Episode 2246 Scott Adams: News & Science & Other Things You Shouldn't Believe. Bring Lots Of Coffee
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Summary
Scott Adams talks about how to make a good recipe from a photograph, nuclear power in Poland, and why he doesn t think ChatPGP can make good recipes from a photo. Plus, a story about a woman who can make the best soup in the world.
Transcript
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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.
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It's Coffee with Scott Adams, and man, are you lucky to be here now.
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All you need to take this experience up to galactic levels is a cup or a mug or a glass,
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a tank or chalice or stye, and a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind,
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fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.
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So, join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine today that makes everything better,
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except my sound, because I knew I was forgetting something.
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Yes, if I put my microphone on, this will all go better.
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Now, a minute ago when I said I know I'm forgetting something,
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you should have said, your microphone, your microphone.
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Well, you missed a simultaneous sip, but I think you read my lips and it came out about the same.
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I should just turn off YouTube, because there's no way it's going to be monetized now.
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I've got a feeling the first three seconds of you don't hear sound,
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Confidence is a feature, but certainty is a bug.
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One way or another, you'll work it out, you'll figure it out.
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That's confidence, but certainty is that you know exactly what's true.
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You can just be confident that you'll figure it out.
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Brian Romelli reports that now ChatGPT, I guess it's version 5,
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has a multimodal mode, meaning it can see and talk and hear and stuff.
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And you can take a picture of a dish, a prepared food dish,
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So you just take a picture of it, and it tells you the recipe.
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Do you know what else can take a picture of something
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and she can probably, well, it looks like you got some cheese in there,
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it looks like some beans, I see a couple of lentils, and some corn.
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So, I do not believe that ChatGPT can make a good recipe from a photograph.
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When I owned a restaurant, I had a friend who made the best doll soup,
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And it was the best thing I've ever tasted in my life to this day.
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I've never put anything of food nature in my mouth that tasted that good.
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And so, I said, can you teach my chef how to make it?
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So, she came over and taught my chef how to make it,
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And we, you know, double-checked and triple-checked,
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Because the woman who made it always made it different every time,
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It was just somebody who would taste things until it was right and then serve it.
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So, no, this whole idea that you can copy a recipe doesn't work.
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Also, when I owned a recipe, or I owned a restaurant,
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I had a favorite dish, so I would tell them to make that dish.
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So, no, Chad GPT cannot tell you how to cook anything.
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Poland is starting work on three nuclear reactors.
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Why are we not doing this in the United States?
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We presumably have regulations that stop us from doing this,
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So, we have an incompetence problem in the United States.
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And if we'd like to be smarter, we should look to Poland.
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But, I guess they were inappropriate in the first place.
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in which they do the interview within virtual reality?
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they could put their virtual heads pretty close together,
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So, you actually feel like it's the real person
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the entire video of what you're trying to look like.
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and then the only thing that they send over the Internet
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But, you know, yeah, I don't want to get too detailed,
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you could turn it into almost a full sexual experience.
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And by that, I mean people who are maybe not attractive,
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So it's going to be better than regular sex, I think.
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The real test will be if it can activate your oxytocin.
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that your body produces when you're hugging people
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As far as I know, it's the only way you can get it.
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But could this technology be so similar to a human?
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If you don't want to be close to the other person's face
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probably you're releasing some of those hormones.
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All right, I've got a way to tell who's going to be successful.
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Do you ever look at a young person and say to yourself,
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Now, if you assume, you know, some minimum level of capability,
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are they going to use that capability to do anything useful,
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It's interest in figuring out the mechanism of success.
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or I want it really hard, or I have passion or something.
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But does somebody actually go out of the way to study
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And you can see that right away with little kids.
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I was already, you know, gobbling up news stories about famous people.
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Especially if the story was they came from nothing and they made money,
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And then I would also read, you know, books and stuff,
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about anybody who would come up with some method for beating the system.
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And I see that also with my book, Reframe Your Brain.
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Because Reframe Your Brain is one of those change-your-life kinds of books.
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and then you tell me if this would tell you who is successful.
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Many people say this book adds the highest value to your life
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wouldn't you at least want to skim through that book?
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you're probably not somebody who's going to really kill it in life.
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all right, if you spend like a minute looking at this,
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you can pretty much predict how their life is going to be.
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Now, they don't have to take it and read it while you're watching.
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But if they don't at least show a little interest
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in something that would be a small amount of work for a huge gain,
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So that's a good way to spot successful people.
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And by the way, the feedback for that book is insane.
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and changed their lives and all kinds of stuff.
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So Senator Dianne Feinstein has died at the age of 90.
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Because we all want to show respect to the family
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that you would not show respect to somebody after they died?
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But people are going to be all over the line on this one.
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Or possibly Joe Biden will choose Dianne Feinstein's corpse
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Used to kill the most people between 18 and 44.
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He was sending a lot of fentanyl into the United States.
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So let's show some respect for El Chapo when he passes.
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for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans
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somebody whose job it was to control the border,
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the government is weaponizing itself against Elon Musk
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And now the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
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So they didn't do something that he tolerated, allegedly.
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I don't know what you can do about it exactly all the time.
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And I'm not saying that there wasn't racial harassment.
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because you're going to lose either way, really.