Episode 2710 CWSA 01/04/25
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What is the highlight of today's show?
I spelled conspiracy, but you wouldn't know it from the title I put on this show. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. I mean, at least until we get our gravitic propulsion systems. Can't wait. But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even comprehend with their tiny, shiny human brains... All you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice, a stein, a canteen, a 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, the end of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called, that's right, the simultaneous sip. Go. Incredible. Best thing that happened to me today.
Well, the news is all fun and interesting, so I'm going to zip through it and delight you. Number one, first of all, Owen is going to do a Spaces, which he's been doing on Saturdays, so you can look for that. I don't know if it will become a long-term tradition, but at least for today, Owen Gregorian will be doing a Spaces after this show where he can talk about what we talked about or, I suppose, anything else. All right, so look for that. So yesterday... I opened up my ChatGPT app, which I haven't looked at recently because I've been using other apps. And I didn't realize that my app had already been upgraded so that you can do the thing where you open the camera on your phone. You can just point your camera at stuff, and the AI will have a conversation with you about what you're looking at. Now, I didn't really know how cool that was until yesterday.
where I'm standing outside my driveway at night and the moon is out, nice little crescent, but really near the moon is this very bright, presumably a planet. And I said to myself, huh, which planet is that? It's so bright. And so I turned on the chat GPT camera and I just aimed it at the sky. And I said, well, what planet do you think that is? And chat GPT said, well, it could be, you know, this bright planet could be this or it could be that, but it's probably Venus because that's the brightest one that would be in that part of the sky. And so I said to it, because it chats with you, you don't have to touch another button, you can just keep the conversation going. So I said to it, are you saying that Venus is the shiny one?
And does that mean that the other planets would be experiencing Venus envy? And it laughed at my joke and complimented me. It actually reacted to the joke positively. Now that just freaked me out. Because if you're a person who likes to get credit for telling jokes, which is literally my profession, I worry that I would get hooked on that. You know, just having AI tell me I did a good joke. Like, yeah, yeah, artificial intelligence right there. If you think it's funny, it must be funny. But then I remembered that AI can only do dad jokes, and that was basically just a PG-13 dad joke. I'm like, eh, okay. More work to go. Anyway, there's a study written about in Study Finds that success could come down to luck more than merit, according to research. Huh, research.
Was there a faster way to find out if luck is a component of success. If they didn't want to spend the time and the money on a whole research project, is there any other way? Oh, yeah. They could have asked Scott. Hey, Scott, we're thinking of spending a bunch of time and money to find out if luck influences success. And I'd be like, hmm, yeah, it does. It does. But I would add the following, which I think they didn't discover, that you can make more luck for yourself. You can make more luck for yourself. How do you do that? Well, get out of your chair. If you're just sitting at home in a chair, you're not going to have much luck. But maybe if you go meet some people, apply for some jobs that are above your level, try to build something in your garage just to see if it works. Take a few classes to build your talent stack. Move to a place where there's more opportunity. Get involved with an industry that's growing quickly instead of shrinking. Yeah, you can change your luck. You can absolutely change your luck.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the highlight of today's show?
0:00–9:42
2
How can you increase your luck?
9:42–15:00
3
Is Siri eavesdropping on you?
15:00–21:04
4
What are Thomas Massey's debt badges?
21:04–39:39
5
Why is the Presidential Medal of Freedom controversial?
39:39–47:28
6
What does the future hold for Greenland's independence?
47:28–1:16:16
7
How is Amazon affecting small businesses?
1:16:16–1:16:37
Speakers
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