Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 12, 2026
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really wanted it wouldn't shock you or surprise you that much. That we just need to know what it is. And we don't know which of his several fairly good reasons for doing what he's doing, we don't know which one is the activating one. But if we did I'll bet we could figure out something pretty quickly. And he's also a practical person, right? The one we think would you say that's a fair characteri…

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hat fusion reaction could do in any given second. So humans can't do it. You can't engineer something to do it. But AI can watch it and learn.

So they do the reaction, they turn the AI on and they say okay AI figure out how to control this thing. And then the AI, mostly through trial and error, figures out how to control fusion. That actually happened. Like they actually trained an AI to go figure out how to make a fusion reaction work and it worked. Now the AI only did the one part of it which is keeping it stable apparently. But it worked. Do you know how big a deal that is? Real big. Like real, real, real big. Like really big. It's about as big as anything's ever been in the history of humankind. Did I oversell that? I don't think that's an overstatement. That if this AI solution for keeping the fusion stable, if it's what it looks like, and of course you know anything could be different than the way it looks in the news, but if it's what it looks like this could be the key, the key element to unlocking fusion. We might be pretty close.

Here's another thing that Trump was so right about. Trump's approach was sort of a business person's approach to energy. That a country that has a strong energy base or policy or production is always going to be in the best shape. It's just a basic rule of thumb that if you have the best energy producing business you have the best economy. Like everything works from that. Cheap energy, blah blah blah.

But here are some of the things that happened once Trump's pro-energy policies were replaced immediately by Biden's stop all the carbon because of climate change stuff. So certainly we lost jobs. Certainly it affected the GDP. What Biden did, which of course affects the tax base which of course affects funding for schools and everything else, we hoped to decrease the carbon use because of climate change but it increased it apparently. A major coal company had its best year ever or in many years. The coal companies were just killing it. Coal companies had reduced by 50 percent in terms of how much energy they were producing for the country. They had gone down by 50 percent and a lot of that was because the pro-energy policy of Trump and before that made gas more competitive so you didn't need coal, natural gas. And so now that that's been reversed more coal has been burned. So Biden got us more coal, fewer jobs, lower GDP, less tax base for schools. We end up with less stable power. Of course the high price of all forms of energy causes inflation. And then we also lose our international leverage. If fuel were cheap Americans would be paying low prices, our economy would be better, but Russia would have a lot less money to amass an army on the border of Ukraine. Basically almost everything good comes out of a strong energy economy. Try to come up with an exception. Can you think of an economy that has a strong energy base that isn't doing better than its peers? I know now you're

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gonna have to adjust this for whether it's Nigeria, make it an African standard versus etc. But I feel like it's a one-to-one isn't it? Pretty close. That energy equals good life. Well Russia, Russia is an example of energy being the only reason they have the lifestyle they have, isn't it? If you took energy away from Russia it wouldn't even be anything. There wouldn't be anything there at all be…

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