There’s a rumor going around that computers can now read your thoughts. That “AI” can pick off images you’re thinking about. Here’s one of many similar breathless headlines: “The AI that can […]
Here, in his own words, is the argument Yuval Noah Harari uses to justify his transhumanism. 1. Organisms are algorithms. Every animal — including Homo sapiens — is an assemblage of organic […]
A model—which I do not distinguish between a theory—can be useful to one man and useless to the next. “But Briggs, people don’t treat theories the same as models.” Right: they do […]
Two exciting new models have been released. One says the vaccinated should fear the unvaccinated. The second, a new scientific Artificial Intelligence computer mathematical model, has concluded Experts should be launched into […]
Everybody has read, or seen adaptations of, Bram Stocker’s documentation of Dracula, the undead count, unlate of Transylvania. From these pages and films, we all know how to kill a vampire. In […]
If all we know about an American male is that he is an American male, we can use data on observed rates American males committed crimes to predict that this new American […]
We covered this before, but there are indications our All Models chant is not effective, or is not believed. Here is another attempt at showing it is true. So, all together now, […]
I am not talking about the plastic, candy-filled kind – the ones my wife, on Easter mornings, hands me by the dozen to hide throughout our yard, with more than a few […]
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