Back to episode — Episode 1398 Scott Adams - Puppies and Rainbows Are the Decoy Topics For Today
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w the reason that systems are better than goals is because a system is something you can do every day. So what I just described is stuff you could be working on every day, right? Join a group, organize a group, send a text to that organizer person just to remind them who you are, that sort of thing. And whereas a goal, you know, you might do nothing that day on your goal and you just feel depress…
← Previous segment →s, the other day I went into town and one of the people with me was talking about a certain other individual in her life. And you know there'd been some situation there. And as she was talking about this one person in her life who was a problem, that one person walked directly past us.
There was only one person we were talking about, one person who was a problem to this one person. I live in a pretty populated place, right? There are millions of people that live around here. But as she was talking about that one person and was walking in a part of town in which neither of them would normally be, that one person that she was talking about walked directly past us.
Now how often does that happen? It happens a lot, right? Do you notice that things like that happen a lot? Now you're saying it's a small town but it really isn't because the entire time we were walking we saw nobody else we knew. Nobody. So hundreds and hundreds if not thousands of people and saw nobody else that we knew except the one person we were talking about.
Yeah, and you see people say yeah that happens to me. It's one of those things that just makes you wonder about the nature of the world, doesn't it? Happens a little too often.
Now when Jake Paul, I'm sorry Logan Paul, when Logan Paul was talking about his upcoming fight with Floyd Mayweather, and I guess that's coming tomorrow, and Logan Paul says I'm going to break the effin simulation, do you think that Logan Paul has noticed that his own life doesn't seem to correspond to anything that statistics would suggest? Because how in the world do you become Logan Paul in the first place? I mean that's not easy. But once you become him, how in the world do you get a boxing match with the best boxer in the world? Like how in the world?
Oh it's tonight. People are telling me that the boxing match is tonight. Now I get that it's an exhibition and I get that people would expect Mayweather to win. But how in the world does any of this happen? I mean really.
What's my null hypothesis for the simulation? I asked that a different way. Is it a cage match or a boxing match? I'm not sure which. But I gotta say the reason that people like Logan Paul and Elon Musk and even me, I think the reason that we believe in the simulation is that our lives don't make sense.
Does my life make sense? Those of you who have been watching me long enough, let me just ask this question. Does my life make sense? Like based on just what you've observed. You know, you don't even have to know my inner life. Just look at what I've done, you know, what I've been involved in, the things I've touched. Does any of that make sense? It kind of doesn't, does it?
I see yeses and nos, but in my mind it's too coincidental. Like it doesn't make sense unless we live in the simulation.
Do I have a null hypothesis for this simulation? Can you explain what you mean by that? So tell me what you mean by a null hypothesis for the simulation. You mean an alternative, an alternative to it?
All right, so I'm asking you to ask the question in English as opposed to a science wonky talk. Will I be your friend? Absolutely. I might not contact you often but I'm totally your friend.
Oh, prove it's not true. Well why didn't you just say that? Yeah, how could you disprove the simulation? In other words, is there something that if true would prove that the simulation is not true? And I think the answer is that can't happen because if we're a simulation then the simulation would prevent it from being disproved. I mean it would be built into the simulation that you can't disprove it. So I don't think that the normal rules of disproving things could be applied to the rules. It will be the only time that you would not expect it to work, I would think.
Well somebody says can you prove something doesn't exist? Yo
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u could prove something's not true. That could be done. But you can't always prove it doesn't exist. For example I could prove you know that I don't have something in my hands right now, but I can't prove that I won't be hit on the head with a rock next week. So that's the worst example you ever heard. Just forget I was talking. All right. Is truth singular? I don't think so. You can't prove real…
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