Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 12, 2026
Scott Adams Philosophy Archive
Search ideas

Context —

eft of Bernie which is sort of a category that I'm not even sure exists. But because I brand myself as ambiguous in theory according to everything we know about science and persuasion you should give me a more clear opinion of both teams because I don't say I'm not on the team and I don't say I am on the team. I observe very few people in the United States are actually observers. Somebody says no…

← Previous segment →

obviously a lie, he's not saying what he means, if I did that even for a second it would completely ruin everything that I'm trying to do.

All right there's a Forbes article about me that says I have an agenda. Yeah whenever you see anybody writing about anybody whether it's me or anybody else and they purport to know what you're thinking or your real intentions, sometimes they're right but you should assume that by a large margin they're usually not. Maybe 60% of the time.

Somebody says you want to be recognized as the smartest person in the room. Not smartest. That bar would be too high because you know the smartest people in the world are so smart that they're almost alien creatures and I'm not going to make a play for being the smartest person in the world. That's a completely out of reach. I would like to make a play for developing some systems and techniques to keep one relatively open-minded and free from the bubbles that we get into. So I would like to stake out that I have some technique and it's just technique, something anybody can do, that keep me relatively free from bias. Not free from bias because people can't do that. Nobody can be free from bias. But you can use some tools to put a control on it. And I try to demonstrate that through prediction. So if you've been watching you know that my claim is not that I have been right about s

Context —

omething but rather that I'm predicting something and you can see that if this filter on the world that I present, the persuasion filter as I like to call it, then if it's accurate you'll see that the predictions are accurate. So that's the only standard that I'd like to be judged on. All right I got other things to do. I'm gonna go do them right now and I hope that you have an amazing day. Talk…

Next segment → →