James' notepad

Laplace's rule of succession is only a rule of thumb. The idea is that since probabilities cannot be zero or one, if one has seen a hund...

Popper thought he could turn inductive science into a deductive process. We only see white swans, so we form a theory that all swans are whi...

I have written about group selection before . The orthodox Darwinian position on group selection is that it does not happen. If an indiv...

Advantages Minimal marginal cost Minimal financial risk - you can't print too many Lightweight. You can carry a thousand books in yo...

We have long had circumstantial evidence that racial differences in intelligence are partly genetic. We know that the races differ in averag...

The "Multiplier Effect" story goes like this: The state increases spending by £100. The person they pay this to saves 10% and spen...

Much of "social justice warrior" discourse is just rhetoric with the aim of getting the other person to shut up. The content is no...