William M. Briggs

Summary Against Modern Thought: What It Means To Speak Of Fortune

Previous post. If it weren't for bad luck, well, there'd be no idea of luck. HOW A PERSON IS FAVORED BY FORTUNE AND HOW MAN IS ASSISTED BY HIGHER CAUSES…

Culture

The Week In Doom — Perverts Among Us Edition

Item Illinois Governor Mandates LGBT History for All Public Schools Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) signed a bill into law on Friday that mandates all public schools in the state…

Statistics

Dissed By Thunk Tank Climate Flacks In Nature Magazine

I'm going to have to start charging you guys for reading this blog. For I am now a named person and known associate of top minds. Like Freeman Dyson. Yes,…

Statistics

Uploading Ourselves Into Machines Is Impossible

Turns out Marvin Minsky, the AI guy, was one of Jeffrey Epstein's clients. There is an interesting twist to this. The investigator (same as in the above link, from whom…

Statistics

The Best College (For Most) Is No College

Most people do not use, and do not need to use, any form of mathematics higher than addition and subtraction, and in rarer cases in multiplying and dividing simple numbers.…

Statistics

That Study Claiming Religious Kids Are Less Altruistic That I Said Stinks Was Retracted

Long-time readers will recall the original criticisms of the paper "The Negative Association between Religiousness and Children's Altruism across the World" by Jean Decety, Jason M. Cowell, Kang Lee, Susan…

Statistics

Eat Soy, Save The Planet: Al Gore Update

Eat Soy, Save The Planet. Save the planet from what and for whom we are never told. A climate with a slight increase in global mean temperature can't destroy the…

Philosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: Human Events And Higher Causes

Previous post. There just is no avoiding God's control---of everything. In what sense that means, read on! HOW HUMAN EVENTS MAY BE TRACED BACK TO HIGHER CAUSES 1 From the…

McChuck on Class 99: Entropy Part IOctober 29, 2026
Entropy is described as a numerical rating of chaos. This is more confusing than not, and a poor descriptor, even…
Briggs on Book Update: Launch DateOctober 28, 2026
Ultrarightist, Apparently not: They use case laminate (also called adhesive case binding or image-wrap) construction: The page block is glued…
Cary Cotterman on Book Update: Launch DateOctober 28, 2026
Most book stores have a rack where employees put new books they've read, accompanied by short, usually hand-written reviews. It's…
Brian (bulaoren) on Book Update: Launch DateOctober 28, 2026
Hi Doc' May your new volume be a great success! Meanwhile, I'm hoping someone will write a book called; "The…
Ultrarightist on Book Update: Launch DateOctober 28, 2026
I'm looking forward to the new edition of your book. Will the hardcover have a sewn binding?

William M. Briggs

Class 99: Entropy Part I

Book Update: Launch Date

Reading Bryan Johnson’s The Immortalism Manifesto

Class 98: Limitations of Genetic Associations With Personality

I’m Thinking Of A Number Between 1 and 5 (that you can’t guess)

Against Numerology: Some Basic Calculations

Class 97: The Goal Of Models

Book Update

Sexual Assault Galore At Cornell

Class 96: Can Bayesianism Quantify True Belief?

Top 10 Reasons AI Will Never Become Superintelligence: It Won’t Destroy Nor Save Us

Viewer Asks: Why Do I Bother?

Academics Call For The Killing Of Babies In “After-Birth” Abortions

Irrational Rationalists: Effective Altruists & The Planet of the Ants

Class 95: Answering P-Value Good Uses Challenges

Whoring For Climate Change

Lady Academics Tire Of Being Judged By Peer Review

Class 94: Quantifying The Unquantifiable

PFAS and Preservatives: Entrenching Chemophobia through Everyday Stuff — Guest Post by Jaap Hanekamp

The MRS Degree — Guest Post by Johnathan Edwards

Politicians Demand “Right” To Be Protected Against AI

Class 99: Entropy Part I

Book Update: Launch Date

Summary Against Modern Thought: What It Means To Speak Of Fortune

The Week In Doom — Perverts Among Us Edition

Dissed By Thunk Tank Climate Flacks In Nature Magazine

Uploading Ourselves Into Machines Is Impossible

The Best College (For Most) Is No College

That Study Claiming Religious Kids Are Less Altruistic That I Said Stinks Was Retracted

Eat Soy, Save The Planet: Al Gore Update

Summary Against Modern Thought: Human Events And Higher Causes

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