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…
It’s Fking Magic… Really.
Mar 22, 2020, 4:19 PM I mean, seriously, I used to think of a question, go to the library, go thru the card catalog, read through tables of contents, read through bibliographies, use microfilms to search newspapers and articles, and fking write people letters to get information. I had multiple encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographical encyclopedias. I…
A brain seeks to maintain attention. It will do so by whatever means it can.
Mar 22, 2020, 4:40 PM You don’t understand… a brain seeks to maintain attention. It will do so by whatever means it can. There isn’t a lot of conceptual difference between your brain and strings of christmas lights. It wants the lights on. What’s the problem? some of us have better wiring, some of us…
An Essential Insight Into the Status of Our Religions
Mar 22, 2020, 5:39 PM by Tim Beckley I do see this as an essential insight. Christianity could never have maintained a monopoly in the Western market for religious goods and services (ritual, education, etc.). I think one problem preventing this realization in the West is that we were subjected to its belligerence for so…
A Spectrum of Religions
Mar 22, 2020, 7:13 PM STOICISM-EPICUREANISM A (scientific) methodology for self authoring virtues that insulates you from the opinions of others, and a philosophy for living within your means, emphasizing family, friends, and the joys in life. BUDDHISM Faith is defined as serene trust that the practice of the Buddha’s teaching will bear fruit. A…
Intuition Is a Jealous Elephant.
Mar 22, 2020, 8:43 PM I spent years on the analytic, logical, operational, and empirical to climb through the ladder of disciplines one ring at a time, and finally reach the end – religion and aesthetics. And the conversation followed a predictable trajectory. An indifferent “Huh?” to “Yes, yes” enthusiastic engagement. Everyone wanted me to…
The Goal of Freemasonry?
Mar 22, 2020, 8:51 PM by Scott De Warren I don’t see Freemasonry as an attempt to create a masculine rational Christianity so much as an attempt to break down the barriers between the three Abrahamic cults through common ritual, hierarchy, and esoteric symbolism/teaching of man’s potential transcendence rooted in Egyptian, Babylonian, Phoenician temple traditions…
The Case Against and For
Mar 23, 2020, 11:31 AM Rik, This piece helped me understand you a little better. Your book helped me understand you a little better. I finally understand what you are doing and why. And I understand your investment in the literary frame. My question is whether literary frames are causes, justifications, or excuses. Whether we…
The Market For Justifying Low Agency
Mar 23, 2020, 11:54 AM THE MARKET DEMAND IS FOR “AN EXCUSE TO HAVE LOW AGENCY WHILE STILL FEELING GOOD ABOUT MYSELF AND EVEN FEELING SUPERIOR TO OTHERS”. by John Mark I’ve been pondering along these lines, don’t have full answer fleshed out yet by any means. A couple things I’m confident of: Asking Christians…
Everything a (((libertarian))) Says Is a Lie.
Mar 23, 2020, 12:08 PM –“Property is dirived from the axiom of self ownership ie, we own ourselves. External property is defined by labor investment – either direct labor such as, “I made this walking stick” or indirect labor such as “I bought this walking stick” or also indirectly as a title gift as “I…
A European Syncretic Religion Is Possible
Mar 23, 2020, 12:45 PM 1) It is absolutely possible to create a framework for the spectrum of european ‘religions’ and a pantheon. 2) It is absolutely possible to produce a non-false, syncretic, european religion. 3) It is absolutely positively possible to institutionalize those religions – gradually. 4) it is absolutely positively possible to teach…