Author: CurtD59

Mar 18, 2020, 12:50 PM Philosophy is just verbal idealism (verbal sophistry) rather than supernatural Idealism (supernatural sophistry). Science is the application of the process of law to testimony about information itself: epistemology. If you can’t do science: descriptions of operations, then you’re telling fictions. Fictions may be all you can understand, because you lack…

Mar 18, 2020, 1:42 PM —“Humans have no subspecies.”— We are animals, and no different from every other creature on this earth. We adapted by class distribution, degree and rate of maturity, dimorphism in development, and by personality and temperament, in relation to environmental conditions in different temperate (latitudinal) bands across the planet with division…

Mar 18, 2020, 6:08 PM Kash Vikaas Nothing particularly interesting. (a) national security. china and russia are highly vulnerable to participation in the dollar-financial system. Look what the USA has done to russia since 2014’s invasion of ukraine. And look what china is afraid of today. I mean, we can rebuild anything they’re producing in…

Mar 18, 2020, 7:22 PM —“I’m pragmatic – why am I reading this if I know that the need for women to raise children is going to destroy that beautiful essay on law or that poetry of grammar that you just wrote.”— I want to know whether you are pragmatic or simply advocating islamisation, or…

Mar 18, 2020, 9:04 PM There’s never been a worse time for fiscal stimulus – Econlib econlib.org There’s never been a worse time for fiscal stimulus STIMULUS BY RATE OF RESPONSE AND EFFECT MONETARY stimulus refers to lowering interest rates, quantitative easing, or other ways of increasing the amount of money or credit. DIRECT stimulus…

—“Curt, is this interesting or am I reading too much into it? From what I’ve read on UK property rights (past and present), the idea that pleas of injustice or “hey, no fair” could overrule the express wishes of the property owner is a significant shift away from the standard individualist approach to ownership rights.…

Mar 19, 2020, 3:29 PM —“Greetings, …. I’d like to know the extent to which propertarianism depends on falsificationism(understood as a concept in the philosophy of science) and as a consequence how it answers the criticisms raised against the notions since the 1950s, notably by Quine in “Two Dogmas of Empiricism”. Quote illustrating part of…

Mar 19, 2020, 3:36 PM You can appropriate language, philosophy, and theology for your purposes, in order to justify your priors. Sure. You can’t steal the LAWS to justify your priors. Sorry. That’s the whole point of laws. THERE ARE THREE QUESTIONS THAT DECIDE ALL PHILOSOPHY 1 – CHOICE: “Why should I not suicide?” 2…

Mar 19, 2020, 3:46 PM 1) So the restoration of reciprocity between the genders is what you are objecting to? 2) The equal suppression of the female means of deceit and undermining so that it equals the male suppression of deceit and undermining is irreciprocal? 3) The granting of women a separate and equal political…

I.Q. IN THE HIGH RANGE CORRELATES NEGATIVELY WITH INDICATORS OF DISORDER AND DEVIANCE by Paul Cooijmans This result has surprised me, and for years I thought it might be due to sampling error and would disappear as more data came in. It did not, and I am now fairly confident that there is indeed a…

Mar 20, 2020, 10:22 AM —“Bill, Why is the religion question not hard? And why is applied-P simple?”— RELIGION I think the religion question result from the conflation of two necessary psychological functions: 1) belonging and cohesion to the community (running with the pack, ritual behaviour increasing amiability to cooperate, signaling between group members) And;…

Mar 20, 2020, 10:28 AM BUT WHAT ABOUT EVERYTHING OTHER THAN MORAL REASONING? —“Brandon, Why is applied-P simple?”—CD —“P’s not hard cause it asks one thing: reciprocity. It’s just hard for people to spot when it’s not interpersonal. Don’t cheat people with your words; warranty your actions… What’s hard?”— Brandon Hayes So moral-reasoning in P…

Mar 20, 2020, 10:47 AM by Yiannis Kontinopoulos What people don’t get in Propertarianism is that the scientific method with testimonialism is not an epistemological criterion, but an ethical one: these are all the ways that you might be prone to error or attempt to lie and if you don’t adhere to these standards you…

Mar 20, 2020, 11:24 AM Women got the vote because they were entering the workforce during the war; out of a feeling of moral gratitude for their having done so; and the government wanted to tax them, and the reason for the american revolution was ‘no taxation without representation’. In addition, they wanted to reduce…

Mar 20, 2020, 11:33 AM The more agency the have the less intuition to rely on to choose, the more you rely on intuition to falsify. I think that’s the net of it. “What does my intuition say? Ok. how can that be false? What’s the evidence that falsifies my intuition? And repeat that endlessly.”…

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…

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,…

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.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…