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ll, there's a new software that's like similar to the Star Trek holodeck that can create all these virtual worlds that didn't exist before. So you can say, give me a bar scene or we're outdoors, and it just creates that world. Now I guess they're using it to train AI. So you use one AI to create worlds and then a second AI to look at that world and learn from it as if it had been a real world. But…

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t are the happiest cities? There's another study that showed the ranked happiest cities. And cities from 33 states made the list. That means that the rest of the states had not a single city that was one of the happiest ones. California had the most. California had 16 of the happiest cities in Florida, 12. What's that tell you? It's the weather.

The first decision I made upon graduating college in Upstate New York was why would I live in this weather when I could live in good weather? Because at the time I was a free agent. It was after college. I could go where I wanted. So I went to California because Florida is a little bit muggy. But I guess they're still happy there. And sure enough, Californians got their legal weed and they got their good weather and you can screw up just about everything else and that still works.

Now, do you think that sun makes a difference? Who gets the most sun? Hawaii, California, Florida. What are the happiest states? Hawaii, California, Florida. How many data points do you need to see to get in the freaking sun? I mean, it couldn't be more obvious. We went through the pandemic and it's like get in the sun, vitamin D, vitamin D, vitamin D, vitamin D, get in the sun. And then you do the happiest cities: sunny, sunny, sunny. Are you getting the message yet? It really is pretty simple. Get some sun. Get outdoors. There's no way that these are coincidences. Guess what.

All right. NPR. Oh, Dr. Phil crushed a DEI advocate. So Dr. Phil had somebody who was arguing, some batshit crazy woman who is, and she looked batshit crazy. I'm just judging from she just looked mean. She had that bad, she had crazy eyes and stuff. And he got her to say that DEI was about equal outcomes. And then he mocked that end of existence because equal outcomes is what stupid people want. It's not a real thing. You can't really have equal outcomes. And as Dr. Phil explained it, well, you've got a wall and you've got short people who can't see over it and tall people who can. Are you going to fix that? You know, sort of his metaphor for everything else.

And here's my take. DEI is not a philosophical difference. I'm going to say this over and over until you all agree. The only philosophical difference between the left and the right is abortion. Everything else is smart versus stupid or somebody selfishly wants more mon

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ey. That's it. And DEI is just stupid. There's nobody smart in favor of DEI. Can I say that? There's nobody smart in favor of it. At least when I say there's nobody smart in favor of it, I mean that the smarter people who pretend to be in favor of it, let's take your Mark Cubans for example. Smart, unambiguously smart person, says in public he's in favor of it. This stuff is not real. All right, h…

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