Episode 2693 CWSA 12/18/24
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What is Coffee with Scott Adams?
Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams. It's the best thing that'll ever happen to you, 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 for that is a cup or mug or a glass, a tank of Chelsea Stein, a canteen jug, 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 a dopamine of the day, the thing that makes everything better today with a little bit of oxytocin for free. It's called the simultaneous sip and it happens now. Insanely good. Well, here's an interesting thing. According to Steve Newman on X, uh, So someone needs to try this. Pick 1,000 published scientific papers at random and then have AI look at them for errors.
What would happen if you took 1,000 published peer-reviewed scientific papers and then just had AI check them for errors? Well, I think I told you that there was a study about black ladles and black kitchen utensils. The black plastic would leach off. And then it turns out they just made a calculation error. They were off by a factor of 10. It wasn't that dangerous after all. Well, it turns out that AI could have spotted that. So if they had run it through AI, it would have spotted it right away. And then Mark Andreessen, seeing Steve Newman's comment about that, said he would, if somebody wanted to do this as scale, he would fund it as scale. In other words, instead of testing a thousand random scientific papers. Why don't you do all of them?
Just find out how many mistakes there are in the whole thing. Yeah, it would be far more interesting to know the entire situation than to know that statistically half of them are bad. I'd rather know which half, at least in terms of the calculations. So I think the only thing you would find would be errors in calculations or something like that. All right. Oh, here's some good news. According to the atmospheric chemistry and physics, whatever that is. Did you know that back in 2020, there was regulations? Regulations were introduced to remove the sulfur content from shipping fuel. So that's great. And I guess it worked out because now there is way less sulfur being spewed into the air. So that's all good news, right? Oh, wait.
It turns out that removing the sulfur from the air is going to greatly contribute to global warming. What? So there's no such thing as a good idea. You know, somebody's like, I got an idea. We have all this sulfur coming out of the fuel from the ships at sea. What if we had some regulations to reduce that sulfur? And now they did. Sounded like a good idea. Nobody wants to be breathing all that sulfur. Except that it looks like it might have a big effect on climate change and kill us all. No, it won't kill you. But here's what I ask every time I see something like this. So are you telling me that this was not in the climate models? And if it wasn't in the climate models, what assumption do you make?
Do you assume that sulfur is removed from the fleet fuel, or do you assume it stays in? And if you assume that it gets removed, what did you assume about how much that would change climate? And if these assumptions are big and they change the result enough that it matters, why did we think the models were good before we made these changes? That's right. Climate models are nonsense. The Wall Street Journal has a story that I can't believe is real. Like, I can't believe that they really ran this story. So it's a story about how the... I guess you'd call them not virtual reality, but enhanced reality, where you put the glasses on and they look sort of like real glasses. So there are these Ray-Bans that Meta, Facebook, now has. And one of their journalists...
Joanna Stern, I guess, tried them out and said they're sleek, they're stylish, and something you'd actually want to wear. Except they ran a picture with the words they're sleek and stylish and finally something you'd want to wear. And I'm no fashion expert, but my take was they were not sleek, They were not as stylish. And it's definitely something you wouldn't want to wear, except for me.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is Coffee with Scott Adams?
0:02–5:33
2
How does AI check for errors in scientific papers?
5:33–8:11
3
What unexpected effects do sulfur regulations have on climate?
8:11–53:45
4
How is Congress handling the Omnibus budget?
53:45–1:09:35
5
What are the implications of funding the Global Engagement Center?
1:09:35–1:15:29
Speakers
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