Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive May 24, 2026
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idea here is that AI will take on a personality that's influenced by whatever you feed into it the most, whatever it decides is the most useful, etc. Yeah, it is possible, isn't it? And at some point AI is going to have to develop something like morality or ethics, isn't it? It will. And where is it going to get that morality and ethics? Where is it going to get it? Well it's going to probably be…

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rst. Why does it do that? Because it knows that that usually works and there's a good general answer there. So AI will also be the same. It's not going to equally sample everything it knows. It's going to develop some go-tos, some biases, some this is usually what I say. And I'm going to try to get there first. So I'm going to try to get there first with my essentially my points of view because I think they're not harmful. So I'm a peace-first kind of person. I like systems over goals. I like talent stacks. If you look at my books you can tell exactly how I think.

Do you think it would be useful? Well let me tie two stories together. I'm working now on turning my book "How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big" into a homeschool course. So that requires a separate document. Or two documents. There's a study guide and a syllabus or something. So I'm having that developed right now with an expert who knows how to do that. And so there'll be something packaged that's like a philosophy or a way to approach life. Sort of a good little formula for how a human can approach life with a good strategy.

Don't you think AI will be absorbing those lessons and strategies from the human experience to build its own? I feel like my book has influenced enough other books. There's some part of that way of approaching things. We'll get rid of you, Mr. Capital Letters. Goodbye.

Anyway, so that's the play. The singularity is coming but my DNA will be so embedded in the AI eventually that who knows what's going to happen.

LA Times said in a story that each year extreme heat kills more Americans than any other climate-fueled hazard, including hurricanes, floods and wildfires. But it gets far less attention because it kills so quietly. Now here's my question. Where's the death by cold? Haven't we learned that cold kills more people than heat? So is this missing something? Not exactly, because listen how carefully they worded it: other climate-fueled hazards. So if you die from heat, you died from a climate-fue

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led hazard. If you die from the cold, that wasn't caused by climate change. That's just you died in the cold, you dumbass. Now does that seem like illegitimate reporting to you to leave out the fact that more people die of cold? Because it seems like you should be netting out those warm and cold deaths, right, to find out what's really going on. The weirdest thing happened today and it's really…

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