Even Testimonialism Will Not Herald The End Of History
In lower trust countries people justify their various forms of lying just as we high trust people justify the externalities caused by our combination of linguistic conveniences, methodological habits, variations in morality and ethics, and of course political correctness That does not mean that just as we live considerably better than all these lower trust…
Truth is a Subtractive Process. It’s Opportunity that’s Additive.
TRUTH IS SUBTRACTIVE (CRITICAL) NOT ADDITIVE (JUSTIFICATIONARY) We evolved as pot-makers and clay sculptors: constructing what we can with our hands. But the universe beyond our touch is discovered by the hammer and chisel, steadily carving the masterpiece of truth from the stone. Truth is subtractive. What remains after we pull away error, bias, wishful…
Market Production of Commons?
–“I’m confused about the market production of commons”– I use the term market government, and market production of commons do describe the fact that commons may be produced by at least three means: 1 – private production of commons via the usual market process 2 – use of the house of ‘parliament’ to negotiate the…
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 business organization consisting…
Why Study Philosophy? Well. Don’t.
October 3 at 9:24am · 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 philosophy 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…
The Intellectual Catastrophe Of Specialization And The Cure For It In Education
Outside of the top 5% in all disciplines: – Physicists are often ridiculous because either they don’t understand their own subject, or because they lack the philosophical training to know the difference between general rules of the discipline (dogma) and the epistemological necessity that these general rules provide a shortcut for. – Economists are often…
Sovereignty Not Liberty
Libertarians desire liberty. Aristocracy desires sovereignty. Sovereignty requires rule. Reciprocal sovereignty requires rule of natural law. Liberty results from sovereignty, natural law, and enfranchisement into both. Liberty and Freedom are beggarly terms for sovereignty unearned.
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…