In this episode of the highlight of human civilization, Scott Adams talks about a recent scientific revelation about the link between activism and narcissism, soy beans, and obesity, and why he thinks a four-year degree is not worth the cost.
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00:01:49.080um is there uh anything that i've been saying for years that is now the subject of scientific
00:01:59.240revelation yes according to eric nolan on psi post did you know that participating in activist groups
00:02:09.840is linked to increased narcissism and psycho psychopathy over time well it turns out that according to
00:02:20.780science um if you happen to already be a narcissist or a psychopath you're more likely
00:02:30.080you're more likely to get involved in uh in activist groups but not only does it work in that direction
00:02:39.580but if you are not especially narcissistic or psychopathic uh being involved in one of those
00:02:46.700uh activist groups might turn you into it so it's a sort of a two-way thing
00:02:52.960now does that sound like something that surprises you totally no because you're probably in the same
00:03:01.040bubble i am and conservative thinkers have been saying this for years i mean several years when was the
00:03:09.100first time jordan peterson uh told you that uh the what is it the cluster b personalities tend to be on
00:03:17.740the left and they tend to be in activist groups so we kind of saw that one coming no big surprise there
00:03:25.880well did you know according to the university of california riverside that the soybean oil the oil
00:03:35.640the soybean oil has a hidden fat derived molecule that might fuel obesity in other words
00:03:44.260uh soybean oil makes you fat i don't think it happens to every single person
00:03:51.420but uh there's a lot of it have you ever done an experiment where you go to the grocery store
00:03:57.560and try to find any packaged item has to be packaged that doesn't have soy in it have you ever done that
00:04:05.880experiment you you could start at the end of the shelves for whatever section you're on doesn't
00:04:12.720matter what section then pick up the first package you see and and see if there's any soy product in
00:04:19.000it there will be and put it back go to the very next thing next to it there's soy i i once looked
00:04:27.800like for probably an hour to see if i could find one damn thing that didn't have soy in it
00:04:33.260now there might be some obvious exceptions like if you're buying something that only has one ingredient
00:04:38.600you know it's not necessarily soy but if you have anything that has multiple ingredients in it
00:04:43.880oh yeah you're eating soy so i don't know if the soy beans and the soy oil have the same impact but
00:04:53.140beware well akira the dawn um has released a little preview of another piece of music that features me
00:05:03.780uh as the vocalist uh as the vocalist it's so funny to hear myself say that that uh that i'm the least
00:05:12.800musical person in the world yeah i play a little bit of drums that's about it but uh to to live in a
00:05:21.660world in which uh kira the dawn has incorporated my podcast voice as sort of a a layer in his music
00:05:30.860it's kind of really innovative and fun and i guess he's going to drop the album that would have a
00:05:37.680number of songs that he put together like that that would feature my my voice and his music so
00:05:44.820that's coming to summer 19th but there's a preview if you want to see one of the new ones that's on my
00:05:52.020feed or you can find it on akira the dawn's feed anyway um did you know
00:05:59.520well you're going to know in a moment that uh according to newsmax mark swanson's writing
00:06:08.060that uh according to a poll 63 percent polled say a four-year degree is not worth the cost
00:06:16.440um and that more than six in ten registered voters think a four-year degree is not worth the cost
00:06:25.440according to new nbc news poll now so the the respect i guess that's the right word for a four-year
00:06:36.040degree is sort of at an all-time low or at least in the modern in modern times that's low do you think
00:06:42.060that that is first of all a good representation of reality i think it is a good reputation good
00:06:51.940representation of what people think about the college degree but do you think they're just being
00:06:58.560influenced by the fact that it's too expensive and if you ask somebody who doesn't have one
00:07:04.900what are they going to say if i did not have a four-year degree and you asked me today uh how
00:07:14.580important is it i'd probably say totally unimportant yeah you shouldn't get one and then i'd go off and
00:07:22.260get one so i had an advantage so here's my advice it's probably not essential that you get a four-year
00:07:32.320degree but it's a competitive world so if you can get one you know if it's within your financial and
00:07:41.840or other abilities you should definitely get one because you're going to be competing against people
00:07:49.460who don't have one and you know maybe you're lucky and you get an employer who genuinely doesn't care
00:07:56.740you know there are more of them every day but the odds of running into somebody who does care
00:08:02.080you know maybe because they have one themselves or they went to the same school or whatever
00:08:07.000it's pretty high so i would say from a maybe a logical perspective it's not as necessary as it used to be
00:08:16.720but if you're looking at it from a strategic employee perspective yeah you should get one
00:08:25.340if you can do it without burdening yourself financially for the rest of your life now you
00:08:32.340don't want to do it at all costs you want to do it at a you know reasonable cost for your resources
00:08:38.800but yeah i would definitely i would definitely play the advantage if you if you have the option
00:08:44.660um you know what polymarket is it's a one of those betting sites it's the big betting site
00:08:52.020well apparently um the betting sites are more accurate than opinion polls so once people put
00:09:02.100their money on it they're way better at predicting than if you just say hey what do you think
00:09:07.380um so the uh i guess one of the founders the ceo was talking about that and uh
00:09:14.020uh so uh keep an eye on polymarket because it's going to tell you more than opinion however
00:09:23.220it makes me ask this question don't you think that if you had some way to know
00:09:29.620who had been really good at predicting in the past that you'd like to see just those people
00:09:37.940predicting the next thing wouldn't that be a lot better why would i take the average of people
00:09:46.960who were terrible at predicting that meaning that they didn't win anything you know because you can
00:09:52.960see if they ever won anything on polymarket why would i want to see the average of the people who
00:09:57.660never were right mixed in with the average of the people who were right most of the time
00:10:02.560what the hell good is that wouldn't it make a lot more sense if you could go to polymarket and say
00:10:10.080show me the people who have been right more than 60 percent of the time on whatever topic it is
00:10:17.340of course that would be better how about um if it's something that maybe is a new category or
00:10:24.700something wouldn't you like to see the people who were the most well-informed why would i why would
00:10:32.440i take the average of people who are poorly informed on the topic let's say the topic is crypto do i
00:10:41.280really need to see you know my idiot well i won't say that but um do i want to see my plumber's opinion
00:10:49.160on crypto mixed in with david sachs opinion no no i just want to say david sachs opinion i don't want
00:10:58.900to see my plumber's opinion on crypto so i think there's a whole level where this prediction thing
00:11:06.440can can go up a level uh they just have to give us a way to know who's been good at it in the past
00:11:13.840well trump is teasing that he's already picked the replacement for jerome powell to be the head of
00:11:21.740the fed we don't know who that will be but he's sort of hinting by being coy about it that uh
00:11:29.420kevin hassett is likely to be picked that's that's not confirmed but that's what the smart people
00:11:35.820think now kevin hassett is already in the administration i don't know his exact job but it's
00:11:42.400something economic and um i'm pretty sure he would take the job i think he was asked
00:11:49.800and he said the generic answer which is you know he would do what the president wants him to do which
00:11:55.580is sort of a yes um but apparently the markets are poised to love it if he gets picked because he's a
00:12:05.340lower lower lower those interest rates kind of a guy and markets love that so if kevin hassett does get
00:12:13.100picked um there's likely to be a bump in the market now keep in mind i do not give financial advice
00:12:23.080so there are lots of other variables so maybe he gets selected on one day but it's the same day
00:12:31.320that some other thing falls apart so it doesn't mean the markets will definitely go up but uh
00:12:37.460apparently they'll be at least friendly to him um and likely to go now in other news speaking of
00:12:44.940david sachs new york times had a hit piece about him and uh he's he's pushing back on it pretty hard
00:12:52.720and the the new york times tried to make the argument that he had some kind of uh conflict of interest
00:13:00.120on ai or crypto and that his own investments somehow blah blah blah well apparently that does
00:13:07.120not stand up to scrutiny and there's some some idea that the new york times is you know it's just a
00:13:16.040hit piece basically meaning not too uh not too reliable now the funny thing is if you were to compare the
00:13:25.120credibility of the credibility of the new york times to the credibility of david sachs which one's more
00:13:33.440credible it's not really even close it's sachs if you were to look at his lifetime of you know
00:13:42.620whatever he's had in public um compared to a lifetime of what the new york times was reported to be true
00:13:48.580i'm pretty sure he would win if there were some way to actually compare those things
00:13:53.720but i did notice that uh naval ravikant who i mention often um he posted about that about the
00:14:03.160new york times hit piece he said there are lies damn lies and new york time headlines now naval who i
00:14:11.160sometimes refer to as the smartest person in the world um but let's call him the wisest person we
00:14:18.560know so he's famously non-political but this is a little bit political not really it's more about
00:14:28.160one person but it you know he's he's got one little toe in that domain which is unusual he usually stays
00:14:36.100completely away from the the political nonsense and you know deals with weightier you know life issues
00:14:44.140etc but here's the thing this made me that made me think about this um do you remember when bill
00:14:52.120clinton was running for office and he famously said that if you elect him you get a hillary for free
00:15:00.440and before we knew before we knew hillary really was that seemed to me at the time uh like a good deal
00:15:10.700i thought to myself wow really if if you get you know if you get bill clinton as president which at the
00:15:18.180time i have to confess i i was supporting bill clinton and so i thought that was a good idea and then
00:15:26.060when you see how uh capable hillary is i thought well that's actually a pretty good argument two for
00:15:34.300one you know who hates that now it turns out hillary was not really the one you'd want to get for free
00:15:39.940but we didn't know that at the time so it seemed like a good idea likewise when you when you vote for
00:15:48.500trump you get me for free think about it would i be doing what i'm doing
00:15:55.880if trump were not the president or earlier when he was running for president not really i mean i i
00:16:04.580became if you can call me political i guess you could i only became political because trump
00:16:11.100specifically was a persuader and you know that was my angle in and so you got me for free i literally
00:16:20.780wouldn't be involved except that trump is the key player and so you get whatever value you think i
00:16:28.220might add and reframing things or helping with messaging whatever it's free i'm not charging anybody
00:16:36.060anything i mean obviously i monetize some of my feeds but in terms of politics nobody's paying me for
00:16:43.740that i don't have any kind of job you get me for free and then i see that you know naval commenting
00:16:50.360on sacks they know each other and it occurred to me that when you hire david sacks for your government
00:17:01.060you get an entire network of all the smartest people in silicon valley naval just being let's say the
00:17:09.340tip of the spear there of smart people you get all of that for free and nobody ever talks about that
00:17:16.320because you know the sacks if he looked at his let's call it a rolodex even though that's an old term
00:17:23.260he could call almost anybody and get a second opinion on anything he's just really well connected
00:17:32.200but also has a great reputation um in the investment tech community and you get all of that for free
00:17:40.320nobody ever talks about that isn't it isn't that funny because that's really worth a lot
00:17:45.760that the fact that he you know he's one phone call away from an intense network of the smartest people
00:17:53.120in the world um and he could contact me if he ever wanted to i i follow him on x i think he follows me
00:18:01.460back so you get me for free too if if there was anything that i could ever add to what he's doing
00:18:08.220i doubt it because it's not like i know much about crypto or ai compared to him anyway so don't forget
00:18:17.180what you get for free um elon musk was doing a podcast recently where he had lots of uh quotable
00:18:25.740moments um we'll talk about a few of them one of them was uh so elon has predicted that money won't
00:18:33.820have any value in the future and instead it will be energy so energy will be the true currency and
00:18:41.600because bitcoin can only be created with energy because the computer has to do a lot of crunching to
00:18:49.240create create create a new bitcoin and the ones that we have were created by energy that uh bitcoin
00:18:56.540is uh let's see what did he say he said uh long term i think money disappears as a concept
00:19:04.500money disappears how would you like to be the richest person in the world elon musk and know that
00:19:13.800almost certainly money will become worthless he's going to go from the richest person on the entire
00:19:21.340planet to oh uh you want to you want a new car i want a new car we can both have a robot go build
00:19:29.220this one i'm simplifying a little bit but uh but uh elon predicts a world where the ai and the robots
00:19:37.100will make essentially everything you want close to free and it doesn't matter who you are it'll just
00:19:45.260all be sort of free now that's a very optimistic prediction um but he takes it further and uh i like
00:19:55.300having this to cling to i don't know if it's true but he predicts that uh quote uh i think the future
00:20:04.600we probably won't have money energy and power generation will become the de facto currency
00:20:10.120that part i agree with completely and i've said the same thing i believe that energy was is the new
00:20:17.320money uh and maybe bitcoin is just the you know the stand-in for the energy but uh he did say um
00:20:26.240that the only way out of debt in the future the only way literally the only way
00:20:34.040there's not a second way to escape our debt burden you know our 38 trillion or whatever it will be by
00:20:42.940the time we start turning it around the only way that that will get remediated is if the world of
00:20:50.020robots and ai is so stimulative that it makes even our 38 trillion dollar debt seem small now i might not
00:21:00.440be doing the best job of explaining it but did that make sense that essentially an entirely new economy
00:21:08.280is about to emerge and it will very quickly just swamp in size the entire existing economy
00:21:18.360so it might be 10 times it a hundred times it we don't really know it's uncharted territory but
00:21:26.500uh that world according to elon musk the smartest person you know is the only way out otherwise we're
00:21:37.160literally doomed we're doomed so uh let's hope that the robots and the ai make a lot of money now here's the
00:21:48.020part i don't fully understand how could it be that money is worthless at the same time that we're making
00:21:59.180so much extra money from robots and ai that it compensates for our debt or pays it down or minimizes
00:22:07.220it i feel like there's something missing like it can't be true that that the ai and robots become this
00:22:16.260substitute for money at the same time everybody can have everything
00:22:22.900or could it be that all the people who hold the debt um wouldn't care if they never got paid back
00:22:29.860because everybody can have everything for free so i haven't quite figured out how that all fits
00:22:36.740together but i love hearing that there's at least one possibility that the smartest person you know
00:22:43.140who isn't who isn't naval uh that the smartest person you know aside from naval thinks that there is a way
00:22:52.660out not guaranteed uh i don't even know if he's going as far as to say it's most likely he didn't say
00:22:59.780that but at least there's some possibility and that's more than i thought we had honestly
00:23:05.780well speaking of that um according to zero hedge our tariff revenue has surged to a new high
00:23:16.340so 31.4 billion in october so that's just from tariffs and uh what percentage of our
00:23:25.300total uh tax revenue do you think that is well i asked uh ai chat gpt and apparently our the amount
00:23:36.260that we collect in income tax per month a recent month october is a little over 400 billion
00:23:44.020so now we're up to something like eight percent of our entire uh incoming revenue from taxes about eight
00:23:54.980percent of it um is tariffs now that's eight percent we weren't getting before so it's you know it's on
00:24:04.020top of the 400 million billion 400 billion and i have to admit i didn't think the tariffs would ever get
00:24:12.260to eight percent and so trump is you know teasing that maybe he would get rid of income tax and have
00:24:20.420only tariffs someday if if the tariff number kept going up i don't see how that's possible but if i'm
00:24:28.660being honest i also didn't see that um tariffs would ever reach eight percent of our monthly tax revenue
00:24:36.980um to me that's a lot eight percent that's pretty impressive so i'm gonna say all bets are off um we
00:24:45.860don't know how big that could get i still don't see a path to get all the way to no income tax and
00:24:52.580tariffs do everything but i'm not gonna i'm not gonna rule it out now so i'm moving i'm moving from
00:24:58.820well there's no way that's gonna work to i don't know maybe maybe uh let's talk about mark kelly
00:25:08.420senator kelly who as you know is part of what we're calling the seditious sex uh one of the
00:25:15.460six democrats who did the video saying that the military should uh should not obey illegal orders
00:25:23.220so he goes on meet the press yesterday and uh he was asked by the meet the press host if he would
00:25:31.060refuse an order uh if he had been in the military and he had been asked to attack the venezuelan drug
00:25:37.620boats would he consider that an illegal order that is a good question so if you're thinking that nbc is
00:25:46.980going to give him a softballs well that wasn't a softball that that question was exactly the
00:25:54.260question i wanted to be asked would you interpret this as an illegal order if you had been asked to
00:26:00.900blow up one of these venezuelan narco boats well here's what kelly said rather than answer the question
00:26:10.100he avoided the question huh he had just said that it's sort of common sense and any reasonable person
00:26:19.620can certainly tell the difference between an illegal order in the military and a legal one
00:26:26.900and then when he's asked to get a specific example is this legal or illegal he changed the subject and he
00:26:36.180reinterpreted it by saying well the news story recently about hagseth alleges that there was a
00:26:45.140secondary attack on one boat the first one i think that killed the survivors so he said well you know
00:26:53.700we're really talking about you know that second order but he didn't really answer the question at all
00:26:59.860now how can he have it both ways how can it be that a reasonable person can definitely look at a
00:27:08.820real world situation and they would definitely know what is legal and what isn't so there'd be no real
00:27:14.740ambiguity in the real world but he couldn't answer the very first question he had to avoid the question
00:27:23.140because he couldn't answer it and you know what i don't know the answer to the question either
00:27:28.500so even if you take the the story about hagseth uh to be true and by the way i don't think that is
00:27:36.180at all uh confirmed that that's an allegation the whistleblower thing i don't know that that will ever be
00:27:43.220confirmed that there was a there was a standing order of some kind that you had to kill all the people in the boat
00:27:50.260i don't know i'm not assuming that that's a real i'm not assuming that the allegations will be proven
00:27:58.100now but let's say they were just to take this this question to its logical conclusion what if
00:28:06.980you were in the military you took out the boat and you said okay that part's legal because they're
00:28:14.260they're uh they're uh terrorists and uh you know i've got the legal authority to do it but then
00:28:21.140there are these two alleged two survivors and then suppose you had the question of do you take them
00:28:29.460out too or do you try to rescue them because they they lived to which i say how does that work with
00:28:37.620terrorists in general if you were in an airplane over land and you spotted some terrorists be they
00:28:46.820al-qaeda or someone else and you knew that's what it was so you knew that it was al-qaeda
00:28:53.060and they weren't in them they weren't in the act of doing a terrorist thing but they were definitely
00:28:59.540preparing for it so let's say they were loading bombs onto a truck and you knew that they had bad
00:29:06.180intentions for those bombs could you kill those terrorists from the air if all you knew is that
00:29:13.780it's al-qaeda and they were preparing some bombs to which i say i don't know but i think it would be
00:29:24.260legal so i asked chat gpt is it illegal for the military to kill a terrorist who is preparing a terror act
00:29:35.220what do you think the ai said i asked chat gpt in this case not grok
00:29:39.460grok had some issues this morning so i was using chat gpt what do you think in the comments you tell
00:29:46.340me do you think that ai said oh it's totally legal to kill a terrorist if they're in the act of preparing
00:29:54.100a terror act well here's what it said it said in general under international law and the laws of armed
00:30:02.660conflict it is not necessarily illegal not necessarily illegal for a military to target
00:30:10.580and kill a terrorist who is actively preparing an imminent terror attack and then it goes on and
00:30:18.740explains it now we're we are soundly into gray area here right if i if we have declared that the
00:30:28.980the terrorists i'm sorry if we have already declared the government that the narco boats are terrorists
00:30:38.420because they're delivering a weapon of mass destruction to our shores that makes them terrorists
00:30:46.420who are in the act right in the middle of the act of doing the terror thing which is delivering these
00:30:53.940drugs to our shores so even though two of them you know survived the first attack if they were al-qaeda
00:31:02.980and they were on land and they were loading bombs onto a truck you don't think we'd kill any survivors
00:31:10.660if we had to if it took a second shot i think we would and that doesn't feel like that would be illegal to me
00:31:19.300now i'm not in the military so i'll never have to make that decision but are you telling me
00:31:25.220that the average person in the military or i'll say it a different way are you telling me that every
00:31:30.980person in the military or you know almost every person would have the same opinion about what i just described
00:31:40.020would they to me it seems obvious that people would have different opinions
00:31:45.060so if it's obvious that people could have different opinions about are these terrorists in the act of a terror attack
00:31:53.620or are they not uh i think mark kelly's argument just falls apart
00:32:01.140because i if i can't answer the question are you telling me that just being in the military would have helped me
00:32:06.980i doubt it do you do you think that they had a training class that covered that you know exact
00:32:14.740situation i doubt it i doubt they had any training that was specific to that and i don't think that the
00:32:22.980generic understanding of what's legal and the generic understanding of what a terrorist is i don't think
00:32:29.380that gets you there i i think that's a genuine gray area so to kelly's argument that anybody in the
00:32:38.740military would know the difference between a legal and an illegal act that doesn't even feel like it's
00:32:44.580close to being true i feel like most of the things in the real world are messy and that there would be just
00:32:52.740all kinds of gray area this is just an obvious one and it you know we didn't even have to look for
00:32:58.580a weird example right i'm literally taking the example that's the headline in the news right now
00:33:06.660if the headline that's in the news right now even that one we can't decide if that's a clear case of
00:33:13.860illegality or not what's the next one going to be anyway terrible argument but it's getting more
00:33:21.140interesting because apparently there is some existing law that i believe has not been used
00:33:28.340maybe for i don't know decades or hundreds of years but there's some law that says that it it's a felony
00:33:35.940with up to 10 years in prison for anyone quote with intent to interfere with impair or influence the
00:33:42.900loyalty morale or loyalty morale or discipline of the u.s military or naval forces uh-oh it's literally
00:33:50.980a felony for what the uh arguably you know court would have to decide i guess but it looks like a
00:33:58.980felony that the six democrats even made that video because don't you think that they would have known
00:34:06.820that that would have uh an impact on interfering or impairing or influencing the loyalty morale or
00:34:13.380discipline i i feel like you could make the case i don't know that any you know jury would necessarily
00:34:21.380convict people for free speech you know probably free speech would win i'm guessing but this is a real risk
00:34:30.100if you were one of the one of the one of the people telling them the military that you know maybe
00:34:38.020they're going to be getting illegal orders more than they've ever gotten before i don't know that looks
00:34:44.260pretty pretty sketchy uh also another elon musk
00:34:52.980ism coming from his recent podcast i would love to give credit to who was interviewing him because
00:34:59.940they got a lot of good stuff but i did not see it in what i was looking at so i apologize if one of
00:35:07.220you knows who this podcast was with put it in the comments so at least the other people can see it i
00:35:14.740want to give him a shout out because he did a really good job getting some good stuff so elon musk
00:35:21.300was talking about what doge and the doge experience taught him and he said it was a like a very interesting
00:35:27.940side quest which is a funny way to put it he said uh fraudsters necessarily will come up with a very
00:35:34.740sympathetic argument they're not going to say give us money for fraud uh he went on it's going to be
00:35:41.300like save the baby pandas ngo which is like who doesn't want to save the baby pandas they're adorable
00:35:49.380uh but then it turns out no pandas are being saved in this thing it's just corruption essentially
00:35:54.740and then you're like uh well can you send us a picture of the panda and they're like no
00:36:04.580and he goes okay well how do we know it's going to be pandas then
00:36:10.020and that does pretty well capture my understanding of what our government and the ngos and where all our
00:36:18.340money is going i did not know that before doge my entire understanding of the country the the debt the
00:36:29.780government all of that changed radically when i learned what elon musk is describing is actually
00:36:38.340the normal way we're operating if this had been a one-off like well there was that one time
00:36:46.260the panda people pulled one over on us no it's not one time it's the only way it works it's a universal
00:36:54.980effect it's not the exception it's the way everything works i didn't know that i mean that would be beyond
00:37:03.700my most cynical skeptical view of how anything works i had no idea i did know
00:37:10.420now to my small credit i did know that at the city level a hundred percent of things were corrupt
00:37:19.860i've been saying that for a while um the city the people who are allocating money your tax money for
00:37:27.220city services of course are corrupt you know maybe not day one maybe not the first person who ever gets the
00:37:34.980job but over time you're going to attract the people who know you know if i were the mayor of this
00:37:42.660smaller city uh i'll bet i could direct these contracts to my friends and i'll bet they would
00:37:49.620find some way to repay me that was not easily trackable so over time our system largely guarantees
00:37:57.300because we don't do any real audits in government it largely guarantees it's going to be corrupt
00:38:03.780you just have to wait a little while you know the the only question is have you waited long enough
00:38:09.380for the corrupt people to get in and never leave because why would you leave i mean once you get in
00:38:14.740there if you could stay you're going to stay so doge completely changed my view of the world and that's a big deal
00:38:22.260because i think the same happened with other people speaking of tim waltz governor of
00:38:29.620minnesota so minnesota department of human services i guess there are 480 employees
00:38:37.460who have signed on to the idea that the hundreds of millions of dollars that have been stolen
00:38:44.420by mostly somali related gangs um who were pretending to have saved the panda and other
00:38:52.820charitable things but really they were just completely corrupt and they sold they stole hundreds of
00:38:58.100millions and uh you wonder how is that even possible how do you how do you how do you steal hundreds of
00:39:07.140millions over a lengthy period of time and nobody catches you
00:39:14.180nobody nobody there's no red flag well according to 480 people in the department of human services
00:39:22.020in minnesota tim waltz was in fact informed on multiple occasions about all the red flags of corruption
00:39:31.140and instead of looking into it and stopping the corruption what do you think he did take a guess
00:39:39.780tim waltz who is a democrat not only a democrat but the one that kamala harris thought would be
00:39:47.860good choice for her number two or vice president what do you think what do you think he did the
00:39:55.860multiple times that credible people said hey it looks like they're stealing gigantic amounts of our money
00:40:03.220maybe we should look into this what do you think he did well i wasn't there but according to the
00:40:10.580department of human services 480 people he retaliated against the whistleblowers
00:40:17.060the worst thing a human can do if you're in government is to punish the whistleblowers
00:40:25.620now what they say they said uh he disempowered the office of legislative auditor oh so they at
00:40:32.820least had some hand waving at an audit but he disempowered it so they wouldn't be effective
00:40:39.620he allowed agencies to disregard their own audit findings oh okay well you can do the audit and you
00:40:46.100can find problems but then we're going to ignore them and uh and then he retaliated against the
00:40:53.300whistleblowers so that it seems like minnesota was a ukraine um zelensky level corruption we're not
00:41:08.660talking about small dollars we're not talking about you know a governor guided a contract to his cousin
00:41:17.780we're talking about enormous organized theft and i can't believe that waltz had no no benefit from that
00:41:30.980like why would he try so hard to keep the criminals in in uh in power i don't know it also makes me
00:41:38.980wonder if that's the reason he was chosen as vice president you know how we speculate
00:41:44.980that uh the people who rise to the top of the democrat side we speculate that it's only because
00:41:53.140they are criminals and that the other people who are also criminals want to make sure that they have
00:42:00.420you know some kind of blackmail against them but really it's just a big criminal enterprise so the
00:42:07.380people who are themselves criminal make sure that they only choose as their running mate in this case
00:42:13.700another criminal so that if that criminal ever decided to turn them in they would themselves be turned
00:42:22.340in so you've got this mutually assured destruction thing and i would have said honestly a few years ago
00:42:31.620i would have said that's nonsense and that that just sounds like conspiracy thinking it's like come on
00:42:38.900come on come on scott do you really think that kamala picked for her vice president
00:42:46.500the most criminal person they could find because that's the person they could control
00:42:50.980really scott do you think that actually happened in the real world
00:42:56.980yes i don't have proof but come on i mean it's just starting to look so obvious
00:43:07.060that the democrat party is just a large criminal organization that depends on having people in it who
00:43:14.660aren't willing to talk to turn in the other people who are in it it doesn't look like that's
00:43:20.500necessarily the case on the republican side but i wouldn't rule it out right there could be some pockets of
00:43:27.220that on both sides so um trump was asked about uh tim walsh and he said uh that tim was quote to the
00:43:38.500seriously retarded governor of minnesota that he does nothing either through fear and competence or
00:43:45.060both uh trump wrote that in a true social so then chris and welker of uh meet the press
00:43:52.820uh asked tim walsh about trump's statement that he was quote um seriously retarded
00:44:02.100and walsh said we cannot allow this to be normalized you can't use that language well you can but you
00:44:08.500shouldn't you shouldn't he said um well you know here i'm going to agree with tim walsh um i don't
00:44:16.900think that trump should have called him seriously retarded because i don't think there's anything
00:44:22.020serious about that guy but up okay you were gonna do it if i didn't um i don't love the use of that word
00:44:32.580i i understand why people don't want it to be used it's you know there are too many people who have
00:44:39.220genuine you know disabilities etc so it's not my first choice but i like free speech and i do enjoy
00:44:48.100enjoy when trump entertains his base because it is pretty entertaining um while he's doing his job
00:44:56.900you know trump is the only president who can have an entire floor show of entertainment and that's what
00:45:03.300i would call this it's like a floor show of great entertainment just to watch how people react just to
00:45:09.860watch how meet the press handled it just to make the dumbest democrats obsess on it just to make them think
00:45:17.780of whatever is the least important thing that's happening in the world and and get them to treat
00:45:23.060it like it's the most important that's funny and and the fact that the the base i'm pretty sure that
00:45:32.500the republican base thinks it's just funny now a lot of people probably are where i am which is i
00:45:40.980wouldn't use the word in public i mean not the way he used it i wouldn't do it but i don't care that
00:45:46.580he did because you know trump is a unique character who oversteps the bounds of you know polite
00:45:56.340conversation routinely once you get used to it it doesn't seem like the end of the world it just
00:46:04.660feels like he's doing a bit and the bit is how angry can i make them how much time can i make them
00:46:12.020spend talking about that and not about me you know not about it me policy wise so i kind of love that he
00:46:21.620does it it's very funny um so cnn and brian stelter uh was not happy that the white house has a page on the
00:46:36.340internet dedicated to all the internet dedicated to all the hoaxes that come out of the media and uh
00:46:43.620so uh brian stelter was saying that uh the white house has launched a web page that targets reporters
00:46:50.900well does it target reporters or does it report when reporters are hoaxing and you know fake
00:46:59.620well i would i would argue it's the latter but uh then brian stelter says uh he thinks that trump
00:47:07.220is doing it in other words that the page exists for the purpose of quote delegitimizing the media
00:47:15.860to which i say uh yeah yeah that's exactly why they do it you didn't discover this
00:47:25.700that's the whole point of it is to delegitimize the media but was the media legitimate before that
00:47:35.540page went up or is the page a response to the fact that the media is not legitimate
00:47:42.660well you know my opinion if the media had been legitimate then i would not be in favor of a page
00:47:50.580that you know incorrectly said that they had lots of hoaxes but because the hoaxes that are listed
00:47:57.700are genuinely hoaxes or at least you know fake news if they weren't genuine examples and if there were not
00:48:06.260lots of them and if they were not spread across multiple you know media well then i'd say you know
00:48:13.780that's going too far it's wasting my tax dollars you know why are you putting up this page of lies
00:48:20.900but that's not what's happening the the the the hoax page that the white house put up
00:48:28.020is because there are a whole bunch of hoaxes yeah he is delegitimizing the media is that bad
00:48:36.900no delegitimizing hoaxers is exactly what we need so thank you for that
00:48:45.380all right so uh amy klobuchar democrat um she was also on cnn and cnn asked her this question
00:48:56.180does minnesota have a problem with gangs roaming the streets now that would be her state
00:49:01.940so what do you think she said to the question does minnesota have a problem with gangs roaming the
00:49:10.260street because apparently that is a problem but what would amy klobuchar say because if she says
00:49:19.220yes gangs are roaming the streets that would suggest that maybe trump is doing the right thing
00:49:27.220by sending the national guard so she can't really agree
00:49:30.980was something that i think is just observably true and it would be the reason that cnn even asked the
00:49:40.500question does minnesota have a problem with gangs roping that roaming the streets
00:49:45.300so klobuchar's answer was quote every state has a problem with crime
00:49:52.580uh really does every state have a problem with that kind of crime because that was a pretty specific
00:50:01.220question the question that was not asked is does minnesota have crime nobody asked that of course
00:50:11.300every state as crime they're talking specifically about gangs roaming the streets i don't know if
00:50:17.940you've ever been to hawaii do you know you never see in maui gangs roaming the streets now does that mean
00:50:27.140there's no crime well even in maui which is very safe there's a little bit of crime i've never seen any
00:50:34.180but i'm sure it's there what about alaska what about rhode island is there a big problem in rhode
00:50:42.580island with the gangs roaming the streets all right well so um klobuchar was not really finding a high
00:50:52.260ground and she was not really reframing it like steve jobs did when his phone was had that uh problem
00:50:58.980with the antenna uh you've heard me tell that story before she just changed the subject which is
00:51:07.380pretty much all you need to know about that well there's uh more news from venezuela apparently
00:51:15.540prior to trump closing the airspace above venezuela or declaring that it was closed
00:51:21.780um he had a conversation which we didn't know about until now with maduro now a phone conversation
00:51:31.140i guess and maduro was apparently asking for um some assurances that he would get some kind of a
00:51:39.700that i think he and his family or maybe some of his top people would get pardons
00:51:44.820um or i don't know what the right word is but basically not be held responsible for
00:51:49.620the global amnesty he wanted global amnesty for all of his alleged crimes and i think for some other
00:51:57.860people around him trump said nope apparently it was a hard no so nope no amnesty and trump told him
00:52:09.220allegedly that his only option is to leave to just literally get out of it as well and abandon his
00:52:17.300position or something very bad was about to happen and we don't have to spell it out but have you
00:52:24.740noticed that a big part of our navy is sitting off of your coast did you know that we have a lot of
00:52:31.860military assets that are within striking distance and trump has already said that the ground war against
00:52:39.300venezuela is imminent so trump is apparently um doing the trumpian thing where he has the upper hand
00:52:51.140and he's giving up nothing um he's basically saying would you like to be alive tomorrow
00:52:58.420that's all you have to decide because there's one way you can do it you have to leave right away with no
00:53:06.580assurances do you think if he left with no assurances maduro if do you think he left that we would leave
00:53:14.180him alone because hey well he's gone now well i don't think he thinks that would happen and i don't
00:53:21.300think so either i've got a feeling if he leaves the safety of venezuela um it's not going to make him more
00:53:29.460safe i feel like he might be doomed in every scenario but he might be able to live a little bit longer
00:53:39.460if he leaves venezuela so trump is giving him really no good choices or choices that would look good to
00:53:47.300him i think i think maduro tried to negotiate that he would still have some control over the venezuelan
00:53:53.940military well obviously that's a hard no no how about you have no control over the military and you just
00:54:02.340leave so things uh things are coming to a head there and apparently after that conversation which
00:54:11.780did not result in a an agreement for anything that's when trump decided to close the airspace
00:54:18.580over venezuela with military means so maduro has probably had a really bad weekend because he's
00:54:27.780deciding which way he wants to die or maybe be jailed for life but uh the one thing that's not going to
00:54:36.500happen i believe that trump has removed from him any illusion he might have had that he can sort of
00:54:44.100keep the status quo still be in charge he's either going to be taken out militarily that seems to be
00:54:50.660the clear indication here or he can leave the country and be exposed to all manner of risks once he's
00:54:59.460outside of his little bubble uh and those are his only choices so given that he only has those choices
00:55:07.300and given that i'm sure trump in the military will keep squeezing so that he knows that this is not a
00:55:13.700bluff and by the way this is not a bluff yeah you could you know the difference right and even we can
00:55:21.860tell the difference of what would be a bluff and what is okay this is just going to happen this is in the
00:55:28.660category of definitely not a bluff i'm pretty sure that maduro is not going to be there in a year
00:55:34.580uh you know maybe a month from now you anything could happen but i think pretty soon pretty soon
00:55:44.020so we'll keep an eye on that here's a uh here's a thing i've been wondering about with ai
00:55:51.300so sam altman uh you all know him creator of founder of chat gpt open ai he so he argued in a blog post
00:56:02.500that he wrote earlier this year that the intelligence of an ai model roughly equals the log of the resources
00:56:11.460used to train and run it so in other words that you could you could predict how smart your ai would be
00:56:17.860based on the inputs you know if he gave it more input it would be some reliable way to know how
00:56:25.060much smarter it got from that input and uh and that there might be a predictable um equation there now
00:56:33.380he's calling it the uh the log of the resources used to train and run it so that would be the the
00:56:41.380equation essentially to to predict and then it was i saw an article that was sort of compared to moore's
00:56:49.060law you all know moore's law with microchips uh the idea that the number of uh i don't know circuits on
00:56:56.660a chip would double every x mount and that therefore the chips would get faster in a predictable way
00:57:04.820across decades and then we observe that sure enough moore's law has held amazingly over decades now did you
00:57:16.500ever wonder why moore's law works how in the world did gordon moore know that uh that technology would
00:57:26.580increase at just this rate to get the doubling that he had predicted every x whatever how do you know
00:57:35.300that and what makes that necessarily true and i still don't know the answer to that so i asked grok
00:57:45.060you know what's the logic behind moore's law we do observe that it seems to have been predictable
00:57:52.020you know it did seem to predict from many years ago it didn't predict where we would be now so it's
00:57:58.340not nothing i mean it predicts and i've told you before that the closest you can get to understanding
00:58:05.060reality is if your world view accurately predicts and this does so that's not nothing that's that's a lot
00:58:14.580but why why does it work and grok said the logic behind it is that the number of transistors on
00:58:21.300a microchip roughly doubles every two years while costs say the same or drop to which i say why why do
00:58:31.540the number of transistors on a microchip roughly double every two years why what what is the law of
00:58:40.500physics or any other law that makes that true and there's no real answer to that so here's what i think
00:58:51.300i think it's marketing if you're in the microchip business and you wanted to make sure that you
00:58:58.660could sell the the upgrade forever it's like well we got a great trip this year but wait what you see
00:59:04.980what we have next year so buy it this year next year you're going to want to get that doubling or two
00:59:11.460years from now you're going to want to get that doubling so you better buy the new one oh wait now we
00:59:17.060have another doubling so i don't know this to be true but for a long time i've suspected
00:59:25.380that we're being completely bamboozled by what is just marketing and that the marketing
00:59:31.700pretends that moore's law is true and then the technology people designed to that truth so in other
00:59:39.620words it's not necessarily true that moore's law holds but rather than have a an unpredictable bumpy
00:59:46.980ride toward better chips if you treat it like it's super predictable then everybody can make their plans
00:59:54.420and say okay well i need this one now but in two years i know i'll have to upgrade i think it's just
01:00:00.820marketing am i wrong because it's weird that if you even look for why why the law applies there's not
01:00:11.300really an answer to it they just sort of observe that it does i think it's marketing all right but
01:00:20.180if i'm wrong about that i would find that interesting so let me know if if you have a better idea what's
01:00:25.460going on and it makes me wonder if the ai has the same situation that uh maybe we're you know we want
01:00:34.820to make it look like it's predictable but maybe it's not well over in israel netanyahu is officially
01:00:42.180asked for a presidential pardon for what are his alleged uh corruptions so he and his wife netanyahu and
01:00:51.860his wife are being accused of accepting more than 260 000 worth of luxury goods including cigars jewelry
01:01:02.260and champagne from billionaires in exchange for political favors and maybe uh some favorable coverage
01:01:09.540from israeli media outlets uh which is sort of separate now let me give you my take on that
01:01:18.900i don't know if this is true i mean netanyahu would say it's um political lawfare and it's you know
01:01:27.300not based on anything real but how much do you think netanyahu could earn if he were out of office and
01:01:36.420giving speeches what what do you think would be the market value of one speech by netanyahu if he were out
01:01:45.140of office tomorrow i think it would be over a hundred thousand dollars wouldn't it so when you say that
01:01:53.860over some amount of time he allegedly accepted 260 000 worth of luxury goods including things like cigars
01:02:03.300and champagne does that mean that some billionaire invited him to his house and they had expensive cigars
01:02:12.020and champagne and then maybe the billionaire asked him for a favor when they were done
01:02:18.580is is that what he's being accused of because that's not much of a crime i mean i'm not even sure
01:02:24.340it is a crime can you not enjoy expensive cigars and expensive alcohol with somebody who's a billionaire
01:02:33.860who might also want something but isn't that true of everybody everybody who talks to a politician wants
01:02:41.380something so it's a pretty small crime if the two say to see is first of all you know goods like champagne
01:02:50.820i mean how much is you know what are we talking about it is netanyahu gonna sell out israel for a
01:02:57.940really good bottle of alcohol i don't think so is netanyahu gonna sell out israel because he got good
01:03:04.580cigars like how good are these cigars so let me be clear i'm not i'm not defending netanyahu and i don't
01:03:16.100know what he did or didn't do but i'm just commenting that his income potential just as being who he is
01:03:24.020is is way bigger than this so even if he had done exactly what they said how much influence would this
01:03:32.260have on his decisions given that he could make way more money than that with a few speeches
01:03:38.100i don't know it does feel like his small ball um and we'll see if he gets the pardon i would bet against
01:03:45.620it um but it doesn't seem like the biggest problem in the world even if he did exactly what they said
01:03:52.340all right um also in israel according to afp they killed 40 hamas fighters in gaza who were in tunnels
01:04:05.940don't you wonder how many how many terrorists are left in those tunnels it doesn't doesn't seem to you
01:04:12.900that it's going to be sort of that uh japanese world war ii thing where there's going to be somebody in
01:04:19.380a tunnel that stays there for 20 years i don't know how that would eat but uh they're still in tunnels
01:04:27.140now so 40 of them got killed um apparently their assumption that there's still some number of people
01:04:35.460still in tunnels while the israeli army controls the surface below the surface there might be this whole
01:04:43.140civilization of not that many at this point but maybe dozens of people who are just figuring out
01:04:49.780how to get out of the tunnel without dying and then israel apparently is now deployed for the first time
01:04:57.940their iron beam laser defense system for shooting down missiles and and drones and i guess that's just
01:05:06.500going into operation now and it makes me wonder if they had that up and running um during the the
01:05:14.260worst of the attacks how much a difference would it make and how much of a difference is it going to be
01:05:23.220when uh any country that's attacked with drones and missiles has has a laser defense system because
01:05:31.060if it works everybody's gonna have one right at least all our allies will have one um i feel like that
01:05:37.300could change everything because right now the anybody who could send a deadly drone into enemy territory
01:05:45.060would have an advantage because they could send lots of drones until you know you overwhelm the defenses
01:05:51.460but if you had a really good laser beam defense system um it would look like babylon 5 what were the
01:06:00.500the shadow was that the name of the aliens that had these laser beams out of their ships
01:06:09.140if you've never seen uh if you've never seen babylon 5 you don't know what i'm talking about
01:06:15.700but it seems to me that one good laser defense system could take out an awful lot of drones and missiles
01:06:25.220over time maybe version 1.0 is not you know not the be-all end-all but assuming you know some rate of progress of improving the laser beams
01:06:37.620uh maybe the advantage will go back to the ground and maybe the drones won't have as much advantage but then the drones will get better so we'll see
01:06:46.820um i saw a post by uh mike serovich today he said that uh focusing on islam hides the real problems he said
01:06:56.420ngos who steal our money to bring in low iq people who can't function in the u.s and he says about iq that's
01:07:04.740what you're not supposed to notice iq and civilization um i've i've made a similar point um over time
01:07:15.860which is if we can't treat iq like it really matters how could we really survive because
01:07:24.260iq is probably among the top variables that you should consider with not just immigration but hiring
01:07:32.900almost anything uh iq should be like right at the top of things that will predictably make a difference
01:07:41.860and it feels to me that even though trump is provocative when he talks about tim waltz being
01:07:48.420retarded i feel like we may be entering a point where you can talk about iq without being called a racist
01:07:58.660because you know that's what's going to happen right so we might be on the verge of something good
01:08:05.860if we just can talk about it can you just let us talk about it without getting cancelled you don't
01:08:12.660have to agree with us us being you know whoever would have the same opinion as me and in this case
01:08:18.740mike cernovich but you don't have to agree with us but can we even talk about it because it seems pretty
01:08:25.620darn important to me that uh the the smarter the people you bring in the better your country is
01:08:31.380going to be so maybe we're seeing a little bit of movement in that direction um
01:08:40.820let me just skip that story oh also elon musk um was asked in the podcast i was talking about earlier
01:08:48.340about simulation theory and he went on and explained his view that uh statistically speaking we're more
01:08:56.180likely a simulation than not and of course a lot of people don't agree with that and you probably know
01:09:04.100that uh i believe that we're a simulation and uh i like being on the same side as elon musk
01:09:11.140um because it's sort of a philosophy slash logic slash iq question um and here's what i realize
01:09:23.540you can't really have a debate about simulation with someone who is religious
01:09:31.540not because they're wrong and i have to say this really carefully i'm not religious
01:09:37.620so when i look at it i'm just looking at how do i calculate the odds of this versus the odds of that
01:09:45.300but i'm i'm unencumbered by a religious starting place but and i also remind you that i'm very pro
01:09:54.900religion i just don't happen to be a believer i think that the people who are believers have a clear
01:10:00.980advantage in life it's a it's a lifestyle you know hack i think it makes you and your family more
01:10:09.140successful so i'm very pro christianity very pro i just you know can't get there with my own belief
01:10:16.980system so my my take is that if you argue the simulation the idea that we're literally programmed
01:10:26.420by some other entity that you can't have that conversation really with a believer because
01:10:34.020the believer has to start with a conclusion and then and then reason backwards because nothing's going
01:10:41.380to talk you out of believing in your god like that's not going to happen because somebody said well what
01:10:46.820about the simulation you're not going to abandon your religion so if you're already starting with the
01:10:52.180end point there is a god god made us there's no nowhere to go on that and that's okay all right
01:11:01.060if that sounds like a criticism it's the opposite if you're starting with the assumption that there's a
01:11:08.980you know god of the christian bible i think you've picked a really good lifestyle i think you have an
01:11:15.860advantage in life and i'm all for you embracing that for the rest of your life teaching your kids
01:11:23.540spreading the word all for it but let's not pretend that you're starting from zero and and you're
01:11:32.260trying to logic your way into the simulation or logic your way out of christianity it's not it's not
01:11:39.060the right domain you know if you didn't get there by logic and i don't think most people get there by
01:11:45.380logic you can't be talked out of it with logic you've heard that before right you can't talk
01:11:51.860somebody out of something that they talk themselves into i want to say irrationally that sounds like an
01:12:00.500insult and that's not what's intended i mean belief and faith are their own domain you know logic and facts
01:12:10.100very important but separate domain they can often work together it doesn't mean that you're
01:12:16.660you know if you have a religious belief it doesn't matter it doesn't mean that you're somehow you know
01:12:21.860unable to do reason of course you can you you can fit them together very well but having a debate
01:12:30.100with somebody who's starting with the answer i've never seen that work
01:12:34.180and again i want to be as complimentary to religious people as i can because i think you have a clear
01:12:42.500advantage in life and i'm all for it um and i also noted and this got people pretty worked up uh that when
01:12:54.660people debate the simulation theory with me their arguments sound to me like word salad now if you
01:13:04.660don't know me and you haven't followed me for a while that would sound like i said i know the answer and
01:13:11.940you don't that's not what i'm saying i'm saying that to my ears it sounds like word salad but there are
01:13:19.540two possibilities as somebody pointed out in the comments one possibility is that i have the right
01:13:25.220answer and the people who have the wrong answer are you know confused and so it sounds like word salad
01:13:31.380but the other possibility that's exactly equally possible is that the problem's on my end will you
01:13:39.300will you give me that will you give me that i'm completely aware that the reason it might sound like word
01:13:46.340salad is because my brain isn't quite you know processing things correctly because that would
01:13:53.940that would feel the same to me so when i say it sounds like word salad don't take that to mean i'm
01:14:01.300writing you wrong because that i don't know i don't know who's right i just know what it sounds like
01:14:07.140and i would also say that a lot of people argue the consciousness argument and they say but scott
01:14:14.660you can't get a digital being to have a consciousness and yet humans have a consciousness so therefore you
01:14:22.820lose the argument because if if these digital beings don't have a consciousness well they're obviously not
01:14:29.220what we are because we've got a consciousness to which i say that depends how you define consciousness
01:14:37.380if i get to define it the way i think is a good definition of consciousness you could definitely give
01:14:42.980that to a digital being if you have a different definition of what consciousness is it's entirely
01:14:51.140possible that nobody could program whatever your version is so sometimes you think you're arguing
01:14:58.580from you know a common understanding but i think that consciousness we never really agree what that is
01:15:06.180so i can't really have a debate with you about whether a digital being has consciousness if you don't
01:15:13.620think consciousness means the same thing that i do so you kind of can't get there from here
01:15:20.180um debating the simulation hypothesis and then i saw somebody else attack my description of it as a
01:15:28.340hypothesis they said scott you know first of all it's not a hypothesis technically all right but is that
01:15:36.500really an argument it is what it is if i call it a hypothesis or not so um i i think we will forever
01:15:47.060be in uh you know on different sides of whether a simulation hypothesis is credible or not and i don't
01:15:56.820mind that we don't have to agree on everything all the time all right ladies and gentlemen that is all i
01:16:01.940wanted to say for today uh kind of a fun day in the news we'll keep an eye on the stock market and see
01:16:09.220what happens today but i'm gonna say a few words privately to uh my beloved subscribers on locals
01:16:19.300who i don't spend enough time with but the rest of you i will see you tomorrow i hope you got something
01:16:24.020out of this and uh have a wonderful monday all right locals i'm going to be with you in