“Gambling is a tax for people who can’t do math.”
Variously attributed in various forms, sometimes singling out lotteries.
In BOE Report I say the tactics that seem loudly to be winning the debate for climate alarmism might quietly be losing it instead.
“We live surrounded by mysteries and imagine that by inventing names we explain them.”
W.B. Seabrook, “Goat-Cry, Girl-Cry,” in Chancellor Press Great Ghost Stories
In Convivium I warn that AI threatens our humanity almost as much if it does work as it threatens humanity if it runs amok.
In BOE Report I say if climate science really is settled, it want predictions ahead of time not rationalizations after the fact.
In the National Post I condemn Mark Zuckerberg’s clueless call for global censorship in response to ugly behaviour online.
In BOE Report I ask how a person not dogmatically committed to the concept of man-made global warming would go about deciding whether its happening.