Episode 2711 CWSA 01/05/25
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What is the highlight of today's episode?
Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and I'm pretty sure you've never had a better time in your life. But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny brains and their quantum computers, it's not enough.
What is the significance of the simultaneous sip?
All you need is a cup or a mug or a glass of tanker, Chelsea Steiner, canteen, jugger flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. Join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip. It happens now. Go. You know, I remember hearing a hypothesis. Somebody else came up with it a long time ago. The purpose of dancing was so that primitive people could look like they were one larger beast. So if you were a lion and you saw one human, you'd say, I could take that human, and the lion would kill you. But if you saw a bunch of humans standing next to each other and they were all acting in unison, the lion might think, wait a minute, it looks like one giant creature. They're all operating in unison. And when I do the simultaneous sip, I always feel it connects us to something like really basic in our biology, that doing something at the same time makes you feel safer.
I wonder if anybody feels that at some non-conscious level. Just wonder. Because a lot of people say that they enjoy, they get some kind of dopamine hit from doing the simultaneous sip. There might actually be a deep evolutionary reason that it feels good to do things at the same time. I mean, there's a reason we like to dance and sing along with songs and match people. Anyway, so I'd like to throw this out there just to make the technical people's head explode, just because you won't like it. I have this theory of the world. that the only things that are real are the things that the people who are the experts can explain to me. Now, I don't mean that I need to understand all the technical parts.
How does Scott Adams view quantum computing?
But if somebody explained to me, let's say, how a digital telecommunication works compared to analog, I wouldn't understand every single technical part, but I'd get the basic idea. I'd get the basic idea. But if somebody tries to explain quantum computing to me i do not get the basic idea and at first i thought oh i'm just seeing bad explainers there must be some way to explain you know just just in a very layman's kind of way uh why the quantum computers are so fast and they end up saying things like well it must be accessing multiple dimensions with the qubits and i go um Is it really impossible to describe what's happening? Because that just sounds like words. It doesn't sound like you understand anything. And how would you know what dimension it's going to? How could you interact with another dimension? And how could you do it all? Doesn't it sound like quantum computer is all fake? And when I say fake, I don't mean that the tests don't work in the lab.
They probably do. What I mean is, I don't think anybody working on it knows what it is. Because if they did, they could explain it at least a little bit, just a little bit, instead of saying stuff like, well, it goes off into the infinite dimensions, and then something happens, and then we get a result. But why is that so fast? Well, because of the infinite dimensions. How do you send things to infinite dimensions? Well, with the qubits. Well, what are you talking about? Like, is it really impossible to just give some kind of basic analogy, anything that would make me understand how we're sending things into the infinite dimensions and getting answers back? Don't see it at all. All right, here's one of the things... that I think of in terms of reality.
Now, you've heard others say that something like this, so it's not something I invented. But back in the 90s, I had this idea that reality was fixed and that all the possibilities of your future already exist as static, frozen situations. And the only thing that travels, if you can even call it that, is your consciousness. So in other words, there's no time, there's no space, there's nothing.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the highlight of today's episode?
0:06–0:29
2
What is the significance of the simultaneous sip?
0:29–2:37
3
How does Scott Adams view quantum computing?
2:37–15:31
4
What are the facts behind the drinking bleach hoax?
15:31–26:41
5
What is the latest on the New Jersey mystery drones?
26:41–50:12
6
How does Scott Adams describe the impact of birth control pills?
50:12–56:39
7
What does Scott Adams say about the Global Engagement Center?
56:39–1:09:45
8
What are Scott Adams' thoughts on training your replacement with AI?
1:09:45–1:21:18
Speakers
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