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Chapter 1: What is Coffee with Scott Adams?
Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and I'm pretty sure you've never had a better time.
But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass, a tank or chalice, a stein, a canteen, jug or flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine.
At the end of the day, the thing that makes everything better is called the simultaneous sip. And it happens now. Oh, so good. So apparently if you're a gamer, one of the ways you can tell that your video game is a video game is that you'll see what's called a server line. in your landscape.
So if it's one of those games where you can explore large territories, your video game back office might not be able to handle all the complexity on the same server. So you might have to go from part of the game that's handled by one server to a part that's handled by the other server. And sometimes you can see the line.
Chapter 2: What is a server line in video games?
It's like a straight line, like, say, in a forest or a desert or the ocean or something.
and it'd be this unusual little straight line and then there'd be a little game lag as you go from one server to the other so one way you could tell if we live in a simulation if our reality is a simulation is if you could find one of those server lines so if you could find a huge straight line in nature that didn't seem to have any explanation And that means that we have a server line.
A different server handles it if you walk over the line. Well, it turns out we found one of those in the Amazon. There's a 10-mile straight line through the forest that nobody has an explanation for. Looks like a server line. So maybe now this is in my recreational belief category, you know, up there with UFOs and other fun stuff like that.
I don't necessarily think that we found a server line in the Amazon. But maybe, maybe. Wouldn't that be fun? All right. Well, the bomb cyclone is hidden. That's a bizarre and unusual weather situation that is so dire that they call it a bomb. It's a bomb cyclone. And I'm at the edge of that bomb cyclone. So far, not so bad. But if the bomb cyclone gets me, I've already prepared my backup plan.
Turns out that according to CNN Travel, there's an Italian village that's offering homes for $1 to Americans. Now, non-Americans can also go there, but they say they really want the Americans. And the reason that the homes cost $1 is that they're worth... They're worth $1. They're just dilapidated crap homes that you wouldn't want to live in. So you'd have to fix them up.
So I guess I'd rather have taxpayers than have a bunch of dilapidated, empty $1 homes. So there you go. That's my backup plan. If the bomb cyclone gets me, I'll be heading to Italy, and I only need to take $1 to get myself a house.
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Chapter 3: What unusual weather situation is discussed?
Well, there was a study, Scientific America is writing about it, where they put a little electrical stimulation on the corner of people's mouths and they would turn it on and it would make them artificially smile because they'd be activating the little smile muscles on the side of their mouth. And guess what? They found that if they make you smile, you will get happier. That's right.
Your mouth can control your brain. Now, you know what's interesting about that? I wrote about that phenomenon in 2012 or so when I was writing my book that came out in 2013. It had a field. Almost everything still went big.
And at the time, I considered it common knowledge that science has found that if you tell yourself to smile, if you're not happy, it will improve your happiness chemistry in your brain. So if you just fake a smile and just make yourself do it, it might be able to, you know, improve your brain. But then later, I saw a story that says that was debunked.
And so science said, no, those studies are fake. There's no science that says if you do a fake smile, it can make you actually happier. And when I redid the book, I said to myself, I wonder if I should take that out. And I left it in. Do you know why? Because I think I know more than science. My experience as a hypnotist is that that would totally work.
Like, I don't need a scientific study if you force somebody to smile. Because, as I tell you often, your body and your brain are the same tool. We only artificially think there's a brain and then there's a body. They're connected. It's part of one machine. So it's not terribly surprising that it's a two-way machine. Happiness makes you smile. Smiling makes you happy.
Because there are a whole bunch of mechanisms like that in your body that work that way. I was telling you the other day that if you were not aroused sexually, but if somebody gave you a Viagra, And it just did its thing. And suddenly you look down and you're like, hey, what's going on here? You would start having sexual thoughts. So your body can make your brain feel a certain way.
Your brain can make your body feel a certain way. It's just always been that. So what was the result of the test? Just what I thought it would be, which is artificially making somebody smile makes them actually happier. Their happiness chemistry increases. Now, there might be something else going on in this test because this is also a hypnotist insight.
If you do something that makes somebody feel unusual, it will also make them smile and be happy. So when you're a hypnotist and you're putting somebody under in what they call a trance, when a person feels something happening that they know they're not causing directly, but rather that it's being caused by your suggestion.
For example, if you said, and this is a common thing to do with hypnosis, if you said your arm is getting light and it's starting to float, if your hand starts going up, you can't get the smile off your face under hypnosis because you're reacting to your body doing an action that you didn't control. It would just make you smile.
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Chapter 4: How can smiling affect happiness?
I'm already arranging my trust, my state, to have a trust to maintain the digital version of me in perpetuity. Now, I've been saying it for 30 years that this was always my plan. It's real. I'm actually going to preserve myself in a digital form. Now, what will become of it? I don't know. Well, my organic body will not know because my organic body will you know, be gone by then.
But yes, I'm absolutely positively going to recreate myself in digital form. And this is telling me it's all possible because this is the part I was waiting for. I wasn't sure if I could train it well enough that it could reproduce something like me. But now imagine somebody like me who has, who's interested in putting in a lot of time. So they did this in two hours.
How much better would it be if you talked to it for two days or two weeks? Just imagine how good it could get at reproducing you. Then imagine it could read all of my books. So no, everything I thought was important enough to put it in a book. Then it reads all of the text anyway from all of my YouTubes and all my live streams. Two hours a day for 10 years.
It's pretty much every thought I've ever had. And yes, you'll be able to reproduce me in scary detail. So that's coming. There's an article in the Federalist by Grayson G. It says, how can Trump make the Nixonian dream of 1,000 nuclear power plants a reality? Did you know that Nixon once said he wanted 1,000 nuclear power plants?
And that Nixon, despite being the disgraced ex-president who had to leave office for his shifty behavior... In many ways, he was one of the smartest presidents. You know, history has sort of got this grudging feeling about Nixon. Well, he did some bad things, had to leave office, but he also said some really smart things.
And one of the things he said is we would get in fewer wars if we had our own secure energy. And he was right. Now, we didn't get to that because of just tons of problems with approvals and technology and whatnot, safety, all that stuff. But those things are largely solved or solvable. So the real test would be, can the federal government under Trump, and by the way, Trump does like nuclear.
He doesn't think it's the only thing, but he likes it. Do you think that the Trump slash Musk slash Ramaswamy government can figure out how to cut enough of the regulatory burden from nuclear power plants so that you could somehow make this all work. I don't know. But apparently there's a group, the Texas Public Policy Foundation, and I think that's what Grace and Gee is part of.
And they came up with an idea to accelerate nuclear in the United States, nuclear power.
um and they they recommend that the u.s military with its uh significant energy demands and presence in texas should lead some kind of nuclear technology development through micro reactor pilot projects so while texas streamlines the permitting and centralized contact blah blah blah blah blah so texas under this plan would um
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of AI on personality replication?
How is this even possible? How do they do that? You can actually attend and go there. It's just free. So now if this were not MIT, do you know what I'd say about it? I would say, I'm not sure they thought this through. But it's MIT. So I'm going to say the opposite.
Oh, whatever I think is a bad idea is probably stupid because everybody who thought about this at MIT, every one of them is smarter than me. Every one of them. Like 100% of the people who worked on this policy, every one of them. They're all smarter than me. So it would feel weird for me to say it's a bad idea. So I'm not going to do that. It's probably brilliant.
And it's probably getting ahead of what is obvious. And here's what I think is obvious. The cost of higher education is going to approach zero. So they're probably just getting ahead of it in the way that's best for society, helping the lower end people first. Now, of course, this doesn't help everybody because getting into MIT at all is just about the hardest thing in the world.
So it's not like it's free college for everybody. It's still very selective. But if you said to me, Scott, under the era of Trump, what's he going to do about DEI and CRT and ESG? And I would say, get rid of all those things. And then you would say to me, but that wouldn't be fair. And I would say, you know what? Look what MIT is doing.
There are now zero poor people of any color who, if they could qualify for MIT, which would be very hard, free education. So that's one way to get there. Cyblog has a study written by Jeremy Dean. He's talking about it. Dr. Jeremy Dean. Apparently, if you think that your ideas are better than other people's, you might be right.
So they did a study to find out if smart people can tell they're smart. How do you think that turned out? Do you think that the smartest people in the world are aware that they're smarter than other people? Well, they did a study to find out, and it turns out they did know. Do you know why they knew? I may have mentioned this. They're the smart people. So let me think.
Could I have predicted this ahead of time? Is it possible that smart people get the smart answer more often than dumb people? Smart people versus dumb people, smart people. I don't know. It's a toss up, but I'm going to go with smart people are smart. And they can even tell that they're smart. When I pet my dog,
I don't need to give her any calculus tests because I know she cannot solve a calculus problem. Now, I also know that I can't. But if it were an easier problem than that, I might be able to solve it and she couldn't. So that was a bad example. But I'm just saying that neither my dog nor I can do calculus. That's the point. Anyway, I saw a study.
So there's some study that says, I'm going to call it a study, but then I'm going to insult it so you won't think it's a study when I'm done, that the COVID vaccine saved 20 million lives. Does that sound right to you? Do you think the vaccination saved net? Some people obviously would die from any chemistry.
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Chapter 6: What are the recent developments in nuclear energy discussed?
All right. So there's a story RFK Jr. was talking about his voice issues called spasmodic dysphonia. But what he added to the mix was he thinks it's possible he got the condition as a result of taking a flu shot because it happened apparently around the time he got a flu shot. And then he looked at the list of just I think there were just hundreds of possible side effects.
And it's actually listed as a side effect. I'd never heard of that before. I mean, I had spasmodic dysphonia. I had it for three and a half years, and I got rid of it with surgery. It's incurable, but I cured it. Well, let's give the surgeon some credit for that. So do you think, given that it's one of the side effects, and that he got the shot, and then he got that, are you convinced?
Well, here's what I do know. So the people who are deeply into this world of spasmodic dysphonia, as I am and have been, know that almost every person you talk to will tell you that it came to them after a normal respiratory problem. So they got something like a normal cold or a normal flu, and then they used their voice incorrectly. So this is exactly what happened to me.
So I got some kind of bug that gave me laryngitis. So I got a normal laryngitis. You know laryngitis where you just go, I have to talk.
I can't talk.
Now that doesn't sound like spasmodic dysphonia at all. Spasmodic dysphonia is where you're clipping words. This would be spasmodic dysphonia. If you're trying to order a Diet Coke, you might say, oh, Diet Coke. That doesn't sound anything like laryngitis, which is, I want to do this.
But normal laryngitis, if you keep trying to talk through it, as I did because I was on a vacation, and I kept trying to yell to stepkids and yell over noise and talk in restaurants, blah, blah, blah.
By the time I was done, it had triggered a full-on spasmodic dysphonia that lasted for three and a half years until I searched the planet and found the one surgeon in the world who had a surgery that could fix it, and he did. Now, I also got the condition at age 49, and unless it's changed, it used to be that age 49 is actually the... the most normal age that it happens. It's the median age.
I got it at exactly the median age that the literature says that's when it happens. Exactly then. And it also came after a respiratory problem. And then when I checked with other people who have it, because you end up meeting a lot of other people with the same condition, they all have the same story. Oh, yeah, I had this respiratory problem. Next thing you know, I've got this.
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Chapter 7: How does MIT's new tuition policy impact education?
that he could become partners with the elected president of the United States, and the entire country goes, hey, you can't just, oh yeah, yeah, why not? Who else could have done that? Who else could have pulled off Doge? I mean, it hasn't been pulled off yet, but the fact that it's, you know, maybe the top thing that the country is looking at, Who else could have done that? Nobody else.
That's not just being able to do it. It's not just having the capabilities. It's not just being smart or patriotic. You've got to be really persuasive. The level of persuasion that Elon has now, because part of it is based on his credibility of doing things that are good for the world. If he hadn't built Tesla, if he hadn't built SpaceX, he'd have a lot less credibility.
But you take his level of credibility. You take the persuasion powers that I know he has accumulated. His talent stack for persuasion is probably incredible now. You put him in a room with Alex, who, in my opinion, is lost. Now, I'm seeing it from a distance and I can't read any minds. So, I mean, I could be way off. But Alex Soros looks like Somebody who could use a big brother.
You know, maybe it's a father figure, maybe it's a big brother, but he seems like somebody who could use some good advice. And I don't think we can fully predict what happens when the matter and the anti-matter meet, because they couldn't be more opposite.
But if you put them in a room and wait two hours and then they leave the room, do you think that Elon Musk will have adopted some of Alex Soros' beliefs, or will Alex Soros leave the room saying, you know what, I've got to think about this? You know the answer to that. Alex Soros will walk out of that meeting saying, I really have to rethink this. Elon Musk will walk out of the meeting Elon Musk.
he's not going to change a bit. Why? Because he already got to all of his opinions from first principles, start at the bottom, how does this make sense? He didn't have any opinions given to him. Nobody gave him an opinion that he uncritically accepted and then got surprised later. But I've got a feeling that Alex Soros grew up in an environment in which right and wrong were just sort of assigned.
And he's just taking the legacy forward. So the oil and water of that is incredible. But here's the other thing that might be important. What if they're both nice guys? I don't know if that's true. I mean, I've never met either of them personally. But what if in person they just get along? That would change the entire world. Everything would change if they just like each other. And they might.
Because when I see pictures of Alex Soros just hanging out and partying and stuff, I have two thoughts. Number one, I don't want him controlling my country because he looks like he's having a good time and the good time looks like it's more important to him. Number two, I think he'd be fun to hang out with. It looks like he's just a fun guy.
I've got a feeling if you were partying with him, you'd be glad you were. So what happens if they just like each other and they just get along? It could change everything. But let's talk about some more personalities. So that's the biggest story in the world right now. Can't wait for them to meet. Do you remember when we were told by the news that
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Chapter 8: What is the significance of the recall vote against Pamela Price?
Oh, it looks like that's real, that Jussie Smollett's conviction was overturned. I wonder why. We'll find out about that. Ukraine cannot fire the missile without direct involvement of the U.S. or other nations. Well, yes. It's possible that the whole who's firing those attack on missiles, they might be gaming it a little bit.
Because let's say America makes the missile, but there's nobody in Ukraine that knows how to program it to fire properly. So let's say they also program it. but somebody still has to approve it and push the button. Do you think the NATO person pushes the button and approves it? I say no. I say the Ukrainian military pushes the button. So I don't know.
Does it matter that the Americans programmed it? It feels like the person who pushes the button is the one who's firing it. Because building it in the first place is more involvement than programming it. programming it is just another minor thing you do to make it a functional missile. But you don't blame the person who made the missile and made it programmable.
Don't you blame the person who fired it? So I'm not entirely sure that they can't fire it without the US or NATO. They can't fire it without NATO involvement. NATO involvement might be just to say, here it is all set up, push this button when you're ready. So I don't know. I don't think Putin's going to launch a nuclear weapon over a technicality like that.
I think he'd be far more likely to say, if you fire one more of these attackums, I'm going to level Kiev with traditional weapons and then just do it. Now, if he did that, I hate to give him advice, but you probably should do that anyway if he wants a good deal. Again, I hope he doesn't.
But if he wants the best deal he can get, he probably will turn up the pressure with conventional weapons as high as he can turn it up. All right. Trump thinks the money should go to American corporations. I don't know what that's about. All right. I'm going to go talk to the locals people privately. My subscribers. Thanks for joining. And I will see the rest of you tomorrow.
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