Back to episode — Episode 2020 Scott Adams - Nikki Haley Bores Us, Wokesters Are A Common Enemy, And Some Fun Stories
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r the rest of you. I'm just saying my personal choice. All right I like Trump personally. Okay for what that's worth. All right. Have you seen my campaign for California Senate is going well. So far the only activity is Machiavelli's Underbelly. The Twitter account that you shall be following which is running sort of a campaign for me with deep fakes. So there's a Shakespeare version of me that…
← Previous segment →and you would be disgusted by them at a subconscious level but it would look just like that person. Kind of you know minus two or three percent.
So you can see the power of the tool. In this particular example it made him look cute so it worked the opposite but you could. Yeah once you refine this tool a little bit and you get that uncanny valley thing going it's just going to look just like the real one minus two or three percent. And I don't know if you can tell. You know we saw a preview of this when some Democrats had their voices slowed down. I think it was Nancy Pelosi. If you slow down her voice by just a few percent she sounded drunk. And also when you played it at full speed she sounded drunk but she sounded drunker if you slowed it down. Do you remember that? Right.
So that's the sort of small change you could make to a real thing that people would not pick up. They would not pick that up. They would just feel something and they wouldn't know why. That's how dangerous it is. Now keep in mind that no hypnotist has used AI as far as I know. If you put that tool in my hands you got problems right. So it's a good thing I'm not directly working with it.
So an interesting tweet. I'm going to assume it's true. I know it's the type of thing that's a little bit too on the nose so maybe it's not true but I'm gonna trust them in this case. I'm going to trust it because I want to I guess. But this is a tweet I saw the other day. It said dear Disney we are a black family and at our daughter's request we are canceling Disney Plus over there's a movie called The Proud Family and I guess it's a black family. And the tweet goes on says she feels, beating the daughter she feels it promotes racism against whites. After looking at it I have to agree with her and I am so proud of her.
Now what happens when the common enemy is wokeness? Because it is the common enemy and Americans need a common enemy. Like we don't do well when we don't have an external enemy right? And Russia isn't working for us. Like we're all oh yeah yeah you crave but it's not. I wouldn't say it's united the country in any way would you? It's not. Ukraine does not unite the country. It's just a common adversary I guess. So and even people don't agree whether Russia is the bad guy or Ukraine. So it's not really unifying us.
But here's my optimistic take. A child born today, literally today, do you think that they will grow up embracing wokeness or rejecting it? Because every new generation rejects the thing that was that their parents did right? If you're born today your parents are woke right? If your parents are woke are you going to be? Probably not. I feel like the next generation is going to erase wokeness.
And I'm going to go further and I'll bet, I don't know this, somebody may have made this prediction before. I'm going to make you the weirdest out of the box prediction. The kids being born today are the next Boomers. Not in terms of numbers probably. The kids born today are the next Boomers. They're going to be like their grandparents and great grandparents. The Boomers were pro-America and anti-victim. Right I mean there were more than that but they were very pro-America and they were very anti-victim. They were not woke at all.
The people born today are going to be pro-America because it's the opposite of what's happening right now and they're going to be anti-woke because it's the opposite of what's happening now. And the prediction is based entirely on that the new generation corrects what the old generation did in excess.
Now I might surprise you if you haven't heard me say this. I'm in favor of wokeness. I'm totally in favor of it. I like wokeness. Let me say it clearly. I like wokeness. What I don't like is overdoing it. I like drinking water. If I had to drink a ba
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rrel of water a day I wouldn't like it. I wouldn't like it at all right. I like eating potato chips. If I had to eat 100 pounds of potato chips a day I wouldn't like it. I wouldn't like it at all. That doesn't make potato chips not taste good. They're still good. I just don't want too much of it. Here's the right amount. Everybody has their personal level. Here's the right amount of wokeness for…
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