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AI Is Coming For You!
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…
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The Official Death Of Superhero Movies
Not all news is bad. Like this: Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer are ready to save the world on the set of their superhero movie Thunder Force. Here's a live-action…
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Subjective Probability Is Objective
Because certain forms of Bayesian probability, particularly so-called subjective probability, are being taken up in quantum mechanics, it's well to understand just what subjective probability is, if it's anything, and…
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The Week In Doom — Pope Reaches Out To Furries Edition
Item Francis "Lost Memory", Blasphemes God Who "Wants Transsexuals That Way" Confronted with the Zanchetta case, an Argentinean bishop, accused of homosexual abuses, and promoted and protected by Francis, he…
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Physics & Vertical Causation: The End of Quantum Reality by Wolfgang Smith Reviewed
Top Down One of the proofs of God's existence given to us by our good saint Thomas Aquinas is the argument from essential causal chains. (We have met this many…
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Coronavirus Update XXVI: Mandatory Vaccines & Criminalization For Refusal Suggested
Shoot Up https://twitter.com/Surgeon_General/status/1233725785283932160 That was then. This is now: Defeat COVID-19 by requiring vaccination for all. It's not un-American, it's patriotic. More: "Make vaccines free, don't allow religious or personal…
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Harvard Claims CO2 Makes You Stupid
You must be pretty dumb. Not the royal "you". You as in you, dear reader. This isn't me saying it. This is Harvard. Our best university, and therefore our best…
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Time To Donate!
Time for the semi-annual call to contribute! Do this The best way to ensure the continued existence of this backwater block is to pass on articles that you like, or…
