I’m Gonna Get My Revolution? Goldman: -24% Gdp.
Mar 20, 2020, 11:49 AM Goldman Sachs has a devastating revision for its GDP growth predictions theweek.com Clockwork. If you understand cycles… Anyway. The chief contribution of the postwar german austrians was the business cycle. ’08 ended the debate. Austrians are fully integrated into mainstream economic theory. No, I didn’t predict that the clock would…
Teach Applied P Not P-Method
Mar 20, 2020, 12:19 PM by Luke Weinhagen —“Then why are people so overwhelmed by P so often?”— Teaching people how to replicate P methodology and to produce P output is complex. (discovered-P/constructed-P) Teaching people how to consume P output is simple. (applied-P) We say to people “we have the answer” then they ask “Ok,…
This is the story of history – not economics.
Mar 20, 2020, 12:52 PM The good generated by a middle class, the demand for expansion of the middle class, always and everywhere expands until the capital is consumed by the middle class by expanding the lower classes, leading to dysgenia, decline, and collapse. This is the story of history – not economics.
On the Pill
Mar 20, 2020, 1:02 PM www.sciencedaily.com sciencedaily.com — “We validated methods for assessing the volume of the hypothalamus and confirm, for the first time, that current oral contraceptive pill usage is associated with smaller hypothalamic volume.” “The sample size of the study was quite small: 50 women, 21 of whom were on the pill. The…
What Can the Average Person Grasp?
Mar 20, 2020, 1:04 PM By John Mark —“So moral-reasoning in P is not hard. But what about the Grammars, Testimonial Truth, Operational Language, Strictly Constructed Laws, and the Abrahamic Method of Deceit?”– CD What can the avg person grasp, and/or what do we need to give them a glimpse of out of necessity? Strictly…
Creating a Non-False Pre-Packaged Product
Mar 20, 2020, 1:48 PM by John Mark Christianity (or other religion) as a “prepackaged product” that an individual can pull off the shelf & use to create meaning for their life. Great insight – this is so spot-on. It saves them the effort of having to find meaning for themselves. Thus when we try…
And can we train feelings and intuitions? Yes.
Mar 20, 2020, 2:44 PM People break down into three categories because that’s the hierarchy of cognitive development: Physical movement > Feel(pre-conscious) > Intuit(conscious) > Think(rational). The question is why some of us develop (mature) further than others, and some less so than others. And can we train their feelings and intuitions like we train…
So for Most People, for Most Uses, P Isn’t Hard.
Mar 20, 2020, 6:14 PM —“Being too complex to understand is not necessarily a badge of honor.”–Mike Harvey Explanatory power is however a badge of honor. And complexity explains why it has taken until the 21st century to solve it. And, as Bill is trying to get across, applied P is not hard. The P…
Why Do People Hate You so Curt?
Mar 21, 2020, 7:59 AM —“Why do people hate you so curt? I don’t get it”—A Friend I Slay sacred cows. P is a via negativa. High investment. Elitist. Intolerant. Exclusionary. Unapologetic. People want power, ideology, philosophy, theology. I say words don’t matter only actions. They want words because they feel powerless to act. I…
Tyler Cowen Says the Progressive Left Is Over
The Coronavirus Killed the Progressive Left – Marginal REVOLUTION marginalrevolution.com https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/03/the-coronavirus-killed-the-progressive-left.html — The EGALITARIANISM of the progressive left also will seem like a faint memory. Elites are most likely to support wealth redistribution when they feel comfortable themselves, and indeed well-off coastal elites in California and the Northeast are a backbone of the progressive movement.…
Notes from March 19th Curtis Yarvin Interview
Mar 21, 2020, 11:34 AM Curtis Yarvin Live at the Based Deleuze Release Party in LA (Mencius Moldbug) youtube.com youtube.com/watch?v=RRQO3VbJsMw& SPECTRUM: I’m 60 (Curt Doolittle). Curtis is in his 40’s. Justin is in his 30’s. The audience might be in their 20’s-30s. JUSTIN: 1 – There is an demand for intellectual life, intellectual discourse. You…
The Rest of The Right Is Intellectually Embarrassing
Mar 21, 2020, 1:38 PM by John Mark Frankly, all “intellectual” discourse on the right, outside of P is f***ing embarrassing. The people themselves – those who want to live by and enforce reciprocity – are not embarrassing, just badly taught. Sounds arrogant to say it, but I’m not bragging on myself, I didn’t come…
Constitution as A Religious Quasi-Christian Document Delivered by Providence
Mar 21, 2020, 5:01 PM —“Most American constitutionalists look at the US Constitution as a religious quasi-Christian document delivered by providence. If they could understand strict constitutional construction as the “holy” method of our people that would be a step in the right direction until they could grasp the science of it from a P-Law…
Places to Find P-Definitions?
Mar 21, 2020, 5:12 PM I would use: (a) MAJOR CONCEPTS PAGE https://naturallawinstitute.com/basic-concepts/overview-concepts/ (b) DEFINITIONS POSTS https://naturallawinstitute.com/category/attributes/definitions/ (c) CHEAT SHEET https://naturallawinstitute.com/basic-concepts/the-cheat-sheet/ GLOSSARY The glossary is not updated with all the current definitions. That’s another job I would hand off to someone at some point who was crazy enough to take it on.
Definition: Right Wing?
Mar 21, 2020, 7:05 PM STIPULATIONS: 0 – Inveriance in human nature 1 – Anti-Hubris (Presumption of hubris) 2 – Requiring Evidence before action. 3 – Political Institutions: Military, Duty, Merit, Property, Law, Benevolent Adversarialism. 4 – Family Institutions: church, marriage, family, humility, 5 – Civil Institutions: virtues, norms, manners. 6 – Western Tradition: Heroism,…
The Nuance of Improved Inputs
Mar 22, 2020, 1:42 AM by Luke Weinhagen P often looks like a competing interpretation of philosophy or a competing ideology. When what is really offers is fidelity and disambiguity to the underlying concepts of all philosophy and ideology (at differing costs to each). In the case of UPB this clarity comes from discovery of…
A Full Answer of Demonstrated Interests
Mar 22, 2020, 11:03 AM It is hard to start with first principles. We always want to narrow the domain set of our question rather than start from first principles. The first principle is time. We are in a continuous competition with time, and our inventory of resources, because of the cost of persisting our…
Markets And The Necessity Of Full Accounting
Mar 22, 2020, 11:24 AM Questions: Are we running barrel-making as a private corporation? Or are we running the city as a private corporation? Or are we running the state as a private corporation? Or are we running the empire as a private corporation? Or are we running the civilization as a private corporation? Or…
Definition: Demonstrated Interests
Mar 22, 2020, 12:30 PM —“What’s a Demonstrated interest?”— Demonstrated interest without imposing upon others demonstrated interests is a fact. Possession is a fact. Property requires an an agreement. Property rights require an institutional means of enforcement. I bear costs of existing (Natural Interest). I bear costs of acting (Demonstration) I bear costs of acquiring…
Reciprocity functions as the explanation of the preservation of demonstrated interest
Mar 22, 2020, 1:04 PM Reciprocity functions as the explanation of the preservation of demonstrated interest, against which people will not retaliate. Starting with reciprocity instead of the first principle of time, the utility of cooperation, the self defense of limiting yourself to reciprocity, and the offensive defense of your interests by demanding reciprocity starts…
The Military’s Job in A Crisis Is to Preserve the Government
Mar 22, 2020, 1:26 PM You see, the military’s job in a crisis is to preserve the government, in an effort to preserve order. Defense is harder than offense. It requires concentration of forces. The military is small in number. The country is vast. So if you aren’t trying to take over the government by…
Why They Emphasize Intersubjectively Verifiable Property
Mar 22, 2020, 1:43 PM I can’t always come into possession (exclusive control) over those things in which I’ve demonstrated an interest (by bearing a cost so that I can demonstrate an interest). Just because I have invested doesn’t mean I can come into possession of what I’ve invested in. Awareness > opportunity > resources…
Balance Sheet Thinking 😉
Mar 22, 2020, 1:45 PM —“Hm. If I exchange demonstrated interest, then I will be bearing a cost on that which other has already born a cost to demonstrate an interest, won’t I?”— Yes, but it’s a voluntary exchange, and if productive, the net is an increase. I other words, the transaction (full accounting again)…
No. It’s that Math Is the Reductio Example of Grammar.
Mar 22, 2020, 3:34 PM Math? … It’s not so much math. I don’t really think that way. Instead, I understand the grammars. I understand math is the most simple possible Formal grammar. That programming the next grammar, and that law the next grammar. And so I illustrate concepts with the most simple possible grammar:…
Serving the Empathic Personality Across a Spectrum of Low to High Neuroticism.
Mar 22, 2020, 4:07 PM Societies and Religions Serve the Empathic Personality Across a Spectrum of Low to High Neuroticism. —“Are we talkin about run-of-the-mill Freemasonry or high-level secret handshake Freemasonry?”—Leif Erickson What’s the difference besides the personalities of the people who go to them? Religiosity is driven not by intelligence per se, but by…