Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 24, 2026
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he had a nice one. So good technique. Many of you have followed the B story, the least important story, which is that 95 percent of all my trolls are professional writers. Has anybody noticed? Because I called them out whenever they attacked me and yesterday I think 19 out of 20 of them were actually professional writers. There were a lot of people who came after me yesterday and I'm not exaggera…

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l maybe it's not the reason but a signal that they're bad writers. What would that be? The signal number one is that they're jealous of other writers. If you're actually a good writer you say stuff like, wow that is really good writing. I'll try to raise my writing to that level. Like I had that feeling the other day. I was reading a Jared Kushner's book. So Jared Kushner's book was titled, you'll remember it in a minute. But as soon as I started reading the book I just looked at the quality of the writing and I'm assuming there's some ghostwriting or editing involved. I don't know how much Jared did. But the quality of the writing, just the sentence structure, was like wow this is some good writing in this book. But what I didn't think is, so that guy, I didn't have any bad feelings about him because it was well written.

So I think you have to be a bad writer before other writers bother you at all. Like I've never been bothered by good writing. I always talk about the name I could never remember, the Harry Potter author. What the hell is her name? Why can't I remember her name ever? J.K. Rowling. Yeah, one of the best writers of all time in terms of just forming a sentence and building a world and stuff like that. But I don't dislike her. She's awesome as a writer. But I do wonder about that phenomenon. What's going on there? It seems like all of my critics were just professional writers who held Gollum's ring too long. That's a pretty good line, isn't it? My critics are professional writers who held Gollum's ring too long. Because once you see their profile pictures and stuff you can see the Gollum. Oh my precious.

Here are the filters that I would like on Twitter. So they already have a keyword filter and I managed to decrease my trolling by about 50 percent because I set Twitter to not show me any tweet that includes the word Garfield. But I think the filter only works on my browser. I don't think I set it on my other phone so I still see some Garfields coming through. But you'd be amazed how effective it is when you take Garfield out of your life. Like I just don't see any of them. And I know that there are a whole bunch of people making what they think are really clever Garfield insults to me and they're just hoping I see them. Wait till he sees how I compared him to Garfield. Nobody's done that before. And meanwhile my filter is just like Garfield, Garfield, Garfield.

But there's another filter I want which I call the misapplied sarcasm filter. Have you seen this from your trolls and leftists? The misapplied sarcasm. I'll give you an example. It'd be like if I said something about the Holocaust being bad, my troll would come in and say, oh so the Holocaust is so bad, right? And I'll think, well the Holocaust is bad. Oh, the sarcasm doesn't really work in that context. The sarcasm should be applied to things which are not exactly true. It should be like an exaggeration of the thing or something. But the leftists are all coming in with this misapplied sarcasm which is hilarious.

I also want to filter out anybody who's got a Ukrainian flag or lists their pronouns in the bio. Now I don't mean that as a joke because I've seen it as a joke. You know people joke about that but I don't mean that as a joke. I mean actually literally if that option existed I would turn off all the Ukrainian flags and I would turn off all the pronoun people. And it would only be because I don't think any of them are serious players. I don't hate them. I'm not judging them. They're not less than me or worse than me. It's not about their value as human beings. It's just that when you signal, if you signal that your communication is going to fall into a certain pattern, I already know what you're going to say. If I already know what you're going to say I don't need to look at you. So it has nothing to do with their value as people. It's just I've already heard what you have to say, Ukrainian flag person. Nothing else to add there.

Here's a business opportunity which I think will be huge. So we assume there will be lots of different AIs, right? There won't be one AI that is all the AI everywhere. They'll be competing AIs, different companies, etc. Now these AIs will have to be trained and you're going to want them to be as smart as possible over time. There are things you can teach the AI and there are things that it can go onto the internet and learn. But there are huge categories of things that only a person could tell you. You can't search them anywhere. For example, suppose you wanted to teach your AI to train somebody else how to become a cartoonist. Where would you ever find that on the internet? You can't. But I could write it. I could create a little database that fits certain specifications for AI so the AI would know where to look for it and when it got there it would know how to pick the data out correctly. I could pick the data out without me putting it into boxes but just to make sure. So I could basically have a little piece of data that I maintained which is, so you want to become a cartoonist, here are some tricks and tips and stuff. And my little database could be one page would be the only place that you

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could find it because I don't think it's in a book. If it's in a book it's going to be the whole book. But where could you get a one-page how to become a cartoonist? Just for me. I've also got one page on how to be a better writer, one page on how to do personal finance, and probably one page on a number of other things. And the reason I wrote one page on how to do personal finance is that it didn…

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