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A Probability Non-Paradox
Before you is a box in which is a slip of paper on which is written either '0', '1', '2', or '3'. Given that premise, what is the probability of…
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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…
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The Ethics Of Precrime
This is Part II of our discussion of predicting individual crime. See Part I. The moral question is this: should an authority take action against you if an algorithm spits…
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The Problem Of Grue Isn’t; Or, A Gruesome Non-Paradox About Induction
Skepticism about induction happens only among academic philosophers, and only in print. Tell an induction skeptic to take a long walk off a short dock or hint that his health…
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The Purposeful Lowering Of Physical Standards: More Consequences Of Egalitarianism
Remember how we were told that when women joined the military there was no danger of lowering standards to accommodate them? Letting them join was a question of "fairness", which…
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On That New “Gay Gene” Study
First and most important point: there is no way we're going to cover in 750 words the whole of this field. Much will be left out. This small article is…
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What Might Pope Francis’s Upcoming Encyclical Look Like?
For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. So…
