We are far more impressed by a scientific theory that predicts, than a supposedly scientific theory that retrodicts, even though from the Bayesian point of view they are the same. Successful prediction tells us that this is an actual theory, rather than a slippery and ambiguous pile of vague fudge factors subject to post hoc …
Author: Jim
The trouble with gay marriage
Scott Alexander has just posted that anyone who objects to homosexuality must be a repressed homosexual, which is typical of what passes for rationality among the “Less Wrongâ€Â crowd. By the same reasoning, anyone who objects to coprophagy must be a repressed coprophage, because, of course, everyone at  “Less Wrongâ€Â knows perfectly well that there can be …
Recap on Warmism
I have been ignoring the issue of Global Warming for a while, because it is pretty much settled. Â Anyone who still believes in Warmism is stupid, crazy, or lying. Â Usually stupid. But, a short summary:
Players, PUAs, and Petruchio
Some people in the Reaction complain that players are evil, and therefore should be cast out of the Reaction. Perhaps, but you cannot cast them out of the Dark Enlightenment, for the Dark Enlightenment is simply truth, unwanted and unpleasant truth, and no one has better cause to know the unwanted truth than players. As …
Exhaustion of the low hanging fruit, or moral decay?
Photolithography is limited by the wavelength of light. Â Below 160 nanometers, UV is not light, but ionizing radiation. Â So at some point, have to switch from photolithography to contact lithography, such as imprint lithography, or direct contact printing. Â But did they stop shrinking stuff before we reached that limit? That they are lying about it …
Tonto and the lone ranger.
Tonto and the lone ranger (formally the Lone ranger, with his comedy relief sidekick Tonto, whose name means “silly” in Spanish) have recently been rebooted, with the no longer silly Tonto as main character and the lone ranger as his sidekick. Since the audience is largely white, and Tonto is authentically alien (covered in warpaint …
Fertility
My unmarried niece failed to show up at my son’s wedding. I complained to her mother, observing that she has no life, so no excuse for not turning up. Her mother, who is my elder sister, was somewhat indignant about this and alleged that my niece had a boyfriend. I commented that since my niece …
The Death of Libertarianism
What is libertarianism? Stephen Landsburg complains that Arizona law protecting religious people from being forced to enthusiastically support and endorse gay marriage is unlibertarian. Bryan Caplan, a libertarian and theoretically an anarcho capitalist, wants the Mexican underclass moved here to live on welfare, crime, the production of anchor babies, and voting Democrat. Esr recently used …
The USG immigration problem
The problem is that people we are allowing in have too much power over us. Also, most of them are stupid people, and when their children go to school, the Cathedral teaches them to hate us and attack us. When nonwhites have the majority, whites will be a market dominant minority, like Jews or overseas …
Working class consciousness
Working Class consciousness (in other words envy and covetousness) runs into economics: “The Chamley-Judd Redistribution Impossibility Theorem†which tells us that redistribution from capitalists to workers is impossible, and trying to do so merely buggers the economy making everyone worse off. This conflict between reality and ideology brings you nazism and communism. The Chamley-Judd Redistribution …