Episode 2647 CWSA 11/02/24
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What is the highlight of human civilization?
Let's get your comments up here. There we go. 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 take your experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need is a cup or mug or a glass of tank of Chelsea Stein, a canteen jug of flask, a vessel of a guy, and fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dope meaning of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it's going to happen now. Ah. I'll bet you all voted for that. Am I right? All right. First, we have some news, then we're going to get to all the fun political stuff.
But did you know that according to IFL science, Iceland could be the first nation to get solar power from space? By 2030, they're going to put a big ass satellite up there with solar cells and they're going to collect all that electricity up there because there are no clouds. There are no clouds there at all. Whereas you could not put them on the ground in Iceland because of all the clouds. But the satellite will gather up all the electricity and it will send it down to Iceland. with some kind of radio waves. And those radio waves are a specific kind that can be turned into electricity. So how about that? Now, if they do it wrong, of course, the risk is that Iceland will melt and fall into the sea. But until 2030, Iceland would be a good place to visit, except for the volcanoes.
So sometime between the volcanoes and the satellite that melts the entire country, good time to visit. All right, I'm going to ask you some questions that science has already answered, and I want to see if you're as smart as science. Could these people have skipped the sciencing and just asked you? Here's the question. Do you believe that being kind can make you look more attractive? Do you think that kind people appear more attractive? Go. And the answer is yes. You knew that without even doing a study. I knew that without a study because it's really my secret. I know you don't believe this. I swear this is true. All right, I'm going to tell you something that you're going to resist. But I promise you, I promise you this is the truth.
It's not going to seem true, but it's true. In reality, I'm not a very attractive man. No, I know, I know. Seriously, seriously, I'm not. But because of my kindness, I appear to you as beautiful. But I promise you, I'm not attractive. It's an illusion that I put together with my kindness using science. All right, here's the next question from Yale University. They did a little study. They wanted to find out if political professionals are any better than the general public in predicting which kind of messages will persuade people. So do you think that there is such a thing as political professionals who can tell you what a good message is versus a bad message? Yes or no? Can the political professionals do better than the... Okay, it's kind of a trick because you know I wouldn't even ask the question if the political professionals did better. Would we even be talking about it if the political professionals did better than amateurs? Do you think that would be a top story? Oh, it looks like people who practice things do better. Glad I told you. No. It turns out
that the political pros, according to the Yale University, didn't know better than ordinary people when it came to figuring out what messages were the most persuasive. But is there something they should have studied instead? They did political pros, and they did ordinary voters, and they found that neither of them are any good at all at knowing what a good persuasive message would be. Huh. If I were designing that study, maybe I would have added a third group, hypnotists. Do you think hypnotists would not do any better than political professionals or lay people in figuring out what is persuasive? They didn't do the study, but They don't really need to.
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