Ed Lorenz back in 1961 was running, on a computer!, a simple weather model, with twelve full parameters. This was in the days of punch cards and paper print outs. He wanted […]
Week or two back the world was shocked to learn that white doctors were killing BLACK! babies. Not the ones that haven’t escaped their mothers’ wombs: that’s old, and even welcome, news. […]
Here are some entries for the First Annual Coronavirus Peak Idiocy Awards. Since this disease, or another like it, is likely to recur, this will likely not be our last year. Enter […]
Due to underwhelming demand…the temporary return of The Week In Doom. I have a backlog of doomable material. Each ITEM is post-worthy, but the rate of increase in new items is outstripping […]
In old science fiction movies the mad scientist was a lone genius intent on world domination. He usually had a grudge against his colleagues for ignoring or slighting his obvious intellectual gifts. […]
The picture heading the post is of an AI machine carrying a small child to a paperclip factory. Why is it every time I read one of these evil-AI-destroys-the-world stories the panicked […]
The distinguishing, even diagnostic, criterion that separates left from right is commitment to theory or to Reality. Theory is of the left, Reality of the right. The more someone believes in theory, […]
Our main concern is what has become of science, now often called by those who control it The Science. This is, as mentioned, the Cult of Science. Members are easy to spot. […]
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