If you’re planning on exploring Tabby’s Star in Elite, consider this your spoiler alert.
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If you’re planning on exploring Tabby’s Star in Elite, consider this your spoiler alert.
… Xi and Putin are trying to achieve a political solution to a political problem. I’m terrified that the US will do something stupid because it’s not the power sitting at the head of the Grownup Table. Actually, the US is mysteriously absent from the Grownup Table. Oh, look, over there in the corner, wearing the “dunce” hat, it’s America!
On July 4, 1776, a bunch of would-be oligarchs declared the independence of the American colonies.
When the world’s on the Way,
In an earlier posting, I set up a general attack on fields of study with an aim to being able to claim that they are “discredited” [stderr] – so that, at some point, we can say “phrenology is bunk” without having to endure a cascade of phreno-apologetics in response.
It’s hard to understand the bizzaro-world where authoritarians live. As a skeptical person, I tend to think about what authority figures say, and question their motives and whether what they’re saying even makes any sense at all.
I made a bad move when I used HJ Hornbeck’s posting on bayesian reasoning about Russian hacking as a jumping-off point for a critique of using bayesian reasoning to attempt to predict events.
This is a pretty fair view into what the high-end hacker’s existence is like. There are blurry lines everywhere, so it’s a bit hard to even say what is “hacking” versus “marketing” or “information operations” – it’s complicated.
The “big lie” is one of the most notorious propaganda techniques. It’s one that wasn’t invented by Edward Bernays, though it’s a logical outcome of his theories.
As I mentioned [stderr]: Fuck his highness Vajiralongkorn of Thailand.