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The Great Smoothing: Another Reason Not To Fear (or trust) AI
March 10, 2026
A Synchronicity Or Coincidence? What Is Behind Curious Events?
March 9, 2026
Class 81: The Second Biggest Error In Time Series
March 5, 2026
The Paper Test Shows Why AGI Is Not Possible: And Why The Brain Is Different In Kind
March 4, 2026
Researcher Imagines Weather With No Human Influence: Concludes Climate Change Hurts Incomes
March 3, 2026
Faith Deposited: Why Godless Science Fails
March 2, 2026
Class 80: Granger Causality; Per Se & Accidental Time Series; Stationarity
February 26, 2026
Scientists Seeking To Escape Criticism Run To The Warmth & Comfort Of Bluesky
February 24, 2026
The Loss of Ephemera — Guest Post by The Blonde Bombshell
February 23, 2026
Class 79: Time Series Example
February 19, 2026
The Importance Of Not Making Decisions
February 18, 2026
Don’t Take The ‘Long-Covid’ Alzheimer’s Study Seriously
February 17, 2026
AI Is Driving Many Crazy: Our Latest Panic
February 16, 2026
Class 78: The Attempt To Turn Correlation Lead Into Causation Gold In Time Series
February 12, 2026
Desperate Need For Equality: AP Exam Performance
February 11, 2026
Some Sanity: Experts Sued For Creating Gender Delusions
February 10, 2026
Why The Recent Claims Of AGI Fail: Plus, A New Test For AGI
February 9, 2026
Polar Bears Are Doing Fine: Activists, Not So Well
February 4, 2026
Impossible LSAT Statistics Question
February 3, 2026
How Women’s Equality In Democracies Changes Voting (And Everything Else)
February 2, 2026
Class 77: Trendy Trends In Time Series
January 29, 2026
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The Great Smoothing: Another Reason Not To Fear (or trust) AI

Posted by By Briggs March 10, 2026
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A Synchronicity Or Coincidence? What Is Behind Curious Events?

Posted by By Briggs March 9, 2026
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SAT’s Adversity Score New Way To Enforce Racial Quotas
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SAT’s Adversity Score New Way To Enforce Racial Quotas

The College Board will soon attach Pity Points to SAT scores. The Pity Points will be used to suggest that those who scored poorly did not in fact score poorly…
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Summary Against Modern Thought:  Equality Is False
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Summary Against Modern Thought: Equality Is False

Previous post. Equality cannot be the case since there is a hierarchy among men. ON THE ORDERING OF MEN AMONG THEMSELVES AND TO OTHER THINGS 1 As a matter of…
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The Week In Doom — Pride In Perversion Edition
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The Week In Doom — Pride In Perversion Edition

Item A list of woke corporations taking pride in sodomy. https://twitter.com/WokeCapital/status/1134851665830588416 It's difficult to imagine how far gone a culture is that encourages everyone---from the absolute youngest to the near…
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An Infinity of Null Hypotheses — Another Anti-P-Value Argument
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An Infinity of Null Hypotheses — Another Anti-P-Value Argument

This is extracted from this set of papers, which should be read in full. An ordinary regression model is written      mu = beta_0x_1 + ... + beta_0x_p, where mu…
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<em>Antichrist</em>, by Saint Robert Bellarmine, Reviewed
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Antichrist, by Saint Robert Bellarmine, Reviewed

Some establishment media is still based: you can find good stuff if you know where to look. Like in the PI. Take this op-ed in the Manila Times, by one…
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Prime Example Of Consent Fallacy: Legalizing Prostitution
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Prime Example Of Consent Fallacy: Legalizing Prostitution

NYT: Could Prostitution Be Next to Be Decriminalized? Marijuana has gone mainstream, casino gambling is everywhere and sports wagering is spreading. Could prostitution be next? Lawmakers across the country are…
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Many Atheists Still Believe In Higher Powers—Whatever Those Are
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Many Atheists Still Believe In Higher Powers—Whatever Those Are

A new report on atheists is of interest. It's "Understanding Unbelief: Atheists and agnostics around the world: Interim findings from 2019 research in Brazil, China, Denmark, Japan, the United Kingdom,…
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What Happens If Doctors Keep Up The Killing
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What Happens If Doctors Keep Up The Killing

The Wall Street Journal interviewed a month ago Paul McHugh, now 87, who is a psychiatrist from Johns Hopkins, where he famously, or infamously, in the 70s closed that hospital's…
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  1. Rudolph Harrier on The Great Smoothing: Another Reason Not To Fear (or trust) AIMarch 10, 2026

    I've started thinking of this as the "juice loosener problem" (after the Simpsons bit where Dr. Nick hawks an orange…

  2. Cary D Cotterman on The Great Smoothing: Another Reason Not To Fear (or trust) AIMarch 10, 2026

    After spending years in school doing my own writing, then decades in my profession busting my ass to write somewhere…

  3. Uncle Mike on The Great Smoothing: Another Reason Not To Fear (or trust) AIMarch 10, 2026

    AI isn't the entity smoothing the data. The alleged decline in Arctic sea ice was a key assertion in Algore's…

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    The definition of cause can vary, and each incident may have its causes or contributing factors. I see coincidences as…

  5. JH on The Great Smoothing: Another Reason Not To Fear (or trust) AIMarch 10, 2026

    AI can be ‘gullible’ because it takes all the information fed into its optimization or backpropagation system. In many tasks,…

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