Episode 318 Scott Adams: The Steep Drop in Racism, Climate Change Reporting and Human Shields

Date: 2018-11-27 | Duration: 49:11

Topics

CNN top headlines today, racism, racism, racism SPLC tracks racism organizations and events… …but NOT the number of racists? SPLC business model incentives If it wasn’t for the news…would you think racism is rising? MSM is profiting from promoting racism CNN using children as “human shields” for their reporting Kids in cages Now it’s the lady with kids and tear gas in background The good news about climate report… The GDP will increase 700% in 80 years, with a 10% pullback Why isn’t any major news organization picking up on that? Fentanyl/China leader, Xi Jinping, unable to stop Fentanyl problem? China and Xi Jinping, no longer deserve respect Why can’t we duplicate human intelligence in a computer?

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[Music] bum bum bum bum hey everybody it's time finally a few minutes late get in here Sharona Mattias Chris Fuzzy's Donna dabbler Russell get in here and you know why
why you know why it's because it's time for a coffee with Scott Adams and if you're prepared and I know some of you are grab your mug grab your Stein your glass your cup your container your chalice and raise it with me for the simultaneous up so you solve the title maybe perhaps you saw the title of my periscope in which I talked about the steep drop in racism in this country have you seen the story no you haven't

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have you seen the story no you haven't seen the story I just made that up and normally I would feel bad about just making up stuff especially about something so important racism that's an important topic hmm you shouldn't just be making up stuff about racism Oh unless you're the news because apparently you can't just make up stuff so do you remember how yesterday and I think the day before I was talking about how the charge of racism had just disappeared from CNN suddenly we went from the biggest issue to just disappeared and I checked and I don't know how many CNN producers follow me on periscope but man was a little little overcompensating today today the entire first block you know the the top headlines on the top left what it was all racism it was every angle you could have on racism and of course most of it is let's say not legitimate for example

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is let's say not legitimate for example one of their are calls again repeats the the hoax that they're actually reporting as fact that the president said the white supremacist at Charlottesville were fine people now of course that didn't happen he said that the people on both sides of the statue question which is a lot more than the few people who were marching he said that there were good people on both sides of the question about the statue but again again CNN allowed a opinion person to report it as fact without any question to it now normally you would be kicked off a website if you repeated something that's not a fact as a fact that should be enough to get you no longer able to write opinion pieces for CNN but apparently that's almost a requirement these days but here's the funny part the top two articles on CNN about racism of course has to be about

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about racism of course has to be about Trump right so here's the first set line it says Obama's victory lifted millions Americans but for white supremacist he lit a powder keg that was exacerbated by Trump's victory all right so the first story is that the election of President Obama a black American made racism go up here's the second story Trump says he's not a racist well that's good but the second part of the title is that's not how white nationalists see it and you read the story and the second story is that racism went up because President Trump was elected now the first story just to summarize the first story is that racism went up because President Obama was elected the second story is a racism went up because President Trump was elected therefore therefore

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therefore right if those are if those two claims are true and we're going to talk about how true those claims are but if those trained if those two things are true what has the trend taught us I think you taught us the CNN is can report that racism is up no matter what happens if Elizabeth Warren became our next president would CNN report racism is down probably not probably not and how do we know racism is up or down have you ever wondered that how do you measure whether racism is up or down now we've already determined that the racist groups the few people that that will go on camera and say racist stuff and they're okay being quoted and their picture taken so that group of geniuses will tell you that they have been

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will tell you that they have been inspired if a black man becomes president or a white man becomes president I'm pretty sure they're going to say they got inspired no matter what aren't they in the job of recruiting so CNN talks to the people who are literally in charge of recruiting of the racists and they say hey is the news causing you to be better or worse at recruiting is the racist gonna say you know it's really bad for racism these days people are being flexible and open-minded all over the place it's really bad for business racism is way down recruiting recruiting is really being impacted by all the good stuff that's happening said no racist ever if your job is to recruit what do you say no matter what when somebody puts a microphone in front of you you don't say yeah things aren't going my way everybody's being kind to each other I didn't see this happening it's really

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I didn't see this happening it's really bad day for racism they do not say that now if you're a professional racist whose job it is to recruit other races to your little racist society or whatever no matter what is happening in the world if they put a microphone in front of your face what are you gonna say yeah we're really inspired now or in we're inspired by Obama we're inspired by Trump or inspired by anything that happens basically whoever's president who's president Bernie Bernie Sanders is president Wow I'm inspired so the first thing you have to understand is if you put a microphone in front of a racist recruiter he's gonna say business is good that's all he's gonna say it doesn't matter what you know now how do you measure how do you affect check the you know the racist well as luck would have it there is an

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well as luck would have it there is an organization whose primary reason for existing financially financially being a key word they make their money by reporting on racist organizations and racists events so if there's a racist event they report it so that they can capture them all and we know what's happening with racist events which is very important yeah it's called the Southern Poverty Law Center now if your job let me just walk you through the logic here let's say it's your job and it's a new sort of a new industry right it we have we haven't been reporting on racism in a in a coherent way for hundreds of years rather it's sort of new that we have this organization the Southern Poverty Law Center and that their job is to track racism now if it's your job and you get money for it and

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your job and you get money for it and the money makes you happy and the money allows you to have a good life and you like money do you think money has anything to do with your decisions I'm going to say yes so for example do you think the Southern Poverty Law Center is likely to report their racism is trending down sharply because if they did the people paying them might be tempted to say looks like this problem is solving itself we don't really need reporting it's just down every year you cannot expect the group that controls the data uses probably some degree of subjectivity but it doesn't look like the route that it does look like the groups are reporting are legitimately racist groups I think that part is probably accurate but have you noticed

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probably accurate but have you noticed what they track if you are a good a major let's say you had access to any kind of data so you could you could get any kind of data on anything you were magic what would be the way you would measure racism in this country now there might be a number of different ways you look at it you look at violence for sure you would look at the number of organizations that are explicitly racist organizations for sure and the Southern Poverty Law Center looks at both of those things that's really good right so you should be tracking the number of organizations and they are and you should be tracking the number of events you know the violent events that are a hate base you should track those things but what's missing isn't the thing that's missing the number of racists wouldn't that be the most illuminating number just how many racist because there could easily be more organizations

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there could easily be more organizations both fewer racists I don't know if that's likely I don't know if that's true I'm not going to make that claim but don't you want to know the number of people as a percentage of the country or even as a wrong number both would be good so I noticed that the Southern Poverty Law Center does not count number of people who identify as racist and it could be there's no way to track that maybe people just don't admit it
it so instead as a proxy they tracked the number of events and the number of organizations now if you are paid to track the number of racist organizations do you think that next year you will find more of them or next year you will find fewer of them or next year you will find that basically it's the same number as last year which of those gets you paid next year

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paid next year more of them right if they started reporting well it looks good we're trending in the right direction there's the fewer hate groups every year woo woo and and by the way we said there were a thousand of them last year however many I think they're about a thousand actually we said there were a thousand last year and you know it looks like at least a hundred of them were just a website by a guy in a basement so we're taking that off the list so really it's down 100 this year they're not going to say that they're not in the business to tell you that there's less racism so the one the one and only keepers of how much racism there is are strongly incentive to say there's more and it does make me wonder what it takes to be a racist organization how many people have to be in the group before you're a racist organization that's a

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you're a racist organization that's a serious question if there's a website that says hey we're a racist group we're meeting on Tuesday I'm pretty sure you get on the list right the Southern Poverty Law Center is probably not going to drive to your hound your town in you know area but Montana they're not going to drive into your little town and hear you but Montana which I'm sure is the name of the town and and ring up the racist and say hey we're doing we're doing some research on all the racist you've got a website says you meet on Tuesday can I confirm that you're a real organization and not a guy in the basement with a website I don't think they do that do they yes I've been to Harry Butte not not but of course so Harry Butte Montana home of a guy with a website gets counted now if

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with a website gets counted now if there's so let's say there's some ambiguity let's say you're in charge of counting the number of racist organizations and some of them are sort of on the margin you look at it you're like yeah I can see why somebody would say it is but I can see that they don't really say that a white supremacist so is it fair to call them that when they don't say that of themselves which way is the Southern Poverty Law Center going to lean which way gets you paid you're going to always get lean in the direction that gets you paid unless there's something you know mentally wrong with you so I have made the statement that racism is in steep decline I don't believe there's any evidence against that statement now I don't know I'm not saying that like I really know it's true or that I should convince you it's true but here's my instinct so this is my this is my instinct just living and breathing in

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instinct just living and breathing in the real world and interacting with real people and you know just being alive for as many years as they have and I want to test this against your own instinct if there was no such thing as the news would you notice that that racism is on the rise because there's nothing happening in my town my life my family my experience there's nothing happening that I could identify as a rise in racism nothing absolutely nothing there's no gray area now of course I hear about racist events but I only hear about them on the news now that's partly because of where I live now it's a low crime area and things work pretty well here but you know and I'm sure if you live somewhere else maybe you'd hear about it all the time but my feeling is so here's my here's my whoa like all

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so here's my here's my whoa like all this I'm gonna call it true until somebody can prove me prove to me it isn't so this is my belief I'll just call the belief subject to correction and I if somebody can fact check this I would I would like to know it'd be good to know my belief is that racism has steadily declined every year of my life would anybody disagree with that and that has also declined this year because keep in mind most people don't follow the news it's actually it's actually a rarity to follow the news and people don't necessarily believe the news so the news is you know saying if it leads it bleeds so if there's any kind of violence and they can put any kind of a racial element on that it makes it a better story so the news is all racism racism racism and I'm not for for not one minute am i diminishing the importance

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minute am i diminishing the importance of the story it probably does help it probably does help that they report it because it keeps us in check maybe it's a maybe it acts as a you know a way to you know keep it down or something so I think the racism stories are important and they talk about an important thing but it feels like there is less racism on the ground than at any time in American history maybe any time in human history that's what it feels like now maybe because I'm not black you know I don't I don't have the sensitivity to it I'm just now seeing it what I would love to I would love to know the experience of let's say a adult black family now let's say somebody who's older let's say somebody who's a 40 year old black man or a woman who doesn't follow the news that that's important they don't follow the news so

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important they don't follow the news so they're not being influenced by the news what would they say would they say yeah racism is worse this year than it's ever been they might and if they even if they did say that I would be very alarmed but if they don't follow the news I think that on the ground it's just less every year and here's how I would define less you're a your white business owner and a black job applicant comes in are you likely to discriminate compared to let's say last year Tamiya seems like the ability to get a job the ability to marry anybody you want to marry the ability to you know free associate the ability to be friends the you know the cross pollenization to me it seems like it's better than ever I remember my late stepson who passed away this year but I remember when he

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away this year but I remember when he was young maybe eight or so and I would go into his bedroom and he would have one
one he had one poster on his wall he'd so it was his hero so his only one poster that he thought was important enough to put it in his wall and of course it was it was Michael Jordan right so he's only the only person that he wanted to idolize in the sports world was a black adult male and then you look at his I guess was an iPod at the time and you say show me what music you're listening to and it would be all you know black artists so all of his musical preferences his sporting preferences and then the way he dressed so he only wanted to dress in a way that was sort of you know inspired by that culture and you know you so he was the the whitest little kid but in his world he was born into a world where being black was the best

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world where being black was the best thing ever now I don't I don't know that he would say it that way so I don't want to you know I wouldn't put words in his mouth but his his impression of the world is that being a famous black person was that's his role model now was that true when you were a kid most of your adults probably not right you also had your your heroes some of them were black some of them were white but in his era you know the kids that are born today it's completely different you know the whole black white thing doesn't mean anything like it used to mean one how does it get so it seems to me that racism is just shrinking every year and a lot of it just has to do with how much interaction you have you know the more you interact the less the less the race matters because you know in in a daily interaction it just doesn't come up and yeah and then you become friends

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up and yeah and then you become friends you become co-workers you become lovers you become whatever your is becoming but I'm gonna I'm gonna put that stake in the ground Boop that if you did not watch the news your daily life would suggest that their racism is the lowest it has ever been now it might also be true that we're more willing to talk about it and complain about it than we ever have been so it could be that people are just feel more comfortable talking about it as a topic because it's in the news because there is a president Trump because the last president was a President Obama those two things just give us you know they trigger us to talk about the topic but my guess is things are better all right let's say I I've noticed that CNN has taken a new approach to the news which I would call using children as human shields you know in war areas like

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human shields you know in war areas like Syria and you would hear that the the bad people were taking the women in the children and using them as human shields so that you wouldn't bomb them because you know if you did you'd kill the children as well and I noticed that about CNN so CNN wants to be you know the anti-trump Network and they are and so their approach to immigration is not to talk about not to talk about assimilation and rates and crime and you know rule of law and what what laws we should pass yeah they're sort of staying away from that because they would not have a strong position there because most people want a good set of rules you know and actually the country I think is not that far off on immigration it's more like the government is that far off so how did they cover it they say Trump is putting kids in cages in other words they're they're creating a story that you can't argue against where that

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that you can't argue against where that was sounding like you're in favor of putting children in cages you can't argue against the story it's like using children as human shields now you know if you were being objective and nobody is objective but if if it were possible you'd say well Obama put kids in cages too you know there were just less of it and the reason there was less of it is that it was a trend they had started under Obama and simply continued because nobody was stopping it so the president tried to stop it which temporarily created more children in cages which gave CNN the story now they're doing the same thing with the caravan have you noticed the caravan coverage I talked about this yesterday there's that one photo of the the woman with two little children and they're say was that a tear gas or pepper spray or something going off like 50 feet away from them now if

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off like 50 feet away from them now if you were to talk about that objectively you'd say stuff like well it looks like the caravan was using these poor people and pushing them in front to make it a to make it a news story and CNN fell for it or writers sell for it whoever took the picture but everybody reported it and and you you would talk about it objectively but they're using these pictures of the children and the teary and it's not tear gas it's I think they said it was peppers pepper gas or something so they're saying that if you were to argue against whatever position they're putting forward that you would be in favor of pepper spraying children so CNN is literally taking children as as human shields for their news stories so you can't criticize them it's like well you could criticize our position on immigration laws because that would just be talking about laws that's fine but

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be talking about laws that's fine but can you criticize us when we say it's wrong to pepper spray a child that's our position our position is that it's wrong to pepper spray us child whyever you say I'm gonna turn in to you in favor of pepper spraying children our position is it's wrong to put children in cages whatever you say I'm gonna say that makes you in favor of children in cages so children as human shields let's talk about the climate report and the financials have you heard anybody else besides me say that the climate port climate report from just a financial perspective is actually good news because a 10% hit to the GDP over 80 years when the GDP is going to go up by multiples in other words the GDP will be up this much but

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words the GDP will be up this much but the climate report said don't get so happy about it being up this much in 80 years because it's really only gonna be up this much you know that's just good there's gonna be a 10 percent we head over that time has anybody but me have you heard anybody say that they have literally reported good use that it's not that big a problem yes we have to do all the things we can do to make sure it doesn't get worse and you would do those things anyway for a green energy to make the world a better place Oh somebody said that whilst Wall Street Journal did I haven't seen that link if somebody can send me that link but are you are you surprised that number one no one has debunked what I said in other words no matter what I say even on these periscopes you know most of you are sort of friendly to my message as it were so I would expect you know it would be

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I would expect you know it would be normal for 95% of you to agree with most of the things I say which is the reason you're here in the first place because there it's a type of message that's compatible with you but no matter what I say and you've noticed it here Arthur always at least 5% of the people who say my god Scott you can't do math you don't know the data here's the link you idiot you have you noticed that that's a very consistent thing but on this one topic where I said I'm looking at the same number as you are and 10% is a small number prove me wrong can have you seen even one person on this periscope or anywhere else in the world go directly at that point and say no 10% over 80 years is actually a big number and it's a catastrophe has anybody supported their own side in in the in the in the same zip code as my

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in the in the in the same zip code as my point somebody said I just made an argument I didn't see it ah Wall Street Journal says it won't crash the economy well I
so the Wall Street Journal makes the same point somebody saying now have you seen that point on either I haven't seen it on Fox and I haven't seen it on CNN certainly not going to see it on msn BC would would you say that that's that that version of analysis is just being ignored or smothered or people don't know if it sounds right or not hey it was an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal alright so here's the thing why is it an opinion piece so if the if the closest that message got to being a

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closest that message got to being a mainstream message is an opinion piece it never made it to the news didn't the original report itself make it to the news you know not just the opinion the the climate report that just came out was reported as news it wasn't reported as an opinion because it is news it's actual news it should be reported as news but my point that 10% is a small number compared to how big the GDP will be by then that's also just true right it's not an opinion is it and I guess that's what I'm saying is that I don't believe I'm saying something that's an opinion it feels to me that it's just mathematically obvious as in two plus two is four is not my opinion it's just the way words wait math works both were opinion you say so look for look for how

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opinion you say so look for look for how widely my opinion is completely unchallenged and still not report it it's kind of interesting isn't it and I don't really have a I guess the best theory for why that would be now let me put this in a little bit of context you you probably know by now that all of the major news outlets follow my periscopes and if I say something provocative that they can mock it becomes a headline story I think most of you have seen that right you've seen me say stuff on periscope and then a day later there'll be a feature article somewhere in which they'll say Dilbert cartoonist says dumb stuff here's why we think he's an idiot or Dilbert cartoonist says something useful so we're gonna talk about it you've seen how often the rest of the media copies what I say here or reports it or mocks it right it's a normal thing I I have high visibility and and I get

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I I have high visibility and and I get picked up by a lot of outlets now why why are they so silent on this one point both Pro Pro and anti now my guess is that the people who who think I might be right that 10% is telling us there's not much of a big problem I think those people are not confident that that they can get away with that opinion in other words if they report it they're not they're not economist and they're probably thinking to themselves he does sound right 10 percent doesn't sound like a big big deal if you're looking at 80 years and the fact and by the way the 10 percent only happens if we don't do anything about it so the base assumption that even gets you to the worst case scenario of 10 percent is almost certainly unlikely to happen so it's not even 10 percent it's probably closer to zero my guess if I had to guess I would

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zero my guess if I had to guess I would say the impact based on the report based on their own report I'm not making up my own report I'm saying that the report that the government said that was reported as a catastrophe by their own report it says that's only if you don't do anything to help it in 80 years in 80 years we're gonna do plenty of stuff we'll be able to suck the co2 out of the air if we care and we'll be able to seed the clouds we'll be able to you know Geoengineer the whole planet in 80 years did you factor in economic growth from climate change my guess is that the 10% did not do anything complicated in terms of figuring out you know the anything from the you know the change in the value of money I'll bet they didn't include stuff like inflation anything else that would make it at least a complicated analysis alright so

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least a complicated analysis alright so I saw a headline that said that fentanyl China might be humiliated and embarrassed by the upcoming g20 meeting this week maybe tomorrow or so in which President Xi is reportedly unlikely to reach agreement with President Trump on tariffs to which I say good good I don't think we should make any deal with China so I read yesterday that one of the reasons one of the reasons that China is acting slow or at least not acting effectively against the fentanyl producers is that they have an archaic drug approval classification system and the stories the story goes that because you can take fentanyl and change it a little bit until it's a different chemical but it does the same thing that

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chemical but it does the same thing that every time China classifies a new fentanyl variety as illegal the the drug users the drug dealers just change it a little bit in the lab and now it's legal again until China catches up so the argument is that the Chinese legal you know drug classification system is too slow compared to the United States where I believe fact-check could be on this I believe that our our classification is more broad so that if you made a variety of fentanyl it would still be illegal under our system or it'd still be classified the same as fentanyl now doesn't seem to you that China can't solve that problem does it seem Eve a little bit likely that yeah we understand that China's bureaucratic things don't work the same things take a

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things don't work the same things take a long time but does it even seem a little bit even a little bit credible that they can't solve this problem that is as easy as saying oh let's do what America did and classify the you know the whole group of drugs even if they're a little bit different you think that China can't figure that out do you think the president she can't pick up the phone and tell whoever's in charge of that say hey you keep classifying these with too much detail you know just just say the whole the whole range of them is illegal and then we'll be done with us can you take care of that by tomorrow thank you President Xi goodbye do you think that China can solve that problem in 24 hours I don't and so when when the news sorry I've got it it she knows this is weird I hate it when my nose itches because it looks like I'm doing something else but it's literally just the itch so the the

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it's literally just the itch so the the headline which was interesting that I tweeted was that China would be humiliated at the g20 and I think that's the word that's the operative word this should be treated by President Xi as a total humiliation he's going he's going to the g20 to talk about international trade and he can't even make a phone call think about that think how ineffective and embarrassing that would be to be the head of China and you can't solve this problem that could be solved with one phone call in fact you don't even have to make a phone call if you're the president of China you could just turn to your your chief of staff whatever whatever they call them there and say hey chief of staff could you go tell our version of the FDA just to classify all that fentanyl stuff

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just to classify all that fentanyl stuff the same and just make it all illegal and then the chief of staff says okay I think I could have that done in an hour and president she apparently can't get that done now some people are saying it's intentional its strategic it's part of the negotiations okay I'm okay with you thinking that if you're okay with me saying that they're humiliating themselves in public and making a laughingstock of China China no longer deserves respect I wouldn't you know if you had asked me a you know a year ago do you respect China I would say well they do some they do a lot of things I don't like you know a lot of things I don't like but you really have to respect that well they run you have to respect that they're doing a good job for China you know you have to respect where they were and how far they've come to be a major power and a year ago I

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to be a major power and a year ago I would have said you gotta respect China and in fact I've said lots of glowing things about their you know they have engineers in charge of things which I kind of like because they make irrational decisions but I'd say in the past year they have disgraced themselves to the point where you can no longer afford them respect and President Xi is really the the architect of that so you know he's got to take the responsibility for it now if somebody somebody asked me on Twitter yesterday they were concerned about me and they said that they hope that China wasn't watching my periscopes the the implication being that China might somehow act against me you know or kill me or something and I thought to myself nobody wants to die well some people do but most people don't want to die but it would actually be worth it in my case if China murdered

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be worth it in my case if China murdered me it's not going to happen but if trying to murder me and they did it because I'm talking about about their fentanyl trade it wouldn't be good for the fentanyl business I'm a little bit too high-profile for that so I say you don't want to get in a fight with somebody who's willing to die it's it's the ultimate fight you don't want to get him to if China wants to pick a fight with me I am actually willing to die on this issue there aren't too many issues I'd be willing to die for but if I have to take a bullet to reduce the fentanyl deaths in this country thirty thousand deaths a year if me taking a bullet could reduce the number of deaths by ten thousand here you know I don't think you would but hypothetically if all I did was raise the raise the profile of the issue so that people could work on and it got more funding got more attention made a difference I would take a bullet for that would you not I mean if you

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for that would you not I mean if you were if you were in the military and you know you could sacrifice yourself to set to save ten thousand people somewhere else would you do it well I hope so we have an entire military you know my understanding my understanding is that a hundred percent of the people who are in the bullet military would take a bullet to save 10,000 people so if China takes me out it's just not gonna be good for China but it might save a lot of people all right what would the simulation respawn you as
I love that question because as I've said before there's so much of me on on public digital media you know there's so much of my opinion my personality my my my physicality what I look like how I talk how I move my hands every part of that is part of the

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hands every part of that is part of the permanent record and will live forever on the internet so anybody who wants to bring me back in the future they can do it
it all the parts are there now alright so but he says am i real or a I so I've said this before but I'm doing a series in Dilbert you'll see in I think in about a month you'll see a series and I've said this before that the the real reason we can't create artificial intelligence is that we're trying to we're trying to duplicate in a computer the the intelligence that humans have and we keep saying how come I can't duplicate human intelligence in my computer why is it so hard it seems like we should have been done by now we've been talking about AI for so long and we have a little bit of it but it feels like it would be more human-like by now why can't we duplicate human intelligence and there's a real funny

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intelligence and there's a real funny answer you can't duplicate something that doesn't exist human intelligence is literally not the jokey sense and illusion if you were to program a computer to act like a human it would be a hot mess because look at look at Twitter you would have to get rid of all of its logic you would have to get rid of the AIS a willingness to look at context you would have to you know the AI would have to be emotional it would have to call you a racist no matter what you said the AI would would have to be crippled from what it already is in order to be dumb enough and irrational enough to mimic human intelligence and so I can't I can't emphasize this enough I'm not joking I'm not joking this is

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I'm not joking I'm not joking this is literally why we can't develop artificial intelligence we're trying to do something that logically can't be done you can't make a copy of something that isn't there and that's what we're trying to do we're trying to make the copy of something that never existed in the first place and we can't figure out why the copy doesn't look right [Music]
what I want for Christmas well I have to tell you that many of you know I've been taking drum lessons online so I have an online drum teacher every couple weeks we get together on iPad and and I get a drum lessons and I had a digital drum set but the digital drum set well they have some advantages just doesn't really sound like a drum set and so I bought myself for Christmas a drum set which turns out to be really hard if you're not a drummer you can't really buy a

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not a drummer you can't really buy a drum set did you know that like I thought I would just go online on I thought I would go on Amazon and now I just look for a good drum set you know because I can afford to get the good one you know just you know buy a drum set nobody sells that did you know that did you know you can't buy a drum set unless you buy like a low-end kit if you buy the low-end it'll sell you a set of all the stuff you need that looks like a drum kit as soon as you get up to the mid the mid-range and you look to shop for a drum set and you say oh here's one this looks exactly like what I want and then you click the details and it says does not come with a snare drum like that's the most common thing does not come with a snare drum and like snare drum 80% of everything you do on the drums is this their job and then it says does not come with the hardware that sort of holds them in place and I'm thinking it doesn't come with the stuff that holds it in place what do you do put it on the floor no you have to

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put it on the floor no you have to figure out how to get a separate a separate snare drum how to separately buy the hardware and then you've got to find a kit that has the right number of things for the thing you're buying and then the cymbals didn't you think that if you brought it bought a drum kit it would come with cymbals right because every drum kit has cymbals so if you buy one of course it comes with cymbals oh no oh no you do not want to buy a drum kit and cymbals as a package because you're not going to get the good stuff so you have to separately shop and figure out what you want for symbols now you say to yourself well there can't be that many options right oho yes there are there are a lot of symbols and it turns out that there's a really big difference and if you don't get the good ones you're gonna regret it forever and don't go cheap on symbols people tell me so I was lucky enough to contact somebody had Sweetwater that's big Music Store and haven't you happened

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big Music Store and haven't you happened to be a drummer so he talked me through oh you need this and this and even the simplest stuff such as I knew I wanted three symbols but all the pictures showed four and I was like uh-huh why can't I buy three symbols when all all basic drum kits have have three right got your hi-hat your crash arrived and he explains to me oh it looks like it's for cymbals but it's really three because the hi-hat is two cymbals just basic stuff that you wouldn't know how to have it navigate until somebody who was actually a drummer tells you and then it gets worse so so then he mentioned something about drum covers and I said drum covers meaning the surface of the drum that you actually hit with a with a stick and and he says yeah you'll want to you'll want to replace those and I said replace them how long how long will it take for the ones that I buy with the drums to wear out and he goes oh no you'll probably want to replace it on the first day I'm

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want to replace it on the first day I'm like what he goes yeah nobody likes nobody likes the drum covers that come with the drums you know people replace them because they gets a better sound and I said okay well I don't want to do that because apparently it's a big pain in the ass you have to take apart the drum and fit it in there and tighten it up and retune it and you know if you're not a drum player retuning is going to be a problem right because you don't have the memory of what it's supposed to sound like so I said well okay well can you point me toward the drum set that already has a good drum head on it so I don't have to do that at least until it wears out and he said they don't make those and I said are you telling me that the drum industry which is a very advanced industry lots of big players and you're telling me that the drum industry doesn't make a drum that you would want to play if you knew how to play drums and he said true you actually

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play drums and he said true you actually can't buy drums that a good drum player would want to play you could only buy parts of things that you can you can cobble together to make your own personal situation are you freaking kidding me in 2018 I can't buy a drum set I have to compile it myself from parts and that's that's the state of the state of the industry anyway that's enough on that I will talk to you all later