TheEncogitationer

Reg:

Occam’s Razor is not dead. It has been demoted. It is no longer the supreme judge of scientific truth as Nature may not owe us humans a simple explanation.

Nature has always been complicated from the time we first beheld it and started thinking about it. Occam’s Razor is not a rule for the Natural Universe, it is a rule for our attempt t…[Read more]

Reg:

AI shows promise in the fight against fake news.

Here’s hoping it does good because fighting Misinformation/Disinformation/Malinformation is hard enough between humans of different cultures and languages, even with smartphone translators.

Today, at the store where I work, a Caribbean man was sporting a florescent yellowish green shirt…[Read more]

Reg:

I myself haven’t drank in 11 years and don’t plan to restart, at least until medical science can create instant regrowing brain and liver cells. For me, it’s not a virtue signal; I just don’t want brain and liver troubles on top of any pancreas troubles that may come from diabetes.

It still struck me as curious that the World Health…[Read more]

Reg:

World of Woo: WHO and the Death of Evidence-Based Medicine.

Evidently, the World Health Organization has a no-threshold view of Alcohol, which ignores the entire history of U.S. Prohibition, with battery-poisoned rot-gut bathtub gin and gang wars in the streets over “sales turf.”

This no-threshold view of alcohol would also give support…[Read more]

PopeBeanie:

What I want to emphasize is that AI evolution is still in the hands of humans, and if it’s ever possible to vaccinate AI against ideologicial motivation, it won’t stop some humans from steering their AI in ideological directions.

At the top of my mind would be ideologues like theocrats, especially those we’ve seen trying to chang…

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What is it of which you speak, Willis?

What is Peter Theil Trying To Tell Us

Jake:

The makers of AI, in particular, Palantir and Meta, don’t have their shit together either mentally or on the ends to which they would apply AI.

So an AI free of illogic or ideological capture is fantasy and making AI the final word on Constitutional Law would be the end of the American Experiment and indeed the Enlightenment Experiment…[Read more]

Reg:

I got through the wall and got to behold the sadly slain “dragonfly”, Masha and her trouper of a partner, Yehor.

Despite the NYT’s spotty journalism record, Siobhán O’Grady and Liubov Sholudko wrote a powerful, engaging story and deserve all the respect for highlighting the senseless tragedy of Putin’s war against Ukraine. Russia’s fi…[Read more]

Reg:

Agreement isn’t my issue with the NYT. My issue is that when it goes wrong on facts, it goes wrong big.

Fellow Unbelievers:

Where I’m at, it’s 97°F and feels like 102°F. With temperatures like this, some cooling thoughts are welcome.

The Genius Design of the Ancient Persian Yakhchal | 2500 Year Old Freezers in the Deserts of Iran

The Yakhchal! A giant ice machine that ran without electricity or pumps fed by u…[Read more]

Reg:

I’m sure the Ukraine story is touching, but what a source!

Reg:

Here is the link again. My sub (for the NYT) allows me to share so hopefully this attempt with punch a hole in that wall.

No hole yet.

Sorry, the record of “The Newspaper of Record” is “All the News That’s Made to Fit.”. So, it makes it hard to for me to want to break the wall myself.

Jake:

Those poor dissenters and that poor little girl!

“Regime change” is far too mild a word for what the Mullahs and IRGC needs!

Reg:

I wish I could read that, but the dragonfly flew into a wall.

I sense though that Putin may have something to do with crushing his prom dreams.

Fellow Unbelievers:

And Trump’s desire to be the “Greatest Communist ever”–as well as his total pig-ignorance of economics–is reflected in his desire to crack down on oil Companies and gas retailers.

But the oil companies and gas retailers are only responding to problems in the supply…[Read more]

Fellow Unbelievers:

Evidently, the Democratic Socialists of America and Rev. Victor Marx aren’t the only Marxists. The calls are coming from inside The White House itself!

Jake and PopeBeanie:

The Courts have held that to Establish an institution is to support and subsidize it. So the First Amendment ban on Establishment of Religion would clearly forbid the Federal Government from support and subsidy of religious bodies.

And the Fourteenth Amendment’s first clause makes the restrictions on the Federal…[Read more]

Fellow Unbelievers:

…And Rev. Victor Marx(ist) to the Right:

Republican’s quotes compared to mass-murdering supervillain in ‘The Boys’ by local paper
https://www.rawstory.com/victor-marx/?cx_testId=4&cx_testVariant=cx_undefined&cx_artPos=5&cx_experienceId=EXC93HV4HK4I&cx_experienceActionId=showRecommendationsJ2A0SJUMQX4T24#cxrecs_s
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And…[Read more]

Fellow Unbelievers:

Marxist Clowns to the Left of me…

Deleted tweets on Darializa Avila Chevalier’s account had favorable references to communist leaders and Marxism
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/29/politics/darializa-avila-chevalier-communism-tweets