Chapter 1: What are the highlights of election day and its significance?
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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlights of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams. You've never had a better time. But... If you'd like to experience an elevation of your mood that your tiny, shiny brain can't even imagine, all you need for that is a copper mug or a glass, a tanker, a chalice, a stein, a canteen, a jugger flask, a vessel of any kind.
Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And 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're out of coffee? Emergency. Emergency. Well, I know you'd like to start the day with a refrain from my book, Reframe Your Brain.
The most important book in the United States, possibly the world. All right, let's see. We're all the way up to the mental health reframes from the book. I'll do at least one a day if I remember. We did a bunch of them yesterday. But let me get to the one I haven't got to yet. This one. Yeah. How about this one? The usual frame.
If somebody insults you, you think to yourself, ah, that insult is damaging my brain. That insult hurts me. It's causing me damage, right? We act like an insult hurts us. Well, it does, actually. You know, anything that you perceive becomes a part of your memory, part of your brain. So, yeah, somebody insults you, it might hang around and cause problems.
So the old way is that an insult is damaging to your mental health. Here's a reframe that you might take advantage of. The reframe is that an insult is a confession from the other person.
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Chapter 2: How does Trump address his low economic ratings?
An insult is a confession that your accuser can't refute your opinion or has personal problems of some sort. Typically, when somebody's criticizing you, they're not the best people And they're not in the best place in life. And once you realize, wait a minute, these are not the best people. And they're not having a great life.
If the thing that was the best thing they could do today was criticize me, that's not very good. I feel sorry for my accuser. Anyway, so an insult is a confession. that they don't have a good argument. Do you know what people do when they have a good argument? I say this all the time, but the more often you hear it, the better. When people have a good argument, you know what they do? They use it.
They use a good argument. When people don't have an argument, what do they do? They call you a communist. Or they call you a fascist or something. No, an insult is just a confession. So once you see it that way, the insults don't bother you anymore. Anyway. How about some science? There's a new study that says helping other people can slow your cognitive decline by up to 20%.
University of Texas said awesome. Now, how many of you knew that? This... refers to helping or volunteering outside the home. I don't know why they said outside the home. It seems like helping anywhere would be good. But does that make sense to you? That if you become a helpful person, that it would be good for your own brain? Here's why that makes sense to me.
I have to admit, I didn't know that. So if you'd asked me, I would say, it feels reasonable to expect that, but I didn't know it. And the reason I would have expected it is you've heard me talk about how people are healthiest when they're pursuing whatever is closest to their biological evolutionary reality. So I believe that people stay healthier. That's just a hypothesis, but I think it's true.
That if the closer you are to the mating process, the single most important thing that a human can do, because mating is sort of, it's organized our entire evolutionary path from a million years ago. So if you're any part of the mating, producing children, taking care of children process, probably your body probably stays healthier. I'll bet if you did a study of that, you'd find that to be true.
So it doesn't surprise me that if you're being helpful, which is really another way to protect the tribe, which is really another way to protect the mating instinct or the mating process of the tribe because you're just helping other people and maybe they're having the babies, maybe you are, but it's got to be built into your DNA, right?
So something tells me that when you orient your mind toward helping the tribe, I think you stay healthier. That doesn't surprise me a bit. Did you know that eating cheese once a week is linked to a 24% lower dementia risks? Okay. So what I'd recommend, and this is from a natural news, Cassie B is writing about it. I recommend helping other people. while eating cheese, because Jesus saves.
Jesus saves. No? Jesus saves?
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Chapter 3: What insights does Scott Adams share about insults and mental health?
Nothing? All right. Well, according to a, I think this is, is it Rasmussen or somebody else? I don't think there was a source on this, but there's a new poll that said that 71% of the U.S. people surveyed were in support of the Trump administration destroying the narco drug boats. So it turns out it's a 70-30 issue in favor of destroying the drug boats.
Now, given that it's a 70-30 issue, of course Trump is doing it. You don't have to wonder if it's 70-30. If it's 70-30, yeah, he's totally doing that. Because why wouldn't you? Sometimes he does it while he's eating cheese. So he's actually protecting his brain while protecting the country. Yeah, that's how it works. Even 56% of Democrats are in support of blowing up those drug boats.
All right, here's my confession. I'm not claiming to be such a good person. I'm going to confess. Yes. As you know, in 2018, most of you know this, I lost my stepson to fentanyl, fentanyl overdose. And I can watch narco drug boats get blown up all day long and still wanna see another one.
Now, I know I'm in the extreme because of my personal experience, but finding out that 70% of the public sort of agrees with me, that watching these blow up is more good than bad, I don't feel so bad. So thank you. Well, it's election day for some special case situations such as New York City's mayor, what is it, New Jersey governor and somebody else I don't care about.
So the Wall Street Journal says that today will be a day that will test Trump's low economics rating and see if that helps the Democrats get elected. Why in the world does Trump have a low economic rating? Does it make sense with the data that we have, you know, all data is questionable, of course, but does it make sense with the data that we do have that he would have a low economic rating?
Because it seems to me that almost everything he's tried has worked, right? And the Democrats are trying to hold him responsible to his hyperbole, as in he'll get rid of inflation on day one. And the Democrats are actually criticizing him because he didn't lower prices. He didn't lower prices on day one. Really? You really expected him to lower prices on day one? Now, he did lower some prices.
He got your eggs down. He got your gas down. Beef's too high. He has a plan, but I don't know if that's going to work. But really, you're going to compare him to the hyperbole, not to anything in the real world? Do you know what hyperbole is? It's imaginary, right? Hyperbole is, by definition, the thing that doesn't match reality. It's some extended imaginary version of reality.
What is the most consistent thing that Democrats do? I think you know the answer. They lean into the imaginary. So their entire economic everything is literally based on imaginary stuff. And they do it right in front of us. And we even call it imaginary and we see it as imaginary. It still works.
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Chapter 4: How does helping others impact cognitive decline?
It still convinces their base. So the base thinks there was some way that a human being could have lowered prices on day one of the presidency.
Okay.
All right. It's pretty imaginary. And have you noticed that the Democrats... have words about how they want to lower prices, such as Mamdani in New York. Assuming he wins, he wants to give away a bunch of stuff, which he wants to pay for with taxes on rich people, many of whom want to leave if Mamdani gets elected. Now, do you think that the math works? Of course not.
Of course the math doesn't work, which means that his plan for lowering costs And by the way, how much control does he have over a lot of this stuff? The mayor doesn't have a lot of control over much of that stuff. So is their economic plan imaginary? Yes, it is. Now, is Trump's plan imaginary? Well, so far, whatever he wants to do with beef is unstated, but I doubt it would be imaginary.
I mean, I'm sure he's looking into real things. So imaginary versus not. Anyway, Mike Cernovich is pointing out how the latest New York City poll shows how loony voters are. Crime is listed as the residents of New York City's greatest issue. It's their biggest issue. And while crime is the biggest issue, the person that they want to elect is the one who would be softest on crime.
Now, can you explain that? How can it be that crime is the biggest issue, but by a big factor, they're still willing to elect the guy who's the softest on crime, their biggest issue? Well, there is a reason. It's called follow the money. Because if they believe that they can get free stuff from Mamdani and they don't have another mechanism for getting stuff, I mean, if you were poor,
you'd think, well, I'm poor and it's not gonna change. Might as well get some free stuff. And then I would say, but what about crime? And then you would say, what about eating? What about eating? So eating is a little bigger than crime. So while it looks crazy that the people who say their biggest issue is crime are gonna vote for exactly the opposite of a solution,
If you imagine that their real problem is always affording to eat, maybe they don't say it, or maybe they don't list it, because maybe they just think crime is the right answer to the question. People will follow their money. They won't even follow danger because the danger seems a little theoretical. Like if you stay away from this part of town, it won't be much of a problem.
But what are you going to do about eating? So it's probably about affordability. Or they're experiencing suicidal empathy or there's a bubble where they just don't see the world the same as you. All right. There's allegedly, New York Post says, I don't believe any of this, but nearly a million New Yorkers are ready to flee New York City if Mamdami is mayor. Really?
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of Trump's stance on drug cartels?
That would be 9% of New Yorkers. And apparently these are people who say they would definitely leave. This is a sort of poll where people are answering in the way they think they can influence reality. It's not exactly necessarily their opinion or what they're going to do. It might be the message they want to send.
And they want you to know that if you elect this overtaxing, under-criminal fighting guy... that they'd rather live somewhere else than here. But would they actually move when they look at all the pain in the ass of moving and where they work and where their family is and all that? A million, 9%. That seems a little high, but maybe it's just to influence the election.
Well, today is a big day for me. Right after this show, I'm going to go over to a medical facility at Kaiser and get the Pluvicto, which is a promising cancer drug. About one-third of the people get a really good response, as in their tumors just sort of melt away, which is remarkable. It's not a cure, but you can really make a difference in your life.
About one-third get some kind of improvement, but it's not melting the tumors away. So I'd still be happy with some amount of improvement. But one-third of the people might end up worse off. Yeah. So two out of three chance I'll be happier. One out of three chance I'll be less happy. We'll see. I like the odds. On top of that, I've connected with Dr. Patrick Sun Xiao, if I'm pronouncing it right.
I'm always so worried I'm pronouncing his last name wrong. And you might have seen him on Dr. Drew's show. You may have seen him on Tucker's show. He's been on a few podcasts. And I didn't know too much about him until recently when I was connected with him through the Trump administration. And yeah, he has a product called BioShield. He has 850 patents online. Let me say that again.
He has 850 patents. And his resume is so impressive that I was going to tell you a little bit about where he's worked and what he's accomplished. It's so impressive that you can't even start. It's like the most impressive resume you've ever heard in your life. And I got to talk to some people who know some people who know him by reputation, et cetera. So he has the highest reputation.
the highest credibility, best reputation you'll have ever seen in your life. But he's impossible to summarize. So he owns the LA Times, but he's not a newspaper guy. He's a doctor, but he's specializing in creating drugs. And he's created a, well, how would I say this? He's come up with a process, which so far seems to be very promising.
Very promising as in, you know, every single day people send me stories of somebody who thinks they can cure cancer with, I don't know, pumpkin seeds or some damn thing. But this is the first time that I've looked into and thought, whoa, this is actually credible. So in my opinion, not as a doctor, right? Remember, this is not medical advice. So there's no medical advice that's going to follow.
But in my opinion, as a patient, I am now about to embark on the two most promising ways to treat my specific situation.
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Chapter 6: What is the controversy surrounding James Comey?
Some people complained and they said, wait a minute, why is this rich guy getting this special, special Trump administration treatment? And would regular people get this treatment? And the answer is I'm doing this for everyone. Now, obviously it's mostly to keep myself alive.
But you don't think if I fix this problem, the problem being fixing the distribution of this promising drug, you don't think if I fix at least the communication with the patients and raise the awareness of this drug, you don't think that helps other people? The whole theory here is that if I can fix it for myself, then it gets fixed. It's not just fakes for me.
It would be primarily for anybody who had the same problem and didn't have the good fortune to have, apparently, some of the best friends in the world. Some of them I didn't even know about. But boy, am I appreciative. And I promise you that if I get a good result, everybody's going to know. That's part of the play.
Part of the play is that first I escape from the jail, but then I go back and I free the other prisoners. In this case, the prisoners would be people who have cancer, the kind I have. And if I can... I'll burn down the prison and take the warden as a hostage. So this is always a bigger play. It's not about me specifically, but I understand the criticism.
I can understand why people would see that. Yesterday, even Elon Musk weighed in, used Grok to show me that there were some cancer treatment alternatives if the ones I'm trying don't work. So yes, my medical treatment involved Trump, the administration, Elon Musk, Kaiser. And by the way, Kaiser is doing a great job at the moment.
They're doing a great job of communicating and getting me in where I need to get. So A plus for Kaiser for making the adjustment. You know how I judge people, right? I've told you my, this is a reframe as well. The best reframe for judging people or processes is not what they did. Although it seems obvious that that should be the way, right? It's how they respond to what they did.
How they're responding is excellent. And that's how I will evaluate them. I'll evaluate them based on the response. So A+. You might remember, I brag about this too often, that I am the only non-AI expert, I think. No, that's not true. There must be lots of others.
But I'm one of the public figures who's been saying since the early days of AI that, hey, I don't think this large language model thing that keeps hallucinating could possibly be useful for anything except science. you know, fun little chats. Like you'd never be able to use it for anything. Because when AI was new, you knew that I tried to use it for something.
And what I tried to use it for was what I thought was literally the easiest thing it could do, which is look at a file I'd created and tell me what's in the file. Like what could be easier than that if you're AI? It can't do that. And if it can't look at a file and accurately tell you what's in it, And I know you think it can. And you think, oh, I build this special file. It's called a RAG.
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Chapter 7: How does Bill Maher's perspective on Trump evolve?
No.
But here's what the New Yorker says. That there's an MIT study that found that 95% of the companies that invested in AI tools, these are not the companies producing AI, but the ones using them, were seeing zero returns. And they say it jibes with the emerging idea that generative AI, quote, in its current incarnation, simply isn't all it's cracked up to be.
John Cassidy is writing about that in The New Yorker. Now, does that sound like me two years ago? It does, right? Was I not two years ahead of that? If you use it for five minutes, you can see that it just didn't have the right tool. It just wasn't ready. And it didn't look like it could possibly be ready, which is what I think is different in my case. A lot of people said it's not ready.
But other people said if you just keep feeding it words, it'll become smarter. No, I said if you keep feeding it words, it'll become more like people. It won't get smarter, if you know what I mean. So Axios is writing also that the layoffs might be going up. And the companies are only using AI as an excuse for their public explanation of why they're laying off people.
Who was the first one to tell you that the companies would lie that AI was the reason they were laying off people? Because then they could get a twofer. The twofer is, oh, you reduced expenses by laying off people? Yay. Oh, you're also a pioneer in AI and you've made it work so quickly that you could lay off people? God, you're amazing.
I told you that the most likely Dilbert future was that companies would lie and say that AI is why they were laying off people. And here it is. Axios is reporting. Companies are lying. They're calling it the layoff boomerang, meaning that they lay them off, but you're going to have to hire them back eventually when the AI doesn't work. That's a pretty big deal.
And one last thing on that same point. Actually, two last things. ChatGPT has announced that ChatGPT will no longer give health or legal advice. What do you use AI for? Mostly health and legal advice. Those are the two categories I use it the most. Now, I was aware that I would still have to check my work. but it is what I use it the most for.
I mean, there are all kinds of legal, if you count tax and insurance and all that within the legal domain, all the time. Now, let me ask you this, for those who have been watching me, did I or did I not tell you at the birth of this AI bubble, did I not tell you that AI would be limited by these special interest human groups who didn't want to be replaced? Is that what's happening?
Or is ChatGPT just independently thinking they're gonna get in trouble if they accidentally give bad legal advice or accidentally give bad health advice, both of which are guaranteed if you have a hallucinating AI, right? Now, did anybody else tell you that humans will block AI from doing what AI does? Even if it could do perfect.
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Chapter 8: What predictions does Scott Adams make about AI and its challenges?
the one thing that people say well ai can help you write code faster and you know that's that that did the filibuster just end i just saw something in the notes let me get back to that um but apparently there's a study that said that ai models write code and that's good but uh 18 to 50 percent of the time it writes code with security flaws
Do you think the human is going to catch all the security flaws by looking carefully at every line of code written by the AI? Or do you think that a normal human being would say, oh, AI, write this bit of code, slap it in their program, and then write the part that they write, and then slap in some more AI code? Which do you think sounds more reasonable?
that the human would, you know, in great detail, check every line of code the AI wrote just to make sure it didn't have these security flaws? No. No. No, they're just going to put them in the program unless they're like gaping and obvious, I guess. So let's see, it can't do coding, it can't do legal, it can't do health, and it can't help you in any productivity way by doing tasks.
It's called AI, people. It might be a bubble. But let me give some comfort to those of you who are complaining in your head right now. I do understand that we're at the beginning of AI, not the end. Can you give me that? I do understand that somebody might figure out how to solve all these problems. I understand.
But at the moment, it's right on my prediction, which doesn't mean it will always be so. So I do accept the inevitability of a superior AI intellect, but we're just not close. It would be some entirely different technology. And there are people working on entirely different technologies. So it's not like it's not going to happen. It just isn't happening yet. That's my only point. All right.
Apparently there's some new news about Comey. So, you know, Comey's in trouble. You know, I hate all these legal stories, but as best I remember, Comey had his friend leak some stuff. And then did he lie to Congress about leaking stuff? And now the lie is the issue? That he might be jailed for the lie? Well, apparently some more documents were discovered from Comey in that time.
And he said, among other things, well done, my friend. Who knew this would be so much fun? Talking about an email after his special government employee, this guy named Dan Richman, had leaked to the New York Times, allegedly. So this is all alleged. But apparently there's some pretty clear paper trail now that he did exactly what he's accused of. And I saw some writing on this.
Yeah, John Solomon. Let's say John Solomon and Jerry Dunleavy. who write for Just the News. So Just the News is the one that seems to be carrying the details of this, if you want to catch up on that. John Solomon's doing a great job.
Every time I listen to John Solomon on Fox News, I say to myself, my God, he and others totally have the goods now, and there's no way this isn't going to result in jail time.
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