So they fired and rehired or whatever the guy from OpenAI for obscure reasons. OpenAI did ChatGPT, the text simulator which will tell nasty jokes about white men but which will scold […]
Can You Get A Singularity When AI = Automated Instructions?
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Hate Is Good: Laws Which Ban “Hate” Speech Are Bad: Ireland’s New “Hate” Laws Are Tyrannical
So the sodomy enjoying non-Irish leader of the Irish, who famously declared there were too many whites in Ireland’s government, his very words, now “says new hate speech laws” will be implemented […]
Worst Science Fiction of All Time
Shoot to kill July 1995 I wrote this in 1995 and had it posted to my student website at Cornell. I thought that it was lost forever, and I only managed to […]
Old Lodge Skins’ Prayer Of Thanksgiving
In what is now long tradition, we present for Thanksgiving the death prayer of Old Lodge Skins, which comes at the close of Little Big Man by Thomas Berger (who himself died […]
Humpty Dumpty Takes On The Sports Illustrated Curse — Guest Post by Jim Fedako
We continue our Thanksgiving week of pleasant stories, today with a guest post by Jim Fedako. “When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just […]
What Makes A Casino Gamble Different Than Making A Decision Under Uncertainty?
We continue with our week of pleasant Thanksgiving topics. A cop in the police procedural Hell Is A City (start around 54 minutes) discerned one of the bad guys he was chasing […]
The Statistics Of Stopping Power
It is a slow week, and a week of Thanks, so let’s spend our time with some fun things. Like a fascinating study by Greg Ellifritz on “An Alternate Look at Handgun […]
Refereeing Models Which Ask Us To “Follow The Science!”
I’m stealing this from Spectator, which has done science right. It shows the UK’s SAGE Expert models for covid. In each case, the gray and others colors are the model predictions, and […]
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