Dilbert's Scott Adams on Politics, Philosophy, Hypnosis, and "Failing Towards Success"

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8 жыл бұрын

"You can defend an entirely different view of the world using the same data that's used to defend the standard model. So whenever I can do that, I'm so there," says Scott Adams. "Because as soon as you realize that the model you've been looking at maybe isn't so firm as you thought... Then you're free."
Adams is a man of many talents: Best-selling author behind books such as God's Debris and How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big, serial entrepreneur and creator of the time-management system Calendar Tree, and, of course, the man behind Dilbert.
Reason TV's Zach Weissmueller sat down with Adams in his home office to discuss Adams' obsession with Donald Trump ("I see in Trump a level of persuasion technique that is probably invisible to the public" - 1:18), his resistance to political labels ("As soon as I join a group, suddenly all those things that I thought were crazy, I start convincing myself..." - 2:19), his political philosophy ("My preferred political process would be something like business" - 3:08), what Dilbert can teach us about capitalism ("One of those ideas that's terribly flawed, but we haven't figured out anything better yet" - 5:22), and the theme that runs through all of his work ("In all cases, I'm interested in the same thing: Is there a different way to look at the familiar?" - 10:05).
Watch the full interview above. And don't miss Scott Adams' Trump Master Wizard Hypothesis: • Dilbert Creator Scott ...
Approximately 15 minutes. Produced by Zach Weissmueller. Shot by Alex Manning and Justin Monticello. Music by Jahzzar.
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@gwantM 8 жыл бұрын

I've been in Scott Adams house, helped install his audio system and home theater, great guy.

@knwr 8 жыл бұрын

"When people meet a celebrity, they will only describe them in one of two ways: He's a great guy, or, he's an asshole."

@endtimesnews 7 жыл бұрын

Same thing they probably say about you or anyone else.

@becausetheworldisround7714 3 жыл бұрын

Scott Adams has changed my life. I grew up in generational poverty and I was completely lost. I felt like a total loser, incapable of accomplishing anything. "How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big" turned me around. The simple epiphany that "goals are for losers, systems are for winners," was like a huge wrecking ball crashing through my former disfunctional paradigm. Now because I follow systems, I'm a freelance boom mic op; I'm writing and directing my first film; I'm hosting a podcast; I'm learning how to code; I'm meditating daily. I hope to meet this man in person one day so I can thank him.

@Shafeek258 Жыл бұрын

Could you tell me what you learned about systems

@ShayneNelson 8 жыл бұрын

This is really interesting, Scott, so different from the mass of nonsense on the web. You make sense, incredible sense, and teach me a lot. A thousand thanks.

@chuckmadden2251 7 жыл бұрын

Finding Scott Adams during this election has been a god send. I had no idea others thought and acted on thoughts in ways I had been. So many want to be "right" aka match their views.

@AnD333 7 жыл бұрын

chuck madden agreed it's nice to see that there are people who value rational thoughts and disagree with extremist, in life we all need to meet in the middle.

@isleofgreg 8 жыл бұрын

Finally, a good interesting interview!

@TReeves80013 8 жыл бұрын

[9:45] "Every time there are more options, it's a better world. You can't make people chose options, you can't manage their risk for them..." If only governments felt this way!

@Lastoutrider 8 жыл бұрын

+SweetLiberty01 I think you mean to say if only companies felt that way.

@PeaceRequiresAnarchy 8 жыл бұрын

+LAST OUTRIDER What companies make people buy their products/services?

@Lastoutrider 8 жыл бұрын

PeaceRequiresAnarchy OK the fact you ask that questions mean you are on the wako fringe and there are no facts that will effect any of your views.

@georgechristiansen6785 8 жыл бұрын

+LAST OUTRIDER Unlike yourself. Who is clearly an intellectual giant without bias. That shit you're drinking must be strong.

@Lastoutrider 8 жыл бұрын

George Christiansen Yes it is, it's called truth. I would NOT suggest you try it. Your would view word not survive Gammas are best suited to being useful idiots. .

@leothelion2001 3 жыл бұрын

I'm from Brazil and just finished watching the dilbert season 2 ( too bad it ended 😢) , always a big fan , I came here to see who he was , obviously he's got to be Uber intelligent , dilbert is by far the most clever cartoon I've ever read/ watch , this guy is a godsend 🙌🙌

@mpdcelestine88 7 жыл бұрын

great interview

@emmanuela.2932 8 жыл бұрын

Brilliant conclusion: humility.

@sfm9 Жыл бұрын

Learned a lot from him, greetings from Germany.

@sefaganoglu 8 жыл бұрын

Dilbert's Desktop for Windows 10 please!!! But, not changed version. I'm coming man!!!

@dustinseth1 8 жыл бұрын

What a great interview!

@cdavidlake2 3 жыл бұрын

Pre-Trumper Scott...a beautiful thing.

@moxxy8626 3 жыл бұрын

Hes the one Trump supporter I approve of

@Goohuman 8 жыл бұрын

I'd like to see Dilbert working in Donald Trump's campaign office, maybe run by Dogbert.

@AlohaBlockchain 6 жыл бұрын

The smartest guy on the planet right now.

@wyatt92563 8 жыл бұрын

If I could just shake Scott Adams hand, Look him in the eye. That would mean so much me. REALLY cool guy.

@brian2021 7 жыл бұрын

Excellent interview. The interviewer is correct. Smart, short questions.

@flynnryan6165 7 жыл бұрын

This interviewer has the exact same facial expression and voice of nathan fielder from nathan for you

@jonjo2598 8 жыл бұрын

Zach Weissmueller seems to have tried the Kylie Jenner lip challenge.

@MrStephenRGilman 8 жыл бұрын

Dilbert's life is only "bad" when compared to the lives of the pointy-headed boss, Dogbert, and Catbert. If you compare his life to the lives of the Elbonians, he's actually doing rather well. I always thought that was sort of the point.

@NappyChile Жыл бұрын

Update 2023.

@nineh9739 2 жыл бұрын

Dilbert 3 by cboyardee brought me here and this is much more perverse.

@bitchpuddin 8 жыл бұрын

blush

@PeaceRequiresAnarchy 8 жыл бұрын

3:08: "My preferred political process would be something like business. Now what does business do all the time? They test things small, [things] that make sense -- at least the thing they're testing should work; it sounds good on paper, but they don't know, so they test it small. We could do that with states. The states could test just about anything. And then the federal government could say hey, look at the results, if it's not enough, test it somewhere else. So I'd like to see a world where things are tested. As soon as you leave that world, it's just blah blah. I can't find any way to agree with anything that isn't "Come up with an idea, test it, and measure it." If you're not doing that you're not doing anything I care about. I would love to see a candidate who says, "I don't have an opinion. I'm going to go with the majority on social issues," -- just because that keeps things calm -- "And if it's economics or world stuff and I can test it, I will."

@Crokto 7 жыл бұрын

Thing is, that's called "science", not "business"...

@Reubentheimitator6572 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the transcript.

@MrSmackdab 8 жыл бұрын

reason TV gives an illusion of the interviewer and interviewee being in the same room when they're thousands of miles apart

@Tertioptus 7 жыл бұрын

"everything is a failure in progress"

@Nash1a 7 жыл бұрын

The interviewer should get some sleep on the night before an interview. He looked like Scott was keeping him awake but just barely.

@stevemcgee99 8 жыл бұрын

Like a 21st Century Harry Brown.

@marce11o 8 жыл бұрын

The response that big decisions like "who you marry" being irrational doesn't satisfy me. I guess he's not a fan of Ayn Rand. He sounds skeptical of reality.

@BayouBarth 7 жыл бұрын

Interesting how you say it doesn't satisfy you. Apart from your dissatisfaction, do you find it to be factual? And who knows whether he's a fan of Ayn Rand. But it seems to me that one can be a fan of hers and not necessarily agree with her model?

@marce11o 7 жыл бұрын

I can say its factual because I'm sure what he's describing is very often the case (people making decisions on where to live or who to marry irrationally). When he said that I heard an implication that these types of decisions MUST be irrational and we can't apply reason when there are so many factors, as he says. I don't think we can say for sure that that must be. And I definitely don't think its good to assume that its true. We ought to try to apply reason to the big decisions and I don't think choosing a place to live or who to marry can't be decided rationally. I apply reason and as a consequence I am single. No, I don't think one can be a fan and not agree with her model. They wouldn't be a fan. "Fan", in that case, would be too strong a term. You could be a fan and remain unconvinced on one or two details in her philosophy, I guess. But a fan would probably accept Objectivism. A fan would probably read all her books, maybe Peikoff and others. If someone just liked The Fountainhead or Atlas for its entertainment value but are unconvinced of the philosophy then that's nice but they're probably not a fan. People say "I'm a fan..." so much that it loses its meaning.

@DGneoseeker1 8 жыл бұрын

That moment when you realise who Wally resembles.

@angelantoniomingotebarrach3339 8 жыл бұрын

Clearly, Scott Adams is an Egoist individualist anarchist, or an Egoist for short. Pretty much Egoists don't hold any philosophical argument other than the pursuit of self interest, so there's no need to invent a new term. For more, I recommend to read Max Striner's The Ego and His Own, or Benjamin Tucker's edulcorated adaptation (and more emotional/idealistic) to the American culture in his periodical Liberty, mixing Stirner's Egoism with his former socialist individualist anarchist political views, or the compilation of selected articles published under the title "Instead of a Book", although the latter is less on Egoism since doesn't cover the articles published in Liberty during the last 15 years. It's worth to point out that Tucker considered himself a libertarian, so in some way any modern Egoist could consider himself to be a classic libertarian like Tucker.

@sirmike18630 8 жыл бұрын

Any system should have a choice......with capitalism being the only choice,... then there obviously is no choice.......socialism is the option.....with socialistic communities the government would no longer need to spend money on welfare.....and better yet.. large amounts of money wouldn't be wasted on creating jobs.....because jobs would now be an option.....people would have a real choice!!!..work in a community that supports them..or work in a system that creates wealth for the 1%...states would not have to give welfare tax breaks to the rich....they would have to actually live on there business models......what a thought!!!

@s0nnyburnett 8 жыл бұрын

Not even 2 full minutes in and Trump again? Damnit Reason.

@LOUDMOUTHTYRONE 8 жыл бұрын

LOL!!!

@codyave 8 жыл бұрын

+s0nnyburnett TRUMP 2016!

@tommcwilliams1072 8 жыл бұрын

+s0nnyburnett They're exploding his style of bullshit, a great public service. (Aristotle invented logic to arm the populace with a tool to decode the lies of politicians.)

@levicoffman5146 8 жыл бұрын

"In the real world there are too many variables [for logic and reason]. You're just left to your biases." -literally as illogical and unreasonable of a statement as can be made.

@thatevilchicken 8 жыл бұрын

some day you'll understand that man

@levicoffman5146 8 жыл бұрын

***** Hey, dumb ass, I have the power to write stuff down and review it. My mind doesn't have to process everything at once.

@thatevilchicken 8 жыл бұрын

Levi Coffman I understand you think that way, because I used to think that way. Not sure about you but I was extremely good at maths, I would guess you aren't bad, because in the maths world, you take away 99.9% of the variables that occur in real life. So you are left with this very basic, logical world to solve problems. This maths world was made by mathematicians to try and find general patterns and rational answers for our super chaotic world. If you had to calculate using every variable nothing would ever get done. So it's actually irrational to assume that life is black and white, or there is a simple solution for everything. There are solutions that create results, but there is no perfect solution for any problem in the world. All we humans can do is get as close as we can so a perfect solution. So what this guy is saying is true, the biases in our mind pay attention to what it deems most important, because it's illogical think you can take every variable into account that exists out there when making a judgement on something, it would take too much time/ we would lose our minds.

@drewcontreras3256 8 жыл бұрын

your cognitive dissonance made you angry

@Reubentheimitator6572 4 жыл бұрын

Johnny Everest I find your comment to be profound.

@georgecataloni4720 8 жыл бұрын

You'd think a hypnotist wouldn't be asleep, but this guy really needs to wake up.

@tommcwilliams1072 8 жыл бұрын

+George Cataloni Translation; you don't have a VALID criticism.

@georgecataloni4720 8 жыл бұрын

Tom McWilliams No, I just didn't reveal a valid criticism. The point of my comment was to make a joke.

@tommcwilliams1072 8 жыл бұрын

+George Cataloni Bargaining about your fuck up doesn't impress me.

@georgecataloni4720 8 жыл бұрын

Tom McWilliams Do you not notice the pun? It's pretty clear I was making one.

@georgecataloni4720 8 жыл бұрын

Tom McWilliams Also, it should impress you. I'm claiming that your claim is not valid. It has no hard evidence to back it up. Isn't that your criticism of my alleged criticism? It would be hypocritical not to be impressed.

@adamJKpunk 8 жыл бұрын

Lost me at "trained hypnotist".

@RonPaulOrDie 8 жыл бұрын

+Nix why?

@adamJKpunk 8 жыл бұрын

+RonPaulOrDie because hypnotism is bullshit, as in not real. There are showmen like Criss Angel who use hypnotism as an act, but irl even Criss says it's not real. Anyone who believes that things like hypnotism are real is either deluded or a sociopath.

@RonPaulOrDie 8 жыл бұрын

Nix what do you know about hypnosis other than what Criss Angel told you?

@tommcwilliams1072 8 жыл бұрын

+Nix " hypnotism is bullshit, as in not real." Disagreeing with the evidence is called "denial."

@RonPaulOrDie 8 жыл бұрын

Tom McWilliams Criss Angel hypnotized him to not believe in hypnosis. I wonder how susceptible that makes him.