parents who have travelled with their children to enroll for university in Wuhan, in China’s central Hubei province, bedding down for the night in a campus gymn made available to those who cannot afford hotel accommodation
What is a statistical model?
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from Lars Syll “a recipe for producing fiction masquerading as science” My
critique is that the currently accepted notion of a statistical model is
not sci...
Why You Should Not Read My New Book--Seriously
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*The question is what part will we play--statistic or participant in a
better world? *
*If you value your peace of mind, you should not read my new book T...
OK If Kids Grow Up Fast?
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A few years ago I recorded 13 convos w/ folks worried about AI risk,
collected at YouTube. I usually asked people why they wanted to treat AI
descendants d...
A Nobel for a World That Doesn’t Exist
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My recent criticism of the economics Nobel has a long history. When
Samuelson received the award in 1970, I challenged it in Commonweal. The
question was...
Farewell, WordPress
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This blog has moved to https://blog.caseyhandmer.com/?moved. All the old
posts are there, with interactive versions of many of the charts. The RSS
feed is ...
Does until it doesn’t and doesn’t until it does
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The result of high levels of hype about new technologies is that people
start to think that: The world has just been changed forever (which
sometimes, but ...
The Fermi Paradox is a Religious Stage Trick
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The Fermi Paradox is less an instrument of inquiry than it is a salesman’s
tool, exploiting the credulity of an unsuspecting audience.The ethical
skeptic e...
How to drown an expert
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[image: A stick figure with long hair surrounded by swarms of vague shapes
and a blanket of blue watercolor]
There’s not much about academia in the U.S. th...
Trump Is Definitely Considering Nuking Iran
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Source: Hotpot.aiTrump is in a tight spot with the Iran war and needs to
find a way out before the midterms. A tactical nuclear strike on Iran's
nuclear ...
Climate Etc. is now an archive
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Climate Etc. closed in June 2026 and this site is preserved as a read-only
archive. This feed will not update again -- visit the homepage for where to
find...
Some thoughts about Bondi
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Why did it happen? I think that the combination of four factors (listed
below) was close to a sufficient cause. Sufficient at least to make a
terrorist att...
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