Scott Adams almost falls down the stairs, but survives. Plus, why lesbians have a higher divorce rate than other married couples, and why it's a mystery why they do so. And why the stock market is doing so well.
00:00:51.020But my legs are weakened because I've had so much leg pain that I've been sitting and not walking.
00:00:57.400So, one of my legs was so weak, my left leg, that the first time I went up the stairs this morning, I thought, hmm, it felt a little shaky.
00:01:10.340So, you know, I always make sure I'm holding on the rails.
00:01:12.880I'm at that age where you never walk up downstairs without holding the rails.
00:01:16.560But I forgot something downstairs, my iPad.
00:01:21.960So, I went back downstairs and turned around.
00:01:25.220You want to see me on live video falling down my own stairs?
00:01:30.720So, this is what the live stream audience saw just a few minutes ago.
00:02:45.820Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.
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00:04:56.540Let's see if you knew the answer to this one.
00:04:59.920Eric Nolan in SciPost is writing about a new study that tries to determine why lesbian couples face a higher divorce risk.
00:05:10.620Okay, now the funny part about this topic is that it's literally a famous comedy routine about why lesbians have more divorce.
00:05:25.000But they looked into things like cohabitation length, prior children, and shared children, and they found out that those were not really very indicative, so they're not really predictive.
00:05:37.820So, now their conclusion is that it's a mystery why lesbians have the highest divorce rate.
00:05:49.420They couldn't figure out what the source problem was.
00:05:55.840It's literally a comedy routine that everybody in the world understands.
00:05:59.820If you put two women together, because women are usually the ones who initiate divorces, if you put the gender together that generally initiates the divorce, you get more divorces.
00:06:15.740I think they could have just asked me.
00:06:18.300I think they could have asked you, too.
00:06:22.120But whatever you do, don't say women are the problem.
00:06:25.760All right, here's another one from a SciPost, Karina Petrova.
00:06:32.760Again, probably could have saved a little money just by asking me.
00:06:37.440But they found out, did a study to find out that your social status has a surprising, yeah, it's surprising, influence on your biological stress responses.
00:06:47.460That the lower your perceived status, the more likely you'll be stressed out because you can't change anything.
00:06:55.880Well, I can tell you that I had the experience of having no status, you know, as you do when you're a child.
00:07:05.600And then I went to having no status as a young adult in my 20s and into my 30s, no real status at all.
00:07:16.320But then Dilbert hit and I became a, you know, sort of a minor celebrity and I got some status.
00:07:22.740I got to tell you that having success and, you know, associated status solves most of your stress.
00:07:31.280I guarantee you that if you ever hit it big, you know, and you become either well-known and or rich or both, it will make you more relaxed.
00:07:46.400You know, once you're famous, you can walk into any situation with no stress whatsoever because people come to you.
00:07:56.500Let me give you just the cleanest example.
00:07:58.640I get super stressed if I'm late for something.
00:08:06.600Like if there's a meeting and, you know, people are already in the room, oh, that's the worst.
00:08:11.360If they're already in the room and you're on the road, you know, you got caught up in traffic, that's really stressful.
00:08:18.020So before I had status, if I were late, I would think, oh, God, people are going to hate me more, my status.
00:08:27.060You know, I'll be, you know, creeping into the meeting late and, oh, God, and it would bother me.
00:08:33.740Once I became famous, a weird thing happened that if I showed up late, the people who were already there would apologize for being early or some variation of that.
00:08:46.640In other words, they would never get on me because they usually needed me to approve something or wanted to work with me or something.
00:08:53.040So I would go from the thing that bothered me the most, being potentially late, to no problem at all.
00:09:28.820And you set up credit card transaction alerts, a secure VPN for a private connection, and continuous monitoring for our personal info on the dark web?
00:11:37.820Nobody else is going to read it either.
00:11:39.440It's, it's the most unread document that will ever be created.
00:11:43.780So yeah, a quarter of them going to AI makes sense to me.
00:11:47.160Um, so open AI, uh, now has a Sora 2, uh, app that can generate realistic videos of, of people doing things.
00:12:02.520And it's open AI and they decided to model the new ability by showing a realistic looking video of their CEO, Sam Altman, shoplifting at Target.
00:12:15.880And it looks just like him and it sounds like him.
00:12:19.240It looks like you shoplifting at Target.
00:12:21.660And I'm thinking to myself, you know, I guess, I guess this app is so you can make content for stuff like meta and Instagram and TikTok and stuff.
00:12:31.600It's sort of designed for what they call AI slop.
00:12:51.360Anyway, so now we'll have video of every famous person shoplifting and committing crimes.
00:12:57.140Step forward, step in the right direction.
00:13:00.120And apparently Sora, Sora can't generate a continuous three minute video from a photo, like, but, uh, there's a app called long shot that can.
00:13:13.680So I guess three minutes might be sort of the current record of how long a video you can make from, you know, a single prompt.
00:13:21.740Um, but, and there's another one where you can splice together some shots of like a virtual room and you could splice it together.
00:13:31.280So you, you walk through a bunch of virtual rooms, but it looks like it takes about six apps to make all that work.
00:13:37.580So as far as I can tell, based on what I've seen so far, in order to make a movie using AI, you would need all of the skills of a movie maker.
00:13:50.340So you'd have to know how to cast the right people, even though casting would be digital.
00:13:56.680You'd have to still understand scripts and story and, you know, the, the nature of storytelling.
00:14:05.020You'd have to be, um, you'd have to be basically a videographer so that you could say, oh, that's a, that's a good look and all that.
00:14:17.480You'd have to still have to be a producer.
00:14:18.900So it seems to me that the movie making business will probably no longer be the stupid people.
00:14:28.460Don't you worry that movies were made by actors who just wanted a promotion?
00:14:33.560So they sort of turned into directors, like you get kind of a promotion and that they weren't necessarily the smartest people you've ever met.
00:14:41.820But it wasn't that hard because if you're a director, you have all these well-trained people who know how to do all the, the subtasks, right?
00:14:51.760You don't have to be the videographer because you hired one, et cetera.
00:14:55.920You don't have to be the lighting guy because you decided.
00:14:59.760But now you would have to know a whole bunch about AI and how to use it.
00:15:05.980You know, probably several different apps and they would be, they would be getting updated, those apps and they would, new ones would be coming online.
00:15:14.020You'd have to try them all the time and you would have to have all the movie skills.
00:15:19.440But on top of that, in one person, because you couldn't really, it'd be hard to build something that you, that you delegated to other humans.
00:15:29.740So you could delegate it to the AI, but you wouldn't want to delegate it to humans because then there'd be too many humans doing too many prompts with too many AIs.
00:16:00.860There will be a few people who can do that, but it wouldn't from, you know, you could randomly pick a hundred people and 80 of them could be a director.
00:16:11.100But now if you had a hundred people, probably none of them, if it's only a hundred, probably not one person would have the skill to make a movie with AI, even a few years from now.
00:16:25.720Well, Meta is going to use your chat conversations with AI for ad targeting, but according to Reclaim the Net, Ken Makin is writing about that.
00:16:38.020And I guess we all figure that, right?
00:16:41.760If they can listen to you talking and send you ads based on what you're talking about in your kitchen, I'm not too surprised that they can give you an ad based on what you said on AI.
00:16:54.620But do you think we're getting close to the point where the AI will directly give you an ad as an AI?
00:17:04.800And then the AI says, well, our sponsored restaurant is XYZ.
00:17:13.120I'll bet that's where it's going, but they probably need to hold off on that until we're all hooked on AI to the point where we won't turn it off when it gives us a commercial.
00:18:47.080So you can give it prompts and it will do a bunch of tasks.
00:18:51.120Now, that's not the interesting part because there'll be a lot of those.
00:18:54.060But the thing that was interesting to me is once AI becomes ubiquitous and every desk jockey has an AI and an AI assistant, which is coming,
00:19:05.460I think it's a 100% chance that we'll all be talking to our AIs to get basic stuff done, right?