shit doesn't make you happy.
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You're still going to buy it because you can, right?
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I was watching a video of Andrew Tate by, I don't know, one or three new Bugattis or something.
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But I think only the buying it and the talking about it makes him happy.
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But then after he gets through his happiness and then is parked with his other Bugattis,
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Or is it a little bit of work to have maintenance and, you know, storage and everything for yet another car?
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But if you believe that having a lot of stuff makes you happier, I guarantee you it doesn't.
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Like, I'm not saying I'm going to stop buying things I want.
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I mean, I just bought an electric guitar that clearly I did not need.
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It adds a whole bunch of complexity to my life.
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I've got a question about the Snowden and Assange issues.
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But the question is whether they should be pardoned.
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Is the belief that our justice system is so unfair that we can't have a trial that the whole country watches?
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So, now, I agree with you that our justice system can be biased and not get us the best answers.
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Like, why would you make an exception for this one thing?
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Don't you think the government itself would be on trial?
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I don't know the whole details of what Assange and Snowden did.
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I haven't really heard the argument from, let's say, whoever wants to prosecute them, the CIA, etc.
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So, I mean, I've heard the basic argument that it put people at risk and it was theft of materials and stuff.
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And then the counter-argument is it was just journalism.
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So, I'd like to see this case played out in public.
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Now, I get that you don't trust that this specific case would be handled right.
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However, I feel like if the whole country is watching,
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it's a lot harder for anybody to, you know, play fast and loose with the rules.
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So, as much as I don't want to see somebody put at risk if they have not committed any crimes,
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Like, I'm a little hesitant to go full pardon without knowing exactly the whole details of the arguments.
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So, you're saying that government on trial would be a closed-door trial.
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I'm seeing somebody shouting at me that it would be a closed-door trial.
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Do you think that you could put Assange on trial and say,
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we're going to show some things to, let's say, the jury,
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but the public can never know these things because they're secret?
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Well, if that's the case, then there's no way to have a fair trial.
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Because I think transparency would be pretty important.
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I would think that that would be a Supreme Court situation
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because that would not be equal justice, would it?
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I would argue that equal justice requires some amount of transparency for the entire public,
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But, of course, there are plenty of cases where you do have to have that privacy.
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because I think it's terribly unfair to Assange
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he put himself in a position where he was trying to create a public good
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Would you agree that he knew he was doing that?
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I would like, you know, I hate to put other people at risk.
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But he did make his decision to be in this domain.
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I understand the argument for just pardoning him.
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But I feel like there's more benefit the country could get
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apparently the New York Times is reporting fake news on this.
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So Iran has this thing called the Morality Police Unit.
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I guess they're the ones that make sure the women are wearing their
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And they were the sparking point that caused the protests
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because they arrested some woman and she died in custody,
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So now the protests are as much about the regime
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maybe we could go back and solve that little problem
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So Iran apparently said they would sort of reconsider
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or they've suggested that they're going to put this morality police unit on pause
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The New York Times, I guess, reported that like it's true.
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And I think people who are a little more wise about Iran,
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are reporting it as something they said they'd do,
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Something they say they'll do versus something they'll do.
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But it looks like the regime is pretty worried about their survival
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or they wouldn't be giving up anything, would they?
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It seems like the regime is pretty hard-nosed about this morality stuff.
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I mean, it's pretty central to the whole theme.
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I can't see that they would back down on the morality stuff
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unless they genuinely thought the entire regime could be overthrown.
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It's a few days old, but maybe you didn't see it.
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When Iran played the U.S. in the World Cup a few days ago
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the Iranian protesters cheered the defeat of their own team
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because they viewed their team as really being a tool of the regime,
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And so they were actually chanting and cheering
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And you know how the Iranians like to do the death to chant?
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death to ourselves, death to ourselves, yay America.
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Could it be that the combined actions of, you know,
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the several administrations that have had this weird
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as a war against their regime and not against them.
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than the citizens protesting their own government
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could it be that it was exactly the right play?
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I mean, when was the last time you ever heard me say that?
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And could it be that it was exactly the right play
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It looks like it might have been exactly the only thing
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And see if anybody has the same background for this.
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Number one, remember, I've got a degree in economics
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So on economic stuff, I'm a little bit better than guessing.
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And I also did a lot of financial reporting for years
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One is that something like there's a 21% decrease
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If this were true, and the manufacturing orders
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Is there anybody who knows enough about economics