What Do You Consider Yourself?
DO YOU CONSIDER YOURSELF A CLASSICAL LIBERAL? Maybe. In the sense that we can use the increase in proceeds from the agrarian, industrial, petrochemical, technological, information, and biological revolutions to construct commons by exchanges between houses, then yes. In the sense that we should extend the franchise to those who have not demonstrated ability to…
Why Are So Many Scientists Bashing Philosophers?
1 – Philosophy has not kept up with developments: in particular, the universe is saying pretty consistently “I am simple”. 2 – But it is much, much, more than this. It’s that: …… While undergraduate, graduate, and PhD physics programs improves the general understanding of the body politic, undergraduate, and graduate, and a very substantial…
The Divine, Supernatural, Moral, And Scientific
—“Is the universe open for free actions or divine interventions or other special divine actions? Are there reasons for the impossibility claims?”— We have not yet eliminated the possibility. We certainly cannot seem to construct any test of such things. All tests we run that would require human control of outcomes have failed – spectacularly.…
Adding Depth To Taleb’s Insight That Minority Rule Is Superior To Majority.
(Shhh. Its all in the incentives.) Nassim, (edited for clarity) I’ll fortify your thought experiment a bit. To the best of my knowledge the general argument that reflects the evidence is this: 1) The slower the rotation of elites, the more consistent the policies, the least ‘virtue signaling expenditure’, the least waste, and the least…
Aristocracy vs Oligarchy is Simple…
Aristocracy Socializes Gains Into the Commons, and Oligarchy Privatizes Gains Out of The Commons. An Aristocracy increases the capital in the commons and an Oligarchy exploits it. That’s the difference. SIMPLE: ARISTOCRACY +COMMONS, OLIGARCHY -COMMONS
There Is Only One ‘Philosophy’ If We Speak The Truth. The Rest Is Ignorance, Error, Bias And Lies
(very important for anyone interested in philosophy) *(How should we teach Philosophy? Let me tell you.)* One can teach philosophy as historical LITERATURE(Errors, Lies and Failures). Or one can teach philosophy as the evolution of TRUTH TELLING (science). If you want to teach the history of TRUTH then you teach western philosophy – at least…
Are All Set-Arguments Deceptions?
(thought) I’m getting the feeling that all set based argument is just lying. I mean we can TEACH by transferring properties via sets. But you know, you gotta criticize that nonsense once you turn the lightbulb on, oyu gotta look around the room a bit and make sure you see what you think you see.…
Emotions: They’re Just “Treats And Scoldings” For Being A Good Labrador Retrievers On Behalf Of Our Genes.
All our emotions are explicable as rewards or punishments for the discovery of, pursuit of, obtaining of, hoarding of, consumption of, resources of every conceivable kind. That’s it. The universe is a simple place with simple rules of operation. Man is a simple creature with simple rules of operation. We seek to acquire, preserve, and…
AI’s Will Be More Moral Than Humans Unless We Choose Not To Make Them So.
Humans have the ability to choose rationally whether to cooperate, avoid, parasite, or prey upon others. Machines do not need to have this choice. Humans create three organizations in order to make it difficult to prey upon one another. WE would do the same for AI’s. 1) (OSTRACIZATION) Religion, Myth, Tradition, Norm, 2) (BOYCOTT) Finance,…
What Made The West Advance Faster Than The Rest?
The Universal, Reciprocal, Insurance, of Sovereignty To All Who Will Take the Oath. “I will fight for your sovereignty if you will fight for mine.” Brothers in arms first. Family Second. Our People Third. That’s why the west is best. Trust let us evolve faster than the rest. Trust creates economic velocity, technical velocity, and…
You’re White And You’re The Bad Guy? Rule or Be Ruled. It’s Not Complicated.
(by Eli Harman) If you’re a f__king white male, you are the bad guy, the cause of all the world’s problems, the personification of historic evil. That’s the role that has been prepared for you and assigned to you. You don’t get to decline the role. The standard of evil has been updated to including…
Business Terminology
BUSINESS TERMINOLOGY, SCALE. ESTABLISHMENT (small/craft) An establishment is a single physical location where business is conducted or where services or industrial operations are performed. FIRM (regional/industry): A firm is a business organization consisting of one or more domestic establishments in the same state and industry under common ownership or control. ENTERPRISE(National/Federation) An enterprise is a…
Why Study Philosophy? There Isn’t Much There. It’s in History, Science, Economy.
If by philosophy we refer to fantasy literature as an extension of The Novel, Fictional histories, Mythology, Detective Stories, Fantasy, and Science Fiction, then the study of the SEP is equivalent to a world-of-warcraft or Game of Thrones wiki. It’s just entertainment. It’s no different from collecting any other kind of useless thing: bottle caps,…
Maybe Some People Catch On. But Others Don’t: Unity By Trade.
(important) I have to continue to crush the Rothbardian fallacy just like I have to continue to crush the neocon fallacy, and the postmodern fallacy. The socialist fallacy has been crushed. And we are in the process of crushing the Keynesian fallacy and the democratic fallacy. But to unite libertarians both artisanal, bourgeoisie and…
People Will Find Truth Unappealing Or Unconvincing
Well lets take that criticism further: due to dunning kreuger effect, just as any sufficiently advanced technology appears to be magic even to the scientist, any sufficiently advanced form of reasoning appears to be deception or conspiracy to those of limited ability. Or more generalized, we are all limited in our abilities. And we all…
The Virtue of Disorder
Disorder is merely an opportunity to obtain a discount on the high cost of constructing an alternative order. Great strategists accumulate resources with which to create and exploit opportunities. Fools rush headlong into battles.
The Place For Religious Argument
There is no authority in religious wisdom, only advice – despite the demand of clerics and devotees. The use of religious, moral, historical and empirical argument is always the same: In the absence of clear choices, if the empirical fails, the historical fails, then the moral and religious are the best-tested experience that we can…
We Are Equal In Our Tribal Capacity For Transcendence
There are good Jews bad Jews, good Christians, bad Christians, good and bad in each race, and good and bad everyone. A quote from my favorite Rabbi and a man I love dearly, and always will. We can use the positive or we can exercise the negative. In the matters of good and bad, we…
Natural Law Isn’t Complicated
Imagine you visit a totally alien island, and have no knowledge of manners, ethics, morals, traditions myths, rituals, laws, institutions, and metaphysical value judgments. History is replete with the difficulty of establishing communication, trust, cooperation, trade, and especially, non-conflict. But because of natural laws we can start from the lowest methods of communication: giving gifts,…
The Non-obvious Benefits Of Market Government
(important topic) William Butchman just indirectly reminded me that when I say ‘market government’ is the most likely candidate for creating a beneficial form of ‘post majoritarian rule’ while retaining the benefit of creating non-monopolistic commons: a) that groups are not prevented from creating what we call anarchic (private contractual) commons, simply by setting conditions…
June – July – August Quotes
I’m probably not that much smarter than you are. I’m just dumb about different things. You’re not “Conservative” or “Liberal” anymore. You’re either a Globalist or you’re an American. —i hope rothbard comes back from the grave to voluntarily slice your neck off —ancap_venetaz Then I’d just make him my bitch in person as well.…
Strictly Constructed Law And Contract
It’s not that different from programming, which any reasonably intelligent lawyer that can program a bit will readily observe. The Structure of a Program or Contract ———————————————————— Purpose (Whereas these conditions exist) Return Value (and whereas we wish to produce these ends) Constants and Variables (definitions constructed) Objects (constructions from base types / “first principles”)…
Decidability And Morality
While explanatory power is useful – it isn’t necessarily a test of truth. Whereas testimonial decidability does serve as a test of truth. We tend to confuse platonic truth (that arrangement of ideas we might possess if we possessed more information than we currently do) where our model is infinitely intertemporal(extends into the future regardless…
Fascism In The Great Game Of Rock Paper Scissors
–Liberty/Market, Fascism/Mar, Law/Culture– The Communist threat was enormous. Given the asymmetric value of oppy.costs, NOT ACTING in era of change is expensive. So taking early initiative or waiting is a question of forecast costs. And fascism was an answer to acting early. A condition of liberty is the consequence of the nearly universal suppression of…
Stuck on Malinvestments.
ADHERENCE TO FALSIFIED THEORIES ISN”T DEMONSTRATING INTELLIGENCE – JUST LOSS AVOIDANCE GIVEN ONE’S OVERINVESTMENT IN MALINVESTMENT Sure I spent a lot of time at LvMI. But you know, once you know your theory is bullshit it’s time to seek another. There is only one source of liberty: the organized application of violence to suppress parasitism…