Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine of the day the thing that makes everything better it's called that's right the simultaneous sip go oh so good all right people i'm gonna set my phone to look at the comments so that I can see them a little bit better than I can on the browser. That's how this works. Perfect. Perfecto. All right, we got a lot of news today.
But before we start, I wonder, are you ever curious where I get my news stories? What sources do I use? And I figured it would be sort of good hygiene to at least once tell you where I get most of my ideas for the show. Because where you are influenced will tell you a lot about where things are going. All right, first I got to get my fan working. This will work. So some of the sources that I use
And this is not exclusive, but you are likely to see me quoting stuff from the Wall Street Journal, from the Post Millennial, from Just the News, The Hill, New York Post, The Gateway Pundit. But that's not exclusive. I'm forgetting, you know, obviously Politico sometimes, etc.
But I'm also very addicted to Mario Noffel's posts on X because by the time I wake up, he's already done these great summaries of the news and they're sort of hard to resist. So he definitely points me to a lot of stories. But I also get DMs on X and mostly on X from people who know me well.
So two of the people who are especially good at knowing what I would like to see for the show are Owen Gregorian. So if you wanted to follow him, you could see more things that are in my lane. If you'd like to see my content, especially if you like the technical stuff, you'll love seeing Owen Gregorian's feed. So just search for him on X if you want to follow him.
And then also Marcella Pina, who is just really good at figuring out what would amuse me and amuse you. And so when her DMs come in, I'm far more likely to use them as a basis for a story because she's so good at identifying what is interesting. So I apologize if I'm leaving anybody out. But you can also follow Marcella on X. All right. So there's a new robot maker.
There's a robot called Memo, I guess. And they're claiming a breakthrough in teaching the robot to pick up unfamiliar items. Oh, yeah. So if you're looking at individuals, Mike Benz would be one of the people I'd look at. But there are a lot of individuals on X. So if you just look who I follow, I mean, if I follow them on X, they're probably influencing me in one way or another.
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Chapter 2: What are the sources of news stories discussed in this episode?
is on the same page as I've been for quite a long time. Yeah, free will is an illusion. Exactly. Well, I'm going to take another victory lap here. I mentioned this before, but I don't know if I put it in the context I wanted to. So I saw a text posted on X from Steve Magnus. He was talking about meta-analysis, which I've mentioned, I think. that had three outputs or three conclusions.
That process goals had a larger effect on performance. Process goals. Now I take that to mean what I call a system. So that your goal would be to go to the gym. Your goal would not be to lose 20 pounds. Does that make sense? Because one is a system. Hey, I go to the gym every day. And the other is an outcome. It said that outcome goals had a negligible effect.
So this is one of my biggest, it's one of the biggest messages I've been saying for, again, over a decade. Started with my book, Cataphil, almost everything, and still went big. And apparently there's this huge meta-study, which means that they looked at multiple studies, and concluded that I'm right. that systems are better than goals.
So I didn't know that that would necessarily ever have any kind of scientific backing. To me, it was just sort of obvious from life. But now, just to be fair, I have often told you that a meta analysis is not really science. So I won't back up on that. If you want to say, Scott, You also told us that a meta-analysis is not useful. Well, I don't want to change my mind on that.
So I'm going to say it's nice that it agrees with me, but it is a meta-analysis, so be skeptical. I saw a post from Balaji Srinivasan, one of the smartest people in the world, who's noting that I think it's some kind of Chinese company. now has an electric charger for your car because the company is BYD. So I'll take a fact check on that, but I think it's a Chinese company.
They now have in production, so this is not in the laboratory. This is actually in the field. They've got chargers for electric cars that add 400 kilometers of range in five minutes. So Balaji calls it the flippening. the EV flippening, where it would be faster to get an electric charge in your car than it would be to add gas.
Now, one of the things about technology that I think sometimes we're blind to is that changes that you think might be coming, they never come. It's like nothing happens, nothing happens, nothing happens, boom. suddenly you pass over some barrier where everything's different.
So I think the point here is that if you have in production, like actually in the field, a way to charge a car for 400 kilometers in five minutes, presumably other companies will have to match that. Presumably Tesla has plans we don't know about to get to the next level of that stuff. But that's really going to change everything.
yeah and uh we're moving towards super capacitors right owen uh so also there's some breakthroughs in super capacitors and without getting too nerdy uh super capacitors are another change everything you know they would make the battery refill what do you call refill charge It would make the charging and use of batteries a whole different deal. It would just make everything better.
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Chapter 3: How does AI impact the development of robots?
They'd like you to cooperate with the United States. Maybe something we could have proved. I don't know. Maybe yes, maybe no. But they're not all companies from Greenland, so I'm not sure that I believe that's the reason, but it does seem like a little bit of a coincidence, doesn't it? Or could it be that Trump just hates windmills because we know he does?
He hates them for pollution and inefficiency. He might hate them because they're not American products. So he has lots of reasons to dislike them. Is it possible that the administration is using an excuse to clamp down on windmills and it's not really what they're worried about? In other words, that they
national security thing is just something made up to make it easy to block them i don't know so allegedly they just need time to look into it so maybe if they look into it and decide to unblock them later maybe that'll tell us what's happening So here's a story you probably wanted to hear about.
If you notice on the X platform or someone else, that Matt Gaetz appeared on Tucker Carlson's show and mentioned me. Now, I don't have anything to add to this story. because you're hoping I do. I don't.
So it's an old story, and I won't even get into the weeds of it, but the basic idea is that Matt Gaetz's father was allegedly being blackmailed by some Israel-related entity that was going to make a claim about his bad behavior that allegedly was not true, but they had tried to get him to pay $25 million to for some effort that I'm not going to get into.
And it looked like more of a blackmail scheme, depending who you're talking to. Now, the part where I'm involved is that at the time there was a journalist named Jake Novak who had sent me some messages before this was known by anybody that this was coming down the pike. that there would be not blackmail. He didn't describe it that way.
He just said that somebody was going to ask him for money and that there was an allegation against his father. And I looked at it and I thought, this doesn't look real. So my only contribution was that when I was told about it in advance, I doubted that it was based on fact.
Now, it turns out that it turned into a court case and somebody eventually went to jail for, but what did they go to jail for? I don't know. But they went to jail for some kind of, was it wire fraud or something? Yeah, wire fraud. So I don't know how you get to wire fraud. I guess the idea was that somebody tried to blackmail somebody over the internet. Would that be wire fraud? I don't know.
So I was never part of the story beyond the fact that some of my private messages surfaced. Now the question you have is, how did my private messages ever surface? And the answer is, I don't know. I don't know. I will say that if somebody associated with Israel, and apparently... Apparently, Jake Novak is associated with Israel, and some suspect that he might be working closely with them.
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