Episode 2397 CWSA 02⧸27⧸24
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 30 minutes
Words per Minute
140.73654
Summary
In addition to talking about the news, and boosting your awareness, Scott Adams talks about a portal, universal translation, and what would happen if we could talk to each other in a world where we all spoke the same language?
Transcript
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Welcome to the highlight of human civilization.
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It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and that's what we're going to do.
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In addition to talking about the news, and I'm going to boost your level of awareness.
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We're going to take everybody up to a higher level of awareness today.
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And if you'd like to get a good start on this higher level of awareness,
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all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice or a canteen jug or a flask or a vessel of any kind.
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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, the dopamine, the day, the thing that makes everything better.
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It's called the simultaneous sip and it happens now. Go.
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Now, I don't want to get you too excited, but there will be a whiteboard.
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I saw a Brian Ramelli post on X about a portal.
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It's one of the coolest uses of technology I've seen.
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So if you imagine something that's bigger than a person in a big round circle,
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and the center of the circle is a screen, you know, a huge person-sized screen.
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And you can put it in any city and a person can walk up to it and they will see the person in the other portal.
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So you can walk up to the portal in, let's say, Paris or wherever it is.
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You'd walk up to the portal in Paris and then somebody on the street in China would see you standing there at the portal.
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And they would walk up, they would speak in Chinese, you would speak in French, and you would have a complete conversation in real time.
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It just like, it just activates every like hair in my body to stand up.
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I like to start the show with just something to imagine.
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Did you ever wonder what would happen if these citizens got to vote on war and actually talk to each other directly?
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Because I feel like we don't really want one over here, but our government is kind of pushing us toward it.
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And then the other people in whatever country would say, you know, I'm glad you talked to me on the portal
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How about we just fire our leaders and don't have a war?
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Yeah, it's actually a threat to power if people could talk to each other with translation.
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Here's a question for you that I just thought of, so I don't know if it's a good one yet.
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Give me one second to think if this is a really dumb thing to say.
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Since we've had good communications in the world, so that would exclude, let's say, the Civil War,
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and it would exclude, you know, the Revolutionary War and those earlier wars.
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But since we've had internet, and since we've had really good, you know, phones and communication,
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how many wars have there been between the United States and somebody who spoke the same language?
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The Palestinians, I mean, a lot of them have a second language, but they're mostly different language.
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I wonder if it's possible to have a war between two nations that speak the same language,
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their original language, and have lots of communication technology where the citizens can talk to each other.
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Only in modern times when we could, in modern, no, okay.
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I'm very specifically saying, America, no, Russia plus Ukraine, you're not getting this yet.
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America, have we gotten in a fight with an English-speaking country?
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If universal translation just becomes part of all of our technology, which it looks like it will,
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you would be able to directly talk to citizens of any other country that you were considering having a war with,
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and you might actually be able to work it out without the benefit of your government.
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that universal translation plus universal communication,
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you know, the ability to reach anybody, could end war.
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Because it's very rare that citizens want to be in a war.
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It's not rare when governments want to be in a war.
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Don Lemon got a settlement from CNN, got $24.5 million.
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That's what he would have been paid if he'd stayed on for his contract.
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well, he's going to pay over half of it in taxes.
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because his lawyer's, you know, putting in some serious high-level work here.
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Now, how many of you did that calculation in your head when you saw the $24 million?
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And how many of you said, wow, he just made $24 million?
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I'm just saying that if you don't have that filter on it,
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you're missing it by, you know, a factor of four, basically.
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But the good news is Don Lemon is going to launch his own show on the X platform
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You know, as much as I complained when he was on CNN,
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My prediction is that Don Lemon, without the yoke of CNN on him,
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Does anybody want to take the other side of that?
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I actually predict it's going to be a good show
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Maybe not every day, but I'll bet you it'll be good.
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And the reason I think so is that I don't think he's captured by, you know,
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There is indication from, you know, earlier video of him
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that he's just a reasonable person who can see both sides of stuff.
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It's the number one show I would like to be invited on.
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There's a New York Times writer who says he was ousted for saying he liked Chick-fil-A sandwiches.
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So I'm just going to say, ah, let's treat it like it's true.
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Let's treat it like it's true because it sounds like something that would be true.
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I guess he ended up in HR or something or maybe his manager talked to him and said,
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And we'll see if you can spot it before I tell you what it is.
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So Dr. Phil went on The View and had a little mix-up with the hosts of The View
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about how bad it was that the schools were closed.
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Of course, I believe that the hosts of The View were in favor of school closures.
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I think that because he's been a TV guy and an Oprah creation for years,
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that people assume he's left-leaning without knowing the truth.
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That the public doesn't really know that he's not a woke lefty.
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Of course, he's just going to be sort of a lefty guy.
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But he apparently is now free from all constraints, corporate constraints,
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But I suspect that he fully owns whatever he's going to do,
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well, that's just one more person, one more voice.
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It's somebody whose communication abilities are beyond what you normally see
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What does Dr. Phil have more than any human you've ever seen in your entire life?
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Name one person who has more pure dad energy than he does.
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have made it easier for people who are maybe a little more,
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But I feel like the people who took the arrows in the back
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make it easier for anybody else to join the fight.
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Byron York is posting, telling us about Letitia James.
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You know, she's the AG who ran for office to bring down Trump
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the extra gazillion dollars of interest he has to pay
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And, you know, you see it with the trans movement.
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But it's really obvious that a large percentage of it,
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We treat people who literally have mental health problems
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She looks always to me like she's literally suffering
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some kind of psychological breakdown as she talks.
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and she feels like she's being tortured by demons
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Now, again, I'm not a mental health professional,
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but if she's not under the care of a professional,
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I'd be really surprised if she's not under the care of a professional
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I want you to remember this the next time you start talking about peer review
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fundamental physics theory is being destroyed within our institutions
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because if you don't know who I'm talking about,
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he would know about the insides of the physics community
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You and I can't tell from the outside necessarily,
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Now, did you ever have the feeling that I had at one point in time,
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gosh, I think all this politics is full of lies, right?
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by all these bad characters and psychological problems
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having no educational background in physics whatsoever.
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And let me tell you what interested me about physics.
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You know, I think his point is a little more nuanced
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and, you know, a little more interesting than that.
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But to me, it looks like they don't know their own field.
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that half of all scientific papers are just BS.
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You know, people have tested it by making fake papers
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And that matches the number of peer-reviewed studies
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that we pumped up to be more important than it is
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At least we got climate science completely right.
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climate emergency is what he calls a noble lie.