Back to episode — Episode 1224 Scott Adams - When to Disagree With the Experts Because That is an Essential Skill
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t but you're going to do it based on the greatest risk, that's about as good as you can do. It's about as good as you can do. Now if you told me that every Black person would get the vaccination before every white person, that doesn't make sense. But if you're talking equal to equal, let's say a Black guy who's 63 years old and has a little asthma, I would put him in front of me in line because i…
← Previous segment →d its URL is tidyreport.com. Tidyreport.com. What they do is they organize the tweets, which of course usually connect to the news directly. So they organize, I think it's mostly the political tweets, by positive, neutral, and negative. So in other words, whether the tweet is saying something positive or negative about the topic or neutral, and whether the person saying it is associated with the left or the right. I'm not sure exactly how they figure that out but they're probably close.
So it's called tidyreport.com. I neither recommend it nor disrecommend it. The important part of the story is that people are starting to A-B test different ways to present the news to get past this immense bias situation. So check it out. Maybe that's one of the ones.
Pompeo, Mike Pompeo says that the Russians are quote "pretty clearly" behind the cyber attack. What does "pretty clearly" mean? Does "pretty clearly" mean we're sure of it? Is that the same as pretty clearly? I don't know if that means they're positive. It's an interesting choice of words but it's somewhere in that neighborhood of high confidence or high likelihood.
And some experts are saying what I think is unfortunately obvious:
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that the only way you would be able to get rid of whatever access Russia has had for apparently a long time, the only way you'd be able to get rid of it is to replace all of your software. All of it. Because the allegation, which is probably pretty reasonable, is that once they had god access to all of the systems they could embed viruses in different places to be activated under different situati…
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