William M. Briggs

Universal Education Caused Managerialism

The original title was "A Difficult-To-Remove Cause Of The Managerial State ". I changed it. My title-writing skills stink. In a review of Auron MacIntyre's Total State: How Liberal Democracies…

Culture

Let’s Check In On Global Warming—Excuse Me: Climate Change—Propaganda

No image better summarizes the preposterous hersteria (there is no misspelling) and fatuous The Science around global warming, now called "climate change", than this one: A deranged man in thrall…

Philosophy

The Physics Of Blessings: Ideas In Our Reenchantment & Rectification

This belongs to the realm of supposition. I do not know if it's true, only that it seems possible. I do know that there must be a "Reenchantment of the…

Fun

No Class Today, But…

...Do remember to remind me to tell you about the time aliens tried to invade a Michigan lumber mill. Happy Memorial Day Subscribe or donate to support this site and…

Culture

What Trump Should Do When They Let Him Win — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

This is Part 2 of Watt's idea that our rulers, knowing what Biden has become, put up a token fight and let Trump win while retaining all aspects of managerial…

Culture

On The Atomic Bombing Of Japan

This started as a brief introduction on whether we could mathematically tell the difference between superstition and genuine cause, using certain practices to avoid having bombs drop on one's head…

Culture

Mathematics & The Imposing Your Beliefs Fallacy

I blush as I write the truism that it is possible, given obvious reasons, that anybody anywhere might discover or hit upon a mathematical truth. Any body. Even NPR listeners.…

Class Statistics

Class 7: Uncertainty & Probability Theory: The Logic of Science: Logic Intuition Check

Link to all Classes. Video Thanks to an anonymous donor for the gift of the new equipment, which has resulted in a New & Improved! picture and sound. Thanks, too,…

Pozymandias on A Twist In A Solution To Newcomb’s ParadoxDecember 22, 2024
I think there's a mistake about 1/3 of the way down in the text "Assuming the entity is an oracle,…
Johnno on As Woke Falls, What Rises?December 21, 2024
Whatever falls, new Expurts always rise. They even optimized Time for us and we've been confused and suffering ever since...…
Johnno on House Cramnibus Funds New Follow-The-Science PanicsDecember 20, 2024
We should offer to pay for our leader's mandatory lobotomies as part of the spending passage. MANDATORY. Cite Biden's state…
Ryan on Class 32: The Evils, Excesses & Errors Of Epidemiology I (All Should Read)December 20, 2024
I think you're being a bit harsh. The authors concluded as follows in their abstract: "[W]e found an excess ALS…
Probability Puzzle Paradox: Which Boxes To Take? – William M. Briggs on A Twist In A Solution To Newcomb’s ParadoxDecember 20, 2024
[…] did Newcomb’s Paradox (so called) years ago, and a twist in premises after that. But I thought it would…

William M. Briggs

House Cramnibus Funds New Follow-The-Science Panics

Probability Puzzle Paradox: Which Boxes To Take?

As Woke Falls, What Rises?

Class 32: The Evils, Excesses & Errors Of Epidemiology I (All Should Read)

Who’s Better at Playing Doctor, Boys Or Girls?

How The Enlightenment Led To Contraception (And Other Forms of Anti-Natal Behavior)

Science Model Told To Say Masks Work Discovers Masks Work

In Which Feynman Makes A Mistake: Negative Probabilities (Used In AI, QM, Finance)

Class 31: How Views Diverge With New Evidence

Ridley Claims Materialists, Atheists, & Secular Humanists Don’t Preach

What Health Insurance Should Be, But Isn’t

England Voted To Have Doctors Kill Their Patients

Emergence Is Substance; Entanglement Is Substance: Science Is Healing

The Advent Of Lousy Music

Russia’s New Paradigm — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

Old Lodge Skins’ Prayer Of Thanksgiving

Facing The Inevitable — Guest Post by Uncle Mike

How To Read The Paper Claiming Semaglutide Reduces Cardiomyocyte Size and Cardiac Mass

Class 30: Hypothesis Testing Stinks I

Mark Twain On The Dictatorship Of Health

The Impossibilities Of Quantum Computing

House Cramnibus Funds New Follow-The-Science Panics

Probability Puzzle Paradox: Which Boxes To Take?

Universal Education Caused Managerialism

Let’s Check In On Global Warming—Excuse Me: Climate Change—Propaganda

The Physics Of Blessings: Ideas In Our Reenchantment & Rectification

No Class Today, But…

What Trump Should Do When They Let Him Win — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

On The Atomic Bombing Of Japan

Mathematics & The Imposing Your Beliefs Fallacy

Class 7: Uncertainty & Probability Theory: The Logic of Science: Logic Intuition Check

There Is No Culture Without Inequality: Stove 1

Impose Your Beliefs Before They Impose Theirs

Telekinesis: Ideas In Our Reenchantment & Rectification

The Physics Of Blessings: Ideas In Our Reenchantment & Rectification