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Scott Adams Has Some Ideas for a Calmer Internet

by wolframio on 11/30/19, 11:16 PM with 10 comments

• by rendx on 12/1/19, 1:16 AM

  "He lays out two such rules in his new book, Loserthink. His first proposal, which he calls the “48-hour rule,” states that everyone should be given a grace period of a couple of days to retract any controversial statement they’ve made, no questions asked. [...] His other idea is the “20-year rule,” which states that everyone should be automatically forgiven for any mistakes they made more than two decades ago—with the exception of certain serious crimes."

• by favorited on 12/1/19, 1:57 AM

  > “We live in a better world if we accept people’s clarifications and we accept their apologies, no matter whether we think—internally—it’s insincere,” he says.

  That's absolutely laughable. Why would people accept apologies they think are insincere? And how would that possibly lead to "a better world," except for people who spout nonsense then pretend they're sorry later?

• by grueblur on 12/1/19, 1:55 AM

  Scott Adams is a living personification of the sunk-cost fallacy at work.

• by copperx on 12/1/19, 12:24 AM

  According to Adams, we should forgive him for creating Dilbert more than 20 years ago. It's not him anymore.

  People change. And Adams is now certifiably insane.