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Politicians Demand “Right” To Be Protected Against AI
Here is a report on a brief speech made by U.N. "rights chief" Volker Turk, warning that AI, i.e. computer models, are an "existential risk" to man. “I share the…
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Class 93: P-values Challenge! List The “Good Uses” of P-value
"Yes, I use P-values. They never did me any harm." Reminder: The Thursday Class is only for those interested in studying uncertainty. I don’t expect all want to read these…
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Is the West Dying Out? The Demographic Crisis Explained: Jon Harris Podcast
I was on with Jon Harris discussing, among other things, the so-called fertility crisis. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TPi5vexft8 I have since seen BAP's article on the same subject, which is more in-depth, and…
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Lindsay Clancy Strangled Her Kids Because Of “Climate Change”
A trio of academics, responsible for the paper "Temperature and Maltreatment of Young Children", did not mention Lindsay Clancy by name, but you will forgive my lapse into clickbait titling…
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Do Dogs Poop In Alignment With The Earth’s Magnetic Field?
Since we're careening into the last full weekend of a summer that was too brief, and has already exited my far north sanctuary---the maples are already colored---, and since Class…
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Lewontin’s Other Fallacy: Race & Intelligence
The most race-obsessed people, paradoxically, are those who claim race does not exist. Academics in particular are prone to insist on race being a fiction invented by "racists", people who…
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Fertility Fears Overblown: Tiny Shift in Childless Rate Saves The Species
All know that women, and the men who mate with them, are having fewer babies. There is substantial variability depending on locale, but the trend pretty much everywhere around the…
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A New Kind Of University: Your Comments Wanted
Little Nate Confas, whom I have teased before (here, here, here) for his trusting in Great Brains to save us, has been suspended by those Great Brains from Ghent University…