Episode 2607 CWSA 09/24/24 — Scott Adams Philosophy

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ch and there would be corruption. Those are the obvious problems. You want to hear another problem? Well, according to several people, including Commissioner Brendan Carr at the FCC, he said this was the worst abuse of agency process I have seen in my 12 years of working at the FCC. So I think the short version of this is that the reason things were held up so long to get that funding out and have…

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ally be done about it because there's no correcting system. Normally the correcting system would be you publish it, you expose it, and then somebody's going to have to make a correction. Nothing like that's happening. There's a story, there's an exposure, seems pretty clear and obvious, and I don't even think there's any doubt about what happened. I'm not even sure anybody's arguing the narrative here, and it's just complicated and it's one of many things, so we're just going to ignore it. So that's our system.

Anyway, I would say that one thing we need more than just about anything, it's destroying all of our cities, is that the decision of who gets the contracts cannot be the elected officials. They just can't have it. They can't touch it. They need to be a full, you know, what do we used to call a Chinese wall? I hope that's referring to the Great Wall of China and not some racist trope that I don't know. I just used it. Is it racist to say a Chinese wall? I don't know. You can't say the virus came from a Chinese lab anyway.

So here's another story about our system. So according to Phys.org, there are some robots. They got some robots that are measuring the temperature of the deep ocean, and it's the Deep Argo floats. And they went in and they collected a bunch of data about the ocean, and then they compared it to other temperature stuff that they did without these robots, so surface temperatures and other measures. And they decided that the ocean is getting warmer. What do you think I'm going to say about this story? Do you know me well enough by now? Let me just say the most confident thing I could ever say. We can't measure the temperature of the ocean. You all know that, right?

So here's a story telling us that they've got this robot. It's measuring the temperature of the ocean. Well, I'm sure it got data, and I don't even doubt the accuracy of its measurement devices. But how much of the ocean do you think they measured? I mean, just ask yourself, how much did they measure? And I don't know if you know this. This may come as a shock to you, but the ocean doesn't have walls. I mean, you know, out in the middle of the ocean there are no walls. It turns

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out that the warmth where you measured it, the moment you're done measuring it, it can kind of move over somewhere else where maybe it wasn't so warm before. No, if you know anything about the real world and you've lived in it for five minutes, you know you can't measure accurately enough the temperature of the ocean. I'm sorry. That's not a doable thing that a human being can do with current tech…

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Wisdom from this episode

"Normally the correcting system would be you publish it, you expose it, and then somebody's going to have to make a correction. Nothing like that's happening. We're just going to ignore it. So that's our system."

Our information and accountability systems lack any real correction mechanism; clear exposures of wrongdoing get published but are then simply ignored.

"The decision of who gets the contracts cannot be the elected officials. They just can't have it. They can't touch it. They need to be a full Chinese wall."

To prevent corruption, elected officials must be completely separated from any role in awarding contracts, like a Chinese wall.

"We can't measure the temperature of the ocean. I'm sure it got data, and I don't even doubt the accuracy of its measurement devices. But how much of the ocean do you think they measured? The ocean doesn't have walls."

Accurate sensors on a few robots tell us nothing about overall ocean temperature, because the ocean is vast, variable, and has no walls to contain or define the measurement.