Scott Adams seems to be pretty divorced from reality, so I would take his ideas with a pinch of salt.

(To clarify: He's also claimed that if Biden wins the election, Republicans will literally be hunted in the streets, and I think regardless of your political views that is pretty clearly not actually going to happen, so his ability to predict future events with any accuracy isn't something I'd trust. Source: https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/127831632504405606...)

Does every thread really have to turn into some us-vs-them USA election fight?

I read that as a crazy people vs non-crazy people thing.

And crazy people already do crazy things. Example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Congressional_baseball_sh...

I genuinely don't understand how that has any real connection to the topic at hand.

In this context, it does go to show Scott's not a very valid future predictor.

Adams predicted Trump in 2016 very early.

That was very much not my intent. I don't think my comment should be “us-vs-them” as I believe it holds regardless of your political position. The person I was responding to has claimed it was intended as an intentionality absurd “troll”, so it should surely be seen as absurd no matter where you stand.

It'll be better post-November.

Edit: Not to say that it is good or appropriate now, but there is light at the end of the tunnel, at least for a couple years.

Well, if you know what kind of a bat-shit crazy Trump zealot Adams is, merely mentioning him in any context screams "rock-bottom politics" in the worst possible way.

To clarify: when not raising interesting technical points, he does engage in overt trolling to test cancel culture limits, yes.

He has stated this in his Periscopes.

Adams is the worst kind racist bigot. Hiding his true face behind "testing the limits", "trolling", and other seemingly clever "unconventional ways of challenging the social norms".

That's just the manipulative narrative to make the highly toxic and divisive racist drivel he is peddling more palatable to the more moderate of his fans, who typically fail to see who he really is because their perception of him is framed by Dilbert comics.

I am not American, I have no stake in American elections whatsoever, but people like Adams make me question humanity. The guy makes me sick.

I do not agree with this assertion. Adams has also claimed twice to have himself been a victim of direct, stated-to-his-face discrimination on the job.

Which supposedly should justify his own racism, and presumably gave birth to his unwavering support for the Orange Idiot, down to dying on the hydroxychloroquine hill, the most idiotic of all.

Seems like Popehat’s Rule of Goats applies, then. And therefore he is not credible.

For the unfamiliar (contains NSFW language)

https://twitter.com/popehat/status/858722120620265473

I'm not sure “this person routinely trolls” implies that he is going to have particularly valuable insight either. Are you sure his 5G ideas aren't just trolling too? I can't see how what he suggests requires 5G really.

In the same thread Scott Adams says all of us will be dead from climate change in 10 years. Scott Adams likes to pull Twitter pranks so I would take these tweets with grain of salts without knowing the larger context.

Check out his Periscopes for a more full exposition of his thought.

> 5G bringing enrichment via eyewear such that profiles of people you meet pop up

I don't see what 5g brings to this application. This could be a offline application with a one time face/profile database. More probably it would be released as offline face detection, upload face images to the cloud to match and get profiles. 5G has better dataspeeds, but uploading cropped faces over LTE would be fine.

Maybe you could use it more reliably at the ballpark where there's enough density to justify deploying base stations in the new high frequency / low range spectrum.

FTA: “5G networks will be able to use the round-trip time from a single tower to locate a device. That’s because massive MIMO and beamforming allow 5G towers to send precise signals directly to devices”

That could make face identification a lot easier and more reliable. Instead of matching against a database of everyone in the cell tower’s range, it could match against faces known to be in sight.

And yes, the thought of phone providers knowing the fairly precise location of all their subscribers’ phones (and smart watches, and cars, and smart TVs, and fridges, etc) all the time scares me, too.