Back to episode — Episode 1151 Scott Adams - Trump Slaughtermeter Pinned 100%. Swiss Coronavirus Mystery. Who Reversal
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ay, moving on. I've told you about something I call the Adams law of slow-moving disasters, and it goes like this. When humanity can see a huge problem coming from a long ways away, we have a 100% track record of handling it. For example, we could see far in advance that it would be hard to feed all the people if the population kept growing, but we figured out how to make more food and yeah, we di…
← Previous segment →le result? Will there be so many problems and we can't fix it? Well, we're seeing already a whole bunch of misprinted ballots that we're scrambling to fix. You see states moving their deadlines for when you could have a postmark on your mailed ballot. So you're seeing people scrambling to adjust. And you could argue that they might have started a few months ago and they've got a few more weeks and they're working, they're probably working around the clock trying to fix problems and monitor for problems and everything. It's going to be close. It's going to be close.
On one hand, I always bet on humans if there's enough time. On the other hand, if there's not enough time, I bet against humans every time because humans are not good at doing complicated things correctly the first try. It's almost not a thing. In fact, when it happens it becomes the stuff of legends. For example, the first time we actually launched a rocket with the attempt of putting somebody on the moon, it worked. That's one of the reasons it's such a big deal, because it was a really big chance but it worked. So that's the one we talk about more than anything else.
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So if I had to guess, let me put this positive filter on it. I think the voting will be better than it should have been. In other words, I think that humanity is really going to try to rise to this challenge because the stakes are so high and we do have some time. It's not like a hurricane where you have maybe a few days. We had weeks. There should have been enough time to print things, reprint th…
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