Scott Adams: In his own words
I wouldn’t bother reading this if I were you. I’m just venting. The story goes like this… Bought a Gateway computer from Best Buy It breaks, as electronics do when near me. Independent computer repair guy replaces a bad board. Windows thinks I have a new machine because it doesn’t…
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…
Read MoreMy stalker is back. Regular readers know that a Canadian woman named Christina Lane goes off her meds every few years and fills the Internet with stories of how I secretly travel to Canada to ransack her apartment and sexually abuse everyone I meet along the way. She also believes…
Read More[Update: Answered. Thank you. http://www.deathwithdignity.org/advocates/national] And now I am seriously pissed off that there are so few pending bills. Where is California? Let me bang out a few comics this morning and circle back to this. You won’t want to miss it because I just chewed through my leash. —- old…
Read MoreWarning: This blog is written for a rational audience that likes to have fun wrestling with unique or controversial points of view. It is written in a style that can easily be confused as advocacy for one sort of unpleasantness or another. It is not intended to change anyone’s beliefs or…
Read MoreWarning: This blog is written for a rational audience that likes to have fun wrestling with unique or controversial points of view. It is written in a style that can easily be confused as advocacy for one sort of unpleasantness or another. It is not intended to change anyone’s beliefs or…
Read MoreThere are only two reasons to have privacy and both of them involve dysfunction. You might want privacy because… 1. you plan to do something illegal or unethical. or 2. to protect you from a dysfunctional world. I think we can agree that if the ONLY reason for privacy were…
Read MoreOne of the most dependable rules of investing is that stocks as a whole revert to their mean price-earnings ratio over time. When stock prices are high compared to company earnings, on a historical basis, you can count on prices to come down in the long run. But why? Is…
Read More[Update: I haven’t seen in the comments an example of intelligent behavior that a human has and a computer does not (or can not have) with today’s technology. I see examples of things that GROUPS of humans can do (design a better computer) and I see examples where the missing…
Read MoreI was raised as a Methodist and I was a believer until the age of eleven. Then I lost faith and became an annoying atheist for decades. In recent years I’ve come to see religion as a valid user interface to reality. The so-called “truth” of the universe is irrelevant…
Read MoreI’ve been spending a lot of time in Silicon Valley for my day job at CalendarTree. I feel like an embedded journalist. You might be interested in some of the things I’ve discovered. The most fascinating phenomenon in the start-up world is called the pivot. That word has been used…
Read MoreIn a thousand years, assuming humans survive, it looks as if we might know how to make a human embryo using nothing but a 3D printer. Scientists can already grow ears, print blood and print teeth. I don’t see why future humans won’t someday be printing DNA. In order to…
Read MoreSome have asked about my goal in producing Robots Read News on this blog. I don’t have a goal. Goals are limiting. I prefer systems (as I describe more fully in my latest book.) A system is something you do on a regular basis to improve your odds of success –…
Read MoreWarning: This blog is written for a rational audience that likes to have fun wrestling with unique or controversial points of view. It is written in a style that can easily be confused as advocacy for one sort of unpleasantness or another. It is not intended to change anyone’s beliefs or…
Read MoreGoals work great for simple situations. But the world is rarely simple these days. You don’t know what your career will look like in a year. You don’t know what the economy will be doing, or which new technologies will hit the scene. Your personal life is just as unpredictable….
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