Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 23, 2026
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view and somehow they can incorporate all the counter factuals and still go along. It's like serious implied or is sort of an imposed mental illness. It's like a mental illness that's imposed on them from the outside by the narratives. I wonder if you could have narrative poisoning. Yeah I think I'm going to invent a term: narrative poisoning. If the narrative which is not true causes you to have…

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isoning, TDS, and they acted on their mental health. They acted to reduce their mental health problems and they used Twitter like it was a pharmaceutical drug that if they tweaked it just right they could reduce their mental health issues. And so they did. So they did.

How much do you love that they use Twitter like a pharmaceutical to improve their mental health? That actually happened right? There's nothing about that sentence that is hyperbole. That actually literally observably happened. They've admitted they had mental distress. They told you what they did about it and in an analogy sense they use Twitter to cure their mental distress like you would use a pharmaceutical and it had side effects and the side effects were unexpected.

All right. Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman who's also an interesting fellow on Twitter I recommend him. He said today this was I'm going to disagree with him a little bit here but this was a good contribution to the conversation. He said people are blaming Ye's behavior on his bipolar diagnosis. I'd like to point out that when you see histrionic and antagonistic anti-social behaviors they are much better predicted by narcissistic personality disorder than bipolar disorder. See here for the correlation matrix. And no pun intended he shows a matrix of course. A matrix of different behaviors and what it means you know and they correlate etc.

And if you see a chart a matrix of mental let's say mental illness in 2022 what do you think about it? It just all looks like astrology. When I see a complicated medical scientific chart my immediate impression is well that's not true. It's just and it doesn't even matter what the topic is. Like it could have been any part of mental or physical health. If I've seen that complicated chart I would have just assumed it wasn't true. So that's where we are now. We're at the point where anything medical experts s

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ay and they put a big scientific chart with data I just say well that's probably not true. I'm not going to ignore it because you know when experts say something you don't want to ignore it. It might be true but the credibility is below zero now. Do you think that the mental health community the experts do you think they can tell the difference between these various diagnoses? Do you think that i…

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