Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive May 24, 2026
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art but I can specify it because do you know I developed the six dimensions of humor. So there's actually a formula that the AI could compare anything to and say oh it fits that formula it's probably humor. And then I could also teach the AI how to create humor because there are only so many forms. Have you ever watched a stand-up comedian? They use this one form all the time. They'll say for exa…

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n scenes in all of sci-fi. It's one of the things that really bonded me to that show. I thought good Lord that is such clever complicated writing. I love that. And I had been operating under that for a long time which is an intentional illusion that people are more trustworthy than they are because I didn't know how to live my life with complete cynicism because you couldn't spend any kind of and you couldn't have any kind of a personal life without trusting people, right?

But I did have some, I guess I'm opening up more than I should. I've had some recent experiences in the past year that demolished my sense of trust in human beings. I'm not talking about marriage specifically. I'm talking about human beings. And I've never experienced anything like it or so often. Yeah it was more than one event. That's why it was interesting. So I saw things. I saw parts of humanity that just ruined me honestly. It just ruined me. Now I imagine that's what's happened if you're in a war zone. Yeah imagine if you were in Ukraine right now the things you would see. Your sense of humanity would be completely changed.

And I was always completely aware that I was walking around with an illusion but it was a voluntary illusion like the Minbari like Delenn the head of the Minbari. I wanted the illusion that the people around me were trustworthy and turns out they weren't. So that's a big part of why I decided to become a recluse. I'm going to be honest with you. I can't stand people right now. I just can't sta

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nd to be around people in person. And it has nothing to do with the people I'm talking about. People that I genuinely like and have done nothing bad to me like people who are genuinely good as far as I can tell. I just can't stand to be around people right now. Anybody else have that experience? It could be social media that's doing it to me but I think it's actually it was actually my real life t…

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