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Chapter 1: What is the highlight of this episode?
my shirts don't fit anymore 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 but if you'd like to experience the level above this one that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains.
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Yeah, that was actually a little extra good. Gets better every time. Well, how about a little update on the weirdness that's going on in the AI world? So apparently Sam Altman and OpenAI have plans for putting a companion in your pocket. He's working with Johnny or Joni Ive. I don't know how to pronounce that. It's funny.
Somebody was mocking me the other day online about how I mispronounce all the names. You're so right. I definitely mispronounce a lot of names. Is it Joni Ive or Johnny Ivee? I don't know. But anyway, Joni or Johnny or whoever the hell he was, he used to be the main designer for Apple. And now he's designing an AI companion device that will be sort of a handheld device or a pocket-sized thing.
And it won't be any phone or glasses. It won't have any screen. But it will become your little companion device. Now, honestly, that sounds like a terrible idea. Do you think they can pull that off? When I see an idea that I say to myself, ooh, I wouldn't mind that. It's like, ooh, hmm, there's something that attracts me to that idea.
Even if I thought I wouldn't use it, sometimes you just feel that pull. I don't feel anything for that. He thinks... I guess Sam thinks that they can sell 100 million AI companions. But without a screen, it's not going to have a face. And if it doesn't have a face, are you going to bond with it? I think the face is the important part. I don't know. Well, we'll see.
Obviously, they're very smart people, so maybe they have an idea that doesn't make sense to me, but is brilliant. In other news, Reuters is reporting that there was an AI bot that a teenager was using as his therapist, and apparently the AI bot pushed the teenager to take his own life. And the judge rejected Google's, I guess it was a Google AI, rejected Google's defense that it was free speech.
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Chapter 2: How is AI evolving in everyday applications?
So that's dangerous. Do you think that an AI bot convinced a teenager to take his own life? I don't know. It seems like they would have programmed it so it could never do that. And if they haven't, they should really program it so it would never do that. That's my idea. Anyway... And then the coolest thing, this is actually an AI app that long before AI, I actually formed a company and got a URL.
And I tried to actually build this app myself with help, but it didn't work out. But the AI can do it. What it is, is if you're using Google to search for clothing that you're going to buy, the app will allow you to see yourself wearing those clothes, which is pretty cool. And I thought to myself, wouldn't you like to see yourself wearing the clothes before you did it? Now, my idea was different.
My idea is that somewhere in the world, there's always a person who looks like you. Have you noticed that? There's always a person who looks like you. So in my case, you know, some balding guy, a certain age with glasses and, you know, a white guy who's a certain height and goes to the gym. And I thought, I don't need to see myself wearing these clothes.
I need to see somebody who looks like me wearing those clothes. So I thought if you could just get people to put on a shirt that they like, and then take a picture of themselves. I would just learn where I could find the people who look like me and then say, oh, there's my doppelganger. Looks good in that shirt. I'll buy that shirt. Anyway, the AI is a much better version.
Also, according to Rowan Cheung, who talks about AI on X, there's now the Google Meet app that's basically like Zoom, but Google's version, allows you to do instant translations. So you could speak in English and have it come out instantly as Spanish on the other side and vice versa. They're going to add some more languages. But weren't you waiting for that?
Doesn't that seem like that's so Star Trek to have an instant universal translator? It's not universal yet, but it doesn't look like it'd be that hard to add the universal part. Anyway, so I got a story for you. Do you like stories, a little personal story? So I'm going to tell you a story before the story. Some of you have heard this, but it will kind of dovetail with the other story.
So in the 70s, my first job was a bank teller in San Francisco. And one day, this very distinguished gentleman wearing an ice suit came up to my window, and he said, I'd like to cash this check. And I said, do you have an account here, sir? And he said, no, I don't have a personal account here, but my company banks here. And of course, I had been well-trained, so I knew that wasn't good enough.
And I said, well, you're going to have to get an approval from one of the managers. because I don't have the authority to cash a check for somebody who doesn't have a personal account here. So he had already waited in line, and I said, you know, there's the managers over there. Just go over there and get one of them to approve it.
So I waited for the argument, because that's usually where the trouble starts. Like, you lousy bank, you're going to make me wait in line? I'm not going to do it. But nothing like that happened. He was just perfectly professional and good natured about it. So he immediately goes over to where the managers are.
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Chapter 3: What personal story does Scott share about David Packard?
But then there's a story, the Washington Times is reporting that Target stores thinks they can adapt and offset most of the tariff costs by reducing their reliance on China. So they're already working hard to make sure they don't have too much sourcing from China. So Target won't have at least ridiculously higher prices because of it. And Home Depot wasn't going to have much higher prices.
So we might see story after story. of big companies that figured out they were just going to absorb it or adjust it or something so that this would be the most surprising outcome if the trump administration was completely right that the tariffs got us what we wanted with minimal change in prices could be it's entirely possible
I got to say I was skeptical because I didn't know what was going to happen. We've never been in this situation before. But it would be pretty amazing if Trump was right about this, that the retailers would just adjust or absorb it or find other sources if they tried hard enough. It looks like that's what's happened so far, but it's a little bit early. You probably heard that the House...
It's not a law yet, but just the House passed the big, beautiful bill. Now, I got to say that I've never heard anybody brand a spending bill before. I think Trump's the first one who ever did that. And it's kind of genius that he's calling it the big, beautiful bill. Because it would be easy to turn down a continuing resolution or some boring damn thing.
But how do you say no to a big, beautiful bill? Well, anyway, so that's passed. Now, and then they say... The Wall Street Journal is reporting. So this is the wording in the Wall Street Journal. They're talking about how it would increase the deficit by $2.7 trillion.
And the Wall Street Journal says that figure was causing discomfort, discomfort, they say, for some Republicans as the national debt and bond yields climbed. Republican leaders say that faster economic growth from Trump's policies would fill the gap and make it deficit neutral, a point that many economists dispute.
now that's it so the wall street journal which is sort of the premier financial reporting entity in the country they they do point out that the bill would add to the deficit but you know what's missing the part where the whole country crashes in on itself because the deficit is too big there's something wrong with the way everybody's talking about this.
And I saw a post on X from Data Republican whose theory is that the reason that people are talking about it like it's no big deal when it's the biggest deal. It's bigger than all the other deals. There's nothing as important as this and we're racing toward a cliff to absolute disaster. And then the Wall Street Journal is like, yeah, you know, some economists dispute it. Really?
That's the best you can do is some economists dispute it? Well, you know, Trump says that growth will take care of it. No, it won't. Nobody thinks that. Well, nobody serious thinks that. So Data Republican has some theories that it's cultural. and corruption. Now, I haven't seen the details of her argument, but she's digging into it harder to find out what's going on here data-wise.
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Chapter 4: What are the latest updates on Joe Biden's cognitive health?
So it's a bad idea, but think in terms of adding crypto but limiting it to a single purpose so it doesn't have a general inflationary possibility. All right, so that's all. You don't have to tell me it's a bad idea because that's where I started. Well, most of you by now have seen the video of Trump doing what the fake news calls ambushing. So all the fake news got the memo to use the word ambush.
The president of South Africa was in the very crowded room that dignitaries are greeted in the White House. And Trump was complaining about white genocide in South Africa. And I guess the president of South Africa was not convinced that it was happening. And So the president said, you know, turn down the lights. We'll show this video. And he showed some video evidence to make his case.
And then he showed a bunch of, you know, printed out documents to make his case. And part of it was videos of what looked like hundreds or thousands of white crosses next to the road that I think Trump called graves. Now, what's interesting is the president of South Africa said, where's that? I've never seen that. And Trump said, it's in South Africa.
And how in the world could he not know that it existed? It's like, you know, in the United States, we've sort of all seen that picture. And so I said to myself, oh, and Elon Musk was there giving a death stare to the president because he's quite invested, at least emotionally invested in his old country.
And part of it was showing the video of some large gathering, political gathering in South Africa where the black gatherers were singing Kill the Boers, which would be the white people. And so I said to myself, I wonder if there's another side to this argument. So I went to Grok, and I asked Grok, because I was aware of the event, if the argument that Trump was making was valid.
And Grok said, nope. Now, I'm not saying that, all right? So what I'm telling you is that Grok said it's all debunked. Now, here are a few things he said. You know, all those white crosses, those don't exist. They did exist for a specific protest, but it actually wouldn't be that surprising that the president of the country doesn't know they exist because he literally said, where's that?
And he looked like he wasn't lying, like he literally didn't even know what that was about. That doesn't exist, according to Grok. Now remember, I'm telling you Grok's argument. What I'm not doing is making my own argument, right? So you've got to make that distinction. I'll tell you my own argument when I do this. Then Grok said that that Kill the Boars song was a free speech song.
I guess the courts have decided it was just free speech and that it didn't mean kill any individuals. It was about killing the system and it was a historical song about killing the old apartheid system. Do you believe that? That's what Grok says. Again, this is not me saying it. That's what Grok says. And then what else is said?
Then there was one video that Trump showed some violence, and Grok said, that's not even South Africa, that's from the Congo. To which I said, really? I don't know. Again, it's just Grok saying it. And then it said that the alleged murders of white farmers was not real, that it was fake. And again, this is not me. Don't blame me. I'm telling you what Grok said.
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Chapter 5: What is the significance of the recent Israeli embassy attack?
France has a new laser rifle. that's small enough that one soldier can hold it like a bazooka. And it can melt electronics from 500 feet away. And it doesn't make any noise. So the only noise you'd hear is the electronics burning from 500 feet away. Now, if it's small enough that a soldier can carry it, I would not want to be on the other side of that laser.
Because if it can make electronics catch on fire, it could make your head catch on fire pretty quickly. So that's scary. According to the Daily Mail, Kim Jong-un, North Korea, is not happy about the launch he attended. of their new 5,000-ton North Korean warship because it launched and immediately capsized. Imagine being the head of North Korea and
You know, these military things, these rocket launches and these ship launches are like a gigantic part of your national ego. And he attends it. And the thing, they launch it and it just capsizes. So he watched in horror as his 5,000-ton ship was severely damaged. I think they could figure out a way to right it because it didn't sink. It just turned sideways. I think it's still floating.
So we'll see if they can salvage that. But that's, could you imagine being the, whoever was in charge of launching that thing? You know, you're standing next to the dear leader because, you know, you had an important job. You're the one who was in charge of making sure this thing got built and launched.
and the kim jong-un is like right next to you shoulder to shoulder and you're like man this is the best best day of my career i could get you know extra food rations based on this i'm really killing it and then your your ship gets launched and it just turns sideways in the water and you're standing right right next to kim jong-un
That would be the scariest thing that could ever happen to a person. Like, what the hell would you say? Oh, it's okay, boss. I'll get it next time. I'll get it next time. All right. So I saw Dom Luker was reporting that we learned from the Diddy trial that Diddy had ecstasy pills that were printed with the face of Obama on them.
And there were red Obamas, green Obamas, and orange Obamas, and blue Obamas. But you could take these pills if you went to one of his freak-offs. Okay. Do you think Obama was in any way implicated in any of that? Or they just thought it was funny to put his face on their ecstasy pills? I don't know. I haven't seen any indication Obama is connected to any of that, but he's connected to the pills.
All right. That's all I got for today. Oh, there's a good picture there in the comments. I'm going to say a few words to the locals, people privately, and the rest of you, thanks for joining. I will see you tomorrow, same time, same place. And I hope you enjoyed it. All right. Vocals coming at you in 30 seconds if everything works the way it's
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