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Combinatorial Explosion: Theory Is Worse Than You Thought
A lot of kids have alphabet blocks. Twenty six wooden squares with the letters of the alphabet on them. One way to arrange them is just like in the song,…
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How Not To Think Like A Bayesian Rationalist
Lisping Rationalists When I read people like Eliezer Yudkowsky and Scott Alexander it becomes clear to me how the French could have built a Temple of Reason during The Terror.…
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What Punishment Will We Get For This?
One of the strangest incidents recounted in the Bible, at least to my modern ears, is when Aaron, brother of Moses, made for the stubborn Israelites a new god to…
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Stop Eating Crap
So this thoroughly unpleasant foreigner, an Indian, took to Twitter to complain of the "racism" he faced when moving to our country. I would show you the tweet, but the…
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Science By Making Things Up: Expert Hubris & Disease X
Hubris-filled egoists are at the WEF's I-Love-Experts annual festival, and there they have decided that there will be a brand new disease of unknown etiology, unknown vector, and unknown mechanism…
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Contest! When Will The First DIE-Caused Passenger Airline Crash Happen?
Start with this video, which is of Scott Kirby, the CEO of United Airlines, who emphasizes that DIE will be used to choose UA pilots. Kirby says that at least…
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The Expertocracy & Institutional Capture: How Madness Propagates
Yesterday we discussed the first and most important step in how the expertocracy guarantees mandating and propagating madness, which is the Western legal theory that Experts get to decide on…
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How Failing To Butcher Your Child Became “Child Abuse”
Three females, which I believe is significant, took to the pages of the journal Pediatrics and argued that failing to have a surgeon mutilate your child (for a large fee)…
