Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 24, 2026
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the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip. That happens now. Ah, yeah. You know, I just saw somebody who couldn't believe that I do this every day, seven days a week. And I don't know if I can convince you of this, but it's actually my favorite hour of the day. This is my favorite thing I do every day. So this is the one thing I want to do every day. It's

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not even slightly like work. I've never done anything that was sort of job-like. They were so unambiguously for my own fun. So I mean, I try to do some useful things here, but I'm sure I only do it because it's fun. I mean, I try to be useful at the same time.

Well, let's talk about what's fun. I saw a tweet today that will maybe make your head spin a little bit in your skull. What do you think about the quality of the information on the internet? Would you say it's pretty good, or would you say the quality of the information on the internet about anything important is a little sketchy?

Now here's the scary part. When artificial intelligence learns to be intelligent, what's it going to be looking at? The internet. Becau

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se AI is going to have access to the internet, right? It has to. What happens when AI has access to the internet? How is it going to know what's true? Or will it know and we won't? Or what if it finds out none of it's true, which would be closer to the truth for political stuff? It's kind of an interesting story, isn't it? Who gets to decide what constitutes intelligence? Because

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