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Scott Adams
Personal blog · blog.dilbert.comculturepolitics
Scott Adams's personal blog at blog.dilbert.com covers culture and politics. Since 2015, 217 different Hacker News readers have linked it 344 times, most often “Goals vs. Systems”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Sometimes recommended · 10 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Scott Adams's Dilbert blog for its writing on persuasion, cognitive biases, goals versus systems and Trump. Comments are split, and one calls his recent posts propaganda.
- Recommended for · 10 comments
- Called interesting and insightful, recommended to follow, and helpful for goals versus systems
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /10 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2015-08-26
- Goals vs. Systems9 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2015-05-01
- /post/145456082991/my-endorsement-for-president-of-the-united-states7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2016-06-06
- Science’s Biggest Fail5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2015-02-02
- The Day You Became a Better Writer (2015)5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2015-08-27
- Is Twitter Shadowbanning me?5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2016-10-18
- Gender Bias in the Workplace5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2015-03-19
- Scott Adams Shadowbanned from Twitter for Supporting Trump5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2016-10-04
- The Non-Expert Problem and Climate Change Science4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2016-12-09
- /post/156532225711/the-persuasion-filter-and-immigration4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-01-29
What Hacker News says?
And the language against trump isn't focusing on his features either ? 1) his hair 2) his (supposed) psychological state, e.g. [1] 3) "deplorables" - we all know what and who is meant by this and very few or none of these are responsible for their situation 4) his family name I like how Dilbert's author put it. This is why Trump won [2], or, more humorously [3] [1] http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/06…
Comment linking /post/152293480726/the-bully-party
on “Donald Trump is the president-elect of the U.S.”Submitted Science’s Biggest Fail as a story · 295 points
HN discussionAnd Clinton has Private and Public views. I get that you haven't followed Trump, but in that case you shouldn't attack him either with partial information. The Direct Democracy President 'Months ago, when Trump stumbled on his answer about criminal penalties for women who seek illegal abortions, the public went nuts, and Trump immediately corrected his position. That’s direct democracy. Trump heard the opinion of th…
Comment linking /post/149321013966/the-direct-democracy-president
on “Donald Trump is the president-elect of the U.S.”Submitted Goals vs. Systems (2013) as a story · 154 points
HN discussionJeez, everybody is all bent out of shape on this. The Republican establishment hate Trump nearly as much as they hate Clinton so with Republicans controlling The House and The Senate how much "damage" is President Trump going to be able to do. The really interesting part of all this was reading Scott Adams blog who proposed the idea that Trump is a master persuader (probably this is just a fancy name for populist).…
Comment linking /
on “Donald Trump is the president-elect of the U.S.”Submitted Scott Adams Answers Your Questions About Predicting President as a story · 51 points
HN discussionThe problem is that language is much higher bandwidth than the information content of the words. Context and implicit shared knowledge play a huge part and should be taken into account when assessing someone's words. Both the quote, your original use of it, and your reply to my comment are ad hominem attacks where the attack is mostly in what is left unsaid but understood by the relatively smart, well read, cultural…
Comment linking /post/147998060931/the-dark-and-rotten-election
on “Yahoo scanned customer emails for US intelligence”Submitted Twitter and Periscope Shadowbans Dilbert creator as a story · 44 points
HN discussionYes! More along these lines: https://usv.com/post/an-idea-about-texting https://www.ouvre-boite.com/messaging/ https://medium.com/@chrismessina/conversational-commerce-92e... http://blog.dilbert.com/post/109389515411/your-phone-interfa... http://dangrover.com/blog/2014/12/01/chinese-mobile-app-ui-t... http://www.nngroup.com/articles/anti-mac-interface/ A text based or "messaging" UI is often simpler and more effecti…
Comment linking /post/109389515411/your-phone-interface-is-a-legacy-train-wreck
on “Magic”Submitted Scott Adams: The Social Media Hive Mind as a story · 38 points
HN discussionSeems close to the Dilbert geezer's Goals vs Systems. I work on systems more than goals myself and it seems to work for my humble tasks. https://blog.dilbert.com/2013/11/18/goals-vs-systems/
Comment linking /2013/11/18/goals-vs-systems/
on “Ask HN: What are your “brain hacks” that help you manage everyday situations?”Submitted Some Fake News About Me from Bloomberg as a story · 31 points
HN discussionI travel with my wife and 2 kids. I have NOTHING! And yet, I am hyper aware of how I might be perceived. It's one thing to fight the good fight! And its another to poke the bear. I don't agree with your "maximum laziness", perhaps the author was arrogant? Or ignorance? I love the idea of porn on a burner phone, but even then... (Legal) porn has a very different meaning in different countries. The author is really pl…
Comment linking /post/147192672916/better-surrender-technique
on “I Had My Electronics Seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection”Submitted The New CEO’s First Moves as a story · 27 points
HN discussionThis helps a lot http://blog.dilbert.com/2015/08/22/the-day-you-became-a-bett...
Comment linking /2015/08/22/the-day-you-became-a-better-writer-2nd-look/
on “Remote Only”Submitted Scott Adams Shadowbanned from Twitter for Supporting Trump as a story · 27 points
HN discussionThey are doing this to Scott Adams, Trump, Snowden and others on twitter. I'm following their accounts and seldom times see any updates from them, the updates are filtered (shadowbanned). Scott Adams himself mentions the same: http://blog.dilbert.com/post/159566176596/am-i-shadowbanned-... If you tag people with whom you have a strict moral disagreement to avoid doing business with them, this is actually what nation…
Comment linking /post/159566176596/am-i-shadowbanned-on-twitter
on “Wikipedia blocked in Turkey”Submitted Whis is Donald Trump so persuasive? as a story · 25 points
HN discussionIt's a terribly ineffective symbol: http://blog.dilbert.com/post/156315793671/battle-of-the-hats
Comment linking /post/156315793671/battle-of-the-hats
on “George Orwell’s 1984 is currently the top selling book on Amazon”Submitted How to Know Your Product Will Succeed as a story · 24 points
HN discussionhttp://blog.dilbert.com/post/156315793671/battle-of-the-hats
Comment linking /post/156315793671/battle-of-the-hats
on “George Orwell’s 1984 is currently the top selling book on Amazon”Submitted Be Careful What You Wish for (especially If It Is Hitler) as a story · 23 points
HN discussionThe Trump Master Persuader Index and Reading List Posted February 18th, 2016 http://blog.dilbert.com/post/139541975641/the-trump-master-p...
Comment linking /post/139541975641/the-trump-master-persuader-index-and-reading-list
on “Donald Trump Is Elected President”Submitted Huge Gender Bias Found in Hiring as a story · 23 points
HN discussionFour years ago, I wrote a sort-of tongue-in-cheek story for Kuro5hin.org (RIP) titled "Humanity's Second-Best Hope" [1]. I pointed out that the Democratic president had failed to deliver on the Change he had promised, and shared my faint hope that maybe Mitt Romney was a "political gladiator" who'd flip on the plutocracy once he was elected. [1] http://www.TaxiWars.org/humanitys-second-best-hope/ Alas, Mitt Romney w…
Comment linking /post/126589300371/clown-genius
on “Donald Trump Is Elected President”Submitted How to Know Whether You Are a Real Person or a Simulation as a story · 22 points
HN discussionMore: http://blog.dilbert.com/post/114055529676/my-verdict-on-gend... It contains links to many more sources at the end.
Comment linking /post/114055529676/my-verdict-on-gender-bias-in-the-workplace
on “Employees Who Stay in Companies Longer Than Two Years Get Paid 50% Less”Submitted Should Twitter and Facebook Be Regulated as Utilities? as a story · 21 points
HN discussion> This ban clearly has nothing to do with terrorism > This order is pure racism and religious discrimination. I personally believe these outright bans have gone too far, but I continue to believe that while it's near impossible to remove emotion from these situations, we should always be open minded to facts, and wary of propaganda from either side of the political spectrum. Visitors from these countries were alread…
Comment linking /post/156532225711/the-persuasion-filter-and-immigration
on “Sergey Brin joins protest against immigration order at SFO”Submitted When Persuasion Turns Deadly as a story · 21 points
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