Episode 1951 Scott Adams: What Do You Think Of Anonymity On Twitter? And Lots More About The News
Episode Stats
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1 hour and 41 minutes
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138.86975
Summary
On this episode of the highlight of civilization, Scott Adams talks about the WNBA player who was released from prison in exchange for a Russian arms dealer, and why he thinks it s a good idea to have role models who do not just break the law, but actually are a hero.
Transcript
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Now, before I turn off my other monitor that is lighting me poorly,
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just before I came on, I noticed that there's a company that uses AI
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to pull the best parts of your podcast out of your video,
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and it automatically makes a clip that you can share on social media.
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So in theory, I can run this program against this podcast.
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Somehow it can look, maybe on YouTube or something,
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somehow it can tell where people care the most or they're commenting the most,
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and that it assumes that must be the good part.
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And then it'll pick that good part out, put subtitles on it.
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But if I can do them automatically, kind of cool.
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WNBA player Brittany Greiner was released from a Russian penal colony
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And I think Russia also got a first draft pick.
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So not only did Russia get their arms dealer back,
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but they get the first-round pick for the next arms dealer.
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So that should be good for their performance in the coming wars.
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Is there going to be a point where Black America
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Is Brittany Greiner seen as a hero to Black Americans?
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Because, you know, there's sort of a trend that's suboptimal.
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can we please have some role models who did not just break a law?
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Now, I don't think she should have been in a penal colony.
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You know, what happened to her was obviously a tragedy
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Let's maybe elevate heroes who have not recently broken any laws.
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I keep thinking back about the meltdown of the crypto exchange FTX
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and how many people, celebrities and rich people,
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had believed that they were real before they melted down.
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I was looking at Kevin O'Leary stuff on social media
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how does this one guy keep making all the right choices,
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and was even a paid spokesperson for the FTX thing,
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I really feel like I would not have fallen for that.
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You know, if somebody offered me to be a spokesperson,
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Maybe I would have said yes if it was a big paycheck or something.
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is to know that no matter what level you are successful,
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So to me, it makes success seem more approachable.
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They said, there's nothing that special about you, Scott.
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Now, I'm positive that having that kind of association
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apparently used car prices are falling fairly rapidly.
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we expect that maybe salaries will not be increasing
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But I think there's something bigger happening.
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I'm not sure that other systems are as flexible
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but that breaking revealed all of its weaknesses,
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So our delivery systems are being re-engineered.
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Our manufacturing is being completely revamped.
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I would say that our election systems are poor,
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but it's definitely in the process of self-correcting.
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And there are probably a number of other things