Forgive me, I beg, the odd, breezy posting schedule this week. I reasoned that many would still be on vacation and wanted to save the (for a word) denser material…

Some fellow who got rich once he was in office, Ro Khana, claims Elon Musk, who got rich outside office, is responsible for some preposterous number of deaths, something into…

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…

Let's first remind ourselves of The Poor Have Less Money Fallacy. This is most commonly seen when the price of a thing rises (which often happens because of government "solutions"),…

Richard Dawkins reminds us of the important but neglected Big Muscles Fallacy: "I spent three days trying to persuade myself that Claudia is not conscious. I failed." Here's an equivalent…

There is no Class this week, due to events. Here are the first 100 numbers in a series I constructed: 0.3987654 ,0.9560464 ,0.1675681 ,0.5562341 ,0.9843035 ,0.06160958 ,0.2305416 ,0.7073786 ,0.8254209 ,0.5746259…

It's only a matter of time. This world had a beginning, and all created things have beginnings and ends. Thus, this world will have an end. I want to stress…

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…