Month: January 2018

cities burned, works destroyed, people dead, money earned

by James Santagata Google was / is a one-trick pony, search — but it is a god-damn good fucking pony at that!! It was basically developed by having Michael Moritz trick his earlier investment, Yahoo! to outsource a $100M USD deal to let Google do the search. The NSA…

I dunno. I worked very hard on Rand in the early 90’s and there exist only two known criticisms and I’m not sure that they stand in any meaningful sense. I mean, I can tear apart pretty much anyone, and that includes Rawls and certainly Nozick (and demonstrably marx, keynes, mises, rothbard, rand and hoppe),…

As far as I know, and the research is increasingly conclusive, your political preference is 80% genetic. Just like everything else you think and feel. The blank slate is a lie, and dunning kruger constrains all but the few. https://www.quora.com/Do-you-believe-your-political-views-are-objective-or-subjective

Um. (a) Why do europeans (overwhelmingly) appropriate American culture? (b) Americans pay very little attention to europe other than the UK. And (c) Because while europeans are better cultured, and often better educated, and certainly better disciplined – europeans are also ‘provincial’ from our perspective, and the data bears that out. The french are effeminate…

The thing about competing with FB is that it’s actually not hard. (a) performance. Every other attempt has been slow. FB is just email v2. It’s not complicated. (b) minimum features. Every other attempt has been either too little (I won’t name names), or too pretty (I won’t name names). (c) confusing…

For a long time. Runcible. In honor of Stephenson. A Runcible is a computer that tutors you through storytelling. It’s essentially an adventure game to teach you how to excel. In Neal Stephenson’s 1995 novel The Diamond Age, Runcible is a code name for the Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer, an educational computer. In…

It’s only arrogance if you’re wrong. And unwillingness to invest in education of others is not arrogance. It’s just rational choice. Most accusations of arrogance are acts of fraud – attempting to use guilt rather than reason and evidence to obtain consensus. People can engage in denial, but that’s not arrogance. People can engage in…

(I collect lists of cites and bibliographies.) Gottfredson, L. S. Why g matters: The complexity of everyday life. Intelligence 24, 79–132 (1997). Deary, I. J. et al. Genetic contributions to stability and change in intelligence from childhood to old age. Nature 482, 212–214 (2012). Deary, I. J., Strand, S., Smith, P. &…

by @MartialSociety The Great Intellectual division of The West—Aristotle vs Platonism, Empiricism vs Rationalism, Naturalism vs Idealism—finds its origins in the acquisitional (worldly) conflict between those who posses agency, and consequently produce order & the transcendence of Man from beast… …to gods through the incremental mastery over self, ignorance & nature against…

(You know, it’s very hard to find research on Via-Negativa subjects. Books on Lying and Deceit are laughable. Books on dishonest argument are positioned as the study of error. Works on intellectual fraud (marx, freud, boaz), are positioned as analysis of error rather than deception. Works on stupidity are actively suppressed, and work on intelligence…

—“men make endless informational videos, arguments, and trade false insults and true compliments. Women make selfies, give false compliments, and disapprove, shame, and ridicule anything that implies depreciation of their status, impulses, or emotions.”—

Eric Danelaw It all begins with a militia. That is what separates the west from the rest. Without concentrated production capital (flood river valleys) that ‘industrialized’ production, it was not possible to concentrate sufficient wealth to form armies. Instead, the wealthy (nobility) supplied their own men, steeds, arms and armor, and the militia fought with…

You can’t have a ‘festival’ when there is no ‘us’. The left destroyed the civilization. And they wonder why we aren’t celebrating.

It was interesting to watch the Russian programmers ‘come online’. The russian mind is particularly suited to programming because it is an individual pursuit, just like the german mind is particularly suited to engineering because it is a collective pursuit. Watching the chinese come online as their native mind is transformed by the process…

When you have nothing to sell the unwashed masses, and they have nothing to sell you, the only solution is to revolt and separate. Cooperation requires exchange. When exchange is impossible then cohabitation in a polity is impossible. Because a polity is nothing more than a market for exchange of wants.

(Nassim Nicholas Taleb) To understand why what happens in Hollywood is irrelevant to the rest of humans: a) How many ACTORs do you have among your friends? b) How many ACTOR friends do your friends have? Actors rarely mix with real people. 2) Romans banned actors from marrying, even mixing…

—“Hollywood used to be the main propaganda machine of American lifestyle and values around the world. Perhaps America needs to reclaim Hollywood.”—

On external correspondence. You can justify anything. that’s why we have numerology, astrology, monotheistic religions, marxism, keynesian ‘cherry picking’ economics, libertarian ethics, and the whole corpus of postmodernism. All the logics do not allow you to prove anything. But they do allow you to use strict grammars to FALSIFY arguments. And praxeology does…

The only time it isn’t about money is when you’re trying to steal time, effort, money, property, status, opportunity, and political power.

Yes I must create new terms, redefine existing terms, or clarify existing terms, or use different phrasing to prevent the falsehoods in accumulated semantics, whether fictional(fictionalisms), common(ordinary), professional (disciplinary). Moreover, in order to unite Religion, Philosophy (what remains of it), Ethics and Morality, Law, Economics, Science, and Logic, into a single commensurable language…

Reciprocity is the only rational, ethical, moral, and evolutionarily possible, means of cooperation over the long term. Or put more honestly, it is the only means by which cooperation is preferable to predation, parasitism, enslavement. Where reciprocity refers to productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary exchange, free of imposition of costs upon the investments of…

Acquisitionism: All humans seek to acquire ‘experiences’ and those experiences consist entirely of reactions to the acquisition of opportunities for calories, discounts on calories, or calories. (Really). When composing a sentence in operational grammar, express not emotions (which are not causal but reactions) and instead, the change in state of calories (assets, property, consumption)…

Operational language in full sentences. All logics consists of some deflationary grammar that limits the structure of phrases, sentences, descriptions, and arguments, as well as the semantics (range of references you can use) to that which is empirical (observable). First, prohibit the use of the verb to-be in all forms. The verb to-be allows…

For every reference you use, express it as a position in a spectrum of at least three different states all of which share the same measurement (constant relation). The reason most things seem clearer or more insightful is that I use series’ of operational definitions to limit (as do all grammars) and emphasize, the…