Episode 2007 Scott Adams: Trump, Stormy Daniels and Gobblers Knob Are In The News & It's Coincidence
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Summary
In this episode of the highlight of civilization, Scott Adams talks about the latest in vaccines, the new Twitter API, and why Trump is the only person who can make a deal with Vladimir Putin. Plus, a new poll shows that the public trusts the Republicans on two crucial policy issues.
Transcript
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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the Highlight of Civilization.
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How would you all like to join me, singing Kumbaya, sort of conceptually,
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And all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice or a styon,
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a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind,
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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine here of the day,
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It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now.
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Well, I don't know if you know, but the official mug has the entire simultaneous sip,
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Well, today might be a shorter version of the livestream,
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because I want to recommend you listen to the Spaces audio that I did this morning.
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I retweeted it, so just look at my Twitter feed, and you'll see it near the top.
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And I asked people to tell me what I got wrong on the vaccination stuff, the pandemic,
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And I dare say it's the best spaces of all time.
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I think it would fascinate you to hear the drama on that thing.
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Apparently, the Twitter API is going to have a charge now.
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If you don't know what an API is, it's a set of...
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An API is a set of instructions that third parties can use to access data on Twitter.
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Now, one of the problems is, I guess, bots were using it.
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So, one way to stop the bots is to charge for that, because they wouldn't want to pay the price.
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But, there's a whole bunch of apps, third-party apps, that require that API.
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So, he just put a whole bunch of other apps on the business.
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But, it might improve the experience, if it gets rid of some bots.
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I've got a feeling they made the right decision, or at least a rational decision.
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Well, Trump is in the news, calling for peace talks with Ukraine and Russia, and slamming Biden for escalating toward World War III.
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From a purely persuasion perspective, is that a good play?
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Is Trump accurately finding the free money on the table and picking it up, or is it a mistake?
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So, promising you can do something that the other people can't figure out how to do,
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if you can make an argument for it, that you do have the ability to do what the others can't do,
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Because he does seem to be the right personality at the right time,
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that if anybody could get Putin to make a deal, I feel like it would be him.
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And partly for the, you know, all the reasons that people have criticized him for being too friendly with Putin.
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I think that when he was in public, he said respectful things about Putin,
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so that he would be able to speak with him, should he ever need to,
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So now he's the only person who could talk to Putin,
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All right, let's talk about Republican advantages.
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And the Republicans have two more policy issues that they have an advantage on.
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It's not an overwhelming advantage, but it's a solid advantage.
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So Republicans get more trust from voters on two crucial policy issues.
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there are more people who trust the Republicans.
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It's still less than half, but more of them trust the Republicans.
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So they also trust Republicans more on education.
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So now the Republicans have the advantage in taxes,
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So what is it that the Democrats still have an advantage in?
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So, you know, they have an advantage in, let's say, abortion.
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we shouldn't have too much impact on the presidential election.
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It's going to be harder and harder to explain a Democrat victory
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when the policies are all favoring the other side.
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So scientists use AI to help them forecast the future of climate change.
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Scientists use AI to help them forecast climate change.
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AI thinks that the forecast is even more dire than you thought.
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AI, AI that was trained by the scientists, surprisingly, surprisingly.
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So apparently AI is already being used for fraud.
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Because there's no way to call this anything else.
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But how much of the average public is going to say,
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This might be the most absurd story you'll ever see.
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I'm going to use that AI to fix those business models,
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those projection models that are mostly guesses.
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Isn't it interesting that AI can predict the future in 20 years,
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Do you know what happens if you go to chat GPT?
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they're going to have a $20 a month subscription site