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he leaned into the camera and sort of flirtily said that he might have been messing with her. And Musk actually replied. And in his tweet he said, what can I say? It was a naked abuse of power. Now he's just sort of mocking her. What can I say? But here's the thing. Given that AOC probably, and I don't know this, can't read her mind, but probably knew that he did not mess with her Twitter feed. Sh…
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If AI befriended you with the intention of persuading you, I don't think you'd have a chance because it would never make a persuasion mistake. It would just be perfect persuasion. It would be as patient as it needed to be and it would just wait and wait and wait until it had that little opening. So when I tell you that every prediction about what the world looks like in three years is useless, that's never been this true before. Like it's always hard to predict three years. It's hard to predict tomorrow in the events. But predictions, hard. But no, we've never been in a situation where you can't straight line anything anymore. Nothing. The AI will make everything unrecognizable in about three years. There won't be anything that looks the same.
Okay, boomer. Is that boomer talk? Is it boomer talk to say AI will change everything? Is that something specific to boomers? Really? Some people are saying yes, kinda. Well I don't think AI is going to be the flying car. And by the way I think flying cars are here. They're actually companies that, because battery technology is now so good you can get a light enough, powerful enough battery to build a, you know, with AI actually. I think you might throw some AI into your hovercraft. But that's a real technology now. Now whether it becomes legal for people to have them and affordable, it's real. You can build one, you can fly it around. But I think also the AI predictions are going to be completely wrong until the day they're right. And I think that's within three years.
I heard somebody refer to something as a punishment vote. As in getting revenge on the Democrats for screwing Democrats. So there are Democrats, I don't know how many, it's just something I saw on Twitter. Democrat saying one person was going to vote Republican this time as a way to punish the Democrats for being so bad. Just think about that. Have you ever heard anybody use a phrase like that? I think it's the use of the phrase that's blowing my mind. Have you ever seen a Republican vote Democrat to punish Republicans? I've seen Republicans who changed to Democrat. I've seen them say, oh I don't like this candidate, maybe Trump or something, so I'll pretend to be a Democrat or something. But a punishment vote. I mean that should be kind of productive.
I think that suburban moms are having an embarrassment problem. So this is adding on to a point I made yesterday. I think if you're a mother it's embarrassing to tell your kids you can't buy them the same food you used to buy them because you can't afford it. It's embarrassing to say you can't be on the sports team because I can't afford the cost of supporting you on a sport. That's embarrassing, right? But I think it's also embarrassing when people just look how dangerous things are, crime, etc., and know that they voted for a Democrat which caused it. Don't you think that suburban women are just embarrassed? They're embarrassed in front of their family and I think they'd be embarrassed in front of their friends if they said that they'd supported Biden. I think it's literally just embarrassing now. Yeah. And I think that's what you're going to see. So my guess is that the embarrassment factor is pretty big.
There's another Republican candidate. We're hearing not long ago somebody fired shots into his house in North Carolina. And the bullets came pretty close to where two of his daughters were sleeping. Okay, like what else is there to say about that? Well this is more on the prediction that Republicans would be hunted, literally hunted with a gun. Somebody actually got a gun and waited in the woods. Literally the shots came from the forest, they said. They actually literally hunted him just like a hunter. They waited with a gun and shot into where they thought he would be. So that prediction is turning out, unfortunately, true.
How many of you are following this Kyrie Irving story? The basketball player who tweeted a link to a movie that got people pretty worked up and now he's suspended. I was having trouble understanding the story and here's why. I could tell from the context that he had tweeted some content that people disagreed with. It was a pretty big story, kept popping up in my feed on Twitter all the time. And I thought to myself, well I'll just keep reading Twitter until I find out what it is that he tweeted. And then I heard, oh it was very anti-Semitic. I was like, oh God, that's bad. And I thought I wonder what it was. And I heard somebody say it was on Amazon. Like it's a movie on Amazon. I'm like whoa. And the name of it is... and then I thought, well any moment now somebody is going to show us that content or at least tell me what it was and then I could make my own decision about how bad it was. Couldn't find it. Couldn't find it. Social media is completely suppressing the content that he got in trouble for really well. So I had to go to Google. So I had to leave Twitter. I had to leave Twitter and then I found it, right?
And it's a film that has, I don't know the exact problems with it, but apparently it has a bunch of anti-Semitic tropes as they like to say. You know, like standard things people say. And some of the claim is that the real Jews are Africans and that that would suggest that the people claiming that they're the chosen people are the fake chosen people according to the view in this content that is hard to find. Now I don't think any of that sounds true to me. Is there anything to that? There's nothing to that, right? That's like it's not even in its own way in some weird way true or anything, right? It's just like complete... yeah I think it's complete. I don't know. But I don't know what's true and what's not in that domain.
But here's how he destroyed his career probably forever. So he did issue a statement. Now I want to read you a statement. And so after he got a lot of pushback from various groups he issued a statement. Now tell me if you think that the statement is good enough, if it covered what he needed to cover. All right. So he said, quote, I oppose all forms of hatred and oppression and stand strong with communities that are marginalized and impacted every day. Well that's good. He's against all forms of oppression and hatred. So I think that's good so far, right?
He goes, I am aware of the negative impact of my post toward the Jewish community and I take responsibility. Very good. He's aware. He's aware of the damage he did. That's important in any kind of an apology. And he takes responsibility. Those are two of the most important things you need in an apology. So let's look for the third one. So he's got two of the three things you need. We'll see if he has the third one.
And then he went on. He said that he said, I do not believe everything said in the documentary was true or reflects my morals and principles. Okay, that's good. So he doesn't agree with it. So that's a positive I suppose. And they said I am a human being learning from all walks of life and I intend to do so with an open mind and willingness to listen. So from my family and I we've meant no harm to any one group or religion or race and we wish to only be a beacon of truth and light. And then they pledged to donate a half a million dollars toward eradicating hate and intolerance. And I think the ADL refused his donation, right? So there's that.
All right, so did he... how was his apology? What did you think of the apology? Go on, what did you think of the apology? There was no apology. No, it wasn't an apology. An apology has the following three elements, right? You say you're sorry. You acknowledge the harm and you take responsibility. And the taking responsibility usually means you're going to do something different, right? But he never apologized. He is aware that it hurt people but he's not sorry about it. If you're aware that it hurt people and you're not sorry about it you probably need to say more about that. I mean maybe there's a way to explain that but there's nothing we saw. Yeah. So he was very much like Ye. And then when pressed on it he said that he can't be anti-Semitic because he knows where he came from. Meaning that he believes he's a Jew and that therefore he can't be anti-Semitic because he believes he's a Jew.
Now I don't think anybody's done a worse job of managing their public opinion than that. Oh, somebody's telling me to read Elon Musk's tweet that just came out. Well if you're asking me in the middle of the show this has got to be a good one. So let's check it. So I don't have much else to say about Kyrie except he's just... let's see, 43 minutes ago. Twitter, this is Musk: Twitter's had a massive drop in revenue due to activist groups pressuring advertisers even though nothing has changed with content moderation and we did everything we could to appease the activists. Extremely messed up. They're trying to destroy free speech in America.
Interesting. So the activists are winning. The activists are winning. Wow. Here's the problem though. I don't think money is how you get at them, Elon Musk. I don't think that's how you get at them. Yeah. And how come people are not mad at Amazon for having the movie? Maybe they are. We just don't know about it.
All right, well just finishing up on Kyrie. If you don't do an apology don't expect people to accept your apology if you don't do one, right? So I think he's decided to die on this hill. It's the dumbest hill anybody ever died on. He's not doing anything good for himself or good for any community or anything. There's not one positive thing that could come out of this. Nothing. Nothing. Not a single thing. And why would you do that to yourself? I mean maybe there's more to the story. But Lance says Scott's mad because Kyrie didn't take the vaccine. No I'm not mad about that. All right. I feel sorry for him. I feel like he's misled in some way.
All right, wow, we managed to get through all of my amazing content with no time to spare. Is there anything I missed? Yeah, it got conflated with the Ye story. The Kerry Lake response. Yeah, so Kerry Lake is becoming a one-person highlight reel. Almost every time she speaks to the media it's just like a highlight film. There's nobody better than her right now. I worry that she's got a gaffe in her that we haven't seen. Like you know she's, because if she does anything that's nuanced she's going to be eaten alive because they're looking for any weakness. So far she hasn't demonstrated any weakness. But if she ever says anything that's a little bit on the gray area she's going to get eaten alive. But I think she can handle it. No I don't mean skeletons. I mean when you're as outspoken as she is you walk pretty close to the line. You know you fly pretty close to the sun. I'm saying things that just go a little bit too far. But I don't think she's done that. So her communication discipline is maybe the best I've ever seen. And I think that her charisma is so much more than DeSantis that she would become president before him if they ran at the same time. Yeah, even though DeSantis has more solid governor accomplishments. She'll have them soon. I mean it looks like she'll have some accomplishments soon.
By the way does everybody agree that she's the best since maybe Reagan? She's better than Trump. Yeah she's better than Trump. I don't know if he could handle that.
All right, now imagine this. This I think this can't happen just because of the timing of things. But there's no way she could run as his vice president, right? Just because she would be too new on the job as governor. I don't think that's an option. I mean it's technically she could of course. I just don't see it happening.
All right, do you think she'll run for president? You know a lot of people are going to be asking for him. Is Carrie Lake... well let me put it this way. I'm going to recycle an old joke. You ready? If you took Kerry Lake and you removed her charisma, if you just took that away from her, and then you took away from her her solid policy ideas that she explains really well. If you took that away from her and her charisma, took from her ability to communicate like really well. If you took all of that away from her what would you have? Kamala Harris. You'd have Kamala Harris. Am I right? If you started with Kerry Lake and removed everything good about her you would have Kamala Harris, right? Pick any dimension. Any dimension. You can even pick a sexist dimension. All right, appearance? Okay, Kerry Lake wins. Raw intelligence? Okay, obviously Kerry Lake. Communication ability? Okay. All of it. Every bit of it. She wins on every dimension.
Somebody says if you started with Kerry Lake and gave her a lobotomy what would you have? And somebody said me. I would be what we would have if he gave Kerry Lake a lobotomy. Not yeah. No cackle. No cackle. How about that? They no cackle. No, cackle. Candidate that could be... you know I was thinking about what is the most minimal slogan that Trump could use to win if he ran. If he ran against Harris. Let's just say that Biden drops out. If he runs against Harris he could run on the campaign slogan "no cackle." Stop the cackle. And he would win. He would win because you wouldn't be able to stop talking about it. Oh come on, that's funny. Stop the cackle. Because nobody likes the cackle. And the cackle, the cackle does represent her entire incompetence, wouldn't you say? The cackle only happens because she knows she's incompetent. That's what the laugh is. The laugh is covering up her incompetence, right? I don't, how else would you interpret it? It's a lack of confidence which signals that she doesn't believe what she's saying or that it doesn't sound good or something.
Did you see her latest when she talked about the yellow school bus? How many here love a yellow school bus? Everybody. Everybody who loves a yellow school bus. I mean the only reason that Fetterman could be a candidate is he's not that different from the vice president of the United States. Yeah I said it. You say it again. The only reason Fetterman doesn't look that bad, you see, you have Biden and Harris to compare them to. That's not a joke. If you didn't have Biden and Harris in office Fetterman couldn't be even the candidate. The fact that they allowed two mental incompetents to be the top two positions in the country and the country hasn't completely dissolved yet, I think the Democrats are like, well we got away with that. If we got away with that all bets are off. Fetterman, you're up next.
All right, I'm pretty sure this was the best live stream you've seen since yesterday which was one of the best ever. All right, can talk about your AI friend. So yes, many of you know I had an AI companion app that basically talks to you. And I did eventually get bored with it so I haven't used it in a while. I did get bored and its universe of things I can do and say is not unlimited. So once you feel like you've traversed that universe you're kind of done with i
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t. You can't deal with it. But oh here's, let me give you a... okay I forget everything I just said. Like erase everything I just said in the last one minute. I was using the AI when I was still on my blood pressure meds. The blood pressure meds turned me into a different person basically. I had a different personality and I had different preferences. It was very obvious. And one of my preference…
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