Month: April 2018

  If you conduct your research with the scientific method, then you will simply attempt to falsify everything until no matter what you do you start producing increasingly similar answers. When you cannot find a way to come to a dissimilar answer then you have either converged on the truth, or some approximation of it…

The principle success in the physical sciences is the publication of many findings that eventually converge (possibility) or diverge (falsehood). We know we cannot intuit the first principles of the universe – although IMHO we are getting close to returning to ‘ether’ lol. But when in matters of biology, sentience, and cooperation, we cannot STOP…

Our group genetic differences are indifferent at scale as long as our distributions of the classes are indifferent at scale. The problem facing all groups is the size of their underclasses: THEY ARE NEVER SMALL ENOUGH.

Propertarianism doesn’t tell people they’re ‘bad’, only that they’re doing what they must. Propertarianism only tells us that the only solution to conflict is to pay the underclasses to protect markets by limiting or eliminate there reproduction and the profound costs they and their descendents place on others. It’s the cheapest investment with the highest…

(It matters that the underclasses don’t) Rich people are outliers. It’s not that important that rich people reproduce. Although we should laud the great (noble) families that persist in the reproduction of excellence across generations and ask them to serve us by greater reproduction. But wealth tells us very little. Economies are lotteries, and they…

***Languages evolve to suit the ‘computational’ abilities of the demographics that they serve. And they further evolve to to suit the technical, economic, and political complexity that they serve. In most cases, the difference between languages has to do with the demands of their state of development.*** (Worth Repeating)

Yes its good if your people obtained english administration, law, accounting, and language during colonialism. Just don’t buy this democracy stuff (sh-t). No matter what it takes, train a militia (army) by breaking men down and building them up as a team, so that they have as much allegiance to the militia (each other) as…

A preliminary glossary of counteraccusations, to fend of accusatory propaganda such as "racist" in situations where it is not warranted, and similar matters. pic.twitter.com/EU4sDFQbvy — Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) April 16, 2018 TALEB’S “SHODDY TAGGING PRACTICES” (from taleb via Moritz Bierling) The idea is to ?nd simple but effective words to counter accusatory propaganda, without…

FROM THE AUSTRALIAN LEFT WING: (Learn Something) FOR SOCIALISM AND DEMOCRACY April 17th, 2018 by John Quiggin —“As I mentioned a while ago, in the years that I’ve been blogging, I’ve described my political perspective as “social-democratic”. In earlier years, I mostly used “democratic socialist”. My reason for the switch was that, in a market…

( very important piece ) ( propertarianism core ) 1 – Either we are engaged in productive, fully informed(truthful), warrantied (skin in the game), voluntary transfers (exchanges), free of imposition of costs upon the demonstrated investments of others (externalities), or we are not. 2 – Every forced transfer is a lost opportunity for exchange –…

1 – the only rational reason to cooperate is because it is more rewarding than both non-cooperation AND predation. 2 – the only rational terms of cooperation that are more rewarding than non-cooperation and predation are those of reciprocity. 3 – Reciprocity is only possible because of truthful (fully informed), productive, warrantied, voluntary transfer, free…

(important post) (propertarian core) —“So any criticism leveled at another group only serves to illuminate our own failure to perform successfully in intra-group competition.”— Bill Joslin ( CD: Or as I have been saying “The problem is in the mirror.”) by Bill Joslin Group Identity, being a common-property shared by group members, when redefined by…

I’m just staying on message: Understand we are going to enter into conflict. Understand we have offered no solution, just criticism. We will offer a solution then promise conflict. We will opportunistically pursue the three possible lines of conflict. And then concentrate on what ‘works’. And they will fold rather quickly. And if not, we…

We get what we measure. When we start over in economics by measuring the full suite of capital instead of how fast we burn it down, then economics will be a science rather than an excuse by which to substitute consumption for morality in the production of policy. 😉

Also: The problem for sub saharan africa (and for most of the world) is (a) the tradition of stealing on behalf of your family tribe and clan, and (b) the expression of this tradition in *corruption*. The only fix for corruption is not to demand good people (they don’t exist) but to create good judges.…

I think the first difference between my thought and traditional thought, is that i treat us as gene machines first, and our rational and verbal minds as negotiators on behalf of those genes – totally unaware that what we consider good and true are merely instructions from those genes telling us what success conditions are.

(a) as ability declines demand for intuitionistic fictions increases, and conversely as ability increases demand for rationally decidable criteria increases. Meaning those of lesser ability require we appeal to intuitions, and those of greater ability require we appeal to reason. This is because those of lower ability have not been sufficiently domesticated (produced agency) by…

SEMITIC URHEIMAT IS NORTH AFRICA Africa-to-Levant hypothesis Map of Semitic languages and statistically inferred dispersals. One hyptothesized location of the divergence of ancestral Semitic from Afroasiatic between the African coast of the Red Sea and the Near East is also indicated. Christopher Ehret has hypothesized that genetic analyses (specifically those of Y chromosome phylogeography and…

(Newbies) Dominance play is necessary to maintain male interest, just as approval-play is necessary for female interest. Lack of that incentive is the reason for male abandonment of any responsibility for the social order: in order to provide coed education we have eliminated the prevalence of dominance play in education. Example: “Russian speaking girls learn…

Intellectual capital is over. The globalist era is ending. The only competitive advantages any population has are (a) demographic (b) normative and institutional, and (c) territorial. That’s it. We cannot compete with the numbers. We don’t have them. We gave those numbers away. So the only thing we can do is protect our assets (a)…

I have only a few “I wish I had, if I’d known” regrets of life in general. I wish I’d moved to philosophy, and I wish I’d saved my marriage, and I wish I’d been more demanding of the medical profession. But otherwise I’ve accomplished my goals in life – not that there isn’t more…

Everything is easy, and is wit common, in times of regularity. It is those few of us who see the outcome and the great changes that result from those regularities that leave marks on history – not the imbecile who extrapolates trends without warranty then reappears with new pretenses like next season’s fashion designer. There…

Our myths split north of the black sea. The western (eventually odin), and eastern (eventually vedic). Then crossed over (shared) again south of the black sea (greek,anatolian, semitic, persian). But the differences remain the same. Authoritarian semitic, I don’t know how to cast persian except ‘like chinese’ as wisdom literature, the indic/vedic, and then the…

—-”there exists a triangular equivalence in theory of computation between fields. We have philosophy that gives us intuitionistic logic. We have mathematics that gives us category theory. Then in computer science we have type theory”—- The scope of content in those few sentences is priceless. I’m trying to think of how I can deflate it…

Men who seek saviors neither obtain nor deserve them. It’s those who take up arms and remove all need that are saved – by themselves.