In this episode of Coffee with Scott Adams, the highlight of human civilization, host Scott Adams talks about the dangers of artificial intelligence and the future of the human relationship with the dead, and why we should all be worried about it.
00:01:02.440Well, have you heard of Project Lazarus? It's a project to use AI to take over your social media
00:01:12.920accounts after you die and just keep tweeting, and it will even age your profile picture.
00:01:19.620That's right. So now if you die, you can still do social media.
00:01:28.160No problem. But some anonymous person on the project is a little worried that it's taking
00:01:34.940a dark turn because apparently it's a little bit too good.
00:01:38.820So now the AI can make a perfect pre-production of you, and it can post things just like you would
00:01:47.820inside a dark turn. Do you think that people will have ongoing relationships with the deceased?
00:01:58.480I do. I think people are just going to keep with their partner. I think that people's spouse will pass
00:02:09.420away, and they're just going to keep living with them. They'll just keep going on. Imagine you're 85,
00:02:16.840and your life is basically, you walk out of the living room, your spouse is sitting in the chair,
00:02:23.720drinking some coffee. Maybe you talk a little bit. But basically, you're not going on big trips,
00:02:29.900and you're not going to the gym. What would be the difference between that and walking into your
00:02:37.300living room, your TV comes on, it's a perfect reproduction of your spouse who died last year,
00:02:43.520and it has a conversation with you just like your spouse would have.
00:02:49.400By that might actually be more interested in your problems than your spouse was.
00:02:54.340What's going to keep people from just continuing their existing relationship?
00:03:00.840Now, if you're 25 and your spouse dies, you're going to need some human touch and stuff,
00:03:09.240so you replace them. I think a lot of people are just going to continue living with the dead,
00:03:14.540and then eventually they'll port the dead into a robot body and just reproduce their dead ones,
00:03:20.700their loved ones. I don't know. There might be something important about our ability to let go.
00:03:27.820What if we lose our need to let go? I don't know. Could be an interesting change. Might not be good.
00:03:35.380All right. I'm having a comment problem on locals, so I'm going to open up my phone here just to look at their comments on a separate device,
00:03:45.860which will totally work, which will totally work.
00:03:51.760Sure. Sure. It'll totally work. No problem.
00:07:32.060So we have a system called teachers' unions, which guarantee we do not do the best job of teaching our children.
00:07:39.120Then we've got DEI, diversity, equity, and inclusion, which has infected our colleges, our schools, and our corporations.
00:07:50.620And now DEI, of course, is well-intentioned, in my opinion, well-intentioned, meaning that the whole point of it is to make the world better.
00:08:11.640But intentions do not necessarily translate to design.
00:08:16.660If your design is the opposite of your intention, that's a mistake.
00:08:20.240And in this case, I think we would all agree that if you focus on diversity and inclusion, and you even have a staff members whose job it is to make sure you do it,
00:08:34.280you are going to give up capability for diversity.
00:08:41.840It would not be your intention to do it.
00:08:44.200But it would be a necessity because of math.
00:08:48.560If everybody is going after the same pool of diversity, there just won't be enough diverse people who are also qualified for your specific job.
00:08:59.720So you're pretty much guaranteed that you're going to get lower quality because of DEI.
00:12:48.920If your food is compromised, your physical health is compromised, and it's a straight line to your mental health and your physical capabilities are compromised.
00:13:00.900So, do we have a food system which is going to promote capability or a food system which is going to promote sickness and poor mental health?
00:13:14.120Clearly, the food system is making us less capable.
00:14:53.060Well, Rasmussen did a poll and they asked U.S. voters if they believe in their lifetime the overall quality of America's political leaders have gotten worse.
00:15:07.100In my lifetime, the political leadership has gotten worse.
00:15:11.240That means 25% of the country has either not noticed it's gotten worse or believes that it's gotten better or declined to answer.
00:15:20.100Now, how many of you, when you first heard me say that most of our polls have 25% of the respondents have the dumbest fucking answer in the world, just the dumbest answer, it doesn't matter what the poll is, 25%, a good solid 25% are going to give you the dumbest fucking answer you've ever heard in your life.
00:16:02.220Oh, I see a question here in the comments on locals.
00:16:05.400What came first, Trump or the controversy?
00:16:08.860I would agree that it's not so much Trump who caused his own problems.
00:16:14.440You know, the Democrats painted Trump in a way that causes the problems.
00:16:19.580But he is unique in that the way he speaks and acts makes it a little bit easier.
00:16:27.740If you compare that to the way Vivek speaks and acts, Vivek can say things, and actually he is, we'll talk about that, saying things that are even more provocative than Trump, by far, actually.
00:16:39.920If you look at what Vivek said just this week, he's way more provocative than Trump.
00:16:45.380Do you know why it's not a number one news story about all the crazy stuff that Vivek said?
00:16:51.540Do you know why it's not a news story?
00:16:53.180Because the left is scared as shit, because he can explain his provocative opinions so well.
00:17:37.360Because if he's taking the sort of simple emotional truth, and I believe he's close to the truth, even when he's using emotion to persuade.
00:17:47.640It's very easy to attack from an intellectual perspective, because you say, well, he's not defending that that well.
00:17:54.180But then you introduce a vague, similar or even more provocative statements, and you do not want to put him on television, on MSNBC, and let the Democrats hear him speak.
00:18:09.960I'm surprised he's gotten as much play as he has on the left.
00:18:15.940You know, CNN's had him on a few times, to their credit.
00:18:19.220So let me give CNN some complete credit.
00:18:24.540They've had Vivek on, and they'd love him talk.
00:18:28.360So I'm going to give him credit for that.
00:20:03.240But bad system, as it turns out, there wasn't much there to look for.
00:20:09.860So, if you've got a system that's causing alienation and division, and it's not finding any problems that it was trying to solve, it makes things worse.
00:20:20.540So, once again, we have a system that, by its design, will reduce the quality of our military.
00:21:45.680So, anti-fragile is one of these, you know, woke books.
00:21:51.400And Atlantic actually ran a piece in which John McWhorter, responding to some criticism of his criticisms, posted this today.
00:22:04.320Apparently, the author, Robin DiAngelo, said that she was being criticized by somebody who is as right-wing or as conservative as Clarence Thomas and Ben Carson.
00:22:17.120And what McWhorter says about that, I'm, quote, very conservative, like Clarence Thomas and Ben Carson.
00:22:26.460She has clearly read barely a word of my work.
00:22:29.880At least when I slammed her book, I had read every word.
00:22:33.780And I maintained that, I'm sorry, it was white fragility.
00:23:18.380Just hold this in your head that wokeness has jumped the shark so much that even Atlantic will run a major piece against a book, which is, you know, one of the foundations of wokeness, from a black writer who isn't as conservative as Clarence Thomas and Ben Carson, apparently.
00:23:44.360But I feel like that's, I feel like the fact that this even happened is telling us something.
00:23:53.720It's telling us that at least you can say what you're thinking about the topic of wokeness and DEI and all that.
00:27:40.460We don't really have any mental health system for the people who are in the worst shape.
00:27:46.700But, you know, we know we can't involuntarily put them in institutions.
00:27:52.100But at least the average people who can afford to go to a therapist, at least they're getting super good service from the therapists who are trained to.
00:28:34.960He wishes he could resign from them twice.
00:28:37.800Because they've been infected by wokeness and apparently they're introducing the concept of colonizers into the therapy model so that you can know if the real problem is you've got some bipolar or maybe, you know, maybe a little, some, some.