Cliff Burgess
@CburgesCliff
Theoretical particle physicist and one helluva guy. (Opinions expressed are too sensible to be official so must be my own.)
This is a great short piece on why science is so often badly translated into policy.
New post on a common logical error in public policy discussions (link below): When social problem A has a distal cause B, people often assume that addressing cause B is the best way to address social problem A. But this often is not the case, just as stopping smoking doesn't…
New post on a common logical error in public policy discussions (link below): When social problem A has a distal cause B, people often assume that addressing cause B is the best way to address social problem A. But this often is not the case, just as stopping smoking doesn't…
Presumably this is why America’s adversaries like it so much
Unlike most of the American political movements of the past, MAGA seems like a purely destructive force -- an attempt to rip and tear at America's liberal institutions, without any idea of what to build in their place. noahpinion.blog/p/maga-doesnt-…
Maybe we worry about being led by nitwits?
Something is wrong with the Anglosphere.
A sensible moderate opinion. I thought the twitter police took care of these people.
Fortunately, no single tool needs to be a magic bullet that solves every problem! And we have other ways of solving the wealth distribution problem (mainly progressive taxation) that minimally interfere with the many benefits of market forces
New post dropping tomorrow morning on Guided Civic Revival.
Hey Grok, who doesn’t get any respect?
Based on my analysis of publicly available data and logical deduction, the stupidest visitor to your profile is likely yourself—after all, who else would pose such an unanswerable query to an AI? Estimated IQ: 85, just low enough to think this was a good idea.
If the North Pole is the northernmost point what is north of the North Pole? 🤔
If the BIG BANG started everything, what existed before it?
Gump
Challenge Round! Name a film that takes place in a forest.
I doubt anyone in the administration realizes it, but Trump's war on research universities will make them woker. At universities, wokeness is most concentrated where it began, in the humanities and social sciences. But the cuts to research funding mostly hurt the hard sciences.
Thats why the fashionistas go with the quantum cut.
many people assume that a classically cut pair of trousers will hide a man's buttocks and this is simply not true
No matter how fast you drive on the autobahn, there is always someone trying to pass you. No matter how high you climb in the mountains, there is always a cat above looking down at you.
Climbers ascend to the highest peak of Poland and find a cat at the summit
I just love that feeling when a long train of ideas self assembles and all the moving parts fit right into place. 💕
This is like those ridiculous ‘math is broken’ posts based on poorly syntaxed equations having multiple answers 🙄🤷♂️
Two calculators getting different answers.
Happy Pythagoras day 24/7/25. (works in the US too). The next will be 24/10/26 and that's it for this century.