William M. Briggs

Let’s Talk About The Trans Movement: Part II — Guest Post by Gaudia Certaminis

Read Part I. The female trans experience (F2M) differs somewhat from the male trans experience (M2F). Furthermore, the elementary school-age trans experience differs from the teen or the young adult…

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How Ignorance & The Elite Created Our New Environmental Religion

https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1176231980159160322 We've talked many times about how the child Greta Thunberg from the depths of Europe is ignorant of all atmospheric physics. Ignorant, as in she knows nothing. She couldn't…

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Summary Against Modern Thought: How God Can Act Apart From Providence

Previous post. There are not objections about God "changing his mind". Language in scripture can be metaphorical and figurative, just like in other literature. HOW GOD CAN ACT APART FROM…

Culture

The Week In Doom — Vagina Museum Edition

There was vastly more Doom this week, a definite acceleration, so than I could only fit a fraction of the worst in. There will be a separate article on the…

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Number Of Realist-Traditionalist Professors Dwindling Fast

Mitchell Langbert has some statistics of interest in the latest issue of Academic Questions. Homogenous: The Political Affiliations of Elite Liberal Arts College Faculty. The picture which heads the post…

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Elite Occult Practices Becoming More Open: From The Georgia Guidestones To The Illuminati Ball

The mystery behind the Georgia Guidestones appears as if it will never be solved. The one man who might be able to provide some clues isn't talking, and at eighty-nine…

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What Are P-Values?

Contributor William Raynor sets us a task: Hi Matt, ...I'd still like to see if you can write a column about what an empirical p-value really is without mentioning the…

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Corruption Of All Authority: An Interim Doom Report

"Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing." This is, as everybody knows, Conquest's Second Law. It is a true law, as all modern experience shows. But it…

C- Marie on Why The Recent Claims Of AGI Fail: Plus, A New Test For AGIFebruary 9, 2026
I understood much of the logic of this. Thank you, Matt! God bless, C- Marie
shawn marshall on Why The Recent Claims Of AGI Fail: Plus, A New Test For AGIFebruary 9, 2026
I asked Grok to assign probabilities to all the known facts about the Shroud of Turin and then calculate a…
Rudolph Harrier on Why The Recent Claims Of AGI Fail: Plus, A New Test For AGIFebruary 9, 2026
It's an interesting thought experiment. However, we will never have a practical implementation of the test because it would be…
Briggs on Why The Recent Claims Of AGI Fail: Plus, A New Test For AGIFebruary 9, 2026
hudbwu, You could be right.
hudbwu on Why The Recent Claims Of AGI Fail: Plus, A New Test For AGIFebruary 9, 2026
Caution: it may be that intelligence can not be confirmed by any behavioral test. For example, free will can not…

William M. Briggs

Why The Recent Claims Of AGI Fail: Plus, A New Test For AGI

Polar Bears Are Doing Fine: Activists, Not So Well

Impossible LSAT Statistics Question

How Women’s Equality In Democracies Changes Voting (And Everything Else)

Class 77: Trendy Trends In Time Series

Who Still Listens To AM Radio?

Scientists Invent New Name For Models: Digital Twins

What Science Says About Making Medication Mandatory

What A Winter

FDA Goes Bayes: It Should Have Gone Probability

Class 76: That’s Not Noise. That’s Signal!

AI: The Earth Is Spinning Faster & Slower (Because “Climate Change”)

Confirmation Bias In The Minneapolis Shooting

Sports Betting Is An Excellent Way To Lose Money

Class 75: A Gentle Introduction To Time Series

The Consent Fallacy

On Laws Banning Hacking Women’s Genitals & Imposing Beliefs

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Why The Drake Equation Fails

Why The Recent Claims Of AGI Fail: Plus, A New Test For AGI

Polar Bears Are Doing Fine: Activists, Not So Well

Let’s Talk About The Trans Movement: Part II — Guest Post by Gaudia Certaminis

How Ignorance & The Elite Created Our New Environmental Religion

Summary Against Modern Thought: How God Can Act Apart From Providence

The Week In Doom — Vagina Museum Edition

Number Of Realist-Traditionalist Professors Dwindling Fast

Elite Occult Practices Becoming More Open: From The Georgia Guidestones To The Illuminati Ball

What Are P-Values?

Corruption Of All Authority: An Interim Doom Report

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