Today's episode features the naughtiest Dilbert comic of all time, and an explainer on how to make money with a robot. Also, Amazon is adding more robots than humans, and the stock market continues to rise.
00:04:37.960And I do not give financial advice, but I'd like to sort of draw a picture of what financial advice would look like in the modern world.
00:04:47.820Some people say that almost all of the gains in the stock market are the top five big companies, and especially NVIDIA and Microsoft and Google and Apple, companies that are going to benefit from AI or robotics.
00:05:04.500And I'm not going to give you financial advice.
00:05:09.400I'll just tell you what I'm doing, and then you can make your own decisions.
00:05:13.860So, the way you should look at it is, don't do what I'm doing.
00:05:17.620Please, please do not do what I'm doing.
00:05:19.740But, look at my explanation of why I'm doing it, and then compare it to what you're doing.
00:05:28.200You know, get your own independent advice.
00:05:31.020One of the things that I've invested in is Tesla, and it's not so much because of the cars.
00:05:37.380It's because it's going to be a robot company really quickly.
00:05:42.060I'm guessing Tesla would be better at manufacturing than other people, because they're good at it, and Elon especially.
00:05:49.740And building the things efficiently seems like that's going to be the big challenge, because the technological stuff is largely down to just engineering.
00:05:59.140But I think there's a bigger play here that you haven't noticed, maybe.
00:06:05.000Don't you think that your personal robot and your personal automobile need to work together?
00:06:14.400Don't you want your robot to get into your Tesla and drive your ass around and, you know, have the robot brain and the car basically meld, you know, and become one?
00:06:26.760I feel as though there are going to be a whole bunch of situations in which having your robot and your car made by the same company are going to give you some advantage.
00:06:36.800I don't know what that would be, but it's one of the things I'm looking at.
00:06:39.860Anyway, so my investment in Tesla is entirely because of the upcoming robots.
00:06:45.620And it made me wonder, is there a index fund yet for those people who don't want to pick specific companies, because that's always a little more dangerous, for AI and robotics?
00:08:46.900It's based on what other people think would be appropriate.
00:08:50.620Now, I think they peg this at sort of an age 25.
00:08:54.140Theoretically, if you were single for your entire life and you were sexually active, you probably have a bigger number.
00:09:02.960But if you look at somebody who's looking to settle down someday and at age 25, what's their number?
00:09:08.480The ideal number, according to research, for men would be four to five sexual partners.
00:09:17.400And for women, two to three because we're a sexist place.
00:09:22.300I guess people want somebody who is desirable enough that other people want to have them.
00:09:27.940And maybe they got a little bit of experience so they know what they're doing, but not too much.
00:09:33.020Now, I'd like to offer that they could have skipped this entire research and just ask me.
00:09:40.420Because if they asked me, I would have said, I don't know, age 25?
00:09:45.900I'd say, well, from the perspective of other people, for men to be about four or five, and from the perspective of other people, you know, not my opinion specifically, probably women as few as possible.
00:10:27.740So, if they're not buying as many cars, the price might come down because of supply and demand.
00:10:32.340But I don't know how many people are in my situation.
00:10:35.360I'm sort of at that point where I'm looking at a new car, and I talk about it all the time because it's been over a year I've been doing it.
00:11:14.500But when I look at a, let's say, a Ford Bronco, my whole mind and body go, there's just a design thing that just speaks to me, like, emotionally.
00:11:30.160And I can't look at the Bronco and then spend some large amount of money on something that looks like an egg.
00:11:41.740But their cars, you know, and I have to say, from the perspective of a business decision, having all the Teslas have a certain design, you know, that's not too sexy but a little bit, it's probably exactly the right sweet spot for business.
00:12:00.600It's just, I need a little sexier or something.
00:13:50.660Has anybody calculated the number of crimes this is going to work out to?
00:13:55.340Because I don't know how you could take a half a million crimes over five years and assume none of that's going to touch you.
00:14:02.800If I said there's going to be a half a million things happening to people in the next five years, would you think that half a million wouldn't hit your neighborhood or somebody you know?
00:14:37.260Before I tell you the pattern, let's see if you can spot it.
00:14:39.600There's some suggestion that the Alzheimer's research, which has been going on for 30 years, for reasons that weren't obvious before, didn't have nearly as much progress as other areas of medicine.
00:14:55.320For example, in 30 years, there's been really big progress in cardiovascular disease and cancers and all kinds of other diseases.
00:15:17.700Every time a scientist wanted to study something that wasn't the approved narrative of how Alzheimer's is caused, they couldn't get published.
00:15:39.840So that they couldn't even get published, and people would say, I can't publish you because other people wouldn't publish you or haven't published you or you're not part of the narrative, basically.
00:15:51.420Now, how many times has this happened in science where science collectively had the wrong answer and couldn't adjust because people couldn't leave the norm?
00:16:04.480There was the food pyramid when I was a kid.
00:16:08.440Scientists all said, that's the truth.
00:16:11.820It was closer to the opposite of the truth.
00:16:14.240There was a number of issues in the pandemic in which we saw the experts telling us something that wasn't true fairly often.
00:16:24.360There were several things which the experts told us with complete impunity and unanimity or something like it, and it just wasn't true.
00:16:33.740Then we see the Alzheimer's research may have been crippled for 30 years because science doesn't know how to deal with people who are outside the narrative.
00:16:45.280You could argue that the same thing has happened with climate change, that you can't argue outside the narrative.
00:16:53.280So if there is a truth that's outside the narrative, we would be blind to it.
00:16:59.280Likewise, string theory might turn out to be exactly the thing that unravels the nature of the universe.
00:17:06.220It might, but it doesn't look like it.
00:17:08.480And I would imagine if the narrative is string theory is the thing, what about the people who don't think it's the thing?
00:17:16.940Do you think they're getting lots of play?
00:17:19.160Do you think their papers are getting published?
00:17:21.440Do you think they're getting a lot of funding?
00:20:55.160Well, if it were true that corporate diversity is discriminating against white men, you'd expect that that would cause some kind of a quality degradation in the output, not because white men have all the skills.
00:21:09.300No, but because if you artificially constrain any group which you need a resource from, the artificial constraint should very soon work its way into the overall workings of the system.
00:21:24.240So we should be able to see it in actual reality.
00:21:29.020If there's any real degradation in quality from it, we'd be able to see it.
00:21:37.620Let me just say what many of you are thinking.
00:21:39.800The problem with some of the, well, most of the rulings from the Supreme Court is that the batshit crazy women on the Supreme Court got all the wrong shit because they're fucking stupid.
00:22:29.840You've got a fucking idiot on there just because of some DEI-ish requirement, and I'm supposed to ignore that.
00:22:37.100It's like the last defense of the whole fucking country, and I'm supposed to ignore that you're putting idiots on it because they need some category.
00:22:46.140No, I'm not going to ignore that anymore.
00:22:48.200It's a DEI problem with the Supreme Court.
00:24:39.800Now, I'm not going to say it's the whole problem, because when I get double canceled for saying this sometime tomorrow, the part that they're going to leave out is it's not the only problem.
00:24:53.100But I think it's a definitive problem that tipped us into the ridiculous, right?
00:25:00.120There's plenty of incompetence of, you know, old white guys have lots of problems, right?
00:25:05.060It's not like old white guys don't have a shit ton of problems and their own defects.
00:25:11.060I'm just saying that what we're seeing is exactly what you would expect with DEI as a system.
00:27:17.380So the progressives have this narrative that the people on the right are a bunch of right-wing authoritarian people, you know, practically Nazis.
00:27:25.760By contrast, there's a psychologist in 1980 who argued that left-wing authoritarianism was a myth.
00:27:36.820So, as Schellenberger points out, Swiss psychologists recently found an almost exact overlap between dark personality traits and social justice commitment.
00:27:49.640Do you know what a dark personality trait is?
00:27:53.840Narcissism would be, you know, part of the dark triad.
00:34:59.460So the whole country is getting this infection of mental illness from a fairly small group of dark triad personality narcissists who got way too much power.
00:35:25.080Sertovich says, Trump has spent over $100 million fighting false charges, not including the judgments he has to pay from the cases themselves.
00:35:37.440Bannon's in prison, Navarro is jailed, and freedom isn't free, and we are occupied by communists.
00:35:42.960That's one way to frame it, but I think it misses the bigger story.
00:35:50.960I think we're occupied by Marxists who are pretending to be Marxists, but are actually narcissists.
00:35:58.720I think narcissists found a way to rebrand themselves to make themselves part of the political process.
00:36:03.900No, I don't have a dark triad personality.
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00:37:52.360And indeed, I think most people, including me, complimented Tapper and Bash for a good, good job hosting a debate.
00:38:03.280However, having done a very professional job in the debate, then they go back to the regular jobs and, you know, it's more, a little bit more opinion comes out.
00:39:03.800This time, Chris Coons went to the dark side and he's pretending on TV right in front of Jake Tapper that he has no problem with these little glitches that Biden's having.
00:45:02.840Over on MSNBC, they had a legal analyst on who told them what they certainly didn't want to hear.
00:45:10.380He thought that the decision from the Supreme Court that basically says that if the president's doing official president business, that he's got lots of immunity from criminal prosecution.
00:45:22.900But if it's not in the, if it's not an official act, then he'd be as exposed as anybody else.
00:45:30.080Now, that seems to be a strengthening of what was a historical situation.
00:45:37.320We always thought presidents had a little more, you know, a little more wiggle room than other people.
00:45:43.080Obama using a drone to kill an American overseas, for example.
00:45:46.820You know, so we've always just assumed they had extra wiggle room.
00:58:01.380Her body was shaking in a public place.
00:58:04.660And I was just talking about him because she was so, so afraid.
00:58:08.140And I thought, you look like somebody who doesn't have contact with any Republicans.
00:58:14.680Because your sympathetic nervous system, you know, the way that we're influenced by our contacts with other people, would certainly be calmed down.
00:58:24.020If you spend a few minutes with people who know that Hitler did not rise and that Hitler did not take over the country.
00:58:31.280And by the way, the first four years were pretty ordinary.
00:58:34.040So, I think the social contact between Republicans and Democrats strands Democrats in a poor mental health situation because they can't escape the gaslighting.
00:58:47.920AOC, being her AOC self, thinks that if things don't go her way, she needs to impeach the entire Supreme Court.
00:59:36.700I guess Trump's using the new ruling about immunity to try to overturn what some are calling the Manhattan case or the Stormy Daniels case.
01:00:00.560Some of the evidence that was presented in the case about something that happened before he was president included some facts that were apparently important to the case that happened while he was president.
01:00:14.760So, there must have been some communication or something while he was president that may have confirmed what they thought about before he was president.
01:00:23.580Now, you might say to yourself, well, that seems fine because it's just adding information to what you know before he was president.
01:00:33.840But apparently the Supreme Court was specific that you can't even use evidence from when a person was president, which even I would say feels a little bit extreme.
01:00:44.920I think if Democrats found that part sketchy, I'd have to say, I'm going to listen to that argument, that you can't even use evidence from when they were president to confirm that they committed a crime when they weren't president and had never been elected yet.
01:01:55.720But it feels like that might be the argument.
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