Scott Adams Has Some Ideas for a Calmer Internet
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#2According to Adams, we should forgive him for creating Dilbert more than 20 years ago. It's not him anymore.
People change. And Adams is now certifiably insane.
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#3According to Adams, we should forgive him for creating Dilbert more than 20 years ago. It's not him anymore. People change. And Adams is now certifiably insane.
Just like the president, right?
But Adams can't be impeached, so what about it?
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#4"He lays out two such rules in his new book, Loserthink. His first proposal, which he calls the “48-hour rule,” states that everyone should be given a grace period of a couple of days to retract any controversial statement they’ve made, no questions asked. [...] His other idea is the “20-year rule,” which states that everyone should be automatically forgiven for any mistakes they made more than two decades ago—with the exception of certain serious crimes."
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#5According to Adams, we should forgive him for creating Dilbert more than 20 years ago. It's not him anymore. People change. And Adams is now certifiably insane.
Glad someone said this. So weird that he has gone so deep off the deep end.
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#6Scott Adams is a living personification of the sunk-cost fallacy at work.
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#7It's unbelievable how people worship the both the Democrats and Republicans. These are for profit businesses who's goal is to control your (or usually someone else's) life.
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#8> “We live in a better world if we accept people’s clarifications and we accept their apologies, no matter whether we think—internally—it’s insincere,” he says.
That's absolutely laughable. Why would people accept apologies they think are insincere? And how would that possibly lead to "a better world," except for people who spout nonsense then pretend they're sorry later?
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#9> “We live in a better world if we accept people’s clarifications and we accept their apologies, no matter whether we think—internally—it’s insincere,” he says. That's absolutely laughable. Why would people accept apologies they think are insincere? And how would that possibly lead to "a better world," except for people who spout nonsense then pretend they're sorry later?
It's really easy to "mindread" that somebody is doing something for malicious reasons.
But that's frequently enough incorrect. Setting up a "virtual truce" where we all forgive quick apologies leaves us a little happier IMHO. Yeah we might be a tiny bit naive for this, and some bank robbers might slip through the cracks, but a less anap-judgy world is a nicer place to be overall (at least from my experience).
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#10According to Adams, we should forgive him for creating Dilbert more than 20 years ago. It's not him anymore. People change. And Adams is now certifiably insane.
Glad someone said this. So weird that he has gone so deep off the deep end.
He’s always had some very strange ideas. He wrote a book that had the central premise that we are all made of the dust of a dead god.