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Post by neuroelectron »

bdhe wrote: post #800
neuroelectron wrote: post #754

Going to miss you Clott Adams. Your self-depreciating humor is a benchmark we really need, especially in the black community, which to it's detriment, has been gassed up to the point were self-reflection is very difficult. Mysterious forces prefer it to be this way and despite us knowing that "black pride," like any kind of pride is a sin, it doesn't seem to be allowed to be addressed. Despite the internet building m…

> A cyberattack targeting an oncology journal has taken it offline that published a peer-reviewed study from Tufts and Brown University exploring links of COVID injections to newly diagnosed or rapidly worsened cancer shortly after COVID injections. Did this have anything to do with your cancer? It doesn't seem like this kind of question is allowed to be entertained either. We had billions of COVID shots. Even if the…

Scott Adams said "anti-VAX were right— accidentally"

Just search for it and read about his dialog with the community around the shot.

He was given the nick name "clott adams" for buying the official narrative at first and getting boosted.

https://x.com/sablaah/status/1610002947135475713?s=20

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Post by mr_toad »

kgarten wrote: post #747
jchallis wrote: post #188

Scott Adams died today. I want to acknowledge something complicated. He always felt culturally like family to me. His peaks—the biting humor about corporate absurdity, the writing on systems thinking and compounding habits, the clarity about the gap between what organizations say and what they do—unquestionably made me healthier, happier, and wealthier. If you worked in tech in the 90s and 2000s, Dilbert was a shared…

“His peaks—the biting humor about corporate absurdity, the writing on systems thinking and compounding habits, the clarity about the gap between what organizations say and what they do—unquestionably made me healthier, happier, and wealthier.” Maybe I’m getting cynical, yet every time I see an mdash and rules of 3, it triggers the feeling of “This sounds like AI” … Here’s another example: “ I can avoid the ugliness—t…

We’re going to get to AGI more quickly than expected if humanity keeps on lowering the bar.

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Post by mr_toad »

iwontberude wrote: post #808
jchallis wrote: post #188

Scott Adams died today. I want to acknowledge something complicated. He always felt culturally like family to me. His peaks—the biting humor about corporate absurdity, the writing on systems thinking and compounding habits, the clarity about the gap between what organizations say and what they do—unquestionably made me healthier, happier, and wealthier. If you worked in tech in the 90s and 2000s, Dilbert was a shared…

Dillbert was too passive, it really was annoying. Peter from Office Space was more liberating.

Dilbert was at the bottom of the McCloud hierarchy:

https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:852/0*1sY0ftV55FfIGW_-...

But so were Alice and Asok; being aggressive and proactive didn’t get them anywhere. The ones at the top, like Catbert and Dogbert weren’t just aggressive, they were sociopaths.

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Post by mr_toad »

georgeburdell wrote: post #265
mrweasel wrote: post #182

I loved Dilbert, having worked for more than one Dilbert-like company the humor frequently resonated with me. How or why Scott Adams went completely of the rails is perhaps something we'll sadly never understand. Was this opinions he'd always had, but suppressed, did he somehow become radicalized or was it perhaps medically induced, e.g. a stroke or something. It was incredibly sad to see him throw away his life's wo…

Adams had a normal range of beliefs. Postulating that they arose from some extrinsic and extra-personal source is a condemnation of your own limited views. People get older and begin to care less about conformity, including keeping controversial thoughts to themselves, as society loosens its reins as your needs are met (to make money, to find a partner, to have a family, etc.)

> Adams had a normal range of beliefs.

You’re probably thinking of politics. You may not have read some of his more philosophical and metaphysical works, which were downright kooky. For example he thought that the universe was the dust of a god that had killed itself.

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Post by [deleted] »

Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #489
IAmBroom wrote: post #242

Earlier quoted context omitted.

See also: JK Rowling. Pre-2018: Inclusion! Weirdos are people too! The marginalized need a voice! Post-2019: Transsexuals are a blight on society! They cause cancer in puppies!

This progressive movement is absolutely totalitarian. As long as you adhere to all mainstream tenets, you're good and virtuous, like pre-2018 JK Rowling. Gay Dumbledore, yay! But if the mainstream tenets change, and some previously loyal followers disagree with some of them, they should be ostracised, cancelled and vilified, like post-2019 JK Rowling. The funny thing is that this is what real fascists and communists…

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Post by Uhhrrr »

teddyh wrote: post #959
Uhhrrr wrote: post #540

This is one of my favorite strips of his: https://static0.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2024/... Another one was the one where he went to work in Marketing, and they were doing their research by yelling questions into a well. But I can't find that one.

> This is one of my favorite strips of his: […] Better link: https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/1997-01-13 > > Another one was the one where he went to work in Marketing, and they were doing their research by yelling questions into a well. But I can't find that one. Here it is: https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/1992-04-09 >

Thanks!

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Post by shiroiuma »

michaelt wrote: post #649
stetrain wrote: post #522

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it’s interesting how many responses to this comment seem to have interpreted it fairly differently to my own reading. There are many responding about “ignoring racism,” “whitewashing,” or the importance of calling out bigotry. I’m not sure how that follows from a comment that literally calls out the racism and describes it as “unambiguous.” Striving to “avoid the ugliness” in your own life does not mean ignor…

Generally the idiom "like family" implies very close and durable bonds of friendship and loyalty. That you'd drive several hours to help them bury a body, if they asked. The idiomatic use is a much higher standard than literal family - members of the same family can hate each other. As jchallis used the idiomatic term in the latter, more literal sense, I can understand people getting confused.

>Generally the idiom "like family" implies very close and durable bonds of friendship and loyalty. That you'd drive several hours to help them bury a body, if they asked.

No, that's your own personal interpretation, perhaps from your own culture. For many other people, "like family" can mean "like that crazy uncle that we try to avoid as much as possible, but we can't easily keep him away from family reunions because grandma insists on inviting him, so we just try to ignore him then".

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Post by lkos »

One tangential observation: as a young software engineer, I became acquainted with Dilbert comics and liked them a lot. However, over time I realized that they contain a certain negativity that is not helpful. My work experience improved significantly after I stopped reading them.

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Post by pstuart »

The_President wrote: post #879
hearsathought wrote: post #529

Why does every other comment apologize for adams' political views? It's like a bunch of people were conditioned or brainwashed into reflexibly regurgitation nonsense.

Brainwashed, you say… All you need is A cup or a mug or a glass A tankard chalace or stein A cantine jug or flask A vessel of any kind Fill it with your favorite liquid, I like coffee And join me now for the unparalled pleasure The dopamine hit if the day The thing that makes everything better Its called the similtaneous sip And it happens now

Shared ceremony is a kind of magic.

Adams' political views were highly distasteful to me, but I think it's important to recognize all facets of a person. One can appreciate one aspect and hate the other. It's ok to have mixed feelings.

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Post by snapplebobapple »

Aurornis wrote: post #543
tartoran wrote: post #491

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> He always felt culturally like family to me. His peaks—the biting humor about corporate absurdity, the writing on systems thinking and compounding habits, the clarity about the gap between what organizations say and what they do—unquestionably made me healthier, happier, and wealthier. If you worked in tech in the 90s and 2000s, Dilbert was a shared language for everything broken about corporate life. Same to me wh…

Learning to appreciate someone's art while disagreeing with their politics is a rite of passage in the age of the internet. There are a few artists whose output I can't even enjoy any more because their vitriol became so out of control that I couldn't see their work without thinking of their awfulness, though. (Note: I'm not talking about Scott Adams. I'm honestly not that familiar with his later life social media)

He held reasonable, conservative views, which makes him the devil to a minority of very loud people. Kind of like jk rowling
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