Confessions of a Conservative Atheist
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Once upon a time, the language of climate science – emissions, greenhouse gasses, melting ice caps, carbon taxes, cap and trade, and more – was all politically neutral, if occasionally sensational, but suddenly it’s downright socialist, dominated by the progressive cliches of the day from climate equity to climate justice. I’ll admit it up front: … Continue reading We are running out of time to save the planet, but climate scientists have somehow found the time to go woke
Bizarre behavior, dark fantasies about terrorism, claims to have hacked people’s webcams, and actual threats have prompted many to express fear at the face of this new development and some to claim the robots are about to take over the world. The headlines are everywhere, ChatGPT integrated with Microsoft Bing, is on a rampage and… Continue reading ChatGPT is a harmless blowhard not a world-conquering super intelligence
From coding to chess, computers keep outperforming humans at cognitive tasks, revealing a huge gap in our understanding and definition of intelligence. We need to consider what lies between the capabilities of computers today and a hypothetical Artificial General Intelligence. For decades, scientists and philosophers have debated, sometimes rather vigorously, if a computer could ever… Continue reading ChatGPT: We need a new definition of intelligence
Recent claims to have created a wormhole and a blackhole in a lab are actually based on simulations of each instead of real world experiments. This follows other theories that everything is happening all at once and we are all one with the universe, but where is the evidence and why do physicists refuse to… Continue reading Modern physics continues to be more fantasy than reality
A meeting of the American Astronomy Society reveals the existence of hundreds of new galaxies much further away and therefore further back in time than we expected, prompting scientists to reconsider theories of galaxy formation if not the Big Bang entirely while other astrophysicists rail against the white supremacy of exceptionalism and perfectionism. The James… Continue reading We keep finding too many galaxies in the early universe, further undermining the Big Bang theory, but physicists are too busy going woke to care
Next generation chat software that delivers a more realistic conversational experience, can do research, and write stories has set the technology and media worlds on fire, but beneath the surface ChatGPT reveals one of the things that makes human intelligence so unique. We have physics built into our brain by evolution. The technology and media… Continue reading ChatGPT and the physics evolution built into our brains
As humans, we live in a world of feeling, that is our experience of the world always feels like something either good or bad, but does it truly have to be that way and, perhaps more importantly, why is it that way in the first place? The only way to answer the question is to… Continue reading Could you be an unconscious zombie and not even know it?
The human brain is the most complex object in the known universe, but key parts of its evolutionary history, from the earliest brains and nervous systems on the planet to more recent changes in our lineage, remain shrouded in mystery. New studies shed light on both ends of the spectrum, answering an over one hundred… Continue reading Big breakthroughs in the evolution of the brain and its connection to the stomach
The anthropic principle cannot be solved by proposing the existence of simulated or alternative universes. Indeed, it needs no solution at all, but that hasn’t prevented scientists from wandering far afield in search of an answer without a real question. At least this time they claim there’s an experiment that could prove it… Once upon… Continue reading No, we are most certainly not living in a simulation out of The Matrix
Scientists now champion censorship and cancel culture, scientific publications are reduced to political polemics with no scientific value while claiming their unique expertise is relevant anywhere they see fit. Science died in 2020. Now, they want to bury it so deep it might never be found again. Future historians will likely look back on the… Continue reading Progressives have officially killed science for their own political purposes
Confessions of a Conservative Atheist 