Back to episode — Episode 267 Scott Adams - Saudi Excuses, #JobsNotMobs, Voter Turnout
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← Previous segment →n by that is that he might be the only president who's not being run by some other billionaires. He's not being managed by other people's money because he's just a singularly unique individual. He's got his own money. He doesn't apparently need money to win because he won with far less money.
Yes, the Sunday Special. Somebody's asking for clarification. So Ben Shapiro's Sunday Special, last Sunday of this month I believe. And I think that after Trump the algorithms will be making our decisions. At first it will be the algorithms will be influenced by humans but it will very soon be so complicated that there are no humans who understand what the algorithm is doing. But the algorithm will decide. How will the algorithm decide? Well I don't mean it will think and it will make a decision but it will be the decisive thing that moves people, you know, in whatever direction.
So for example if the algorithms of these social media companies accidentally — and this is possible just to use this same example — if they accidentally surfaced lots of ads with American flags in them then the algorithm might cause a Republican victory. But it wouldn't be because the algorithm decided and it wouldn't be because somebody who programmed them decided. It would be an accidental outcome of a complicated system.
So I think that Trump is the last president whose personal power, his influence, his style can kind of rise above the algorithm and rise above the competition. After him a regular politician is going to be weaker than the algorithms because the algorithms getting stronger. The next president is not going to be stronger than the algorithm. They're going to be less persuasive.
All right. Oh well I guess we have to talk about Saudi Arabia's explanation of what happened to Khashoggi. Now before I talk about this I want to clarify because since I'm talking about this topic a lot I'm having a lot of critics come after me on Twitter because they don't know my opinion. They're just seeing what I'm saying that day. They don't know the full context. My opinion of the Khashoggi thing is I don't care and I don't think the United States should care and I don't think any of the citizens should care. So don't come after me and say why do we care, why are you talking about this, we should just ignore it. I agree. But the fact is it's not being ignored and therefore it is a topic and it's insanely interesting. You know, it's horrible but it's interesting at the same time. So I'm going to talk about it.
So we were, I think a lot of us were hoping that the Saudis would come up with an alibi that was at least a little bit believable, just a little bit plausible. And what they came up with was that Khashoggi died in a fight. You know, a fight broke out and it was sort of an accidental death. Now I asked myself was the accidental death before or after they removed his fingers? You know, it was the most ridiculous excuse and it really exposes Trump.
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mp and I was counting on my presumed allies of Saudi Arabia to give me some cover so that to make it easy to not punish them too hard, you know, give me some kind of explanation that is at least a little bit plausible. It should be something that at least one side believes. Something that either the Democrats might believe or maybe even just the Republicans would be inclined to believe. But don't…
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