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The Border Happening & The Weakness Of The Regime
Simple math: 5,000 x 365 = 1,825,000. Check me. Is it right? That 5,000 is the number of "migrants" the Regime Senate would allow in each day---each and every day…
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How Not To Think Like A Bayesian Rationalist
Lisping Rationalists When I read people like Eliezer Yudkowsky and Scott Alexander it becomes clear to me how the French could have built a Temple of Reason during The Terror.…
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Why Things Slightly Improving Makes Things Worse
Here is the patented Briggs Path of Decadence Curve. The pattern is obvious. An overall gradual decline, interspersed with fairly regular upward swings of sanity. But with the same inevitable…
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Congress Mandated Experts Design Plan To Block The Sun — And Kill Us All
The White House itself, the very bastion of Experts, issued the report "CONGRESSIONALLY MANDATED RESEARCH PLAN AND AN INITIAL RESEARCH GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK RELATED TO SOLAR RADIATION MODIFICATION" (pdf). Mandated. I…
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Academics Say Morality Isn’t Decreasing, But The Increasing Numbers Who Say It Is Decreasing Cause Morality To Decrease
This is part of our Mind of Academics series. I struggled both long, and, yes, hard, to come up with a clever joke to introduce today's academic "research", which claims…
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What The Law Of Large Numbers Really Means
JJ Couey, who hosts a podcast well known to some of you, and friend of the Broken Science Initiative, asked me about the so-called Law of Large Numbers. Jay wonders…
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Young Winston Smith Attends His Company’s Emergency DIE Training
We enter the scene in which young Winston Smith has already arrived at HR, to receive an emergency DIE training from Maxine O'Brien, a training which uses the new and…
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Experts: Stop Us Before We Let AI Become Aware & Kill Us All!
To reify, v: consider an abstract concept to be real. Now the Scientist was more cunning than any Expert in the field which the Dean had made. And he said…