Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 12, 2026
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s. If there's a fact that the other side, just don't mention it. There you go. So do you think that the fact checkers could ever act independently? They're not even, it's not even designed to do that. Do you think that they look for the most independent fact checkers to form the, do you think NPR said, you know we are a left-leaning organization but for fact checking that's exactly the kind of bi…

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rom here to there.

But here's what I like to say sort of in that genre. If anybody knew what I could actually do I would be murdered. It would be too dangerous to have me loose in society. But the only reason that I'm completely safe is that nobody has any idea. Nobody has any idea what I can accomplish through persuasion. If you did I'd be in jail because you just wouldn't want it. It'd be like having a nuclear bomb wandering around without government control. That's sort of what I am. But I will always be free because nobody will ever believe what I could actually do.

Now what I can do might be only a fraction of what an AI could do eventually persuasion-wise because it would have all the tools instantly. It could quickly check those tools against the individual and basically everything I do the slow human way is programmable and better. In fact the AI will be better at detecting your micro changes than even I am. And I'm trained to do it. One of the big skills of a hypnotist is not what you say but it's observing how what you said influenced the person. And there's a look. There's a look that people present and hypnotists can tell you this. When they're in a certain mode, when their mind is entered, I know like a maintenance mode or something, you can see it. Now it's easy to recognize if you have experience. It would be impossible to recognize if you didn't. But an AI could do it right away. You would just have to give it, okay here's 10 pictures of people in that mode, you know that mental mode. Here's 10 people not. The AI would be able to spot it every day after that. I'm simplifying but that's the basic idea.

So yes, let's get some laws about robots and AI pretending to be people. That needs to be stopped right away because the first one is going to be like a nuclear weapon. You've got to stop it right away.

Do you know how many social media followers the first robot that's indistinguishable from a human would have? As many as it wanted. As many as it wanted.

Let's do the January 6 hoax update. I can't call the January 6th thing like anything but a hoax anymore because I feel at this point it's just so obvious.

Somebody says for 9.99 for a super chat it's funny because the chat influences Scott more than then he influences the chat. It's definitely a two-way street. You definitely influenced me that I didn't know you often fill in contacts but you do also actually fact check. I'm definitely influenced factually but the nature of the technology is that maybe I guess I'm like group peer influence or something like that. But generally speaking this is not an influential platform in two directions. It's influential in my direction because you can see me and hear me but I've just got text to look at. So that handicaps you quite a bit compared to the persuasion that I can apply.

But anyway, so here's the thing that was bothering me yesterday. So we heard a report that one of the January 6 protesters is going to get maybe 15 years for a list of charges that didn't look to me like a 15-year sentence. But I guess they're all these what do they call them? Will you put on top of the charge? They're like stimulants to the charge. They're extras. What's the word? Enhancements. So the judge can add these quote enhancements to the sentence and say because of this or that it's extra bad.

Now here's the problem. In order for the Democrats to sell the January 6 hoax there's one thing that has to happen. Really long jail terms for at least

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some of the protesters. Am I right? They really can't sell the hoax unless these people go to jail for a long time. These people should be freed immediately. They should be freed immediately irrespective of the crimes they committed. Let me say it again and I would say this if they were Democrats. This is not team play. Well it is team play. It's team America. This is America. In America we do no…

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