Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive May 24, 2026
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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization today too. I'm also streaming live on X for the first time, and we're doing it over on the Locals channel where they get a little extra before and after and lots of other extras other times. And of course on YouTube. Welcome, everybody. Good to see you all. I just noticed that if I turn my camera landscape, which is what…

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Ah, so good. So good.

Well, I saw a tweet today from Sam Altman

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. He, you know, leading the ChatGPT and other billionaire stuff, one of the smartest people on the planet, Sam Altman. And he says something very compatible with something I've said. So he said, quote, in a tweet: "Give yourself a lot of shots to get lucky is even better advice than it appears on the surface. Luck isn't an independent variable but increases superlinearly with more surface area. Yo…

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