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Dissolving & Not Resolving The Fermi Paradox

Paper by Anders Sandberg, Eric Drexler and Toby Ord of the Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford University made the news last week. "Dissolving the Fermi Paradox", on Arxiv (and therefore…

SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: More Proof Christ Is God

Previous post. Recall the last quote from Aristotle that even error is a witness. Here we learn from them, just as we do from paradox. SOLUTION OF THE AUTHORITIES WHICH…

Culture

The Religion Of Man Triumphant

The almost-blessed Archbishop Fulton J Sheen gave us in 1947 a paradox. He said then "that we are definitely at the end of a non-religious era of civilization". This was…

Philosophy

Is Time Travel Metaphysically Possible? — Guest Post by The Cranky Professor

Before answering the question, I will define the different meanings of the word "possible". In philosophy, there are different senses of the word "possible". Besides, it's good to know the…

Statistics

Disproving Kossin’s Increasing Hurricane Intensity Claims: Update — Guest Post by Greg Kent

Editor's note I have strong views on statistical "significance", confidence intervals, p-values, and all that, finding them harmful and worse. However, Kossin used these concepts, and a criticism of his…

Statistics

Winnowing the COVID-19 Numbers — Guest Post by John Carver

This idependent article shows how confusing counting coronavirus deaths are. Regular readers, no Doom tomorrow. This is going to be a preliminary investigation into the COVID-19 numbers being presented hourly…

Statistics

Bayesian Theorists Were Little Better Than Cranks

I stole today's title from David Papineau's essay "Thomas Bayes and the crisis in science", which many readers sent in. When I was in grad school bad in the early…

Statistics

The Unexpected Hanging Paradox

From reader Neil Taylor comes the request we examine the unexpected hanging paradox. I'm stealing from Wikipedia, which stole a version from Wolfram. A judge tells a condemned prisoner that…

Hagfish Bagpipe on The Week In Doom: The Distraction Of Truth EditionApril 19, 2024
Briggs: "...some complained of having to learn philosophy..." Theology too.
Paul Murphy on The Week In Doom: The Distraction Of Truth EditionApril 19, 2024
Maybe cannibals like their food marine-ated?
cdquarles on William M. Briggs on Embracing Uncertainty and Stats as a False God – ThorinquiryApril 19, 2024
One definition of faith is "Certain knowledge of something you can't know any other way", such as mathematical axioms. Faith…
Cary D Cotterman on The Week In Doom: The Distraction Of Truth EditionApril 19, 2024
I live and breathe as proof that ugly does not equal woke.
Gespenst on Why I Don’t Want To Be Made To Support IsraelApril 19, 2024
Heresolong, We're talking about modern Israel here.