Month: September 2017

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    Interesting question. Good answers. Let’s look at how we can ask this question. ;) Technical Innovation <-> Practical Utility <——> Popular Influence Successful Technical Hard to argue that the Russel-Frege-Kripke chain didn’t provide answers but it’s also hard to argue that they weren’t wasting their time. Because Babbage-Cantor-Goedel-Turing produced superior methods and…

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    Curt Doolittle’s answer: Interesting question. Good answers. Let’s look at how we can ask this question. 😉 [code ]Technical Innovation <-> Practical Utility <——> Popular Influence[/code] Successful Technical Hard to argue that the Russel-Frege-Kripke chain didn’t provide answers but it’s …

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    Curt Doolittle’s answer: 80% of people are in the bottom 80% of people.

  • How Long Will It Take For China To Be Economically Superior To America?

    In gdp? Or in per capita gdp? Per capita? NEVER. https://www.quora.com/How-long-will-it-take-for-China-to-be-economically-superior-to-America

  • What Are The Hard Truths That People Don’t Like To Admit About Themselves?

    80% of people are in the bottom 80% of people. <20% of people organize the bottom 80%. <1% of people organize the remaining top 20%. <.1% of people are ‘important’ to organizing the top 1%. People are not intrinsically valuable, because labor is not intrinsically valuable. We are compensated by others for our ability to…

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    —“There will be no “reset” after post-80s busts, as the booms were all financially engineered by banks: they amounted to net transfers of wealth to financial institutions and the underlying rich. The development of the mass internet is an exception: but ultimately — in the complete vacuum of national policy dealing with its externalities —…

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    Apple’s non-event.

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    —“There’s a deeper thread here. Possibly all these premia (American Windfalls) would not have been so wasted if a genuine socio-political transformation had occurred, and not just various technological ones. It’s one reason the left is so pathetic, because they’re anachronistic — clamoring for social change as if the surplus of the 60s still existed.”—…

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    Everyone assumes that changing one variable or another will lead to equality but equilibration rules and it’s simply turning out that we have made a world excellent for women to work in and that we must find something else interesting to do – like conquer and rule. 😉

  • Ergo, The Market Is No Longer In Our Interest And We Should Return To Rule As Our Means Of Profit?

    —“Put (too) simply the only men who are good enough to get into university are men who are good at STEM. Women are good enough to get into non-STEM and STEM fields. Thus, among university students, women dominate in the non-STEM fields and men survive in the STEM fields. (The former is mathematically certain while…

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    This annoys the hell out of me. What they mean is, that the windfall to the world of the end of communism; the windfall to the world of automating clerical work by computers; the windfall to the world by the development of the internet; gave us insane rewards from the late 80’s to the 2001…

  • We Are Finally Recovering From 2008

    America’s middle class had its highest-earning year ever in 2016, the U.S. Census Bureau reported Tuesday. Median household income in America was $59,039 last year, surpassing the previous high of $58,655 set in 1999, the Census Bureau said. The figure is adjusted for inflation and is one of the most closely watched…

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    —“Curt: What’s a Forgone Opportunity Cost?”— Good question. An opportunity cost refers to the difference in cost between alternative choices. A forgone opportunity cost is a form of opportunity cost wherein you bear a cost of *restraint* (not seizing an opportunity) in order to pay for something else. Most notably the…

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    Libertarianism (via negativa) = Elimination of rivalry by test of demonstrated interest in a rivalrous opportunity; where interest is demonstrated by the bearing of costs of homesteading (origination), Conversion(Transformation), Exchange(Reciprocity), or Forgone Opportunity; and where we warranty our own non-retaliation against restitution or retaliation by individual, group, insurer, or institution against violators of that rule…

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    Junk Science at its best. Either we have three or four emotional ‘reward’ systems, we can describe Pluchik’s eight dimensions (which is a projection of four). Then we have five or six personality factors that bias them (certain, because they correspond to physical reward systems). And if we assume that in general, humans can distinguish…

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    I make marks, combine collage with paint and charcoal, make prints and art journals and write to delve deeper into the unconscious. See more at www.christopherstaplesartist.com to join me in one of my workshops posted on my website.

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  • The Church’s Murder Of Scientists

    Lezinsky studied philosophy for eight years as a Jesuit, and then became a judge in legal cases against the Jesuits concerning estates. He wrote a treatise entitled “The non-existence of God” and was later executed on charges of atheism. His trial has been criticized and is seen as a case of legalized religious…

  • Definition: Culture

    The set of Methods of Decidability Within a Formal or Informal Polity that provide a group with a competitive group evolutionary strategy. – Manners and Dress; – Roles, Status Hierarchies, and Signals – Cuisine, Norms and Traditions; – Formal Institutions, Processes, Property Rights – Myths, Legends, and Histories, – Rituals,…

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    Jared Diamond’s thesis, in Guns, Germs, and Steel, is that regional differences in civilizational achievement are entirely caused by biogeographical factors, while regional differences in abi…

  • Defining Existence Versus Experience

    Existence = Persistence Experience = Non-Persistence 1) We must construct experiences in real time from a combination of brain structure (Vitruvianism), Memory(prior Perception and Association), and Perception(senses), and Association (the measure of which we have no means yet other than IQ to determine). 2) Existence persists independent of experience. 3) Some patterns (categories, relations,…

  • How Real Are You?

    Can you even speak without idealism, mysticism and conflation? You probably don’t know the extent of your infection by the language of deception. Why? Speaking existentially removes the illusion of ad therefore pretense of, knowledge. There isn’t a big difference between “feels” and “ideals”. The difference is between reals and *everything else*…

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    Nein mehr Merkel: Für Deutschland, Für Europa, Für die westliche Zivilisation #Conservative #Libertarian #newright #Deutschland

  • A Civil Society: Gestures

    No, I don’t find you attractive or interesting or even want to have a conversation. I’m just CIVIL person who was RAISED WELL, with the undrestanding that casual recognition, a smile, and “hello” in passing is the civic equivalent of a handshake – the entire purpose of which is to demonstrate goodwill and remove uncertainty,…

  • The Construction Of A Civil Order

    by John Dow I would define a ‘Civil Order’ as the result of successfully negotiated, reciprocal social construction. In order to successfully negotiate a condition of interpersonal reciprocity we must have incentive to: 1) reciprocally participate (suppression of parasitism), 2) trust that exchange shall be honoured (insurance) and; 3) commensurable means of reference and calculation…