John Horgan

This was from 2003. I think at the time the author(John Horgan) was a kind of a 'religion debunker', and maybe he had latched onto a few sects of Buddhism that sound kind of 'Christian' and 'debunkable'. He has some follow up writings that indicate his views on Buddhism may have shifted. From 2023 https://johnhorgan.org/cross-check/a-buddhism-critic-goes-on-a-buddhis… "But I’m glad I went on the retreat. The Lama, during our private chat, said Buddhism isn’t true, but it works. Something worked during the retreat, but what was it? "

So let me get this straight, statistics can be misused? I almost stopped reading as soon as I saw the image from the big bang theory. (That show presents nerds the way other people want to see them. Not the way nerds actually are.) It appears that the author of this article is just a journalist: http://www.johnhorgan.org/ I don't see anything in there about him ever being a scientist, a statistician, or anyone who would actually use this theorem. In fact, he even went to school for journalism. I really don't understand where this author is coming from when he says things like, "I conveniently decided that Bayes was a passing fad." Why should we care about his opinion on the matter? Is he reporting to us what Bay Theorem is and its significance, or is he giving us his uniformed opinion on the matter?

Note: algeria 1830s https://baheyeldin.com/writings/culture/how-the-dutch-got-their-funny-… Thanks for application of irony to a thread about iron laws! Led me to the “unnamed” Ping-Pong Lemma, a great counterexample! Vespasian was, apparently, more inconsistent: https://sci-hub.wf/10.2307/1192680 (Im guessing he was as aware as MAA of the burdens of office) Hopefully we can return to the formalization of Nietzsche/Greco-Roman ethics/(New) systems of survival soon. State of my art, how to extend Boyd’s Ping-Pong Lemma* to Rao’s SoS (assuming it already works in JJ’s system) Maybe the eternal Culture War is indeed the Russell one (Banks’ having his Culture win the Mandate of H) . Hey, JAW was concerned too, we are now on the same hunt as the Masters? https://johnhorgan.org/cross-check/physicist-john-wheeler-and-the-it-f… https://mindmatters.ai/2021/05/it-from-bit-what-did-john-archibald-whe… *the same old, but generalizing boss to adversaries, also noting in passing parallelism of your justice-prudence to guardian/commerce, so temperance-fortitude maps to Blue/Red hypernormal/weirdo??? https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Boyd Front page activity indicates that cpython is becoming hypernormal ;) (even if GvR as a concept remains a Wojak)

You made me curious. It seems the theory is thermal, but it was never taken that seriously. Bethe called it “absolute nonsense”—interview: https://johnhorgan.org/cross-check/oppenheimer-bethe-and-the-doomsday-… Here's a student paper giving a pretty thorough analysis (AFAICT): http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2015/ph241/chung1/ Here's more discussion of it: https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/52802/where-did-one-in-a-m… And here (drumroll) is the original paper: https://web.archive.org/web/20200331041344/https://fas.org/sgp/othergo…