Month: May 2020

Jan 24, 2020, 9:01 AM –“Bayesian”– This is a good start. Now I know the paradigm your working from and its limits. We have a long way to go. But smart folk will get there. My job is to (a) get you to operationalize bayesian learning instead of using it as a ‘magic word’. And…

Jan 24, 2020, 9:07 AM FEMALE HIERARCHIES DON’T SCALE: VIDEO AND WIKI by Andrew M Gilmour ( The Mouse Utopia Experiments | Down the Rabbit Hole at youtube.com ) Social (female) hierarchies don’t scale well (Calhoun). We need to build one, IMO. A council of elders with legal powers over the franchise, marriage and citizenship.…

Jan 24, 2020, 10:18 AM —“Curt. There’s nobody else on the Internet who actually takes people’s questions. It’s EXTREMELY impressive.”— George Ward Hugs brother. It’s ’cause I love my people not my career. And, P gives me a very substantial advantage in explanatory power over other moderates, conservatives, and libertarians.

Jan 24, 2020, 10:32 AM Well regulated meant ‘trained where that training is paid for by the state’. The discussion at the time was that given the vastness of the territory, the sparsity of the population, and the limited funds, that they could not at the time afford to pay for it, and that men…

by Scott De Warren “The Curley Effect: The Economics of Shaping the Electorate” shows how the Irish Democrat’s targeted and purged the English that had founded and built New England. A classic case for propertarians to study. It is the pattern for our dispossession by low agency left wing immigrants.       https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/glaeser/files/curley_effect_1.pdf (The…

Jan 24, 2020, 10:50 AM The only purpose of a political party is promotion and legitimacy the same way the IRA had a political party (Sinn Fein). It’s not because a political party can win elections. It’s because it’s a vehicle for recruiting within a non-military framework, and promoting policy. Via positiva politics, via negativa…

Jan 24, 2020, 11:00 AM —“You keep mentioning trials of Achilles but I have no idea what that’s intended to refer and I wonder if you’re not thinking of labors of Heracles?”—Martin Št?pán The greeks invented the tragedy (nietzsche), and it was a novel technology of social order that justified sacrifice as heroism, and unity…

There are values to be learned from both Achilles(a King who is not yet noble) and Hector (a warrior who is noble). However, what does it say about rage, power, and forgiveness to men who would be kings? Iliad and Odyssey are two books in what is called the Epic Cycle. The “Bible” of the…

Jan 24, 2020, 11:52 AM —“Nature is the mother of reciprocity. Cold, brutal and uncompromising. Pay its price or cease existing.”—Eric Bumpus

Jan 24, 2020, 1:38 PM Yeah, well you know, the faithful need to believe the mythos is true because men said so. We, the rational, only need to understand that Christian love, natural law of reciprocity and the physical laws are written in the structure of the universe regardless of what men said. The difference…

Common themes in the Bible and Homer. adamvoight.wordpress.com By Don Miguel (Must read) You are correct about how fundamental Homer’s work was to the classical worldview. If you read the Platonic dialogue “Ion”, it is clear that the Greeks say Homer as a conduit of divine scripture. My only criticism is that in my view…

Jan 24, 2020, 9:55 PM —“An institution’s ability to perform its primary function is inversely proportionate with the level it’s infested with social justice.”—James Louis LaSalle The reasons SJWs infect organizations are (a) that we don’t separate via-positiva devotional organizations, from via-negativa enforcement organizations, (b) we don’t ALWAYS structure either form of organization as empirical…

Hamlet: a small settlement, generally one smaller than a village, usually a collection of homes in a rural or agrarian region. Village: a group of houses and associated buildings, larger than a hamlet and smaller than a town, situated in a rural area, and possessing minor local commerce. Town: an urban area that has a…

Jan 25, 2020, 8:44 AM Um. Even if I am, or was, a ‘spook’ – that’s like saying a soldier can’t fight in the revolution because he fought for the state. Truth? There are as many stupid overconfident morons on the right as there are on the left. The difference? The left shows up. So…

Jan 25, 2020, 9:07 AM I studied history, military history, military technology, technological history, political history, engineering, drafting, and art history. I built businesses in art supplies, business supplies, legal research, and technology consulting, marketing consulting, strategy consulting, greenhouse gas measurement, product development, and I touched private and public organizations almost every sector of the…

Jan 25, 2020, 9:08 AM A consulting company is, structurally, an intelligence gathering organization, that uses recruiting, tech, marketing, strategy, or finance as an excuse for information gathering – just as do state departments and intelligence agencies. Business is just war by other means. The intelligence sector is just business by other means. Politics is…

Jan 25, 2020, 10:04 AM I understand that you can’t convince a theologian to abandon supernatural dependency, nor can you convince a platonist to abandon his independence from reality. Both are habituations where the cost of reformation is beyond their comprehension. Science depends on realism, naturalism, operationalism, and empiricism is a process of producing testimony…

Jan 25, 2020, 10:09 AM —“I spent the next several years wandering the desert, so to speak, until I found your work. Just glad that, when one of your posts popped up, my “Let’s see what he’s got to say” curiosity overpowered my “oh god that guy again” reflex.”— Luke Jason Willis (Curt: You know,…

Jan 25, 2020, 10:10 AM by Mark Astrella Curt. I wanted to put things into perspective so as not to be “the mouse that roared “. Now is the time to build a strong following (over 10 million). Who can preach P. I believe we can do this with more messages by John Mark. He…

Jan 25, 2020, 11:17 AM by Luke Jason Willis Overcoming the reflex: … Realize that you don’t know everything … Realize that you’re probably not as smart as you think you are. … Learn to recognize emotional reactions, understand that they are often wrong … Realize that the situations in your life that have taught…

Jan 25, 2020, 11:59 AM “The purpose of dogma is to give the mind an excuse for what the body feels. That’s all. The purpose of MYTH is to provide a group strategy that is persisted by the addiction.” (religion)

Jan 25, 2020, 3:52 PM by Don Miguel All I am pointing out is that there is a big difference in the relations between the protagonists and antogonists of the Illiad and that Bible. The antagonists in the Odyssey, are seen in a rather Satanic light and people utterly without excuse. For many reasons: 1)…

Jan 25, 2020, 4:23 PM by Luke Weinhagen Passive morality isn’t. Conflating docility (submissive to morality, passive) with morality is like conflating helplessness (being incapable of violence, passive) with being peaceful. Both may describe your behavior but not your character nor your potential for reciprocity.

That in all capital or criminal Prosecutions, a man hath a right to demand the cause & nature of his Accusation, to be confronted with the Accusers and Witnesses, to call for Evidence and be admitted Counsel in his Favor, and to a fair and speedy Trial by an impartial Jury of his Vicinage, without…

Jan 26, 2020, 7:53 AM This list appears to omit what is possibly the most important criteria: “Fraction of those planets with a molten iron core, and a moon large enough to keep it molten, so that an electromagnetic shield can protect the atmosphere.” Rate of star formation, R” = 1 solar masses Fraction of…