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No Model Will Save Us: Pope Leo, the Miserostat, and AI’s Woke Coders
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How High an IQ Must A Person Have To Be Executed?
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Class 90: Simple (Optimal) Decisions
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Blessed Memorial Day; No Class; See You Wednesday
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Why There Are (Probably) No UFOs: “Climate Change”
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Creating Microbial Monsters To Terrorize Ourselves
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Class 89: The Measure Most Modelers Forget: Skill Examples
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The Shocking Conclusion of the HR Trilemma!
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The HR Trilemma: Which Door Decides Your Fate?
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Capital Punishment Deters Crime More Than The Death Penalty
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How Experts Use “Calamities” to Find Official Victims & Gain Power
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Richard Dawkins, The Big Muscles Fallacy & AI Pachinko
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Class 88: The Most Neglected Concept: Skill
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The Red-Blue Button Dilemma & Its Surprising Answer
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UFO Reports About To Blast Off!
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Class 87: Calibration & Conformal Prediction: Examples
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Noticing Differences Between Races Does Not Pay
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What Are The Chances Of All These Scientists Dying, Killed, Or Going Missing?
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Class 86: Calibration & Conformal Prediction: Theory
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Orthodoxy’s War: Part II — Guest Post by Ianto Watt
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Orthodoxy’s War: Part II — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

Beginnings We've looked at the origins of Russia's national, earthly origins. To the common Earth beneath her, both north and south. Now it is time to look more closely at…
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The False Ontology Of The Racist, Homophobe, RINO, Antisemite, Et Cetera
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The False Ontology Of The Racist, Homophobe, RINO, Antisemite, Et Cetera

Christians say the believer is enjoined to "to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be…
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Growing Interest In Non-Human Rights
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Growing Interest In Non-Human Rights

You might have to seek consent the next time you want to dip your skinny-dipping toe in the waters of the great Lake Erie. The lunatic denizens of Toledo, Ohio,…
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Summary Against Modern Thought:  God Does Not Eliminate The Need For Science 1
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Summary Against Modern Thought: God Does Not Eliminate The Need For Science 1

Previous post. This is a very large, but not especially difficult, Chapter, so we'll bust it into two parts. ON THE OPINION OF THOSE WHO TAKE AWAY PROPER ACTIONS FROM…
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The Week In Doom — State-Mandated Sodomy Edition
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The Week In Doom — State-Mandated Sodomy Edition

Item Canadian doctors tell father they will inject his 14-year-old daughter with male hormones for transition without his permission It would be wrong, and probably illegal, to say that the…
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<em>The Magician and the Cardsharp</em> — by Karl Johnson
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The Magician and the Cardsharp — by Karl Johnson

This post, which could use some better writing, originally ran on 5 June 2009. But it's a lot of fun. The Magician and the Cardsharp: The Search for America's Greatest…
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Yep, Probability Is Not As Simple As You Think
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Yep, Probability Is Not As Simple As You Think

Couple of folks (Mike W, Dan Hughes) asked me to comment on the article "The concept of probability is not as simple as you think" by Nevin Climenhaga. Three popular…
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Orthodoxy’s War: Part I — Guest Post by Ianto Watt
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Orthodoxy’s War: Part I — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

Prologue I've always thought that the concept of nuclear power was spooky. The whole idea of messing with the essential stability of the material world was eerie. The idea that…
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