Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 12, 2026
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'm thinking is even close. How often do you think it's close? Not often. Let me tell you where my fears were. I'll try to be as honest. I think I could be honest, completely honest about this. So I told you that when the pandemic first started and I was shouting to close the borders there were smart people telling me this civilization was about to end. Actual civilization. And the argument wasn't…

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ve that if you've gone through all of these live streams with me I'm positive that you're smarter than the average like a lot. If I don't say that enough maybe I should. How many of you would agree with that by the way? Here give you a chance to compliment yourself. How many of you would agree with the notion that your ability to reason or at least to detect BS has been improved by watching my live streams? How many of you think you got something out of it? That's a life skill. On Locals it's all yeses.

See lots of okay. Let's see so YouTube just stalled out for a minute here. All right so lots of yeses on YouTube as well, right? And I think that all of that training specifically about spotting illusions is one of the most useful life skills you could ever have. So I don't think it's an exaggeration to say regardless of what I don't know what the education level is or whatever of the viewers I don't have a good sense of that but I would say in terms of just understanding how to analyze a normal situation you're way above average. Way above

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average. Top 20 percent at least. I think I just can't find this way to the end here. You know what's happening is I just enjoy this interaction and so there's no school so I don't have a reason to leave at the moment. All right that is all for now though. So I will go. Talk to you later. Sorry if I seem arrogant.

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