Briggs

The Weakening Of College Credentials

The picture above is the result of a 10-question quiz given to (purported) college graduates from 1974 until last year, taken from the site The Audacious Epigone. That gentleman's description…

Culture

You Will No Longer Be Able To Trust Anything You See

Creating doubt was not the goal of the fine people who created the technology highlighted in the following video, which is required viewing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohmajJTcpNk From their abstract: We present a…

Philosophy

Why Is Rape Wrong? Science Has No Answer

Rape, right or wrong? Depends on how you define rape, you might say, Very well, define it how you like. Now answer the question: right or wrong? Here is what…

Book review Philosophy Statistics

Why I’m Unconvinced By Penrose’s Entropy/Anthropic Argument

There are a number of "constants" used in physics, such as the speed of light, the Planck constant, elementary charge and so forth. Some of these constants are bare, meaning…

Statistics

Trend Models & The Inability To Discover Cause

The plot atop this post is one of an observable, the cause of which is known to be related to a variety of physical, chemical, biological, geographical, and even sociological…

Philosophy Statistics

Every Result Of Unsupervised Learning Is Correct; Or, All Learning Is Supervised

The real point I wish to make is that there is no such thing as unsupervised learning; or, stated another way, Truth exists; or, stated another way, every solution to…

Philosophy

Summary Against Modern Thought: Animal Souls Are Mortal

See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. Do not…

Culture

Resolved: Women’s Suffrage Caused More Harm Than Good

If your first reaction upon reading the title was "Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat!" or "Frrrpppkwiliq boahh boahh boahh!" or some variant of "%&*&^%$##!", then you have discovered the meaning of sacrilegious. Congratulations! You…

Uncle Mike on Class 56: The Best Model!June 26, 2025
"The best model is no model! Display your data instead." Yes. Absolutely. However, easier said than done. There are lots…
fergus on Sabine Hossenfelder’s Free Will Folly & The Deadly Sin Of ReificationJune 26, 2025
So much confusion with so many strawmen thrown in that video and this discussion. First, it is a nice thing…
McChuck on Sabine Hossenfelder’s Free Will Folly & The Deadly Sin Of ReificationJune 26, 2025
@ASBroad: Fallacy of composition. Just because some things are provably false does not make all things false.
C-Marie on On The Probability Of GodJune 25, 2025
See Romans Chapter 1 .... all of it .... ? God bless, C-Marie
McChuck on Sabine Hossenfelder’s Free Will Folly & The Deadly Sin Of ReificationJune 25, 2025
The laws of physics are silent on the subjects of consciousness, intellect, and the soul. It is a category error…