Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive May 24, 2026
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now then they might ban our information. I mean really, are we seeing, are we missing something about the story or are politicians actually this incapable? The level of incompetence that this exhibits is almost hard to believe. Like you could have a really low opinion of Congress and still look at this and say, okay that's a new level of incompetence. I haven't seen that before. You know you've do…

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ur suspicious mind comes up with anything that would be maybe bad about this product taking off in corporate America. Here's what they do. They measure and monitor pay gaps by any demographic variable. Pay equity decisions made easy for HR and compensation as well as consultants. As well as consultants. So you can sustain fair pay and gain ongoing data-driven support. You could book a demo today.

That's right. You could take a company away from its mission of making money and serving its stockholders and you could make them spend all of their time trying to be fair across all demographic variables. All of them. All of the demographics. Because if you find out that short people are paid less you're going to have to fix it. So in theory I'd like to know if they put in height and weight and attractiveness because you know those are correlated, right? You know that better looking people are higher paid. Is that fair? How about short people? They're paid less than tall people. I think the Pay Analytics needs to do more analytics. I don't know if they've done enough because if they only stopped with let's say gender preference and ethnicity and religion, if they stopped with that I say you've only gone half the way. There are so many other demographics that must be accounted for. So let's get that going.

All right, one of the biggest questions I've been asked lately is, am I serious about my apologizing for being wrong about everything in the pandemic or as some people have suggested am I just being sarcastic and just being a jerk? All right, what do you think? Sarcastic or serious? Go in the comments. What do you say? Oh damn you. Damn you for getting the right answers over there on Locals. The Locals people are all over me. They're always there. Both. How could I be serious and not serious at the same time? Is that possible? But how could I believe that I was wrong about everything if I really believe that I'm right about everything? They can't both be true, right? It can't be true that I'm right about everything and wrong about everything. Would you agree?

Well let me change the question. How many would agree with the statement it can't be simultaneously true? Agree? Not it can't be true that I was wrong about almost everything but also right about everything. They can't both be true, right? We all agree on that. All right, that's where we differ. In my world they both can be true forever and there's no preferred truth. They're both true, completely true, unambiguously true and forever. And it's not just a mental thing. It might in my best understanding of my reality we are actually a simulation. And it's only because of the math of it, you know I won't go through the argument again, but it's like a trillion to one that we're simulated and not original. If we're simulated it seems clear that in order to save processing power our simulation allows us to live in our own movie. I call it a movie because we're looking at the same objective facts often, not always but often, and yet we form our own movie and then we live in it. The only thing the simulation requires is that we can still reproduce. That's it. If you reproduce you make more of yourself so there's more of you to do the same stuff next year. But if you don't reproduce, you know it's game over. So the only thing that matters is if we can reproduce.

And as far as I know the people who believe that vaccinations were the worst experience we've ever had and those who think it was no big deal can still have babies, you know unless they've been sterilized by accidental science. But

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as far as we know they can both have, we can still have babies with each other. So what I'm doing, my own cognition of what I'm doing is that I'm not dishonest when I say to the Locals people, well obviously I got everything right. You watched every bit of it and they say yeah that meets my view of the world. Some don't. Some would say the opposite. And then for those who say the opposite I say we…

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