Episode 2085 Scott Adams： Biden-Hiding Strategy 2024, Buzzfeed's Death Rattle, Hunter Laptop Update
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Summary
The dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better, it's called " simultaneous sip, it happens now" and it's a thing that's been around for a while, but it's getting better and better every moment.
Transcript
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Somehow, amazingly, I think I got most of this technology to work.
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It was a little bit of a struggle, I've got to say.
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But now that we're all here, everything's perfect and good
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And if you'd like to take this up to levels heretofore unknown,
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a tankard, a chalice, a stein, a canteen, a jug or a flask,
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Stop doing funny memes when I'm in the middle of this.
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It looks like Larry Elder has officially announced
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See if I can focus on some good news for a change.
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You know, so at least there's one thing we can say,
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high-character people willing to run for president.
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but at least we have qualified, good, smart people.
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Has any incumbent ever announced by video before?
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because they don't really look like that, right?
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But I don't think anybody's yet using it for that.
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Is it my imagination that having Biden announced by video
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given that he doesn't like to show himself in public too much,
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isn't that the weakest announcement you've ever heard of?
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in the context of wondering if he's capable of making an announcement?
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I'll tell you the conversation that we're going to have.
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I was going to, well, here I made the same mistake.
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I started to say this is the conversation we're going to have soon.
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But with AI, soon doesn't mean anything anymore.
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you get to the end in soon, and it's already done.
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to improve the value of their customized ad campaigns.
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Now, doesn't that mean it's going to be more manipulative?
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Customizing the ad campaign could mean almost anything.
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I don't know what Instagram magic they're using,
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but when Instagram puts an advertisement in my feed,
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Do you know how many times I've been absolutely...
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but by the fifth time I see that ad for that special potter,
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How did they make a potter that's better than all putters?
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And you know what the best part of the story is?
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It actually is the best potter I've ever touched.
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And I was not prepared for it to be better than other putters.
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a whole bunch of different putters just this year.
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And I've had a few other experiences like that with...
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It's actually the best tire inflation thing I've ever...
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Because I like to buy almost all tire inflation things.
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And it actually is the best tire inflator I've ever seen.
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What happens if we lose our sense that we have free will?
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Now this is a story you have to put a little bit of like
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That they renamed the Women's Museum to the Gender Museum in Denmark.
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And has created a statue of a man breastfeeding a baby.
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As a symbol of the, quote, hybrid of masculine and feminine.
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So they show a picture of this, you know, muscular male statue that's naked.
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And, you know, I thought to myself, you know, we're reaching a point where you can choose
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your own body type from sort of a buffet of choices after you're born.
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Because they'll be able to, you know, maybe correct some genetic problems while you're in
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But after you're born, you can still use surgery and chemicals to modify your body.
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And I wondered what other variants we would get.
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Like, suppose you could just pick your body parts.
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And I was thinking, I don't know, it's just because I'm an artist, I'd like to do something
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But also, I'd like to get rid of my penis by keeping my balls.
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I just want to, I don't want to be exactly like everybody else.
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You know, like if you get a tattoo, you don't want exactly the same, you know, tramp stamp
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You know, if you're going to modify your body, you don't want it to look just like everybody
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Pete Buttigieg has proposed a $20 million budget to create female crash dummies because
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But, but here's the thing that they just got in an order of new female crash dummies and
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We should have been, we should have been more, we should have put more detail in the, in
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the RFP because we got, we got $20 million worth of female crash dummies, but they're
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I'm not positive, but I think what they're trying to do is make sure that they had crash
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Because if you get a test, a big crash dummy, maybe that one would survive a crash.
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But if you had a hundred pound dummy, you know, would a hundred pound more like a woman,
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It makes perfect sense that they should have crash dummies of all size, sizes, but why
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In today's world, why can't you just say we need some small ones and some big ones?
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Are they going to put like, uh, like a pregnant crash test dummy?
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Like, like, like maybe there's a reason, but it just sounds funny in today's world.
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And then I also wonder what about gay crash test dummies?
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And then I guess the obvious question is, if this were the Trump administration, just
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Imagine, um, Pete Buttigieg being the head of transportation in the Trump administration.
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You could use AI to create the movie of the scene if you need it.
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But Pete Buttigieg walks into the White House and proposes his plan for $20 million for
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And Trump's sitting behind the Oval Office listening to the proposal for female crash dummies.
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I'm just going to give you an idea of what he might say.
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Uh, Pete, why don't you just slap a dress on those dummies and call it a day?
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I feel like, I feel like, I feel like Trump would just say, put a dress on them, save $20 million.
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Now, I realized that there was a functional reason to do it, that they need smaller ones.
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Like, who is it who came up with the idea that making it a little bit smaller would cost $20 million?
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I've made a decision I'd like to share with you.
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If I get into any conversation, social media or otherwise, in which the person I'm talking to uses equity as part of their argument or opinion,
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I'm going to call it out as a racist dog whistle.
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And I'm not going to have a conversation with somebody who uses that word.
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I'm going to label it and I'm going to walk away.
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Because there is no use having a conversation about equity when it's just a racist concept.
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Do you wonder what it's like to be able to say whatever you're thinking?
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I can go right in public and say what I actually think.
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BuzzFeed is laying off 15% of its staff as part of its, let's see, the story says,
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And it looks like they're making plans to end their BuzzFeed news.
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Are you aware of some of the fake news that BuzzFeed has published about me?
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Do you know how much fake news they've printed about me?
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If you don't mind, I'd like to take a moment to dance on their graves.
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You know, human beings don't get worse than people working at BuzzFeed.
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So I'm very glad that one more source of fake news and disreputable behavior is possibly going out of business.
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So it looks like they're going to focus on their Huffington Post business.
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How many of you are aware that the story about Justice Clarence Thomas and the billionaire who bought some property that was adjacent to his and stuff,
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how many of you think that that's a real story, like that's real news?
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Now, there's a tiny kernel of truth, but not enough to make it real.
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In other words, he sold it for lower than, I guess, its value in the books or something.
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And the only thing he needs to do to correct it, the only thing he needs to do is file an amended thing and just add it to the list.
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Well, thanks to the great work of James Taranto at the Wall Street Journal.
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So the Wall Street Journal, to its credit, is running significant pieces in which the ProPublica publication that was the original publication that made these charges is just ripped apart.
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ProPublica doesn't even respond to the Wall Street Journal's debunking.
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It doesn't disagree with the debunking, nor does it, you know, reinforce that what it said it was true.
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So I appreciate that there was a public figure who was the subject of really, really despicable fake news.
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And that another part of the news world fixed it.
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You've been wondering, what am I going to do with my book, Reframe Your Brain, that was canceled before it was published?
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And letting you know today that I'm working with Joshua Lysak.
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He's actually editing things that another editor had already seen.
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So it should be available in at least a few of the places you buy books.
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We'll try to get it on Amazon and wherever else it makes sense.
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I don't know that traditional publishing makes sense for anybody anymore.
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It seems to me that their purpose and function has largely gone away.
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Now, I do think that if you go through a traditional publisher, you will sell more books.
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But you're going to have a lot of overhead, and there's extra expense to that, and a burden,
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and they can ask you to do things that maybe you don't want to do.
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But if you're an established author, and you already have an audience,
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I think we've reached the point where it doesn't make any sense.
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It was diminishing in importance over time, but it still was the smart play to use a traditional publisher.
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This feels like the year where, you know, if you have a million people on social media following you,
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Because you can do more on podcasts and tweeting than you can with a book tour.
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One of the biggest things that a publisher would do is help you, you know,
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organize a book tour with book signings and TV appearances on Good Morning America.
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Do you know how much a TV appearance on Good Morning America is worth for a publisher?
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A good appearance, like a solid hit on Good Morning America.
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I used to do it, but then I would watch my Amazon number after I went on a big morning show,
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I just got off that big morning show, you know, one of the biggest shows in the country,
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But I'd do a podcast, you know, say a Tim Ferriss podcast or a James Altusher podcast,
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and you could watch your number just go, as soon as the podcast comes out.
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So all of the old ways which the publishers used, I just don't know that they make any sense anymore.
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If you go on Joe Rogan, you're going to sell some books.
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Well, let me echo a couple of things that Tucker Carlson said.
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Being a normal consumer of the news, there are things that I don't know
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that I have to wait for other people to tell me.
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And one of them is, how long does it normally take to investigate anything?
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I mean, I always thought, well, it takes forever to investigate anything.
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But do you think it takes five years to investigate Hunter's laptop?
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But it's obvious to me, fairly obvious, that it's being stalled or, you know, protected
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or the government's, you know, making sure it goes slow or something.
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What about the fact that it's been, how long has it been since Epstein died in prison?
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And we still can't figure out who killed Epstein?
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Now, don't you think that that, too, is just a story that is just being suppressed by whoever has the power to do it?
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I mean, our level of trust about anything has now reached just zero.
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I love the theory that he's still alive, which I don't discount, by the way.
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You know, how hard would it be to stage a photograph, a still photograph of him looking dead?
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But I think there was an autopsy, so that's got to be harder to fake.
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Well, and now we know that there's this news story about how the 50 Intel executives ended up signing off that the Russians were behind that laptop.
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This is, I saw it in a tweet from Mario Norfall, whose spaces events on Twitter are amazing.
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Anyway, so they asked this guy, the guy who was at one point a potential CIA director under Biden, right?
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So this is somebody who's pretty important relative to the Intel world.
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And he asked to write a false Hunter Biden laptop letter to help Biden win the election.
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So now we have somebody who's saying definitively that he was asked by Blinken in the Biden campaign to do a fake letter getting the Intel people to say that it was Russian disinformation.
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Now, we know it was Russian, we knew that the Intel people were liars, and we knew that they did this, but isn't it interesting that it was somebody who was a potential CIA director who was asking him to sign the letter, which means it was under coercion, right?
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Now, he didn't say anything coercive, I'm sure.
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But don't you think that many of the people, the 50 people who were involved in Intel, you don't think that they knew that the guy who asked them to sign the letter might someday be the head of the CIA?
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So was he X, but also future, maybe future, I don't know, it's a little confusing in the story.
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Think about the fact that the Biden campaign asked somebody who other people would think might someday be their boss in the Intel world.
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And he got 50 people to lie, probably because they wanted their careers to be protected.
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But if somebody who might be your future boss tells you to risk your reputation, what are you going to say?
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And can we conclude that the election was rigged?
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Not in an election sense, or not in a vote counting sense.
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But can we say that if this story had not gone this way, that Biden might not have won?
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I'm going to give you the counterpoint to my own statement.
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Don't you think it's true that whatever the news coverage is a few months before any election determines who wins?
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You remember the grab them by the you-know-what?
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So that coincidentally drops right before the election?
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The fact that that little bombshell was saved until the last minute, that's the news, or some part of the news, deciding who's going to be president.
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They don't save that little surprise until right before election, unless somebody's trying to change the election dynamic.
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So I would say that was election interference, but legal, probably legal.
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I'm not aware of any crime that stops you from doing an October surprise, the sort of basic stuff.
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But it does change, potentially, change the outcome of the election.
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And I think I'm going to add some skepticism to this laptop story.
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We saw polling that said that people might have voted differently, right?
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Like a whole bunch of people said, oh, if I'd known about that laptop being real, I might have voted differently.
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I don't think people would have voted differently.
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If they had seen the real story about the laptop, do you know what the Biden supporters would have said?
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They didn't need any, nobody needed any 50 intel people to sign anything.
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But if you're that close to the election, people just don't change their mind for anything.
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They're so committed at that point that they would say, ah, that laptop's probably BS.
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So they would just discount it as a Republican ploy instead of, you know, falling for a Democrat ploy.
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You can disagree because there's plenty of room for a disagreement because there's no way to check it.
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I'm just saying the way I know people to think, in all of my experience, is that they're locked in by them.
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That the fact that Trump's saying he would grab them by the you-know-what didn't change anything.
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If that didn't change any votes, the laptop thing probably wouldn't either.
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Over at Tel Aviv, a company called Technion, I think, say the engineers have built a hybrid micro robot the size of a single cell,
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which can be put into the body and navigate within the body, and then this little robot can be controlled by AI.
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They're going to put tiny robots in you controlled by AI.
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Now, I don't know what that means, but everything about it sounds scary.
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Secondly, this is the kind of story that's always overblown.
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But what do you think the robot can actually do?
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Like, when you hear that story, do you see, like, a little robot walking through your body?
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It's probably just something that could go like this.
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Or, like, you know, maybe crawl in some direction or something.
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I don't think this robot's going to do a lot of work.
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You could put a little virus in there to do something and tell it to move toward an organ or something.
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But, you know, it's not like you're going to be full of robots.
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I believe I warned you that AI would have a fight to the death with lawyers.
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So remember when you thought AI was going to take the job of lawyers?
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Now the lawyers are fighting back and they're trying to ban AI.
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Now lawyers are going to find a million ways to ban it and a million reasons.
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But the EU is considering categorizing AI systems into four main groups that would be unacceptable risk, high risk, limited risk, and minimum risk.
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And if you fell into the higher risk groups, that you could perhaps run afoul of the law if they make these laws.
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Does that sound like a practical plan to divide AIs by unacceptable risk, high risk, limited risk, and minimum risk?
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And who can even predict risk with a superior intelligence?
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It could be the thing that's reading bedtime stories to your child.
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Could be making some decisions that you totally don't want them to make.
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I don't know if you can have a subjective criteria.
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You can't have subjective criteria and expect it's going to work.
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Now I do know that the law sometimes has subjective criteria, such as, you know, a reasonable person's standard.
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You know, would a reasonable person assume this or believe this or act this way?
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So, of course, there's always going to be some human judgment in it, but this seems like really, really hard to sort them into four categories of risk.
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To me, they're either connected to something or they're not.
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If you connect an AI to anything, like the Internet, how do you know what's going to happen?
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You know, wouldn't it program itself if it, as soon as it gets access to the Internet, if it's AI and it has any autonomous abilities, which would make it AI,
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I feel like just connecting to the Internet gives you an unpredictable outcome.
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And that unpredictable outcome could be awful or not awful.
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So I feel like we're creeping toward making everything illegal just because you can't tell what's going to kill you.
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So the lawyer versus AI is going to be the most interesting battle, I think.
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You know, until the robots get lasers and attack us, then that will be more interesting.
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In the similar vein, some comedians made a deep fake but didn't really look like Tom Brady.
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When I say it didn't look like him, it was obviously a cartoonish version of Tom Brady.
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And then they had this cartoonish version of Tom Brady do a stand-up comedy act in which he told off-color jokes, you know, racist jokes and stuff.
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Now, Tom Brady's lawyer told them to take it down.
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It didn't look enough like him that anybody would be fooled.
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And then Tom Brady's lawyer says, we're going to sue you.
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So when you say to yourself, well, those lawyers don't have a leg to stand on, it doesn't matter.
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The lawyers just have to threaten you with a risk or with a big enough threat that you don't want to deal with it.
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And then you're going to say, well, I don't want to spend a year in court winning.
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How much of that do you think you're going to see?
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You're going to see lawyers threaten because somebody's willing to spend more money to make you broke defending yourself even if you're going to win.
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Lawyers just threatening you without the benefit of the law being on their side.
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Chinese have some kind of weird satellite weapon that can shut down the communication of other satellites.
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On the other hand, it could be just normal national defense.
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I assume that the United States also has satellite killers.
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I imagine it wouldn't take long before a lot of satellites got swept out of space if a war started.
00:42:20.360
So are you aware that the Supreme Court is looking at this abortion pill situation?
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So the lower court judge put a stay on it to block the use of it.
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Now, you tell me if I'm wrong about the following prediction.
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If the Supreme Court decides to make illegal this abortion pill, you can cancel the election.
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Just give all the Democrats whatever jobs they want.
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I don't see that the Republicans could win an election if the Supreme Court bans the abortion pill.
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I don't even think I'd have fun talking about it after that.
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I don't think Trump could win in that environment.
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Well, I'm not even going to give you an opinion on that.
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I think it's just going to be what we're going to see.
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So basically, I think the whole election is going to be decided by the Supreme Court.
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Does anybody disagree that the election will be completely determined by this ruling in the Supreme Court?
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So again, there's plenty of room for disagreement.
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I would respect any disagreement with my opinion.
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Because I think there's plenty of room for disagreeing.
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But to me, it looks like that would be the end.
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I don't see a Republican could get elected into national office on that.
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I don't know which way that's going to go either.
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Is anybody making a prediction which way the Supreme Court goes?
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Because I don't know what the legal argument is exactly.
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But if the legal argument is ambiguous, what would you expect?
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You'd expect the Supreme Court to be conservative-leaning, right?
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So it would be interesting to be a conservative in the Supreme Court.
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knowing that you made it impossible for conservatives to succeed,
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Twitter apparently has dropped their labeling of state-affiliated media.
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So they're not even labeling the media that's obviously other countries' state-affiliated media.
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And I think this would be another example of the Musk entrepreneurial approach,
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which is you just throw something up, see how people react,
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and then if you need to change it, you just change it.
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Thought about it some more and said, yeah, that didn't work.
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If you just watch what Elon Musk does, forget what he says, just watch what he does.
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Even the things he does wrong are a lesson in business because you watch how he corrects it.
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Like guessing wrong about what will work and what won't, that's sort of a nothing.
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But what do you do when you find out you're wrong?
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I feel we're all getting a useful education just watching.
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All right, here's speaking of Musk and all things like that.
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There's an announcement from one of the most big battery makers.
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So it's important to know this isn't a startup.
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This is the biggest or one of the biggest battery makers.
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And they've announced a new battery process to make a condensed battery with 500 watts per kilogram power.
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So that's how much electricity for the weight of the battery.
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And apparently it doubles, doubles current best batteries.
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Now, you say to yourself, well, that's just a story of things we already knew of getting better.
00:47:04.300
Because this doubling crosses an important economics barrier.
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And the economics barrier was, it wasn't practical to make electric airplanes.
00:47:22.500
It wouldn't make sense to make an airplane that's not electric now.
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Now, it's going to take a long time to transition, of course.
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But if you're looking at a new, if you're looking at a new small plane, we'll start with small planes.
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If you were looking at a new small plane, if somebody makes one, why would you buy the other one?
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That this one little technological change is going to have a huge impact on transportation and maybe storage, too.
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I mean, just think about if you had one of these batteries as a backup on your house.
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You could get away with, well, let me make the most extreme case.
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If Californians had enough of this capacity battery, it wouldn't matter if our grid was undependable.
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Because if the main source of the grid failed, it could suck some of the battery power out, maybe.
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Or people could just get off the grid long enough for it to recover.
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You might actually find a way for the grid to become robust without fixing the grid.
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I mean, the implications of just doubling this battery are almost unimaginable.
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Let's say you had an autonomous robot that has AI in it, but you have to plug it in every hour.
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Or it's running around on an extension cord or something.
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Now you imagine that you could free it from its charging requirements for longer times.
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Now you've got a robot that lifts some stuff and jumps some stuff.
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And you've got a military robot, probably better, you know?
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So the scope of change from this, what about e-bikes?
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But imagine your e-bike being twice as powerful or going twice as far.
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I believe that's what I wanted to talk about today.
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If you have not watched, if you have not seen any of the Dilbert Reborn comics, the spicier version,
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I was reading some previews to my Man Cave participants.
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I do a private live stream many evenings from my Man Cave, just for the people on the Locals platform, subscribers.
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And I was reading some of the future comics, the ones that are, let's say, the new spicy version.
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I had to work through the comics that were in the pipeline already, because they were the ones that were slated for newspapers.
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But I think they agreed that they're pretty provocative, but also funnier, I hope.
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Is there any story that you're dying to talk about?
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But you're reminding me, I want to give him a voice tip.
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He had a procedure to improve his voice quality.
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But I feel like there's something he could do with his voice production technique that would take better advantage of that.
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Oh, yeah, I was on Dr. Drew last night with Dr. Victory, and you might want to watch that.
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I just saw a recommendation for Kat Timph's book.
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Let me give Kat Timph a little shout-out, okay?
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I've been seeing her promoting it on some TV shows.
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Who was it who said, there's somebody who was talking to her and said, you know, you could tell she wrote every word in the book.
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So for public figures, that's, you know, not always the case.
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She's an excellent writer, a professional writer.
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I think AI will have human advocates who are trying to get it rights.
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Oh, Matt Tybee being threatened with jail time.
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I saw a tweet on that, but I didn't know the context.
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I saw that he was threatened with some kind of jail time, or there was a risk of it.
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So there's some claims about him that would be a problem.
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I think if anybody like Amanda Devine or Matt Tybee or Michael Schellenberger, if any of those,
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if any of those independent voices get attacked, I think we need to protect them.
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I think, and by the way, I'm now cursed, so I have the curse on me.
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The same thing happened when I became a cartoonist.
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I got some advice that really made a difference, and then I felt cursed because if anybody asked
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me for advice once I was successful, I felt the need to give it to them, to pass on the
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goodness, but because I was protected when I got canceled, I feel the need to promote anybody
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Anybody who didn't try to cancel me is my friend, right?
00:55:00.060
Talk about Musk removing rules on deadnaming from Twitter.
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So is it true that you used to get banned from Twitter for deadnaming, calling a trans person
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by their old name, and now that's gone away, right?
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As much as I don't want to see any discrimination, and I don't want to see any harshness toward
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the adult trans community, I don't think you should go to jail for using somebody's, you
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know, first name, original name, I guess, dead name.
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Can we cancel the publishers that canceled Scott?
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I don't think that the editors of either the newspapers or my syndication company or the
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You know, the public, the public's kind of firmly in command of things, and the public
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Yeah, I'm not going to criticize any of the individuals who made business decisions for