Briggs

Theories Don’t Have Probabilities: Or, Is The Multiverse Real?

There was in Munich last week a three-day workshop on the soul of science. According to Quanta Magazine, the conference was driven by George Ellis and Joe Silk who wrote…

Philosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: On God’s Happiness

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. We start…

Culture Philosophy

This Week In Doom: The Demands And Ravages Of Equality

Progressive beasts We had fun with the foolish Vox explaining that animals "in the wild" suffer from being eaten, from disease, from neglect, from the lack of personal recognition, and…

Culture

Animals Are Killing Animals And We’re Doing Nothing To Stop It

Social justice warriors have opened a new front in their continuing war against Reality: animal suffering. They've noticed it, they hate it, and they will no longer abide it. (H/T…

Philosophy

There Are Only Two Errors: Idealism & Materialism

There is that which is (and is not) and that which we know about that which is (and is not); i.e. there is ontology and epistemology. There are both and…

Culture

Stream: Trump’s—No, Wait—The Republican Debate

Today's post is at the Stream: Trump's---No, Wait---The Republican Debate. Winner? No question about it, it was Trump at a canter. This was conceded even before the debate began in…

Philosophy Statistics

Comment On “Origin of probabilities and their application to the multiverse”

Today, since I'm very busy, a small-ish review---mere comments, really---of "Origin of probabilities and their application to the multiverse" by Andreas Albrecht and Daniel Phillips. I got this paper via…

Culture Statistics

Stream: December 12, 2015: The Day Science Died. #COP21

Today's post is at The Stream: "December 12, 2015: The Day Science Died. #COP21". President Hollande of France slid to the microphone, and, with great Gallic aplomb, announced December 12th,…

Cary Cotterman on Changing Clocks In Fall Will Stroke You Out, Fatty: ResearchOctober 6, 2025
I don't really care about the twice-annual time changes. They don't bother me. However, if any change were to be…
cdquarles on Changing Clocks In Fall Will Stroke You Out, Fatty: ResearchOctober 6, 2025
I like daylight time. Where I am in relation to my time zone's prime meridian, at the peak of summer…
Brian (bulaoren) on Changing Clocks In Fall Will Stroke You Out, Fatty: ResearchOctober 6, 2025
Do P values constitute effeminate logic? If so, perhaps they should be called "sit down to P values" (which don't…
Rudolph Harrier on Changing Clocks In Fall Will Stroke You Out, Fatty: ResearchOctober 6, 2025
This is a serious question: is there any justification for using p-values when you are modelling everything to begin with?…
Uncle Mike on Changing Clocks In Fall Will Stroke You Out, Fatty: ResearchOctober 6, 2025
Quit effing with the clocks. There is no reason to do it. Yes, it strokes people out. Yes, it's a…