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> How or why Scott Adams went completely of the rails is perhaps something we'll sadly never understand He explains it himself, if you are open to primary sour
by CGMthrowaway 10mo ago
> How or why Scott Adams went completely of the rails is perhaps something we'll sadly never understand
He explains it himself, if you are open to primary source material.
- rsynnott 10mo agoA crazy person's account of how they went crazy should not generally be considered reliable.
- CGMthrowaway 10mo agoIsn't his accounting of things the reason you judge him as crazy in the first place? I would assume you aren't just taking your personal opinions, uncritically, from others'.
- cosmicgadget 10mo agoIt's one way. Another is to simply observe his words and actions.
- PlanksVariable 10mo agoI started paying attention to him when he got sick. He seemed very reasonable about most things, and extremely insightful about many things. I certainly don’t think he deserved the posthumous label “crazy person.”
- wat10000 10mo agoI started paying attention to him in the 90s and he was already crazy then. The only difference is that he was the fun kind of crazy, talking nonsense about quantum mechanics and such, rather than the disturbing racist crazy he became later on.
- rsynnott 10mo agoI read his one of his books in the 90s, in which he talked about how he believed in magic (specifically a rather hardline interpretation of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_attraction_(New_Thought) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_attraction_(New_Thought... via 'quantum' magic). He's been fairly out there for a while.
- PlanksVariable 10mo agoWhat book was that? All his books published prior to the 2000s were Dilbert compilations, so you might have the wrong date or the wrong person.
- rsynnott 10mo agoThe Dilbert Future (1997), apparently (ref https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Scott_Adams#Adams_knows_The_Secret https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Scott_Adams#Adams_knows_The_Se...)
- CGMthrowaway 10mo agoIdk about the law of attraction, but I can say one thing for sure: if you don't believe in the law of attraction it will never come true