Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 10, 2026
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ocin. Don't get those confused. Simultaneous sip happening now. Ah, delightful. Well, Finland has a new problem, and their new problem is they have so much green and cheap electricity that the price temporarily went negative. Now in the real world it wasn't actually negative, but the price of electricity basically dropped to zero. Do you know why? Take a guess why Finland's electricity went to ze…

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d they get there? They did the obvious things: nuclear, and if you have it, hydro. So are you still worried about climate change if you could drive your electricity cost down to close to zero at the same time that you're getting rid of all the carbon emissions? No, I feel like we have a solution here, and it's just screaming at us: nuclear.

Well, I saw an article that said Bill Gates thinks that he doesn't know who's going to own the AI market. It could be a big company like Microsoft. He hopes so. But it could be some startup. He mentioned one in particular, a company called Inflection, and they already have a little app called Pi. And here's what caught my attention. Number one, Bill Gates called it out specifically, and he said he'd used it, and it looks like it could be one of the winners, one of the ones that will really be the thing. Now he described it as a personal agent, basically like a little AI personality that can talk to you. So I said to myself, whoa, that sounds good. If Bill Gates says t

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his might be the one, and obviously he's tapped into everything that's going on, I'm going to download that thing and I'm going to see what makes this better than all the rest. And let me tell you, I was blown away. Blown away. Do you know what it can do? It can talk to you as stupidly as all the other AIs. That's it. That's all it can do. It can talk to you. It can't make any important opinions…

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