Back to episode — Episode 2291 Scott Adams - CWSA 11/13/23, Reframing The News So You Can Use It
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table, saucer, and then some third one like plate. The white applicants or the white test takers were more likely to say cup and saucer because they're literally a pair, cup and saucer. But if you were from a low-income house, what are the odds you'd ever seen a saucer? So it turns out that a lot of the low-income people didn't even know what a saucer was. Is that their fault? Is there something w…
← Previous segment →ent situations and watch how it works. You see what changes and maybe you look for a pattern. I don't know. But I wonder if pattern recognition could get you to understanding the machinery of a cell if you could see enough parts of it working. You know, too complicated for a human but too complicated for AI? I don't know. A quantum computer with AI? I don't know. So just something to think about.
All right, how about that 2024 election? So Rasmussen did a poll, says 53% of likely voters think the economy has gotten worse under Biden. Well, 30% say the economy has gotten better. How in the world can you get reelected if more than half of the people think the economy got worse under you? Now of course everything's unfair because the pandemic just changed all the economics of things. So you can't really give him credit for the increase in
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employment because that was going to happen naturally. You can't really fault him for the economy not being as good as it was before the pandemic. There are pretty good reasons for that. But in terms of how people react and vote, how in the world can he get elected when more than half of the country thinks he made the economy worse or he didn't make it better? Well yeah, I'd be worried about those…
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