Well, he kept threatening to throw his printer out the window and I thought he would do it as part of his program. But HP's PR folks held his hand so we never saw the flying printer.
Under scotts view he had no choice but to write the book, no choice but to hawk the book, and buyers had no choice but to buy the book, and once read the people who were helped had no choice but to be helped by the book and the people not helped by the book had no choice but to not be helped by the book. I don't know if free will can be proven or disproven. Lack of free will means we are as pointless as trees as far as any moral or ethical aspect. We are the equivalent to an oxygen molecule, knocked about without choices, adrift in a sea of determinism. It's a bit like Pascal's wager. If you can't know, is it better to act as if you do have free will or should you just lay in bed all day cuz "why".
@@EristiCat If theres no free will...there is no such thing as SHOULD. Should you do this or that....means nothing. And one cannot be 'helped' by any external influence...like Scott's book.
@@user-fd5pd5kb3j Yes Scott and Sam Harris advice is "meaningless" or useless. So nobodys mind can be changed. Its almost as dumb as the no evidence simulation theory he keeps acting like is happening
@EristiCat my feeling is that if one doesn't see that free will is well proven, thanks to being patently obvious, one's thinking is quite mucked up due to too often contemplating too many unprovable thoughts of a speculative and dubious nature.
Oh, I got my full hour today. I normally don't leave comments, but since you're putting forth so much effort into giving us content, I felt I'd leave a comment. Here you go.
Same but also his tiktok theories need whistle blowers much much more than the truth he refuses to see about jews. (Harold w Rosenthal and chest champion Bobby Fisher were both J whistle blowers and jewish themselves)
@@thatguy6908 Nice Fellow Travelers you’ve got there - Report: Hamas Starves Palestinians by Stealing Food, Selling on Black Market Joel B. Pollak9 Mar 2024 19 November 2023, Egypt, Rafah: An UNRWA fuel truck queues to enter Palestinian territorie Gehad Hamdy/picture alliance via Gettynone 4:42 The Hamas terrorist organization is starving Palestinians in Gaza by stealing food that arrives in humanitarian aid shipments and then selling it on the black market, according to Zvika Klein, editor of the Jerusalem Post. Those who cannot afford to pay the exorbitant prices are going hungry, he said - not for lack of aid deliveries, but because Hamas seizes the aid on entry and uses it to enrich itself and fund its ongoing war against Israel. Klein’s account of the situation in Gaza corroborates anecdotal information from social media videos, showing people selling food supplies delivered through international humanitarian aid in marketplaces within Gaza.
“get close to the mating process to feel meaning” wow scott. that is one of the smartest ways of framing that i’ve ever heard… i’ll never stop listening to this man
Most? I know of none who’ve had an adverse reaction to any of the 4 approved jabs (Pfizer, Moderna, J&J and Novavax) and I know lots who got “the” jab. Likewise, I know of no one who died “of” Covid because they didn’t get “the” jab. I know several who “tested positive” for Covid, both “vaxxed and unvaxxed, and had varying symptoms. Point: there isn’t one outcome.
What Is The Soul? What the Soul is not: isn't Matter; isn't Energy; isn't nothing; you go down pass DNA; you go pass the chromosomes; you go pass the peptides; you go pass the molecules; pass the atoms, the parts of the atom; penetrate the quantum field and lying somewhere beyond, is the world of the spirit existing in more than 4 dimensions. The debate has always been, one side saying it doesn't exist and the other side saying it does. But a magnificent universe shows that it does.
My grandmother who is 94 got covid last year and was fine and never got the shot. She grew up in Nazi Germany and moved to America in the 50s. She knows what a tyrannical government looks like and doesn't buy into their shit. Myself and my girlfriend both unvaccinated and both got covid in 2020 and it was just the cough.
Scott has a contradiction in his philosophies. He doesn't beleive in free will yet He believes he can control the simulation. Free will and controlling the simulation is one in the same.
This "free will doesn't exist" business, sloppy semantics. is an unhelpful fed herring. The feeling or perception or, if you will, illusion of free will seems to be hard wired into the human species. Is a feature or is it a bug? That would be one hell of a bug! Of course free will exists, if only as a concept, a feeling, an intuition. That's NOT "nothing." It simply depends which upon level of abstraction you are raising the argument. Personally, I try to operate on the basis that free will exists, because if in my bones, I believed it didn't exist, I might be tempted to off myself, or spend the rest of my days in a hammock masturbating and chugging joy juice.
in regards to TikTok, Scott has one of his absolute worst takes. The bottom line here is if the government can outlaw TikTok, the government can outlaw X, and in fact, the government could outlaw any platform of their choosing. That’s why it’s a free speech issue. How in the world does Scott does not see this. the big concern with TikTok presumably is it’s effect on kids and I don’t know that anyone would argue that the government can’t require companies to limit the access of children. It’s generally been considered that kids don’t have the same rights as adults, that’s why they could have their locker searched in schools. That’s why the police can be in schools and stop them for no particular reason. That’s why children cannot enter into binding contracts. So this is not a new thing that we treat people under 18 or sometimes under 21 as having less rights than what we might call full citizens do. the idea that the government can outlaw things they don’t like for the use by adults has been something that the population of this country has fought against since it’s founding. Scott wants to throw all that out because he doesn’t like TikTok and he wants to ban it and he’s like I say inexplicably not understanding the implications of that. in Europe doesn’t have the kind of free speech rights we do because most of those countries literally don’t have our kind of Constitution ensuring their citizens rights, that’s why we see European governments coming down, very heavy-handed and censoring and obliterating with their citizens are allowed to see putting heavy fines on companies that don’t tow the line and on and on. that’s exactly what Scott is. championing here, the right of government to take it jackboot and put it on the throat of what would otherwise be free speech expression because he doesn’t like what the companies doing.
Scott's reaction to anything China does is based on emotion. It's one of his biggest blind spots. Anyone looking at this objectively can see how banning a social media app is a terrible precedent to set.
I was shocked to see that. I hadn't even noticed really until somebody did a comparison video. I guess they think we're all a bunch of stupid idiots...
Actually, it’s true. I could give his “rally” speech, but that’s the nature of a “stump” speech. Anyone who doesn’t get that hasn’t been paying attention for … centuries. Sorry…catch up.
Free will exists, but not everyone uses it. Free will is a tool that allows a human to make decisions about how to act in the world. But most humans do not use free will to act in the world. In this respect, Scott is correct: Most (not all) humans act first and rationalize second. But a very small fraction of humans think before they act, and thus make decisions before they act, at least with respect to some of their actions. In other words, most people (maybe 85%) never use free will, while the remaining 15% use it now and then. Scott makes the fallacy of assuming everyone thinks and acts the same, and so he attributes his mode of thinking and acting to everyone in the world. But not everyone thinks or acts the same, as evidenced by the fact that there are demonstrably different personality types. Most personality types base their actions on emotion, instinct, habit, impulse, etc. A small number of personality types are by default always thinking, and thus they have a greater ability (but not guaranteed) of basing most (not all) of their actions on rationality, i.e., on free will.
Your definition of this term is not universal. You can program a computer to carefully consider its options before going one way or the other, but people don't usually believe that the computer has free will. (Most people talk of "free will" as something that is mutually exclusive with determinism, but is not random. It's an incoherent idea. )
At 28;30 - Life began ~3.7 billion years ago. Living things don't grow inanimate objects inside them that at some future point become alive. It's life going all the way back.
Agreed. Sam Harris’ thought experiment about having a do-over misses badly. The past is locked. I am not convinced that the present is similarly locked.
@@DonEberleythat doesn't make sense. if you have a "deterrent" as an input and the output is still a crime, then the deterrent either caused the crime to take place or has no effect (i.e. is not a deterrent) by your logic.
i GOT the vaccine, and I never got covid. yet, I know that there are many who also got the vaccine, and they did get the covid. But I'm also very careful, so cause is ambiguous.
Precisely…too many variables, esp with a virus. Supposedly, I got Covid (my wife asked me to take the test and I did), but it was a cold, the first I’d had in many years…tired, sniffles, but so what? No lose of smell, appetite, etc. … a couple of days off from Honey Do…should’ve stretched it out.
Trump might be better served by moving the vaccine discussions away from efficacy/lack of/risk to the 100% observable/provable damage caused by strong arm vax mandates and lock-downs, and the broken mental models, values and behaviors inherent in their advocates.
Do we have any reliable data? Everyone I know who got one of the 4 approved jabs (Pfizer/Moderna/J&J/Novavax - each is different than the others) seems to have had a good outcome…ditto those who supposedly didn’t get the jab likewise did well, although one anti-vaxxer got two long colds/flu bouts, but supposedly not Covid. VAERS is unreliable, given the sources of the reports.
Physics is magic too isn’t it? People know the rules but can’t demonstrate how it works. Gravity, magnetism for example. Maybe my always superficial understanding 0f physics is outdated.
The thing about the covid shots and the reason why there is a fragmented refutation of shot efficacy is that Pfizer et. al. sent out the shots in batches. These batches were variants. This was done for at least two reasons; 1-Like any good experiment, you run variants and placebos in a trial run to blind study the results. 2- Potential lethality of one or two variants can be covered up statistically. The real truth about batch mortality is of course known by big pharma. Meanwhile the debate continues to rage without any clear pathway legally or politically of ever uncovering the truth. The take away from the entire Covid episode is "Caveot Emptor." Be on guard for the next stampede roundup because obviously the same tactics will be used and further improved to close previous social engineering 'loopholes'. Why does Scott refuse to see this?
Last time I checked, Biden is going after Republicans and Scott said if Trump went after Democrats for their opinion, he mentioned the A word. Weird how it's ok for the other team to do what they want.
‘She made a phone call’. Do people really believe their enemies could and would hack a self driving car to murder someone but wouldn’t be able to fake a phone call‽
The whole “there’s no free will” thing is nonsense, I quit cigarettes last month, because of free will, I took February off of drinking because of free will, I go to the gym every day for the last 20 years, because of free will
Scott seems to suggest you were predestined to do so. Oddly, he has also talked about “wanting versus deciding”…he’s not explained how one decides to do something then does it. Luckily, I have other podcasts that I can consume while working outside.
He’ll say they all engage in homosexual sex, as that’s his guiding star. He’s actually a putz. I’ve had friends like him…they get invited to my house once, then it’s Happy Hour at best at a bar.
A fertilized egg doesn't have to have a soul to be a human being -- the biology is enough. It's a unique and unrepeatable organism with human DNA -- ergo, it's a human being.
@@simeonadams6065 Scott absolves himself of sin by saying "freedom to choose" is not a real thing. It's basically reiterating Lucifer's message. When I see him I see a godless empty vessel for real. I see the same when I look at Bill Maher, Kimmel and especially Stephen Colbert. You know Scott's wrong when Via and Barnes and Jimmy Dore mock you fool 😂
Scott is a smart dummy. He’s the dork in the freshman dorm who got blanketed…I protected those dorks, being smart, an athlete and an ROTC guy…plus a good fight now and then was good for the soul. But, dummies like Scott never got it. He’d be dead on Prisoner Island, irrespective of what he thinks. I, on the other hand, would be a high ranking lieutenant, having certain desirable skills. Scott can’t see that, being an egomaniac.
@@friendlyfire7861 I usta listen everyday and now not so much now because I realized that yes, Scott lies and is an openly admitted liar. He even says so. He's a manipulative old man. Reframes the truth to fit his own godless predictions. Then spreads his lies. If Scott was such a great savior "doing good for his fellow man" as you say then he would be married and have kids or even want kids. Nobody wants to be with him, this empty vessel.
The SOTU response doesn’t matter. In 2 weeks, ask your coworker who did it. They won’t know or they’ll say that lady who people said did a bad job and they saw a short clip.
True enough, but perhaps it would have been better to have a memorable response, in a good way? Serious question: why have an elected do it at all? Might someone like Hugh Hewitt have been better?
We couldn't watch that poor woman for more than a few minutes. It would have been betting to have one of those GOP representatives that always gets bad ink. At least they can make themselves understood.
Free will is confused by Scott with desire. The desire you have for someting is not the same as free will. Your free will is the expression in a myriad of forms that "you" think is the best path to satisfy the deep desire you have. As far as instinctive instantaneous reactions go, that's your body overriding your mind. There is absolutely no free will. But you have a choice of alternatives when it comes to willing pathways to gain satisfaction to an urge that you have no control of.
Free will isn’t connected to a soul. Sounds like a religious upbringing speaking there. How can an AI believer think the notion of free will requires belief in a soul?
2:26 "There's no meaning to the word meaning." Do you really mean that, Scott? -- Someone said, "vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools"
Soul is a word. It is poorly defined. God is a word, impossible to exist so poorly defined. Simulation is a word, you get the picture. This was posted without free will.
Megyn Kelly played a clip of Katie Britt as she normally speaks. No one could have predicted that she'd try to put on an acting front with great nervousness. Once you hear how she normally speaks, it is easy to understand the decision to put her out there. Yes she could easily have been great.
@daisymichell7265 I should have said "just fine" rather than "great." The courage to be a decent public speaker can be found through practice. I know it well, as do many. Confidence is key, and it derives from learning that authenticity garners acceptance, even applause.
I don't believe Scott has a soul, that doesn't mean I think it's okay to abort him. 😱 When an argument is really dumb, I'm pushed in the opposite direction of the argument. That's not really rational, I know, but that's how I function.😎
Drawing an inference is not mind reading. Hint: he posits his positions as if they’re universally true. They are mere opinions parading as facts…word thinking. He should know better and so should you. Hope this helps. By the way, don’t serve on a jury, it’d be a disservice. @synfiguring
If a fertilized egg has a soul, do the sperm and the egg have souls before fertilization or is the soul fertilized into existence? Its all imaginary so no need to decide.
a computer isn't a computer until the operating system is installed...you could say when the program (sperm) is installed (fertilized) into the computer hardware (the egg) it becomes a functional (living) computer (human being)...it's not imaginary...it's science...
@@shoahkhan5670You people just don't know good speaking when you hear it. You're losing the culture war now, and it shows. You are so full of vituperation, it's ridiculous.
Here's an example of no free will for the same outcome: Go to McDonald's, instead of ordering what you want, ask the person next to you to order for you. The outcome is not a free will outcome if free will means you always get the same outcome. Enjoy your big mac you didn't choose.
11:58 It’s like teaching your children about Santa. Lies true, but beneficial in the short term… 14:15 Maybe the CIA has a better heat button? 30:02 Thank you sir! I knew you would handle this well. Unlike the technology… 😆
If you have electric windows, you need a spring loaded window breaker. And you need to not buy a Tesla with the super duper strong side windows. You know, the ones you "can't" break like they claimed for the Cybertruck
