Back to episode — Episode 224 Scott Adams - False Memories, Kavanaugh, Peacocks, Lie Detectors, The Simulation
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thing to you, and it just happened to be that there were two judges in the same story, what does that do to the credibility of your memory? Well, when memories are false, they're often suggested by something. So false memories are not created out of just nothing. They're usually created out of some experience you've had, something that's suggested. In fact, the main way that a false memory can be…
← Previous segment →say that other side is a bunch of Nazis. You can do anything you want to a Nazi. There's no control on that. So suddenly you've got a situation where the social controls are off. Democrats can no longer control each other because they don't see the world the way you see it. Franken had to step down. Yeah, so Al Franken didn't have to step down. He just did step down. If he had stayed, who knows?
Get to the Coast Guard story. Yeah, there's you also the Coast Guard story. There was a Coast Guard person in the background of a video story, and he appeared to give the white power symbol. Now I saw that and I could not for the life of me think of anything that could be that wasn't the white power symbol. In other words, when I looked at it, I thought to myself, okay, whatever that is, it's certainly not... it's not natural looking. It doesn't look natural. But the fact that I think it doesn't look natural, how much does that matter? It doesn't mean anything. The fact that I didn't think it looked natural, that doesn't tell me what another person is thinking or why they're doing anything. It means nothing. Yeah, it could be a troll. It could be accidental. It could not look like what it looked like. Could be anything.
So I think what you can conclude from it is that you can't really conclude anything from it. Session says that those who suppress free speech should be suppressed. Is he talking about the social media companies? I saw the story that Jack Dorsey of Twitter admitted that conservatives would not feel comfortable at the company or don't feel comfortable at the company. And I thought, well that's an understatement. But I think it's important that he... I think it's important that Jack Dorsey has said publicly he acknowledges the situation, because that's the first step to doing something about it.
What has Q predicted? Do people still believe in Q? Is Q still a thing? Give me a sense on this Periscope. I know a lot of people who were huge supporters may have stopped watching me, but say yes or no. How many of you believe Q is real? I'm looking at your comments. So look at the comments so you can see your fellow through the filters. So I'm seeing about... does it look like two to one, three to one against Q being real? No, all I see is nos. Now all the yeses went away. Well here's an interesting experiment.
How come all the yeses came first and now it's almost a solid wall of nos? I saw one why. Wow. Okay, let me tell you what just happened, because I don't think you just realized what happened. Somebody was passing around a story recently, an article about a study showing how easy it is to change people's opinions with essentially peer pressure. In other words, they've done studies where, I think this study was, they would show people two lines and they would say which line is longer. And if the person was alone, they'd look at the two lines, they'd see the one that's longer, and they'd say, okay, this line is longer. So when they were not influenced, people could see the reality for what it was.
But as soon as you added some people who were working with the researchers, and the people working with the researchers would say, oh yeah, that other line is the long one. So the researchers would try to influence the person who didn't know they were being influenced to say something that clearly wasn't, was obviously not true. The length of two lines. And it turns out that you can very easily make somebody see two lines differently, like right in front of their eyes. They're looking at two lines. If nobody is there to influence them, they know one is bigger. Not the big one. If somebody's there and they're pretending they think the other line is the long one, something like a third of them will change their mind immediately. I think it's a big number, whatever it is.
So what I did here in this Periscope was I asked you if Q is real or fake. Did you see how the answers went in the beginning? When I first asked the question, people gave their answer without being influenced by other people, because the other comments hadn't come in yet. There's a lag. So when I asked the question, the people who believe that Q is real said
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yes, and you saw a bunch of yeses. Yes, yes, yes, no, no, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, no, yes, yes. But the more nos you saw, it very quickly collapsed reality until the only answer you were seeing was no at the end. Did you see that in real time? It was exactly like the experiment. As soon as the people who said yes could observe that the people that they would consider peers essentially were, or t…
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