Year: 2017

Funny that it’s so obvious but that its so unintuitive: That Falsehood is epistemically superior to Truth. We spend all our time worrying about what’s true (cause it’s cheap) when the question is whether anything is false (which is expensive.)

—“Incentives are not always easy to identify”— I dunno. I can almost always identify them. At worst, it’s pretty easy to create a range of possibilities. It takes practice. But we all want to acquire the same things. And we all start from pretty obviously different positions. I hate conflict but…

—“North Korea practices what’s known as destruction of three generations, which is that if you are caught organizing against the regime then not only are you punished, but also your children are punished, and your grandchildren are punished. And that has a very powerful effect on preventing any kind of alternative government from gathering force.…

( Hey, I can’t accept friend requests from empty socks. No way to judge them. I do actually review every request and follow. )

Your plan is one of conquest and defense, and if you are successful enough to propagandize then your plan of maneuver, conquest, defense, and exit was successful. There are no discounts in war that do not cause loss of capability of soldiers, other than defeating your enemy completely by use of concentration of…

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Cooperation, whether personal, commercial, political, or military, is only valuable until it is not valuable personally, familially, tribally, or nationally, or not valuable organizationally or politically. Cooperation is not an intrinsic good any more than violence is an intrinsic bad. They are just useful or not in producing goods and bands. …

Assuming: Your credit card balance is the average 8000 @16% @minimum payment(400), Your first car costs 30,000(550), and Your second car costs 20,000(370/M), and Your home 350,000(1,400/M), That means you pay 400 + 550 + 370 + 1400 per month in debt load, or $2,720 in debt fees. …

Thank you, Curt ¡¡

Studies have shown that some musical pieces may preferentially activate reward centers in the brain. Less is known, however, about the structural aspects of music that are associated with this activation. Based on the music cognition literature, we propose …

—“Complete amnesty. Open borders. $50 minimum wage. Universal Basic Income. Free healthcare for all. Hate speech laws. 90% tax rates. Let’s do this!”—John Derbyshire There are 323 Million People Less than 150M are Taxpayers. Total Economy is 18.5 Trillion Total Tax Collection is 6.5 Trillion (35% of the total economy) Total Tax…

by Jason Welty The cult of empire extends all the way back to the founding of the nation. As far as I’m aware the US is unique in that it’s the only nation to establish itself as an empire from its founding. Immediately one must develop a characteristic common to irrational beliefs, cognitive…

America is now a cult with an army not a country.

I have no problem b–ch slapping idiots who socialize on the phone in public places; and I understand the importance of taking business calls even when it’s inconvenient. And yes, not only have I been unintentionally loud in restaurants, and yes, at least in the past, I’ve been overloaded, distracted, or clueless enough to be…

RE: (from previous post) “One does not argue from preferences, beliefs or principles but from truth or falsehood, possibility or impossibility, gain or loss, volition or non-volition, reciprocity or non-reciprocity.” —“Are my questions or experience less important because your education level and living standards are better than mine? Does that make me a lesser…

One’s experience is just a matter of ignorance vs knowledge. The truth or falsehood, possibility or impossibility, gain or loss, volition or non-volition(of others) are all decidable whether you’re ignorant or knowledgeable. Using “principle, belief, or preference” is merely evidence of ignorance, and therefore irrelevance.

If emotional experiences are a problem – an impediment to excellence, competition, transcendence, – then it is an easy problem to solve: the dead don’t feel, now do they? ;) ( Emotions are not a test of anything. )

We had the Best System of Government (Perfect Government) and we blew it: 1) Nomocracy (Rule of Law by Natural Law of Torts: Reciprocity) 2) A Hereditary Monarchy as Judge of Last Resort, and custodian of territory, institutions, organizations, families, and individuals. …. A State(Foreign Relations) Organization, …. A Professional Military, …

—“Pushing the truth agenda discards the social one – even if it means the social isolation of the source of that truth: the truth-speaker. For the autistic male, this is no dilemma. We keep the crazies outside, sanity and peace inside.”— William L. Benge

by Daniel Gurpide The more I follow Curt’s posts, the more I realize German philosophy is not that ‘great’. The Greats of German philosophy (Kant-Fichte-Hegel-Marx-Heidegger, I’m leaving Nietzsche outside on purpose, I know) make up a Counter-Enlightenment tradition that ends up being suspicious of science and technology, anti-individualistic and anti-liberal. They…

Experiences = Feels Sets(Words) = Ideals. Operations = Reals.

by John Dow I think it’s more accurate to say that you’re an operational epistemologist, and you consider pretty much all divergent epistemological techniques to have failed to achieve functional coherence to the degree of operationalism – and therefore you define ‘science’ as applied operational epistemology. (genius. i wish i’d said that)

In other words, there are only two genders, sexual attraction can vary due to in utero disorders, and gender identity (sympathy) can vary due to developmental or mental disorders. Our brains begin with tendencies but our experiences can train them to our benefit or detriment. De-Socialization is the primary cause of mental illness, and socialization…

by John Dow Men threaten civic order primarily with predatory violence. Women threaten civic order primarily with parasitic demands. In both cases, they fail/refuse to negotiate interpersonal reciprocity, thereby reducing the net incentives of the people affected by their behaviour to interpersonally negotiate in good faith – threatening the stability of civic order.

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