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Re:Career Advice from Scott Adams (2007) by lmm on Thursday January 07, 2016 @04:51AM (#10857016)
It's weird. He talks a load of nonsense, and makes basic logical errors all the time, going as far as to recommend nonsense pseudoscience. At times I wonder if maybe he isn't actually that smart, and just got lucky somehow.

But he makes accurate predictions. Consistently. You can't ignore that.

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Re:Career Advice from Scott Adams (2007) by kelukelugames on Thursday January 07, 2016 @11:17AM (#10858753)
What accurate predictions has he made? Just the one about Trump's popularity?

Adams claims Trump is popular because Trump is persuasive. Trump is certainly a good orator, but that's not the only reason.

Do you remember when Trump spearheaded the birthers during the 2008 election? He knew he could channel working class frustration by appealing to xenophobia and racism.

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Re:Career Advice from Scott Adams (2007) by lmm on Thursday January 07, 2016 @11:50AM (#10858987)
He wrote a book of predictions that I read years ago. The big concrete prediction I remember from it was that health food would go mainstream, and it has. More recently/concretely I was going by http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/01/02/2015-predictions-calibr... .
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Re:Career Advice from Scott Adams (2007) by drumdance on Thursday January 07, 2016 @06:57PM (#10861830)
Back in the late 90s he predicted there would be a massive terror attack and that it would make airline travel suck even more.
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