Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 9, 2026
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and police brutality? According to them there shouldn't be any difference, right? Because the issues that BLM and Antifa had don't really change if you change the president. I don't think so. So are we going to watch Antifa become the ally of Republicans because, you know, the enemy of my enemy situation? Antifa is going to turn on Biden, right? Because Antifa is not Democrats. They're Antifa. The…

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human activity was somewhat irrelevant because AI caused us to do what we did. So it was really in charge. That's one way to look at it. The other way is that the Democrats just did a good job on everything they did. Did a good job getting in more people who would vote their way into the country, did a better job of campaigning, controlled the media better. That's another way to look at it.

Somebody says the AI is made by humans. Scott, there is where you are completely misled. So yes, it is true that the AI is designed by humans. But do you believe that any humans know what the AI will do? Nope, they don't. Now they do have the power to force the AI or the algorithm to do a certain thing. They have the power. But do you think that's how they designed it? Do you think they designed it so they know exactly what it's going to do? I don't. I think it has so many variables that nobody who is human knows exactly what the algorithm is going to do. They know what they programmed, but they don't know what it's going to do.

And under that condition, would you say that the human is in charge if they don't know what their creation is going to do? Suppose you built a Frankenstein monster. You're in charge of the monster, right? So then do you control the monster after it leaves your laboratory and starts destroying the town? Could you say, hey Dr. Frankenstein, stop your monster. I mean you're the human, you made it, so you're in control, right? It doesn't work that way. Once the Frankenstein leaves the laboratory, which is what the algorithms are, they're Frankenstein outside the laboratory. The coder or Dr. Frankenstein can't control it anymore.

So when you say humans make the AI, true. But a human makes Dr. Frankenstein. He's human and he made the Frankenstein monster, but he doesn't control it after it leaves the laboratory.

All right. Can't there be overfitting? Somebody says the media stole the election. I would say that's true. If you were to look at Biden voters and ask them what do they think is true, they would just say hoax after hoax after hoax. So Biden is elected on a hoax basically.

And I would say that people ask me, Scott, why did you try so hard to debunk the fine people hoax? And the answer was that it's the tentpole hoax. All the other hoaxes depend on you thinking that one really happened. Because if you think, well, that one's proven, if you think it happened, it didn't. But if you think it did, then you start thinking, well, the other unproven ones probably true because this one was proven. So that kind of makes me think the other ones are true.

And I think Biden with the help of the media sold it as true enough that I'm sure it changed the result. I mean there was a reason that he led with it all the time in his campaign. I would imagine that they do research on that stuff, right? Don't you think that Biden's campaign stump speech was a whole bunch of poll-tested points? So they knew that the Charlottesville thing had an impact. I don't think he would have led with it consistently if they hadn't tested it to know that it made a difference.

So probably the fine people hoax made him president. I mean that's an irrational thing to say because in these situations that are complicated and there are so many variables, if you change any of them you get a different result. So you could say it was foreign interference because that was one percent of the difference. You could say it was the fine people hoax because that was one percent of the difference. And you know it was only a one percent kind of vote. So you could always say that there was something that was the difference. But really everything had to be the way it is or you wouldn't get this result.

All right. Somebody says Biden's not elected yet. Yeah, I suppose in the category of anything could happen. The fine people hoax is still a lie. That's true.

You know, so here's the real question. Will Biden getting elected, will it cause less violence in the streets? What do you think? Do you think that the riots will just stop? And I'm wondering if this isn't the very best situation for Republicans and they don't realize it. Because the rioters really needed a solid Trump victory in order to be activated. But what if they just think, well I don't know what's happening yet. I feel like looting but the trigger wasn't there. So do I take the day off? I don't know what to do. And quite literally I don't think they know what to do.

So somebody says that Biden president means more violence in the streets. Well, do you think that Democratic mayors could get tougher with the protesters if they had a Democratic president? Maybe. Maybe it's a Nixon goes to China situation and suddenly all the Democratic mayors could get tough because hey, they're not trying to show that Trump is orange man bad. We shall see.

So I'm seeing some people say the riots will stop immediately. If they do, you really gotta wonder about stuff. Yeah, I don't see any energy whatsoever for Republicans to take over now.

What do you think about Trump leaving office if let's say

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he goes through his legal challenges and they don't work, or he uses the system as well as he can but he can't get a different result? Do you think there's any chance that Trump would try to stay in office if he had exhausted his appeals? I don't think so. I think the odds of that are zero. Not even one percent. I think it's zero. But what if it's inauguration day and there's still an open questi…

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