Day: July 14, 2011

Life Imitating Fiction Watch IFRL-NaPP-Space-nasa-ceres-sign

Life Imitating Fiction Watch

J.L. Wall July 14, 2011

Given that Aaron Sorkin successfully predicted the major party candidates in 2008, Rahm Emanuel’s rise to Chief...

At My Real Job: Expert Forecasting IFRL-TLC-Scenery-pawel-nolbert-291146-unsplash

At My Real Job: Expert Forecasting

Jason Kuznicki July 14, 2011

At Cato Unbound, Dan Gardner and Philip Tetlock observe that expert predictions often miss the mark: In...

The Most Important Sentence You Will Read about the Casey Anthony Trial IFRL-TLC-Scenery-GAPD-altesnational.the-interior-of-the-palm-house

The Most Important Sentence You Will Read about the Casey Anthony Trial

Jason Kuznicki July 14, 2011

It comes from Radley Balko: Even as DNA testing continues to exonerate wrongly convicted people, including people...

As retcons go… IFRL-TLC-War-vasilios-muselimis-796905-unsplash

As retcons go…

Jaybird July 14, 2011

In looking at Captain America: The First Avenger on IMDB, I cannot help noticing the sheer number...

Searching For Truth Versus Debating The Catholic Church

Searching For Truth Versus Debating

Alex Knapp July 14, 2011

I actually posted this on my sub-site two days ago, but Rufus suggested today that this would...

InMD in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025One never wants to predict an outcome but I would think chances are high he gets it. Message being s…
Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025Luigi Mangione has been indicted with something or other that makes him eligible for the death penal…
Saul Degraw in reply to Burt Likko on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025In response to the 4th Circuit, Pam Bondi promoted Garcia to being an MS13 gang leader. They have un…
CJColucci in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025I was there. They weren't.
Jaybird in reply to KenB on From Marginal Revolution: o3 and AGI, is April 16th AGI day?Back in 2023, I failed the Turing Test for a few minutes before figuring out that it was just auto-c…
KenB in reply to Jaybird on From Marginal Revolution: o3 and AGI, is April 16th AGI day?Yeah it’s not well defined enough for me to even worry about - I just continue to be amazed and a li…
Jaybird in reply to CJColucci on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025Okay, Boomer. I'm sure that things were awesome when you were a kid. That's one of the things people…
CJColucci in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025That would depend on what you told us about what you experienced. I wouldn't dream of telling you "t…
Jaybird in reply to CJColucci on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025Oh, I thought it was building up to some variant of "that wasn't a big deal and you're silly for thi…
CJColucci in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025Because I thought, silly me, that having brought your experiences into the discussion you might want…