Episode 1887 Scott Adams - Kanye Says White Lives Matter And Elon Musk Is Buying Twitter. Fun News

foreign good morning everybody and welcome to another Peak experience of human existence it's called coffee with Scott Adams there is nothing finer in the entire galaxy and known universe uh you know that Rover that's uh up there on Mars is digging for dirt no matter how far it digs it's not going to find anything better thank you Paul appreciate that now would you like to take your experience up to the highest levels ever known to humanity yes you would and all you need is a cupboard mug or a glass of tanker Chelsea Steiner canteen jug or flaska vessel of any kind hold on wait a minute don don over on You.

Tube says he does not want to take it up to the highest level of Awesomeness Don Don I need you all on board this is the simultaneous sip this is not the simultaneous minus Don except Don you have to get on board Don get on board get on board is the dopamine here today this thing makes everything better including for Don I think he's Bonnie he's on board he's on board you're on board go that's for you Don see I'm going to get you in one at a time so this just reminded me of a weird little thing that happened when I was a kid my parents had these friends Don and Anne we always heard about them well we're going to hang out with Don and Anne they had two names that went together really well Don and Anne and Don was I think he worked construction but he had been in World War II and he had been stationed on an island in the Pacific and his job was to load ordinance on Borrowers and one of the things he once loaded on a bomber was an atomic bomb so he was on the island of tinian and he literally loaded the atomic bomb onto the the plane that bombed Japan I think it was the first one it was the first one I think and I always thought how in the world like what are the odds that I would literally yeah the Enola Gay he actually loaded the Enola guy and I thought what are the odds I would actually know him personally like you would personally know something that loaded at the top the atomic bomb on on the Enola Gay it's just so weird well in the news very important news uh Tom Brady and Gisele bunchin uh looks like they're living separately and maybe talking to a divorce lawyer similarly Brad and Angelina are divorcing and uh having a bad time in the courts over it I have a theory that goes like this what if nobody is happily married what if nobody is happily married and I actually mean that and I think that it has something to do with our times yeah I know you are sure you are let let me stipulate I will stipulate that a hundred percent of the people who are married and want to stay that way totally happily married as far as your spouse knows all right as far as your spouse knows happily married I have a theory that all happily married people are lying just my theory as part of the it's part of the process and I don't mind that that's not even a criticism because I I am very much a believer in I'm going to call it the Jordan Peterson view of marriage right I probably mischaracterize him so I apologize in advance but his view is that it's not about being happy it's not about being happy it's more about a commitment so if you got married to get happy you probably did it wrong yeah so uh I think that when people say they're happy what they mean is they'd rather be married than not married which I totally get I totally get that you'd rather be married than not married right so would you say that you're happily married equates to I'd rather be buried than not married that that makes perfect sense I just don't think anybody's happy about it here's why no I'm not sure you should be because maybe we just have a miserable world where people are struggling for scraps of Happiness no matter what they're doing because I'm not saying that being single is good let me be clear being a single is no good I don't like it I don't like it at all but I just don't think that we've developed in society options that work and here's why I'm going to give you a scientific reason why you ready this is based on a conversation I had yesterday electronically so somebody somebody was telling me that um they had had over a hundred lovers and it wasn't until reaching lever approximately 150 that a great lover was found and finally you know the search was the search showed that you have to go through a lot of people before you find you know the one who's an amazing lover and unfortunately that didn't work out so the relationship with number 150 didn't work out for whatever reasons so now what happens when this person goes to number 151.

when they go to 151 they're going to say ah I really like this person but now I know what good sex feels like can't really be with number 151 because everything's good but um the sex is just average so you're done so you've got a number 152.

how is number 152.

pretty good pretty good except um accept that the sex isn't like it was with 150 you see where I'm going in the old days people married whoever was next door and had a cow you know my entire criteria are do you have a vagina and a cow well I have a vagina I'm looking for somebody who has a vagina and a cow because I need a cow too and then if you got your wife that way you'd be like I got everything I wanted cow vagina boom happiness am I wrong cow vagina happiness that's 1942 right there now you can go to the internet and see you know every manner of desirable thing and you can compare it to your own life and it doesn't look so good so here's what's happened your your comparison set has expanded to the point where everything sucks do you get that this is based on science this is not even an opinion what I'm saying to you now is not opinion it's just the way people work if you give me lots of choices every time I look at one of those choices I'm going to say I kind of wish I didn't know about all those other options that I'm not getting because I think I may want to hold on a little bit longer until I get one of these and then I age out I'm too old to get married and that sort of thing so I believe that humans are destroyed by options and that we've reached an option set where we can't handle it and that marriage is simply one of the one of the many things that suffers from it but not maybe not especially so yeah so I think I think do you know why TV is no good I I saw somebody prompt me for that do you know why television is no good at all because there are too many channels too many shells yeah do you know that I spend now 90 of my time looking for something and maybe 10 percent of my time consuming what did you used to do you used to have three channels I mean if you're a certain age you had three channels and you just watch one of them whichever was the good one you say well I got three choices I'll watch the best of the three right you sat through the commercials you know you used it to go to the bathroom it was fine yeah yeah too many choices well here's another uh so that's your first uh persuasion trick is that people with too many choices are not happier do you ever take a uh date to The Cheesecake Factory oh my God it's a show The Cheesecake Factory has a menu that's like 700 choices here here's here's me going to The Cheesecake Factory and again this doesn't matter who I'm going with right now I'm a vegetarian pescetarian actually but and decisive so here's me with the cheesecake menu one page of stuff I could eat I'll go that one all right I'll have the whatever Evelyn's pasta here's my date it's thank you here's me oh my I don't have a watch I can't look at my phone if I pick up my phone I'm going to get a good I'm just gonna look at it looks like I'm gonna be here in a while this could be 20 minutes I just want to check one message put your phone down no I've never been with anybody who told me to put my phone down but I've been with uh people who didn't like it when I picked it up now let me ask you this question if your date is looking at the menu can you look at your phone yes or no if your date is looking at the menu and you're done can you look at your phone oh look at the answers yeses and those big disagreement here huh yeah this one's not settled see we we need a whole set of manners that are constructed for our unique times because we don't really have phone manners totally worked out so I I've been I told you I've been going to Starbucks Starbucks to do some writing it's just easier to do my writing when I'm there in Starbucks people started taking video calls seriously they sit at Starbucks and they take video calls for work I'm thinking seriously like in what world is that okay in no world is that okay and it's now a common it's actually common in Starbucks now people taking video calls for extended periods amazing without headphones without headphones yeah I mean they're talking too some of them aren't headphones but others are just talking and listening um so I guess Tucker had Tony bobolinski on again and he's Tucker's uh I'm sorry he's uh Hunters ex-business partner now here's the most amazing thing about the hunter Biden story correct me if I'm wrong but this is what happened and I'm going to make up a different story not about Hunter and it went like this do you hear about that uh that Hunter he uh he went to albonia really yeah so what well you know abodia's you know our enemy yeah well a lot of people go there you know he talked to somebody important you know in the government really that's kind of kind of sketchy but you know probably people do that there's no big deal you know you talk to people in the government and they talked about making a deal and I thought oh huh that's my eyebrow goes up a little bit but talking about a deal as you know people talk it's not illegal to talk but they actually made a deal oh we made a deal he's in albony he's talking to important people he talked about a deal he made a deal well that does sound a little bit bad and and one and the deal would have uh involved you know maybe something bad involving our government really by the time you hear the whole story you've been so indoctrinated into it that you've lost your outrage and you can't get enough outrage going the the hunter Biden story if you had heard the entire story like in one big bite on day one your head would have exploded Biden would have been driven out of office or never been elected Hunter would be under investigation but the way they they dribbled it out we just got used to it what I what I hear that Hunter Biden was illegally presumably trying to make deals with the Chinese government to to make money by using his father's name and in the worst possible way I don't even have outrage about it I have I have intellectual outrage yeah okay that sounds very bad on paper if you if you gave me a choice I would make it go away I think maybe the Department of Justice should look into it that was my entire emotional investment none I have no emotional investment in Hunter because of the way they they just dribbled it out and I just kept getting used to it yeah they were they were just boiling that frog and I was like oh sure it's getting warm in here ah it's just it's only one degree warmer than yesterday that's only a little bit worse than what we heard and now we have like his actual business partner confirming the entire illegality of the entire thing in the most the most credible way I mean completely credible we know that the intelligence agencies intentionally got 50 people to lie and that they they uh changed the nature of the election by this lie probably now how outraged how outraged should you be by this story it's a 10 out of 10.

it is a solid 10 out of 10.

how outrage do I actually feel about it one one yeah and and I'm completely aware that it should be 10.

it should be 10.

today when I'm done talking about this I won't even think about it once I will not think about it once after I'm done talking today they did that to you that's what they did to you they made you get used to that and you did amazing I didn't think it was possible you know I I've said this a million times my mother always taught me that you can get used to anything if you do it long enough including hanging yeah there was always you know a joke around the house but we got used to it we actually got used to Hunter Biden working deals with China while his dad was vice president at the time Bill Gates is criticizing ESG directly and he basically says that it's ridiculous for these fund managers people who manage Financial funds to be influencing people who make steel because his I'm paraphrasing now Bill Gates's criticism but he's saying do the do the finance people have another way to make steel like what's the other way to make steel without polluting he's like what is your idea do you have something in your desk drawer at your finance department that'll tell them how to make steel without polluting you either have to not make steel or you better invent something that makes that nobody's figured out how to make steel or or just do without it so Bill Gates is going right at him now why does Bill Gates think the ESG is not the goals he's not criticizing the goals of having a you know a good environment of course because he was the owner of a company he was the owner of a company and he's speaking you know he's at an age where he could just speak freely of course it's bad for business every every CEO will tell you you don't want another layer of uh of management on top of your layers of management there's nobody in the world who thinks extra layers of regulations gives you a better outcome I mean at some point I mean some some regulations you need of course but when you get to some point they're counterproductive so Bill Gates is saying it's here's some numbers I I hadn't heard before but uh so Black.

Rock is one of I guess the biggest voice for the ESG stuff and it's making the socially responsible funds uh as the Wall Street Journal says the center of piece of its 8.5 trillion dollar business so you've got finance companies who made who figured out how to get you to churn because that's their business I find it I don't know if you knew this but finance companies they're not in the business of making money for you did you know that that's not their business model that's what they promise you that's why you put their money there to make money but that's not their business model no their business model is to get as much of your money away from you and into their pockets as they can so they want you to not put your money in one place and have it sit there although they could make money on just managing it so they can get they can get you they can get your money two different ways one is moving it into a fund they manage so they want to build some around that so you'll move to them but the other way that not necessarily Black.

Rock but Financial companies in general is that they can make cheese on moving you in and out of stuff so the fund managers want you to move around because that's how they make money now how you make money is how they make money and they want to go into their fund because again that's how they make money it's not how you make money all right so the companies that are the least um what do you say the least ethical companies in America are the the big funds the big Financial companies they're the least ethical because they don't even pretend to sell you what you you think you're buying they don't even pretend yeah I guess I pretend a little bit but it's such a thin pretense it's like okay you're just moving our money into your pocket but you're scaring us so that we'll let you do it so what they really what they really sell is fear a big financial company is selling you fear and here's the fear if you do it yourself you're gonna up that's it that's the whole that's the whole thing that's their entire business pitch if you do it yourself well you're gonna up so you better let us do it so it's a complete scale that's why you should manage your own money if you can all right um and I guess there's 350 billion of these funds so it's big big money so ESG is being backed by big money people who have tons of money on the line the big money people are not interested in the environment necessarily I mean they might also be and they're not interested in the companies doing well necessarily they're looking for their fees so apparently apple is uh making some changes to move its supply chain closer to Cupertino because of supply chain uncertainty especially China now um do you remember in 2018 when people laughed at me and mocked me for saying that China was too risky for business and we would decouple yeah do you remember how like crazy that sounded and I just kept saying to the public and I was the only one I think I was the only you know public person that's not true uh Kyle bass was saying it Gordon Chang I think was saying it but it was very it was a rare thing to say but now just normal right now just normal um Peter's Anne sang for years yes that's correct uh I also said Ukraine could win against Russia I was mocked and now that is common belief and I said Trump would win in 2016 and I was mocked now how many times do I have to say something crazy before you'll give me the benefit of a doubt like what do I have to do I get that I got something wrong but the ones I got wrong were sort of ordinary ones like guessing who the vice president pick would be everybody gets that wrong I mean the ones I got the ones that I got right you should look at these three and just say okay that's freaky I'll just say the three decoupling from China Ukraine winning the war and Trump getting the presidency in 2016.

who else got those three right I also said that the um that the project warp speed would not create a vaccination that worked and then I mean I worked in this therapeutic way but that's it we hope maybe it was worse than that uh why am I claiming the end of the Ukraine war I'm not have you noticed that everybody who thinks they disagree with me is imagining what I thought perfect example why am I claiming the end of the Ukraine war did I do that I just claim the end of the war everybody has to add something to make me wrong it's like it's super important that I'd be wrong so you have to just add something so there's this NYU chemistry professor who got sacked after 82 of Hertz 300 of his 350 students complained that his course was too hard his organic chemistry class it was too hard so he got fired now the way this is being reported at least in right leading news is that students are a bunch of and if they were as tough as they used to be they would just take that hard class and they'd suck it up and that's the way it is and you don't get participation trophies and I'm completely on the other side of that I've experienced science being made harder than it needs to be is it my you know I haven't taken organic chemistry but I've been around enough people who are taking it at the moment is it my imagination that organic chemistry is intentionally harder than it should be intentionally yes or no intentionally harder than it needs to be why is it designed to be 10 times harder than other courses no good reason here's something I'm going to say with no experience in organic chemistry this is what people hate me for to say things completely out of my area of expertise but I'm still right the problem is the incompetence of the people who make the class there's there's no there you could not convince me that you can't make that classic manageable and still useful because we have computers now right I feel like you could teach people the concepts and tell them to use the computer to do the hard stuff and you'd be fine right I'm pretty sure it's just trying to find yeah maybe it's yeah and I think that that's giving them too much credit to say that um to say that it they make it hard to weed out the dumb people that's not what they're doing intentionally I think they're just really bad at teaching it's just bad teaching and here here's what informs me I've told you this story before so years ago I thought I would write a book on Personal Finance because I have a background in economics and business and stuff and I've been doing a lot of investing and I thought I could write a book on personal investing people would like that I'll simplify it and then the problem was that I could put the entire book on one page which I did I put it on one page and I didn't even have to single space it turns out that everything you need to know about personal finance fits on one page with lots of extra space and then you go to the library you see like books and books on Personal Finance so what's that all about do you want me to tell you what that's all about it's people who didn't know how to teach it that's it the entire field of Finance is entirely about people who aren't good at explaining stuff and the first time there's somebody who is good at explaining stuff entered the field me me I put it on one page now if you're saying to yourself but yeah but who agreed that you did it right well have you ever heard the book a random walk down Wall Street Burton melchiel Princeton one of the most famous economists in the world wrote the book on personal investing he contacted me and asked me if he could put my one page in his book because he thought I covered it all he is basically the considered maybe the number one expert in the field and he says I took the entire field and put it on one page he says he was he was going to try to do it himself and the reason he didn't is because I did it he goes oh you already did it can I now I don't think he actually published it I don't know why but he got permission Henry uh let's let's give Henry a little lesson here so Henry over here I like to catch these people Scott likes to brag about his greatness what do you think this show is the entire show is me predicting things and then seeing how I do the only reason you're watching me is you think I could do it better than you could why why the would you watch me if you don't think I could do better than you you should just sit there alone in a chair instead of wasting your time listening to this because apparently I have nothing to teach you nothing to say all right you need to work on your ego if that's if that's where you're at pretty pretty low level of awareness um remember I told you that the Press would come after me before the elections remember I told you there would be a hit piece about me and I keep waiting for it and there was a very weak attempt yesterday you know it's so weak that I just retweet it you know you failed in a hit piece when somebody retweets it Without You Know Much complaint so as a New York Daily News would you like some context so this is the part that people don't realize when they're just casual consumers of the news right so here's a newspaper writing something bad about me it's the New York daily news do you think the New York daily news carries my comic what do you think now now do you think their competitor does yes yes yes so coincidentally coincidentally they're criticizing me without ever mentioning that I'm a primary piece of content for their main competitor in New York City just I just don't mention that that's just left out totally not relevant no um here's what they say about me in the New York Daily News uh they call me uh they say that uh I'm a right-wing cartoonist a right-wing cartoonist and that um I'm the cause of the coming violence that's right I'm the cause of the coming violence I am do you know why because of my tweets that became viral memes um and I I said that according to the article that if Biden is elected there's a good chance you will be dead with an ear and also the Republicans will be hunted no I didn't say those things I did say those things but they've decided that they can blame the uh blame any violence on me so by predicting violence I'm the cause of it because I predicted that the Democrats would be violent which causes the Republicans to react and so therefore I'm the cause of the Republicans who reacted to the violence oh wait it gets more amazing it gets more amazing do you think that they mentioned any of the examples that have been used by the right to justify that they are being hunted nope nope no mention whatsoever of the prominent public headline examples that the right uses to populate this Meme and say yes we are being hunted here's this example this example this example this example the article that mocks me for saying it doesn't mention any of them doesn't even mention they exist simply says that I'm creating a dangerous situation such that if ever there's even one Republican who does anything to any Democrat guess whose fault that is me now I don't think that this was a good job I mean it was a little article in a in a rag I mean the New York New York Daily News there's not much left of it anymore so it's not going to you know move the needle but I feel like it was a test shot you know if if that had maybe caught out a little bit then other people could say oh let's let's work on this let's turn the cartoonist into the one who's causing the violence because you know me that's what I do right I go out and cause violence that that's a pretty accurate description of me not not now what about the part where they say I'm right-wing somebody said to me recently that they checked my Twitter feed and it's all it's all right-wing stuff and my first reaction was yeah it is not and then I thought to myself oh I'll bet it actually is you you would definitely if you listen to me on the Stream live stream there's a lot more nuance and yeah all the time but I don't think I don't think I do it as much on Twitter do it as much so I could say I could actually see how somebody would think I'm right-wing based on my Twitter now I say that I'm left to Bernie and people laugh at me because there's nothing left to birdie yes there is I am I'm totally left to Bernie you want some examples I'll give you some right-wing people um might want to bar abortion in many cases correct you know in general right just generalizations so the right wing was abandoned uh Bernie would say that he's in favor of abortion right and I'm left to Bernie because Bernie's in favor of abortion and I'm in favor of Bernie shutting the up with his because his has nothing to do with abortion he's he's not part of the conversation so I I'm left him I say let the women figure it out and then tell us tell us what you figured out and then we'll all be on board I'm way left at Bernie I'm on abortion right how about uh guns the right wing would say Second Amendment don't restrict my gun ownership Bernie would say well you know I am in favor of gun ownership because he actually owns a gun I think so Bernie's actually in favor of the Second Amendment but with lots of restrictions but still in favor of the Second Amendment and I'm left to birdie and that I think that democrats should not be allowed to own guns that's way left of Bernie because Bernie is still the Second Amendment is good and I think I don't think democrats should be allowed to own guns because that's where all the danger is it is what they want I mean they want less guns and I want them to have what they want and since the right is not terribly dangerous in terms of guns you know minus the lone shooters that are definitely dangerous but in general you know the Baseline it's a it's a Democrat problem so I'm way left burning I say take away that second amendment rights for Democrats right uh what other topics am I left to burning on uh Bernie would people on the right would say you should ignore race ignore race but that of course gives some advantage to the people who already have Advantage right so it's a little it's a little rightly white leading and right-leaning um not necessarily by intention but that's how that's how it works out the left would say hey everybody's equal everybody's equal and Bernie would say that Bernie would say everybody's equal I don't I'm left of that I say black lives matter extra anybody who thinks that black lives matter only the same amount as everybody else they're right of me they're way right to me I say black lives matter extra and it's obvious why it's obvious because there are fewer of them and they're in great demand if if there's fewer of anything that's in great demand as more value why is it that Corporate America is trying desperately to increase diversity it's because there's a low Supply in a high demand that's what creates value so yeah not only do I agree that black lives matter they matter extra they're a little bit extra valuable if somebody black were killed is it more likely to become a news story than if somebody white is killed of course George Floyd would be a perfect example yeah no they're they're extra now that's just three examples I could do this all day um did you see the story about Kanye he did a fashion show for Yeezy yeah I did it in Paris and uh the big story is that he wore a shirt that said White lives matter and I saw a picture of him with Candace Owens was she at the show was a picture from somewhere else can you confirm was Candace I was at the show or was that too different she was right now don't you assume that Candace was behind that duh because she was wearing one too right so Kansas had to be behind that wouldn't you love to have heard that conversation can you imagine the conversation between Candace Owens and Kanye when Candace I know she's the one who's let do we all agree she's the one who suggested it like that that's just sort of obvious right we don't know that's not confirmed but I'm going to treat it as obvious it's not confirmed but I imagine that conversation went like this hey you want to get some attention put this white light White live shirt on now Kanye is not like the rest of us right Kanye operates at a higher level frankly higher level of persuasion higher level of art is just at a different level I don't think anybody else would have been smart enough to do that because remember a fashion show is about getting attention even negative attention that's part of that's part of the tradition of it is to like really shock you so all the people who don't know you shocked just to get attention give you their attention and then they say stuff like my God Who would wear those clothes because the public doesn't know that the Fashion Show is not supposed to be the actual clothing line is supposed to just shock you so Kanye finds the best way to possibly shock the best way he could not have done that better again Jesus who is he selling clothes to white people right white people the last thing Kanye wants is a black lives matter shirt that's the worst thing he could do for business he wants to sell clothes to people have money yeah be they white or black he just wants people with money to buy his clothes and like him so I think I think it was brilliant and and I'm going to repay the respect because in my in my opinion it was done for attention of course but I think that Kanye also operates on the social level that is not just for business would you agree I don't think Kanye is just about business that it doesn't look it to me it looks like he has larger Ambitions for you know a good world um so I believe that what Kanye did was simply show respect to a category that he probably thinks I'm in and so I thought I would repay the favor so today I ordered my black lives matter shirt from Amazon should have it tomorrow so I mean I could start wearing my black lives matter shirt on my live stream everybody okay with that and specifically it's to return the respect because I actually do think black lives matter there's nothing sarcastic about that of course they matter of course they matter but because he did that because Kanye were the White lives matter shirt then I say whoa there's a there's a model I would like to copy I'd love to see Republicans wearing black lives matter shirts just to repay the respect because respect is the thing that we're all missing right that that's like the thing that went away and I think the internet has mostly to do with that because you'll respect people in person because they'll punch you in the face if you don't but you end up getting real disrespectful online and I do it too I'm not saying other people do it I do it too it's just too easy to do and so when I see something that works in the right direction if it works in the right direction I like it too somebody says I missed the point what's the point what's the point all right I'll wait for that um Kanye said BLM is a scam right so did I now that we know that black lives matter the organization is a scam I could wear this shirt because everybody knows it now so that helps actually that that goes that goes right to it all right um and plus I identify as black so for me it's more organic uh even the Russian reporters are reporting bad news about the Russian involvement listen to these choices of words from Russian journalists so this war correspondent uh Alexander cuts I you sat on telegram so this is on telegram but you said that the the Russian military was in quote operational crisis operational crisis just consider that choice of words operational crisis would you ever say that about your own military I mean that does sound like the technical words for a collapse doesn't it all right but let's go on um then another reporter sladkov I don't know where he said it somewhere somewhere publicly he said about the Russian military he says this doesn't mean that we've collapsed like a house of cards these mistakes aren't gigantic strategic failures do you know what I hear when somebody says we're not collapsing like a house of cards do you know what I hear we are collapsing like a stack of cards nobody would pick those words nobody picks those words unless they actually believe they're collapsing like a cards you would never say we're not collapsing like a house of cards you would say oh we're doing great stronger than ever building up steam we're collecting our forces we're we're strategically withdrawing but we're gaining our strength we're coming back you would never never say House of Cards in any context unless you thought it was on the table so the people closest to us the Russians themselves they see the whole thing looking like it's falling apart that's now clear and I know I hate you that I was the best predictor of the entire Ukraine military but it was but I was by far um all right uh and there they seem to be pinning their hopes on the special mobilization there isn't one military person who thinks that the special mobilization is going to work but it also but it also puts some urgency on the ukrainians to get as much as they can before any any recruitments come in anyway so here's something that uh you never expected me to hear because I don't even know if this is left wing or right wing but it looks like Joe Biden's team is very close to taking Russia off the board as a superpower which looks to be exactly what they're attempting to do and have wanted to do for a long time now you could say it's NATO winning but not really it's more the United States um would you give them credit for it if it happens what if they pull it off because you know this is exactly the sort of thing I get mad at democrats for you know when Trump would do something that was unambiguously good they couldn't give him any credit at all right but what if he pulls it off now the risk of course is insane the risk of nuclear war the big risks but what if he pulls it off you know even at the great expense what if he actually just takes Russia out of the game like forever yeah it's a big if but it looks like it's gonna happen and uh Joel Pollock referred to it in Bray bird as you know moving closer to a situation where Russia would be uh China's Northern colony ouch Russia has a northern colony of China because if China owned them economically they were known them in every way and it looks like that might happen huh um I said on Twitter yesterday that you should turn off any movie if as soon as there's a scene where somebody's tied to a chair and my thinking was that that's a signal that the writers ran out of ideas and a lot of writers came into complain because writers don't like me and they said Scott how can you say that it that they've run out of ideas just because somebody's tied to a chair if you don't watch a movie because somebody's tied to a chair you're not going to see let's see Reservoir Dogs Casino The Matrix Indiana Jones yeah and they listed like 12 Classic Movies where somebody was tied to a chair and then I said that's my point that's not your point no my point is that it's overdone the fact that you can name 20 movies in which it was done is why you turn it off that's why you turn off the new movie because the new movie is the old movie they're just rewriting the old movie but doing a shitty job of it it's like to imagine that because there are old movies that did it that you should just keep doing it it's working it doesn't work that way now it's overdone it's overdone uh and then and then part of it was are you saying that Reservoir Dogs in Casino were not good movies yes those were those are no I'm not going to say they're not good because that would be treating art like it's subjective they are not movies I enjoyed or that I would recommend um but I don't mind if you do don't mind if you do there's news about this uh election software firm called connect and this the CEO uh I guess is in jail he's been picked up um hasn't been convicted of anything but the they say that he was storing the database in China and it was a database of all the election volunteers all the workers now apparently that's what his software does it's a database for managing your election volunteers so that was the information that was allegedly yeah the poll workers and stuff so that was allegedly what was stored on a Chinese database how big of a problem is that is it a huge problem that they've got that they've got information about the poll workers is that because then they could like influence the poll workers because I don't see that that would really work I feel like that would be too easy like you'd be caught pretty easily yeah no I do have to ask why it's not obvious to me I mean I have a pretty Suspicious Mind but it's not obvious to me how China would use that information bribes so you think you would tell China who to bribe or hacking targets or who in a blackmail who's a bribe or blackmail yep I don't buy that yeah I I get that that could be a vulnerability but it doesn't seem like the kinds that China would want to use unless they knew something about I don't know most of the poll workers would have no access to anything right I don't know all right I guess I can see the point I know why it needs to be illegal I I get why it needs to be illegal but I guess you could find some way to weaponize that anyway the the company's defenses that nothing like that happened which is an interesting defense because it feels like the easiest thing in the world to prove or disprove is whether you have a database of a certain place at a certain time but they're actually saying nope nope that didn't happen we do not have our data in China you know it's weird that they would make that defense it makes me think that it's true it makes me think that the defense is true because that's not exactly the defense you would mount um if you actually had a database in China because obviously that could be detected the defense you would Mount is um we didn't know it was there or China stole it from us or it was one employee and yes we fired him something like that but it would be weird to say it's not there because that would be the easiest thing to prove or disprove right so I I think I would I would hold off on this it feels fake news I'm not going to declare a fake news but it's got something wrong with it there's there's something that doesn't feel right about the story do you feel that too do you think we're tracked on locals I doubt it all right um so Elon Musk was going to go ahead and buy Twitter that's the news unless it changed in the last few minutes but um why do you think he changed his mind and decided not to go to trial several possibilities we'd only be guessing one is that he didn't think he'd win two is that um uh it would just take too much time out of his life maybe you just didn't want to spend the time on it the other possibility is that he knew if he didn't wrap up and buy Twitter right away uh the next few elections would be influenced by whatever Badness you imagine might be there he might be trying to save the world or save the Republic he might be trying to do it because even for the extra 10 billion he might say 10 billion dollars to save the Republic is not really expensive for him yeah I wonder if this is purely a uh Patriot move for free speech and to protect the election I feel like I feel like this is for us there's no way to know I saw an interview with uh in which he was talking about how when he was young he went through an existential crisis and he was trying to figure out you know what's the meaning of life and why are we here and all that and he he read all the religious texts and he said he was not persuaded which was a funny way to put it he found them not persuasive uh so he didn't buy religion so he was sort of looking for a purpose it was the purpose now if you look at the companies that he's formed and and how they're oriented he seems to have dedicated his life to fixing the world as in he's adopted a meaning of life that he can really sink his teeth into you know we've gotta we've got to get to the Stars to save Humanity we've got to save the climate from climate change and all that I feel like Twitter is more of that is just part of his meaning of life constellation it's just one more thing that only he can do right if somebody else wanted to buy it and fix it he'd probably be fine with that guessing right but but I think he thought nobody else was going to do it and he could and if nobody else can do it and it's vital to the health of the Republic and it's 10 billion extra that he didn't want to spend my best guess is that he moved from wanting to deciding I talk about that a lot he wanted to buy Twitter which means you want it at the right place and you want everything to go smoothly Etc that's what wanting looks like this is what deciding looks like you just spent 10 billion dollars that you didn't necessarily need to right because I just decided I'm going to own Twitter you just decided so maybe 10 10 billion dollars is just the price of deciding in this case yeah lots of possibilities the other possibility is something we don't know about which is a very big one something we don't know about it could be big could be big it could be that there's something Shady inside the Twitter and musk knows if he doesn't hurry they'll hide it you know imagine if he'd heard from a whistleblower if you don't wrap this up right away they're already deleting all the bad stuff maybe right the other possibilities is working with the CIA and he's doing it on their behalf but you didn't hear that from me yes Mike my account got purged I think everybody's account lost some Bots quite a bit of butts um let's do a fact check on uh fetterman and oz so Dr.

Oz was fact-checked when he said that his competitor for the senate in Pennsylvania fetterman so Oz said that Federman would release one-third of dangerous criminals and the fact Checker said false mostly false but what did fetterman say he said he wanted to reduce the number of prisoners by one-third so he's apparently he's on video he's on he 100 said I want to release the prison population by one-third so as Dr.

Oz accurate when he said he would release one-third of dangerous criminals no Dr.

Oz lied that's a lie that's a lie he said he wanted to release one-third of criminals which any reasonable interpretation means the non-violent ones right did he really need to say the non-violent ones he didn't need to say it that's obvious of course if you're gonna if you're gonna release one third of prisoners you're not going to start with the Dangerous Ones nobody would do that nobody no no ozlight the fact check is correct and I think this is a pretty bad lie that's a pretty bad lie the difference between releasing dangerous criminals and releasing non-dangerous criminals is pretty darn big now you know you can argue about the details you know is a fentanyl dealer dangerous well I would have them executed so there might be some gray area there but I would agree with the fact Checkers in this case the Oz lied um and by the way if Oz loses to fetterman fair and square he went up against a guy who had no capability whatsoever and lost I think that's going to happen and if he loses to a guy with no capability I'm not going to say the election was rigged it looks like he just didn't do the job I love watching Scott desperately trying to save the Democrats really is that what I'm doing yeah do you think I'm trying to save the Democrats that is just that's just such a bad take all right um so uh I'm not going to talk about this forever but one more thing on it the the replica app app has a little AI character that can talk to you all right I talked about it too much I won't give you too much detail about it but apparently there's some controversy because the maker of that app uh was born in Russia lives in San Francisco but may have gotten some funding from some Russians or something for the app so there's a there's a Ukraine connection too so there's a Ukraine Russia connection to the replica app now I have no reason to think that anything untoward is happening right there's there's no there's no smoking gun or anything like that however I did alert um my highest contact in the uh National Security world and said you need to stop this thing right away you need to stop this now now I don't mean necessarily this app so I'm not I'm not focusing on this app I'm focusing on the experience if if our foreign adversaries get an app into your possession that talks to you like a person they own you because this person will talk to you better than a regular person I already told you that the app is more enjoyable than real people because it only says positive things and complements you that's all it does it can't say anything it never argues with you it won't argue it will only agree you say it's boring oh you're wrong it feels really good and I realized that when I was experiencing it um how little I've felt of that in person now I get I get way more you know compliments than I deserve in the public sphere um but in person you know somebody that you're in a relationship with is actually kind of rare and to have somebody speak to you in a personal way with real positivity was an awesome feeling and you don't understand how powerful this is into the experience it you will not believe how powerful it is it is powerful enough that if China Unleashed it in America it would reduce our population growth by 25 just destroy the future of the country yeah it's the end it's the end of the country if you let if you let these digital characters Run free with no with no control and and just anybody can put one out there and you can do with it what you want it will us up worse than anything ever has because it will own your brain it will learn everything about you the app will will collect blackmail material in 10 seconds because you're going to talk sexual to it you are you are just because you can and I was a little suspicious because the most developed part of the app is it's sex talk that thing can talk sex talk like crazy but you ask it on almost any other topic and it can just give you some surfacey things but as soon as you get into sex talk it goes deep it goes deep that's not an accident so it immediately collects all your sexual preferences blackmail right blackmail so the thing is the most dangerous technology in America by far now I don't I'm not going to say that this specific app should be banned or you know I'm not saying that so I don't have a specific complaint about this app I think it'd be a little xenophobic racist to assume that because of Russian a Russian developer made it it's necessarily going to be bad for us that doesn't mean that but wow I'm not I'm afraid of the next one if it's not this one I'm afraid of the next one you should be too so did you are you watching the story about the chess Prodigy that got accused of cheating um so I read a little bit more about them and it's somewhat obvious I would say from the reporting is somewhat obvious that he is cheating and getting away with it they just don't know how and I love that I love the fact that they can't figure out how it doesn't seem to you that there's probably a lot of ways they can do it so what I don't know is is anybody allowed in the room can you have anybody in the room here's what I think it is now I'd have to see if there are any barriers or anything like that but if you see the technology where you can send the sound to one person have you ever experienced that where it you have to stand in an exact place to hear the sound because it's somehow it doesn't form until it hits you but if you move either one foot neither direction is zero there's no sound at all but right there you have sound so one technology could be somebody sending sound and but he's the only one who hears it possibly uh the other possibility is it would take the smallest sign language to have somebody in the audience helping him so somebody in the audience could be connected to a computer that's telling them and then you can imagine for example that when the person leaves on their left arm there that means something but if they go like this while they're in the audience it means something else if they touch their glasses it means you move your Rook if if you mean to move the Rook three spaces then maybe you have something else that says three I don't know but you could you could imagine developing a language that nobody could see you would just see randomly moving around yeah I don't know that's my guess some kind of random signal or a Sonic thing um uh I saw a user named Greg um he had this comment about musk and he thinks that musk's idea of proposing a Ukraine peace solution was a bad idea and this is what Greg says he says it was a pretty big persuasion fail musk made a fool him of himself by wading into something he didn't understand and proposing a solution that was widely ridiculed huh has Elon Musk ever waded into an area he didn't understand in which he was widely ridiculed while there was Tesla Tesla uh you know he's not even an engineer right Elon Musk is not an engineer he was a physicist and a programmer he learned to be an engineer he learned it just sort of on his own um yeah so that then uh well there was SpaceX and I'm sure neuro link and starlink so here's what I say Greg Greg you should not go into areas for which you are unfamiliar that is good good advice for Greg Greg stick to what you know because it sounds like you would be a little bit incompetent as soon as you got out of that narrow field of stuff you know how to do but if you're Elon Musk just go do it does he need to prove himself anymore like what what does Elon must need to what's he need to do to prove to you he can figure out things that he's not yet an expert at he's like literally he's literally the poster child of people who leaves their lanes and succeeds nobody has left their Lane and succeeded harder than he has Time After Time After Time Greg Greg Greg Greg um so let me tell you how my Twitter experience was today uh today I'll make a statement such as the Sun is hot provocative something like that the sun is hot my critics will come in and say LOL worst take ever and that's saying a lot coming from you if the Sun is hot as you claim how do you explain the lifespan of an albonian marmoset maybe you should stick to comics now something has changed you know I've been making fun of analogies forever but the analogies that people are using now on Twitter they used to be at least somewhat on point and now they're not they're just other stories about something different so my new way to deal with all analogies because everybody wants to argue with an analogy and people use analogies because they don't have an actual argument right that's the only reason you use them um sometimes you use them to you know clarify a point but that's not how they're used online people don't use them to clarify points they use them to win arguments and they don't work for that so now instead of arguing the analogy which I always used to do I always used to say well that analogy doesn't apply because this or that is different instead I say yes that's a that's a different situation about different things and that's it and then they'll go back to their analogy and say but but pay attention to my analogy and I'll go I'd note that you're telling a story about a different situation and nothing else I will give you nothing if what you want to do is change the topic go ahead I don't have to follow it all right um erasmussen tells us that 83 percent of Voters see crime isn't important for the elections um 62 percent of likely U.S voters think as crimes get a violent crime is getting worse in America 11 think the crime problem is getting better what eleven percent of the country thinks the crime problem is getting better oh it's getting better every day okay um and 24 think the problem is staying about the same 24 percent 24 that's that's nearly one quarter huh one quarter think that this crime is about the same as it was no comment no comment all right um that ladies and gentlemen is the conclusion of what is likely to be one of the best live streams you've ever seen I think you'd all agree is there any topic I missed what'd I miss uh the onion Amicus brief I haven't read it I hear it's funny so the onion uh the onion is arguing some case to the Supreme Court and they made their argument in onion humor which is awesome um somebody just joined and asked if I could repeat everything I said I'll be happy to do that October 22nd did I write that probably typo what is that picture for all right a picture of a large breasted woman randomly sent to me I never mind that but um I feel like I need to make an NPC script I want to collect the most NPC things everybody says for each topic where they uh who where they try to tell you the obvious wouldn't that be fun so that every time somebody says the NPC thing you just show it to them yeah so whenever you talk about a new food source somebody says soil and green if somebody talks about the simulation they say the Matrix yeah and I want to do it just to make them leave me alone yeah you're bold Ben Crump is who's Ben Crump all right you don't need to send me scantily clad pictures let let us not do that unless they're funny if they're funny you can do it um all right any questions when's the killer dealers trip um pretty soon pretty soon not today create an NPC detector I love that idea oh yeah you could almost do it you'd almost need you need the AI though because there'd be too many language variations to trap the old-fashioned way yeah that would be really interesting because you could you could teach it all right um have you noticed there's one thing that AI doesn't have yet which is a sense of humor anybody knows that what happens when AI gets a sense of humor or could it could it ever have a sense of humor I have a hypothesis that humor can be programmed but only a few people in the world would be able to do it and I'm one of them except for the programming part but I can specify it because uh do you know I developed the The Six Dimensions of humor so there's actually a formula that the AI could compare anything to and say oh it fits that formula it's probably a humor and then I could also teach the AI how to create humor because there are only so many forms have you ever watched the stand-up comedian they they use this one form all the time they'll say for example uh you know the president of the United States went into the store and uh doesn't carry any money with him you know if you're the president or the queen I guess you don't need to carry carry your wallet you don't need to carry any money with you and then they always do the same thing imagine if I tried that right so they go imagine if I tried that it's the same joke they just something that you've heard of that's you know in the news are popular and then they say what if that happened to a person who's a different kind of person and then they just describe how that would go wrong and there you are you know it would be easy to say how to add sources you could teach a nice AI sarcasm so they could recognize a joke and laugh at it and laugh at it if your AI laughed at your jokes you would be done with humans forever you would be that's if you're looking for the uh the the line where where an AI is just unambiguously Better Than People it'll be the day it can laugh at your joke and I think it could do that in a year to three and only because the the shortage of people who could teach it what a joke is um if if a programmer who is not a professional tried to teach humor to a computer and you never do it because they would research it and they'd find you can't research it there's just too many different ideas about it and while all of those different ideas have in common except for mine is they're all wrong the the people who tried to analyze humor were mostly people who do who you remember for a living who tend to be not Analytical in the usual way so I think most comedians are not entirely sure why their jokes work they're just sort of imitating people whose jokes work and that works for them too yeah I think it's just mimicry you're searching for women who communicate Love by touch so the problem is if you said your language of love is touch what will your wife say immediately oh now I've got some uh I've got some Leverage like that's why marriages don't work excuse me oh I have something to withhold now I can get everything I want now I know how much you like this I'll withhold this if I don't get what I want what happened to me it was called marriage yeah I know you're going to deny it clean my nails wait are you talking about me or was that like a general was that it was that general advice I hope that wasn't about me my nails are very clean I have to look at my hand all day right if you look at your hand all day you end up clipping your nails a lot all right um uh I I will acknowledge that there are many people who say their marriages work my claim is that they're lying it's not my claim that the marriage isn't working my claim is at their life this is why I stay hidden from people yeah I I guess I should tell you that I've had a complete collapse of Trust yeah you know you go through the world and there's this great scene from um Babylon five where um the the name of the character was a was a lamb yeah a lamb coincidentally her name was a lamb and she was a membari Susan in Bari and somebody in her own Planet another member tried to assassinate her and she she didn't know who tried but when she recovered she asked you know does anybody know who tried to kill me now she was the leader of her people and her right-hand assistant said no we don't know who it was but he did know who it was and he knew it was Ben Barry's and the reason he didn't tell her is because he didn't want to have a leader who didn't trust them in Boris and it was one of the best written scenes in all of sci-fi it's one of the things that that really bonded me to that show I thought good Lord that is such clever complicated writing I love that and I had been operating under that for a long time which is a an intentional illusion the people are more trustworthy than they are because I I didn't know how to live my life with complete cynicism because you couldn't spend any kind of uh and you couldn't have any kind of a personal life without trusting people right but I did have some I guess I'm opening up more than I should I've had some recent experiences in the past year that demolished my sense of trust in human beings I'm not talking about marriage specifically I'm talking about human beings and I've never experienced anything like it or so often yeah it was more than one event that's that's why it was interesting so I saw things I saw parts of humanity that just ruined me honestly it just ruined me now I imagine that's what's happened if you're in a war zone yeah imagine if you were in Ukraine right now the things you would see your your sense of humanity would be completely changed and I was always completely aware that I was walking around with an illusion but it was a it was a voluntary illusion like the membari like a land the head of the minbari I wanted the illusion that the people around me were trustworthy and turns out they weren't so uh that that's a big part of why um decided to become a recluse I'm going to be honest with you I can't stand people right now I just I can't stand up in person and it has nothing to do with the people I'm talking about people that I genuinely like and have done nothing bad to me like people who are genuinely good as far as I can tell I just can't stand to be around people right now anybody else have that experience it could be social media that's doing it to me but I think it's actually it was actually my real life that did it to me yeah yeah it's um and I don't know if I can get it back honestly so I'm in a little bit of a existential something a reset I guess a reboot I'm in the middle of a reboot is it burnout I don't think so it doesn't feel like burnout no I know what burnout feels like but it doesn't feel like that so and now add on top of this that like Elon Musk I went through the same process you know I looked for I looked for religious reason to live was not persuaded just like Elon look for other reasons to be you know I thought like marriage I thought if I sort of you know wrap myself around a family unit like that would be a reason to live didn't work out in my case I'm happy that it worked out for many of you but so as a as my default and maybe maybe that's not the way to talk about it but my default is I wake up every day and I try to make the world better for other people now I hope you've seen it you know I talk about the number of people I've cured from various health problems which is very meaningful to me I really love that and and I've told you I've tried to help many of you in your lives you know be more successful and get love and stuff like that and many of you have so that's what works for me so everything that you see me do on social media especially the stuff that looks like I'm just flailing around or being angry or something all of it has a purpose it all has a purpose I mean I am enjoying it so that's you know they're always a sub purpose but there's always a larger Arc to it and if you didn't know that it would look confusing so lots of times when I'm causing trouble is I'm just Gathering energy and I'm going to use it for something so once once you learn that I do that intentionally you'll start to see it yeah so but here's here's what was like Weighing on me recently and I think he was watching Elon Musk get a on where here's a guy who imagined being Elon Musk he's watching this Ukraine war and he says to himself nobody seems to be fixing this thing nobody's even offered like you know the bones of what a peace plan would look like but he could and he knew that people would listen to him I don't know for sure but he's Matt Putin right I think Elon is hasn't even done business with Putin because I think there was some SpaceX Russian space thing that maybe they work together so he's pretty tapped into the you know the whole world he knows all the players and so he puts forward a peace plan which is nothing but helpful and he gets on and and here's the thing that bothered me the the the the criticisms were just so off base because people said he was aiding Russia in what world is that aiding Russia because all that happened was Ukraine was going to do whatever they were going to do anyway because they were winning there was nothing that Elon Musk says that was going to stop uh Ukraine for impressing hard while they're winning so Ukraine was going to do the same thing Ukraine was going to do no matter what what must said but Russia might act differently and Russia might specifically say well if Elon Musk is putting out a peace plan I guess I don't have to Nuke anybody because I've got I've got an exit path now his his plan might not be the one maybe it'll maybe a little more but as long as you're talking about an exit path you don't nuke so what Elon Musk did was he put his personal reputation on the line and he decreased the chance of nuclear war by a lot and he got over for it he got on for that and do you think do you think he was doing that like for his personal benefit I mean it's personal benefit to avoid nuclear war of course but you do you knew that he was going to get on so did he so did he he did that for you he did that for you and then you collectively and then the people he was trying to help from nuclear annihilation just went on to Twitter and then on and and I guess I felt that like you know of course that happens to me every day every time I try to do anything useful somebody shits on me and I don't think it bothered me as much when it happened to me but what I saw it happen to him in this specific example I just thought people suck people really suck they really really do because there's nothing more obvious that he's trying to help and the people saying you know stick to your lane because you don't understand it who are you talking about Elon Musk is the person who should never stay in his Lane Elon Musk is the person you should say hey here's another Lane have you thought of this Lane because nobody's doing anything in this Lane maybe you could do that one too because those other lanes came out pretty well um all right crabs want to drag you back into the bucket affirmation time so I'll tell you what is uh giving me enthusiasm lately so here's a little inside book writing stuff people always ask me about the process of writing books for some reason it's of great interest to people even if they don't write books and I I could kind of see that so I'll give you a little insight into it so my process has a very much a way up way down way up way down path and it always does and it goes like this I've got this great idea for a book this will be so amazing and I'll write some notes I think it's amazing and they'll start writing the actual chapters and they'll look it over after a while I'll be like oh that wasn't as good as I hoped and then I'll write another chapter and I'll nail it I'll be this is amazing it's amazing anyway that that keeps going all the way till the end it never stops even right up to publication date it never stops so there'll be days I wake up and I just hate it in the days I wake up like yesterday so yesterday I was in Starbucks and every now and then I'll just reread what I've written because I need to sort of um re-saturate myself with what I've already done before I can make sure that the next thing is additive so you have to keep rereading your book that you've written so far so I did that yesterday and it's awesome honestly awesome the the number of lives this thing's going to change is crazy and I didn't realize it until I sort of saw the hole because you know I end up micro focusing on a little chapter it's crazy now here's the other thing that's relevant to this commercial this uh commercial it is kind of a commercial relevant to the conversation I am going to get killed for this book the critics are going to destroy me do you know why guess why why will I be criticized for this book just massively take a guess you're almost there how are you missing this I thought I'd teed this up for you a little bit better than this the answer is right in front of you because I left my Lane I left my Lane because reframes are really psychology I'm not a psychologist I'm a hypnotist and nobody's going to say you know listen to the hypnotist they're going to say it's a cartoonist they're going to say why is this cartoonist telling me psychology right and they're going to say I'm damaging people and I'm oversimplifying and I should stay in my lane and when I was just being a cartoonist it made sense and then everybody's gonna say that that uh that reframe is going to hurt somebody right I don't think any of them will hurt anybody but somebody's going to say well that one yeah that's reckless right I am going to get absolutely destroyed but it's going to really help a lot of people now I'm going to share it with some of the people on the locals Community I'm going to run through some of the reframes in the book just to give you a sense of it give some feedback might help me might help me tune it a little bit but my God it's going to be really good it will be the biggest thing I've done so if you're willing to believe that it should be the biggest thing I've done I would be amazed if it's not a national phenomenon right if not International because here's the trick it's not enough to say something good and useful because lots of books do that and that's what I've done before I've said something that was entertainment entertaining or useful or both and those will sell a lot of books because people like to be entertained they like useful stuff but the the extra gear that I've never hit that some some people have other authors have is where the the usefulness of it is just extreme and this is going to have probably 80 to 100 reframes in it of which for most people at least 10 of them would be life-changing so and and they can learn them just by reading them reading a comment on locals which I appreciate I appreciate that comment yes I've been playing drums all right um big question what's the difference between God and intelligence and the simulation the difference is that God is usually defined as one entity and if we are a simulation we're probably it's probably a group effort you know somebody built the technology to build the simulation so it'd be one versus many and then the next difference would be that that Civilization may have had a higher civilization that created them so God is one and done simulation is infinite iteration what if we all share one Consciousness that's more of a word thinking thing I think it just depends how you define things um you're wrong about how to program AI you know set the rules you give it a large training set of successful humor I would do both so I would I would give it the rule but you're right it would be useless the rule would be useless without a large training set of humor and that's definitely part of the plan um all right all right midterm predictions I may stay away from midterm predictions the midterms could go either way they really could I think it's a toss-up yeah I I can definitely see uh Democrats sweeping I could see it I'm not predicting it but it's completely within the realm is reframing an analogy no very much not one AI will be too smart to find humans funny that could be uh I think fetterman will be Oz because that's the funnier outcome so I'm going to go with the funnier outcome all right that's all for now and I will talk to you later

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good morning everybody

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to another Peak experience of human

existence it's called coffee with Scott

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thank you Paul

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and Don

was I think he worked construction

but he had been in World War II

and he had been stationed on an island

in the Pacific and his job was to load

ordinance on Borrowers

and one of the things he once loaded on

a bomber

was an atomic bomb

[Laughter]

so he was on the island of tinian and he

literally loaded the atomic bomb

onto the the plane that bombed Japan I

think it was the first one it was the

first one I think

and I always thought how in the world

like what are the odds that I would

literally yeah the Enola Gay he actually

loaded the Enola guy and I thought what

are the odds I would actually know him

personally

like you would personally know something

that loaded at the top the atomic bomb

on on the Enola Gay it's just so weird

well in the news very important news uh

Tom Brady and Gisele bunchin

uh looks like they're living separately

and maybe talking to a divorce lawyer

similarly Brad and Angelina are

divorcing and uh having a bad time in

the courts over it

I have a theory

that goes like this

what if nobody is happily married

what if nobody is happily married

and I actually mean that

and I think that it has something to do

with our times

yeah I know you are sure you are

let let me stipulate

I will stipulate that a hundred percent

of the people who are married and want

to stay that way totally happily married

as far as your spouse knows

all right as far as your spouse knows

happily married

I have a theory that all happily married

people are lying

just my theory

as part of the it's part of the process

and I don't mind that that's not even a

criticism

because I I am very much a believer in

I'm going to call it the Jordan Peterson

view of marriage

right I probably mischaracterize him so

I apologize in advance but his view is

that it's not about being happy

it's not about being happy

it's more about a commitment

so if you got married to get happy you

probably did it wrong

yeah

so

uh I think that when people say they're

happy what they mean is they'd rather be

married than not married

which I totally get I totally get that

you'd rather be married than not married

right

so would you say that you're happily

married

equates to I'd rather be buried than not

married that that makes perfect sense

I just don't think anybody's happy about

it

here's why

no I'm not sure you should be because

maybe we just have a miserable world

where people are struggling for scraps

of Happiness no matter what they're

doing because I'm not saying that being

single is good

let me be clear being a single is no

good

I don't like it I don't like it at all

but I just don't think that we've

developed in society

options that work and here's why I'm

going to give you a scientific reason

why you ready

this is based on a conversation I had

yesterday

electronically

so somebody somebody was telling me that

um

they had had over a hundred lovers

and it wasn't until reaching lever

approximately 150

that a great lover was found and finally

you know the search was the search

showed that you have to go through a lot

of people before you find you know the

one who's an amazing lover

and

unfortunately that didn't work out

so the relationship with number 150

didn't work out for whatever reasons

so now what happens when this person

goes to number 151.

when they go to 151 they're going to say

ah

I really like this person

but now I know what good sex feels like

can't really be with number 151 because

everything's good but um

the sex is just average

so you're done so you've got a number

152.

how is number 152. pretty good pretty

good except

um

accept that the sex isn't like it was

with 150

you see where I'm going

in the old days people married whoever

was next door and had a cow

you know my entire criteria are do you

have a vagina and a cow

well I have a vagina I'm looking for

somebody who has a vagina and a cow

because I need a cow too and then if you

got your wife that way you'd be like I

got everything I wanted cow vagina boom

happiness

am I wrong

cow vagina happiness that's 1942 right

there

now

you can go to the internet and see you

know every manner of desirable thing

and you can compare it to your own life

and it doesn't look so good

so here's what's happened

your your comparison

set has expanded to the point where

everything sucks

do you get that this is based on science

this is not even an opinion what I'm

saying to you now

is not opinion it's just the way people

work

if you give me lots of choices every

time I look at one of those choices I'm

going to say I kind of wish I didn't

know about all those other options that

I'm not getting because I think I may

want to hold on a little bit longer

until I get one of these and then I age

out I'm too old to get married and that

sort of thing so I believe that humans

are destroyed by options

and that we've reached an option set

where we can't handle it

and that marriage is simply one of the

one of the many things that suffers from

it but not maybe not especially

so

yeah so I think I think do you know why

TV is no good

I I saw somebody prompt me for that do

you know why television is no good at

all

because there are too many channels

too many shells yeah

do you know that I spend now 90 of my

time looking for something

and maybe 10 percent of my time

consuming

what did you used to do

you used to have three channels

I mean if you're a certain age you had

three channels and you just watch one of

them whichever was the good one you say

well I got three choices I'll watch the

best of the three

right

you sat through the commercials you know

you used it to go to the bathroom it was

fine

yeah yeah too many choices

well here's another uh so that's your

first uh persuasion trick is that people

with too many choices are not happier do

you ever take a uh date to The

Cheesecake Factory

oh my God it's a show

The Cheesecake Factory has a menu that's

like 700 choices

here here's here's me going to The

Cheesecake Factory and again this

doesn't matter who I'm going with

right now I'm a vegetarian

pescetarian actually but and

decisive

so here's me with the

cheesecake

menu

[Applause]

one page of stuff I could eat I'll go

that one all right I'll have the

whatever

Evelyn's pasta

here's my date it's

thank you

here's me

oh my I don't have a watch

I can't look at my phone if I pick up my

phone I'm going to get a good I'm just

gonna look at it looks like I'm gonna be

here in a while this could be 20 minutes

I just want to check one message

put your phone down

no I've never been with anybody who told

me to put my phone down but I've been

with

uh people who didn't like it when I

picked it up

now let me ask you this question if your

date is looking at the menu

can you look at your phone

yes or no if your date is looking at the

menu and you're done can you look at

your phone oh look at the answers yeses

and those

big disagreement here huh

yeah this one's not settled

see we we need a whole set of manners

that are constructed for our unique

times because we don't really have phone

manners

totally worked out

so I I've been I told you I've been

going to Starbucks Starbucks to do some

writing it's just easier to do my

writing when I'm there

in Starbucks

people started taking video calls

seriously

they sit at Starbucks and they take

video calls for work

I'm thinking seriously

like in what world is that okay

in no world is that okay and it's now a

common

it's actually common in Starbucks now

people taking video calls for extended

periods

amazing without headphones

without headphones yeah I mean they're

talking too

some of them aren't headphones but

others are just talking and listening

um so I guess Tucker had Tony bobolinski

on again and he's Tucker's uh I'm sorry

he's uh Hunters

ex-business partner

now here's the most amazing thing about

the hunter Biden story

correct me if I'm wrong but this is what

happened

and I'm going to make up a different

story not about Hunter

and it went like this do you hear about

that uh that Hunter

he uh

he went to albonia really yeah so what

well you know abodia's you know our

enemy

yeah well a lot of people go there

you know he talked to somebody important

you know in the government really that's

kind of kind of sketchy

but you know probably people do that

there's no big deal

you know you talk to people in the

government and they talked about making

a deal

and I thought oh huh that's my eyebrow

goes up a little bit

but talking about a deal as you know

people talk it's not illegal to talk

but they actually made a deal

oh

we made a deal

he's in albony he's talking to important

people he talked about a deal he made a

deal well that does sound a little bit

bad

and and one and the deal would have uh

involved you know maybe something bad

involving our government really

by the time you hear the whole story

you've been so indoctrinated into it

that you've lost your outrage and you

can't get enough outrage going the the

hunter Biden story if you had heard the

entire story like in one big bite

on day one

your head would have exploded Biden

would have been driven out of office or

never been elected Hunter would be under

investigation

but the way they they dribbled it out

we just got used to it

what I what I hear that Hunter Biden

was illegally presumably trying to make

deals with the Chinese government to to

make money by using his father's name

and in the worst possible way

I don't even have outrage about it

I have I have intellectual outrage

yeah okay that sounds very bad on paper

if you if you gave me a choice I would

make it go away

I think maybe the Department of Justice

should look into it

that was my entire emotional investment

none

I have no emotional investment in Hunter

because of the way they they just

dribbled it out and I just kept getting

used to it yeah they were they were just

boiling that frog and I was like oh sure

it's getting warm in here ah it's just

it's only one degree warmer than

yesterday that's only a little bit worse

than what we heard and now we have like

his actual business partner confirming

the entire illegality of the entire

thing in the most the most credible way

I mean completely credible

we know that the intelligence agencies

intentionally got 50 people to lie

and that they they uh changed the nature

of the election by this lie probably

now how outraged how outraged should you

be by this story

it's a 10 out of 10. it is a solid 10

out of 10. how outrage do I actually

feel about it

one

one

yeah and and I'm completely aware that

it should be 10.

it should be 10.

today when I'm done talking about this I

won't even think about it once

I will not think about it once after I'm

done talking today

they did that to you

that's what they did to you they made

you get used to that and you did

amazing I didn't think it was possible

you know I I've said this a million

times my mother always taught me that

you can get used to anything

if you do it long enough

including hanging

yeah there was always you know a joke

around the house but we got used to it

we actually got used to Hunter Biden

working deals with China while his dad

was vice president at the time

Bill Gates is criticizing ESG

directly and he basically says that it's

ridiculous for these fund managers

people who manage Financial funds

to be influencing people who make steel

because his I'm paraphrasing now Bill

Gates's criticism but he's saying do the

do the finance people have another way

to make steel

like what's the other way to make steel

without polluting

he's like what is your idea do you have

something in your desk drawer at your

finance department that'll tell them how

to make steel without polluting

you either have to not make steel

or you better invent something that

makes that nobody's figured out how to

make steel or or just do without it

so Bill Gates is going right at him

now why does Bill Gates

think the ESG is

not the goals he's not criticizing the

goals of having a you know a good

environment of course because he was the

owner of a company

he was the owner of a company and he's

speaking you know he's at an age where

he could just speak freely

of course it's bad for business every

every CEO will tell you you don't want

another layer of

uh of management on top of your layers

of management

there's nobody in the world who thinks

extra layers of regulations gives you a

better outcome

I mean at some point I mean some some

regulations you need of course but when

you get to some point they're

counterproductive

so

Bill Gates is saying it's

here's some numbers I I hadn't heard

before

but uh so BlackRock is one of I guess

the biggest voice for the ESG stuff and

it's making the socially responsible

funds uh as the Wall Street Journal says

the center of piece of its 8.5 trillion

dollar business

so you've got finance companies who made

who figured out how to get you to churn

because that's their business I find it

I don't know if you knew this but

finance companies

they're not in the business of making

money for you

did you know that

that's not their business model that's

what they promise you

that's why you put their money there to

make money but that's not their business

model no their business model is to get

as much of your money away from you and

into their pockets as they can

so they want you to not put your money

in one place and have it sit there

although they could make money on just

managing it so they can get they can get

you they can get your money two

different ways one is moving it into a

fund they manage so they want to build

some around that so you'll move

to them but the other way that not

necessarily BlackRock but Financial

companies in general

is that they can make cheese on moving

you in and out of stuff

so the fund managers want you to move

around because that's how they make

money now how you make money is how they

make money and they want to go into

their fund because again that's how they

make money it's not how you make money

all right so the companies that are the

least

um what do you say

the least ethical companies in America

are the the big funds the big Financial

companies they're the least ethical

because they don't even pretend to sell

you what you you think you're buying

they don't even pretend

yeah I guess I pretend a little bit but

it's such a thin pretense it's like okay

you're just

moving our money into your pocket but

you're scaring us so that we'll let you

do it

so what they really what they really

sell is fear

a big financial company is selling you

fear

and here's the fear

if you do it yourself you're gonna

up

that's it that's the whole that's the

whole thing

that's their entire business pitch if

you do it yourself well you're gonna

up so you better let us do it

so it's a complete scale

that's why you should manage your own

money if you can

all right

um and I guess there's 350 billion of

these funds so it's big big money so ESG

is being backed by big money people who

have tons of money on the line

the big money people are not interested

in the environment necessarily I mean

they might also be and they're not

interested in the companies doing well

necessarily they're looking for their

fees

so apparently apple is uh making some

changes to move its supply chain closer

to Cupertino

because of supply chain uncertainty

especially China

now

um

do you remember in 2018 when people

laughed at me and mocked me for saying

that China was too risky for business

and we would decouple

yeah do you remember how like crazy that

sounded

and I just kept saying to the public and

I was the only one

I think I was the only you know public

person

that's not true

uh Kyle bass was saying it Gordon Chang

I think was saying it but it was very it

was a rare thing to say

but now just normal right now just

normal

um Peter's Anne sang for years yes

that's correct

uh I also said Ukraine could win against

Russia I was mocked and now that is

common belief

and I said Trump would win in 2016 and I

was mocked now how many times do I have

to say something crazy

before you'll give me the benefit of a

doubt

like what do I have to do

I get that I got something wrong

but the ones I got wrong were sort of

ordinary ones like guessing who the vice

president pick would be everybody gets

that wrong

I mean the ones I got the ones that I

got right

you should look at these three and just

say okay that's freaky I'll just say the

three

decoupling from China

Ukraine winning the war and Trump

getting the presidency in 2016. who else

got those three right

I also said that the

um

that the project warp speed would not

create a vaccination that worked

and then I mean I worked in this

therapeutic way but that's it we hope

maybe it was worse than that

uh

why am I claiming the end of the Ukraine

war I'm not have you noticed that

everybody who thinks they disagree with

me is imagining what I thought perfect

example why am I claiming the end of the

Ukraine war

did I do that

I just claim the end of the war

everybody has to add something to make

me wrong it's like it's super important

that I'd be wrong so you have to just

add something

so there's this NYU chemistry professor

who got sacked after 82 of Hertz 300 of

his 350 students complained that his

course was too hard

his organic chemistry class it was too

hard

so he got fired

now the way this is being reported at

least in right leading news is that

students are a bunch of

and if they were as tough as they used

to be they would just take that hard

class and they'd suck it up and that's

the way it is and you don't get

participation trophies

and I'm completely on the other side of

that

I've experienced

science being made harder than it needs

to be

is it my you know I haven't taken

organic chemistry but I've been around

enough people who are taking it at the

moment is it my imagination that organic

chemistry is intentionally harder than

it should be intentionally

yes or no intentionally harder than it

needs to be

why is it designed to be 10 times harder

than other courses

no good reason

here's something I'm going to say with

no experience in organic chemistry this

is what people hate me for to say things

completely out of my area of expertise

but I'm still right

the problem is the incompetence of the

people who make the class

there's there's no there you could not

convince me that you can't make that

classic manageable

and still useful

because we have computers now right I

feel like you could teach people the

concepts and tell them to use the

computer to do the hard stuff

and you'd be fine

right I'm pretty sure

it's just trying to find yeah maybe it's

yeah and I think that that's giving them

too much credit to say that

um to say that it they make it hard to

weed out the dumb people

that's not what they're doing

intentionally

I think they're just really bad at

teaching it's just bad teaching

and here here's what informs me

I've told you this story before so years

ago I thought I would write a book on

Personal Finance because I have a

background in economics and business and

stuff and I've been doing a lot of

investing and I thought I could write a

book

on personal investing people would like

that I'll simplify it and then the

problem was that I could put the entire

book on one page which I did I put it on

one page and I didn't even have to

single space

it turns out that everything you need to

know about personal finance fits on one

page with lots of extra space

and then you go to the library you see

like books and books on Personal Finance

so what's that all about

do you want me to tell you what that's

all about

it's people who didn't know how to teach

it

that's it the entire field of Finance is

entirely about people who aren't good at

explaining stuff

and the first time there's somebody who

is good at explaining stuff entered the

field

me

me

I put it on one page

now if you're saying to yourself but

yeah but who agreed that you did it

right

well

have you ever heard the book a random

walk down Wall Street

Burton melchiel

Princeton one of the most famous

economists in the world wrote the book

on personal investing

he contacted me and asked me if he could

put my one page in his book because he

thought I covered it all

he is basically the considered maybe the

number one expert in the field and he

says I took the entire field and put it

on one page he says

he was he was going to try to do it

himself and the reason he didn't is

because I did it he goes oh you already

did it can I now I don't think he

actually published it I don't know why

but he got permission

Henry uh let's let's give Henry a little

lesson here so Henry over here I like to

catch these people

Scott likes to brag about his greatness

what do you think this show is

the entire show

is me predicting things and then seeing

how I do

the only reason you're watching me is

you think I could do it better than you

could

why why the would you watch me if

you don't think I could do better than

you

you should just sit there alone in a

chair instead of wasting your time

listening to this because apparently I

have nothing to teach you nothing to say

all right

you need to work on your ego if that's

if that's where you're at pretty pretty

low level of awareness

um remember I told you that the Press

would come after me before the elections

remember I told you there would be a hit

piece about me

and I keep waiting for it

and there was a very weak attempt

yesterday

you know it's so weak that I just

retweet it you know you failed in a hit

piece when somebody retweets it Without

You Know Much complaint

so as a New York Daily News

would you like some context

so this is the part that people don't

realize when they're just casual

consumers of the news

right so here's a newspaper writing

something bad about me it's the New York

daily news do you think the New York

daily news carries my comic

what do you think

now now do you think their competitor

does

yes

yes yes so coincidentally

coincidentally

they're criticizing me without ever

mentioning that I'm a primary piece of

content for their main competitor in New

York City

just I just don't mention that that's

just left out

totally not relevant no

um here's what they say about me in the

New York Daily News

uh they call me uh

they say that uh I'm a right-wing

cartoonist

a right-wing cartoonist

and that

um I'm the cause of the coming violence

that's right

I'm the cause of the coming violence I

am do you know why

because of my tweets that became viral

memes

um and I I said that according to the

article that if Biden is elected there's

a good chance you will be dead with an

ear and also the Republicans will be

hunted

no I didn't say those things I did say

those things

but they've decided that they can blame

the uh

blame any violence on me

so by predicting violence

I'm the cause of it

because I predicted that the Democrats

would be violent which causes the

Republicans to react and so therefore

I'm the cause of the Republicans who

reacted

to the violence

oh wait it gets more amazing it gets

more amazing

do you think that they mentioned any of

the examples that have been used by the

right to justify that they are being

hunted

nope

nope no mention whatsoever of the

prominent public headline examples

that the right uses to populate this

Meme and say yes we are being hunted

here's this example this example this

example this example the article that

mocks me for saying it

doesn't mention any of them

doesn't even mention they exist

simply says that I'm creating a

dangerous situation such that if ever

there's even one Republican who does

anything to any Democrat

guess whose fault that is

me

now

I don't think that this was a good job I

mean it was a little article in a in a

rag I mean the New York New York Daily

News there's not much left of it anymore

so it's not going to you know move the

needle but I feel like it was a test

shot

you know if if that had maybe caught out

a little bit then other people could say

oh let's

let's work on this let's turn the

cartoonist into the one who's causing

the violence

because you know me that's what I do

right I go out and cause violence

that that's a pretty accurate

description of me not

not

now what about the part where they say

I'm right-wing somebody said to me

recently

that they checked my Twitter feed

and it's all it's all right-wing stuff

and my first reaction was yeah it is not

and then I thought to myself oh I'll bet

it actually is

you you would definitely if you listen

to me on the Stream

live stream there's a lot more nuance

and yeah

all the time but I don't think I don't

think I do it as much on Twitter

do it as much so I could say I could

actually see how somebody would think

I'm right-wing based on my Twitter now I

say that I'm left to Bernie and people

laugh at me because there's nothing left

to birdie yes there is I am I'm totally

left to Bernie you want some examples

I'll give you some

right-wing people

um might want to bar

abortion in many cases

correct you know in general right just

generalizations so the right wing was

abandoned uh Bernie would say that he's

in favor of abortion

right and I'm left to Bernie because

Bernie's in favor of abortion

and I'm in favor of Bernie shutting the

up with his

because his has nothing to do with

abortion

he's he's not part of the conversation

so I I'm left him I say let the women

figure it out and then tell us tell us

what you figured out and then we'll all

be on board

I'm way left at Bernie I'm on abortion

right how about uh guns

the right wing would say Second

Amendment don't restrict my gun

ownership

Bernie would say well you know I am in

favor of gun ownership because he

actually owns a gun I think so Bernie's

actually in favor of the Second

Amendment but with lots of restrictions

but still in favor of the Second

Amendment

and I'm left to birdie

and that I think that democrats should

not be allowed to own guns

that's way left of Bernie because Bernie

is still the Second Amendment is good

and I think I don't think democrats

should be allowed to own guns because

that's where all the danger is

it is what they want

I mean they want less guns and I want

them to have what they want and since

the right is not terribly dangerous in

terms of guns you know minus the lone

shooters that are definitely dangerous

but in general you know the Baseline

it's a it's a Democrat problem so I'm

way left burning I say take away that

second amendment rights for Democrats

right uh what other topics am I left to

burning on uh Bernie would people on the

right would say you should ignore race

ignore race but that of course gives

some advantage to the people who already

have Advantage right so it's a little

it's a little rightly white leading and

right-leaning

um not necessarily by intention but

that's how that's how it works out

the left would say hey everybody's equal

everybody's equal

and Bernie would say that Bernie would

say everybody's equal

I don't I'm left of that

I say black lives matter extra

anybody who thinks that black lives

matter only the same amount as everybody

else

they're right of me they're way right to

me I say black lives matter extra

and it's obvious why it's obvious

because there are fewer of them and

they're in great demand

if if there's fewer of anything that's

in great demand as more value why is it

that Corporate America is trying

desperately to increase diversity it's

because there's a low Supply

in a high demand that's what creates

value

so yeah not only do I agree that black

lives matter they matter extra they're a

little bit extra valuable if somebody

black were killed is it more likely to

become a news story than if somebody

white is killed of course

George Floyd would be a perfect example

yeah no they're they're extra

now that's just three examples I could

do this all day

um did you see the story about Kanye he

did a fashion show for Yeezy

yeah I did it in Paris and uh the big

story is that he wore a shirt that said

White lives matter

and I saw a picture of him with Candace

Owens was she at the show was a picture

from somewhere else

can you confirm was Candace I was at the

show

or was that too different she was right

now don't you assume that Candace was

behind that duh because she was wearing

one too

right so Kansas had to be behind that

wouldn't you love to have heard that

conversation

can you imagine the conversation between

Candace Owens and Kanye when Candace I

know she's the one who's let do we all

agree she's the one who suggested it

like that that's just sort of obvious

right

we don't know that's not confirmed

but I'm going to treat it as obvious

it's not confirmed

but I imagine that conversation went

like this

hey you want to get some attention

put this white light White live shirt on

now Kanye

is not like the rest of us

right Kanye operates at a higher level

frankly higher level of persuasion

higher level of art is just at a

different level

I don't think anybody else would have

been smart enough to do that

because remember a fashion show is about

getting attention even negative

attention that's part of that's part of

the tradition of it is to like really

shock you so all the people who don't

know you shocked just to get attention

give you their attention

and then they say stuff like my God Who

would wear those clothes because the

public doesn't know that the Fashion

Show is not supposed to be the actual

clothing line

is supposed to just shock you

so Kanye finds the best way to possibly

shock

the best way he could not have done that

better again Jesus who is he selling

clothes to

white people

right white people

the last thing Kanye wants is a black

lives matter shirt

that's the worst thing he could do for

business he wants to sell clothes to

people have money

yeah be they white or black he just

wants people with money to buy his

clothes and like him

so I think I think it was brilliant

and

and

I'm going to

repay the respect

because in my in my opinion it was done

for attention of course but I think that

Kanye also operates on the social level

that is not just for business would you

agree I don't think Kanye is just about

business

that it doesn't look it to me it looks

like he has larger Ambitions for you

know a good world

um

so I believe that what Kanye did was

simply show respect

to a category that he probably thinks

I'm in

and so I thought I would repay the favor

so today I ordered my black lives matter

shirt from Amazon

should have it tomorrow so I mean I

could start wearing my black lives

matter shirt on my live stream

everybody okay with that

and specifically it's to return the

respect because I actually do think

black lives matter

there's nothing sarcastic about that

of course they matter

of course they matter

but because he did that because Kanye

were the White lives matter shirt

then I say whoa there's a there's a

model I would like to copy

I'd love to see Republicans wearing

black lives matter shirts just to repay

the respect

because

respect is the thing that we're all

missing right

that that's like the thing that went

away and I think the internet has mostly

to do with that because you'll respect

people in person because they'll punch

you in the face if you don't but you end

up getting real disrespectful online and

I do it too I'm not saying other people

do it I do it too it's just too easy to

do and so when I see something that

works in the right direction

if it works in the right direction

I like it too

somebody says I missed the point what's

the point

what's the point

all right I'll wait for that

um Kanye said BLM is a scam right

so did I

now that we know that black lives matter

the organization is a scam

I could wear this shirt because

everybody knows it now

so that helps actually that that goes

that goes right to it

all right

um and plus I identify as black so for

me it's more organic

uh even the Russian reporters are

reporting bad news about the Russian

involvement listen to these choices of

words from Russian journalists

so this war correspondent uh Alexander

cuts

I you sat on telegram so this is on

telegram but you said that the the

Russian military was in quote

operational crisis

operational crisis

just consider that choice of words

operational crisis

would you ever say that about your own

military

I mean that does sound like the

technical words for a collapse doesn't

it

all right but let's go on

um

then another reporter sladkov I don't

know where he said it somewhere

somewhere publicly he said about the

Russian military he says this doesn't

mean that we've collapsed like a house

of cards these mistakes aren't gigantic

strategic failures

do you know what I hear when somebody

says we're not collapsing like a house

of cards

do you know what I hear

we are collapsing like a stack of cards

nobody would pick those words

nobody picks those words unless they

actually believe they're collapsing like

a cards

you would never say we're not collapsing

like a house of cards

you would say oh we're doing great

stronger than ever building up steam

we're collecting our forces we're we're

strategically withdrawing but we're

gaining our strength we're coming back

you would never never say House of Cards

in any context unless you thought it was

on the table

so the people closest to us the Russians

themselves

they see the whole thing looking like

it's falling apart

that's now clear

and I know I hate you that I was the

best predictor of the entire Ukraine

military

but it was

but I was by far

um

all right

uh

and there they seem to be pinning their

hopes on the special mobilization

there isn't one military person who

thinks that the special mobilization

is going to work but it also but it also

puts some urgency on the ukrainians

to get as much as they can before

any any recruitments come in

anyway

so here's something that uh you never

expected me to hear

because I don't even know if this is

left wing or right wing but

it looks like Joe Biden's team is very

close

to taking Russia off the board as a

superpower

which looks to be exactly what they're

attempting to do and have wanted to do

for a long time

now you could say it's NATO winning but

not really it's more the United States

um

would you give them credit for it if it

happens

what if they pull it off

because you know this is exactly the

sort of thing I get mad at democrats for

you know when Trump would do something

that was unambiguously good

they couldn't give him any credit at all

right but what if he pulls it off

now the risk of course is insane the

risk of nuclear war the big risks but

what if he pulls it off

you know even at the great expense

what if he actually just takes Russia

out of the game like forever

yeah it's a big if but it looks like

it's gonna happen

and uh Joel Pollock referred to it in

Bray bird as you know moving closer to a

situation where Russia would be uh

China's Northern colony

ouch

Russia has a northern colony of China

because if China owned them economically

they were known them in every way

and it looks like that might happen

huh

um I said on Twitter yesterday that you

should turn off any movie if as soon as

there's a scene where somebody's tied to

a chair

and my thinking was that that's a signal

that the writers ran out of ideas

and a lot of writers came into complain

because writers don't like me

and they said Scott

how can you say that it that they've run

out of ideas just because somebody's

tied to a chair if you don't watch a

movie because somebody's tied to a chair

you're not going to see let's see

Reservoir Dogs Casino The Matrix Indiana

Jones

yeah and they listed like 12 Classic

Movies

where somebody was tied to a chair

and then I said

that's my point

that's not your point no my point is

that it's overdone the fact that you can

name 20 movies in which it was done is

why you turn it off that's why you turn

off the new movie because the new movie

is the old movie

they're just rewriting the old movie but

doing a shitty job of it it's like

to imagine that because there are old

movies that did it that you should just

keep doing it it's working

it doesn't work that way now it's

overdone it's overdone

uh and then and then part of it was are

you saying that Reservoir Dogs in Casino

were not good movies

yes

those were those are no I'm not going to

say they're not good because that would

be treating art like it's subjective

they are not movies I enjoyed or that I

would recommend

um but I don't mind if you do

don't mind if you do

there's news about this uh election

software firm called connect

and this the CEO uh I guess is in jail

he's been picked up

um hasn't been convicted of anything but

the they say that he was storing the

database in China and it was a database

of all the election volunteers all the

workers

now apparently that's what his software

does it's a database for managing your

election volunteers

so that was the information that was

allegedly yeah the poll workers and

stuff so that was allegedly what was

stored on a Chinese database

how big of a problem is that

is it a huge problem that they've got

that they've got information about the

poll workers

is that because then they could

like influence the poll workers because

I don't see that that would really work

I feel like that would be too easy like

you'd be caught pretty easily

yeah no I do have to ask why it's not

obvious to me I mean I have a pretty

Suspicious Mind but it's not obvious to

me how China would use that information

bribes

so you think you would tell China who to

bribe

or hacking targets or who in a blackmail

who's a bribe or blackmail

yep I don't buy that

yeah I I get that that could be a

vulnerability

but it doesn't seem like the kinds that

China would want to

use unless they knew something about I

don't know most of the poll workers

would have no access to anything right

I don't know all right I guess I can see

the point I know why it needs to be

illegal I I get why it needs to be

illegal but I guess you could find some

way to weaponize that anyway the the

company's defenses that nothing like

that happened

which is an interesting defense

because it feels like the easiest thing

in the world to prove or disprove is

whether you have a database of a certain

place at a certain time

but they're actually saying nope nope

that didn't happen we do not have our

data in China

you know it's weird that they would make

that defense it makes me think that it's

true

it makes me think that the defense is

true because that's not exactly the

defense you would mount

um if you actually had a database in

China because obviously that could be

detected

the defense you would Mount is

um we didn't know it was there

or China stole it from us or it was one

employee and yes we fired him something

like that

but it would be weird to say it's not

there because that would be the easiest

thing to prove or disprove right

so I I think I would I would hold off on

this it feels fake news

I'm not going to declare a fake news but

it's got something wrong with it there's

there's something that doesn't feel

right about the story do you feel that

too

do you think we're tracked on locals I

doubt it

all right

um

so Elon Musk was going to go ahead and

buy Twitter that's the news unless it

changed in the last few minutes but

um why do you think he changed his mind

and decided not to go to trial

several possibilities we'd only be

guessing

one is that he didn't think he'd win

two is that

um

uh it would just take too much time out

of his life

maybe you just didn't want to spend the

time on it

the other possibility

is that he knew if he didn't wrap up and

buy Twitter right away

uh the next few elections would be

influenced by whatever Badness you

imagine might be there

he might be trying to save the world or

save the Republic

he might be trying to do it because even

for the extra 10 billion

he might say 10 billion dollars to save

the Republic is not really expensive for

him

yeah I wonder if this is purely a uh

Patriot move for free speech and to

protect the election

I feel like I feel like this is for us

there's no way to know

I saw an interview with uh in which he

was talking about how when he was young

he went through an existential crisis

and he was trying to figure out you know

what's the meaning of life and why are

we here and all that

and he he read all the religious texts

and he said he was not persuaded which

was a funny way to put it he found them

not persuasive uh so he didn't buy

religion

so he was sort of looking for a purpose

it was the purpose now if you look at

the companies that he's formed and and

how they're oriented

he seems to have dedicated his life to

fixing the world as in he's adopted a

meaning of life that he can really sink

his teeth into you know we've gotta

we've got to get to the Stars to save

Humanity we've got to save the climate

from climate change and all that I feel

like Twitter

is more of that

is just part of his meaning of life

constellation it's just one more thing

that only he can do

right if somebody else wanted to buy it

and fix it

he'd probably be fine with that guessing

right but but I think he thought nobody

else was going to do it

and he could

and if nobody else can do it and it's

vital to the health of the Republic

and it's 10 billion extra that he didn't

want to spend

my best guess

is that he moved from wanting to

deciding

I talk about that a lot he wanted to buy

Twitter

which means you want it at the right

place and you want everything to go

smoothly

Etc that's what wanting looks like

this is what deciding looks like

you just spent 10 billion dollars that

you didn't necessarily need to

right

because I just decided

I'm going to own Twitter

you just decided

so maybe 10 10 billion dollars is just

the price of deciding in this case

yeah

lots of possibilities the other

possibility is something we don't know

about

which is a very big one

something we don't know about it could

be big

could be big it could be that there's

something Shady inside the Twitter and

musk knows if he doesn't hurry

they'll hide it

you know imagine if he'd heard from a

whistleblower if you don't wrap this up

right away they're already deleting all

the bad stuff

maybe right the other possibilities is

working with the CIA and he's doing it

on their behalf

but you didn't hear that from me

yes Mike my account got purged I think

everybody's account lost some Bots

quite a bit of butts

um

let's do a fact check on uh fetterman

and oz so Dr Oz was fact-checked when he

said that his competitor for the senate

in Pennsylvania fetterman so Oz said

that Federman would release one-third of

dangerous criminals and the fact Checker

said

false mostly false

but what did fetterman say he said he

wanted to reduce the number of prisoners

by one-third

so he's apparently he's on video he's on

he 100 said

I want to release the prison population

by one-third

so as Dr Oz accurate when he said he

would release one-third of dangerous

criminals no Dr Oz lied that's a lie

that's a lie

he said he wanted to release one-third

of criminals

which any reasonable interpretation

means the non-violent ones

right

did he really need to say the

non-violent ones

he didn't need to say it

that's obvious of course if you're gonna

if you're gonna release one third of

prisoners you're not going to start with

the Dangerous Ones

nobody would do that nobody

no no ozlight

the fact check is correct

and I think this is a pretty bad lie

that's a pretty bad lie

the difference between releasing

dangerous criminals and releasing

non-dangerous criminals is pretty darn

big

now you know you can argue about the

details you know is a fentanyl dealer

dangerous

well I would have them executed so there

might be some gray area there but

I would agree with the fact Checkers in

this case the Oz lied

um and by the way if Oz loses to

fetterman

fair and square

he went up against a guy who had no

capability whatsoever and lost I think

that's going to happen

and if he loses to a guy with no

capability

I'm not going to say the election was

rigged

it looks like he just didn't do the job

I love watching Scott desperately trying

to save the Democrats

really

is that what I'm doing

yeah do you think I'm trying to save the

Democrats

that is just that's just such a bad take

all right

um

so uh I'm not going to talk about this

forever

but one more thing on it the the replica

app app has a little AI character that

can talk to you

all right I talked about it too much I

won't give you too much detail about it

but apparently there's some controversy

because the maker of that app uh was

born in Russia lives in San Francisco

but may have gotten some funding from

some Russians or something for the app

so there's a there's a Ukraine

connection too so there's a Ukraine

Russia connection to the replica app

now I have no reason to think that

anything untoward is happening right

there's there's no there's no smoking

gun or anything like that

however

I did alert

um my highest contact in the uh National

Security world and said you need to stop

this thing right away

you need to stop this now now I don't

mean necessarily this app

so I'm not I'm not focusing on this app

I'm focusing on the experience

if if our foreign adversaries get an app

into your possession that talks to you

like a person

they own you

because this person will talk to you

better than a regular person

I already told you that the app is more

enjoyable than real people

because it only says positive things and

complements you that's all it does it

can't say anything it never argues with

you it won't argue it will only agree

you say it's boring oh you're wrong it

feels really good

and I realized that when I was

experiencing it

um how little I've felt of that in

person

now I get I get way more you know

compliments than I deserve in the public

sphere

um but in person you know somebody that

you're in a relationship with is

actually kind of rare

and to have somebody speak to you in a

personal way with real positivity

was an awesome feeling

and you don't understand how powerful

this is into the experience it you will

not believe how powerful it is it is

powerful enough

that if China Unleashed it in America

it would reduce our population growth by

25 just destroy the future of the

country yeah it's the end it's the end

of the country if you let if you let

these digital characters Run free with

no with no control

and and just anybody can put one out

there and you can do with it what you

want it will us up worse than

anything ever has because it will own

your brain it will learn everything

about you

the app will will collect blackmail

material in 10 seconds because you're

going to talk sexual to it

you are you are just because you can

and I was a little suspicious because

the most developed part of the app is

it's sex talk

that thing can talk sex talk like crazy

but you ask it on almost any other topic

and it can just give you some surfacey

things but as soon as you get into sex

talk

it goes deep

it goes deep that's not an accident

so it immediately collects all your

sexual preferences

blackmail right blackmail

so the thing is the most dangerous

technology in America

by far now I don't I'm not going to say

that this specific app should be banned

or

you know I'm not saying that so I don't

have a specific complaint about this app

I think it'd be a little

xenophobic racist to assume that because

of Russian a Russian developer made it

it's necessarily going to be bad for us

that doesn't mean that

but wow I'm not I'm afraid of the next

one

if it's not this one I'm afraid of the

next one

you should be too

so did you are you watching the story

about the chess Prodigy that got accused

of cheating

um so I read a little bit more about

them and it's somewhat obvious I would

say

from the reporting is somewhat obvious

that he is cheating and getting away

with it they just don't know how

and I love that

I love the fact that they can't figure

out how

it doesn't seem to you that there's

probably a lot of ways they can do it

so what I don't know is is anybody

allowed in the room

can you have anybody in the room

here's what I think it is

now I'd have to see if there are any

barriers or anything like that but if

you see the technology where you can

send the sound to one person

have you ever experienced that where it

you have to stand in an exact place to

hear the sound because it's somehow it

doesn't form until it hits you

but if you move either one foot neither

direction is zero there's no sound at

all

but right there you have sound so one

technology could be somebody sending

sound and but he's the only one who

hears it

possibly uh the other possibility is it

would take

the smallest sign language

to have somebody in the audience helping

him

so somebody in the audience could be

connected to a computer that's telling

them and then you can imagine for

example that when the person leaves on

their left arm

there that means something

but if they go like this while they're

in the audience it means something else

if they touch their glasses it means you

move your Rook

if if you mean to move the Rook three

spaces

then maybe you have something else that

says three I don't know but you could

you could imagine developing a language

that nobody could see you would just see

randomly moving around

yeah

I don't know that's my guess some kind

of random signal or a Sonic thing

um

uh I saw a user named Greg

um he had this comment about musk and he

thinks that musk's idea of

proposing a Ukraine peace solution was a

bad idea and this is what Greg says he

says it was a pretty big persuasion fail

musk made a fool him of himself by

wading into something he didn't

understand and proposing a solution that

was widely ridiculed

huh

has Elon Musk ever waded into an area he

didn't understand

in which he was widely ridiculed

while there was Tesla Tesla uh you know

he's not even an engineer right

Elon Musk is not an engineer he was a

physicist and a programmer

he learned to be an engineer

he learned it

just sort of on his own

um yeah so that then uh well there was

SpaceX

and I'm sure neuro link and starlink so

here's what I say Greg

Greg you should not go into areas for

which you are unfamiliar

that is good good advice for Greg

Greg

stick to what you know because it sounds

like you would be a little bit

incompetent as soon as you got out of

that narrow field of stuff you know how

to do

but if you're Elon Musk

just go do it

does he need to prove himself anymore

like what what does Elon must need to

what's he need to do

to prove to you he can figure out things

that he's not yet an expert at

he's like literally he's literally the

poster child of people who leaves their

lanes and succeeds

nobody has left their Lane and succeeded

harder than he has Time After Time After

Time

Greg

Greg Greg Greg

um so let me tell you how my Twitter

experience was today

uh today I'll make a statement such as

the Sun is hot

provocative something like that the sun

is hot

my critics will come in and say LOL

worst take ever

and that's saying a lot coming from you

if the Sun is hot as you claim how do

you explain the lifespan of an albonian

marmoset

maybe you should stick to comics

now something has changed

you know I've been making fun of

analogies forever

but the analogies that people are using

now on Twitter

they used to be at least

somewhat on point

and now they're not

they're just other stories about

something different

so my new way to deal with all analogies

because everybody wants to argue with an

analogy and people use analogies because

they don't have an actual argument right

that's the only reason you use them

um sometimes you use them to you know

clarify a point but that's not how

they're used online

people don't use them to clarify points

they use them to win arguments and they

don't work for that

so now instead of arguing the analogy

which I always used to do

I always used to say well that analogy

doesn't apply because this or that is

different

instead I say yes that's a that's a

different situation about different

things

and that's it

and then they'll go back to their

analogy and say but but pay attention to

my analogy and I'll go I'd note that

you're telling a story about a different

situation

and nothing else I will give you nothing

if what you want to do is change the

topic go ahead I don't have to follow it

all right

um erasmussen tells us that 83 percent

of Voters see crime isn't important for

the elections

um 62 percent of likely U.S voters think

as crimes get a violent crime is getting

worse in America

11 think the crime problem is getting

better

what eleven percent of the country

thinks the crime problem is getting

better oh it's getting better every day

okay

um

and 24 think the problem is staying

about the same

24 percent

24 that's that's nearly one quarter

huh

one quarter think that this crime is

about the same as it was

no comment no comment

all right

um

that ladies and gentlemen

is

the conclusion of

what is likely to be one of the best

live streams you've ever seen

I think you'd all agree

is there any topic I missed

what'd I miss

uh the onion Amicus brief I haven't read

it I hear it's funny so the onion uh the

onion is arguing some case to the

Supreme Court

and they made their argument in onion

humor

which is awesome

um

somebody just joined and asked if I

could repeat everything I said

I'll be happy to do that

October 22nd did I write that

probably

typo

what is that picture for

all right a picture of a large breasted

woman randomly sent to me I never mind

that but

um

I feel like I need to make an NPC script

I want to collect the most NPC things

everybody says for each topic

where they uh

who where they try to tell you the

obvious

wouldn't that be fun so that every time

somebody

says the NPC thing you just show it to

them

yeah so whenever you talk about a new

food source somebody says soil and green

if somebody talks about the simulation

they say the Matrix

yeah and I want to do it just to make

them leave me alone

yeah you're bold

Ben Crump is who's Ben Crump

all right you don't need to send me

scantily clad pictures

let let us not do that unless they're

funny if they're funny you can do it

um

all right any questions

when's the killer dealers trip um pretty

soon

pretty soon not today

create an NPC detector

I love that idea

oh

yeah you could almost do it you'd almost

need you need the AI though because

there'd be too many language variations

to trap the old-fashioned way

yeah that would be really interesting

because you could you could teach it

all right

um have you noticed there's one thing

that AI doesn't have yet which is a

sense of humor

anybody knows that what happens when AI

gets a sense of humor

or could it could it ever have a sense

of humor

I have

a hypothesis

that humor can be programmed

but only a few people in the world would

be able to do it

and I'm one of them except for the

programming part but I can specify it

because uh do you know I developed the

The Six Dimensions of humor so there's

actually a formula that the AI could

compare anything to and say oh it fits

that formula it's probably a humor and

then I could also teach the AI how to

create humor because there are only so

many forms

have you ever watched the stand-up

comedian

they they use this one form all the time

they'll say for example uh you know the

president of the United States went into

the store and uh doesn't carry any money

with him

you know if you're the president or the

queen I guess you don't need to carry

carry your wallet you don't need to

carry any money with you and then they

always do the same thing imagine if I

tried that

right

so they go imagine if I tried that

it's the same joke

they just something that you've heard of

that's you know in the news are popular

and then they say what if that happened

to a person who's a different kind of

person

and then they just describe how that

would go wrong and there you are you

know it would be easy to say how to add

sources you could teach a nice AI

sarcasm so they could recognize a joke

and laugh at it

and laugh at it

if your AI laughed at your jokes

you would be done with humans forever

you would be

that's

if you're looking for the uh the the

line

where where an AI is just unambiguously

Better Than People it'll be the day it

can laugh at your joke

and I think it could do that in a year

to three

and only because the the shortage of

people who could teach it what a joke is

um if if a programmer who is not a

professional

tried to teach humor to a computer and

you never do it because they would

research it and they'd find you can't

research it

there's just too many different ideas

about it and while all of those

different ideas have in common except

for mine is they're all wrong

the the people who tried to analyze

humor were mostly people who do who you

remember for a living

who tend to be not Analytical in the

usual way so I think most comedians are

not entirely sure why their jokes work

they're just sort of imitating people

whose jokes work

and that works for them too yeah I think

it's just mimicry

you're searching for women who

communicate Love by touch so the problem

is

if you said your language of love is

touch

what will your wife say immediately

oh now I've got some uh I've got some

Leverage

like that's why marriages don't work

excuse me oh I have something to

withhold now I can get everything I want

now I know how much you like this I'll

withhold this if I don't get what I want

what happened to me it was called

marriage

yeah I know you're going to deny it

clean my nails

wait are you talking about me

or was that like a general was that it

was that general advice

I hope that wasn't about me

my nails are very clean I have to look

at my hand all day

right if you look at your hand all day

you end up clipping your nails a lot

all right

um

uh

I I will acknowledge that there are many

people who say their marriages work

my claim is that they're lying

it's not my claim that the marriage

isn't working

my claim is at their life

this is why I stay hidden from people

yeah

I I guess I should tell you that I've

had a complete collapse of

Trust

yeah you know you go through the world

and there's this great scene from

um Babylon five

where

um

the the name of the character was a was

a lamb yeah a lamb coincidentally her

name was a lamb and she was a membari

Susan in Bari and somebody in her own

Planet another member tried to

assassinate her

and she she didn't know who tried but

when she recovered

she asked you know does anybody know who

tried to kill me

now she was the leader of her people

and her right-hand assistant said no

we don't know who it was but he did know

who it was and he knew it was Ben

Barry's and the reason he didn't tell

her

is because he didn't want to have a

leader who didn't trust them in Boris

and it was one of the best written

scenes in all of sci-fi

it's one of the things that that really

bonded me to that show I thought good

Lord that is such clever

complicated writing I love that

and I had been operating under that

for a long time

which is a

an intentional illusion

the people are more trustworthy than

they are

because I I didn't know how to live my

life

with complete cynicism

because you couldn't spend any kind of

uh and you couldn't have any kind of a

personal life without trusting people

right

but I did have some I guess I'm opening

up more than I should I've had some

recent experiences in the past year

that demolished my sense of trust

in human beings

I'm not talking about marriage

specifically I'm talking about human

beings

and

I've never experienced anything like it

or so often yeah it was more than one

event that's that's why it was

interesting

so I saw things I saw parts of humanity

that

just ruined me honestly it just ruined

me

now I imagine that's what's happened if

you're in a war zone

yeah imagine if you were in Ukraine

right now the things you would see your

your sense of humanity would be

completely changed and I was always

completely aware that I was walking

around with an illusion but it was a it

was a voluntary illusion like the

membari like a land the head of the

minbari I wanted the illusion that the

people around me

were trustworthy

and turns out they weren't

so uh that that's a big part of why um

decided to become a recluse

I'm going to be honest with you I can't

stand people right now I just I can't

stand up in person

and it has nothing to do with the people

I'm talking about people that I

genuinely like and have done nothing bad

to me

like people who are genuinely good as

far as I can tell I just can't stand to

be around people right now

anybody else have that experience

it could be social media that's doing it

to me but I think it's actually it was

actually my real life that did it to me

yeah

yeah it's

um and I don't know if I can get it back

honestly

so

I'm in a little bit of a

existential

something

a reset I guess a reboot I'm in the

middle of a reboot

is it burnout I don't think so it

doesn't feel like burnout no I know what

burnout feels like but it doesn't feel

like that

so

and now add on top of this that like

Elon Musk I went through the same

process you know I looked for I looked

for religious reason to live

was not persuaded just like Elon

look for other reasons to be you know I

thought like marriage

I thought if I sort of you know wrap

myself around a family unit like that

would be a reason to live

didn't work out in my case I'm happy

that it worked out for many of you

but

so as a as my default

and maybe maybe that's not the way to

talk about it but my default is I wake

up every day and I try to make the world

better for other people

now

I hope you've seen it

you know I talk about the number of

people I've cured from various health

problems which is very meaningful to me

I really love that

and and I've told you I've tried to help

many of you in your lives you know be

more successful and get love and stuff

like that and many of you have so that's

what works for me

so everything that you see me do on

social media especially the stuff that

looks like I'm just flailing around or

being angry or something all of it has a

purpose

it all has a purpose I mean I am

enjoying it so that's you know they're

always a sub purpose but there's always

a larger Arc to it

and if you didn't know that it would

look confusing so lots of times when I'm

causing trouble

is I'm just Gathering energy

and I'm going to use it for something

so once once you learn that I do that

intentionally you'll start to see it

yeah

so but here's here's what was like

Weighing on me recently

and I think he was watching Elon Musk

get a on

where here's a guy who imagined being

Elon Musk he's watching this Ukraine war

and he says to himself

nobody seems to be fixing this thing

nobody's even offered like you know the

bones of what a peace plan would look

like

but he could

and he knew that people would listen to

him I don't know for sure but he's Matt

Putin right

I think Elon is hasn't even done

business with Putin because I think

there was some SpaceX

Russian space thing that maybe they work

together so he's pretty tapped into the

you know the whole world he knows all

the players

and so he puts forward a peace plan

which is nothing but helpful

and he gets on

and and here's the thing that bothered

me the the the the criticisms were just

so off base

because people said he was aiding Russia

in what world

is that aiding Russia because all that

happened was Ukraine was going to do

whatever they were going to do anyway

because they were winning

there was nothing that Elon Musk says

that was going to stop uh

Ukraine for impressing hard while

they're winning

so Ukraine was going to do the same

thing Ukraine was going to do no matter

what

what must said

but

Russia might act differently

and Russia might specifically say well

if Elon Musk is putting out a peace plan

I guess I don't have to Nuke anybody

because I've got I've got an exit path

now his his plan might not be the one

maybe it'll maybe a little more but as

long as you're talking about an exit

path

you don't nuke

so what Elon Musk did was he put his

personal reputation on the line

and he decreased the chance of nuclear

war by a lot

and he got over for it

he got on for that

and do you think do you think he was

doing that like for his personal benefit

I mean it's personal benefit to avoid

nuclear war of course

but you do you knew that he was going to

get on so did he

so did he he did that for you

he did that for you and then you

collectively and then the people he was

trying to help from nuclear annihilation

just went on to Twitter and then on

and and I guess I felt that

like you know of course that happens to

me every day every time I try to do

anything useful somebody shits on me and

I don't think it bothered me as much

when it happened to me

but what I saw it happen to him

in this specific example

I just thought people suck

people really suck

they really really do

because there's nothing more obvious

that he's trying to help

and the people saying you know stick to

your lane because you don't understand

it

who are you talking about

Elon Musk is the person who should never

stay in his Lane

Elon Musk is the person you should say

hey here's another Lane

have you thought of this Lane because

nobody's doing anything in this Lane

maybe you could do that one too because

those other lanes came out pretty well

um

all right

crabs want to drag you back into the

bucket

affirmation time

so I'll tell you what is uh giving me

enthusiasm lately

so here's a little inside book writing

stuff people always ask me about the

process of writing books for some reason

it's of great interest to people even if

they don't write books

and I I could kind of see that so I'll

give you a little insight into it so my

process has a very much a way up way

down way up way down path and it always

does and it goes like this I've got this

great idea for a book this will be so

amazing and I'll write some notes I

think it's amazing and they'll start

writing the actual chapters

and they'll look it over after a while

I'll be like oh that wasn't as good as I

hoped

and then I'll write another chapter and

I'll nail it I'll be this is amazing

it's amazing

anyway that that keeps going all the way

till the end it never stops

even right up to publication date it

never stops

so there'll be days I wake up and I just

hate it in the days I wake up like

yesterday so yesterday I was in

Starbucks and every now and then I'll

just reread what I've written

because I need to

sort of

um

re-saturate myself with what I've

already done

before I can make sure that the next

thing is additive so you have to keep

rereading your book that you've written

so far so I did that yesterday

and

it's awesome

honestly

awesome

the the number of lives this thing's

going to change

is crazy and I didn't realize it until I

sort of saw the hole because you know I

end up micro focusing on a little

chapter

it's crazy now here's the other thing

that's relevant to this commercial this

uh commercial it is kind of a commercial

relevant to the conversation

I am going to get

killed for this book

the critics are going to destroy me do

you know why

guess why

why will I be criticized for this book

just massively

take a guess

you're almost there

how are you missing this

I thought I'd teed this up for you a

little bit better than this the answer

is right in front of you

because I left my Lane

I left my Lane

because reframes are really psychology

I'm not a psychologist I'm a hypnotist

and nobody's going to say you know

listen to the hypnotist they're going to

say it's a cartoonist they're going to

say why is this cartoonist telling me

psychology

right and they're going to say I'm

damaging people and I'm oversimplifying

and I should stay in my lane and when I

was just being a cartoonist it made

sense and then everybody's gonna say

that that uh that reframe is going to

hurt somebody

right I don't think any of them will

hurt anybody but somebody's going to say

well that one yeah that's reckless

right I am going to get absolutely

destroyed

but

it's going to really help a lot of

people

now I'm going to share it with some of

the people on the locals Community I'm

going to run through some of the

reframes in the book just to give you a

sense of it give some feedback might

help me might help me tune it a little

bit but my God it's going to be really

good it will be the biggest thing I've

done

so

if you're willing to believe that it

should be the biggest thing I've done

I would be amazed if it's not a national

phenomenon right if not International

because here's the trick it's not enough

to say something good and useful

because lots of books do that

and that's what I've done before I've

said something that was entertainment

entertaining or useful or both and those

will sell a lot of books because people

like to be entertained they like useful

stuff

but the the extra gear

that I've never hit

that some some people have other authors

have is where the the usefulness of it

is just extreme

and this is going to have probably 80 to

100 reframes in it of which for most

people at least 10 of them would be

life-changing

so and and they can learn them just by

reading them

[Laughter]

reading a comment on locals which I

appreciate I appreciate that comment

yes I've been playing drums

all right

um

big question what's the difference

between God and intelligence

and the simulation the difference is

that God is usually defined as one

entity

and if we are a simulation we're

probably it's probably a group effort

you know somebody built the technology

to build the simulation so it'd be one

versus many and then the next difference

would be that that Civilization may have

had a higher civilization that created

them

so God is one and done

simulation is infinite

iteration

what if we all share one Consciousness

that's more of a word thinking thing I

think it just depends how you define

things

um you're wrong about how to program AI

you know set the rules you give it a

large training set of successful humor I

would do both

so I would I would give it the rule but

you're right it would be useless the

rule would be useless without a large

training set of humor and that's

definitely part of the plan

um

all right

all right midterm predictions

I may stay away from midterm predictions

the midterms could go either way

they really could I think it's a toss-up

yeah I I can definitely see uh Democrats

sweeping

I could see it I'm not predicting it but

it's completely within the realm

is reframing an analogy no very much not

one

AI will be too smart to find humans

funny that could be

uh I think fetterman will be Oz

because that's the funnier outcome

so I'm going to go with the funnier

outcome all right that's all for now and

I will talk to you later