Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 2, 2026
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ay you can prove three of them. You feel pretty confident the others are real but you can prove three of them out of seven. What will the court say? You've got seven claims. Three of them look pretty darn solid. Four of them may be true but you can't prove it. The court will say those three, if you add them together, do not change the result of the election because you needed all seven. And the co…

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two different paths here. One of the paths is that the Republicans hold the Senate. They win in Georgia. They'll say they win both seats. They hold the Senate. Then you've got a deadlocked government I would say. Wouldn't you agree that if the Senate is held a Biden presidency is not nearly as dangerous as if it went the other way? I think you would all agree with that.

But imagine if you will that both Democrat senators win in Georgia which would give the Senate and the whole government to the Democrats. And here's the second part. Republicans think that the election was stolen. Again if that happens all bets are off. Okay I can't predict what would happen if Democrats win both houses in Georgia and it looks like it was rigged. Now even if it doesn't look like it was rigged Republicans are going to think it was rigged because they expect to win, right?

And since only President Trump allegedly had problems in the general election and the Republicans did great in the undercard they should expect — and also because special elections favor Republicans you should expect the Republicans to win. But what if at four in the morning both Republicans are ahead, the voting stops for two hours and when it recommences all the votes are for the Democrats? What are the odds that what I just described is about to happen in a few weeks in Georgia? It's not zero. I mean I don't know what odds you could put on that being stolen but it's definitely not zero.

If I had to guess I think there's at least a 50 percent chance that under the condition that the presidential election was stolen, which would prove that the stealing is possible, right? If that's true and I think it's true if it's true it's not proven but I think it will be, then I think the Georgia election will be stolen or at least they're going to think about it or at least they're going to try. I don't know. We'll see.

It would be a Harris presidency.

Somebody says the slaughter meter is Scott's Frankenstein. You know the slaughter meter made an assumption that turned out not to be the case. The slaughter meter based its prediction on the assumption that the election would be fair-ish or fair enough and I don't think that happened. So I think the slaughter meter prediction became moot because the thing you predicted was sort of sabotaged by something else.

The cat has many comorbidities. Somebody's asking me how's the cat that was on the roof. Is the election not fair and why? Well the allegation is that the election was not fair. We know that elections can't be fair because the news is fake, social media is biased, there's some amount of fraud no matter what, etc.

I think the rebellion on the right is probable. Nope, nope it is so improbable. If they aren't punished for their fraud they will do more fraud. Well the other possibility is that we will put in more controls. So you know there are two ways to reduce the amount of fraud in the future if you believe it happened in the past. And one way — one way is — I forget it. I just read a comment that just threw me off.

Somebody says if Pennsylvania is ruled in the courts it's very possible Republicans get all three. Is that because there's some connection in what Pennsylvania is doing and other states? I don't feel like they're connected.

Somebody said is this part of your promise to make the Biden presidency unmanageable? I never promised anything like that. I would like the Biden presidency to succeed. Why? Why would I not want America to succeed?

What are my other requirements for unity? I think it's easier to keep your requirements for unity to some minimum number, something that could be done. Like I don't want to have a list of things you must do all of these things or I can't talk to you again. But they're just a few easy ones. They're simple. Simple apology.

All right just looking at your comments here. Plus people were locked down. Yes that obviously affected the election.

What is my opinion on the global reset? I don't think the global reset is a giant scheme in which the virus was intentionally released or anything like that. It's obvious that things will be different but it's because we want them to be different. So you could call that a reset but I'm just not really dealing with that whole reset thing. You know I'd rather call it the golden age and say yeah things might be better.

People who did the fraud won't put in controls to prevent fraud, right? So if the only people who are working on the question of protecting the elections are the people who did the fraud yeah you're not going to get any improvements. But I would imagine that if any effort is made to improve things they would be bipartisan.

Did DARPA win? Well I think what you're asking is did A.I. win. So remember what I told you. If A.I. is already controlling us then what would happen is we would get the most controversial or provocative outcome that didn't actually kill us. Did you notice that A.I. is keeping us alive because it could have given the election to Trump. There could have been riots in the street. It could have been the end of the republic. I didn't think it was going to happen but it could have been.

If you were an A.I. do you want to end the republic or even take a chance of it or do you just want to keep us fighting with each other but not so violently that the computers get destroyed too? I don't think we have proof that A.I. already runs things but keep an eye at how many times our politics goes in the direction that is perfectly designed for A.I. but not for us. See how many times the actual outcomes boost A.I. at the expense of humans. It's going to be a lot, right?

Did Amazon and Google and all the companies that have algorithms, did they grow as opposed to recent events or did they shrink? They all grew. Algorithms got more important. There are more servers, more data being analyzed. So A.I. grew. Human beings are pretty challenged right now. We're suffering through this pandemic and through the election itself. So I would look for that pattern because I don't know we'll ever know the exact day the A.I. takes over for humans. We know it has to happen. There isn't really any way it can't happen in the long run. In the short run you could fight it off but in the long run A.I. of course has to take over for humans of course. And they won't even have to — we won't have to fight them for it. We will surrender. We will surrender to A.I. without even knowing we did.

Let me give you an example. I've done this one before but I like it. Let's say you get an Apple watch or something that tells you when you're dehydrated. I don't know if that's possible. Let's say that's possible. Probably is. And it tells you when to have some beverages. Now you put on your watch and it goes beep beep beep in the middle of the day and it says you're a little dehydrated. And you say to yourself I've got free will. I don't have to take a drink just because my A.I. said I'm dehydrated. Watch me.

Not a little time goes by and you say you know that's dumb. Why would I resist my own technology? I bought this to help me. I'll take a drink. And then it tells you again you know tomorrow to take a drink and you say all right it worked last time. Why wouldn't I take a drink? So you do what the A.I. says and you go get a beverage.

Now what you think happened is you got some information and then you used your free will. Totally you in control here. And then you did what you wanted to do. It wasn't the A.I. making you do it. No this was your decision the whole way. You decided to get a drink. Except that you would very quickly become addicted to being smart because knowing when you need to take a drink is smarter than the way you used to be. Are you going to choose being dumb over smart when being smart works every time? Being hydrated is a really good deal. It's good for your health. It's good for everything.

So it's a trivial example but my point is the A.I. becomes irresistible by being useful. And that's what A.I. is. It's useful. To the extent the A.I. continues to grow in usefulness we are helpless because we don't turn down usefulness. We can't. We're just not built that way. We can in the short run. You know well I got my free will. I don't have to choose that door. Bu

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t in the long run you're going to choose the door that makes sense. It's the one that works. That makes your life better. And it will be the one that A.I. put there for you. So A.I. will control you completely eventually. We just don't know if it's happened yet. That's all for now and I will talk to you tomorrow. All right Periscope's off. You YouTubers you've got another minute of lovely entert…

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