Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 10, 2026
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s. Let's go private over here. Well there's a lot of fun things to talk about. And let's see, first of all there's an AI-created clip of South Park. So AI wrote, directed, and animated a little South Park episode. I saw a tweet saying that this was looking like the beginning of the end of humans creating. Well I didn't say it that way but it looked like the beginning of one person being able to c…

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the least like you if they get hurt. I hate to say it but it's just the way we're all wired. The more somebody's like you the more they are you in your mind and the more you care about them. And AI is the most unlike you that it could be. It just doesn't matter.

Stuff that looks like you. If you had a photograph, a photograph of a person, would you like love it and want to fall in love with it? No it's just a photograph. It's just an image. So I think all of the technologists are missing maybe the biggest part of what AI is trying to master. The biggest part is that we will never be interested in a machine's work. We will use AI to do functional stuff that makes things faster, you know does things faster, basically just better or faster, more convenient. That would be great but no it's not going to do art. It's not going to do art because it can't under any condition. You can't do it because you never wanted to look at the picture and you never wanted to hear the song if you don't understand that. And you never wanted to hear the joke. You don't care about the joke, the song, or the picture. You care that a human made them and you wonder about the human. You put yourself in position. You know you couldn't make those things. They impress you. You want to meet that. But without that understanding the whole field of AI, at least the art-related part of it, is just absurd. It's just demonstrations of things that will never be real. But AI still has lots of useful purposes but I don't think art right away is going to be part of that.

All right. So Rand Paul's office in Kentucky was destroyed by a fire. I don't know if they figured out the cause of that yet. Do we know if that was arson? Is there a climate change? All right you got me. I was not expecting to laugh at that. Climate change. That was kind of perfect. That's like the old joke about typing. The comments showed up. I think it was the timing of the comment. It was just like the moment I said climate change. All right that was pretty funny. It wasn't climate change but I'm seeing the comments. We don't know what it was, right?

So is there some suggestion that it might have been intentional? Is that still a possibility or not? Well I'd like to say that Rand Paul, he seems unkillable. So far he survived a mass shooting during the softball game. He was a survivor. He survived being attacked, viciously attacked by his neighbor. Survived that. And sort of survived COVID somehow. Somehow he survived COVID. I'm not even sure he ever double masked and somehow he lived anyway. But now his office is destroyed by fire. You have to ask yourself, you know, and of course there were coincidental things. He was going to go after Fauci and he doesn't like the war in Ukraine. So there's always a reason. There's always a political reason. That would be true of most of the prominent senators at any time.

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e to say he's maybe one of the bravest people who's ever worked in government. I mean he's a brave mofo. I'd just like to take a moment to acknowledge that when people take these jobs it's not always for the power. Sometimes they're patriots. Rand Paul as far as I can tell isn't doing it for the money. As far as I can tell I don't see any indications to that. And he takes difficult stands which I…

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