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Chapter 1: What is the highlight of today's episode?
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 in your life. But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny brains and their quantum computers, it's not enough.
Chapter 2: What is the significance of the simultaneous sip?
All you need is a cup or a mug or a glass of tanker, Chelsea Steiner, canteen, jugger flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. Join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip. It happens now. Go. You know, I remember hearing a hypothesis.
Somebody else came up with it a long time ago. The purpose of dancing was so that primitive people could look like they were one larger beast. So if you were a lion and you saw one human, you'd say, I could take that human, and the lion would kill you.
But if you saw a bunch of humans standing next to each other and they were all acting in unison, the lion might think, wait a minute, it looks like one giant creature. They're all operating in unison. And when I do the simultaneous sip, I always feel it connects us to something like really basic in our biology, that doing something at the same time makes you feel safer.
I wonder if anybody feels that at some non-conscious level. Just wonder. Because a lot of people say that they enjoy, they get some kind of dopamine hit from doing the simultaneous sip. There might actually be a deep evolutionary reason that it feels good to do things at the same time. I mean, there's a reason we like to dance and sing along with songs and match people.
Anyway, so I'd like to throw this out there just to make the technical people's head explode, just because you won't like it. I have this theory of the world. that the only things that are real are the things that the people who are the experts can explain to me. Now, I don't mean that I need to understand all the technical parts.
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Chapter 3: How does Scott Adams view quantum computing?
But if somebody explained to me, let's say, how a digital telecommunication works compared to analog, I wouldn't understand every single technical part, but I'd get the basic idea. I'd get the basic idea. But if somebody tries to
explain quantum computing to me i do not get the basic idea and at first i thought oh i'm just seeing bad explainers there must be some way to explain you know just just in a very layman's kind of way uh why the quantum computers are so fast and they end up saying things like well it must be accessing multiple dimensions with the qubits and i go um
Is it really impossible to describe what's happening? Because that just sounds like words. It doesn't sound like you understand anything. And how would you know what dimension it's going to? How could you interact with another dimension? And how could you do it all? Doesn't it sound like quantum computer is all fake? And when I say fake, I don't mean that the tests don't work in the lab.
They probably do. What I mean is, I don't think anybody working on it knows what it is. Because if they did, they could explain it at least a little bit, just a little bit, instead of saying stuff like, well, it goes off into the infinite dimensions, and then something happens, and then we get a result. But why is that so fast? Well, because of the infinite dimensions.
How do you send things to infinite dimensions? Well, with the qubits. Well, what are you talking about? Like, is it really impossible to just give some kind of basic analogy, anything that would make me understand how we're sending things into the infinite dimensions and getting answers back? Don't see it at all. All right, here's one of the things... that I think of in terms of reality.
Now, you've heard others say that something like this, so it's not something I invented. But back in the 90s, I had this idea that reality was fixed and that all the possibilities of your future already exist as static, frozen situations. And the only thing that travels, if you can even call it that, is your consciousness. So in other words, there's no time, there's no space, there's nothing.
Everything's just frozen and permanent. And the only thing that moves is you through all the permanent states. And if you're moving in one direction, it looks like those things are moving and just like a picture book. If you flip the pages of a cartoon book where the cartoon is different a little bit on each page, it would look like it's moving.
So I think that our sense of time and movement are just illusions because our consciousness is experiencing one reality after another. That's what I think. But how would that allow you to solve a an unsolvable, gigantic problem with quantum computing? I don't know the answer to that.
But if what you're doing is sending out a zillion little signals, and one of them comes back from the path of reality that's always existed, along with all the other infinite paths, if one of those paths has a solution, maybe it can send it back, and maybe you can test it. And maybe the only thing you can test is whether it worked. So you don't see the computing.
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Chapter 4: What are the facts behind the drinking bleach hoax?
And if I see that spread into other places, I can think, well, I don't know for sure, but it looks like maybe my influence went somewhere. Now, I don't think that I'm the first person in the world who said alcohol is poison. And there was a book long before I said it that said sugar is poison. So it's not like some genius thing to get to, you know, alcohol is poison.
But let me just tell you a little history of it. So in my book, How to Fail Almost Everything and Still Win Big, came out in 2013, so quite a while ago now. And I did write about my use of the phrase alcohol is poison as an aid to avoid a thing which I had enjoyed in the past but didn't want to do anymore. So I found it helpful.
Now that's the first time I kind of made a, you know, a section of a book talking about the phrase alcohol is poison. And then I heard from a number of people that just that one phrase was enough to reframe how they thought of alcohol and they quit drinking. And then I heard from more people who said they quit drinking forever.
You know, they'd been off it for a year or more and they said it was that phrase that put them over the top. So because it was so powerful, When I wrote my more current book, Reframe Your Brain, that's the newest one, Reframe Your Brain included that one. I said it's from my prior book, and I mentioned it again. And my intention of putting it in the reframe is so that it would spread.
And you've watched me long enough, you know that that's what I do. I try to come up with a useful reframe that as soon as you hear it, gives you a new superpower. And the power might be to avoid something or to do something you didn't want to do, to exercise more.
Basically, the reframes simply just are a quick little reprogramming trick to allow you to do something you couldn't figure out how to do before. That's it. That's all they are. So my intention, very publicly since 2013, my intention was to make this phrase, alcohol is poison, a common phrase in America.
As of today, if you look at the headlines from this week, it's become a routine way to describe drinking. Now, did I have anything to do with that? Because I don't know. This one's a tough one because it wasn't such a brilliant out-of-the-box idea that 100 people don't think of it on their own every day. I don't know. But I don't see any public figures who had said it much in the last 10 years.
But I've been saying it over and over and over again for 10 years, and it's really spread. I don't know how many people have quit drinking forever because of that, but based on just the people who have told me personally, if I had to guess, 1,000. I mean, it's a pretty big number for just... One sentence changing people's entire life. A thousand people? Just a guess. I don't know.
But based on the number of people who have gotten back to me. So you might want to use that one. Alcohol is poison. It will help you avoid alcohol if that's what you want to do. I'm not telling you you should or should not. That's not my job. But if you want to, there's a little trick to do it. Meanwhile, according to Vladimir Hedry in SciPost,
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Chapter 5: What is the latest on the New Jersey mystery drones?
I'll tell you what's happening this week in a moment. Trump was giving a speech, and he described the concept of training your own replacement, specifically with foreign workers who are coming in and working for cheaper, which is a massive problem in the United States right now. And he says... Trump says, quote, can you believe that?
You get laid off and then they won't give you your severance pay unless you train the people that are replacing you for half of your pay and no benefits. He says, I mean, that's actually demeaning, maybe more than anything else. Have I ever mentioned how well Trump can read a room? Let me just read you how he describes how people feel. And you tell me he isn't the best who ever read a room.
Just listen to this. You get laid off and then they won't give you your severance until you train the people replacing you. I mean, that's actually demeaning, maybe more than anything else. So that captures it. It would have been so easy to say it's bad for the economy and it's bad for workers. And I'd say, oh, yeah, I guess he understands the issue. It's bad for people.
But he goes to the next level. He doesn't just say it's bad. Everybody understands the economic part of it. No explanation needed. But when he says demeaning, oh, right? You feel it. You feel that he gets it. He gets it that this is, of course, about economics. It's, of course, about people wanting to keep their jobs. But it's demeaning. And when he hits that note, That's what makes him Trump.
Yeah, he's unmatched at this. Now, to tie two stories together, my Dilbert comics for this week, I believe starting on Monday, are Dilbert training his Elbonian replacement. So Dilbert will be training his Elbonian replacement. I'm not entirely sure I could have done that if I hadn't been canceled. It's a little bit edgier than newspapers maybe would have been comfortable with, but I don't know.
But you'd have to be a subscriber now, so if you're subscribing on X or you're a member of the Locals community, scottadams.locals.com, you can see the new Dilberts, where Dilbert is training his Elbonian replacement all week. But apparently this might be a temporary problem because there's a bigger issue.
According to Owen Hughes on Live Science, now they've shown that you can train an AI agent to replicate your personality in two hours of conversation with it. And it will be 85% accurate to your personality. So all you have to do is chat with an AI. I don't know if the AI asks you specific questions or not. But after two hours, it can largely reproduce your entire personality.
Now, do you think we're going to have a long-term problem with foreign workers that we have to train to do your job? Or do you think we're two years away from training the robot to do your job, which would also be demeaning? Maybe less demeaning because the robot doesn't take it personally. Maybe. So that's happening. Robots will be replacing you. Now, I want to tell you a little update from me.
I've been telling you for years, really, that I plan to build an AI robotic clone of myself so that I could live forever. I have changed that plan. And here's why. I thought it was just the greatest idea in the world. After I passed away, there'd be like a version of me that could grow and change with technology and be upgraded and stuff. I thought that was great.
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Chapter 6: How does Scott Adams describe the impact of birth control pills?
What would be the odds that that gun would jam if you knew you were only going to fire it once and you were a gun expert and you fired the gun before? How often does it jam on the first shot? And it said, oh, much less likely. Much less likely it's going to jam on the first shot. I don't know if that's true. That's just what perplexity said. So my question would be this.
If he knew that he had used this revolver many times... and that maybe it did jam. Maybe it did. But what if it never once jammed on the first shot, and that there's something about the multiple shots that creates the jamming possibility? In that case, maybe the reason he'd use it is because he's more of a gun expert than you are.
Could it be, since he owned the gun, he knew that it always worked on the first shot, but it did have a problem if you did repeated shooting? Could he have known that? Now, the other question would be, if he had these other weapons, why didn't he use them? And it might be that the caliber or something like that, he wanted to get it done for sure. I don't know.
And then you have to add to that that he wasn't mentally working. So his mental problems could have been related to a bad choice of firearms. Yeah. So there are a lot of stuff that you think is a big... Oh, the thing that bothered me when I heard about the Desert Eagle, I said to myself, okay, I can see why maybe he would trust it to off himself if it doesn't jam on the first thing.
But why would somebody who's going into a situation where there's likely to be trouble... and he's a military guy, why wouldn't he have a proper defensive weapon? Right? And then we find out he had other proper defensive weapons. So I was thinking, oh, this can't be explained.
It can't be explained that somebody who knows that much about firearms going into an inherently dangerous situation would bring the worst firearm you could bring to that situation. And the answer is, he didn't. Then people say, but why would he have a passport? Well, there was some talk about him going to Mexico, which at some point he might have thought he would go to Mexico.
Maybe he changed his mind. Remember, he had mental problems. He wasn't stable. So if at any point he thought to himself, well, I might change my mind and just go to Mexico, he throws his passport in. But why didn't the passport burn? I've got a feeling there were some things that burned and some things that didn't. And maybe that's a coincidence. but maybe not a big one.
Because again, we're really, really bad at knowing what's a real coincidence and what's just any complicated situation. There's going to be some stuff that didn't burn and some stuff that did. So I could go down the list of the other things that people are saying, what about this? How do you explain that? And all of them have at least the potential for some ordinary explanation.
So I think that one's, to me, that's put to bed. Elon Musk is getting some pushback for some story that I don't understand yet and I think is fake. But the allegations that users of X were making yesterday and the day before is that X had already or was about to change its algorithm to do something like de-boost negativity.
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Chapter 7: What does Scott Adams say about the Global Engagement Center?
I think there's just some rumors of things that might happen, but we don't know. So at the moment, I'm going to stand down and just say, I'm going to take myself out of this conversation because I don't think we even know what it is. You know, we should be worried that there's any possibility things could go in a negative direction. But I kind of wait to see because so far, so far,
Elon Musk has a perfect record, in my opinion, of being a pro-free speech advocate. And until I see that change, then I'm going to say there must be something I don't understand about this story. So that's where I'm at. Mario Naufal is talking about how, I guess, back in September 2024, the House passed a bill to deport undocumented immigrants convicted of sex crimes.
So in other words, the idea would be if we have so many people that are undocumented, you've got to start somewhere. So you should start with the criminals. And apparently, probably Republicans driving this, I assume, wanted to make sure that the legislation said if you're a sex offender and you're undocumented, you're definitely going to get shipped back.
So every single Republican voted for that, and even 51 Democrats. But 158 Democrats opposed deporting non-citizens who were sex offenders. Now, we could talk about how crazy that is, But I'm more interested in how clever it is to make the Democrats side with sex offenders.
And every time the Republicans find a new way to make the Republicans side with the sex offenders, I just think to myself, oh, that's good. That's pretty good. Because you don't have to insult them. You don't have to say, oh, you're sex offenders or supporting them or something. You just have to let them come out publicly in favor of the sex offenders. I think people can connect the dots.
Now, I don't know why they do it. Some are saying it was racist or whatever, but I'm thinking, race? Why would I care what race they are? If they came from another country and they're raping our citizens and we have a chance to send them out of the country, do you think I care if they're white? or not white. That's the last thing I'm thinking about.
I'm thinking about your daughters, and that's about it. Not in a bad way. Anyway, so if the Republicans can find more ways to get the Democrats on record as siding with the pedophiles, it's just going to be funnier and funnier. As you know, There's been some talk lately about how the Democrats have been saying the biggest risk of terror is the white supremacists. And here's my question.
So I'm seeing a number of largely black TV hosts and pundits saying that the big risk is the white supremacists, terrorists. And here's my question for all those who agree with that statement. Would you want to live... where there's a high percentage of white supremacists. Now, if some of you are white supremacists yourself, you might say, well, that's exactly what I want.
But most of you are going to say, no, I don't really want to live near white supremacists. And if you're black, I mean, I think most white people would say, I don't want to live near a white supremacist. You know, very much the high percentage of people would say that. But if you're black... would you ever want to live in a town that was known to have a high percentage of white supremacists?
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Chapter 8: What are Scott Adams' thoughts on training your replacement with AI?
Their GDP has fallen 45% since 2012. That's a huge number. 45% decrease in GDP since 2012. Since 2012, there should have been a really large increase in GDP if just things were normal. So if you look at what it should have been, that makes it look way worse than just saying it's down 45%, because it should have been up 20%.
So there's like a 60% difference or something, if I'm doing the math right. But roughly, you know, directionally. And apparently they're running on energy, which is also weird because it's an energy-producing country. But it doesn't mean it's the kind of energy you can use and everything else.
So apparently their manufacturing, their factories, are being frequently shut down because they don't have enough electricity to keep them running all day. So the factory production is like a fraction of what it was. They don't have enough energy. They probably have trouble getting replacement anything to improve their energy situation.
So the thinking is that they'll be so weakened both internationally and domestically because their economy that when Trump comes in, he's sort of in the perfect situation for negotiating. And he's reportedly going to put even more sanctions on them, which would be the right play, especially if you wanted to force the negotiations sooner than later. So I do wonder what sanctions are left.
Like, are there some sanctions we had left that we weren't using? Why? Seems like we would have used everything you could use by now. Meanwhile, according to the Daily Skeptic, Chris Morrison is writing that the new evidence shows there's been a 30-year global drop in hurricane frequencies and power. Huh. Wouldn't that be the opposite of what the climate models suggest?
Wouldn't that be the opposite of what science tells us? Yes, that would be the opposite. But do you believe the new numbers suggest that the hurricanes have dropped in power and frequency for 30 years, or would it be more fair to say, wait a minute, Scott, apply a version of a gill man amnesia to this.
So when the experts showed me the climate change numbers that said the earth is going to burn up, I said, that's fake. When they showed me that the hurricanes are going to get worse, I said, no, that's fake. When they said the sea level would be rising at a certain rate, I said, that's fake. And basically, every time climate change said anything, the consensus, I said, I don't think so.
That looks fake to me. Now, what should I take to this news story? So the news story is the opposite. It says that there's data that says that the hurricanes weren't as bad. Would I automatically think that's true because it agrees with me? How about no? How about the only thing I should be confident in is that the data about all things climate change are unreliable.
I think the anti-climate change hysteria numbers are probably unreliable. It would be weird if the only unreliable studies were all in one direction. it would be more likely, by my experience, that everybody who has a perspective just picks the data and the study that fits. They only run studies that work for them. If it went the other way, they wouldn't tell you. So here's what I think.
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