Back to episode — Episode 682 Scott Adams - Trump Campaign Ads, Chinese Tainted Pork, Citizen Participation
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like a superpower for persuasion. So he said if he had said I believe it and the public believes that that's politics. That's weak. But when you look at the camera and you say you know it and I know it that's persuasion. All right. When you tell somebody what they know that's a gold-plated A-plus persuasion if it's true or you have to actually have something they actually know to be true or it do…
← Previous segment →ls? Transparency. And we've got a bipartisan bill to give us that. That would be a better system. What's the better system for the Republic? The president gets ideas as they bubble up from the public. That's happening now. Our system has evolved on its own. Nobody did it intentionally but we evolved to a fairly good system where the public and their president are quite connected and they communicate every day. So there are a lot of good systems and I would say nuclear energy is another one of those.
I just tweeted around — I think I tweeted it maybe I just liked it — an article by Steven Pinker talking about what needs to be done to store nuclear waste in a safe way. Now that's skipping the details. The bottom line is we know how to do it. We know how to store nuclear waste and we're developing even better ways and we could use it for fuel if we develop the right kind of reactors etc. So that again is a design problem. We simply have to design.
All right I'm gonna have to get this so I'm gonna talk to you later but think about design. Bye for now.