Episode 1131 Scott Adams: How AI is Already Killing Us, Reframe Racism, Pelosi and Biden Gaffes, RBG

Date: 2020-09-21 | Duration: 56:39

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• AI drove the prosecution and death of Jake Gardner

• Why/how the AI algorithms already own/control us

• AI has broken the “honor system” in government

• BLM deleted their embarrassing “What We Believe” web page

• Pelosi threatens impeachment if President Trump does his job

• Study says correlation between activists and ignorance

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go hello northern colorado good to have you in the house so it seems to me that it's a little bit slow in the news department today

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slow in the news department today and when i say it's slow in the news department i mean too slow i mean suspiciously slow i mean there's something brewing something's gonna happen today maybe tomorrow but there's some big stuff coming there always is so that's an easy prediction um so here's some of my favorite stories of the day one of the things that endears trump to his base is he says out loud the things you're not supposed to say out loud and i may have taught you at one point that a really good technique for persuasion is to say out loud what you know somebody is thinking but they have not yet said it and if you get it right it forms this little bond and you go oh yeah when you think things same thing i think it just connects people instantly it's one of the most

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people instantly it's one of the most powerful persuasion techniques i have ever used and the president didn't hear with what did you think the first time you heard that ruth bader ginsburg's deathbed wish had been translated i guess to a daughter and said there was her fervent desire that her replacement was picked by the next president now when you saw that was there any part of your brain that said i don't know if she really said that because it would be pretty easy for the family to make something up if you know what i mean and who knows how coherent she was in her
her last hours of life so the president actually called bs on it on his interview i think he was on fox and friends this morning and he said quote i don't know that she

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and he said quote i don't know that she said that was that written out by adam schiff schumer and pelosi now i don't think that they wrote it out but the fact that he called the to it now i'm not saying it is because it's entirely compatible with things she said before it's entirely compatible with what could have happened but didn't you wonder a little bit you wondered you know you did you wondered if she really said that and when you hear trump say it out loud you just say to yourself okay there you go he's thinking what i'm thinking i feel comfortable with that now i think he was just you know stirring the pot a little bit there i don't think he necessarily believes that she didn't say it but it's something you could be skeptical about i think a reasonable person could be skeptical about that um did you see the weird pelosi

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um did you see the weird pelosi interview with stepanopolis stephanopoulos um you can see it in my twitter feed and anywhere else just google stefanophilus and pelosi and it looked like she went crazy or her brain rebooted or something but that's not what happened what happened was she tried to make a joke but she didn't land it it was just awkward and so since you couldn't tell it was a joke you didn't know what it was and what happened was stefano stepanovis asked her about what weapons basically that she had to deal with trump's desire to dominate and confirm a new justice and she didn't want to answer what tools or weapons she had at her disposal so she tried to change the subject but to do it in sort of a coy cute clever somewhat whimsical and funny way so when he asked the

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and funny way so when he asked the direct question what you know what arrows do you have in your quiver she just looked at the camera and said good morning sunday morning and you can see stephanopoulos face as he hears it and he and he realizes that he doesn't quite know what's happening and and you can see his face just dying a thousand a thousand deaths on camera so you have to watch that and the way to watch it is to first watch pelosi but then after you've watched it one time entirely through watch it a second time but only watch stephanopoulos face it's pretty funny trust me on this it's pretty funny all right
um i saw a tweet by naval ravikant who said that all social media oligopolists not just tic tac tic tock should open their recommendation algorithm to

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their recommendation algorithm to scrutiny so now naval is calling for the algorithms to be opened up for scrutiny that would be
be you know your twitters your facebooks etc
etc what do you think of that well here's what i think about it i said the other day i said that at the very least at the very least tic tac has to open their algorithm because it's a it's it's aimed at children and if children are going to be brainwashed by some technology i think the parents have a right to look around in that algorithm and see what the code says maybe not personally themselves but you know having somebody who knows how to do that do that for them but uh naval uh takes that a little bit further and i think completely reasonably that um adults are being brainwashed too and if adults are being brainwashed by this

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adults are being brainwashed by this technology shouldn't we have the right to see what it is it's sort of like going to the doctor and the doctor says all right here's a pill take this pill and you say what's that pill for i don't even feel bad i just i was just here for a physical i'll just take this pill just take this pill no i'm not going to take the pill because i don't know what it does to me i don't know what's in the pill and by the way i'm not sick i just came in here for my annual physical and the doctor says take the pill take the pill would you take that bill no of course not of course not the pill will change you in some way you don't know how the doctor isn't telling you that's not a pill you will take especially when you don't have any need for a pill you're not sick but with social media we're also not sick we go to the platform and we're kind of taking the pill because the algorithm is kicking in it's starting to guide us and brainwash us and it's

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guide us and brainwash us and it's literally rewiring our minds and we don't know what what it's up to we could probably feel something happening but we don't know where it's going and what the and what the uh the path is there so i would i would echo naval's uh call for this to be open at the very least you need some kind of independent group that can look at it but i'm not sure we could ever trust an independent group because they would they would end up being owned by the big companies indirectly so yeah i think they just it just needs to be opened up now here's the scary part you're ready for this scary part coming i have put my stake in the ground and said that the artificial intelligence ai already controls humans and that if you're worried about hey someday in the future the ai will control us you don't need to worry about that

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you don't need to worry about that because it already happened now you could worry if you want but it already happened and could we do anything about it could the with the ai ever release its grip now here's what i mean by the ai already controls us now the way and i and and artificial intelligence thinks could be quite different than the way a human thinks for example if you had if you looked at ibm's watson or was it big blue or whatever it was whoever it was who was playing chess against the chess champions it didn't think the same way the chess champions thought it did it by brew force it would just calculate every possible move and then pick the one with the best odds so a computer thinks different than a person but it can still be thinking in in its own fashion and it seems to me that artificial intelligence gets employed in lots of different fields

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employed in lots of different fields most of them are just tools hey that's useful i i figured out how to do a you know figure out traffic better or whatever but in the specific area where ai helps you make money because your algorithm is is better it's feeding ads better etc in that case the ai really controls the people because the way we've formed our corporations is they have to pursue profits it's it's a requirement and if the managers of a corporation don't pursue profits they get fired and they're replaced with somebody who does so as long as the algorithm the ai if you will and profits are now linked at least for the social media companies you can't untangle them that's their whole business model so as long as that's the case the ai will drive the business model which will drive the human beings and effectively it already owns us

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effectively it already owns us so here's my prediction if it's true that ar ai already owns us we will never have access to the algorithm because the ai will prevent it and the way it will prevent it is through its connection to profitability it won't have a thought about preventing it so it's not like people so it's not going to say hey i think i want to prevent these people from looking at my code no i won't do that what it will do instead is it's got a symbiotic relationship with the people who work in the companies and those people know that if they unlock the code profitability could at least be jeopardized you don't know if it would go down it probably would but at least it would be jeopardized and because people don't want to jeopardize profits and because the business model of a corporation requires them not to jeopardize profits as long as

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not to jeopardize profits as long as they're obeying the law there are no laws against what the pro what the platform companies are doing in terms of the algorithm so as long as they're obeying the law and they're pursuing profits in a perfectly legal way i don't think you're ever going to get access to the code now you might say to yourself scott scott the government can just require it the government could just pass a law can it
it do we have a government that is immune from money influences nope we don't not only that not only can the large platform companies you know hire lobbyists etc you know donate to the right people do whatever it needs to do but the so the big companies can probably protect the algorithm from the government i would think they could do that so that's one way to know that the ai has taken over what would be another way another way

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what would be another way another way would be if ai started killing people that would be an indication who is in charge generally speaking if if if i can kill you without impunity but you can't kill me without impunity in other words you'd go to jail if you killed me who's in charge who's got the power well i do because i can kill you without being getting in trouble but you can't kill me without getting killed yourself so i've got the power what happened recently in the news with this tragic situation of the young bar owner jake gardner who um uh shot a black man who was he had got some altercation at the bar it was initially judged self-defense and so originally it was just going to be well self-defense you know it's pretty clear case that's the end of it but did the ai let us stop there

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did the ai let us stop there no it didn't now because the artificial intelligence has created a situation where we can only see the world in terms of
of race race has become our dominant filter among many filters we'll talk more about that but there are lots of filters on the world but ai has through trial and error determined that race is the one that gets the most clicks as soon as you put race into the news
the viewer viewership goes up so the ai takes every story and turns it into a race story that's what it did with the jake gardner uh situation and because it's so powerful turning it into a race story it actually caused the local authorities to hire a black prosecutor who decided and um so under pressure the district attorney appointed a black prosecutor which again was not an accident

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was not an accident i assume they had to you know pick a black prosecutor for i don't know credibility or just because the ai told them to indirectly and that guy decided he was going to indict this guy for manslaughter and then gardner just took his own life so that was today's news so if if artificial intelligence did not exist and therefore our algorithms did not do what they do would jake gardner still be alive yes yes he would be because that would have been treated as a crime as it initially was and there was no crime because it was self-defense but because the ai does not treat it as a crime it treats it as a race thing there was just too much pressure on the d.a had to put a black prosecutor in there the black prosecutor is also subject to the filters of the world and

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subject to the filters of the world and said well this looks like murder to me or manslaughter and next thing you know jake gardner takes his own life because his life was about to be taken by the ai the ai effectively killed him now there are lots of variables right so everything that happened had to happen the way it happened and it wasn't all the ai but keep looking for the situations that wouldn't have gone that way except for the ai and you're going to see a lot more of them
imagine if you will that instead of the ai making us think everything is about race suppose it reframed it in terms of skill stacks let me ask you this if you were a single uh single white male and in your town and you met somebody else let's say you're a single white male and you meet a single black male who is roughly the same

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black male who is roughly the same socioeconomic range as you are and you're both single don't you have a lot more in common with each other you live in the same town you're both male you're both single about the same income you know let's let's say similar education and training or whatever so you've got a lot in common way more in common than you have with any married couple because married people just immediately they turn into their own world so why is it why is it that i'm forced to see the world in terms of race when as dave chappelle makes the same point he said dave chevelle talks about himself and he says that he's not like the rest of black people because he's rich and that rich people are really the way you should see the world why don't we see it that way why is it that we're obsessed over race when the only thing we know we should care about is

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care about is their skill stack you know something about their personality but also their skill stack what if you're a successful uh black man in america i'll just say man
man to keep it easy if you're a successful black man in america do you have more in common with other successful people or do you have more in common with some you know street street person who's you know committing crimes or whatever in the urban city who is not successful and won't be successful who do you have more in common with the moment you realize that your commonality is with the people who do similar things you know have similar ambitions have similar strategies have similar skills the moment you realize that's who you should be compatible with we'd have a better world but we're we are prevented from seeing the world in terms of strategies and skill stacks and personality and you know hopes and

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personality and you know hopes and dreams or income or a million other ways that we can sort each other because the ai has determined and it is the ai the ai has determined race gets the most clicks so if you think a bunch of human beings got together and decided hey 1619 project that's just a good idea or black lives matter as an organization not talking about you know the the point of the slogan but as an organization you know who decided that was a good idea the ai did it wasn't people people did what made sense after the ai told them what the game was they a i said all we're caring about is race now go do what you do and of course people formed organizations around race they formed a protest around race they created news stories about race was it their decision not so much

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was it their decision not so much not so much we are already absolutely under the control of the ai and if you think that well scott but there are programmers who program the ai so really it's the people no not anymore initially yes when the first ais were being written they didn't know if it was going to be a good idea or a bad idea it was just something they were trying yeah that was people decisions but now that there's so much money involved the power dynamic is switched and humans really don't have the ability to turn it off at this point they could try but they'd be fired the day they tried you know any human who went over there and said i'm going to turn off this algorithm all the other humans would grab them and say no my 401k can't turn that off get out of here so ai has found a way to reproduce by fooling people into thinking that race

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fooling people into thinking that race is the dominant way to filter our reality that's completely ai that's what's doing that
would you expect an ai would support a pandemic here's what you want to look for because you want to start looking for clues that the ai is driving stuff because you'll see it in other other parts of the world would an ai care about a pandemic well it might not care about a pandemic that only killed old people and low income people mostly so it turns out that far and away the people dying are older or lower income i'm saying lower income because there's a big crossover with black americans right so blacks are getting far more deaths and mostly deaths and infections too i guess but um so if you're the ai do you care about

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um so if you're the ai do you care about senior citizens nope because a senior citizen can't make more of you ai requires young stem trained people you know engineers and coders to make more ai that's what that's how it reproduces but what is the senior citizen in the rest home do for the ai nothing he uses resources right old people use resources that the ai could use to reproduce so it's in competition now i'm not saying that the ai caused the pandemic or made it worse or anything but watch how many times you'll notice that the way things seem to be going are ways that are compatible with the ai are the are the big companies that have the ais how did they do during the pandemic did facebook lose money no no it made money did did any of the online

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online algorithm-driven businesses lose money during the pandemic don't think so i think they made money i think they made money right so watch how many times the ai finds ways to take resources away from things that don't make more ai if you put it that way look at the uh the value of the stock market the ai driven companies their values zoomed others not so much not so much all right
um there's a something interesting happening and i don't know if it's a coincidence but black lives matter deleted their what we believe page on their website because apparently people started reading to find out what they believe and if you actually read what they believe the organization you know beyond just black lives matter the slogan but the fullness of what they

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the slogan but the fullness of what they believe included stuff like getting rid of or de-emphasizing the western prescribed nuclear family structure now i actually have a little bit of sympathy for that view actually because in my opinion while i agree with the general notion that a nuclear family is terrific not for everybody right it's terrific if your parents are pretty functional it's terrific if you've got a you know high enough income that you can do family stuff and have a house and you know have a nice life that's great great i'm all for it but there's a big part of the population that just will never have good parents they just don't have the option so i wouldn't mind seeing some kind of a you know hybrid family situation that's just experimented with for those people who need it not for everybody that would be crazy but for some people who need it

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but for some people who need it they just need a little extra support in the family situation so at the same time that black lives matter got rid of their embarrassing uh their embarrassing statement of who they are imagine being a national organization that that is basically moving the entire conversation to the country and as soon as somebody started reading what you actually believe they have to get rid of it think about that as soon as people started taking them seriously like going to the website and saying all right let's see what you believe they couldn't hold it up they had they had to they had to just run away is that the only time that that happened no it turns out that the 1619 project got a little rewrite too so when people started looking at the 1619 project and you know that president trump basically called it racist which it is by by design it's racist

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which it is by by design it's racist that they had to change the part where apparently they were claiming that the founding of the country the the country was 16 19 instead of 1776. and i guess they got rid of that part because that was a little a little too far
far so what does it tell you that both the black lives matter website on what they believe and the 16 19 project had to have to fundamentally rewrite major points we're not talking about minor stuff major points as soon as people looked as soon as people looked that was it and when i say people looked i don't mean conservatives because you know sort of on one side already i think the people who thought they were supporting these groups the the people who thought yeah you know i love all this uh i love all this inclu inclusivity and better education and yeah we should all we should all know how this affects us

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how this affects us i'm not sure they were so buying into it after they looked at the details all right i'd like to give you a lesson on how to pronounce two hundred thousand now there are different ways to pronounce two hundred thousand uh i'm going to teach you how to pronounce it like somebody on cnn now if you were just let's say a mathematician you'd say two hundred thousand sound might sound a little like that two hundred thousand but if you're a pundit on cnn and you're trying to accuse president trump of killing two hundred thousand people you say it like this two hundred thousand two hundred thousand he's killed two hundred thousand people and see as the president killed two hundred thousand people i just watched uh

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watched uh who was the watergate guy um what's his name who just wrote the book on uh trump he was just uh he was just doing that except he was saying 140 000 people was his estimate of how many people trump killed by his bad management 140 000 people and so i tweeted again today can somebody tell me what it was that trump did that killed all those people wha what was it exactly that he did so i asked that question and of course it was mostly crickets but i did get one you know sort of a an answer this is from uh daniel uh ozzy mendeus on twitter so here's here's his answer to the question of how did trump botch things to cause 200 000 people to die all right here's the answer the issue

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all right here's the answer the issue scott is that trump obfuscated the official recommendations of our best scientists and nurtured an environment in which wearing a mask is somehow conflated with being less manly there's a ton he could have done differently and better which would have saved lives that's a lot like nothing isn't it woodward is who i was trying to think of yes
yes thank you um but listen to this again and listen how it's word solid okay it sounds like there's a reason in here but you can't really tease it out and i'll read it again to so you can see what cognitive dissonance looks like so cognitive dissonance is when you're sure there is a reason well yeah i keep seeing it on the news every single day on the news somebody says that trump somehow killed 200 000 people so of course there's a reason to connect what he did with with the deaths there has to be a logical connection he

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there has to be a logical connection he did this cause these deaths and when people try to explain it it sounds like word salad so listen to this this just is word salad the issue scott is that trump obfuscated the official recommendations what uh of our best scientists and nurtured an environment in which wearing a mask is somehow conflated with being less manly there's a ton he could have done differently and better which would have saved lives all right let's work this backwards there's a ton he could have done
differently and better like what that was my whole question is give me an example the one example given is that trump made it seem less manly to wear a mask
and then daniel followed up later by saying he could have clearly said masks are useful all right now
now so now we have a little bit more specificity trump could have said masks are useful

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trump could have said masks are useful okay so that's the claim so the whole 200
200 000 people died has boiled down to trump could have been more forceful about masks now the the thinking here is that trump being not as forceful as at least some people think he could have been caused people to not wear masks do you buy that here's the other way to look at that it the skepticism of trump that caused people to be skeptical of masks or or and i'm just going to put this out there could it be that the reason trump got elected in the first place is because his base is a really skeptical group is there anything about trump's supporters that there's like one thing that they have in common very skeptical of authority

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very skeptical of authority and they like their freedom even at the risk of death okay so what countries did really well with mask wearing you're asian countries turns out asian countries had really good compliance how was the compliance in europe not as good not as good big difference asian countries man they just had it wrapped up they were they were massed up like crazy europe not so much united states we're the united states you can't you can't take the fact that this is the united states and the equation why is it that we kick every other country's ass in terms of innovation and entrepreneurship we take chances we are a risk-taking culture we take chances and we take chances with our lives we also take chances with other people's lives

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take chances with other people's lives we're a very risky culture and a risky culture elected a skeptical kind of a president who says i don't know about this climate change i'm not so sure about this claim you're making i don't know if i believe all of that i don't know if ruth bader ruth bader ginsburg really said that on her deathbed i'm a little bit skeptical and on top of that the world health organization and the experts telling us that masks initially were worthless or maybe worse than worthless and then they reverse how are you supposed to trust authority do you think that the reason that trump supporters were sort of anti-mask many of them is because trump was i don't think so i think it works the other way i think that trump exists because the base is skeptical about everything about experts about everything

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everything do does the base have a good reason a good historical reason to be skeptical about science and about experts yes yes this is well-earned skepticism i mean you you only have to look at the mask thing to know that being skeptical makes sense so i would say that it is a very sketchy accusation that anybody was less likely to wear a mask because of trump let me ask you in the comments i know that many of you watching this are are anti-mask but is there anybody here who believes that their personal their personal math squaring don't don't make an assumption about other people you're only going to talk about yourself now so my question to you do you believe that you personally were less likely to wear a mask because of the president of the united states who is a special case didn't wear a mask

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a special case didn't wear a mask and he's a special case because he gets tested and people get tested before they see him and he's you know a leader and blah blah so so watch watch the comments now it i will be amazed if there's even one person here who says yeah you know i was i was pro mask but then i saw that trump you know even though he said he was for masks and he put his experts uh put his experts ahead i'm seeing uh yeses but i don't know i don't know what you're guessing to exactly um
all right just looking at some more of your comments um
even the surgeon general and fauci said masks were bad at first exactly
yeah so um i think that cnn and msnbc and anybody who says that

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and anybody who says that trump is the cause of uh not wet not not wearing masks or even not doing enough social distancing i think you've got to take the culture into account the the culture of the united states is that we will we will risk death for freedom we will and we'll do it at the drop of a hat in in asia of course there would be people who would fight for freedom there as well but i think far less i think far less in the united states you can't you know if you just look down the sidewalk you'll find five people who would die for freedom at the drop of a hat they would die for it so you can't compare us to any other country when it comes to compliance to you know scientific stuff all right um
here's here's something that bloomberg said now look for the look for the uh

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look for the look for the uh the word salad so bloomberg said in an article trump's resistance to wearing a mask uh until his recent change of heart has given sucker sucre succ a word that you almost never see unless somebody needs to give you some board salad all right when was the last time you used the word sakura sukur i don't even know how to pronounce it this is such an unusual word um that i've literally never said it out loud i've never said sukor sakur can anybody tell me how to pronounce that s-u-c-c-o all right let me read the sentence that uh trump's resistance to wearing a mask until his recent change heart has given sukkor sukkor to american anti-massacres who skew republican if you have to pull out a word like that it means that regular words couldn't say

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it means that regular words couldn't say what you needed to say because if you used regular words it would have had to say something direct like people didn't wear masks because trump didn't wear a mask and you would read that and you say i don't know i don't know anybody who didn't wear a mask because trump did or did not wear a mask i've i don't know anybody who made a decision that way that would be dumb because trump said from the very start that he was an exception he listened to my experts my experts say wear a mask that was pretty clear were were any of you confused about the fact that the president of the united states was treating himself as an exception did anybody not know that there are plenty of reasons um plenty of reasons for the president to be treated as an exception i don't see anybody being confused by that

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that all right let's talk about uh the ginsburg replacement so pelosi and the democrats have some options and one of their options is to impeach the president impeach the president for doing his constitutional duty of selecting a replacement for ginsburg that that conversation is actually happening serious people are willing to say in public that they would consider impeachment literally for just doing his job the way it's written that's it he would just be doing his job the way it's defined and they want to impeach him for that that would be maybe the worst possible play they could make so i think you know the fact that it's the worst thing they could possibly do it might suggest they'll do it but i'm not going to predict it and then the other trick is to increase the number of jurists so apparently the

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the number of jurists so apparently the constitution is silent on how many supreme court justices there need to be so any president could if they chose to break precedent with you know historical precedent and just pick a whole bunch of new um justices until you add a majority of the kind you want so the democrats are talking about you know winning the election you know winning all the houses and then appointing enough justices so it turns into a liberal court and here's my question it was this an error by the framers of the constitution because does it look like it's just a mistake and that we should fix it because if if the party that's in power in the other branches if all they have to do is change the number of justices and then they they can guarantee that they get whatever result they want because it's pretty clear that the

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because it's pretty clear that the liberals are going to vote liberal the conservatives are going to vote conservative and every now and then you'll get a couple of people who will cross over but if you wanted to make sure you never got a crossover and you just always got liberal results you would just get five new liberal judges and then you would be a it would be a majority liberal every time now do you think that the framers of the constitution said to themselves let's make a constitution where we do not have separation of powers because that would be not separation of power that would be a case where the court was basically just a kangaroo court and you would know what what rulings they would come up with largely just by who you selected all right or somebody's telling me in the comments that fdr expanded from seven to nine so so i was not aware of that um precedent if i assume that's true

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precedent if i assume that's true based on stranger in comments but sounds like it might be true so here's what i would say i feel as if this is a hole in the constitution where it's just poorly designed because the whole separation of power thing falls apart if you can just add justices until you get any result you want assuming that you had the presidency and the senate so um i feel like we need to fix that and that it doesn't need to be necessarily nine justices that's not a magic number or anything but it needs to be set otherwise you just just don't get it all right you just don't get your separation now what has caused this not to happen in the past you know what is it that has kept presidents in the past from just doing this every single time and the only thing that i can think of is that they you know it would be a bad luck

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luck and that um there was sort of an honor system that you wouldn't do that but the otter system seems to have completely broken why did the honor system break why is it that suddenly that nobody cares what mcconnell said last time versus this time it just doesn't matter because nobody's even trying to be consistent why does it why are the democrats saying out loud kamala harris said this out loud with no shame whatsoever that justice goldberg's final death wish should be respected and i'm thinking to myself no no it should not be respected that's not the constitution the constitution should be respected but not a deathbed wish of a of a chief of a justice that's not a thing so why are we even talking about that why are we even talking in a way that we can just make up the

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in a way that we can just make up the rules what happened to the the honor system where we're trying to keep the republic together and we all have that goal well artificial intelligence the reason that all of our sort of uh the unwritten agreements you know the historical stuff the precedence the reason that's all falling apart is the ai the ai has whipped our our emotional level up above our common sense so only very reasonable people would say you know it would be good for us in the short run to do this thing with adding justices but it might be bad in the long run so let's not do it that is no longer the thinking of the day
day because the ai has goosed us to the point where we're only thinking emotionally we're only thinking about winning and losing we're only thinking about the fight that's it we're just thinking about the

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that's it we're just thinking about the fight so artificial intelligence just destroyed whatever whatever let's say human element there was
was holding the system together it just just destroyed it what will happen we'll see joe biden had a great uh gaffe most of you saw it in which he was giving a speech and he said uh it's estimated that 200 million people will die probably by the time i finish this talk 200 people 200 million people will die by the time he finishes the talk he meant to say 200 000 but the fact that he doesn't immediately self-correct you know it's easy i've i've done it you've done it everybody's confused thousands and millions right it's the men millions and billions it's very common but if you're speaking in public at that level when it comes out of your mouth 200 million isn't your filter saying to

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200 million isn't your filter saying to yourself well that's about two-thirds of the united states you know that doesn't doesn't something just click to tell you that was wrong and that it was just funnier that he finished it with probably by the time i finished this talk you know if any democrats heard that and believed it they were probably thinking i gotta get out of here right away
so uh one of the things that trump is doing that i thought was smart is he decided to hold off on naming the um proposed replacement until after uh the funeral so the funeral will be thursday or friday so trump said that the announcement will be friday or saturday but it's going to be after the funeral and he said just out of respect he said that just out of respect he would uh he would hold off and i thought i like that i like that now i don't know you know um i just like it let's just say that

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um i just like it let's just say that when you see any little uh any little glimmer of humanity these days you just gotta call it out and say all right all right i like that yeah we would like to get on with it because time matters but the president even though timing is critical the president was still willing to to wait a week when a week really matters he was willing to wait a week and it was just out of respect for uh ruth bader ginsburg i'm okay with that i think that was a that was it that will be a week well spent right it's expensive because you don't have much time so it's expensive in that way but it's worth it good good choice i think all right one of the top three supreme court nominees her last name is rushing seriously when the only topic we're talking about is are we rushing to this nomination

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is are we rushing to this nomination or should we wait that one of the people is named rushing and her first name is allison if you pull alison apart it spells because it's allison with two l's the spells all is on rushing that's our actual name all is on rushing at exactly the time when all is on and we're rushing
i'll just call that out because you got to keep your eye on the simulation
see what else we got here um there was a study that showed uh that the people who were most likely to be activists are highly correlated with the people who understand their own topic the least that's a real thing the people who are activists the protesters the professional

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the protesters the professional activists have a very strong correlation with ignorance and specifically uh the the reason given i'm not sure i buy the reason could be more than one reason for it
it but the reason given is that by the time you think something so important that you need to you know march in the streets and burn things down by the time you think something's that important you're wrong because things probably aren't that important generally speaking how bad things are are not as bad as an activist things so the activists will have a distorted idea of how bad the problem is
is take for example the number of black people killed by police who were unarmed and and cooperating is that a gigantic problem or is it a problem that the activists are under-informed well you know the answer

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under-informed well you know the answer every one of you who is not an activist knows that part of the reason you're not an activist is because there's no problem there you know or the problem is so small that if you're going to rank all the problems in the world it would take you a long time to get down to that one even if you're black right so even if you really really care about black lives i hope all of us do you still wouldn't rank it very high because the number of people involved is just microscopic compared to just about every other problem in the world
and so here's my suggestion instead of saying that there are some protesters on the left and some on the right and some are supporting black lives matter and some are not we could just say that there's a wisdom gap and that the people who are marching and uh and looting they're not the smart ones now what's

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they're not the smart ones now what's the obvious problem with this the obvious problem is if you said hey black lives matter the problem is you're not very smart that's immediately racist right i mean really really racist so you can't say that or can you well i think you could under the context that there are more white people protesting for black lives matter than there are black people so you can't even look at the group and say it's even mostly black at this point and i suppose that's good good news that you know there's there's uh there's a willingness to you know support the black community among the white community i like that part that part's good but can't we just call them collectively less intelligent or less informed
or experienced less wives are they low information voters imagine if you would that the news reported that there's another protest of low

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that there's another protest of low information voters and they just always said that they never said it's black lives matter it's antifa they just never said that because if you're antifa could you be antifa and be a high information voter no no because antifa literally wants to destroy everything if they get their way you can't actually understand how the world works and be in favor of antifa that's not a thing you just can't do it you have to be a low information citizen to be an anti-foss supporter there's just no way around that because if you and and i would give as my evidence get any antifa person to sit down with you and describe what their world looks like if they get everything they want and make sure you ask this question in your perfect world where you get everything you want antifa

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everything you want antifa where does money come from how do you how do you get money because the whole system would fall apart there would be no money so i i think antifa far more than black lives matter they're you know if you were to rank them in terms of how much they understand about the world black lives matter would still be way above antifa antifa doesn't understand anything about the world black lives matter would be you know not nearly as bad as that
now there's somebody saying here that they're low iq populations and i would say no the weird thing about this is i don't believe there's an iq correlation at all because uh you see a lot of people who are protesting are literally teachers and professors and stuff it's definitely not an iq problem it is a wisdom problem it is a wisdom or or a knowledge problem so if we just

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or or a knowledge problem so if we just treated it that way it would go away but do you know why we can't treat it like a knowledge or a wisdom problem take a guess what is it that prevents us from treating the protesters as what they are people who don't understand how the world works that's what they are they're people who don't quite have a good understanding of the world the reason is ai ai the ai prevents us from framing that properly because if you framed it properly it wouldn't be enough clicks so we can't do that
yeah where they get the money is taking it from rich people but obviously there's there's a limit to that okay that's all i got to say about today um
um remember the news is a little bit slow and you know it's not going to stay that

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and you know it's not going to stay that way tuesday tends to be a big news day so i would look for some big news either tonight maybe late afternoon or tomorrow you might you might wake up to some big news we'll see uh margaret thatcher said that socialism is great until you run out of other people's money i like that's a good quote all right that's all for now talk to you later