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. Happens now. Go. Very good. You know, I'm proud of all of you for sipping so competently. All right. Well, a lot of stories today. Let's start with the good news. According to Andrew Huberman, you can turn yourself into a morning person in three days of pain. So just three bad days and you can become a morning person. Here's

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how: set your clock for 5:00 a.m. every day, no matter how tired you were the night before, and get up at 5:00. Drink coffee, have some social interaction, a little bit of sunlight, a little bit of eating, and those things will set your clock. And next thing you know, you're a morning person.

Do you believe that? How many of you believe that you could change yourself to a morning person if you're not already one? Well, I can only tell you my anecdotal experience, which is in college I strategically decided to become a morning person and I turned myself into one. And I didn't know I could ever be one. It didn't seem likely because I like to stay up late, just like most people. But very quickly, and with the help of coffee and sun and food, I guess I turned myself into a person who loves, just loves the morning. I mean, the first four hours of every day of my life are kind of terrific. Every single day. Really just terrific. And that's what you get by being a morning person.

Now, beyond that, I believe I've lived two full lifetimes because most of your day is garbage time. You know what I mean? You're like, it's time to take out the trash to the curb and you're walking to your trash cans, and most of it's not really living. But the morning time I really use for all the good stuff. So it's almost like it doubled my life. So that's cool.

However, I have a question whether all people can be turned into morning people. My suspicion is, because science seems to think that there are morning people and non-morning people, that this won't work for everyone. However, I also have this following hypothesis: that night people are morning people. That night people like the time after midnight. That's the morning. So if you like to be up after midnight because it just feels great to be up after midnight, that's probably how I feel at 4:30 in the morning when I'm up. And often I'm up at 3:00 just because I feel like it. So there you go. Be a morning person. Double your life.

According to Gilmore Health News, there's now this gene editing technology that might remove your anxiety and alcohol dependency linked to adolescent binge drinking. So if you were a binge drinker when you were young and it changed your brain, now they think they can edit your genes to fix it. I have just one comment about this. I don't think I want to go first, if you know what I mean. I don't want to be the first person who has gene editing to change the brain. I mean, it could work out great, has great potential, but I don't want to go first. Let's see what happens to somebody else. It turns them from a Republican into a Democrat. You got to watch that stuff.

Well, this is the most predictable thing you could ever imagine in the world of technology. According to TechCrunch, guess what got invented? Yes, it's exactly what you expected somebody to make. And why did it take so long? Somebody made a way that you could fake being on a Zoom call. Now, you know you wanted that. You know the Dilbert comic was waiting for it. And apparently you can take a quick video of yourself and then the AI will remember what you look like and then you could be in your car and pretending that you're sitting there in front of your office. So your actual audio and your conversation could be from your phone in your car, but what people would see on Zoom is something that looks like you're talking. Pretty cool.

And the odds of people taking Zoom calls on the toilet just went to 100% because not much else to do when you're watching the Zoom go. So yes, there will be a lot of Zoom call toiletry.

Chinese scientists have finally built something you've all been waiting for: a recoilless AK-47. According to Stephen Chen in the South China Morning Post. Now you might say to yourself, do we really need the recoilless AK-47 rifle? And the answer is yes. If you want to put it on a drone. If you want your drone to go around and murder people, it would be nice to have a recoilless one so it doesn't knock the drone out of orbit. So good news, people. There's the perfect murdering device now.

So if you put some AI facial recognition on your drone, which is completely practical, and you give it GPS navigation so that there's no amount of jamming that will stop it from getting to its destination, which is now completely practical, and then you put the recoilless rifle on it, which is now completely practical, and then you track somebody's location by their phone, which if you're the government is completely practical, and then you could just send your drone out to shoot him and then go bury itself in the ocean, sink itself in the ocean so they can't find the gun. So that's a thing now.

Yeah, so the GPS jamming is not going to work if you've got the AI that can recognize the ground from the sky. In other words, it will look at satellite images and it will know where it is just from the image. So that's cool.

All right. Here's what I call the reverse of a good job. What would be the opposite of a good job? In this case, the situation is coming up with a headline to make somebody click on something and read the story. Now, as you know, there are a lot of stories that are clickbait. Literally the headline is better than the story

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and you're like, really? Really? Trump ate a baby? I got to see what that's about. Click, click, click. But there are some headlines that make you definitely not read the story, and those are more interesting to me. Here's a headline that made me definitely not click the story. It was in The Hill, and the headline, it's an opinion piece, but the headline is "How Well Does Donald Trump Understand…

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