Month: September 2016

  • Programming Teaches Operational Thought

    Programming is as important an innovation in thought as is empiricism. Because while empiricism is but correspondent and logic is a but question of sets, programming is operational (existential). I think the act of creating databases is about as close to philosophizing as you can come, but it involves the same problem as logic: as…

  • What are Verbal Illusions (Deceptions)?

    ENDING THE POLLUTION OF PHILOSOPHY WITH THE EQUIVALENT OF OPTICAL ILLUSIONS (important) (I figured out how to talk about suggestion) The pollution of philosophy with the verb “to be”: creating nonsense problems because our minds do not seem able to avoid the confusion created between experience and existence when we say “is” or “are”. So…

  • What are Verbal Illusions (Deceptions)?

    ENDING THE POLLUTION OF PHILOSOPHY WITH THE EQUIVALENT OF OPTICAL ILLUSIONS (important) (I figured out how to talk about suggestion) The pollution of philosophy with the verb “to be”: creating nonsense problems because our minds do not seem able to avoid the confusion created between experience and existence when we say “is” or “are”. So…

  • Male Expendability?

    I may not like the fact that being male makes me expendable. But I must live with the reality of the division of reproductive labor. On the other hand, I am perfectly happy, if not thrilled, to set the terms by which my expendability may be exercised. I am willing to kill and die for…

  • Sources of Ignorance: God Speech in Logic and Legislation

    Logic is written as is legislation. Testimonialism is written as natural law. This is the origin of the conflict: legislation and mathematics, rather than natural law and physics. What does that mean? That law is written as a command. That logical statements are written as promises. The physical statements are written as hypotheses.

  • The Cycle of Orders

      [T]he cycle of history in genes, polities, economies, and knowledge is the same: A new opportunity to exploit is discovered by those capable of exploiting it. The innovators profit from the cooperation of followers. The followers and those who profit expand in a hierarchy or school until one of the following occurs: 1 –…

  • How About Operational (True) Names for Schools of Economics?

    [W]hy don’t we just rename each branch of econ operationally instead of geographically: 1 – Austrian: Economic Social Science. 2 – And then follow with Chicago: Economic Rule of Law. 3 – And follow finally with Saltwater: Economic Discretionary Spending. There is plenty of reason there is such conflict between schools over method when the…

  • Lies Are Cheap And There Are Plenty of Customers

      Law is expensive. Religion is cheap. Naval rule is cheap. Army rule is expensive. Aristocratic rule is cheap. Republican rule is expensive. Began with aristocratic Rule(personal service) Ended with Republican rule (bureaucracy) Rome began with a naval empire defending sea trade. Ended with a landed empire, defending territorial trade. Began with Expensive law(Truth), Ended…

  • No. Morality Is Objective. It’s Just Proscriptive(negative) Not Prescriptive(positive).

    [W]e make the mistake that norms are in fact moral when they may in fact not be. We call norms moral just like we call legislation law. But norms may or may not be decidably moral and legislation and regulation may or may not be decidably law. So positive normative moral pretenses, and negative objective…

  • Deny Power To All – The Cult of Non-Submission

    [Y]es, one can attempt to order the human world by constructing power to suit one’s imagination. Or you can deny the ordering of the world by power, so that only nature limits our construction of the world, not we. In my opinion, from the simple proposition that faster calculation will defeat slower calculation, and certainly…

  • Q&a: What Does Morality Have To Do With Economics?

    [I]mmorality = impediment to cooperation and incentive to retaliation and its consequence to the voluntary organization reproduction, of production of goods, services, commons, dispute resolution, and defense – vs it’s opposite. That which we defend (property) = that which we have expended our resources in order to obtain by homesteading, transformation(production), or productive, fully informed,…