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On Various New Values Of P(Doom)
Two items over the past week revealed many who are pretty sure the End is Nigh.
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Putting The Stargate AI Hype Into Perspective (Stream)
You’ll do yourself, and the world, a tremendous service when every time you see or hear “AI” you substitute “computer model”.
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Class 37: Simulations Aren't What You Think
There is nothing magical or mystical about simulations, and “randomness” has nothing to do with any of them.
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January 2025

On The Limitations of AI: Predictions
This is on the philosophy (not mechanics) of the predictive limitations of so-called artificial intelligence models.
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Lady Lawyers Become -- Gasp! -- Science Deniers
Two ladies, both involved in legal academia, have written an astonishing paper in the Journal of Criminology.
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Class 36: Paradox Lost
From time to time people come across what seems like paradoxes which invalidate probability (as logic).
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The Death Of DIE—In University Science
The true test will be a television commercial that contains, and only contains, a happy white family.
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Vaccine Bullying Is Scientism
From a recent issue of NEJM, “The Pediatrician’s Lament“, with Abstract, “With U.S.
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I Don’t Want Immigrants Is All The Reason I Need
Some libertarian on Twitter said that my arguments against immigration were bad.
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Class 35: The Grand Scheme: All Of Probability & Uncertainty In 30 Minutes
Here my friends is the whole of probability and uncertainty, in highlight form.
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More On Monkeys Typing Shakespeare & Why Chance Isn't Enough
Way back in 2010, I did the Infinite Monkeys theorem, which says an infinite number of monkeys unintelligently whacking away at typewriters would…
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Surgeon General Demands Label War Against Wine
Warning!
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