Confessions of a Conservative Atheist
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An unknown researcher, a viral post, and demands for regulations won’t stop the race for Artificial Intelligence anymore than nuclear non-proliferation treaties prevented the spread of the atom bomb. Last week, a social media post from a purported AI researcher who recently resigned from Anthropic went viral under suspicious circumstances when he predicted the end… Continue reading No, you can’t stop the future of AI or anything else, however hard you try
It seems we have a choice: We can either let the most successful politician of the last hundred years or more do his thing or we can listen to those who have produced nothing except hot air their entire lives. Last week, President Donald Trump prompted something of a complete and total meltdown among so… Continue reading The President’s $5,000 proposal, his success in four charts, and how so-called conservative influencers are getting worse than Democrats these days
Whether you choose to see it or not see it, whether you love it or hate it, or feel something in between, The Odyssey remains a movie, a few hours of entertainment that has absolutely no real impact on your life even should it go on to make a trillion dollars. Long before the rise… Continue reading Nolan’s The Odyssey and the fact that we have way, way too much time on our hands
Perhaps, low expectations will leave me pleasantly surprised while high expectations will have the inverse effect for others, or perhaps we all simply have far too much time on our hands to bicker about a movie as though it were deeply important to our lives. Rarely, does a film generate controversy three months before its… Continue reading Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, the great cultural battles of our time, and the real problems with the film
While there’s nothing wrong with indulging in a little fantasy, political prognostication is supposed to be more than mental masturbation, and the same as a sane person wouldn’t consider retirement scenarios that included suddenly being as wealthy as Elon Musk, we shouldn’t consider fantastical outcomes as a basis for rational discussion. Tony Soprano once claimed… Continue reading If Tony Soprano’s “remember when” is the lowest form of conversation, “if then” is the lowest form of political prognostication
In his second term alone, there have been panicked freakouts about his plans to trim the size of government, tariffs, other taxes, military strikes, and more. While this time might be different, I wouldn’t bet against the President. While I have no special ability to foresee the future and am well aware that past results… Continue reading Reminder: The media and the experts always predict disaster when Trump is involved
A functioning republic requires real opposition, asking real questions and demanding real answers. Outrage on its own, recycled forever, in the same form as if it was spat out of a computer, is a threat to the future. At this point, we know the cycle better than we’d like. In what we can only call… Continue reading The ChatGPT Resistance is a danger to the country, from the cartel boat strikes to Venezuela, outrage isn’t enough
What are we to make of all this furor over an innocuous ad featuring a major celebrity that uses a well established pun for 45 years simply because she happens to be beautiful with blonde hair and blue eyes? In one of the most bizarre and unexpected stories in recent memory, Sydney Sweeney, among the… Continue reading Sydney Sweeney isn’t a Nazi and she’s certainly not ugly
Over the past week, following the Senate’s passage of the first rescission bill and the Supreme Court’s tacit approval of President Trump’s proposed reorganization of several federal agencies, we finally have some real data about the extent of these cuts and they are meaningful. Before the Big Beautiful Bill was signed into law on the… Continue reading Yes, President Trump’s cuts to the government are real and they are just the beginning
They call it the silly season for a reason, but I don’t think anyone was prepared for a prolonged debate about tacos and somehow this was to cause some type of fatal wound to President Trump’s unabashedly masculine image. While the American people have been subject to an explosion of outrage almost every week since… Continue reading Tacos, the onset of the silly season, and the repellant stench of desperation emanating from the entire progressive movement
Confessions of a Conservative Atheist 