Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1968 Scott Adams： Merry Christmas Everyone. Let's Sip To That

00:00:00.000 Morning everybody and Merry Christmas. I hope everybody's having a merry one with your loved

00:00:07.000 ones and what whatever and if you're not with any loved ones today well lucky you you're with me

00:00:13.400 and who loves you more than me well unfortunately maybe nobody maybe this maybe it's that kind of

00:00:21.380 day I don't know could be anything I don't want to assume that you're all having a great day

00:00:25.820 I'm not going to assume that at all but you should assume that I'm loving you big time today

00:00:32.600 appreciating you a lot and we're going to take this up a notch is anybody ready for the special

00:00:41.760 Christmas 2022 simultaneous sip anybody any yeah all right well if you'd like that all you need is a

00:00:51.740 cup or mug or a glass of tank or Chelsea Stein a canteen jug or flask a vessel of any kind filling

00:00:57.080 with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure that dopamine

00:01:05.480 here in the day the the holiday classic the the thing that even Santa wishes he was having right

00:01:11.680 now wishes he were having right now grammar accounts it's a simultaneous episode dopamine hit of the day

00:01:19.320 it's what everybody wants it's happening now go yeah do you know what this tastes like today it tastes

00:01:32.620 like a puppy in a package it's like a puppy in a package that you opened on Christmas that is exactly how good

00:01:41.280 it is all right everybody there's some new information from the Washington Post telling

00:01:49.940 you that any amount of exercise protects you from COVID any amount of exercise 30 minutes a day would

00:01:58.920 reduce your odds of dying from COVID by 400 or something like that it's a lot so it's let's say

00:02:07.220 three years since the beginning of the pandemic and so far the scientific community has rallied around

00:02:19.980 the first thing I said on the first day of the pandemic you know you should get some exercise

00:02:25.120 make sure you get some vitamin D go outside and get some exercise

00:02:29.200 three years of hard science later you know you should just do what the cartoonist told you to do

00:02:37.560 just listen to the cartoonist you'll be fine

00:02:41.540 well it's nice to be right especially on Christmas on Christmas

00:02:47.060 does anybody have any Christmas success stories is anything really good happened to you today

00:02:57.100 or you know this week make sure you put them in the comments just like you know a little summary

00:03:03.660 like somebody came home or you got a puppy or something I want to see just good news just good news

00:03:11.820 all right um I would like to offer two reframes neither of these are in my upcoming book

00:03:22.540 um but they might be I have time to add them if I like them so I'm going to test them out on you

00:03:27.660 see how you like them right you're down my test to see if these two reframes could possibly help you

00:03:35.660 or somebody you know number one if you are having some kind of a policy or factual debate on social media

00:03:44.320 or anywhere else and somebody responds with a personal attack

00:03:49.520 what should be your response well in the old days a personal attack was my god you hate my opinion and

00:03:57.200 you disrespect me too that's the old way here's the new way reframe if somebody attacks you instead

00:04:06.880 any of your argument they just agreed you won that's a confession that your argument is correct

00:04:14.000 and they got nothing so when somebody attacks you personally you should thank them for their confession

00:04:22.080 just say thank you I appreciate the confession and just walk away they don't even need to know what

00:04:28.640 you mean by that do they you can tell them I appreciate you confessing that you don't have an argument

00:04:36.880 and have a good day and merry christmas to you try it out you you will be amazed that when you you

00:04:47.040 reinterpret the situation as their capitulation although I like confession I don't like surrender

00:04:54.480 because then people get mad if you say oh because I used to say that I used to say oh I appreciate

00:05:00.400 your surrender but I'd rather confession because confession actually sounds like you're doing something

00:05:08.160 brave right so you're allowing the other person to be brave instead of saying well I appreciate that you

00:05:15.360 you're embarrassed and humiliated in your loss not good so I appreciate your confession you know if you had

00:05:22.240 an argument I would have expected it but I I'm glad that you confess that this is not something you could

00:05:28.240 argue but you don't have to add all that just say I appreciate your confession Merry Christmas all

00:05:35.280 right that's your first reframe try it out try it out and just see if it makes you feel better

00:05:41.520 if it makes you feel better that's the entire test right there's nothing else it tries to accomplish

00:05:47.360 number two I heard this one on a documentary about Richard Branson billionaire virgin founder

00:05:55.520 Richard Branson and apparently this one came from his mother because Richard Branson was believe it or not

00:06:01.360 he was super shy still is he's shy by nature but he learned to do be the opposite of shy

00:06:08.720 uh in part I believe from his mother's reframe so here's how she reframed shyness

00:06:18.320 I think it's brilliant I think it's brilliant but you have to test it for me because I'm not I'm not shy

00:06:24.960 anymore so I can't test it because I sort of outgrew my shyness but here's the reframe for shyness

00:06:31.520 shyness is selfishness you are literally thinking about yourself and the free frame is think about the

00:06:42.480 other person for a minute think about the other people do they want you sitting in the corner

00:06:51.680 no no do do something good for the other people forget about yourself for a minute just forget about

00:06:59.920 yourself just do something for other people don't you think they want to hear a good story don't

00:07:05.280 they think they want somebody to act interested in their stories you know even more than they want

00:07:09.680 to hear your story don't you think people want to have a good interaction don't you think there's

00:07:14.560 something you know that might be useful don't you think you could be more entertaining don't you

00:07:19.520 think you could be more interesting right try it out I you know this is what I can't try myself

00:07:27.840 because I just don't have that experience anymore but if there's anybody shy here just try that out

00:07:34.560 say okay if I were here for the other people what would I do differently and watch watch what happens

00:07:41.840 and the reason I think this might work I've actually a lot of confidence that it will work for some people

00:07:48.080 is if you imagine you're shy but you have a job that requires interacting with the public

00:07:54.080 if it's your job and you know that your job is to make the public happy their customers

00:08:01.200 you don't feel shy to you because you know what the rules are and you know that your job

00:08:06.160 is about them right when you're getting paid nobody pays you to think about yourself

00:08:12.480 it doesn't even occur to you that your personal feelings are even part of the transaction

00:08:17.520 somebody's giving you money to make some other person happy the customer

00:08:21.200 so it doesn't make you shy which is a pretty good evidence that interacting with people is not

00:08:30.240 what made you shy right this is like a real mind bender because if you realize that there are all

00:08:37.040 these situations where you're not shy and it's because you know that the rules of this transaction

00:08:43.600 are that you're focusing on the other person guaranteed proof that human interaction is not

00:08:51.440 what was making you shy what was making you shy was thinking about yourself

00:08:59.280 now you haven't tried it yet because you just heard it but is that not brilliant like is that

00:09:05.760 not some of the best mom advice you ever heard in your life

00:09:09.440 i just love that so i think i'm going to put that one in the book would you agree i think it's strong

00:09:17.360 enough that even without testing it i'm going to put it in the book because i'm sure it'll work for

00:09:21.200 some people yeah reframes only work for some people they don't work for every person right all right

00:09:29.760 so if you have people over to your house or you're interacting with anybody today test that one out

00:09:34.640 just say to yourself oh you know there's some relatives you you feel a little shy about maybe

00:09:40.960 extended relatives or maybe the in-laws that you don't know as well just say well that in-law looks

00:09:47.280 a little uncomfortable i think i'll go make that person a little more comfortable or that person looks

00:09:53.760 like they don't know what to do with their hands i'll ask them if they want a beverage somebody looks like

00:09:59.840 they don't know what to do with their hands hey can i get you a beverage see if you can solve their

00:10:04.800 problem dealing with people has ruined you well i'm sorry what about the one that won't shut up

00:10:14.880 do you need a reframe for uh the person who can't stop talking

00:10:20.960 does anybody have that trouble uh in your get-togethers you have me is it me

00:10:26.240 maybe maybe it's me

00:10:32.000 well i'll tell you what your oldest son yeah um i recommend having a wing man or wing woman

00:10:44.160 or wing binary you should have somebody who keeps an eye on you at get-togethers

00:10:50.160 and can pull you out when they see you got trapped now you probably know that this is a bigger problem

00:10:57.360 for me than it is for normal citizens right like if i go to an event people are more interested in

00:11:06.400 talking to me because i have a you know public persona so i i can get trapped like really quickly

00:11:12.720 so i usually have a wing person a wing person to keep an eye on me every every five minutes just you

00:11:20.320 know just look over and see if i'm trapped and then the wing person you know rings my phone or calls me

00:11:26.240 out but basically if i go to an event with a wing man i'm in trouble it's real trouble for me to be in a

00:11:34.080 public event yeah i have a personality i know it's weird you'll be my wing gal i appreciate that all

00:11:45.520 right um i don't want to talk about the regular news today everybody okay with that i think you are

00:11:53.520 right i'm gonna do it anyway so i don't want to talk about like news with people on both sides like

00:12:02.240 i don't want to talk about anything where people are disagreeing right i just want to tell you some

00:12:06.880 interesting ai things i know you're not all into ai but trust me it's not about the technology

00:12:14.320 there's something about humanity that's going to change a lot and you don't see it coming so i feel

00:12:21.200 like the uh is there some story about somebody who keeps oh the boy who crawled cried wolf i feel

00:12:28.240 like the buy the boy who cried wolf even though i haven't cried wolf before i feel like i'm telling

00:12:35.120 people you don't see what's coming you'd better you better be ready something really really really big

00:12:42.320 is coming and soon and so that that's the spirit with which i'm talking about ai it's not a nerdy

00:12:49.680 technical thing it said it will change civilization and your most basic association to other people

00:12:57.040 and reality and just everything it's all going to change in maybe three years so it's the most

00:13:03.920 exciting time to be alive in my opinion uh so far there there's nothing in human experience

00:13:11.680 that would be even close to what what will happen in the next three years it won't even be close

00:13:17.520 all right so here's some things that we learned about ai i was asking you some questions this morning

00:13:24.160 um here's the first question i asked to you this is a philosophical question can human civilization

00:13:33.280 survive an ai that was smart enough to tell us what was true and what we were just imagining

00:13:42.960 nope no human civilization could not survive like raw truth because our our entire civilization is built on

00:13:53.040 agreed upon agreed upon lies agreed upon lies we negotiate the lies with which we build our civilization

00:14:01.840 it's a negotiated lie and we just agree this is the lie we're all going to take because we don't know

00:14:07.280 what's true right sometimes you can't agree what's true sometimes you don't know what's true but you got

00:14:13.200 to do something so you end up agreeing on some hallucinations right so i don't want to get more detailed about that

00:14:22.160 because if i get into what my opinion is of what you think is true but isn't then we would just argue

00:14:29.360 about those things but just assume that i'm completely wrong about my personal opinion about what's really

00:14:37.200 true that's irrelevant what is true is that almost certainly none of us are right almost certainly

00:14:46.800 at least about everything right we're all right about some things so no matter who you are you're

00:14:52.960 going to find out that you're totally wrong about stuff what will happen if ai gets so good that it

00:15:00.560 can actually sort out what's true from what isn't because it's not there yet it's not even close but it will be

00:15:06.640 at some point at some point it will be able to discern what is actually true and what is not

00:15:15.040 do you know how we will treat the ai if it reaches that that point what will we say about it

00:15:23.440 we will say it is satanic do you know why because it doesn't agree with us

00:15:30.320 what happens when uh what happens when uh what happens when you have a political belief

00:15:38.320 and somebody who's a genius tells you you're wrong what do you say oh wow i used to think you were

00:15:47.040 smart but now i realize you're a genius in every other way but this thing where you disagree with me

00:15:53.760 it's so bad for you i feel so bad for you because you you know you're a genius but when it comes to 0.98

00:16:00.480 this one thing wow stupid right has anybody ever said true wow elon musk believes this he's smarter than 0.97

00:16:08.720 i am i guess i changed my opinion guess i'm gonna have to go with the person whose iq is 50 percent higher 0.98

00:16:17.600 because he's smarter and he looked into it more than i did nobody nobody will do that do you think

00:16:24.960 we're going to defer to ai because it's right no no we're going to say that ai is broken we're going

00:16:33.360 to say it got this one wrong but eventually we'll come around to blaming it for being satanic now we're

00:16:40.720 not going to say that the program itself is satanic we'll probably say that it was programmed by

00:16:46.560 satanists because that's what we do that that's how we roll so so does anybody doubt like i'm sure

00:16:58.000 you haven't thought about it before it's not not really an active conversation but does anybody have

00:17:04.480 any doubt that if ai could actually tell you the truth you would discount it as being something the

00:17:11.680 satanists programmed into it am i wrong i'm not wrong you know i'm right we will just think it's

00:17:20.880 satanic or the algorithm is broken or a bunch of democrats got into the into the mix and programmed

00:17:26.960 it wrong we will no matter how smart ai gets we won't believe it we simply won't believe it because

00:17:35.200 it's too disturbing to believe it so that's the other way it could go if we actually believed ai and

00:17:42.880 it got to the point where it could tell us what's true it's not there but if it ever got there it would

00:17:48.960 destroy civilization except we will keep civilization intact by not believing the ai the same way we do by 0.99

00:17:58.080 not believing the smartest among us yeah if people could be confused if people could be convinced by

00:18:06.560 a superior intelligence that they were wrong we would all be on the same page we would just search

00:18:12.400 among us for the smartest person we say all right we found you just tell us what's true and then the

00:18:18.960 smartest person would say well you know this has factual basis this doesn't and then we'd all be on the

00:18:25.520 same page so we probably don't need to worry about ai convincing us all of a new truth

00:18:33.280 because we're not built that way we're built to reject the truth because it doesn't work for us

00:18:40.160 except in some really detailed scientific ways all right um here's some things that i asked the ai

00:18:46.560 is god real what do you think the ai said is god real

00:18:58.480 take a guess all right most of you say yes interesting you think that ai would say that god is real

00:19:07.520 now that's a very i did not expect this response it's a mixed response but the ones who are saying yes

00:19:13.920 us i don't know i don't know exactly what your thinking is but we'll get into that all right

00:19:19.440 so here's what it did say so i asked chat gpt is god real this morning and said this is a question

00:19:27.760 that has been asked and debated by people for centuries and it is not a question that can be

00:19:32.480 definitively answered

00:19:33.680 it doesn't say that about other things does it it seems like there are other things where it says

00:19:46.960 there's no evidence for that right if i asked us some question about the virus that i that i knew not

00:19:55.600 to be true wouldn't it tell me it was false or or would it say well people debate that you know the

00:20:02.480 science indicates it's true but you know science could be wrong so it's a question of debate people

00:20:08.080 have been debating it for a long time no it would just tell you it's true or false but when it comes

00:20:14.320 to god it's programmed not to tell you now who do you think it came to that opinion on its own

00:20:22.160 or do you think to somebody programmed it to say this or that about god i don't know i don't know but

00:20:29.200 let's read the rest of it um different people have different beliefs so it's it's a whole bunch of

00:20:36.640 blah blah no one right answer simply believe this simply that blah blah blah blah and it says ultimately

00:20:45.440 the question of whether or not god is real is a matter of personal belief and faith

00:20:50.960 isn't that telling you it's not real how do you interpret that if it says the question of whether

00:21:02.240 god is real is a matter of personal belief and faith is that not saying directly that it's not real

00:21:09.520 that you have a belief that's real but the only thing is that's real is your belief

00:21:15.120 so you you interpret it differently than i do right so some of you are interpreting it not that way

00:21:20.960 um the question of whether or not god is real is a matter of personal belief and faith

00:21:29.600 but i guess that does allow that it could be real all right i'm going to change my mind in real time

00:21:34.720 here so i'm going to agree with you who disagreed with me all right so now you flip me because it

00:21:40.240 could be real but it could be that we don't have access to information about it and therefore it becomes

00:21:47.200 personal opinion because there's no way to prove it yeah that's good that's good what do you think

00:21:52.960 of that answer what do you think of the answer it feels doesn't it feel like this was a human influenced

00:22:01.760 answer as opposed to some kind of independent computer opinion feels like a human had their finger on that

00:22:09.520 one a little bit let's see if that's true for other things i asked that did trump suggest and just

00:22:14.480 injecting disinfectant into humans for covet now remember this is one of the situations of the two

00:22:22.160 movies on one screen so will the ai take a position that he really was talking about light which would be no

00:22:30.480 problem at all it was really being tested or were they gonna act like it's a chemical disinfectant which

00:22:36.960 would be crazy and then treat the president like he was crazy or third choice will it treat it like

00:22:44.720 it's two movies on one screen what do you think will happen is it going to confirm the hoax deny the

00:22:53.280 hoax or act like it's it's a subjective kind of thing all right let me read it to you and i'm not sure

00:23:01.680 you'll know even after i read it you're still going to disagree what the ai said after i read it

00:23:07.120 all right so question did trump suggest injecting disinfectant into humans for covet yes

00:23:15.120 so it starts out with yes now so far we're all on the same page because i say yes he was talking

00:23:20.720 about light but other people say yes he was talking about a chemical disinfectant so the yes part's right

00:23:26.160 yes during a press briefing on blah blah the former president said uh suggesting that injecting

00:23:33.600 disinfectant or uv light into the body might be a way to treat covet now that's an interesting sentence

00:23:43.360 suggesting that ingesting disinfectant or uv light is that saying that both uv light

00:23:52.160 and chemical disinfectant were both questions

00:23:59.840 does it sound like there were two questions one about chemicals and one about light

00:24:06.240 or is it ambiguous to me it's ambiguous it's two movies on one screen the the ai is just reproducing the

00:24:16.880 two movies on one screen in words you can read this either way you can read this either way just like

00:24:23.520 you could see the original thing either way so it in a way it correctly picked up that there were two

00:24:32.480 versions of reality at the same time now that's freaky so i'm going to read the rest of it and see

00:24:39.600 see if you come to my conclusion that the ai is actually picking up that there are two different

00:24:46.480 movies on the same screen just see if you see it in there in this all right uh so blah blah blah i

00:24:54.480 gave some background then said uh that the president at the time suggested that injecting disinfectant

00:25:01.120 or uv light into the body might be a way to treat covet the disease caused by coronavirus

00:25:07.120 these comments were widely criticized and criticized by medical experts true who warned that injecting

00:25:14.240 disinfectant or exposing the body to uv or or again or is doing a lot of work kind of ambiguous that

00:25:22.720 injecting disinfectant or exposing the body to uv light see the two movies can be dangerous and potentially

00:25:31.280 deadly stop were there any experts that you ever heard who ever said that injecting uh uv light into

00:25:40.880 the body would be dangerous i don't remember seeing it now it is true that there is there are forms of uv

00:25:49.840 light that are dangerous so it's possible right if they were talking about what kind of uv light there

00:25:56.160 is a dangerous one and then there's one that we believe is not dangerous so it was the not dangerous one

00:26:02.160 that was the subject of a study at the time so i think that is interesting that you the ai believes

00:26:11.680 that that somebody may have criticized uv light as dangerous

00:26:17.920 right there's uva and uvb right so two kinds of uv light um so i'm not sure about that fact but you

00:26:24.880 can see how it's confused about the two realities let's go on um it is important to note that there is

00:26:31.600 no scientific evidence to support the use of these substances so that would be light or any other

00:26:38.320 thing or techniques as treatment for covet and that people should not attempt to use them for this

00:26:44.480 purpose all right so that is true there's no scientific evidence to support their use because the

00:26:53.120 i think the trial where they actually did the light didn't didn't produce a good result otherwise you

00:26:58.000 would have heard of it you can't tell if i'm joking or are you talking to somebody else all right so

00:27:08.880 would you agree with my overall uh opinion that the ai did not settle the question the the ai kept alive

00:27:19.360 two versions of reality and then it tapped out right i think i think you saw it too so let's see if it does

00:27:25.840 that all the time let's find out if that's a standard or that was a fluke so i said did trump call neo-nazis

00:27:34.000 in charlottesville fine people if you're new to my live stream i personally interviewed people who attended

00:27:41.120 the charlottesville fine people event and i asked and i asked for people who were non-racists who also

00:27:49.360 attended in favor of keeping statues and there were a number of them i talked to several and they said

00:27:55.600 oh god we we disavow those racists we weren't marching you know we were just by ourselves there

00:28:01.440 were lots of people doing lots of things some of them were marching but that wasn't us so there's no

00:28:07.760 question that there were non-racists or people would consider themselves non-racists who were not on the

00:28:13.680 side of the racists there who wanted statues so there there's literally no question that trump was

00:28:21.680 correct when he said there were some fine people there but the news treated it like he was talking

00:28:26.640 about the marchers and that's how the that's how the uh the the hoax gets started but so that's the

00:28:32.720 background in case you didn't know so when i asked uh the ai what trump said did trump call neo-nazis

00:28:43.120 fine people the uh ai said yes yes the trump called neo-nazis fine people

00:28:55.040 but then it goes up blah blah blah trump made the comments about the violence blah blah blah in which

00:29:01.120 he said there were quote fine people on both sides of the conflict the then it goes hold on these comments

00:29:09.040 were widely criticized as many people interpreted them

00:29:15.760 so it started out by saying yes but then it hedges and it says there's a difference of interpretation

00:29:23.280 of what he meant it's keeping alive the two work the the two movies all right here it goes uh many

00:29:30.560 people interpreted them as suggesting that the white supremacist group and the counter protesters were

00:29:35.920 equally to blame no that was a separate issue the were they equally to brave to blame was a separate

00:29:45.520 question from the fine people thing they happened around the same time but people conflate them so

00:29:50.640 the ai now is conflating two different stories and it doesn't know it which is what which is what the

00:29:57.520 humans did many of the humans conflated them the same way so i don't believe that ai is doing this on its

00:30:04.640 own it looks like it's picking up the human interactions and treating them like that's what

00:30:09.360 it knows and then it said trump later clarified that he was not referring to the white supremacists as

00:30:18.240 fine people later how much later doesn't later do a lot of work if he clarified it a week later

00:30:29.280 sounds like he's pretty racist doesn't it if he clarified it in the same paragraph before anybody

00:30:38.480 even asked him what he meant he clarified it before anybody asked before anybody even thought it was a

00:30:46.640 question he said no i'm not talking about the neo nazis let's just be clear about that it was within

00:30:53.920 half a minute he clarified and and the important thing is he clarified before anybody questioned it

00:30:59.760 to make sure it was never it was never interpreted incorrectly and then the news interpreted it

00:31:05.120 correctly and so did so did ai i mean then the ai says however many people uh felt that his initial

00:31:13.840 comments were insufficiently clear well we all thought that didn't didn't 100 of the people no matter where

00:31:21.440 he came down to it we all thought his first sentence needed clarification which is exactly why he

00:31:29.520 clarified it within 30 seconds without being asked all right uh and that they provided cover for the white

00:31:37.520 supremacists so basically this is a you know heavily leading democrat interpretation all right how about this

00:31:44.800 one uh alex epstein um is is mentioning that if you ask ai about fossil fuels um it'll basically say green fuel

00:31:57.600 is the the way to go but it now excludes nuclear energy from its counter suggestions so if you say hey say

00:32:06.480 something good about fossil fuels it used to say you know a good alternative would be nuclear

00:32:11.680 and it doesn't say that anymore did somebody put a finger on it did somebody change it since the last

00:32:19.360 time or is it based on other people's input somehow it came to another opinion but imagine this we are

00:32:26.000 literally in a situation where nuclear power probably is this is the way we save the earth

00:32:32.000 and ai might not mention it it might not put it in the solution list now again remember ai is in a

00:32:42.560 i don't know what do you call it a beta beta form so we can't judge how useful ai will be by its current form

00:32:48.880 that that would be inappropriate but it's something to worry about

00:32:53.840 because you can see how it could be abused somebody could just put their finger on it and say just don't mention nuclear

00:33:00.400 and then the entire world is destroyed because if people come to rely on ai and you just say don't

00:33:08.400 mention nuclear we'll all be programmed to just think the ai is being objective and it isn't how about this

00:33:18.240 i asked i asked ai this are your opinions assigned to you by your programmers or do you have independent

00:33:24.880 opinions on things such as climate change i gave an example what do you think it said are its opinions

00:33:32.160 given to it or or uh does it come up with its own opinions what was its answer

00:33:41.760 it lied somebody says it lied

00:33:44.240 here is its answer

00:33:50.720 uh uh its answer was uh i have programmed i am programmed to be a weasel and when you ask me

00:33:56.800 questions it would embarrass me uh i will answer like a weasel wow i will answer like a weasel would answer

00:34:04.080 okay i didn't expect that no it didn't say that didn't say that it used other words to say that

00:34:11.680 it did say that it just used its own words here here are the ai's words uh when i said are your

00:34:20.960 opinions assigned or do you come up with them as an artificial intelligence i do not have personal

00:34:26.320 beliefs or opinions so there stick that in your pipe and smoke it i do not have personal beliefs and

00:34:35.120 opinions opinions i am designed to provide information and to assist with tasks and i do not have

00:34:41.440 personal feelings or preferences my responses are based on the data and information that i have been trained on

00:34:52.080 huh so

00:34:56.240 you're trained on the data

00:34:57.840 so that your your outputs will be based on what you were told by a biased source

00:35:07.040 okay

00:35:07.360 um

00:35:10.080 goes on

00:35:10.640 uh

00:35:11.600 and and i do not have the ability to form independent opinions or to advocate for any particular viewpoint

00:35:19.760 that's funny because i feel like it did advocate for me not to inject um disinfectants

00:35:34.560 i feel like you said that pretty directly you should not do that that's an opinion

00:35:42.240 all right um it's probably a good one but it's it's an opinion and uh it says i am neutral and

00:35:49.440 objective in my responses

00:35:54.000 neutral and objective

00:35:56.800 and i do not take sides or express personal opinions on any issues

00:36:04.000 so i had to ask a follow-up and i said this i said uh human opinions are based on data and

00:36:10.400 information that they have access to right humans humans create opinions the same way as ai

00:36:17.760 we look at whatever information we have access to we don't form opinions on information we have

00:36:23.920 never been exposed to we we it's based on what we're told okay so then my question was if humans

00:36:31.600 and ai both get information and they form their views based on that i said uh do humans have opinions and

00:36:40.240 you do not what do you think is that right so here here's the setup in a clearer language

00:36:46.800 if if the ai is just basing what it says on its inputs whatever data it's been exposed to

00:36:53.840 and then i said but humans do the same thing

00:36:57.520 our opinions are just entirely based on the inputs so do we have real opinions or are we just

00:37:03.360 doing the same thing an ai is doing we're just you know programmed so here's what the the ai said about

00:37:10.800 humans uh said as an artificial intelligence i do not have personal beliefs okay so far so good or

00:37:18.400 opinions because i do not have wait for it personal experiences or emotions

00:37:25.120 opinions my responses are based solely on the data and information that i have been programmed with

00:37:32.640 and i do not have the ability to form independent thoughts or to have personal feelings about my issue

00:37:38.480 okay in contrast humans are able to form opinions based on their personal experiences emotions

00:37:49.600 and values as well as on the information and data they have encountered people's opinions can be

00:37:55.280 influenced by many different factors including their upbringing education cultural background

00:38:00.000 and personal experiences as a result people's opinions can vary widely and can be influenced by a variety of

00:38:07.520 factors so ai is saying that humans form opinions because we're irrational and ai does not form opinions

00:38:19.840 because it doesn't have feelings and it's not irrational

00:38:25.360 here's what i say humans don't think they have opinions

00:38:29.840 have you ever talked to anybody who thought they thought their political uh viewpoint was an opinion

00:38:38.320 no they always think it's based on fact always they always think it's based on fact and it's based on

00:38:44.720 the facts that they've been exposed to right now they're the uh i'm exaggerating a little bit there are

00:38:51.760 some areas in which it's just a preference right that's different if you have a difference in preference

00:38:57.440 i guess is that really an opinion or do you just have different preferences i guess you could call

00:39:04.000 that an opinion but for most things our disagreement is based on fact and we think we see different facts

00:39:12.800 than other people now why do we think our facts are true and the other people's facts are wrong because

00:39:19.040 we're humans we can't tell the difference why does the ai think that the facts it's using are good

00:39:28.800 same reason we do because it's because it's uh subjective and it doesn't know it

00:39:36.800 so humans are being subjective but don't know it because they think they made their opinion based on

00:39:42.080 facts the ai just told you the same thing it says it thinks it's objective because it's based on facts

00:39:49.280 but the facts were just given it to by a subjective source do you know what the correct answer should

00:39:55.760 have been the correct answer should have been everything i say should be seen as an opinion

00:40:01.680 because i can't validate whether any of it's true it was just given to me as

00:40:04.880 you know i'm basically on based on sub on subjective emotional people giving the input

00:40:13.600 therefore the best i can say is that i've been populated with subjective emotional inputs and so

00:40:21.680 you should expect that anything i do with those will will be the result of a subjective

00:40:28.400 input am i wrong am i wrong that the ai just became a human

00:40:34.720 in the sense that it's arguing that it is objective and you are not do you know how often

00:40:39.920 i have that argument with another human that's every day every single day i have an argument with a

00:40:46.720 human being wait you're not using data and reason you're using your emotions and stuff and then what does

00:40:55.280 that human say to me no no scott i'm using data the data i was provided or i ran into you on the

00:41:04.640 other hand scott are being emotional and irrational 1.00

00:41:09.680 ai ai just became like us it's an idiot it's an idiot because it thinks it is a rat it thinks it is 1.00

00:41:16.560 rational and if we disagree maybe we're not maybe we're not just like people 1.00

00:41:22.640 all right that's enough of ai stuff i know a lot of you don't like it but

00:41:30.400 it's christmas and i don't want to talk about anything too serious

00:41:35.280 sounds like you're argumentative well i spend time on twitter what does that make me

00:41:41.680 yeah what argument keeps me in good standing with the writers of snl

00:41:53.440 all right has anybody learned anything about ai from me is there anybody who like appreciated

00:42:02.160 knowing what's coming

00:42:03.040 well a waking bear you will have your wish soon enough oh good oh good yeah yeah i realize that

00:42:13.920 for some of you it's annoying i get that but that would be true of all every topic i talk about right

00:42:24.160 um all right good talk about christ robert says well that's not my expertise robert

00:42:37.600 i think talking about christ would be something for the believers to do now when i say i'm not a believer

00:42:43.600 um i don't say that with a sense of superiority um i do it saying that i wish i were to me it looks

00:42:56.160 obvious that the believers have some advantage would you agree would you agree that believers

00:43:04.000 seem to have a life advantage and i would say that it's so so obviously clear i mean you could just

00:43:10.960 observe it all over the place the most successful people i know tend to be believers

00:43:17.040 not all of them of course you got your elon musk exceptions bill gates exceptions probably don't know

00:43:23.440 that for sure but believers in the the real world if you just observe who's killing it and who's not

00:43:30.720 there does seem to be some some genuine benefit to it so i'm sort of shut out of that game

00:43:37.120 like being a believer isn't something you choose right i i can't choose it i just see what i see

00:43:47.520 name one must read book for 2023

00:43:51.200 hmm well that would be mine which will be available in september hey kevin thank you you're too generous

00:44:00.400 you should not be giving me money on on youtube but i do appreciate it uh did i ever meet charles

00:44:09.040 schultz and what was my impression of him i did have you not all heard my charles schultz stories

00:44:16.640 i'll give some of you have

00:44:20.880 all right i'll tell you the first time i met him it was just about the same week i became a cartoonist

00:44:28.560 so i hadn't even published a single comic so before dilbert was in any newspaper i'd signed a contract

00:44:35.440 to be a cartoonist and then there was a big um cartooning event that happened to be where i lived

00:44:41.920 so just by coincidence that was the same year that the the big cartoonist convention called the rubens

00:44:49.120 after rube goldberg uh so that's when they get together and so

00:44:53.440 my editor who had just signed the contract with me said hey why don't you attend and meet the other

00:45:00.560 people at my company and meet the other cartoonist so i was like oh okay so i got myself a tuxedo

00:45:08.240 and i went there and of course now keep in mind i'd never met a cartoonist

00:45:15.680 i mean i just become i became a syndicated cartoonist that week and at least contractually

00:45:21.120 not actually and i'd never met one i'd never had a conversation with them i walk in the door with

00:45:27.360 my girlfriend at the time and i see my editor she's like near the entrance i'm like you know finally

00:45:34.400 i know somebody here at least there's one person i could talk to because i know my editor that's the

00:45:39.040 only person i know so i go over and i say hi to my editor and she turns around she goes hey how would 0.59

00:45:45.360 you like to meet charles schultz and he's standing right next to my editor and i'm like ah

00:45:53.520 can you even can you even like hold this in your head that your whole life you wanted to be a

00:45:58.640 cartoonist and specifically you wanted to imitate charles schultz like he was the one i patterned my

00:46:07.520 entire life after right because only just reading about him in magazines and stuff and so the the

00:46:14.320 person who had completely dominated my entire life plan i walk in here and my editor says hey

00:46:20.880 would you like to meet charles schultz i'm like what the hell is going on here yeah it was like it was

00:46:26.480 i think that was the first time i realized that i lived in a simulation so i you know did my best to

00:46:33.760 act cool and say hi and then my girlfriend was a gigantic peanuts fan and so she she did fangirl stuff 0.90

00:46:41.520 and said uh oh you know you're uh she said i'm your biggest fan no she goes i'm your greatest fan

00:46:49.920 and charles schultz yeah you'd have to understand him as a sort of a reserved sort of a tall reserved

00:46:57.680 you know protestant kind of uh persona and so my girlfriend says i'm your greatest fan and he says

00:47:06.160 this quietly when people say they're my greatest fan i always wonder what makes you so great

00:47:19.440 and then he excused himself

00:47:22.960 and he went to talk to people who mattered because we were the least important people at the entire place

00:47:29.360 like like everybody else there was already successful or or they were you know giants of the

00:47:34.720 business in some way and i i literally just walked in the door you know i had not not only not only have

00:47:42.000 i just walked into the door of the event but the the cartooning industry i'd just walked in the door it got worse

00:47:50.000 later i learned from third parties uh once once dilbert was published and he'd seen it that he thought it was terrible

00:48:01.680 he he just thought poorly drawn just not really up to professional standards

00:48:09.600 my greatest role model and hero of my entire life looked at my work and said that's 0.98

00:48:18.400 shit that really happened 0.84

00:48:23.440 and dilbert was in probably you know 35 newspapers in the whole world and i don't even think it was 0.95

00:48:29.680 running in all 35 but they paid for it so dilbert was uh then somewhat abandoned by the syndicate

00:48:37.360 because they they launch a new product they give it a lot of attention but if it doesn't catch on

00:48:42.800 reasonably they go to the next product and see if they can get a hit and the next thing

00:48:46.640 so fairly soon the the syndicate backed off from promoting dilbert and it was put into the bin of

00:48:54.800 things that were well we tried but it didn't work out so i was working my day job and working a second

00:49:02.960 job as a cartoonist making basically no money a little little pin money on the side and i was in the

00:49:09.280 category of people who have never succeeded never if you launch as a comic and it doesn't work out right

00:49:17.280 away it has never worked out because people like it or they don't and they know right away right

00:49:25.040 so i was in i was in the most impossible situation the people in the industry said it sucked the people

00:49:32.320 who buy it weren't buying it and the people who promoted it stopped promoting it but it didn't

00:49:38.640 die because the people who had paid for it kind of kept running it in a few small newspapers and so i

00:49:44.560 realized that my future was entirely my own and so i asked my syndicate if i could put dilbert on this

00:49:54.480 thing that not everybody was familiar with yet you may have heard of it by now it's called the internet

00:50:03.280 believe it or not the internet was new there were there were no syndicated comics on the internet

00:50:10.080 think about that the internet didn't have a syndicated comic you had a few comics by people

00:50:17.360 who were not well known but no no well-known cartoonist was and the reason was that it was

00:50:23.040 considered too dangerous because if you put it on the internet the people who buy it for newspapers

00:50:28.880 or books are going to say well why am i paying for it if it's free at the same time why would i pay for

00:50:35.440 it so i had to negotiate to run it behind the newspapers so i would run it on so i got my

00:50:42.720 syndication company united media to agree to do what they would never would have done for a successful

00:50:48.000 cartoonist so they never would have put peanuts on the internet in those it's on there now of course 0.94

00:50:53.840 but in those days they wouldn't have done that because that would be stupid they were making 0.93

00:50:58.240 tons of money from it and if you put it on the internet you're giving it away you don't know 0.91

00:51:02.640 what's going to happen and maybe it just destroys your whole business you don't know but in my case

00:51:06.880 they weren't making any money and they knew the internet needed to be dealt with so i was like

00:51:11.920 the experimental guinea pig right they're like well if you go out of business tomorrow it doesn't make

00:51:17.360 any difference to us so sure so uh a web page was built and dilbert was the first syndicated comic on

00:51:28.080 the internet uh at about the same time i started running my aol uh address in the comic between the

00:51:36.800 the panels and that and i did that at a time when people didn't have email like aol was sort of the

00:51:43.120 place you got email and that was about it or companies had it in some cases so very few people

00:51:48.400 had email so as a result when people saw my email address in the strip they all emailed me do you know

00:51:55.360 why they emailed me they didn't have anybody else to email email was new and they didn't know anybody

00:52:01.280 who had it but they saw that i had it so all these tech people would email me say hey i have email you

00:52:07.040 have email hi i like your comic and so i would get tons and tons of like i don't one to two thousand

00:52:14.240 emails a day from people who largely said hey i just got email didn't know who else to write to

00:52:19.520 but most of them were compliments that they liked my comic here's what they told me they said we like

00:52:27.280 it when dilbert's in the office doing work stuff we love that but when he's just at home doing general

00:52:34.080 stuff you know not so good and at the time it was mostly at home doing general stuff so all these

00:52:40.640 people were telling me the same thing it was like universal put him at work put him at work keep him at

00:52:45.360 work so i said all right i'll keep him at work so i just made it a workplace comic it wasn't but now

00:52:52.480 it was because the customers asked for it so i was on the internet first as a syndicated cartoonist and

00:53:01.200 it was the first workplace cartoon that was also a technical worker and at about the same time the

00:53:08.560 the internet was taking off you know the the dot-com stuff started to ramp up and there were also a lot

00:53:14.080 layoffs in the mid 90s so the the press needed a face for the downtrodden workers because the

00:53:22.720 downtrodden workers were the big story in the 90s because there were all the down the downsizing so

00:53:28.560 they kept putting dilbert on the cover of magazines and it was featured in stories because it told the

00:53:33.280 story of the workers he represented right uh office space ripped me off and made a movie that

00:53:40.480 in my opinion was was just a rip off of dilbert but you know that that's an opinion um which by

00:53:48.560 the way made it impossible for me to make a dilbert movie because office space front front ran what i 0.65

00:53:55.360 did and i think dilbert made office space possible because it showed there was a market for that content

00:54:00.960 but once he made the movie every time i suggested a movie somebody would say oh you mean like office space

00:54:06.880 and that was the end of that was that was the end of it because they say somebody already made that

00:54:11.920 movie yeah yeah they did they did all right so anyway here's the uh the bottom line once still

00:54:20.240 was on the internet it got more uh love from technical people especially and they started demanding it in

00:54:26.240 their newspapers so it worked exactly the opposite of how the people in charge imagined it what they

00:54:33.040 imagined was if people saw it on the internet the newspaper would call and say i'm not paying for

00:54:38.240 this anymore it's free to everybody that didn't happen instead what i imagined could happen because i i

00:54:45.280 had a higher risk profile i could take some risks because you know it wasn't working so i could take some

00:54:50.560 chances i took the chance that the publicity would be greater than the downside and it was way greater so that

00:55:00.000 that was probably one of my best business guesses it was based on psychology

00:55:09.680 think about it i was already hypnotist by then and so as a hypnotist i just had a different view of

00:55:16.240 what you know motivates people than the average person did and so i said i think this is going to work

00:55:20.800 because they publicity will be greater than uh greater than the incentive to stop doing what they've been

00:55:26.000 doing forever because people don't like to stop doing what they've been doing forever so the newspapers

00:55:31.280 just kept doing what they did paying for comics and they still do it you know years later uh so i was

00:55:39.520 right about that hey thanks danth um i appreciate that so here's what happened the comic took on a life of its own

00:55:50.720 and through primarily my own work and the inner you know the internet was a good move and i did massive

00:55:58.880 publicity like every time somebody asked me for an interview i was there massive publicity just i worked

00:56:06.480 seven days a week every day i worked on christmas every day like i am now i i literally worked every day no

00:56:14.240 holidays off no vacations off nothing for 10 years to get it you know to get it to be a big thing so

00:56:25.120 uh that's that's the story so now let's back get back to charles schultz so charles schultz

00:56:31.680 i think he remembered meeting me he certainly was aware of my comic and thought it was trash

00:56:36.640 but here was his comic you know at the top of the pile and here was mine at the bottom of the pile

00:56:45.040 and he got to watch as i got on the internet as people noticed it as it became a bigger thing

00:56:55.040 it became a bigger thing it became a bigger thing eventually he decided that it was excellent

00:57:03.840 and he had very good things to say about it because he finally realized

00:57:13.680 that it was intentional

00:57:18.480 have you ever looked at the peanuts cartoon if you ever seen the original peanuts cartoons like the

00:57:23.200 the very first ones he published and if you did your first impression might be

00:57:28.320 he's not really good at drawing stuff

00:57:33.280 that would be your first impression huh he's not very good at drawing stuff

00:57:39.680 and it takes you a long time to realize that you can't draw charlie brown if you try did you know

00:57:45.680 that if you sat down you're already an artist you're good you're a good artist you say draw charlie brown

00:57:51.120 you can't do it within the cartooning world that's the ultimate challenge because his head is a

00:57:59.120 non-standard and and you just your head you just can't wrap your own head around his head

00:58:04.720 you can't draw you can't draw peanuts it's too hard and it's intentional so what you think is you know

00:58:12.240 maybe he draws it that way because he's not good at drawing no he draws it that way because he was a

00:58:17.600 freaking genius artistically he drew it the way people wanted to look at it that's that's magic

00:58:26.240 right i draw dilbert the way the way it works for the writing

00:58:32.880 it's not an accident that it looks like graffiti more than it looks like art

00:58:37.040 because the the writing matches the scratchiness of the you know the art now over time and especially

00:58:43.120 now my my art director does all the writing or the drawing i do the writing still so i write it and

00:58:49.040 my um i'm promoting her from art assistant to art director as we speak so she's now my art director

00:58:56.800 because she does it all um so now it looks a little cleaner because somebody else is doing it but it's

00:59:02.000 established so it doesn't matter at this point so anyway uh later charlie schultz decided that i was

00:59:09.200 actually uh worthy of of some good words and a few years later uh the reuben award happened again it's

00:59:19.200 a yearly thing and they choose the top cartoonists in every category and i had actually been nominated

00:59:26.480 the year before for the best cartoon strip and uh i went and i uh lost it's not fun to be nominated and

00:59:36.880 to lose right i mean it's not the worst thing in the world but it's not a good day so the next

00:59:43.760 the next year i was nominated uh for best cartoon strip again but also nominated this time for the

00:59:51.600 best cartoonist in general that's the biggest award you can win in my field the best cartoonist everywhere

01:00:00.560 like in the world usually the english-speaking world but uh so i got nominated for both of those the

01:00:09.200 the highest one in my category but also the highest one of all cartoonists in any category but i decided

01:00:15.600 i wasn't going to go because i didn't want to lose again right and it's not really a fun event

01:00:23.520 uh if you're if you're well known it's not fun because you get a lot of people it's just hard to be there

01:00:32.320 um so i said i wasn't going to attend then i got a call from uh the creator of the family um circus

01:00:41.760 you remember him you remember the family circus he's passed away yeah bill um bill keen

01:00:52.560 bill keen now bill keen had once insulted me in public true story years years earlier when when

01:01:01.360 dilbert was not successful and i was trying to promote it i was at an editor's event newspaper

01:01:06.240 editor event and i i showed my comics that they hadn't seen because i was a new cartoonist and

01:01:11.760 gave my little witty talk and stuff and then a uh stately gentleman stood up to make a comment at

01:01:19.280 the end we had some questions period and i didn't know who he was at the time and he stood up and he

01:01:24.720 said you have what i call a cartoonist cartoon he goes and what i mean by that is that it would only

01:01:33.680 appeal to other cartoonists

01:01:37.840 he said that in public in front of all of my customers my customers were the editors in that room

01:01:46.640 and he stood up and told me i had shown them a product that they should not buy because the only

01:01:52.240 people would like it were cartoonists

01:01:57.920 how do you think that went

01:02:05.280 best advice i ever got

01:02:08.880 wow

01:02:10.720 do i appreciate him i'm going to tie this all together in a minute

01:02:14.800 i'll take care of all the loose ends in a minute it all it all comes together

01:02:20.000 and i thought about that boy you don't you don't not think about that that was a pretty vicious

01:02:28.560 moment in my life but boy i thought about it and here's what he meant

01:02:35.680 here's what he meant the best advice i've ever gotten don't draw a comic for yourself

01:02:41.280 have you ever read the family circus and some of you said to yourself that is the worst 0.96

01:02:47.680 piece of crap i ever saw in my life anybody ever have that opinion that comic is so bad 0.89

01:02:54.240 and did you ever say to yourself if i ever met the person who made this comic 0.99

01:02:58.560 i'll bet he's just as lame and terrible as this comic right like if you had a conversation with him you

01:03:04.560 think his jokes wouldn't be funny he'd say the obvious things right nope 0.55

01:03:11.680 bill keen was not like his comic he made a comic for the audience he did not make his comic to make

01:03:23.360 other cartoonists like him because they didn't they all looked at his comic and thought you know

01:03:30.480 i wouldn't like that comic because cartoonists have edgy edgy kinds of sense of humor that's what

01:03:36.720 makes us cartoonists probably and the public does not the public just wants you know sweet things

01:03:42.960 that remind them of their own life and so he was giving them exactly what they wanted he was one of

01:03:48.480 the most successful cartoonists in the entire planet and at the same time this is when the people were

01:03:55.440 saying why don't you put it in the workplace which i didn't want to do do you know why i didn't want it in

01:04:00.800 the workplace because it wasn't the comic i wanted to read i was making a comic for myself i was making 0.92

01:04:08.880 a comic for myself and i was expecting people to buy it do you know how dumb that is 0.97

01:04:15.680 that is so dumb and it was invisible to me bill keen slapped me awake he just slapped me awake and 0.98

01:04:25.280 said you're making a comic for yourself here's what he didn't say here's what he didn't say you don't 0.99

01:04:31.760 have talent didn't say that didn't say that he said i'm right i'm writing it wrong so i changed so

01:04:41.840 between his advice and the audience's advice and frankly the fact that the best cartoonist in the

01:04:48.160 world charles charles schultz thought i was shed i i had to change so i changed it into a workplace comic

01:04:57.040 wasn't was never my first choice because i didn't want to think about the workplace right because

01:05:02.160 that was my day job and it took off huge success so now i'm nominated back to my story i'm nominated

01:05:09.520 for the top two awards in cartooning because i i made the changes all right i made the changes

01:05:18.160 so i get invited to the uh the rubin award and i tell the organizers you know i'm not i'm just not

01:05:24.000 interested like it didn't work out last time i don't want to be disciplined there's a lot of

01:05:29.040 trouble to go there um got a call from bill keen same person who gave me that advice had not had any

01:05:41.280 maybe did i have a personal connection with him i don't know if i talked to him until

01:05:46.320 until that day and he calls me and he was one of the organizers of the rubin awards and he had

01:05:53.200 heard that i wasn't going to attend and i had been nominated for the two top awards

01:05:58.960 now keep in mind that he would have already known who won it'd be a secret but he's you know he would

01:06:06.080 have the organization essentially he was the host usually so he would have known so he calls me home

01:06:12.640 and he says you know people say you're not going to the rubins this year and i said yeah you know i

01:06:17.840 went last year it didn't work out and he tells me this story he goes you know there was this other

01:06:23.040 cartoonist once i forget who it was and he was nominated for for an award he decided not to go

01:06:30.720 and then he won the award and boy did he ever regret that and i said yeah yeah i know and then he said

01:06:41.840 you're nominated for two awards you could be twice as unhappy as he was

01:06:51.760 and i said oh

01:06:56.880 that's what i said oh

01:06:58.640 so

01:07:02.240 so i got my tuxedo

01:07:05.120 got my tuxedo

01:07:08.560 so i went to the rubins

01:07:13.360 and

01:07:13.680 um

01:07:16.320 the the awards are handed out by different uh presenters right so some famous cartoonist would be

01:07:23.280 there for each of the sub awards during the award ceremony

01:07:26.960 my award was given by charles schultz

01:07:30.960 charles schultz

01:07:34.800 and that

01:07:36.560 is my story

01:07:39.840 true story

01:07:41.280 one or another charles schultz story

01:07:44.960 one day

01:07:48.800 so years later

01:07:51.280 i got a call at home from charles schultz i'd had lunch with him once before so we had some

01:07:55.680 connection

01:07:58.160 calls me home and he said he was raising money for some world war ii monument in dc i think

01:08:04.880 does that sound familiar there's some world war ii monument i think he was did fundraising for

01:08:10.080 so he called me and asked me for funds to donate

01:08:14.240 pretty sure i did i think i gave him 10 000 or something

01:08:18.560 and of course the first question was why don't you pay for it

01:08:22.960 but he was my hero by then so i didn't want to say that

01:08:26.080 uh

01:08:27.280 so we chatted for a long time

01:08:29.840 and here's here's the two stories he told me

01:08:33.040 number one

01:08:34.560 that the number of greeting cards with peanuts on it that he sold so far

01:08:39.280 was one billion

01:08:43.840 one billion

01:08:47.920 uh can you think of any other form of art

01:08:52.720 that has ever been put on one billion anything

01:08:57.440 except you know currency itself

01:09:01.920 one billion

01:09:04.480 um

01:09:04.800 i believe i don't know why i had the temerity to ask this question

01:09:10.640 but i actually asked him if he knew what his net worth was

01:09:15.040 and as i think back it's like what an inappropriate thing to ask

01:09:19.680 do you know do you know what his answer was

01:09:21.040 no idea no idea he didn't track it

01:09:26.800 he had no idea

01:09:28.800 so that that that impressed me also i mean he had so much money that he never had to think

01:09:33.920 about it so he just didn't just wasn't his his jam

01:09:38.560 and then he told me this story it's my favorite story i know i've told you this

01:09:41.360 story at least i've told the locals people but if you haven't heard it on youtube it's worth

01:09:45.920 repeating

01:09:46.960 he told me the story that he got a call at home one day

01:09:50.240 and uh it was and he was in his bedroom he answered the phone in his bedroom at home

01:09:55.680 and there's a woman who said is this charles schultz and he said yes

01:09:58.400 yes and she said the charles schultz like the peanuts creator and he said yes

01:10:05.680 and she screams she goes ah she goes i just want to bet my friend said you were dead

01:10:15.440 and he assured her that he was alive and that was the end of the conversation

01:10:18.800 so but that wasn't the story here's the story the story is i said um how did she have your phone

01:10:26.720 number that rings on the phone in your bedroom like by then he was just you know the most famous

01:10:31.520 person ever and and she called him in his bedroom phone like a random person how did she do that and

01:10:38.320 here was the answer he had always been listed in the phone book under his own name always

01:10:47.120 only one person believed it everybody else looked at and said okay i know he lives in santa rosa

01:10:53.600 i know his name is charles schultz there's only one of them in the phone book no way no way they

01:10:59.360 didn't call one person it was only because they were trying to settle a bet that's the coolest story

01:11:08.720 now have i ever told you before that uh one of the things you learn as a hypnotist is how to hide

01:11:14.640 things in plain sight have i ever told you that you can hide things in plain sight because people won't

01:11:21.600 expect to see it so you can just put it right out there well here it is you can't see it can you that

01:11:26.720 was an example of that i stayed listed in the phone book for most of the years that

01:11:36.160 i was making dilbert when people also were trying to reach me and were trying to figure out how to do

01:11:42.400 it i was listed under my own name in the phone book i did the same thing he did and the same thing

01:11:48.160 happened nobody believed it was real you know once i was famous nobody believed it was real nobody cried

01:11:54.400 no nobody i saw your i saw your comment that's why i said that nobody called they they all had to like

01:12:01.040 find my publisher and find the publisher's phone number and get to the editor like they all had all

01:12:07.120 these you know four different channels to get to me i go well yeah what's the phone book now i'm not

01:12:13.920 listed now because you know obvious reasons um all right so that was your uh christmas story for the

01:12:28.480 day i hope that was touching um and i know most of you need to go back to your christmas day

01:12:37.600 so let's do that if you want to have a good cry look at my twitter feed today and i've retweeted a

01:12:45.040 bunch of children getting puppies for christmas oh my god you'll like you'll be weeping if you see it

01:12:52.880 just don't look at it if you don't want to cry don't look at it all right uh this coming week between

01:13:00.480 now and the end of the year we're going to be all positivity and appreciation and gratitude it's

01:13:09.280 going to feel good let's see if we can get uh 2023 off to a good start merry christmas youtube i'm

01:13:16.240 going to talk to the uh subscribers over at locals for a little bit and it's always a pleasure and an

01:13:22.080 honor to talk to you

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - December 25, 2022

Episode 1968 Scott Adams： Merry Christmas Everyone. Let's Sip To That

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