Scott Adams Has Some Ideas for a Calmer Internet

"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."

&gt; “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.<p>That&#x27;s absolutely laughable. Why would people accept apologies they think are insincere? And how would that possibly lead to &quot;a better world,&quot; except for people who spout nonsense then pretend they&#x27;re sorry later?

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

According to Adams, we should forgive him for creating Dilbert more than 20 years ago. It&#x27;s not him anymore.<p>People change. And Adams is now certifiably insane.