Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 12, 2026
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ey're saying and putting it into some important context as to whether they might be a terrorist or a criminal. And then what are you going to do about it? Would it be, first of all, would it be legal for AI to look through everybody's communications? And it's not a human, right, so it's not a human looking through communications. But if it finds something then maybe it would flag it for the human…

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ou get away with anything.

All right. But mass spying, yeah that's definitely coming.

Taylor Swift is the person of the year on Time Magazine. Now did you ever think that Time Magazine was making their choices based on objective criteria? Let me explain how the media works. Time Magazine makes their decision who is the person of the year not because it's necessarily the best choice or what the customers would think. Sometimes it's just marketing for the magazine. Sometimes they're just being provocative and they know it so that you will say to yourself, my God how could they say that? I'm going to have to read their argument. And you buy the magazine. So you should see it as marketing first.

But Time Magazine might have a political bias as well. And I would ask, do you think there's any political meaning, given that this is a presidential political year coming up, that having Taylor Swift on the cover, would that be any kind of a political message in addition to just being good marketing for Time? Well maybe.

Here's a post by Jack Posobiec. It says the Taylor Swift girl boss op has been fully activated. From her hand-selected vaccine shill boyfriend to her DINK lifestyle, dual income no kids lifestyle, to her upcoming 2024 voter operation for Democrats on abortion rights. It's all coming. Yeah it does look a little bit like she's being, let's say, groomed by the media to be a good powerful political spokesperson for young people.

Now do you think that Taylor Swift could cause young people to vote her way because she's Taylor Swift? Do you think she can move votes? What do you think? Yes, yes she could. Absolutely. Now you know maybe not completely by herself but it would only take a few of your heroes to be on the same side before you say hey that's the third hero of mine that's on the same side. I guess I'm on that side too. Yes, yes she could move the dial. She is that powerful. So that might have a political component to it either intentionally or not.

So if you're watching the situation in Ireland and saying to yourself hey the tech censorship issues that are happening in Ireland right now that doesn't affect us. And if you're saying oh there are complaints against the immigration issue there that doesn't affect us. Well apparently there's a bill that's being considered in Ireland that would require corporations to show that they had taken all reasonable steps and exercised due diligence to avoid having bad content. Basically hate speech I guess.

So like most things it's the side effect that you worry about. You know it's not what it says on the surface, it's what's going to happen after that. Michael Shellenberger is sounding the alarm. If one country succeeds in getting the big platforms to censor who they want them to censor or else lose their ability to operate in that country, then the other countries are going to do it right away and they will exert control over their social medias as Ireland did if Ireland succeeds. And this wou

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ld be the end of free speech basically because if the governments can exercise this power you don't need all the governments to do it. You just need enough governments to say you have to censor before it just becomes easy for everybody to do it, all the governments to do it. So yeah that's a big deal. And Conor McGregor, famous UFC fighter, is actually kind of serious about running for president…

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