Do We Choose Our Rulers?
Actually, it depends on the organization’s SIZE, and method of adapting. – For very large organizations, it’s that no one wills change of leader sufficiently, because of the cost of change. – For medium organizations, people choose the leader possible for the group to preserve its power. – For small organizations, it’s absolutely true that…
What Are Conservatism, Libertarianism, Progressivism?
A Genetic Predisposition – an Instinct An Intuition – an instinct and experience A Tradition – a surviving portfolio of habits An Ideology – a Justification A Philosophy – a Moral Model A Formal Philosophy – An Institutional Model A Social Science (law)
A Nation? Nationalism? Vs Statism?
A State, and bureaucracy, provide fertile ground for parasitism, for the sole reason that a majority of men do not demand Rule of Law, under Natural Law, using Judge Discovered Law, and accumulating in the Common Law. A nation is quite good at preventing alternative ‘tax farms’, brought into being by conquest using war, religion,…
Philosophers and Feeling vs Scientists and Reporting
Aug 25, 2016 11:31am Philosophers place greater weight upon FEELING, and the cognitive scientists place greater weight on REPORTING, which tells us nothing about TRUTH but a great deal about the instrumentation available to SUBJECTIVE introspective and OBJECTIVE empirical testing. My experience is that while in retrospect the initial stage of awareness is arguably ‘me’…
Philosophy(choice) vs Logic(decidability)
—“CURT, YOUR CRITICISM OF PHILOSOPHY IS AN INTERESTING PHILOSOPHY”— Irony appreciated. Even if it’s just a play on words. The question is not whether it’s a personal philosophy (means of PREFERENTIAL or UTILITARIAN choice) but whether its a method of universal DECIDABILITY independent of preferences and utility. (truth). In other words, is it a “Law”…
Positive Philosophy And Negative Law
Aug 25, 2016 2:46pm If you want to inspire, inform, and rally, i think that’s a domain of ‘MEANING”, whereas if I want to scrutinize your use of inspiration, information, and rallying that’s a question of ‘TRUTH’ as in DECIDABILITY (science). Since I think the jury is in, and that the past century was lost…
Basic Income
There is no problem with paying dividends on the economy. I don’t see why that’s a problem. But every time I do the math I come to the same conclusion: that surpluses sufficient to create a marginal difference in the quality of life of the individuals are not possible. In other words, it’s pretty much…
Coming To The Rescue And Correcting The Libertine Narrative (Fraud) Of History.
(Beware the thief in moral disguise) https://fee.org/articles/five-differences-between-the-alt-right-and-libertarians/ 1 – THE COURSE OF HISTORY Domesticating man and woman by the use of organized violence to suppress local parasitism that harms production by increasing transaction costs, to create markets to decrease opportunity costs, and to collect revenues for that suppression of local parasitism, decrease of transaction costs,…
Restitution And Punishment Are Every Man’s Price Of Liberty.
Aug 28, 2016 4:31am Every Man A Sheriff – I advocate restitution and punishment for the crimes of murder, harm, destruction, theft, fraud (in all its forms), socialization of losses and privatization of commons, conspiracy, conversion, invasion, war, and conquest – Any violation of natural law. – I advocate the death penalty when it is…
Doesn’t Everyone Try To Lie Cheat And Steal?
Isn’t libertarianism merely an attempt by the middle class to obtain status and power parity with the judicial-military upper class, without paying the (dear) costs to the relationship to their customers and market that truth, judgment, policing, and warfare entail? Isn’t Jewish libertinism an attempt not only to escape those costs, but the costs of producing…
I’m A Scientist. I Just Use The Language Of Philosophy To Separate Truth(decisions) From Literature(communication)
Like Nietzche I’m an anti-philosophy philosopher. If I finish correctly, there will be no difference between philosophy, science, morality, and law. None. Nietzche couldn’t do it because his era lacked the tools, and he was crippled by the german failure to transition to empiricism. But we can do it. We can do it and demand…
Conflation and Deconflation in Argument
(important concept in demarcation between science and non-science) I want to try to put my objection – if we can call it an objection – into a more articulate form, and see if I can convince you, or at least see if I am capable of communicating this idea with any degree of clarity. 1…
Q&A: How Is Propertarianism Not Limited As Is Godel’s Incompleteness
Aug 29, 2016 10:10am ( I hope someone understands this. It will give me joy. lol) (Note: this is a deceptively complicated question, and I”m going to answer it incompletely becuase of that complication, but hopefully thoroughly enough to get the point across) —“I understand that the incompleteness theorem depends on plenty of axioms, which…
The Class Divisions of Academic Labor
—“Stanford and Chicago GSB have more academic publications that these universities’ economics departments. Two things i don’t like in this trend. 1) Academia persuaded university authorities that to business PhD and MBA math-economics is indispensable. Applied programs people hate this “rigorous” nonsense 2) Too many graduates from mainstream go to teach in business schools.”— Arteom…
The Languages of Fraud
When you defend your use of philosophical rationalism, your presupposition is the disproportionate value of the communication of meaning(learning), under which we obtain explanatory power and opportunity for persuasion and negotiation; whereas you discount or ignore the equal value of prosecution(prevention), under which we eliminate error, bias, wishful thinking, suggestion, overloading, pseudoscience, and deceit. It…
State Incentives
By Eli Harman The allegation is often made (by libertarian anarchists) that what states do is fundamentally incalculable, but that it is always negative sum. In other words, we cannot know the absolute value of any state or state policy, but we can be certain about its sign. Voluntary trades in the marketplace – as…
Q&a: What Do You Mean By The Disproportionate Value Of Cooperation?
No matter how hard 100 men work independently they can never achieve what that can cooperatively. And if they fight instead then the difference in assets between conflict and cooperation produces a measurement of the value of cooperation. Or to fall back on Adam smith. A division of labor between ten is not ten times…
Eli Harman on Cooperation
Cooperation is rational in that it can be vastly preferable to non-cooperation or conflict. But it also requires altruism because most preferable of all is to defect while OTHERS cooperate with you. And foregoing that temptation (on behalf of others, more than yourself) is a price that one must pay in order to cooperate. Cooperation…
Script for Video on Morality
NEW VIDEO. PROPERTARIANISM: LECTURE : SOCIAL SCIENCE : MORALITY I tried to give an exhaustively thorough analysis of morality. Approximately 60 Minutes. You may need to watch it more than once (I would). But it should give you a complete language for discourse on morality. OUTLINE (SCRIPT): ————— MORALITY (video script outline) Today I’m going…
True Names
TRUE NAMES (notes to self for current line of thought) —“Any sufficiently true property of the universe appears to the trained eye as a model rather than reality.”—Jonathan Page Constancy and determinism and true names. True = True Name. True name is “invariant”. If we pass the tests of dimensional consistency that I suggest with…
Modernity: Converting From Physical To Neuronal Stress
***Modernity limits the accumulation of damage to our cells, but it increases intellectual and emotional stresses dramatically. Neurons have taken the damage in the information era, that physical stresses have in prior eras.**** The Anglo world is as ‘crazy’ as the medieval. The difference is that the current ‘crazy’ is even worse for us than…
Note to self:
Epistemology Promise Narrative Information is the model History of allegorical models Supply demand is the model.
Why Is The Black Race Judged By Of Its Least Successful Members?
It isn’t. It’s judged by the dominance of it’s race in failures of education, crime, civic behavior, business achievement, intellectual achievement, and artistic and literary achievement. The east asians and western europeans have aggressively killed off their lower classes through winters, starvation, enslavment, hanging, beheading, war, and a very severe justice system for thousands of…
How Likely Is There To Be A Nuclear Missile Launch In The Forseeable Future?
For at least the past fifty years, the general opinion has been, and our strategic schools teach, that nuclear weapons are political not military in nature. It is relatively impossible to use them. 1) Because if one does use them, one is open for becoming the victims of their use. 2) Politically, it would render…
The Cognitive Bias Codex from 2016