Scott Adams: In his own words
Is the Slippery Slope argument EVER rational? One example of a slippery slope that I keep hearing is seat belt laws. Seat belts started out as optional equipment but eventually became mandatory. But that seems like a reasonable change. Are we afraid of reasonable changes? So I put the question to you….
Read MoreHumorists have often pointed out that you need a license to go fishing but you don’t need a license to create a human being and ruin its life through bad parenting. I can’t imagine my government requiring a license for parenting, no matter how sensible the idea sounds. To do…
Read MoreToday I read an opinion that I didn’t understand, criticizing the media for not understanding a study. So I read that study. I didn’t understand it. And I still have an opinion. Because this is the Internet, damn it. The topic of the study is whether or not the amount of time a mother spends with…
Read MoreUpdate 4/7/15: New questions added from comments. I will ask Jimmy Akin to add any questions of his own and begin responding. This post is strictly to prep for an upcoming “verdict” from me on the topic of assisted dying, using the Rationality Engine I have been testing in this blog. The…
Read MoreWar seems like a permanent part of the human condition. It has been with us forever and there is no obvious end in sight. So I think you would agree that if we had a reasonable plan to end war in 200 years, for example, that would be an amazing…
Read MoreCalifornia’s politicians are considering legislation on assisted dying. I plan to get involved in the debate but I have one problem: I can’t find anyone who is against it. Can you help me find a human with an opposing opinion? If such a human exists, he or she must be…
Read MoreI believe the Era of Humans will end in my organic lifetime. I expect to see the first humans transfer their minds into non-organic vessels (meaning software, maybe robot bodies) within twenty years. In fifty years, no human will want to suffer through an organic lifestyle. It just won’t make…
Read MoreHow hard is it to write three sentences for my experimental web comic Robots Read News? Probably harder than it looks. I think of the writing process as having about eighteen layers. And one of those layers has six dimensions. If you get any of it wrong, your writing lays on…
Read MoreBusiness Insider asked me to describe my morning routine. You might be interested in how rigidly I control my body and my environment to invite creativity in.
Read MoreHow hard is it to write three sentences for my experimental web comic Robots Read News? Probably harder than it looks. I think of the writing process as having about eighteen layers. And one of those layers has six dimensions. If you get any of it wrong, your writing lays on…
Read More[3/25/15 FINAL UPDATE and Verdict at end of post] Against all odds, it appears my post last week on gender bias in the workplace has been accepted as “balanced” by both the feminist side and the Red Pill guys on Reddit. I am confident no one saw that coming. [I scrubbed…
Read MoreI am experimenting with a web comic about a robot with a bad attitude reading the news. I decided to triple-dip today and use my comic strip practice as a blog post while also pointing to the new bloggers on this site. Efficiency! [Update: I added a non-edgy version of…
Read MoreWhat’s is science’s biggest fail of all time? I nominate everything about diet and fitness. Maybe science has the diet and fitness stuff mostly right by now. I hope so. But I thought the same thing twenty years ago and I was wrong. I used to think fatty food made you…
Read MoreOver 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 MoreSome research-dudes in Denmark have expressed doubts about whether the so-called “God particle” (Higgs Boson) has really been discovered. The doubters say the experiments that allegedly found the God particle are not precise enough to know for sure. Although the “God particle” is just a clever name, and has nothing to do…
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