Knowing Humans

In 2002, Mitch Kapor bet Ray Kurzweil $20K that "by 2029 no computer or machine intelligence will have passed the Turing Test."   Given the recent progress in LLMs, Kapor's arguments are not hol...

https://blog.knowinghumans.net/2024/03/kapor-should-concede-to-kurzweil.html

Spoilers ahead! Greta Gerwig's Barbie is a very entertaining movie, and is surely the least-flawed feminist manifesto you'll ever find in summer-blockbuster format. The film has a few minor pro...

https://blog.knowinghumans.net/2023/07/barbies-hidden-post-feminist-message.html

On the Death Tape recording of the 1978 mass murder-suicide in Jonestown , Jim Jones repeatedly implores the parents to poison their children without hysterics. At 36m45s he nearly shouts: > ...

https://blog.knowinghumans.net/2023/02/mother-mother-was-not-marceline.html

The 2020 election was "stolen" fair and square: via Russia collusion hype, Ukraine impeachment charade, Reade/Hunter non-coverage, pandemic politicization, pandemic election regulations, de-platf...

https://blog.knowinghumans.net/2022/11/2020-election-stolen-fair-and-square.html

The Find My page on icloud.com does not show AirTags. The FindMy app in MacOS (Monterey 12.6) does not reliably show you the locations of your AirTags. On one Monterey Mac, Find My took 24 hours...

https://blog.knowinghumans.net/2022/10/what-they-dont-tell-you-about-airtags.html

In the conservative Claremont Review, Spencer Klavan uses the Marvel multiverse to launch a survey of many-worlds theory that starts well but stumbles badly halfway through. Klavan ably summar...

https://blog.knowinghumans.net/2022/09/claremont-theist-embarrassed-by-theology.html

 Here are my favorite live-action sci-fi/fantasy/superhero dramas: The Boys Battlestar Galactica Westworld Heroes Legion Humans The Expanse Watchmen The Umbrella Academy Jessica Jones The Man...

https://blog.knowinghumans.net/2022/04/the-drug-of-myth-arc.html

I moved my 401Ks from equities to bonds on 2020-03-09, the week before the market bottom. For various reasons, I did not move back into equities until May 2021. I finally admitted to myself that ...

https://blog.knowinghumans.net/2022/01/my-million-dollar-pandemic-mistake.html

I had a good year for predictions. The only thing I got arguably wrong was to predict the jury would convict Rittenhouse on the weapons charge, but technically the prediction wasn't tested as the...

https://blog.knowinghumans.net/2022/01/my-2021-predictions.html

.] SUMMARY The original anonymous 4chan Q LARP was hijacked by Coleman Rogers and Paul Furber, who were joined by -- and later expelled by -- Ron Watkins and his father Jim (pictured above)....

https://blog.knowinghumans.net/2021/12/q-unmasked.html

Some anti-vax conspiracy theorists claim that the Covid-19 vaccines contain a satanic molecule called luciferase, for tracking vaccine recipients.  They claim that it is one of the vaccine ingre...

https://blog.knowinghumans.net/2021/11/do-covid-19-vaccines-contain-luciferase.html

As the aggregate data continue to show that vaccinations are inversely correlated with deaths,  variant anti-vax theories are arising. One variant theory is that the vaccine death-jabs were alre...

https://blog.knowinghumans.net/2021/09/uk-vaccinations-vs-deaths.html

A list of alien beliefs, in rough order of increasing implausibility. And remember: "Never go full History Channel ." Alien craft/effects occasionally get observed, esp. by pilots/military. ...

https://blog.knowinghumans.net/2021/07/levels-of-alien-belief.html

A variety of reasons, in roughly descending order of guestimated importance: The early focus was on "flattening the curve" to preserve hospital and ventilator capacity, and so insufficient attent...

https://blog.knowinghumans.net/2021/06/why-did-we-fumble-covid-19-therapeutics.html

A list of possible factors for why COVID-19 has affected different regions differently, in decreasing order of my guestimated importance.  BEWARE THE POLITICAL AGENDA OF ANYBODY SELLING A MONO...

https://blog.knowinghumans.net/2021/06/covid-19-heterogeneity.html

 Lie : Truth:

https://blog.knowinghumans.net/2021/05/vaccine-safety-and-efficacy-in-ireland.html

The anti-vax group America's Frontline Doctors are promoting an article by Hervé Seligmann claiming that "the Pfizer vaccines, for the elderly, killed during the 5-week vaccination period abou...

https://blog.knowinghumans.net/2021/05/covid-vaccine-safety-and-efficacy-in-israel.html

Assume for the purposes of this post that we believe (as I don't) that at least some UFOs involve alien technology. If so, when did this alien technology reach our solar system, and what can we i...

https://blog.knowinghumans.net/2021/05/what-have-your-ufo-aliens-been-doing.html

Dr. Janci Chunn Lindsay warned recently that all the Covid-19 vaccines must be halted immediately due to three safety concerns: fertility risk; blood clotting; immune escape. Each of these c...

https://blog.knowinghumans.net/2021/05/fertility-clotting-and-immune-escape.html

Covid deaths in 2020 age 18-29: 1465 https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm Fully vaccinated 18-29 as of May 4: 9.857M (18.39% i.e. of 56.6M total population 18-29) https:/...

https://blog.knowinghumans.net/2021/05/why-covid-vaccines-for-young-adults.html

If my wife and I both die at the same time, we need our estate's trustees to be able to take over our financial and electronic accounts. (Our trustees are a select few chosen from among our sibli...

https://blog.knowinghumans.net/2021/04/my-dead-mans-switch.html

During the Cold War, it was fine for Taiwan to free-ride on America's anti-communist containment strategy, and to shelter under America's dominant nuclear umbrella. But the situation changed arou...

https://blog.knowinghumans.net/2021/03/taiwan-independence-is-not-worth-a-cupertino.html

https://blog.knowinghumans.net/2021/03/voting-is-a-deadly-weapon.html

Freddie deBoer is a self-proclaimed Marxist who understands enough economics to diagnose why an over-supply of woke journalism leads to sharply declining compensation for woke journalists: >...

https://blog.knowinghumans.net/2021/03/oversupply-of-woke-journalism.html

Gary Kremen has a background in private-sector innovation, and a track record in public office for challenging entrenched interests. One of California's entrenched interests is its over-reliance ...

https://blog.knowinghumans.net/2021/03/gary-kremen-for-tax-assessor.html