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Reader Poll: Shorter or Longer, Frequent or Rarer Posts?
You will have noticed these last few weeks a switch to bi-weekly posts, longer and (I hope) more informative than the old way of having three to four short, standard column-length posts. Plus the Thursday Class—which I do not expect most wa...
No Model Will Save Us
I don’t know who wrote Magnifica Humanitas, the Vatican’s new encyclical on “safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence”, but he (or it?) appears to not have had much time in which to do so. If he had, he would hav...
How High an IQ Must A Person Have To Be Executed?
In proving foresight may be vain:
The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men
Gang aft agley,
An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain,
For promis’d joy!
Lennie said, “I thought you was mad at me, George.”
“No,” said George. “No, Le...
Simple (Optimal) Decisions
Reminder: The Thursday Class is only for those interested in studying uncertainty. I don’t expect all want to read these posts. Please don’t feel like you must. Yet, I have nowhere else to put them. Your support makes this Class possible fo...
We’re Living Longer Than Ever: But the Biggest Killer Was Never in the Official Stats
There were comments, hither and yon, about whether people were dying older today than they were in olden days. Some said yes, some said it was only an illusion, perhaps because of increased infant survival rates. So I thought I’d look. And...
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William M. Briggs was born in Detroit at the height of its majesty. The Air Force taught him electronic cryptography. He became a weatherman, then went back to school to learn to do physics, mathematics, then, at last, philosophy of science.
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