Episode 2218 Scott Adams: I Tell You How To Use The Designated Liars To Deduce What Is True
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 10 minutes
Summary
In this episode, Scott Adams talks about the best book in the world, The Whiteboard Presentation, and the weirdest thing he's heard in a long time. Plus, an update on the magic mushrooms trial, and a story about a robot that thinks it can do math.
Transcript
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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.
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It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, now streaming to you live all over the world
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Oh, you wouldn't believe what they heard before you came on. Wow.
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But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody dreamed were possible,
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including two whiteboard presentations, two, two, wait for that.
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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day,
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Today's episode is brought to you by the best book in the world.
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It's called Reframe Your Brain, and it might actually be the best book in the world.
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But if you want a book that will almost certainly change your life in some positive way,
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Apparently, people are having their lives changed, even now.
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It's available, even though Amazon is making it as hard as possible.
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Of all the books on Amazon, you can imagine, there are tens of millions of books.
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How many of those books, if you went to the page and then tried to click on it to buy it,
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how many of those would Amazon not let you buy?
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I don't know if there are any others, but mine's pretty hard to get.
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So the hardcover got listed, but it got listed as not yet available.
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But if you go to the hardcover page, it doesn't show the softcover option.
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So if you thought you were buying a book, and you're like, oh, hardcover's there,
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you'd see it's not available, and then you wouldn't see that you could buy the softcover
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Under normal conditions, I would say to myself,
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But how many times have I told you there's a technical problem?
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So in a zero-trust environment, I'm going to assume guilt until proven innocent.
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Not that it's true, but I wouldn't assume it's an accident at this point.
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So if you can buy that book, if you can find a way to actually purchase it,
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Yet another trial of using mushrooms for depression.
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It turns out that the magic mushrooms made a huge difference.
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So basically, every time they study it, I think, correct me if I'm wrong,
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but 100% of the times they study depression and mushrooms, there's a big improvement.
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I mean, there's something really big, big, big that's coming down the pike.
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Remember, you know, I always remind you that I told you that when Trump rose in 2015, 2016,
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I told you it was going to change more than politics.
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It would change the way you saw reality itself.
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Well, if you thought that was a change, wait till you try mushrooms for your depression.
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So toward the end of today's show, I'm going to blow your minds like your brain is just going to come off.
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So, and almost certainly, almost certainly, you're going to say, what?
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I saw an article that apparently a lot of employees are pretending they have AI knowledge
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because their boss doesn't know one way or the other
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so that they can feel like they're the valuable employees.
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And I thought to myself, well, there's a whole week of Dilbert Reborn comics,
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which are available by subscription only on Twitter and on the Locals platform,
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You knew that people were going to pretend that they knew AI without knowing AI.
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Well, unemployment is inching up from 3.5 to 3.8.
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Let's pretend that we can measure it in a meaningful and accurate way
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such that the change between 3.5 and 3.8 is meaningful.
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So, but if the numbers that are official make it look like inflation is inching up,
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which is hard to imagine, why would it be going up?
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Seems like you should be going down, but that would be, I would guess,
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one of the most important predictors of the next election.
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I would say, I would think inflation is the biggest number that would change people's vote.
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If everything else were the same and inflation looked like it was inching up on election day,
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I think that's game over, at least in terms of the public.
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All right, here's my opinion on Mitch McConnell.
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And you all know he's had health problems and he's been freezing up.
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Actually, he just goes blank like he can't talk in public.
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Don't want to, you know, I don't want to mock somebody for age or infirmity.
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I think you could ignore everything Republicans say on any topic,
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Now you could say to me, but, but, but the other Republicans can't,
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you know, they have no say over whether he retires.
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If they all said you got to retire, he'd retire because it would just be too embarrassing not to.
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They could just not take his calls, you know, just ignore his office.
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But if you're not going to tell me the reasons,
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You have no credibility if the leader of your party is incapacitated
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Because Biden is also incapacitated, so that's okay.
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How can you make fun of the fact that Democrats keep Fetterman?
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How can you make fun of Biden's declining cognitive ability?
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So if you want to be a serious person, they all have to go.
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You know, Feinstein's got to go, but McConnell's got to go at the same time.
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So Republicans, could you pull it together just a little bit?
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I mean, this is just free money sitting on the table.
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I realize it's awkward, it's uncomfortable, it's not the thing you want to be known for.
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There's nobody in the world who thinks this is right.
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The simplest fucking thing you could ever do in your life?
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Help him retire with a little bit of dignity, maybe.
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Yeah, just ignore everything Republicans say from now on.
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Here's a service I'm thinking seriously of doing.
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One, you've seen me give my description of how to know if the news is credible.
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For example, I won't go through the whole thing.
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But I did a whole list of, you know, what is a credible story versus a non-credible story.
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And one of them, just to give you an example, is if the only source is an anonymous source
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and it's only being reported by the part of the media that hates the person who's being narced on,
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And then you could rate the other things for how often they're true.
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And then you'd have a good little guide to look at the news.
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But there's another thing I want to add, and I'm just starting to build the list.
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It would be the list of what I call the designated liars.
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Now, this is a little tricky because there's some nuance to it.
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If you miss the nuance, then the beauty of the idea disappears.
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In a moment, you're going to suggest people who are simple liars.
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If you miss the designated part, that would be like missing the difference between climate change is a hoax versus the climate agenda is a hoax.
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If you miss that designated word, which you will, not all of you, but somebody on YouTube is going to say, but other people lie.
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And what I mean by that is there's a group of Democrats.
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Now, you could make an argument that it happens on the right.
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But on the left, if you see any of these people be the chief character in a story, now the chief character would be somebody who wrote the big article that everybody's talking about, or somebody who's always on the news talking about it.
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If you see Phil Bump of the Washington Post making a claim that other people are saying, hmm, I'm not so sure that's true.
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Phil Bump is an absolute signal that it's a fake story.
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And he denied it quite a bit because he's under fire in the news.
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And basically, it's just mocking Phil Bump for being a ridiculous character.
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Now, in terms of full disclosure, Phil Bump does work for the Washington Post, which in the Dilbert Reborn comic is where Ratbert works as a writer.
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Ratbert, I guess I should tell you, is current incarnation as a writer for the Washington Poop.
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So in the Dilbert Reborn comic, you can only see it by subscription.
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But in your mind, if you see it, just tell yourself it's Phil Bump and it's funnier.
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He's one of the people who comes after me in public.
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And he was dancing on my grave when I got canceled, primarily by his newspaper, which started the rest of the newspapers.
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So when the Washington Post canceled me, that allowed everybody else to do it at the same time.
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So just know that I'm not objective, but Phil Bump's a good signal for fake news.
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The other ones you know, Adam Schiff, Eric Swalwell, Jamie Raskin, Jerry Nadler, Dan Goldman, Blumenthal, Brennan, Clapper.
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Now, they're the ones that I call the designated liars.
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She's somebody who lies and spins everything all the time.
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So she's not a signal because she's just out there spinning all the time.
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The other people that are not a signal would be leadership.
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Because they're going to talk about everything all the time because they're in leadership.
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So if you see them saying something that's true or not true, it's not really a signal.
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They're just talking about everything all the time.
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They would just be ordinary politicians who don't always tell the truth and spin a lot.
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You know, they believe things that are not true.
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There are people who maybe just have different philosophies.
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There are people who maybe they know they're bending or spinning or something.
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And probably there's some people who just know they're lying on the Republican side.
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There is not an identifiable squad of liars on the right that I'm aware of.
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If I'm missing it because I have some bias, somebody should suggest it to me.
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Now, if you say to me, but Scott, here's somebody who lied.
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They're all going to be lying sooner or later, except for Thomas Massey.
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I have to throw Thomas Massey in there every time I call Congress liars,
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because he's so obviously not one that I just feel shitty when I don't...
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There are others that I do trust are not lying.
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But Republicans have a different set of credibility problems.
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That doesn't seem to me like a designated liar.
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That seems like somebody who has an opinion you don't have.
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Because Crenshaw is not identifiable with the guy you stick forward
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He's just somebody who disagrees with you deeply on a big issue.
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And it certainly doesn't make him a designated liar.
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Adam Kinzinger, there's something going on with Adam Kinzinger
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I don't see Adam Kinzinger as sort of the designated liar.
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Honestly, it looks like he has some mental difficulties,
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But when I see Adam Kinzinger, I don't see mental health.
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So if you're displaying something that looks like
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maybe there's something you're working on on your own,
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If you were teaching somebody how to look at the news,
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I believe I'm going to explain this to you correctly.
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that if you have a pill that you think will be real
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Now, if the real drug improves people's condition
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I don't think anything's been studied this much.
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Has anything ever been studied as much as this?