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The Ultimate IQ Test: Guessing the Author’s Mind and Escaping the Infinity of Answers
June 8, 2026
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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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Shocking Abortion Numbers: Death Distributions Show We’re Living Longer
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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!
May 13, 2026
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!
April 27, 2026
Class 87: Calibration & Conformal Prediction: Examples
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Noticing Differences Between Races Does Not Pay
April 22, 2026
What Are The Chances Of All These Scientists Dying, Killed, Or Going Missing?
April 20, 2026
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The Ultimate IQ Test: Guessing the Author’s Mind and Escaping the Infinity of Answers

Posted by By Briggs June 8, 2026
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Reader Poll: Shorter or Longer, Frequent or Rarer Posts?

Posted by By Briggs June 4, 2026
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Reasons Not To Like Prediction Markets
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Reasons Not To Like Prediction Markets

Note: I wrote this on Saturday morning before the events of Sunday hilariously vindicated the conclusions below. My point was to illustrate how bets are not probabilities, though they do…
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Class 14: No “UNfair” Dice & 1, 2, 3, Many!
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Class 14: No “UNfair” Dice & 1, 2, 3, Many!

Link to all Classes. Video Announcement: In order to preserve sanity, I am not going to include any technical proofs in the Video lectures from now on. As important, indeed…
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Covid Is The Boogerman of Maladies: Now It Causes Cognitive Confusion Claim Researchers
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Covid Is The Boogerman of Maladies: Now It Causes Cognitive Confusion Claim Researchers

So these researchers said the worse infection of covid you had the more you now act like our dear President: In a multiple regression analysis, participants who had recovered from…
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The Enlightenment Was The Beginning Of The Great Leveling: Stove 2
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The Enlightenment Was The Beginning Of The Great Leveling: Stove 2

We continue our series on the works of David Stove by picking up where we left off with the first essay in On Enlightenment. Part I here. It will be…
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Lesson 13: No “Fair” Dice & Jaynes Symmetry
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Lesson 13: No “Fair” Dice & Jaynes Symmetry

Uncertainty & Probability Theory: The Logic of Science Video Links: YouTube Twitter Rumble Bitchute (often a day or so behind, for whatever reason) The Infamous Coin Flipping Machine! Link to…
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Arrest All Stochastic Terrorists In Trump Assassination Attempt & Civilian Murder & Shootings
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Arrest All Stochastic Terrorists In Trump Assassination Attempt & Civilian Murder & Shootings

Class will be delayed one day, until tomorrow. Academics at universities, which are the best kind of academics, invented the idea of stochastic terrorism. According to academic James Angove (who…
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Academics Have Contest To See How Many Times They Can Say ‘Racist’ In An Article: An IQ Story
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Academics Have Contest To See How Many Times They Can Say ‘Racist’ In An Article: An IQ Story

His name wasn't the first given, nor even the second. But it did appear. There was a special sense of anticipation waiting for his name to come. For you knew…
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Jon Stewart Proves Democracies Are Undesirable
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Jon Stewart Proves Democracies Are Undesirable

Regime court jester Jon Stewart used his stock "aghast" gimmick (which, you will know, is a low play on emotion) to instruct his audience that Biden's senility was "new information"…
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  1. C-Marie on The Ultimate IQ Test: Guessing the Author’s Mind and Escaping the Infinity of AnswersJune 8, 2026

    Very fun, Matt!! God bless, C-Marie

  2. Philip Rogan on The Ultimate IQ Test: Guessing the Author’s Mind and Escaping the Infinity of AnswersJune 8, 2026

    May be showing my lack of IQ: 2 + 2 = 4; 4 x 2 = 8. 5 + 5…

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    You explained the point clearly, that any question involves assumptions about its meaning and how it should be answered. If…

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    In the absence of knowing if the author intended some more complex formula, and what it might be, the simplest…

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    72! That's my story and I'm stickin' to it! I think that puzzle would have been more legitimate if the…

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