Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 23, 2026
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e anything to do with forest fires because the number of forest fires is down. It's not up, it's down. So but don't you wonder if the people who wrote this story actually believed what they wrote? Because usually, well anyway. Yeah I just, I'm just usually I think people believe what they write but this one doesn't look like, yeah this doesn't look like they believed it. Or are they that clueless?…

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hem in peaceful competition as long as we stop squandering our resources in endless foreign wars. Most of that, the trouble is that how do you compete against low labor costs? I mean I get that robots can help us a lot but ultimately you can't compete against that. I mean you can move your business to another low labor cost place but you can't, you know we're not going to lower the labor cost of America. So we don't really have a way to compete against that directly. But I do agree with the general point. You know between robots and moving our business elsewhere, yeah there's a lot of stuff we can do and none of it requires a war. So I like RFK Jr.'s instincts on this the best.

All right, let's talk about pyramids. So I watched a video on YouTube yesterday that makes some claims that I've seen before and I can't remember the name of the video. The video I wish I could. It's something like what the heck or something. I don't know but it's really good and all tweeted around if I run into it again. But the idea is this. How many of you believe that the ancient Egyptians, you know the direct descendants of the people who live there today, how many of you think they built those pyramids and that they forgot how they did it? Does that sound remotely possible to you? It doesn't to me honestly. It never sounded real to me. I just don't believe that the descendants used to know how to build pyramids but now they don't. No, I'm sorry I just don't believe it.

And there are some people

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who say the pyramids are older than the civilizations that are there and some people say it's aliens. Now do you know that they've never found a mummy, a dead leader in a pyramid? And we were taught, we were taught in school that these were burial tombs for the dead leaders. They had never found one in there nor have they ever found evidence one has ever been in there. There's one sarcophagus but…

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