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The Navy Becomes Woke
China is rapidly building its navy, and now has two aircraft carriers, double Russia and France's counts. Not that we can expect to go to war with France anytime soon.…
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Dear Quacks & Experts: Your Loss Function Is Not Our Loss Function
Note to the colleague who wrote me. I lost your email! You asked excellent questions about the post Classical Statistics Has Outlived Its Usefulness: Here’s The Fix, which I meant…
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Is A Material Bearer of Consciousness Intelligible? Part 2 — Guest Post by The Cranky Professor
See Part I here. In this essay, I will summarize and expound more on the “divisible parts problem” in materialism and why the concept of the soul (or ‘mental substance’)…
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Mask – Model – Medication – Mass Hysteria — Coronavirus Update LIII
MASS HYSTERIA There is already a paper on people going nuts: COVID-19 and the Political Economy of Mass Hysteria by Bagus et al. Abstract (with added paragraphifications by me): In…
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Why (Scott Alexander’s) Bayesian Rationality Fails
Scott Alexander, late of Slate Star Codex, and New York Times doxee, is the subject of Curtis Yarvin nee Moldbug's latest. Rather, Alexander's (and Moldbug's? see postscript) Bayesian rationality is.…
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Summary Against Modern Thought: The Son Of God
Previous post. We begin with the metaphors, Son and Father. THAT THERE IS GENERATION, PATERNITY, AND SONSHIP IN THE DIVINITY 1 Let us take the beginning of our study from…
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The Big Slide: A Short History of the Decline and Fall of the USA — Guest Post by Uncle Mike
The American Experiment peaked in the two decades following WWII and has been in decline ever since. Here's the story in a nutshell. When World War II ended, the USA…
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Lindell Comes Up Short In His Absolute Proof
Mike Lindell, like Time magazine, questioned 2020's election results. Lindell says the election was shifted from Trump to Biden, which he decried. Time used the brand new euphemism fortified to…
