Episode 2319 CWSA 12⧸11⧸23 The 7 Hoaxes That Changed America. Should Government Apologize For DEI？
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In this episode of Coffee with Scott Adams, Scott takes a look at a recent article written by Vivek Kundnani, and takes a deep dive into what it says about the future of the space industry, and the potential impact it could have on the world.
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well in science news remember all that that worry you had about your
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cholesterol it turns out that's all bullshit I don't quite understand the
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study but there's some study out that strongly suggests there's no link between
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cholesterol and heart disease do you believe that now I I think I've
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assumed that for a long time I'm not sure the study is accurate maybe some other
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study will overturn it and I'm not and some people are saying the study is being
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misread it doesn't really say that or maybe it maybe it's a short term versus
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a long term maybe there weren't enough people in it maybe the design of the test
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study was wrong so we don't know for sure but what I do know for sure is it's
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not for sure the cholesterol is destroying your heart it might be just some kind of
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inflammation so I don't know what's true there and don't get your medical advice
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from cartoonists so talk to your doctor don't talk to me well Argentina got their new president Javier
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Nudu and the first thing he did was cut the government from 21 departments down to nine
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did he really do that that's not even possible did it did he tell them it's their last day they just
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walked away or did they say you've got you know a year to wind things up how exactly did he do it
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you know when you watched what happened at Twitter
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it is there anybody who doubts the fact that Twitter had too many employees right when Musk cut 80%
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of the staff how many of you said oh no there's no way it can operate if you've got 80% of the staff
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do you know who didn't think that would be a bad idea there was a class of Americans who knew that
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would be fine well what was that class of Americans who knew it would be fine we've got 80% of the staff
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everybody who ever worked in corporate America am I right everybody who had business experience
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said you know what I think that could work and everybody who was a journalist who did not have much
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business experience said well how could it possibly work if you take 80% of the foundation out of the
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building how's it going to stay up that must be fall over right and meanwhile everybody with business
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experience said huh I'll bet that'll work and what has happened to the X platform since then
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probably the fastest pace of useful development I've ever seen in my life
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why were they so fast lots of reasons you know good leadership probably good employees
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but they didn't have the other 80% getting in the way and and the things that they did could
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actually make a difference and they're probably well paid so it's not like magic you know it's not
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like there's some secret process that only one person knows it's kind of basic stuff get the garbage out of
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the way get good people give them a reason to live so here's what I wonder about Argentina and
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uh Javier Miru going from 21 departments down to nine by the time we have our election a year from now
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we're gonna know if that worked just think about that yeah in 11 months we'll know if the Argentina thing
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I can't think of a better argument for electing a Republican
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I mean if that works it's going to be hard to ignore
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right because Republicans want to do they want to do the minor version of that you know getting
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rid of several departments but it's going to be hard to argue with getting rid of the
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Department of Education if Argentina gets goes from 21 departments down to nine and everything's fine
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yeah so Vivek had a plan which honestly even to my ears sounded a little bit too much
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when I would hear Vivek talk about it I thought I don't know if he can get all that done
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maybe when it comes right down to it you wouldn't really get rid of the departments maybe trim them a
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little bit or something but now when I see Milieu Milieu is it Milieu or Milieu I don't know whatever
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whatever it is uh when I watch him try to do this we're actually going to have an answer of whether it
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works you know sort of in the general sense but also it completely changes my view of Vivek's
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take on this he Vivek went from outside the normal and be thinking I don't know if you can get all that
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done you're right in the middle like you went from outside the the zone of oh that's not practical
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to right in the middle of it as long as it works in Argentina it's definitely going to happen here
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there's no way you can ignore it if it works there well speaking of Vivek he was on a spaces event
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last night maybe some of you heard so it's the most classic thing that you talk about in public
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speaking the single most classic joke that people make is somebody forgetting they have a microphone on
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and then using the restroom in the middle of an event well that happened so Vivek was joining uh Elon Musk and
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uh uh Alex Jones was there and uh Vivek I guess he uh took a little uh bathroom break
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and his mic was on and all I've got to say about it is that man knows how to make a live stream
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that's all I have to say about that there's nothing else to say and we're done next topic
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over at open AI which has turned into a soap opera as well as a technology company uh one of the founders
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co-founders uh Ilya uh since kever has not been seen uh he's not he's not visible to company for quite a
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quite a time now what do you think is happening with one of the co-founders of open AI during the most
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exciting time of their history why would he be missing in action what could possibly be going on
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well let me ask you this he just created a company that's worth 90 billion dollars
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and he's the the head you know expert you know he's not just the ceo he's like the technology guy
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how much do you think he could ask for in salary
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if he jumped ship try to imagine what Elon Musk would pay him
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just just put that number in your head but what's his actual market value
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don't you wonder about that like if if you and I went to get a job in corporate America
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you know if I went back to work in corporate America like what what could I command in my salary
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I'd like to think I could get a six-digit salary if I went back to corporate America
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he might be the first employee in the history of civilization
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who if you heard that his annual salary was a billion dollars you'd say to yourself that sounds about right
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and I apologize to Elon Musk if he's negotiating with him now
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because that's not going to help Elon at all not at all sorry
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no he's not going to get a billion dollars but I wouldn't be surprised if he got stock options
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that were worth a billion dollars in in a hypothetical if things go well sense wouldn't be surprised
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I think he could actually command a billion dollars in compensation we'll see
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what I don't know is how many people have gotten up to speed to where he is now so I don't know how
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special he is obviously he was quite singular up until now but I wonder if that's still the case
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all right um I keep saying that somebody needs to compile a master list of all the lost government
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documents how many stories have you heard where oh those those emails were destroyed uh yeah it was a
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mistake and uh oh you want those videos from January 6th oh I lost those yeah and now we hear that the
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secret service has lost all of their messages around January 6th and it was a big accident it was just a
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big mistake because there was there was a technology migration and you know the first thing you do when
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there's a technology migration I think you all know this right well if you haven't been involved in a
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technology migration the first thing you do is delete important files from the old system
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no you don't do that the most important thing you do is preserve the old system
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rule number one don't lose anything from the old system
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don't lose anything from the old system until you're really sure you you don't need it but they lost it
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huh well the head of the secret service is a known uh democrat loved operative uh was tight with
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dick cheney and biden and now now she's head of the uh secret service and says it's a damn shame all
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those very very necessary documents they just got lost data migration things happen
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things happen in migrations what are you going to do
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so I said to myself Scott this will be the day that AI becomes useful
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I said whoa I don't want to go and you know do google searches and try to find all the recent
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stories about lost documents and deleted documents and can't find the documents or won't give you the
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documents or it's uh it's redacted you know I thought must be a lot of those stories but guess what
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so I go over to Grok and I say Grok find me all the stories in the last seven years
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where the documents have been lost or unavailable and I gave a bunch of words for unavailable you know
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I said look for text messages and emails and legal documents and anything that the government said
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you know is unavailable and it came back and it said well uh there was a president trump
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who wouldn't give back his documents at mar-a-lago
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he gave me three examples I think two of them were about trump not giving documents back
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so let me just say Grok is not where we want it to be
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but to be fair it's it's you know first release so I'm not going to judge I'm not going to judge Grok
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until at least gets parity with the other services so I do appreciate I very much appreciate
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that musk puts it out before it's you know completely diamond hard uh because I like that as
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a process I like that he puts it out there it gets responses you know that they can they can fix it
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based on responses and stuff so I'm not going to judge it yet but it wasn't useful for that so I
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said to myself well I don't have to settle for Grok which is some people say it's like GPT
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3.5 only I'll go to 4.0 I'll go to chat GPT so I went to chat GPT and said find me all the instances of
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the government specifically the government saying those documents are gone I gave it a long super
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prompt you know what it told me that's too hard it's too hard to get that
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it's a search it's basically a google search I just wanted it to do it for me instead of me having to
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google every single you know search term so it was too hard yeah much too hard so there's your update
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on the usefulness of AI not much here's another one ask it to list the major political hoaxes of
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the last seven years do you think it will do it oh no not even close why is that I don't know exactly
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why that is it seems like exactly the sort of thing it could do but not even close yeah so certainly
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AI is not going to be revealing truth to us if you thought that was going to happen well today we hear
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that Hillary Clinton is going to get more involved in the Biden campaign and by getting more involved
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in the Biden campaign if you read between the the words here let me let's try to read between the lines
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okay okay it's coming into view now all right the top level is Hillary plans to get more involved in
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the Biden campaign but if you squint just right if you hold it at an angle you can read between the lines
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it says uh probably will smother him with a pillow smother him with a pillow just reading between the
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lines yeah you got it you got to go beyond the surface you got it you got to do your own research
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and dig down yeah smothered with a pillow um there's evidence that she's already purchased it from oh
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Mike Lindell uh this is just messed up yeah she's going to buy her pillow from Mike Lindell and frame him for
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for smothering Biden with the pillow there's also evidence that she's going to remove Biden's shoes
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and put oh this is messed up she's going to put Mike Lindell's slippers on smother him with a my pillow and
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then frame him for the whole thing that yeah I know it's true I asked AI AI says this is true
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no I'm making all that up except it'll probably happen
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well Trump says he will not testify at his civil fraud trial
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because there's nothing to say is that the right choice
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yeah there's some things you can't say yes hard enough to
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yes it's like let me demonstrate the proper way to say yes to this
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Scott you think uh Trump should uh decline the offer to testify at his own uh civil fraud trial
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yes yes yes yes yeah that's that's the proper yes
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so yeah that's good because I think what's happened since the banker said it's no big deal
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and the real estate evaluation guy said it's undervalued there's nothing for Trump to add
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nothing to add just get him off get him off of that risk and so he's smart so he's not doing that
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all right so as you know Alex Jones was reinstated on the x platform
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and uh one entity that's not too happy about it is the washington post
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they say it's likely like in a opinion piece it's likely to hasten the flight of advertisers
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from the site over anti-semitism and hateful content huh Alex Jones
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anti-semitism and hateful content can somebody give me a fact check
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I don't believe Alex Jones has ever even been accused of anti-semitism am I wrong
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I don't think that's even better in the conversation I don't remember anything like that
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right how about uh hate uh hateful content has Alex Jones ever been accused of hateful content
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certainly you know with the uh whatever it is the school shooting case certainly he was wrong
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and there's an argument that people were damaged by being wrong but do you think he did that end of
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hate what was there some hate for children or family no there was no hate that there was simply
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something he may have thought was true that turned out not to be true and he you know he doesn't say
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it was true now he just says something got into him basically so the washington post is selling fake
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news about Alex Jones while complaining that he's a source of fake news and the washington post is the
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most disgraced uh known purveyor of fake news in the american history at least of ones that pretended to be
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legitimate yeah uh there were other you know i'm not talking about tabloids in the past in the past
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tabloids just made stuff up but the uh of the of the entities that pretend to be legitimate
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the washington toast is washington toast oh the washington toast that just came out
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from now on i'm going to call them the washington toast
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those are totally burnt yeah so the washington toast anyway it's ironic that the washington toast
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would be making fun of uh Alex Jones as you know i created the uh the hoax quiz that i bring out
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every now and then especially when there's a new one but i realized it was getting too large
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i wanted it to look impressive to show how many hoaxes there are but it worked against me
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because when it gets too big people just sort of ignore the whole thing it's like yeah yeah that's
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a lot of stuff i don't want to look into it so i uh tightened it up to seven the top seven hoaxes
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that shaped modern america you like that title the top seven hoaxes that shaped modern america
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i would invite any journalists who would like to follow up on this um you're welcome to use my
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framing and to use me as one reference in your story if you'd like to follow up on this so i'm not
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going to write the story i thought about it writing an article around it but uh i thought the tweet did it
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fear of the top seven and i say they shaped modern america um and what i mean is
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what i mean is they mattered there were lots of hoaxes but in the end they didn't matter
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right like uh trump uh overfed the koi fish all right that was a hoax yeah it didn't matter
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covington kids covington kids it was a hoax it didn't make much difference i mean not really
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but here are the ones that did number one the fine people hoax number two because the fine people hoax
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literally got i mean the fine people hoax gave us everything everything bad came from that hoax
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um including biden the drinking bleach hoax um the russia collusion hoax the january 6th was an
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insurrection hoax the derek chauvin murdered george floyd hoax the shadow banning isn't real hoax
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remember when they told us shadow banning isn't real uh and then i'm going to add the climate models
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predict the future which is different from saying climate change is or is not a risk i'm just saying
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that it's a hoax that models can predict that now i left out think about the ones i left out
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i left out the laptop hoax i personally don't think it would change the election
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that's just my feeling so yes i mean it's often talked about as being a big deal but i don't know
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if it's in the top seven it's in the top ten but ten is too much i'm trying to keep it tight so you
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could argue about what should be on this list but i thought it would help to try to get the concentration
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to get the conversation concentrated on the ones that made it might have made a difference you know
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give or take one or two all right here's some new news that should have seen but i did not
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not did you know that in big political events it's not uncommon to hire a big international pr firm
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and the big international pr firm already has connections with big publications because big
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publications rely on pr firms because pr firms had no stuff and have connection to their clients
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that the news would like to have so there it's a friendly situation with pr people at the highest
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level the the smaller pr people are just bugging the publications but at the highest level they're
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their buddies so mike benz is talking about uh the situation uh there's a big pr firm called edelman
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uh and there's somebody named uh an apple bomb who's a who's on the board of directors for the most
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notorious cia cutout in all of u.s history and uh that's somehow connected to this big pr firm and ways
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that are hard for me to understand anyway apple bomb run at atlantic hippies and uh according to uh mike benz
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she got a red red she got caught red-handed serving as a secret quote inner cluster cell
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member of a busted british intelligence op set up for covert censorship and political warfare operations
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known as the integrity initiative but whenever the government has a uh an entity with a big name
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it's just the cia it's like the integrity initiative the misinformation global initiative it's just
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basically always the cia or british intelligence or some intelligence group all right so apparently what
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these so-called clusters were uh they were journalists politicians military academic and business leaders
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that that basically were networked in kind of a rico way so that a a pr firm or the intelligence
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industries can activate them and suddenly the journalists and the the pundits and everybody
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starts talking about the same thing so while you thought hey it almost seems as if the fake news
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is coordinated it was coordinated it was coordinated it was exactly coordinated and they had a whole
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structure to do it so so you always wonder hey how is it that they're all like instantly on the same
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side in these situations it's coordinated yeah it's exactly what you thought it was all right um and
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that's an organized online influence campaign now this this is uh talking about the uk but presumably this
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this entity or this situation or this setup exists for american issues as well i did a really bad job of
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explaining it because it was complicated and i just had time to skim it before i came up
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i very much recommend that you follow mike bends on x bends as in mercedes bends same spelling he'll pop
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right up if you look for him but his his understanding of who the players are is the most important thing
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to understand about the news let me say it again if all you know is what the news is you don't know
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anything you're literally blind even if it's accurate because if you don't know who's pushing that
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narrative of the news you know and what they're leaving out and what they're up to you don't
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understand why you're seeing what you're saying but now that you know that there's an entire layer of
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organized misinformation people who work for intel groups you know that what you're seeing is an intel
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fabrication for anything important so the news pretty much is fabricated anytime it matters when
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it doesn't matter if it's just a celebrity thing if it's just a story about a celebrity it's not
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fabricated by the government it's just wrong because the news gets everything wrong there's no news about
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public figures that's correct but not for the same reason the reason the news about public fingers is
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always incorrect is that the news doesn't know the real news usually the only person who knows is the
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public figure maybe a spouse or something nobody else knows what the whole story is
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so the news is completely artificial but for different reasons all right so i'm feeling sorry a little
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bit for the president of harvard who not only is getting hammered for what some say many say is the
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inadequate answer to the bullying of the jewish students on harvard's campus and so there are
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calls for her to be removed bill ackman is sort of leading that charge famous investor bill ackman
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don't let me ever make him angry at me if it looks like i'm heading in that direction
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would you just grab me and pull me back because damn i do not want him spending his entire day
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trying to take me out he works all day long i don't know how much he's working on investing lately
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but he's working all day long and setting things right now i i'm completely on his side
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uh in terms of he's got a point to be made um but ma'am it's it's an interesting dynamic to watch
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an investor take down free college heads uh because they should be i think their answers were firing
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offenses in my opinion although i agree with glenn greenwald who says that we're we're definitely
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treading on the free speech rights of a lot of these people that's really happening but that
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doesn't mean that the um that the presidents of these colleges gave good answers they're they're
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definitely protecting a bad influence so so here's what's happening so the attacks against claudine
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gay the president of barbara intensifying has now extended to claims that she got tenured based on
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plagiarized articles and debunked studies i think what happened if i saw it correctly
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was she referred to somebody else's studies and the other person their studies were faked or
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wrong so uh i don't i don't have an opinion yet on how valid the claims are but they're out there
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so the the important thing to know is it's out there um and that people are saying out loud and in
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public that she's a diversity hire that's the sort of thing people didn't say so loud a little while
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ago but now they just you can just say it out loud basically um i don't know if that's the case in her
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case that she's just a diversity hire i would i would say how would i know how do i know what her real
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qualifications are i don't so i'm not going to say that i would say that it looks exactly like
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and in our world if it looks like it that ends up being the reality but i don't know if it's real
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reality so she might be really smart don't know uh well i assume she's really smart anyway
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well here's the uh here's the most predictable outcome i love this a series of two tweets
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um the first one was that uh this one came from uh colin wright so he's he's a gentleman on
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the x platform and uh when this plagiarism thing came up he tweeted this i'm sure any moment now
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someone from the and he makes this up the critical plagiarism studies department will explain to us
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how plagiarism is an oppressive social construct imposed by white western settler colonists
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colonists really you should say and that we all need to acknowledge and embrace other ways of citing things
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now that's pretty funny isn't it that if a uh if a prominent black woman the president of harvard
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gets accused of plagiarism you know sort of a joke ha ha ha you know pretty soon somebody's going to
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say plagiarism is okay if you're black well uh there's an assistant professor at the university of
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cincinnati who writes in an article that anti-plagiarism policies harm black and latinx students
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it's a real thing somebody actually said that it's unfair to accuse black people and hispanic people
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of plagiarism and that maybe it'd be okay to blame white people but not black and latina latinx people
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now i'm not going to read you the article or tell you where it appeared because i don't want to even
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give it that much credit but it's kind of funny that it exists does this look a little like jumping
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the shark shark here's here's fonzie yeah that's that's kind of kind of taking it to the full joke
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level now remember i told you that we reach a point where the real news sounds like a joke you just
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can't tell the difference this is real news and it matched exactly the joke and the joke came even
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before the real news well i don't know about the timing but he didn't know about this when he did the
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joke version the the actual article says latinx
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apparently the assistant professor at the university of cincinnata used used that term in the headline
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all right um there's a meme going around that i reposted that i believe one year ago i would not
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have reposted and one year ago maybe you wouldn't even see it because it would get you know shadow
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banned here's what the meme says uh it's a meme about uh dei and it's defining it says
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diversity means fewer white people inclusion means exclusion of white people and equity means
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is that unfair is that inaccurate it's a reframe but it's 100 accurate
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yeah it is simply a different way of describing the exact same stuff but a year ago a year ago i
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couldn't have said that out loud would you agree i don't think i would have but at the moment it's
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now obvious to everybody you know how obvious it is that dei is all bad
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cnn's farid zakaria just went all in against dei at colleges specifically but it the same thing applies to
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everything else but he went in and he basically said the dei has destroyed the colleges just flat out
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he didn't hold back a bit there was not one part of him that gave it a little bit of credibility
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he basically said in a major piece on the middle of you know a good time zone on cnn
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he just said see ci is or dei is dangerous and that just stood there as an opinion that cnn
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is not you don't see i'll bet you won't see the other people debate it
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do you think on another show on cnn somebody's going to say he went too far
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that not it looks to me like cnn's on board with this as a company so now you have the entire
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uh right leaning world saying dei has to die it has to it has to go and then cnn just is on the
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same page at least with farid which i would assume is a more widespread opinion i don't know
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and here's what i have to say about uh about that i've told you before that design is destiny right
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if you design something that guarantees a certain output why would you be surprised if you got that
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output but here's what's wrong with the design of dei right so let's say that the ideas of dei
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if not taken to the ridiculous are solid i agree with them i i think that all things being equal
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as long as you're serving your shareholders and serving you know the larger community it would be
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nice all things being equal if you could get more diversity more equity and more inclusion
00:36:51.380
that would be a good sort of goal for the world but as you know uh lots of goals conflict with other
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goals and you can't have everything without giving up something somewhere else now suppose you take
00:37:06.340
those competing objectives and you put them in the brain of one hiring manager right so you're a hiring
00:37:14.500
manager and now it's your job to take care of the stockholders you're trying to take care of your
00:37:19.700
own career you try to take care of the employees you already have you're trying to take care of your
00:37:25.380
customers and you also care about the world because you're a good person and you say to yourself you know
00:37:32.020
what all things being equal i would like to have more diversity that'd be good but i don't want to trade
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off too much i don't want to screw the stockholders i don't want to screw my employees i don't want to
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screw me but balancing all these objectives i'll see what i can do now that's what i call a good system
00:37:54.340
because within that one brain are all the competing impulses and then the one person can weigh them
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and evaluate them as one individual now is that a perfect system no no because that individual could
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be a racist or that individual could be the opposite you know a reverse racist so that's that's not ideal
00:38:18.180
you could you could see easily why people would look for an alternative to that because it wasn't
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wasn't maybe doing enough people would say but i'm only going to propose that putting all of it
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into one decision makers head is your best situation even with all the obvious flaws so here's what
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they did instead they created a dei department or maybe just one dei director once you've created
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that system that's a different system than all the competing things happening within one person's brain
00:38:54.500
now you've got a separate entity but here's the the flaw the ceo can't ignore that entity
00:39:01.380
the ceo cannot say oh the dei say say we've got to do x but the ceo does not have the freedom
00:39:10.020
to say you know what i'm going to weigh that against my profitability the the well-being of the
00:39:16.420
you know the customers and everybody else the ceo has to say oh shit if i ignore the dei and somebody
00:39:25.540
finds out the board is going to remove me right so you end up with this power imbalance where the ceo
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is the one who should be balancing all the competing interests but can't you take from the ceo the ability
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to balance interests and you sort of blackmail them because they've got a reputation to protect you sort of
00:39:48.180
blackmail them into doing what the dei group wants that's a design problem the design of making the dei
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group sort of a sacred protected class gives them too much power over the decision maker because they
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can take the decision maker down reputationally that is a poorly designed system what you should predict
00:40:11.380
in a poorly designed system of that nature is that the entire enterprise would be destroyed
00:40:19.140
because the impulse of the dei people are to bring in people primarily who will achieve the objective
00:40:27.060
of the director of dei which is that more equity and diversity but do you think that person is going
00:40:33.940
to weigh that against profitability no because their own profitability is going to be based on how much
00:40:41.300
more diversity you have next year that's all they care about that the dei person is not going to be
00:40:47.300
directly or immediately blamed if some employee makes a mistake five years down the road that
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is because they weren't qualified that's not going to come back to that dei person i mean not directly
00:40:59.620
and not on in time but they definitely are going to have to answer for why there's not more diversity
00:41:04.900
next year so so you have this incentive system that's completely on a whack with what it is you're
00:41:12.020
trying to accomplish because what you're trying to accomplish is a strong company that's doing the best
00:41:17.700
they can on these other social issues which do have weight and importance so all i'm introducing to the
00:41:27.060
argument is that you have two systems that we know of one is where one person has to balance all the
00:41:33.700
things and then you don't really get the level of equity diversity that some people think is essential
00:41:42.660
but you also preserve the entities right it's an imperfect system but at least the government still works
00:41:50.660
at least the company still makes money at least disney still makes good movies am i right
00:41:57.460
but as soon as the you know the dei people get involved disney can't even make a good movie
00:42:03.940
do you think that the the head of ceo of disney do you think that he can make decisions completely
00:42:12.100
independent of the objections of his own dei department kind of not kind of not yeah bob eiger
00:42:21.460
yeah so it's a design problem and if you don't see it as that you're going to see it as racism or
00:42:30.420
something right if you're going down the is it racism or you know who's who's discriminating
00:42:37.380
against who it's it's the wrong conversation it's not even a good conversation the real conversation is
00:42:43.620
it's an engineering problem did you design an organization to fail as soon as you put in the
00:42:51.860
dei group as a separate group that are that are evaluated separately and they have control over the
00:42:58.660
top that's a guaranteed failure it guarantees you'll take energy away from profitability and move it toward
00:43:06.100
something that's not profitability so that's the end of you or credibility
00:43:25.540
i saw a weird post from nilon musk on evolution and entropy did anybody see that
00:43:32.500
it took me a while to figure out what that was all about still don't know exactly but here's what
00:43:39.780
he said so he says evolution and entropy and then space next line there are lies there are damn lies
00:43:49.380
and then there are statistical mechanics now you know this is a a play on statistics you know being
00:43:57.140
worse than lies but the statistical mechanics um seems to be a sort of a third branch of physics
00:44:06.740
in which they're trying to predict the action of the smallest entities and how that sums up i guess
00:44:13.540
and i don't know exactly what context he's making this comment but
00:44:19.540
do you believe that there is a uh any part of science is going to be using their statistical
00:44:33.140
basically i don't know anything about this topic
00:44:36.420
but i'm willing to say that musk is right because what he's referring to is something that
00:44:41.700
is sufficiently complicated that whoever is getting paid to work on it
00:44:46.180
is probably hiding in the complexity and getting a paycheck of doing some papers and stuff
00:44:52.900
while maybe not even believing that any of it's real or useful in the real world because it's
00:44:58.260
complicated and nobody can predict the future with math you know unless it's something like simple like gravity
00:45:07.620
all right um it looks like uh hamas has solved the ukraine war problem
00:45:13.300
uh or maybe trump has but it turns out there's a report that uh zelensky's uh well he announced
00:45:22.020
it he's gonna have peace talks in switzerland uh on the sidelines at the world economic forum
00:45:29.460
see you thought that the world economic forum was useless but it's a way to get zelensky to talk to
00:45:37.860
so here's how i interpret that number one if hamas and not attacked israel
00:45:45.300
it's far more likely that the u.s would be all in on funding and maybe not looking for peace
00:45:52.580
is that is that too strong do you think those two things are are connected in that way
00:45:58.980
because it's really a stretch to get americans to fund a war that they don't quite see
00:46:05.460
exactly how it's helping us but then when we sail our our fleet you know next to a second war
00:46:13.540
and you know we're involved on some level but not boots on the ground but you're still
00:46:17.860
uncomfortable about the funding and the involvement i feel as if hamas made it far more likely
00:46:25.780
that zelensky would have to you know look for a peace solution because he can't afford war
00:46:31.700
so is that would you agree that those are connected or is that too much of a stretch
00:46:38.820
i i feel they're psychologically connected in american minds all right but here's the other factor
00:46:47.620
you've heard me predict this before the democrats and biden in particular cannot
00:46:55.380
allow this war the ukraine war to still be raging on election day
00:47:01.700
do you agree that that they're at a level of complete desperation because if trump takes over
00:47:10.740
when the let's say the lines you know the front lines haven't changed much in over a year
00:47:17.780
how easy would it be for trump to end a war where there's no more funding neither side wants to fight
00:47:24.420
the you know the way it will be settled will be obvious and and trump's not the one responsible
00:47:30.820
for starting in the first place he would just be the one responsible for ending it it would be the
00:47:36.260
easiest war anybody ever ended i could do it that's i'm not even exaggerating i'd be a terrible president
00:47:43.860
don't vote for me for president but give me one day in the job and i can end the fucking ukraine war
00:47:49.060
you know else who else could end the ukraine war in one day besides trump you could yeah every one of
00:47:57.620
you every one of you you just have to say this is what's going to happen i'm the president of the
00:48:03.300
united states this is over that you guys come here this is over this is basically what it's going to
00:48:10.260
look like you guys work out the details but it's over we're done trump could do that tomorrow so
00:48:18.580
there will be a desperation from democrats to get this solved which guarantees it gets all so in a way
00:48:34.020
i don't think that's too far i i believe that the existence of trump
00:48:38.820
as a guaranteed war ender like there's no question about it really he would end it really quickly
00:48:45.300
you know before when he said that i think it was reasonable to say he's exaggerating
00:48:50.500
because you still thought well maybe there could be some change in the front lines
00:48:54.900
and maybe that something would change it's too soon to say that but today no doubt about it
00:49:02.180
it's not even it wouldn't even take any trump superpower deal making it would just take
00:49:07.460
somebody to try basically so yeah that's a big problem for the demons
00:49:21.220
well that's about it that's about it did i miss anything
00:49:39.860
just let the russians win yes that is scott's response
00:49:51.940
or you mean in terms of the current uh boundaries oh yes yes i would let the russians win their current
00:49:57.780
boundaries yeah yeah i'm saying that unambiguously i'm definitely letting them win their current
00:50:03.780
boundaries you know why because ukraine and nato and the united states up we up yeah we basically gave
00:50:13.700
it to them created a situation by design we designed the situation that guaranteed
00:50:20.740
that russia would own those properties because it would become important to them more important
00:50:26.260
now i also don't care does anybody care if russian-speaking pro-russian territories are controlled by russia
00:50:37.780
ukraine is the most corrupt country on earth is russia worse than ukraine
00:50:45.300
would russia use that extra power they have in those extra
00:50:49.140
areas to conquer the world no no probably just be a pain in the ass for russia
00:50:56.260
so no i don't care i have no interest in who owns those
00:51:00.580
pieces of land there's no american strategic interest
00:51:08.660
all right time for putin to go that's the opposite of what's going to happen
00:51:34.500
yeah i imagine putin's popularity will be through the roof
00:51:39.060
yep is vivek staying in the race well as far as we know i mean apparently did not qualify for the
00:51:46.580
next debate but i wouldn't be surprised if he counter programs that successfully
00:51:54.580
so don't be surprised if vivek is doing something to make some news sort of like trump does at the same
00:52:04.900
you know i would even i would even watch a program where vivek watches the debate with us
00:52:10.580
and then does you know mystery science theater uh kind of comments about how it's going wouldn't you watch that
00:52:21.220
i i would watch him commenting in real time on the debate that'd be fun
00:52:40.180
not according to peter's am i'm being told i don't know what that means i guess the russian situation
00:52:46.420
all right did you see the video which is a jordanian wedding in which the groom was shot
00:52:50.420
good lord why did trump say he was joking about the disinfectant well think it through
00:53:03.620
think it through answer your own question why did trump say he was joking about the disinfectants
00:53:10.420
what what was the alternative tell me the alternative
00:53:18.180
the alternative was for him to double down as light as a disinfectant inside the body do you think he
00:53:25.780
was prepared to do that do you think he felt confident enough that he remembered a tweet he saw three
00:53:32.580
months ago about light being a disinfectant i think he just wanted it to go away so he said that's just
00:53:39.940
joking what would you do what would you do in that situation i think you just try to make it go away
00:53:48.020
and so i think he was just trying to make it go away
00:53:58.580
prediction the fake will go on tim cast during the debate oh that wouldn't be a bad idea
00:54:04.340
yeah we talked about argentina and their departments illuminated um i think we got it all
00:54:15.220
i think we did it all all right for your uh pleasure um i did clip the part of my live stream where i
00:54:23.060
talked about organizing your brain into the executive and the other functions below it um
00:54:30.900
when i did that it's a reframe when i did that live i didn't know how much impact it would have on other
00:54:37.700
people but i immediately got incredible feedback that it changed people's entire outlook on reality
00:54:46.820
basically so i um i put a clip on the locals platform and also shared that i hope i made that
00:54:57.780
oh you know i might have shared it i think i shared it and made it locked at the same time
00:55:02.660
first thing i'll do when i'm done here is i'll make sure it's unlocked so that you can view it
00:55:07.460
because it does seem to be life-changing for some people and uh seven minutes will change your life
00:55:13.940
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