Scott Adams: In his own words
Note: If you came here from Twitter, I use “kittens” as my code for climate science to thwart Twitter’s shadowban on my tweets. — You probably know that actor Leonardo DiCaprio is a climate activist, and he is trying to persuade the world that climate change is both real and serious. Someone…
Read MoreI’m testing a WhenHub visualization that is optimized for comics. Here are some of my Robots Read News comics that I thought worked best. For optimal viewing, click the icon in the lower right of the Whencast to view as a full page. [Whencast is no longer online, so there’s nothing to…
Read MoreSnapchat is tanking [archive]. As I predicted here.
Read MoreIn a word, yes, assuming they had lots of help from the CIA to deliver their persuasion. I would not have said this was possible five years ago. But in 2017, cognitive scientists know how to reprogram a human brain fairly effectively. They have weaponized what hypnotists have been doing…
Read MoreAfter the hilarious Rachel Maddow face-plant on live television, with her scoop on President Trump’s 2005 taxes – all two pages of it – the big question in the news today is about who leaked it. The worst punditry you will see on this question is coming from the people who say…
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 More[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…
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