Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 23, 2026
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ented. Nobody knows how that could happen because we don't even have a concept of what it would take to make it smart. All we have is this old model which just makes your search engine and your organization of data really, really cool and it can talk to you better. So it's like Siri plus. It's like a better Siri basically. So I would like to submit that the AI that you're worried about is the one…

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convince people you are one, right? It's not like it's a government licensed role. So why not have like hundreds of them until they're all useless?

You know the problem with the old search engine before AI is that if I Googled anything the problem wasn't that I would get no results. The problem is I'd get too many and they'd all be all over the place. It'd be like go into the library and look through books. It would just take forever, right? So I feel like one way that this ratings agency thing might go is there might be so many different agencies that they all become useless. If you wanted to know what was the rating, you'd look up the agencies to see what they rated Tesla and one would be an A and one would be like a D plus and then what do you do? What do you do?

So I feel like one direction that all this rating agency stuff could go is more of it until it dies under its own weight. That could be one direction. Because what I don't think is going to happen is you'll just have a few ratings agencies and everybody will just agree that they're the ones. Maybe. But I feel like there's no barrier to entry so there should be lots of them.

Then we see that one of the ratings agencie

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s, there's a gay advocacy group, they just stripped Anheuser-Busch of their good rating because they didn't like Anheuser-Busch basically caved to the pressure about Dylan Mulvaney. So now you can't make the right happy because they didn't like how that was treated. But now the left is unhappy because they changed their minds because of the pressure from the right. Do you think that big companies…

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