Why It’s Better to Have a System Than a Goal (2013)

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18 points·simonebrunozzi··6 comments

This article is from 2013. Scott Adams has gone off the rails since then, just look at his Twitter.

Could you clarify?

He's 100% MAGA. I don't care, but I am sure that's what the parent is referring to.

MAGA = Make America Great Again ?

I don’t think he is pro Trump, just a standard misanthrope. He predicted the Trump victory in 2016, and mostly pointed out the weakness of the herd to manipulation and is mostly sticking with his sentiment this time around as well (although I don’t know if he adjusted given recent events).

For example, he pointed out that a lot of this country is truly prejudiced and the Democrats are bungling their messaging by positioning themselves around defunding the police and protests, which illicit primal fears amongst a large voting block. Trump can manipulate these emotions easily, so beware of these dynamics.

Basically Scott Adams talks about the world as it is, unlike HN where you can only talk within a narrow groupthink.

So no one liked it when Scott Adams called Trump in 2016. It was against the rules, and worse he got it right, so under groupthink that makes him partially responsible.

Under all the attacks he seems to have gone fk it and started actively fighting the opposite.

But he's pretty meta, he's always talking about propaganda, and to me he seems to be trying it out on his twitter.

He has a lot of titbits of really interesting stuff at times and a few misses. If you don't groupthink these days and are somewhat smart you'll get a lot of hits.

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