Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive May 24, 2026
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are their own category. But if you want a book that will almost certainly change your life in some positive way, probably a number of ways, apparently people are having their lives changed even now. It's available even though Amazon is making it as hard as possible. Let me ask you this. Of all the books on Amazon you can imagine, there are tens of millions of books, how many of those books, if yo…

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ct me if I'm wrong, but a hundred percent of the times they study depression and mushrooms there's a big improvement.

And there's something really big, big, big that's coming down the pike and I don't know what it's going to do. Remember, I always remind you that I told you that when Trump rose in 2015, 2016, I told you it was going to change more than politics. It would change the way you saw reality itself. Well, if you thought that was a change, wait till you try mushrooms for your depression. Talk about a change in reality.

So toward the end of today's show I'm going to blow your minds. Like your brain is just going to come off. And almost certainly, almost certainly you're going to say, what? So wait for that. That's the whiteboard presentation.

All right. I saw an article that apparently a lot of employees are pretending they have AI knowledge because their boss doesn't know one way or the other so that they can feel like they're the valuable employees. And I thought to myself, well, there's a whole week of Dilbert Reborn comics which are available by subscription only on Twitter and on the Locals platform, locals.scottadams.locals.com.

But did you see that coming? You knew the people were going to pretend that they knew AI without knowing AI. You knew that was going to happen. That's a Wally thing.

Well, unemployment is inching up from 3.5 to 3.8. Let's pretend we can measure that. Yeah, let's pretend that we can measure it in a meaningful and accurate way such that the change between 3.5 and 3.8 is meaningful

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. Probably not. Probably not. So but if the numbers that are official make it look like inflation is inching up, which is hard to imagine why would it be going up, just too much money supply? I don't know. Seems like it should be going down. But that would be, I would guess, one of the most important predictors of the next election, should it be a fair and free election. I would say I would think…

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