Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 23, 2026
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, excuse the ads. Oh, it's the ads, right? So if you don't have the YouTube Red you have to look at it. Okay, I got it. Got it. Okay, we'll see what we can do. Well, here's some good news potentially. I always like to follow Machiavelli's Underbelly, a good Twitter account. Yeah, it was fun. Interesting positive things happening in the technology. So there's some scientists at the University of B…

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orst thing. But I wasn't sure it was a prank until some other people confirmed it because the reality and parody are so similar.

So here's the first thing that the prankster said that made me say, huh, that does sound ridiculous but not more ridiculous than what actual real people say. So see if you think this is way too ridiculous or something that an average person if you stopped him on the street might actually say, like an actual thing a person would say. He said that Elon Musk taking over Twitter is worse than the Holocaust and it might even be worse than January 6th. Now is that perfect? That's some good writing. First of all that's really good writing for a prank. Elon taking over Twitter is worse than the Holocaust and it might even be worse than January 6th, implying that January 6th was worse than the Holocaust.

And the thing is I think he finished his entire thing without people catching on that it was a prank. Now would you like to end wokeness forever? How about doing more of this? Suppose every single public hearing had one of these but you kept getting closer and closer to reality so they really actually couldn't tell if you were kidding. Like they just couldn't tell. What would happen? What would happen if you took all of the arguments on the right and you started making them even stronger than they are? But what would happen if every time some medicine came out the Democrats thought was a good idea you accused them of drinking bleach? I recommend it. Just do everything they do and act like you're serious about it. It would just make everything ridiculous. The entire world would just become absurd overnight but it would be funny.

Here's something we learned. So there was a project called OpenAI that was supposed to be I guess non-profit and the idea was they had developed AI and I don't know, it'd be good for the world I guess. There's some profit element to it now. But we learned from Elon Musk that OpenAI had access to Twitter data to train. It had access to Twitter data. Now I think that means more than just reading what you and I read. I think that means the API, meaning that you could get directly into the data stream of Twitter with permission.

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You know that would be an entirely legitimate thing to do. But are you comfortable with AI knowing everything about your Twitter experience? If AI learned about me only from Twitter could it reproduce my personality? If it only knew my Twitter experience it could reproduce it but it would be an attenuated version. Twitter me is not me. You know that, right? My Twitter personality is not like my b…

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