Posted inCulture
May I See Your ID?
I almost never include personal information on the blog, but in this case it is necessary. Here is a picture of Yours Truly from about two weeks back. (I am…
Posted inBook review
On Scientism
Eric Voegelin, of "Don't immanentize the eschaton!" fame, penned a small monograph exploring his favorite subject, gnosticism: Science, Politics & Gnosticism. It is a slim book not as well organized…
Posted inCulture
Twitter Likes & Impact Factors Are Equivalent
This is one of my favorite tweets (regular readers have seen it before; it's screenshotted because all my tweets die tragically of coronadoom---it used to be cancer---after 7 days): Here…
Posted inClass Statistics
Class 8: Uncertainty & Probability Theory: The Logic of Science: What Probability Is 1
Link to all Classes. Video Links: YouTube Twitter Rumble Bitchute Link to all Classes. HOMEWORK THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS UNCONDITIONAL PROBABILITY, I.E. THERE IS NO Pr(A), only Pr(A|B).…
Posted inPhilosophy
Yuval Noah Harari’s Bad Argument About AI Ruling The World
Here, in his own words, is the argument Yuval Noah Harari uses to justify his transhumanism. 1. Organisms are algorithms. Every animal — including Homo sapiens — is an assemblage…
Posted inStatistics
Lancet Says 1 in 6 Worldwide Deaths by Pollution: 67% More Than Coronadoom
You've seen the headline, "World Ends: Favored Victims Hardest Hit," and you've laughed. The Noble Victims differ, slightly, by country. There is no class of being nobler or respected or…
Posted inStatistics
Two Female Academics Blame Prayer For Women Not Being Men
Two academic women are sure the last barrier to the fall of the patriarchy---and installation of the matriarchy?---is prayer. They said so directly in their peer-reviewed paper "The Hidden Cost…
Posted inClass
Class 5: Uncertainty & Probability Theory: The Logic of Science: Induction & Intellection
Link to all Classes. Video Links: YouTube Twitter Rumble Bitchute Next week we finally begin probability. Let there be joy! HOMEWORK: Read. I mean it. Read the chapter below. Lecture…
