William M. Briggs

$The Nightmare Of The Woke & The Elimination Of Standards$

The Nightmare Of The Woke & The Elimination Of Standards

Here's the news from the Great White-Supremacist-No-More North: The Vancouver School Board is cutting honours programs for secondary school students effective this fall. Honours math and science will be cut,…

SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: Understanding The Trinity XI

Previous post. We continue the, admittedly very long, investigation into the Holy Ghost. ON THE EFFECTS ATTRIBUTED TO THE HOLY SPIRIT IN SCRIPTURE REGARDING THE WHOLE CREATION 1 One must,…

Culture

The Nature Of Civil Authority (Government) & Treason — Guest Post by Oldavid

The premises of this discourse are: that it is the nature of Man (humanity) to live in society; a functional society requires order. I will define civil order as an…

Culture

“Behold! I Have Become A God!” Said The Weightlifter

You've heard the news. Some man from New Zealand who is pretending to be a woman has been granted the right to compete with real women in the Olympics. The…

Culture

SCOTUS & The Imposing Your Beliefs Fallacy

The State always, or at least when it does not sleep, seeks to impose its beliefs on everybody. It does this through the creation of laws, which most people (except…

Statistics

Vexxines Killing Kids? Cult Of The Mask; Cult Of The Science; More! — Coronavirus Update LXXVI

ALL CAUSE DEATHS This is usually in the numbers section, but I worry the point I'm making is getting lost. The week-of-the-year all-cause deaths. Green line is 2021, red is…

Statistics

Solution To The Kind-Hearted Magician — REVEALED!

Kip Hansen last week gave us the following scenario (which I've pared to bare essentials here, but check the original if you fret): START Sam shows us three cards, two…

SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: Understanding The Trinity X

Previous post. The Holy Ghost, at least to me, is the most confusing aspect of the Trinity. There follows a few lessons on what He is. HOW ONE MUST UNDERSTAND…

John Pate on University of California Prof Tries To Save System From DIEingJuly 15, 2026
I don't believe China to be hampered by such nonsense or, for that matter, much of S.E.A. in general.
Rudolph Harrier on My Horrible Interaction With AIJuly 15, 2026
I don't find LLMs to be particular bad at D&D in comparison to other things. For example, I queried an…
JohnK on Hume’s Guillotine, Euclid’s Catapult: Induction, Axioms, and Objective EthicsJuly 15, 2026
Does one detect the sea-captain's lurking circularity in this "we" who "need air, gravity, food..." etc.? And don't "we" also…
hudbwu on Hume’s Guillotine, Euclid’s Catapult: Induction, Axioms, and Objective EthicsJuly 15, 2026
Hume: "People saying things doesn't translate into rules for living." Stultes: "OMG I can do whatever I want!" If only…
hudbwu on My Horrible Interaction With AIJuly 14, 2026
@Rudolph Harrier: it's weird that you mention D&D in relation to LLMs. In my experience, nothing shows the utter impotence…

William M. Briggs

Hume’s Guillotine, Euclid’s Catapult: Induction, Axioms, and Objective Ethics

University of California Prof Tries To Save System From DIEing

The Equality Paradox

My Horrible Interaction With AI

SOON

The Court’s Slow Theft Of The Constitution — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

Happy Birthday to US

Never Use Or Trust P-values (Pagan-Values)

Musk Doges Deaths: Researchers Say USAID Absence Kills Kills Kills!

The Intellectual Capacity Of Women by David Stove

Marbles!

Class 92: Simple Optimal Decisions: PSA & Cancer Example

Math Is Epistemic Violence, Says Lady Academic

Truly Random Numbers Found?

Class 91: Try Not To Use the ROC Curve & AUC

Climate Change Increases Risk of Even Slower World Cup Games!

The Ultimate IQ Test: Guessing the Author’s Mind and Escaping the Infinity of Answers

Reader Poll: Shorter or Longer, Frequent or Rarer Posts?

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

How High an IQ Must A Person Have To Be Executed?

Class 90: Simple (Optimal) Decisions

Hume’s Guillotine, Euclid’s Catapult: Induction, Axioms, and Objective Ethics

University of California Prof Tries To Save System From DIEing

The Nightmare Of The Woke & The Elimination Of Standards

Summary Against Modern Thought: Understanding The Trinity XI

The Nature Of Civil Authority (Government) & Treason — Guest Post by Oldavid

“Behold! I Have Become A God!” Said The Weightlifter

SCOTUS & The Imposing Your Beliefs Fallacy

Vexxines Killing Kids? Cult Of The Mask; Cult Of The Science; More! — Coronavirus Update LXXVI

Solution To The Kind-Hearted Magician — REVEALED!

Summary Against Modern Thought: Understanding The Trinity X

There Is No Culture Without Inequality: Stove 1

Impose Your Beliefs Before They Impose Theirs

Telekinesis: Ideas In Our Reenchantment & Rectification

The Physics Of Blessings: Ideas In Our Reenchantment & Rectification