Careercow Scott Raymond Adams / @ScottAdamsSays / “Real Coffee With Scott Adams” - The Washed Up Cartoonist Behind “Dilbert”, Creator of “The Dilberito”, Professional Bullying Victim, Political Grifter, Terminally Online Narcissistic Boomer, Divorced Twice, Is (Not) Glad His Stepson Overdosed. This is Not a Racial Politics Debate Thread

[NSA]

It's worth noting he makes heavy - HEAVY use of weed and is probably slow cooking his brain into dementia as a result.

I can't wait for the Howard Hughes arc. Actually, it's already here.

 

[b0o0pinsn0o0tz]

I had some idea Dilbert guy was a fucking weirdo due to the recent twitter shitstorm but damn he's seriously fucking crazy. If he laces his daily coffee with lsd I wouldn't be surprised.

The affirmations stuff is laughable nonsense and him being a hypnotist really explains where that kind of stuff comes from. Lastly Dilbert guy since you're probably reading this you senile boomer attention whore...

OOOOO YOU WILL PUT ON THE SOCKS AND BE A CUTE GIRL OOOO

 

[SBG]

I think if you want to understand Scott it helps to keep in mind that he has a thing about "thinking in probabilities" which he believes makes him a superior mind in comparison to most of humanity.

The idea is he may believe something is 40% one way or 60% another, so if either scenario turns out to be the truth then it means he was right all along. He is effectively infallible because he doesn't believe anything is 100% absolutely true. It's why he gets so angry whenever anyone suggests he was genuinely just wrong about something, because he didn't believe that wrong thing 100%.

If you infer any beliefs of his from his statements, you're also attempting to read his mind.

So he gets a gigantic ego due to never being able to be wrong and no one can prove he was wrong because it'd mean they were bizarrely attempting to mind read. Lot of his followers also seem to enjoy this idea of thinking on a higher level by thinking in probabilities, probably because it means becoming infallible, so they don't seem to question any of this. However he really does seem like a true believer that you can't really judge anyone and label them anything unless they agree, since I remember when he interviewed someone that attended Charlottesville and deemed him not racist even though it was the kind of person that almost obsessively hates the Jews and defended the idea of David Duke showing up as a speaker (nice guy but he is racist).

 

[Norman B. Normal]

Speaking as a member of Dogbert's New Ruling Class (DNRC) dating back to the mid-90s, Scott Adams is unquestionably a lolcow and this thread is ready for the grown-up Farms. My only feedback is to delete his middle name from the thread title. No one knows what Scott Adams's mddle name is, but they know who Scott Adams is and they know he's an absolute freak.

 

[Sarah Connor]

It's worth noting he makes heavy - HEAVY use of weed and is probably slow cooking his brain into dementia as a result.

Have you heard him talk for more than, say, 30 minutes? He’s slowly slipping into the same level of coherency as Joe Biden - listen to how he goes back and forth on the coof vaccine. At first he was all pissy that vaccines were being “forced” on people, it’s all incentivized by Bill Gates, blah blah blah, and then a few episodes later he was talking about how vaccines work and anybody who doesn’t get one is “a fucking idiot”. Same with the mask mandate, at the beginning he said that people who wore masks were fearful, sheep, and now people who don’t wear masks are “playing with fire”. I don’t care what any bodies opinions are about vaccines/masks, but at this point, it seems like a nil point to keep bitching about them the way he does (trying to maintain any kind of relevancy I suppose?)

Perhaps he should start microdosing, get himself a mistress, and become a Norm Summerton-esque coomer. He’s a boomer that’s addicted to Twitter so he’s halfway there.

 

[ditto]

The idea is he may believe something is 40% one way or 60% another

That sounds like that smug "Bayesian thinking" the 538 dude made popular a couple years ago. Although I've never heard Adams go on about "my priors" so he can't even fake that properly.

His religious beliefs as well as this affirmations beliefs seems to be based on New Though philosophy, a form of American idealism (Mind constructs reality) and Proto New age.

L. Ron Hubbard was big into that and kept a journal of his affirmations.
Scott Adams Scientdilberology arc in the wings?

 

[Steinercard]

I actually agree with Scott about the Skill Stack thing. I think in general it's a good idea to have a set of skills that fit together you are good at and learned over time than one hyperfocused thing you are amazing at. But I always thought most people come to that revelation after a certain age. And it isn't super profound.

Also on "Afirmations" it has been my experience in life that when I think more positively about stuff there is a greater chance for positive things to occur. It's not certain. But more likely. And when I'm a mopey and pessimistic shit bad things will absolutely happen. But I don't feel the need to clothe it in psudo science I just live my life. It just seems like a lot of autists, (including myself at times) Scott just wants to explain and rationalise every last thing he does instead of just getting on with life. Even if the explanations are retarded and illogical.

 

[A Happy Cheerful]

Thanks for the thread OP, Clotty Scottie has been in need of one for a while.

I think you could go more in depth about what I call the "Clot Saga", of which the Shelly meltdown is part of, it goes like this:

1. Adams starts covering covid in his show.
2. As the months go on and the vaccine is released he goes back and forth considering the risks and benefits of it.
3. Decides to get it, broadcasts his decision, painstakingly describing his thought process on how it is the better choice.
4. Eventually studies show how useless and clot inducing it is.
5. Scott starts have several mini-meltdowns on twitter and starts coping hard on his streams, people start smelling his weakness. Claims antivaxxers were "guessing right" among other nuclear grade copes.
   
6. Somehow the nickname "Clott Adams" emerges, presumably from /pol/ as they were milking him during this time.
7. The rightoids that are supposed to be his audience keep clowning on him for like a month, he is at his wits' end which results in the Shelly meltdown.
8. Much lols are had at his expense, the one and only Ben Garrison joins the fun and delivers this linguistic killshot.
   
9. Clott quietly stops bringing up the topic and pretends to move on.

Sorry for the lack of sources on all this, dude puts out a massive amount of stuff that's impossible to wade through and I am going off the top of my head. He used to be one of my cows for a while so I will try to keep tabs on this thread.

 

[Cool Dog]

Never knew why corpos were paying him millions for merch and talks when he was essentially shitting all over them

Like a musician whose deeply personal song is best known by another artist covering it, Dilbert is only interesting when used as a backdrop for surreal shitpost humor.

Has anyone showed him those clips and what did he say?

The irony of a has-been show making fun of a has-been comic

And of all the crazy shit this nigga says of course they only focus on the white shit, the fags from robot chicken have terminal TDS

because everyone would be masturbating furiously inside the virtual reality, and nothing would get done.

Any similarities with the present are pure coincidence

 

[Cyberpunk Panatela]

That sounds like that smug "Bayesian thinking" the 538 dude made popular a couple years ago. Although I've never heard Adams go on about "my priors" so he can't even fake that properly.

Are you perchance referring to that Eliezer Yudkowsky individual of Singularity sperging fame, probably best known for shitting his pants about "Roko's Basilisk"?

Adams' version sounds more like a garbled understanding of p-values (undergraduate students have sometimes told me something similar, along the line of "well, the power value is the chance that the theory is true or false, if the p-value in an article is 0.10 then there's a 10% chance of the article being wrong") along with an attempt to apply this to daily life.

If you combine this with the "I choose the state of my universe" affirmations shit you have a declaration of literal infallibility along with omnipotence.

You would also have a hell of a problem in logically reconciling the two concepts. I'd like to know how Mr. Adams does that without having to discard one or the other. It's probably easier not to bother, especially if you want to claim the benefits of both.

I will also say that some people should stay the fuck away from all psychotropic drugs, including cannabis.

 

[SBG]

I actually agree with Scott about the Skill Stack thing. I think in general it's a good idea to have a set of skills that fit together you are good at and learned over time than one hyperfocused thing you are amazing at. But I always thought most people come to that revelation after a certain age. And it isn't super profound.

It is pretty sensible, but I think it’s an extension of his dressing up common sense.

He describes things like this that are common sense in fairly strange ways which can make them sound like new concepts, so it ends up sorta clicking with people and making them imagine they’re seeing the world in a new unique way.

Regarding the vaccine nonsense, I think the reason that pissed off Scott so much was he couldn’t fence sit or do his probability bullshitting as he made a definite choice which could be criticized. Can’t really pretend you’re skeptical of everything if you actually get the shot most of your audience is skeptical about.

 

[veeeeeeeee]

I think if you want to understand Scott it helps to keep in mind that he has a thing about "thinking in probabilities" which he believes makes him a superior mind in comparison to most of humanity.

The idea is he may believe something is 40% one way or 60% another, so if either scenario turns out to be the truth then it means he was right all along. He is effectively infallible because he doesn't believe anything is 100% absolutely true. It's why he gets so angry whenever anyone suggests he was genuinely just wrong about something, because he didn't believe that wrong thing 100%.

The odds of anything happening are always 50/50, because either it happens or it doesn't. I'm smart :^)

 

[NSA]

A "positive affirmation" is really just a prayer with different window dressing. Instead of praying to God, you're just praying to yourself because you are a Le high-IQ atheist enlightened by your own intelligence. It's still just a prayer though.

"Dear Scott Adams, please let Scott Adams get rich. Amen."

Sort of like how Scott believes in the simulation - which is just religion with extra steps and it sounds more sciencey. It's not a "miracle" you plebian, it's the simulation adjusting itself to create a miracle unexpected event. I don't believe in magic, fool. I'm just manipulating the simulation with an affirmation you see. No need for morality or humility. *sips coffee

 

[Cyberpunk Panatela]

"Dear Scott Adams, please let Scott Adams get rich. Amen."

Sort of like how Scott believes in the simulation - which is just religion with extra steps and it sounds more sciencey. It's not a "miracle" you plebian, it's the simulation adjusting itself to create a miracle unexpected event. I don't believe in magic, fool. I'm just manipulating the simulation with an affirmation you see. No need for morality or humility. *sips coffee

Back in the day we just called this shit solipsism.

Bertrand Russell had an anecdote about that in one of his books (Probably History of Western Philosophy).

He received a letter from a woman which read "Dear Mr. Russell. I have long realised that Solipsism is the only truly sensible and consistent philosophy, and have been a practicing Solipsist for the past five years.

What I would like to know is: Where are all the others?"

 

[ditto]

Are you perchance referring to that Eliezer Yudkowsky individual of Singularity sperging fame, probably best known for shitting his pants about "Roko's Basilisk"?

Nate Silver and his insufferable fans (BTFO by the 2016 election). There's a large overlap between them and LessWrong,

solipsism

Bingo.

Sort of like how Scott believes in the simulation - which is just religion with extra steps and it sounds more sciencey.

Taking the simulation stuff seriously is so fucking stupid. They start talking about "glitches" and how things have changed and such..
What they actually seem to believe is The Matrix (1999) is real life (oh and by my tard book to get the red pill)

 

[Captain_Twitch]

I think if you want to understand Scott it helps to keep in mind that he has a thing about "thinking in probabilities" which he believes makes him a superior mind in comparison to most of humanity.

The idea is he may believe something is 40% one way or 60% another, so if either scenario turns out to be the truth then it means he was right all along. He is effectively infallible because he doesn't believe anything is 100% absolutely true. It's why he gets so angry whenever anyone suggests he was genuinely just wrong about something, because he didn't believe that wrong thing 100%.

If you infer any beliefs of his from his statements, you're also attempting to read his mind.

So he gets a gigantic ego due to never being able to be wrong and no one can prove he was wrong because it'd mean they were bizarrely attempting to mind read. Lot of his followers also seem to enjoy this idea of thinking on a higher level by thinking in probabilities, probably because it means becoming infallible, so they don't seem to question any of this. However he really does seem like a true believer that you can't really judge anyone and label them anything unless they agree, since I remember when he interviewed someone that attended Charlottesville and deemed him not racist even though it was the kind of person that almost obsessively hates the Jews and defended the idea of David Duke showing up as a speaker (nice guy but he is racist).

That’s exactly my take on him as well. He can’t be wrong if he takes both sides of every issue all the time.

I just don’t understand why he feels he has to do it. The whole charade just makes him seem insufferable.

 

[Pissmaster]

Adams believes in a kind of magic words pseudoscience.

Back around 2016 he used to go on about "Master Wizards" that knew just the right combo of words to unlock a hypnotizing ability on people.

Trump was of course one of these people because of the "only Rosie O'Donnell" line. The founding fathers too because of "We the People" has this same hypnotic effect.

He dropped the "wizard" part near the end of 2016 and deleted mentions in the blog comments. I think he discovered the incel use of wizard and backed off as fast a possible.

IIRC he called them "Master Persuaders". He had some good points about what made for good speechcraft, but with his own branding. Trump killed Megyn Kelly's momentum she was building against him with that Rosie O'Donnell joke, totally defanging her "you hate WOMEN" accusation in the process by dropping a slick joke and distracting everyone. That was a masterstroke of shitposting, something everyone should learn to do, but it's not hypnosis.

If I could do hypnosis I would hypnotize all supporters into giving this post a Deviant sticker because it's the funniest sticker

 

[Markass the Worst]

IIRC he called them "Master Persuaders". He had some good points about what made for good speechcraft, but with his own branding. Trump killed Megyn Kelly's momentum she was building against him with that Rosie O'Donnell joke, totally defanging her "you hate WOMEN" accusation in the process by dropping a slick joke and distracting everyone. That was a masterstroke of shitposting, something everyone should learn to do, but it's not hypnosis.

If I could do hypnosis I would hypnotize all supporters into giving this post a Deviant sticker because it's the funniest sticker

It's fine if he's just describing how Trump's speeches get that certain special autism quality that's so unique to him, but where Adams really goes off the deep end is when he extrapolates it to say "Trump will win the presidency" or whatever. He correctly guessed that Trump would win 2016 (with whatever schizo reasoning he used) but now its just embarassing after Trump lost 2020. Broken clock is right twice a day and all that.

 

[ditto]

IIRC he called them "Master Persuaders".

I think that's what he used after starting off "wizard" and then with "master wizard" which really is a retread of Robert Cialdini's book Persuation from the 80s.

The art of good speechifyin goes back to the ancient Greeks, but Adams like to think he's giving some amazing new insights.

 

[Blacked]

The cycle continues





Scott has now adopted the new tactic of simply responding #Artist in response to his critics, completely destroying their credibility and winning the argument. Never mind the fact that he himself is technically a #Artist


Along side this, he’s been on a blocking spree