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Reading Bryan Johnson’s The Immortalism Manifesto
October 26, 2026
Class 98: Limitations of Genetic Associations With Personality
October 22, 2026
I’m Thinking Of A Number Between 1 and 5 (that you can’t guess)
October 21, 2026
Against Numerology: Some Basic Calculations
October 19, 2026
Class 97: The Goal Of Models
October 15, 2026
Book Update
October 14, 2026
Sexual Assault Galore At Cornell
October 12, 2026
Class 96: Can Bayesianism Quantify True Belief?
October 8, 2026
Top 10 Reasons AI Will Never Become Superintelligence: It Won’t Destroy Nor Save Us
October 5, 2026
Viewer Asks: Why Do I Bother?
October 1, 2026
Academics Call For The Killing Of Babies In “After-Birth” Abortions
September 30, 2026
Irrational Rationalists: Effective Altruists & The Planet of the Ants
September 28, 2026
Class 95: Answering P-Value Good Uses Challenges
September 25, 2026
Whoring For Climate Change
September 23, 2026
Lady Academics Tire Of Being Judged By Peer Review
September 21, 2026
Class 94: Quantifying The Unquantifiable
September 17, 2026
PFAS and Preservatives: Entrenching Chemophobia through Everyday Stuff — Guest Post by Jaap Hanekamp
September 16, 2026
The MRS Degree — Guest Post by Johnathan Edwards
September 15, 2026
Politicians Demand “Right” To Be Protected Against AI
September 14, 2026
Class 93: P-values Challenge! List The “Good Uses” of P-value
September 10, 2026
Is the West Dying Out? The Demographic Crisis Explained: Jon Harris Podcast
September 9, 2026
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Reading Bryan Johnson’s The Immortalism Manifesto

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Class 98: Limitations of Genetic Associations With Personality

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Tranny Madness: True Belief Or Exaggeration? A Case Study
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Tranny Madness: True Belief Or Exaggeration? A Case Study

New York Times headline: Anatomy Does Not Determine Gender, Experts Say Defining gender as a condition determined strictly by a person's genitals is based on a notion that doctors and…
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Cornell University To Require Indoctrination To Graduate
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Cornell University To Require Indoctrination To Graduate

Many of you thought Cornell had already leapt over the progressive cliff when they fired me and hired a lady sexual harassment lawyer to teach statistics. Not so. This only…
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Building the New Internet — Guest Post by Jefferson White
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Building the New Internet — Guest Post by Jefferson White

It is now clear that the Big Tech oligarchies have become the primary enemies of the American future. In less than two decades, the original, radically decentralized Internet has been…
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Citation Deplatforming All Men Women Don’t Like
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Citation Deplatforming All Men Women Don’t Like

The Chronicle of Higher Education (A Cathedral&tm; publication) asks, and asks in earnest, "Academic Ethics: Should Scholars Avoid Citing the Work of Awful People?" by Brian Leiter. Across academe, many…
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Summary Against Modern Thought: You Can Know Some About God
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Summary Against Modern Thought: You Can Know Some About God

Summary Against Modern Thought: Limits Of Our Knowledge Of God Previous post. Last few weeks we learned there are limits to how well we can know God. This week we…
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This Week In Doom — Deranged Psychology Edition
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This Week In Doom — Deranged Psychology Edition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUVo1h2V9rk Note the change back to the original title. And video for the reading-impaired! I'm thinking of moving Doom back to Wednesdays, and leaving Saturday's blank. Item On Woke Capital.…
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Some Curious Results In World Poverty Rates — With Update People Say They Want (But Don’t)
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Some Curious Results In World Poverty Rates — With Update People Say They Want (But Don’t)

The tweet above is from Human Progress. Thanks to @WrathofGnon for the tip. It shows the number of people by region who live "in poverty". It is a stacked line…
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The Who’s-Dumber-Than-An-Academic Contest Has No Winner Yet
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The Who’s-Dumber-Than-An-Academic Contest Has No Winner Yet

Headline From CNN! Memes may contribute to teenage obesity, lawmakers told Any comment I can make to this would be superfluous and would mar the crystalline beauty of its insanity.…
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