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Chapter 1: What technical issues did Scott face during the podcast?
Did you just disappear? When I tap my papers, did the picture just disappear? Because it threw me out of the app. How could everything go wrong? How is that even possible? All I did was this. I won't do it again. And it turned off the app. This is so beyond, this is so beyond possible. I mean, we're into some statistical impossible situation here.
It can't be that all the apps died at the same time. They couldn't all be broken at once. Could they? I know there's a massive incompetence problem, but that's pretty impressive. Anyway. If you'd like to take your experience today up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brain, none of it makes sense today, does it?
The preamble doesn't make any sense because the starting assumption is that things went right, so the preamble doesn't make sense. Let's just do the simultaneous. But let's just surrender. Shall we surrender to the fact that everything's just going to go wrong today? Just absolutely everything's going to go wrong. Sip to that. Sometimes it goes that way. And then he is slap happy.
It's up 172% since I told you about it. Anyway, all right, let's talk about some of the news. You ready for this? Let's try for the fourth time in a row to push one freaking button. Okay, I'm going to use my finger, which I know is a human finger. I'm positive I'm still alive. And I'm going to push the button, which I've pushed now five fucking times once it worked. All right, careful, careful.
Push the icon. Yes. Yes. I pushed a button and it did what it was supposed to. First time today. All right. Did you know there's a breakthrough in fusion? Nobody cares. General Atomics. They figured out how to get 20% higher than the Greenwald limit. The Greenwald limit, which you all know about, of course. It's some kind of limit that the fusion people needed to get past, and they got past it.
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Chapter 2: What recent breakthroughs have occurred in fusion energy?
It was considered difficult or impossible. But they did, and they've also figured out to stabilize the plasma. Now, the thing with the fusion is it might be another 20 years of, there's another breakthrough. without actually anything breaking through. But once it gets serious, it's all going to happen at once.
Now, isn't it weird that fusion is coming, which would lower the cost of energy to zero over time? At exactly the time, we need cheap energy and relief from inflation. Have you noticed that we have a number of timing things happening that are weird, meaning that all right, we're heading toward doom with our debt and our expenses and nobody can live.
But at the same time, if fusion were a little bit faster, it would save us. But it might just be late by 20 years. I mean, if you look at the history of humankind, missing it by 20 years, that would be the slightest, slightest miss. But we have other timing, too.
So, you know, the AI people at OpenAI think that we're on the verge of being able to solve all of our cancers and diseases because AI will figure out some pattern recognition and figure out how to do it. What about the people who have terminal cancer this year? They might miss the cure for all cancers by a month. Now,
It's bad enough that you have to die from cancer at all, but think how dumb you would feel if you died a month before all cancer is cured. That's going to happen. It's like somebody's family member is going to die a month before all cancer is cured. I don't know if that's a year from now, but that's what the AI people say. It could be a year from now.
Meanwhile, NASA is testing a nuclear propulsion to go to Mars in 45 days. So currently it's six months. I think that would lower from six months to 45 days. That would be a pretty big deal. And then, um, what else? Oh, I saw a quote from Naval Ravikant, who's on Tim Ferriss' podcast. And he said that people who don't homeschool their lives suck. And then he described why. Totally right.
If anybody has had kids in the last, say, last 20 years, you know that the life of the parents is essentially destroyed by school. Because the school loads them up with homework, so you can't have any quality time at night. But you've got to get up, and you've got this stress of getting them there, and the traffic, and everything's tense, tense, getting the kids to school.
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Chapter 3: How does homeschooling compare to traditional schooling?
If you drive them, especially, it's tense. And it's just brutal. But if you homeschool, you kind of make your own schedule and everything's fine and they perform better and they don't get damaged by the school. Yeah, if you're just a regular parent with children in school, you've got a tough life and there's no reason for it.
There's no reason for it at all because you can homeschool and you can solve all those problems. Well, Mr. Beast, the gigantic YouTube star, says he wants to get some billionaires together and buy TikTok. He's already talked to his billionaires and he's pretty serious about it. He says, we mean business. You know, having Mr. Beast and his advisors or his investors, having them own TikTok,
That would be pretty good, as long as we can solve the privacy and the influence part of it. So that's interesting. President Trump has his Diet Coke button back in the Oval Office. Have you seen it? It's like this nice block of wood with one button on it to order a Diet Coke. Except I feel like he needs more buttons. Don't you? I'd like to see a Trap Noir button.
where I can invite in the top DEI director for every government organization. So what's your job? I'm the DEI director. Next. What's your job? Well, I'm the director of DEI. And a Diet Coke, please. Beep. And then you get it mixed up and you want a Diet Coke. And, you know, next thing you know, next thing you know, Nestle, you know, Rubio's going through the trapdoor. Oh, sorry.
I meant to hit the Diet Coke button. My bad. All right. Well, according to Christopher Ruffo, who you know was working very hard on getting rid of DEI ridiculousness in the corporate world and elsewhere, and he says that the tech executives are telling him that in the Silicon Valley companies, they respect Trump's ban on DEI. They respect it.
And many feel relieved that they don't have to enforce it anymore. They don't have to pretend. So Ruffo says resistance to DEI is basically dead. Now, does that surprise you? Are you surprised that DEI can die that easily? I'm not because I was well aware that the main promoters of DEI tended to be rich white guys who were just protecting themselves.
So as soon as somebody said, I will hurt you more if you do it, then you don't do it. Then all the people who were only doing it to avoid getting hurt would say, wait, well, hold on. What did you say? Oh, oh, it's going to hurt me more to keep doing it. Oh, then I won't do it. There was never any intellectual agreement.
It was purely just a bunch of rich white guys covering their ass, pretending like they cared. They didn't care. They were just waiting for some good reason not to do it. Trump gave it to them. Meanwhile, this is funny, the Daily Mail is reporting, and And I don't know if you can trust this story. If this story were about Trump, I would tell you there's no way this is true.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of DEI policies in corporate America?
But since it's about Jim Acosta, I'm going to recreationally pretend it's true. Now, I think I've explained before that a recreational belief is one that doesn't really have a lot of credibility, but it would be fun if it were true. Certainly would be fun. Yeah, this is one of those. So as you know, Jim Acosta, his time slot was going to get moved from 10 a.m.
to midnight, which is widely interpreted as, you know, he's being minimized and CNN wants to, you know, maybe encourage him to leave on his own. You know what I mean? But the story from Daily Mail is that Jim Acosta is reportedly considering leaving the network because of the shift to the bad time slot. But the move comes as CNN is slashing 200 jobs. Now, let me give some advice to Jim Acosta.
If he's telling people that he's considering leaving the network... That would be sort of negotiating, wouldn't you say? Sort of negotiating with management. Oh, if you move my time slot, I might quit. Well, let me give you some negotiating advice, Jim Acosta, and this is free. This is free. There's no charge for this.
If your company is trying desperately to cut costs and they've already decided that you need to move to midnight, That's not really the time to start threatening them that you might quit. Because that's exactly what they want. Obviously they wanted to quit. He must be one of the more highly paid people. He's not helping the network at all. And they showed it by moving him to midnight.
No, I wouldn't negotiate under those circumstances. The good news is that sucking at your job finally matters again. So there's that. But don't worry about Jim Acosta. He could always follow the path of Tucker Carlson, who left Fox News and actually just got bigger. Got bigger. Or he could follow the model of Don Lemon, who left his primetime show and now he's doing nothing. I don't know.
I don't think Don Lemon worked with anyone. Well, the Oscar nominations are out. And the only thing, the Oscar nominations for the best movie, the only thing it tells me is movies don't seem like a thing anymore, do they? Doesn't it seem like just watching a movie doesn't feel like a thing I do anymore? There isn't a single movie on the list I have even a little bit of interest in.
I tried to watch, you know, you know my story. I turn off any movie as soon as somebody's tied to a chair. If your plot of your movie just absolutely requires somebody to be tied to a chair, you're just signaling you don't know how to write. It can't be true that everybody always has to be tied to a chair, no matter what the movie's about. It just can't be true that your plot requires it.
There's no way, you can't tie them to a bed once. You can't tie them to a, well, sometimes they'll tie them to a pole, I guess, if they want to get creative. But now, as soon as somebody's tied to a chair, I'm out. So I tried to watch a mini-series on Prime, Prime video called The Agency, about the CIA. Now, it's fiction.
and characters were good, and I kind of liked the tone of it, and the writing seemed good. I got through the first episode yesterday while I was working. Second episode comes on, and man tied to a chair. And that's the last I'll ever watch of it. I'm serious about this. If you tie somebody to a chair, I'm not gonna watch. That's the end of my viewing for that.
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Chapter 5: What are the latest developments in CNN's approach to Trump?
So she realized that her brain was just different and her chemistry was different and whatever her brain and chemistry were designed to do, well, what they were doing was obsessing about food and that made it difficult for her not to eat too much. Now, and then when she took Abzempic, she stopped obsessing about it and then suddenly it was easy not to eat too much.
Well, this is what I've been telling people forever. I discovered this with... the kids having sleepovers in the house and having all their friends over. And if I got pizza, I'd put the pizza down, and the kids, no matter how many of them there were, would appear to actually get a piece of pizza, because they were always busy doing something.
But they would arrive at the food in the exact order of their current weight. And the first time I saw it, I thought, that looks like a coincidence that these skinniest people don't even walk toward the pizza. They just keep doing what they're doing like they're not even hungry. And then the people who are a little heavier, right at the pizza.
Now there's no way that the way they're thinking about food is the same. Because it can't be a coincidence that the person who's got a few extra pounds is always the first one to the pizza. But you can see it really obviously with kids. So I can tell with certainty that some brains are different and it's not about anybody choosing to be overweight. That's not what happens.
So there is no free will. If you're an NPC and you'd like to argue this, let me tell you how. The way you could argue in favor of free will existing is you just replace words with your own personal definition. So if you want to argue, here's what you'd say. to maintain your illusion of free will. You'd say something like, but I choose what I do. That's free will?
No, that's just putting a different word for another word. That's not anything. Or somebody said to me in the comments, we have discipline when it is hard. No, again, that's just a word. You have discipline? You mean you just replaced free will with discipline? No, that's not anything. That's just changing a word.
Or somebody else said that Scott can believe what he wishes because he has free will. So I can do what I wish, which means I have free will because you just changed the definition of free will to believe in what I wish. Yeah, we're not going to get into this. Well, today apparently Trump will be addressing the World Economic Forum by Zoom or something.
And the thing about the Trump era, the golden age, is that I would literally buy a ticket for that. If you told me, Scott, you have to pay $10 to watch a 10-minute video of Trump addressing the World Economic Forum, we don't even know what he's going to say. No idea what he's going to say. Would you pay $10 to watch 10 minutes of Trump talking to the World Economic Forum? Yes. Yes, I would.
Would you pay $10 to watch one of the movies that recently was nominated for an Academy Award? No. What? I'll pay for the part before somebody's tied to a chair. Oh, you know what would be fun? If there's somebody who, by some weird chance, if you've watched all of the movies that are nominated for Academy Award, can you tell me what percentage of them have somebody tied to a chair? It could be.
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Chapter 6: How has Sam Altman's perspective on Trump changed?
I allowed one of my hands to be higher than my waist. And you can't do that when Trump's in office. As soon as it gets up here, they're like, is that a Hillary? No, no, I was just reaching for something. I was over, Hillary, no, no, I was just reaching for something. I just wanted to turn on my lamp. The lamp was all, no, no, no, no, no. So you get a little jumpy.
But they had some guests I hadn't seen before, I don't know her name, who talked about Musk was overshadowing Trump. And he was doing that arm salute. Now, what do you think the CEO of CNN was thinking when the guest came on and started talking about the fake news of the arm salute and the fake news that Musk is going to overshadow Trump and trying to drive a wedge?
That feels like exactly what the CEO said, stop doing. So if the host stopped doing it, but then they introduce somebody who does it and they do that every day, which is exactly what's happening. Nothing really helped. It seems like it's all the same. So anyway, Scott Jennings calls it the salute truthers, which is pretty good. Um,
Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel came to Elon Musk's defense about that fake salute thing and he said Elon Musk was being falsely smeared and Elon is a great friend of Israel and all true, all true. And I'm trying to figure out how can I get Netanyahu to do this for me? Can Netanyahu do this for me? It would be great. I'd like him to say that the ADL is not right when they smeared me.
That would be great. So, Bibi, and that's the reason that I don't support Israel, because they don't support me. But they do support Elon, so I can see why he would support them. Otherwise, I just observe. I'll just be an observer, but I can't be a supporter because they don't support me. Got to have reciprocity. Got to have reciprocity. Without reciprocity, nothing works, right?
So a little reciprocity and then we're in good shape. The Sam Altman story is just getting more and more interesting. So I was unaware until Mike Cernovich found Altman's old posts and started putting them on X. I didn't realize that Sam was not just anti-Trump, But he was really involved in being anti-Trump in 2016 and 2020, apparently.
So some of his posts, which I'd never seen then, because he was less prominent then, so there's no reason I would have noticed. So this is actually a Sam Altman post back when it was Twitter on December 21st, or I'm sorry, December in 2021.
So in 2021, so this is after Trump lost the re-election, Sam Altman said, very few people realize just how much Reid Hoffman did and spent to stop Trump from getting re-elected. It seems likely to me that Trump would still be in office without his efforts. Thank you, Reid.
And then Paul Graham had said in 2016, so this was just a month or so before the 2016 election in October, he said, few have done more than Sam Altman to defeat Trump. So according to the people who know the most and are the insiders, Sam Altman was one of the primary people for defeating Trump in 2020. And one of the primary ones with Reid Hoffman. tried to keep him out of office in 2016.
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Chapter 7: What are the latest insights from Oprah regarding free will?
And we have seen genuine cases where people who had that much TDS, or at least were in the TDS world, were in fact deprogrammed. I know because I deprogrammed some of them. Or at least I was part of the process. And the fine people hoax did in fact, no doubt about it, reprogram people who were brilliant. and they didn't know they were acting like NPCs.
So the first filter I'm going to put on this is that this is entirely possible. Now, I can almost hear Mike Cernovich yelling at me, you fucking idiot. He's just pretending for money. I agree with that. I agree with that. My current best take is that he might see that he wasn't entirely right before, but he's seemingly transactional. He's got a fiduciary responsibility to the company.
If he didn't at least pretend to have become pro-Trump, if he hadn't at least pretended, well, he wouldn't be doing his job. He has billions of dollars personally at stake in keeping OpenAI a functioning, successful company. So now, if somebody has billions of dollars at stake for having the right opinion, they're going to be on that opinion.
So there's nothing about his current opinion that tells us anything about what he's thinking. Can't tell what he's thinking. But if you want to say to yourself, I think the old Sam was the real one, I think that's reasonable. But don't rule out that no matter how brilliant you are and how committed you are, you could realize later that you were hypnotized. Because a lot of people did.
If we didn't have a whole bunch of people who said, honestly, And they don't say this about themselves, but they could. They could say, but don't, I'm really, really smart, and I was totally fooled by that. But lots of people are essentially saying that. So if lots of people who are as smart as Sam Altman are saying, I got totally fooled, and we believe them, I believe Bill Ackerman, for example.
I believe he was genuinely fooled, but he's also genuinely brilliant. How do you explain that? Because it's normal. It's completely normal. Being able to be free from persuasion is a specific skill. It's not a general intelligence thing at all. In fact, general intelligence works against you. You're easier to fool.
Dumb people are harder to fool sometimes because they'll say, hey, you smarty pants, looks like you're trying to pull something on me. Well, why do you say that? I don't know. I just don't trust you. But what do you see that's tipping you off? Don't need to see anything, I just don't trust you. And you're gonna be right. So the low IQ person who says, I just don't trust you, ends up being right.
And the smart person says, hmm, let's look at all the facts and the details by reading the New York Times, but I'll cross-check it with the CNN to make sure that one and the other, they both got it right. Oh, it looks like they agree. I guess that's true. So now I'll act like Trump is Hitler, because the CNN and the... You know, being smart isn't helping you.
It just is a different skill than understanding persuasion so you see the mechanism. You have to be able to see the machine. If you can't see the mechanisms of the machine, the machine owns you. But once you learn enough about how it's done, such as learning how a Rupar is done, learning how incentives work, etc.
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Chapter 8: What secrets might still be hidden in the JFK files?
You shouldn't be happy if they call them undocumented. If we're talking about the same thing, it's just words. Well, my prediction of the JFK files, which, as you know, Mike Pompeo had talked Trump out of revealing all of them last time. According to Mike Pompeo, there's nothing in there interesting anyway, but there are some secrets.
So nothing that we would learn that's big and shocking, but still a few secrets, even 60 years old, because he points out that if somebody was in their 20s then, they could still be alive in their 80s. But he was just using that as an example. He didn't say that's the reason.
He thinks 99% of it's already available and that what little there is left in the JFK file isn't really going to change anybody's mind about anything. Here's what I think. Given that we widely assume the government itself was involved in killing JFK, the question I would ask is,
Do you think the government that killed JFK, and then if it was, let's say, CIA-related or Dulles-related, do you think they would have left a memo on that? Do you think there would have been a memo that you could find in the files, as in, here's a memo, go kill JFK, and make sure you keep this memo secret? No, there's not going to be something in the file if our own government killed him.
If our own government killed JFK, which is exactly what it looks like happened, they're not going to keep the memo. I mean, even in the wildest imagination, did somebody ever wrote a memo and put that in writing? If they ever put it in writing, which is ridiculously unlikely, they certainly would have lost it by now, if you know what I mean. Lost it. Lost in the fire. Misplaced.
So no, there isn't really any chance there's something in the JFK file. Unless the JFK file says that the space aliens did it. What are you going to learn? There couldn't possibly be any secrets in there.
All these secrets about who did it there can't possibly be Anyway, so old my breath for that stuff as you know the Trump administration is doing a lot of firing and The funniest part is the DEI Professionals are trying to avoid being fired because all the DEI people are gonna get fired by changing the name of their job and
So we're seeing some examples of the director of DEI quickly changing their names on the website to executive, you know, just generic executive. But I watched one young black man who worked for the government, I forget which agency, he was sort of proudly crowing,
that he was moving from his job as a professional in charge of DEI to something that sounded exactly like DEI but used different words. And he announced it in public at about the same time that the Trump administration was putting in a clarifying order that says, if all you do is change your name, we're going to fire you.
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