Episode 2688 CWSA 12/13/24
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What is the significance of December 13th?
And then we're ready to go. Is everybody having a good Friday the 13th so far? You're lucky? Feeling lucky? Do-do-do-do-do-do. Ba-ba-ba-ba. Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. Not counting those drones. But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand, with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need is a cup or a margarine glass, a tank or Charles Stein, a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called, that's right, simultaneous sip. That was so good. It makes me think the price of coffee should be higher. Oh, wait. The first story is that the price of coffee is higher than it has been in 47 years. Well, you know, Trump calls oil liquid gold. I think it's coffee.
How does coffee relate to economic trends?
Yeah, I think coffee is the liquid gold. Let me put it this way. If you said to me, Scott, I cannot give you any oil today, I would say, really? But I could have it tomorrow, right? Yeah, you could have it tomorrow. But today, no oil. I'd say, all right, all right, whatever. But if you came to me and said, Scott, you can't have any coffee today, I'd say, I'm going to kill you. But I'd be kidding because I'm against violence. Well, you would not be surprised to know that there's a big advance out of Korea, South Korea, obviously, in batteries. They found out that they can add water to a lithium metal battery and increases the lifespan by 750% using only water. I love the fact that nobody thought of putting water on it.
It's like the most abundant element in the universe. All right, not the universe, but recently on the planet. So you don't need to know any details about that. I always tell you the battery stuff in the context of if battery technology becomes, let's say, five times better, everything changes. And then there must be like 20 or 30 things that are going on, every one of them would make batteries 5 to 10 times better. So there is a real interesting world coming of robots and self-driving cars and everything else with batteries that last forever. Meanwhile, according to study finds, scientists are getting close to having a pill that cures diabetes. So Mount Sinai team is working on it. So they figured out the mechanics of it, so they're pretty sure they can do it. They just need to test it on humans, so it's going to take a while. But I wouldn't wait for that. Meanwhile, Tesla... launched what they call their Actually Smart Summon feature in China. Now, I think what that means is you can summon your car from anywhere, and it will just drive to you so that you can get in it.
Imagine never having to park your car again. Can you even wrap your head around that? Imagine that wherever you're going, your own car drops you off in front of the door and then you tell it to go park itself and it just looks for a parking place. And then when you want it, you just summon it and it goes from its parking place to wherever you're waiting. Now that's pretty amazing. But it looks like China has the function where they can call it to you. I don't know if a Tesla full self-driving can go find a parking spot. I don't know that it can do that. And also at the same time, Musk says that the Tesla full self-driving drove a car from LA to San Diego with zero interventions. Can you imagine going from LA to San Diego without ever touching the steering wheel?
That's pretty amazing. You know, I've told you before that my retirement assumption is that I could just go sit in the car and tell it to take me on vacation. And I'd say something like, hey, car, I haven't spent much time looking around in Arizona. Let's go to Arizona. And then the car figures out, you know, uses its AI to figure out what hotels I'll stay at along the way.
What advancements are being made in battery technology?
And, you know, if it's time for me to have lunch, it would be amazing. I just do my own work while I'm going somewhere. All right. Meanwhile, so the SpaceX headquarters, which had been in some other named city, is now officially named Starbase. So it's Starbase City. So we have a new city in America called Starbase. All right.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the significance of December 13th?
0:01–1:27
2
How does coffee relate to economic trends?
1:27–5:23
3
What advancements are being made in battery technology?
5:23–8:25
4
What is the latest on Tesla's self-driving capabilities?
8:25–18:24
5
How is Neil deGrasse Tyson addressing trust in experts?
18:24–39:25
6
What are the implications of Biden's pardons?
39:25–46:30
7
How does identity politics affect the Democrat Party?
46:30–55:21
8
What controversies surround media credibility today?
55:21–1:14:36
Speakers
1 identifiedMore from Real Coffee with Scott Adams
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