Real Coffee with Scott Adams Episode 2544 CWSA 07/23/24
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Jul 23, 2024 Topics discussed include President Biden's health, Trump Harris debate, E. Jean Carroll trial, national debt crisis, Gen 4 nuclear reactors, abortion alternatives, anti-loneliness strategy, and more by Scott Adams.
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Hypothesis Of A Hidden Machine Steering Candidate Selection
- Adams sketches a power structure where intelligence-aligned actors can blackmail wealthy donors to select preferred candidates.
- He ties recent rapid donor fundraising and centralized candidate decisions (e.g., Harris) to a possible covert machine influencing politics.
Small Shifts In Swing States Can Be Weaponized
- If a concentrated center controls donors and media, election rigging becomes trivial using registration and vote-harvesting tactics.
- Adams cites motor-voter registration and electronic machines as vulnerabilities in key swing states decided by small margins.
Exercise Of Writing Opposite Views Reshapes Beliefs
- Adams recounts Robert Cialdini research showing writing the opposite argument can change beliefs over a year.
- He uses this to explain brains as large language models: repetition and mental structure determine opinions more than rational reasons.