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No Model Will Save Us: Pope Leo, the Miserostat, and AI’s Woke Coders
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No Model Will Save Us: Pope Leo, the Miserostat, and AI’s Woke Coders

I don't know who wrote Magnifica Humanitas, the Vatican's new encyclical on "safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence", but he (or it?) appears to not have…
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How High an IQ Must A Person Have To Be Executed?
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How High an IQ Must A Person Have To Be Executed?

In proving foresight may be vain:The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ MenGang aft agley,An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain,For promis’d joy! Lennie said, "I thought you was…
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Class 90: Simple (Optimal) Decisions
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Class 90: Simple (Optimal) Decisions

Reminder: The Thursday Class is only for those interested in studying uncertainty. I don’t expect all want to read these posts. Pease don’t feel like you must. Yet, I have…
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Shocking Abortion Numbers: Death Distributions Show We’re Living Longer
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Shocking Abortion Numbers: Death Distributions Show We’re Living Longer

There were comments, hither and yon, about whether people were dying older today than they were in olden days. Some said yes, some said it was only an illusion, perhaps…
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Blessed Memorial Day; No Class; See You Wednesday
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Blessed Memorial Day; No Class; See You Wednesday

As I was scraping the frost off the windshield this morning, I thanked God for global warming, now called "climate change." For without the warmth provided by our very exhalations,…
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Why There Are (Probably) No UFOs: “Climate Change”
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Why There Are (Probably) No UFOs: “Climate Change”

Here are a few typical photographs or stills from videos provided by our most beneficent government in its recent "release" of UFO files. (You will all recall my recent UFO…
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Creating Microbial Monsters To Terrorize Ourselves
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Creating Microbial Monsters To Terrorize Ourselves

There is a claim, said to be made by a prominent "neocon" in the Trump administration, that "Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes have both been named as possible domestic terrorists".…
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Class 89: The Measure Most Modelers Forget: Skill Examples
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Class 89: The Measure Most Modelers Forget: Skill Examples

Reminder: The Thursday Class is only for those interested in studying uncertainty. I don’t expect all want to read these posts. So please don’t feel like you must. Yet, I…
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  1. jgh on Shocking Abortion Numbers: Death Distributions Show We’re Living LongerJune 3, 2026

    I do census data research, and something very striking is comparing age profiles. The age distribution in 1900 is more-or-less…

  2. jgh on How High an IQ Must A Person Have To Be Executed?June 3, 2026

    Surely the only logical reasoning is: if he knew what he was doing, he should be executed as punishment. If…

  3. Stephen Frick on No Model Will Save Us: Pope Leo, the Miserostat, and AI’s Woke CodersJune 3, 2026

    Thank you. This has so many valuable observations.

  4. Brian (bulaoren) on How High an IQ Must A Person Have To Be Executed?June 2, 2026

    Those humanitarian champions of euthanasia are always champing at the bit, to spring into action, every time someone complains of…

  5. Jess on How High an IQ Must A Person Have To Be Executed?June 2, 2026

    Locally, a pit-bull was euthanized for killing a child. That's my metric. If they have at least the IQ of…

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