Back to episode — Episode 2402 CWSA 03/03/24
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, surprisingly good. How often does a surprise turn out to be better than you thought? Have you ever noticed that you don't often get surprised with something that's better than you thought? It's about a 3:1 ratio. Oh, that's a surprise. Three to one. I don't know why. All right, here's something I don't think I've said too often, maybe never. If you don't subscri
← Previous segment →be to the Dilbert comic, which you can now only get by subscription on the X platform or on Locals at Scott Adams Locals where you get lots of other stuff as well, you would miss today's Sunday comic. And I'm just going to tell you two things about it. In the first panel, Dilbert tells his boss he wants to transition. That's the first thing I'm going to tell you about it. Second thing I'm going to tell you about it is it might be the funniest thing I've ever written. It might be. Now you can judge for yourself, but it might be the funniest thing I've ever written. So look at the comments if you don't believe me. They're saying it right now.
I saw a post on X saying that CNN was considering canning Anderson Cooper and Chris Wallace. Is that true? Can I get a fact check on that? Since when do they tell you who they're considering firing? That doesn't sound true to me, does it? Like who has that conversation? You know, we're really thinking hard about getting rid of our top hosts. I don't know. I'm going to put a big question mark next to that one. Yeah, I'm going to say I don't believe it yet.
If you want to see something that's really funny, I just reposted it. It's a compilation of Morning Joe talking about Trump in 2016 when they liked him, and then it's a quick cut to 2024 when they don't like him. Oh, you have to see it. I don't think there's anything that's ever been on TV that's as entertaining as watching Morning Joe being normal and nice and then flipping, watching him in deep TDS. I can't even explain it. You just have to see it yourself.
All right. SNL was mocking Joe Biden for his lack of vigor. The funniest line was one of the characters said he had a grandpa monkey grip. Grandpa monkey grip. He can jump over walls and he's so full of vigor. So what does it tell you when SNL is openly mocking one of the candidates, and it happens to be a Democrat? They're very done with him. I feel like they're very done with him. And at least SNL has the self-awareness to know even if they prefer him as president, you know they know physically and mentally he's kind of gone. So I give them credit for being honest about that because they didn't have to be. You know, we're in this weird world where if they just ignored that one president can barely function, they could have gotten away with it. It probably wouldn't have made any difference to their numbers. But they played it straight and I appreciate that.
There's a video of Sergey Brin, one of the founders of Google, talking about the new problems they have with their racist AI that shows everybody looking black no matter what they were. And Sergey said, yeah, we messed up on image generation. And he thought that the reason that maybe they messed up was, wait for it, not enough testing. Not enough testing. Now, you know, I'm no entrepreneur who created the biggest company, most impressive company, I don't know if it's the biggest but most impressive company in the world. But Sergey, I don't think it was a testing problem. I think it tested just the way they built it. That's why they rolled it out. That's why I think. And you know what else? It's not an image problem. It's the whole damn thing. It's not an image problem.
You want to find out if it's an image problem or if it's just broken? Try to Google this: crime by demographic. Do it. Just Google crime by demographic group. Do you know what comes up? Lots of stories about how black people are the biggest victims of crime. So is that because they didn't test it enough? Because you know some people when they do that search, sometimes they're looking for who's the biggest victims of crime. So that's totally appropriate. But other times they're trying to figure out who's committing the crimes. Such as, you know, are migrants doing more crimes? Are immigrants doing more crimes? Is there any difference that we can identify? And I'm not saying
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there's a reason for it because that gets into racist territory. But certainly you should understand it. And the demographic nature of it is part of understanding it even if the reasons that you give to the underlying problem should be deeper than the ones we give. Yeah, no, Google is completely broken and it has nothing to do with testing. You know the way I interpret that is if we tested it bet…
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