Scott Adams: In his own words
[Update: fixed bad email address in step 3.] Most of the remaining problems in the world are information problems in disguise. For example, our politicians in the United States are trying to figure out how to provide health insurance to low-income people without breaking the budget. It looks impossible, at…
Read MoreLet’s take a look at the things that are going well for President Trump, and the things that are not, and see if there is a pattern. Here I will include topics that are not necessarily the president’s accomplishments or faults. I’ll simply describe the current state of things. Things…
Read MoreHere’s a link to a smart person who does a better job than I did at explaining the problems with climate models [archive]. I mentioned on social media a few times that I am using public persuasion to split the climate science debate into two parts. One part is the basic…
Read MoreAfter 18 months of reading my blog posts about President Trump’s talents for persuasion, you might wonder how persuasive I am on my own. If you have already read my book, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big, check out this article in Business Insider to see an example of…
Read MoreNote: If you got here from the link in my tweet, I used “orange kitten” to thwart Twitter’s shadowban on me. — Back in 2014 B.T. (Before Trump), the headlines were all about income inequality. I don’t recall hearing much of anything about immigration in the news. Then candidate Trump – the…
Read MoreI don’t know much about science, and even less about climate science. So as a practical matter, I like to side with the majority of scientists until they change their collective minds. They might be wrong, but their guess is probably better than mine. That said, it is mind-boggling to…
Read MoreThe other day, President Trump declared that “President Obama was tapping my phones in October, just prior to Election!” Then the world went nuts. Former CIA Director James Clapper denied that Trump was wiretapped, saying, “There was no such wiretap activity mounted against the president, the president-elect at the time, or…
Read MoreI will bet anyone $1 million dollars that I can come up with a climate forecast model that ignores C02 and still predicts the temperature 30 years from now to within half a degree. Does anyone want to take that bet? Obviously there is a trick involved, so I won’t…
Read MorePeople keep asking me whether I predicted the Trump presidency or influenced it. There’s no way to know. Or is there? The Google search trend for “cognitive dissonance” is up. But that could be a coincidence. In case you have been missing Robots Read News, here’s a new one. — Do…
Read MoreNote: Twitter is hiding my tweets about politics from my followers, so I use the code word “kittens” in those tweets to beat their censorship bot. — Here’s a funny article by David Wong of Cracked that talks about the dopamine high we sometimes get from outrage. The gist of it is that…
Read MoreI’m still in beta mode for my YouTube channel. But improving. Here’s this morning’s chat, mostly about President Trump’s speech. — Are you swarming to a meet-up? Try WhenHub and optionally stream your location (temporarily only) on the way to the meet. It changes the entire experience.
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