A doctor told Scott Adams that he could survive a radiation treatment for a cancerous spot in his back, but it would take 15 minutes to complete the treatment. Scott Adams tells the story of how he managed to survive the painful 15 minutes of radiation treatment.
00:04:09.920Very, very clear communication, wouldn't you say?
00:04:14.400So I get under the machine and it immediately, you know, the pain kicks in.
00:04:19.580And as the techs are walking into the adjacent room where they'll be monitoring me, allegedly, one of them says, we start by taking x-rays.
00:04:32.120I think they meant the CAS scan, but they said x-rays.
00:04:35.900To make sure that your body's in the same position that it was when we did the test to see if you'd be, you know, we were testing to see where the tumors were.
00:04:45.920But you have to be laying in exactly the same position or else the radiation won't get the right place.
00:04:53.020So they say, first, we'll take the x-rays.
00:07:46.640Now, I'm not going to get into the specifics of the painkillers, because then you'll go crazy and you'll have your opinions and I don't care.
00:07:54.820But they gave me something really strong.
00:07:58.060On top of, I already had painkillers in me because I was anticipating it.
00:08:02.320So now I have several, one, two, three, at least three different painkillers, four maybe, in me at the same time.
00:08:11.440How much did the painkillers make a difference?
00:09:24.520But the good news was that my original position didn't hurt very much.
00:09:29.560And I thought, I can definitely get through this because it didn't hurt that much.
00:09:33.240As soon as they moved me into the same position as the one where I'd been tested, the one that they needed to get me in, absolute terror pain because it was the position that makes the pain.
00:10:52.980I wonder if there's any science that you didn't need to read because you could have just asked Scott.
00:10:58.300Well, the American Psychological Association tells us that the study says that sharing positive emotions with the partner is good for your health.
00:11:59.560Did they have any lasting effects on anybody's mental health in a positive way?
00:12:04.540You already know the answer to that because I talk about this almost every day.
00:12:10.040Almost every day there's a news story about a hallucinogen, usually not LSD, but some hallucinogen that has exactly these properties,
00:12:19.520that it can affect somebody's mental health with one dose.
00:12:21.900I don't know how many studies we have to do to show that hallucinogens fix people with one dose before everybody tries one dose of hallucinogens.
00:12:32.640I mean, aren't we sort of, you know, on the cusp of everybody just saying, all right, all right, all right, just give me some of that.
00:12:42.920According to Science Alert, chimpanzees can revise their beliefs when shown new evidence.
00:14:23.660So they must have some kind of digital path because there's a lawsuit.
00:14:27.900So Meta asked the U.S. District Court to toss out a lawsuit alleging that they had basically torrented or streamed a bunch of pornography to train their AI.
00:15:11.800Well, we're young, and there are a lot of us, and we like our porn.
00:15:17.380So, you know, why don't you get off my back, Dad?
00:15:23.020Well, here's something that Elon Musk knew was coming, but maybe you didn't.
00:15:27.600Apparently, there's a solar power boom because the economics of solar power just got really good.
00:15:34.660And one of the reasons it got really good, the economics for solar, is that there's some gigantic solar projects going on, China particularly.
00:15:45.300And basically, it's just creating a very robust, competitive industry.
00:15:52.640So the prices for solar are going down, and a lot more is being installed in countries everywhere.
00:16:01.440The weird thing is that the economics of solar are so good now that even Saudi Arabia is installing solar.
00:16:09.600They have a lot of sun, so it makes sense.
00:16:11.920But one of the biggest regular energy, carbon energy producers in the world, even for them, the economics of solar are good.
00:16:21.080So I assume that maybe this has something to do with battery storage as well.
00:16:26.760But I guess we're in that realm where all power is good power.
00:16:33.060So you might remember that, you know, this is in the category of Elon Musk being correct again.
00:16:39.640He's been saying for a long time that solar would be the economical, easiest, fastest, safest kind of way to go forward.
00:16:50.200Now, obviously, he's in the business, so it's his job to say it's good.
00:28:24.100Even if you were anti-Semite, it would be okay to criticize an organization for what the organization is doing.
00:28:32.000So it looks like we're conflating, you know, the two conversations.
00:28:37.480You know, when are we, when is somebody saying something that's criticism of the country?
00:28:42.660When have they gone too far and said it's the people?
00:28:44.860Well, but I would say that what's changed in the last six months is that the Gaza situation reached some kind of a peak.
00:28:54.360Obviously, that's going to have something back.
00:28:56.880And that also maybe some changes in social media made Nick Fuentes show up on my feed every five seconds.
00:29:05.260Is anybody having the Nick Fuentes social media effect that he's just there?
00:29:12.420Almost every time I turn on any videos on X, he's in the top five.
00:29:18.600Now, it is because I was curious, like, what's the difference between, you know, Tucker Carlson's view and his view and, you know, what trouble is he causing?
00:29:29.340Because when you hear, when you hear things about him, you don't always hear the specific of what he did.
00:29:51.200But let's just say the vibe is unmistakable.
00:29:58.540Now, he would argue, I think, you know, I don't want to take his argument.
00:30:02.860But at least in some cases, he would argue that he's, at least in other topics, that he's talking about culture less than he's talking about people.
00:30:12.680But I think that's not so much the anti-Semitism argument as it is his argument about other immigrants, I think.
00:30:26.060Both Tucker and Fuentes, they can represent their own opinions.
00:30:32.020I will add nothing to their opinions, nor do I care enough that I need to get into the weeds on that.
00:30:41.760But it does look like Tucker is playing with fire, but maybe still, you know, slightly on the side of, you know, since he's going after entities and not people, most of the time.
00:30:55.320I mean, there might be some people he goes after, but they would be special cases.
00:31:06.520Cash Patel apparently found, according to Just the News, another October surprise that was happening back in two weeks before the election in 2020.
00:31:16.120So we know about the Arctic Frost investigation, but did you know that on top of that, they were looking to do something in 2020?
00:31:32.220They were desperately, it looks like, they were desperately looking like something, looking for something they could go after Trump for, but they didn't have much.
00:31:40.300So here's how deep they went to try to find something on Trump.
00:31:46.600I'll just read what Just the News was reporting.
00:31:49.720There was a memo buried in the middle of a 235-page evidence production that Patel sent to the House Judiciary Committee this week that chronicles how the FBI's Washington field office rifled through financial records and campaign expenditure reports,
00:32:04.260producing, quote, a tactical intelligence report, trying to link payments from Trump's re-election campaign and a vendor named American-made media consultants to possible casino gambling.
00:32:26.540In short, the news writes, the FBI agents believed an employee of the campaign, so, all right, here's the problem.
00:32:36.800They believed that an employee of the campaign, not Trump, just an employee, no, yeah, an employee of the campaign, went gambling at a casino after this American-made media consultants thing, got money for campaign work.
00:32:51.700Not exactly the crime of the century, says Just the News.
00:33:16.180According to the New York Post and some new surveys, nearly half of New Yorkers think the New York City crime is going to spike when Donnie becomes mayor, who he likely will.
00:33:34.980That's pretty scary if half of the people think that crime is going to go up, but I'll bet that's not too different from any other, every other election.
00:33:42.780Half of the country thinks it's going to be a disaster.
00:33:46.180Well, I didn't know this, but I guess in the past Elon Musk has been not so much of a Bitcoin supporter, but as of today, he says Bitcoin might be the thing, because the thing that's different about Bitcoin is that it's sort of a, it's proof of real-world power.
00:34:07.820I think that's what Mario was describing as.
00:34:11.700But basically, Bitcoin can only be created with energy.
00:34:16.180So, energy is, in a sense, the thing that backs Bitcoin in the way that the old days, gold would have backed the dollar.
00:34:27.780So, Bitcoin would be one of the, well, the only, I think it's the only crypto that would be backed by something that has intrinsic value of its own, which is energy.
00:34:37.580So, you'd need energy to make a Bitcoin.
00:34:42.780And so, Elon, recognizing that, yeah, he says he doesn't hold any Bitcoin, but energy is truth.
00:34:57.120So, I guess the bottom line is that Elon is believing that Bitcoin is here to stay, and that there's a reason that it's different from the other crypto.
00:35:09.260And I noticed that Bitcoin was up 3% this morning.
00:36:52.520Well, we'll never know, because it's mostly promises, but it looks like we promised nothing, and they promised nothing, but we made our nothing sound like something, so it looked like something happened.
00:37:29.500But I like it when he uses his hyperbole and salesmanship in these situations, because if he could make Xi think that the two of them won something, that the two of them looked good, and they had a meeting, and they both won something that they won't, that might soften up Xi for the next time.
00:37:48.200You know, so that would maybe be good, just good technique to agree that good things happened, even if they didn't.
00:38:16.080So, she was being asked by the media about the clean CR, the continuing resolution.
00:38:23.680So, this is what the Republicans say they want the Democrats to sign, or vote for, that would just extend funding with no changes from what it had been before.
00:38:36.440So, the no changes part is the important part.
00:38:38.800But, Janelle Bynum says that that continuing resolution was not a clean bill, and indeed that it had a poison pill in it, meaning that something had been added that Democrats would definitely not want to happen.
00:38:53.680But if they wanted to open the government, they'd be forced to sign this bill that also had this new add-on that they didn't want.
00:39:13.400And she could not, because there's no poison pill.
00:39:18.400Now, have you noticed that the Democrats could make any claim whatsoever, and nobody's going to really fact-check it enough that, you know, I mean, only the nerds like us are going to fact-check it.
00:39:29.640But the regular public is just going to hear that, and they're going to say, oh, it has a poison pill in it.
00:41:41.940Speaking of Ted Cruz, he's also called on the House to impeach that Judge Boasberg.
00:41:48.020And the impeachment would be, in his opinion, the reason for it would be that Boasberg had been behind approving the looking into all the personal phone records of a bunch of people, including Ted Cruz.
00:42:07.040And I guess Boasberg justified looking into the records under what the judge wrote were reasonable grounds that the senator might destroy or tamper with evidence in the Biden administration's investigation of Jan 6.
00:42:24.700And Cruz's response is, there is precisely zero evidence to conclude that I am likely to destroy or tamper with evidence or to intimidate potential witnesses.
00:45:31.300So as long as you can program a simulation such that all the people in it would have some point of view and can never be overturned, that's all you need.
00:45:43.760So apparently their mathematical proof boils down to this.
00:45:51.980Since the fundamental level of reality is based on non-algorithmic understanding, that would be the reality we think we're in, non-algorithmic understanding, what they mean is quantum physics.
00:46:03.560So they're saying that the world is not cause and effect, but it's sort of a quantum world where you don't know what's going to happen.
00:46:11.460So if you don't know what's going to happen, you couldn't really call that an algorithm, right?
00:46:16.480So therefore there can't be a computed simulation, because what we observe is that we don't live in a world that acts like it's computed.
00:47:20.760Do you remember it was just yesterday I was telling you that wars run on economics?
00:47:26.520Because if you get the best economics, you're going to have the best weapons.
00:47:29.900And I told you that the economics of drones and anti-drone technology, those two things might be the key to who has dominance in the future.
00:47:41.640Are you good at making lots of drones?
00:47:49.740So putting Doge, which are both geniuses and they're involved in costs, if you put the costs people in charge of the drone program, you've nailed it.
00:48:03.100Because you've got to get the economics right so that you can make a billion drones at the cost that your enemy can only make a million.
00:48:12.680So the fact that the military and Hegseth and Trump apparently understand that you've got to get the economics of drones right, you don't just get the technology, you've got to get the economics of it right.