Podcast with Ian Pilon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyybFg1uZzg I'm on the road through next Monday. Posting will be somewhat oddly scheduled. There is a special post tomorrow (Thursday). Be ready for it! All…

Reminder: No Class until after Labor Day. Today's title is real, and from a peer-reviewed paper of the same name by Mark Keegan and a bunch of other academics in…

One thing I didn't take precaution against was my own stupidity. A marvelous and constant, menacing thing you would think that, if anybody, I would have been ready for. You…

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…