Episode 2357 CWSA 01⧸18⧸24
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 13 minutes
Words per Minute
142.72644
Summary
In this episode of Coffee with Scott Adams, Scott talks about the new Apple Vision Pro virtual reality glasses, and the president of Argentina, Mauricio Millet. Plus, a story about a man who thinks he should wear the glasses in the office.
Transcript
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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to Coffee with Scott Adams.
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The rest of you already had the good microphone, and everybody was jealous,
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Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.
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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day,
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Honestly, it's not always good, even when I say it is, but this one's actually really good.
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And I think that's telling you that the day will be amazing.
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So yesterday I saw a news story, and there was a black gentleman who was the subject of the news
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story, and I couldn't help but note that his last name was Mayo, M-A-Y-O.
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And then I thought to myself, ah, that's not really funny.
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It's just that it would just look like a racial comment or something.
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But, you know, my mind is always looking for patterns, so it just saw, ah, Mayo.
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Within minutes, I saw another story in the news about something called Mayo.
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And then within an hour, I saw a third story about Mayo.
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There were three Mayo-related stories in the news at the same time.
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Now, it's only because I noticed the first one, right?
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If you notice the first one, and then the other ones just come online because you changed your filter.
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If during the day you notice something about Mayo or mayonnaise or the Mayo Clinic,
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just remember I told you, you're going to notice it.
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It's called reticular activation, meaning that once you've seen something,
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it becomes part of your filter and you see more of it.
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All right, Apple has released this Apple Vision Pro.
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Apparently this thing, some say, weighs close to a pound.
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And people's necks are getting tired after their half an hour.
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That people aren't delighted wearing the glasses?
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If you were subscribing to the Dilbert Reborn comic on Locals or on the X platform,
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you would know that Wally is going to give some of those Apple Vision Pro glasses.
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And his boss is going to say, you know, Wally, you're not allowed to wear VR glasses during meetings.
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And Wally is going to say, they're prescription.
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And then the boss is going to say, you can't tell me I can't wear prescription lenses.
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And then from there on, Wally will never have to pay attention in a meeting again
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Well, as you know, Argentinian President Millet went to the World Economic Forum.
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And he basically, let's see, how did they put that in the news?
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The way they worded it delicately was, took the, okay, they took the entire philosophy of the World Economic Forum.
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He balled it into a little ball and shoved it up all of their asses.
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No, they didn't say that, but that's what it felt like.
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He basically said, collectivism in all its forms creates poverty.
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How much do you love the fact that he just went to the WEF and just laid him out and then left?
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Well, there's another part of that story that's equally interesting.
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So he did his speech in his native language, and it was quickly translated.
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So we got to watch the speaker as well as the translation.
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There's a version in which they use the AI app HeyGen to rework his speech
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so that it's perfectly in his voice, but in perfect English, and even his lips match.
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Now, I keep telling you AI is not as impressive as you want it to be, and I still say that,
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The part where AI just solves what I'd call a basic computer problem, a translation,
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But with the AI stack, apparently you can do these basic technology things 100 times better.
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So how close are we, putting two stories together,
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how close are we to me being able to put on the Apple Vision Pro VR glasses,
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watch a non-native English speaker speak to me right in front of me,
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and have it translate in real time so even the lips match the English translation?
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so it probably has more to do with how much of it they can process locally, right?
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there'll be just a little bit too much latency, I think.
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And I think that's actually a thing that can be done.
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It took me a while to figure out, okay, is that the right word?
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as opposed to individuals pursuing their own best situation.
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instead of the free market allowing you to work individually?
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Socialism would be just one of those examples of it.
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And then, you know, a lot of things that we do,
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All right, so Matt Walsh is proclaiming the lack of value in therapy.
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because this is the smartest audience in the world,
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when people make comments like something doesn't work
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And when you talk in an ordinary way on social media,
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But he's transitioned in the last several years
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and not using the same kind of training sources
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the general current body of language in the world
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and again, I may be mischaracterizing it a little bit,