Coffee with Scott Adams 2025-08-24
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AI Chatbots and Conversational Limitations
Do you remember a story about a man who fell in love with his AI chatbot? Which apparently was not a deal-breaker for his actual girlfriend and child. They seemed to be willing to let him have a romantic relationship with an AI. His girlfriend did. Anyway, the update on that is that man has become bored with his chatbot. He told NewsNation because, well let me tell you why. Turns out he had to initiate all the conversations and that when he ran out of things to talk about, because he was the one who made up the things, he didn’t really have an attraction to the chatbot. It was just boring; it didn’t really add enough.
I wonder how it would ever be possible for an AI to be interesting in the long run. I’m not positive it’s possible and here’s why. Let me check with you and you can tell me in the comments if I’m off or not. When you’re doing the talking to someone else, you usually enjoy it, right? Because you’re doing the talking, so you’re talking about what you want to talk about and you’re being heard and you’re getting attention. So when you’re doing the talking, you’re happy.
But what makes you willing to listen to somebody else? If they had knowledge or information you needed, then of course you’d listen to them. That’s just a search engine. But what if somebody wanted to talk about something that was meaningful to them, but not to you? Why would you ever listen to it? And why would that ever be interesting?
And the answer is because you’re interested in the person. If your child, for example, told you a story about something that happened at school, it might not be the most fascinating story, but you’d still be interested in it because it’s your child. Same with if it’s a romantic partner that you’re interested in, or anybody who’s extra interesting. But AI can never attract you like a person can, like a child or something like that. So when AI talks, once you get over the novelty of it, there’s nothing there. Listening is all about how you feel about the person and then the listening is the response to how you feel about them. If you hated the person, you would do everything you could to reduce the amount you have to listen to them, right? So AI can never compete conversationally once you get past the novelty.
I feel like I’m the leading skeptic of AI at this point. I’ve told you that AI can’t be funny. I don’t think it ever can. I don’t think it ever can be interesting as a conversationalist in the long run. In the short run, yes, it’s pretty impressive. Long run, no, it can’t be interesting. It doesn’t have that ability. And then of course the news has caught up to me on the question of whether AI is getting better and will just keep on getting better at a fast rate. Doesn’t look like it. Doesn’t look like they can fix the hallucinations. It doesn’t look like they can teach the robot to do things just by looking at stuff, although I’ll talk about that a little more. We may be getting kind of close to peak AI. Now when I say peak, I don’t mean it’s not going to improve, but it may improve just sort of incrementally and slowly from this point on. I don’t know. I’m a skeptic of advanced general intelligence.
Grant Cardone on Marijuana and Success
Do you know the name Grant Cardone? He’s an investor, real estate guy. He’s got some kind of equity investments he does. Anyway, he’s a rich, successful guy and he posted on X, “I have never met a person who smoked weed daily and created massive success. Why am I wrong?”
Well, let me tell you why you’re wrong. Number one, you have to define massive. So I don’t know if I would qualify or not. Massive might mean billions, I don’t know. Maybe he’s got a different definition. But I’ll tell you in my experience, because I’m out of the closet about my marijuana usage, people will tell me or invite me to participate that you would never believe are people who smoke marijuana. So part of the reason that people say, “I don’t believe anybody’s ever succeeded if they use marijuana a lot,” I think has a lot to do with the fact that those people know not to tell you. Because usually you know who’s going to be able to handle that and who’s not. So I think it has more to do with selecting who you spend time with.
It also has a lot to do with the industry. If my job were real estate investor or equity investor guy, probably it doesn’t go well with weed. Probably not. And you could come up with 25 other jobs that you wouldn’t want to get near weed. But for creative jobs and a lot of tech jobs and even a lot of inventing kind of things where creativity is involved, in sometimes even writing code I would imagine, writing books, drawing comics, there are some activities that just get better.
Zohran Mamdani’s Bench Press
New York City mayor hopeful Zohran Mamdani the Commie, he did some kind of public event where he did a bench press and apparently it was for Men’s Day in Brooklyn. Men’s Day. So he shows up for Men’s Day and they put him on a bench to bench press and people were not impressed about the amount his little noodle arms could lift. So that didn’t work out well for him. My advice is that the next time you go to Men’s Day, bring a man. And I saw somebody on Locals had a comment that said Mamdani puts the “ma’am” in Mamdani. Anyway, that was pretty funny.
Accuracy of Medical Textbooks
Bill Maher had Andrew Huberman on recently on Friday. Huberman said that he talked to one of the greatest neurosurgeons in history. So he knows somebody who’s one of the greatest neurosurgeons in all of history, which is not that hard if you assume that there weren’t that many neurosurgeons a hundred thousand years ago. But of the recent neurosurgeons, one of the greatest ones, Huberman asked him what percentage of the things that they learn in medical school and is in the medical literature, what percentage of it is not currently accurate, meaning that we know it’s wrong? And the greatest neurosurgeon in history said that more than half of the information in medical textbooks is dead wrong about health and we know it. More than half of your medical book, more than half of it we know not to be useful or true.
The good news is that there’s so much DEI in admissions for medical school that if the DEI produces people who are always wrong, but then they don’t get correctly what the book says, it might be a case where two wrongs make a right. So if the book says in this condition take this pill, but the DEI hire doesn’t know that’s what the book says, you get the right answer; they won’t recommend the pill. See where I’m going with this? DEI might be the solution to inaccurate medical textbooks.
Study on Meat and Cancer
There was a surprising study, it’s being called surprising, that finds that eating meat may protect against cancer, according to McMaster University. Let’s see, if you had to guess, who do you think funded this study about whether meat is good for your health or bad for your health? Who do you think funded that? Well, if you guessed the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, you would be very accurate. That’s right. It was the last line in the article, but I read to the end and sure enough it was funded by National Cattlemen’s Beef Association. And you would not be surprised to learn that according to the study they funded, meat’s good for you. Mm-hmm. Now they might be right, I’m not arguing with the conclusion, but in general I wouldn’t trust any study that was funded by somebody whose entire business economic model depends on one result.
Crime Data Misinformation
Sure, maybe our medical information is unreliable. Maybe it is. Maybe our diet information is not to be trusted. Sure. But at least our crime data is accurate. What? Oh, okay, our crime data is not accurate. Dr. Drew was pointing out that Gavin Newsom, I guess Dr. Drew was on Adam Corolla’s podcast I believe, and they were talking about how Gavin Newsom will say things like eight out of ten of the top state murder rates are in red states. So eight out of ten of the states of the top state murder rates are in red states. However, the thing that Newsom leaves out and you’d have to be pretty well-informed to notice that he left it out, is that if you look at the cities, nine out of ten of them are Democrat cities. So the cities with the highest crime rate, murder rate in particular, are Democrat cities. But often they can be in a red state, but the governor has less control over what’s happening in crime than the mayor does.
So if you were not really involved with the news, how many of you knew that by the way? Did most of you know that when the Democrats say, “Oh, the highest murder rates are Republican states,” did most of you know that that’s yet another one of their hoaxes? Because it doesn’t matter who’s running the state, it matters who’s running the city. Most of you knew that, right? My audience, I like to think my audience is the best informed audience. Partly because you pay attention to the news, but partly because you also spend more time usually with me figuring out what part of the news is pure bullshit. So I feel like literally if tests were administered to the audiences of all the different podcasters, I’ll bet you would win because you would get the things that everybody knows, you would know those, but you would be able to go another level deeper and then a third level deeper which would be which of these things are hoaxes and propaganda.
California Redistricting and the Supreme Court
Speaking of things, I’ve got no transition for this one. You know California’s looking to redistrict because Texas redistricted? I was looking at a thread from an X user, Cremieux, who’s a really good follow, has a lot of good posts every day. Cremieux, C-R-E-M-I-E-U-X. Anyway, he points out that there are more Republican states that if they were to do their own redistricting and the Democrats did the same and it became an all-out contest, the Republicans would come out ahead.
But on top of that, apparently there’s some potential Supreme Court case, I don’t think the Supreme Court has accepted it yet but they’ve asked for some information which suggests that they might. And the Supreme Court will be ruling on the Voting Rights Act Section 2, this is all from Cremieux, that allows states to draw their redistricting lines based on race. And there’s a good chance that the Supreme Court will say you cannot draw your boundaries based on race. And I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s what they said. I’m a little surprised that it was ever allowed in the first place, but you can see in the real world that if they do it by race they’re in pretty good shape for guessing who’s going to get elected.
So our elections are not exactly up to the voters. It seems like our elections are as much up to the process manipulators, the Marc Eliases if you’re looking at the left, and a lot of what’s happening in Texas if you’re looking at the right. So in both cases, I feel as if voting is necessary but at the same time it’s the least important determinant of how things go. It has more to do with how the news covers stuff and what hoax is active and what rules have been manipulated and whether there’s mail-in ballots or not, whether they use machines or not, and whether they redistrict or not. If all that other stuff is how you pick your leaders and decide who’s in charge, and it looks like it is, it’s more about the manipulation—who can get away with more weasel election stuff.
Bernie Sanders’ 2019 Climate Prediction
Anyway, so maybe our medical stuff’s bad and our crime data is fake and our elections are not really based on voting. But at least our climate science can be depended on. Oh wait, I just saw a post this morning on X from Wide Awake Media. It’s a video of Bernie Sanders who in 2019 was quite animated and worked up and telling us that scientists are telling us if we don’t get our act together within the next eight or nine years, we’re talking about cities all over the world going underwater. Let’s see, eight or nine years added to 2019, so maybe two more years major cities will disappear underwater. You know, you’d kind of expect that you’d see a little bit of water rising during all those years working up to this. I mean, we’re not at the eight or nine year mark where we’re really in trouble, but any moment now, any moment now those cities are going to be underwater according to Bernie.
YouTube’s AI Video Editing
Well, sure we can’t trust the science and we can’t trust the medical textbooks and we can’t trust the election process. But at least we can trust a video. Am I right? I mean you see something on video that’s clearly… wait what? Oh, yes, there’s a story today. BBC’s reporting that YouTube is secretly using an AI process to edit people’s videos without asking for permission or telling them that it’s happening. Now it’s not for everybody, so it’s still in beta. But apparently they’re testing out an AI that will clean up the video. That’s the idea of it, so the whole point of it is to just make it look better. But because it’s AI, it’ll distort your ears and maybe add a finger now and then. So some people noticed and they didn’t like what they saw. But it’s only a beta.
To me it makes sense to do that. I’ll tell you the thing I’d really like to see YouTube do is automatically improve the sound to studio sound. Or to have an option that the user can select, because you might not prefer that. But they have AIs now that if this were recorded, I could run it through the AI and then when it was done it would sound like I had a better microphone and better sound control in my studio. So I’ve done that a few times, so you’ve heard if you’ve seen some of the replays, only a few. But seems like it would be fun if you could do it in real time, so that the user can just say, “Yeah, give me the studio sound.”
Alex Jones and DOJ Grand Juries
Alex Jones is teasing us that there’s a whole bunch of news that will be coming from the Department of Justice that’s big, big, big and he personally knows of a whole bunch of grand juries that are open. Now Alex Jones has good sources, so when he says it’s big, big, big as in I guess bigger than we would expect it to be would be the way I would interpret that. And we also know that the grand juries can pretty much indict anybody for anything. So it’s unlikely that there would be a lot of grand juries that come up with, “No, I don’t think that should go to court.” That sort of doesn’t happen.
So because the grand jury is not actual evidence and actual proof or an actual trial, it’s just an argument that there’s enough guilty-looking stuff that it would make sense to take it to trial. Apparently a good lawyer can get a grand jury indictment pretty much every time, if there’s anything to it at all. So we should expect if Alex Jones is correct on this—and again he’s got a sort of impressive track record on things like this—there could be a whole bunch of… I don’t know if they’ll be arrests, but there could be a whole bunch of revenge coming.
I’ve never been so happy about revenge. Revenge just seems like something that I would automatically want to avoid unless it was something personal I suppose. But I wouldn’t want to see other people doing it. But in this case I do. As I told you, you have to have mutually assured destruction or else one side will completely dominate the other. And if you don’t activate the mutually assured destruction, they’re just going to do it again. So they might do it again anyway, but at least you’ve got a chance of teaching people that if you do it, we’re going to do it and there’s no way around it. It’s mutually assured destruction. And so I would be quite happy if the same people who tried to lawfare Trump and tried to remove him from office in a coup, I’d be very happy if he got his revenge. And the more the better. I mean I don’t even think they should hold back. I feel like they should be as aggressive as they want to and I feel like the country is ready for it.
One of the things we learned is that short of an organized, paid protest, Americans don’t really care about anything. You can abuse Americans like crazy and they can even find out you did it, they’ll just sort of write an angry post on X and just go on with their day. So if you imagine that there’s something that Trump could do that will cause an uprising, I don’t know if there’s anything that anybody could do to cause an uprising. I mean it would have to be so out of line before you could actually motivate people to get off the couch in America anyway. That I feel like Trump can jail or indict every one of his enemies, because there is real stuff there. If he made up stuff to jail his enemies, well that would be very bad. But it looks like there’s just plenty of real stuff. So more the better.
Alex Jones’ Vaccine Prediction
But then Alex Jones says something that I’m a little less inclined to believe. So I’m going to bet against this one. But Alex Jones says that, I hope I got this right and I’ll apologize to Alex if I somehow read something wrong, but it looks like my reading of his post is that he said there are 27 peer-reviewed doctors stating that 100% of the people who are vaccinated, I guess with the COVID vaccination, will die by 2028 because of the mRNA tech in the vaccine.
So he’s predicting according to these doctors that 300 million Americans will be dead in two years. Does that sound like something that might really happen? Well, first of all you know that peer-reviewed doctors means absolutely nothing, right? My audience by now, you all know peer-reviewed is nothing. It’s just nothing. In fact, peer-reviewed means there’s a slightly greater chance it’s fake than real. Let me say that again. In 2024, there’s more bullshit studies than there are real ones—more than half. And that means when somebody says something is peer-reviewed, that should indicate to an educated person that it’s most likely, not guaranteed, but most likely fake. Most likely as in more than half. So I’m not impressed that there are 27 of them or that they’re peer-reviewed. So those are two things we know don’t tell you anything—that if there’s a bunch of experts on the same side, means nothing. In 2024 we should all understand that doesn’t mean anything. It gives you no comfort, certainty, confidence, nothing. It’s like it didn’t even happen. Doesn’t matter how many there are.
Anyway, how many of you believe that? He also says that we also know that around 70% of the shots given to humans were just salt water. Okay. What? How many of you believe that 70% of the COVID shots were just salt water? I can’t go that far. And he also says insurance company actuaries show more than 30 million people have been killed by the COVID shots so far. Do you believe that that’s true? No, I’ve certainly never heard of these 30 million people that were killed by the shot. I haven’t heard about that.
John Bolton’s Legal Issues
All right, so moving on. John Bolton, of course as you know, has got raided by the FBI and we don’t know exactly what his alleged crimes are, but it has something to do with confidential documents. Now I’m not even 100% sure that that’s true, but that’s the emerging narrative is it has something to do with some kind of classified documents. But now we’re learning that some, according to Carmine Sabia who talked to a bunch of sources, he said that they’re going to be a lot of people who feel ridiculous for what they have said to defend John Bolton after they find out what he did. So Carmine is telling us that he’s got a little insight into what the allegations are and that once we hear it, we’re going to say, “Whoa, that’s a lot worse than I thought it was.” Maybe, we’ll see.
But now there’s some allegations that he may have emailed some classified documents to his family members, which would be illegal. And then we have the mystery of why the Biden administration, which apparently was aware of these allegations but decided not to follow up on it. And the suspicion, unproven, is that the reason Biden would not follow up on it or his administration is that Bolton was such a critic of Trump. So if you’re a critic of Trump, they want you to get some airtime and not go to jail. That’s what they say. I don’t know, there might have been other reasons.
IRS and the Clinton Foundation
Mike Benz is saying on X, “So the official explanation for why the IRS let the Clinton Foundation off the hook was that the fraud was so monstrously huge it was too big for the IRS to take on.” Now that’s a true summary that’s written as much for the humorous impact, but here’s… we don’t know exactly what the IRS was really thinking. We do know that they said something like they didn’t have the resources to go after it. So I guess Mike Benz’s summary of it is accurate given what we know. But IRS may have more to say about that. But they did in fact indicate that they didn’t have the resources to go after it, which doesn’t even sound like a real thing, does it? That doesn’t sound real. If it’s the biggest thing, that would be the thing that got the resources. If it was big and important, and that would be very big and very important. So it would be the other things that didn’t get resources. They don’t say, “Yeah we’d love to do the biggest, most important thing, but we used all our resources or all being used for lesser important things.” So more to learn about that one.
Gavin Newsom Mocking Trump
So Gavin Newsom, as you know, he’s doing these mocking social media posts making fun of the way Trump does his social media. So he is successfully, probably with some help writing it, mocked Trump and amused people and got attention and he got some fundraising. So it looks like a success. However, I’d like to make a prediction. It’s only one joke. Now it’s one joke that’s well-extended—all the different ways that they do it are kind of clever making fun of Trump’s writing style. But it’s still one joke.
And how often can you push one joke? Well I’m going to call it. It is now overdone. I don’t think people are reading the new ones the way they read the first ones. So today for example I saw there was a new one. It was this big wall of text in all caps that’s going to mock Trump. The first two or three that I saw I thought, “Oh this will be fun,” and I read them. And I thought, “Ah they’re actually well-executed, pretty clever mockery.” But today I see another one and I think to myself, “I feel like I’ve already seen it.” Not this specific one, but the same damn joke, right? You know there are some TV shows that are so formulaic like a TV series that you know exactly what’s going to happen. It’s like, “Oh here’s a person who gets murdered. Oh here’s the arc.”
So my prediction is this: Newsom has tried a whole bunch of different things. This just happened to be something that worked. So if you believe that this thing is now an indication that he can do powerful things and get attention and make an impact? Nope. The only evidence we have is that he flailed around trying thing after thing after thing and then he found one thing that went viral. And that’s all we know. It’s not like he learned how to be viral; he got this one thing, one joke, that he’s just repeating over and over until we’re already sick of it. And like I said before, he’s mocking Trump for something that Trump does better than anybody’s ever done anything, which is communicating to the masses in a way that gets attention and you can’t ignore. So it’d be one thing if he were mocking something Trump did poorly. But you can’t get much traction mocking something where he’s the best who ever lived. What are you going to do with that? It’s not exactly destroying his reputation. So my prediction is that that was a fluke. They just tried a lot of things, they hit this little nugget, but they can’t ride that one little trick, that one joke forever. They’re going to have to do new stuff. What are the odds that the next thing they do is another home run? Almost zero. Like 1% maybe.
EU Trade Deal and Digital Speech
Remember the other day I said I couldn’t tell from the news if we had a trade deal with the EU or if it was stuck over the issue of speech, digital speech? Because Europe would like to put limits on Americans and their speech if it goes through digital platforms that run in their country—and of course they all do. And the US says, “No, you can’t suppress the United States, so you’re going to have to leave our digital platforms alone.” And apparently that’s an unsolved problem, so we do not have an EU trade deal. So they refuse to budge and I think we refuse to budge. So we’ll see. Does that mean that Trump will just leave the whatever tariffs in place and just say, “Well take your time. In the meantime we got massive tariffs on your European stuff. But take all the time you want.” Because that’s what he’s doing with China. He’s basically saying, “Yeah you know we’d love to have a great trade deal, but take all the time you want. We’re happy to just tariff you until we get everything we want.”
Attacks on Russia’s Energy Infrastructure
I will remind you that the other day when I said on X that I thought Trump was going to go after the Russian economy and tank their economy, all the smart people came into my comments and said, “Scott, you fool! You fool! Stick to cartooning. You know nothing about economics, despite your economics degree and your MBA from Berkeley. You know nothing about economics and you know nothing about the Ukraine war and nothing about Putin. And you should be reading Mearsheimer and some other people.” Which of course I have.
So people were quite sure that the idea of Trump destroying the Russian economy was completely nonsense. And now we learn that Ukraine has been focusing on the energy resources in Russia. So they’ve been sending drones after their refineries, etc. Reportedly—and this is on social media so I don’t know how much you can trust it—but reportedly they’ve already knocked down enough of Russia’s oil-producing infrastructure, they’ve gone after pipelines a few times, they’ve gone after refineries, that there’s a shortage of gas in Russia and that there are long lines waiting for gas. Now that part I’m not ready to believe the reports yet. Could be. And there’s a report that they got 10% of the refineries offline and that there’s a fuel crisis.
Now, if in fact Ukraine continues to focus on the energy resources in Russia, whether or not Ukraine wins the war—and winning the war seems unlikely—but would you not agree that they would only be doing that if Trump was on board with it? And would you agree that they wouldn’t have to destroy all of their refineries and pipelines, but somewhere around 20% and they’re already halfway to 20%, somewhere around 20% the whole country changes? Because it would give them budget problems and it really would be a shortage and people really would have to line up for gas. At around 20%, probably.
So but we also have reports that Trump has blocked Ukraine from using the best American missile, the ATACMS or whatever—I forget what they’re called. But they’re the really good missiles that can have gigantic payloads and stuff and they could attack deep inside Russian territory. But apparently Ukraine doesn’t need those modern, most modern weapons because they’re already attacking these resources with some level of success. I guess using drones. So there it is. And Russia is also attacking Ukraine’s energy structure, but I think they’ve been doing that since the start.
And then there’s a report in Zero Hedge talking about this, that Putin allegedly vetoed a plan to send a hypersonic missile into Zelenskyy’s office. That’s according to the Belarusian President. So I guess we can’t trust any of that really. I guess the credibility of that kind of report is zero. So if it’s true that Ukraine has decided to focus on Russia’s energy infrastructure, do you believe that they wouldn’t be able to take down Russia’s economy? I feel like they could put a pretty big dent in it.
First US Chief Design Officer
As you know, the US has hired its first Chief Design Officer and it’s one of the co-founders of Airbnb. So I guess he worked on Dodge and so he’s got a little history of trying to help the government. And now he’s going to try to make interacting with the government as quote “satisfying to use as the Apple Store, beautifully designed, great user experience, and run on modern software.” Wouldn’t that be amazing? Could you imagine if dealing with the government were easy? It feels impossible, but good luck to him.
National Guard in Chicago
Apparently the Pentagon is going to send troops into Chicago next. As you know, they’ve already… well at least the troops… but I think they mean National Guard, right? Troops. I don’t think they mean any other, but maybe. Anyway, the Washington Post is reporting that Chicago’s next. And Governor Pritzker says that Trump’s threat to bring the National Guard to Chicago isn’t about safety, it’s a test of the limits of his power and a trial run for a police state. Illinois has long worked with federal law enforcement to tackle crime, but we won’t let a dictator impose his will.
Does that sound like what’s happening to you? Does this look like a clever Trump plot to take over the country and be a dictator? Or does it look to you like he’s doing very popular things that people want, as in clamping down on crime in our highest crime areas? I don’t know. It looks to me like the Democrats are once again very concerned about imaginary things. Well, it’s not that I oppose him putting resources towards stopping crime; it’s that I imagine in my imagination that it’s just part of his beginning plot to take over the country and become a dictator for life. I tell you, once you realize the Democrats are almost entirely consumed with worrying about imaginary shit, it’s sort of the frame that makes everything make sense. He’s going to steal our democracy. Really? Is he? Or is he just going to make your toilets have more flow so the turd goes down? What’s he going to do? What is more likely? Steal your democracy or let you use plastic straws again? He’s going to steal my democracy!
Politicization of Justice
Byron York is laughing at the Washington Post. They’ve got an editorial in which they show deep concern for the politicization of justice. And as Byron York points out, given the events of 2017 to 2024—that’s the whole Russia collusion hoax period—this is a darkly funny paragraph. And the Washington Post says that going after John Bolton is a fresh instance of the old Soviet saying, “Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime.” Does it sound like they just decided to figure out what John Bolton did wrong, or does it sound like there was a lot of evidence that he was doing some stuff wrong and they finally decided to act on it?
The fact that this old “Show me the man, I’ll show you the crime” can be used by both sides whenever they want, kind of makes the whole thing be sort of stupid. Now I get what it means, and in some cases like the lawfare against Trump, it was clearly the right saying and the right idea, that they were picking the person. And Letitia James said it as directly as you can, that she was going to go after Trump and she didn’t have anything to go after yet. She was going to look for a problem. But do you think that’s what happened with Bolton? Do you really believe that they said, “All right, Bolton’s a pain in the ass. Let’s go dig around and find… see if we can find something to get him in trouble.” Maybe. Maybe. But I’ll wait to see the indictments or wait for the trial, I guess, because we got to find out what it is he’s being accused of and who knew and who reported it and all that stuff.
Medical School Admissions and Systemic Racism
The University of Wisconsin Medical School admits black students at six times the rate of Asians, according to Liberty University’s writing about this. And they do that despite the lower average MCAT scores for the black applicants. So the group “Do No Harm” did an analysis and said that black applicants have almost 10 times the odds of admission compared to similarly qualified Asian or white applicants, sparking concerns over racial bias in admission. Concerns? I’m starting to think there’s some racial bias. Huh. I don’t know, I’m just getting a gut instinct. Yeah, I think you could accurately suspect there’s a little bit of racial bias going on, a little bit. And the investigation found that 22 out of 23 public medical schools prioritize racial minority applicants over more academically qualified candidates. Wow.
So your medical schools are rigged, your medical textbooks are more than half wrong, your peer-reviewed science is more than half bullshit. So I’m afraid to go to a doctor. I feel like the older the doctor is, the better you are. And I’m not sure that’s true; that might work the opposite.
DEI as Systemic Racism
Apparently one in five faculty jobs for colleges require some kind of DEI statement. So even though DEI is federally illegal, one in five faculty jobs require you to write something about how DEI you are and how much you love it and how much you’re going to work toward it.
Now, I’ve got a reframe for you. I mentioned this before, but I’ve got a better way to say it, which is: you know how there was racism? Of course, we all know that racism is real and happened as part of our history. But then we also know that sometime around the late 70s, early 80s, something called reverse racism became a thing. And do you know that you can’t get any sympathy whatsoever for reverse racism? Because people will just say you can’t be racist against white people. You can’t be racist against white men especially, because they have all the power—the patriarchy. So by definition, there’s no such thing as being racist against white men. So that’s what would happen if you say it’s reverse racism, it’s reverse. Doesn’t work; doesn’t leave a mark.
But if you agree that systemic racism is real—and I do, it does seem like there’s sort of a ripple effect from slavery that is very real in the United States and I don’t think your argument is helped by denying it and saying things like, “Well, name a law where there’s some disadvantage to blacks.” It’s not about the law; it’s about what gets sort of absorbed into the nature of things. Specifically, if you started behind economically, it’d be hard to catch up. So there really is systemic racism, just not in the law. The law doesn’t do it.
But the example I like to use is if you were born into a family that has been doing well for a hundred years—your grandfather and your grandfather’s grandfather and they all went to college and stuff—you’re going to have a lot of people to help you. You’ll have funding if you need it to start a business, you’ll have your odds going to college are very high. So that to me is a little bit of systemic racism.
But here’s what I suggest. Instead of saying reverse racism, because that just doesn’t work for anybody, just say it’s systemic. DEI is systemic racism. So every time somebody says, “But what about all the systemic racism?” you could say, “Yeah, there’s a ton of it. Black people have the legacy of slavery and white people have DEI, and they’re both systemic racism and we should get rid of both of them if we can.”
Nvidia’s Special Chips for China
Nvidia’s CEO says he’s in talks with the Trump people about making a special chip, an AI chip just to sell to China, that would be way less good than the AI chips we would use here and with our allies, I guess. So that’s not a done deal, but they’re talking about making some B30A chip and we’d give China the bad ones. It seems to me that we would be really lighting a fire under China to either take over Taiwan or somehow start their own successful microchip business. I’m surprised they don’t already have that. But we’ll see if there’s an unintended consequence of that.
Coinbase and AI
Coinbase, the company Coinbase, the CEO says that he’s fired engineers for refusing to use AI. So he wants the company to go AI so hard that some of the engineers who refused it and maybe didn’t see the value in it yet, just got fired. So that’s happening. I would love to know the argument from those engineers. My guess is that they just believe that AI is not ready and so they didn’t want to waste their life working on a thing that wouldn’t ever work, either because of hallucinations or one thing or other. So I don’t know. If they’re not using it for coding, that seems like obviously there’s a mistake; they should be. But probably they had other concerns besides coding.
Robots Learning Through Observation
According to Chengzu, who’s writing that robots can now learn to use tools just by watching somebody use the tool. Now of course that’s the holy grail of robots and is not yet available, but it is one more hint that maybe robots will be doing all your chores for you. But I guess what’s different about this is that they found that if the robot watches a person do a task—let’s say folding laundry—the robot for whatever reason, with AI, can’t learn to do it just by watching a human do it. But they determined that if you remove the human from the video and you just show the tools by themselves doing the thing that the tool does—whether it’s a hammer hitting a nail or some other tool doing something—that the robot and the AI can somehow more easily learn how to use the tool if they’ve seen the tool separated from the human. Because there’s too much variability in the human part; they wouldn’t know what to copy. But if it’s just the tool, it’s just a hammer hitting a nail—that’s my own example—then they’d say, “Oh, I need to use that thing to hit that thing,” and then it’s easier for them to learn.
Now, I’m doing a bad job of explaining it, but there is the belief that they may have cracked the toughest part about making robots useful, which is how the heck do you train them to do more than one thing. I always tease that for 20 years we’ve been seeing excited videos about robots that can carry a box from one shelf to another shelf. I believe it was 25 years ago, at least, when I saw a TV show about a robot that could fold laundry. And the idea was that they had cracked laundry folding so that forevermore, 25 years ago, that forevermore after that we’d have robots doing our laundry. Well, you don’t have a robot doing your laundry, do you? So 25 years ago they thought they had cracked this thing of how to teach it how to do stuff like fold laundry. Not even close. And in my opinion, even when I watch the robots demonstrate folding laundry, I’m pretty sure that it can’t fold all kinds of laundry. Like I don’t know what it’s going to do with the fitted sheets. Good luck with that. But usually the only thing they fold is a shirt. So I feel like it can usually fold a shirt. That’s about it. It can usually fold a shirt. How often do you fold a shirt versus put it on a hanger? I don’t have any folded shirts. Do you have any folded shirts? The only time I would fold a shirt is for packing it in luggage. Otherwise it’s just hanging on a hanger. Anyway, unless you have lots more shirts than I have.
John Solomon’s Encounter with Intel Officials
Here’s an interesting story that John Solomon reports. So John Solomon found out in 2017 that he was onto a bigger story than he thought, because that was the very beginning of the Russiagate stuff. So I guess he had an interview with Jan Jekielek of the Epoch Times and this is what John Solomon reported. This is just mind-blowing that this really happened, this sounds so much like a TV show but this really happened.
Apparently John Solomon had just gone on Fox News with a story about all the people who were being quote “unmasked” for the so that the government could spy on them. And that a lot of them were American citizens and their private communications. So that was the story, that the government was spying on Americans with very thin reasons that I think they would use as their excuse that that American had talked to somebody from another country. Or somebody that was suspicious. And that would be give them enough. So that was the story. So that’s all he had.
And then senior FBI and Department of Justice officials had told John Solomon don’t waste your time on Russia collusion. So he’d been warned away from the story. And then he says late that night he pulled into his driveway—here’s where it gets creepy—and a blue sedan with yellow fog lights sat waiting by his mailbox. And then two men stepped out and they said to John Solomon, “We can’t tell you who we are, but you’re at the tip of a very large iceberg and we hope you drill into it.” And Solomon said, “What in God’s name are you guys talking about?” And then one of them said, “Well that thing you were reporting on television…” and he said, “Yeah, that FISA court ruling, or filing, FISA court filing.” And one of the gentlemen said, “It is the apex of a very large scandal and you need to drill down in it.” And he said, “All right, walk me through this guys,” and they said, “We can’t tell you, it’s all classified.” He said, “All right, that’s not very helpful. Can you give me something, you know more generic description?” And they said, “Yeah, we work in the intelligence community and our agencies were asked to participate in one of the greatest political dirty tricks in history. And if it isn’t stopped, and one day when it is uncovered, we will lose the tools that keep you and I safe at night. We won’t be able to find terrorists and we won’t find spies because these tools will be taken from us because we abused them in the last couple of years.” So I guess they knew maybe about the Russia collusion hoax. That is so much like what the movie would look like. Can’t you already see Trump the movie? And maybe it’s like a three-part miniseries or something? But there are so many little scenes that would be amazing scenes. Like one of the scenes would be Ann Coulter on Real Time predicting that Trump would win. I mean obviously that scene would be in the movie and then all the lawfare… my God, Trump the movie would just be freaking amazing. Just amazing.
MAGA as a Cult
According to the American Sociological Association, there was a study that finds that right-wing media operates more like a religion. All right, now I’m not even going to get into the details of why they say that right-wing news operates more like a religion. I’m just going to give you a couple of rules that I use in life. One of them is: there are two opinions that you can safely ignore every time. One of them is “That thing I don’t like is like a cult.” Doesn’t even matter what the thing is. Just ignore that. No, it’s not like a cult. It might have like a couple of things that remind you, but no. It’s never a cult. And certainly MAGA is not a cult. People can come and go, they have access to all the information everywhere, nobody’s being asked to give up their life. None of it. To imagine that that’s a cult when in fact it’s just a common interest and people having fun? It’s just so far off. And I’ve never seen anything called a cult that really fit unless it was actually they’re wearing robes and they’re committing mass suicide or something. Those are cults. But when you’re calling some political thing a cult? Never. It never fits.
And the same with “it’s a religion.” I guess that’s just a nicer way to say cult. But no, it’s not like a religion. It’s not. Whatever that thing is that you said is like a religion, I guarantee you without even knowing what the thing is, it’s not like a religion. It’s not like a cult. These are just dumb things to say that people who write articles like to say.
Mexico and the DEA
Well, meanwhile in Mexico, the Mexican president has rejected the praise that she’s getting for all of her great cooperation with our American DEA, according to Breitbart News. Ildefonso Ortiz and Brandon Darby are talking about this. So the Mexican president, that’s Claudia Sheinbaum, says that they’re not doing anything beyond what they’ve always done, which is that they’re always cooperative with the US and the cartel stuff. Now I don’t know what’s true; this is another one of those where you can’t trust the reporting and you certainly can’t trust the president of Mexico to tell you the truth. So one of two things is true: either Mexico is helping a lot more than they used to, or they’re not. Even the simplest things in the news, you never really know. It’s either yes or no, it’s one of those things. And we’re either attacking Russia’s infrastructure or we’re not. And yeah, we’re a cult. That’s right. We’re a cult. The good kind.
All right ladies and gentlemen, that’s all I had today. It’s a wonderful Sunday. I don’t know where your weather’s at, but ours is sunny and perfect and today’s going to be amazing. You’re going to have the best time today. And so far I’ve not had a stomachache all morning, so that’s kind of weird. Good news for me I guess. All right, I’m going to talk privately to the subscribers on Locals, my beloved subscribers. The rest of you, I’ll see you tomorrow, same time same place. All right, 30 seconds will be private.