Scott Adams: In his own words
Over on Twitter (@ScottAdamsSays) I coined the word outragism and defined it as the act of generating public outrage by quoting famous people out of context. Creating the word is only the first part of my strategy. My plan is to arm victims of false accusations with a word that has equal…
Read MoreRegular readers know about my law of slow-moving disasters. The idea is that society always avoids global disasters that are slow-moving because we rise to the challenge even when it seems impossible. Peak oil didn’t happen Y2K was a big nothing Malthus was wrong that we would run out of…
Read MoreI love watching a good idea kill a bad idea. It doesn’t happen often. The more typical situation is that people have opinions, those opinions are resistant to data, and everything stays the same until you die. But sometimes a new idea is just so obviously better than competing ideas…
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