Episode 2664 CWSA 11/19/24

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What are the health benefits of coffee?

Scott Adams 0:00
liquid i like coffee enjoy me now for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine at the end of the day the thing makes everything better it's called the simultaneous sip and it happens now oh so good i mean really sometimes it's so good i can't even can't even stand it Well, you'll be surprised to hear that there's a new study that identified the huge positive health effects of coffee. That's right. Apparently, it's really good for your gut bacteria. Gives you fiber. Oh, my goodness. It can make you coffee can make you levitate off the ground. It will make you immortal and possibly being able to fly long distances by flapping your arms. Okay, none of that last stuff is true. But every day there's new information about coffee and I wouldn't rule it out. It could be a fuel of the future.
Scott Adams 1:09
Meanwhile, in the publication Pulse, somebody wrote an article about all the mental health benefits of laughter. Huh. So it turns out that laughter, which is a subset of being happy, is good for your health. Well, they could have saved some money by asking me, but some of the things they found is that laughter reduces your stress and anxiety. Don't you feel better already?

How does laughter improve mental health?

Scott Adams 1:38
It improves your mood, and it combats depression. It enhances your sleep quality. It improves your cognitive function. It builds your social connections. That's a lot of good stuff.
Audience 1:48
Yeah.
Scott Adams 1:49
So if you find yourself laughing at any time during this podcast, you'll probably feel yourself just getting healthier every moment. All right. There's a Pennsylvania school, according to Ars Technica, had to shut down because one clever student figured out how to make deep fake nudes of the female classmates.

What are the implications of deep fake technology?

Scott Adams 2:14
And rather than making just one, he made 50 different deep fakes of his female classmates, 50 different ones. Now, here's my question. Was there really only one kid who knew how to do it, and so he did 50 of them? Or is that a point where they can all do it? Because I wouldn't know how to do it. Every AI that I know how to use wouldn't do that if he asked it to. So there must be some kind of secret dark web deep fake AI that if you knew what it was, you could use it. Now, here's the problem. Sure, they can shut down that one school. Sure. You could punish that one person. Yep. Probably never do it again. But I was once 14. Is anybody here who was also a 14-year-old boy at any time in your life? Have you ever been a 14-year-old boy?
Scott Adams 3:22
If I were a 14-year-old boy and you handed me a tool that was free and could turn anybody I wanted into a A porn? You couldn't pry that out of my 14-year-old hands. How in the world are you going to stop this? This is going to be to infinity. This is unstoppable, and kids are going to do it. So I don't know what you're going to do about that. I think the weird, horrible future is that every young woman will have to just get used to being in a porn that she wasn't in, that her deep fake was in. Honestly, I think there's literally zero way to stop it. If there was an AI that could have done it in the first place, and that's apparently out there and somebody has access to it, it doesn't look good. But anyway, a robot dog.

How are robot dogs changing technology and safety?

Scott Adams 4:21
You've seen all the robot dogs. One of them just finished in South Korea, finished a marathon on one charge. So with one battery charge, a robot dog ran a marathon. So calculating distance, I would feel safe living near a robot dog. 10 miles? Nope. 15 miles. Too close. 26 miles? Not enough. You've got to get farther than 26 miles away from your robot dog if it's got a weapon. I, for one, do not trust robot dogs. Pit bulls are looking good. I might get a pit bull to fight the robot dogs. Um... You've seen that more athletes are doing the Trump dance. You know the Trump dance. It's the danciest dance ever. I love the fact that everybody can do it. If I see a little viral video on TikTok or something, and I'll see the young people doing these dances where it looks like they're floating over the floor and they're moonwalking like crazy and they're You know, they got all kinds of things going on. And I look at that and I say, hey, I could do that. If I spent the next year of my life doing nothing but practicing that one 15 second dance.

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