Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 9, 2026
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on you will literally be bored when you see another AI nude picture of your classmate. It's just going to be like another meme. It will just be a meme and you'll just be, boop. Now you might say to yourself, oh this one's really funny, and you might send it around, but nobody's going to believe it's real. You see where I'm going? Pretty soon and very soon even the real pictures of you nude will b…

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u hired them and then they said that they were victims working for you. Who could have seen that coming? Well I'll tell you who could have seen it coming: anybody who understands how cause and effect works.

Do you think Louis C.K. understands how cause and effect works when he says open the border? He actually couldn't game that through in his mind to understand what the cause would have affected. He actually couldn't do it. And almost anybody could do it. I mean I'm sure I could get a 12-year-old to game that out. If you open the borders, tell me what happens next. He couldn't do it. He thought everything would work out okay. Anyway that was fun to dunk on Kendi. I do feel like there's some kind of a corner being turned on all the DEI and CRT and the ESG stuff. It's way more obvious now that it's destroying the world. It's completely poisoned race relations and it made it basically dangerous for white people to be around black people who had been trained to complain about you. Which again has nothing to do about being black, has nothing to do about your DNA, it's nothing about anybody's genetics. But if you happen to be a group of people who have been trained to demonize another group, well if you're the demonized group you should get some distance from that group if you can, as far away as you can. It's not really possible for that. That's hyperbole.

All right, have you ever seen anybody criticize me for having an opinion on something on which I'm not an expert? Has anybody ever seen that? Anybody ever say but Scott you're not an expert on that? Every day, every day. Now I defend myself by saying I'm not an expert on anything, well not any of the things in the news usually. But I do have one expertise. I'm pretty good at telling when somebody's lying. And you don't really need to be an expert in the field to recognize. Would you agree recognizing is my expertise? I mean I do it every day. You can look at my track record yourself. I think it's the best there is by far actually. Let me ask you this. For those who've been watching me for a few years, is my calling of bullshit the best you've ever seen? The best you've ever seen? Yeah, a wall of yeses for the people who watch me the most. It is the best you've ever seen. It's because the hypnosis skill set plus my age plus having a business background, it gives you a lot of windows into things and so you can see a little faster.

For example if you didn't understand how business models work it would be harder to spot. If you didn't know that follow the money always works you'd be confused about a lot of stuff. If you didn't know that the story that grabs your interest the most in the news, wow I can't believe it, is almost certainly to be untrue. That's why it grabbed your interest, because it's almost certainly untrue. How about those Mexican UFO bodies? Could you look away from that for even a minute? The moment you saw UFO bodies, didn't you stop everything? Didn't you stop even thinking about other things? Zoop, and look at that. Yeah, that's your tell. That is fake. As soon as you found your brain hijacked, that's like an 80 to 90 percent likelihood it's fake because real things don't do that. Real things are not that interesting. It's the fake stuff that gets you.

So here's another one of those situations. When the F-35 went missing with what the government is calling now a mishap, I weighed in with my lack of expertise saying this: nobody ejects from a plane that's still at a high altitude, you know high enough that it's their normal flying altitude and it's capable of flying another 80 miles or at least a long distance. We didn't know it was 80 miles but it was obviously flying on its own and it wasn't flying directly to the ground. So what I said with my total lack of expertise is that it's very unlikely that there was a catastrophic problem because we would know that.

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If the plane blew up or if let's say the cockpit was full of smoke, it's the first thing you know they would tell you that right away. Oh there was a technical problem in the plane so we grounded the fleet until we find out what it is to see if it's common to any of the other planes. So you could know right away that the first level was you knew the government knew if the plane had failed in a no…

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