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Illegal Voting By The Numbers
This post originally ran 31 January 2017. Voter fraud is an old, old story. Old posts do NOT re-email to followers. How many votes in the past presidential election were…
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The Push For 16-Year-Olds Voting
If we have 18-year-olds vote for the executive office, why not 17-year-olds? And if 17-year-olds, why not 16-year-olds? And if 16-year-olds, why not 15-, 14-, 12-, and so on? A…
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Voting (And Wisdom Of The Crowds)
First read Wisdom of the Crowds (and Voting). There are in this great land of ours some 315 million souls. Citizens, I mean. Another 12 millions (or so) are, as…
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Wisdom Of The Crowds (And Voting)
Have you heard of Mesd-su-Re? One of the participants of the Great Harem Conspiracy under Ramses III? Probably not. But I need to know the length of his nose right…
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Obama On Way Out? Romeny Hasn’t A Chance? Last Day of Presidential Voting Study
Today is the last day to participate in the voting study. If you have not already done so, please click below. And please send this to people you know, especially…
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The Imperfectibility of Politics: Voting And Unhappiness
You're stuck in a motel because of a business meeting. It's 6 o' the clock post meridian, and you're hungry. The town in which you must linger is small and…
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Why The Recent Claims Of AGI Fail: Plus, A New Test For AGI
There are two new claims from last week that artificial general intelligence (AGI) has been reached, as detailed in Tree of Woe's recent article on the subject. One claim is…
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The Consent Fallacy
The consent argument is so strong in our culture that its truth is almost self-evident. It says as long as two people consent in an act, that act is therefore moral. Or,…