Episode 2060 Scott Adams： TikTok Shows Us Who Is Bought Off, CRT Lowers Black Test Scores？
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A man built a bike that shoves a pole up his ass, flying taxis are coming to Chicago, and Microsoft is building a phone built around artificial intelligence, and it s going to be a phone with no apps.
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All right, well, we got a lot going on here, so I'd like to start with my favorite story,
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which I will look for on Twitter to show you if you haven't seen it already.
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There was some gentleman, I'm not sure where it was, it might have been an African country,
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But there's a clever gentleman who rigged a bicycle so that if you tried to steal the bicycle,
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and it was left unlocked in an easy place to steal, the seat would collapse when you got
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on it and the pole that normally holds the seat would go right up your ass.
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So you would be shoving a metal pole up your ass with the force of your own body weight when
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If you don't think that's funny, well, you don't know me, because there's a compilation
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Now, the funny part is watching them, none of them steal the bike, they all walk around
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The thing I love about it, the thing I love about it is that none of them actually steal
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Theoretically, you could still ride the bike or push it away and get the seat fixed,
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but everybody is completely done with the bike after it shoves a pole up their ass.
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I still want to get that bike or build my own.
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So if you go to the Chicago airport and you're heading to the middle of the city, in maybe
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a year or so, United will allow you to take a short hop flight in a vertical takeoff plane.
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So the plane will just go straight up, over and straight down in the middle of the city.
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And apparently they've already purchased the hardware and they've got the plan and it's
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I think it takes, you know, six people or something.
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So you miss all of the, all of the traffic, 150 miles an hour.
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There's your flying cars, kind of, but flying taxis.
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I saw an interesting prediction from Naval Ravikant.
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And if you don't know who Naval is, the only thing you need to know is if he predicts something,
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He said, Microsoft ships a phone built around AI by the end of the year.
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So Microsoft has some ownership of this big chat, GPT, OpenAI, whatever it's called.
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And so they, their Bing search engine already uses it.
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And Naval is thinking that they might build it into a phone.
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The ultimate obvious place that the phone interface will go is no apps.
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The perfect interface for a phone would be a blank screen.
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And if you say to it, hey, make a spreadsheet and add up these numbers, then it just creates
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Or if you say, send a message, it just creates the app and sends the message and then deletes
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You just tell it what to do and it goes and figures out how to do it.
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I think your phone is just going to be a blank screen and you talk to it.
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Alternately, here's how I would have designed the phone already.
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I would have designed it so that you pick it up and start doing the thing you want to
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If you want to search for something on Facebook, you just type in blah, blah, blah, and then
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And then as you type it in, the AI says, well, I don't know what this is about.
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He could be writing an email, could be sending a message, or it could be a search term.
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And as soon as you typed it in, you'd say, the best place to eat in San Francisco.
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And among the choices are a Google search, a Bing search, or an email.
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But you know it's a search, so you just hit boop.
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You should never have to deal with the app before you do the activity you wanted the app
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You should start the activity and then AI should figure out what apps or app would make sense
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So it should look at your context and then figure out the app for you.
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Well, you would type because people are listening, so you can't always speak out loud to your phone.
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There's no way that 10 years from now, you're going to be selecting an app and then telling
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So I guess Musk is giving some stock grants to employees, which value the company at about
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He's valuing it, at least in terms of valuing the stock options, at $20 billion, but he suggests
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that in 10 years or so it could be worth $250 billion and that there's a difficult but very
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If he gets to $250 billion and he's the richest person times three, I think, I think it's possible.
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Because to do that, he would have to fold in different functions like payments, you know,
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have a better advertising, you know, situation, have payments in there.
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You know, it's also easy to imagine that you would get Twitter plus Skylink, somehow
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there'd be some kind of combined deal or something.
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Anyway, I do think that there are paths to $250 billion valuation.
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But the funniest thing about Twitter is that they closed down their press contact.
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So it used to be if you emailed press at twitter.com, you could ask a question if you were the press.
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And now if you email, you get an automatic response from press at twitter.com of a poop emoji.
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Now, you tell me that that could be more perfect.
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Well, Trump is saying out loud that he thinks that Bragg has already dropped the Stormy Daniels case.
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I don't know if it's already dropped, but I don't see how it could go forward.
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Alan Dershowitz has gone so far as to say that the case is so weak and the main guy who would probably testify would be Michael Cohen.
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And now that Michael Cohen's own lawyer produced a document that would show that Cohen is a liar, either is a liar or was a liar, but it's going to end up looking the same.
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Because if he's a liar and you think he's going to say the opposite of what he said in writing he believed, you could get disbarred.
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Because you could get disbarred for knowingly put a liar on the stand.
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If it's his witness and he knows he's a liar and he needs that lie to make his case and he puts him on the stand, he could be disbarred.
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Now, I think you'd have to prove he knows it's a lie, so I don't think it could really happen.
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Like, well, you know, there's a possibility that this could end with Bragg being the one who loses his job instead of Trump.
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I don't think it's likely, but I like that it's out there.
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So I'm going to predict that the charges will not go forward.
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That one way or another the charges will not proceed.
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And I think that if it were still politically good, but legally sketchy, it would go through.
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But now it's obvious that it's a political disaster as well as a legal disaster.
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So legally it was always weak, but politically maybe you could, you know, get some points.
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But now it's obvious that this, even the threat of it made Trump more popular.
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The tease of it was that Jon Stewart said something along the lines in a recent interview that this is why Trump got elected.
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Now, wouldn't you want to know what that video said?
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What did Jon Stewart say about Trump, this is why he got elected?
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It feels like the Bragg situation, the Alvin Bragg situation.
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But have you noticed that the more you want to watch a video, the less likely it will ever play?
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You can click on that motherfucker all day long and it won't play.
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Fox News will say, sexy picture of somebody you actually want to look at.
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I think I'll just maybe click on that sexy bikini picture and see what all the news is about.
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Because I'm not the kind who just looks at the headlines.
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That's why I like to click on the stories and get the pictures.
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And I'll be like, well, okay, if this is the sexiest picture ever from this person, I think I got to see it.
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Put a headline on CNN that says, Trump agrees he should not be president.
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And then whatever that video is, it'll never play.
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So somehow there's some kind of technology that makes anything interesting unplayable at the same time.
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If it's some boring-ass story of a general said, oh, I'm a general, and blah, blah, Ukraine.
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But if they say, here's a video of Nancy Pelosi having, I don't know, sex with Adam Schiff, caught on video, that won't play.
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I saw a opinion piece on why the school choice movement is working well at the moment, when for so long it didn't get much traction.
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And a lot of it is being credited to Corey D'Angelo and his strategy.
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Now, some of it, of course, was the pandemic, right?
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People got to see Zoom school and see how horrible it was and got more interested in their kids' education and all that.
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Some of it's the teaching young kids too much about sex too early, say, people.
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So there's lots of reasons why people would be more interested in homeschooling.
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But the current thinking is that homeschooling is being driven on values as opposed to education.
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But it feels like people are saying, okay, I was okay when I didn't know if my kid was learning to read and write.
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But, you know, it seemed like everybody was in the same boat.
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But as soon as you find out your kids are being taught that they're either victims or oppressed or that their gender is sort of up to them,
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then the parents end up getting really involved.
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So I think when you say, what will you teach my kids?
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People go, well, you know, I guess I can put up with some imperfection.
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But when you say, what will I turn my kids into, that's a whole different game.
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That's actually turning them into the kind of people that is somebody's idea of a good citizen,
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but maybe not the parent's idea of a good citizen.
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So you can see why this is getting energy right now.
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So if you're going to argue it with anybody, I would go with the social argument.
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Seems stronger than the, they can get better grades if they do this.
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So I watched a clip from NBC News where Chuck Dodd was talking to Senator Warren about TikTok.
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And Senator Warren talked about the privacy issue and never mentioned the big problem,
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which is persuasion, which is the Chinese Communist Party can essentially push one button to make anything viral.
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There is actually literally a button called heat.
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It's actually labeled the heat button where they can make anything viral.
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So that's a gigantic risk because, I don't know, 150 million Americans use it.
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And they can make anything a fact because our minds are programmed by what we see and then how often it's repeated.
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That's your whole operating system for your brain.
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So they have control over what you see on TikTok and how often you see it.
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I don't mean every single person will be immediately programmed by some memes.
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I mean that on average, you can move the average reliably by how much you show them of what.
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If you look at the poll, you know, the Democrats always go one way.
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Even on issues that are not political, that's how you know that you're being programmed.
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If you are not being programmed by some third party, then when a topic comes up that has no political connection whatsoever,
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the opinions would be sort of mixed all over the place.
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Every topic just becomes political, which is proof that you're being programmed.
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And Elizabeth Warren never even mentions that risk.
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So it's a story about the risk of TikTok without mentioning the big risk of TikTok.
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It couldn't possibly be an accident at this point.
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At this point, there's no way you can say that's an accident.
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These have to be two entities that are in the bag for China.
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Now, I told her yesterday that AOC also came out in favor of not banning TikTok.
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And her answer looked so obviously bought off that people just said,
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Because there's no way you could have that opinion unless somebody just paid you to have it.
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And now we find out that Fox News Digital reported that ByteDance, TikTok's Chinese parent company,
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funneled six-figure contributions to non-profits aligned with the Congressional Black and Hispanic Caucuses.
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Didn't we just see a member of the Black Caucus saying we shouldn't ban TikTok?
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And so they gave $150,000 to these two, the Black Caucus and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Foundation.
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I wonder if AOC has any connection to the Hispanic Caucus Institute.
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Not only did China buy her, but we have the receipt.
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Like, I don't know, how did Elizabeth Warren, you know, benefit in any way?
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Maybe she just likes these two caucuses, too.
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Now, the beauty of the TikTok story is that there is only one right answer.
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And there is no argument among people who are willing to describe the risk.
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So let me say that again because it's important.
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There's nobody who can describe the risk of TikTok who thinks it should be legal in America.
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Anybody who can say those two things out loud also says ban it.
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Anybody who doesn't say it's a persuasion risk, mostly, they're in favor of keeping it.
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But you can tell for sure who's been bought off by China.
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Now, when I say bought off, I don't mean directly.
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It could be, you know, funding for a caucus, something like that.
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But it's very clear that anybody who's still in favor of keeping TikTok are just bought off.
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I've never seen one this clear before, have you?
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But what makes this an interesting one is there isn't.
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A hundred percent of people are on the same side if they can state the argument out loud.
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If they can't state it out loud, it's intentional.
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It's amazing that any of these people keep their jobs.
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Well, here's an interesting update on the reparations situation in California.
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Now, there are two reparations stories in California.
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One is what San Francisco came up with, which is, you know, super crazy time.
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Five million per descendants of black slaves and one dollar house you could buy and $90,000 per year.
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But there's a lesser but still crazy one for the state itself.
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And the news is that Governor Newsom has been quiet and not weighed in on the recommendations.
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Now, I started by telling you that he was being brilliant, because by telling the committees to go work out a recommendation, I said to myself, oh, that's brilliant.
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They'll come back with something that's so stupid that he can easily ignore it without being the one who turned it down.
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He said, here's what I got totally wrong, if you like it when I admit I'm wrong.
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Apparently, there's no level of stupidity that Californians will recognize as stupid.
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I thought it would be so far over the line of reasonable that we would just laugh at it and ignore it.
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But apparently, there are enough people in the state, I'm guessing, especially the black citizens of California, who are treating this seriously.
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They're actually acting like it's a real thing, which puts Gavin Newsom in a bad spot.
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Because if he were to approve this, that's the end of his political life.
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That would be absolutely the end of his political life.
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There's no way he could be a national politician.
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I vastly underestimated the gullibility of Californians.
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I mean, honestly, I should have seen it coming.
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Could you tell me how fucking stupid I was?
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And those who use all caps for their insults, extra credit.
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Did not see how gullible and stupid my state is.
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Now, but I'm going to put it in a larger trend.
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ESPN is, they did a special video package to celebrate Women's History Month.
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And they did it by honoring trans swimmer Leah Thomas.
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So for Black History Month, ESPN is focusing on trans athlete Leah Thomas.
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Now, what does that have to do with the California reparations story?
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It looks like the white people in California have decided to embrace and amplify to end wokeism.
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Not just California, but wherever ESPN is out of.
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It looks like there is a secret plan by white men, mostly men, to pretend to be so on board with wokeness that they're going to break the system.
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Because there's no way women are going to let ESPN get away with celebrating Leah Thomas, a trans athlete, on Women's History Month.
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There's no way women are going to let anybody get away with that.
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So to me, it looks like this is like forced shark jumping.
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You know, when they talk about poorly written TV shows, they say, oh, it jumped the shark.
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It's a reference to the old Happy Days TV show.
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And it looks like white men are pushing the shark.
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It's like, well, if this is where you want to go, let's go there as fast as possible.
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Let's take that slippery slope right to the bottom.
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So let's let's let's find out what those reparations are.
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Oh, well, you know, as Ricky Gervais says,
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those old classic old style women with vaginas and wombs and shit.
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We like the new women with penises or had penises.
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So I believe that the next thing you're going to see is a movement by white men
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to punish white men and white women more severely.
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Because I think we've got to push this thing to we figure out what is too far.
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Because too far, I thought I thought we'd already reached too far.
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Here's why I think chat GPT and AI will be illegal.
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So I asked AI about President Trump and whether...
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One of the sample questions on the chat GPT thing was,
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Well, AI didn't want to commit to that interpretation, so that's good.
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and said that some people interpreted it as calling for violence.
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What part of his quotes from the speech just before the January 6th bad stuff happened,
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what part of his speech do you think they left out?
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They did quote his speech, but they left out a part.
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They left out peacefully and patriotically, make your voices heard today.
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Do you think it was programmed to leave it out?
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I don't think it's directly programmed to do that.
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My understanding is it's a word prediction system.
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So in other words, it simply looks at how everybody has ever talked ever
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and then tries to talk the way most people talk.
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And if the thing it trained on mostly said that Trump was not in it for a peaceful situation,
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If most of the people who talked about January 6th completed a sentence with
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if there's more of that than January 6th, Trump called for peaceful protest,
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I mean, if that's wrong, somebody needs to correct me.
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But my understanding is you're just looking for word patterns.
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And I started a sentence, and it started suggesting the next word.
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it suggested three words that are most likely the next word after those two.
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I wrote the whole sentence from the first word without ever typing another word.
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From the first sentence, it gave me choices and then narrowed down what I was going to say
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until by the end it was sort of only one choice for the last word.
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Here's what I've been saying about AI that will become more and more true the longer we learn about it.
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We are not learning how to make machines intelligent.
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We are not teaching machines to be intelligent.
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AI can only prove that humans were never intelligent and only imagined that they were.
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The way humans think is also word pattern repetition.
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If you go on Twitter, you know how a person's going to end a sentence because of the way they started.
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You can tell, oh, it's one of those, one of those people, whoever those people is.
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You could be on either side and still say the same thing.
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You know, the left would say, it's one of those MAGA people.
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And MAGA people would say, oh, it's a leftist, progressive.
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Because both sides are just imagining their thinking, but they're not.
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When I tell you that the news assigns you your opinions, and you reject that and say, well, not me.
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But it probably does assign those opinions to the other people.
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Your opinion is based on the pattern of what you saw the most.
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And if you watched Fox News and, you know, right-leaning media the most, then when you complete a sentence, you're going to complete it the way they did.
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You'll believe that reason happened in your brain.
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But you'll just be doing pattern recognition exactly like the AI is.
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What is the most likely end of the following sentence?
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And I watch CNN and MSNBC and nothing else all day.
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Yesterday, I told you about a study that we've known for decades, that the critical thinking part of your brain doesn't engage until half a second after you decide.
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The critical thinking part of your brain doesn't even come online.
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It doesn't even activate until after you've decided.
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It means that the decision is based on this irrational pattern recognition thing, just like AI, right?
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But then we have another process where we rationalize it after the fact.
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The rationalizing is why the things we say don't seem to make sense, the cognitive dissonance.
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Every now and then, the things we say do make sense.
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And by coincidence, if the thing you say makes sense, then you don't get cognitive dissonance, because it's all consistent.
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You only get cognitive dissonance when your pattern recognition and your word fill-in thinking comes up with something that the rest of your brain says,
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ah, that seems inconsistent, but you have to go with it anyway.
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So you paper it over with cognitive dissonance, where you literally hallucinate that the things that don't make sense make sense.
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So, you don't know this yet, but this is the biggest risk of AI.
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The biggest risk of AI is what you realize about yourself, or people realize.
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It's going to get rid of political preference.
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You will start to recognize them as programmed effects in your brain.
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You will recognize that your opinions are not real, and that's going to take some adjustment.
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Once you realize your opinions are not real, they're not even coming from you.
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They're just pattern recognition, and that comes from the outside.
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Now, it won't kill you, because I've been on that, you know, I've been on that menu since, I was probably 23.
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Probably age 23, I first realized that your brain is not a logical engine.
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When I learned hypnosis, that's the first thing you learn.
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First thing you learn in hypnosis is that people are not logical engines.
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If they were logical, you couldn't hypnotize them.
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Hypnosis wouldn't work if people had logical brains the way you think they do.
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It works because what I make you focus on, and what I repeat, becomes your operating system.
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Here's a reframe that's going to change everything.
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There was a study, oh no, it was long ago, 1964.
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It was a study in which teachers were randomly, there was a group that were randomly selected in a classroom,
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and the teachers were told that they were the smart ones,
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and so the teachers treated one group like they were gifted,
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The group that thought it was gifted because their teacher acted like that,
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Now, I was looking for whether that study had been repeated, and I didn't find it.
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I believe there's plenty of evidence to suggest that how you expect to succeed is how it'll turn out.
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Now, you could say that that's a winner's mindset, wouldn't you?
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Everybody knows that if you expect to do well, you're probably going to do better than if you expect to not do well.
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Now, is there anybody who doubts the premise before I go on?
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I need you all to buy into the premise that what you expect to accomplish is really going to make a difference.
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He expected that he could build a rocket ship to Mars.
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The only one who expected he could do it did it.
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I expected, I know this is weird, and I know it doesn't make me sound good when I say it,
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but before I became a cartoonist, I was reading a newspaper, looking at the comics, and I said to myself,
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I actually expected that with no experience whatsoever, I could become a famous cartoonist.
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That my odds of succeeding in this field were like 1 in 10,000.
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But I can tell you that in my life, when I expect something to work,
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But when I expect something to work, damn it, I expect it to work.
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When I learned to play drums, I expected it to work.
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And so a year and a half, two years of trying with no progress at all.
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Imagine doing something for a year and a half, and you couldn't even make it sound like a beat.
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Now, eventually, once I got limb independence, you know, everything came easily.
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So now I could probably play just about anything you could play on drums.
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I would just have to practice that specific stuff.
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I'm playing it as if I'm not believing my own opinion.
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So I'm still taking lessons, and I'm going to grind away for, yeah, I'll probably grind away for a year or so, no matter what, just to find out.
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But I don't expect it, and that's a problem, don't you think?
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So expectations make your performance different.
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I want to make sure there's nobody who disagrees with that statement.
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Now let's talk about critical race theory and what children are taught in school.
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Are the white children taught that they can't succeed?
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Are the Asian kids taught that they can't succeed?
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Are the Indian American kids taught they can't succeed?
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Are the Hispanic children taught they can't succeed?
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Well, they often, if they're immigrants, they've got a language issue and stuff.
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If you're a black American kid, do you expect to succeed?
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Or do you expect that systemic racism will prevent you from success?
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Well, you're being taught that systemic racism is a barrier that you have that other people don't have.
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What would be the predictable outcome of telling black kids they have more obstacles to success than white kids?
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Now, isn't the purpose of CRT to improve the lives of black kids if it's in school?
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Now, of course, there's the argument whether they teach CRT or they just talk about the same elements of it in different ways,
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which is, I'm not going to say that's different.
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So here you have something that scientifically 100% of people would agree is bad for black kids.
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Do you think that there's any psychologist, any, black, white, Asian,
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do you think there's any trained psychologist who would say it's good for black kids to learn that they have an extra thing preventing them from success?
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I don't believe anybody who has a degree or any credentials in psychology would be in favor of teaching some kids that they're not going to succeed.
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You know, you're in a class of people who have this special problem.
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No matter what you do, you'll run into this problem.
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If you told me that every day, I don't know that I would try so hard.
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I would just figure out if something wasn't working, after a few years of plugging along,
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This systemic racism is keeping me from success.
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But it might have been that third year of plugging that you needed.
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I don't see any scenario in which CRT is not super harmful to black Americans.
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I think the way to make the CRT stuff disappear is that you should call it what it is.
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And even those, the black students who succeed anyway, are they better off?
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Do you think a black successful person is better off knowing that the people who are looking
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at their success are thinking it was probably some kind of favoritism?
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It's not really good for people who are actually successful.
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Imagine how much I would hate it if, you know, I had a successful career and people would just
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look at me and say, yeah, because of your race, you got a little boost there, didn't
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Now, let me get a little more controversial by quoting, I'm following an account on Twitter
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Now, he doesn't have that many followers, a few thousand, 6,000 followers, something like
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But he is pushing a message that the difference in black performance compared to other races
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And I think his complaint is that if you look at just poverty and you look at just any IQ,
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you might be missing the real reasons for the difference.
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But Tyrone is trying to use what I'll call some tough love.
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So my take is that Tyrone is really trying to help.
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And he's putting himself out there at great risk because he probably thinks, I think, I
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And he's trying to help the black community in particular with some tough love and tough
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But he's also making very useful, very useful additions to the conversation.
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For example, he said, this is his tweet, Tyrone Williams.
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He says, blacks are less likely to, one, optimize their prenatal diet, exercise and sleep.
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Now, I don't know if that's true, but he seems to have looked into it because he's kind of
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But he says that, optimize their prenatal diet, exercise and sleep.
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Less likely to breastfeed, less likely to read to the kids, less likely to ensure their
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kids attend school, stay under trouble in their proficient in math and reading, and less
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And then he says, but they expect equal representation at top universities.
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So the useful part is, and I would really like to know about this, haven't we determined
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that breastfeeding improves your intelligence?
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Am I wrong that that's scientifically demonstrated?
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And if it's true that there's a difference, well, there's a very specific lever that you
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You know, there might be an education thing, it might be a practical thing, too.
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There may be some practical reason that some people can do it and some can't.
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It's a specific thing you could target, and you could say, let's do better on this.
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Reading to your kids, something you could target.
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Well, I would think that this is a problem for everybody who is low income.
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I don't know if there's any racial difference in exercise and sleep.
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But if there is, it's probably something you could find out.
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If there is a difference, those things would, in fact, have an impact on IQ.
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Is there any doubt that these three things would help your IQ?
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Breastfeeding, better prenatal diet, and more focus on exercise and sleep.
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And that's pretty much guaranteed stuff, right?
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And then, you know, ensuring your kids stay in school and do well in tests and stuff like
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So I would say we have some several very promising, and also somebody mentioned lead and paint might
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be another factor that is disproportionately affecting black Americans.
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So there might be some environmental, nutritional, mindset things.
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And CRT and the, you know, the message that white people are victimizing you and holding
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you down is almost certainly reducing test scores and success.
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Now, if you want it to be useful, these are things you could really make a difference on.
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Like, you could actually move the needle on all of those things.
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The growth mindset tempers the effects of poverty on academic achievement.
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So here's something from, I forget where I saw it.
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But basically, it's saying that your mindset of whether you can succeed is one of the biggest
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Now, I've seen a lot of studies that say having a single father gets you a good result, but
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I don't know if it was limited to black population, but it might have been.
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But the study showed that if you only had one parent and it was a mother, you'd have some
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But if the one parent is a father, that the kid would perform as well as anybody who had
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I'm a little skeptical about that, because I think there's a selection bias in that.
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The selection bias being that if the dad is capable of and wants to be a dad, that probably
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sorts people into the better category automatically.
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So I'm not sure you're seeing a father effect as much as a filtering effect of who decides
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to be the father, who decides to be a single father in the first place.
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But where does success mindset come from specifically?
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But in my case, my mother was the one who said, you're going to college from the time
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Told me I'd be successful from the time I could understand language.
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And, you know, when I was a teenager, I was already consuming self-help books.
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By the time I was a teenager, and certainly by my early 20s, I was consuming everything
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I could about how somebody got famous or how they got successful.
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I would read every story about somebody who started with nothing and made it.
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I'd read every book that said, here's the secret to success.
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Because all I remember is thinking, oh, wait a minute, there might be a formula for success.
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Are you telling me if I just learned the formula that I would be successful?
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And so I came to believe that if I learned the formula that I could be successful.
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So I spent years and years trying to figure out the formula, you know, putting it together.
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And that's where I came up with the talent stack idea of combining useful talents.
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It's by studying other people's, you know, ways, looking for patterns.
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And it's where I came up with this system is more important than a goal.
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That you have to be doing something every day to improve your odds in general, not just working toward this one goal in a straight line way.
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Maybe you thought of something without being assigned to you.
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Because my mother was always the go to school and, you know, it's all within your power to have whatever you want.
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I mean, my mother would say the old 50s and 60s thing.
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So my mother was always, if you put it in the work and you learn how to do the work right, you know, college or anything else.
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So if you figure out how to do it right and you put it in the work, you can do anything you want.
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But how in the world did that not help me compared to, let's say, a parent who said, you know, nobody succeeded in this family because of all that discrimination or something.
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How many consider yourself successful and had parents who had a positive mindset?
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You consider your life successful, however you define it.
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So the one, I'll bet there aren't too many people whose parents told them they could do anything they wanted and then they consider themselves a failure at middle age.
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So, let me remind you, give you a little backup in context.
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Do you remember I got in a little trouble for saying something with a racial overtones a few weeks ago?
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And when it happened, I realized that something that wasn't obvious had happened at the same time.
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Which is, I can talk about the topic of race productively without worrying about getting canceled now.
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I'm the only one who could have an honest conversation about race.
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So, people, if you want to have an honest conversation, I'm the one.
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Because, you know, how many teachers, let me put it this way.
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Don't you think that professional teachers are fully aware that telling some group they're victims suppresses their performance?
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Now, if I know it, you don't think teachers know it?
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But if I ask my sister, who's probably listening right now, well, text me.
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All right, sister, I won't say your name just so people don't get all over you.
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But sister of mine, text me right now and tell me.
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Tell me if you're not fully aware that people will rise to their expectations.
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Her last name is not Adams, so you can't find her.
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Actually, I don't know if she watches it live or watches it recorded.
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But I don't think there's anybody who disagrees that expectations affect performance.
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And nobody would disagree that telling people that they've got this, you know, invisible yoke on them called systemic racism.
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Teachers also know the parents are mostly to blame when the kids are a disaster.