William M. Briggs

Summary Against Modern Thought: How Much You Can See Of God

Previous post. The last note is the most important. HOW THOSE WHO SEE THE DIVINE SUBSTANCE MAY SEE ALL THINGS 1 Since the vision of the divine substance is the…

Culture

Insanity & Doom Update LXIX — Don’t You Call Me Sir Edition

No video this week. Weep and despair! Item Berkeley prof wants to nix student evals after white male profs score higher A University of California, Berkeley professor suggested scrapping end-of-semester…

Culture

Who’s Up For A Meal And Some Corpse Dissection?

Headline Diners offered two-course meal topped off by DISSECTION of a 'human corpse' A group of dissectors have found a unique way of getting one's "insides out" as they are…

Statistics

What Lousy Philosophy Tells Us About Belief In Global Warming

One reason people doubt global-warming-of-doom is because of lousy philosophers like N. Ángel Pinillos (note the New York Times-sophisticated inclusion of the accent). He wrote a piece entitled (in some…

Statistics

Biostatisticians: They Asked Us To Lie!

The paper is "Researcher Requests for Inappropriate Analysis and Reporting: A U.S. Survey of Consulting Biostatisticians" by Min Qi Wang, Alice F. Yan, and Ralph V. Katz in Annals of…

Class Statistics

How To Do Predictive Statistics: Part X: Survival Analysis

Query: now that I'm a video master, would people like videos of these lessons? I don't see how they'd help much, but who knows. Let me know below or via…

Culture

Jews Tell Christians & Muslims To Put Trigger Warnings on Bible & Koran

Some Jews asked Christians to stamp the following warning on all Bibles: Warning: Jews Have Rejected Their Messiah. And they asked Muslims to insert this bookplate into every Koran: Muhammad…

Philosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: Some Know More About God Than Others

Previous post. The obvious joke is that it pays to study. THAT ONE BEING IS ABLE TO SEE GOD MORE PERFECTLY THAN ANOTHER 1 Since the mode of operation results…

John Pate on Richard Dawkins, The Big Muscles Fallacy & AI PachinkoMay 5, 2026
Dawkins is leaning in to the idea that we've defined consciousness as what we are seeing the AI chatbots produce.…
Phileas Frogg on The Red-Blue Button Dilemma & Its Surprising AnswerMay 5, 2026
Push the Red button then order my entire family to do the same, because we are not obligated to risk…
Johnno on Richard Dawkins, The Big Muscles Fallacy & AI PachinkoMay 4, 2026
This is your brain on the Theory of Evolution. Atheists should be restricted from any and all influential positions within…
John M on Richard Dawkins, The Big Muscles Fallacy & AI PachinkoMay 4, 2026
My old brain still wants to read the acronym as the name Al (lower case L). That's why I like…
Brian (bulaoren) on Richard Dawkins, The Big Muscles Fallacy & AI PachinkoMay 4, 2026
Can there be an "Artificial Intelligence" that does not contain "Artifacts"?

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: How Much You Can See Of God

Insanity & Doom Update LXIX — Don’t You Call Me Sir Edition

Who’s Up For A Meal And Some Corpse Dissection?

What Lousy Philosophy Tells Us About Belief In Global Warming

Biostatisticians: They Asked Us To Lie!

How To Do Predictive Statistics: Part X: Survival Analysis

Jews Tell Christians & Muslims To Put Trigger Warnings on Bible & Koran

Summary Against Modern Thought: Some Know More About God Than Others

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