Year: 2019

(FB 1548706988 Timestamp) ( Hardware problems today. Both the 15 and 17 batteries went. Sigh…. )

(FB 1548706830 Timestamp) By Eli Harman I was just reminded of an old argument of Bryan Caplan’s. One argument he makes for open borders involves a hypothetical. Say one of us went to Haiti, on an aid mission or something. When they were done and ready to come back, we tell them “no, you can’t…

(FB 1548697940 Timestamp) –“WHAT ABOUT NEPOTISM IN THE MONARCHY?”– The evidence is that families guard their status jealously and that fratricide and patricide are the most common origins of regicide. Secondly, a monarchy has only to defend the very longest term interest and its income from the overall performance of the polity. Monarchies have exceptional…

(FB 1548697265 Timestamp) CLOSURE WITH ERIC ORWOLL AND IVANTHEHEATEN You don’t really understand the debate of the war period, postwar period, any more than our debate in the present do you? lol.. I realize you are desperately trying to frame this discourse to suit your present knowledge but let’s point out a few things you’re…

(FB 1548695357 Timestamp) FIXING INSTITUTIONALIZED LONELINESS by Michael Churchill You can look at loneliness in America and say it was bound to get to this point: Capitalism + mobile workforce + jobs in cities (so smart people all move away from home) + natural resistance to in-grouping by Northwestern Europeans + persecution of the productive…

(FB 1548695061 Timestamp) BUT WHAT ABOUT NEPOTISM???? —“If you have the time can anyone explain to me how you deal/curtail with nepotism in your hierarchy ? A link to read perhaps? Worthy men aren’t always from the same family e.g. the son is not always the father by far. I’m curious.”–David England What ended nepotism…

(FB 1548869369 Timestamp) MORE ON ADAM AND CURT’S DISCUSSION ON METAPHYSICS. (QUESTIONS FOR METAPHYSICISTS) —“…substance…”— Your [Adam] approach is extremely useful in demarcation of legal decidability. It is the physical equivalent of the decidability provided by potential interest and demonstrated interest. So as you taught me recently Aristotle is an exceptional framework for cognition at…

(FB 1548868857 Timestamp) QUESTION: IS MORALITY OBJECTIVE OR SUBJECTIVE? (The Definitive Answer. Core.) —“Curt, sorry to bother you because I know you are extremely busy, but need your insight.”— CD: Thank you for respecting my time, but it’s my job, and I like my job (mostly). It’s no use being a Law Giver if you…

(FB 1548868035 Timestamp) —“The United State can be equated to half of a continent living under occupation by a city state (dc)”—Bill Joslin

(FB 1548867709 Timestamp) Life does “suck” for the ugly, stupid, ignorant. And life is much better for the attractive, smart, and knowledgeable. For the simple reason that downward associations are dead weight costs, and upward associations potential opportunities. Now this requires a half to one standard deviation in difference to apply. But it does apply.…

(FB 1548858483 Timestamp) BECAUSE WE ARE SCREWED ON ALL THE BIG METRICS –“But if you predicted [revolution] in 2006, what were you basing that prediction on then? Is your real name Hari Seldon?”–Richard Hall demographics is destiny. Economics, demographics, global power distribution, generational cycles in response to ‘forgotten’ generational foundation myths. We are screwed on…

(FB 1548857704 Timestamp) Mindfulness can be provided truthfully or untruthfully. Mindfulness is extremely rewarding. So rewarding that we defend it. Religion provides an addiction response, and the natural response of addicts to defend the source of their addiction.

(FB 1548826120 Timestamp) more… —“In order to understand why silicon engines have had such astounding energy-efficiency gains compared to combustion engines — and why Jevons Paradox has a long way to go yet — one has to look to the difference in the nature of the tasks the two kinds of engines perform. One produces…

(FB 1548825871 Timestamp) —“Consider the implications even from 1980, the Apple II era. A single iPhone at 1980 energy-efficiency would require as much power as a Manhattan office building. Similarly, a single data center at circa 1980 efficiency would require as much power as the entire U.S. grid. But because of efficiency gains, the world…

(FB 1548825829 Timestamp) The Jevons Paradox is why you do NOT TRY TO SAVE ELECTRICITY. Why? It merely increases the consumption of electricity and demand for increased production of electricity. At your most optimum, you will simply transfer cleaner electrical production domestically to uncleaner electrical production overseas. ECONOMICS IS COUNTER-INTUITIVE. All human behavior is best…

(FB 1548825652 Timestamp) —“….as the energy efficiency of engines increases, markets [identify increased opportunities for their use, resulting in] increased overall energy use.”— Jevons Paradox longer version —-“Engines, both literally and figuratively, power the modern era. Engines matter because they convert otherwise useless forms of energy into useful work. And as the energy efficiency of…

(FB 1548825490 Timestamp) —“Today, humanity fabricates 1,000 times more transistors annually than the entire world grows grains of wheat and rice combined. Collectively, all those transistors consume more electricity than the state of California.”— Mark P. Mills Longer Version —“The invention of the transistor-based logic engine, the integrated circuit, turned 60 this year. Today, humanity…

(FB 1548823316 Timestamp) FOR EVEN MORE ‘DIRECT’ ECONOMICS OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR, PLS FOLLOW/FRIEND Eli Harman His posts aren’t sharable (defensively), so I can’t fill my feed with them. But he’s back cranking out good thought every day. Eli uses reciprocity tests and hyperbole to illustrate and educate and he’s a master of it. Cheers

(FB 1548822243 Timestamp) -ANSWERS- We market tested ‘white sharia’ for a bit. (a) the natural law is highly intolerant. Most intolerant. And the Most Intolerant Wins. (b) White Sharia successfully conveys radical intolerance. (c) it also conveys the wrong basis for that intolerance. (d) it still floats around but mostly as ‘insider language’ or more…

(FB 1548821873 Timestamp) For the courses we need: The Intellectual (academic – argument ) The Martial (military – force) The Spiritual (social – mindfulness) The Physical. (personal – fitness) The only hard ones are the physical because it is very hard to ‘authenticate’ talent that isn’t already part of our ‘fitness’ circle on one hand…

(FB 1548820154 Timestamp) AUSSIES: YES I AM BLANTANTLY PIMPING A FRIEND.

(FB 1548819829 Timestamp) Just a reminder to inspire you. –“He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing”– By that measure, it is ours. it is our civilization. We must only exert control. This year.

(FB 1548819492 Timestamp) REGARDING: NEWS: “VA WOMEN SEEK TO PERMIT ABORTION DURING BIRTH” (NAXALT WARNING: whenever we use a universal category like men or women, men and women exist in a distribution of ability. bias. experience. and knowledge, but we can still quite easily make ‘general rules of general precision regarding the cumulative behavior of…

(FB 1548948034 Timestamp) IQ AND WHY SMART PEOPLE AREN’T OFTEN RICH (from elsewhere)(archive) (or “wealth is a middle class occupation”) I think Molyneux did a pretty good job. Here is what I said in response to Taleb: —(a) g measures what we attempt to measure (b) chance of success corresponds to a distribution of traits,…

(FB 1548905811 Timestamp) by John Mark The only thing I’d clarify about this is that there are a couple areas where the Left has been operating in reality better than the Right. So: Copy the Left’s tactic of gossip rally ridicule shame? No. Maybe to help win an election as a short-term play to buy…