Author: CurtD59

MAN IS MINIMALLY MORAL, NOT MAXIMALLY. LOYALTY IS A WEAK BARRIER WITHOUT PUNISHMENT (LAW) –“I’ve been reading Spalding’s recent book. It is amazing how our investment banks would lend to China the capital to bring U.S. domestic production to China and then promote their corporations as they stole billions of dollars worth of intellectual property.…

  —“Why is marriage still viable for the top in this hyperconsumptive society but not for the bottom? Is it because the top have a predisposition to provide higher investment parenting than the bottom?”–Richard Hall Because in the upper third, there is so much economic advantage, so much status advantage, and so many more means…

Recent data is in line with my opinion: they mature less and are less dimorphic, and as such their intelligence advantage does not continue to scale like ours with age. In other words, they have a youth advantage. But it does not persist. Meanwhile, we keep getting ‘smarter’ by about a point every three years.…

—The lost virtue of “I don’t know”—Steve Pender

War is the most profitable enterprise – but like socialism, you eventually run out of other people’s wealth. And under both conquest and socialism, you eventually lack the resources and incentives to govern and tax the conquered, which is much harder than conquest and looting whether by military or political means.

Nov 20, 2019, 10:56 AM by Micah Pezdirtz (flawless, brilliant) —“Morality describes good in-group behavior. The in-group defines the limit of moral utility. Outside of the in-group, “moral” actions cease congruence with moral actions within it (betraying outsiders does not carry the same cost as betraying your kin). Westerners have a proclivity to universalize the…

—“Nature always seeks the cheapest solution. Morality is costly.”—Martin Št?pán

—“Every nation is a propositional nation. The proposition is written in the DNA.”—Martin Št?pán (brilliant)

Every civilization produces a strategy: European: everyone in the polity is a potential customer, family member, commons producer, or formation-holder in the field. How does judaic, islamic, hindustani, chinese or japanese view others?

The purpose of the postmodern revolution was to relieve the infantilized mind of the pressures of competition in modernity when freed of the excuse that they were just poor. Unfortunately, the poor were poor deservedly, and the postmodern underclasses are still underclasses that can just spend money because their betters have made all consumer goods…

  —”The West also has its Roskomnadzor (Ros’-ko-mnad’-zor / ????????????), but it’s private.”— Maxim V Filimonov Roskomnadzor: The Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media or Roskomnadzor is the Russian federal executive body responsible for censorship in media and telecommunications Founded: May 12, 2008 Number of employees: 3,019 (2017) Headquarters: Moscow,…

—“That’s what altruistic punishment is. Making immorality more expensive than morality”—Martin Št?pán

1) Everyone acts to acquire. Life is an expensive means of defeating entropy. Acting improves acquisition – at additional cost. Memory improves acquisition – at additional cost. reason improves acquisition – at additional cost. cooperation improves acquisition – at additional cost. 2) We all act in furtherance of our reproductive strategy. Female (Consume), Neutral(Exchange), and…

Young adult siblings and twins are less alike in cognitive ability in highly educated families than in less-educated families. (interesting)

Shared environmental in?uences on education matter only in disadvantaged families, whereas genetic in?uences are more important in advantaged families. (important)  

Hey so, you know, the argument is that women don’t love their men. That men are disposable. Men are promiscuous by nature out of reproductive necessity but women are not disposable except at the margin (sports, rock stars, etc) where the supply is infinite. The reality is that we love each other within the limits…

I am not sure if the argument that the east indo-europeans (supernatural-theological) were the losers in the conflict with the west indo-european (technological-magical), but it sure makes a lot of sense. Those in control (magic) those under control (supernatural). I think it’s more likely that the Anatolians or proto iranics brought nigh-religion to the competition…

—“It is generally assumed that the Hittites came into Anatolia sometime before 2000 BC. While their earlier location is disputed, scholars speculate that the Yamnaya culture of the Pontic–Caspian steppe, in present-day Ukraine, around the Sea of Azov, spoke an early Indo-European language during the third and fourth millennia BC. The arrival of the Hittites…

Nov 21, 2019, 9:46 AM Europeans brought China heroin, and the jews brought Europe Judaism(Christianity), and the Muslims bring Islam. there is no difference at all. We did the in Americas 400 years ago what we’d done to Europe and Eurasia 4000 years ago. In retrospect, our crime was not doing to the middle east…

Nov 21, 2019, 10:56 AM NO, VIOLENCE (harm) is evolving (progressing) along the spectrum from physical, to financial, economic, to informational. There is more HARM than ever in human history and on far greater scales. It’s just distributed across time across the entirety of human capital. Measure it. —“Pinker addresses this in the FAQ on…

Nov 21, 2019, 11:00 AM Man is just a rational actor, and physical crime has become less rewarding because assets are largely intangible, consumption is absurdly cheap – especially foods, there are many more means of entertainment (yes crime is also a form of entertainment).

Nov 21, 2019, 11:18 AM I’d personalize everything, think my emotions and impulses were meaningful information, never accept blame or responsibility, hold grudges eternally, gossip, judge everyone especially women by trivialities, be incapable of basic economics and politics. (sarcasm)

Nov 21, 2019, 11:32 AM We hunted iron like wild game, and iron-smelting families lived apart to preserve their secrets. Today we have a pretty clear idea of how they made iron – and it was a group project: time consuming and hard work. But it produced high returns in exchange. One could not divulge…

Nov 22, 2019, 9:53 AM I suppose I should explain that the requirement under Reciprocity for the ‘Productive’ outlaws rent-seeking. I didn’t realize that wasn’t obvious. But, yes it outlaws rent-seeking, outlaws blackmail, it creates the creative commons limitation on profiting from others work without compensation, while allowing personal use. Brands are protected through standards…