The picture heading the post is of an AI machine carrying a small child to a paperclip factory. Why is it every time I read one of these evil-AI-destroys-the-world stories the panicked […]
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Blish & Spengler On The End Science
The National Association of Scholars is hosting a webinar this Friday, 3 PM EST: Is Science Broken? featuring Yours Truly. Free, but you have to register. We were introduced to James Blish […]
Why, Yes, The Regime Did Manipulate Coronadoom News & Had Critics Canceled
Have you been following the Twitter Files? About how the FBI, DHS, CIA and others worked with, and even ordered, Big Tech companies to kill, stomp on, crush ban shadowban and silence […]
Researcher In AI Responds To Criticisms
I received this thoughtful, and may I say highly accurate, email from reader EN, which I include in full below. I removed the age and name to protect EN’s identity. I also […]
The Conceit of AI
It helps every time you hear “AI” to think “statistical model”. Because, of course, that’s what AI is. Statistical models layered with clever data processing, that is. Curve fitting. Saying “statistical model” […]
The Supreme Court Should Have Allowed ALL Free Association
You have heard that SCOTUS struck down, in a weak way, Affirmative Action at universities, the systemic pandering to blacks and other people “of color”. (PDF of ruling.) This is conditional good […]
Paul Ehrlich Confirms Science’s Negative Expansion Team Effect & Peer Review
Modern science wisdom from Paul R. Ehrlich: 60 Minutes extinction story has brought the usual right-wing out in force. If I'm always wrong so is science, since my work is always peer-reviewed, […]
Meet The Experts Defining Official Disinformation & Official Truths
We told you this was happening when it was happening. Not everybody believed it; indeed, most (and here I exclude regular readers) did not. And, worse, most still do not, and never […]
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