Episode 2994 CWSA 10⧸20⧸25
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1 hour and 7 minutes
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147.98907
Summary
Scott Adams is back with a new episode of Coffee with Scott Adams, and he's got a lot of news to talk about. First, he talks about a new kind of computer chip, and why you should be worried about it. Then, he's talking about the latest in nuclear power, and how it's going to change the way we think about the future of energy production.
Transcript
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everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called
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Coffee with Scott Adams and you've never had a better time.
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But if you'd like to take a chance of elevating your experience
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a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite
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It's just going to be a little one megawatt reactor
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the hundred megawatts, which they probably will.
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So it looks like this technology is now well understood.
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And the plan is that if they can build this in a factory,
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so they're trying to make a small, easy to build,
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It's actually designed so it could melt down if you wanted it to.
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So it won't melt down and will be built in mass production
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So they would build the components and then ship them out to the site,
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So we might be, you know, it'll take a few years for this to get built
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and then it'll take a few years for the big ones to be built.
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I think we got there, people, if you were waiting for it.
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Well, I guess last night while I was sleeping, the internet broke,
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So I guess the problem was with Amazon's AWS cloud service
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So there are a whole bunch of apps that use Amazon's back,
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So they had one failure point at Amazon and it broke the entire internet,
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except for X, because I guess Musk has his own secured internet.
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So everything went down except X, which is scary,
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but at the same time, isn't it nice to know that X didn't go down?
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You can message, pretty soon you'll be able to send money.
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So, yet again, another service that Elon Musk provides to the world.
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The list of things that one man is doing for the world to make it safer is just out of control now.
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It's crazy how much he's done for the world and how much he probably will do because he's still young.
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Anyway, here's a study that was designed to do nothing but make you mad.
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On one level, it's a study about a thing, but the thing won't even matter to you.
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As soon as you hear it, you're just going to get mad.
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The study, there's no purpose other than to make you mad.
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University of Florida says they've got a study now.
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They said that people who got the COVID vaccine lived much longer if they also had cancer.
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In other words, the study says that the COVID vaccine was one of the greatest cancer treatments of all time.
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Do you believe that this would be reproducible?
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That they could do another study and find out that the people who got the shot?
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Because this is opposite of everything you've heard, right?
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This is direct opposite of everything you've ever heard.
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Because the only thing you ever heard is that maybe people were more vulnerable.
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I don't know if these shots made you more vulnerable or saved your life.
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But I don't think I'm going to believe this one.
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I'm going to give you some reframes this morning.
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Because Trump had a reframe that was very impressive.
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Because the normal way that you would respond to an accusation that you were trying to become a dictator would be what?
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You would say, I'm not trying to become a dictator.
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And then people would say, yeah, everybody says that.
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He's reframed it into a category where it's hard to judge him, isn't it?
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Because even his biggest critics will admit he's working his ass off.
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So he retreats to something that even his biggest critics will grudgingly say, alright, well, he does work his ass off.
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Because he moved them to a place where they agree with him.
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So when he says, I work my ass off, it's not exactly, specifically, a defense against trying to become a king.
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But it is hard for you to hold in your head both of those thoughts at the same time.
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You don't think of the king as working his ass off.
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You think of the king wearing the hat and telling other people to do stuff.
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But we observe that Trump is in the trench all the time.
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And so he creates this frame where you can't really hold in your head,
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the hard worker part, which we observe and all know to be true, with the king part.
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I don't know if I can quite express how smart that is.
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It's, again, it's the sort of thing that only a Trump can do.
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They would just have some, you know, weak, I love my democracy.
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No, no, they're the ones who have the, they're the ones who want to be the king.
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All right, so I told you I was going to give you some more reframes.
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You want to shop for a house or save up for a house.
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Quite often we don't do it because the effort is so big and daunting that you can't even start.
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There's a thing you want to do, but it's just so big.
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Like maybe you want to relocate to another state.
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So you don't want to start because it's just so big.
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What's the smallest thing I can do that moves me in the right direction?
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Think of the smallest thing, not the biggest thing.
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Usually the smallest thing is to look for some information.
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So I'll just use my example of you wanting to move to another state.
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First thing you do is you look up their tax code and maybe that's it.
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You just look at their tax and go, okay, they have lower state taxes.
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Maybe the next day you ask again, what is the smallest thing I can do?
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Well, I could maybe do a little research to find out what town would be the best town to live in.
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That's near wherever I think I want to work, for example, or my family or whatever.
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So the way you approach it is what's the smallest thing you can do?
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Because what you'll find is that there's sort of a compound interest to it.
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When I wanted to become a cartoonist, I had to assemble all of these tiny little facts.
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Like this is the kind of paper you want to use.
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This is the book that tells you where to send your samples.
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This is the kind of pen you want to use because other pens have problems for various reasons.
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This is, you know, it's got to be three panels.
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So you assemble all these tiny, tiny little things that individually get you closer to this big thing.
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And you realize that life is actually kind of long sometimes.
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So how many of you remember when I decided I was going to teach myself to play drums?
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You watched, you know, eventually I got a, you know, I watched some YouTubes, but I eventually got an instructor.
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We come once a week and I started assembling very, very slowly the skills to play the drum.
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I just wanted to be able to knock around in my garage and maybe play to my stereo or something.
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So those of you who are with me and on the Locals app, you know that I've accomplished that.
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But after seven years, I finally did a drum solo, you know, playing over with some other music in the background for my audience.
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Because I could feel the entire seven-year arc.
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I tried to get him into the drums when he was maybe 14 or something because I thought it'd be good for him.
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So to me, it's sort of a legacy that connects us across life and death.
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So the point is that you can, in many times, do the smallest little thing.
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I can't tell you how many times I would walk by the drums and say, I'm going to try this one thing.
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And I'm happy to report there are no extra kings.
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So I think the No Kings march did suppress any extra kings popping up.
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But the Democrats are apparently afraid of the blowback.
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Now that the No Kings thing is over, they don't have a reason to keep the government closed.
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So, Scott, what do you think about becoming a stepfather?
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I'm going to answer that question, even though it's distracting from my topic,
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Here's the one and only way to think about stepkids.
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You have a relationship with the parents, but your relationship with the kids, that's just separate.
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You could stay in their life if they want to stay in yours.
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You know, if you get divorced, if they want to stay in yours.
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Mine do want to stay in my life, and I want to stay in their life.
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But they don't, you know, they don't live with me, but they're also, you know, a certain age.
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And the second thing is that I always saw it as a package deal.
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So even though the relationships are separate, it's still a package deal.
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So when you agree to be part of the parent's life, you're agreeing to be part of the children's life too, as much as they want.
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Because both, because they're just excellent people.
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If I were scraping by and didn't have enough money for myself, I would probably be regretting, you know, any kind of contact with any exes of any kind.
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But since I'm in a favorable situation financially, I can make their life a little easier and mine at the same time.
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Anyway, so what are the Democrats going to do now that their no kings thing happened?
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I think they proved that they don't have much black support because the protesters were almost no diversity at all.
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And they were mostly older people and very few young men, the groups that they want to get.
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So if the Democrats wanted to win back the black vote and win back the Hispanic vote and win back the young male vote, they did everything the opposite of that.
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By showing all the people who are not that being their base visually.
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So visually, I think it was a disaster for the Democrats because visually it was just grandparents.
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It was just old white grandparents, which could not be further from what they're trying to make their brand, which is the, you know, all diverse everything.
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So I would say visually it was a complete disaster, but not in a way that they will recognize that they'll just be this continued drift toward fewer Democrats and nobody will be able to quite put their finger on what was the one thing that made that happen.
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This is just part of the everything that continues to push that ball down the road.
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Anyway, Mom Dami versus Cuomo and what's the other guy?
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I don't know how reliable Gotham polling is, but they do say that if Sliwa dropped out, that it would be close between Cuomo and Mom Dami and it would put Cuomo within striking distance.
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And some New Yorkers, even Republicans, would say, give us a Democrat, at least he's a normal Democrat, Cuomo being a normal Democrat.
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So if he doesn't, then it looks like Mom Dami would win quite easily.
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What do you think of the theory that letting Mom Dami win and essentially sacrificing our crown jewel city for however many years might be useful for Republicans and may be useful for the city because it would prove that he's not the right solution and maybe we get another 20 year reprieve from that kind of thinking?
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Do you think we'd be better off, New York specifically?
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Do you think they'd be better off just eating this shit sandwich and then learning from it?
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You know, I was surprised to learn that New York real estate is coming back.
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If there's one thing I can tell you about economics, nobody can predict it.
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So the entire, I would say, the argument against Mom Dami is that we can all predict economics.
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Here, I'm going to make you a little bit uncertain.
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When you came in here, you were completely certain that Mom Dami's approach was a bad one, communist, socialist, and that the normies had the right one.
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How many of you predicted that in the middle of the race to elect a socialist slash maybe communist, in the middle of the race,
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that New York City real estate prices would go up and people would be coming back in and buying office space and it's recovering?
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To me, it was the most easy thing to predict wouldn't happen, right?
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Because the situation, in theory, is getting worse and worse for a traditional business that doesn't want to overpay taxes and doesn't want to be in a crime area.
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So, in theory, it would be the easiest prediction in the world that the real estate situation in New York would continue getting worse, at least during the election, when there's a chance of the communists getting in power.
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So, this is where I'm making you feel uncertain.
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And one of the reasons that I have no respect for my own college degree, which is in economics, it doesn't predict.
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I've told you in different contexts that the best you can do in understanding reality, because we're not good at understanding reality, is whether it predicts.
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Well, the reality I was living in didn't predict.
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Didn't predict that New York City real estate would already be recovering?
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It's entirely possible that Mamdani was expecting and predicting real estate to come back.
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And the argument would be there's only one New York City.
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So, if you want to play with the big boys, you're going to have to go back.
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And he even thought Mamdani even wanted to raise taxes on corporations to match New Jersey, which is also clever, because he's matching.
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But obviously, he thought it wouldn't destroy the economy, or even he wouldn't be predicting it, right?
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So, you walked in here completely sure that he was the one who's always wrong, and you're the one who's right, because you like the capitalism and the free market.
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Except his point of view is the only one that predicted correctly.
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I'm just messing with you, because obviously, I don't think his plans are the ones that are the good ones.
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Looks to me like he predicted correctly, and you didn't.
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Looks to me like he predicted correctly, and I didn't.
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And in theory, I have more credentials than he has for this kind of prediction.
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It's just something to think about, because it's a slow news day.
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Apparently, Denmark just decided that people in Denmark can copyright their own face.
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So, if AI tries to use your face, there'll be a copyright violation.
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That doesn't seem like something that could last.
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Did you know that San Francisco, I think this was in Wall Street Journal, that even San Francisco is rebounding?
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I forget the mayor's name, but I heard people say they were happy about our current mayor.
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Burglaries are allegedly down 28% this year in San Francisco.
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Or is that just another one of those, they change the way they report it?
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But it might be true that it's not getting worse.
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And allegedly the number of homeless encampments in San Francisco has fallen.
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How many of you predicted that San Francisco, of all places, would be able to raise rates
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in the middle of what looked like the city falling apart?
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How many of you would have said, oh yeah, those rentals will be up 12%?
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I would have guessed that rents would have collapsed by now.
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So that's two cities in which my ability to predict with all of my economics training, zero.
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If you think you can do better, knock yourself out.
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Well, in other fun stories, let me say this about Candace Owens.
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I only met her once very briefly, but she was very warm.
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Not just the actual podcast, but the whole show.
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I like the way she's, you know, inserted herself into the public mind.
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I just sort of like everything about what she does.
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Now that's different from agreeing with all of her takes.
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Do we ever get to the point where I don't have to say that?
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Can we ever, as a civilization, get to the point where I can say, I like that public figure without having to say,
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I don't agree with 100% of everything she's ever said.
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And don't worry about the gag order in the Charlie Kirk case.
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She says, I plan to violate it on the world's behalf.
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So she's to violate the course gag order on the world's behalf.
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She says, the things I've discovered this past week are enough to burn the house down.
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Just so good at getting attention, which is her job, right?
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She and I are in the same job in a way, which is to get attention.
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But you're only going to get attention if you're creating value, right?
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You could get attention for one day, but you can't be Candace unless you can get attention
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So if you simply, and you know I like to do this, I like to separate the person's character
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I like, in this case, I like her character and her skill level.
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Candace's skill level, her talent stack is crazy.
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According to Jensen Wang, CEO of NVIDIA, here's more good news.
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It only took one year, and apparently the US is already manufacturing the most advanced chip
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NVIDIA is working with, what is the name of that?
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The Taiwan company apparently moved some of its technology to the US and working with NVIDIA.
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So now the US can make, not at the same quantity, TSM.
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TSM is the name of the chip company from Taiwan.
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Anyway, so they're working together, and now they can make the most advanced chip in the US.
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I assume that volume is probably still a big issue, but I feel it's TSMC.
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But that's a pretty big deal to me, because it means that even if Taiwan sunk into the ocean,
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We would have enough on our shores that we could reconstitute slowly.
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But it probably also makes it far more likely that Taiwan will be destroyed by China,
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because China will know that it's not an existential risk to the United States anymore.
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I just realized this could be a double-edged sword.
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If you're China, and you're not benefiting directly from the advanced chips on Taiwan,
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but your biggest competitor is the United States, would you worry too much if, in the process
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of conquering Taiwan, you destroyed the semiconductor business?
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You might not care as much as you should, because then it would just put you at parity with your
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biggest competitor, who has access to it now, but wouldn't if it got knocked down.
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But now, but now we can make those chips in the US.
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So now you're China, and you think, ha-ha, I can totally overthrow Taiwan now, because the
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If they don't want to, and they don't want to be in a war, a world war, they don't have
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But before, we kind of would have had to, because we couldn't let China take control of
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the chips that would be better than the ones that we could make.
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So it's entirely possible that growing our own homegrown best of chips will sacrifice Taiwan.
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Apparently, Trump is using the shutdown of the government to kill some projects.
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I guess the Democrats didn't know it either, but they're finding out.
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Allegedly, there's some kind of $20 billion New York City tunnel project that Schumer had
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spent, Representative Schumer, Senator Schumer, has spent years trying to get passed, and
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And now, because the government's closed, Trump's just going to cancel the whole fucking project.
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I don't even know if Trump even looked into whether it was a good idea to do the project
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I think it's just Schumer's project, and he worked 20 years to get it.
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But I'd have to know if we really need this tunnel.
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I imagine that we could live without the tunnel and the $20 billion.
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Anyway, so there's a story today that somebody built a hunting stand in a tree, which is where
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the hunters hide from the prey, and then they can take a shot from their hiding place in the tree.
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They built one that had a complete view of Air Force One when it lands in Palm Beach.
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So the hunting blind had an open, wide open shot at the President of the United States coming
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down the gate from his own airplane in a place where he's known to land.
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Now, the good news is that it was discovered, and it looks like it's been there for a while.
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We don't know if it was there for that purpose.
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Wouldn't you think that Palm Beach would be a strange place to have a hunting blind in a tree?
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I don't know how many other hunting blinds and trees there are in Palm Beach, but that certainly
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looks exactly like what it looks like, doesn't it?
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Well, apparently, Boston is looking into having a city-run grocery store.
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They haven't done it yet, but did you know that Atlanta already has one?
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And I do not have an update on whether it's working in Atlanta.
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But it makes me wonder, is there a way to make a government grocery store work without
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getting rid of the regular grocery stores so the rest of us can have more choice?
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What would you do if you were the government and you wanted to, I don't want to say compete,
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but you were going to have an alternative grocery store in the same place where there were regular
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So the first thing you have to do is make sure that people who had money still preferred the
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And you could do that easily by having more junk food and more selection, right?
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Selection alone would get the people with money to go there.
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So the first thing you do is have less selection if it's a government grocery store.
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I think if you reduce the selection to just, you know, basics like vegetables and protein,
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you could probably find ways to cut costs like crazy because you just keep it simple.
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Like, okay, we have five proteins, just always the same.
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But then could you also do something that was direct from farm if you got rid of some regulations
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So if you got rid of government regulations and said, all right, you can take your chances
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with the food because it won't be regulated, but it's coming right from the farm and we'll
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give you all the information you want about the farm, but it's up to the farm.
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And we're going to, we're going to hold the farm possibly, possibly hold the farm blameless
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So you'd have to handle sort of the insurance risk of providing food to people.
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And the government could just say, yeah, you can't sue.
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You know, some people are going to die from the farm food.
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So if you did all of those things, you reduced the choice, you figured out how to get the
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footprint really low, maybe even got some free rent.
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Maybe you figured out how to use robots instead of employees.
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Maybe you squeeze the big food producers, you know, for a little, little taste of something
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Maybe you had your own, maybe you had your own vertical.
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So you, you owned the farm, but you also owned the grocery store.
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So my point is, if you, if you started from scratch and said, how would we build a alternative
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I've always thought that the ideal would be that there would be like a cafeteria that you
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could go to that would be close enough everybody could get to it.
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But the cafeteria model would have less waste than individuals.
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You know, if you shop for yourself and cook for yourself, it's just so wasteful the amount
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of time you spend and that you have to drive somewhere and pick something up.
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Compare that to just everybody walks over to the buffet and you just get what you want.
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So I do not rule out that there could be a government grocery store.
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I think if you rule it out because it's never worked, that's a good starting point.
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But that's just the starting point for the analysis.
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If you get to what's never been tried, well, now you've, now it's interesting.
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Well, you are not surprised to know that the Gaza ceasefire is not holding as well as people would like,
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but it's unclear whether the leadership of Hamas has anything to do with it or is it rogue elements within Hamas.
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Israel is responding to the encroachments by cutting food, I guess, and aid.
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So humanitarian aid is stopped or paused, I guess, mostly paused.
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So as I said yesterday, I'm not worried about the ceasefire as long as both sides have dramatically drawn down their military presence.
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There's definitely going to be violations of the ceasefire.
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You know, every single person who's been alive more than 10 minutes knows the ceasefire is going to get violated.
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So you can't say we're going to change everything if the ceasefire gets violated.
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There wouldn't be any point even doing the deal if we thought a violation was going to overturn the whole thing.
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So, of course, we're going to work through all the little violations.
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It does make sense that there will be plenty of people there who don't want a ceasefire.
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But as long as they get the big weapons out of there.
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I guess Jared was talking about maybe a gun buyback program.
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And what was your first impression when you heard that, that they would do a gun buyback program with Hamas?
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My second impression was, we don't really know how the depth of their poverty right now.
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So if you were a, if you owned a gun, you were Hamas, you owned a gun,
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and the government offered you what was a really good price, a really good price,
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and you had no source of other money, and you also thought that the war was over,
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I think maybe half of them would sell their guns, because money is better than a bunch of bullets you're not going to use.
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So I do like the buyback idea, but I think it's, you know, that's only a dent.
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But if you got half of them, that'd be, that'd be pretty impressive.
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So, yeah, Christian and Witkoff are the two guys trying to figure out how to govern Gaza after that,
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Is there a way to create a non-corrupt government, even for just a city?
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Let's call Gaza a city, even though it's bigger than a city.
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I don't believe there's any form of government that you could just plop in the middle of a highly corrupt culture,
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Now, when I say it's a highly corrupt culture, I'm not banging on one type of people.
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You know, you could, you know, just take a pin and drop it on the globe,
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and it would hit some, some corrupt place somewhere, right?
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So the question is, if you build the cities the way they've always been built in the past, what are you going to get?
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But is there a way, similar to the conversation about the government grocery stores,
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if you were to throw away all assumptions, and this is what Jared, I think, is especially good at,
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I've often thought that the number one thing you need to get right
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is that the people who are making the money decisions don't live there.
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Because if you live there, you've got all these corrupt influences.
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You know, that gangster you grew up with, and the people you went to school with,
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and, you know, your wife's family who wants that contract.
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You can't let the people who live there control the money.
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They will just give it to their family members, et cetera.
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So you need some kind of independent, physically not there entity to not only decide where it goes,
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where the money is spent, but then to watch it like a hawk and report on it so that everybody knows where it went.
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If you can't get that part right, nothing else works.
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So somehow, Jared has to solve the problem of what happens when money is introduced into the zone,
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and then who gets to decide where it goes, who watches it, and who reports it to the people to make sure it went to the right place.
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If you don't get that part right, nothing else matters.
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But if Jared could pull that off with some clever set of systems,
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it would be one of the greatest things that ever happened in the world.
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What if they pulled that off, Wyckoff and Jared Kushner?
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What if they actually built a city that by its design, you know, the systems they put in place, avoided corruption?
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That would be one of the greatest things that ever happened in the history of humankind.
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So I don't know what you're working on today, but those two guys have a chance.
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But do they have the skills that the two of them could conceivably come up with a way to build a non-corrupt zone?
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Because, you know, there would be a lot of pushback in every possible way.
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But yeah, they might be the only two dudes that could pull that off right now.
00:47:53.000
Trump has announced an end to the Colombian foreign aid.
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I didn't even know we were giving Colombia foreign aid, but apparently now they're a bunch of illegal drug dealers too.
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Trump's not happy with the president of Colombia, who is not happy with us.
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So Trump's going to discontinue whatever our subsidies were for Colombia.
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I feel like the subsidies were for the purpose of fighting drugs, weren't they?
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So is he saying that we've been paying Colombia to fight drugs, but Colombia is actually the drug cartel?
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So yes, if that's even close to what's happening, and I don't know that it is, but if the government is embedded with the cartel,
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and we were paying the government to deal with the cartel, well, maybe it's time to stop doing that, huh?
00:48:59.000
You would not be surprised to hear, because it's a ground dog day all over again.
00:49:05.000
Ukrainian drone struck a major Russian gas plant.
00:49:13.000
Every day, there's another Russian major energy structure that got attacked.
00:49:22.000
In other positive news, Interesting Engineering has a story about a wind turbine.
00:49:32.000
So it's basically, you know, the fans of a windmill would be, you know, the turbine part.
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But apparently, somebody has developed a new shape for the, I guess, the turbine.
00:49:52.000
If you say turbine enough, you don't know what it means.
00:49:58.000
But it would be the little things that the air is bouncing off of.
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And they figured out how to make one that boosts energy output by 83% with 35% less weight.
00:50:11.000
Fiber composite rotors make a small turbine stronger, more durable.
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That they figured out how to make a windmill 83% more efficient all of a sudden?
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Well, if that's true, finally your dream can come true, which is you'll be able to watch television even when the wind is just barely blowing.
00:50:50.000
Trump always says that the windmills are no good.
00:50:53.000
Because when the wind stops blowing, you can't watch TV.
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And now I'm thinking, finally, we can watch TV when the wind is barely blowing.
00:51:11.000
You know, maybe it's so efficient, those little turbines, that you could have one in your house without making your neighbors crazy from the sound and the dead birds.
00:51:22.000
According to Elizabeth Gibney, who's writing for Nature, AI bots have now reviewed, oh, there's a conference coming, which is an all AI paper conference.
00:51:36.000
So the conference will have humans at it, but they're there to see what would happen if AI wrote the scientific papers, submitted the scientific papers, and then here's the fun part, did their own peer review.
00:51:51.000
So they're doing a conference of AI-generated scientific papers that will be matched with the peer reviewers so that the humans who attend can see if the peer reviewers can add value to the AI papers.
00:52:12.000
So it's not that the papers are going to be trusted more.
00:52:19.000
It's more about seeing how the human-slash-AI scientific model works.
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I think this is exactly what they should be looking at to see what that looks like when you throw the AI in there.
00:52:36.000
Ladies and gentlemen, I told you I'd be finishing a little early.
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There's not much news happening today, which I suppose is good.
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But I did tell the people on Locals, my beloved subscribers, that I'd be taking some questions at the end about anything you want.
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So I won't be able to see all of your questions because they zip by pretty quickly.
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But if you do have any questions on any topic at all, I'd be happy to answer them.
00:53:16.000
What if the peer reviewers have AI right that they're peer-reviewed?
00:53:29.000
Trump's government added the White House and departments to Blue Sky Social Network, so I subscribed.
00:53:47.000
What are your thoughts including how those supporting should engage?
00:53:51.000
So how should Trump supporters engage with Blue Sky?
00:53:54.000
So Blue Sky is the competitor to acts that only Democrats went to, basically.
00:54:01.000
But the White House wanted a presence there, which is smart.
00:54:13.000
If it becomes more of a thing, then maybe someday you don't have to ignore it.
00:54:30.000
No, the individual relationship ones, you'd have to know so much about the individual situation.
00:54:41.000
Because some people ought to be married and some people ought to probably cut it out.
00:54:57.000
I feel having two cats will probably eliminate my rodent stuff.
00:55:04.000
So Dog Not Barking says, I missed what you learned from your medical testing Friday.
00:55:10.000
So I've got terminal cancer, metastatic prostate cancer.
00:55:15.000
There's a drug that's newly approved just this spring called Plovictu.
00:55:20.000
But you don't get that unless you go through a scanning process in which they give you some
00:55:26.000
radioactive juice to see if it lights up the tumors.
00:55:29.000
Because if they can't light up the tumors with the practice juice, then the real thing
00:55:35.000
So it's a way to find out if this limited and expensive process would be applicable to
00:55:42.000
Now, the test was the most painful thing I've ever done in my life, by far.
00:55:49.000
Because I can't lay on my back with an extraordinary pain.
00:55:52.000
And you have to lay on your back for 20 minutes.
00:56:00.000
And it did light up at least my reading of the test.
00:56:05.000
The doctor hasn't read them yet, so maybe I'm misinterpreting.
00:56:10.000
But the reading of the test is that they lit up well.
00:56:13.000
That they had a high sensitivity, which is what we're looking for.
00:56:18.000
So, in theory, my doctor will look at that today.
00:56:21.000
He'll recommend it to a committee who decides whether or not that's good enough for me to
00:56:27.000
If the committee says yes in a week when they meet, then it will be scheduled.
00:56:33.000
But I don't know how long it takes to schedule it.
00:56:38.000
So, it would be once a week for, I don't know, four or six weeks or something like that.
00:56:47.000
Even if you've tested, even if you've tested to see if it lights up your tumors, it's not
00:56:53.000
And it's not going to work as well for everybody.
00:56:57.000
So, there's some chance that I will get substantial relief fairly quickly, you know, within a matter
00:57:08.000
But it's far more likely, maybe two out of three chance, that maybe I get a little bit
00:57:14.000
of delay in the whole dying thing, but doesn't change the arc of my life too much.
00:57:21.000
However, we're at this weird point in history where there are all kinds of new things coming
00:57:30.000
There's a new prostate cancer thing that looks like it might work if they test it a little
00:57:36.000
So, if I can extend my survival, and I don't know how much I need to, but we're at that
00:57:43.000
period where if you can get that little extra, you might be able to get to the new thing.
00:57:50.000
My game plan is to try to get to the new thing without knowing what the new thing is.
00:57:59.000
And then there's a non-zero chance, I'm not counting on this, but there's a non-zero
00:58:08.000
chance that the Pluvicta will just knock it out.
00:58:13.000
And that it will still be there, because it's not a cure, by the way.
00:58:20.000
But it could knock it back so much that if I don't do chemo and weaken my immune system,
00:58:27.000
I might be able to just sort of keep it at bay without too much future trouble.
00:58:35.000
Most likely is I slow it down and it rages back in a few months.
00:58:45.000
I feel like I'm not adding value now, because I'm just talking about my own situation.
00:58:52.000
How did I prepare myself for the painful mental scan?
00:59:04.000
But I had not practiced being in that position for that long,
00:59:07.000
because obviously it's the most painful thing you could ever do in your life.
00:59:15.000
If you don't know how bad it will be, that helps.
00:59:21.000
Once you're in the room, this is where the reframe wanting versus deciding comes in.
00:59:31.000
If I had simply wanted it, I could not have held out.
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Meaning that you could put a hot poker through my forehead, and I was going to hold on.
00:59:45.000
There's a thing you hold on to to keep yourself from wiggling.
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And I told myself, you could do anything to me.
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There's no level of pain that's going to make me move.
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So once you move it from preference to decision, it doesn't make it easier, but it largely guarantees it'll get done.
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And then I also do a thing where I try not to imagine it too much.
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When I have a dental appointment, I do that as well.
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If I know it's going to be painful, I tell myself simply, get out.
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If it's in my head, I just go, get out, get out, get out.
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And the less you think about it before you go, the happier you're going to be.
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So you're not obsessing about it before it happens.
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I think that was a good answer to your question.
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How does gravity manifest at the quantum level?
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Well, I don't know if I'm ready for that one yet.
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So when you think about how other people think of you, I have a reframe for that.
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We'll probably get to it later, but I'll share it with you now.
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What's the best reframe for worrying about what people think about you?
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I just forgot what I was talking about, because I got on the Provenge track.
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Oh, how to reframe if you think people are thinking bad things about you.
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That's not the one I was going for, but that is also correct.
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If you remember that everyone's a basket case, then you're not going to feel bad about you being one.
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Once you realize that once you get to know somebody, they've got all kinds of problems that you didn't know about until you knew them really well.
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And once you realize there's no such thing as the people who seem to have no problems, they don't exist.
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Once you realize that you're just like everybody else, but your problems might be different.
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You imagine that people are having all these negative thoughts about you.
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If they do, it lasts all of one second in their head.
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You know, your family does, but that's not what you're talking about, right?
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You talk about sort of coworkers and people you run into in the street and stuff like that.
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I've told you this story, but this will make it concrete again.
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Many years ago, I did laser surgery on my face to correct a bunch of spider veins that were sort of in the mask of my face.
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Now, I was told by the laser professional that my face would look all purple and it would look like I had gone through a windshield and it would last for about three weeks.
01:04:15.000
And I probably didn't want to go out in public looking that way.
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My face is all purple and it looked like I had just gone through a windshield.
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So day goes by and I'm bored and I'm thinking three weeks.
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And the second day comes and I'm bored and I just want to go shopping just to get out of the freaking house.
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And I say to myself, what would happen if I just didn't care what anybody thought?
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What would happen if I just do go to the mall with my face that looks like I just went through a windshield?
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Nobody showed the least bit of interest in whatever it was I was going through.
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You know, there was no child going, oh, what's wrong?
01:05:28.000
And once you get a big dose of nobody cares, oh, my God, the freedom.
01:05:37.000
It was actually one of my more memorable days of my life because that's when I realized for sure that I didn't have to worry about what other people were thinking about me because they weren't thinking about me.
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So if you want to be liked, help people think about themselves.
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If you want to be liked, your job was not to make them think better about what your face looked like.
01:06:12.000
But the job was to make them think about themselves.
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I would say we've done what we need to do here.
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But in the meantime, I'm hoping all these reframes are making you more powerful and happier.
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I won't be talking to the locals people privately because basically what I just did is what I would have been doing.
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Maybe tonight I will do another drawing class for the locals people, but I don't know yet.