Dilbert creator Scott Adams says he will die soon from same cancer as Joe Biden

Re:Dilbert creator Scott Adams says he will die soon from sa... by abirch on Monday May 19, 2025 @02:45PM (#44033312)

If you've ever read Thinking Fast and Slow, Trump is great at appealing to System 1. He's spent his entire lifetime focusing on his branding and what people think of him. I dislike almost all of Trump's policies and his tactics; however, he's great at oversimplifying things and getting the visceral reactions he wants.

Chapelle's SNL monolog about Trump is pretty spot on too.

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Re:Dilbert creator Scott Adams says he will die soon from sa... by elcritch on Monday May 19, 2025 @03:00PM (#44033502)

He seems to play the media like a fiddle. It's insane how gullible so much of the media establishment is nowadays and play right into it.

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Re:Dilbert creator Scott Adams says he will die soon from sa... by astrange on Monday May 19, 2025 @04:20PM (#44034374)

They like it because he's good for views, and because US politics media runs on Murc's law (anything bad is the Democrats' fault for not stopping it).

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Re:Dilbert creator Scott Adams says he will die soon from sa... by butlike on Monday May 19, 2025 @04:26PM (#44034440)

It's not gullibility; it's a symbiotic relationship.

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Re:Dilbert creator Scott Adams says he will die soon from sa... by mcv on Monday May 19, 2025 @02:57PM (#44033450)

I haven't read it yet, but I've got it right here, and I just finished my previous book.

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Re:Dilbert creator Scott Adams says he will die soon from sa... by abirch on Monday May 19, 2025 @03:46PM (#44034026)

It's such a great book. You can skip the first few chapters as the evidence for those chapters on priming hasn't been replicated: https://replicationindex.com/2017/02/02/reconstruction-of-a-...

However, the fundamental ideas of System 1 and 2 have made me rethink so many things.

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