April 17, 2025 – William M. Briggs

Class 46: Explanation & Abductive Weakness

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Russo on Reader Poll: Shorter or Longer, Frequent or Rarer Posts?June 4, 2026
Three to four shorter, column length posts. BTW, I'm enjoying the new videos.
Stephen W. Shipman on Reader Poll: Shorter or Longer, Frequent or Rarer Posts?June 4, 2026
One long, one short (or longer as the spirit moves you from time to time). Guess drop ins are a…
John Pate on Why There Are (Probably) No UFOs: “Climate Change”June 4, 2026
There are either no space aliens or they're here and running things for their own purposes. Either way there's nothing…
John Pate on No Model Will Save Us: Pope Leo, the Miserostat, and AI’s Woke CodersJune 4, 2026
The Pope is still flogging the Climate Change dead horse, which of course relies on models for its supposed veracity.…
Patrick on No Model Will Save Us: Pope Leo, the Miserostat, and AI’s Woke CodersJune 3, 2026
This is the sort of nonsense scare mongering that goes in, depressing.. https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/360987487/what-your-p-doom-terrifying-metric-used-ai-experts