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How Can You Tell If You Have ESP?
June 30, 2025
Class 56: The Best Model!
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Sabine Hossenfelder’s Free Will Folly & The Deadly Sin Of Reification
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England’s Mandatory Suicide & Women
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On The Probability Of God
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Class 55: Models Vs Reality
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AI & Chess Both Produce Pre-Coded Output
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The Hubris Of Experts: NIH Edition
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Class 54: Exchangeability & Parameters
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Over-Certainty Of Polygenic Scores
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AI & The Dilemma Of Technology
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What Are The Chances Thomas Jefferson & John Adams Died On The Fourth of July, 1826?
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Class 53: Laplace Was Right!
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Even The Woke Say Science Is Petering Out
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Class 52: The Origin Of Parameters
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IQ Is Not Intelligence
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How Can You Tell If You Have ESP?

Posted by By Briggs June 30, 2025
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Class 56: The Best Model!

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Something Has Gone Seriously Wrong With “Climate Change” Science
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Something Has Gone Seriously Wrong With “Climate Change” Science

When my boys and I seize power and I become emperor, the very first thing I do (after having the mess hosed clean) is to place a strict two-year moratorium…
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The Many Troubles With Science: A Conversation With Jaap Hanekamp About Our Upcoming Book
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The Many Troubles With Science: A Conversation With Jaap Hanekamp About Our Upcoming Book

The many troubles of science are these: Philosophy; Scientism; Utopianism; Catastrophism; Gnosticism; Faithlessness. My pal Jaap Hanekamp and I are writing a book on science, entitled---wait for it---Title Forthcoming. All…
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The Time Is Now For It To Be Now. Again.
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The Time Is Now For It To Be Now. Again.

What's Up? Time for our biannual update, dear readers. My forays into this new thing called "video" have, at long last, begun. It took me so long because I do…
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The Deadly Rise Of The Science Enforcers
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The Deadly Rise Of The Science Enforcers

The woke must needs have enemies. If they do not have them, they will create them. Their identities---and the woke are all about identities which create for them "lived experiences",…
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Experts: Everybody In Europe Died From Breathing Toxic Air
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Experts: Everybody In Europe Died From Breathing Toxic Air

A toxin, as the redoubtable reader undoubtedly knows, is a poison. And a poison, says Mr Webster, is that which causes "morbid, noxious, or deadly effects". People who ingest or…
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All—As In All—Of The “Climate Change Made This Event More Likely” Claims Are False
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All—As In All—Of The “Climate Change Made This Event More Likely” Claims Are False

Here's a typical recent propaganda headline: "Climate change made Libya flooding 50 times more likely: Report." This is not so. Here's another recent one from PBS: "Climate change made global…
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The Closer To REALITY, The Closer To Reality
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The Closer To REALITY, The Closer To Reality

There are any number of proofs of this proposition: The closer to Reality, the closer to reality. Here's one, recalling first that there is always a +/- to all surveys,…
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Weeping & Gnashing Of Teeth From Our Paper Saying “Climate Change” Not A Big Deal
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Weeping & Gnashing Of Teeth From Our Paper Saying “Climate Change” Not A Big Deal

That peer-reviewed, and therefore indisputable, paper we wrote showing, as many have showed, that "climate change" is overblown has been getting a lot of publicity. Before we come to that,…
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  1. Briggs on How Can You Tell If You Have ESP?June 30, 2025

    Spetzer, All good points. I go into many of them later in the chapter.

  2. spetzer86 on How Can You Tell If You Have ESP?June 30, 2025

    If the receiver and sender independently wrote down the guess / card with no verbal communication, it might be better.…

  3. JH on Class 56: The Best Model!June 29, 2025

    How can you make predictions in the big data era without using a model? Trust your gut.

  4. Jonas P. Kay on Which God Are You Rejecting? David Bentley Hart’s The Experience of God, Part IJune 28, 2025

    I answer all by saying you cannot get something from nothing. There is beauty in its simplicity and it is…

  5. Johnno on England’s Mandatory Suicide & WomenJune 27, 2025

    So what's the betting pool on the odds about when and in which country will be the first to perform…

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