Category: Thoughts

By Dima Vorobiev, “I worked for Soviet propaganda” If you are a Westerner and talk to us Russians about freedom, you need to know that we understand freedom quite differently from you. In English, there are two complementary words for the topic: “freedom” and “liberty”. We also have a pair, “svoboda” and “volya”. But the…

—“Pardon my ignorance but what is White Sharia (“The White Law”)?”— Its a neologism for an intolerant, absolutist, expansionist, prosecutorial law of truth, duty, reciprocity, and nationalism. “The law beyond which no religion, state, academy, organization, or individual may tread.” (“Noose, Pike, and Pyre”)

—“The very first adjustment, that I had to make, the very first time I set foot in the USA, was to redefine ‘freedom’. ‘Freedom’ here means ‘freedom to make money’ – the word has no other meaning. As an immediate afterthought – and ‘God’ is for those who stand in the way of that.  I…

by Paul Franklin —“In every case I can think of, there is no difference between a liar and a coward (in the meaning of liars we use). In other words, you can judge for one or the other: veracity or cowardice, they are both the same. Basically that’s it. No need for any complicated tomes.…

I have a terrible habit, developed over many years, from defending myself, my management and staff, and my companies, and out of pure necessity, of changing from argument to defense against litigation. In other words, from working with friends, allies, and customers, to fighting against enemies. Any politician, negotiator, or litigator develops this talent (and…

Um. I can’t emphasize this enough. 1) *While Prices drive to Equilibrium, Markets drive to Disequilibrium*. 2) Loose credit (monetary expansion) increases disequilibrium necessary for causing corrections (discovering limits). 3) The debate between conservatives and progressives is whether the cumulation of short term gains exceeds the costs of the correction. In my opinion, this is…

There is a reason the operational name of mythology is “Wisdom Literature”. Because it contains wisdom that has survived market competition for centuries if no millennia. I have a rather defensive posture with regard to the term ‘truth’. So in order to defend the word ‘truth’ from abuses, the correct term is not ‘truth’ (most…

There is a reason the operational name of mythology is “Wisdom Literature”. Because it contains wisdom that has survived market competition for centuries if no millennia. I have a rather defensive posture with regard to the term ‘truth’. So in order to defend the word ‘truth’ from abuses, the correct term is not ‘truth’ (most…

GENERAL IDEAS: A “FIELD” IN MATHEMATICS (repost by request) Given a six sided die, and the single operation “roll the die”, we can produce a noisy distribution of : 1(x1), 2(x1), 3(x1), 4(x1), 5(x1), 6(x1). Given two six sided dice, and the single operation “roll the dice and sum the results”, we can produce a…

The difference between law and science is that in questions of law, individuals in conflict demand a decision from judge and jury in the present where in science we explicitly deny this demand, and in philosophy where we never do so, and in religion we presume it already made.

—“For Russians a true free will (volya) is enjoyed either by Tsar, an absolute monarch, or by free roaming cossack, vagabond, criminal, who does not have to take the wishes of other people into consideration and either goes into unsettled land where he may continue to live unattached, or to go underground into criminal world,…

—“I know it’s public, but I thought it’d still be polite if I asked. Would it bother you if I used a specific comment you made on one of your statuses in a conversation? You make some really good points.”— A Friend  Look. Here is how this deal works. I get to use the public…

Yes, I work from the Misesian premise of full accounting when referring to money and its substitutes, and the totality of monetary aggregates. However, the problem with the Austrian model is (as has always been stated) it’s overly respectful of lenders (asset holders) without accounting for the moral hazard most money lenders profit from. This…

I’ve had Axelrod’s evolution of cooperation on my recommended reading list for years. If you want a book length treatment of the subject of modeling cooperation so that you have an even better grasp of The Evolutionary Dominance of Ethnocentrism, then after you read the paper below, get Axelrod from our digital library (free).

Originalism requires that the legislature alter the law and that the court not alter the law, only reject bad law. The constitution was an attempt to codify natural law (reciprocity). Our law is natural law and has been for 3500 years. The weakness in our system of government is: 1) There is no requirement that…

GOING FULL FASH So yeah, as the day of revolution draws nearer, and the hate for my people has increased, and the threat to my people has increased, the genocide against my people has been openly promoted, I’ve gone “Full Fash” so to speak – just that it’s Natural Law Fascism. And in my understanding…

1) We (Taleb and I) are both specialists in debunking frauds – he by innumeracy in specific and I fictionalism more broadly. We are both intolerant of frauds. One can only claim one speaks truthfully of the testifiable, where one can warranty one’s speech. if not one lies. Period. 2) Since you demonstrate you lie,…

1) I framed the problem as whether you can testify. You cannot. Since you cannot testify, you are in fact fictionalizing (adding information that does not exist). 2) I framed the criteria for decidability as (a) parsimony (b) constant relations between existence, perception, cognition, and action, (c) motive, (d) absence of fictionalism. 3) I can…

All existence is a consequence of randomness generated at the moment of recreation, and the very small number of laws that arise from whatever the universe is actually made of in… https://www.facebook.com/curt.doolittle/posts/10156482471517264 … –“The issue with the “monkeys on typewriters” is that we know that Shakespeare’s works were created and not random. So what this…

Love Thyself. Love Thy Kin. Love Thy Nation. But Transcend all of man. Of course I love my family, tribe, and nation above all. But I also wish every other family and tribe to prosper, evolve, and transcend. Any man who fights for truth and liberty is my brother. Any man who uses truth and…

—“Aristotle encouraged Alexander toward eastern conquest and Aristotle’s own attitude towards Persia was unabashedly ethnocentric. In one famous example, he counsels Alexander to be “a leader to the Greeks and a despot to the barbarians, to look after the former as after friends and relatives, and to deal with the latter as with beasts or…

by Steve Pender What percentage of privately owned semiautomatic rifles in the US have been used in mass shootings? What percent of immigrant or first generation Muslims in the US have been involved in terrorism? What percent of unmarried fatherless black adult men in the US have been involved in violent crime? Only rifles are…

It is hard to prosecute an ascetic since it is through property one is most easily prosecuted by the state. Living overseas in a private hotel, you realize the luxury of no driver’s license, no car, no insurance, no bills, no anything other than pay-as-you-go phone bill and monthly hotel bill. Living well without property…

There are no paradoxes only grammatical errors. If people err they do not speak the truth they speak only honestly or truthfully. That they conflate honesty with truthfully is merely another version of conflating preference “i like chocolate ice cream” with consensus “chocolate tastes good (to most of us)”, with truth (chocolate may taste good…

Muslim Conquest of Spain reaches max in 750. Martel begins the reversal in 732, but it takes until 1492. The Merovingians 450-800 could not resist islam. The carolingians 800-880 could not. The viking age begins in 800-1066. The Hanseatic League begins in 1130 and starts to decline after 1450 with the rise of Atlantic Trade.…