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Chapter 1: What is the highlight of human civilization?
All right, we're almost ready here for the show of shows, the thing that will make you so happy. Are you ready for this? Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's Cold Coffee with Scott Adams, and I'm pretty sure you've never had a better time.
But if you'd like to take it up to levels that nobody can understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass, a tank of Chelsea 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, the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better.
with a little oxytocin today, a little bit. It's called the simultaneous sip, but it happens now. Go. Ah, extraordinary. The best ever, probably. Well, this might surprise you, but did you know, according to psychology today, that smelling coffee can increase your attention and memory? That's right.
Chapter 2: How does the smell of coffee affect mental performance?
They did a little study where they just gave people the smell of coffee and it gave them some of the mental benefits of actually drinking coffee. And then they made this mistake. They called it the placebo effect. No, that's not the placebo effect. That's hypnosis. Now, I'm just sort of recreationally playing with this.
But the placebo effect, as I understand it, is if they give you a fake medication and you don't know it's fake, but because you expect it might work, there's something about your expectation that makes it work. Whereas I think what's happening with the coffee test is that because real coffee gives you real mental benefits,
that being triggered by the smell of coffee makes you remember and associate those mental benefits and puts you back into that state. That would be closer to hypnosis. So hypnosis is where you pair two things so that the quality of one thing kind of slops over into the other. The reason that beer companies used to do commercials with attractive young people is
was people would like looking at the young people, and especially the women, and they'd feel good. And then when they saw that brand of beer, they'd transfer some of that good feeling into the beer. So I feel like the reason that the people smelling coffee performed better is because it triggered their past memory, not because it influenced their expectations of what would work.
That's what I think. Anyway, here's some backward science, according to the University College of London. Did you know that adults who frequently post on social media are more at risk of developing mental health problems? So apparently it doesn't hurt you so much to consume social media. That's not highly correlated with mental problems. But if you post a lot and you also consume it,
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Chapter 3: What are the risks of posting on social media?
It's highly correlated with mental problems. So did this study show that the more you post, the more likely you'll have a mental problem? No, I think it's backwards science. Backwards science. Let me explain what I mean. If you've ever had incredibly good sex with somebody you were in a long-term relationship with and you were in love with, and you remember how good that felt?
While you were doing it, when you were right in the middle of it, did you ever feel like a pressing need to post something on social media? Or were you perfectly happy doing what you were doing at the moment? I'm going to say you were happy. You were happy. So could it be
that rather than posting on social media gives you mental problems, could it be that if you're not happy with your life, you're looking for something outside of your life to give you a little thrill? I've got a feeling that being unhappy is what makes you post. I don't think that the posting is so much what makes you unhappy, but I think both are true.
I think it's true both ways, but I think it's more about unhappy people are looking for something to fill the need And if you were already happy, you probably wouldn't do a lot of posting, except maybe family pictures or something. According to The Hill, the Pentagon has finally admitted they don't know what's up with UFOs. So apparently in the past, there's been a lot of denying and obfuscating.
There's a word I read a lot, but I don't say out loud a lot. Obfuscating. Hey, Bob, you've been obfuscating. Obfuscating. I never say that word. I only read it. So apparently during some briefing with the reporters, this new director of the, I guess there's a Pentagon department to look for these anomalous flying things.
and uh said uh said and said quote this is kozlowski that's the director there are interesting cases that i with my physics and engineering background and time in the intelligence community i do not understand and i don't know anybody else who understands them either All right. I'm still at no for UFOs being aliens from other planets.
I think I'm still at no for any kind of early human beings who are hidden below the ocean who come out every now and then with their high tech to look at the uncivilized people. Probably not. Probably not. Not impossible. I mean, I like thinking about those things being possible recreationally. But no, I don't think so.
I think that when somebody says, you know, I can't explain it with my physics and engineering background, that all it means is I can't explain it with my engineering and physics background. So the only thing we know for sure is that we don't know anything. That's pretty far from saying aliens have visited the planet. I don't know. I'm seeing what I see. That's all you know.
You don't know anything else. You only know that you don't know. So I don't think that got us closer to admitting there's some kind of other kind of life force here. Maybe. Well, according to The Independent, there's this new scientific breakthrough in China where they made camouflage material that will instantly change color to match your background, sort of like animals do, chameleons.
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Chapter 4: What does the Pentagon say about UFOs?
And I watched that experiment repeated a number of times. Yeah, food. It makes people relaxed. But it's more to my point that your body is your brain. So if you don't take care of your body, you are not taking care of your mental health. Got to take care of your body first. All right. Somebody says I post a lot. You know I do this for a living, right? It's different.
It's different if you're doing it every day. Anyway. The House Intel panel, according to the New York Post, is thinking that it's increasingly likely, increasingly likely that the mysterious Havana syndrome actually comes from some foreign actor.
In other words, the stories of the mostly embassy people, American embassy people, having some kind of brain disruption that they thought was maybe some kind of a secret sonic Russian weapon. And then people looked into it and they couldn't find any evidence there was a weapon. But now there is further evidence further investigation.
And according to subcommittee chairman Rick Crawford of Arkansas, quote, I've discovered that there is reliable evidence to suggest that some anomalous health, so they have a name for it now, anomalous health incidents, the AHIs, are the work of foreign adversaries. Now, I like Representative Rick Crawford. He's one of the good guys.
But I don't think I quite believe that there's evidence of adversaries. I think the only thing there is is evidence that people have complained they have certain kind of jobs and that when investigated, they have real damage. But the symptoms are all over the place. And when I see too many symptoms, I immediately think it's not a weapon. It's some psychological effect.
Now, the damage could be real, but the psychology might be what's causing people to go have it looked at. I suspect that this is a perceptual situation. But I could be wrong. So if I'm wrong on this one, if somebody someday... you know, a whistleblower says, yeah, here's the weapon. I did it myself. Watch, I'll do it on this animal. We'll test it.
You know, I can imagine someday I could be convinced this was real, but I would, I would place a really large bet that it isn't at this point. I will say that if you, if you attended a subcommittee in which people gave you lots of evidence and which is like, oh, this person had this problem, and the doctor says this problem, it's the documentary effect.
So if you have a bunch of people coming in saying, it sure looks like a weapon to me, and nobody comes in to say, here's the evidence that it's not a weapon, it's going to feel like you really had a lot of evidence that an adversary did it. So I would say beware the documentary effect if you have a subcommittee that's taking testimony that all kind of leads in one direction. All right.
Meta, according to Breitbart News, Meta is going big on nuclear energy to fuel their A.I., So he's going to, what's he going to do? So I guess all the big companies figure they got to have some kind of connection to the nuclear power industry. This is just the best thing.
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Chapter 5: How could camouflage technology change our appearance?
Anyway, so Elon Musk's company, the Boring Company, they've got these big boring machines that make tunnels easily. They got approved to do tunnels in Vegas. So they'll connect the Vegas airport to the downtown. And I got to tell you, I don't know if I could go into one of those tunnels. To me, that's scary as hell.
I mean, it was hard enough to convince myself to use BART, you know, the mass transit in the Bay Area that goes under the bay. It's kind of scary to be under the bay. Now, in reality, you're probably safer there than above ground, right? Because if you get deep enough down, even the earthquakes don't bother you. Basically, you're immune from just about everything on the surface.
So you're probably safer in one of these tunnels than you are anywhere else on Earth. But man, the psychology of it. I don't know how long I can stay in a little tunnel that feels like it's only about the size of the car. I don't know. You'd have to give me some kind of tranquilizer. According to Shyam Sankar on X, there are more data centers in the U.S. than in all other countries combined.
Did you know that? And it's not even close. If you look at all the data centers in the U.S., it's like this gigantic bar, and all the other countries are just those little dots. How in the world can other countries ever compete with us in that scenario?
Because it seems like ability to quickly build giganto data centers is what's going to drive AI, and that's what's going to drive robotics, and that's what's going to drive basically everything in the future. So if we have like a, I don't know, it looks like a 50 to 1 advantage or something over the next best country that's doing data centers, that feels like really big.
So we'll see if that makes a difference. However, I want to be careful about this next point. I do not give financial investment advice. Now, having told you I do not give financial investment advice, I'm going to say something that sounds a whole lot like financial investment advice, but it's an observation. Trust me, you don't want to invest based on what I say.
Honestly, you don't want to because I'm mostly guessing. And when it comes to individual companies, that's a bigger guess than most things. So here's my feelings. Personally, I sold my NVIDIA stock, which had already gone up quite a bit. Now, the reason I got rid of it is not because I think it's necessarily going to go to zero tomorrow, but because I think it's so vulnerable to disruption.
Because the cost of building one of these NVIDIA-driven data centers is just billions of dollars. And it just seemed to me that somebody's going to figure out a way to do that way more cheaply. Like somebody's going to find a way to compress AI into some more efficient form, and then the entire business model might be destroyed.
So AI has this weird quality where on one hand, it's the future and it's everything. So if you invest in the biggest company that's doing the most important thing for the most dynamic thing, you're probably in good shape. Right. Which is why I bought Nvidia stock in the first place, is that it was almost like, well, not almost. It was a monopoly.
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Chapter 6: What breakthrough has Mercedes-Benz made in car technology?
But again, I don't think this breakthrough is going to change everything. But I feel like there's going to be some massive, massive AI-related technological breakthrough that makes the data centers less important. That's my prediction. The FBI says that if you text between an iPhone and Android, it's not secure, meaning that it's not encrypted.
And so they're saying maybe you should use WhatsApp and Signal. I'm here to tell you again as a public service, if you send a message in any way to another human being, you don't have a secure anything. It doesn't matter if it was secure when it went across the network. It ended up with a human being. Human beings can't be trusted. Are you kidding me? No, there's no such thing as a secure message.
Trust me on this. If there's one thing you can be sure of, you can't trust the person on the other side of the message. That's a guarantee. So now, just treat everything like it's public and you'll be better off. Surprisingly, the jobs report was revised to make it better in September. Usually, that close to the election, I would have thought it would go the other way. But...
revised up the number of jobs that were created and unemployment set 4.2, which is a little high, but it's not crazy high. So that's looking pretty good. All right, we got to talk about this UnitedHealthcare CEO stuff. On one hand, I usually don't like to talk about individual crimes.
So I usually don't talk about the murderer, the one migrant who did some terrible things, no matter how bad they are. because they seem anecdotal. And you get too hypnotized by the anecdote, and then you think it means something larger than it does. Sometimes it does, but you could be fooled by that. But this healthcare CEO murder... really is touching a lot of third rail... No, what would I say?
Touching a lot of triggers because people have so many issues with health care and with insurance especially. So here are some things that are reported. Number one, that the shell casings... had somehow carved into them. What do you call it when you carve something into metal? What's the name for that? Anyway, etched in, sort of etched in.
And then it said something about delay, deny, and defend, which is the name of a book, which is about how healthcare insurance companies deny claims to make money. And so the thinking is, oh, this was a sort of a political statement, something about the company and the way it did business. But I don't think it's confirmed that those shell casings have anything engraved. Thank you.
Engraved is the word I was looking for. I don't think that's confirmed, is it? I feel like there was one source that said it, and then it got repeated. I'm going to wait on that one. If I had to bet... I would place a small bet that the shell casings don't have that on them and that that's just fake news. Does anybody have the same feeling? I wouldn't place a big bet on it.
But I'd place, you know, I'd bet $100, you know, if somebody wanted to bet me, I'd bet $100 that there's nothing on the shell casings. Because it's exactly, yeah, it's too on the nose. But it's possible. Now, if there is something on the shell casing, does that mean that it was a political event? No. Because the one thing we know about the shooter is there was a lot of preparation.
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Chapter 7: What are the implications of the Havana Syndrome?
Some people say that the reason the gun appeared jammed or had to be a reset was that there was some kind of crappy silencer on it, and he didn't He didn't calculate that if you put a silencer on it, the gun doesn't reset itself after every shot, and he had to do it manually, blah, blah, blah. I don't know. It looks like just somebody who did a lot of homework and did a little practice.
But then there's a photo, allegedly of the shooter, with his mask down, where he was allegedly flirting with somebody at some hostel. And he had this big smile on his face, And he looked kind of young and handsome, and he looked like a particular movie star that I'm not going to mention. And I thought to myself, I don't know.
He just doesn't, he didn't look like an angry person who was out to avenge, you know, maybe a family member who had a bad experience with insurance. He just sort of looked like he was having a good time. There's something wrong about all of it. I don't know what it is. Some are saying it's not the same person, and I think that's possible, that it's not the same person.
Well, it looked like the same person. Yes, and as the people in the comments have told me, The .22 caliber, we think it was a .22 caliber. Some of them are subsonic, which would give him some problems with the instrument, if that's what the problem was. So, I don't know. We'll wait on that. did you know he was separated from his wife for a long time?
So my first impression was her reaction didn't sound like a spouse, like there wasn't enough anguish or something. But they'd been separated for a while, so maybe they weren't on ideal terms. That doesn't make her a suspect, obviously. But it would explain why she was a little bit a little less emotional than you would expect if they were living in the same house for the last several years.
Anyway, there's a new poll by JL Partners that says that Biden will be the worst president in modern history. I guess there were only nine presidents that were ranked, but he was ranked last. Now, can I take a victory lap? I'm pretty sure I've been saying he will be the worst president in history. Now, I'm not the only one, right? So you can all take a victory lap too.
But I've been saying this for a while. I mean, I think probably a year in, I was saying he'll be noted as the worst president we've ever had. Here we are. So good prediction. According to... some kind of new study, the government, only 6% of federal workers show up in person on a full-time basis, according to a Senate report. 6% of federal workers work in the office. The rest work at home.
1%?
I think we have a lot of extra buildings, it feels like. Well, according to Rasmussen Poll, 55% of US voters think that Trump has a mandate because he won convincingly. And of course, that means that most Republicans say he has a mandate. And interestingly, 32%, no, yes, something like 35% of Democrats agree that he has a mandate. That's a lot, actually. Now, here's what I think.
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Chapter 8: How does AI influence energy policies?
Fetterman, Senator Fetterman goes on, let's see, she was talking to Joy Behar and said that the Hunter Biden situation was lawfare, and so he approves of the pardon. But then he went on in great detail to say that Trump's felony convictions were obviously lawfare and probably should be should be pardoned. And and poor Behar has to listen to that. And I think she didn't comment on it.
But here again, here's a now prominent Democrat who is saying something about the Hunter case and the Trump case that I consider a common sense. to me it's common sense that both of those had a political dimension on it. And so therefore, you know, maybe, maybe you should be treated that way. So yeah, Fetterman's just saying this is not political. It's just common sense.
You want to, you don't want to have a lawfare. Yes. Yes. Thank you. Um, I think even, uh, Elon said he's like you Fetterman more every day. I say the same. Um, but only when he's talking common sense, which he likes to do. So I appreciate it. Meanwhile, let's see the opposite of common sense. Let's see Joy Reid on MSNBC.
She compared the state of Tennessee, who didn't want to give gender altering care to minors, compared it to Nazi Germany. So if you don't give minors surgery that will change them for the rest of their life, even if they change their minds when they're older. You're like Nazi Germany. Now, I say this every day, but it's true.
The best laugh I have every morning is just watching actual MSNBC coverage with no commentary, just a clip. And I just laugh. I'm like, people actually watch that. That's pretty funny. All right, here's a sketchy one. Apparently, according to the George account on X, a coalition of black churches that represent as many as 28 million black Americans issued a letter to MSNBC
demanding that they fire Al Sharpton and investigate the payments, because you know the story. Al Sharpton received half a million dollars from Kamala Harris's campaign before he interviewed her and didn't disclose that, which is a big no-no. So do you believe that a coalition of black churches on their own decided to send a letter to MSNBC suggesting that
a prominent black commentator, Al Sharpton, should be investigated or fired? Do you believe that? Here's what they say. Sharpton does not have a degree in journalism, and it undermines the career of black men and women who have more experience in journalism integrity. Well, does anybody really care that he doesn't have a degree in journalism?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the media world full of people who didn't have a degree in journalism? Doing journalism? I thought it was the most common thing. Bob Woodward? The Watergate guy? Bob Woodward wasn't... Did he have a degree in journalism? I don't know. I don't think so. But... Anyway, here's what I think.
I think this story is too on the nose, doesn't sound organic, and sounds like maybe some people at a black church are receiving some money from somebody who's got a Republican bias. To me, this doesn't sound real. It doesn't sound like it's organic. It's real, but it's not organic. I don't think that they sat around and said, you know what? this Al Sharpton guy is bad for black Americans.
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