Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 9, 2026
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surprising part. Well, I'd like to start out with the most interesting story I just saw before I came on here. At the University of Maryland they've developed a sweatshirt that acts as an invisibility cloak against AI. So if you're worried that the AI will recognize you via facial recognition, they've developed a sweatshirt that—it looks like the technique has crowd faces in it or something. But…

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tting a doctor appointment. Literally, not a joke. Because that's the only way they can handle it economically. They need to take all the people whose doctor requests are marginal and really should have been handled in some other way, and they shunt them off. So it's all about preventing you from getting to a doctor. And the trouble is they got a little too good at it. I actually can't figure out how to get to a doctor right now. It's not that I don't know the method. It's that the method breaks for different reasons because of the complexity.

So when you reach a certain level of complexity and then you say, okay, you've seen your citizen, go figure out which of these five apps—and yeah, five apps if you count websites. So three websites, two apps, a phone system that gets you to a person who gets you to a person who gets you to a person. And I actually couldn't solve it. And I've tried several times. I can't get through the system to get anything done really. So it's totally broken. And I don't think it's really necessarily just a problem with the Kaiser system, which does seem completely broken at this point, but it seems like a problem with complexity. I feel like everything just had a creeping complexity until the point where it's just too hard to do anything.

Just like—and let me give you another example. I now have, I think, five streaming services because during the pandemic I was desperate for any kind of entertainment at home. So I just signed up for five of them thinking I'll keep the ones I like. And so now instead of sitting down and watching a show for entertainment if I've allocated an hour or something, the whole hour is just looking for a show. Because now that there's so many of them I can't decide that the one I found is as good as the one I haven't found yet. So I'm in a continuous state of looking for the good one. And at the end of the hour I've watched no TV. And it happens every time. Close to every time. Ninety-five percent of the time. Very rarely do I actually watch a show. Very rarely. The exceptions are sometimes there'll be a game on and I'll say, oh, there's a game, and I'll turn it on. And then it'll go to commercial and I'll say, well, that would have worked except that I can't possibly sit here for a whole commercial. That's not gonna happen. So I turn it off, look for something else.

Anyway, so everything's too complicated.

Twitter—let's give you a little Twitter update here. Some things that are rumored but I don't know if they're true. Rumored that the Twitter deal with Musk buying it might close on Friday. Well, I don't know if that's true, but it looks like it's going to close. So that's good. I heard a rumor that I do not have confidence in, that Musk plans to be CEO of Twitter as well. Did anybody hear that from a credible source? Anybody? Yeah, I don't think that's going to happen. I can imagine it happening temporarily, like I can imagine for a month or something, but it doesn't re

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ally sound like the thing that's going to happen. And then I thought to myself, if you were going to pick a CEO for Twitter, who would you pick? Who would you pick that could actually do it in a way that you would? Jack Dorsey? Somebody says, you know, I think people are going to miss Jack Dorsey. Yeah, not me. I would not be a good leader. You know I am not a good leader. I've told you this befo…

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