Computational Linguistics: What Distinguishes Subjective (held In The Mind) From Objective (testable)?
I’ll try to answer this question as correctly and completely as I can. Subjectivity refers to any change in state that is reducible to a difference in state that we can experience directly with our senses and faculties if we possess necessary experience. Subjectively experienced: – yes, I like vanilla more than chocolate. (demonstrable, not…
Should Propertarians Be Considered Libertarians? Why Or Why Not?
”Propertarian” was originally used in a derogatory sense to refer to the those people for whom all questions of social decidability were reduced to questions of property. Over time this has evolved into an accurate description of the libertarians of various stripes. Today we have a branch of political theory (to which I’m one of…
Why Do Some Caucasian Men Prefer Asian Women?
THE CORRECT ANSWER While descending from two widely separated waves “generations” that moved out of Africa, Whites have succeeded in significant juvenilization. Asians have succeeded in far greater juvenilization. Asian women are the most juvenilized women on earth. To the point at which they have even gained extended lifespans by delaying the depth of and…
Do You Feel A Sense Of Relief When You Know You Are Going To Die Soon?
I’ve been there. Three times. And no. You don’t feel a sense of relief. You do however develop a distinct clarity regarding what is important to you and what not. And you want to do those things and nothing else. When you survive it, you think, very differently about the world, and have far fewer…
Dear Lurkers and Newbies
DEAR LURKERS AND NEWBS I’m really generous with my time. I don’t even care how stupid the question is as long as it’s framed as an honest question. If I don’t answer it one of the other guys will. But you shouldn’t be afraid of asking. Every time we answer a question, we get better…
“Are You Acting in Good Faith?”
FIRST TO GET THIS OFF THE TABLE —“I wish I could assume that you are acting in good faith”— Well I will tell you how I DO NOT act in good faith: I dont have a classroom to experiment on students. I don’t have a research budget, and I don’t have graduate students (indentured labor)…
Yes, We Can Restore Western Civilization, and Easily
YES WE CAN RESTORE WESTERN CIVILIZATION – EASILY —“It appears that a golden bullet would be to reduce the value of [false] advertising, and this ineffectiveness would lead to the media industry being starved of revenue. Any suggestions on how this could be achieved?”—- Julian le Roux GREAT QUESTION!!!! YES! EASILY: (a) require testimonial truth…
Direct Economic (Empirical) Democracy
DIRECT ECONOMIC (EMPIRICAL) DEMOCRACY When we say democracy we could be referring to the use of votes for very different purposes. We could be using them to select representatives. We could be using them to choose preferred commons. We could be using them to select preferred behavior. We could be using them to punish impermissible behavior.…
The Reporter’s Primary Trick
REPORTER’S PRIMARY TRICK Force someone to reduce a complex set of ideas to a sound bite, then develop a straw man criticism of the sound bit that will attract attention by violating the moral intuitions of as many people as possible. Remember, the press is always lying. They are all the product of the Culture…
Yes, Fascism is an Exceptional Extension of Total War
YES FASCISM IS AN EXCEPTIONAL TOOL OF WAR (read this or remain stupid) —“Curt, would you still say fascism possesses a useful albeit temporary function?”—Robert Harris Scott Hayes Fascism has an EXCEPTIONAL short term function. It is a means of marshaling every resource in a nation for war on all fronts: military, trade, economic, financial,…
I Am Not A Populist. Truth and Preference are Independent from one another
I AM NOT A POPULIST I don’t place any weight in ‘popular’ anything. I am not a supporter of democracy whatsoever, unless we mean empirical (economic) democracy. Opinion without warranty (skin in the game) is just self reporting of virtue signals, not demonstrated preference – which always differs substantially. I only care if…
Western Civilization Made Whole
WESTERN CIVILIZATION MADE WHOLE The Cult of Non-Submission The Philosophy of Aristocracy The Natural Law of Sovereign Men Consisting of: …. Acquisitionary Psychology …. …. Testimonial Truth and Epistemology, …. …. …. Propertarian Ethics and Sociology …. …. …. …. The Politics of Markets In Everything, and …. …. …. …. …. The Aesthetics of…
Dear Miseducated World: Logic is at Least Ternary – not Binary
DEAR MISEDUCATED WORLD: Logic is at least ternary, not binary. (Meaning three states, not two) …………… FALSE…….TRUE……..UNDECIDABLE FALSE…..FALSE…….FALSE……UNDECIDABLE TRUE……FALES…….TRUE……..UNDECIDABLE UNDEC…FALSE…….UNDEC…..UNDECIDABLE MATHEMATICS In mathematics, which for millennia was unfortunately the gold standard of logic, we use the word true when we mean either “balanced” (retaining constant relations), or we mean “proven” (possible to demonstrate), because in…
Natural Law, and the Grammar of Operational Language
NATURAL LAW AND THE GRAMMAR OF OPERATIONALISM (propertarianism core)(important) Operationalism like any legal language, or programming language, is grammatically burdensome. It requires you to take your sentence structure to the next level of abstraction and exit the passive voice entirely, as well as all use of the verb to-be. So, as a language, it requires…
Status of “The Book”: Natural Law
ON THE ‘BOOK’ OR BOOKS OF NATURAL LAW (PROPERTARIANISM) Anne (All), You know, I can actually write a short book, “The Law of Nature”, with help from a few others in this group of ours. Although I still need a little help from the “Occultists” etc to color it a bit. Even a few months…
Not Since Slavery…. The White Middle And Working Classes Enslaved
Not since slavery have we seen people work so hard to justify the taking of the productivity of others – (rough quote of thomas sowell)
The Middle and Working Classes Are The Targets of Predation
THE MIDDLE CLASS IS THE TARGET OF PREDATION ****”I see my chief concern from simply living in a world full of relative upper class scoundrels, educated imbeciles and underclass zombies, and a middle and working class that appears to consist of the only moral people extant in western society – and they are the ones…
The Error Of The Ancients: War is Fine But Economics Beneath Them
THE ERROR OF THE ANCIENTS: TALKING BIZ WAS “OH, SO, BOURGEOISE” Aside from the conquest of the west by byzantine mysticism, the central problem of western philosophy was thinking and ruling classes avoidance of the centrality of economics. We get philosophy to circumvent the traditional law. And we get science to circumvent the traditional church.…
How do you approach learning logic, as a ternary “science”?
–“Hi, Curt! Reading your latest piece on Facebook starting as “DEAR MISEDUCATED WORLD”. Interesting piece. I wanted to learn math on my own to accompany my job in life sciences, but was always taken away from the simplistic nature of perspective. I wonder, how do you approach learning logic, the ternary “science” as you suggest?…
Where does a Newbie Start?
—” If I were a total newb what book/books should I start with?”—Ziggy Propertarianism (Natural Law) is a painfully precise language for the amoral comparison between the various categories, values, methods of ‘knowing’, methods of communicating, and means of decidability social orders, as well as making inferior superior, moral and immoral, and true and false…
Aristocracy as Agency: and The Vertical And Horizontal Class Structures
ARISTOCRACY AS AGENCY, AND THE VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL CLASS STRUCTURES. Eli Harman makes a very important point, that I should, and we all should consider, when we refer to western man: that when constructing a class of Western man that we call ‘aristocracy’, which is a ‘class’ regardless of social and economic class, are we…
The Definition and Use of ‘-ISMs’
IMPORTANT OPERATIONAL DEFINITION: “ISM” What do we mean when we use “-ism’s”? ism ?iz?m/ noun informal “a distinctive practice, system, or philosophy, that provides categories, values, epistemological methods, and means of decidability in a domain of preferences: typically a political ideology, philosophy, institutional framework, economic model, or an artistic movement. isms separate the categories that…
The Spectrum of Agency
MUST-READ: ON SPECTRUM OF AGENCY DEMONSTRATED BY USE OF TESTIMONY BY BILL JOSLIN —-“Thoughts that might be worth exploring -> Qualification to acquire membership in a class based on demonstrated agency affords commensurability in assessing worthiness. Demonstrate the degree one lives by their own agency dictates which class they belong (vertically) regardless of horizontal class…
The Curse of Puritanism
THE CURSE OF PURITANISM The french and catholic side of my family, which is fairly large, seems to have done fairly well leading upper working and lower middle class lives, with a sprinkling of professionals across the full spectrum. I wasn’t thrilled around them as a kid because the culture gap between my (unconscious) aristocratic…
The Final Word on Rand and Objectivism
Q&A: WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON RAND AND OBJECTIVISM, AND HOW DOES SHE COMPARE TO PROPERTARIANISM (final word on the matter so to speak) —“Dear Doolittle: What are your thoughts on Ayn Rand and objectivism. What are the similarities between objectivism and propertarianism? What are the differences?Forgive me if you’ve already covered this, I’ve only…