William M. Briggs

Summary Against Modern Thought: What Fate Is

Previous post. About the difference between fate and superstitious versions of astrology, see the last argument. It is best not to speak of fate. ON FATE: WHETHER AND WHAT IT…

Culture

The Week In Doom — Cuck-A-Doodle-Do! Edition

Item 'I understand my wife's lived experience better': meet the men who have taken their wives' surnames For Nick Black, the decision to take his wife's name was part of…

Culture

Jesuitical Jesuit’s Devil Denying Deception

Jesuitical. Nasty word. Right down there with shifty and CNN. We could say casuistic, but that's hard to say. But sophistic and deceptive are easy. How many other groups have…

Statistics

Gender Stereotypes Banned In England

England's slow motion suicide is interesting. Majority of its leaders run around screeching about "racism" and chant "Please rule us from afar!". They think this makes them better people. The…

Statistics

On That Fluoride-IQ Study & Statistical Silliness

I am in the Northwoods at the water's edge, far from the teeming masses, and I only had time to glance through this new study that claims that women who…

Culture

Media & Satanists (Pardon The Redundancy) Join Forces Against Christianity

There are three kinds of Satanists. The first are the Epstein-Kubrick Eyes Wide Shut, Malachi Martin Windswept House covert true believers. The kind that know and practice their faith, but…

Statistics

More “Racist” AI: Blacks Pegged As Bigger “Haters” Than Whites

Ezra Klein, lead explainer over at Vox, needs to have direction of cause explained to him. He tweeted "leading AI models for processing hate speech were one-and-a-half times more likely…

Philosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: What It Means To Speak Of Fortune

Previous post. If it weren't for bad luck, well, there'd be no idea of luck. HOW A PERSON IS FAVORED BY FORTUNE AND HOW MAN IS ASSISTED BY HIGHER CAUSES…

km on The Red-Blue Button Dilemma & Its Surprising AnswerMay 3, 2026
What happens if you choose not to participate?
Briggs on Class 88: The Most Neglected Concept: SkillMay 3, 2026
Gareth, And thanks for the comment.
gareth on Class 88: The Most Neglected Concept: SkillMay 3, 2026
You said "and thanks for listening". To which my reply is "and thanks for doing" (many fold) I'm only half…
tfc on Class 88: The Most Neglected Concept: SkillMay 1, 2026
Wow. Americans say the Soviet Union was a huge success.
John Pate on The Red-Blue Button Dilemma & Its Surprising AnswerApril 30, 2026
I would press the red button because it's the red button. The bigger the red button the harder you hit…

William M. Briggs

Richard Dawkins, The Big Muscles Fallacy & AI Pachinko

Class 88: The Most Neglected Concept: Skill

The Red-Blue Button Dilemma & Its Surprising Answer

UFO Reports About To Blast Off!

Class 87: Calibration & Conformal Prediction: Examples

Noticing Differences Between Races Does Not Pay

What Are The Chances Of All These Scientists Dying, Killed, Or Going Missing?

Class 86: Calibration & Conformal Prediction: Theory

How A Miracle Turns Mundane

Contest Winner Announced!

Trump’s Last Stand: Mea Culpa, Redux — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

Class 85: Proper Scores of Model Goodness

Proof!

Justice Ketanji Roars

Iran Has Caught Covid: A Reason For The War

Class 84: Most Important Measure of Model Goodness

There Is No Solution To Crashing Fertility: Good Times Made Soft Men

Did The Pope Really Say Health Is A “Right”?

All Models Only Say What They Are Told To Say, And AI Is A Model

It’s The End Of The World Again

Belgian Judge Wants To Arrest Little Nate Cofnast Because Cofnast Says Smart People Are Smarter Than Dumb People

Richard Dawkins, The Big Muscles Fallacy & AI Pachinko

Class 88: The Most Neglected Concept: Skill

Summary Against Modern Thought: What Fate Is

The Week In Doom — Cuck-A-Doodle-Do! Edition

Jesuitical Jesuit’s Devil Denying Deception

Gender Stereotypes Banned In England

On That Fluoride-IQ Study & Statistical Silliness

Media & Satanists (Pardon The Redundancy) Join Forces Against Christianity

More “Racist” AI: Blacks Pegged As Bigger “Haters” Than Whites

Summary Against Modern Thought: What It Means To Speak Of Fortune

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