Year: 2018

—“If the marginal utility of conflict is greater than cooperation or boycott, one should choose conflict.So to make you not kill me, in our polity, conflict needs to more symmetrical to raise costs so we should all have access to weaponry, as well as free association and disassociation, discrimination, to lower the price of boycott.…

Well, we know that Google and FB will be targets of Direct Action during any revolution…. wow.

I am asked to review work frequently to determine whether people should invest in learning it, or whether it’s somewhere between erroneous and absolute nonsense. Someone asked me to review your work. It’s good work. And morove, you have enough charisma and likability to make use of it in the benefit of yourself and others.…

(via James Santagata) —“From Twitter. Based on previous findings, we hypothesized that the language used by liberals emphasizes their perception of uniqueness, contains more swear words, more anxiety-related words and more feeling-related words than conservatives’ language. Conversely, we predicted that the language of conservatives emphasizes group membership and contains more references to…

(from elsewhere, To Alex Tabarrok, marginal revolution) I think the more operational answer is that all AI’s will be able to do is drastically reduce informational asymmetries, and predict reactions to them out to the first or second order. Just as money, accounting, and now digital accounting have drastically reduced asymmetries of information. However,…

–“The basic ratio between German and English is 1000 to 1200 words”–

—” is a basic ratio between the English word count and Chinese character count. To our experience, each 1000 Chinese characters will be translated into about 600-700 English words, or each 1000 English words will be translated into about 1500-1700 Chinese characters (depending on the nature of the text).”—

The first question of group strategy is “Is it more adnvantageous to boycott, destroy, conquer, or trade with you?”

The first question of philosophy is “Why do I not commit suicide?” –Camus

The first question of ethics is “Why should I not kill you and take your things?”

The better advice is “Do not unto others what you do not want done unto you.”

The better question is, “What Would Achilles Do?”.

In English, the average word length is 5.1 (8-bit ASCII) characters. You need a word delimiter, let’s just use the space character. 200 characters would contain 32.8 chunks of 6.1 characters, including the trailing space (which the last word doesn’t need), or 32 chunks of 6.1 characters and one of 4.8 characters. So on…

And why does quora TOLERATE questions that insult white people – by the truckload? https://www.quora.com/unanswered/Why-does-Quora-ban-questions-about-white-supremacy-or-white-racism-but-accepts-questions-which-puts-down-Asians

(to paul krugman via twitter) What happens when we outlaw cherry-picking of capital measurements in economic pseudoscience, and prosecute those who create moral hazards by promoting it? Will you be as equally judicious in your self-criticisms? History will judge you as it has judged Marx, Freud, and Boaz.

—”Julius Caesar massacred 1 out of 10 million of Celts in Gaul, and put another million into slavery. In modern terms, this would be called a genocide.”–

Only a superior people would choose a group strategy of Sovereignty, Reciprocity, Truth(empiricism, operationalism), and Markets in Everything – because only a superior people can compete by sovereign, reciprocal, truthful, trusting, and market-competitive means.And conversely, only inferior people would choose an alternative. Hence the few use truth and markets and the many use fictionalisms. Because…

—“Network effects are overrated. The real question is about marginal ease of onboarding, strength of incentives for staying and contributing, and relative rates of adapting to changing circumstances. In other words, evolutionary capacity.”– Moritz Bierling

1 – if you get mises and hoppe’s property rights analysis, and just add property-in -toto, so that you end up with acquisitionism. 2 – If you then take the cognitive biases you see how evolution fucked with us to keep us taking risks (acting, exploring) within our energy limits. 3 – Then take…

(from elsewhere) TOCAS is Hoppe’s best work. It is before he is overly affected by Rothbard. Like all Hoppe’s work, he is at his best in the study, description, and articulation of general rules of human incentives, and reduction of all of ethics to statements of property – even though he fails to make…

But it takes a great deal of Agency (evolutionary advancement) to accept (Tolerate and avoid fictionalisms) that simplicity. Honestly. 1 – if you get mises and hoppe’s property rights analysis, and just add property-in -toto, so that you end up with acquisitionism. 2 – If you then take the cognitive biases…

—-”What do you think is the hardest thing to do?”—- To tolerate the vox populi’s universal Dunning Kruger confidence, moral indignation, and righteousness. Everything else is just a matter of doing a bit of time and effort. https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-hardest-thing-youve-ever-had-to-do

(I hate living in america) sigh.

Um … the west evolved truth telling regardless of impact on the dominance hierarchy. The east developed lying to circumvent impact on the dominance hierarchy. China’s’ first philosopher is sun-tzu, “delay, deceive, and seek opportunity to act when the opponent is in weak condition”. The west’s first philosopher is unstated: we are…

In reality, you go to college or university, largely to gain access to an organization in which you can benefit from rents without risk of personal assets. Whereas joining the military you risk the most valuable capital that you have on a daily basis – your life. Even if the work (honestly) is not very…