Episode 1956 Scott Adams: I Tell You How The CIA Took Over The Country, Allegedly. And Lots More Fun
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 15 minutes
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142.68373
Summary
Inflation is easing, addiction is on its way to science, and the end of addiction is coming. Plus, a new kind of chip, and a new way to make coffee. Enjoy the episode, and spread the word to your friends about it!
Transcript
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Good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of civilization.
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Well, because I know you care about how much I slept, I see the question here already.
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Not very much. That's why I accidentally started this live stream an hour earlier.
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An hour earlier. But now I'm all in the right time zone and everything.
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How would you like to take this experience up to, oh, let's say Elon Musk levels?
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Yeah. All you need is a cupper, a mug, a glass, a tanker, a chalester, a canteen, a jug, a flask, a vessel of any kind.
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Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.
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The dopamine here today, the thing that makes everything better.
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For example, some scientists are using gene editing to make mice that will not reproduce.
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And apparently, if they make the male mice, they give them this little genetic defect.
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And then the male mice will go around and eventually, it takes about three generations.
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But if the mice do enough fucking, then all the offspring are also unable to have children.
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And it basically gets rid of all the mice on the island.
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Now, it wouldn't be too hard to imagine that going wrong, but here's what I'm thinking.
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If you could make a mouse with a special characteristic, what exactly is the end point of that?
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Or once you can play with their genes, can you make anything?
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I want something that's part pit bull, part hippopotamus, and part mouse.
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I'll probably get like a home CRISPR gene editing kit.
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You know, I'm starting to think that the end of addiction is coming.
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You heard that there's a vaccination that you could get, not yet, but someday, that would make fentanyl not work on you.
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Now, I'm not sure that's the best approach, because some people might need the fentanyl later for an operation, so there's some complications there.
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But now we know that ketamine is being tested on alcoholics, and initial indications are very positive that ketamine can help you quit alcohol, and maybe quit some other things.
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So, I have a feeling that there's so much activity now on addressing addiction that maybe we'll guess something.
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There's definitely one way to end addiction, which is if Big Pharma says they developed a pill that might give you a little myocarditis, but it'll definitely get rid of your addiction.
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Anyway, I think, I feel like addiction is something that could fall to science within the next five years, which would be enormous.
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It would be just the biggest thing that's happened.
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So, I guess the consumer prices haven't adjusted yet, but wholesale prices and core inflation seems to be down.
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It's our biggest problem, by far, that inflation is high.
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But if it's coming down, we're going to be fine.
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Now, you probably hate me for always saying that our systems are self-correcting.
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And I'm watching them self-correct in real time, and it's just, it's breathtaking.
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Like, every time I see one of our systems self-correcting, I think, how did those, you know, founders of the country build a system that was so self-correcting?
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Now, the self-correcting is that the economy will slow down.
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The main thing that makes your inflation high is that too many people have money, and they're buying things and competing for the same limited goods.
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Now, we had a supply problem that may be working out pretty soon, but that's a natural adjustment.
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You know, inflation goes up, it has an impact on the economy, and people have less money, and it brings inflation back down.
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So, we'll see a little bit of hit to the economy, but that has to happen to bring the inflation back down.
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But the head of a big new chip manufacturing plant that's being built in Arizona, of all places, did you think you'd see that?
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Now, the thinking is, and of course this is based on issues with China and threats to Taiwan and everything else,
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but there are a few things we learned from this.
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Number one, the head of this company has declared that globalism is dead.
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Now, the thinking is that you cannot depend on other countries to supply you with anything.
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You know, you can get your parts in any country and assemble it anywhere and sell it anywhere.
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But now it's clear that countries will use their supply chain as a weapon.
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And if it's a weapon, you can't really depend on it, especially if you're on the other team.
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So, I do think that this is the beginning of the end of globalism because big companies are not going to want to expose themselves to the country risk that didn't seem so big, you know, five years ago.
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One of the things I learned is that this big manufacturing plant of chips could not find enough American employees.
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So, there were not enough high-skilled American chip designers and chip industry workers, and they weren't as close.
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Basically, the total number of them were like zero.
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And they needed, I don't know, 600 engineers or something.
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So, they got 300 American engineers, and they shipped them to Taiwan to train.
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Because we couldn't even train them in the United States.
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We couldn't even train them in the United States.
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We sent them to Taiwan to learn how to make chips.
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And then we had to get 300 Taiwanese engineers to come over to America
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to work with the ones who were trained just to make sure it all still works.
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I always thought that the United States had the technical training advantage over everybody.
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Apparently, these chips will be more expensive, so your products might be more expensive, too.
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My music teacher said something interesting to me yesterday.
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So, I'm learning the drums, and now that I can kind of do most of the things a drummer can do,
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you know, I would just have to practice to do it well, but I can kind of do the basics.
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And I was starting to feel with just really no ability on the guitar at all.
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I'm just trying to figure out where my fingers go, so I'm not making any music.
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But even so, I felt that my drumming got better in a weird way.
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And then my music teacher said there's something he sees over and over again.
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And what he sees is that if somebody is learning one instrument,
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you know, their progress is sort of, you know, predictable, how much better they get.
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the music teacher says he immediately sees that the first instrument is played better.
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As soon as I started listening more to other guitars and, you know,
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sort of keying into what the guitar was doing and what it was all about,
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And I don't know exactly why, but it was very clear that there was like a,
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you know, a step difference that happened almost kind of quickly.
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that playing one instrument makes you better on another instrument.
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And it made me wonder if that's one of the secrets of the Beatles.
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You know, McCartney played multiple instruments.
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I think three out of four of the Beatles played the drums, if I'm not mistaken.
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So a lot of people who are multiple instrument people seem to be better.
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Is it because they added two talents, which is the obvious explanation,
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or is it because anybody who would learn two instruments
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is already a different person than somebody who would stop with one?
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So it could be that you're just selecting a crowd that has a different characteristic.
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So look for situations in which having one extra talent makes everything work better.
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is telling you to add skills to what you have to make them all more valuable.
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I am going to test you for narrative poisoning.
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is so oppressive in a person's mind that they can't use rational thinking,
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that the rational thinking is just overwhelmed by the narrative.
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Now, certainly the employees of Twitter appear to have narrative poisoning.
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And I'm going to see if anybody has narrative poisoning in the comments.
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they have one building code for the whole country?
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And this came up because somebody on Twitter said
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build a three-story home by themselves in two days.
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Now, given that Japan has lots of earthquake risks,
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one assumes that the national code is really tight
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So they're a little bit more expendable, I'm told.
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of having, in America, a national building code
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wouldn't have to worry about all the different codes
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It defeats the purpose of estates, somebody says.
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Now, is there anybody who thinks that it's a bad idea
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because whenever the government adds any kind of code
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That whenever the government adds a regulation,
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because as soon as the government adds a whole new regulation,
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I just told you I was going to replace 50 regulations with one
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And your narrative poisoning told you that was bad
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is the most sophisticated consumers of news in the world.
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But I'm convinced that the locals' subscription crowd
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it's going to be a real entertaining account yet.
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But apparently Ukraine's getting pretty aggressive
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but I believe CNN has hired an entire staff of writers
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The numbers of times they had that in the headline,
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be approaching a moment of maximum legal peril.
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He's approaching a moment of maximum legal peril.
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Because it's like, well, I guess I made my point.
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They may have been influenced by the narrative.