Episode 654 Scott Adams: The Most Eclectic and Interesting Content of All Time

Date: 2019-09-06 | Duration: 50:12

Topics

Bill Pulte’s internet philanthropy under attack by suspicious critics Do you believe that “all major policies are racist”? The DEVASTATING HORROR that is “Sharpiegate”… …and its possible hilarious origin The MATH of evolution skeptics Whiteboard: Rebuilding storm impacted areas Why not build entirely NEW cities with SAFE nuclear power? Commerce zones with FREE or very cheap SAFE power

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um bum bum hey everybody come on in here divine girl and John and Dale of course Dale good morning Dale Michael Martin it's good to see you come on in there's plenty of seating but it's filling up fast so make sure you're getting here fast so this will be the weirdest most eclectic periscope I've ever done hey Mark we'll be talking about nuclear in a little bit so let me start with an idea a system that I heard from Markie Andreessen Marc Andreessen you know him as the rich tech investor was creator of Netscape etc and I heard him talking about his system that I'd never used before and had not heard of I'm not sure if he invented it or he's popularizing it but he talked about instead of having a to-do list which can be overwhelming you know the size of your to-do list can

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you know the size of your to-do list can just keep growing he recommended having a done list a list of things you've completed and I heard that and I have to admit my first reaction was well why would that work what would make that a good system and I didn't quite I didn't quite feel it but it never left my mind because number one Marc Andreessen said it because he he tends to be sort of ahead of the curve just figuring out life apparently and he's real smart guy and I thought well one of my systems is to continually experiment with systems so my my big system is that if I hear of somebody else's system and it's practical to do so I'll try to duplicate it and see if it works for me and if it doesn't then I'll move on to another system so I tried it out and I'm quite quite happy with it and here's the part

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quite happy with it and here's the part I was missing so here's my my done list so what my new system for getting things done at least around the house errands and home repair is that I'll write each thing on a card and then when it's done I'll put a check next to it so in this case I had to repair some door handles I had to fix a power washer I had to replace a GFI at relocates and files had to fix a remote control and there was one of the TVs that wasn't working so one by one I I would write a little pile of things that I had to do each of them on their own card and then if there was any interim progress I would write on the back of the card something like I called a repair person or I'm waiting for a part or something like that so I'd remind myself so that I started not knocking off tasks and here's here's the fun part and why this system is way better than I had imagined when I'm looking at a list

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had imagined when I'm looking at a list of things to do it makes me unhappy and demotivated because it's so big and I end up spending all my time just rearranging the list it's like uh how did another things that list and then I've added so many things to the list it's literally overwhelming and I just say doesn't matter if I even do one thing on that list the list is so long I there's no point in doing one of 35 things you know tomorrow I'm just still getting out of 34 things on the list I'll probably add one it's just completely demotivating because the list is so freakin long in my case I could easily make a list of 35 chores that just really need to get done so instead I make a smaller list as I think of it I write about a card and I'm getting to the good part and each time I complete something I check it but here's what I found as my as my list of done projects started increasing and I started impressing

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increasing and I started impressing myself at how I've gotten things done like there are things on this list that are over a year that needed to be done I had like one of my TVs didn't work for a year a remote control for another TV didn't work for you here so but what I found is that when I enjoyed looking through the list of what I've done I had easily forgotten my accomplishments and each one of them is like a little a little hit of dopamine I don't know if it's dopamine might be some other chemical but it makes me happy and so I I think somebody used the word in the comments here I managed to gamify my to-do list so that instead of a big imposing list that I don't even want to look at and I can't tell you how many times I've gone through this process make a to-do list and that I will never look at that list again because it makes me sad and I don't kid I make my list probably I would guess hundreds of times over my

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I would guess hundreds of times over my entire life I've made to-do lists and that I can't look at them I literally I can't I can't move my head to look at my list I could grab myself by the ad and say look at the list go look at the to-do list but I can't because it makes me incredibly sad and anxious so now I look at my dog list and when I look at my dullest I saved myself I'd like to add one to that list so I look at my to-do list I find what I can add and then I then I say say oh this is gonna be fun I'm gonna add another thing to the done list and then I add it and it feels good and at the end of the process I've turned this horrible experience of things to do in to this gamified Hayleigh this and then I'm saving the list so when I see Christina next she's just doing a little traveling but when I see her next I'll say look at all the things they got down you know that thing you wanted fixed I got that fixed here's

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you wanted fixed I got that fixed here's the next item so the bottom line of that is they worked way better than I thought because of what it did to be psychologically and so Marc Andreessen was right way better system and never would have it's completely non-obvious until you actually try it so try it so here's my next insight my futurist insight you ready for this I love I love thinking about futurist things where some small innovation could just change everything and it starts with this have you ever noticed for those of you who have taken the time to study fitness and nutrition and and those sorts of things have you ever noticed that you have friends who have problems and they don't understand like why they feel the way they do or why they're getting the results of getting in their life and you look at their life and you say to yourself if I eat the food you ate I'd be getting the results you're getting have you ever had that

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you're getting have you ever had that experience where somebody doesn't know what their problem is and they can't figure out why they're either not losing weight they're not they're not getting romantic partners they're not being as popular they don't want they don't feel good they don't have the energy they're not getting things done and then you look at then you look at what they're eating and you say to yourself if I did what you did just exactly what you do I would have the exact same outcomes I would be overweight I would be low energy I would be unhappy I would have all those feelings so one of the frustrating things if you're trying to help people and I often try to give people useful information if not advice people don't really understand that their lifestyle choices change what they think and how they feel amazingly like it just seems like such an a view obvious thing do you know if you get enough sleep you eat the right foods and

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enough sleep you eat the right foods and you exercise regularly you realize that something like 80 percent of your problems will go away right so I'll get the simultaneous soup in them and I know you're waiting so here's my insight and then we'll get to the sip because you're gonna want to drink to this you know how a lot of medical devices are shrinking to the point where they can work with your phone so now we have very small medical devices that can check your blood sugar they would small devices that can check your oxygen level can check your your heart rate and a whole bunch of other things you're probably or I think we can check whether you're hydrated so there are a whole bunch of things that you can check on your physical being but when we get to the point and I think this is going to happen I will need somebody smarter to tell me how practical this is what's

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to tell me how practical this is what's gonna happen wait for it what's gonna happen when we can immediately measure our happiness chemistry and by that I mean your serotonin levels your dopamine your oxytocin you know that the big three the ones the ones that you need to have in good order in order to feel good the moment you have a small device in which you can measure your three happiness chemicals in real time you're going to know that what you do changes those levels wait for that as the soon as you can tell that eating this dessert lowered your three happiness chemicals you're done with dessert forever let me say that again you got a problem with your diet is your is your diet hard is it hard to is it hard to avoid

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avoid what's the dessert well it won't be hard at the moment you can measure your happiness chemistry before and after you eat it now here I'm making an assumption that there would be a quick quick enough change in those things that you could notice them but you'll certainly notice whether you exercise recently or not you will notice if you went out in nature for a while which also boosts your happiness chemistry you're going to notice it you can measure your chemistry before you walk in the woods and after and once you've measured your chemistry your happiness chemistry before walking in the woods and then after you're gonna walk in the woods a lot so that ability to met and who said this I think it was Andrew yang said this and he's completely right I think it was him it was one of those brilliant things to say that politicians don't say enough he said that we we manage only what we

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he said that we we manage only what we measure we manage only the things we can measure so if you want to manage something let's say your happiness what's the problem you can't measure it yeah you can you can sort of tell if you're happy or not happy but if you could measure your chemistry in real time you'd actually be able to measure did this activity make me happy did that hug boost my oxytocin you would be hugging like crazy if you could actually measure what it did to you in real time let's drink to that do you have your beverage it doesn't take much to participate in the simultaneous supply you need as a couple more glass times gel stack your thermos / canteen a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the simultaneous hip because you know this is gonna boost you dopamine you know it here it comes oh

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that's good simultaneous sipping so here's my prediction my prediction is that we will have small devices that can measure your dopamine serotonin and oxytocin someday and when that happens our lifestyle choices will fundamentally change immediately the moment you can measure your real-time happiness chemistry all of your lifestyle changes will change immediately you won't it'll be that day then then society will be completely transformed
I'm noting that that poor bill Polti is getting lots of critics online for trying to give away money in a way that draws attention to Internet philanthropy so that other people can join in and give more money can you imagine something more more good than literally trying to increase the number of people giving money to people who need it that's it and making a fun

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who need it that's it and making a fun and entertaining at the same point and he's got all these critics who are making the wildest mind-reading assumptions about oh he's data mining what's what's he really up to he's turning it into a money-making venture I think it's a trick he's taking advantage of people who need the money and making them compete for it he's just trying to buy followers on his list now the messed-up thing about it is that it's the most transparent process in the world he's he is saying in the clearest possible language he's saying that he's boosting his Twitter followers and he's trying to get the message larger and get more people involved in philanthropy he's not hiding the fact he's trying to grow his Twitter following he says that directly all the time it's not a trick secondly I don't know why he did a list he is totally non-political right he's

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he is totally non-political right he's not he's not giving money just the Republicans are just the Democrats in fact you know you'd find it's pretty mixed and it's just it's very sad to see the number of people who will take anything good and try to find something terribly deeply wrong with it and it bothers me a lot now a number of people are saying to me Scott Scott Scott is just bad form to have people in need competes for compete for these donations for the giveaways to which I say the people who got a car or had their dental work paid for all of those people are pretty happy the people who didn't get something for free didn't have to participate they knew the odds I mean people play the lottery and they know the odds and maybe he gave them hope maybe it allowed somebody else to find them because it's not just things that build us so if other people are surfaced as having a problem other

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surfaced as having a problem other people can notice we're part of the process so I you know I I kind of get intellectually the point you know you don't want you don't want to make it a rich people making poor people dance for money he sort of thing but I don't think anything like that's happened it's all respectful his bills empathy for the people is a hundred percent real you know his his joy of giving the way the money is completely real so let's take the good and get rid of the bad thoughts on that here's something that bothers me a lot in the mind-reading so this is sort of related I like to call out the mental foibles on both sides so I can retain credibility if all I ever did was tell you how crazy the Democrats are if all I ever did was say how crazy is the left people on the Left are you would not or you should not give me any credibility if you see somebody who's

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credibility if you see somebody who's only talking about how one side is defective they are advocates they're not trying to teach you anything you're not gonna learn anything from them and they're not not credible so I make I make a point of making sure that I've I've got some jabs for both sides and that everybody sees it so that you can have more trust you know that that I'm looking at both sides so here's one of those the craziest thing I hear on the right is the Socialists meaning the you know Democrats who were the the leftist of the left those Democrats that what they really intend or in here I'm going to read from a national tweet today to achieve their ultimate goal is to control the population through taxes and regulations so it seems to be a popular talking point on the right that the people who I'm gonna block you

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people who I'm gonna block you somebody's they blocked Polti I'm just gonna block you because if you can't find something good about giving money away to people who need it I don't want you in my life so I blocked you for blocking him alright
sorry way people say that social is the ultimate goal of socialism is to control all the people its control what evidence do you have of that claim the most common claim on the right is that the socialist real secret plan is control there's no evidence of that there's no evidence of that I blocked the wrong account well I had my finger on it so I doubt that's true so here's my here's my thing if you're listening to there are maybe three shows in particular that are

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maybe three shows in particular that are very popular on Fox News the opinion shows and not the news shows but three of the more important opinion shows maybe maybe more than three will tell you every night that the socialist real plan the real plan is to control you let me let me say as clearly as I can nobody has that plan there is no such thing as a socialist in this country there are plenty of socialists but there's no such thing as a socialist who in their their private thoughts is saying haha what I really want is to control people I want to control them nobody has that thought and it's I mean actually nobody you probably would not find even one person who in their private honest moment would say you know it's not really even about the green new deal it's just about I want to control people

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it's just about I want to control people nobody has that opinion not one F in person none now you almost most things you see in the news are at least a little bit true it's at least a little bit true this is one of those rare ones where there's just no truth to it and it's the most it's the most dominant to belief on the right and it's completely untrue now I could be disproved by finding one socialist in the whole world well in the United States you only have to find me one socialist who is sane and is saying something like you know the real goal is control somebody says you bumped your head Scott block so the rule here is that you can disagree all you like but put your disagreement you know some reform in your comment if you just say

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reform in your comment if you just say I'm stupid in whatever clever words you used to say that you just get blocked because I don't want your negativity so how many of you are just fighting mad right now because you believe it's obvious and you've heard it a million times from people you trust that their real goal of socialism is to control people how many of you just said uh I believe that you can admit it somebody says not only is it true it's almost universally true well that's a that's a statement of fact so whoever whoever made that statement of fact that it's true and universally true that the inner true goal the secret goal of socialists is to control people you just have to find me one person who says that's what they want now is is your belief that there are oh I don't know 50 million people who have this

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know 50 million people who have this thought and none of them are talking really do you think that's likely that there are I don't know with 10 million 50 million people who will all have this secret plan to control people and none of them have leaked it seriously
so question that assumption or find at least one person in the world who will admit that they have that intention let me tell you what intentions are far more likely without being a mind reader if somebody says I would like to address climate change what is the most likely reason that they want to do that the most likely reason is they believe it's a real problem now if you're talking about the politicians the politicians of course want to get in power but that's true of every politician that's not true of just socialists you know the the

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of just socialists you know the the people on the right also want power they believe that the way to get there is the same way everybody agrees to get there everybody everybody knows the way to get to power is to come up with plans that the public likes by a majority so everybody is playing the same game which is they may be trying to get power for themselves by doing things that the public wants or they can convince the public they want that's everybody but as far as just the normal socialist the last thing on the mind is controlling other people they won't they might want to pay off their student loan they might want to have better health care but there's no way in the world they just want to control other people that's not a goal nobody has that goal it's complete magical thinking and you should question that assumption all right let's number one all policies are racist do you believe that do you believe that all

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you believe that do you believe that all major political policies are racist because they are we don't talk about them all being racist because it depends on the context sometimes we notice sometimes we don't what is the context in which you would notice something looked racist and it's just a policy well the context is if a Republican is in favor of it so if a Republican wants to change your taxes a Democrat will say well isn't that a coincidence that that's going to be bad for brown people that's racist if the president wants to build a wall between us in another country that happens to be on the south the Democrats will say oh well Republicans want to build a wall that's racist so if a Republican says it there's always a way to turn it into racist but here's what Bernie Sanders said the other day you probably most you know this they was asked in the townhall about climate change whether the United

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about climate change whether the United States should help support other countries who want to have abortions and birth control and Bernie said he was very in favor very in favor of helping struggling countries with population control he didn't I don't think he used population control but he talked about birth control and an abortion and making sure that other countries couldn't have that now what other countries is he talking about he's not talking about rich countries because rich countries don't need our help with birth control he's talking about poor countries Bernie Sanders stood in front of the world and said that he wanted policies that produce fewer brown people right he wanted a policy that produced the least number of brown people now he didn't say it that way and because he's a Democrat we're not calling it racist but if a Republican ever came up with a plan that unambiguously reduced the population of

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unambiguously reduced the population of brown people compared to white people that would be the end of him but here's the larger point so this is not about Bernie so my point is not about Bernie my point is that every large policy is racist all the time because nobody's ever nobody's ever invented a policy that affected people equally I don't think it could be done we don't live in the world where people respond to or have the same situation so any big policy that affects everyone will always be racist
I'll give this guy what he wants so likewise let's take climate change there's climate change racist well the way the Republicans want to do climate change they want to make sure that employment at the low end is maximized

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employment at the low end is maximized and that everybody can afford their energy is very friendly for minorities so the Republicans have a climate change I would say lack of plan meaning that they're not going to address it aggressively and they're they're pursuing nuclear which would lower energy costs so the Republican view of climate and energy is very Pro Brown people if I can you know if I can generalize let's say people of color people of color so we don't limit it to any particular shade of the of the rainbow now the Democrats would like to fight climate change fighting climate change will be a big economic disruption which will very disproportionately affect people of color because of where people are on the economic strata so why are we not complaining that the Democrats climate change policies are

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Democrats climate change policies are racist because they are they're totally they're 100% racist but not because Republicans are racist it's because every single policy is racist all the big policies affect people differently yeah Bernie Bernie's actually promoted eugenics in different words as somebody said in the comments all right so just keep that in mind there's no such thing as a policy that's not racist if it affects a big population I was kind of amazed at the attention given to sharpie gate you know sharpie gate the idea that President Trump may have drawn a little extra line on his weather map to prove the Alabama really was threatened so I I had been aggressively trying to not pay attention to that story until it became the only story anybody wanted to talk about seemed like CNN was obsessed

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talk about seemed like CNN was obsessed with sharpie gate so I thought oh god I guess I'm gonna need to look at whatever this is all about because I didn't need to look into the details to know it was stupid well I didn't need to look at the details to know it it didn't matter I knew that but now I find out so the story is that president said that Alabama might be affected by the hurricane and then the officials said no no Alabama was never really threatened and then the president said yes it was and then somehow a chart with a sharpie line added to it was was produced that may or may not have been drawn by the President himself we don't know it doesn't matter first of all if Trump drew that with a sharpie to to to cover up for the fact that he said it and it was not backed up by his his official weather people if

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by his his official weather people if that's exactly what happened and he just took out a sharpie and said I'll fix this and he said I'll fix this I'll just draw this line I mean look at it where it is look can't you tell look at my life now if that's what happened I can't get mad at that because it's just hilarious like it's it's just I kind of hope that's exactly what happened now if I had to guess my guess is that the President himself did not draw that line I could be wrong you know I wouldn't bet my life on it it's totally possible that you drew it oh I guess he didn't but you know maybe but the funniest the funniest explanation would be if he did because you would love to be in that meeting with him it's like hey president ruptor they're telling you that you got it wrong about Alabama what do you mean I got it wrong about Alabama bring me that map and bring me a Sharpie watch me fix

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map and bring me a Sharpie watch me fix if that's what he did it was one of the funniest things that the president's ever done no matter what he was thinking I'm not gonna go into his mind but in in in outcome it was hilarious now but how true was it I should you worry that he said something that wasn't true so I looked at the map from so CNN was reporting the timeline of the story who said what to show that he was that he was lying or whatever and they showed the original map and the the the circle that was the official circle sort of just touches the corner of Alabama so it really doesn't show that it's going to touch Alabama it's just like grazes the corner in the in the outer likelihood he grazes the corner now here's the thing if the official weather map said that this giant hurricane the official story was that it was going to in the in the wood case graze the edge of Alabama

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wood case graze the edge of Alabama would it be inaccurate to say that it looks like this this storm could affect Alabama which is what the president said now you might say to yourself yes that's inaccurate because look at the look at the picture the picture says these outer bands are sort of the worst case and and Alabama's not in theirs right next to it but it's not in there it's just touching it on the outside so he's wrong right well that would make sense if we didn't just watch the forecast be off by a hundred percent the actual path of the hurricane bore no reality to the forecast in those early days now how good is hurricane predicting better than it's been but it's not very good if the president looked at a map that was touching Alabama and he knew that the the potential for these forecasts is let me let me do this visually here was the

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me let me do this visually here was the forecast the likely possibility of how wrong it could be is this and that's what hap they said it's gonna be here where it actually was was way over here and way over there okay if you're listening this instead of watching it it's way less interesting so the president looks at a forecast this grazing the edge of Alabama and he knows that as we all do that these forecasts are wildly non predictive wildly non predictive that it's not that where it ended up was not really even that close to where it was predicted except that Florida got touched right so was the president wildly wrong when he said it might affect Alabama well maybe a little hyperbole etc but he wasn't wrong at that point the weather service and all the officials were making official predictions but the official predictions

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predictions but the official predictions were just complete but the the the actual hurricane went a completely different direction so do I care whether the president took a sharpie and fixed it
it so he didn't have to apologize or explain himself no I do not I do not care about that it was funny and B I probably didn't turn out the way he wanted but then somebody says yes Trump lied art can we stop saying that Trump lied because the first 11,000 times you said it you being collectively you the first 11,000 times you said Trump lied maybe a has an effect but is line number 11 thousand nine hundred and seventy two is that the one that's going to take him down all right so can we just just

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down all right so can we just just dispense with the idea that politicians tell the truth the only thing that Trump has brought to the process is the understanding that it didn't matter how much he lied it just didn't make any difference as long as you were directionally here's the key as long as you were directional accurate was he directionally accurate and saying that Alabama was threatened by the hurricane absolutely yes he was directionally you know ironically directionally accurate that Alabama was within the risk zone because we're not that good at predicting hurricanes all right now the other thing that we don't know if if this had any effect on Alabama is that Mary Ann Williams who's also running for president suggested that people pray to keep the storm away now Alabama was very religious state so you have to figure Alabama was praying a

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you have to figure Alabama was praying a little extra hard and sure enough the hurricane missed them so proof of God right there all right the I told you this was going to be a classic I did not lie here's another thing I told you in a different periscope how there are some skeptics of of evolution who say that the odds of proteins lining up just right to produce life are so small that it couldn't we couldn't have gotten here without some kind of designer whether it was a simulation or God or something else and they do the math and they say it's so wildly unlikely that this planet could have had just the right conditions that it had to had to be designed now whether or not you buy their argument about evolution that's not the part I'm going to talk about what I'm going to talk about is the math and applying it to the question

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the math and applying it to the question of whether there is other life in this universe and I think accidentally they demonstrated that there's not now most people would say hey there's you know so many different planets in the universe that this year's magnitude of the universe guarantees that there's more life just because of the size but the the evolution skeptics by the way some of those evolution skeptics were not promoting creationism they were not promoting in intelligent design they were simply saying the existing explanation doesn't work guess of the math they were not saying therefore God one of them was two of them were the one the show I was watching they were just doing the math and I think you could apply that math to the question of whether there is likely intelligent life anywhere else in the universe my my feeling and it's not wasn't based on

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feeling and it's not wasn't based on math is that there is not and here's why if we are a simulation it's likely that it's limited to a planet it would be weird for the simulator to create life on planets that will never will never interact with you know if you but if you built a video game with a simulated world you would not also build another simulated world that your simulated world could interact with but doesn't it sort of wouldn't make sense as a programmer and so I've always thought that it's unlikely there's other life on Earth but if you take the math of the evolution people and say the odds of it happening even once in any universe is so low that is basically impossible so one of the odds that happened twice in one universe well the odds of it happening twice goes so low it's absurd

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happening twice goes so low it's absurd so I'm not sure if all the math works somebody smarter than me would have to get into that but I just put that thought out there then if it was so unlikely that our proteins lined up to support life or actually that our our DNA let's put it this way if the the mutations in our DNA had to be so specific and we're so unlikely to create life and to create all this life we see the odds of it happening twice in what universe are infinitely small I don't know if any of that made sense I'll just put that out there all right now we're all watching the Bahamas and watching the Bahamas some of the islands completely eliminated by the storms will we see more storms eliminating entire towns and cities yes no matter what we do and whether or not climate change is the problem we that many think it is whether or not that is true we will

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whether or not that is true we will certainly see more hurricanes wiping out more islands and more coastal places so we're guaranteeing that that's going to happen here's what I would like to throw into the mix we really need to get good at quickly rebuilding entire towns but rebuilding them better than they were and I think we could get there if we made that an objective so there are a lot of people working on you know quick building constructions you know building kits and 3d printed buildings and all that so there's a lot happening but I think it could go get a lot it could move a lot further into building like perfect planned cities from scratch now it's probably harder to build to rebuild where the once was the city because people own the different labs and you got to coordinate everything and the roads are already where the roads are so it's hard to change change once you're going but I would like to introduce the

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going but I would like to introduce the idea of building nuclear cities you ready for this what are the big objections with nuclear nobody wants to live near it and where do you put the waste right those those are the big problems nobody wants to live near a nuclear plant and where do you put the waste so I would like to suggest building entirely new cities and let me go to the white board here in which I'll just throw out an idea so again this is sort of the the bad idea so the bad idea is that you'll see if I can do this with my finger oh it works you put a nuclear plant a brand new nuclear plant where there's nothing around it and then you say this is going to be the the beginning of a city and the first sound around it you're this zone this is free electricity so that zone would be let's say the people who live within 5 miles of it if you live within 5 miles of it your property is free literally

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of it your property is free literally free and so you could build on and your electricity will be free forever which is very affordable because nuclear is so so economical that they could do that now let us say the people who are in the next ring out let's say here so there the next outer ring they don't get free anything but everything is 50% off so their land is 50% cheaper than it would be and their electricity forever is 50% off and then you say to people you don't have to live here but if you did it would be great now would that be another situation where the poor people who are accepting the free electricity in the free land and the inexpensive housing would this be another case where poor people are taking it in the shorts well it would be optional and you would want to make this zone really built from scratch to be escapable if if you had a

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scratch to be escapable if if you had a problem so let's say there was any kind of nuclear event you wouldn't want to make sure that the people near either had I don't know either a safe place to go to or an underground you know let escape vault or at least very large roads to get out of town very quickly so for example if you were building a nuclear city a nuclear plant in which you were building around it homes and businesses you would have one road that's like a 15 Road highway for 10 miles so if anything goes wrong everybody says oh crap they head to the 115 lane highway and in you're out in minutes so you build it so you can escape as quickly as possible no matter how badly things go wrong because with these nuclear meltdowns you still have plenty of time I mean you've got hours and hours to get out of town but you don't want to get you know locked up in traffic so you just build the city so that you can't get locked up in traffic what about the resale value

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in traffic what about the resale value the resale value is irrelevant because it's going to be minore better than when you got it because remember you're going into a place that never had anything it didn't have any homes didn't have any nuclear didn't have anything it's just a blank field so the value of the property in the beginning is low and then it could increase over time now what about storage and where do you where do you build a plant well the best place to put a plant is where you already have one so you could Co locate one where there is one for those places that don't have them and I would imagine I'd have to talk to an expert but I don't know why they don't store the nuclear waste in the same area as the nuclear plant because it feels like that would be the obvious place to do it right so you put all your nuclear risk in one place where all the nuclear experts are there may be a good reason to separate them but I'm

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a good reason to separate them but I'm pretty sure we can handle the nuclear waste part now as many of you know the generation for nuclear generators actually could use the nuclear waste from the generation 3 type reactors they actually can use their waste as fuel so if you co-located generation 4 right next to a generation 3 the people who live around it would still say we'd still say well it's just more nuclear and I'm glad you put a generation before plant there because that will reduce our risk from the waste because it just gets eaten up as fuel now what what are the other things that you would want to put around a nuclear plant well if you're building a city from scratch what about putting your most robota sized plants nearest the nuclear plant because robots need a lot of electricity and here's here's a great thing you can create a great deal of Commerce with very few

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great deal of Commerce with very few people in the blossom so if your work I shouldn't use that term but if you're worried about being near the nuclear plant put all your robots there and have them working on building I don't know yeah they could even be the robots could be making solar panels the robots could be building manufacturing stuff so you could have more robots there and that would increase you safety if you were worried about it you could put desalinization plants nearby because they mostly need free energy and you buy out-of-the-box idea is addiction imagine you create a city that's far away from everything and it's optional to go there nobody has to go to the city but if you do go to the city you don't get to leave and come back without being a full body search maybe a drug test so in other words it would be for addicts a place to go where drugs can't easily get in and they can't easily leave it to go anywhere but while they're there it's a proper City

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proper City it's got proper jobs it's got highways and places to live and they can have families if they want it's just that drugs can't get in and can't get out so it's sort of an addiction recovery city if you will the some people might just need to live in forever so those are sorts of things you could do if you plan your city from scratch so here's my prediction for the future you will see new cities developed which solve a lot of problems that we've we've had up till now and they will probably be built around nuclear plants and people will get financial incentives to be near the nuclear plant and those incentives will decrease in radius around it now suppose you said you know with - well that's enough of that
yes it's ironic that the nucleus of the city would literally be nuclear ooh you

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city would literally be nuclear ooh you mean you can just keep the drugs out why did you say so well you can keep the amount of you can keep them out better so
so I'm talking about a city that you literally can't get in or out without being fully searched so you wouldn't want to leave often you know if you go to that city and you're an addict don't take a job where you have to fly someplace right make sure that you're settling down within the city yeah you'd probably need a wall not probably you would definitely need walls around the city or some kind of security they would be drug free like prisons yeah no obviously there's no situation where you can't get drugs in but you can certainly limit it to the point where where it becomes a minor problem instead of a major one prisons find a way around it but you could remember the the people who would come to live in this place

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who would come to live in this place would be doing it voluntarily so you're you're only getting the people who really want to stay off drugs and they know that being physically away from them is part of the benefit of recovery or you know it's part of part of what helps them recover now you wouldn't have marijuana in a addiction recovery city that would be a bad idea yes all these ideas are testable it's all testable all right that's all for now and I will talk to you all later