Basically, they're saying big tech is equivalent to the railroads of the gilded age. And we're perhaps at the end of the modern gilded age, with the rise of nationalism trust busting will dismantle the snake-like big tech pardigm. And so tech will no longer be able to be bigger than government, and quasi-governmental.
Anyway, make of it what you will. But it's an interesting roadmap.
In my case (I'm not speaking for others) I am honored to have outgrown yet another 'mentor'. Learned a lot from the guy but his seams are coming apart at this point.
Not only are those things fundamentally unified, they are the fabric and stitching of our great nation, not debatable.
Never fully trusted him. He's smart, I learned a lot from him, but I've always suspected he was trying to find a turning 'spot' where he could pull a lot of people in the opposite direction.
He went off on Trump complaining about not doing enough/right things, giving us the right numbers, and I unfollowed. (How the fuck can you 'claim' to be a legitimate supporter of Trump, knowing Trump is the only politician to reach Presidency who does what he promises and try to undermine the man during a very difficult time when he's obviously doing an amazing job, it's unconscionable if you are a legit supporter)
He's got a big ego, wants people to believe that he influences Trump. He's either got some sort of ulterior motive or just too big of an ego, couldn't say which. Also very possible he's deathly afraid of getting Coronavirus (he's older and underlying conditions).
I won't be tuning back in until AFTER the elections are over.
He's inherently untrustworthy. His whole schtick is he's a master of persuasion. So either he's full of shit and thus is not worth listening to, or he's as good as he claims and by listening to him you've signed up to get manipulated.
Many of his Twitter followers are part of a state department troll farm since early 2018 and they are influencing the influencer. Every big voice on social media can be targeted and they can make you change your mind on issues.
Oh, it will have bi-partisan oversight, and it will be anonymous, and he thinks we can keep it from being used improperly. He's beyond stupid, he's on the side of authoritarianism.
I went to look today at his latest periscope bullet points he indexes as a preview of topics ....i read them and said NOPE. NOT LISTENING.
Talk about "loser think" holy fuck what a gatekeeper he turned out to be.
Had to stop listening when every Periscope became him listing off all the times heās been right. He tries to qualify it with āfor all you new listeners, this isnāt braggingā. Iāve been listening since early 2016, and itās bragging. And itās really fucking annoying. We get it dude. People donāt watch you to support your ego, we watch because sometimes you have interesting ideas. Itās OK to do a retrospective on your calls, but itās every damn stream. Guess he still hasnāt figured out that nobody actually gives a shit what he thinks, we all like Trump, not him.
Yeah he definitely has a big ego. He was talking the other day how data models are not meant to be correct, they are meant to persuade. He went on to say everyone whoās smart or whatever agrees with him - in other words if you donāt agree youāre a dummy.
I have a masters in computer science and work in data analytics, predictive modeling and heās full of shit.
Yes modeling is meant to persuade but itās purpose is to improve decision making. This model clearly failed leading to poor decision making.
Yes modeling is meant to persuade but itās purpose is to improve decision making. This model clearly failed leading to poor decision making.
The problem is that it can be used for both, and too much propaganda is now wrapped up in "studies" and "models", as though just because it has statistics behind it or a computer model behnd it, then it must be true. Sometimes they don't even pretend that it has any mathematical modeling behind it.
So Adams is coming from the POV that most of things called "predictive modeling" is just propaganda in disguise, and I'm not sure he's wrong. What we need is some objective standard to separate real science from propaganda, and I'm not sure how to do that. But it's a major crisis in science right now that all scientists know is happening, but are afraid to admit it because they worry it will undermine the legitimacy of science in general.
Agreed. The fake modeling clearly is more prevalent in politics/government/science where the money is not yours and there is a partisan agenda behind it.
In the real world (finance, insurance, healthcare) fake predictive models can cause serious damage to a brand, company, and shareholders.
I guess my beef was his smugness and indifference that the model was propaganda - almost mocking those who took exception with the predictions being so far off (ālike what are you stupid? Did you think these models were really meant to predict.ā)
Weāre not all living off dilbert money. Many of us lost jobs, businesses, and whatnot due to these fake models.
I watched his periscopes for a span of about 6 months and the narcissism became way too much to put up with. He has good ideas at time, but his hit ratio is not very high and he ALWAYS thinks he's right and can't take a lick of criticism.
Same here. I donāt listen to the anti Trump leftwing lunatics but I do consume some podcasts, videos from voices who are mixed with praise/criticism of Trump, but this tweet is sort of big. Although I would have to hear some more context to totally ditch his feed.
This is precisely why these manufactured panics, shortages, depletions, etc., are so dangerous: they strip away the public's rationality and healthy skepticism. Panics reduce a normally-sensible people to a terrified herd, willing to sacrifice whatever it takes. And being the diabolical opportunists they are, the left presses the herd to stampede without any regard to the damage it causes.
Scott has exposed himself as a fear-driven, anti-freedom loser. I've liked so much of his "persuasion" arguments, but saying shit like this makes it impossible to take anything else he says seriously again.
This. Either that or he is trolling us. Sacrificing his credibility in exchange for backlash to support his true intentions (reverse psychology basically)
If I had bet my money, I would say he is not that magnanimous.
His main platform is morning live scope. And with many more folks out of work (compare to 3 weeks ago) maybe more are watching live on periscope and donāt need the archive on tube. Just a thought.
Yea unfortunately Scott is totally off on this whole virus. He says āhorrible press conferences because they need to tell us if we have enough equipmentā even though the models were totally wrong and as weāve learned completely arbitrary. Then he defended the models saying they can be purposely wrong in order to get the result which is the slipperiest slope to go down. Heās lost his marbles.
I don't like the idea of our movements beings traced and keeping track of who we are in contact with etc. but the reality is its already happening as we've seen several times lately and I don't think there's anything we can do to stop it other than turn off our cell phones.
The funniest shit is how fragile he is about anyone questioning his insisting that AOC is a master persuader and has game and blah blah.
Recently i heard him making fun of Dr. Birx's voice as valley girlish and not good for persuasiveness.
Not a Birx fan, but I thought "are you fucking kidding me??? You nearly cum when you talk about AOC but somehow you never noticed HER voice???" What a douche.
This is the asshole who seriously says āfat peopleā shouldnāt be allowed to work because non-overweight people should get the resources for when they get the virus, not the fat people.
This is what I've learned these past two months: idiots abound. However the number of idiots out number the moderate, and so the moderate have to also do the same things idiots do or else the idiots will get there beforehand.
Nope.
This is why we need to dump Big Tech, like Facebook.
Friends donāt make friends use Facebook.
SocialCapital has a very interesting view, and analogy going here ( https://www.socialcapital.com/annual-letters/2019).
Basically, they're saying big tech is equivalent to the railroads of the gilded age. And we're perhaps at the end of the modern gilded age, with the rise of nationalism trust busting will dismantle the snake-like big tech pardigm. And so tech will no longer be able to be bigger than government, and quasi-governmental.
Anyway, make of it what you will. But it's an interesting roadmap.
Key question.
Not only is it a false dichotomy, those things are fundamentally unified.
In my case (I'm not speaking for others) I am honored to have outgrown yet another 'mentor'. Learned a lot from the guy but his seams are coming apart at this point.
Not only are those things fundamentally unified, they are the fabric and stitching of our great nation, not debatable.
I'm with you. Learned a lot from Scott Adams. Have several of his books e.g. "Win Bigly", but he is revealing his true colours and they ain't pretty.
Privacy & Freedom exist inextricably.
I can sense a snake in the garden.
Well said.
uhh if i dont have privacy then im not free
Previously wrongthink
Never fully trusted him. He's smart, I learned a lot from him, but I've always suspected he was trying to find a turning 'spot' where he could pull a lot of people in the opposite direction.
He went off on Trump complaining about not doing enough/right things, giving us the right numbers, and I unfollowed. (How the fuck can you 'claim' to be a legitimate supporter of Trump, knowing Trump is the only politician to reach Presidency who does what he promises and try to undermine the man during a very difficult time when he's obviously doing an amazing job, it's unconscionable if you are a legit supporter)
He's got a big ego, wants people to believe that he influences Trump. He's either got some sort of ulterior motive or just too big of an ego, couldn't say which. Also very possible he's deathly afraid of getting Coronavirus (he's older and underlying conditions).
I won't be tuning back in until AFTER the elections are over.
He's inherently untrustworthy. His whole schtick is he's a master of persuasion. So either he's full of shit and thus is not worth listening to, or he's as good as he claims and by listening to him you've signed up to get manipulated.
Many of his Twitter followers are part of a state department troll farm since early 2018 and they are influencing the influencer. Every big voice on social media can be targeted and they can make you change your mind on issues.
Same here, I used to like him but heās gone a bit nuts with the Chinese virus....
"Infiltrate. Then manipulate."
He wiggled himself into being heard by conservatives & Trump supporters. Then pulls this faggotry.
What a fucking moron. His follow up is just as stupid.
Oh, it will have bi-partisan oversight, and it will be anonymous, and he thinks we can keep it from being used improperly. He's beyond stupid, he's on the side of authoritarianism.
I went to look today at his latest periscope bullet points he indexes as a preview of topics ....i read them and said NOPE. NOT LISTENING.
Talk about "loser think" holy fuck what a gatekeeper he turned out to be.
Had to stop listening when every Periscope became him listing off all the times heās been right. He tries to qualify it with āfor all you new listeners, this isnāt braggingā. Iāve been listening since early 2016, and itās bragging. And itās really fucking annoying. We get it dude. People donāt watch you to support your ego, we watch because sometimes you have interesting ideas. Itās OK to do a retrospective on your calls, but itās every damn stream. Guess he still hasnāt figured out that nobody actually gives a shit what he thinks, we all like Trump, not him.
Yeah he definitely has a big ego. He was talking the other day how data models are not meant to be correct, they are meant to persuade. He went on to say everyone whoās smart or whatever agrees with him - in other words if you donāt agree youāre a dummy.
I have a masters in computer science and work in data analytics, predictive modeling and heās full of shit.
Yes modeling is meant to persuade but itās purpose is to improve decision making. This model clearly failed leading to poor decision making.
Massive frail ego, for sure. He gets salty when people try to question his narrative.
Work in Analytics as well, those models failed in a grand way, it's pathetic that they were created by "professionals", and this was their best.
The problem is that it can be used for both, and too much propaganda is now wrapped up in "studies" and "models", as though just because it has statistics behind it or a computer model behnd it, then it must be true. Sometimes they don't even pretend that it has any mathematical modeling behind it.
So Adams is coming from the POV that most of things called "predictive modeling" is just propaganda in disguise, and I'm not sure he's wrong. What we need is some objective standard to separate real science from propaganda, and I'm not sure how to do that. But it's a major crisis in science right now that all scientists know is happening, but are afraid to admit it because they worry it will undermine the legitimacy of science in general.
Agreed. The fake modeling clearly is more prevalent in politics/government/science where the money is not yours and there is a partisan agenda behind it.
In the real world (finance, insurance, healthcare) fake predictive models can cause serious damage to a brand, company, and shareholders.
I guess my beef was his smugness and indifference that the model was propaganda - almost mocking those who took exception with the predictions being so far off (ālike what are you stupid? Did you think these models were really meant to predict.ā)
Weāre not all living off dilbert money. Many of us lost jobs, businesses, and whatnot due to these fake models.
I watched his periscopes for a span of about 6 months and the narcissism became way too much to put up with. He has good ideas at time, but his hit ratio is not very high and he ALWAYS thinks he's right and can't take a lick of criticism.
Im never one to think i need to agree with everything someone says to be able to like them. But this ones a big deal. Fuck this guy.
Same here. I donāt listen to the anti Trump leftwing lunatics but I do consume some podcasts, videos from voices who are mixed with praise/criticism of Trump, but this tweet is sort of big. Although I would have to hear some more context to totally ditch his feed.
This is precisely why these manufactured panics, shortages, depletions, etc., are so dangerous: they strip away the public's rationality and healthy skepticism. Panics reduce a normally-sensible people to a terrified herd, willing to sacrifice whatever it takes. And being the diabolical opportunists they are, the left presses the herd to stampede without any regard to the damage it causes.
They WANT the damage! That IS why they do what they do.
Treason needs to be punished: traitors MUST be summarily executed. The Fauxvidiot disease ain't got nothin' on them.
What the hell?
Scott has exposed himself as a fear-driven, anti-freedom loser. I've liked so much of his "persuasion" arguments, but saying shit like this makes it impossible to take anything else he says seriously again.
Sad but true.
I have quite a few of his books. Now I will have to reread them with a distrust lens.
He himself just yesterday was pushing mass grave propaganda.
The āmaster of influenceā got manipulated by propaganda. Sad.
This. Either that or he is trolling us. Sacrificing his credibility in exchange for backlash to support his true intentions (reverse psychology basically)
If I had bet my money, I would say he is not that magnanimous.
The virus has revealed Scott to be a giant pussy.
No, he's always been a giant pussy.
His youtube views look to be down by about half over the last 3 weeks.
His main platform is morning live scope. And with many more folks out of work (compare to 3 weeks ago) maybe more are watching live on periscope and donāt need the archive on tube. Just a thought.
Now we know who he based Dilbert's pointy-headed boss on. Himself, obviously.
That quote couldn't be more true right now because people have lost their goddamn minds. š¤¦š»āāļø
This isn't a new position of his. He's been of the opinion that privacy doesn't really exist and that he doesn't think it's useful for years now.
What has happened to him? He instantly went full blown authoritarian bootlicker.
He's elderly during a pandemic and is famous with less privacy.
Yea unfortunately Scott is totally off on this whole virus. He says āhorrible press conferences because they need to tell us if we have enough equipmentā even though the models were totally wrong and as weāve learned completely arbitrary. Then he defended the models saying they can be purposely wrong in order to get the result which is the slipperiest slope to go down. Heās lost his marbles.
Do you own a cell phone? They already stole your privacy.
This. I have given up on having a cellphone. Inconvenient? Yes. For the first 4 weeks as I had to reformulate and adapt. Impossible? Not at all.
I've done plenty of things 100 times more difficult than giving up the cellphone and I'm in my 20's.
Beautiful, so have I, though I'm twice your age. Kill your TV too, if you haven't.
TV was the first to go when I was 19. I have refused every gift from parents and Gfs to get me a flat screen TV for my bedroom.
As far I am concered, the bedroom is for two things only. Watching TV ain't one of them.
Good theory. Reverse psychology in essence.
If had to bet, I would say he is not that magnanimous to sacrifice his credibility for his higher goals.
I knew he had an authoritarian streak. He's still very informative usually but I think he's panicking/suffering from save the world syndrome.
No matter how much a snake sheds its skin, it is still a snake.
I like Scott Adams ideas. Have several of his books. Believe he is wicked smart. And yet, I would not trust him. A smart devil.
That's true, you gotta be careful since he's well versed in persuasion.
I don't like the idea of our movements beings traced and keeping track of who we are in contact with etc. but the reality is its already happening as we've seen several times lately and I don't think there's anything we can do to stop it other than turn off our cell phones.
They were never based to begin with
Could this have anything to do with his mobile App?
The funniest shit is how fragile he is about anyone questioning his insisting that AOC is a master persuader and has game and blah blah. Recently i heard him making fun of Dr. Birx's voice as valley girlish and not good for persuasiveness. Not a Birx fan, but I thought "are you fucking kidding me??? You nearly cum when you talk about AOC but somehow you never noticed HER voice???" What a douche.
"Hey Dibbert man, u wan lots money? You be scared on tweetah. China pay you lots money."
He probably sold a lot of books in 2015 and 2016. Just like Cernovich. ;-)
This is the asshole who seriously says āfat peopleā shouldnāt be allowed to work because non-overweight people should get the resources for when they get the virus, not the fat people.
He is a gatekeeper. And good at it.
Controlled opposition is what I am leaning towards. Feel stupid for falling for it.
Apparently, he wants us all to be tracked by our phones from now on. Says it would be OK, as long as it's not abused. Have heard that before.
"Why can't we just let gay people get married. That's ALL they want"
Screenshot of his follow up tweets
You canāt stop death. People will die. You donāt give up your life and freedom for it.
We are building up the freedom wave, sometimes these battles require time and timing. Just like how Trump fights.
Didn't his son die from the virus? Or was that fake news?
Fentanyl overdose that's why he's hard on China.
Drugs OD IIRC
This is what I've learned these past two months: idiots abound. However the number of idiots out number the moderate, and so the moderate have to also do the same things idiots do or else the idiots will get there beforehand.
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/when-token/ lol