Briggs

From The People To Empire; Or, Why We Are Doomed: Part III– Guest Post by Ianto Watt

Here's how the concept of Judicial Review came to be. There was this guy named Marbury, and he had been appointed as a Justice of the Peace in the closing…

Class Statistics

Free Statistics Class: Predictive Case Study 1, Part II

Review! We began our first predictive analysis, and spent a lot of time with it. But we still haven't got to the main question! And that is how it should…

Philosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: The Soul Begins At Conception, Part I

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. Part I…

Culture

Many Corporations Taking Pride in Sodomy

It's "pride" day tomorrow in many places. Type "pride month" into Google. One long endless sodomy flag (to use the polite term) decorates the results. Google is proud of sodomy.…

Culture Statistics

Puberty Suppression as ‘Treatment’ for Gender Dysphoria

Puberty Suppression as 'Treatment' for Gender Dysphoria Who's for pumping confused kids full of hormones to suppress the onset of their puberty? It's a common "therapy" given to boys who…

Statistics

On That New Genes & Intelligence Paper

Niggling complaint number one. Big name journals are printing more telegraphic papers than ever before, leaving the meat to ill-edited, hard-to-navigate "supplementary" material. It's a way to get in under…

Class Statistics

Free Statistics Class: Predictive Case Study 1, Part I

Regular readers know Uncertainty proposes we go back to the old way of examining and making conclusions about data, and eschew many innovations of the 20th Century. No p-values, no…

Culture

From The People To Empire; Or, Why We Are Doomed: Part II — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

Ever since Emperor Lincoln 'gave' us our equality, we have confused it with our freedom. But let me ask you---do you really feel free? Whether you are black or white,…

Richard on A Synchronicity Or Coincidence? What Is Behind Curious Events?March 9, 2026
My son-in-law calls these "cosmic coincidences". We share with each other "interesting" or "unusual" ones we've each experienced. Of course,…
Brian (bulaoren) on A Synchronicity Or Coincidence? What Is Behind Curious Events?March 9, 2026
Funny, I was just thinking about synchronicity...
Jennifer on Class 81: The Second Biggest Error In Time SeriesMarch 7, 2026
Ran across this and thought you could be interested: A Combat Scenario-Based Model for Quantifying Ethical Decision?Making in Military AI…
William Wallace on The Paper Test Shows Why AGI Is Not Possible: And Why The Brain Is Different In KindMarch 6, 2026
I believe that the anger which creeps into conversations about whether or not AI can become sentiment has nothing to…
NLR on The Paper Test Shows Why AGI Is Not Possible: And Why The Brain Is Different In KindMarch 5, 2026
I agree with the paper test; like the Chinese room argument, it is a way to illustrate that a mechanical…