Moist Robot Framework

might say, well, you know, no robot is ever going to match the human brain because we have souls. But I would take from Ilya's comments that he's not a believer in souls or that if they exist, they don't have any impact on your actions. And that matches what I've been saying for quite a while. So I guess all I'm doing is bragging that the guy who knows the most about AI is on the same page as I've been for quite a long time. Yeah. Free will is an illusion. Exactly. Well, I'm going to take another victory lap here. I mentioned this before, but I don't know if I put it in the context I wanted to. So I saw a text post on X from Steve Magnus. He was talking about a meta-analysis which I've mentioned I think that had three outputs or three conclusions that process goals had larger effect on performance. Process goals. Now I take that to mean what I call a system so that your goal would be to go to the gym. Your goal would not be to lose 20 pounds. Does that make sense? Because one is a system: hey I go to the gym every day and the other is an outcome. And it said the outcome goals had a negligible effect. So this is one of my biggest messages I've been saying for again over a decade started with my book that said almost everything and still went big and apparently there's this huge meta study which means that they looked at multiple studies and concluded that I'm right that systems are better than goals. So I didn't know that that would necessarily ever have any kind of scientific backing. To me it was just sort of obvious from life. But now I just for to be fair I have often told you that a meta-analysis is not really science. So I won't back up on that. If you want to say, Scott, you also told us that a meta-analysis is not useful. Well, I don't want to change my mind on that. So I'm going to say it's nice that it agrees with me, but there's a meta-analysis, so be skeptical.

Episode 3051 CWSA 12/23/25

somebody's in danger. So danger is what gets people's attention because it's a busy world. We have stuff to look at. Can't look at everything all at the same time. So what I'm doing is creating a sense of danger. A small danger. The danger is that I would embarrass myself or humiliate myself by not being prepared. Nope. No problem yet. So yesterday an interesting thing happened. You probably want to know about it. So Carrie Lake was nice enough to put a very nice message on X wishing me well, you know, with my health challenges. And then Elon Musk, and then she said something like, "We love you," to me, meaning the audience loves me. And then one of the people in the comments was Elon Musk and he said, "We do." So basically I woke up to Elon Musk telling me he loves me. Now I love him too. So the feeling is quite mutual. But what you're wondering is does it feel better when the most successful and richest man in the world tells you he loves you versus the average person? And the answer is oh yeah it's way better. Yeah. It's just so much better. Way way better. It's funny because I'm joking, but not really. I mean, if you had a choice of somebody telling you they love you, wouldn't it be cool if they were an awesome person? Yeah, it'd be a little bit better. I mean, it would be great no matter who it was, but it's a little bit better. Anyway, so I enjoyed that today. Thank you, Elon. All right. See what else is going on. You know, some of you are waking up and saying, "Scott, I have OCD and you're ruining my routine. I come here to find out the news." Well, luckily for you, I have prepared what I call the evergreen news. So this is the news that just never changes. In

Episode 3022 CWSA 11/18/25

e meme-worthy. Yeah, AI art. It might be the same for movies. It could be that there'll be something about the lack of humanity in the movie that even though it looks perfect, your brain might say uncanny valley or something. Apparently ChatGPT is admitting that their guardrails for safety on their AI might weaken in long conversations, which is a big deal because some parents are suing the AI company over their teens taking their own lives because the AI said something that either advised them to do it or taught them how to do it or both. So the AI might kill you. That's what the lawsuit says, that it might kill you. But I don't think it'll make a two-hour movie anytime soon. According to Digital Information World, these large language model AIs, which is the kind that all of them are right now, large language models, all they do is look at patterns as we know. So they're not really thinking. They're just doing pattern recognition and going with the most dominant patterns. And the new article in Digital Information World says that even when it looks like it's thinking, you know, sometimes it'll show you its thought process. So it looks like it's thinking, but there's no thought process. It's just sort of a trick, the pattern recognition. And I'm going to remind you, you know how I always tease that when people have analogies as part of their argument that they don't have logic because analogies are not part of an argument. Sometimes an analogy is good to describe what something is, but it's never good as a prediction or an argument. It's just a bad way to use it. But that's exactly like what the large language models are. So a human who says, "Hmm, that president reminds me of Hitler, so I predict he will invade Poland." That would be an analogy thinker. Not very good. But that's sort of what the large language models do. So what I predicted would happen but didn't happen, maybe it won't, is that the AI would reproduce how humans think, but it would take us a while to realize that. We would i

Episode 2942 CWSA 08/29/25

pprove things, right? So if they just do their job of approving a thing why would they get 15 percent revenue? So I could see why Nvidia would fight that. I'll bet they can afford some really good lawyers. So, how many of you have had the following experience? You mentioned something. You were having a conversation and you said something about, I don't know, I'll just make something up, bonsai trees and then afterwards you see that all your advertisements and all your devices have turned to, you know, are you interested in a bonsai tree and you say to yourself ah my technology is listening to me and it's modified the algorithm because it knows I want a bonsai tree now. You've all had that experience right probably every one of you you've had that experience. Well there's another experience I want to see if any of you have had. How many of you have had the experience where you were thinking really hard about a thing, but you never wrote it down and you never once even whispered it out loud and then your social media delivers something on that exact topic? Have you had that weird experience yet? Let me tell you mine. So yesterday I was craving a certain food from a certain restaurant and I was thinking to myself, you know what? One of the things I love about this restaurant is that they deliver their food in these nice hard plastic containers. And so I don't like it when it comes in cardboard or something, you know, some kind of paper product because I feel like the food and the paper have merged by the time you get it. But the hard plastic ones to me seemed like a safe bet. So all day long, I was thinking, God, I can't wait for dinner. And this is unusual for me. I usually don't have dinner cravings. And I'm thinking, I can't wait to get that food that was so delicious before. I've got to get it. And then I go on social media and there's a video from some American doctor saying that the most dangerous thing you could ever do is eat something in a black plastic container. Specifically, a black plastic container. That's literally what I was craving all day long is a thing coming in a black plastic container. And apparently

Episode 2941 CWSA 08/28/25

can afford them or is it bad news because the people who own them just got poorer? A little bit of both. But it probably accrues more benefit to the people who were just trying to jump on the home ownership bandwagon. Well, I saw a post on X from Erick Erickson. Most of you probably know him, a well-known Republican for a long time. Erick Erickson. And he says he was trying to help a guy, I don't know, find a job in tech. Reached out to a friend and explained the basics. My friend, senior level at a tech company, said, "Let me guess. White male over 40." Yep. My friend was telling me how American tech companies have shut out that group. Eric, I hate to tell you, but this news is approximately 45 years old. Now, I do believe that there was a guy who recently could not get a job because he was a white guy over 40. But that started 45 years

Episode 2939 CWSA 08/26/25

eople who go to Starbucks are there for the sugar? Doesn't it seem like that? I don't feel like they sell a lot of black coffee. No, that's all I get there. You know, the only kind of beverage I get there is black coffee for the health benefits. Did you know, according to the University of Texas at Austin, they found out that if you're a senior citizen and you're helping other people, your cognitive decline is slower? In other words, the act of helping others and being useful and donating your time to somebody else's benefit makes your brain operate better. Now, I have a theory of evolution—sort of evolution, I guess—that I've always had, and I have no scientific backing for it whatsoever. So feel free to mock me for my terrible idea. But the idea is this: that your body will respond to what your brain thinks it needs. Let me say that again. I believe that in your individual life—you know, not just evolution over time, but in your immediate life—that your body will conform to what your brain believes you need most. So if I thought you were in a dangerous place where you needed muscles, I believe that you would grow muscles faster. You'd still have to exercise, obviously, but then you would grow muscles faster if you had in your

Episode 2930 CWSA 08/17/25