Scott Adams

The average person is confident enough just to pick up their iPhone and say, build me this, or book me a schedule, or make sure I don't miss Scott Adams School, turn it on for me, those types of things.

Because really, we use computers to get a job done.

And we don't see it that way because a lot of us are just maybe scrolling, but that's actually in a sense, well, I hope you do less scrolling, doom scrolling especially.

That's less of entertainment, more of a job.

You're in pursuit of something.

And for a computer, that's a job.

And the better that computer understands you, the better the outcome is for you.

Now, the question is, who owns that computer?

Right now, we are renting out our context to the social media platforms, and we trust them to do good by us.

But the experiment of the last eight years has been AI manipulating us into rage.

and to adversarialness.

And that's kind of what the social media feedback loop does.

Because once, and I'm not so much saying that on X, X is going in the right direction.

Grok is brilliant.

I recommend that over any platform for general use for a lot of reasons.

But in general, if you go onto Facebook, Instagram, most definitely TikTok, it's going to look at what elicits an emotional response from you.

And there are so many tells that Scott definitely knew about, but these are electronic tells.

Even things like eye movement, because a lot of people don't understand they can have access to the camera without you knowing it.

And it can fixate on what you're looking at on a screen.

The bigger the screen, the more it understands what space of real estate you're looking at and what is eliciting a response.