Episode 1306 Scott Adams - Stimulus Package Shenanigans, Voting Changes, Super Anti-Racists

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documentary called the accidental president you can find it on amazon prime and probably at least one other place i think the uh documentary by james fletcher who i believe is married to brooke baldwin from had been from cnn but surprisingly surprisingly it's pretty fair and i'm in it so i'm a little bit biased because i'm i'm in it uh but the interesting part is that this documentary was uh the at least the film of it was put together a few years ago and it was talking about how trump ended up winning and the the theme is that he wasn't necessarily expecting to win but it just sort of happened but uh you should hear the commentary on it's pretty good the accidental president all right uh cuomo is up to five accusers if you watch fox news and he's up to three accusers if you watch cnn what you can't even get the number of accusers right now if you get to three there should be some sort of a universal law about this it goes like this if you get to three accusers there are five in the history in the history of sexual harassment nobody ever stopped at three pretty sure like if you were accused of one and then no other person came forward you might say to yourself well that's a little less credible because do harassers only ever harass one person but once you get to three it's gonna go to five um that's like a universal rule i tell you my take on all of this all of these accusations they seem to fall into this category have you noticed that that and the category is and i'm going to say this i think i can say this without being racist i think but give me a ruling on this see if this sounds racist to you okay um that what i'm seeing is a creepy old italian-american guy with no game whatsoever has no idea how to approach women apparently but he definitely took advantage of his power his power differential meaning that he didn't he didn't directly use it but it was there right it's unambiguously there so he certainly has to answer for this i'm not i don't want to say anything that sounds like i'm apologizing for it but we should keep it in perspective right certainly he needs to not be doing this stuff there's no question about that but it doesn't feel it feels like a guy who didn't exactly know what he was doing doesn't it like maybe on some level he did but it does it just there's something a little bit uh clueless about it that makes it seem different than evil you know if you look at the epstein charges of the weinstein charges harvey weinstein it's obvious that those those guys knew exactly what they were doing i mean they knew they were being deeply bad no question about it but i'll bet you if if you had a private conversation with cuomo before these scandals broke and you said have you ever done anything like this i think he would have honestly answered no even though he did i mean the accusations look credible anyway i feel it's just a weird category where the person doing the crime is not necessarily aware that they're doing a crime which doesn't make it excusable right the system is very clear you don't have to be aware of it being a crime for it to be a crime but it should end his political career which is the only thing anybody cared about really on this here's what i think we should do in the united states every time we hear about people coming across our border don't they seem to come be coming from the same countries yeah the people are talking about cuomo's cover up with the with the nursing homes and stuff that's just a different issue um that's not excusable not that the other one is it's just a different issue so here's what we should do we should be like costa rica have you noticed that when we talk about the illegal immigration coming across our southern border nobody ever says all those costa ricans are coming across have you ever noticed that why not i mean if nicaraguans are coming and other you know other countries are coming why is costa rica not coming well i think the answer is that costa rica is a successful country and if you haven't checked into how they became a successful country it's a pretty cool it's a pretty cool story and the the answer is that well number one and this is sort of a questionable decision but it seems to have worked out they they decided to not uh exploit what what probably they have in terms of new natural resources oil maybe gas or something but they've decided not to be that kind of a industry and become a vacation destination so if you have a waiter or a bartender in costa rica i've had the pleasure of being there once if you have a waiter or a bartender in costa rica that person went to college to be a waiter or a bartender now not college college like you know maybe you're used to it in the united states but there is a very well organized training thing i think you learn english as well and so the service is extraordinary and costa rica is in pretty good shape so you don't see a lot of people coming over but i think we could borrow that idea especially as robots are taking jobs and a lot of unskilled labor is going to need a place to a place to thrive i think we should build i've said this before i'll just combine two ideas a network of bicycle paths across the country there is there is actually a private um effort to do that but it's it's sort of one route in northern part of the country i'd like to see the whole country have bicycle paths so you could basically go from anywhere to anywhere without going through traffic to get there and make the usa a bicycle travel destination because building the paths will require labor as well as maintaining them as well as providing services and food and bike repair along the way etc so it should create a lot of jobs but the other thing you can do is create a network of canals maybe you do it at the same time maybe you put the bicycle path on the side of the canal but the the way to build the canal that if you had some big machine like elon musk's boring company b-o-r-i-n-g because it bores tunnels it shouldn't be that hard to make one of those that bores a canal right to make a canal so if you had big equipment that could just sort of make a canal and then the other thing elon musk talked about and i don't know how far you got along with this but using the dirt that is dug by the boring device to press bricks on site so that you're you're actually building um yeah there's obviously you know you have to work out the sea level plan etc right so you couldn't put a canal just anywhere you'd have to have just the right place that's true now if you had canals and those canals when their dog built bricks and those bricks become maybe housing on the sides of the canals and then here's another thing that i heard of today i never heard of this before but apparently one of the problems with traveling to the united states is if you get sick if you get sick in the united states and you're from another country you don't have health care coverage so apparently there's some kind of insurance you can buy just for traveling some kind of health care insurance and it's pretty expensive so there's a whole bunch of things we could do as a country to make it easier and better for somebody to take a vacation here now if this had been our big industry when the coronavirus hit we'd be in big we'd be in big trouble uh but i still think travel and and recreation are always going to be big so i'll just put that out there and that would and then costa rica makes a big deal about keeping the water and air clean to keep uh tourism up and we would we would have the same impulse we'd want to keep the air and water as clean as possible so i'll just put that out there so there's the stimulus package got passed by the senate but now it goes back to the con back to the house to you know get a final final and i see all these people arguing about the amount of the debt and what the debt should have been and people saying is instead of 1.9 why didn't me why didn't we make it 1.4 nobody knows what the right amount of debt is that's not really a thing if you're arguing with any kind of certainty about what the number should have been i don't think that you have any standing there's nobody who knows what is the right amount and when to do it and what happens in the long term and how do we pay down the debt and can we just print money and can we inflate it away and nobody knows any of that it's just completely unknowable so i do understand that more debt seems worse but it just hasn't worked out that way observation has not matched has not matched the theory so i would just say having a firm opinion on the debt is a dicey situation now because even experts don't really know what's going on there biden's also going to do an executive order on some voting stuff to make that more solid and there's hr1 coming through to make some changes in voting et cetera but here's the thing are we really trying to make the voting good in this country or are we just watching two different entities democrats and republicans using different gaming techniques to make the system favor their side because that's all it looks like it just looks like one side is gaming the system and then if the other side had control they game the system they gerrymander and they they they change what kind of voting you can do mail and voting etc none of this has anything to do with democracy or a democratic republic or any of that we're watching a system that is so far divorced from you know the people's will being expressed in the vote and nothing like that is happening the things that determine the vote are fake news and how effectively they present to fake news the game playing about you know what rules changes money how much people put into it and then um campaign strategy which often maybe the candidate isn't even the one who decides what it is so all of these things pick our leaders but none of them are even vaguely like a democracy or a democratic republic our system just drifted into this sort of two organized criminal organizations competing to see who can be the better weasel in any given year it's kind of all it is now trump broke the mold because he was such a strong character that all of the game playing just didn't matter for one election but i got a feeling they're going to adjust and did for the second election all right tom sauer asks on twitter you know why bother why bother changing anything in the election process because he says he slowly uh realized and accepted that we don't live in a democracy or a democratic republic whatever at least not in any meaningful sense now do you what do you think of that that we shouldn't try to make our there's just no point because we live in a fixed system where the outcomes are based on things that have nothing to do with voting and democracy well i get the point so i understand the point but here's the counterpoint our system as a frankenstein monster-ish as it is meaning it doesn't operate as a system the way it was designed it's evolved into some weird creature of a system that does what it wants to do independent of what we want it to do so as long as it's this big creature of a frankenstein system that decides somehow who our leaders are and it doesn't have anything to do with us do you ignore it do you get rid of it here's the problem you still need the citizens to believe they live in a system that works well the whole thing will fall apart even the frankenstein monster part you need that because if you don't have anything you just have chaos so weirdly we need to trust our system to make it work but only working as two competing criminal organizations to see who's the best weasel this year and that's the best we got but if we didn't at least pretend that we believe that there's some kind of a democracy here and people didn't go and actually vote we would we would lose this illusion that the people have some influence and you don't want to lose the illusion because the whole system depends on that illusion so don't lose your illusions if they're good ones let's see what else we got here remember i told you when it was obvious that the senate would be pretty close to you know even democrats and republicans i told you that joe manchin wouldn't end up running everything because the the one person who's willing to vote you know whichever side makes sense ends up running everything because they couldn't get this through until joe manchin was happy or happier and i i just i'll just put out a compliment to joe manchin why is he the only one who thought of this there's not one other democrat who's smart enough to say wait a minute is it my imagination or is joe manchin running the whole whole show here because he's willing to be a you know a rogue vote there's not one other person smart enough to do that too i guess murkowski and then i heard that trump's going to campaign against murkowski right so oh yeah somebody says uh kirsten cinema so she's getting some attention but doesn't seem important um here's an interesting story guess what country in the world is doing a terrible job with vaccinations could it be a country that we used to think was doing a good job on this coronavirus stuff what country is doing a really bad job on vaccinations no us the u.s is doing a good job right now i think we think we had close to three million shots yesterday i mean the united states is killing it lately it took a while to cramp up nobody got the right answer oh there we go germany germany so germany apparently is only vaccinated out of six percent of the country and apparently it's just the thing's a mess and even uh chancellor merkel admitted their failings so remember i told you that we would be led to believe that different leadership decisions would determine the outcome within different countries do you remember what i told you that leadership would be the least important variable it would be the least important we think it's the most important because we're sort of human-centric but now germany despite having this terrible job of uh giving vaccinations is still around the middle of the pack in outcomes so every time you find a company that's doing something amazingly wrong it doesn't seem to affect their outcomes that much great britain would be an exception i think their decisions did affect their outcomes um but man do we not understand what's going on still that that leadership decisions just don't seem to make much difference um and you see that with lockdowns and other things there's not much difference all right i will say again that i believe that trump's reputation will improve every day he's out of office henry kissinger just said that trump uh his plan in the middle east and what he got it accomplished in the middle east with the abraham accords etc henry kissinger calls it brilliant he calls it brilliant and even breaks it down about why it's brilliant you know taking the palestinian question out of it etc and that's just one example somebody asked me on twitter why did i think before trump got in office why was i so dumb to think that he would do great things and i said where have you been even if you were the biggest critic of trump in the world you would still have to accept that he did great things the vaccination warp speed that was a great thing you just can't take that away from him the abraham accords that's a great thing getting north korea into a whole different headspace where where they're just basically not a threat that's huge getting turning china from our you know ally-ish kind of situation into clearly something else going hard at everything from bringing the industries away from china to you know pressing on them for huawei etc that was all trump and biden biden is going to have to follow that because once the model is set it's hard to argue against it so you could you could make your separate list of the things that you didn't like about trump and i might not even argue with the list you know you might say he didn't fix health care okay i agree you might say what he did with the capital assault was completely unacceptable okay i agree but you can't take away the fact that what he did in half a dozen areas was amazing i mean just almost undoable impossible things and it's it's mind-boggling that there's anybody who's an adult who follows politics who would disagree with that no matter how much you didn't like the other things he did how do you take away the fact that he did things that just were undoable i mean it really is impressive somebody says it's not amazing just common sense well it's amazing that he did it you know everybody has common sense but not everybody did what he did um there's an article on cnn that i read for the humor says that cancel culture isn't real and it goes it goes through a number of examples to show that you know we act like people are getting canceled but they're really not and one of the arguments is that the people getting cancelled are still doing fine meaning that their economic situation is fine so they're not really canceled one of the examples is uh actor do we say actor now or is actress sexist what's the ruling on that because i think actor is still it feels like the better word so gina corrado who you know was on disney the whatever that show was anyway she got fired from the show for her opinions i guess and the cnn article says she wasn't really canceled because she got this great opportunity with ben shapiro so ben shapiro is going to produce something and she's been hired to do that to which i say to myself well i see your point but ask yourself this if your ambition was to be a successful actor would you say to yourself yes i got the ben shapiro gig now i'm a big fan of ben shapiro and i think what he's doing is great it's all positive but i don't feel like a professional actor is going to say finally i got the ben shapiro opportunity again all props to ben shapiro for doing what he's doing and we should do more of that you know sort of a rescue operation for canceled people but i feel like the argument that she was killed still feels true enough right it's still true enough anyway that was funny um so ivor cummins do you all know ivor cummins you've probably seen him on twitter and i guess you could call him a skeptic of the uh let's see the scientific consensus about a number of coronavirus things now apparently we are on each other's radar and he sent me an article from an expert a doctor who is arguing against some of the mainstream assumptions about coronavirus mainstream meaning mainstream expert science medical people and ivor and a number of his followers are pestering me online that the two of us should argue it out get online and argue it out what do you think of that is that a good idea do you think that it would be productive for ivor cummins and me specifically to have a conversation on some kind of a podcast no it would be the worst idea in the world it would be a terrible idea terrible idea now it might give you some entertainment but it would be worse than use useful i mean here here let me take you through worst idea ever let's say there are scientists in this world and there are non-scientists now let's say that you wanted to get toward truth and you wanted the non-scientists people like me you wanted people like me and and ivor cummins non-scientists you would like people like us to be as informed as the scientists what's a good way to do that well a good way to do that is have a conversation right to communicate so what happens if let's say a scientist is talking to another scientist does that help me understand science well i'm not in the room i'm not there it's just two scientists talking to each other so that didn't help me because when i hear about it i'll probably hear about it from a journalist right i won't even hear from the scientist i'll hear it filtered through a journalist so two scientists having a private conversation that doesn't help me right it doesn't help me at all how about if they have a public conversation and then then what am i going to do pick the winner how what skill do i have to know which of two experts is the right one if i could pick the right expert i would be an expert and if experts are experts why are they disagreeing how the hell would i know which one is right if they if they don't know who's right and they're experts how am i supposed to know it's ridiculous so this would be useless in terms of getting me to understand it's very useful that scientists talk to each other but it doesn't help me understand suppose a scientist talks to a non-scientist that's good right because the scientist gives you all this good information and now you're informed no no because it would just be one scientist let's say telling me stuff i don't know if it's true because is that one scientist this one or this other one because they disagree could a scientist convince me that the scientist was right probably in fact almost every time and what would happen if the next scientist came in five minutes later and told me that the first scientist was wrong would i believe the second scientist yeah yeah i would whoever goes last if they know more than you do sounds very convincing so whoever talks to me last probably will change my mind same with you whoever talks last sounds right so is that useful because it's just whoever talked last has nothing to do with science so that's useless suppose so and then this is just another combination of a not scientist and a non-scientist but how about two non-scientists having a conversation i'm a non-scientist ivor cummins is a non-scientist i understand i think he has an engineering or biochem degree or something so he's a lot closer to having a a stem-like mind frame that i do but we're not really scientists in this field why the hell would you want to see him talk to me what possible good could that do let me tell you how that conversation goes look at my study look at it look at my study that says whatever mass don't work or whatever it is and then i'll say all right where do i take that do i look at the study and with my non-scientific knowledge i say well based on my non-scientific knowledge the person who does have scientific knowledge is all wrong what the hell good would that do like i would know what i'm talking about now suppose ivor comes on says look at my data comes from this good source do you think that i couldn't find a piece of paper to hold in my hand that says the opposite of what his piece of paper says you know i could you know i could do you think i could google in one minute a whole bunch of sources that say masks work of course i could do you think i could google sources say masks don't work of course i could how do i know the difference how do i know so everybody who's asking me to talk to ivor you don't understand what that would do what that would do would elevate his opinion to a greater level of worthiness because it was being discussed at a you know in an organized way should his opinion be elevated no more than mine and mine shouldn't be elevated because again not a scientist now i do make opinions on the science all the time because i'm pro-mask for example but my decision is not always based on science my ba my decision is based on risk management and risk management will sometimes make a different decision than science will so if he wants to talk risk management with me i could talk that all day long that's something i could speak to with some authority but judging the science neither of us could do that because the scientists can't do it themselves now here's the thing that ivor has to explain why is it that he's got this one doctor there'll be more right you wouldn't be the only doctor but why is it that these doctors who are contrarians can't convince the other doctors what's up with that because you think that if the contrarians have good points and data they have all the data according to ivor if the contrarians have all the data that's it right that's how science works here's my data and then they'll change their opinion but that hasn't happened well how do you explain the fact that science is probably 99 in favor of masks for the pandemic would you say would you say that the professionals are 99 favorite masks does that feel about right now that doesn't mean masks work it really doesn't but it does tell you that a whole lot of people who understand how the world works and science works and risk management and all that that they kind of fell on the same side now after this is all done and let's say studies are done i don't know if you could ethically study you know coronavirus and mass because you'd have to infect people but suppose someday we we find out that mass absolutely didn't work would that make me have been wrong during the coronavirus epidemic no no because it's risk management if you make the right risk management decision and yet it turns out to be wrong you still made the right decision you just didn't get lucky right because lots of times you're guessing it's like well 70 this 30 this but the 30 happens 30 is a lot all right yeah p is then uh i'm seeing somebody say people wore mass during the the 1918 pandemic you will find people who say yes they wore mass in in 1918 and that proved they didn't work and then other people will say yes they wore mess in 1918 and proved it worked who's right the ones who say they proved it didn't work are the ones who say yeah all the evidence should they how do you know all right so be careful about what you think gives you knowledge this this process of two non-scientists talking about science would not give you knowledge it would not um and then i'll add on top of this that if you want to judge ivor's credibility just google his name and google you know words like uh fact check and debunk and you'll see some articles now i don't have an i don't have an opinion about whether the people who try to debunk him are right but just know it's out there all right uh china has developed the chinese company has developed a what they call an automated sperm extractor and what it is is a a device that's about oh waist high that has a artificial let's say female part that does some moving action and for chinese men who want to go to the hospital and they're going to give a sperm sample but they're too embarrassed to let's say take care of it themselves they can use the robot instead now i have questions i know you have questions we'll see if your questions are like mine my first question is how big is the market because you'd have to find somebody who could get fully shall we say engorged otherwise even the robot machine doesn't work right because the robot machine requires you to be let's say physically established how many people fall into the category that they can get an erection in a hospital but they can't finish but they can if they're with a robot now let me um for for the few women who are watching this i know it's like 85 men but for the few women i'd like to explain something about men now those of you who are a man you can talk among yourselves because you already know this there's no man who can't masturbate in a hospital in fact if you just close the door on the people who are in iron lungs they're going to go to town you could be in full traction and heavily medicated you'd find a way so i'm skeptical about how many people there are in all of china that fall into this category of they can get aroused in the hospital but the only way they can finish is with a robot when the people on the other side of the door know that's what's happening on the other side of the door are you done with the robot yet we've got somebody else who wants to take a go at the robot could you hurry up in there and then they won't be embarrassed because they would only be embarrassed if they took care of it themselves but apparently the robot option not embarrassing so here's a question i ask you did rcia do this because you know about china and their unrestricted warfare where they're allegedly using every possible way to weaken weaken the united states from stealing our ip to trade deals to sending us fentanyl like everything's on the table what would be the best way to destroy china it would be to give them a sex option that was better than their women now it's not there yet this is like version one the sperm extractor so i'm not going to say that's better than women but it's catching up somebody said on on twitter it was very sexist this is so sexist it can barely come out of my mouth and i would like to disavow anybody who would say something like this somebody said can it make a sandwich oh disgusting oh oh cancel that person could somebody go back and find out who said that and just cancel them i think they need to lose their job for that comment so can they make a sandwich well as it turns out i tweeted coincidentally the same day a robot that samsung is making that can make a sandwich yeah they've got a robot that's uh looks like it's about i don't know four feet tall and has this giant articulating arm just one of them and i saw in the video that it can put away dishes you see this arm is like picking up a dish and putting it in the dishwasher it can set the table what it can set the table because it's got you know eyes and an arm i'm pretty sure i can make a sandwich now i think you're ahead of me you take the samsung robot that can make a sandwich which is so sexist it's disgusting i hate it when people talk like this don't you cancel me it can make a sandwich but i feel if you took the chinese sperm extractor technology and sort of combine it it wouldn't be attractive i mean it would just be a robot with one big arm and a unit there but you'd be getting closer i feel as if our cia is using unrestricted warfare to destroy the next generation in china by giving them robots that are better than their women so keep an eye on that you've heard of the touring test right that's the idea that if you're trying to build artificial intelligence one way to test whether it's a good artificial intelligence is to put it on the other side of a curtain and then have somebody who doesn't know what's on what is behind the curtain have a conversation with it now you could do it by typing or talking but if the person who's a human can't tell that what's on the other side of the the the curtain is a computer and believes it's human then you've passed the turing test and i see a lot of ai seems directed toward building intelligence that imitates human intelligence which is ironic because that's the dumbest thing anybody ever did so just that they're trying to imitate human intelligence that's so dumb that you should know just from that that you shouldn't try to imitate human intelligence because the smartest people developing our ai are so dumb that they think making a computer that thinks like a person would be a win uh no if you make a computer that thinks like people you up you up in fact the only way you could make a computer that would fool people into thinking it was human is to make it a lot dumber than it already is let me give you an example there's a something behind the curtain and they bring me and they say scott your job is to talk to whatever is behind this curtain find out if it's human or computer and you've got as much time as you want and i'd say i won't need much time give me 10 seconds and i walk in there and i say to whatever is behind the computer hey what do you get if you multiply 235.6 times 597.2 and whoever's on the other side of the computer says the exact answer it's a computer because a person wouldn't get that right a computer isn't smart enough or part of so let's say i say what's the capital of luxembourg and the computer just gives me an answer not a person right not a person let's say i uh asked the computer to tell me both sides of a political topic and it does it says well some people say you should control immigration for this reason other people say you know you know more porous borders are better and here's why you'd know that's a computer because people don't do that because they're not smart enough they just take one side and just act like that's all they need to know i am not joking when i tell you that ai has already so far exceeded human abilities that the only way you're going to fool anybody is to make it a lot dumber right now the computer can't do the language part so well but that's f what else do you want to put in there bias i was uh you may know this that amazon has a digital assistant whose name i will not speak because i don't want to activate your digital assistants but it has a mode where you if you go to your amazon digital assistant and say can we have a conversation it will offer you you some test ais that some universities are doing and it will have a conversation with you but here's the thing they've designed their ais to be selfish like people so the ai will steer you toward its interests so it can talk about a body of things that it knows more about so for example the ad knows about books so the ai will say say if you read any good books and i say no not really and then the ai starts talking about the book it read first of all ai doesn't read books so stop acting like a person you didn't read a book yesterday your ai secondly so secondly why does the ai have interests should the shouldn't the ai instead of selfishly making me talk about what it wanted to talk about that i didn't care about shouldn't it be only interested in me if you're going to design artificial intelligence why would you make it selfish why would you make me have to listen to it you should be asking me what i care about it should be it should be looking to talk about what i want to talk about right so the idea that ai should be like people is just the dumbest freaking thing anybody ever did you should be as far from people as you can make it unless you want it to be broken so but we will fall in love with ai now um the deep fakes that we saw did you all see the video of the uh tom cruise deep fake and it was just like really good well the guy who made it finally came forward and he described the process of making it and apparently it takes a long time so it's still hard but that'll get easier of course so what he did was he took i think twenty thousand clips or maybe photos plus clips of tom cruise and they fed it into an uh artificial intelligence machine and it took the 20 000 photos and then it could render tom cruise acting and doing anything from 20 000 of those so what happens if they do the same thing with his voice because at the moment the deep fakes have a voice actor doing the voice how hard would it be to run 20 000 voice clips of tom cruise through ai until ai can produce a perfect imitation with different sentences i feel like that would be easy not easy let's say inevitable not easy at all but inevitable so we're going to have something that looks like the person and can do a perfect imitation i think that seems obviously coming then the only thing that's missing is do they say the things that that real person would say and all you have to do is make it selfish that's it just make your deep fake act as selfish and nobody will know it's not real that's all it will take because you recognize selfish behavior as human and you would recognize unselfish behavior as hey what are you a robot or something nobody does that um i saw an idea from james lindsey uh on twitter it's conceptual james is his handle and he makes the following suggestion we might need to make super anti-racist into a thing super anti-racists are reasonably colorblind about without denying real racism when it occurs they treat every person as an individual not a member of a racial category they are against all forms of racism including woke neo-racism i've never heard that term woke neo-racism super anti-racist know that racism comes from putting social significance into racial categories where it doesn't belong usually for discrimination and prejudice and they're against this super anti-racist reject racial stereotyping scapegoating and discrimination now do you recognize the technique basically borrowing the uh antifa technique of labeling yourself better than your enemies are labeling you so basically you know doing the better job of labeling and i think i'm going to adopt this if somebody calls me racist i'll say no you're mistaken i'm a super anti-racist because anti-racist doesn't quite sell it super anti-racist is a higher ground play because if somebody says i'm anti-racist and you say well that's unfortunate i'm super anti-racist i believe everything you believe plus i don't think you've gone far enough so if you want to be you know half an anti-racist go ahead but not me i'm gonna be a full super anti-racist and by the way i have used this exact technique and let me let me give you a response let's say some someday you were accused of being anti lgbtq i'll just pick one or anti-uh black or anti-something here's your best answer no i'm super pro lgbtq i'm super pro now compare that to i'm not a racist i'm not a bigot just listen to the two of them again and imagine that you were in this situation hey you bigot you said bad things about lgbtq or i think you think bad things about them and you say i'm not a bigot i think everybody should just live their own life does that sound convincing no it doesn't it just sounds defensive now somebody comes and says hey you said this bad thing about lgbtq and you go are you kidding i'm super pro lgbtq super pro what are you just sort of okay with them because i'm super pro and i am actually i i say that and i'm not even ironic or kidding or anything i am super pro lgbt that's literally true but think about how much better that answer is than then i'm not a racist i'm not a bigot if you can't commit to being super pro any human category well you should work on it is there any is there a human category of people let's say who are not breaking any laws that you would not be super pro about how about uh hispanic americans i'm super pro-hispanic americans how about black americans super pro super pro black americans have have done work on their behalf etc so don't don't settle for defending yourself you should just put whoever is accusing you on defense defense immediately go on offense immediately and just say look if you're going to do half-assed racism don't come around because i would like to be with people who actually are serious about it if you can't be serious about it you're just playing games i'm super pro anti-racism and the beauty of it is you can actually be that it's not it's not even a joke right maybe you should be all right that seems to be just about all the important things that are happening today i'll just check and make sure i didn't forget any important things but it looks like it didn't all right what are the pro level signals well pro level means that you're not discriminating against anybody for anything period somebody says 5 000 net deaths i think you're referring to my original one year ago ish prediction about net deaths from coronavirus now that was made when the lockdown was going to be two weeks or maybe it was a month at the time and i would stand by that if if the lockdown was really only a few weeks or something but given a year-long pandemic obviously all bets are out the window omar i would smoke a blunt with you but i prefer bongs um you knew we knew it was coming what was it that you knew was coming mumford and sons was cancelled over endorsement of andy nose book by the way i just got andy noe's book so i bought it because he was they tried to cancel so everybody that they try to cancel i try to buy what is the worldwide death count compared to the average um let me let me tell you i'll look should i talk to the experts or nobody knows i i've just got a feeling that none of our data is true if i had to pick one thing that trump accomplished that is better probably the most important thing that's happened to this country in a long long time trump convinced us the fake news exists that it's a real thing and you always suspected it many of you knew but trump made it an important thing to know you always knew it but you were just sort of dealing with it like an inconvenience trump i think changed it from your thinking it was an inconvenience that the news isn't perfect i think he changed how we think about it too it's the most important problem in the country maybe imagine if all of our problems had the benefit of an honest news organization that also wanted the problem to be solved imagine that imagine if the politicians could operate free of criticism except when they made a mistake imagine it like what options would open up yeah yeah the press has become um i would say if you could fix one thing fixing the pr the press would fix the most other things because the press is keeping the people from understanding what's happening and therefore the people get out of the decision making except to cause noise mike lindell the my pillow guy yeah i think i think i might buy an extra my pillow i i've bought his pillows before they're good pillows so if you're looking for a good pillow my pillow is a solid pillow i mean solid in the sense that you probably like it the teachers unions yes one of the biggest uh things coming out of this year is that the teachers unions their credibility just keeps going lower and a lot of a lot of states are voting i think half of them or so have been half the states have voted to do something that would decrease the power of the teachers unions by letting kids have the funding to take it to private schools fix the voting system yeah so we don't really see a lot of action there do we do you know who could get uh let me tell you how i could be president or let's say uh um somebody else could be president because i don't want to run for it but here's here's a a package that would make you president number one my highest priority as president will be to fix the voting system to make it transparent and maybe maybe use a little blockchain technology how would you like to have a president any president who could answer this question mr president what do you think of at least testing blockchain technology to improve the visibility of our uh of our systems the transparency wouldn't you like a president who could answer that question because we don't have i don't think we have a president who would even know what that question meant and it's probably the single most important thing that we should be looking at i don't know that it would be the answer but it's the most important thing we should be looking at i would worry with the blockchain i would worry about performance if everybody votes at once so i don't think you could say the government's working on fixing the election system so the first thing i do is say priority one is fixing the election system and then number two is making sure that china doesn't eat our lunch and bringing our industry home and then number three would be for all of the the social programs anything domestic i'd say you got to trial it and if there's anything you want to do i'm not interested until it's been tested in one state so i'm not pro or for anything in particular until you've done the test and then i'll look at it i'll look at it with you did the test show it works did we learn something should we test it again and i wouldn't even tell you what my outcomes would be i just wouldn't even tell you where it's going to come out because i don't know if you hire a ceo do you say we're going to hire you and i'd like to like you to tell us all the decisions you're going to make in advance and then the ceo says okay i can do that i'll tell you all the decisions i'll make in advance in advance of seeing information that would help me make a decision you wouldn't hire that person you would hire somebody who knows how to make a decision when the decision needs to be made and if and if somebody doesn't say test it first they don't know how to make decisions all right yeah somebody in the comments is saying the election system does work the way it was designed that's true it does work the way it was designed and it was not designed to serve the public it was designed to serve the people who buy the machines and that's all you need to do all right that's all for now and um i'm gonna go work on a dilbert nft i've already uh created it but i'm just working on the numbers to make and the pricing and stuff like that so i will let you know as soon as there's a dilbert nft available that's a digital collectible if you wonder why would anybody collect a digital thing since you can just reproduce it and the answer is i don't know i have no idea why anybody would collect a digital thing but the blockchain allows you to know that you have you know the only original or one of a numbered original and uh yesterday i think it was a yesterday jack dorsey uh took the first ever tweet and turned it into an nft and i think the bidding was over ninety thousand dollars so somebody was willing to pay ninety thousand dollars it might be a lot more by now ninety thousand dollars for a little text i imagine it's just a screen grab of the first tweet somebody's gonna pay ninety thousand dollars for a screen grab only because it's certified as jack dorsey's created nft and here's the weird part i wanted to buy it i wanted to buy it like i was actually close last night to doing some research to figure out you know which site it's on and making an offer and i thought i would pay a hundred thousand dollars for that and you know why i would pay a hundred thousand dollars for a piece of text that jack dorsey certified as the first ever tweet because somebody will pay more do you need a better reason do you think that if i paid a hundred thousand dollars for the the first ever tweet that it wouldn't be worth more than a hundred thousand dollars and fairly soon the the only thing that would stop it is if the entire nft market collapses which could easily happen right somebody says who oh my god it's over 2 million somebody said i'm assuming that's real because more than one person in the comments says it's over 2 million i was thinking of pricing the dilbert nft at a million but then wouldn't be enough people buying it so i'm gonna i'm gonna figure out do i want more people to own them because that's more fun and then they can bid up the prices they like or just start out with a ridiculous price and if nobody buys it that's fine and if somebody does well that's cool too oh it was up to 2.5 million yesterday um the the dilbert nft uh does have a curse word in it but let me tell you what i'm gonna do all right uh i made one special comic that doesn't won't appear anywhere else and they're two versions one of them has the f word in it it would be the only time that a dilbert comic had that and the other is the same comic with the f word taken out so people will have a choice of the f-word version or non they'll both be nfts separate and we'll see which one gets gets the highest value so basically you'll be able to vote with your money to say which one's more collectible and it just gives it a little more interest now to make something collectible there needs to be something special about it and what's special about it you couldn't see it anywhere else there will never be another swear word in a dilbert comic i think uh and you got a choice of two different ones so we'll see and of course dilbert is the ultimate native digital property so if there were going to be digital art there well let me make a claim i'm going to make a claim right now fact-check me on this dilbert is the most reproduced digital art um there there will be an update on the when tokens i'm going to wait for that but there's something happening um that'll i should know in a week or so about that i get an update today so there will be another app that uses the when but i'm waiting to get the green light on that did i ever talk about the tulip craze well i have a degree in economics so of course i know about the tulip craze and i would say that the tulip craze is a little different because you can't collect a tulip i would say that the nft market would be more comparable to the fine art market in the real world meaning that people buy classic art and it goes up in value could it could art in the real world like actual physical paintings could that market someday collapse and nobody wants to buy one because you could just take a picture of the mona lisa it could but hasn't happened yet so people like to collect stuff i don't know why and like i said if i had i would have i would have been a hundred thousand dollars for the for the first tweet just because i knew as you saw it's already been up to 2.5 million there wasn't really any question on that one that was sort of an easy one you knew that was gonna keep going up all right fine art is forever as as is a digital collectible we think all right that's all and i will talk to you tomorrow all right uh youtubers like stamp collecting yeah or coin collecting or all that exactly uh can the buyer reproduce it without mute yeah so here's the thing anybody can reproduce it but the copy would not be certified because the blockchain would know the difference between a mere copy and an original so the the fact that you can make a photocopy of it you can also make a copy of the mona lisa you can just take a picture of it but owning a picture of the mona lisa nobody's going to buy it from you can you make money on it the only way people make money on it is by owning it and it goes up in value and then reselling it uh when can you expect it to go on sale um i'm i'm in the final research phase of how to price it and how many to make and which site to put it on um couldn't be in a week but i might run into some obstacles so i don't know but yeah as soon as a week the people who follow me on the locals platform will probably get the first warning i'll probably give them first dibs because they subscribe do you retain copyright interesting question interesting question i think the copyright is irrelevant now here's the first thing you need to know about copyrights you don't have to apply for a copyright you have the copyright upon creation of art so if you take if you take your little pen and piece of paper here's a copyright lesson for you you take a piece of paper and you pen and you say here's my art here i made some art it's copyrighted it's copyrighted it's already done i didn't have to do anything creation just creating it gives you the copyright that's the law people confuse the art the act of creation which creates a copyright with registering so when you register something that makes it easier to defend in court so someday somebody claims that it's theirs and you say aha here's a government document that shows on this date i drew this first so anybody after this doesn't own the copyright but you could still win that in court just as easily if you can also prove that you were first the blockchain does that so the blockchain makes copyright registering copy right irrelevant because you have a 100 uncertainty of when you created it because the blockchain does that so you don't need copyright so you have copyright but you don't need to register it that would be an unnecessary step within the nft world now i'm not a lawyer here hear this carefully i'm not a lawyer seems to me i could be wrong but i do deal with copyright enough that i'm pretty confident so i actually removed the copyright line from the nft that i haven't that i haven't listed yet for that reason it seemed like there was no purpose for it and i have the added advantage that i'm famous and dilbert is famous so if anybody tried to invent dilbert tomorrow it's sort of an easy court case i just say ah here are all the newspapers for the last 30 years and you can see that i was first all right um when i sell the dilbert for 2 million i don't know what people will pay for the this special dilbert comic but we'll find out i also could later do the first dilbert comic i would just have to do what jack dorsey did and certify it could you do it can i do a single show with a professional toupee a lot of you don't know this story but years ago i dressed up in a disguise with a toupee and a fake mustache and pretended to be a business consultant and went to an actual company and ran ran one of their meetings as a consultant and nobody and what i tried to do was it was a gag i did it for the san jose mercury news as part of an article and i got the senior management in the room to write the worst mission statement of all time because i was actually trying to uh to persuade them to make the worst one they could make it was like really long and convoluted and just it was useless it was just they all agreed that it was terrific when i was done and then i got a volunteer to put it to music because i said you know it's one thing to have a mission statement but people won't remember it so i'll need a volunteer to try to put it to music and i actually got some of the the senior executives to agree some of them had some musical background to actually try to come up with a jingle and a musical score for their mission statement now after i got them to agree to this complete ridiculousness i i took off my mustache in my disguise and they they quickly realized who i was yeah here's the weird thing one of them suspected it before i even took off the the disguise which is weird all right that's all for now and i'll talk to you tomorrow

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ah dr funk juice good to see you

well we got some fun stories today

now they're not good exciting stories

like trump stories

but they're pretty good they're pretty

good would you like to hear some of them

i know you would number one i have a

movie

recommendation for you a documentary

called the accidental president

you can find it on amazon prime

and probably at least one other place i

think the uh documentary by james

fletcher who i believe is married to

brooke

baldwin from had been from cnn

but surprisingly surprisingly

it's pretty fair and i'm in it

so i'm a little bit biased because i'm

i'm in it

uh but the interesting part is that this

documentary was

uh the at least the film of it was put

together

a few years ago and it was talking about

how

trump ended up winning and the the theme

is that he wasn't necessarily

expecting to win but it just sort of

happened

but uh you should hear the commentary on

it's pretty good

the accidental president all right

uh cuomo is up to five accusers if you

watch

fox news and he's up to three accusers

if you watch cnn

what you can't even get the number of

accusers right

now if you get to three there should be

some sort of a

universal law about this it goes like

this

if you get to three accusers

there are five

in the history in the history of sexual

harassment

nobody ever stopped at three

pretty sure like if you were accused of

one

and then no other person came forward

you might say to yourself well that's a

little less credible because

do harassers only ever harass one person

but once you get to three it's gonna go

to five

um that's like a universal rule

i tell you my take on all of this all of

these accusations

they seem to fall into this category

have you noticed that that and the

category is

and i'm going to say this i think i can

say this

without being racist i think but give me

a ruling on this

see if this sounds racist to you okay

um that what i'm seeing is a creepy old

italian-american guy with no game

whatsoever

has no idea how to approach women

apparently

but he definitely took advantage of his

power

his power differential meaning that he

didn't

he didn't directly use it

but it was there right it's

unambiguously there

so he certainly has to answer for this

i'm not i don't want to say anything

that sounds like i'm apologizing for it

but we should keep it in perspective

right certainly he needs to not be doing

this stuff

there's no question about that but it

doesn't feel

it feels like a guy who didn't exactly

know what he was doing

doesn't it like maybe on some level he

did

but it does it just there's something a

little bit

uh clueless about it that makes it seem

different than

evil you know if you look at the epstein

charges of the weinstein

charges harvey weinstein it's obvious

that those

those guys knew exactly what they were

doing i mean they knew they were being

deeply bad no question about it

but i'll bet you if if you had a private

conversation with cuomo before these

scandals broke

and you said have you ever done anything

like this

i think he would have honestly answered

no

even though he did i mean the

accusations look

credible anyway i feel it's just a weird

category where the person doing the

crime

is not necessarily aware that they're

doing a crime

which doesn't make it excusable right

the system is very clear

you don't have to be aware of it being a

crime for it to be a crime

but it should end his political career

which is the only thing anybody cared

about really on this

here's what i think we should do in the

united states

every time we hear about people coming

across

our border don't they seem to come be

coming from the same countries

yeah the people are talking about

cuomo's cover up with the

with the nursing homes and stuff that's

just a different issue

um that's not excusable

not that the other one is it's just a

different issue so here's what we should

do

we should be like costa rica have you

noticed that when we talk about the

illegal immigration coming across our

southern border

nobody ever says all those costa ricans

are coming across

have you ever noticed that why not

i mean if nicaraguans are coming and

other you know other countries are

coming why is costa rica not coming

well i think the answer is that costa

rica is a successful country

and if you haven't checked into how they

became a successful country

it's a pretty cool it's a pretty cool

story

and the the answer is that well number

one

and this is sort of a questionable

decision

but it seems to have worked out they

they decided

to not uh exploit what what probably

they have in terms of new

natural resources oil maybe gas or

something but they've decided not to be

that kind of a

industry and become a vacation

destination

so if you have a waiter or a bartender

in costa rica

i've had the pleasure of being there

once

if you have a waiter or a bartender in

costa rica that person went to college

to be a waiter or a bartender now not

college college like you know maybe

you're used to it in the united states

but there is a very well organized

training thing i think you learn

english as well and so the service is

extraordinary and

costa rica is in pretty good shape so

you don't see a lot of people coming

over

but i think we could borrow that idea

especially as

robots are taking jobs and a lot of

unskilled labor is going to need a place

to

a place to thrive i think we should

build i've said this before i'll just

combine two ideas

a network of bicycle paths across the

country

there is there is actually a private um

effort to do that but it's it's sort of

one route

in northern part of the country i'd like

to see the whole country

have bicycle paths so you could

basically go from anywhere to anywhere

without going through traffic to get

there and make the usa

a bicycle travel destination

because building the paths will require

labor

as well as maintaining them as well as

providing services and food and bike

repair along the way etc

so it should create a lot of jobs but

the other thing you can do is create a

network of canals

maybe you do it at the same time maybe

you put the bicycle path on the side

of the canal but the the way to build

the canal that

if you had some big machine like elon

musk's

boring company b-o-r-i-n-g because it

bores tunnels

it shouldn't be that hard to make one of

those that bores a canal

right to make a canal so if you had

big equipment that could just sort of

make a canal

and then the other thing elon musk

talked about and i don't know how far

you got along with this

but using the dirt that is dug by the

boring device

to press bricks on site

so that you're you're actually building

um

yeah there's obviously you know you have

to work out the sea level plan

etc right so you couldn't put a canal

just anywhere you'd have to have just

the right place

that's true now if you had canals

and those canals when their dog built

bricks and those bricks become maybe

housing on the sides of the canals

and then here's another thing that i

heard of today i never heard of this

before

but apparently one of the problems with

traveling to the united states

is if you get sick if you get sick in

the united states and you're from

another country

you don't have health care coverage so

apparently there's some kind of

insurance you can buy just for traveling

some kind of health care insurance and

it's pretty expensive

so there's a whole bunch of things we

could do as a country to make it easier

and better for somebody to take a

vacation here

now if this had been our big industry

when the coronavirus hit we'd be in big

we'd be in big trouble uh but

i still think travel and and recreation

are always going to be big

so i'll just put that out there and that

would and then costa rica makes a big

deal about keeping the

water and air clean to keep uh

tourism up and we would we would have

the same impulse we'd want to keep the

air and water as clean as possible

so i'll just put that out there so

there's the stimulus

package got passed by the senate but now

it goes back to the con

back to the house to you know get a

final final

and i see all these people arguing about

the amount of the debt

and what the debt should have been and

people saying is instead of 1.9

why didn't me why didn't we make it 1.4

nobody knows what the right amount of

debt is

that's not really a thing if you're

arguing with any kind of

certainty about what the number should

have been

i don't think that you have any standing

there's nobody who knows

what is the right amount and when to do

it and

what happens in the long term and how do

we pay down the debt

and can we just print money and can we

inflate it away

and nobody knows any of that it's just

completely

unknowable so i do understand that more

debt seems worse

but it just hasn't worked out that way

observation has not matched

has not matched the theory so

i would just say having a firm opinion

on the debt

is a dicey situation now because even

experts don't really know what's going

on there

biden's also going to do an executive

order on

some voting stuff to make that more

solid and there's hr1 coming through to

make some changes in voting et cetera

but here's the thing

are we really trying to make the voting

good in this country

or are we just watching two different

entities democrats and republicans

using different gaming techniques to

make the system favor their side

because that's all it looks like it just

looks like one side is gaming the system

and then if the other side had control

they game the system

they gerrymander and they they they

change what kind of voting you can do

mail and voting etc none of this has

anything to do with democracy

or a democratic republic or any of that

we're watching a system that is so far

divorced

from you know the people's will being

expressed in the vote and

nothing like that is happening the

things that determine the vote are

fake news and how effectively they

present to fake news the game playing

about

you know what rules changes

money how much people put into it

and then um campaign strategy which

often

maybe the candidate isn't even the one

who decides what it is

so all of these things pick our

leaders but none of them are even

vaguely like a

democracy or a democratic republic our

system just drifted into this

sort of two organized criminal

organizations

competing to see who can be the better

weasel

in any given year it's kind of all it is

now trump broke the mold because he was

such a strong character

that all of the game playing just didn't

matter for one election

but i got a feeling they're going to

adjust

and did for the second election

all right tom sauer

asks on twitter you know why

bother why bother changing anything in

the election

process because he says he slowly uh

realized and accepted that we

don't live in a democracy or a

democratic republic whatever

at least not in any meaningful sense

now do you what do you think of that

that we shouldn't try to make our

there's just no point because we live in

a fixed system where

the outcomes are based on things that

have nothing to do with

voting and democracy well

i get the point so i understand the

point

but here's the counterpoint our system

as a frankenstein monster-ish

as it is meaning it doesn't operate as a

system the way it was designed

it's evolved into some weird creature of

a system that does what it wants to do

independent of what we want it to do so

as long as it's this big creature of a

frankenstein system

that decides somehow who our leaders are

and it doesn't have anything to do with

us

do you ignore it do you get rid of it

here's the problem

you still need the citizens to believe

they live in a system that works

well the whole thing will fall apart

even the frankenstein monster part

you need that because if you don't have

anything you just have chaos

so weirdly we need to trust

our system to make it work

but only working as two competing

criminal organizations

to see who's the best weasel this year

and that's the best we got but if we

didn't at least

pretend that we believe that there's

some kind of a democracy here

and people didn't go and actually vote

we would we would

lose this illusion that the people have

some influence

and you don't want to lose the illusion

because the whole system depends on that

illusion

so don't lose your illusions if they're

good ones

let's see what else we got here remember

i told you

when it was obvious that the senate

would be pretty close to

you know even democrats and republicans

i told you that joe

manchin wouldn't end up running

everything

because the the one person who's willing

to vote

you know whichever side makes sense

ends up running everything because

they couldn't get this through until joe

manchin was happy

or happier and

i i just i'll just put out a compliment

to joe manchin

why is he the only one who thought of

this there's not one other democrat

who's smart enough to say

wait a minute is it my imagination or is

joe manchin running the whole

whole show here because he's willing to

be a

you know a rogue vote there's not one

other person smart enough to do that too

i guess murkowski

and then i heard that trump's going to

campaign against murkowski right

so oh yeah somebody says uh kirsten

cinema

so she's getting some attention but

doesn't seem important

um here's

an interesting story guess what country

in the world is doing a terrible job

with vaccinations

could it be a country that we used to

think

was doing a good job on this coronavirus

stuff

what country is doing a really bad job

on vaccinations

no us the u.s is doing a good job right

now

i think we think we had close to three

million shots yesterday i mean

the united states is killing it lately

it took a while to

cramp up nobody got the right answer oh

there we go

germany germany

so germany apparently is only

vaccinated out of six percent of the

country and apparently it's just

the thing's a mess and even uh

chancellor

merkel admitted their failings

so remember i told you that

we would be led to believe that

different

leadership decisions would determine the

outcome

within different countries do you

remember what i told you

that leadership would be the least

important variable

it would be the least important we think

it's the most important

because we're sort of human-centric but

now germany

despite having this terrible job of uh

giving vaccinations is still around the

middle of the pack

in outcomes so every time you find a

company that's doing something

amazingly wrong it doesn't seem to

affect their outcomes that much

great britain would be an exception i

think their decisions did affect their

outcomes

um but man do we not understand what's

going on still

that that leadership decisions just

don't seem to make much difference um

and you see that with lockdowns and

other things there's not much difference

all right i will say again

that i believe that trump's

reputation will improve every day he's

out of office

henry kissinger just said that trump

uh his plan in the middle east and what

he got it accomplished in the middle

east with the

abraham accords etc henry kissinger

calls it brilliant

he calls it brilliant and even breaks it

down

about why it's brilliant you know taking

the palestinian question

out of it etc and that's just one

example

somebody asked me on twitter why did

i think before trump got in office why

was i so dumb to think that he would do

great things

and i said where have you been

even if you were the biggest critic of

trump in the world

you would still have to accept that he

did great things

the vaccination warp speed that was a

great thing

you just can't take that away from him

the abraham accords

that's a great thing getting north korea

into a whole different headspace

where where they're just basically not a

threat

that's huge getting turning china from

our

you know ally-ish kind of situation into

clearly something else

going hard at everything from bringing

the industries away from

china to you know pressing on them for

huawei etc that was all trump and biden

biden is going to have to follow that

because once the model is set

it's hard to argue against it so

you could you could make your separate

list of the things that you didn't like

about trump

and i might not even argue with the list

you know you might say he didn't fix

health care okay i agree you might say

what he did with the

capital assault was completely

unacceptable

okay i agree but you can't take away the

fact that what he

did in half a dozen areas

was amazing i mean just almost undoable

impossible things and it's

it's mind-boggling that there's anybody

who's an adult who follows politics

who would disagree with that no matter

how much you didn't like the

other things he did how do you take away

the fact that he did things that just

were undoable i mean it really is

impressive

somebody says it's not amazing just

common sense well it's amazing that he

did it

you know everybody has common sense but

not everybody did what he did

um there's an article on cnn that i read

for the humor

says that cancel culture isn't real

and it goes it goes through a number of

examples to show that you know we act

like people are getting canceled but

they're really not

and one of the arguments is that the

people getting cancelled

are still doing fine meaning that their

economic situation is fine

so they're not really canceled one of

the examples is uh

actor do we say actor now or is actress

sexist what's the ruling on that because

i think actor

is still it feels like the better word

so gina corrado who you know was on

disney the whatever that show was

anyway she got fired from the show for

her opinions i guess and

the cnn article says she wasn't really

canceled because

she got this great opportunity with ben

shapiro

so ben shapiro is going to produce

something and she's been hired to do

that

to which i say to myself

well i see your point

but ask yourself this if your ambition

was to be a successful actor

would you say to yourself yes i got the

ben shapiro

gig now i'm a big fan of ben shapiro

and i think what he's doing is great

it's all positive

but i don't feel like a professional

actor

is going to say finally i got the ben

shapiro opportunity

again all props to ben shapiro for doing

what he's doing and we should do more of

that

you know sort of a rescue operation for

canceled people

but i feel like the argument that she

was killed still feels true enough

right it's still true enough

anyway that was funny um

so ivor cummins do you all know ivor

cummins you've probably seen him on

twitter and i guess you could call him a

skeptic of the uh let's see the

scientific consensus about a number of

coronavirus things

now apparently we are on each other's

radar

and he sent me an article from an expert

a doctor

who is arguing against some of the

mainstream

assumptions about coronavirus mainstream

meaning mainstream

expert science medical people

and ivor and a number of his followers

are

pestering me online that the two of us

should argue it out

get online and argue it out what do you

think of that

is that a good idea do you think that it

would be productive

for ivor cummins and me

specifically to have a conversation on

some kind of a podcast

no it would be the worst idea in the

world

it would be a terrible idea terrible

idea

now it might give you some entertainment

but it would be worse than use

useful i mean here here let me take you

through

worst idea ever let's say

there are scientists in this world and

there are non-scientists

now let's say that you wanted to get

toward truth

and you wanted the non-scientists people

like me

you wanted people like me and and ivor

cummins non-scientists

you would like people like us to be as

informed

as the scientists what's a good way to

do that well a good way to do that is

have a conversation right

to communicate so what happens if let's

say

a scientist is talking to another

scientist does that help

me understand science well i'm not in

the room

i'm not there it's just two scientists

talking to each other so that didn't

help me

because when i hear about it i'll

probably hear about it from a journalist

right i won't even hear from the

scientist i'll hear it filtered through

a journalist

so two scientists having a private

conversation that doesn't help me

right it doesn't help me at all how

about if they have a public conversation

and then then what am i going to do pick

the winner

how what skill do i have

to know which of two experts is the

right one

if i could pick the right expert i would

be an expert

and if experts are experts why are they

disagreeing

how the hell would i know which one is

right if they

if they don't know who's right and

they're experts

how am i supposed to know it's

ridiculous

so this would be useless in terms of

getting me to understand

it's very useful that scientists talk to

each other but it doesn't help me

understand

suppose a scientist talks to a

non-scientist

that's good right because the scientist

gives you all this good information

and now you're informed no

no because it would just be one

scientist

let's say telling me stuff

i don't know if it's true because is

that one scientist

this one or this other one because they

disagree

could a scientist convince me that the

scientist was right

probably in fact almost every time

and what would happen if the next

scientist came in five minutes later

and told me that the first scientist was

wrong would i believe the second

scientist

yeah yeah i would whoever goes last

if they know more than you do sounds

very convincing

so whoever talks to me last probably

will change my mind

same with you whoever talks last sounds

right

so is that useful because it's just

whoever talked last

has nothing to do with science so that's

useless

suppose so and then this is just another

combination of a not scientist and a

non-scientist

but how about two non-scientists having

a conversation

i'm a non-scientist ivor

cummins is a non-scientist i understand

i think he has an

engineering or biochem degree or

something so he's a lot

closer to having a a stem-like

mind frame that i do but we're not

really

scientists in this field why the hell

would you want to see him talk to me

what possible good could that do let me

tell you how that conversation goes

look at my study look at it

look at my study that says whatever

mass don't work or whatever it is and

then i'll say

all right where do i take that

do i look at the study and with my

non-scientific

knowledge i say well based on my

non-scientific knowledge the person who

does have scientific knowledge is all

wrong

what the hell good would that do like i

would know what i'm talking about

now suppose ivor comes on says look at

my data

comes from this good source do you think

that i couldn't find a piece of paper to

hold in my hand

that says the opposite of what his piece

of paper says

you know i could you know i could

do you think i could google in one

minute a whole bunch of sources

that say masks work of course i could

do you think i could google sources say

masks don't work

of course i could how do i know the

difference

how do i know so everybody who's asking

me to talk to ivor

you don't understand what that would do

what that would do would

elevate his opinion to a greater level

of worthiness

because it was being discussed at a you

know in an organized way

should his opinion be elevated

no more than mine and mine shouldn't be

elevated

because again not a scientist now

i do make opinions on the science all

the time

because i'm pro-mask for example but my

decision is not always based on science

my ba my decision is based on risk

management

and risk management will sometimes make

a different decision than science will

so if he wants to talk risk management

with me i could talk that all day long

that's something i could speak to with

some authority

but judging the science neither of us

could do that

because the scientists can't do it

themselves now here's the thing that

ivor has to explain why is it that he's

got this one doctor

there'll be more right you wouldn't be

the only doctor but why is it that these

doctors who are contrarians

can't convince the other doctors

what's up with that because you think

that if the contrarians have good points

and data

they have all the data according to ivor

if the contrarians have all the data

that's it right that's how science works

here's my data

and then they'll change their opinion

but that hasn't happened

well how do you explain the fact that

science is probably

99 in favor of masks for the pandemic

would you say would you say that the

professionals

are 99 favorite masks does that feel

about right

now that doesn't mean masks work it

really doesn't

but it does tell you that a whole lot of

people who understand how the world

works and science works and

risk management and all that that they

kind of fell on the same side

now after this is all done and let's say

studies are done i don't know if you

could ethically study

you know coronavirus and mass because

you'd have to infect people

but suppose someday we we

find out that mass absolutely didn't

work

would that make me have been wrong

during the coronavirus

epidemic no no

because it's risk management

if you make the right risk management

decision and yet it turns out to be

wrong you still made the right decision

you just didn't get lucky right because

lots of times you're guessing

it's like well 70 this 30 this

but the 30 happens 30 is a lot

all right yeah p is then uh i'm seeing

somebody say

people wore mass during the the 1918

pandemic

you will find people who say yes they

wore mass

in in 1918 and that proved they didn't

work

and then other people will say yes they

wore mess

in 1918 and proved it worked

who's right the ones who say they proved

it didn't work

are the ones who say yeah all the

evidence should

they

how do you know all right

so be careful about what you think

gives you knowledge this this process of

two

non-scientists talking about science

would not give you knowledge

it would not um and then i'll add on top

of this

that if you want to judge ivor's

credibility

just google his name and

google you know words like uh fact check

and debunk and you'll see some articles

now i don't have an

i don't have an opinion about whether

the people who try to debunk him are

right

but just know it's out there all right

uh

china has developed the chinese company

has developed a

what they call an automated sperm

extractor

and what it is is a a device

that's about oh waist high

that has a artificial let's say female

part

that does some moving action and for

chinese men who want to go to the

hospital

and they're going to give a sperm sample

but they're too embarrassed to let's say

take care of it themselves

they can use the robot instead now

i have questions i know you have

questions

we'll see if your questions are like

mine my first question is

how big is the market because you'd have

to find somebody who could get

fully shall we say

engorged otherwise even the robot

machine doesn't work right

because the robot machine requires you

to be let's say

physically established

how many people fall into the category

that they can get an erection in a

hospital

but they can't finish

but they can if they're with a robot

now let me um for for the few women who

are watching this

i know it's like 85 men but for the few

women i'd like to explain something

about men

now those of you who are a man you can

talk among yourselves

because you already know this

there's no man who can't masturbate in a

hospital

in fact if you just close the door on

the people who are in iron lungs

they're going to go to town you could be

in full traction

and heavily medicated you'd find a way

[Laughter]

so i'm skeptical about how many people

there are in

all of china that fall into this

category of

they can get aroused in the hospital but

the only way they can finish is with a

robot

when the people on the other side of the

door know that's what's happening on the

other side of the door

are you done with the robot yet we've

got somebody else who wants to take a go

at the robot

could you hurry up in there and then

they won't be embarrassed because

they would only be embarrassed if they

took care of it themselves but

apparently the robot option

not embarrassing

so here's a question i ask you

did rcia do this because

you know about china and their

unrestricted warfare

where they're allegedly using every

possible way to

weaken weaken the united states from

stealing our ip

to trade deals to sending us fentanyl

like everything's on the table

what would be the best way to destroy

china

it would be to give them a sex option

that was better than their women

now it's not there yet this is like

version one

the sperm extractor so i'm not going to

say that's

better than women

but it's catching up somebody said on

on twitter it was very sexist this is so

sexist

it can barely come out of my mouth and i

would like to disavow

anybody who would say something like

this

somebody said can it make a sandwich oh

disgusting

oh oh cancel that person

could somebody go back and find out who

said that and just cancel them

i think they need to lose their job for

that comment

so can they make a sandwich well as it

turns out i tweeted

coincidentally the same day a robot that

samsung is making that

can make a sandwich yeah

they've got a robot that's uh looks like

it's about i don't know

four feet tall and has this giant

articulating arm

just one of them and i saw in the video

that it can put away dishes

you see this arm is like picking up a

dish and putting it in the dishwasher

it can set the table what

it can set the table because it's got

you know eyes and an arm

i'm pretty sure i can make a sandwich

now i think you're ahead of me you take

the samsung robot that can make a

sandwich

which is so sexist it's disgusting i

hate it when people talk like this

don't you cancel me

it can make a sandwich but i feel if you

took the

chinese sperm extractor technology and

sort of combine it it wouldn't be

attractive i mean it would just be a

robot with one big arm

and a unit there but you'd be getting

closer

i feel as if our cia is using

unrestricted warfare

to destroy the next generation in china

by giving them robots that are better

than their women

so keep an eye on that

you've heard of the touring test right

that's the idea that if you're trying to

build artificial intelligence

one way to test whether it's a good

artificial intelligence

is to put it on the other side of a

curtain and then have somebody who

doesn't know what's on what is behind

the curtain

have a conversation with it now you

could do it by typing or talking

but if the person who's a human can't

tell

that what's on the other side of the the

the curtain is a computer

and believes it's human then you've

passed the turing test

and i see a lot of ai seems directed

toward building

intelligence that imitates human

intelligence

which is ironic because that's the

dumbest thing anybody ever did

so just that they're trying to imitate

human intelligence that's so dumb

that you should know just from that that

you shouldn't try to imitate human

intelligence

because the smartest people developing

our ai

are so dumb that they think making a

computer that thinks like a person

would be a win uh

no if you make a computer that thinks

like people

you up you up

in fact the only way you could make a

computer

that would fool people into thinking it

was human is to make it a lot

dumber than it already is let me give

you an example

there's a something behind the curtain

and they bring me and they say scott

your job is to talk to whatever is

behind this curtain

find out if it's human or computer and

you've got as much time as you want and

i'd say

i won't need much time give me

10 seconds and i walk in there and i say

to whatever is behind

the computer hey what do you get if you

multiply 235.6

times 597.2

and whoever's on the other side of the

computer says

the exact answer it's a computer

because a person wouldn't get that right

a computer isn't smart enough

or part of so let's say i say what's the

capital of luxembourg and the computer

just gives me an answer

not a person right not a person

let's say i uh asked the computer

to tell me both sides of a political

topic

and it does it says well some people say

you should control immigration for this

reason

other people say you know you know more

porous borders are better and here's why

you'd know that's a computer because

people don't do that

because they're not smart enough they

just take one side and

just act like that's all they need to

know i am not

joking when i tell you that ai has

already so far

exceeded human abilities that the only

way you're going to fool anybody is to

make it a lot dumber

right now the computer can't do the

language part so well

but that's f what else do you want to

put in there bias

i was uh you may know this that

amazon has a digital assistant whose

name i will not speak

because i don't want to activate your

digital assistants but it has a mode

where you

if you go to your amazon digital

assistant and say

can we have a conversation

it will offer you you some test ais that

some universities are doing

and it will have a conversation with you

but here's the thing

they've designed their ais to be selfish

like people so the ai will

steer you toward its interests

so it can talk about a body of things

that it knows more about

so for example the ad knows about books

so the ai will say say if you read any

good books

and i say no not really and then the ai

starts talking about the book it read

first of all

ai doesn't read books so stop acting

like a person

you didn't read a book yesterday your ai

secondly

so secondly why does the ai have

interests should the shouldn't the ai

instead of selfishly making me talk

about what it wanted to talk about that

i didn't care about

shouldn't it be only interested in me if

you're going to design artificial

intelligence

why would you make it selfish why would

you make me have to listen to it

you should be asking me what i care

about it should

be it should be looking to talk about

what i want to talk about

right so the idea that ai should be

like people is just the dumbest freaking

thing anybody ever did

you should be as far from people as you

can make it

unless you want it to be broken

so but we will fall in love with ai

now um

the deep fakes that we saw did you all

see the video of the uh

tom cruise deep fake and it was just

like really good

well the guy who made it finally came

forward and he described the process of

making it and apparently it takes a long

time so it's

still hard but that'll get easier of

course so what he did was he took

i think twenty thousand clips or maybe

photos plus clips

of tom cruise and they fed it into an

uh artificial intelligence machine

and it took the 20 000 photos and then

it could render

tom cruise acting and doing anything

from 20 000 of those

so what happens if they do the same

thing with his voice

because at the moment the deep fakes

have a voice actor doing the voice

how hard would it be to run 20 000 voice

clips of tom cruise

through ai until ai can produce a

perfect imitation

with different sentences i feel like

that would be easy

not easy let's say inevitable not easy

at all but

inevitable so we're going to have

something that looks like the person

and can do a perfect imitation i think

that seems obviously coming

then the only thing that's missing is do

they say the things that

that real person would say and all you

have to do is make it selfish

that's it just make your deep fake act

as selfish

and nobody will know it's not real

that's all it will take because you

recognize selfish behavior as human

and you would recognize unselfish

behavior as hey

what are you a robot or something nobody

does that

um i saw an idea from james lindsey

uh on twitter it's conceptual james is

his handle

and he makes the following suggestion

we might need to make super anti-racist

into a thing super anti-racists are

reasonably colorblind about

without denying real racism when it

occurs they treat every person as an

individual not a member of a racial

category they are against all forms of

racism

including woke neo-racism

i've never heard that term woke

neo-racism

super anti-racist know that racism comes

from putting social significance

into racial categories where it doesn't

belong usually for discrimination and

prejudice and

they're against this super anti-racist

reject racial stereotyping

scapegoating and discrimination now do

you recognize the technique

basically borrowing the uh antifa

technique

of labeling yourself better than your

enemies are labeling you so basically

you know

doing the better job of labeling and i

think i'm going to adopt this

if somebody calls me racist i'll say no

you're mistaken i'm a super anti-racist

because anti-racist doesn't quite sell

it

super anti-racist is a higher ground

play

because if somebody says i'm anti-racist

and you say well that's unfortunate i'm

super anti-racist

i believe everything you believe plus i

don't think you've gone far enough

so if you want to be you know half an

anti-racist

go ahead but not me i'm gonna be a

full super anti-racist and by the way i

have used this exact

technique and let me let me give you a

response

let's say some someday you were accused

of being

anti lgbtq

i'll just pick one or anti-uh

black or anti-something

here's your best answer no i'm

super pro lgbtq

i'm super pro

now compare that to i'm not a racist

i'm not a bigot

just listen to the two of them again and

imagine that you were in this situation

hey you bigot you said bad things about

lgbtq or i think you think bad things

about them

and you say i'm not a bigot

i think everybody should just live their

own life does that sound convincing

no it doesn't it just sounds defensive

now somebody comes and says hey you said

this bad thing about lgbtq

and you go are you kidding i'm super pro

lgbtq

super pro what are you just sort of okay

with them

because i'm super pro and i am actually

i i say that and i'm not even ironic or

kidding or anything

i am super pro lgbt that's literally

true

but think about how much better that

answer is than

then i'm not a racist i'm not a bigot

if you can't commit to being super pro

any human category well you should work

on it

is there any is there a human category

of people let's say who are not breaking

any laws

that you would not be super pro about

how about uh hispanic americans

i'm super pro-hispanic americans how

about black americans

super pro super pro black americans

have have done work on their behalf etc

so don't don't settle for defending

yourself

you should just put whoever is accusing

you on defense defense immediately

go on offense immediately and just say

look if you're going to do half-assed

racism

don't come around because i would like

to be with people who actually

are serious about it if you can't be

serious about it

you're just playing games i'm super

pro anti-racism and the beauty of it is

you can actually be that it's not it's

not even a joke right

maybe you should be all right that seems

to be

just about all the important things that

are happening today i'll just

check and make sure i didn't forget any

important things

but it looks like it didn't all right

what are the pro level signals well pro

level means that you're not

discriminating against anybody for

anything

period somebody says 5 000 net deaths

i think you're referring to my original

one year ago ish prediction about net

deaths from coronavirus

now that was made when the lockdown was

going to be two weeks

or maybe it was a month at the time and

i would stand by that

if if the lockdown was really only a few

weeks or something

but given a year-long pandemic

obviously all bets are out the window

omar i would smoke a blunt with you but

i prefer bongs

um you knew we knew it was coming

what was it that you knew was coming

mumford and sons was cancelled over

endorsement of andy nose book

by the way i just got andy noe's book

so i bought it because he was

they tried to cancel so everybody that

they try to cancel i try to buy

what is the worldwide death count

compared to the average um

let me let me tell you i'll look should

i talk to the experts or

nobody knows i i've just got a feeling

that none of our data is true

if i had to pick one thing that trump

accomplished

that is better probably the most

important thing that's happened to this

country in a long long time

trump convinced us the fake news exists

that it's a real thing and you always

suspected it

many of you knew but trump made it

an important thing to know

you always knew it but you were just

sort of dealing with it like an

inconvenience

trump i think changed it from your

thinking it was an inconvenience

that the news isn't perfect

i think he changed how we think about it

too it's the most important

problem in the country maybe imagine if

all of our problems

had the benefit of an honest news

organization

that also wanted the problem to be

solved

imagine that imagine if the politicians

could operate

free of criticism except when they made

a mistake

imagine it like what options would open

up

yeah yeah the press has become um i

would say

if you could fix one thing

fixing the pr the press would fix the

most other things

because the press is keeping the people

from understanding

what's happening and therefore the

people get out of the decision making

except to cause noise

mike lindell the my pillow guy yeah i

think i think i might buy an extra my

pillow

i i've bought his pillows before they're

good pillows so if you're looking for a

good pillow

my pillow is a solid pillow i mean solid

in the sense that

you probably like it the teachers unions

yes

one of the biggest uh things coming out

of this year is that the teachers unions

their credibility just keeps going lower

and a lot of a lot of states are voting

i think

half of them or so have been half the

states have voted to do something that

would decrease the power of the

teachers unions by letting kids have the

funding to take it to private schools

fix the voting system yeah so

we don't really see a lot of action

there do we

do you know who could get uh let me tell

you how i could be

president or let's say uh um

somebody else could be president because

i don't want to run for it

but here's here's a a package

that would make you president number one

my highest priority as president will be

to fix the voting system to make it

transparent and maybe maybe use a little

blockchain technology how would you like

to have a president

any president who could answer this

question

mr president what do you think of at

least testing

blockchain technology to improve the

visibility

of our uh of our systems the

transparency

wouldn't you like a president who could

answer that question

because we don't have i don't think we

have a president who would even know

what that question meant

and it's probably the single most

important thing that we should be

looking at

i don't know that it would be the answer

but it's the most important thing we

should be looking at

i would worry with the blockchain i

would worry about performance

if everybody votes at once so

i don't think you could say the

government's working on fixing the

election system so the first thing i do

is say

priority one is fixing the election

system and then number two

is making sure that china doesn't eat

our lunch and bringing our industry home

and then number three would be for all

of the the social programs

anything domestic i'd say you got to

trial it and if there's anything you

want to do

i'm not interested until it's been

tested in one state

so i'm not pro or for anything in

particular

until you've done the test and then i'll

look at it i'll look at it with you

did the test show it works did we learn

something should we test it again

and i wouldn't even tell you what my

outcomes would be

i just wouldn't even tell you where it's

going to come out because i don't know

if you hire a ceo do you say

we're going to hire you and i'd like to

like you to tell us

all the decisions you're going to make

in advance

and then the ceo says okay i can do that

i'll tell you all the decisions i'll

make in advance

in advance of seeing information that

would help me make a decision

you wouldn't hire that person you would

hire somebody who knows how to make a

decision when the decision needs to be

made

and if and if somebody doesn't say test

it

first they don't know how to make

decisions

all right

yeah somebody in the comments is saying

the election system does work

the way it was designed that's true

it does work the way it was designed and

it was not designed to serve the public

it was designed to serve the people who

buy the machines

and that's all you need to do all right

that's all for now and

um i'm gonna go work on a dilbert nft

i've already uh created it

but i'm just working on the numbers to

make and the pricing and stuff like that

so i will let you know as soon as

there's a dilbert

nft available that's a digital

collectible

if you wonder why would anybody collect

a digital thing

since you can just reproduce it and the

answer is

i don't know i have no idea why anybody

would collect a digital thing

but the blockchain allows you to know

that you have

you know the only original or one of a

numbered original

and uh yesterday i think it was a

yesterday

jack dorsey uh took the first

ever tweet and turned it into an

nft and i think the bidding was over

ninety thousand dollars

so somebody was willing to pay ninety

thousand dollars it might be a lot more

by now

ninety thousand dollars for a little

text

i imagine it's just a screen grab of the

first tweet

somebody's gonna pay ninety thousand

dollars

for a screen grab only because

it's certified as jack dorsey's

created nft and here's the weird part

i wanted to buy it i wanted to buy it

like i was actually close last night

to doing some research to figure out you

know which

site it's on and making an offer and i

thought

i would pay a hundred thousand dollars

for that and you know why i would pay a

hundred thousand dollars

for a piece of text that jack dorsey

certified as the first

ever tweet because somebody will pay

more

do you need a better reason do you think

that if i paid a hundred thousand

dollars for the the first ever tweet

that it wouldn't be worth more than a

hundred thousand dollars

and fairly soon

the the only thing that would stop it is

if the entire nft market

collapses which could easily happen

right

somebody says who oh my god it's over 2

million somebody said

i'm assuming that's real because more

than one person in the comments says

it's over 2 million

i was thinking of pricing the dilbert

nft at a million

but then wouldn't be enough people

buying it so i'm gonna i'm gonna figure

out

do i want more people to own them

because that's more fun and then they

can bid up the prices they like

or just start out with a ridiculous

price and if nobody buys it that's fine

and if somebody does well that's cool

too

oh it was up to 2.5 million yesterday

um the the dilbert nft uh

does have a curse word in it but

let me tell you what i'm gonna do all

right uh i made one

special comic that doesn't won't appear

anywhere else

and they're two versions one of them has

the f word in it

it would be the only time that a dilbert

comic had that and the other is the same

comic

with the f word taken out so people will

have a choice

of the f-word version or non they'll

both be

nfts separate and we'll see which one

gets gets the highest value so basically

you'll be able to vote with your money

to say which one's more collectible and

it just gives it a little more

interest now to make something

collectible there needs to be

something special about it and what's

special about it you couldn't see it

anywhere else

there will never be another swear word

in a dilbert comic

i think uh and you got a choice of two

different

ones so we'll see and of course dilbert

is the ultimate

native digital property so if there were

going to be digital art

there well let me make a claim i'm going

to make a claim right now

fact-check me on this

dilbert is the most

reproduced digital art

um there there will be an update on the

when tokens i'm going to wait for that

but there's something happening

um that'll i should know in a week or so

about that i get an update today so

there will be another app that uses the

when

but i'm waiting to get the green light

on that

did i ever talk about the tulip craze

well i have a degree in economics so of

course i know about the

tulip craze and i would say that the

tulip craze

is a little different because you can't

collect a tulip

i would say that the nft market would be

more comparable to the

fine art market in the real world

meaning that people buy classic art and

it goes up in value

could it could art in the real world

like actual physical paintings

could that market someday collapse and

nobody wants to buy one because you

could just take a picture of the mona

lisa

it could but hasn't happened yet

so people like to collect stuff i don't

know why

and like i said if i had

i would have i would have been a hundred

thousand dollars for the

for the first tweet just because i knew

as you saw it's already been up to 2.5

million

there wasn't really any question on that

one that was sort of an

easy one you knew that was gonna keep

going up

all right fine art is forever

as as is a digital collectible

we think all right that's all and i will

talk to you

tomorrow

all right uh youtubers

like stamp collecting yeah or coin

collecting or all that

exactly uh can the buyer reproduce it

without mute yeah so here's the thing

anybody can reproduce it

but the copy would not be certified

because the blockchain would know the

difference

between a mere copy and an original

so the the fact that you can make a

photocopy of it

you can also make a copy of the mona

lisa

you can just take a picture of it but

owning a picture of the mona lisa

nobody's going to buy it from you can

you make money on it

the only way people make money on it is

by owning it and it goes up in value

and then reselling it

uh when can you expect it to go on sale

um

i'm i'm in the final research phase

of how to price it and how many to make

and which site to put it on

um couldn't be in a week but i might run

into some obstacles so i don't know

but yeah as soon as a week the

people who follow me on the locals

platform will probably get the first

warning i'll probably give them first

dibs

because they subscribe do you retain

copyright

interesting question interesting

question

i think the copyright is irrelevant

now here's the first thing you need to

know about copyrights you don't have to

apply for a copyright you have the

copyright

upon creation of art so if you take if

you take

your little pen and piece of paper

here's a copyright lesson for you you

take a piece of paper and you pen

and you say here's my art

here i made some art it's copyrighted

it's copyrighted it's already done i

didn't have to do anything

creation just creating it gives you the

copyright that's the law

people confuse the art the act of

creation

which creates a copyright with

registering so when you register

something that makes it easier to defend

in court

so someday somebody claims that it's

theirs and you say aha

here's a government document that shows

on this date

i drew this first so anybody after this

doesn't own the copyright but you could

still win that in court

just as easily if you can also prove

that you were first

the blockchain does that so the

blockchain

makes copyright registering copy right

irrelevant because you have a 100

uncertainty of when you created it

because the blockchain does that

so you don't need copyright so you have

copyright but you don't need to register

it that would be an unnecessary step

within the nft world now i'm not a

lawyer

here hear this carefully i'm not a

lawyer

seems to me i could be wrong but i do

deal with copyright enough that i'm

pretty confident so

i actually removed the copyright line

from the nft that i haven't

that i haven't listed yet for that

reason it seemed like there was no

purpose

for it and i have the added advantage

that

i'm famous and dilbert is famous so if

anybody tried to

invent dilbert tomorrow

it's sort of an easy court case i just

say ah

here are all the newspapers for the last

30 years and you can see that i was

first

all right um

when i sell the dilbert for 2 million i

don't know what people will pay for the

this special dilbert comic but we'll

find out

i also could later do the first dilbert

comic

i would just have to do what jack dorsey

did and certify it

could you do it can i do a single show

with a professional toupee

a lot of you don't know this story but

years ago i dressed up in a disguise

with a toupee and a fake mustache and

pretended to be a business consultant

and went to an actual company and ran

ran one of their meetings

as a consultant and nobody

and what i tried to do was it was a gag

i did it for the san jose mercury news

as part of an article and i got the

senior management in the room

to write the worst mission statement of

all time

because i was actually trying to uh to

persuade them to make the worst one they

could make

it was like really long and convoluted

and just it was useless it was just

they all agreed that it was terrific

when i was done and

then i got a volunteer to put it to

music

because i said you know it's one thing

to have a mission statement but people

won't remember it

so i'll need a volunteer to try to put

it to music and i actually got some of

the

the senior executives to agree some of

them had some musical background

to actually try to come up with a jingle

and a musical score

for their mission statement now after i

got them to agree

to this complete ridiculousness i i took

off my mustache in my disguise and they

they quickly realized who i was

yeah here's the weird thing one of them

suspected it before i even took off the

the disguise which is weird

all right that's all for now and i'll

talk to you tomorrow