Dilbert - C or D?

Pangloss is my favorite beta male.

pangloss orbiter

nice throwaway on "the cat's bathroom"

yeah, that article is full of amazing deadpan observations about the patently bizarre world of scott adams, the man who has an inkling that straight-up losing the power of speech for a couple of years might have contributed to the decline of his marriage and who is currently the the paramour of an instagram bikini model

btw, has adams ever explained why the master persuader trump nevertheless has so many people fervently opposed to everything he says and does and don't seem likely to ever change their minds?

I try to ask that question and the answer I get back is usually something like "he persuaded the people he needed to in order to win the presidency". which is kinda like saying the Patriots intentionally played like shit the first three quarters of the Super Bowl so they could win it in OT.

the bit that gets me is that he's constantly tooting his horn on this: "you should listen to me because I'm the only one who got it right when everyone else got it wrong", which is like...okay, but you also kept saying "landslide" like an idiot, when in fact your guy won by a slim EC margin and had the biggest negative vote differential in history. plus your prediction changed every week as Trump continued to brilliantly shoot himself in the foot day after day. reality is a lot of people were calling a Trump victory, but they were mostly people like Bill Mitchell who I'd imagine a guy like Adams wouldn't want to associate with too much.

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Adams goes full Alex Jones on the tragedy in Syria:

I’m going to call bullshit on the gas attack. It’s too “on-the-nose,” as Hollywood script-writers sometimes say, meaning a little too perfect to be natural. This has the look of a manufactured event.

My guess is that President Trump knows this smells fishy, but he has to talk tough anyway. However, keep in mind that he has made a brand out of not discussing military options. He likes to keep people guessing. He reminded us of that again yesterday, in case we forgot.

'a manufactured event?' does scott adams believe poison gas attacks are usually natural occurrences? are those dead kids actually faking it? what a fucking tool

maybe he means the CIA did it

imagine being so insane that you can look at a pile of corpses and think it's 'too perfect'

the conspiracy theory du jour from idiot the_donald'ers is that assad is winning the war so he wouldn't have any reason to delegitimize his regime further by using chemical weapons now. the deep state manufactured the attack in order to force trump to attack syria and discredit his administration.

*looks at schindlers russian word primer list* "says right here it's more of that horseshitsiya!"

Dilbro's argument is even worse - hows this for an opening sentence

According to the mainstream media – that has been wrong about almost everything for a solid 18 months in a row – the Syrian government allegedly bombed its own people with a nerve agent.

always thought this dude was idiotic but the sudden turn into Infowars territory is a bit surprising

if you truly believe that trump is a genius then i guess no further logical leap is too far

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idgi, is he saying that neocons are the ones who orchestrated this supposed false-flag war crime in Syria? is he on some kind of Jewish conspiracy tip?

beginning to see why Adams usually doesn't usually make falsifiable predictions

its a bit.......unusual

If you've got a couple hours to kill his appearance on Sam Harris's podcast is...something. I think the idea was to find an "intellectual" Trump supporter to debate and Dilbro was the best they could do. It is horrifically cringeworthy, with Adams starting out of the gate arguing that there really is no such thing as objective reality, then proceeding to ding Harris for using analogies and making assumptions about what Trump is really thinking, even though Adams can't get through a single thought without doing either of those things. Harris does an okay job busting his balls on his idiotic nonsense but he lets so much slide, mostly because Adams won't stop interrupting him. But mostly it's interesting to hear how hard a Trump supporter has to flail when confronted with reality. Some of the things Adams is saying - like the idea that Trump is playing nice with Putin in public but actually "fucking him under the table", or that Trump is actually motivated by complete selflessness, taking shots to his image In order to do the right thing - are insane to the point where you wonder if Adams developed some sort of degenerative brain disease in the last 15 years.

knowing what I do of Sam Harris, I wouldn't even want to hear him, let alone Adams

Yea I'm not really a fan, just wanted to hear someone actually challenge the dude

afaict Sam Harris only picks arguments with people he knows he can "beat" in a debate, or in stronger confrontations, refuses to release unedited audio/video

I listened to a bit of it, but Adams is fucking boring and he was just going on and on.

Hey guys, Scott Adams has finally received his due attention by academics!

Call for Abstracts

Scott Adams and Philosophy
Edited by Dan Yim, Galen Foresman, and Robert Arp

“My hypothesis is that the political side that is out of power is the one that hallucinates the most—and needs to—in order to keep their worldview intact. For example, when President Obama was in office, I saw all kinds of hallucinations on the right about his intentions to destroy America from the inside because he ‘hates’ it. That was a mass hysteria. If President Obama wanted to destroy America, he failed miserably. We’re stronger than ever” (from “The Magical Thinking Opposition,” Scott Adams’s Blog, August 22, 2017, http://blog.dilbert.com/).

You wouldn’t expect a quotation like this to come from the likes of a guy who produced the comic strip, Dilbert, but satirists like Scott Adams are usually pretty sharp people. So sharp, in fact, that a week after the first Republican debate in August of 2015 where most everyone in America thought Trump had definitely done himself in with his Rosie O’Donnell reference in response to Megyn Kelly’s obviously loaded question about Trump’s misogynistic comments, Adams predicted in his blog: “he will be our next president” (“Clown Genius,” August 13, 2015). As the Trump campaign continued on, Adams kept pace and blogged almost daily about Trump’s ability to hypnotize and persuade the American public. In October of 2017, Adams’s book will be published: Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don’t Matter. Besides the impressive array of philosophical topics exhibited in Adams’s blog posts, there are, of course, the topics that have been expressed over the 28 years or so that Dilbert has been produced. This book seeks to explore many of Adams’s philosophical thoughts, ideas, and arguments.

Any relevant topic considered, but here are some possibilities to prompt your thinking:

- Logic and the use of persuasion
- Grandiose delusions, self-deception, self-efficacy, self-serving bias, and their usage in persuasion
- A description and assessment of Adams’s persuasion filter
- Adams’s understanding of hypnosis as a persuasive tool
- How to characterize stupidity
- Adams’s assessment of the everyday person’s procedure of rational justification for belief assessment
- Whether truth is over-rated.
- Might truth be a kind a grand project of chasing after windmills?
- Fake it until you make it: adaptive self-deception.
- Socrates, self-awareness, and the Dunning–Kruger effect
- Philosophy of humor
- The epistemic value of humor
- Can humor reveal the truth about reality in ways that formal arguments cannot?
- What is the philosophical usefulness of satire?
- Dilbert, and the nature and value of corporate bodies
- On Norm Solomon’s claim, “The Dilbert phenomenon accepts—and perversely eggs on—many negative aspects of corporate existence as unchangeable facets of human nature... Dilbert speaks to some very real work experiences while simultaneously eroding inclinations to fight for better working conditions.”
- Is the Peter Principle a real principle?
- Eudaimonia and the meaningfulness (or lack thereof) in vocation.
- What role does work or vocation play in the flourishing human life?
- Normative ethical systems and workplace behavior
- Four stages of competence and ultracrepidarianism in the workplace or other areas
- Characters of Dilbert comics as tropes of different philosophical theories of human nature
- Pessimism versus optimism about the human condition
- Nietzschean perspectives on life
- Sartrean existentialist perspectives on life
- Camus’ absurdist perspectives on life
- Kierkegaardian hope in the midst of absurdity
- God’s Debris, The Religion War, God, and panpsychism in philosophy of mind
- God’s Debris, The Religion War, self-deception, delusion, and religious belief
- God’s Debris, The Religion War, and the epistemology of religious extremism
- How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big, happiness, and the good life

CLASSIC

This popular culture and philosophy stuff is way off the rails.

Hannibal Lecter and Philosophy, edited by Joseph Westfall (2016)
The Ultimate Walking Dead and Philosophy edited by Wayne Yuen (2016)
The Princess Bride and Philosophy edited by Richard Greene and Rachel Robison-Greene (2015)
Louis C.K. and Philosophy edited by Mark Ralkowski (2016)
Batman, Superman, and Philosophy edited by Nicolas Michaud (2016)
Discworld and Philosophy edited by Nicolas Michaud (2016)
Orphan Black and Philosophy edited by Richard Greene and Rachel Robison-Greene (2016)
David Bowie and Philosophy edited by Theodore G. Ammon (2016)
Red Rising and Philosophy edited by Courtland Lewis and Kevin McCain (2016)
The Ultimate Game of Thrones and Philosophy edited by Eric J. Silverman and Robert Arp (2016)
Peanuts and Philosophy edited by Richard Greene and Rachel Robison-Greene (2016)
Deadpool and Philosophy edited by Nicolas Michaud and Jacob Thomas May (2016)
The X-Files and Philosophy edited by Robert Arp (2017)
Mr. Robot and Philosophy edited by Richard Greene and Rachel Robison-Greene (2017)
Hamilton and Philosophy edited by Aaron Rabinowitz and Robert Arp (2017)
The Man in the High Castle and Philosophy edited by Bruce Krajewski and Joshua Heter (2017)

Forthcoming Titles: 2017 and Beyond

Community and Philosophy (2017)
Lady Gaga and Philosophy (2017)
The Americans and Philosophy edited by Robert Arp (Fall 2017)
Jimi Hendrix and Philosophy edited by Theodore G. Ammon (Fall 2017)
Twin Peaks and Philosophy edited by Richard Greene and Rachel Robison-Greene (2018)
American Horror Story and Philosophy edited by Richard Greene and Rachel Robison-Greene (2018)
Scott Adams and Philosophy edited by Robert Arp (2018)
1984 and Philosophy edited by Ezio Di Nucci and Stefan Storrie (2018)
Iron Man versus Captain America and Philosophy edited by Nicolas Michaud and Jessica Watkins (2018)
Stephen King's Dark Tower and Philosophy edited by Nicolas Michaud and Jacob Thomas May (2018)
Amy Schumer and Philosophy edited by Charlene Elsby and Rob Luzecky (2018)
Perry Mason and Philosophy edited by Heather Rivera and Robert Arp (2019)

Iron man vs captain america AND philosophy hardly seems fair.

that's like the book publishing version of those spamferences, isn't it.

- Defending yourself online through the use of sockpuppet accounts

uh oh

I predict that kneeling teams will generally lose to standing teams. Kneeling triggers submissive body chemistry. #NFL #Kneeling

— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) October 23, 2017

counterpoint: kneeling produces an active hypnotic effect, leading to confusion and sleepiness in opposing team

That didn't take long. Where are all my haters from this morning? https://t.co/mq9fDweHeV

— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) October 23, 2017

starting to think Scott Adams has not yet watched the requisite one hour of football which would make him an expert on the subject

also lmao @ him making his prediction AFTER all the games had ended and still getting it wrong

he means in the long term, obviously. one day isn’t a significant statistical sample

or however you can spin it in order to make scott look right

That argument would hold some water if he wasn’t currently declaring victory by citing a Fox News article written over a month ago

see? victory!

i used to work in the same building where scott adams got all his dilbert stuff. pretty sure the dude who inspired wally (at least visually) was in a cubicle across the hall from me

on a more positive note, the harsh noise wally comic had a couple updates I missed: http://harshnoisewally.tumblr.com/

how the hell did nobody inform me about harsh noise wally until today

I blame everyone but myself

i apologize

I think I shared it here before but maybe just messaged rrrobyn lol

Has he followed it up yet, with his usual "Of course I could be wrong about this" disclaimer?

I want a white noise tie!

The unreported tragedy of 2017 is that managers will likely hire fewer women to reduce their perceived legal risk. #WeinsteinEffect

— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) November 4, 2017

his ratios are depressing

#POTUSRap @ScottAdamsSays @realDonaldTrump @DonaldJTrumpJr 🤘🇺🇸💯😎🤣 pic.twitter.com/dlaCv6EQ7O

— Kathie 🇺🇸💎ツ (@MustangGirl3) January 28, 2018

remember when this dude had a somewhat functioning sense of humor

no.

lmao he's still defending the women = mentally handicapped joke and whining incessantly about being labeled and MRA and "alt-right". seems like all the dudes out there who never shut the fuck up have finally came to roost in 2018