The Problem Of The Need For Taking Action And The Comforting Lies Some Of Us Need To Help Us Act
Every man must act in a way that produces the consequences he desires. There is no need for god in that question other than to give one excuses for having taken actions that others disagree with. What you mean is that a man must provide his own moral authority. In other words, one needs justification…
Nietzsche’s Morality Isn’t
Nietzche had little understanding of law(dispute resolution), and less understanding if not no understanding of its opposite: economics (cooperation). When he says ‘morality’ he means ‘convention’. and in that sense, convention may or may not survive moral scrutiny. That does not mean that there are no moral statements. It’s easy to define them. The question…
The Difference Between Personal-Preferential and Political-Decidable Philosophies
We can make use of whatever free associations our unobservable minds give us. That says nothing about the truth of anything. it says only about the utility of randomly generated meaningful ideas. So personal philosophy(religion) can be constructed of such nonsense. Because people need to act in a way that they can feel confident in…
Converting From Accusations of Falsehood To Accusations of Fraud.
You see, I only have to testify to what I can know, and I only CAN testify to what I can know. So if I can’t know something I can’t testify to it. I can only say “I don’t know’. And in the tradeoff between “i don’t know ‘but’, and ‘I just don’t know so…
One of Jay Dyer’s Fundamentalists
One of Jay Dyer’s New-Pseudoscientific Christian-Fundamentalists stopped by to annoy me today on the grounds that I am arrogant, and smart but apparently not wise. Well, you know, one who acts as a prosecutor of falsehoods in defense of the informational commons, is not the same as a partner with whom you fantasize by engaging…
We Are Prosecutors.
We do not seek to agree upon action as they do in pursuit of allies, we only seek to prevent those actions that are harmful regardless of whether we create allies or enemies. By prosecuting we are not trying to engage parasites in cooperation, nor are we trying to win their consent, nor win their…
Men, Women, And Why Men Must Fight To Constrain Our Women.
Group solidarity, membership, consensus, marginal indifference, empathic solipsism, and a fear of the opposites, constitute the herd mentality, or what’s fashionably called r-selection bias, because it is in the female interest to preserve reciprocal insurance from other women at all costs, prevent her and her offspring’s ostracization at all costs, and to preserve her incentive…
Santagata’s Four Kinds of People
James Santagata June 21 Four kinds of people in this world. 1. People who are building things. 2. People who steal from those who are building things. 3. People who watch the people who are building things and the people who are stealing from those who are building things. 4. People who are asleep in this…
Anti-Aristocracy Is Reducible To Anti-Evolution.
The struggle against aristocracy is reducible, to the struggle against meritocracy, and the struggle against meritocracy is reducible, to the struggle against eugenics, and the struggle against eugenics is reducible, to the struggle against evolution.
Q&A: War and Interventionism
—“Q&A: I am curious to know how war and interventionism would be dealt with within a propertarian polity. Anarchists are obviously dogmatically supportive of “non-interventionism” but do you find this a viable position?”— Great question. We can address the general topic of war on one hand, and the criteria for moral war on the other.…
The Danger of Philosophy
THE DANGER OF PHILOSOPHY I read “Infinity” by Brian Clegg back in the early 00’s, and was struck by his observation that many of those who study it developed psychological problems. Someone said to me last winter, that reading my work had turned humans into zoo animals for mere observation, and decreasing empathy with their…
We’ve Been Focused On The Wrong Institution. We Need the Church
(important piece) Group evolution is not a matter of specialization, of but the addition of layers of competency in increasingly abstract techniques. One cannot abandon the militia for the state. One cannot abandon rule of law for market expansion. One cannot abandon land holding for the commercial universalism.. The milita must exist hold the territory…
Table of Ethical Outcomes
The Intertemporal Division of Moral Perception
THE INTERTEMPORAL DIVISION OF MORAL INTUITIONS REFLECTING THE INTERTEMPORAL DIVISION OF PERCEPTION, LABOR, AND ADVOCACY.
The Great Compromises
All religions, by the act of repetition of metaphysical value judgments, stated as mythic, supernatural, or pseudoscientific analogies, set the terms by which the state may govern, by limiting the laws that may be imposed without the revolt of the people – who claiming a ‘higher authority’ demands that they revolt against these transgressions. This…
Tech Progression
We started with Babbage’s gears, and arithmetic. We moved to switches and numeric codes and formulae. We moved to vacuum tubes and assembly language and programs. We moved to transistors and short code language and operating systems, and hierarchical databases. We moved to chips of transistors and human readable language, and networks, and binary communication,…
Islands and Ghettos
(Important piece) The British on their isle and colonies, and the Jews in their ghettos and borderlands had the same incentives: protected from the east by the Teutons they could embrace the commercial and universal as ultimately decideable good rather than territory and nation as ultimately decideable good, and abandon inter temporality that is necessary…
Words Define, Money Incents, Violence Prevents
—“Words define the problem. Money creates positive incentives to solve the problem. Violence removes parasitic alternatives to solving the problem.”—Con Eli Khan Words can sometimes solve the problem. Money will often solve what words cannot. When money won’t solve the problem, only violence will.
Pender on Suppression of Parasitism
—“Occasions to lie stem from inadequate suppression of the multitude forms of parasitism. Suppress the parasitism, and you suppress the incentive to lie. Suppress lies of action, and you suppress lies of words.”—Steve Pender Absolutely perfect. Each of you seems to specialize in some area or other. Steve Really has got this area down. Once…
Institutional Commons List
As far as I know we classify institutions in this spectrum: Commons (organize to preserve) … Monuments (parks, monuments, spaces) … Roads, airways and waters ….Territory and boundaries … Territorial assets and resources Informal Institutions: ) … Metaphysical value judgements (unconscious) … Norms and habits … Normative Property rights allocations ….Traditions (marriage etc) ….Crafts and…
Project Management In A Nutshell
– Make a list of stuff that needs to get done. – Use that list to make a shorter list of what you can act on today that will get something done, or get the information needed to get it done, or get the information or resources to someone else needed to get something done.…
Expert Opinion May Influence Fact, But Not Contract
Expert opinion may clarify facts, but says not thing about cooperation. Gay marriage is not a matter of fact but a matter of contract. The government forced an involuntary contract (again). My opinion is that 1) constructively, marriage consists of (a) reciprocal power of attorney (b) formation of a corporation into which both parties contribute…
How To Keep Books For Management First Rather Than For Government First.
You cannot get a CPA to keep good books no matter what you do. Best advice is to hire an MBA as your CFO. Then strong director or CPA to work for him. CPA’s worry about compliance first and business second, and MBA’s about information for the business first, and compliance as a sunk cost.…
Differences in Families, Clans, Tribes, Nations, Races
Working theory: PROBLEM Constant regression toward the mean creates the need for persistent pressures to maintain a genetic advantage in the group. Meaning that groups can regress easily at any point through admixture, or shifting of rates of reproduction within the group. VALUE Man can adapt to any circumstance without requiring evolutionary mutation, but due…
Individualism = Statism?
(Profoundly Important Concept) The Westphalian peace was a unique western invention making STATES accountable for their members. Individualism = Statism. States created individualism. Throughout all history groups have been accountable for the actions of their members. Families, clans, tribes, nations. To do otherwise is to force the host population to bear the cost of domesticating…