Back to episode — Episode 2279 Scott Adams - CWSA 11/01/23, Solving US Debt Problem And More
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e it looks like the world's falling apart today. I'm going to give you the optimistic news. A whole bunch of it. Just a whole bunch of optimistic news. And of course a number of stories about where I'm right about everything. You know, the usual. Well it has come up with a discovery that they can make water evaporate far more efficiently with light than heat does. Does that sound like a big deal?…
← Previous segment →don't know how many decades to produce electricity. So if you've got some big source of energy like a falling waterfall it could drive a generator which could drive steam engines. I don't know, now that's the wrong example. I think it's nuclear, right? Is it nuclear that drives the steam engines? Yeah, nuclear power, steam anyway. So if you want to make a lot of steam to make energy from nuclear power, the way we've done it traditionally is with some kind of steam engines used in power plants worldwide. But it turns out that technology is from the 19th century. We're using steam turbines from the 19th century. So they found a way to run the steam turbines without water. What would you guess is the replacement for the water that gives it a huge increase in energy production? CO2. Liquefied CO2. I guess you could put CO2 under pressure and liquefy it and it makes your steam engine or some modified steam engine way, way more efficient. It looks like it's all doable. Like there's nothing that would stop them from doing it.
So here's something that could have a huge impact someday on our energy costs. At the same time desalinization could have a huge impact. Now if you've got cheap water or at least ubiquitous and you've got way cheaper energy, that's a good world, isn't it? Because then all you need is robots and AI and those are both coming. More on that later.
All right, you probably saw that Joe Rogan talked to Elon Musk and made about 10 pieces of news. You know one of them is that Joe Rogan shot his bow and arrow at the side of a Cybertruck and it did not penetrate it. But I'm told if it had been a normal car that that bow from the distance was pretty close would have gone right through a door of a normal car, which is kind of impressive. I had no idea that an arrow could be that powerful, but apparently it's as powerful as a gun at a short distance.
Now the interesting thing is that the glass windows are not bulletproof. So as Elon says, you're going to have to duck if somebody starts shooting at your car. You're still going to have to duck because it will break the window. Now they could have bulletproof glass but it would be so thick that Elon says it's too hard to make it go up and down. So that's not an option really. I mean it is an option if you don't want to ever put your windows down. But the most interesting thing in my opinion that Musk said was about George Soros. And he speculated that George Soros had a troubling childhood and that might contribute to the fact that at least by his actions, says Musk, it would appear that he hates humanity. Because his actions are so anti-human that maybe that has something to do with the upbringing. And to which I say I like the line of thinking but there's a problem with it which you know may be a solvable problem. But why is his son exactly on the same page? Because his son would have been raised in a privileged upbringing. So if somebody's bad childhood is what makes them hate humanity, wouldn't Alex Soros, the guy who's in charge at the moment, the son of George Soros, wouldn't the son have had more like an ideal upbringing and have no interest in destroying humanity? He looks like he's having a good time.
So whatever the truth is here, and this might be right. I mean Musk might be exactly right. He just, he's a broken man with a hatred of humanity. But I usually think that's not the case. My best guess, and by the way Musk also says he thinks Soros is senile. So I think that's the better explanation. I see a couple of different possible explanations for what appears to be anti-humanity actions. The example would be funding prosecutors who don't want to prosecute crime. And my first, this would be just a speculation or it would be a theory I guess. So it's not based on any facts. There could be some intelligence, some country that has an intelligence group that controls Soros. So maybe he's just controlled by some foreign entity that wants the United States to be destroyed. In which case he's just doing what he has to do for whatever reason to stay alive or to stay rich. Maybe they have some blackmail on him. I don't know. But he acts like somebody who's controlled by an enemy because what he does is so dangerous to America. That's one possibility.
The other possibility is that he doesn't exactly know what he's doing and that he has a sprawling empire and he hasn't been paying attention. And when people talk to him they say some version of everything's great, your money is going to these great causes, you're saving the world. And then he doesn't read maybe newspapers that have bad articles about him. So maybe he just never sees the other argument and he's told by his people who are receiving his money and want to receive more of it, hey you're doing great, do some more of this. And then he gets lots of pats on the back and he feels like he's really helping the world. But maybe he lives in such a small world at the moment because he's aged that he just kind of doesn't know what's going on. It seems like it. It seems to me like he's not aware of it. Now that would also explain why his son would not be able to change the boat because the dad presumably still has his full authority to fire his son. It could be that the son's just waiting for the dad to die and then he's going to reverse some of the worst parts of the father's philosophy. But he may, Alex might know. Again this is just speculation. I have no idea of knowing who's thinking what. But there's either something about blackmail, something about senility, something about what information he receives versus what you receive, something like that. But I don't quite buy the bad childhood explanation because it would seem just as likely that the bad childhood would want him to be a celebrity and do the right things unless he thinks he is, which would be the information problem. So we don't know. But it was an interesting speculation and I would love to see somebody sit his son down and ask the following questions. What's going on? It looks like your father is trying to destroy civilization. How could you explain it? I'd love to see that interview. That's never going to happen.
All right, as Musk pointed out, the two biggest donors to Democrats were George Soros who arguably looks like he's trying to destroy civiliz
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ation. No joke. That's a serious conversation by serious people that he may want to destroy civilization. That's their biggest donor. Now I don't know that he wants to destroy civilization but it's a serious question. That's pretty scary. Second biggest donor was Sam Bankman-Fried, a con man basically. So those are their two biggest donors. So if you're wondering hey why is everything fucked up, w…
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