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(FB 1546719526 Timestamp) IS IT THAT SIMPLE? Seems to be a common observation that men informationally limited and insensitive and women are informationally oversaturated and hypersensitive, while we both have about the same limits on calculating decidability. You hear this a lot: –“Men are stupid and women are crazy”– But honestly it’s just cognitive structure.…
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(FB 1546714105 Timestamp) Everyone is trolling. They are more obvious and not, and more intentional and not. But to some degree we all do nothing but negotiate for our preferences either by shaming, begging, advisin, exchanging, competing, or conquering. 😉
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(FB 1546700713 Timestamp) ( Gotta say that the shrunken-head hard-currency series was hella fun. 😉 )
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(FB 1546655700 Timestamp) HOW TO MAKE A SHRUNKEN HEAD. (humor) Optional: the candidate can be alive or dead – choose per taste. 1 – Cut a large ‘bib’ into the flesh of chest to make a large flap to later close the bottom of the neck. 2 – Cut around the back of the neck…
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(FB 1546651141 Timestamp) UPDATE ON SHRUNKEN HEAD MARKET VALUE In 1919 shrunken heads were worth around $4.00, the equivalent of $57.33. Then in the 1930â??s victim heads were made to order for around $25.00, which is around $275.02 in todayâ??s economy. By 1952 a head was advertised in The Times for $250, which would be…
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(FB 1546649822 Timestamp) IF YOU WANNA ALSO UNDERSTAND PROFITING FROM NEW GENERATION WARFARE…. Peter T. Leesonâ??s The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates (Princeton University Press: 2009).
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(FB 1546649481 Timestamp) THE ECONOMICS OF HEADS. OK. Let’s pretend this is a serious question rather than “Maybe I can get Doolittle to laugh.” Heads are heavy and expensive. (About ten pounds). Scalps are light and expensive, but easy to fake. Shrunken heads are costly to produce. Skull pyramids are costly to produce. Therefore shrunken…
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(FB 1546648447 Timestamp) REGARDING TALEB’S IDENTITY CRISIS Druz, Jew, Syrian, Jordanian, Palestinian, … they’re ALMOST as close to each other as northern europeans are to each other. Look: … NORTH … South Caucasus, Anatolian, Iranian (North West Asians) … … CENTER … Mesopotamians, Levantines (South west eurasians) … … SOUTH … North Semites, South Semites…
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(FB 1546630188 Timestamp) MORE ON THE VULNERABILITY OF WESTERN NATIONS (Rule of Threes…three weeks without power, three months without order…) —“an Iranian military journal has floated around the idea of launching an EMP attack as the key to defeating the U.S. In an article titled “Electronics to Determine Fate of Future Wars,” the journal explains…
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(FB 1546629631 Timestamp) Inquisitor, (associates) prosecutor, (bachelors) judge, (masters) professor (doctor=teacher).
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(FB 1546629233 Timestamp) Testing the political correctness of Reddit/23andme. Post copied to my site for those who are interested.
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(FB 1546629100 Timestamp) FASCINATING MORPHOLOGY: SKULL DIFFERENCES (humans are endlessly interesting)
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(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.
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(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…
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(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…
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(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…
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(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.…
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(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…
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(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.
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(FB 1546823810 Timestamp) PROPAGANDA AND MY RESPONSE TO IT. (heated topic warning) Some clown spreading propaganda….
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(FB 1546811805 Timestamp) HE DOES WESTER MAN’S BIBLE JUSTICE
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(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…
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(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,…
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(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…
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(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…