Back to episode — Episode 1658 Scott Adams - Freedom, Fuel, Fake News, Ukraine, The Squad Effect, Unwoke Immigrants
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ebody's asking me why I'm silent on Project Veritas. Is there something happening? FDA. Oh is there an FDA thing? Did it happen today or yesterday? I didn't see anything in the news today. It's two to three days old. Wow. Has social media suppressed that? Because that's the kind of content that people send to me immediately. Wow. All right. I don't want to alarm you but what are the odds that soci…
← Previous segment →ke none. No evidence whatsoever in the public anyway. The public has no evidence whatsoever of any crime. And it's big news that Ivanka and Don Jr. will testify. Do you know who I'm not worried about testifying? Is Ivanka and Don Jr. I don't think that that's exactly where all your smoking guns are going to be discovered. I mean there are only two possibilities. Either there's something to hide and they would be good at hiding it or there's nothing to hide and that's the end of it. Or they don't know anything that would be damaging. So this is about as far away from Trump as in danger as anything I've seen. But I suppose anybody who's under oath has some risk involved with that. But that seems like an artificial risk that's put on them by the legal system as opposed to a risk caused by any behavior of the Trump organization. So keep that clear.
And then there's a story about Trump's accountants who did his taxes quitting because they can't stand behind their accounting job. And then people are trying to read between the lines. Do all of you know that the accountants are never responsible for the raw data that's given to them by the company? That's always been the case. All right so the accountant is always free from blame if a client gave them bad information and then they did the taxes based on bad information. But I think this just looks like a cover your ass situation. I don't think any accounting firm wanted to take the heat of defending Trump in this context. And I think they said something that's just always true. Do you know it's always true that your accountant can no longer stand behind your accounting job? That's always true. So it looks like it's news like there's some kind of a statement. And anyway so I'm sorry that just threw me off my game for a moment.
So anyway my point is there's no such thing as an accountant firm that stands behind the numbers. Accountant firms only stand behind the treatment of the numbers in all cases. So it was fake news because they announced something that's just business as usual. That we don't stand behind our, they don't stand behind the statements because they don't know if the data that they got is true. That's just always true. It's always true with every client.
All right. How would you like to see the secret to reality? Would you like to have reality explained? Now you've heard probably that, so I don't have a hard quit time today. So you've heard probably that one of the big problems with either the simulation or with the idea that God started the universe or the big bang is what happened before that right? So if you could come up with a theory that handled what happened before that would be a big advantage for explaining reality right? And you'd also have to explain the simulation and you'd have to explain God. You'd have to explain physics. You'd have to explain the big bang.
And here's a little starting point for you. Here are three things that are the same: heat, energy and statistics. It's just all the same thing. Because wherever there's more energy there's more heat because coldness is the opposite of energy right? It's the opposite of any energy. So wherever there's energy there's heat. But wherever there's energy there's also luck. In other words statistics follow energy. If you go to a city where lots of stuff is happening your odds of getting a good job are better right? Your odds of being lucky in a high energy situation are better. There are just more opportunities happening all the time. If you go to the country and there's one employer and they don't like you there's not much energy there. Not much odds. No chance for luck to happen.
Now how much energy was there during the singularity? The moment before the big bang when the whole universe was compressed into some impossibly small space. I guess how much was possible? And the answer is nothing. At the moment that nothing was moving because everything was compressed there should have been no possibility, no heat, no energy because nothing was moving. So how do you explain all of that with the model?
Now here's another little twist I'm going to throw in here. Do you know that there's no such thing as time? Einstein would back me up on this. There is a thing called space-time. Meaning that time has no meaning unless you're looking at it in relationship to other things and their positions in space. So if space itself changes, in other words if two things change in relationship to their distance or velocity or any other way in relation to each other, time is said to have passed. But it's really a change in space. So it's sort of that space-time thing. Or really all just the same thing.
So in the way that energy and luck are basically two ways to talk about the same thing, space and time are actually just two words to talk about essentially the same thing. Things moving in relationship to other things. Let's put it all together. Simulation theory, God, big bang. How do you start when there could be no beginning? Infinity and all the rest. Well you start with really scratchy handwriting. And I say imagine, imagine reality looking like this. A Mobius strip. Do you know what a Mobius strip is? Basically it's just for description purposes. So I'm not saying there's a physical Mobius strip in space somewhere. But for conceptual purposes imagine that space and time are circular. Or just to make it more sciencey it's something where
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if you start here and you keep going you end up in the same place. So I could have drawn a circle but this looks more like sciency or science fiction. So imagine what happens after the big bang. So far I've explained time and infinity and we've explained how there could be a beginning because it's illogical that anything has a beginning because there has to be something before that. But if space…
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