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Scott Adams seems to be pretty divorced from reality, so I would take his ideas with a pinch of salt. (To clarify: He's also claimed that if Biden wins the ele
by Latty 6y ago
Scott Adams seems to be pretty divorced from reality, so I would take his ideas with a pinch of salt.
(To clarify: He's also claimed that if Biden wins the election, Republicans will literally be hunted in the streets, and I think regardless of your political views that is pretty clearly not actually going to happen, so his ability to predict future events with any accuracy isn't something I'd trust. Source: https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1278316325044056064 https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/127831632504405606...)
- smitty1e 6y agoTo clarify: when not raising interesting technical points, he does engage in overt trolling to test cancel culture limits, yes. He has stated this in his Periscopes.
- Latty 6y agoI'm not sure “this person routinely trolls” implies that he is going to have particularly valuable insight either. Are you sure his 5G ideas aren't just trolling too? I can't see how what he suggests requires 5G really.
- sseagull 6y agoSeems like Popehat’s Rule of Goats applies, then. And therefore he is not credible. For the unfamiliar (contains NSFW language) https://twitter.com/popehat/status/858722120620265473 https://twitter.com/popehat/status/858722120620265473
- TooSmugToFail 6y agoAdams is the worst kind racist bigot. Hiding his true face behind "testing the limits", "trolling", and other seemingly clever "unconventional ways of challenging the social norms". That's just the manipulative narrative to make the highly toxic and divisive racist drivel he is peddling more palatable to the more moderate of his fans, who typically fail to see who he really is because their perception of him is framed by Dilbert comics. I am not American, I have no stake in American elections whatsoever, but people like Adams make me question humanity. The guy makes me sick.
- smitty1e 6y agoI do not agree with this assertion. Adams has also claimed twice to have himself been a victim of direct, stated-to-his-face discrimination on the job.
- TooSmugToFail 6y agoWhich supposedly should justify his own racism, and presumably gave birth to his unwavering support for the Orange Idiot, down to dying on the hydroxychloroquine hill, the most idiotic of all.
- swebs 6y agoDoes every thread really have to turn into some us-vs-them USA election fight?
- Shared404 6y agoIt'll be better post-November. Edit: Not to say that it is good or appropriate now, but there is light at the end of the tunnel, at least for a couple years.
- Latty 6y agoThat was very much not my intent. I don't think my comment should be “us-vs-them” as I believe it holds regardless of your political position. The person I was responding to has claimed it was intended as an intentionality absurd “troll”, so it should surely be seen as absurd no matter where you stand.
- andybak 6y agoI read that as a crazy people vs non-crazy people thing.
- casefields 6y agoAnd crazy people already do crazy things. Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Congressional_baseball_shooting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Congressional_baseball_sh...
- andybak 6y agoI genuinely don't understand how that has any real connection to the topic at hand.
- dylan604 6y agoIn this context, it does go to show Scott's not a very valid future predictor.
- smitty1e 6y ago
- jquery 6y agoIn the same thread Scott Adams says all of us will be dead from climate change in 10 years. Scott Adams likes to pull Twitter pranks so I would take these tweets with grain of salts without knowing the larger context.
- smitty1e 6y agoCheck out his Periscopes for a more full exposition of his thought.