Month: August 2016

(apologies to the author but I must keep these ‘finds’ in my database. The internet is not dependable enough.) By Lee Jussim [T]HE LONGSTANDING AND LOGICALLY INCOHERENT EMPHASIS ON STEREOTYPE INACCURACY Psychological perspectives once defined stereotypes as inaccurate, casting them as rigid (Lippmann, 1922/1991), rationalizations of prejudice (Jost & Banaji, 1994; La Piere, 1936), out…

By Eli Harman (IMPORTANT POST) [T]he following is my condensed restatement of Jason Cogwell’s theory of confirmation bias as a collective cognition strategy. There are a great many instances where making a generalization could be useful, helpful, or necessary. But most people aren’t in posession of enough information to make rigorous and defensible generalizations very…

[P]orque nosotros somos compatibles, y necesitamos el uno del otro. Alguno de nosotros trabajamos, otros trabajamos en gerencia, algunos calculamos y diseñamos, algunos de nosotros organizamos, y algunos otros decidimos qué organizar, calcular, diseñar, administrar y sobre que cosas trabajar. Es cuando nosotros determinamos de forma exitosa un método por el cual cada uno de…

There are no unknowable things. Only things too costly to know. (What idiot flagged this as insincere? This is my job. It’s what I do. It’s the correct answer. Nothing that can be true is unknowable, only too costly for us to know in present circumstances. It’s not rocket science. It’s pretty simple really.) https://www.quora.com/If-you-could-learn-just-one-unknowable-thing-what-would-it-be

Opinions on this are irrelevant, since the data is overwhelming, the resarch substantial, and it’s quite clear that people vote race, gender, and marital status. In other words – their reproductive strategy. https://www.quora.com/As-a-voter-do-your-values-inform-your-politics-or-do-your-politics-remodel-your-values

Think about how illogical the term special interests is https://www.quora.com/Are-the-Republican-and-Democratic-parties-in-the-US-actually-one-party-controlled-by-special-interests

What is meant by spamming postmodern propaganda instead of political, economic, social, psychological, and cognitive science that clearly demonstrates that people form probabilistic models that accurately judge the character of an individual by his visible traits with extraordinary accuracy? https://www.quora.com/What-is-meant-by-spillover-bigotry

Civil Society means that commons are produced by voluntary actions of citizens rather than by the direction by and payment from government. Civil societies require high trust. Only northern europeans developed high trust at scale. Ergo civil societies are rare, and the western governments since the war have destroyed most of it through government intervention…

They will lie to you about it. But no. https://www.quora.com/Is-Seattle-and-Bellevue-tolerant-with-Muslims-and-vailed-women

To create a word power one requires ~500M people, nuclear weapons, and sufficient access to natural resources that one can sustain an autarkic economy during a period of long conflict. Russia cannot be a world power. It isn’t. It’s a gas station with nuclear missiles, a lot of unemployed men, and a history of invading…

DO NOT USE SOCIAL MEDIA TO PROPAGATE LIES. https://www.quora.com/Since-our-good-or-bad-acts-are-decided-when-we-are-in-the-womb-why-we-are-punished-for-bad-deeds-on-the-day-of-Judgement

Superior genetics for sprinting just as whites have superior genetics for endurance. https://www.quora.com/In-the-100-meter-races-at-major-events-why-do-black-people-dominate

Racial discrimination exists everywhere. https://www.quora.com/Does-racial-discrimination-still-exist-in-the-US

I’m a member of the 1%. I’m gifted. I’m a white christian male. But I have health problems that would ruin most people forever. And I consider my life extremely difficult and always have. https://www.quora.com/On-a-scale-from-1-to-10-how-difficult-is-your-life-Why

Enfranchising: (a) non property owners, (b) women, (c) others who were not fully integrated into: (i) Christian ethics (ii) Rule of law, natural law, universal standing, universal application, strict construction (iii) the absolute nuclear family ans the central unit of reproduction, production, and commons (iv) individual economic responsibility without : (d) giving each a new…

Racism is impolitic to talk about because of political correctness, but intermarriage has had no effect racism, and multi-racism, and multi-culturism, and now poly-legalism, and poly-logism have increased. The net effect will be the continuation of the ‘Big Sort’ until america fragments into different nations under some shock that the federal government cannot respond to…

Kin selection. Family, Kin, Kith, Tribe, Nation, Race. Humans remain tribal. We reside in tribal groups. We mate in tribal groups. We create friendships in tribal groups (often within very narrow genetic distances). We work in tribal groups. We organize reproductively, socially, economically, politically, and religio-militarily in tribal – meaning kinship – groups. There is…

  [I]n price-theory, an externality is any benefit or loss not included in the price of the exchange. But we can debate whether economics is the study of investment, production, distribution, trade, and consumption, or whether economics is the model under which all social science, from metaphysics, to psychology, to epistemology, to ethics, sociology, law,…

—“Which libertarian model do you believe in?”— [R]emember that the way you test a theory is not way finding to justify it but like composing a novel throwing obstacles in front of to see if it can survive. It does not matter what we believe. It matters only what order can survive in completion with…