Archives for July, 2025
Understand your future master: Xi, father and son
I happened to learn about Joseph Torigian's book, The Party's Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping (Stanford University Press, June 2025, 718 Pages). The…
Psihologie socială și suveranisme — preluări de pe FB
Tocmai ce le-am postat pe Facebook, dar mi-am zis să le pun și aici. Prima postare se referă la Dumitru Borțun, iar a doua la Natalia Morari și, prin ricoșeu,…
Venice, Wyoming—home of the AI
There was a talk about Venice AI in a couple of comments, exactly five months ago. For a reason I can’t even explain to myself, I revisited this useless AI…
So-called neuroscientist: we don’t have visual memories but reconstruct them à la ChatGPT
This is the teaser that got me into this: Cognitive scientist Elan Barenholtz says memory isn't retrieval. It's you remember something, you're not accessing a stored file. You're prompting your…
The Great AI Leap Forward: To panic or not to panic?
I’m not sure that I should be doing this, but I collected some recent news on AI, on which I’d like to add some minimal comments. I’ll start with quick…
There is still hope in England
Rowling is well-known for her takes on the madness of the gender ideology, particularly defending such stances: ❶ Your gender is your biological sex, observed and recorded at birth, not…
Scientists can be smart and stupid at the same time
I did not mention Sabine Hossenfelder on this blog, but only in e-mails and in a comment elsewhere. I used to watch her on YouTube between end-2022 and February 2024.…