Weapons of Chaos – and Revolution
WEAPONS OF CHAOS The best weapons in an urban skirmish are mace – to buy you opportunity, hardened and weighted knuckles – to give you extra mass and minimize absorption of shock, a lighter and lighter fluid – to create uncertainty, and area of effect damage, molotovs – artillery at a distance, and a motorcycle…
The Steppe Way of War = Urban Today
The steppe way of war practiced by our earliest ancestors, and practiced by muslims today, is superior to the interregnum method of war, relying upon a concentration of forces. That means: RAIDS. Conduct of many small raids costs little but creates great uncertainty and costs the host thousansd of times as much in defense. In…
Definition: Law
DEFINITION: LAW (‘inescapable’). 1 – Law: a statement of perpetual continuity (determinism), insured by the forces (organizations) of nature or man(polity, or government). 2 – Law (physical): a statement of perpetual continuity (determinism), discovered by a process of testing(prosecuting) an hypothesis against reality, 3 – Law (Natural): a statement of perpetual continuity (reciprocity) insured by…
Intuition Bias, Predjudice
INTUITION, BIAS, PREJUDICE —“Is intuition synonymous with prejudice?”—Skye Stewart We have genetics that cause us to possess intuitions and biases — – both of which are pre-cognitive. A prejudice consists of a pre-judgement, and therefore a judgement we have made by some degree of free association, reason or contemplation. One may develop a prejudice because…
Rational Self Interest
Apr 09, 2017 6:01am RATIONAL SELF INTEREST by John Dow Assuming self-interest is rational, by punishing all non-reciprocating choices via law, acting in group interest becomes rational. I don’t care if you reciprocate by rational self-interest or as a result of high prosociality, as long as you reciprocate. Assuming the maximization of group fitness has…
Definitions: Operational, In Series, and in Equilibrium.
DEFINITIONS, OPERATIONAL, IN SERIES, AND IN EQUILIBRIUM Definitions are very powerful, operational definitions much more so, and operational definitions in series are even more so, and the comparison of series in equilibrium even more so. With definitions in series alone, comprehension increases dramatically. It is equivalent to the difference between the descriptive power of arithmetic…
Thought At Post Human Scale
THE BASICS OF THOUGHT AT POST-HUMAN SCALE Ideal types, and idealism (which I criticize almost as frequently as fictionalism), are products of the problems at human scale: antiquity and pre-modernity. We can see the enlightenment as an attempt to successfully transition from measurements at human scale, within the realm of human perception, to the measurements…
Sources of Ignorance
SOURCES OF IGNORANCE I talk of Agency of late in no small part because like Popper, I grasp that there are not only sources of knowledge, but sources of IGNORANCE. Sources of Ignorance = Barriers to Agency. The most obvious of which we face today are: (a) The failure of the 20th century thinkers to…
Some Quotes
Explaining the Church of TED to a college student: “It’s Oprah for the over-educated classes”. —“Women are hypergamous… Government is the biggest resource and thus the handsomest.”—Anne Tripp —“Any pretense of humanity having diverged from its most reliable and durable political system (monarchy) is just another load of bullshit virtue signaling. Our kings elect…
The Functions of a Philosopher
THE FUNCTIONS OF A PHILOSOPHER SCIENCE (Existence) (Sources of facts, theories, and laws) Science(investigation) = Beginning with man, his senses, perceptions, reasoning, memory, and physical abilities as the first unit of measure, the search for greater precision in measurement, understanding and therefore greater agency by the incremental removal of ignorance, error, bias, and deceit, using…
Emotions and Their Influence on Biases and Agency
Apr 09, 2017 5:06pm EMOTIONS AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON BIASES AND AGENCY 1 – Emotions reflect changes in the states of property-in-toto. 2 – We use reason (a skill we can improve through practice in deflationary comparisons ) to compare properties, relations, consequences, and valuations. 3 – We use free association to define properties, relations,…
Agency and Aesthetics
Apr 09, 2017 5:37pm AGENCY AND AESTHETICS —“Enlighten the intellect, volition will follow. Aesthetics seem to be the means of aligning one’s passions and emotions to reason.”—Rafael LaVerde Let me expand on that a bit: Remove sources of lack of fitness, lack of character (virtue), lack of resources, sources of normative and institutional resistance, sources…
Differences: Epistemology and Human Reason
EPISTEMOLOGY AND HUMAN REASON –“the question for me is what role does epistemology play in the desire for cooperation over reason?”—- To frame this question a bit better: Epistemology refers to that discipline in which we attempt to understand the means by which we eliminate ignorance, error, bias and deceit, and therefore produce what we…
Why Did We Lose North Africa?
Why did we lose North Africa? North Africa (Carthage) Colonized by Phoenicians, who, as I understand it, (maybe) were South-Caucasian (South East Black Sea) > Iranian > Semitic > ~Bahrain? Yemen? (jews/yemeni origin?) In other words, they were cousins of then-North africans (theselves of the Iranian distribution) Carthage, like Sicily, and Crete before it, was…
Terms: Reduction vs Deflation
Q&A: “CURT, WHY DONT YOU USE THE TERM REDUCTION?” —“I am surprised I haven’t heard you mention or talk about reduction in any of your work. Because when I think of Propertarianism ( and I use this to refer to all of your work) I see how you have reduced complex ideas into smaller statements…
The Sci Fi Take on Propertarianism: A Reformation of Sci Fi and AI.
Apr 10, 2017 8:48am THE SCI-FI TAKE ON PROPERTARIANISM: A REFORMATION OF SCI-FI? —“If we were able to produce neural networks that were built using the frame and parameters of propertarianism (natural law) to filter information, merged with humans, this, in all of it’s glorified science fiction, could produce meta-agency. Basically having a self-learning program…
Points of Demarcation – Analog and Sets.
Apr 10, 2017 9:50am (very advanced stuff) —“The former are concerned with impossibility, whilst the latter are concerned with impermissibility”— 1) Are they possible? In other words, are you creating a point of demarcation (the error of sets and digital/binary thinking) rather than continuous/analog causes and effect? (yes) 2) physical reality provides decidability (possibility), but…
Natural Law Was Hard Work
People have no idea how hard it was to solve this series of philosophical problems. Today I can look back, especially back to 2009-2010, and in retrospect see the progress as remarkable. And my confidence in my ability to communicate these ideas, and debate them, at least with other philosophers (not teachers of philosophy, but…
Islamist Social Order vs European Social Order (important)
ISLAMICIST SOCIAL ORDER VS EUROPEAN SOCIAL ORDER Isis(Islamism) seeks to controls mind, word, deed, regardless of property allocation, and they favor (try to enforce) a libertarian-theological-judicial social order over centralized state. In other words, they want to preserve ‘headman’ of the tribe status for as many ‘headmen’ as possible, right down to the father of…
Um. Ukrainian Nazis? Please Don’t Signal Your Virtues Around Serious People.
Apr 10, 2017 11:11am UKRAINIAN NAZIS? OMFG. ACTUALLY COMPARE THE BRITS TO THE NAZIS AND WHO WAS WORSE FOR OUR CIVILIZATION? —“I heard there were Nazi Sympathizers in the Ukrainian military. Is that true?”— omg. Listen. what kind of privilege do you have to live under to virtue signal on that scale? You’d have to…
John Derbyshire And The Riddle of the Anglos
THE ANGLO SELF ANALYSIS – THE RIDDLE OF TRUTH. —“I’m torn between thinking its a shame that we’re so stubborn that we require a way to prove we were right all along rather than just accepting it based on favorability of outcomes, and thinking it’s awe-inspiring that we are so dedicated to truth that we…
Love.
You think I’m passionate about the different regions of the USA? About Ukraine? About Poland? About every secessionist movement? About the people of Nigeria and Ghana? That’s just because it’s what I know well enough to argue about. LOOK: Nation, tribe, clan, family <-> father, Headman, Nobleman, Monarchy Only the west could develop rule without…
The Poor Want To Survive, The Privileged Talk Politics
THE POOR WANT TO SURVIVE. THE PRIVILEGE TALK POLITICS. –“Are the People of the Donbas Communist Sympathisers?”— Again, a privileged bit of silliness. The people in the donbas are fucking dirt poor and it sucks like hell, and the technological revolution that is floating ukraine in the other cities is not there. Right now it…
Pursuit of Happiness In Social Orders
HAPPINESS IN SOCIAL ORDERS Humans in general, are generally happy if they are working to produce gains, not to forestall losses. It does not take a great deal of income to do that. Most of what we spend is on status signaling to ourselves and others. Food, clothing, shelter, heat, water, electricity, appliances, air conditioning,…
Trump Messages: Feed The Base
#Trump REPEAT: We have, for the first time, the grassroots organization of media equal to that of the left. USE IT. USE THE BASE. #Trump Drudge/Breitbart/media must rely upon MEMES and headlines. THE NEW RIGHT ARGUES, PROMOTES and ridicules. FEED THE BASE. #Trump The activist NEW right is highly organized. As much as were the…