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·Jul 30, 2022

The looming AI consciousness train wreck

And how it relates to Roe v Wade, animals and the Bible — What exactly is consciousness? What is life? Is there such a thing as mind separate from the brain? Do we have souls, or are we merely biological machines? Traditionally, these questions fall into the strange category of important-yet-unimportant. Erudite people will usually treat the questions with respect, at least as…

AI

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The looming AI consciousness train wreck
The looming AI consciousness train wreck
AI

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Published in Mike’s blog

·Jan 8, 2022

Re: Moxie on Web3

On decentralization, servers and cryptography — Respected cryptographer Moxie Marlinspike has written up some thoughts on Ethereum and the modern ‘crypto’ ecosystem. Although I was involved in Bitcoin right at the beginning, I’ve never been involved in Ethereum or Web3, don’t currently own any cryptocurrencies and I broadly agree with a lot of what he says…

Ethereum

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Re: Moxie on Web3
Re: Moxie on Web3
Ethereum

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·Sep 24, 2021

Fake science Part II: Bots that are not

An academic conspiracy theory that went mainstream — Since 2016 automated Twitter accounts have been blamed for Donald Trump and Brexit (many times), Brazilian politics, Venezuelan politics, skepticism of climatology, cannabis misinformation, anti-immigration sentiment, vaping, and, inevitably, distrust of COVID vaccines. News articles about bots are backed by a surprisingly large amount of academic research. Google Scholar alone…

Bots

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Fake science Part II: Bots that are not
Fake science Part II: Bots that are not
Bots

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Published in Mike’s blog

·Aug 18, 2021

How did classical Ripple work?

Remembering pre-Bitcoin designs for digital money — Many people think the first proposal for a radical internet money system was Bitcoin, but they’re wrong. Before Bitcoin existed there was “classic” Ripple, an open source project by a guy named Ryan Fugger. …

Ripple

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How did classical Ripple work?
How did classical Ripple work?
Ripple

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·Jul 25, 2021

Fake science: part I

Photoshopping, fraud and circular logic in research — ‘It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgement of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of…

Science

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Fake science: part I
Fake science: part I
Science

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Published in Mike’s blog

·Dec 12, 2020

The philosophical origins of Bitcoin’s civil war

I left the Bitcoin community five years ago. My final essay explaining why — “The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment” — is to my great surprise even half a decade later still being reshared on social media every few days and gets a steady stream of visits. …

Bitcoin

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The philosophical origins of Bitcoin’s civil war
The philosophical origins of Bitcoin’s civil war
Bitcoin

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Published in Mike’s blog

·Nov 4, 2020

Summary of methodological issues in epidemiology

I’ve published a report prepared for Steve Baker MP into some of the issues I’ve seen in the past half year of reading papers and models from the world of epidemiology. It can be found on my website here: Summary of methodological issues in epidemiology It discusses a mix of…

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Summary of methodological issues in epidemiology
Summary of methodological issues in epidemiology

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·Aug 29, 2020

Book review: Science Fictions

This weekend I finished reading the new book Science Fictions, by Stuart Ritchie. It’s about the replication crisis in science, the underlying causes and ways to make science more reliable. In this article I’ll review it and ponder some of the issues it raises. …

Science

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Book review: Science Fictions
Book review: Science Fictions
Science

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·Aug 15, 2020

Pseudo-epidemics: part II

A quick followup — The last post on why under current definitions COVID will never end picked up some interest. Other people have started writing articles about it too in recent days. It wasn’t the most focused writing I’ve ever done, to be honest. Here I’ll try to simply summarise the key points about…

Covid 19

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Pseudo-epidemics: part II
Pseudo-epidemics: part II
Covid 19

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·Jul 26, 2020

Pseudo-epidemics

Why COVID-19 is guaranteed to never end — (a bullet-point version of this article is also available, with additional sources) The whooping cough ripped through the hospital like wildfire. It started with an internist and spread from there, with a severe cough quickly developing in other healthcare workers. Whilst not deadly for healthy adults the disease can be…

Covid 19 Testing

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Pseudo-epidemics
Pseudo-epidemics
Covid 19 Testing

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