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Chapter 1: What are Scott Adams' initial thoughts on technology?
You feel like doing it this morning. You know when everything goes wrong all at the same time and you've got two minutes to show time? You never really recover. There's something about the first minute that sets the tone. So just imagine I gave you the simultaneous sip and then you had a sip. Nothing's working today. Maybe that's what I needed. Maybe it was the coffee I needed. Audio is good.
Good. At least on locals. I can't see the comments on X if there are any. But if you're on X and you're saying, why is the sound not good? It's because it's on my phone today. Technical difficulties. No microphone is connected. Well, let's talk about all the news. I saw Joe Rogan talk about Meta's new glasses. They look like regular glasses, but it allows you to see things...
extra so you'll see your regular environment but extra stuff added and Joe Rogan was talking about some Harvard kid who figured out how to use facial recognition software with these glasses so I guess you can add your own apps and if you look at somebody with the glasses it calls up their social media and Wikipedia and whatever is available about them online now
Joe seemed to think that that was a terrible idea and that, you know, I guess they could find your address and everything else if your address is public. So here's my take on this. You can wish that this didn't exist. You could hope that people would not use these glasses for something that looks like a privacy violation of some sort. But it's not going to happen.
So it's not that I'm in favor of it or against it. It's sort of like complaining about the rain. It's just going to rain, whether you complain about it or not. And technology is definitely going to give you this capability. You will be able to see things in your glasses that are not in the environment. Some of it will be telling you something about the person you're talking to. I guarantee it.
There's no way around it, whether it comes from individuals who are hacking it or it comes from the company meta. It's just gonna happen. So again, I'm not in favor of it or against it. It's just gonna happen. But in related news,
There's, according to the Brighter Side of News, Joshua Shafin is writing, that there's some emotion-sensitive technology that people could wear so you could tell what their emotions are in real time. I guess they figured out how to use galvanic skin responses in a more granular way than we've used them before so that you could actually tell people's specific and immediate emotions.
based on what's happening around them. Now it's not exactly completely done and it's a level above mood rings and things that we've had before. But now imagine putting these two technologies together. So imagine you could walk up to a stranger and you would know something about them.
And let's say one of the things about them is they like dogs because they've got a lot of dogs on their social media. You could immediately engage them in a conversation. If you were shy, you could walk up and say, whoa, you've got a corgi? My aunt had a corgi. Those are great. That would be a little creepy if they didn't know you had the special glasses on.
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Chapter 2: How are Meta's new glasses changing privacy?
Well, I like to know that because I'm pretty much our entire future depends on energy booming and lowering our energy prices. Cause nothing else is going to take the price of eggs down. Right now. I do love the things that Trump is doing with lowering, you know, with doge, et cetera.
So as long as we can get Congress to not spend all those savings, which I think they want to do, then maybe in the longterm. You know, prices and inflation will be controlled and that helps on prices, but I'm not seeing the Trump administration draw a straight line between what they're doing and the price of eggs or even the price of energy. Um, so we kind of need that, don't we?
It's conspicuously missing, uh, given that the Trump administration is so good at promotion. And energy has got to be right at the top of the things that you would want to promote if there's something happening. But I guess I'm going to say I'm not aware of anything that would make a difference. So that's a little disturbing. There's a new study on studies. I like studies about studies.
This is a study that shows... that research papers, they looked at 82 climate studies. What do you think they found? Well, don't get ahead of me. It said that not a single paper of those 82 disclosed a conflict of interest in over 29 years. So over a 29 year period, nobody who did these studies ever disclosed if they had a conflict of interest. Do you think they have any?
Well, here's what they found out. So 68% of NGO-funded studies claimed that climate change drastically increased hurricane activity. So more than two-thirds of all NGO-funded climate studies say, oh, this is making the hurricanes much worse. What do you think would be the answer of people who are not funded by an NGO? Now, an NGO would be something like You know, I'll just make this up.
It would be like the Green Climate Initiative NGO. So it's basically people who want the study to say that climate change is real, and they want the study that they're funding to say that it's dire. And 68% of the people who took money from the people who want to show how dire it is showed how dire it was, two-thirds of them.
But of the people who did not take money from NGOs, they had a very clear incentive structure. Only 22% of them said that the hurricanes are getting worse because of climate change. 22% versus 68. And so the 22% were people who just got government or academic research. that was maybe a little more neutral. It's like, here's your money, come tell us what happened.
Whereas the NGOs are really directly political, I think in most cases. So there you go, your studies match the desires of the people who funded them. And they didn't disclose that they had that conflict. So that would be a conflict if your funding came from an NGO and the NGO definitely wanted a certain answer. Because you know they did. You know they did.
And apparently the NGO grants were far more, four times as large as the normal academic study. Now, even in the academic world, People are gonna be pressed to say climate change is real. And even if you're funded just by the government, not through an NGO, you're still gonna feel like you need to come up with something that agrees with the government. So climate science, not really science.
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