Month: February 2020

(LessWrong February 25, 2020 9:07 PM) [I]’ve been working on the problem since about ’92 and like many things, the curatorial function performed by the top handful of intellectuals alive at any given time is not able to keep pace with the volume of pseudoscience, sophistry, ideology, propaganda, and marketing over the past thirty or…

[I]n the Proto-Indo-European mythology, each social group had its own god or family of gods to represent it and the function of the god or gods matched the function of the group. There are only three possible means of coercion (weapons of influence) available to humans, and we have developed genetic abilities, moral intuitions, and…

[H]ow do we demarcate math, science, law, economics, history, philosophy, literature, mythology, and theology? (Best diagram I can do with unformatted text) ANALOGY AND CONFLATION ^ | … INFLATION | … … Literature …-> Mythology …-> [Theology] . … Essay … Philosophy … [Sophistry] . Law ->Economics ->History ->[Deceit] |->[FICTIONALISMS| . … Science …-> Technology…

(Humor.) Re: “Mansplaining and Womansplaining” Yeah. I’m a little done with womansplaining as well. Mansplaining is merely useless – it won’t accomplish anything even if it should. Womansplaining is useless and false – but often succeeds even though it shouldn’t. 😉 Let’s compare them: Womansplaining: “There is no bell curve. Everyone is equal. Everyone has…

One more time. Three means of human coercion or more gently, weapons of influence. The Physical: Body and Movement Using Force or Violence The fear of harm or promise of defense. By the Dominant or Established Male The Material: Resources and Opportunity Using Bribe or Trade The fear of loss of gains, or promise of…

—“Concerted, organized effort to shame western people into a pattern where were easily manipulated.” Like EXACTLY like what YOU do? You do realize that you perpetrate literally EVERY part of this against women. Of course you do, you’ve just found a way to capitalize on it.”— Crazy Woman Truth isn’t manipulation. it’s prevention of manipulation.…

“The Case Against Reality” The case for woo woo pseudoscience. This is pseudoscientific nonsense. We see actionable reality at actionable scale, using some pretty amazing instrumentation. We ‘predict’ (imagine consequences from) our model of the world, that is not real. That’s simply a lack of discipline. I can and have, and others can and have,…

—“It would also be cool to watch you debate theologians. Not pansy ones either but the few who are also high level scientists.”— A Friend [I]t‘s a very simple argument: What is a theologian claiming: Good and wisdom, or True and demonstrable? What can they testify to? How can they demonstrate it? How can they…

[T]echnically speaking, market demand for the production of a commons(institution) that creates natural rights of appeal for defense before an insurer of some sort (court), demonstrably exist. The market demand exists. Sure. Like any commons, markets succeed or fail at producing them. As far as I know, the only natural right that is possible is…

RECIPROCITY AND IRRECIPROCITY Reciprocity: productive, fully informed, voluntary transfer, of demonstrated interests, free of imposition of costs upon the demonstrated interests of others by externality, and warranted, within the limits of restitutability. Irreciprocity: Failing any one of the criteria for Reciprocity. MORAL(ETHICAL) SPECTRUM … … … … Evil – interpersonal, extrapersonal, irreciprocity without gain (harm…

by Brandon Hayes —“The Conflict’s not so much race, but agency, resulting class, class size, and resulting subculture. Race is just a convenient low resolution proxy that obscures the problem.” – Curt Doolittle The claim isn’t that it’s a proxy for agency but it’s a proxy for this sequencing of phenomena: “agency, resulting class, class…

I don’t think the Finance / Media / Academy / State “Cathedral” complex understands: The left and right agree that the finance and state complex is counter to our interests. That’s simply true. Otherwise we just want to sort into heterogeneous consumptive quantity (left), and homogenous conservative quality (right), The totalitarian state is preventing us…

by Francesco Principi Love you Curt. Free cities have always represented the enemy of the tyrant state. Within a few years, world politics will be dominated by macro-cities – the influential megacities. And they are so connected to each other that they no longer have to bend to the concept of state and border. City-states…

Operationalism: Testimony using a sequence of intuitionistically(incentives), logically(speech), and physically testable actions. Operational constraints: Realism( Material, Persistent), Naturalism(physical rules of the material universe), Operationalism(description as human actions), Empiricism(observations of results reduced to analogy of experience by physical or logical means), rational choice, reciprocity. Science: the production of testimony by under operationalism Philosophy: “it’s sorta like…

—“Liberia’s constitution is almost identical to the american constitution. Constitutions merely enumerate the process for adhering to the norms, traditions ,and genetics of the majority ethnic population, and set the terms of integration for those outside the majority ethnic population.” – A friend (today) Neither the constitution nor the expansion of democratic republic to full…

[A]n obvious truth I don’t like: Europeans are not only the youngest race (~10k ybp), and more neotenous than other races – except east asians who are more neotenous than we are – but our neoteny comes at the cost of greater emotional instability – which explains european women. We are in a middle range…

[J]oy is an african american libertarian, who seems to be frustrated by my argument that there is nothing wrong with africa that six generations of one child policy wouldn’t fix. This isn’t a controversial statement – it’s true for any underdeveloped or developing people. This is our second or third go around. And I think…

(The flip side of “I, Pencil”.) (probably an important lesson) Military(organization of territory) <> Judiciary (organization of cooperation-contract) <> Finance (organization of money(stored time)) <> Entrepreneurship (Organization of opportunity, capital, people) <> Professionals (organization of production(calculation)) <> Managers (Organization of people) <> Producers (Organization of resources) <> Distributors (organization of distribution) <> Trade (organization of…

Robert Sephr is writing a fictional account of history from the pagan european’s point of view. This is not a bad thing. But it is still a historical fiction. What you want to get from people like him is that it is possible to reinterpret history from our natural european point of view. And that…

(core) Metaphysics: Realism, naturalism, operationalism, empiricism, survival, compatibilism, cooperation, propertarianism, acquisitionism, action. Ontology: realism/naturalism, soft determinism, three faculties: physical, intuitionistic, and mind as motion(no name for it in philosophical terms: experience consists of continuous recursive hierarchical temporal memory – memory of memory continuously constructed by continuous prediction from sequences of sense perception.) the problem is…

(core) (religion) —“Upon what foundation then did the progenitors of civilisation, Greece then Rome, build itself?”— [W]e evolve a means of production, and a means of military competition under that means of production, an organization to manage both, and a narrative to justify both, so that we can reduce the cost and opportunity for conflict…

[S]overeigns cannot ‘give it up to god’ – that is an act of alienation of responsibility. A sovereign can neither surrender his rights or his responsibilities without breaking the contract for reciprocal insurance of sovereignty. This is why we must have stoicism in mind, and epicureanism in life. One is sovereign or not. Aristocracy requires…

By Martin Št?pán [E]motions are not moral or immoral, they just measure changes in property. At most, you can say they’re bad when they’re measuring incorrectly but that’s not about morality but about the brain working sub-optimally. I think what might also be going on is conflation with Christian deadly sins. But these, as far…

[W]ar crimes exist only under (a) Westphalian state responsibility for actions of all citizens and their agents – a monopoly on violence. (b) Soldiers under direction of the state. War crimes were necessary under state run warfare in order to i) license states’ wars of aggression, ii) with conscripted soldiers, and iii) protecting the populace…

“We need leadership!”— The Right “What have you done to be worthy of leaders?”