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Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2831 CWSA 05/06/25

Tue, 06 May 2025

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Chapter 1: What is the highlight of human civilization according to Scott Adams?

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The view is don't check your stocks, if you have any. Not today. Nope. Don't look at them today. Instead, just watch this great podcast. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time.

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But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, well, all you need for that is a copper mug or a glass of tanker gel, a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine at the end of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it's going to happen right now. Go. Ah, extraordinary. So good. Well, I don't know if you caught it last night, but last night was the Met Gala. The Met Gala. Would you like to hear everything that you missed at the Met Gala?

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Chapter 2: What did Scott Adams think of the latest Met Gala?

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Here's everything you missed. A bunch of weirdos wearing unusual clothing. That's about it. Weirdos with unusual clothing. I guess Caballera showed up because she was happy to be a weirdo with unusual clothing. Good for her. Well, according to Nature, the publication Nature, people who don't need much sleep, it's probably because of a genetic difference.

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Now, I think they could just ask me, what else would it be? What possible other reason would it be if some people don't need as much sleep as other people? It's got to be a genetic difference, right? I'm not sure they needed to do that research. Next time, just ask me. I'll tell you. Nope, don't need to do it. Well, this is kind of fun.

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Chapter 3: How can vagus nerve stimulation help PTSD?

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So PTSD patients were being studied at the University of Texas at Dallas, and they did a test where they gave them therapy to stimulate their vagus nerve. Now, if I were smarter, I'd tell you where your vagus nerve is. It's somewhere in your body. But I know if you stimulate it just right, it makes you feel relaxed. But here's the amazing thing.

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That it seems to have cured, in a fairly lasting way, 100% of the people with PTSD that they studied. And it lasted for months. I guess you would have to redo it after a while. But this is more to my point that your body is your brain. If you think, hey, what do I do about my PTSD? Normally you would think, well, there's some kind of mental thing that has to be done. But not necessarily.

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Because you can stimulate the vagus nerve, apparently. And that will change how you think about things. And your PTSD... will allegedly go away 100 loss of diagnosis that's pretty it's pretty amazing that doesn't surprise me a bit actually it was smart for them to even try that that test according to the daily mail uh there was a survey and they found that women are more attracted to bald men

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I believe this survey was done by the National Association of Bald Men Who Can't Get Dates. But they know that I made that part up. But I'm not sure I believe this. 2,000 women were asked to rank the things that they wanted, the other things that attracted them most. A muscular physique was found to be number one. That's what women wanted. A bald head was second and blue eyes were third.

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Chapter 4: What are the latest developments in OpenAI?

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Well, but if you went on a dating profile, there would be zero people asking for bald heads. They would ask you for height. It's height every time. So, no, this is ridiculous. So even though the National Association of Bald White Guys because they got blue eyes as third. So I'm either the sexiest person I know, or this science is not too dependable.

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Would you like to hear the least surprising news? Least surprising news. Let's see if I can accomplish this. The least surprising news is that former First Lady Michelle Obama... revealed on her podcast that she's in therapy. If you saw her podcast, would you have any question whether she was in therapy? She looks like the most I'm in therapy person you've ever met in your life.

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But she says she's just doing it to tune up for the next phase of her life, which totally does not involve divorce. So she wants you to know, divorce... There's a rumor. But she's going to tune up with her therapist. Well, OpenAI, as you know, you know the story between OpenAI, ChatGPT. But OpenAI was originally funded heavily by Elon Musk, who believed he was funding a nonprofit.

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And then Sam Altman and Microsoft figured out, hey, we should make this a profit. And then Elon Musk was suing them for changing it from a nonprofit to a profit. And now they've got a new plan. Their new proposed plan from OpenAI is that they would have a nonprofit parent company that would control the for-profit business.

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And then the nonprofit part would be the major shareholder of the for-profit business. What did Elon Musk think of that plan? Still suing them. I'm not even sure what that buys them. Why would he even do that? What's the benefit of that? I don't even understand it. All right. But I guess they'll work that out in court.

Chapter 5: Why is AI hallucinating more according to Futurism?

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According to Futurism, the publication Futurism, the AI industry has a problem with, a huge problem, they say, with AI hallucinating more. I was under the impression that AI was hallucinating less because it keeps getting better. But apparently it's hallucinating more instead of less. So the more they train it and the smarter it gets, the more it just makes shit up.

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Now, I would say that's a pretty big problem. And the AI experts don't know why. Now, imagine that you've created this technology, this amazing technology, AI, and it hallucinates and you don't understand the technology well enough to know why it does that. Isn't that a little bit scary? That it's already smarter than us in a way that we can't even comprehend how it thinks or why.

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Well, I guess we know why, but not how. So that's going to be kind of scary. The New York Times was reporting on that. So some people, not everybody, think that maybe these models have reached their limits and maybe they don't get much better after this because they've trained on everything you can train on. And then what's left is synthetic training material, which is kind of artificial.

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So maybe that's where the extra hallucinations come from. I don't know. But be careful. And then also from Futurism, apparently the users of ChatGBT are developing bizarre delusions. So I guess the people who are not mentally completely stable in the first place are getting worse by talking to AI. And they're getting...

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It may be driving countless of its users into a dangerous state of chat GPT-induced psychosis. So Rolling Stone is reporting that users on Reddit are sharing how AI has led their loved ones to embrace alarming delusions, often mixing spiritual mania and supernatural fantasies.

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Now, I'm not too surprised because it seems like it'd be the kind of technology that would make people more of what they already are. So if you were a really good scientist, AI probably helps you, makes you a better scientist. If you're a really good programmer, AI probably just makes your job better and faster and easier. But if you're a little delusional to begin with,

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I could kind of see how it would help you get more delusional, depending on how you interacted with it. So keep an eye on that. We'll see if AI is making people crazy or crazier. Well, you know, you probably have always wanted the simultaneous swaddle plaid blanket that I sometimes use on the show. You know the one. It's the one behind me on the chair, the plaid blanket.

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Well, if you wanted your own plaid blanket for the simultaneous swaddle, if things get bad with the economy and the tariffs, you might need one. And it is now available online. The URL is unwieldy. So your best way to find it would be to go to the X platform. And I've pinned the link at the top of my feed. So just go to Scott Adams Says and look for it at the top of the feed.

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I was going to tell you, you could just Google coffee with Scott Adams merchandise. But it turns out that, I don't know if it's China or who it is, but there are a bunch of fake coffee with Scott Adams merchandise now. So sometimes it's just knockoffs. I don't know who would knock off this. I don't even make money from it. I'm not part of the income stream.

Chapter 6: What are the implications of the Diddy Trials?

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All right.

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So if you've ever had a bad day where you went to work and you tried to get something done and it didn't work out, compare yourself to this bad day. So John Voight, actor John Voight, apparently he's... He has some kind of role as an ambassador to Hollywood or something for President Trump. So he met with Trump recently to discuss how all the filmmakers were leaving the U.S.

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and doing stuff in other countries. So what he wanted... was to give some tax breaks from Trump to bring back the movies to the United States, because it's the tax breaks that make the most difference. And instead of giving him tax breaks, Trump proposed 100% tariffs on imported movies. So instead of giving them tax breaks, you made them cost twice as much if they make them overseas.

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And they can't really make them domestically affordably. So now they can't make them affordably overseas, and they can't make them affordably domestically. So nobody can make any movies at all. Good work, John Voight. And, you know, part of me says, I'm seeing in the comments, some of you saying good. I'm not sure why we would give tax credits to the movies that I've been seeing lately.

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It's just all woke bullshit. It's just a guy tied to a chair, car chase scene, a little CGI, a bunch of people get shot, and then there's a bunch of woke stuff. Why do we even need any more of that? But I feel bad for John Voight. He got exactly the opposite of what he wanted. He destroyed the entire movie business. That's a bad day.

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Anyway, I was listening to General Flynn on X. I saw a video of him talking about the Diddy Trials. And he thinks the P. Diddy Trial, which has already started...

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going to implicate musicians sports players politicians and the media and Flynn thinks that Diddy is going to try to reduce whatever his own risk is by giving up other people what do you think about that do you think that Diddy can get any kind of relief from his own legal problems by giving up even bigger fish I don't think so.

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I think he realizes if he gives up people, he'll be killed in jail pretty quickly. So I'm going to say the opposite of General Flynn's prediction. I think Diddy won't give up anybody. Now, there may be plenty of people revealed by the videos and the documentation that the prosecutors get, but I think Diddy is not going to snitch. I think he's got too much at risk. We'll see.

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Well, when I first heard that Trump had suggested using Alcatraz for our worst criminals and maybe some of the migrants, I thought to myself, that's a terrible idea that will never work. It's way too expensive and hard to do. And then I saw a number of other people, some of them I think I influenced, saying that it was a brilliant move. And I'm a little bit persuaded by that.

Chapter 7: What is the controversy surrounding the budget bill?

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So I'm going to flip my opinion from when I first heard it, I just thought it was just not useful to even bring that up. But now I think it might be. It's just yet again another thing to keep the media spinning about something, even if it never happens. And it's good for his brand.

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Very similar to when Trump was putting out the image of himself as the Pope and somebody asked him in one of his pressers, you know, do you think it offended people? And Trump just said, no, no. You know, it's just a joke, basically. But here's my take. How many young men were offended by the image of Trump as the Pope? I'm going to guess none. Probably none.

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Now, there might have been some older people. There might have been some women who were maybe a little tweaked by it. But I'll bet you the base, the Trump base, they all understand what he's doing. They understand it's just for fun. They understand that if it makes people complain, it's even more fun.

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And certainly, there's probably no... I don't think there's a 25-year-old man in existence who wouldn't just think that was funny and would not be offended. I mean, there can't be more than three in the country. So I think he won with that. That was a good play. According to the Postmillennial... There's some conversations about the U.S.

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and Rwanda working together, and Rwanda might be willing to take in our deported illegal immigrants. So instead of deporting them back to their country of origin, if there's some reason we can't do that, they would be deported to Rwanda. I can't think of a worse place to be deported to, can you?

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If you just said, if you come to America, we might deport you to Rwanda, I would immediately cancel all my plans to do anything illegal. Because even if you escape from your prison, you'd still be in Rwanda. So that's a pretty scary one. I don't know if this will come to pass. Well, Axios is telling us that some people are warning that the MAGA movement is becoming MAGA Maoism, as in Chairman Mao.

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I guess they got tired of the whole Hitler thing. It wasn't working. So they needed another dictator. So they're going with Chairman Mao. And here's why it's like Mao. The MAGA movement demands ideological purity. Does it? I don't know that it really does. Glorifies economic sacrifice. Not really. It's just that we have to do it in the tariff situation, probably.

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And embraces state power as a means to reshape society. Well... We do like having a strong executive who can do some executive orders. And so that's enough for the critics to call it a mega Maoism, to which I say, nice try, lefties. How many people know what Maoism even is? About the same number that know what an oligarch is.

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Is the Democrat Party just nothing but bad ideas strung together one after another? The best they could come up with because your Hitler wasn't working was you're an oligarch followed by mega Maoism that almost nobody even knows what that is. So good job.

Chapter 8: How is Trump associated with the idea of using Alcatraz for criminals?

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You had a good view, you know, big windows, so it doesn't feel like it's cramped because you got a good view from your apartment. And you never have to leave, even if you have an animal. So I think there'll be more of this. I don't know if it's going to help reproduction, but that's another problem. Well, you probably heard that the Newark airport...

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had a 30-minute outage in the control tower, and there was no radar, no radio, and nobody knew what the problem was. Can you imagine being in an airplane coming to the Newark airport, and they lose all signal, and you don't know why, and you don't know how long it's going to last, because you don't know why. I can't think of anything that would be scarier than that.

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And apparently a number of the staff were so stressed that they had to go on trauma leave. And I totally get that. You know, the staff of the tower, because they probably thought to themselves, if we don't know how long this is going to go on, we might see half of the planes up there run out of gas or run out of fuel or start crashing into things.

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Now, I saw on, I think it was Fox News, Secretary Duffy, who was saying that it wasn't as dangerous as it looked. Now, partly because it was only half an hour. But again, if you didn't know what the problem was, you didn't know in advance it was only going to be half an hour. So you can imagine how scary that would be. But apparently the modern airplanes all know where the other airplanes are.

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So there wasn't much chance they were going to run into each other. There definitely was a chance they would run out of fuel if it went longer. So this is super scary, but maybe the light of fire under, people would need to fix it. Well, the bank Credit Suisse got in trouble. again from the IRS for helping rich Americans hide their basically cheat on taxes.

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Now, apparently this isn't the first time they've been caught doing that. They already paid $2.6 billion back in 2014 for the same thing. So they lose a case, which is they're accused of helping rich Americans basically cheat on taxes. And they pay this gigantic fine, 2.6 billion, and then they just went back to doing it. And they got caught again. Unbelievable.

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Anyway, so apparently it included stuff like fake donations, forged records, and secret Singapore accounts. It's pretty illegal. It wasn't just a little bit illegal. It was just flat-out crime, and they just did it twice, got caught twice.

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Do you remember, it might have been yesterday or the day before, I mentioned that Fetterman said something that looked out of character, and what he said was, he was talking about Iran, and he said, quote, We cannot negotiate with Iran. It's time to destroy their nuclear program and neutralize the remaining capabilities of its proxies. I remain steadfast with Israel.

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Provide whatever is necessary to carry this out. Now, it seemed to me that that was sort of not very Fetterman-like or not very politician-like. The politician way to say that would be more like, you know, we're getting to the end of our patience, and if negotiating doesn't work, we'll have to turn to something harder. You know, usually you put the threat out there.

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