The object of the process is to make educated guesses toward future probabilities, and that those educated guesses will still, in an ongoing fashion, be the subject of splitting and clumping. A knowledge set produced by science is a transitory thing — a mass that is soon to be split and re-clumped.
Category: Nobody Asked, But
Learning Machines
We often observe that young children are amazing learning machines, motivated by boundless curiosity. But we forget that all humans are amazing learning machines, they have just been tampered with by more-or-less well-meaning sticklers. Walk around the sticklers.
Upheaval, Back to School, 1984
A confluence of at least 3 elements brings this blog post to you — it is a mosaic of Jared Diamond, a new school year, and George Orwell.
A Reminder
The picture below shows an animated electric sign located in, I believe, New York City. It is a readout of The National Debt Clock. I don’t know how long ago it was photographed, but a check today says that the big number is now over $22.5 trillion.
The Fallacy Fallacy Redux
Just because someone argues about a thing by using a logic fallacy does not make the thing itself untrue. In fact, citing your antagonist’s logic slip, then claiming victory thereby is just another instance of the appeal to authority. The authority in this case are the tandem of your fallacy guru and your argumentation guru.
Facial Recognition Fantasy
I have no idea how sophisticated FR really is, but I do know that those who propound its magic have no incentive to tell us its limitations. Just as a car salesman will romance us with purported positives all day long, while neglecting potential flaws, script writers and law enforcement officials have vested interests in our belief in the wonders of science.
Eyeless in America
The main reason being that political psychopaths recognize no limit on protecting themselves from you. The government is not for you, it is for them, the parasites.
Road Test
Here is a good way to check your latent tendencies on the voluntaryist/interventionist scale.
Teletrouble
I do not tolerate police fund drives, much less those that are conducted by mercenaries (paid fundraisers). In particular, I don’t tolerate fund drives that purport to be for the benefit of some underprivileged set.
Not My President
Those who really care have left the building, they just haven’t abandoned the panacea — voting — yet. They haven’t put 2 and 2 together. The political madhouse has been taken over by the country club set and the crackers and cheese set. How else could a reality show host and a wild-eyed old man from Vermont have stolen the march?