Episode 2948 CWSA 09/04/25 — Scott Adams Philosophy

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that's just topping it off right there. Well, apparently today the RoboTaxi app from Tesla is available for download. I don't know what that implies for when you will be able to use your Tesla as a driverless sort of an Uber, but at least you've got the app. I imagine it will depend on your state and local. In case I haven't mentioned it, my book *Loserthink*, which was published a few years ago…

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lane. This is not your expertise."

Well, how are the experts doing compared to the people who have no expertise and are just guessing? It's pretty close to a tie, I would say. So if your argument is that the person involved is no expert in that field, you really have to consider what the experts versus the non-expert track record is, right?

You don't sound smart. I think there was a time when that would sound smart. So you have to adjust that to the current day. And you also have to think, tell me anything important in the world.

Whoa, cats destroying something in another room.

Tell me anything in the world that was made that was important, like a real big breakthrough, by somebody who was an expert at that thing. It's like, you know, Steve Jobs couldn't program. Yeah, I can go down the list. Basically, nobody was an expert until they figured it out.

So "stay in your lane" is the worst advice. And if you happen to say that to somebody, well, there might be a little loserthink going on.

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Well, apparently according to *Live Sci

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ence*, there's now an AI-powered robot dog that can play badminton against humans, which makes sense because most of the other animals, they don't play badminton. So if you're going to make a robot that plays badminton, you should make it so it can play against a human. Because if you make it to play against, let's say, a beaver or a squirrel, well, you're not really gonna have any good matches be…

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"How are the experts doing compared to the people who have no expertise and are just guessing? It's pretty close to a tie, I would say. So if your argument is that the person involved is no expert in that field, you really have to consider what the experts versus the non-expert track record is, right?"

Experts often perform only marginally better than total non-experts who are simply guessing, so dismissing an idea purely on lack of credentials is weaker than it first appears.

"Tell me anything in the world that was important, like a real big breakthrough, by somebody who was an expert at that thing. Steve Jobs couldn't program. Basically, nobody was an expert until they figured it out. So 'stay in your lane' is the worst advice."

The world's biggest breakthroughs almost never come from established experts; people become experts by jumping in and figuring it out. Therefore 'stay in your lane' is terrible advice.