William M. Briggs

Summary Against Modern Thought: Animals Are Lower Than Man

Previous post. Only the lowest forms of slavery seek to control the thoughts of the slaves. Also see paragraph 12 for why it's okay to eat meat. THAT RATIONAL CREATURES…

Culture

The Week In Doom — California School Free-For-All Edition

Here are two weeks of Doom crammed into one. Item Bombs away! Either it's WWIII or just one more dead body in the Mideast pleasing the usual suspects. Ben Shapiro…

Statistics

The Political Corruption Of Science — Mandatory Oaths To Diversity Edition

We continue our series of the pozzing of science by Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity (DIE) mavens (the DIE is from Steve Sailer). A mathematician wrote in the Wall Street Journal…

Culture Fun

How’d We Do On Our 2019 Predictions?

A strong no prize this year. Nobody did well enough. Not enough specific predictions, or those that were specific did not come to pass. Doom predictions are too easy: they…

Culture Fun

Register Your Predictions for 2020!

As has been our tradition these many years, it's time to register our predictions for the coming year. We look at how well we did last year tomorrow. Rules: Everybody…

Fun

Blog Year In Review: Top 10 Reader & My Favorites

Tune in tomorrow to make your 2020 predictions! Results for 2019 coming Thursday. Reader Favorites Here were the Top 10 reader favorite posts of 2019, in which the numbers surprised…

Culture

The Rise Of The New Global Church — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

Here's some food for your empty soul. Globalism is dead. Long live Globalism! What was Globalism's supposed Plan A? Very simple, Komrade. It was to make us all totally sated…

Philosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: Proper Ends

Previous post. ANSWER TO THE PREVIOUS ARGUMENTS 1 So, then, it is not difficult to answer the arguments that have been presented. 2 As a matter of fact, we are…

Brian (bulaoren) on The Equality ParadoxJuly 9, 2026
"Manners Maketh the Man" I plan to submit a more elaborate "Ex Cathedra" after I've knocked back a couple of…
Philip Rogan on The Equality ParadoxJuly 9, 2026
...not having any familiarity with the task, he forgot to light the fire. And not to forget that he also…
John Pate on My Horrible Interaction With AIJuly 9, 2026
Of course, indexing is the last task an LLM would be capable of because it works using next token prediction…
John Pate on My Horrible Interaction With AIJuly 9, 2026
Tagging by hand! I would have spent at least the same amount of time writing a perl script or three…
Brian (bulaoren) on My Horrible Interaction With AIJuly 8, 2026
Many items I find on line seem redolent of AI; they contain a great deal of superfluous verbigeration. Perhaps the…

William M. Briggs

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

Shocking Abortion Numbers: Death Distributions Show We’re Living Longer

Blessed Memorial Day; No Class; See You Wednesday