Back to episode — Episode 2927 CWSA 08/14/25
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Good morning everyone and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams and you've never had a better time. But if you'd like to take a chance on elevating your experience up to levels that no one can understand with their tiny shiny human brains, well, all you need for that is a copper mug or a glass, a tanker, thermos or styrofoam, a canteen, jug or flask, a…
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One of the people in the comments said he downloads the movie and then runs it through some kind of an audio normalizer. If you made a movie that has such bad sound that people are downloading it and correcting the sound before they watch it, you've done a bad job. I think it's because they make the good stuff for the 5.1 surround sound, so it's all mushed together if you watch it on a regular TV. But wow.
So now I'm completely addicted to having the closed captioning on. And it's really, I'll tell you what it is. It's sort of a confession that the people who make TV shows and movies don't even like you. They make the show so it sounds good in their home theater. You know, if you're a director you probably have one. But boy, if they should visit people's living rooms and see that the closed captioning is turned on, they'd have a heart attack.
I wonder if there's any science that they could have skipped just by asking me. Well, Tel Aviv University has a new study that shows that simply showing somebody an image multiple times, even
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if it's a fake image, so it's not something that happened in the real world, let's say it's AI generated, makes people believe it's real. So let me say that again. The more you see an image that's fake, the more you think it's real. Now I assume that the people looking at the images did not know that they were seeing real ones or fake ones. They probably didn't know. But the more you see a thing,…
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