Episode 2073 Scott Adams: Happy Easter, Elon Musk, Robot Babies, Cyborg Soldiers, Myocarditis, Oh My
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Summary
It's Easter, and Scott Adams is here with the best Easter entertainment you've ever had in your whole life. He talks about the Doonesbury comic, Garfield, and the future of humanity. And he makes a prediction about robot babies.
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Ooh, I'm overexposed. Let's get a little less light on that. Yeah, that's better.
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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the Highlight of Civilization.
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It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and it's the best Easter entertainment you've ever had in your whole life.
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Let me put you in the center, put me in the center of the frame. There we go.
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And I think if you'd like to take this up a level, and I know you would,
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all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice or a stein,
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a canteen, jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind.
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Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.
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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day,
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the thing that makes everything better. It's called Simultaneous Sip.
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Well, I was just alerted to the fact that the Doonesbury comic is apparently taking a...
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You can make up your own mind about whether this is supportive or not.
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So it shows the two older couple, one's reading a newspaper.
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Okay, so I've been thinking about the raw deal that cancelled cartoonists got.
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Before you say anything, let me make a quick point.
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It's the things we may think but don't say that make it bearable to live in the world.
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Just because you have the right to spew transgressive crap doesn't mean you must,
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Now, it's interesting it didn't mention racist.
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Anyway, I don't know what to make of that, frankly.
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And because Easter is a day for a big comeback,
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I thought I would do a poll on Twitter to find out,
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now that some time has passed since my cancellation,
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Do people think that Dilbert was canceled because its author is a racist,
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or because the people who canceled him are racists?
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4% think the problem is that the author is a racist,
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and 96% either think that racists canceled Scott,
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Have you noticed how people who don't have children
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sometimes will treat their animals as like their child?
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It's like, oh, my baby, my cat, my baby, my dog, whatever.
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because people have sort of a parental instinct,
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But in the context of the actual human population decreasing,
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Don't you think people are going to have robot babies?
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But don't you think that people are going to be bringing them up
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and training them to be the character and the personality
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And won't you be able to customize your robot by its experience?
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Won't robots all end up having different personalities?
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Because they would have their own personal experience
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Yeah, I think people are going to be raising robot babies,
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and it's going to be the end of human civilization.
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All the risks of having a child could be removed,
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and you could still get some kind of parental satisfaction.
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Because you will actually train them to be more to your liking.
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All right, well, let's talk about all things...
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So the military is testing out some enhanced reality goggles
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Like, you can see the whole field as if you're looking down from it.
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But, man, by the time you add those vision-related things to a soldier,
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I mean, that's almost as much technology as there is human flesh.
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Because the technical parts and the backpack and everything
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are going to weigh 75 pounds or something crazy.
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So cyborg soldiers and robot babies, that's all coming.
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And you know about Musk is trying to build a city
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So he'd like to have some cheap housing that's also awesome.
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For the best little city there could be, I guess.
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Now, what I didn't know is that Ye has actually talked to Musk about also building cities.
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And as most of you know who have been watching me for a while,
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that's also my long-term objective is to design a city.
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Now, I don't have to own it, but I'd like to design one.
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And so now you've got Ye thinking about designing cities.
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You've got Musk thinking about designing cities.
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You've got me thinking about designing cities, and probably lots of other people thinking about it.
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If Musk designs this city the way I think he's going to,
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Now, at the moment, it's not a business at all, except for the boxable,
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So that part is commercial already, and he owns some of that.
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But I think what he's going to do, this is just my speculation,
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I think he's going to design one city for his employees,
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but he's going to do it in a way that if it works,
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meaning designing other cities and using his boring company thing to bore tunnels and stuff.
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Because remember, that thing also makes bricks.
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So the boring company can, you know, bore a tunnel,
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but also uses the dirt that's left over to press it into bricks.
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So I've always thought that he had the perfect situation to design a low-cost city.
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If he does, I think, given that cities are no longer livable,
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Would you agree that cities are basically dead?
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They'll just become basically magnets for crime,
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and anybody who lives there, I feel sorry for them.
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But I think the biggest market is going to be building
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And I think Musk is going to be the biggest player in that,
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I think he'll just sort of accidentally, you know,
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back himself into the biggest business in the world.
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Because it wouldn't make sense for him to just build the city
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that you could commercialize it as a project going forward.
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I can't imagine him just doing it as a one-off.
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You know how long I've been asking you what's up with Soros?
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And a lot of you in my audience say Soros is the devil
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Okay, if I accept that he's behind all the bad things,
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until I saw that Elon Musk has a similar thought.
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So I saw a tweet from Marina Medvin who said about Soros,
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Soros isn't being criticized for being Jewish or a billionaire.
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He invests around a million per district attorney race.
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He does so openly, proudly, even wrote about it.
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And then Elon Musk replied to that with this tweet,
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Like, I'll accept, I do accept that you can trace the money back to Soros,
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although it goes through a third party who makes the final decision.
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So, you know, it's an indirect and yet strong connection,
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It's indirect because it goes through a third party,
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You can make a trillion dollars shorting America.
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Do you think that 86 years old Soros is looking to make
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The last thing that anybody 86 years old wants to do
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There's no explanation that actually completely works.
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There's something terribly missing with the hypothesis
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There are examples of him doing things that were bad for,
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Now, socialism doesn't have anything to do with DAs.
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But look how many different explanations you're giving.
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The fact that there are so many different competing explanations
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is all you need to know that there's something going on.
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It's something very specific about district attorneys.
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Who in the world would want to make this change?
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I'm asking you to give me any explanation that isn't crazy.
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Which doesn't mean it's what Soros is thinking.
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See, now that's the word salad that I know means we don't need.
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All right, well, I'm going to stop talking about this.
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that there's at least one person who's confused by it,
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So there were two of us who were confused by it.
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if they're seeing a big increase in myocarditis
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if they're seeing a big increase in myocarditis,
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That is absolutely something that didn't happen.
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OpenAI's first physical robot shocks the industry.
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Now, here's a story that's not on CNN or Fox News.
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Don't you think if AI actually is now in a robot,
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Google and Amazon struggle to lay off workers in Europe.
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New battery tech could extend EV ranges by 10 times.
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for a stable, reliable, high-capacity anode material
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You don't want any of that conventional graphite stuff.
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If you can make batteries 10 times more powerful,
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That they would double every 18 months or something?
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I think lately the gains have been more impressive
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because we can actually fly airplanes on batteries now.
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That's something you couldn't do five years ago.
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Well, maybe we'll see some of these 10x things come through.
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Now, how many of you are watching this live stream
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because there's absolutely nothing else worth watching
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and you're kind of tired of watching churchy stuff?
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I like to build it where there's the least amount
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but that superhighway is only self-driving cars.
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If you had only self-driving cars on the highway,
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You'd be able to travel, let's say, 140 miles per hour,
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There's someone pandering to the conservative...
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have you started pandering to the conservative wing
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Now, but we would agree that everybody's biased, right?
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There's no way I can support all the woke stuff.