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The Great Smoothing: Another Reason Not To Fear (or trust) AI
March 10, 2026
A Synchronicity Or Coincidence? What Is Behind Curious Events?
March 9, 2026
Class 81: The Second Biggest Error In Time Series
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The Paper Test Shows Why AGI Is Not Possible: And Why The Brain Is Different In Kind
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Researcher Imagines Weather With No Human Influence: Concludes Climate Change Hurts Incomes
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Faith Deposited: Why Godless Science Fails
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Class 80: Granger Causality; Per Se & Accidental Time Series; Stationarity
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Scientists Seeking To Escape Criticism Run To The Warmth & Comfort Of Bluesky
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The Loss of Ephemera — Guest Post by The Blonde Bombshell
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Class 79: Time Series Example
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The Importance Of Not Making Decisions
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Don’t Take The ‘Long-Covid’ Alzheimer’s Study Seriously
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AI Is Driving Many Crazy: Our Latest Panic
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Class 78: The Attempt To Turn Correlation Lead Into Causation Gold In Time Series
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Desperate Need For Equality: AP Exam Performance
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Some Sanity: Experts Sued For Creating Gender Delusions
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Why The Recent Claims Of AGI Fail: Plus, A New Test For AGI
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Impossible LSAT Statistics Question
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How Women’s Equality In Democracies Changes Voting (And Everything Else)
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Class 77: Trendy Trends In Time Series
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The Great Smoothing: Another Reason Not To Fear (or trust) AI

Posted by By Briggs March 10, 2026
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A Synchronicity Or Coincidence? What Is Behind Curious Events?

Posted by By Briggs March 9, 2026
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Summary Against Modern Thought: It Was Suitable God Became Flesh
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Summary Against Modern Thought: It Was Suitable God Became Flesh

Previous post. Part I of the rebuttals of the objections given last week. Why did God become a man? THAT IT WAS SUITABLE FOR GOD TO BE MADE FLESH 1…
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On Computing The Number Of The Beast
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On Computing The Number Of The Beast

And it was given him to give life to the image of the beast, and that the image of the beast should speak; and should cause, that whosoever will not…
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Curious Notions Of Cause In Science & Statistics
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Curious Notions Of Cause In Science & Statistics

You will forgive me if this post is more technical than usual. I try to leave out math, knowing how confusing it can be. But here it is necessary. The…
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Massive Over-Certainties In Medicine: Bad Statistics, Bad Experiments
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Massive Over-Certainties In Medicine: Bad Statistics, Bad Experiments

Ready to Follow The Science? Let's listen to the lamentations of its lecturers and lovers. The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply…
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How Academic Psychology Affects Brains Of Academic Psychologists Studying How Climate Change Affects Brains
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How Academic Psychology Affects Brains Of Academic Psychologists Studying How Climate Change Affects Brains

Yesterday I made the claim that academic psychology contained vastly more "banality, ephemera, and outright enforced mandatory quackery than real psychology." This was proved by a paper written by a…
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How Belief In Equality Destroys Intellect, Ruins Thought & Leads To Madness
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How Belief In Equality Destroys Intellect, Ruins Thought & Leads To Madness

There is a peer-reviewed paper, with about sixty authors, almost all female, all ensconced comfortably in prominent Western academic institutions, ululating on the relative dearth of females in "psychological science."…
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Summary Against Modern Thought: Arguments Used Against The Incarnation
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Summary Against Modern Thought: Arguments Used Against The Incarnation

Previous post. Another long couple of weeks ahead of us. Why did Our Lord become flesh? Our good saint leads off the best way. ARGUMENTS WHICH SEEM TO PROVE THAT…
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What Putin & Russia Want: A Historical Perspective — Guest Post by Ianto Watt
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What Putin & Russia Want: A Historical Perspective — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

I’ve been asked this a million times. ‘Who is Vlad?’ I keep answering that we do not (yet) know, because Vlad himself does not know who he is. Or rather,…
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  1. Cary D Cotterman on The Great Smoothing: Another Reason Not To Fear (or trust) AIMarch 10, 2026

    After spending years in school doing my own writing, then decades in my profession busting my ass to write somewhere…

  2. Uncle Mike on The Great Smoothing: Another Reason Not To Fear (or trust) AIMarch 10, 2026

    AI isn't the entity smoothing the data. The alleged decline in Arctic sea ice was a key assertion in Algore's…

  3. JH on A Synchronicity Or Coincidence? What Is Behind Curious Events?March 10, 2026

    The definition of cause can vary, and each incident may have its causes or contributing factors. I see coincidences as…

  4. JH on The Great Smoothing: Another Reason Not To Fear (or trust) AIMarch 10, 2026

    AI can be ‘gullible’ because it takes all the information fed into its optimization or backpropagation system. In many tasks,…

  5. Richard on A Synchronicity Or Coincidence? What Is Behind Curious Events?March 9, 2026

    My son-in-law calls these "cosmic coincidences". We share with each other "interesting" or "unusual" ones we've each experienced. Of course,…

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