Category: Thoughts

  • Let me help you understand.

    We are Cain (Agriculture and Metalwork) and They are Able (Pastoralists and Parasites). The battle of the Indo European Conquest Continues.

  • I Don’t Hate. Just Accept Some of Us Must Separate 

    I don’t hate on any group. The fact that it is in some our our interests to separate and some of our interests to mix, is simply an expression of the affordability of that option. Wealth allows expression of preferences. Some of us prefer separatism (because we have superior group traits that provide us premiums)…

  • Nuclear Weapons Are a Bit Like Monuments. 

    They are terribly expensive, but produce extraordinary returns. Now, think about this for a second. Russia invested overly in military and in particular nuclear weapons. Of all the investments in sovereignty Russia made, the only durable one has been those nuclear weapons. Any polity with a few nuclear weapons and an armed populace, with stores…

  • Two Meanings of Absolutism: One Good, One Bad.

    1) The form of government must be flexible enough to account for ordinary times ( rule of law, judicial monarchy, and markets), endure warfare (fascism), and distribute windfalls ( participatory commons selection ) – although the latter is always questionably necessary unless sufficient to shift classes. 2) When one says “Absolutism” in government, one can…

  • The Trick to Understanding Statistics Isn’t Math – Its ‘markets’ (competition in Equilibration)

    THE TRICK TO UNDERSTANDING STATISTICS ISN’T MATH – ITS ‘MARKETS’ (COMPETITION IN EQUILIBRATION) There is nothing in genetic charts that requires mathematics to understand, just like there are no mathematical statements that cannot be expressed in ordinary (natural) language, and therefore understandable. The vast majority of genetics is nothing other than statistical analysis. The vast…

  • When the Constitution Was Written…

    When the constitution was written, spelling was often phonetic rather than canonized as it has been post-Webster. Capitalization and font size were used as emphasis – bold not available to the pen, as it is today in print. Grammar was more formal and still retained some academic latin influences – including longer sentence structure. And…

  • Sovereignty vs Liberty vs Freedom 

    Sovereignty in fact – because a group has enough capacity for violence to produce sovereignty over the will or ability of any and all competitors. Liberty by request – because a group does not have enough capacity for violence to produce sovereignty, but can purchase liberty with fees (taxes). Freedom by permission – because an…

  • Ethical Ai? Yes Its Solvable and Trivially so 

    1) Ethical AI is a trivially solvable problem in (a) hardware (b) software design (c) requirement of insurance, and (d) extremely harsh punishment of violations of that law, applied to every person in the chain of decidability. (d) international treaty. 2) We have solved this problem for thousands of years among humans with one single…

  • Origins

    ORIGINS —“the earliest populations of the Near East derived around half their ancestry from a ‘Basal Eurasian’ lineage that had little if any Neanderthal admixture and that separated from other non-African lineages before their separation from each other.”— ORIGINS: RACIALIZATION OF THE FIRST FARMERS —“The first farmers of the southern Levant (Israel and Jordan) and…

  • Sovereignty, Liberty, Freedom, and Markets for Survival of A Polity

    Sovereignty in fact – because a group has enough capacity for violence to produce sovereignty over the will or ability of any and all competitors. Liberty by request – because a group does not have enough capacity for violence to produce sovereignty, but can purchase liberty with fees (taxes). Freedom by permission – because an…

  • Our Inequality Requires Juridical Equality

    We are unequal by every possible measure, but to preserve the incentive to, and benefits of, cooperation, the law must adjudicate our interests equally. For this reason the law must always and everywhere treat our interests as equal and our abilities and value to one another unequally.

  • Some People Want Transcendence 

    (It’s just self inducing endorphins – and another form of drug use as escapism. That doesn’t mean the religious “Spiritual” is not a psychological need to relieve the stress of ongoing computation with fragmentary knowledge. ) Yeah, but what if that experience is in fact what you want to consume? And what if consuming that…

  • The Transcendent

    by Neil A. Bucklew The Transcendent? Of course the idea boils down to unclear definitions and murky grammar. and none of us have the time to sort them all out. the transcendent cannot be consumed by definition, but there are plenty of illusions that trigger a neurochemical reaction that is expressed as a transcendent emotion.…

  • Rings of Influence,

    Bill Joslin A model for this could be described as concentric rings of influence, centering on the individual and radiating out into the commons based on which domain one acts as judge-of-last-resort. Am I judge-of-last-resort for my mind (clarity of intention) Am I judge-of-last-resort for my body (voluntary intentional action) Am I judge-of-last-resort for my…

  • Voluntary Disassociation – Trade vs Market

    Voluntary Association and Disassociation Must be Restored (its loss was a product of the unconstitutional 14th amendment). It is one thing to deny human beings commodities, water, and air. It is another thing altogether to force someone to engage in craftsmanship of any kind whatsoever. Ergo, if you package flour for distribution that’s one thing.…

  • Don’t congratulate yourself on circumstance.

    Let me help you both: 1) We produce the social orders we can afford to produce. 2) We have the values we can afford to have in that social order. 3) We have the social orders and values that our demographics allow us to have. It’s physics and economics. Don’t congratulate yourself on circumstance.

  • Why Women Live Longer

    By Eric Kristof Reasons women live longer: 1) Genetics: women’s telomeres are longer than men’s. 2) Genetics: women’s XX chromosomes provide a “backup” of sorts in comparison to men’s XY chromosomes. 3) Hormones: estrogen protects women from cardiovascular disease in comparison to men. 4) Hormones: testosterone increases risk taking behaviors. Women have less of it.…

  • One of Propertarianism’s Cures for Iq Shredding 

    One of the cures for “IQ Shredding” is to follow the postwar german example, of limiting housing in cities to those for families. So that the benefits of low cost of commons (density) are only available to those who produce generations. This is a very simple alternative. In other words, today, large organizations can use…

  • Schooling Reverses Fertility Rates

    Amt of Schooling # Children ——————————————————- No schooling 6.67 Islamic Schooling, no Western Schooling 7.78 Western Schooling to ages 7 to 11 4.5 Western Schooling to ages 12 to 13 1.44 Western Schooling to ages 15 to 16 1.57 Western Schooling to age 17 and above 1.50

  • Understanding Cities

    Cities = Markets = Decreased Opportunity Cost. It’s the ability to communicate that decreases opportunity cost. Opportunity cost = increasing choices. The question is whether increasing choices produces increasing outcomes. For business it does. For genes it does not. This is the fundamental problem. Cities Destroy Genes in exchange for lower opportunity costs of consumption.…

  • Help Them Be All They Can Be

    —“If you are trying to a convince a woman of something, you will be better off talking to a wall. Both will not listen or take your advice but at least the wall won’t argue with you.” — Old Adage. Um. My advice is different. (a) You cannot compel women to do much of anything…

  • Taxes and Reproduction 

    (probably an important set of ideas you need to grasp) The fact that we tax tradesmen and members of bureaucracies at the same rate is counter-progressive (regressive). If you’re going to tax progressively (effectively a sales tax on market participation), employment in or as Laborers, Tradesmen, Professionals, Small Medium Businesses, Industries, Government should be taxed…

  • Germany Saw Herself (rightly) as A Civilization Encircled by Hostile Powers 

    GERMANY SAW HERSELF (RIGHTLY) AS A CIVILIZATION ENCIRCLED BY HOSTILE POWERS CONJECTURE —“The German Führer, as I have consistently maintained, is an evolutionist; he has consciously sought to make the practice of Germany conform to the theory of evolution. He has failed, not because the theory of evolution is false, but because he has made…

  • Long History of The Study of Dual Ethics 

    We take for granted our monological ethics. But while MOST groups practice CAST ethics, almost no other people practiced MONOLOGICAL ethics. The difference being that progressive restitution required (higher classes required higher restitution). But the law was the same for all. This is what we mean by “Rule of Law”: no discretion, same law for…

  • Fruitful vs Fruitless Education

    by Steve Pender There is nothing wrong with education – just fruitless education. And fruitful Work is also education. Fruitless education makes children costly. Whereas in past eras, they would do productive work on farms or business as early teens, now they’re learning how to do haiku and other pointless shit well into their 20s.…