Episode 2778 CWSA 03/14/25
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What is the highlight of human civilization?
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How is Meta changing its fact-checking approach?
Meta has decided it's going to go with the community notes idea, basically the same thing as X. And it's not going to use all of its fake fact checkers. No fake fact checkers anymore for Meta. Now, do you imagine that Zuckerberg is doing this just because of Trump? Or do you think he's just being smart and he knows the community notes method is just better? I think maybe both. I think he's smart enough to know that not making an enemy of Trump makes a lot of sense at the moment. And also it's a better way to check the facts. So that's good. Here's something interesting. SoftBank is... putting $130 million into robot-assisted solar farms. Now, not a farm where you grow food, but a farm of solar panels that becomes a power, basically a power-producing entity.
And so the idea is they'll use the robots to automate the building of these artificial, all these systems. So here's what's cool about this. Something like 25 years ago, I was at a dinner and I was sitting next to a futurist, a person who predicts the future. His name is Paul Sappho. I think he's about 71 now, so he's probably still around. And he made a prediction at that dinner.
What predictions were made about solar energy and robots?
They sounded so like wildly futuristic that but I never forgot it. And the prediction was that when robots could make solar farms, the the price of energy would start dropping to near zero. Now, think about that. Apparently, there would be tremendous savings in labor if the robots are installing the solar panels and they're doing all the work themselves without help. But robots could also be producing the actual solar panels in the factory. But robots could also make more robots to make more solar panels and to make more solar farms. So he predicted that when robots were doing all the power generation work instead of people, that the cost of energy would just start plummeting. Now, we haven't seen that yet, but SoftBank's got a $130 million bet that it's coming. This is one of those things that if you didn't know that there was a really solid prediction behind it, Safo has a good reputation, you wouldn't be as excited as I am. This is a big, big deal, potentially. It could be early. Maybe they don't quite have the technology to do it, but you can see where it's going.
Sometime in your child's life, solar farms will be popping up everywhere, and there'll be batteries to store it when the sun's not out, and it's going to be amazing. Meanwhile, Newsmax has agreed in a legal case to pay the firm Smartmatic. I think that's the software company for the electronic voting machines. Going to pay them $40 million to settle a 2020 election claim.
What are the implications of Smartmatic's legal settlements?
This is according to Axios. Now, the claim is that Smartmatic accused Newsmax of falsely reporting a baseless conspiracy theory that its voting technology was rigged in 2020. But apparently they could not make that case, and so Smartmatic gets $40 million. Now, Smartmatic also filed a similar suit against One American News, which was settled last April, so they made a bunch of money on that. And then they've also... They've also got a suit coming up against Fox News for $2.7 billion for the same thing. And I'm thinking, I think Smartmatic has the best business model I've ever seen. All they have to do is be involved in an industry where people have lots of questions. And then some people are going to go too far. And then they sue them.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the highlight of human civilization?
0:07–0:58
2
How is Meta changing its fact-checking approach?
0:58–2:36
3
What predictions were made about solar energy and robots?
2:36–4:41
4
What are the implications of Smartmatic's legal settlements?
4:41–6:44
5
Why are Democrats struggling to maintain a unified stance?
6:44–25:05
6
What are the recent findings on education standards?
25:05–26:42
7
What does Scott think about the teachers' unions?
26:42–30:50
8
How does AI training affect national security?
30:50–1:05:54
Speakers
1 identifiedMore from Real Coffee with Scott Adams
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