Episode 2295 Scott Adams: CWSA 11⧸17⧸23
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 7 minutes
Words per Minute
138.5705
Summary
In this episode of the show, Scott Adams talks about coffee, AI, and the future of the newspaper industry. Scott Adams is a best-selling author, bestselling author, and podcaster. He's also the host of the popular morning radio show and is a regular contributor to the New York Times and NPR.
Transcript
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Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-ba-ba-ba.
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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the Highlight of Human Civilization.
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If you'd like to take this experience up to levels that will make you tingle in places I can't even mention,
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All you need is a cup or a mug or a glass of tank or chalice or stein, a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind.
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Fill it with your favorite liquid, kind of like coffee.
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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine to the end of the day, the thing that makes everything better.
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You know, with all the division in the world, I think it's sad that we have a solution to it here, the Simultaneous Hip, that brings us all together.
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You know, why can't the rest of the world Simultaneous Hip?
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All right, here's some things we know about coffee.
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There's a new study that says it inhibits COVID.
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You might have like a 10% less chance of getting COVID if you drink enough coffee.
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It makes you smarter, feel better, less depressed, lets you exercise better, and it might cut down your odds of getting COVID.
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Now, let us again compare Scott to the entire medical community.
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During the first month of the pandemic, I told you to go outside and make sure you got a lot of vitamin D, get exercise, lose weight, and drink coffee.
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So I think I'm the most right person in the world.
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I guess the X platform now lets you search and apply for jobs.
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There was something about searching for a job that sounded like yesterday's news.
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And I think it's not because of UPI and not because robots will take your job.
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But shouldn't AI be finding people and just offering you jobs?
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Why am I looking for a job that feels like old technology?
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And then AI goes out and does some headhunting, sends you an email and says,
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hey, there's a company near you looking for somebody like you.
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But really, the idea of the traditional go and look for a job,
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I feel like that's going to be obsolete in five years.
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So the larger question is, do you think everybody who has a platform
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will necessarily need to offer every service eventually?
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In other words, will you be buying your pharmaceuticals on X
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Will you do all of your job search on all platforms?
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I feel like all platforms are going to do everything.
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It seems like the obvious play, because once you have a platform
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and a software platform, the ways to grow are to do new things
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So I'd expect them all to do everything, including education.
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The newspaper business continues to circle the drain.
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more than two per week have gone out of business, newspapers.
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There are now 204 counties in the U.S. with no local news.
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And a lot of the counties only have one newspaper,
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Ask me again how glad I am that I got out of the newspaper business.
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that became much more drastic earlier this year.
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that would have some kind of impact on newspaper subscriptions?
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newspaper subscriptions just went in the toilet.
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because people have been telling me for decades,
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Now, I'm not going to claim the whole drop is from Dilbert stuff,
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a lot of this I see on tweets from Owen Benjamin,
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A whole person just from one clip and one photo.
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He was talking about Oregon decriminalized drugs,
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appears not to have been a big success in Oregon,
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that this shows that drug decriminalization doesn't work.
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was they made it really, really easy to do drugs.
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Look, I think if you're going to make doing drugs legal,
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Because, you know, that's the part people are complaining about.
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And then they also decriminalized or made it legal,
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Now, maybe there's a play where you decriminalize marijuana
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but maybe you don't decriminalize the real tough stuff.
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other places had a much worsened drug situation, too.
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who I only believe when it says things I agree with anyway,
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has declared that loneliness is a pressing health threat
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with risks as deadly as smoking up to 15 cigarettes a day.
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Like, if you've ever experienced crushing loneliness,
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Because it turns out there's a tremendous number of my followers
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You know, I'm in a kind of privileged situation.
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if I buy something at a cash register or something,
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and you can hang out with me and the other people who are hanging out.
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Now, I do think that we need to start building communities
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where you can, in the normal course of just living your life,
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you have lots of accidental contact with your neighbors.
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So, we should design communities that fix the nobody-can-find-a-friend problem.
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that women think about that friend they used to have,
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Like, are you, like, pushing them across the border
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I feel like that would be a Supreme Court case.