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How High an IQ Must A Person Have To Be Executed?
June 1, 2026
Class 90: Simple (Optimal) Decisions
May 28, 2026
Shocking Abortion Numbers: Death Distributions Show We’re Living Longer
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Blessed Memorial Day; No Class; See You Wednesday
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Why There Are (Probably) No UFOs: “Climate Change”
May 20, 2026
Creating Microbial Monsters To Terrorize Ourselves
May 18, 2026
Class 89: The Measure Most Modelers Forget: Skill Examples
May 14, 2026
The Shocking Conclusion of the HR Trilemma!
May 13, 2026
The HR Trilemma: Which Door Decides Your Fate?
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Capital Punishment Deters Crime More Than The Death Penalty
May 11, 2026
How Experts Use “Calamities” to Find Official Victims & Gain Power
May 6, 2026
Richard Dawkins, The Big Muscles Fallacy & AI Pachinko
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Class 88: The Most Neglected Concept: Skill
April 30, 2026
The Red-Blue Button Dilemma & Its Surprising Answer
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UFO Reports About To Blast Off!
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Class 87: Calibration & Conformal Prediction: Examples
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Noticing Differences Between Races Does Not Pay
April 22, 2026
What Are The Chances Of All These Scientists Dying, Killed, Or Going Missing?
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Class 86: Calibration & Conformal Prediction: Theory
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How A Miracle Turns Mundane
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Contest Winner Announced!
April 14, 2026
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How High an IQ Must A Person Have To Be Executed?

Posted by By Briggs June 1, 2026
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Class 90: Simple (Optimal) Decisions

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Bringing Order To Disordered Views Of Entropy
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Bringing Order To Disordered Views Of Entropy

This is the second post reviewing Sabine Hossenfelder's new book Existential Physics. First is my criticism of Many Worlds. If you are short of time, skip to the bottom today.…
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Why The Many Worlds (Multiverse) Interpretation Of Quantum Mechanics Is Wrong: A New Objection
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Why The Many Worlds (Multiverse) Interpretation Of Quantum Mechanics Is Wrong: A New Objection

UPDATE I caused great confusion by putting the word "multiverse" in the title, when there is a whole other theory called "the" multiverse. Yet I did this because Hossenfelder herself,…
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The Easter Egg: A Coding Story — Guest Post by Jim Fedako
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The Easter Egg: A Coding Story — Guest Post by Jim Fedako

I am not talking about the plastic, candy-filled kind – the ones my wife, on Easter mornings, hands me by the dozen to hide throughout our yard, with more than…
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Meet The Experts Defining Official Disinformation & Official Truths
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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,…
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Pandering To Blacks Contest Sees San Francisco Take Commanding Lead
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Pandering To Blacks Contest Sees San Francisco Take Commanding Lead

Commentators expressed admiration, but not surprise, when San Francisco took what many are saying is a commanding lead in our once United States' National Black Pandering Contest. "There isn't anybody…
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An Instance Of How “The Science” Is Produced: Gender Equality Edition
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An Instance Of How “The Science” Is Produced: Gender Equality Edition

This post is, as they say, in the weeds. But it's necessary for those who want to know how The Science is produced. I saw a tweet, the veracity of…
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Woke Definition: A Stubborn And Hostile Denial Of Reality
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Woke Definition: A Stubborn And Hostile Denial Of Reality

There is a to-and-fro over the definition of, and the difficulties of defining, woke. For many, like bad art or pornography, they know it when they see it, but they…
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The Western Empire Is Mor(t)ally Wounded — Guest Post by Ianto Watt
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The Western Empire Is Mor(t)ally Wounded — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

I have been seeing in these past silent months the latest fin-de-siècle. The end of the cycle. It’s not pretty. At least, not for the Western Caesar. We are now…
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    Mr Briggs, a belated and happy Memorial day! May our Gracious Lord guide you in all wisdom in your writings,…

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    Fry 'em all, let God sort 'em out.

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    So, "Epsilon Minus" murderers would face the executioner? Maybe you really can fix stupid...

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    Thanks, Matt. I've been saying this (although far from as eloquently) for a while. If a person is so mentally…

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    The only question is capacity to recognize guilt. If the perpetrator was allowed to vote in national elections, the perpetrator…

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