Back to episode — Episode 600 Scott Adams - Let’s Discuss a Tweet Because Everything Else Seems to be Fine
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Well, I'd like to talk about all the problems in the world first. Okay, that was me talking about all the problems in the world, because it turns out there aren't any real problems in the world, at least if you take it from the news, because the news is talking about a tweet. That's right. The biggest news in the world is a tweet that was worded in such a way that people feel bad for other people.…
← Previous segment →Now if I told you, yes I have many times, that's a way to evaluate your filter online. Let's say you're looking at the world one way and interpreting it one way. Somebody else is looking at it another way. Whether it's this presidential tweet, some people say, "My God, it's a racist outrage," and other people, "It's just trash talk." Two very different filters. One of the things that you can do to test your filter, to see which one is the right one, is to see which one predicts better.
One of the filters predicts that the president will do a bunch of racist stuff and that people who are good at spotting racist stuff will notice it. So you would imagine if you have one filter. The other filter says no, you're just imagining it. He does the simultaneous sip, if you missed it. So the other filter says no, he's just trash-talking like he always does, and you're imagining all the bad stuff. Which of those two filters would predict that Israel would name a settlement after President Trump? Is that the filter that says, "Oh yeah, he's backing the neo-Nazis"? Would Israel not be able to detect that someone was backing neo-Nazis if he were the President of the United States? Yeah, I think Israel would be able to detect that.
So my filter that says he's just talking seems to be consistent with observation. What we observe is that Israel says that's just politics. He seems like the greatest friend Israel ever had. Which of the filters would predict that President Trump would be strong on prison reform? Is it the one that says, "My God, he'll do anything that's bad for brown and black people," or is it the filter that says it's just politics? Of course he wants what's good for Americans. That's his job. And he wants to be evaluated. Presumably everybody wants to be evaluated by how they do with their job. So why would he be different?
So my filter predicts a hundred percent of everything that's happened. A hundred percent. My filter aligns and predicts everything you observe. But if your filter only predicts half of what happens and the other half is just inexplicable, well, maybe it's time to rethink your filter on life.
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Let's take a little deeper into this whole "go back home" tweet. You all know the background. I don't need to give you the background. We're talking about President Trump's tweet that's causing everybody's hair to be on fire. So here, let me show you some of the craziness that this has caused. Over at CNN, where opinion and news are treated as the same thing, and I say that because CNN doesn't do…
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