Episode 2583 CWSA 08⧸31⧸24
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 8 minutes
Words per Minute
152.3724
Summary
In this episode of Coffee with Scott Adams, host Scott Adams talks about a new invention that could completely change the lives of some of you, and why you should be grateful it s not you who needs to change your life, it s me.
Transcript
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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.
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Would you like to take this up to a level that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brain?
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Well, all you need for that is a cupper mug or a glass, a tanker chalice or a stein, a canteen jug or a flask,
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a vessel of any kind, fill it with your favorite liquid I like, coffee.
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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine at the end of the day,
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Well, today's a little bit special because I'm going to completely change the lives of some of you.
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Now, it's sort of a statistical promise because I can't get you all.
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And you don't all need any kind of an improvement.
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But for some percentage of you, I'm going to give you a reframe in a few minutes.
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And some of you will say, damn, was it always that obvious?
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And then you'll say, all right, I'm going to go change my life.
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You legitimately, if we get 100,000 people to watch this, which would be typical.
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And of 100,000, I'll bet you I will change the lives of 5,000 to 10,000 people completely.
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But first, let's talk about this overdue book from a Virginia library.
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But there was a book returned to the library that had been missing for 50 years.
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And that was the new record for a book returned to a library.
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Do you know what the record was before that for the same library?
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So before that, the longest a book had been out from the library was my book,
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And it was described as a cartoon self-help and joke book.
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But yes, my book is so good that people will steal it from libraries.
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It's so good, I'm not even taking it back to the library.
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I'm one of those people who makes lights blink when I go by them,
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I now have three separate lights in my house that blink continuously.
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One in the kitchen, one on the far end of the house by the dog door,
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How often in your life has it been true that your car is working fine,
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there's nothing wrong with it, no lights are on, don't need any service,
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at the same time that all your major appliances in your kitchen are also working?
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Now, for most of you, that's fairly common, isn't it?
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Any time in my life has it been true that my car doesn't have a light on
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So my car has been to major service twice this month.
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I've had a dishwasher repaired, a coffee maker, a refrigerator.
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So here's a small-sounding story that's big to me.
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So the Amazon digital assistant, whose name I shall not say,
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because it will activate all of your Amazon digital assistants,
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I have those devices around my house and all the major rooms,
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The trouble is that talking to them goes like this.
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So if you could actually make those devices understand what I say on the first try,
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And then maybe just have a conversation with it.
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Do you remember in Star Trek when the crew would just talk to the ship,
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and it would be some AI thing running the ship,
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and they would just sort of hit their little communicator and talk to it?
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In just a few months, I'll be just in my spaceship here talking to my computer.
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There's a story coming up which would explain this better,
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I think there were over 30,000 people who died alone at home in the past year.
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In Japan, over 30,000 people died alone in their homes in one year
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Imagine what will happen to your loneliness problem
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if you can just talk out loud in any room of your house
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and there's some intelligent entity talking back to you.
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there's this new robot getting a lot of attention today.
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The robot is actually designed to act like a beta male
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And it shows what looks to be a single woman with her beta male robot
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did they really have to put the beta part on there?
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So if you're wondering which humans would be replaced first,
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Because if you were to rank the importance of human beings,
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we could all make the same decision about who goes first,
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it might be women are first and children are second.
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But if you're going to make them look like that,
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Well, two more stories about major breakthroughs
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I'm not telling you the same battery breakthrough story every day,
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because you need your batteries for your robots.
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unless the battery technology gets a lot better
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why is it all happening at exactly the right time?
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we need really, really big advancements in batteries,
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Anyway, that feels like a simulation situation.
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that will get rid of all your forever chemicals in your battery.
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You know, the ones that you can't get rid of otherwise.
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Oh, they figured out if you have a lithium battery,
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can make a gigantic difference in how long it lasts.
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could double the length of time your battery lasts.
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These changes in the battery technology are all gigantic.
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This is one little tweak on existing technology,
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simply knowing that your first charge is the important one,
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that presumably they could do it at the factory
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well, they're very influenced by the repetition of messages
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Now, what do you think I'm going to say about that?
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Well, they could have just saved a little bit of money
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and asked me because it's the most basic knowledge
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and just said, oh, I'll just use the phone book
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if that existed and I'll randomly call somebody?
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I'm trying to save some money on some research.
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Well, we were going to research whether showing somebody
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the same piece of information over and over again
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would have any influence on what they believe to be true.
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Now, remember I told you I was going to change your lives?
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Each of us spends a certain percentage of our day
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I'm just saying that we all spend some amount of time
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some amount thinking about what we'd like the future.
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Here's the reframe that will change your life forever.
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And you're also going to be thinking about somebody
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So the more time you spend thinking about the past
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and the problems and the things you should have done
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Because what is true is what you think about the most.
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even though the past doesn't even exist, it's gone.
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If you think about the future and what it could be,
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He's someone who talks about visualizing the future.
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So you'll find tons and tons of super successful people
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Arnold Schwarzenegger's got a great documentary
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that if a message is given to you over and over,
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and the less time you think about where you were,
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Because you all knew that affirmations are good.
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Think of what you want to happen in five years.