Episode 484 Scott Adams: Hoaxes, AOC, Immigration, Nuclear Power

Date: 2019-04-08 | Duration: 28:40

Topics

An AOC tweet embracing Gen IV development could save the planet NO danger of meltdown with Gen IV designs NO toxic waste created CAN SAFELY burn existing toxic waste as its fuel Ex-Senator Bob Kerrey, a Dem, says Dems are suffering 2 “delusions” Secretary Nielsen fired from DHS Trump SOP, “shake the box” till you gets variables that work “The Bad Idea” is a Hollywood writer brainstorming technique Kim Jong Un releases new propaganda video Demotes the power of his nukes, raises positive sounding things

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hey everybody I've got a little technology problem today so if the sound is not as good you don't need to tell me because I already know it coming to you from my phone instead of my iPad my iPad is not working for reasons unclear but in any event you're here now and you're here in time time to enjoy the simultaneous zp grab your cup your mug Your Vessel your Stein your jealous your tankered your thermos fill it with your favorite liquid and join me now for the simultaneous
sip oh that's good sipping so there's an interesting quote from uh ex Senator Bob carry Bob KY was famous for being a blunt a little bit too honest Senator a Democrat he says of his fellow Democrats

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Democrat he says of his fellow Democrats that they are quote suffering from two major delusions he actually uses the word delusions so this is important so there's an ex Democrat an ex- Senator Bob Cary who's calling other Democrats delusional his two examples are the first he writes it or opad is quote is that Americans long for a president who will ask us to pay more for the pleasure of increasing the role of the Federal Government in other words socialism so he thinks the first illusion is that there are enough people in the country who want socialism but the second one he says quote is second delusion is that Americans were robbed of the truth when special prosecutor Rob meller and attorney general bar concluded that President Trump did not collude with Russia uh and he doesn't think the full report will change any so they're under the delusion that they were robbed of the

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truth uh which is funny by itself now what I think is interesting about this is that it does it does seem as though citizens are waking up to the fact on both sides that they have been duped by their media and I'm going to give you a very annoying demonstration of
of that um I wish if I if my iPad worked I would be taking calls actually I'm going to wait on that uh because I need to take calls to do this right but let's just say that there's a big uh delusion on the right that I'm going to amazingly debunk for you but I can't do it on my phone because the microphone doesn't work on my phone Etc all right let's talk about secretary neelen quitting or being fired from Homeland Security one of the things I tell you about this president that I really like about his technique is that

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really like about his technique is that when we're in a situation where he can't figure out how to move you know he gets sort of Trapped By the options it's like well if you go this way it doesn't work if you go this way it doesn't work and you have no options so what does Trump do in any situation where the situation is frozen and there there are no real good options that are enough for everybody he shakes the box he takes that box and he says these variables don't work shake shake shake shake shake how about now nope still not there shake shake shake shake shake and by replacing nson he's simply introducing new variables so if you're if you're looking at it on the simple level you say well how good was she how good is the replacement you know did you get a replacement who's as good as the person you got rid of that's sort of the lowlevel way to look at this the higher level way is that the variables we had didn't work so he just shook the freaking box and changed the

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freaking box and changed the variables now one of the things that apparently reportedly who knows how real this is reportedly um the president has suggested a number of terrible ideas for the Border one of them was to get rid of Border immigration judges in other words if you don't have any judges you're not going to slow up the system because there's there's nobody waiting for a judge so he said just get rid of them and just don't have any amasty apparently now that would be I think illegal and it would be very unwise according to the people who disagree but he sure shook the Box didn't he he took some variables that were not in play not in the conversation shook shook shook Shook and now we're talking about it now it could be that his initial idea was no good but that's that's the lowest level of thinking about this situation every time he shakes the box every time he asks a

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shakes the box every time he asks a ridiculous question he's giving us the bad idea and when he introduces the bad version of the idea it makes us all focus on the topic and there might be somebody who has a good idea so I've I've actually literally taught this technique a number of times on Periscope and in my books in Hollywood it's called the the bad idea where you don't know how to solve a plot for example let's say you're a writer and you don't know how to how to fix the the plot so instead of sitting there saying nothing if you're in a team of writers somebody will propose the bad idea so well okay this is the bad idea but suppose an alien came down and you know did something and people will say that's stupid it's not even a movie about aliens but that does make me think about an outside force coming in so what if it were the Army and then suddenly you worked from the bad idea to a good idea it's a it's a specific brainstorming technique the president

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brainstorming technique the president every time he throws out a ridiculous idea that gets reported to us out of context we only see it out of context we say that might be the D idea is he is he uninformed like why would anybody say something so off-the-wall and ridiculous and
and impractical and the reason is it doesn't matter it doesn't matter that the idea is off thewall and impr practical it only matters that he's changing the focus he's changing the variables he's shaking the Box he's getting everybody thinking about it he's getting us thinking about it in new ways he's introducing new ways to think about it and that's a very productive process maybe somebody will come up with something all right so that's enough about the Border um uh Kim Jong-un has released some new uh propaganda videos they are astonishingly nonthreatening in other words he was

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nonthreatening in other words he was doing a bunch of propaganda in which he's climbing a mountain and visiting some factories and stuff but here's the the best part apparently it was reported and obviously we do not believe this to be true but that Kim Jong-un climbed the highest mountain in North Korea and he reported allegedly said according to the press in North Korea he said that the feeling was more powerful than nuclear weapons so he said the feeling that one gets from climbing the highest mountain in North Korea is more powerful than nuclear weapons read between the lines do you see it yet this is Kim Jong-un softening up his his country for the notion that being smart and having character and being dedicated is more powerful than nuclear weapons so he's demoting the power of

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weapons so he's demoting the power of his own nuclear weapons because that's how he transitions his own population to I told you it was a good idea to build this nuclear capability so that we could become the generation 4 test bed for the world I don't know if that'll happen but some version of hey nuclear weapons are not the answer they're just on the way to the answer it's just part of the process of getting to the answer the real answer is character and brains and working together and you know diplomacy and so that that appears to be the story that they're they're starting to craft and maybe test it out a little bit all right
um what of I keep hearing on Twitter some of the most loser advice that you will ever see and I've said this before but it's one of those things that you need to you need to remind people every now and then and the

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remind people every now and then and the topic is this when I'm talking about climate change or or nuclear power or any of that I'll often get people people who come in usually people on the left sometimes the right and they will say to me or anybody who listens to me on Twitter they'll say ha so you're getting your science now from a cartoonist ha how stupid of you to listen to a cartoonist about science oh my God what's wrong with you and here's my reaction to that what was President Trump's um experience and being a politician before he became the most powerful politician on the planet or even the most Pol powerful politician maybe in the history of civilization you know you could argue done he had he had the wrong kind

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argue done he had he had the wrong kind of experience it didn't matter what kind of experience did a C have before she ran for congress bartender did a little worked on a campaign I guess bartender now she's the most important voice I would say on the right so she did that from bartender um then you have my contribution to the climate change SL nuclear stuff I climbed into the climate change argument enough to find out this critical point then no matter the truth of it you know the underlying truth of the science and how bad it is no matter the details it still has one solution go hard at Green Technology at the same time you're going hard at Generation 4 Green nuclear technology there isn't really a second good option there's only one option and it also

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there's only one option and it also doesn't matter the details of whether climate change is a big problem or not the the path forward is identical now who came up with that before I did lots of people right there were probably lots of people especially people who knew Generation 4 nuclear stuff they knew that that was a smart path forward but it wasn't well known so what did I add to the process well I added my voice I added a dissemination of that truth that a few people knew Mark Schneider being among them uh key key voice in this conversation right now is uh and by the way if you go to the interface uh by whenhub app my startups app you can find Mark an who was an expert in uh nuclear power and you could ask him some questions yourself you'd have to put on an alert or wait for him to be live but you can connect with him through the app um anyway point

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through the app um anyway point is that when people change fields and go out of their field often you get the best stuff right you could you could come up with lots of uh examples of people who left their Lane it's like oh this is what I'm good at but I'm going to leave this Lane for a little while to do this other thing and that other thing quite often turns out to be the good thing so it's very common but I want to I want to put a bow on this by saying this by a weird set of circumstances something that you could never have predicted the most important person in the world to save the planet is fill in the blank name the one person in the world who with one tweet could save the planet and and it's not president Trump although in this case he could go a long ways but there's somebody better than president Trump yeah better than Bill

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president Trump yeah better than Bill Gates AOC I'm going to tell you a tweet the AOC could send just one tweet and nothing else just one tweet how she could save the planet potentially okay and it would look like this if AOC tweeted if we're considering you know Green energy we should look hard at Generation 4 nuclear because it's safe from meltdown and eats nuclear waste for its fuel so imagine that one tweet coming from AOC if it comes from me a certain number of people see it if it came from the president half of the country would discount it immediately just because it came from the president if it came from
AOC who would discount it who would discount that tweet as being nonsense if it came from AOC well

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being nonsense if it came from AOC well it wouldn't be the people on the right because they're already there people on the right already like nuclear as a solution the people on the left would be seeing it for the first time and they would be seeing it from a source that they consider the most credible Source in terms of let's say an emotional honest um connection to environmental and and uh global warming issues so somebody that they really would trust right it's a different message if it comes from a different different person the the message and the person are always connected you can't disconnect them so by a weird sequence of events if it's true that climate change is a catastrophic risk there's really one way to address it and that would be with Generation 4 nuclear and development at the same time you're going hard at wind and solar you wouldn't you wouldn't do one of the exclusion of the other it wouldn't make sense um so this

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sense um so this bartender 29-year-old ex bartender whose strength is not nuclear stuff her strength is not science and she's only learning politics in the last few years she's good at it apparently has created a situation in which she uniquely could actually save the planet I'm not even exaggerating now there are two ways you can save the planet because if you're wrong on climate change in either direction and you do the wrong thing because you were wrong about where climate change is heading if you make the wrong decision it's catastrophic two different ways one is if you put too much um you know too many restrictions on things and you you hurt the economy well that could kill hundreds of millions of people if you damage the economy of the planet because you're chasing something that didn't need to be chased let's say try to solve

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need to be chased let's say try to solve climate change when maybe it wasn't going to be a problem at least some people in the world have that worldview if you get that wrong a 100 million people die just because poverty kills people if it is the problem that the scientists say and it's as catastrophic as as many people are saying and you don't address it there too it's the you know you're killing 100 million people so AOC a bartender a bartender is now the most important voice in science and that's not even a little bit of an exaggeration she just has to send one tweet with something like those words to mention Generation 4 it would have to have Generation 4 in it not just nuclear but if she crafted the right tweet she would actually save the world tell me I'm wrong I'm not wrong so when cartoonists get involved in things when bartenders get involved in things

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when bartenders get involved in things when Real Estate developers get involved in things sometimes we're out of our field and sometimes we're doing the wrong stuff but it doesn't hurt to shake the Box because when you add when you add me to any situation it changes the variables you take any stable situation and you throw AOC in there you just you just add AOC to any situation bam new variables she shakes the Box can't take that away from her all right um here's another way to explain the potential of generation for nuclear and I'm just going to test this out as a persuasion test suppose I said to you I have a technology for reducing the risk of existing nuclear
plants think ahead you're some of you have already just connected the dots as soon as I said that you just said to yourself

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yourself holy is that true well think about it so I the information I have is this is preliminary and so this would need to be fact checked but my current understanding is we have something like 98 older technology plants in the United States and Mark Schneider can help me on the fact checking here um my understanding is that those 98 plants are as you might imagine they're located in places that are where you need a lot of
of electricity if you were to Simply say let's add a generation 4 plant to the existing sites you would first of all speed up the approval process because it would be an existing site so you know they they don't put it into your backyard situation would not be any worse right it would just be more nuclear in a place there's new nuclear but Generation 4 has a unique

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but Generation 4 has a unique characteristic which is that it eats the fuel from the other plant in in not every case but in some cases so you would reduce the risk of transporting that fuel because it would never leave leave the site you would just take it from the old plant that's next door put it in the new plant and it becomes fuel now I'm so oversimplifying that there may be actual technical reasons that this can't work but in concept it looks to me like you co locating at Generation 4 on the same site because presumably the older Generation stuff had to have a lot of land around it because nobody wanted to nobody wanted to build right next to it so I would think there's almost always room physical room next to an existing plant if you add a generation 4 or maybe you keep adding generation 4 could you drisk the existing site in other words could you sell Generation 4 nuclear as a

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could you sell Generation 4 nuclear as a way to reduce the risk of existing nuclear plants so that's the part where I don't know if I've reached to far but I don't think I have and I don't know that every plant would would work for this but it does seem that we have a grid that largely is in place we could we know where the power is needed is where we already have nuclear we could add some more nuclear and probably blanket the country a lot faster than people assume at the same time we're reducing the risk at the old plants now I also assume and here i' ask Mark for some advice as well I assume that if you put an old nuclear site next to a generation for nuclear site you get the benefits of cross trading in other words if the same company is running both of these or at least you know they're they're working together then the people who already have the old technology experience can get trained on the new technology

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get trained on the new technology experience and vice versa so you know it probably is helpful to have new people learning about the old stuff as well so there is a path forward and all it would require is one tweet from a bartender to save the world um
um there's there's not much more going on today is there I said this yesterday and I think it's still true have you noticed that the news has gotten really slow the the immigration problem um is sort of the only thing anybody's talking about right what kind of a world do we have when um the biggest problem let let me put it in this terms president Trump has not only solved all of the big problems meaning you know Isis doesn't have a caliphate North Korea is not at least aiming their weapons at us with with

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aiming their weapons at us with with malice at the moment um we're negotiating with China it looks like we'll have some kind of a deal there we've got fentanyl is illegal the economy is booming I could go down the list but you know the list right so pretty much most of the big problems have been solved and the immigration problem is a is a weird double-edged problem because keep in mind that the the immigration is a you know humanitarian crisis it's an emergency whatever word you want to put on it and it's terrible for the people involved it's a tragedy it's a catastrophe for the people involved the the people immigrating but it also tells the story of people dying to get into the United States literally they're literally dying to come to the United States the United States is running so well that people are dying literally dying no joke you know nothing funny about it they're actually dying to move

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actually dying to move here I don't know if there's a a better endorsement of a country and I don't want to celebrate on the you know on the backs of people who are suffering but is nonetheless a fact and an interesting way to look at it that the country is running so well that people are literally risking their life to to come in here at any cost so let's let's drink to a country that's so strong and people want to want to
join um I will say again what I said before which is anybody who's talking about immigration and cannot give you a number of people that they want to let in per year is not really talking about the topic you should not take anybody seriously on the left or the right if they can't give you a number of people that they think is the right number to let in because we absolutely need young people and we need workers and you know we need new blood

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workers and you know we need new blood so we need that but if you don't have a number or even a range of you well a million a year half a million year some kind of number you're not part of the conversation you can't be part of the conversation if you haven't offered an opinion on the most important number because it's not about immigration yes or immigration no nobody's arguing that it's everybody arguing the same thing there is a there is a right amount and a right way to have immigration but mostly it's about the amount and there's a wrong way and a wrong amount so what's the right amount if nobody has that don't pay attention to what they say doesn't matter if they're on the left or the right don't pay attention to them all right
um next time you see me on Periscope probably tomorrow I'll have my microphone working and I'm going to uh do a little demonstration of how some of

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do a little demonstration of how some of you
you are um suffering from hallucinations so I'll be looking some for some volunteers and in real time I'll show to you that you're hallucinating it will will trigger you into cognitive dissonance and so be brave if you're one of my volunteers because you're going to be suffering cognitive dissonance in public but I'll take some volunteers and we'll do a demonstration and it's going to kind of shock you I think this one's going to be easy it will be so easy to make my case and it will be so opposite of what your world view is that it's it's going to be shocking so wait for that all right um that's all for now and oh no one more thing um I saw Ben Carson uh announced that apparently private businesses have offered up to $25 billion for the uh

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offered up to $25 billion for the uh their Urban areas's economic zones so in other words he's getting some good interest in people building and taking advantage of the government incentives to build in the inner cities and the and the bad places so so you got that going on at the same time you've also got the first step act and you've got um highest uh the high the best unemployment for minorities Etc and I wondered if it's time to have a campaign ad that says uh in the last two years president Trump has done the following things and just list all the things which are absolutely good for African-American voters you know president has done these things you know from unemployment to the first step act to um you know several other things that would fall under that umbrella in that time the Democrats have done

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time the Democrats have done nothing nothing he actually has real accomplishments and if you put them on on the list you'd say huh those are actually Four real things those are real things I think there's also a lot of progress in retraining so um training for people who need training for jobs is good so I I think there might be I don't know but there might be five or six policy things that have come out of the Trump Administration or accomplishments that are very directly beneficial to the African-American Community I'd like to see them batched up you know at least make the argument they should at least make the argument um so I've got some things I need to do this morning and I'm going to go around and do them and I will talk to you later