Year: 2019

(FB 1545053137 Timestamp) THE INVERTED PYRAMID OF KNOWLEDGE From Base To Top 0 – Mindfulness: Living as a Self. 1 – Religion(I): Living Amongst Men 2 – Lit(I): Understanding the Ambitions of Men 3 – History: Understanding the Limits Men (Reconciling The Reality) 4 – Sciences(K): Understanding the Universe (big, human, and small) 5 –…

(FB 1545051716 Timestamp) CAN WE ELIMINATE RELIGION? NOT REALLY, BUT THAT REQUIRES WE DEFINE RELIGION AS MARKET DEMANDS RATHER THAN THE CURRENT MEANS OF PRODUCTION. (repost) —“However unrealistic of a goal it might be, wouldn’t the ideal situation be a world without organised religion? Or is there some benefit to religion that I’m not seeing?”—Dann…

(FB 1544981399 Timestamp) —“What are your thoughts on learned intelligence,cause intelligence? Can we therefore train people to be intelligent(by following certain laws),for example charlie munger has a law of “always arguing the other side better than the opponent”,so did Cicero,and it a nice way of avoiding confirmation bias ,if we create certain rules such as…

(FB 1544980516 Timestamp) The Anglo, Italian, French, German, Polish-Ukrainian, Russian, Jewish, traditions all distribute emphasis on the Grammars differently. Every sub-civilization (culture) attempts to bring its GRAMMAR into a monopoly. Yet these grammars are biased for each group for reason: territory, competitors, rate of middle class development, and institutional history. I think this — comparative…

(FB 1544979288 Timestamp) VS TALEB There isn’t any difference between taleb and I other than he prefers literary philosophy, literature, reason, and math. He’s exhausted the math direction. He’s pretty much exhausted the literary direction, and he is very close to understanding that there is no positivist solution, and that only the law (warranty of…

(FB 1544960640 Timestamp) WE ARE MORE LIKE THE CHINESE THAN THE SEMITES It is nearly impossible to talk to abrahamic monotheists what have not traveled the world and learned about other ‘religions’ because they lack the frame of reference to consider ‘religion’ as it is practiced. The more I undrestand about world religions the more…

(FB 1544957637 Timestamp) Absolutists: We will do it because ‘we know best’. Fascists: We will do it to stop them. National Socialists: We will do it because it is best for us. Conservatives: We will only do it if we must as a last resort. Libertarians: We won’t do anything except beg to be left…

(FB 1544957315 Timestamp) THE DESIRES OF ABSOLUTISTS by Bill Joslin I don’t think the absolutists are haters. I think they lack what they claim we lack – that being a foundation for meaning,. motivation -“a superordinate transcendental ideal to be subservient to”… We have that – it’s called Career, Friends, Family and Kids. They’re looking…

(FB 1544932085 Timestamp) Wiki Page is Actually OK. Surprisingly. Technically there is no meaning of life, other than increasing the probability of genetic persistence for those within six or fewer generations of you. We say we want to find ‘meaning’ but this is nothing more than a word-association between the (Positive) experience we feel when…

(FB 1544928066 Timestamp) ( Keeping with the theme: Fishing for morons is … it’s so easy. Find something a small mind can feel a sense of superiority (or less inferiority) by attacking or defending and leave it in the open like an eel trap. I should invent a name for this game and see if…

(FB 1545219478 Timestamp) THE TRUTH IS A HARSH RELIGION –“for a “scientist,” you have an awfully 7th-grade level of religious understanding. just a quick scroll through your feed shows a total lack of discernment when it even comes to the most basic differences between monotheistic faiths, as if you can just say “muh abrahamism” and…

(FB 1545151473 Timestamp) COURSES AT THE INSTITUTE MUST BE ACTION ORIENTED There is a difference between meaningful and actionable. We are trying to ensure that all the courses produce knowledge and skills that are actionable. That they are merely understandable, and meaningful is a measurement of the state of ignorance and lack of agency of…

(FB 1545151057 Timestamp) PROPERTARIANISM AND STOICISM VS BUDDHISM? —“We ought to discuss Buddhism (I am a Buddhist) and Propertarianism (I’ve discussed various matters with Curt Doolittle) in the future.”— Andrew Taylor by The Propertarian Institute It’s not complicated. Buddhism evolved out of hinduism’s ‘spiritualism’ and because of that started out very similar to stoicism but…

(FB 1545150911 Timestamp) REGARDING CLAIRE KHAW’S CRITIQUE OF JOHN MARK by The Propertarian Institute Let’s understand Claire’s critique: Claire is a die-hard advocate for monotheistic religious, Christian if necessary, and Muslim if possible, Authoritarianism. Her argument is reducible to “I can’t understand it so it’s not good”, and here motive is “I can understand authoritarian…

(FB 1545149832 Timestamp) RATIONAL SELF-MEDICATION Michael E. Darden, Nicholas W. Papageorge NBER Working Paper No. 25371 Issued in December 2018 NBER Program(s):Health Economics We develop a theory of rational self-medication. The idea is that forward-looking individuals, lacking access to better treatment options, attempt to manage the symptoms of mental and physical pain outside of formal…

(FB 1545142233 Timestamp) Phase of the day: “Survival in post-apocalyptic cat lady hellscape”.

(FB 1545140276 Timestamp) (Great feed. -cheers)

(FB 1545138415 Timestamp) THE PARADIGM FOR SOLVING AI IS NOT CALCULATION BUT COMPETITION We try to solve the problem of artificial intelligence using the wrong paradigm – a problem in economics we refer to as ‘mathiness’ – when the solution from bayesian accounting to the evolution of consciousness, is not calculation but competition. The other…

(FB 1545136259 Timestamp) More on NCC’s and the “Glorious Accident”.

(FB 1545088319 Timestamp) A GEM BY BILL —“That’s what “Law” means “Decidable” in scientific language, and which means “Absolute” in archaic moral language. … That’s what Laws of Nature (unconscious, deterministic) and Natural Law (conscious, volitionary) mean: they are DESCRIPTIVE. You cannot violate the laws of nature but you can manipulate them. You can violate…

(FB 1545087981 Timestamp) CAN WE HAVE A CELEBRATION OVER THE SHUTTERING OF (((THE WEEKLY STANDARD))) AND IT’S NEOCON DREAMS?

(FB 1545085047 Timestamp) I am pretty sure you are better off spending four years working on a project of your own, and publishing a few papers or a book about it than you are spending time in university. This is effectively what a PhD asks you to do, except your (scientific or technical) project, papers,…

(FB 1545084448 Timestamp) Religions, Moneylending, and Commerce are universalist, but Militias,Armies,Kings, and the Law are Nationalist.

(FB 1545074144 Timestamp) Interesting Differences. 1) Certificates: 12-15. Courses in Single Subject. 2) Associates: 60. Courses in Multiple Subjects 3) Bachelors: +30: 90 in UK/Canada, or 120 US (a Scam) a general education in a full suite of courses. 4) Masters: +30 Credits Specialization in a subject. 5) PhD: (varies), Thesis: Research in a Subject.…

(FB 1545069896 Timestamp) ( Fyi: propertarianism.com and naturallawinstitute.com now both map to the same site. ) (My site has been replaced by the institute, and my blog integrated into the institute. [Again, thank Robert Coleman for funding the site for the year. He’s thanked, as promised, on every page of the blog.] ) ( I…