Episode 1124 Scott Adams: Fake News, HOAXES, Science Denying, Magic Tricks, Things You Thought True

Date: 2020-09-15 | Duration: 52:36

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• Whiteboard: Understanding Reality

• “A Harris administration”

• CNN new position: mail-in votes are a nightmare

• HOAXES my smartest liberal friend believes

• Critical Race Theory is proceeding in government

• AI produced and fans the flames of all the protests

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[Music] yes there we are again smoky california i hope uh many of you live in states where you can breathe the air and do all those things but i don't so it looks like it's going to be weeks of breathing whatever that is out there so i'm basically on house arrest
i've got a little asthma issue so i can't go outside basically i'm just locked inside for weeks weeks and weeks but do i mind not what i have all of you here no no it's all good when you're here and i gotta tell you i i can't quite appreci um i don't think i could communicate how much i appreciate the time we spend together in the morning during this coronavirus situation and now the wildfires i gotta say it really helps it really helps to have this connection with all of you and speaking of connections

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all of you and speaking of connections wouldn't you like to enjoy the simultaneous sip all you need is a copper mugger glass a tanker chelsea stein a canteen jugger flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid i like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day the thing that makes everything better it's called the simultaneous step it happens now go
shall we start with the good news everybody everybody wants some good news all right we'll start with that there's a report that the university of pittsburgh scientists have discovered a biomolecule biomolecule you know you should probably practice saying biomolecule before you say it out loud for the first time in your entire life i have never said the word biomolecule out loud until just this moment and

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out loud until just this moment and well it wasn't it wasn't smooth but anyway this biomolecule may neutralize coronavirus so it's not a vaccine it would be some kind of biomolecule if it works apparently it works in animals which generally is not enough to get excited there are a lot of things work in animals that don't work in people but this particular biomolecule and come on you've probably just said biomolecule at home just to see if you could do it didn't you you did say it out loud biomolecule and apparently it's in the sort of general category of things that are generally safe so it seems to just rapidly just absolutely whack the coronavirus the end and uh looks promising so we might have something that's

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something that's i don't know how long it would take to test this but seems promising my favorite story of the day is uh internet uh troll jacob wall
and an fbi raid on some guy i think he works with jack burkman and so the washington post actually picked it up as a real story and i have to admit as fakes go this was really well done because the the videos and the pictures of what looked to be it really looked like an fba fbi raid somehow they got fbi jackets and they i think they hired actors or something and he puts on this whole fake fbi raid and the washington post reported it like it was real daily beast was on to him a little bit early so that's funny uh now i don't know why

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that's funny uh now i don't know why you know i i can't figure out the next part you know i understand the part about okay internet troll puts on a prank it's not his first rank and
and and it worked really well but was that the only point was he just trying to see if he could get the the news to report fake news i don't know i'm not sure what the point of that was um there will be some interesting news coming out of rasmussen a little later today i got a little heads up um i won't give you the details but let me just give you a little tease so rasmussen of course does polling and you're going to find out some details about this but it turns out and this might come as a surprise to you this might come as a big surprise so you know put your seatbelt on because you're never going to believe this it turns out that anybody who lived in a town that had protest slash riots

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protest slash riots not happy about it they're just not happy about it and will will it affect their votes well turns out yes yes so the people who live in places affected by the riots looting slash protesting not so much the peaceful protesting but everything that often comes with it those people are not happy not happy and here's the part you didn't know because it there are so many protests and they concentrated on the population centers if you said to yourself well if you added together the entire real estate that every protest was taken in the united states it would be like a pin brick on the big united states in terms of space that they occupied you know a few streets in each city you know 0.001 of the real estate was affected by these

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of the real estate was affected by these protests but it's not really about real estate is it
it it's about people if you happen to live near or within driving distance of where there was looting it changed your vote not every time but man people are pissed so where do you see the details in that but the biggest news is well let me put this in another context as impossible as this might seem by november we might be kind of over the coronavirus i don't mean over it medically i don't mean over it in terms of the economy being back to normal we won't be over it in terms of what it's doing to us but quoting my late mother who taught me one of the most valuable things you'll ever know about people and goes like this if you want to understand humans here's the thing we can get used to

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here's the thing we can get used to anything including hanging that was her little saying you can get used to anything so the problem with the coronavirus from the democrats point of view is that they have this complaint about the president not handling it the way they wish it would have been handled but it's really going to seem like old news by november even while we're still experiencing it because whatever happened in april it just feels like a hundred years ago already and we'll talk a little bit more about that but um don't discount the fact that you simply get used to the coronavirus you just get used to it and then whatever is happening at the moment artificially takes a bigger role because you were you know just got used to the other thing so if the protests are still happening and there's still new news about it and there's new video every day which seems to be the case people are going to vote on the protests way more than they're going to vote on coronavirus

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going to vote on coronavirus it'll have only to do with the fact that you just got used to one and you haven't yet got used to the other one all right
let's see uh i want to give you a little context about what makes me look at the world a little differently than other people i get asked about this a lot people say to me scott scott what happened to you that makes you see the world differently and i've noticed that there are people who took what i would call my journey people who coincidentally were doing similar things and had similar experiences often think the same way i do
do and i thought it'd be useful to show you what that looks like here is my path to understanding reality when i was a little kid i loved optical illusions and i loved the fact that your brain had this this blind spot you could be looking at an illusion and even though you know it's really not that it looks like it and so i was always fascinated by how

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and so i was always fascinated by how how easily the brain could be fooled by an optical illusion something you're looking right at then then i started noticing that people had different religions i was learning one religion but people had different ones and i and even at the young age of 11 i'd be saying to myself um okay there i don't know what's going on
on here because these religions are completely different so even if i imagine i got lucky and i got the right one so luckily i was born into the family that that had the right religion and all the other people were getting the wrong religion but or maybe everybody had the wrong religion so there were possibilities but the one thing i can say for sure is that everybody who had a different religion
you could tell that we were not basing our decisions on religion on facts so much or at least not all of the world so we could see the people would believe just about anything didn't know who was

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just about anything didn't know who was right and who was wrong but it was pretty obvious that billions of humans who are otherwise normal can believe just about anything then i got interested in magic when i was a little chat a little kid doing magic tricks and you start learning that there are there are predictable let's say blocks in your brain there are predictable gaps and blind spots so you can craft a variety of different magic tricks that take advantage of weaknesses and perception now once you start doing enough magic tricks and you see you start seeing all the weaknesses and perception it changes how you see the world and you start saying well if you know if magic tricks can fool people so easily maybe i should look into this a little more i started looking into hypnosis and then persuasion and by the time i started analyzing fake news i gotta tell you it was easier

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i gotta tell you it was easier it was easier to analyze fake news and let me give you an example of what learning magic tricks does if you can see this here's a penny all right it's just a penny you can see it there's nothing in this hand watch this i'm going to take this penny i'm just going to put my finger on it and i'm going to squeeze it until it becomes a quarter now sh you didn't hear that so learning how easily people could get fooled primed me for looking at the fake news there is a news or there's a little clip that went around twitter today that i recognized immediately as fake news and it was a clip of biden on the view from 2019 and the clip was it felt to me like it was obviously edited to take out all of his coherent statements and kind of string together

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statements and kind of string together a whole bunch of hesitant you know incoherent things now he is a little bit hesitant and incoherent but it was clearly edited to get rid of all the coherent parts now i point that out because it's the same trick done by the fine people hoax and what did people say when they saw the fine people oaks and i said hey that's a hoax they all said the same thing the ones who had been fooled by the hoax to a person they said scott it's not a hoax i watched it i saw it with my own eyes heard it with my own ears is real but then what about this biden video you watched it with your own eyes you heard it with your own ears but it's not real somebody helpfully showed the the full video so you can see that it was doctored it's just like the magic trick right you saw a penny in my hand so

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you saw a penny in my hand so it was a penny had to be a penny you saw it
it saw it with your own eyes but it was just a magic trick once your brain is primed for looking for the magic trick you can see it a lot easier so um here's here's the correlation people who were interested in magic tricks when they were kids watch for this correlation they're less easily fooled by fake news because they're just primed for it all right uh the best freudian slip of the day was kamala harris referring to quote a harris administration and then she corrected it together with joe biden so here's what she'll do with a harris administration uh together with joe biden now what did i teach you before this happened all right if you've been watching my periscopes you know one of the things you learn in hypnosis class is that these are not accidents now the

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is that these are not accidents now the first i don't know a hundred times you see somebody misspeak you say to yourself okay that's like a funny coincidence because when they misspoke they said something that it felt like they were revealing some inner truth but you know it's just they just used the wrong word nope nope once you start paying attention you'll see it's not an accident now i'm not going to say it's never an accident my claim will be that in general it's actually meaningful not a hundred percent of the time but it is more meaningful than not do you think it's an accident that kamala harris referred to a harris administration you don't say that out loud unless you've been thinking it unless it's been part of a conversation so i think she has revealed that at the very least there's a conversation going about getting rid of biden or how long you last or something along those lines um

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lines um there's a story which didn't get big news i don't know if the major news covered it but there is a research institute and a researcher who is making a claim that the coronavirus that came out of the allegedly came out of the wuhan lab had to be artificial that's pretty big news right there's a researcher who seems to know this field who has a claim that it could not have been a naturally occurring virus and that she can tell you exactly how they made it now that's a pretty big claim not only is she saying that it's man-made but she's claiming she could make it herself in other words she already knows the components if you take this you take this i think she said in six months you could make this thing is that true well i don't know if it's true but there's a claim today that the research institute had some connection with steve bannon now steve bannon

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now steve bannon has been hammering on china for the wuhan you know coronavirus so that's a little flag you have to ask yourself huh why is this not you know the headline news and the answer is uh i guess the news business has decided it's not entirely credible that doesn't mean it's false remember whenever i use the word credible that doesn't mean true or false it just means that the nature of it tells you to be cautious about believing it that's all so we'll keep an eye on that um
so here's here's another magic trick and something that people study magic would see the antifa are using a magic trick now most of you know this which is and the magic trick is that they they name themselves auntie pha and then they say don't you get it we're anti-fascists so therefore if

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we're anti-fascists so therefore if you're against us you must be a fascist now that's a magic trick to force you into thinking a certain way the real trick is that capitalism and fascism are the same thing that's the magic trick so instead of saying hey we're going to destroy all capitalism which you might say to yourself um that sounds pretty bad because i'm pretty sure if you destroy capitalism we all die or were conquered by china et cetera and but the anti-fog gets to say oh capitalism who said capitalism i said anti-fascist i didn't even mention capitalism what's what's capitalism got to do with it but here's here's how you know that's the magic trick have you ever seen the regular news interview somebody from antifa and ask him this question

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antifa and ask him this question can you tell us is there such a thing as a capitalist system that you would not consider fascist there isn't bernie sanders vision of a socialist version of capitalism would still be fascist and this is the thing that the news if they did their job if if we had a real news business they would be calling anti-fall leaders or representatives just somebody who could you know i realize they don't have leaders in the traditional sense that they're they're public and identified they do have some kind of coordination but they don't seem to have anybody was the spokesperson but still you could find people who would be willing to talk about it so if we had a real news business they would call them on and they say trying to understand anti-fascist so i have one question could there ever be a capitalist system that is not fascist and the answer is

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that is not fascist and the answer is not really now they might try to finesse it by saying sure sure you know if you did everything right but you really can't build that system because it would remove incentives human incentives so it would it would fall apart so the fact that this dog is not barking meaning that the news business is not giving you any any look not an approximate one not a not a glance not anything about what does that mean to be anti-fascist nothing it's just not a topic that tells you that the magic trick is working because as soon as they focused on it it would fall apart uh all right um do you remember some of the things that i said in the beginning of the coronavirus i told you i thought vitamin d would be important and now studies seem to be validating the vitamin d might be not just important but like really really important it's unconfirmed but it's looking that way and

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way and now there's a forthcoming study from 23andme showing that your genetic code could affect how how much the coronavirus affects you so remember i told you early on you know i've got a feeling there's a genetic correlation here and that if we knew what that genetic correlation was we could do way better in protecting ourselves because we'd know who needs to be protected and now sure enough so i say this because i always tell you that you should watch who is predicting well so on day one practically i was saying look at genetics look at vitamin d and correct correct so so you have to give me you give me those check marks that doesn't mean i'm right on everything and when i'm wrong you should point it out and yeah obesity and being african-american and you know a whole bunch of

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bunch of things that increase your risk all right trump talked to was in california yesterday talking to gavin newsom and people about the forest fires etc now here's a little fact that you may not have processed when you're watching that it's kind of interesting that trump and gavin newsom treat each other with an unusual amount of respect wouldn't you say you know they they differ no doubt about that but there is there's a level of respect there that you don't really it fools you a little bit because he doesn't seem to be as nice to every other governor but he's really nice to gavin newsom and vice versa but you might not know that gavin newsom's ex-wife kimberly guilfoyle is has of course been with don jr in a relationship for some time now and i'm pretty sure fact check me on this i think that gavin newsom and kimberly guilfoyle have children right or one child i don't know what the situation is but

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i don't know what the situation is but at least one which would mean that president trump basically has a um in effect you know that who knows what the relationship will will be in the future but in effect it's like he has a grandchild in law what would you call it you know a virtual grandchild his stepson a great a step grandchildren or something so gavin newsom and president trump share family they actually share family and i think that you have to really have that filter on when you see how they interact with each other i'm getting confirmation that they they have a son and you can't you can't discount how important that is the the personal relationship and the president has been always good with the personal relationships anyway what's interesting here is that uh gavin newsom was very diplomatic by saying yes forest management is a thing that

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yes forest management is a thing that needs to be done better i think we'd all agree but he asked the president to be open-minded to the difference of opinion about the importance of climate change and he the way he worded it was just really good i have to admit really good in the sense that he needed to be super diplomatic but still get his point across i think he did i'd say that communication wise he did a good job and then the president because he can't go five minutes without controversy i you know i listened to this and i was thinking to myself don't say it don't say it you know don't talk about trump i'm waiting for him to respond about the climate change stuff and the whole time i'm just no
no don't do it don't do it and then the president smiles and he goes he goes uh it will get cooler and i'm like no oh no oh no

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no oh no oh no it will get cooler he didn't have to say that but i think we're all used to it by now that whatever is the provocative thing he's going to say it if there's a if there's a provocative way to say something in a non-provocative way you might get the provocative one now here's what's interesting my criticism of that is only in the way it's going to make people feel and you know the politics of it my criticism of that is not that he's wrong because my guess is
is that you know temperature will will probably modulate up and down i happen to be on the on the side that says in all likelihood temperatures are going up on average i don't think it's the end of the world i think we'll figure out how to mitigate and
and you know the disasters have gone down every year because we're better at managing everything from hurricanes to floods you name it forest fires even we're better at managing in a weird way

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better at managing in a weird way there's more to that story but the point is that we would figure out how to deal with it even if it's getting warmer which it probably is the president goes for the provocative statement that it'll get cooler you just watch now is that true well it might we might have a few years where it's a little cooler on average but i don't think in the long term it's going to stay cool i could be wrong you know science science can surprise you but at this point i would say the the the weight of science suggests that the temperatures will probably go up we just don't know what that looks like all right so i wouldn't have said that if i were the president but i doubt it changes anything at this point and i would say this is another example where and i say this often if you think there's such a thing as a good president and a bad president i think you're wrong there's no such thing as a good

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there's no such thing as a good president and a bad president there are presidents who are well suited to certain tasks and maybe not well suited for others the president is just absolutely not suited for anything but optimism he just doesn't have a non-optimism mode he doesn't give bad news now does that mean he's a bad president no it means for some things where maybe we should be a little more worried people would like to hear him give a little more negativity but if you want to get your economy back who do you want it's like ghostbusters it's like okay if you want some fake optimism about something he's just not always the right guy because sometimes things need to be treated more seriously but if you want to goose the economy if you want to get a peace deal with another country if you want to win three or four nobel prizes he's your guy

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three or four nobel prizes he's your guy nobody does what he does well better than he doesn't let me let me put it in let me frame it in the way you haven't heard me say before in my opinion the president is bad at easy stuff all right the president president trump in my opinion is bad bad does a bad job at easy things now an easy thing would be
be saying telling the country oh things are going to be bad i have great empathy for you let me say things about you know to end divisiveness etc all of the stuff that biden says every day
day is the easy stuff this president you know waves his hand at the easy stuff but i don't think he's good at it i don't think he's good at it but here's the thing the president and the reason that i've supported him from the start he can do things that are impossible so so here's the frame the president can

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so so here's the frame the president can do things that are literally just impossible he's just not good at things that are easy now the good news is the easy stuff doesn't seem to matter as much does it matter that he he turned the entire psychology of north korea around so that they're not really our enemy anymore yeah who thought he could do that it seemed impossible and then he did it did you think that there would be two peace deals in the middle east nope it seemed impossible and then he did it did you think that when he pulled the the forces out of the area that the kurds were in in syria and all the smart people said no no no they will be slaughtered that'll be the worst thing in the world and then it didn't happen it was impossible to pull our troops out without a slaughter and then he did it it was fine it was impossible to move the embassy to jerusalem he did it was

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the embassy to jerusalem he did it was impossible to recognize the golan heights and they just did it it was impossible to get unemployment down to what it was before the coronavirus and that he did it how about telehealth just just a tiny little example from a mountain of things that he changed with executive orders did you think it was possible that we would have telehealth that's now legal across state lines where it had been banned before i didn't think so i mean technically anything's possible but i didn't think it was going to happen and he just signed a piece of paper and it happened and that was like the law of the land essentially and so that's the frame not so good on little unimportant stuff that where you have to say things just the right way but when it comes to things that are literally literally considered impossible

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literally considered impossible he does it routinely how do you not notice that right how do you not notice that somebody says where is kim jong-un i would have thought about that the other day i need a fact check on this but i think i saw the president the other day out of the blue with no prompting i don't think anybody even asked the question he tweeted that kim jong-un was completely healthy that happened right did we not see president trump tweeted that kim jong-un is healthy just the other day when nobody was questioning it
what's that mean well i think it means that kim jong-un either asked for a favor because maybe he wanted that reported or the president is just clever enough that he knows that treating kim jong-un with even more respect than you'd expect giving him a little extra respect in

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giving him a little extra respect in public and basically having his back because that would be a case of having his back the president just stepped up and he just had kim jong-un's back now do you think that kim jong-un is healthy i don't i think that his sister maybe maybe is getting groomed to take over we we hear the reports of that there's probably something going on and it might be a pretty big deal so but the president played it perfectly played it perfectly he just give he just has the kim jong-uns back and that will be good for the country
all right um the the thing that i wish trump had said about the forest fires is that we need nuclear energy but i think that's just sort of a people can't quite understand the topic yet probably 80 percent of the country still thinks you can't deal with the nuclear waste you can it's not that big a deal a lot of the country thinks it's

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a lot of the country thinks it's dangerous it's not they just are not up to date and i think the president maybe just doesn't want that fight again i'm not a mind reader i would be only speculating but it would be the obvious thing to say and it would be provocative so you would expect him to go there but not here's something that somebody noticed when gavin newsom was blaming climate change for the fires if you see the map the fires go from the bottom of california to the the top of
of the country and then the fires of which there are i don't know dozens or hundreds and like the whole state of california looks like it's in fire in different places and you go right up to the border of canada and there's no fires so after the canadian border no fires now is the climate that different a mile on the other side of the border versus a mile on our side i don't think so

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on our side i don't think so i don't think it's that different so you have to ask yourself is it management of the forest or not now the thing that i would like to see is that our forests that have the biggest risk we should be cutting these 50-yard paths crisscrossing them so that there will be a natural fire break should something start but i would also like to see those 50-yard fire breaks through the forest turned into what what am i going to say why should all those fire breaks that we need to build across all these forests what should they be in addition to fire breaks that's right they should be bicycle paths you should be able to go anywhere in california on a bicycle without reaching traffic you should it just just be bicycle paths that are also coincidentally good for the forest could you charge people a toll to use the bicycle paths and use that money to help pay for the

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and use that money to help pay for the forest um forest fire forest fire remediation i would say yes if i could ride a hundred miles on a bicycle path through through cool woods and stuff you know as long as i had a paved path yeah i'd pay for that absolutely i'd pay for that a little bit of a toll um here's a here's an update cnn after reporting for months and months and months ish cnn's been reporting that every expert will tell you that mail-in votes are fine they're fine there's no problem with mail-in votes the president's a big old liar there's no problem mail-in votes they've worked in other countries they've worked in other states they've been working for years nobody's finding a problem therefore the president is completely wrong about the risk of mail-in votes well until yesterday when cnn

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well until yesterday when cnn here's the important part cnn is reporting that mail-in votes are a total nightmare and that they're completely inaccurate and there's plenty of evidence that they don't work
what did you see that cnn just did a complete 180. a complete 180. and they act like they never said the other thing they just they just pretended that months of reporting about how safe it was just doesn't exist anymore and now the report is wait for it it gets better this isn't the whole story it gets better part of the report on cnn said that one of the reasons that mail-in votes are so inaccurate is and i quote one university of florida study found black and hispanic voters in the state were twice as likely to have their ballots rejected as white voters

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as white voters who could have seen that coming
right now this doesn't have anything to do with being black or hispanic all right let me be clear about this this difference almost certainly has to do with economics almost certainly has to do with education which is related right so if you're in a low socio-economic group what are the odds that you're good at filling out paperwork right i have a terrible time filling out any paperwork even the simplest form i fill in the wrong blocks and i got the wrong date and i i signed my name in the wrong place so you would expect it's completely predictable that the higher educated you are regardless of ethnicity has nothing to do with that but the higher educated you are you would expect you're more likely to fill in a form correctly is that is that even controversial the more educated the more likely you

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the more educated the more likely you can fill out a form the more likely you can do anything that requires a little bit of thinking so i wouldn't make this a uh a black and white or hispanic thing has more to do with education but the practical impact of it is that it's racist male massive mail-in votes are according to cnn this isn't me according to cnn mail-in votes the thing that they've been promoting for months are racist because that would be the outcome the black voters would be disenfranchised without knowing it because their votes would be rejected and they wouldn't know they were rejected all right here's an update on my who i call my smartest democrat friend who is suffering from tds
tds here's a list of things he believed a few weeks ago all right these are all the things he believed to be true he believed that the president suggested drinking bleach to cure coronavirus

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drinking bleach to cure coronavirus not he believes the fine people hoax he believed that the biden doesn't lie trump does he believed that mail-in voting was dependable because cnn told them that last week before this week
he uh let's see he believed that the protests were probably about trump you know trump was the cause of the protest uh he believed the russian bounties on american soldiers which a report today says they don't have evidence of that yet don't know if we ever will but they don't have evidence of it and he believed that he still believes as of this morning the hydroxyl chloroquine was proven dangerous so not so much that it doesn't work against chronovirus but he still believes as of today the coronavirus or that hydroxychloroquine was shown to be dangerous by science none of it's true absolutely none of it so i've been i've been chipping away at him so you

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i've been chipping away at him so you know i sent him the reports about the uh the uvc light in a ventilator that's injecting a disinfectant so now now he understands that the drinking bleach thing was a hoax i also sent him the cnn update about the mail-in votes so now he believes that mail-in votes are in fact racist and undependable so once you take somebody's firm belief and you completely obliterate it what do they do do they say you know i was quite fooled by that fake news now that you've informed me i change my opinion and i acknowledge that you were right and man was i completely wrong up until now thank you for correcting me did that happen no no but here's the fun part what didn't happen is cognitive dissonance cognitive dissonance is when somebody finds their world view is wrong and then they just spout word salad

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they just spout word salad instead he simply softly redirected the conversation and here was his answer uh he talked about voting rights as a partisan issue he talked about vote suppression and how not enough people vote so his answer to everything you believe from the news about mail and voting being dependable from the same sources that told you was dependable they now say unambiguously it's a mess he didn't say oh gosh i was wrong he said there are other problems with voting unrelated now what that means is and if you study persuasion you can kind of see where this is going that is somebody who's been persuaded someone who has not been persuaded would say something still on the topic but it just wouldn't make sense here he's saying things that make complete sense but he's quite intentionally changed the conversation without without mentioning it that means

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without mentioning it that means bullseye that he understands that he has been fooled and i gave him some other debunks we'll see if that makes any difference um i still think the biggest issue about the coronavirus is the question of whether the president did enough testing and when i found out more about other countries and how they did allegedly superior testing i say to myself let's dig into that a little bit why is it that some other country did better testing then here's south korea the reason that south korea did so well in testing there was a private company who when the news first came out about the coronavirus they realized that they had the capability to quickly and ahead of time i think they started in january maybe even sooner i think they started in january but they quickly ramped up because they were a private company and apparently there was nothing stopping them from doing it so they ramped up now would you say then

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so they ramped up now would you say then that south korea their leadership did better than the united states to which i say well okay you're not analyzing this right if that private company that did so well and did a really good job in south korea what if that was just an american company what if an american company had been as clever as this private company would an american company have said you know they haven't asked for it yet but i'm going to get busy on this because i think there could be a billion dollar opportunity so we're just going to we're just going to start making test kits nobody asked us to it's not approved by the fda or the cdc but we're going to do it
is that a leadership thing because i'm not sure that leadership is even part of the question if south korea got their solution because a private company acted both aggressively and early and wisely it took a good risk management approach that was probably good for their profits as well that has nothing to do with management

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that has nothing to do with management that's nothing to do with leadership they just had a company that was pretty smart i think germany had a similar situation in which they just had i think germany had a private company that was also big in this space so the private company was able to do something quickly with testing now in the united states i don't know the full detail but i guess the cdc's kits were incomplete it didn't have all the parts so there was a part where the cdc fell apart but where were our private companies i think our private companies were probably limited by maybe fda and cdc red tape so if there's a criticism about the president and there could be by the way i just don't quite understand this this issue yet
yet if there's an issue with president trump's performance i would think it would be in the in the area of not getting rid of red tape maybe maybe there was something our private companies couldn't do

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companies couldn't do fast enough because maybe they were barred from doing it is that a thing so um there are a lot of people will base their decision on what they believe about the president's leadership on testing and they won't know anything about what actually happened they won't know that it was probably just private companies making good decisions in other countries that might be it that could be the whole story we don't know uh christopher ruffo is reporting that you know we thought that the president did a executive order banning critical race theory training but apparently the cdc is just going to move ahead and do it anyway so the cdc is going to have training classes on critical race theory i think they tried to finesse it by not calling it that but it is
is and i have to wonder at what point does this go to the supreme court at what point does the supreme court say you can't teach this critical race

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you can't teach this critical race theory stuff because it's just racist because it is racist it's obviously racist it's gigantically racist so what is that going to happen all right um would you like to be scared about the future of humankind i can deliver that and it goes like this in my opinion the protests and riots that you're seeing around the country could not happen without artificial intelligence now there could have been some protests there might have been some things but in terms of the extent of what we're seeing and the way it's affecting the country we would not have this if not for ai here's what i mean now you're going to tell me but scott the kind of ai we have now in our algorithms etc is still controlled by people people program them people tweak them it's people people making decisions they're just using ai as a convenient tool that i believe

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convenient tool that i believe is a mistake in perception what's really while it is true that the humans are tweaking them the way you know in a variety of ways what's also true is the algorithm forces the humans to do what the humans do once the algorithm through trial and error has determined what gets you the most profit the human doesn't have a choice of not following it because the human will be fired if they don't pursue profit so you say to yourself but the human has a choice they don't have to do what the ai says just because the ai says let's feed these ads or this this news to people because it'll get them all worked up and they'll be angry and then they'll click more the human you could say in some technical sense they could decide not to do it but then they would be fired and then the next person would do it so you don't really in a practical sense have any way to fight the artificial intelligence once it decides that this is how you make money

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make money you're going to do it that's the way humans are wired so we are already at the point where ai controls humanity you know a lot of people are worried like what happens someday when the ai gets smart enough that you know it's it's sentient and then it's making our decisions well i don't think you could argue it's sentient but it's already making the decisions that is literally true ai is determining how mad you are what news you saw and what you clicked on and that will determine the government because our government has to react to what the the news and the public collectively want right the government in
in some cases you know in limited cases can do something the public isn't demanding but for the most part they have to do what the public demands and the public is only demanding what the news and social media tells

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what the news and social media tells them to think and it always does that because the ai is telling them what to think so for all practical practical purposes artificial intelligence is running the united states it is that it's already done so there's that um bloom mike bloomberg is going to spend 100 million dollars in florida trying to make sure that the democrats win florida and i i thought to myself all right i believe in free speech and people should be able to use their money the way they want but when when the founders of this country were designing a system at what point did they understand that one person could spend a hundred million dollars in a swing state and determine the election would that be legal do you think if the founders knew that could have happened i mean i don't think they could have conceived of somebody with so much money that

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of somebody with so much money that would have been hard to imagine although you could argue that george washington was one of the richest people in the world if you normalize it [Music] but why is that legal i understand that it is legal but shouldn't we look into that a little bit could you know i feel like there should be some kind of limit on what one person can do you know if you said to me well mike bloomberg can put in up to 10 million dollars that's still a ton of money but i'd say all right all right because there'll be other billionaires that put 10 million the other way but to have one person put a 100 million into one swing state or one that could be a swing state that's that's a big risk to the republic i'm surprised that that's legal all right um that is all i wanted to talk about somebody says you don't even vote so this year i am going to vote i

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so this year i am going to vote i registered to vote this year the only reason i'm registering to vote this year is first self-defense because i do think that this is this year is unusual and i think that anybody who supported trump would be in a lot of trouble if he doesn't win there could be violence there could be discrimination there could be any any norm any number of things that could be bad so just for self-defense i'll be voting for trump there you go all right um what does he get in return what does bloomberg get in return yeah it's a good question isn't it somebody says kimberly's son was from a prior managed marriage you mean before gavin newsom we'll do a fact check on that because i might be wrong about her her son but there's still there's still a
a connection with gavin newsom even if it's indirect

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all right the slaughter meter is the slaughter meter is at about 200 percent at the moment um almost every day that goes by it looks better for trump and worse for biden and i until that changes this slaughter meter said about 200 all right that's all i got for now and i will talk to you later