Utility, Truth and Consequence – An Important Lesson
[T]rue enough to do what? That’s the question. ***Your opinion is only enough to determine your action, but it is not enough to claim it is ‘true’, When you claim something is true, at that point you promise to others it is true enough to determine their action. And by that claim expose them to…
Restoring the Dimension (Property) of Action to Philosophy
[T]he loss of the dimension of action from philosophy due to the invasion of platonism and religion is the reason for two millennia of limited progress. I suspect at first this was a linguistic limitation of early languages, combined with the history of animism, plus … one thing that is obvious to me… that operational…
Faith in Priors is not Rational, it’s Instinctual
[F]AITH IN PRIORS IS NOT RATIONAL ITS INSTINCTUAL —“The problem with this moral and immoral discourse is the following: I act merely as someone defending the non-aggression principle which I, to use a colloquialism, regard as sacrosanct.”—Anonymous So you mean then that you are arguing from faith? Is that what you’re basing your definition of…
It’s Moral to Seek to Understand.
***A moral man asks questions until he understands. He seeks to understand. An immoral man imposes costs upon others in the hope the others cannot pay those costs, rather than seek the truth. As such cost-imposers are liars and cheats, and thieves.***
Are There Good Reasons To Argue with Amateurs? Sure.
[T]here are two reasons to conduct arguments in forums, or their long history of ancestors back to Newsgroups, CompuServe, bulletin boards, and newsletters. First is to learn how to defeat BAD arguments made by amateurs. Primarily because the mass of political voters in this world are amateurs. Second to understand the psychology of those who…
Very Short Introduction to the Epistemology of Testimonialism
[B]RIEF DISCUSSION OF THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF TESTIMONIALISM 1) All non-tautological statements are incomplete, and as such no non-trivial premises are complete. Therefore all statements consist of nothing more than theoretical promises contingent upon their survival of criticism. 2) We can systematically criticize each dimension of every statement for identity, internal consistency, existential possibility, external correspondence,…
Santagata: Love and Understanding
[L]ove; I love my family… Which doesn’t mean I hate yours. It means I understand why you love yours. I love my nation… Which doesn’t mean I hate yours. It means I understand why you love yours. I love my DNA, my genes, my race… Which doesn’t mean I hate yours. It means I understand…
Bits on Self Awareness
[O]nce you get to the point where you recognize genes make us puppets on their behalf, and that all speech is justification and negotiation, and that we have limited means of coercion of one another, then human behavior as well as all human history is easily comprehended. Empathy works somewhat to overload us. Suggestion can…
Compare Kinsella’s (Incomplete) NAP/(Justificationary)IVP, with Doolittle’s (Complete) NAP/ (Empirical) Demonstrated Property
[C]OMPARE KINSELLA’S ARGUMENT WITH DOOLITTLE’S KINSELLA ON THE TOM WOODS SHOW Many admissions of incompleteness, but failure to complete it. DOOLITTLE ON PROPERTARIANISM This is what completeness looks like. ( I love that Woods is honest. )
NEW VIDEO: Propertarianism – Correcting and Completing Non Aggression
“QUESTION:” CURT: DO YOU HAVE A SIMPLE VERSION OF THIS TALK?” Sure. Or, I’ll try hard. wink emoticon 1) The “NAP” that only limits physical aggression leaves open “trickery and deceit’ as well as ‘free riding parasitism’ and ‘conspiracy’. And by leaving open these forms of aggression, the NAP cannot produce property rights, an anarchic…
Eli Harman on Our (Women’s) Lack Of Ethno-Centrism
—“And another feature of Western peoples is low ethnocentrism, because normative outbreeding and the prohibition on inbreeding mixed up the tribes and clans, creating homogenous outbred populations that can universalize kinship trust. This also was a competitive advanatage. White people form the largest ingroups. But we have a tendency to simply assume everyone is ingroup,…
Santagata on The Great Economic Deceit
—“Under the machinations of Keynesian economists, Americans have been turned into a nation of share croppers living with the illusion that they are getting ahead with economic “freedom” just around the corner; as they fall deeper and deeper into debt with each planting and harvest no matter how bountiful.”— James Santagata
Dear Justices. A Truth. A Warning. A Promise.
[D]EAR JUSTICES. A TRUTH. A WARNING. A PROMISE. ***Our American Judges have been turned into Nazi Officers with ‘its the law’ a hollow substitute for ‘I was following orders’.*** ***There is only one law: productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary exchange, free of imposition of costs by externality, on that which another has obtained by either…
Proving Communal Warfare Among Hunter Gatherers (Paper)
(as always, not only the article, but the citations for this article are priceless. Which is why I have saved it here.) [P]roving communal warfare among hunter-gatherers: The quasi-rousseauan error Keywords: hunter-gatherer warfare;Rousseauism;Australian Aborigines;naturally evolved predispositions for violence and peace Abstract Was human fighting always there, as old as our species? Or is it a…
How Would Our Lives Change Under Truthfulness?
(note that this is a Socratic Dialog and Edward is playing devil’s advocate in order to force me to articulate the ideas. I dont want to miscast his intentions. 🙂 ) [Q]UESTION: How would our lives change if pseudoscience were prohibited from the commons? Give the government the power to define and prohibit pseudoscience. Rushton…
Does The Market Produce Truth Telling?
[D]oes The Market Produce Truth Telling? Every polity possesses a market order – it must. Very few polities produce truth telling – truth telling is extremely expensive. Its expensive because its an investment in a commons (norm). And that investment is easily open to privatization (cheating). Ergo, groups demonstrate the minimum truth possible necessary to…
Translating Chinese Policy Into Words
“[I]f we possess a reserve currency, and maintain the military means of defending it and our trade routes, then we can capture the premium on trafficking contracts, exchanges, and their negotiations currently captured by the British/American financial and trade route system – and by doing so may cause a drastic reduction in the USA’s ability…
Reminder. I Don’t Do Racism. But I Do Paternalism, Classism, and Culturism.
[I]t’s turning into a weekly effort but it’s time once again to reiterate my position on biases. I don’t do racism. I definitely do classism and eugenics – but not racism. I definitely do truth and and morality and therefore culturism. People, cultures and civilizations are objectively superior and inferior to one another. Degrees of…
Justice vs Morality vs Law : Confusion Because of Ideal Types Rather Than Spectra
JUSTICE VS MORALITY VS LAW? IT STUMPED SOCRATES, BUT SHOULDN’T – THE ERROR OF IDEAL TYPES OVER SPECTRA [T]he terms Justice, Morality and Law refer to spectrums, not states, and that is why the subject is confusing to people when it should not be. Natural Law (logically necessary), customary law (evolved), legislation (commands), and regulations…
Progressives *Must* Lie
[P]rogressives cannot tell the difference between wishful thinking and deceit. And when they came they prefer deceit. Lying is necessary to frame kleptocracy as virtuous, theft as moral and dysgenia as good.
Rothbard’s Ethical Ghetto
(h/t: jack linn for reminding me to repost) [R]othbardian ethics are just an excuse to suppress the strong’s ability to use violence while maintaining the cunning’s ability to entrap, lie, cheat and steal. Liberty was created at the point of a sharp metal object, by heroic males, as a means of suppressing all forms of…
The Purpose of Rule is Defensive: the Prevention of Rule
[Y]ou get your own house of government, not because I want to rule you, or we want to rule you, but because I want and we want to prevent you from ruling us. You may rule yourselves as you see fit. You may exchange with us as we both agree. But you may not rule…
The Papacy Must Right It’s Greatest Wrong
[I]t is time for the Papacy, and the Church to right their greatest wrong: the betrayal of and destruction of the poor knights of the temple; and to restore their Order, with the duty of the protection of Christians. If the church does not do so, it is no longer the religion of europa, no…
Q&A: Eugenics and Race?
(important post) —How is eugenics a mode of thought not comparable to race? Especially given the social and economic divides amongst ethnicities?— Savannah [B]ecause eugenics is the study of individuals using the properties of individuals while race applies properties of a class to all individuals represented or not by those properties. 1 – One can…
Three Tribes of Men with Hair. 😉
[I]n the west we have three tribes wherein men seem to keep their hair: The Welsh, the Lombards, and one in southern Russia that I can’t name – something in the Georgian region. Now, hair loss in men is caused by complex and asynchronous factors related to testosterone – lower testosterone earlier balding, higher testosterone…