Episode 974 Scott Adams: Comparing Experts to Average Idiots, Who is Performing Better, Unmasking
Date: 2020-05-14 | Duration: 42:08
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My new book LOSERTHINK, available now on Amazon https://tinyurl.com/rqmjc2a Content: Nate Silver’s amusing observations about bad data analysis CNN Stephen Collinson thinks President Trump “rejects science” Obama Administration unmasking General Flynn Andrea Mitchell calls unmasking story “gaslighting” Judge Sullivan’s unusual order Senator Richard Burr under FBI investigation
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um hey there you are I'm glad you could make it come on in gather round we got lots to talk about today it's gonna be a good one one of the best one of the best coffees with Scott Evans of all time by the way I found out somebody noticed yesterday that apparently I have an IMDB page so I'm an official show I've made it I've made it to IMDB I have made something of myself well if you'd like to make something for yourself I know how the pad is start the best way is we little thing called the simultaneous sip and it doesn't take much all it takes is a cup of mud or a glass of tanker chalice or Stein a canteen truck or flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I'm partial to coffee enjoyed me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine yet of the day the thing that makes everything better including the damn pandemic go - feel my convalescence
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damn pandemic go - feel my convalescence blood serum improving by the moment yes yesterday I did by periscope from the parking lot of the veterinarians place Snickers is resting
she's on restriction she's not allowed to jump up on the furniture so she just tweaked her back a little bit she does she gets a sports injury
she she she's a very active dog so I've been through this before she should be fine I've got her on pain meds anyway yesterday I was talking about what we need is a website where you could put in your own personal risks you know what's your age your your BMI and all that stuff and it would tell you your risk of eating coronavirus and your risk of dying and it turns out that exists so somebody built exactly that website I
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somebody built exactly that website I don't know how long it's been up but I just tweeted it before I get on so if you want to find it you can find it at the top of my Twitter feed so I don't know if it's accurate I'm not vouching for it but it's interesting and I would recommend just giving it a look maybe maybe I'll tell you something so the theme of today's periscope is the experts somebody's asking me how old Snickers as Snickers is about 12 and that's around the life expectancy for this breed unfortunately so so Snickers is a senior citizen anyway the theme today today is going to be the experts so we'll see how the experts are doing make sure the experts are being experts so all I did was take headlines out of the news so I didn't do any research all I did was just look at
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any research all I did was just look at the headlights alright so here's what the experts are doing in the headlines CNN has a story about a famed French serial killer expert Stefan Bohr gong so he was he was a big expert I guess he had built a reputation as the the country's foremost expert in serial killers writing more than 75 books and producing dozens of documentaries but turns out it was all fake he he wasn't so much an expert on serial killers as he was an expert at plagiarizing experts on serial killers it turns out that the foremost expert on serial killers in France wasn't even an expert he was actually a cog man that's that all right that's your first report of experts all right so so far expert not looking too good yeah we're gonna be doing a little left obviously a
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gonna be doing a little left obviously a little cherry-picking here so I'm not gonna I'm not gonna pretend this is an unbiased presentation I've told you before but I'm gonna say it again that one of the most interesting accounts to follow during this era where everybody's obsessing about data and you know what are the odds and everything you got to follow nate silver if you're not following days silver you're just missing just one of the best commentary as he's watching the the common idiots try to figure out data because he actually does this for a living and he's good at it and he has to watch as all the people who are bad at it and don't know they're bad at it try to be good at it while being bad at it imagine being him now when I look at this stuff with my you know tiny little bit of visibility of that world even I can say no so sure I mean I'm just skeptical I look at it go know could be right I'm not sure I'm gonna believe it a lot of
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not sure I'm gonna believe it a lot of things wrong so I have sort of the the lowest level of skeptical detectors when it comes to data presentations right I just sort of generally don't like generally don't trust them because most of them are fake but I don't have any special insight into them usually but Nate usually does so just a perfect example this is just for one day right imagine he's doing this every single day and he's picking out this news story about a surge of cases in Orange County this is a story about a surge of cases so what do you make of that well you make of it it's out of control right these our Orange County people they're not quarantine they're not locking down they're protesting no wonder is out of control in now Orange County and then may silver tweets you why there's maybe been a surge of cases in Orange County California as the story focuses on because they're doing a ton more testing than before the whole story
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more testing than before the whole story is just garbage and he just takes it out with one tweet yeah they don't mention they're doing more testing what experts are we supposed to listen to I mean here's here's some expert reporters for a big publication was it I forget who was le times maybe and they must have been collecting information from experts so the expert reporter expertly collects the information from the experts who collect the data and then they read a story and what's the public to make of it well wouldn't you believe it because experts right and then Nate Silver also an expert looks at it and says the thing you left out was the only important thing the only thing that mattered you know in terms of understanding the full context the only thing that mattered was what effect that the testing have on kicking up new new results and that's
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kicking up new new results and that's not even in the story oh my god all right experts so far two out of three doing poorly Nate Silver gets an A for the week here's some more experts in the news business see you then I think that now that I've tuned you to it you're probably seeing this everywhere you've noticed how much CNN does mind reading right where they pretend that a story is their opinion of someone else's internal thoughts and they sell this as news all the time and every you know it's usually in the opinion context not in the not in the harder news but the fact that it's odd that it's even odd in an opinion that deceivin on a new site is is mind-boggling so here's one this is from Stefan Collinson who's he sort of that and I and I'm not kidding I read his content - laughs so he's trying to be a
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content - laughs so he's trying to be a serious the president but he has to produce so much critical content every week because apparently that's his job so no matter what the president is doing Steffen Collinson is going to write a critical piece and if there's not actual data to look at to say well this is wrong he goes after the president's internal state so the title is Trump's rebuke ouchy and caps elites rejection of science it encapsulates his rejection of science which is really sort of talking about his mental state right do we do we think that President Trump in his you know the internal mental cognition rejects science have you ever heard of anybody who rejected science that's not even a thing who rejects science people reject individual parts and then they give their reasons sometimes they write sometimes they're
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sometimes they write sometimes they're wrong but in your whole life has anybody ever rejected science that is so not even a thing and it's a headline yeah it's just part of his rejecting science which has never existed can't exist would never exist in the real world and then it goes on to say the president's downplaying of the nation's top expert meaning foutch II shows that he has always been battling the pandemic that he wants to fight rather than the one that exists so they have to put this in terms of what the president internally wants what how does this guy who's probably never even met the president know what the president is currently internally wanting and apparently he currently internally wants it to be a different kind of pandemic that's quite the insight do you know who else privately and privately with on their own mind you know who else wants
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their own mind you know who else wants this pandemic to be a less bad one me is there anybody else who would want this to be less bad than it is I'm feeling confident that many of you also like the president who's being criticized here would want the pandemic to be different than it is so which is different from saying he's doing the wrong stuff you know if they said he's doing the wrong stuff that making sure their reasons why but they're free from the from showing that he's doing the wrong stuff because they can just say that he's thinking about it wrong yeah he's thinking about it all wrong as if you'd know what's in his head and you look in there and he's not liking science in there you know you saw him bragging about his was it his uncle it was a famous famous scientist or a very successful scientist a way some Trump be Trump clearly clearly respect science I mean he's been taking all of
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science I mean he's been taking all of the scientific recommendations and then when it gets to the school closing one that's not just a scientific recommendation that's also a public recommendation all right let's see some more of the the experts so this user on Twitter kelmot gay don't know who he is and I did a thought experiment tweet I was talking about whether we were doing a good job understanding overweight people and the special risks they have so that was my tweet and I was wondering aloud whether we were looking at it right and column it says to me on Twitter coronaviruses have been with us for decades look more closely at the data instead of thought experiments and exercise and science fiction's he says to me so I replied that that was 2019 thinking in 2020 have
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that that was 2019 thinking in 2020 have we've not noticed that the data that we need is unavailable and the data that we have is unreliable so if you're telling me that we should use the data don't you also have a responsibility to let's say judge whether the data exists and is credibly accurate because if you leave out the fact that it doesn't exist and if it does the stuff we've seen is now credible don't lecture me about not using the data to make my decisions if you can give me some data that is useful and reliable do you think I wouldn't use it is there anybody who thinks that presented with credible and useful information I would say you know I I choose not to use this I think I'd
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I I choose not to use this I think I'd rather guess no I would not do that and so there's there are people who seem to imagine that other people are doing something like that it's a weird world anyway so here's my favorite so this is my actual tweet that caused a little trouble and I'll tell you how this went and my tweet was how many Americans have died from coronavirus who were under 60 and also here's the key part of the tweet had a healthy body weight whatever you want to define the healthiest low BMI I guess and they said I have a strong feeling that political correctness is preventing us from understanding our individual risks which could in turn keep the economy close and ruin civilization so so I was sort of thinking aloud as one does on Twitter that maybe the big issue is that we just can't be told can I can I be I'm going to be impolite for a moment okay I'll
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to be impolite for a moment okay I'll need your permission to be impolite just for a moment it's easier to communicate if we just make that agreement I am very much against fat shaming so if what you hear next sounds like fat shaming let me say as clearly as possible that's not what I'm doing no I'm not cool with that at all I do think you know maybe Society has some benefits of encouraging people to live a healthier lifestyle but it's not my thing alright I'm not gonna tell you what to eat like that's that's just your personal decision you know I wish it didn't cost me more in health care probably does but it's still your personal decision that's the country we live in all right so that's my statement now having said that let me speak plainly in the vernacular of regular people is this a fat problem again no disrespect meant to anybody but is it a
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disrespect meant to anybody but is it a fat problem because I told you yesterday CNM showed a family that tragically all three of them you know died and CNN showed their photos and said you know they had no underlying conditions and I looked at the photos and said I see underlying conditions there there is obviously obviously a weight issue with the family again I'm not criticizing it's tragic what happened we're not minimizing the tragedy whatsoever and I'll say they brought it on themselves nothing like that I'm just saying can't we talk honestly they're showing us the picture and and basically lying to us while they're showing the picture no no underlying conditions and all the experts are telling us that's an underlying condition so I'm actually wondering have we ever seen we I think we have seen statistics of obese patients and how they have a higher
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patients and how they have a higher mortality is that that cuz that's correct right you've seen data about obesity but have you seen data that would take the entire weight spectrum into account in other words if you're let's say you're carrying 20 extra pounds as an adult are you a little bit more at risk because I don't really know do you have to get all the way to obesity before it's you sort of fall off a ledge and then you're into the dangerous territory or is it sort of you know scaled like is is every extra pound outside of the ideal BMI does it give you a little bit of risk and then it and it gets much higher the higher your weight is don't know but I do know that nobody's telling us that I do know that somebody says our Chinese people obese on average I would say probably not probably not but they also seem to have it under control don't they so I don't know what's going on in
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they so I don't know what's going on in China and this gets back to the fact that all of our data is bad so my first instinct was to say to you when somebody said yeah but what about China to say well that's a perfect example they don't have a big weight problem and they got it under control but as soon as I said that I said to myself do I really know that I mean I think I know that they don't have a giant weight problem but I don't know how or under control it is I don't really know what's happening in China but on the surface it looks like that's compatible all right so I made the statement out loud about it maybe weight is the thing and then I got the following the following criticism from a dr. Angela Rasmussen who is a virologist I can say she is a biologist because I know that that is the correct pronoun because she put it in her profile so she's a she slash her so dr. Angela
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she's a she slash her so dr. Angela Rasmussen says to me on Twitter maybe you should compare I'm sorry no she said to me on Twitter I swear I wrote it down she said to me on Twitter oh damn it oh well I just tried for 20 minutes this morning to copy a piece of text into my notes and every time Twitter had a bug and it didn't work but the essence of it is that she mocked me for doing doing a thought experiment when I should be you know listening to the experts so she mocked me for being a cartoonist and saying something about health in public and I feel as though the public is getting a little testy have you noticed people getting a little crabby maybe maybe a little quick to respond and in Angela dr. Angela Rasmussen
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and in Angela dr. Angela Rasmussen caught me in one of those moods in which I was not in the mood to be criticized and I may have gone at her a little bit hard and I did and I did this so after she said that you shouldn't listen to a cartoonist I tweeted back and said maybe you should compare my public health recommendations to the coronavirus experts so far I'm winning by a landslide your team is looking like twice ISA eatin lately so the funny part about it was that this expert happened to pick the only cartoonist who has a public track record of consistently being right when all of the public experts are wrong now I don't you know if you're new to the periscope that sounds like a ridiculous claim if you've been watching it for a while I've gone through the list a number of times first one to call for the closing of travel from China well before the president first one to say the masks the bad story is they're all lying to you
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is they're all lying to you first one you know probably one of the first ones to say hydroxychloroquine might not work but it's certainly not gonna be a bad risk management for people and sure enough lots of countries are doing it I mean you could go right down the list and and my easy I didn't have an opinion or it was correct and the professional was wrong I don't think I've been wrong yet at least on anything that I had asserted as true so weirdly and humorously the expert decides to dump on me in on Twitter and finds out I'm literally the only non expert who has consistently trounced the experts in this very field just recently in the last two months so I was speaking of crabby I saw that tweet on Twitter that just made me laugh because it reminded me of my own responses I just told you about so a troll goes after Emily compagnia campano
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troll goes after Emily compagnia campano Campania compagnia i can never pronounce her last name so you know her from FoxNews she's often on the five and other other FoxNews shows and this guy Tim on Twitter says I don't know why he was even going after it but it goes your world is criminal justice he goes please you work for Fox opinion so Emily tweets back to him this actually Tim I'm in my thirteenth year of practice criminal defense at a former gs-14 rank as an acting director in a top ten federal agency I've spent more hours in prisons and within the systems than you can imagine so why don't you sit the down and let the adults talk I think it's funnier because you don't expect her you didn't expect that the F word to come out of her but that I was sort of perfect I've been laughing about that all morning so every time somebody tries to dunk on somebody that they haven't done their homework alright
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haven't done their homework alright let's talk about Flynn so Trump is cleverly politically selling this as like the biggest deal in the world people should go to prison for 50 years talking about the Obama administration unmasking a Flynn and you know that being part of the whole Russia collusion hoax etc so Trump and the Republicans are making it a story that the Obama administration spied on a political opponent meaning the Trump campaign and that is literally what happened meaning that they literally spied on a political opponent like that statement is beyond any is beyond question what is in question is if that's the reason they did it which of course is their defense so there's no question of what happened at least the the broad strokes that there was unmasking these people unmask
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there was unmasking these people unmask them they happened and etc but they still would say no no we have a different reason it wasn't about spying on the campaign it was about making sure there wasn't any rush problems so the president cleverly because he's the biggest voice in politics and he can make the story sort of you know move in whatever direction he pushes it he's cleverly and appropriately I would say appropriately within the context of politics pushing it to be the biggest thing in the world and the beauty of this is almost breathtaking because what while he's doing what you know Rand Paul was doing yesterday is they're they're they're turning this into the exact mirror image of all the things that they were falsely accused of which was the the Ukrainian phone call and you know interfere it using using the power of the government to go after a political opponent in the case of Ukraine it was
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opponent in the case of Ukraine it was using the politics to investigate Biden's Ukrainian stuff so now that the facts of on the unmasking Trump and the Republicans quite cleverly and inaccurately I think I mean it would be as fair as what they were saying it's the just the complete reversal now the beauty of this is that at the same time that the Democrats have to argue that this is not a correct framing of what happened the things happen for different reasons it's exactly what Trump was saying Trump was saying well the reason we looked into it is it was a national security concern Ukraine burr yzma Biden national kisses security concern yes yes it was also you know who would have been how convenient that they're also my political enemy but that's not the reason I did it and likewise the Democrats are going to say yeah yeah we did spy on a political campaign but that
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did spy on a political campaign but that wasn't the reason we did it the reason we did it was all these important political geopolitical considerations it's exactly the same if you don't if you're not appreciating the beauty of that asymmetry I don't know I don't know how you could miss it the
the sometimes the fake news just in is randomness just ever every now and then will line up with this sort of perfect irony or perfect coincidence or perfect story and this is just so perfect it's the exact mirror of what he got impeached for exactly as he's going into election this couldn't be any better politically and as I and here's the other part of it so I was wondering why they why we have released the names of the people who asked for the unmasking but yet we're still waiting for the backup documents that each of them had to fill out to say why they had asked
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to fill out to say why they had asked for the unmasking have you asked yourself why you didn't see them at the same time why did you see the list of people who asked for the unmasking but we're still waiting for the documents in which those same people said this is why I want to see it well I don't know it could be just the most normal administrative bureaucratic thing it could be that one department had this information and they were done of the ones taking longer could be that one department has both but one of them takes longer to vet somebody had some questions held it up a little bit probably just normal reasons but let me just suggest this possibility isn't it better to trip it out a little bit at a time if you happen to be that the Republicans your Grinnell your let's say your Trump and you've got a bushel basket of little stuff and every one of these little releases is going to be a new cycle do you let it down all at once no you don't let it out all at once
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no you don't let it out all at once because when we saw the news we got to be outraged and when we see the someday I said we'll see the the backup documents and said why they need access and I think we're gonna be all enraged again so he's gonna get two weeks at least of coverage for a story that would have been a one-week story if they just dumped it and and the news had to process it and get over it so if you remember during the Russia collusions story and and also the Ukraine story what was the phrase that si haven't kept using you're gonna love this you know the phrase it goes like this drip drip drip how many times did you see CNN say that the all the news that was going to eventually get the president impeached how many times did you tell you say it just keeps coming drip drip drip and then the tables
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drip drip drip and then the tables turned and what is CNN saying now
because it looks like the Republicans are playing the drip strategy on them it looks like they're gonna drip drip drip and just drip the piss out of CNN and the Democrats now I don't know that that's an explicit strategy I do know it should be and I do know they're obviously smart enough it would be obvious enough if I had to guess if I had to guess I think they're getting a little bit of their drip drip drip right back which amuses me on a level I can't even explain like being first of all the fact the fact that they don't brag about it because I don't think you're gonna hear anybody Republicans say yeah you know we gave them the drip drip drip but the fact that you can see it happening and you kind of suspect if you don't know what's happening and watching them
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know what's happening and watching them use the same strategy that that just tortured Republicans for three years and just take the gun out of the hand of the Democrats and use it against them drip drip drip it is it is beautiful to watch so meanwhile the Democrats have to sort of build a little wall around their artificial reality their bubble reality Andrea Mitchell took a good try on it and one of the attempts that they're gonna make is that this unmasking stuff is so common there's no story here and it's so common because I a lot 9 10,000 times a year and it's so routine totally routine this unmasking and andrea mitchell tweeted 10,000 done maskings last year 17,000 and 2018 necessary and routine can people please stop trying to Gaslight us when you hear the word Gaslight that's your tell for
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the word Gaslight that's your tell for somebody building an artificial reality around them well well well don't know what happened there a little hiccup periscope gave me a message that said I could just continue with the same periscope when it was unfunny interrupted looks like it worked how about that anyway so Andrea Mitchell was building this bubble reality around their little world by saying that the accusations about all the unmasking is just gas lighting it's just gas lighting but here's the trick that she's doing if you didn't catch the trick it's a good one that's a good trick so she's framing it as a normal routine behavior therefore there's nothing to see but here's why she's cleverly doing this a little less obvious what's less obvious is that she's ignoring the reason it was done it is true that it's routine to unmask which is why she says so she's just sticking with us one truth it's routine to unmask we unmasked nothing to see what she leaves out as
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nothing to see what she leaves out as the reason for the unmasking I see in the comments somebody is enjoying my show more than more than usual so good for you keep it up so that's her trick she doesn't say the reason now so the alleged reason is for political reasons of course they're going to say it's for national security but that's how they're going to build their artificial reality over to CNN they'll call it gas lighting they'll say it's routine and they will simply not answer the question of why it was done which is the only real question
so I've been trying to follow this story that the Flynn judge so as you know the I guess the prosecutor wants to drop the charges against flim for all the reasons that you know but the judge this Emmett Sullivan issued quote an unusual order Wednesday I'll say it's unusual appointing a law firm partner to present
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appointing a law firm partner to present arguments in opposition to the government's motion to dismiss so in other words the prosecutor and the defense have both agreed that this should be dude be let go and the judge instead of doing the most normal thing in the world is like okay even the prosecutor doesn't want to prosecute well okay we're done here he decides he's gonna like create this process to retry the case basically without without a jury it basically would just be this guy retrying the case or something I mean not technically but even the fact that there's any new person coming in at this point and I said to myself well I'm no lawyer I'm no legal expert don't know that much about the courts is this weird or is this not weird and so I watched the people who actually know what they're doing you know the mic Serna people who have legal backgrounds etc and I was kind of
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backgrounds etc and I was kind of watching their guidance to see is this normal and as far as I could tell there is nothing normal about this am i right it looks like he's just making it up it appears that justice has been completely I don't distort it because this judge is just finding a way to keep Flynn in jail is that the judge's job to try to find a way to keep innocent people in jail Dershowitz agrees with you yeah it looks like it looks like this is a complete thing that he just sort of made up to keep a guy in jail now I don't know if it's any crime itself but we have all these weird situations lately if you ask me should Emmett Sullivan go to jail I'd say yes I would say that based on what he just did to try to create a system out of nothing to send an innocent person to jail while
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to send an innocent person to jail while he's in a position of authority and Trust is so bad that if it were a crime and I'm sure it's not but if it were on the books as a crime I would say it should be a jailable offense so he's doing something in full view of the public that just by you know chance and the vagaries of history is not illegal but it ought to be I shouldn't it shouldn't this be really illegal or at least banned or something so to watch somebody do something which I would say is as serious and as ethical II as ethically empty as this is should be a crime people should go to jail for something like this and there will be no penalty people that you'll either get away with it or it won't no penalty so now the president of course has correctly and wisely said the Flint will be fined so in other words that the
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be fined so in other words that the president will back him up with a auto pardon or whatever you need to do there but nobody wants to do that for political reasons but it's there so if lemon would be fine did you see the story about Senator Richard burr provident Republican who sold a lot of his stock on February 13th while he was getting all these confidential briefings about the corona virus and so he's in trouble because it looks like he used his insider information about the corona virus to save money by selling off his stocks and apparently as his brother-in-law did the same thing but Byrd denies coordinating with him that that part gets a little sticky now here's the here's the thing if you see this story you say to yourself well that's a slam dunk he it's illegal to use your insider government information in this way he had insider government information the dates line up he traded right after he got the information slam dunk right
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he got the information slam dunk right boom no problem right wrong this isn't even close to a crime in my opinion I will now give you my legal opinion based on my absolutely no legal background it goes like this as long as there's also a perfectly legitimate reason for whatever you did you're not going to jail just in general as long as there's also a legitimate reason you don't go to jail because people think you are using mentally the other reason they can only look at what you did and if what you did had plenty of public reasons it doesn't matter if you also had some extra extra information because you still would have done it why do I know that because on this very day the Senator Richard Burr was selling all of his stocks I - without the benefit of any of his intelligence was very close to selling all my stocks and it was because of
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all my stocks and it was because of public information I said it was what three weeks after I'd two or three weeks after I'd called publicly for travel to be stopped from China we knew what was happening in the Wuhan it was obvious that it was gonna it was gonna get out it was already a big story so I was sitting here thinking I might want to sell all of my stocks now I didn't I decided not to but Senator Richard burr or yeah Richard Burr I don't think he's gonna go to jail I think he's got a lot of explaining to do but it seems to me that as long as people like me we're looking at public information which he also had access to and that was enough to make the same decision he made with the private information I don't see him going to jail his brother-in-law's got some questions to answer though I don't know about that so there's that Paul
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know about that so there's that Paul Graham famous investor started Y Combinator he has a great Twitter feed he has lots of little little good things he was saying that he told his eight-year-old this is the advice to his eight-year-old if he do create a or try to avoid situations where people with less ability than you can tell you what to do or edit your work I thought let's that's good advice you don't want people with less ability telling you how to fix your creative work but I tweeted back that I call this boss diversification and it's a good advice for you if you have the option you want to have as many bosses as you can get because if you have one boss your life is controlled by one person who might not be stable might not even like you what could be worse than having the biggest part of your life determined by this one boss who might not like you so you want to go for what I call boss diversification which usually means working for yourself which usually means having customers instead of a boss your
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having customers instead of a boss your customers become your boss if you're an entrepreneur but you got lots of them so I can have several customers a day fire me and do probably every single day somebody says that's it that thing you said today is the last day I'll ever read Dilbert so I get fired about seven times a day that's just the ones I hear about I don't know how many times I don't hear about it but it doesn't matter because as long as there are more people becoming my boss meaning my customers they can fire me all day long but what they can't do is tell me how to change my work alright I would like to end on a I don't know if this is a poem or just good prose but it's written by Gordana biernat you're not bie RNA tea I wasn't familiar with her she's a blue check so she's apparently done some things a writer and she wrote this little I don't know what it is is it like a poem without rhymes you decide so
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like a poem without rhymes you decide so I just liked it so much I wanted to end today's periscope on this thought it kind of ties into the the idea of the simulation ties into rethinking all of our priorities it ties into rebooting because the coronavirus allowed us to just sort of pull back and just look at everything look at who we are how we relate to our world what we want where our dreams or ambitions what's the meaning of life you know all these things where think you have and I thought Gordana summed it up well so let me just read it the way she wrote it on Twitter growing up we somehow become consumers of things forgetting our original sole purpose as collectors of experiences know this all you truly own is yourself everything else is borrowed in the illusion of time and space be present on that note have a wonderful day and I
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that note have a wonderful day and I will talk to you tonight