Year: 2017

Joell Davis Our sacred rights as Englishmen descend from (the quasi-myth of) the Magna Carta, a contract between the Sovereign and his people, a promise to respect and protect their life, liberty and property in return for their loyalty and service. Anglo militias have time and again staged rebellions against sovereigns who…

(from elsewhere)(unrelated) Axe……..(Chop w/ Face) ….| ….|…….(many variations) ….| Knife……(Cut w/ Edge) —–> Cutting Sword –> Cutlass ….| ….|……. (many variations) ….| Dagger..(Stab w/ Point) —-> Stabbing Sword -> Rapier ….| ….| ….| Spear…..(point)

by Eli Harman You earn the protection of the rules by submitting to and abiding by the rules. Optionally: by helping to enforce the rules. I don’t think this last part is optional, although your help can be indirect (pay your taxes) rather than direct (militia service.) Libertarians who say the rules…

Look. My work is reducible to a single thing: I completed the scientific method such that we can test statements and arguments in every field by a single grammatical system. The rest of it is just the application of the completion of that method to the entire spectrum of human knowledge, from metaphysics through aesthetics.

I don’t read philosophers – they’re nonsense-peddlers: secular priesthood. I read scientists. The principal purpose of reading philosophy is that once you’ve mastered the basics of the the major logics and sciences, you may want to know ‘how to do it wrong’ -so you can avoid it. Because that’s what philosophy means: how to do…

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. Arguing to preference, belief or principle is just an admission of ignorance and incompetence – meaning one should not impose the costs of incompetence and ignorance upon others and…

“At the Border of Truth: Photographing the New East “ Sasha Rudensky, Assistant Professor of Art Tuesday, September 26, 2017, 5:00 pm Ring Family Performing Arts Hall, Center for the Arts Wesleyan University Aside from three or four shots that showed insight into stereotypical russian working class archetypes – which I found insulting…

Americans are now just a different kind of barbarian. Uncultured, ignorant, utopian, and able to cause damage by just about every means OTHER than violence. Strange, isn’t it? That infantilization can produce the same damage as violent radicalization?

Abortion, like all violence, is neither intrinsically good nor intrinsically bad, but helpful or harmful. It is helpful or harmful to the individuals, or helpful or harmful to the polity, or helpful or harmful to mankind. In other words, abortion in the upper 20% is harmful to society and to man,…

Is it just me or are american college kids incredibly immature compared to their eastern european counterparts?

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…

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 …

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

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

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…

—“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 —…

Apple’s non-event.

—“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.”—…

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. 😉

—“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…

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…

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…

—“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…

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…

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…