Category: Thoughts

“THE GRID” axiomatic,….theoretic,…….and analogistic. deductive…..inductive, ……and abductive. proof, …….truth, ……….and meaningful. ideal,……..real,…………and imaginary. consistent….correspondent,…and coherent

James Santagata just shared an excellent paper, which illustrates the relationship between common law and continental law, language regulation, and economic regulation. Well, the conclusions should be pretty obvious (prior restraint vs post resolution) and that all countries pay a trade off between the utility of some regulation to prevent frauds of all sorts, lots…

(humor) Q: What’s the difference between Derrida and his critics? A: Derrida says there is nothing outside the text. His critics say there is nothing inside his texts either. Q: What’s the difference between Heidegger and Carnap? A: Heidegger believed that his writings contain thoughts about Nothing, whereas Carnap believed that they contain thoughts about…

The Ludic Fallacy consists in the error that probability can be calculated on unclosed systems, whereas outliers are of greater influence on consequences that change state than are regularities that maintain state. In other words, there are very few conditions under which dice are a model for probability, and the ratio of influence (change) is…

|Cognition| Analogistic > Theoretical > Axiomatic > Operational  by Bill Joslin So the process of cognitive development and concept creation would follow this spectrum. 1) Analogistic : abductive, fictional, imaginary, free association, imaginable – hypothesis creation. 2) Theoretical – inductive, narrative, possible, hypothesis development 3) Axiomatic – deductive, descriptive, deterministic, testable, probable, provable law proposal…

—“Most people won’t understand the basis for [the Propertarian] legal theory, and it will need explanation in mythological terms. To the people who require this form of explanation it will essentially be a religion.”– Eric Orwoll You know, sometimes you just need someone to reframe it for you. Thanks Eric. That’s smart. You could ahve…

by Alex Macleod –“You cannot have an enemy be the core of your culture.”– To put it very simplistically isn’t that what Judaism (goyim), Mohamedism (unbelievers) and Christianity (the devil) have? (Curt: Exactly. The abrahamic religions are the semitic pastoralist revolt against the agrarian metal workers. Thus explains the invention of organized religion as a…

by Jim Leis So as a very simple example, complexity structurally demands trial. And also innately breaks up large populations in preference for smaller ones; large ant hills and wolf packs split at certain sizes. Actually, complexity demands it. So, on a very base level, globalism is too hierarchical and statist for complexity. Globalism, socialism,…

POSTMODERNISM: NARCISSISM OF SMALL DIFFERENCES ALL IN LOVE WITH TOTALITARIANISM. (humor)(Sorry, but gotta repeat this) Q: What’s the difference between Heidegger, Sartre and Foucault? A: It’s just narcissism of small differences. All of them extolled the value of freedom (in theory), but in practice they all fell in love with various forms of totalitarianism. Heidegger…

BOTTOM UP, TOP DOWN Sometimes operational before descriptive, and sometimes descriptive before operational. by Dan Fodor I sometimes get ‘operational’ before I get ‘descriptive’ : I can spend hours running “simulations” of the math problem I’m trying to solve in my head (simple ex: visualize a cube to deduce its properties). This gets problematic if…

—“Talking of Nassim Nicholas Taleb, which book in your opinion defines him as a thinker?”–Marsden Katana I think everything you need to know is in Black Swan and he’s slowly moving my direction (involuntary warranty) versus voluntary “skin in the game”, through each of his books. I think he finally figured out that the data…

by Bill Joslin I think the Propertarian legal frames can be explained simply. But the difficulty in simplistic explanations pertains to constraining interpretation (free association) which dissolves our value on testimony as a demanding moral good. We can habituate that via law and grounded parables (parables grounded in reality)) (CURT: If you can disassemble that,…

by Zachary Miller Relationships between persons are the sources of a person’s duties. A parent has duties to a child by virtue of their natural relationship to one another. And the adult is identified as a parent by virtue of their duties to the child, as people are rather defined by their duties to others.…

by Vivek Na Liberals use this kind of rhetoric – “no right thinking individual would say that”. Or “That doesn’t sound right” – meaning you’re committing blasphemy according to their constructed sense of right and wrong, ergo, you’re a heretic who should be metaphorically exiled or pilloried. –Curt:– You know, we ought to use that…

It drives the Left nuts that the New Right owns the scientific discourse, and that it’s now clear progressivisms, in marxist pseudoscientific, feminist pseudoscientific, and postmodern pseudo-rational forms, are just another Religion. They can’t deal with the fact that New Right = Scientific Right.

—-”Is there a strategic reason Trump has alienated our traditional trading partners (Europe, Canada, Mexico) while simultaneously saying Russia should be allowed back into the G7 making it the G8?”—- OF COURSE. In Trump’s Own Words: “We’re like the piggy bank that everybody is robbing,” Trump said. “And that ends.” “The European Union is brutal…

Start with (key reading): Top of the list: Pinker, Steven (2002). The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature. Viking. Harris, Judith Rich (1998). The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do. Free Press. Revised and Updated edition, 2009. Harris, Judith Rich (2006). No Two Alike: Human Nature and Human Individuality. W.W. Norton. Cochran, Gregory & Harpending, Henry…

—“Family is enemy number one of the State”—Tomás Rodriguez Villegas People forget that the reason women have property rights was so that the church could break up the aristocratic families so that the church (state) could acquire their lands. By the French revolution, half of the land in europe was dead capital.

Keynes’ first work was in probability. He was a successful investor. He used probabilities where the law used operations (Legal transactions). He institutionalized the ludic fallacy: that games with limits mirrors human actions that consistently expand limits. All economies head toward disequilibrium. Growth is in fact an instance of disequilibrium.

National socialism for example, is actually and “Authoritarian, Nationalist, Autarkic, Commons-biased, Mixed economy” Classical liberalism for example is actually a “Rule of Law, Nationalist, Private Property-biased, Free Trade, Mixed Economy, with houses for the classes to negotiate commons.” (repost)

TRUMP, RUSSIA, AND THE WORLD – ENDING THE SECOND ATTEMPT AT A SEMITIC DARK AGE Any time you speak of Russia you are speaking of her peers: Italy and Texas. Because they are the same size economies. Russia’s world power status is living off the declining capital of the soviet era and can in no…

Virtue signaling is bad enough. Virtue signaling with your husband’s money is worse. Virtue signaling with other investor’s money is even worse. Virtue signaling with taxpayer’s money is worst of all. Women, for reasons we understand, demonstrate conspicuous consumption and virtue signaling with other people’s money, for nothing other than psychological gratification. It’s an expression…

—“Religion is a guilt economy. Look at the Left. They’ve even got Original Sin (white privilege). Contemporary politics is just a way for people to answer for the guilt they feel about their own flaws by shaming others into feeling guilty. Its just some religions say greed is a sin where others say being white…

It’s because they feel more vulnerable. Our ability to admit we are wrong is a combination of our vulnerability and the degree to which we have over invested in falsehoods in order to create self and other illusions of status and ability. Since both men and women do the latter, the sensitivity to vulnerability is…

I would prefer outlawing all charities that did not convey 100% of donations to the target. and I would demand warranty of that fact. This forces volunteers to produce goods through direct action and eliminates the profit incentive for virtue signaling.