Back to episode — Episode 895 Scott Adams - Catch up on the Day and Learn Some Tricks for Relaxing
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So let's catch you up on what's happening in the last 12 hours. Does all of this feel like Groundhog Day to you? I don't know about you, but there's a certain sameness to every day now. I feel like I wake up, I do some cartooning, I do a Periscope, and I talk about the same five things. Then there's a press conference with the president and the task force, and they babble the same meaningless stuf…
← Previous segment →So news from the simulation. I think I'll make an ongoing segment that is just news from the simulation. What I mean by that is the idea that we're a similar software simulation. And if we are, there might be some code reuse, meaning you would see some patterns that recur that seemed like more than coincidence. Of course this is just for fun because they're just coincidences, but I like to point them out because the alternative explanation that you live in the simulation and there's code reuse is just way more fun.
Here's the example. According to the news, a tiger at the Bronx Zoo in New York City has tested positive for coronavirus in what may be the first confirmed case of an animal being infected. Now do you know what is scarier than a tiger, assuming that you're in the same room with the tiger? Do you know what is scarier than that? A tiger with coronavirus. That's sort of two ways to kill you. It's like, oh good news, the zookeeper pulled you away before you were mauled totally by the tiger. You just got some flesh wounds. Well now the bad news: you got a little bit of coronavirus.
So what are the odds that we're all going to be watching Tiger King on Netflix? It's like yeah, it's all the news and social media is like Tiger King, Tiger King, Tiger King. And then the first animal that gets the coronavirus, there's a tiger. Now I don't have to tell you that there are many animals in the world. You got your cats, you got your dogs, you got your birds. I could go on. But I think you see the point. There are many animals. But there's only one animal that's sort of all in the headlines at the moment. Well I guess you could say bat, but you know bat would be the other one. But that would be too on the nose. It's like it comes from a bat and then a bat gets it. Yeah that's no good. But if the only animal that gets it first is a tiger at the same time the tigers are on Netflix? Okay, maybe it's a coincidence. Or maybe we live in a simulation. Just maybe.
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All right. So yeah, as I said, the press conference was again very inadequate in my mind. And Jake Tapper had a good piece today in which he was asking the president what the plan is. And I thought yeah, it's time to ask that question. I think it wasn't time a little bit earlier. So you know you have to allow that there's the fog of war, there's collecting data, and we're learning things and testi…
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