More on The Esoteric, Occult, and Literary and A Request that Men Face Their Lack of Agency as Individuals
How do I make clear that one does not argue with the fulfilling (wisdom lit) but with the truth (science)? Well that’s what I try to do. I have had to continuously counter-signal attacks against my work for not providing a lower agency, more accessible version of the natural law. THERE ISN”T ONE. Man can…
The Rate of IQ Decline Is Terrifying
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/dumb-and-dumber-why-we-re-getting-less-intelligent-80k3bl83v
The Goal of Reading Fiction Is Analysis Itself
THE GOAL OF READING FICTION IS ANALYSIS ITSELF Benjamin Franklin If a person’s goal in reading narrative fiction is only to come to an understanding of the truth, then that is indeed childlike. In my view, the goal is not to come to an understanding of the ideas, but the goal is the analysis itself.…
More Method To The Madness
—“When you intersperse, or do intermissions from the hard core Propertarian stuff and add tips/topics on life, love, money, programming/tech and business especially, it psychologically shows others (not our guys, but the general public), “Shit, this guy is not a failed austrian immigrant painter living in a flophouse”, but very well studied and successful.…
The Rational Veneer of Literary Philosophy
The problem with those who favor literary thought is that they mistake the suspension of disbelief necessary to empathize, sympathize, and comprehend an author’s work, with the truth, goodness, and possibility of it. They rationally justify the quality and desirability of whatever arguments, no matter how sophomoric, but they are only making excuses for the…
The Needs of The Weak, the Will of The Strong
Moritz brings up yet again that many young men want a new religion. And their criteria for a philosophy, is simply an inspirational theology. And I’m fully aware of this criticism. Propertarianism is structured as a philosophy out of utility – the utility of falsifying rationalist philosophy. But what I’m writing is LAW. Uniting science…
Dugin’s Book Says:
DUGIN’S BOOK SAYS: The book declares that “the battle for the world rule of [ethnic] Russians” has not ended and Russia remains “the staging area of a new anti-bourgeois, anti-American revolution”. The Eurasian Empire will be constructed “on the fundamental principle of the common enemy: the rejection of Atlanticism, strategic control of the USA, and…
A Universally Verifiable Truth?
—“Curt do you believe in the notion of a universally verifiable truth?”—Mark Joyner (FWIW apparently this post was interpreted by mark as offensive. I didn’t mean it to be.) Um. You probably can’t comprehend how …. sophomoric that question is, because it’s so common a sophomoric question that like belief in flying donkeys it’s a…
Truth is an adjective not a noun.
By Bill Joslin Truth is an adjective not a noun. The subtle difference between truth as semantic axioms and truth as an asymptotic correspondence resolves the above. The ability to test a statement against a criteria (correspondence, coherence , utility, meaning or any combination thereof) makes “true” possible (the only time “true” us relevant) –…
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“THE GRID” axiomatic,….theoretic,…….and analogistic. deductive…..inductive, ……and abductive. proof, …….truth, ……….and meaningful. ideal,……..real,…………and imaginary. consistent….correspondent,…and coherent
Language Regulation Corresponds to All Other Regulation: Fear of Corruption and Fraud Drives Regulation.
James Santagata just shared an excellent paper, which illustrates the relationship between common law and continental law, language regulation, and economic regulation. Well, the conclusions should be pretty obvious (prior restraint vs post resolution) and that all countries pay a trade off between the utility of some regulation to prevent frauds of all sorts, lots…
Humor
(humor) Q: What’s the difference between Derrida and his critics? A: Derrida says there is nothing outside the text. His critics say there is nothing inside his texts either. Q: What’s the difference between Heidegger and Carnap? A: Heidegger believed that his writings contain thoughts about Nothing, whereas Carnap believed that they contain thoughts about…
A Little Deeper Understanding of The Ludic Fallacy and Why I Rarely Use Any Variation on “probable”.
The Ludic Fallacy consists in the error that probability can be calculated on unclosed systems, whereas outliers are of greater influence on consequences that change state than are regularities that maintain state. In other words, there are very few conditions under which dice are a model for probability, and the ratio of influence (change) is…
The Process of Cognitive Development
|Cognition| Analogistic > Theoretical > Axiomatic > Operational by Bill Joslin So the process of cognitive development and concept creation would follow this spectrum. 1) Analogistic : abductive, fictional, imaginary, free association, imaginable – hypothesis creation. 2) Theoretical – inductive, narrative, possible, hypothesis development 3) Axiomatic – deductive, descriptive, deterministic, testable, probable, provable law proposal…
Any Sufficiently Complex Theory Will Be Indistinguishable from Magic
—“Most people won’t understand the basis for [the Propertarian] legal theory, and it will need explanation in mythological terms. To the people who require this form of explanation it will essentially be a religion.”– Eric Orwoll You know, sometimes you just need someone to reframe it for you. Thanks Eric. That’s smart. You could ahve…
Abrahamism: The Religions of The Enemy.
by Alex Macleod –“You cannot have an enemy be the core of your culture.”– To put it very simplistically isn’t that what Judaism (goyim), Mohamedism (unbelievers) and Christianity (the devil) have? (Curt: Exactly. The abrahamic religions are the semitic pastoralist revolt against the agrarian metal workers. Thus explains the invention of organized religion as a…
Markets Serve the Demands of Complexity
by Jim Leis So as a very simple example, complexity structurally demands trial. And also innately breaks up large populations in preference for smaller ones; large ant hills and wolf packs split at certain sizes. Actually, complexity demands it. So, on a very base level, globalism is too hierarchical and statist for complexity. Globalism, socialism,…
Postmodernism: Narcissism of Small Differences
POSTMODERNISM: NARCISSISM OF SMALL DIFFERENCES ALL IN LOVE WITH TOTALITARIANISM. (humor)(Sorry, but gotta repeat this) Q: What’s the difference between Heidegger, Sartre and Foucault? A: It’s just narcissism of small differences. All of them extolled the value of freedom (in theory), but in practice they all fell in love with various forms of totalitarianism. Heidegger…
Bottom Up, Top Down
BOTTOM UP, TOP DOWN Sometimes operational before descriptive, and sometimes descriptive before operational. by Dan Fodor I sometimes get ‘operational’ before I get ‘descriptive’ : I can spend hours running “simulations” of the math problem I’m trying to solve in my head (simple ex: visualize a cube to deduce its properties). This gets problematic if…
Black Swan
—“Talking of Nassim Nicholas Taleb, which book in your opinion defines him as a thinker?”–Marsden Katana I think everything you need to know is in Black Swan and he’s slowly moving my direction (involuntary warranty) versus voluntary “skin in the game”, through each of his books. I think he finally figured out that the data…
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by Bill Joslin I think the Propertarian legal frames can be explained simply. But the difficulty in simplistic explanations pertains to constraining interpretation (free association) which dissolves our value on testimony as a demanding moral good. We can habituate that via law and grounded parables (parables grounded in reality)) (CURT: If you can disassemble that,…
Debt Relationships Are the Sources of Duties
by Zachary Miller Relationships between persons are the sources of a person’s duties. A parent has duties to a child by virtue of their natural relationship to one another. And the adult is identified as a parent by virtue of their duties to the child, as people are rather defined by their duties to others.…
Progressivism Is a Religion, and Truth Blasphemy
by Vivek Na Liberals use this kind of rhetoric – “no right thinking individual would say that”. Or “That doesn’t sound right” – meaning you’re committing blasphemy according to their constructed sense of right and wrong, ergo, you’re a heretic who should be metaphorically exiled or pilloried. –Curt:– You know, we ought to use that…
New Right = Scientific Right
It drives the Left nuts that the New Right owns the scientific discourse, and that it’s now clear progressivisms, in marxist pseudoscientific, feminist pseudoscientific, and postmodern pseudo-rational forms, are just another Religion. They can’t deal with the fact that New Right = Scientific Right.
Trump’s Grand Strategy – For Ordinary People
—-”Is there a strategic reason Trump has alienated our traditional trading partners (Europe, Canada, Mexico) while simultaneously saying Russia should be allowed back into the G7 making it the G8?”—- OF COURSE. In Trump’s Own Words: “We’re like the piggy bank that everybody is robbing,” Trump said. “And that ends.” “The European Union is brutal…