Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive May 24, 2026
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ng the reframing for nuclear. Just hammering it. It's like, okay, if you want green, if you don't want climate change, you're going to have to wake up on nuclear energy. It's much safer than it used to be. So it looks like that message, you know, Michael Shellenberger and a lot of other people are the primary drivers of that. And so congratulations to them. Shout out to Mark Schneider for his work…

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ing it as opposed to testing it every time you use it. So they're already pre-tested but not against the AI that's going to be there next week. So whatever this rule is that you can't learn it as fast as it changes and makes your learning useless, has that ever happened before? Is this the first time in history that the rate a human could learn a thing is too slow to use the thing because the thing will never be the same thing you learned?

Now I'll tell you the first time I learned this because this happened to me in my career once. I used to have a job in a laboratory in the phone company, one of my first jobs, to test brand new equipment like new types of phones to see if it would work with our digital products especially. And so we would get all these new products. You know AT&T would make a new phone or whatever and we'd plug it in and it would take us a few weeks to test it all and everything. And then I would write up a report so that the customers could know whether to buy this equipment and whether or not it would work with the phone company. Because you didn't want to buy equipment unless the phone company was compatible. And things were changing quickly. So it would take me a few weeks to test things, get them in, put out my report. And do you know what would happen? By the time my report went out every time, the hardware that I tested had a firmware upgrade in the meantime. What good was my test? The test had no value the moment it was published. Had no value. Because without the software or firmware of that product you've tested nothing. Because we know it physically connects. Like I wasn't testing to see if the plug goes into the hole. I was seeing if the so

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ftware and the firmware know what to do once it's plugged in. So no, you could not test it. It wasn't possible to test fast enough that it would be useful. So we ended up just waiting. It basically, well self-flying airplanes are coming. The FAA has approved an uncrewed flight test. So a remote controlled, not even remote controlled, it's flying on its own but it would have humans who could sort…

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