Posted February 10th, 2015 @ 10:06am in #robots Uber Google
I don’t know what wondrous technology the future holds, but as a proud human being I will never submit to taking orders from machines. That is a line I will not cross.
Okay, right, I do take orders from the GPS device in my car, but only because I want to go to those places. In general, no machine is going to order me around!
0 CommentsPosted February 9th, 2015 @ 9:29am
I’ve been using my Twitter account (@ScottAdamsSays) to learn what types of content are favorited the most. My plan is to do more of the good stuff and less of the bad stuff, once I figure out which is which. Maybe you can help me find a pattern?
0 CommentsPosted February 6th, 2015 @ 9:58am in #beauty brains school
Which combination of qualities would you want for your children?
1. Average intelligence and beauty
2. High intelligence and average looks
In the United States, people my age were raised to value brains over beauty. But, as you know, my parents’ generation – the so-called Greatest Generation – were simpletons who didn’t know science from magic. Maybe we should go back and check some of their assumptions.
0 CommentsPosted February 5th, 2015 @ 9:09am in #viral writing
What makes one piece of media content go viral and another a dud? I’ve been living that question for most of my career. If you count the 365 Dilbert comics I create each year, my blogging, my writing for other publications, and my books, I’ve seen a lot of my own content go viral, and far more it go nowhere. Is there a pattern?
0 CommentsPosted February 3rd, 2015 @ 9:20am in #unitedstatesconstitution #flattax NRA
What would happen if 30% of taxpayers in the United States suddenly decided to ignore their complicated tax returns and instead pay a self-imposed flat tax?
And let’s say these folks are working together, so they pick the same flat tax rate. And lets say there are some credible economists supporting the rate they pick.
What the hell happens then?
0 CommentsPosted February 2nd, 2015 @ 9:13am in #diet fitness science climate change
What’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.
0 CommentsPosted January 29th, 2015 @ 7:10am in #outragism #outragist
Over 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.
0 CommentsPosted January 28th, 2015 @ 7:24am in #apps #user interface #os #apple #android
If you were to design a smartphone interface from scratch, without any legacy issues, would it look like a bunch of app icons sitting on a home screen?
No. Because that would be stupid.
0 CommentsPosted January 27th, 2015 @ 7:12am in #obamacare #a-b testing #Obama
If I told you the government was planning some sort of new program to benefit its citizens, your initial reaction might be, “uh-oh.” Governments aren’t smart. And the last thing you want from a dumb entity is “more.”
Governments have smart people working for them. But when you sum up the parts of government, you get less than the whole, thanks to bureaucratic inefficiency, political in-fighting and whatnot.
But what if that were about to change?
0 CommentsPosted January 26th, 2015 @ 7:26am in #optimist #apple
When something unexpected and bad happens to you, what is your initial reaction?
I hate to admit this, but my first reaction is usually excitement.
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