Back to episode — Episode 2979 Coffee With Scott Adams 10/5/25
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s in the air at the same time. But somebody brought a drone jammer. So somebody started jamming the drones, and there were thousands of them, and they started falling from the sky. Somebody said it might have been a demonstration of drone defense, in which case they should have been falling out of the sky, but it didn't look like it to me. It looked like a prank. I saw that in a post by Massimo on…
← Previous segment →about psilocybin helping somebody's mental health, and 100 percent of the time it works every single time. So do you think it worked with health care workers and their depression and burnout? Yes, it did. Yes, it did. Just in case you wondered, they could have skipped that and just asked Scott. Eric Dolan of The Post was writing about that.
Makes me wonder, is there anything this little psilocybin can't do? Seems like it can do it all.
According to The Post also, Karina Petrova is writing that a little study was done and they found that just a few brief chats with an AI, if the AI is biased, can alter your political opinion. Now, do you believe that? Do you believe that AI can change your political opinion just by chatting with you for a little while? Well, next time just ask me. Yes, I can.
Do you know what the concept is which kind of guarantees that chatting with an AI will be persuasive? What is it? What is the persuasion concept that just guarantees it? The answer is the documentary effect. So I always talk about the documentary effect. The documentary effect is when you're l
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istening to one side of an argument for an extended period of time. Doesn't matter what the argument is. You will be convinced, or at least people will be more likely to be convinced if they listen to one side of an argument without hearing the other side. That's all it is. So it doesn't matter if it comes to you in a documentary or you only look at the stuff in a bubble on social media or you tal…
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