Episode 2930 CWSA 08⧸17⧸25
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Summary
Coffee with Scott Adams is the highlight of human civilization, and he's here to talk about it. Today, he's talking about the benefits of coffee, and why you shouldn't be too smart to drink it.
Transcript
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Hey, there you are. Come on in, everybody. It is good to see you. You don't have to be
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lonely this morning. I'm here. Yeah. This will be your hour-long conversation with your
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best virtual friend. Let me make sure your comments are showing. Yes, they are. Yay.
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Hey. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's
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called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time. But if you would like to take
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a chance on elevating your experience to levels that no one can understand with their tiny,
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shiny human brains, all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice or stein,
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a canteen jug or a flask, 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 of the dopamine at the end of the day, the
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thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, damn it. And it happens
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Well, I wonder if there are any scientific studies about coffee being good for you. Oh,
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here's another one. Fast Company is reporting that researchers at Tufts University found out that
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drinking black coffee is really good for your health. But if you add sugar and, well, mostly
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sugar probably, but sugar and milk, no benefits. So coffee is either making you healthier or making
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you less healthy, depending on what kind of crap you put in there. You know, I love Starbucks as a
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place to hang out. And certainly their food and beverages are delicious. But doesn't it feel to
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you like it's a liquid candy store? And then most of the people who go to Starbucks are there for
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their sugar? Doesn't it seem like that? I don't feel like they sell a lot of black coffee. Now,
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that's all I, you know, the only kind of beverage I get there is black coffee. For the health benefits,
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did you know, according to the University of Texas at Austin, they found out that if you're a senior
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citizen and you're helping other people, your cognitive decline is slower. In other words,
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the act of helping others and being useful and, you know, donating your time to somebody else's benefit
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makes your brain operate better. Now, I have a theory of evolution, sort of evolution, I guess,
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that I've always had and I have no scientific backing for it whatsoever. So feel free to mock me for my
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terrible idea. But the idea is this, that your body will respond to what your brain thinks it needs.
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Let me say that again. I believe that in your individual life, you know, not just evolution
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over time, but in your immediate life, that your body will conform to what your brain believes you
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need most. So if I thought you were in a dangerous place where you needed muscles, I believe that you
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would grow muscles faster. You still have to exercise, obviously, but that you would grow
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muscles faster if you added in your mind some objective, like being in a contest. Even if you
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did the same amount of exercise, if somebody else was imagining, you know, nothing particular about
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their health, but the other one who was imagining themselves in a contest and it really mattered to
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their life, that the fact that it really mattered would cause their body to just sort of chemically
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adapt and do it kind of quickly. So this part about helping others slows your cognitive decline
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makes me wonder if that's the mechanism. In other words, if you feel that you're being useful and
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helpful and you're keeping somebody else alive and happy, then I feel like your brain releases the,
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you know, the chemicals that your body needs to be healthier and keep your brain alive. But if you
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weren't using your brain for anything useful to the tribe, I can see how it would, your body and your
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brain would just say, well, we don't need to be too smart. Might as well degrade a little bit.
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So, in my opinion, with no scientific backing whatsoever, I feel like if you have a solid
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idea of where you want to be and what you want to do, and it's compatible with life and evolution
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and humanity, that your body and your brain just sort of become that much more easily than if you
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didn't have that image. That's what I think. Well, Uber has launched their female-only driver option.
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You knew it was coming. So I don't know what happens if a man tries to select that. Somebody will find
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out, I'm sure. But as a man, I wonder if there are people who take Uber and think, ah, I hope I get a
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female driver so I can flirt with them or something. Probably. Probably. But Uber had to do this because
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they will very soon be competing with a lot more driverless cars. They're already driverless cars like
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Waymo. But once Tesla comes online, who would ever use an Uber if you could do a Tesla self-driving car
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for less money? And it might even be more widely available. I don't know. I'll tell you what I'm
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really looking forward to is sending my car on errands. I don't know if that's in the works. But what
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would be the point of having DoorDash and all these food delivery? If I had a Tesla that I could simply
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send to pick up my food. And if you're the restaurant, you could tell it pulls into your
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parking lot or whatever. And you could just open up the trunk and have them put the food in and have
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it drive it home. I would definitely do that. It'd be way cheaper than having it delivered.
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So when you think about really radical ways that the whole food, grocery, food preparation thing could go,
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the most radical way would be if your car could go wherever the food is and pick it up for you and
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then drive it to your house. That would be the most immediately transformational thing. Because I
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would send it for vegetables and fresh vegetables and stuff every day. Because what's this going to
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cost? You know, $2 in electricity to send to your car? Apparently, if you believe that talking to
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ChatGPT or maybe the other AIs, if you thought that that was a private thing and ChatGPT would not be
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saving your chats, well, turns out it's saving your chats. And it has to. They don't have an option.
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Because apparently a federal judge just ordered OpenAI to freeze every personal chat and to store it.
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Because there's some copyright-related lawsuit that requires maybe looking at their messages.
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Can you imagine the private kind of things that people have asked ChatGPT?
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Like really private health-related things and lifestyle-related things?
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If somebody could open up all of your requests to AI, I think a lot of us are in trouble.
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It's a lot of stuff you don't want your neighbors looking at, probably.
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So what I would recommend is that you immediately start doing fake, a whole bunch of fake chats.
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I mean, actually, you're chatting, but you're doing it just to kind of see the chat with stuff that's good for you.
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So, for example, today you should go home and say,
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ChatGPT, I was wondering, what would be the best charity that I could sign up for to donate my time and money to the well-being of other people who are less fortunate?
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And just do one of those about every day until if somebody ever searches your stream, they'll say,
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Well, this person has some weird hobbies, but you've got to say, this is a pretty good person right here.
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If you've heard of super prompts where you wisely ask your question of AI in the way that gets you the best answer,
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I would recommend appending to every question that you have for AI, I'm asking for a friend.
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Why settle for less when you can go for the gold?
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A new study, Jonathan Turley is writing about this,
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found that almost 90% of students misrepresent their views in class,
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on assignments to satisfy faculty by adopting more liberal views.
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This is a recent op-ed in Northwestern University.
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Some researchers said that between 2023 and 2025,
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they conducted a whole bunch of confidential interviews,
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have you ever pretended to hold more progressive views
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than you truly endorse to succeed socially or academically?
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It turns out that the young people are wise enough to lie
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because they know that the question is sort of painting them into a trap
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and will ruin their life if they answer honestly.
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Don't worry about the kids actually being woke.
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As soon as they get in a place where they feel safe,
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How many people roughly my age who also were in college in the 70s
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recall that you also could not honestly answer a question?
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when college students could be honest about their opinions.
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than I'm not going to tell you my opinion at all.
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what he calls the collapse of the Democratic Party.
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Now, what's interesting is that he uses the word collapse.
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When was the first time you ever heard collapse?
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when I told you that I was going to try to take out
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I'm going to make the entire Democratic Party collapse.
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I'll never know if I had anything to do with it.
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It looks like I was at least part of that story,
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I don't even think there is a Democratic Party now.
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It doesn't feel like there's a Democratic Party.
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But here's further evidence of the Democrats in collapse.
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when you switch to a Scotiabank banking package.
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I don't know if it's because the weapons are cooler,
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because if you wanted to build anything that flies
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So, apparently some of that's being cleared away
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Separately, there are stories about Ukrainian troops
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So, Trump has decided that we will sell technology
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We've also decided that we want to be dominant in drones,
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because Trump is going to be looking for leverage
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but apparently that's off the table at the moment.
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I think if the war continues for year after year,
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Russia would definitely take over all of Ukraine.
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plus they're getting the North Koreans to help them,
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the biggest military robot and drone force in the world,
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So, as long as the Europeans are willing to open their wallets,
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we're going to sell them unlimited numbers of drones and robots,
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and eventually the entire front line is going to be robots.
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we'll keep supplying the very best American technology
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and you're going to be having an all-robot war,
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and you will not be able to keep up with our technology.
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but you're not going to keep up with our technology.
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So, the war is going to go from humans-on-humans,
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Because I don't think China is going to give them the good stuff.
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talking about a Citroën Center of Possibility Lab poll
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but maybe better than whatever they're doing now
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One, do you support keeping the Independent Redistricting Commission?
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do you support returning congressional redistricting authority
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supported giving the legislature back that power.
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to get rid of the Independent Redistricting Commission.