Smart People are Very Worried, but Not Worried Enough There’s a fantastic Cult Classic horror movie from 1984 called “Cathode Ray.” You’ve probably never heard of it. What made it truly amazing…
Month: July 2018
Game Theory on the “Second Civil War”
A Strategic Path to Avoidance Flows from Analyzing Outcomes (also we trash on Vox a bit) image source: some meme page, probably Liberty Memes, and who knows who they stole it from I…
Progressivism on a Precipice?
Reading the Tea Leaves of 21st Century Indoctrination Paths Regardless of our chosen flavor of news outlets, be they Blue or Red, we are often fed the same message in different forms….
We Are All Apes Behaving Like Ants
Greetings Fellow Formicidae There’s a prevailing opinion among some intellectuals that by virtue of our intelligence, the human species is now in a post-evolutionary state — that language, technology, and economics have separated us…
Gary Gygax: (1), Charles Murray: (0), Artificial Intelligence: (?)
Or, “Modeling the Socioeconomic Future with Dungeons and Dragons” When I get too fed up with the relative noise level in the media about whether Charles Murray is or isn’t racist, or James…
Anatomy of a Culture War Weapon
or “Biting the Hand that Tweets You Must Be Done with Care” I’m new to Twitter, having basically just started an account to categorize links to Medium articles. So I was curious…
The Surprisingly Solid Mathematical Case of the Tin Foil Hat Gun Prepper
Or, “Who Needs an AR-15 Anyway?” As gun policy discussions unfold in the wake of mass shooter incidents, they routinely end in three buckets. There’s the “tyranny can never happen here” bucket, which…
The Media Engine of Chaos
Arms Dealing in the Culture War As we have recently discovered, these are true things: There’s no homicide epidemic at all. We are at a historically low plateau of homicide, and when the…
The Gun Solution
We are nearing the end of our series on guns, in which we use critical reasoning skills and actual data to formulate plans with real efficacy, without participating in all this culture…
Real Talk about School Shootings
We Should All Stop Listening to Parkland Students on the Matter I’ve done four articles so far on gun policy since Parkland, and this is the first one to use the word…