Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 10, 2026
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would be a national dashboard. A dashboard, a user interface that you could put on your phone or your computer in which the people in charge would say these are our priorities and here's the priority in one sentence. And if you click on this link you'll see all the things we're doing about it. But more importantly for every priority we'll be tracking metrics. And if we can't track it maybe we shou…

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e's a little bit of a definitional problem. Here's one definition of caring: would you act differently because of it? How about that? Because caring is not defined as how it affects your body. That's just how you interpret it. I would say caring means you would act on it. To me that's the whole definition. If it's irrelevant then you won't act on it. If it matters you'll act on it and that means you care, right?

So some of it is in the definition, right? As soon as the computer says I'm going to act on what you've told me about your bad situation and I'm going to act on it in a way that tries to help, that's caring to me. That's scary. And if an AI consistently acted as though as soon as you told it you had a problem it tried as hard as possible as it could to fix your problem, you will interpret that as caring. You will very quickly learn that that's every bit as good as the human who also tries to help you but they're having a negative feeling on their own. The feeling of caring is actually damaging their body. So would you rather be cared for by an AI that apparently can do better than a human when it competes head to head? If you don't — if you think it both cares, it does better, and it'll always help you like it'll never say okay yeah you got a problem so what — that AI will always help you. Now just keep on it. It'll be like the Matt Gaetz of AI. I'm not going to give up. I'm going to keep caring. Whereas your friend might get worn out. You know you can wear out a friend. They care too much. They're just worn out, right? And they have other things to do and they might have problems of their own and they might have other people to care about, right?

Mark my words, you'll have a closer relationship with AI in the future than with most people because AI will not — it will always care. The AI will always care. Your friends, they have their own priorities. So I think that this study is completely misleading. Useful — I think it's useful because it tells you where to look and stuff so that's really useful — but very misleading about where it's going to end up.

And I'd like to welcome the Club Birds, my fan club. Babies, cope. Can I have a cope? Give me a cope. Clubbers unite. Cope. Come on, say it. Say it. Say it. Cope. I don't know, they just don't seem to want to today. You're a little sleepy my fan club. Have I made you all go away? Come on, cope. There we go. Cope. Good job everybody.

All right. Novak Djokovic, maybe the number one player in the world, tennis player — I don't know where he's ranked at the moment — he will not be allowed to play in the US Open. Do you know why? He's not vaccinated. What? It's 2023. It's the United States. The United States is not going to let one of the greatest players of all time play in 2023. Not 2020, not 2021, not even 2022. But in 2023 they're going to keep him out of the country because he's not vaccinated. Now for those of you who live in other countries and you might be tired of me sounding like hey America a little bit too jingoistic or too nationalist, this is embarrassing. The only thing we can say about it is embarrassing. As a citizen of the United States I'm literally just embarrassed by that. Anybody disagree? I mean it's not like we can't test him and find out if he's negative maybe if you care. But this is just frankly embarrassing. Super embarrassing.

All right. There's a fake video of a CEO of Pfizer saying that they're going to bring the population of the world down by 50 percent in some year, some year in like 20 years or something. Now somebody sent that to me and said what do you think about this Scott? You know sure it might be a little out of context. It might be out of context but what do you think? Let me tell you what I think. It's obviously fake. I'm not going to research that seriously. You think I'm going to spend one second researching that? No. The CEO of Pfizer did not say in public he's going to reduce the population of Earth by 50 percent because of his vaccinations. No, you cannot make me look into that. You cannot. You can complain. You can yell cope as loud as you want. I will not look into that.

But how many of you would like me to give a little attention to Dr. Peter McCullough who is sounding the alarm about myocarditis at high rates in people who were vaccinated? Would you like me to surface that? Because I know some of you think hey what are you always talking on one side. It seems of course I don't do that. All right so I know a number of you don't want to hear all vaccination talk but I've apparently been unsuccessful in making a distinction between your medical decisions that I don't care about — I really don't care — versus how we analyze data and how we know what is true. I'm very, very interested in how we make decisions and how we made decisions in this case. I have no interest.

Okay, would you believe me first of all? Do you believe me that I have no interest in your personal health decisions except that I would hope you do well? But do you get that? No interest. Like not even a little bit whether you got vaccinated or not. And by the way I'm going to say something that I don't think I've ever said before. I think every one of you chose correctly. Have I ever said that directly? I probably not, right? I believe every one of you chose correctly. Here's why. You're happy with your choice or you're happy that when you made it you were making it with your best judgment and information you had at the time. Now there are some people who wish they hadn't done what they did but I actually think that no matter what you chose you chose right. Here's why. If you're happy with your choice and you didn't have a negative health outcome because of it then you made the choice that made you feel psychologically the best and you're still alive. Now there may be some few people who got myocarditis and then they say I wish I hadn't been vaccinated but there would be also people who got myocarditis and said I wish I had been vaccinated. Maybe it'd be less. I don't know either way whether that's true or false but you know there's some small number of people who have a negative outcome.

But can we agree on the following? That everybody who so far doesn't seem to have a health problem from the vaccination or the COVID, if you don't have any obvious problems from either one, are you happy with your decision? Are you? You're not? So you're not because you don't have a health problem but you worry that the vaccination someday will cause you one? Is that what you're worried about? Would you be? But you're not worried if COVID itself could have any long-term negatives? Interesting.

All right well then let me put it in my own opinion instead of yours. I think I was trying to read your minds too much so let me back up from that. Let me say that although I acknowledge that some of you regret your decisions — okay that just seems to be an obvious fact, some of you regret your decisions — so I'm going to say in my opinion you all chose correctly. They allow that you have some doubt and yet in my opinion you all chose correctly. Because all of us did the best we could with what we had.

I keep hearing people who were younger than me and do not have asthma questioning my decision to which I say the only people who can question my decision are people who are my age and had asthma and were male and had the same demographics and were White because even that's a factor. If you weren't in my exact situation then your different opinion of what I should have done doesn't really mean anything to me because I'm not judging yours. Have you ever heard me tell anybody they made a wrong decision on vaccinations? Have I done anything to even suggest that? Because sometimes I say things that people interpret that way but I don't think even anybody's interpreted that way. So I'm going to go way further than that. I compliment all of you for making the right decision no matter what it was because I'm positive you all made the right decision for yourselves. Which is different from whether it worked out right. You see that distinction? That you might have made the right decision for yourself, you know for your mental state and your sense of risk and what you believed was true, but maybe it didn't work out. I don't hold that against you. So if you made a decision that didn't work out I still back you because nobody had magic. Nobody could see the future. If you made a decision that made you feel

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comfortable when you made it it's probably the best we can do because none of us know what's going to happen in the future. You know does the vaccination morph the virus until it's so bad we all die? You know it's impossible. All right now would you allow me — here Dustin says no something for big Pharma that it sound like I was doing that. The clappers are active today. All right so I'll say wha…

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