Month: November 2015

[T]he Aristocratic Ethics of Debate: “The only reason not to kill you is that it is more beneficial or may be more beneficial to cooperate in the pursuit of truth, than take your property and your women, enslave you, or kill you. “In order to discover the truth, so that we may both benefit from…

[I] am an aggressive supporter of kin-preference, aristocratic families, paternal aristocracies, and as many of them as an can make. My position on the friction between the races is that democracy and multiculturalism causes conflict between them. And that nationalism, aristocracy, paternalism and local separatism improve everyone. My position on the cause of the *meaningful*…

[I] think it was 2013 that I questioned whether I had to solve the problem of Truth or not. And I was pretty stressed about it. But I just felt like I couldn’t put an end to postmodern deceit unless I did so. So reluctantly I started working on it. And it took me a…

(trigger warning. accusatory. critical. direct.) Abstract: As part of my ongoing efforts to overturn the failures of the anglo, german, and ashkenazi enlightenment that have undermined western civilization, this is the first of a series of criticisms I will levy against the work of David Friedman – the cosmopolitan libertine I disagree with least. In…

[N]ature worship – or the sacredness of nature – and ancestor worship, and hero worship, and stoic rituals that produce mindfulness are hard to call dishonest or untruthful. Praying for wisdom from any of the above is pretty hard to posit as anything worse than mental discipline that encourages self honesty. We cannot say the…

[Q]uotes —“In practice it appears that choosing secular multiculturalism amounts to choosing fundamentalist Islam.”— Eli Harman —“A force applied to the end of a lever has many times the lifting power of the same force applied near the fulcrum. Generalizing, the same degree of change in a root cause brings many more consequences than the…

[I] care that you are intelligent, an aristotelian, christian, a warrior, speak the truth, and a friend. I do not care about the color of your skin. Just as I hope you do not care about the color of mine. Warriors are brothers all. Most of our conflict is the product of democracy in which…

[I] do not possess the values of a bourgeoise libertarian, but an aristocratic, martial, advocate of personal liberty. I have been accused of being an aristocratic and intellectual snob for my entire life. It was only by gradually learning to ‘fit in’ after university, and as a necessity of conducting business with common people, and…

(important) [I] have a soul. I can observe it through introspection. It is a full accounting of my sins, offset by a selective accounting of my acts of charity. I know the balance of that account. We all know the balance of that account – even if we fear to look at it. The chief…

[I] work on the discipline (technology) of speaking truthfully. Not honestly, but truthfully – as in “as scientifically as possible”. Now like any human being I absolutely do engage in various forms of sarcasm, humor, honorarium, and illustration. But in general, I try to write ‘proofs’: a proof includes including tests of internal consistency, external…

—“General knowledge, scientific knowledge, and testimonial truth will pretty much reduce any error you might accumulate through normal human cognitive bias. And, from what I can see, the general challenge of improving demonstrated intelligence is not getting smarter, it is making fewer errors. I know engineers who are not particularly smart, but they demonstrate the…

[W]ell, you know, I consider myself a serious philosopher who engages in tongue-in-cheek sarcasm and humor, ideological inflammation, and macho nonsense now and then for entertainment purposes – and often to signal that I do not live in an ivory tower. But I definitely don’t do conspiracy theory, and I try to avoid ridicule, since…

(re: Tyler Cowen/ Scott Sumner / Econlib ) (important idea ) —“Economic activity consists of interactions between people, and it’s not ever independent of human influence, and so it’s never “natural”.— [O]ne can however, increase the truth content of human relations, or one can decrease the truth content of human relations. One can increase the…

(worth repeating) [W]ell to be honest, they don’t even know that themselves. I think a better test is the evidence of the volume of insider trading in the stock market, and the manipulation of the market by large houses in order to bait and trap retail investors on momentum plays. Other immoralities are anti-consumer nonsense…

[I] have a lot of friends who are good at chess, and I do think chess is a pretty good determinant of intelligence, and perhaps a better determinant of academic and career success. I was in a chess club through seventh or eighth grade, and really never got that good until the first machines came…

—We can purge all forms of lies from this earth. And in doing so, transform man into gods. For what is a god but a wielder of truth? And what is a devil, but a wielder of error, bias, wishful thinking, and deceit?— (worth repeating)

[T]he other point I try to make is that while the world practices political monotheisms (Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Christianity), that this is a POLITICAL statement not a factual one. In china they practice Maoism in the leadership, Confucianism in the upper classes, Lao Tzu in the lower, and Buddhism as a moral binding principle…

(feminist trigger warning)(individualist trigger warning) RE: (https://www.reddit.com/…/renegotiating_the_marriage_contra…/ ) 1) Pretty good analysis. I’d recommend reading the origin and development of the family and property by Engels. That is a more accurate history. It’s short and well written. 2) Biologically, females were treated as (and therefore were) our property under hostile competition, they were an exchange…

[E]xtreme wealth ruins a culture. Spain, France, Britain, America, in that order all suffer from creating elites during time of plenty that attempt to perpetuate and expand the institutions that they occupy even after the period of prosperity has ended. Worse, formerly hard working people are lifted up out of the peasant, working and middle…

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—The Constitution is not a “living document” but a dead letter. The only purpose that lie now serves is to induce the right to expend their efforts in a vain attempt to “restore the Constitution” while the left focus their own efforts at reform on the “constitution” (little “c”), the unwritten balance of powers that…

–“Myths and Traditions provide information, not argument. It’s often good information. But that does not mean it provides us with an argument.”—

[A]lmost all of philosophy after Aristotle up until Hume consists of a few feathers of wisdom and a vast amount of hand waving. Justification, wishful thinking and cunning lies. The the evolution of law is the only meaningful source of insight into western man’s mind. the evolution of art, the evolution of war, the evolution…