Back to episode — Episode 224 Scott Adams - False Memories, Kavanaugh, Peacocks, Lie Detectors, The Simulation
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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?…
← Previous segment →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 two by a majority, probably two to one, were saying no, as soon as they saw it was a two to one no, it went to a hundred percent no. You saw that, right? Not a hundred percent, but it went to something like 90 percent. Yeah, you watched that in real time. In real time you watched people's memories being faked. Because the reason the people think Q is real is that they have a false memory of it, which is a perfect connection to the earlier topic.
Let me explain to you why some people think Q is real, meaning that the predictions are accurate. Obviously there's people involved, so the people are real. But the reason that people believe that Q is accurate is because they remember accurate predictions. They remember it. Now, is it a truth that Q has amazingly accurate predictions? No, it's not true. And it can be easily demonstrated, as many people have. They've shown all the examples of Q predictions that were not even close to true.
Now, the people who believe Q is accurate, they simply don't remember the ones that were wrong. Those are false memories. They have a false memory of Q. So if you're asking yourself, here's a perfect example, if you're asking yourself how often do people have false memories, ask yourself how many people believe in Q. Because everybody who believes in Q got there the same way. They got there at first because it was interesting and people were talking about it, and you know, maybe they were a little open-minded at first. But over time they came to believe that the predictions were spookily accurate, and that hardened their belief that it was real. But those were not real memories. Those were false memories. They simply just didn't remember the ones that weren't real.
And when there was a vague one, other people would say, that's not vague. That's right on. He nailed it. He said something vague, sure, but once you see the real result, you know it wasn't vague at all. So Q is a false memory phenomenon. You can tell how easily false memories are embedded by looking at the Q situation. It's a false memory phenomenon.
I know those of you who are still pro-Q are having a tough time with this. I'm not making fun of you, and this has to be really clear. I am not making fun of Q believers, because having false memories in this kind of a context is a hundred percent normal. A hundred percent normal. In fact, if you were to describe to me this situation, and let's say I'd never been involved with it, never heard of Q at all, and just if somebody came to me and said, hey, there's somebody who claims they're making predictions and they're making lots of predictions, and some people say they're not coming true but other people are convinced that they are. Tell me what's happening. If that's all I knew, I would say, oh, that's a completely normal situation. You're talking about false memories.
The people who don't see it are always the ones with the better memories. The people who do see something, the accuracy in this case, are almost always the ones with the hallucination, the false memory. Okay, so if you see somebody claiming something is clearly true, and somebody else looking at the same stuff, and this is the important stuff, the important point is they're looking at exactly the same evidence. They're in the same room, and one says there's a giraffe standing right in front of me, and the person right next to you, same room, same time, is looking around and saying there is no giraffe in this room. Which one of them is right? It's always the one who doesn't see the giraffe.
Q is a phenomenon where some people see it as clear as the nose on their face, and other people look at the same stuff and they don't see it. Which is true? It's always the one who doesn't see it.
So now if you take the Kavanaugh story and compare it with the Q situation, you can see that the dominant element is common to both those stories: false memory is so pervasive and so normal, and it's so the context of our existence that when you see how many people believe in Q, that tells you how easily people can have false memories. And remember, the Q false memories are all within the last three years. Whether or not the accuser has a false memory, we cannot know. But the odds of it being a false memory go through the roof one year, thirty years. Best.
All right, will Kavanaugh get confirmed? I say yes. So here's my prediction. Kavanaugh will get confirmed. If Kavanaugh doesn't get confirmed, there will never be another Supreme Court justice. That's probably overstating it, but if Kavanaugh doesn't get confirmed because of this, there might be something else that comes up. But if it's because of this, then I don't think there will ever be another Supreme Court nomination that gets all the way through, because there will always be something as good as this.
So I'm guessing that the adults in Congress will decide... yeah, I'm guessing that the adults will decide that they can't run a country with this standard. And does it seem to you that it's a tremendous power shift from male to female? I know most of you are saying duh, because it's so obvious. But this situation with Kavanaugh appears to me a tremendous power shift, because now that it's clear that this can happen to essentially anybody, it was male but probably can't happen to a woman. It's sort of the perfect attack for women.
So if you're a woman and you think women don't have enough power in society and you'd like to see more of it, and that probably describes a lot of people, this is the best way to do it. Because women are largely immune from this, not a hundred percent but largely immune. And so if Kavanaugh goes down because of this, indepen
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dently of whether something really happened or not, that almost won't matter. It will make it impractical to be a male nominee to the Supreme Court. You might actually have Supreme Court nominees who are male who are aware of nothing that's a problem in their life, just say, I don't want to lose my marriage. You know, there might be people who are nominated for the Supreme Court who are male and t…
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