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John Kerry To Peasants: Die, To Save The Planet

By Briggs on June 2, 2023 • ( 11 Comments )

Welcome To Pride In The Ability To Masturbate Into The Rectum Of Another Month

By Briggs on June 1, 2023 • ( 17 Comments )

The Only Way To Avoid Illegal Discrimination Is To Illegally Discriminate

By Briggs on May 31, 2023 • ( 25 Comments )

On Ford Restoring & Saving AM Radio

By Briggs on May 30, 2023 • ( 16 Comments )

Made Glorious Summer By This Sun Of North

By Briggs on May 26, 2023 • ( 25 Comments )

It Will Soon Be Impossible For You Not To Be Sick, Even If You’re Healthy

By Briggs on May 25, 2023 • ( 26 Comments )

The Less You Know About Climate, The More You Cry About Climate

By Briggs on April 28, 2023 • ( 12 Comments )

Some things, the saying goes, are too good to check. Take the peer-reviewed paper “Environmental knowledge is inversely associated with climate change anxiety” by Hannes Zacher and Cort W. Rudolph in Climatic […]

Why The Inexorable Increase In The Expertocracy: Examples

By Briggs on April 27, 2023 • ( 10 Comments )

Our goal, no easy one, is to figure the trajectory of the Expertocracy. Their goal we know. Complete total full control of every aspect of all life under the guidance, all-seeing, and […]

There Is No Problem Of Old Evidence In Bayesian Probability

By Briggs on April 26, 2023 • ( 19 Comments )

Rationalists, like those at Less Wrong (think Eliezer Yudkowsky and Scott Alexander), are prone to fetishsize Bayes theorem, seeing it as the key to all thought. It isn’t. Bayes is a helpful […]

What Are Your Best Theories For Carlson, Bongino, Lemon Firings?

By Briggs on April 25, 2023 • ( 38 Comments )

My guess is that the oligarchs pushed out Don Lemon at CNN, and Tucker Carlson and Dan Bongino at Fox, in an effort to cool the flames the oligarchs lit. Word is […]

Virtue Signaling Proves Why Science Is Broken

By Briggs on April 24, 2023 • ( 15 Comments )

Few years back some folks invited me to give a talk at Fermi Lab. Subject was how mistaken views of probability were holding particle physics back. (Which I still think is true, […]

Resetting Global Agriculture: The Destructive Road to Dystopia — Guest Post by Jaap Hanekamp

By Briggs on April 21, 2023 • ( 4 Comments )

Introduction A title that seems to carry conspiratorial overtones (some might conclude). Well, as my esteemed readers know by now, the so-called “Dutch nitrogen crisis” got me thinking; philosophically, scientifically, historically and […]

How An AI-Machine Learning-Physics-Sociological-Whatever Model Can Be Good For One Man & Bad For Another

By Briggs on April 20, 2023 • ( 5 Comments )

A model—which I do not distinguish between a theory—can be useful to one man and useless to the next. “But Briggs, people don’t treat theories the same as models.” Right: they do […]

The Woke’s Nice Book Burnings & The Absence Of Violence

By Briggs on April 19, 2023 • ( 20 Comments )

I was reading about the woke’s latest modern form of book burning; i.e. expurgating but not eliminating texts. And it struck me. You know what’s strange? What’s really puzzling? The dearth—even the […]

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