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My Snapchat Prediction

Snapchat is tanking [archive]. As I predicted here.

Could Cognitive Scientists Eliminate ISIS?

In a word, yes, assuming they had lots of help from the CIA to deliver their persuasion. I would not have said this was possible five years ago. But in 2017, cognitive scientists know how to reprogram a human brain fairly effectively. They have weaponized what hypnotists have been doing…

A Quick Look at President Trump and the Big Picture

Let’s take a look at the things that are going well for President Trump, and the things that are not, and see if there is a pattern. Here I will include topics that are not necessarily the president’s accomplishments or faults. I’ll simply describe the current state of things. Things…

Start-ups that Lower the Cost of Health Care

[Update: fixed bad email address in step 3.] Most of the remaining problems in the world are information problems in disguise. For example, our politicians in the United States are trying to figure out how to provide health insurance to low-income people without breaking the budget. It looks impossible, at…

A Quick Look at President Trump and the Big Picture

The Survivor Bias in Climate Models

Here’s a link to a smart person who does a better job than I did at explaining the problems with climate models [archive]. I mentioned on social media a few times that I am using public persuasion to split the climate science debate into two parts. One part is the basic…

Income Inequality

Note: If you got here from the link in my tweet, I used “orange kitten” to thwart Twitter’s shadowban on me. — Back in 2014 B.T. (Before Trump), the headlines were all about income inequality. I don’t recall hearing much of anything about immigration in the news. Then candidate Trump – the…

Wiretapping Word-Thinking

The other day, President Trump declared that “President Obama was tapping my phones in October, just prior to Election!” Then the world went nuts. Former CIA Director James Clapper denied that Trump was wiretapped, saying, “There was no such wiretap activity mounted against the president, the president-elect at the time, or…

My $1 Million Climate Model Bet

I will bet anyone $1 million dollars that I can come up with a climate forecast model that ignores C02 and still predicts the temperature 30 years from now to within half a degree. Does anyone want to take that bet? Obviously there is a trick involved, so I won’t…

Am I Predicting or Influencing?

People keep asking me whether I predicted the Trump presidency or influenced it. There’s no way to know. Or is there? The Google search trend for “cognitive dissonance” is up. But that could be a coincidence. In case you have been missing Robots Read News, here’s a new one. — Do…

Dopamine Puppets

Note: Twitter is hiding my tweets about politics from my followers, so I use the code word “kittens” in those tweets to beat their censorship bot. — Here’s a funny article by David Wong of Cracked that talks about the dopamine high we sometimes get from outrage. The gist of it is that…

I Talk about President Trump’s Speech on YouTube

I’m still in beta mode for my YouTube channel. But improving. Here’s this morning’s chat, mostly about President Trump’s speech. — Are you swarming to a meet-up? Try WhenHub and optionally stream your location (temporarily only) on the way to the meet. It changes the entire experience.

Nothing to See Here, Folks

I recently tweeted a link to my blog post that is unflattering to the proponents of climate science. I have 138,000 Twitter followers. My traffic from Twitter to my blog in a recent minute was only 14 people, while overall traffic from other sources was its usual robust self. For non-controversial topics, my…

Tucker Carlson Induces Cognitive Dissonance in Bill Nye the Science Guy over Climate Change

Here is the best (and weirdest) example of cognitive dissonance you will ever see. The set-up is that Bill Nye, an engineer by training, and a proponent of science, is defending climate science on Tucker’s show. The first weird thing is that Bill Nye starts by talking about cognitive dissonance…

Television is Training Me to Not Watch Television

Way back in olden times when there were only a few television channels, I enjoyed watching television. I was happy with it most of the time. But in recent years, my television has trained me to stop watching it. My cable company now offers hundreds of options. That means I…