The Cult of Competence
Jan 5, 2020, 2:40 PM by Luke Weinhagen —“… the freedom we have enjoyed in America is not the fruit of fortuitous accident, of great natural resources, or of mere isolation from the tangled skein of European politics. It is the direct result of purposeful thinking and hard work. It is the child of the…
Could We Falsify All Human Speech in Court?
Jan 5, 2020, 2:48 PM We can, and do, falsify all human action in court. The question was, could we falsify all human speech in court. The answer is yes. The usual problem is that someone wants an ideology(political) philosophy (secular theological), or theology (supernatural theological) solution – which is impossible. Because Science (truthful testimony)…
Differences in Standards
Jan 5, 2020, 2:53 PM by Vengefül Bobmoran High trust people require not only the absence of conflict of interest, but also the absence of appearance of conflict of interest, as the appearance itself is enough to erode trust and imposes a huge cost on everyone. The left applies the bare minimum ghetto ethic (no…
(opportunities in thought) (note: before wolfram announced his solution)
Jan 5, 2020, 3:51 PM Thoughts… Subconscious has been troubled by (or working on) something that is beginning to take shape, and I can’t quite put my finger on it yet, but it’s coming out as very clear distinction between the feminine semitic and compromise hindu, and masculine european-sinic, but it’s deeper than that. It’s…
Hierarchies of the Laws
Jan 5, 2020, 3:51 PM The Natural Law: (+) .Evolution: Evidence of Competition (-) .. History: Evidence of Consequences (+) … War: Evidence of Extra Political Conflict (-) …. Politics: Evidence of Political Conflict (+) ….. Law : Evidence of Conflict (-) …… Economics: Evidence of Cooperation (+) ……. Operations (Grammars) (+) …….. Sciences :…
i’m too disagreeable and appreciative of the finer things
Jan 5, 2020, 3:52 PM (In my university, because I majored in Fine Art, you could take creative writing for credit every semester. I did. But, i’m too disagreeable and appreciative of the finer things to write works of fiction in poverty for two to four years at a time just so I can play…
On the Limits of Mathematics
Jan 5, 2020, 3:52 PM Mathematics is the measurement of averages with limited variance in category, and economics is the measurement of averages in wide variance in category. The universe changes state by operations. We use mathematics to describe point changes. Calculus breaks down at the subatomic level. Calculus breaks down at the economic level.…
Economics Is Just an Extension of Physics
Jan 5, 2020, 3:53 PM We can quantify all sorts of metrics of human behavior, but you’re confusing mathematics with physics, the same way most people confuse averages with instances or distributions. In other words, mathematics describes averages of points in time, it doesn’t not describe operations.Mathematics consist of operations that describe states and changes…
The Grammars of Civilizations
Jan 5, 2020, 4:52 PM Europeans Develop Competition-law, Reason, Realism, Naturalism, Empiricism, Technology-Science, Geometry. CALCULATION Chinese Develop Bureaucracy-rule, Reason-lite-Wisdom Literature, Realism, Naturalism, Technology but not science, and Arithmetic. They settle on Reason and Bureaucracy. ~REASON Indians Develop Class Roles, Political Reason, Supernaturalism, Mythicism, Pragmatism, limited technology, arithmetic and positional names. That this is the remnant…
Why Are Contracts a Mess?
Jan 5, 2020, 5:23 PM 0) Reality: all contracts are just form letters with names and dates in them. All that changes is the list of assets, and the rights and obligations of both parties – and mostly, it’s the obligations for both parties, ’cause rights only exist if the contract fails. The courts have…
Declaring War
Jan 5, 2020, 6:26 PM The United States Congress has not formally declared war since World War II. There have only been 11 instances of declaring war, almost all of which are during WW2. The President can MAKE war but cannot DECLARE war. “The president has the power to initiate hostilities without consulting Congress.” There…
What Does Truth Mean?
Jan 5, 2020, 7:31 PM Existence refers to persistence. The universe exists, and the matter in it exists, because it persists – we can identify that it exists because we posses memory. We can identify patterns of constant relations in that persist in that universe – that universe is deterministic at any scale at which…
The History Of The Germanic War for Integration and Restoration
Jan 5, 2020, 9:43 PM (working on this ) The Germanic War for Integration into Roman Civilization The Germanic wars for Restoration of Roman Civilization 1562 – 1598 The French War to preserve church and state corruption, and general ignorance, against the Protestant Huguenots and their restoration of ancient knowledge by slaughtering them. Catholic mobs…
Silly People, Sophistry-Trix Are for Kids!
Jan 6, 2020, 2:24 PM (P law forces people into exchanges for what they desire. That is the purpose of the law: to force people out of rent seeking, parasitism and predation and into markets for survival.) Dear Silly Person; You should really ask questions rather than presume you are somewhere, anywhere, near capable of…
Understanding
Jan 6, 2020, 3:32 PM A little frustrated with the conservative vox populi. The liberals think you are evil for requiring meritocracy, and you think they have your agency. You’re both wrong. If you think people know what they’re doing then you tend to hate them. If you think all but a few of us…
Trump’s New Space Force Would Enhance Israel and The Future United States Militarily
Jan 6, 2020, 3:33 PM With Trump’s new Space Force, comes Jerusalem’s ( or Tel Aviv, if you like ) comparative military advantage in the Middle East. Now under the Air Force Secretary, when the United States Space Force evolve into a fully fledged arm of the United States military, you can expect that it’s…
Convenient Classifications
Jan 6, 2020, 3:59 PM by James Dmitro Makienko If 4GW is done by state actors it’s called “hybrid war” If 4GW is done by non-state actors it’s called “terrorism” Same violence. Different benefactors
“My Current Copy/paste of What Is P Is”
Jan 6, 2020, 8:29 PM THE MAIN PROPERTARIAN INNOVATIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS THAT COMPLETE WESTERN LAW AND ARISTOTELIAN EPISTEMOLOGY. by Alain Dwight My current copy/paste of what is P is pretty much a break down at the narrative level: Here’s what I think the main Propertarian innovations/clarifications are that complete western (common/tort) law and Aristotelian epistemology.…
Male and Female Brains Are Different
The End of Democracy?
Jan 7, 2020, 9:48 AM We can save democracy in some form if we modify the franchise and create houses for the classes again, and give women a separate house. But (as Samuel Huntington warned) democracy cannot survive Islam. Between (1) granting women the franchise, (2) postwar jewish marxism-socialism-postmodernism-feminism-denialism and (3) Islamic religion-of-continuous-war-and-conquest by continuous…
Perceptions of Possibility and Probability Are Always Determined by Knowledge
Jan 7, 2020, 10:23 AM One’s perspective on the chances of separation are determined by (a) knowledge of military history, strategy, and end of Westphalian and restoration of traditional conflict (4gw). (b) knowledge of the fragility of the USA, and its cities, how rapidly it will collapse, and how it can be exploited, ( c)…
Height Aversion Is Genetic
Jan 7, 2020, 3:49 PM I love it that height aversion is genetic. In the 90’s I had to take drugs to work on the 22nd floor, and even the 9th floor in Kiev was hard on me. I’m good thru about six. Otherwise it triggers the vertigo, and once it start’s is unmanageable. I…
What’s Wrong with Ireland?
Jan 7, 2020, 4:26 PM —“David Robles Hey Curt, what can you tell us about IRELAND? Also I love propertarianism have read so much about it could you add me?”— Added. Depends on what context you’re asking about. I dunno what P can tell us but I think the discussion on Ireland has been going…
Don’t Come to A Juridical Scientist and Try to Justify Abrahamic Religions – You Can’t. They’re Frauds.
Jan 7, 2020, 4:42 PM —“Wrong.”—Oussama Dib II That’s not an argument. And I pretty much never get it wrong. —“What historical facts prove that? And refering Arabs for Dictatorship Wisdom Lit of predation? Did you know well Arabs and their history? The good and bad..?”—Oussama Dib II WHAT HISTORICAL FACTS? TRY THESE: 1) What…
I Don”t Complain About Races.
Jan 7, 2020, 4:57 PM (re: arabs) I don’t complain about races. There are no problem with races. There are only problems with ideas, ideologies, philosophies, theologies, cultures, traditions, laws, and government … and demographic distributions (excess size of underclasses in poor countries mean it is not possible to structure pareto distributions economically, create rule…