Scott Adams

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.

And it will tease you with content, giving you stuff you don't like only to give you stuff that you like.

And it does this.

A lot of people don't say, well, see, it doesn't know what I like because it gave me cat videos and a cat videos.

And it's doing that to, to tenderize you into wanting this.

Now I say this, it's doing that.

It's an algorithm that's optimized to gain your attention.

So I'm an advocate of local AI and benevolent AI, AI that is looking out for you.

And it's not going to do it if it's owned by somebody in the cloud.

So what I work in my garage a lot on, and I probably write a little too much about it, is to be liberated by having an AI agent that is working on your behalf.