Month: March 2019

(FB 1546629233 Timestamp) Testing the political correctness of Reddit/23andme. Post copied to my site for those who are interested.

(FB 1546629100 Timestamp) FASCINATING MORPHOLOGY: SKULL DIFFERENCES (humans are endlessly interesting)

(FB 1546613647 Timestamp) The judiciary does little more than decide whether to license violence. The law constrains us to licensed violence. And prohibits free riding, parasitism, and predation.

(FB 1546872950 Timestamp) A NOTE ON PROGRAMMING AND PARADIGMS 1) There are diminishing returns on extension of paradigms 2) At some point overextension of paradigms produces errors 3) These overextensions (exhaustions of opportunity) lead to innovations (generally increasing precision of the paradigm or falsifying it by recombination.) OOP was particularly useful in the creation of…

(FB 1546872832 Timestamp) —“Meta question: what’s the best way to ask off-topic questions to you or other experts?”— Matt Evans Just like this, by (a) posting the question in the feed, or (b) posting the question in any comment with ‘off topic’ in the heading. Or via PM. Up to you. —“Actual question: What do…

(FB 1546869191 Timestamp) NATURAL LAW ON RELIGION You can do what you want in your head, but you cannot do what you want in the commons. Under natural law we would close all temples and mosques, prohibit their literature, prohibit their evangelism, and prohibit all religious display (separatism). Under natural law we would restore the…

(FB 1546868605 Timestamp) Adolph spent a lot of time speaking in beer halls and adapting his manner method and content. The Beatles spent a lot of time playing in germany and adapting their style, method, and content. These are two ends of the spectrum of 10k hours. There is no substitute for continuous market testing.…

(FB 1546868443 Timestamp) Either you are willing to fight or you are not. You can fight the intellectual war (positiva) You can fight the poisoning the well war (ridicule) (negativa) You can fight the political war (positiva) You can fight the physical war (positiva) You can fight the reproductive war (positiva) We all fight at…

(FB 1546866260 Timestamp) NERD HUMOR FROM James Santagata (I can’t share the third one because it ‘crosses the line’) I think taleb really damaged his rep again…. damn.

(FB 1546823810 Timestamp) PROPAGANDA AND MY RESPONSE TO IT. (heated topic warning) Some clown spreading propaganda….

(FB 1546811805 Timestamp) HE DOES WESTER MAN’S BIBLE JUSTICE

(FB 1546806967 Timestamp) —“Curt: what constitutes fight shooting vs target shooting?”— Target shooting is a way of keeping the cost down and continuing the tradition of riflemen upon which the USA is founded (as are the marines). But small arms today are absurdly effective, and the truth is that rifle rounds are the sort of…

(FB 1546804780 Timestamp) I will announce when it’s time to register. It will be in the next two weeks (I assume). Right now we are just building out the site, planing and organizing the courses, and hooking up the payment systems etc. Registration = Participation in the discourse (social networking). Application = Access to courses,…

(FB 1546804687 Timestamp) GOALS IN ACCORDANCE WITH OUR AGENCY AS WELL AS NATURE. I prefer we target the virtue spectrum from stoicism (little agency), to epicureanism (personal agency, to aristocracy (political agency) rather than a universal. The technique serves the mind no matter what virtues we seek to give it, but that does not mean…

(FB 1546803700 Timestamp) STEREOTYPES ARE THE MOST ACCURATE MEASURE IN SOCIAL SCIENCE via Brandon Hayes, via Rosenborg Predmetsky (worth repeating) (just like IQ the most accurate measure in psychology). from: http://www.spsp.org/news-center/blog/stereotype-accuracy-response/ THE EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE This blog is not the place to review the overwhelming evidence of stereotype accuracy, though interested readers are directed to SPSR…

(FB 1546798360 Timestamp) THIS YEAR … We are going to need: … (a) coaches/mentors for young men, and a way to filter those coaches to eliminate the quacks and losers, and we will seek to concentrate income in small numbers of them. … (b) a class in teaching mindfulness (self authoring) in the three points…

(FB 1546797162 Timestamp) Remodeling a home…. Woman, applying muscle: “Why am I the man in this relationship?” Man, with power tool: “Why are you the man in all your relationships?” Doh!!!!

(FB 1546796877 Timestamp) Does this mean I can take a vacation day? (Made my day)

(FB 1546795984 Timestamp) ( Well all, looks like we found a heavy hitter to teach our classes on WAR. WHOO HOOO!!!! )

(FB 1546793702 Timestamp) —“One genius can change the world, a million smart guys can not.”—John Jones Um…. not quite. One genius can REVOLUTIONIZE the world, a million smart people can and do change it constantly. Even such, lone geniuses are almost non-existent, since it appears to take three generations to cook a genius in a…

(FB 1546790168 Timestamp) SIMPLE ANSWERS DEPARTMENT —“The Spanish empire was centrally run. The British was based on free enterprise.”—Richard Hall The british empire was based upon rule of law, which results in free enterprise.

(FB 1546790065 Timestamp) DIFFERENCE BETWEEN NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN ITALIAN IQ —“30% southern admixture in Piemonte lowered the IQ by 2.2 points. Thus the genotypic difference between Northern and Southern Italy is 2.2/0.3= 7.33 IQ points.”— A lot of this was literacy. This is the reason for china vs india. Literacy = programming. ITALY VS INDIA…

(FB 1546971405 Timestamp) Curt Doolittle 1 – The first spirits: Ancestors (oldest gods – burials), 2 – The old gods (fertility,hearth – hunter gatherer), 3 – The heroic gods (indo european – archetypes), 4 – The race’s gods (ascendent man, germanic, nordic) 5 – The imperial gods (semitic and medieval.) 6 – The new gods…

(FB 1546970640 Timestamp) Sacred > Sacrosanct sac·ro·sanct [Ë?sakrōË?saNG(k)t] ADJECTIVE (especially of a principle, place, or routine) regarded as too important or valuable to be interfered with. “the individual’s right to work has been upheld as sacrosanct” synonyms: sacred · hallowed · respected · inviolable · inviolate · unimpeachable · unchallengeable · invulnerable · untouchable ·…

(FB 1546961670 Timestamp) YES, PROPERTARIANISM SOLVES THE SUSTAINABILITY PROBLEM. —-“I just realized that Propertarianism solves the problem of sustainability. A propertarian society would prevent over-consumption of resources since to do so would be parasitic upon future generations (and/or on neighbouring states/groups). You’ve done it. Solved a major problem in ecology.”— Alba Rising