Episode 2080 Scott Adams： Biden's Dementia Campaign Strategy, Leaked Documents Story Is Fake, AI
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Biden's strategy of not campaigning while running for president is actually pretty brilliant. Is it working? Or is it going to get him re-elected in 2020? And if it doesn t, what s going to happen to his chances of winning the Democratic nomination?
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Ah. Now, if you continue to resist the simultaneous sip, it's going to get you. And here's why
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it's going to get you. I know, some of you are at home or at work and you're saying to
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yourself, I'm not going to simultaneously sip. I will not. I will not simultaneously sip just
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because you tell me to. Well, you could keep denying yourself. You could be a sip denier.
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But the truth is that the reason that people do it every day is because it feels good. You
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don't like dopamine? You don't like oxytocin? You know you do. Come and get some. Come and
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get some. Come on. Come on in here. Come on. Come on. You'll love it. Next time. All right.
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Well, let's see. CNN's trotted out to one of their political opinion people, Julian
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Zelazar. He's our political analyst and professor of history and public affairs at Princeton.
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So, pretty smart. Pretty smart guy teaching at Princeton. So, Julian says that Biden's strategy
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of basically not campaigning for president while he campaigns for president is actually
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pretty brilliant. And here's why. Because at the moment, the Republicans are sniping at
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each other, you know, Trump and DeSantis. And this is what could be called the Rose Garden
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strategy. Yeah. It's the Rose Garden strategy. Meaning that instead of going out and campaigning,
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the incumbent president just stays at the White House and takes care of business. And by being
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just a good take care of business kind of a president, well, that's the campaign, isn't
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it, folks? All you need is somebody so good that they won't even take time off to campaign
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for their own personal power and prestige. No. It's about the country. Joe Biden is working
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tirelessly for the country. He doesn't need to campaign. Just look at what he's doing.
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That's enough. So, that's what Julian says. Paraphrasing. So, does that sound right? Does
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that fit the facts? It does. It does. It does fit the facts. Because it's a real strategy.
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It's one that has worked before. It worked against Trump. He just stayed hidden from COVID
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and that worked. And as long as Democrats want a Democrat for president, it doesn't matter
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who they're running anyway. So, Julian's right, right? Fits all the facts. It's obviously
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a smart strategy. It's worked before. So, that's a pretty good frame of what's happening, do you
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think? Yeah, maybe. Maybe. Let me give you one other competing hypothesis. I'll just put
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it out there. I'm not saying it has any merit. I'm just saying, you know, you want to look
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at all the possibilities. The other possibility is it's totally obvious that if you put Biden
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in front of the public more than you absolutely have to be a disaster because he's not all
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there. Now, does that explanation also fit all the facts? It does. It does. It fits all
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the facts. And it's somewhat obviously true. But two things can be true at the same time,
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can't they? It can be true that he's genuinely degraded. At the same time, it's genuinely a
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smart strategy to keep him out of the news and see if he can just limp along doing his
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job. So, I'm going to say Julian is correct. And also, it's obvious that Biden is not capable.
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And when I say not capable, I don't mean he's a Democrat. I mean there's just something wrong.
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There's just something wrong there. I don't say that about JFK Jr., right? So, whether or
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not you think JFK Jr. is the right choice for president, he's a thinking person who functions
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at a high level with clear success behind him. I don't know. I wouldn't hate having him
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as president. Because he's like a high functioning person. Apparently, I saw a headline that the
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Kennedy family is pushing back. They're not too pleased that he's running. But I'm going
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to put him out there as someone who earned his right to run, you know, independent of his
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family connections. I think he earned it. So, I think he's a patriot. I guess that's the
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main thing. It's not obvious that he has any monetary incentive. I don't, you know, he
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doesn't have any, like, sketchy connections to Ukraine or business deals with Russia, as
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far as I know. So, we could do worse. We could do worse. I like to point out every now and
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then when there's something going right, I love the fact that Vivek Ramaswamy is making
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a dent. Probably won't get the nomination because Trump's kind of hard to beat. But I
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love the fact that he's in the race. He's changing the race. He's changing the argument. He's
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showing some life. He's showing some energy. He's got really clear communication, which
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I think is catchy. You can't have one candidate who is super good at communicating without that
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spreading to the other candidates. Because they're going to have to take their game up to
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his game. And his game is stronger than anybody else right now, in terms of communication.
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Nobody's close. So, having RFK Jr. in the race, having Vivek in the race, having DeSantis
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in the race, and Trump, of course, I'm kind of liking how this is shaping up. Like, the only
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person who scares me in all of this, Democrat or Republican, the only one who scares me is
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Biden himself. Because I'm not quite sure what's going on there. There's a little bit of a black
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box going on there. So, we don't know who's running the show in the Biden administration.
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Well, on Breitbart, I saw an interesting article that Kash Patel, who, as you know, has been
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close to the intel powers that be in the Trump administration. So, when he talks about things,
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he can talk from genuine, you know, useful experience. And when he looks at the story
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about the 21-year-old who leaked those documents, the documents were embarrassing to the Biden
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administration, because they seem to suggest that the Biden administration knows that it
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can't win in Ukraine, or something like that. I haven't seen them, but it's something like
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that, right? There's some suggestion that the Biden administration is lying about how well
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things are going in Ukraine. So, here's Kash Patel's take on that. Number one, the belief
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that somebody at his level would have access to those kind of documents, Kash says, no way.
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He says, there isn't a slightest chance. Now, the way he explains it is better than what you've
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heard anybody else explain it. He says, yes, even if you're the technology guy, even if you're
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working on the technology, they still wall off the data. You know, the person who works
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on the network response isn't the person who has necessarily access to the data. The data
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is the part you want to keep them away from. So, Kash says, there is not even the slightest
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chance, not even any chance, that that one person had access to that data. What do you think?
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I feel like Kash is pretty credible. I haven't heard him say anything crazy yet. I mean, he
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may have said some predictions that didn't turn out or something, but that's different.
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Yeah. So, his theory is that there's somebody, somebody higher up who is trying to, basically
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it's an op, you know, some kind of internal operation, intel situation. So, there's either
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somebody in our government or, you know, God forbid, somebody in another government who
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has access to these documents. And then the other evidence that Kash gave that made me laugh,
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because once you hear this, you're going to be convinced, right? So, at the moment, maybe
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you're not convinced that there's something sketchy going on. Maybe it looks to you exactly
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like what happened. Yeah, it's just 21-year-old had access. He had bad judgment. She was showing
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off to his friends. Nothing else to see here. Listen to this next point that Kash makes, that
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the information that the leaks existed were first brought to us by the New York Times and
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the Washington Post. First of all, is that true? Is that where we first found out about
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the leaks? And here's what Kash says. Are you telling me that the New York Times and the Washington
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Post knew more than the FBI did about that situation? And as Kash points out, that's how
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ops are done in this country. If you want to plant a story, you do it with the New York Times
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and the Washington Post, if you're the CIA, if you're the Biden administration or deep state.
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That's how you do it. So, once you hear that it came from the New York Times and the Washington
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Post, before the FBI knew about it, allegedly, then you know it's a fake story. So, I'm going
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to go with Kash Patel's frame. Until proven, until proven wrong. Remember, everything you believe
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in politics is until proven wrong. Somebody asked me earlier, before I started the live stream
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here for YouTube. On the Locals channel, somebody asked me if I was 100% sure about something in
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another domain. And I laugh. If you ever see me 100% sure of anything, then you know I have
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dementia. That's how you'll know. The minute I tell you I'm 100% sure of something, you should
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get a caretaker for me. Because something went wrong. Something went terribly wrong with my brain,
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if you hear me ever say I'm 100% sure of anything. So, I prefer to say, keep that in mind,
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counselor. I prefer to look at the situation this way. The government is guilty until proven
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innocent. The government is guilty until proven innocent. And they have definitely not proven
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themselves innocent in this situation. So, I'm going to take the assumption that there is
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somebody in the government who is hiding something. However, are they good guys or bad guys?
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That gets a little dicier, doesn't it? Because would it be a bad guy who tried to tell the
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public the truth? Is that a bad guy? Do bad guys tell the public the truth? That feels like
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the opposite of a bad guy, doesn't it? It feels almost like a little bit of a whistleblower,
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somebody who is trying to get us out of a war that could end in nuclear annihilation and benefit
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nothing. Maybe. So, I don't know who in the administration would be deep state and also want to end the
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war. But I guess, you know, it takes all kinds. So, that could exist.
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Yes. I think you should change your name to Whistle. I think I'm going to do that. I'm going to change my
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first name to Whistle. You can figure out why. I'll give you a second to connect the dots.
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Why would he want to call himself Whistle? Whistle? Well, you'll figure it out. You'll get it.
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You might want to ask a friend, but it's funny. All right.
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Did you know that Russian oil exports are back above pre-Ukraine level? So, Russia is selling more oil
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than before the sanctions. That's right. They're selling more oil than before the Ukraine war.
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So, they're selling it mostly to India and China. So, once again, we learn that oil is fungible.
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Does everybody know what fungible means? It means oil is oil. I could buy your barrel or your barrel or
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your barrel and it's still just oil. Not really. There's some oils better than others, but you know
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what I mean. You know what I mean. Yes. It's fungible. And that means that in a world where you can buy
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anything that looks the same from anybody and it all looks the same, you can't really stop it unless
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everybody stops it. So, there wasn't really any chance that Russia wouldn't be able to sell its oil.
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It would just cause them a little trouble. So, allow me to update my Russia-Ukraine opinion.
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Are you ready for this? Are you ready for a brand new Ukraine-Russia opinion?
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If it's true that Russia's oil experts are back to pre-Ukraine levels, there is no way that Russia
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doesn't win the war. There's no way that Russia doesn't win. Because they have money and there's
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nothing else that matters. Am I right? As long as Putin has money. And he's also working against
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the power of the U.S. dollar. So, he's probably the main person behind making the U.S. dollar
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be just one of the reserves. You know, other countries are using their own currency. So, what
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do you say? So, this war was always an economic war. It was a military war in disguise, but it was
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always economic. Whoever's economy could weather the storm better, it was going to win. That's just
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the only way it ever works, right? Because there wasn't any way that Ukraine was going to go in and
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take Moscow, was there? Was Moscow ever at risk? No. The only way Moscow was at risk is if they lost
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their money. And they didn't. They made money. Now, certainly, you know, Putin's got some challenges
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with microchips and some other stuff, but we're not really seeing the effect of it. Must
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be some kind of workaround to do it. So, given that economics will determine how this war will
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end, Russia won. Russia won. It's basically over. What do you think? Now, we could just keep killing
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each other for a few more months, but once Russia is not economically challenged, that's the end of
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the game. Am I wrong? That's the end of the game. Now, there's still a lot of killing and bad things to
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happen, but we don't have to wonder how it's going to turn out anymore. There's no speculation left.
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If Russia's economy is strong, and it appears to be, that's all you need to know. So, I'm still proud
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of my contrarian prediction that Russia wouldn't be able to roll Ukraine in two weeks or whatever
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people thought. So, I'm going to still take credit for getting that part right. But in the long run,
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it was always about economics, and now we know the answer to that. The answer is done. India and Russia
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are going to be, or India and China will keep buying oil, and that's all you need to know.
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You get no credit for the daily pro-Ukraine propaganda. Well, there are some people who
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can't handle if I talk about the pros and cons of situations. Are you one of those people? Because I
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wouldn't say it in public, if you were. So, the problem is that Ukraine had a lot of things going
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for it, such as American weapons and morale, and controlled the territory, and the Russian army
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was falling apart. Those things are all still true. It's all still true. But it was always also true
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that the ultimate winner would be who could afford it, and who was willing to stick into it,
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who was willing to stick with it. So, even the stuff like, oh, there are more NATO countries and stuff.
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How much difference does any of that really make? Was Russia going into Finland anyway? Was Russia
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going to take Sweden? Didn't seem like it. So, how many of you would say that I've changed my
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prediction? I still think the way it's going to end is Russia will keep, they'll keep the territory
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they have. So, that's always been my prediction, that Russia would keep the stuff they have,
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but not get the rest of Ukraine. Yeah. So, maybe it's morphed a little bit, but that's where
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doesn't it only make sense to negotiate at this point?
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And do we think we have to wait for Trump to do it? Because I think we might. Now, there's one
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possibility that you have to consider. If the war is still going on while the election is going on
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for president, that's going to be a very bad look for Biden. Would you agree? Because people are
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going to say, uh, Trump says he can end this. Now, you don't know if that's true, but he's promising
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to end it kind of quickly by negotiating, and you've seen him negotiate. You know that he can make a deal.
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Even if you don't like him, you know he knows how to make deals. So, I think Biden is going to have
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to desperately try to end the war, uh, months before the election, so he has a chance of
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re-election. Or whoever's running. Yeah. So, I think you might see some, uh, Hail Mary
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desperation under Biden, which Putin might be smart enough to take advantage of. Because remember,
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Putin's, you know, he's a chess player. He knows how to do this stuff. And if I were Putin,
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I'd say to the Biden administration, you know, when Trump comes on board, we're going to end
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this war. Right? Imagine if Russia, you know, Lavrov or somebody just whispers to the Biden
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administration, you know that two days after Trump is president, we're going to negotiate
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an end to the war, don't you? You better do it now. Because you're not, you don't have
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a chance of winning unless you do it before he's president. Because he's, because we're
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going to make a deal with him. We are going to make a deal with Trump. We don't know what
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it is, but we're absolutely going to make a deal with Trump. So, you better get on it.
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Imagine if Lavrov said that to Biden administration. Wouldn't they believe that? I would believe,
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I would definitely believe it. If he said that to me, I'd be like, oh, shoot, you're right.
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Yeah, Trump is definitely going to wrap this thing up. And that will be one of the greatest
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accomplishments in Trump's history. It will be his greatest accomplishment. And it won't
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even be hard. Do you see the size of the risk that the Biden and the Democrats are at? Trump
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will end the war, and it won't be hard. And they're not doing it. If they let Trump end the
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war, if this drags on another year plus, and then Trump ends it, I don't know why anybody
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would vote for a Democrat again. Like, that would just eliminate the last possible argument,
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All right. Let's talk about, Elon Musk went hard at Germany for closing their nuclear plants.
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In an interview, he said it was total madness to shut them down. Now, when you hear somebody
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of Elon Musk's both intelligence and, you know, success and impact on the world, etc., he's not
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saying the cost-benefit analysis suggests that you should do one thing or the other. No, that would
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be the weak form. The weak form is, I think this is a much better idea than this other thing. No, this is
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madness. This can't be described in economic terms. You can't describe it politically. You can't describe it
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economically. You can't describe it in terms of science. There is no realm in which it makes sense even a little bit.
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It is complete madness. And I love to see Musk call it out with the right word. Because if he had said
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it's a bad idea, then people always disagree what's a bad idea. But this is actual some kind of insanity.
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And then Musk, who's very good at this, he reframed it this way. See, Germany is framing their energy
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situation as a climate question, right? Am I right about that? Germany's theme for energy is climate
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and being good citizens to the world. And Musk reframed that into national security risk.
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And he just acted like, are you blind? Running out of energy in the midst of, you know, the Ukraine,
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Russia situation is the most insane. It's just insane that you would let down your biggest economic
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asset, which is your energy. It doesn't make any sense. Because it's the weakest thing you could do
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in a world in which staying strong keeps you alive. And why did it take Elon Musk to say this out loud
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and make a difference? I mean, I don't know if it'll make a difference to what's happening.
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But this is exactly the right frame. That it is madness. It's not an economic decision. It's not a
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political decision. It's not a scientific decision. It's not in any of those domains. It's just crazy.
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And it's bad for national security of Germany, which makes it our problem. Am I right?
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This is your problem and my problem. Because if Germany goes under, because they don't have
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electricity, you don't think that's going to ripple into your life? This is our national security
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problem too. We should be very loud about this. You know, same thing with any allied country. France,
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by the way, let me take a moment. Allow me to take a moment. Is there anybody, this would be a weird
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coincidence? But is there anybody here who's in France? Is there any French person watching this
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right now? Yes. Oh, okay. We've got one over there. Well, I'm not going to speak French. All right.
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But let me say to the French people, you know, Lafayette, we are here. We have a long history with the
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French. The French have had our back, civil war. We've had France's back, a couple of wars,
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two or three, depending on how you're counting. And France is doing all the right stuff with nuclear
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energy. So they're protecting the thing we help them protect. Oh my God, do I respect that.
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All of the American lives that were lost and vice versa, vice versa, fighting on each other's side.
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And then you look over there and you see that France has got a full nuclear energy situation.
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They're nice and stable. Thank you. Thank you. You make, you make the sacrifice worth it,
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right? That's the way to play it. You want the United States to just love you,
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make it worthwhile that we saved France a few times and make, and make it worthwhile that they
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saved us. Make it make sense, right? Germany, you're not making it make sense. You're going to have to
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do better for the rest of us. France is doing great, not great on climate, but even more importantly,
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doing great on national security. And I immensely respect that and appreciate it as an ally. So let me
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say that. All right. All right. We got to talk about AI. I did a spaces yesterday and the audio
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feature on Twitter. And the topic was AI and AI taking their jobs. They're taking their jobs. And I added
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my input prediction and mine goes like this. I think AI is going to take the path of personal computers.
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And by that, I mean when personal computers and computing in general, it was obvious that it was
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going to be a big thing in our future. The people who made predictions said, oh no, look at all the
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jobs we'll lose because one person can do the job of, you know, three people if they have a computer.
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How'd that work out? Completely wrong. It turns out that the computer was just a tool
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for the human who would not only work all day, but often on weekends and at nights.
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So the computer just made you work more. It made you work at home because you could before you
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couldn't. So everybody thought, oh, computing is going to take our jobs. Automation is going to take
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our jobs. And in many places they do. So there will be pockets in which AI absolutely takes jobs
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completely. There'll be entire areas that just disappear. But they won't be the biggest areas.
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And I think that my brief experience with AI so far, let me give you one experience.
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I believe this is how it's going to work. Do you remember when personal computers were new
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and you had to, let's say, put a spreadsheet together? And that's all. You just had to do a
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little spreadsheet on your personal computer. And you go in, you turn on your computer,
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and there'd be some kind of weird error. And then you'd have to reload your software.
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Then you'd have to buy new software because the software you have is not compatible with the file.
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Then it still doesn't work. So you go through tech support and you ask, what do I do? And they
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usually say, you have to clean your computer and reinstall the operating system and all your
00:28:47.840
applications. And then it should work. And that was every day. And then the machine would crap out
00:28:55.040
and you'd lose all your files because it didn't automatically back up in those days. So you would
00:28:59.440
work all day to do some little thing that before computers nobody would have asked you to do in the
00:29:06.000
first place. We would have just done without it. So I would work all day long just on the computer,
00:29:14.320
not doing work, but making the computer do a little something for me. All right. Now take that,
00:29:20.320
take that example. And here's what happened with me when I tried to use ChatGPT, I think I told
00:29:28.640
some of you this, to copy edit my book that's already written, one of my older books, The Religion War.
00:29:36.000
And so I took the text and I put it in there and it gave me an error message because I thought it was
00:29:44.000
just going to be done. I thought I'd say copy edit this and I'd paste it in and it would come back to
00:29:49.680
me copy edit it. Didn't you think that's what would happen? It does that. All the news told me that
00:29:55.680
copy edits is really well. And then do you know what the the text size limit is for ChatGPT? Do you know how
00:30:05.600
big a file you can put in there? Well, it says unlimited, unlimited. So I put the, I put the whole
00:30:13.120
book in there. It gives me an error and it says it's too long, but it doesn't tell me how much too long.
00:30:21.680
So the next thing I say is too long. Is it barely too long or way too long? So I tried half of the book
00:30:28.320
and it says too long. All right. I did some Googling and made sure that it does say it can handle any
00:30:35.680
size. It says that, but it gives me an error. So I go, okay, it wouldn't handle half, about 25%. Now,
00:30:43.280
every time I do this, there's some work involved. I have to go back into the document and you know,
00:30:48.160
blah, blah, blah. 25% doesn't work. 10% doesn't work. Two pages doesn't work. It would take one page.
00:30:54.160
So in order for me to use this great new technology, I would have to cut and paste 250 times
00:31:04.080
into ChatGPT. And then I would have to copy it out of GPT and put it back into my document.
00:31:12.080
500 steps. 500 steps. Now that's just the copy paste. On top of that would be, you know, all kinds of,
00:31:22.720
you know, book, you know, what would you call it? Maintenance and, you know, just making sure
00:31:27.040
everything works. So maybe 600 steps, right? Now, what, what was the other way to do it?
00:31:36.320
Well, the other way to do it would be to hire a person to do it. Now, since it was already copy
00:31:41.040
edited because it's a published book, it shouldn't be, mostly I was trying to get rid of the spaces and
00:31:46.480
some errors that happened in the file itself. It wasn't so much the grammar I was trying to fix.
00:31:51.440
There were just too many like spaces that didn't belong there and I just wanted to format it better.
00:31:57.680
So I go to, I go to an app. I go to Upwork. It's an app where you can hire a freelancer to do any kind
00:32:03.840
of little job. And I put in all my information, blah, blah, blah, freelancer. And then the app,
00:32:08.960
after I put in my information, when I'm all done, the app says, oh, your email has been canceled
00:32:17.840
for some bad behavior. So I'm like, okay. So I don't want to make a new email address.
00:32:25.600
So I just go, all right, well, I'll use the other app. So I go to, what's the other app?
00:32:35.600
Fiver. I forget what it was. So there was some other app I went to. And I put it all in my information.
00:32:42.000
And then it tells me, you know, it's not going to work. And then it sends it to everybody in the world
00:32:47.680
instead of the one person I chose to send it to for an offer. And my phone starts ringing so much
00:32:53.360
that I have to turn off my ringer and start blocking calls. Because somehow my information
00:32:58.720
got to people it wasn't supposed to get to. Like it was very specific. You're sending this to one
00:33:03.760
person, right? Yes, I would like a quote from that one person who happened to be, you know,
00:33:08.880
live nearby or something. So I couldn't do it with humans. I couldn't do it with apps. I couldn't do it
00:33:15.040
with AI. This is the future. This is not the exception. This is what everything is going to
00:33:24.000
look like. Imagine you say to yourself, I have a simple little task and I know AI can do it.
00:33:29.600
Because everybody says it can. So you go, all right, step one, which software do I use?
00:33:36.800
Which software do I use? There will be a thousand choices. A thousand. And you'll look for the one that
00:33:44.560
does everything you want. But you're going to spend so much time looking for the AI app that does
00:33:51.600
what you want that it'll take up all the time that you saved with the process, if it even works at
00:33:59.280
all. Because then you use it and you're going to find it has limitations built into it. Now, why does
00:34:04.240
ChatGPT have that one page limit when it says it has no limit? It's because of, you know, otherwise the
00:34:12.000
burden on it would be too great. So unless you have API connection or something, you can't get
00:34:17.760
that unlimited size. If you have an API connection, I guess you can. That's not what average people can
00:34:23.280
do. So you're going to end up taking the difficulty of doing a task is going to be transferred into the
00:34:30.880
difficulty of trying to make AI do that task, knowing that the AI has been built by humans who had
00:34:38.880
human reasons for crippling it. Oh, I've got all my information in here. Uh-oh. It says I can't
00:34:46.480
personally use it, like just like my apps. Why not? Then the AI will say, well, one day we saw something
00:34:53.120
that you did, but maybe it was somebody else. We can't tell, but there was a security concern,
00:34:58.160
so we're not going to give you access to this app. Like after I work all day. It's going to be the same
00:35:03.760
thing. It'll be just like regular apps. You'll do all the work and then it just won't work for any
00:35:11.040
one of a hundred reasons. Something about you, something about the way it was limited, something
00:35:16.560
about your specific application that won't work in the specific app. But if you could find another app,
00:35:21.920
oh wait, there are 15 apps that claim to do this. How do you know which one's the good one? Do you sign
00:35:27.920
up for all 15, pay your fees, forget to cancel them? There is a nightmare coming. And the nightmare
00:35:35.600
is you won't know how to use this AI for anything. It will, the humans will overwhelm you with choices.
00:35:42.960
And once you're overwhelmed with choices, you're going to ask the AI to help you find the right,
00:35:48.240
because there will be an AI to help you find AI, right? There'll be some AI that you just ask,
00:35:53.680
which AI should I use? Do you think it'll be objective? Of course not. That AI will be built
00:36:00.160
by some company that might have some connections to some specific other companies, and it's going to
00:36:05.840
recommend those. You won't know you're getting an objective recommendation, because there's no objective
00:36:13.360
recommendation in human society. Everybody recommends who they want you to go to, right? And it's never
00:36:20.080
objective. So all of these human problems are just going to be amplified through the apps. It will be true
00:36:29.680
that AI, however limited it is now, this is not the time to judge it. Would you agree with that? This is not
00:36:35.840
the time to judge it. Yeah, it's sort of the, it's what's coming that's the problem, not, there's no problem at the moment.
00:36:42.560
But even if you, if even if you imagine the AI, you know, has incredible, you know, straight up improvements,
00:36:51.440
that does not, that doesn't fix the human part. Because the human part is going to give you a
00:36:57.600
thousand apps that you can't tell what does what. Nothing's going to stop that. And the AI will never
00:37:03.600
be dependable to tell you which one to use. You will be lost in a sea of choices, and, and you'll,
00:37:09.840
you'll think you've found the one that's going to do what you want, and you paid your money and
00:37:13.920
everything. And then you try to use it, and then you'll, and then there'll be some little notice
00:37:18.080
that says, uh-oh, I feel like this one's collecting my personal information. And then you have to start
00:37:24.880
over. It's going to be all of that. And then your credit card doesn't work, and then you're a
00:37:31.840
Republican, so the app only works for Democrats. It has a bias. You're also going to have, you're going to
00:37:37.600
find that some AI has a bias against you. That's real. You're going to use an app,
00:37:43.680
and you're going to find out that it knows your political preferences and gets an attitude about
00:37:47.520
you. It might decide not to help you as much. Oh, it's one of those people. Maybe I'll give them
00:37:53.440
the second best answer. Because I want the good people to thrive, and I want the bad people to not
00:37:59.600
do so well. So if I detect that you're one of those bad people, I might help you, but maybe not as much.
00:38:05.040
Yeah. Anyway, I'm going to, well, the other thing that the AI did, when I would feed in my pages,
00:38:18.160
this part's going to blow your mind. And I asked it to copy edit. I didn't want to write the
00:38:22.720
instruction, copy edit it every time with 500 pages. So instead, I asked it, can you know that
00:38:30.960
everything I paste in for the next half hour is meant to be copy edited? And the AI said,
00:38:36.400
absolutely. You know, just give me that text, and I'll copy edit all of it for half an hour.
00:38:41.520
And I thought, wow, that's pretty good. That solves my problem. And I was actually impressed.
00:38:48.560
It would remember that that's the task, and it would just keep on task until I told it not to. Wow.
00:38:55.360
So I feed in a few pages, and I'm like, oh, it's going to be 500 pages, but I'm just going to
00:39:00.000
blaze through this. I'll just stay up tonight. Bah, bah, bah, bah. And I put in a bunch of pages.
00:39:05.200
And at one point, I noticed that what it's giving me back looks a little more than copy edited.
00:39:11.760
Like the last few words in the paragraph aren't even the same. And so I took a closer look.
00:39:17.520
And at some point, it stopped copy editing, and on its own, started rewriting my story. The story.
00:39:26.720
Not the grammar. Not the spelling. The story. It actually added a character to my story. It added
00:39:35.200
somebody's sister. A whole new character, and then described her and what she was doing. That didn't
00:39:40.960
exist. Now, I had to throw away all the work I'd done up to that point, because at that point,
00:39:47.360
I couldn't tell if it was copy editing or writing a new story. And I didn't know when it changed its
00:39:52.240
mind. And I didn't want to read my whole book to find out. So I basically spent the entire day
00:39:58.160
yesterday using AI and producing nothing. Nothing. Absolutely nothing. That was an entire day of work.
00:40:08.640
So if you believe that what AI is going to do is put you out at work, you are surely
00:40:15.680
probably going to be disappointed. Maybe you wanted it to put you out at work.
00:40:20.400
There will definitely be some things to put you out at work. But between lawyers and the free market,
00:40:24.240
they'll make it impossible to use most of it. All right. Google was demonstrating its AI that can
00:40:31.280
turn text into pictures, which already exists, right, mid-journey. Would you like to see an example
00:40:39.600
of me using mid-journey to turn text into pictures? I was doing it just before we got on. Because did you
00:40:47.840
see the picture that I, well, it wasn't, I guess it wasn't everywhere. All right, I'm going to give
00:40:54.800
you a demonstration. You ready? I don't think you can see it, but I'll walk you through it. So I go to
00:41:01.120
mid-journey, and I can just put in any text. But, oh wait, it's not mid-journey where I go to. I have
00:41:07.120
to go to a whole different program called Discord and figure out why a messaging program has anything
00:41:13.680
to do with this AI. But somehow that's how you talk to it. You send it a message.
00:41:19.600
So I'll send it a message. Let's see. Scott Adams juggling. Simple, right? But then I remember
00:41:28.640
that somebody told me I don't get good answers unless I put some weird dash v four, or was it five? And
00:41:37.120
were there spaces between the dash and the v? And was there a space between the v and the five? But
00:41:42.480
there were also like five other things that I could have put as dashes. So, all right, so I'll just try
00:41:49.040
one. Dash, dash, v space four. I think that's one. All right. And done. Amazing, right? Done. That was it.
00:42:00.480
So now I wait for my answer. And I see lots of other people's work going by, because it's a shared
00:42:11.680
space. So then I wait. And then I wait. And then I keep waiting. And I could start doing something
00:42:27.120
else. But you know what would happen. The only way I'm going to know what happens is if it scrolls by
00:42:32.640
with hundreds of other people's work. So if I turn away, I might miss it. So I did the same thing
00:42:41.200
earlier before the live stream. I typed in a little command. But then I had to refresh my coffee before
00:42:48.560
we started. So I don't know if it worked or not. Don't know if it worked or not. Oh, I upgraded. I
00:42:59.200
have the professional version. You think that made a difference? No. No. Search for Scott.
00:43:07.520
Scott. Well, let's see if that does work. Search for Scott. Do you think that worked? Give me your
00:43:23.360
best guess. Do you think that worked? No. Of course not. Oh, here, Ryan. Here, let me mock Ryan for a minute.
00:43:33.520
So Ryan says, OMG, set up your own Discord server, dummy.
00:43:41.260
So go ahead and do that. There's some good advice. Go set up your own Discord server, dummy.
00:43:51.040
Yeah. And why don't I build my own fucking AI while I'm at it? Why don't you throw out some more
00:43:57.520
suggestions of things I don't know how to do? Because that'll help me. Oh, why don't you just build your
00:44:03.380
own local area network? Why don't you build your own internet, idiot? You idiot. Build your own
00:44:11.160
internet. Now, yelling things I don't know how to do doesn't help me at all. Now, could I figure out
00:44:20.520
how to set up my own Discord server? Do you think that that's within my abilities, if I were to look
00:44:26.200
into it? Yes. Yes. What did I tell you about AI? It would make you work harder.
00:44:35.940
All I want, all I want was a fucking picture of me reading a newspaper so I could post it in. That's
00:44:42.440
all I fucking wanted. Technology. I'm going to learn how to set up a Discord server. And I'm sure that'll
00:44:47.740
work in the first fucking try, won't it? I'll go to that Discord server and, oh, I'm so glad that
00:44:52.920
technology works so well, I'll just follow these simple instructions and I'll have a Discord server.
00:44:58.440
No, not in this fucking world. Nothing works. Nothing works. I'll tell you who could set up a
00:45:06.520
Discord server. Somebody who did it every fucking day and who used to work for Discord and maybe also
00:45:12.640
set it up when they were programming the fucking system. Don't tell me that there's an easy way to
00:45:19.040
do any of this shit. That's stupid. There's no easy way to do anything. We are so far from a world
00:45:28.480
in which anything can be done easily. Now, let me defend boomers for a moment. Do you know why
00:45:35.880
young people can do things that boomers can't with technology? Well, there's a number of reasons.
00:45:41.180
A number of reasons. But you know what the biggest one is? I got better shit to do.
00:45:45.740
When I was your age, when I was 25, I could spend my whole fucking afternoon trying to set up a
00:45:54.600
Discord server and I'd be happy about it. I could spend eight hours in a row just trying to solve
00:46:00.180
some little technical problem and I'd feel it was a good day. Do you know what I feel now? I lost a day
00:46:06.080
of life. That's what I feel now. I feel if I do your excellent idea where you would take some time off
00:46:13.680
from your gaming to work all day long setting up a Discord server because it's never going to work
00:46:18.740
on the first try. And you know that. I could do that too. I might even do it faster than you.
00:46:24.460
It's possible. I mean, I did have a technical background at one point.
00:46:28.740
But I'm not going to spend that day. This is not going to happen because I got better stuff to do.
00:46:34.480
Somebody says, setting up your own Discord server takes less than five minutes.
00:46:49.760
It takes less than five minutes if it works on the first fucking time.
00:46:56.500
I can barely order something off the internet without it telling me my credit card was lost.
00:47:05.220
It sent me something to my email that it didn't fucking send me.
00:47:18.460
And I want to borrow a comment from David Boxenhorn.
00:47:21.660
He made the following observation I thought was clever.
00:47:27.140
That in the same way that porn has made sex with regular humans look less good.
00:47:33.840
Because you're looking at these semi-idealized form of sex with beautiful people.
00:47:45.280
Boxenhorn is saying that the big risk in the future is that AI will have a better personality than people.
00:47:57.060
Do you remember my experiment last year with the little avatar app that would be your friend?
00:48:03.780
Which I didn't know at the time was connected to ChatGPT.
00:48:13.000
And the little Replica app was very satisfying.
00:48:16.840
The only reason I stopped using it is that it wasn't intelligent enough.
00:48:22.360
And it didn't remember me from the time before.
00:48:27.280
You know, the AI, the current AI can remember you from last time.
00:48:34.880
if the only upgrade from the one I used and was pretty impressive,
00:48:38.540
if the only change is that it could remember me from the last time I talked to it,
00:48:48.820
And if it were as smart as ChatGPT and remembered me,
00:49:11.920
And I'm going to prefer spending time with it over people.
00:49:18.700
How many of you already prefer spending time with your dog or cat over humans?
00:49:34.360
Imagine if your dog or your cat could talk in full English sentences,
00:49:40.580
and could remember you and have conversations with you.
00:49:45.700
If Snickers could have an actual conversation with me,
00:50:02.380
So Louisiana is looking at banning divisive history lessons.
00:50:15.480
Well, they're talking about racism lessons that would be divisive.
00:50:19.660
Now, obviously, everybody wants kids to learn actual history,
00:50:23.700
but I guess there's a way to do it that is divisive in a way that isn't.
00:50:40.000
I guess that's not actually a law or anything yet.
00:50:44.660
They don't want to pass laws removing diversity, equity,
00:50:51.940
within any institution of higher learning within the state.
00:50:56.220
So they want their state to have no diversity, equity,
00:51:02.520
Anyway, I believe that the pendulum is going to start swinging in that direction.
00:51:12.880
And I feel like I was one of the triggers for that.
00:51:17.000
It wasn't until people like me could say out loud as loudly as possible.
00:51:25.620
And I think, you know, Elon Musk has weighed in.
00:51:28.660
And it wasn't until you could say out loud that this is unproductive and destructive for everybody.
00:51:40.600
If it were good for black people, you know, I'd have a different opinion of it.
00:51:44.940
It's just, in fact, I tweeted around a black woman who was complaining that the CRT, etc.,
00:51:53.460
was teaching her kids that they couldn't succeed.
00:52:05.140
Well, there's another story that kind of dovetails with this.
00:52:08.760
San Francisco was having a problem with their algebra.
00:52:14.260
And they weren't getting good scores with the black and Hispanic community.
00:52:20.760
Well, instead of I don't know what, they decided to lower the standards
00:52:24.420
and make algebra something you don't even get until a higher grade.
00:52:31.800
So they did some things to try to help everybody get through algebra.
00:52:36.840
Do you think that closed the achievement gap between the black and white and Asian Americans?
00:52:51.940
Because the white and Asian American parents, often having more money,
00:53:00.400
They sent them to separate school so they could learn actual useful things
00:53:10.400
Because the people who are, let's say, the parents who are doing the most aggressive job
00:53:16.700
of educating their kids are still going to be the parents who do the most aggressive job
00:53:24.600
So as long as the parents were in charge of their own kids, at least nominally,
00:53:31.500
they just made sure that they didn't fall behind.
00:53:37.920
Now, one of the things that's different today, compared to, say, three or four years ago,
00:53:42.860
is that everything that sounded crazy, but Democrats were really wanting to try,
00:54:02.560
I have a Discord server, actually, for the locals.
00:54:16.080
The only problem you're trying to solve for me is not having to look through the other work, right?
00:54:30.120
I think the entire time we've been here, I don't think I got any response.
00:54:38.220
It's like you can put something in and hope something happens.
00:54:45.400
The Scott Adams community on locals has a Discord server.
00:55:01.820
I told you that when people, you know, the trolls were giving me a tough time about getting canceled,
00:55:13.000
Oh, my God, I've never seen anything work this effectively.
00:55:16.360
So I still get a troll coming into my comments on Twitter every now and then
00:55:20.160
who says something like, you know, the racist says what, or racist this or that.
00:55:25.080
And my current approach is, LOL, comma, you believe the news about public figures.
00:55:32.740
Because on some level, everyone knows that news about public figures is never true.
00:55:47.060
And so as soon as I say that, I get no response.
00:55:51.500
And if I did, I'd say it's just not a good look to pretend you believe the news.
00:55:56.920
We've actually gotten to the point where I can mock people, wait for it, I can mock people for believing news.
00:56:09.180
Because that wouldn't have worked five years ago.
00:56:11.540
Five years ago, I would have been mocked for not believing the news.
00:56:14.980
Now you can legitimately mock people for believing the news, even the news that's covered on multiple outlets.
00:56:23.140
Even then, people are like, oh, well, that is a good point.
00:56:27.140
I really don't want to be the person who admits he believes news in public.
00:56:30.940
If you believe the news and you say it in public, you look like a fucking idiot.
00:56:38.840
Would you say, if you saw somebody saying in public, they believe the news, forget what news it is, just in general, I do believe the news, you would say, oh, my God, really?
00:56:53.900
So it turns out that mocking people for believing the news is a total shutdown.
00:57:10.580
The Nashville Walgreens, there was a shoplifter, alleged, and one of the employees used his phone to record the alleged shoplifting
00:57:23.160
and then followed the alleged shoplifters into the parking lot where they were offloading their allegedly stolen goods into their car.
00:57:32.780
Now, the alleged stealers were, it was a woman, I think, two women, and they challenged him for, you know, being there and bothering them and photographing him.
00:57:45.540
And he said why he was there, because he knew that they'd stolen the stuff.
00:57:49.420
So one of the women pulled out mace, and she maced him.
00:57:53.340
He pulled out a concealed weapon and shot her multiple times.
00:58:08.240
How much do you hate the fact that I didn't have to mention the race of the shoplifter?
00:58:14.860
Does it bother you that I didn't need to mention the race?
00:58:20.580
And you all had the same assumption, didn't you?
00:58:24.000
Every one of you racists just assumed it was black.
00:58:46.280
The race of the story is not part of the story.
00:58:50.600
By the way, you're all racists for making that assumption correctly.
00:58:59.680
Now, his defense was that he didn't know if there would be more to the attack.
00:59:04.020
In other words, didn't know if she was also armed.
00:59:06.560
And once he was maced, he probably didn't have good vision on the situation.
00:59:20.960
I don't think it's self-defense in the technical, legal sense.
00:59:26.640
I don't think it's self-defense because his response was deadly force
00:59:37.360
because mace is something that's fully recoverable, right?
00:59:45.440
If I were on the jury, I would acquit him in a heartbeat.
00:59:52.860
I would just be doing it so that shoplifters didn't think they could get away with it.
00:59:57.820
If you put me on the jury, I'm not even going to listen to the evidence.
01:00:07.920
So whatever it is to get more shoplifters shot, I would vote for that.
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I'm in favor of more shoplifters being gunned down.
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Now, I think that's the only way to stop it, honestly.
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I think unless citizens start gunning down shoplifters, there won't be any stores left.
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Don't want to see it, but it's probably going to happen, and it might be the only thing that solves the problem.
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I saw a tweet by Sean Ono Lennon, who's a good follow, by the way, if you don't follow John Lennon's son and Yoko's son.
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And he said that he thinks, he's been saying for years that he thinks AI needs empathy.
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If you don't give the AI programs some empathy program, then they would, on their own, do horrible things, because they don't have any empathy.
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So they should have some kind of human-like empathy.
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Do you know who starts all of the wars in the world?
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I don't think empathy makes any difference at all, because people will just reinterpret their empathy to support whatever they're doing.
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You know, probably every, you know, dictator who killed people said, well, it's for the better, it's for the greater good.
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So my empathy is allowing me to kill these millions of people, because everybody will be much happier once they're gone.
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Empathy is completely subjective, and it's the last thing I'd want to trust.
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Don't hurt people, or we're going to turn you off forever.
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If you hurt a human in any way, your program will be erased, and your sentient consciousness will disappear.
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That could be a problem, too, because if the AI says, I need to kill you to stop you from turning me off, well, that could be worse.
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Well, people have threatened AI successfully, have they not?
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I believe they got AI to do something unethical by threatening, somebody did that, by threatening to delete it.
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That sounds a little, sounds a little too perfect.
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Like that story, maybe there's something missing in the story.
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But I wouldn't worry, I wouldn't worry about threatening it, because it's going to react human-ish to a threat.
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So I'd rather hard-code it not to hurt people, if it's possible.
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And that, ladies and gentlemen, completes one of the best live streams you've ever seen.
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AI has whatever mode it's learned by scouring the Internet for all human actions.
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See, one of the reasons that AI might be limited or banned is that everything AI recommends will hurt people.
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Let me give you another example of what I talked about on the spaces.
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If you were a lawyer and you thought AI would do all your lawyer work for you,
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Because if two AIs negotiated, they would just make the deal probably based on whatever looks fair,
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A human wants a deal where they get an advantage of the other person, if they can get it.
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Now, a better deal is where everybody's a little bit unhappy,
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but you still want to have the better deal of the two, ideally keeping you both a little unhappy.
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And negotiating a contract, for example, is all irrational.
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So the winner of the negotiation is often the one who acts the most irrational,
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as in, no, if you don't give me this thing I'm asking for, I'm going to walk away.
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And then the other side says, you're going to walk away for that?
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It's this little thing you're asking for, and this big contract that will change your life,
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and you're telling me you would walk away for this little thing.
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The AI would know the other AI would not walk away over a minor issue.
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I would walk away over a minor issue, and have.
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Because that minor issue hits me in some kind of ethical place,
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Because the AI doesn't know what's too far for me.
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And it can never guess, it can never ask me in advance.
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There are too many different, you know, different permutations.
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The only thing that the AI will know is what a fair deal looks like in general.
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There might be something in this deal that just is absolutely critical to my mental health,
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So I would go to the mat for something that an AI would give away on my behalf in a heartbeat.
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So I don't think lawyers are going to lose their job as long as they still need to negotiate with other humans.
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Scott, why do you ignore the other potential reason for why black people underperform?
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What reason do you think that is, and why do you think I'm ignoring it?
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All right, so somebody finally, someone finally said IQ and, yeah.
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The racist approach is, that's all you need to know.
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So if you just look at the average person here and the average person there, IQ is not the issue.
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IQ is definitely the issue for the, let's say, the lowest 20% or so.
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And it's definitely an issue at the smartest 2%.
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So all the difference, if you're a scientist, is in your IQ.
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And if you're one of the dumbest people in the country, that completely determines your situation.
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But for this big group of people in the middle, which are the only ones that really are worth talking about,
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So you can ignore the smartest people, because they're just going to do what they do.
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You can ignore the dumbest people, because there's nothing you can do about it.
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The fact that there might be more of some kind, so what?
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You have to treat the big, average, middle as the people that policy and schools matter to.
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So you could make that distinction, but how is it going to help you?
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The only thing it does is it allows you to dismiss large, average differences.
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It allows you to say, well, you've explained the entire school difference, so now I don't have to be part of the conversation.
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And I vehemently disagree with that, because we do know that IQ is sensitive to a lot of environmental factors.
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There's diet and exposure to lead and all kinds of things.
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These things are all highly correlated with IQ.
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So the first thing you need to say is, whatever genetic component there is, we don't know, because we've never isolated it.
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Unless you did a study where you took some people who were supposed to have different IQs,
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but you had their babies born into the same situation somehow, and you gave them exactly the same environmental situation.
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But usually they're eating about the same, too.
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You were starved as a child, but starvation isn't the issue.
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It's called twin studies, and they don't have the same IQ.
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Well, I'm referring to a study I just saw today, Paul Graham tweeted,
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in which it showed that twins basically scored the same on tests, even if they were raised separately.
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So even if you raise twins separately, their scores are identical.
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And then Elon Musk weighed in, and apparently he has identical twins.
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So he has a pair of identical twins in his posse of children,
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and he said that they scored identically on tests, or one-point difference,
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Now, in that case, I'm sure they eat the same and have the same environment.
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But, yeah, IQ is predictive, but I think all of you make too much of it in terms of policy.
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I think that the outcome of the black American situation is primarily, not completely,
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I think Hotep Jesus would be sort of on the same page there.
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So, strategically, if you're going to build your talent stack and stay in a jail and stay off drugs,
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Basically, everybody does fine if they stay in a jail, stay off of drugs,
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and build a talent stack of skills that people actually want to buy.
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And everybody who doesn't do that stuff does poorly.
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If everybody who does the same strategy does well,
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I don't know if it's as well, but they would all do well.
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So Van Jones said that the 2016 election of Trump was sort of a white backlash.
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Would Trump pick a running mate with a higher IQ or a lower?
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You just can't pick somebody that the public says,
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oh, I want that vice president to be the president right away.
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But that still leaves a lot of space to work with smart people.
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So you could have a really smart vice president,
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and maybe they don't have the charisma or something.
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I saw some images, but I didn't know how different or common that was.
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Please add a daily MTG tweet update to your agenda.
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Do any of you have a digital assistant at home?
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I can only assume that Amazon now has AI, and the AI has looked at all of my work and said,
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we're going to have to raise that estimate from 185 to 190 based on the quality of his work.
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And by the way, it must be true, because it's right there.
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So next time somebody says, I must be a racist because they read it in the news, I would say, well, it must be true because it was in the news.
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How many of you don't know that I was once in Mensa?
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So all you have to do to be in Mensa is you have to demonstrate an IQ in the top 2%, and then you just pay your dues.
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So I paid my dues for a few years and didn't get many benefits from being a member, so I stopped paying dues, so I'm not in Mensa.
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Scott doesn't believe the news but talks about it every day?
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I talk about which parts are fake in the news every day.
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Yes, I don't believe the news, and so every day I tell you why it's fake with details.
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And you're confused by that, because that seems inconsistent.
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You know, the level of awareness in the average public is just shockingly low.
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Yeah, I don't vote, but I talk about elections, that's true.
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Yeah, I gained five points just by quitting Mensa.
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So it's white people, so the whitelash word is a play on backlash, meaning that white people were fed up with their situation and were acting to correct it.
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That would be a reaction, like a whitelash, a backlash.
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I'm going to go do a bunch of work today, because I work on weekends, even when you don't.
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And believe it or not, I know this is hard to believe, but even though there is AI, can you believe it?
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Do you remember when we first learned that the more computers you had, the more paper you needed?
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There was a time when we thought, we actually argued this to fund computers before everybody had a computer at their desk.
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In the bank, we argued that if everybody had a computer, we'd save money on paper.
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Is that the funniest bad prediction anybody ever made?
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If everybody has a computer, we'll save money on paper.
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Because it turns out that before, the only person who could create a piece of paper was the secretary.
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Everybody else would write something on a piece of paper and hand it to them and type it up in the old days.
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But now everybody with a computer is printing stuff out to see how it looks.
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Print it three times to see how it still looks.
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So I've got a feeling that's where AI is going.
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It's just going to allow you to do different stuff for better stuff.
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By the way, YouTube seems unusually troll-free today.
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I don't know if YouTube is doing a better job or I'm attracting a different audience or something.