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Episode 2544 CWSA 07/23/24
Once you understand that humans and large language models are the same you will unleash a huge amount of ability to understand your environment because you'll understand why people are doing what they do is what they've heard the most.
Scott Adams
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Excerpts:
The big donors just showed you that the Machinery revealed itself.
23:40 and then of course the media belongs to the Democrats so it can sell pretty much anything. And if that model isn't good enough--if having the top secret people in power blackmailing big donors to choose the candidate that they want, meaning the top people want, having the media sell it--if that's not enough they have a second method.
They can rig the election.
And it turns out that we're very much like AI. We're a large language model. So whatever pattern is most dominant in your brain you think is your opinion, I hate to tell you, this is the hypnotist point of view.
You think it's your opinion because it's the thing you thought about the most and has the most structure in your brain. It's not your opinion. It's just the thing that took up the most space in your brain. It's just it's like a machine if you have more Gears of the machine in One Direction that's where you are and then you put this rationalization on top of it that you changed your mind for reasons.
30:25 No, it wasn't reasons. Did you know that when uh in the OJ trial when they said if the glove doesn't fit you must acquit and you said to yourself wow that's clever and then experts later like me said you know it's been proven that rhymes are more persuasive and you say to yourself oh Rhymes are more persuasive.
30:45 but I'm here to tell you that the reason it's more persuasive is it takes up more space in your brain. In other words the rhyme makes you repeat it, makes you remember it it. It hardens it into a physical structure in your brain so the next time you get asked do you think OJ was guilty there's a structure in your brain that irrationally has been formed by that rhyme because it repeated and now you think he might be, benefit of a doubt, he might be actually innocent because that glove didn't fit and it rhymed and it took up space.
So whatever you do to take up space in somebody's head convinced them.
Did you know that you can also persuade some by making them repeat something even if they don't believe it?
31:32
so if you say I would like you every day to repeat 10 times um I'm good at playing golf probably it would make you convinced you were going to play in golf eventually even if your golf game didn't improve you would come back thinking, you know uh the score is still the same but I've had so much improvement with my Strokes that really and you would say something ridiculous and it would only be because the repeating it every day created a structure in your brain that took up alot of space.
32:12
Once you understand that humans and large language models are the same you will unleash a huge amount of ability to understand your environment because you'll understand why people are doing what they do is what they've heard the most.
Transcript:
are you ready for a
two whiteboard extravaganza the show of
1:07
shows something that
you've never seen before I guarantee you that this show will have at least a
few
1:15
surprises now some of you know what I mean some of you don't but we'll find out how this goes.
Story number one uh
Trump's going to appeal his $454 million New York civil fraud case thing and
his lawyers are going to say, this is the letia James one where he allegedly
did something with,
1:41
no this one where he
overvalued some property and there were no victims and the bankers said yeah
we'd love to do business with him again and for that he owed half a billion
dollars so you know the justice system um and so his lawyers are going to say
there were no Victims and no losses um and if and if pellant conduct
constituted fraud under whatever statute then that word has no meaning, Etc
so I don't know how
this really works I'm not sure how many appeals
2:18
opportunities he
would have for this case but doesn't it have to get down in New York before he
has a chance I mean the whole problem is that if you try Trump in New York he's
going to get convicted of anything. you could convict
2:33
Trump of you know of
murdering JFK it wouldn't matter if there was any evidence I don't think I
think just New York jury is all it would take so basically isn't the whole game
to get it to some higher Court where it's at in New York right
I don't know well if it delays things or at least delays him paying that money but I suppose there might be some interest if he loses I'm sure he's got some advantage in this and at the very least he can say it's appealed
5:53
the everything about
Biden and everything about the assassination attempt on Trump have this the
same weird quality where every time you learn something it it raises a bigger
question
so I will remind you
that uh it's only citizens who are uh presumed
13:24
uh innocent the
government is presumed guilty if they do something that looks
13:30
this sketchy you
have to say I think you're guilty you're going to have to show me some video
your government has an
13:37
obligation to prove
itself and be transparent all the time when they're not transparent your most
13:44
reasonable
explanation for why given that being transparent would be to
13:51
their advantage if
they didn't have anything to hide so a non-transparency has to be
13:56
assumed as guilt as
a working ass asson you know not pick up your gun and send
14:01
up to jail guilt but
as a working assumption you should assume they're guilty that's the most
reasonable way to
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play the odds all
right
so now the New York
posts and others reported that Biden was
14:15
threatened with the
25th Amendment um now do you think that's the
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right way to phrase
that because there you you know you could tell this Biden story as a coup
14:28
and it would every
definition of it and I wouldn't disagree with you it does look like a
14:34
coup it looks like
non-elected people are deciding who runs and could get
14:40
worse but if he is
genuinely degraded you know
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you can say it's
it's bad that we got to this point but once you get to this point is it really
blackmail or
14:54
threatening to say
you're going to do a 25th amendment or is that more just like
15:01
information because
if you're literally going to do the 25th Amendment because you just don't have
any choice he's just
15:07
that gone would you
blame anybody for saying to him look we just have to be honest we
15:16
have to do the 25th
Amendment if you don't quit is that a
15:23
threat I I think
that's a judgment call isn't it so you could tell this story as
15:29
people who may have
done terrible things in hiding his condition up to this point may do terrible
things in the future may
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be terrible people
but when you get to that point when he is legitimately you know done I don't
know
15:44
that that's a threat
that's just sort of like trying to explain to him what the situation
15:50
is so but we don't
know what kind of shape he's in we'll find
15:57
out the most
suspicious thing is that comma seems to have wrapped up the
16:03
nomination um in a
very non-democratic way um she quite cleverly branded her
16:10
potential opponents
as vice president picks and she's already hired somebody to vet her vice
president picks for the
16:18
thing she has not
been nominated for now if that sounds to you like
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there's any
possibility someone else is going to get the nomination I I think you be wrong
16:29
because she's
already pulled in a gazillion dollars of extra funding like some record that we
can barely believe
16:37
as in we do barely
believe it meaning there might be some money laundering or
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other Shenanigans
involved because it's so much so fast it's just hard to believe so so now we
know that the uh
16:50
the Democrats rigged
the primary with Bernie Sanders you know back in
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Hillary's time we
know that uh Biden's primary this year was rigged in the
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sense that nobody
else could run against them and now this one seems to be rigged
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again because even
though Obama said hey there should be some Speedy little mini
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primary um but other
people like Jen saki even spoke of it as nothing but a
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way to coronate um
the obvious choice kamla and I think other people said
17:26
nobody's going to
take the job of jumping over the Dei hire uh the you
17:32
know if I can be
crude about it because kamla's race and gender are largely why
17:40
she is in the job
and largely why she can't be replaced
17:47
so it looks like
she's clinched it and whatever they do from now on is just
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cover a story would
you agree that that's a accurate characterization what
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whatever happens
from now on is just a cover story yeah um so they might do some kind
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of mini primary you
you know what here's what I think is the most likely
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outcome the DNC will
say all right you have two days to register to be a
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candidate against KL
Harris and if you do we'll have a series of debates and
18:23
then the delegates
will get to vote and then you know what will happen
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two days will go by
and nobody will register and if anybody tried they say
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no you don't want to
register yeah I was actually thinking I was thinking maybe I will but no no you
you don't want to
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register no I I'm
I'm sure I do I I thought I'd give it a run no you don't no you don't want to
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register so that
would be one way to play it let's see uh
let's see if we
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understand uh what
the system looks like now one of the things that is fascinating about this past
year is that with the help of smart people who help us understand what the
system looks like I'm talking about your Glen greenwald's
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your uh Michael
shellenberger your your Mike Benz um your Mike Cernovich's your
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jack Posobic your tucker
Carlson's you you're starting to see a picture of the
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machine and I don't
know if we see it clear clearly but let me tell you what it it
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looks like so that's
all I can say for sure is
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that this is what it
looks like is it real I don't know let's go to the
19:50
Whiteboard if we can get this lighting just right this will be amazing
all right I have to
angle it a little a little bit because of my lighting issues but um here's what
it looks like it looks like there's some group of people in power we don't know
exactly who but almost certainly it would include intelligence people now not necessarily
all of them employed by some intelligence agency might be ex members
who are still
Affiliated but some group of people who have enough power that
they can blackmail a
handful of billionaires who are the primary funders
of any candidate
20:37
now have you noticed
that a lot of the people who are the biggest billionaire donors especially in
the Democrat side appear to you suspiciously like the most blackmailable people
you could ever think of in your life?
now I'm not making a
specific accusation I'm
20:50
just saying huh if I
were to try to pick people that I knew a little bit about but not a lot about
and it was my job to guess which of them would be more likely to be blackmailable
I might I might end up luckily picking some of the people who are the
biggest donors at
the moment.
And I asked myself
why aren't other billionaires giant donors as well?
Let's take I'll just
take one example. Sam bankman freed all right so I can use him because he's
convicted.
21:27 Do you think
that there was ever any anybody in any kind of intelligence or power position
who knew exactly how vulnerable he was? maybe they did who knows it's just
suspiciously it looks like billionaires either can be blackmailed for something
they may have done in their personal life but I'm not
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sure you'd call this
blackmail but you would assume that anybody who has a gigantic international
business
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would need some
people who also have giant power to either not get in their
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way or help some
things get out of their way
So at some
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point certain types
of billionaires I I think it depends on what kind of business you're in um they
really need
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people in important
positions to say yes and it could mean billions of dollars for them in other
words they might get a gigantic multi-billion dollar contract if they give1
to100 million a year to the candidate of the top People's Choice
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Now am I saying this
is the way it works? I don't know. I'm saying this is the way it looks like it
works. I'm saying that the gears of the machine seem to have revealed
themselves in this latest situation because we saw that um when I say “and
friends” I would include Pelosi as a friend and Obama, Hillary Clinton so they
they would be the in friends group. Now they don't always agree with each other
on everything probably but collectively they would be the ones that would be working
with the people who almost certainly have blackmail on the people who are the
biggest donors in my opinion.
and uh they get to
select the candidate as we just watched them do with Kamala Harris because they
said Joe Biden you'll never get any more money and that was the end of it.
So you don't have to
wonder who's in charge. The big donors just showed you that the Machinery
revealed itself.
23:40 and then of
course the media belongs to the Democrats so it can sell pretty much anything.
And if that model isn't good enough--if having the top secret people in power
blackmailing big donors to choose the candidate that they want, meaning the top
people want, having the media sell it--if that's not enough they have a second
method.
They can rig the
election.
24:07 And by the way
everything I'm saying here is not to be considered as a fact I'm telling you
what it looks like. Is that clear? I'm just saying this is what it looks like.
So Mike Cernovich
was recently on the Tucker show and I haven't watched it all but I did see this
one quote so this is Mike Cernovich explaining one of the potential risks of
the uh upcoming election.
24:38
Mike Cernovich, nobody
can know, Tucker asked him what's going to happen in
the election and
Mike says nobody can know because the Democrats have all these tricks up their
sleeves that people aren't prepared for.
For example, what
they're doing now with motor voter registration is they're registering illegal
immigrants who come into the country and they'll just Harvest those ballots. It's
really easy to do.
We have 10 or 11
million people in it over the past couple years on the Biden Administration. You
register them all to vote. It doesn't matter because they're not going to vote
so there's no voter prosecution.
25:22 oh I didn't
think about that. So you don't have to worry about the voters getting in
trouble because they're not actually going to vote, so there's no voter
prosecution and there won't be any record of voter fraud by them but you have
all these names now.
in a swing state
remember the elections are decided not by popular vote it's decided by 50 to
100,000 votes in three to four states.
Then he talks
through how all you need is small numbers to tip the election now is that accurate?
I don't know. I don't know but I I'll tell you what's obvious. What's obvious
is if if the people at the top actually exist, if this is a real concept, if
they haven't figured out how to rig our election yet, well, it's just a matter
of time.
26:18 It means
they're not trying hard enough because these would be the people who had all
the skills and all the access and all the capability so if they didn't rig the
election but they were willing to do all this, how does that make sense?
so if you accept
that the center part is reality and again I'm not saying it is. I'm saying it's
just what it looks like. If you accept that they would blackmail people to get
the candidates they want and they're really the power then it also makes sense
since they have all the tools they would need it would be trivial actually.
26:52 and we still
don't understand why there are electronic voting machines at all. Like nobody
can figure out, okay it doesn't seem to be cheaper. it doesn't seem to be more
credible to the public. it doesn't seem to be faster. it doesn't seem to be
less maintenance.
27:10 so there might
be a reason that I'm not aware of but I've been asking for years and nobody's
ever offered even an explanation. Never. Not once. Nobody has ever said Scott,
you idiot, let me explain how this works. You have to have the machines because
and then they tell me why. Never happened, not even once.
Anyway so if you
imagine that the center part is obvious and we've seen it in action this week
then it seems equally obvious that they would have the option for rigging an
election whether it was ours or anybody else they got their mitts into.
And then it also
makes sense if you believe that JFK was assassinated by members of the
intelligence people that it would be the same capability, same people, same
mindset and that they would have the option to try to take out a candidate.
So what we witnessed
was something that looks exactly like this picture meaning that is it true? Is
that an accurate picture of what's happening in the world? I don't know. I mean
I genuinely don't know but if I had to make a bet
28:35 you know bet
your life I think I'd be leaning toward betting my life that this is closer
than whatever you were trained to believe.
Diversion
I'm going to make a little diversion right now
just for fun. Robert Chaldini, who wrote the book influence talks about a study
where you could get people to change their opinions by asking them to write
down the opposite argument from their opinion and then they would check back
with them in a year and they found out that statistically there were a lot of
them who had changed their opinion even though they had received no new information.
29:18 They had just
been forced to write their opinion and what that shows is that making somebody
create a part of their brain, which is really a physical structure, based on
your experience, you know, the physical brain changes.
29:32 That's how you
can remember anything. There's something physically that's different so if you
make somebody write an essay that's the opposite of their opinion it starts
taking up more real estate in their brain than their original opinion.
And it turns out
that we're very much like AI. We're a large language model. So whatever pattern
is most dominant in your brain you think is your opinion, I hate to tell you,
this is the hypnotist point of view.
You think it's your
opinion because it's the thing you thought about the most and has the most structure
in your brain. It's not your opinion. It's just the thing that took up the most
space in your brain. It's just it's like a machine if you have more Gears of
the machine in One Direction that's where you are and then you put this
rationalization on top of it that you changed your mind for reasons.
30:25 No, it wasn't reasons.
Did you know that when uh in the OJ trial when they said if the glove doesn't
fit you must acquit and you said to yourself wow that's clever and then experts
later like me said you know it's been proven that rhymes are more persuasive
and you say to yourself oh Rhymes are more persuasive.
30:45 but I'm here to
tell you that the reason it's more persuasive is it takes up more space in your
brain. In other words the rhyme makes you repeat it, makes you remember it it. It
hardens it into a physical structure in your brain so the next time you get
asked do you think OJ was guilty there's a structure in your brain that
irrationally has been formed by that rhyme because it repeated and now you think
he might be, benefit of a doubt, he might be actually innocent because that
glove didn't fit and it rhymed and it took up space.
So whatever you do
to take up space in somebody's head convinced them.
Did you know that
you can also persuade some by making them repeat something even if they don't
believe it?
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so if you say I
would like you every day to repeat 10 times um I'm good at playing golf
probably it would make you convinced you were going to play in golf eventually
even if your golf game didn't improve you would come back thinking, you know uh
the score is still the same but I've had so much improvement with my Strokes
that really and you would say something ridiculous and it would only be because
the repeating it every day created a structure in your brain that took up alot
of space.
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Once you understand
that humans and large language models are the same you will unleash a huge
amount of ability to understand your environment because you'll understand why
people are doing what they do is what they've heard the most.
Now you know those
people at the top of that white board? do you know what else they like you to do?
32:33
They'd like your
children to stand up and look at the flag and put their hand on their heart and
pledge allegiance to the country. Do you know why? Because they're building a
structure in the child's head so that their rational thinking will not be able
to overcome the embedded pattern that they are going to give their lives for
the country.
Are they giving
their lives for the country? In a way, but they're really giving their lives to
their hypnotizers. The people in charge have been overtly consciously
hypnotizing the public since the beginning of the Republic with different
methods. where you see repetition such as standing for the national anthem. That's
the hypnosis and where you see the what you call the marxists and the people
trying to destroy the country where you see them taking down the past and dismantling
history…
These people who
were slave owners stop talking about them take them off your money Etc. All of
the founders are part of that structure that got put in your head when you were
little that made you loyal to your country.
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And so as those
structures are dismantled and now when I think of George Washington do you know
what the first thing I think of is slave owner. That's the truth. If you said
to me, “Hey, George Washington” what's your first thought?
I would actually
think slave owner first. I definitely didn't think that when I was a kid, even
though I knew it. I mean I knew it as a kid, but I didn't think of it first.
34:21 so that's how
the large language model, that is, your physical brain gets programmed.
It's just whatever
they put in there the most and they own the news so the reason that the people
on top have to own the news is not optional is that the only way to control the
citizens is by increasing the frequency of certain messages and that's the
world you live in.
35:37 the Harris
versus Trump polls uh apparently Trump has a 2.5% lead based on 72 poles
according to the hill now uh I think the polls are largely garbage at the
moment because do you know what's about to kick in chug chug chug CH chug CH
chug
let's go back to the
Whiteboard
36:04
the people who picked
Kamala Harris control the media.
you saw the media
just flip and lock step to tell you that Kamala Harris was so awesome and it's
amazing you hadn't noticed till now. There must have been probably some white
guy, maybe Joe Biden, who is keeping her genius under a
She might be the
most capable person we've seen in I don't know generations and by the way
Trump's way too old are you kidding me would you even consider putting an old
man into that office what are you talking about people?
36:43 and they will
say that stuff until 49% of the country thinks it's true and they've really
seen the truth there because Democrats are largely large language models and
all they need is repetition and they will become whatever they need to become/
I think that the
that Trump's confidence in debating Kamala Harris uh might be for a show you
know confidence is a good thing to show but I don't think that Trump can beat
KLA Harris in a debate.
37:28
I guess I'll just
say it directly I don't believe that Trump can beat KL Harris in a debate
because remember a debate is not about who did the best by some objective standard
who won the debate will be what these people say the media. So if the media
says well that was a that was total Destruction that Kamala Harris, I, we, you
know we told you we told you she was always a genius and you just hadn't seen
it till now but now she tore apart uh Trump she made him look like a fool
38:07
and if I don't mind
saying his age was showing he seemed a little chaotic he's got a lot of chaos
um seemed racist and uh I think he slightly mispronounced her name once and you
know if you happen to be the person who allegedly called know Nazis fine people
and you said Kamala just not exactly the right way that's obviously racist and
she won that debate
38:38
now you might say to
yourself Scott that's not true because both sides new that Biden lost the
debate that was the most special case in the world when it's so bad that it
would just be laughably ridiculous to say that Biden won when he could barely
function
39:05
that's not what
we're looking at we're looking at a woman who will reliably remember the push
back on each topic.
39:11
she will do her
homework and she will know that when he says on this topic she doesn't even
have to address it directly she can just say the things she was going to say on
that topic she'll say it with emotion that the news will say was amazing and
they will declare her the winner.
39:30 now you might
say to me but Scott Fox News is going to say Trump won of course they will and
I might even say that myself but it won't matter because everybody on Fox News
was going to vote for Trump anyway so no votes gained but can you imagine how
the entire conversation changes if they say she's not only ready for office now
she just beat an ex-president one of the best persuaders we've ever seen in a
debate.
40:07
and that's coming. What's
coming is a knockout story that she completely annihilated the best Persuader
we've seen in Generations we've never seen anybody with that kind of a
performance maybe the best performance we've ever seen might possibly the best
debate of all time just right there and they'll have tears in their eyes and
they'll say how
40:32
they love her
they love her I I I
love her I love her all right.
Have you noticed
that K Harris looks like at least two people? when she's being her prosecutor
herself um as her supporters say she is awesome and she seems On Target and by
the way the reason that I originally thought that she would um become Trump's
biggest competitor back in 2018.
I was saying that is
because I'd seen her grilling people in a congressional setting and I said to
myself wow you're pretty good at that that was some good grilling and then she
had the you know the Dei check marks so I thought well if you put the Dei check
marks there and she can look that good in public that's actually a strong
package I could see why she would go all the way so that's why I predicted that
she would be the you know the big competitor uh and it turned into Biden instead
but you've all seen the uh the videos where she's acting goofy and it's almost
like a different person isn't it? um it feels like almost a different person.
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