There Is No Culture Without Inequality: Stove 1
The works of David Stove need wider reading. I had been meaning to do a series reviewing all he wrote, but like the Class I couldn’t decide where to start or how to progress. Which are terrible...
View ArticleImpose Your Beliefs Before They Impose Theirs
Headline from MSN: “Jewish senators alarmed by Alito’s pro-Christian agenda“. Jewish Democratic senators are alarmed by conservative Justice Samuel Alito’s sympathy for basing government on Christian...
View ArticleTelekinesis: Ideas In Our Reenchantment & Rectification
We continue our series of wondering about the foundations of science. Not only is mechanistic materialism false, for the many reasons we’ll discuss, but it is a thoroughly enervating philosophy. Last...
View ArticleThe Physics Of Blessings: Ideas In Our Reenchantment & Rectification
This belongs to the realm of supposition. I do not know if it’s true, only that it seems possible. I do know that there must be a “Reenchantment of the World“, as John Carter says, or a Rectification,...
View ArticleWoke Call Speaking Undesirable Truths Epistemic Violence
Silence, they say—and they do say this—is violence. So is speaking violence. At least when the words spoken express disagreement with woke local truths, which is to say, with woke falsities and...
View ArticleWilliam M. Briggs on Embracing Uncertainty and Stats as a False God –...
Thanks to EMM for the donation! I was interviewed by Duncan Thorin Shields (he goes by Thorin) last week. He asked the best questions I think I’ve ever been asked. He starts off wondering if people...
View ArticleNever Safety First
Here’s a headline, drawn from what you will recognize is a large fund: “Safety first when viewing the partial solar eclipse in April“. Here is another: “Safety first: Kern County Public Health hosting...
View ArticleProbability Is Not Frequentist, Nor Math, Nor Real, Nor Subjective
I once had a guy walk out on me at a scientific conference, full of my peers. He and I were disagreeing about the nature of probability. The exact words have escaped my memory, but the sting that set...
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Does Quantum Mechanics Speak To Theology? — Guest Post by Bob Kurland
“I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.” Richard Feynman, Nobel Prize winner for his research on quantum electrodynamics INTRODUCTION Seventy years ago when I first heard...
View ArticleWhy Attempts To Control Opinion Cause Opinion To Diverge
From Mars, John Carter reports in a wonderful essay discussing the Regime’s attempts at manipulation says this: People don’t like being gaslit. The psychological techniques used by salesmen, con men,...
View ArticleWhat Parts Of Reality Does Science Describe, And Which Parts Are Merely...
A rose would not smell as sweet if it was called, as it likely is called in German, a sourbloodpetal. Or whatever. Naming things, getting the good names for things, brings with it many victories. In...
View ArticleIf You Think Evolution Thought Of Thinking, Think Again
There is a popular argument that says that because man evolved, his thoughts do not guarantee truth, and that his inclinations to like or agree with an argument reflect what is best for his survival,...
View ArticleChristian Accelerationism
Perhaps you have seen the term accelerationism used by some members of Team Reality. The idea, simplified, is that the system is lurching toward a leftist singularity, and that “If it were done when...
View ArticleWhat The Psychic Theory Of Sheep & Goats Tells Us About Our Most Cherished...
Here is a true story. See if it rings any bells. Not in the story itself, which you likely won’t know. I mean see if it sounds like anything you hear about daily. Early psychic research (card guessing...
View ArticleDavid Deutsch Rediscovers The Worst Argument In The World
You can read the whole story at Jim Franklin’s place of how the late and lamented David Stove held a contest for the Worst Argument In The World. In [Stove’s] marking scheme, half the marks went to the...
View ArticleHow “The Science” Is Created By Not Understanding Belief & Decision Are Not...
Stick with me on this not-so-easy subject, because I’m going to reveal a trick used to make you “Follow the Science!” Belief is an act. Uncertainty is a state. Decision is a choice. Probability is a...
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Our Base Metaphors & Analogies Used In Science Have Outlived Their...
Metaphors and analogies exhaust themselves. No matter how useful they are as guides to thought, pushed too far they can loosen our grip on Reality or lead to stagnation, and they can even cause error...
View ArticleHow 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. Constructed, you recall,...
View ArticleHow Failing To Butcher Your Child Became “Child Abuse”
Three females, which I believe is significant, took to the pages of the journal Pediatrics and argued that failing to have a surgeon mutilate your child (for a large fee) is child abuse. The...
View ArticleThe Frequency Interpretation Of Probability Is False: Some Reasons Contra von...
What is the chance that “Donald Trump wins the 2024 Presidential election”? Impossible to say, says Richard von Mises, because the event is singular and must be embedded in an infinite collection for...
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