Category: Thoughts

You read Gardner – I mean that’s enough. You learn world history; you get a vague grasp of technological history -most of art history is the evolution of representational technologies on the one hand and mythos (symbolism) on the other. Monumental art is expensive, and empires can afford the expensive, and it’s one of the…

(Re: https://theihs.org/seminars-conferences/policy-research-seminars/new-tech/) I think it’s nonsense. Economics is a very immature, that by accident of history has had an opportunity to replace property, law, reciprocity, and markets as the western means of government – because of the world wars, and the destruction of the traditional european order of small state monarchies with houses as markets…

—“Technology explodes the prevalence of externalities–not just the frequency, but also the variety. The faster the pace of technological evolution, the more urgent the need to develop better and better systems of accounting for externalities, and mechanisms for adequately imposing costs on those who generate them.”— Skinner Layne I would state it as wealth from…

—“Alexander looked out upon the breadth of his domain and wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer.”– I look out upon the universe and say “We few are the gods who shall conquer it, bend it to our will, and make a paradise of it.”

So apparently my favorite sociopath is upset that I’m referring to him as my favorite sociopath. I mean, he’s indeed my favorite sociopath. Not that, you know, I know any others. So, it’s not like I have a lot of sociopaths to choose from. You know, there is room for religion, especially for the disaffected…

You know when you’ve been out of college a while and you realize you need to upgrade friends? I mean, they got you to this point, and maybe there is a keeper in there, but you really need to upgrade to people who more share your career, family, or lifestyle? Businesses go through a similar…

—“Curt Doolittle If someone kills something, and nobody punishes them for doing so, does that mean the thing they killed has no value?”— Michael D. Abbott omg that is a really really smart question. Really.. Um, if that person was not insured by others, then it means it did not have sufficient value to insure.…

You see, let a thousand nations bloom, and let a thousand philosophers bloom. Propertarianism is just science. What you do with that science is not my business – other than to enjoy the works you make with it.

—“In your opinion , what are the most salient factors causing such widespread mental illness that we can realistically address ?”—Edgar Braintree  1) de-socialization, 2) dissolution of the family. 3) dissolution of civic society and its institutions. 4) de-norming of society 5) school is wasted after 5th grade and counter-correspondent with reality. 6) lack of…

1) The Feminine Strategy (Undermine by gossip, ridicule, shaming) 2) The Shrill Femmes (Amer. Post-Prostestant) 3) The Degenerate Femmes (Fr. Post-Catholic). 4) The Dishonest Femmes (Ashk. Socialists-Marxists) 5) The Violent Femmes ( Isl. Fundamentalists ) (Horrified Yet?)

  Now, in order for each of us to create commensurability between ideas we tend to specialize in one of the grammars, and pull from other grammars as necessary. Myself I learned history first, physics and math second, algorithms third, and economics fourth. My understanding of psychology was produced by indoctrination into the “Predictive Index”…

—“Politics and religion are different and are extremely hard to mix together”—James Portocarrero Judaism and islam do it. The church was too weak to do it. Chinese never had the problem. WHY: homogeneity = reason. Heterogeneity = Religion. THAT’S THE REASON The problem is heterogeneity (diversity). Religion = Stagnation to create homogeneity that doesn’t exist.…

Decidability. We have intuition to decide what we cannot reason. A machine needs the same intuition (biases). We could give it a bias to ‘give up’ or ‘go to sleep’. Or we could give it a bias to merely ‘talk’. We don’t like to confront the fact that ‘consciousness’ of a human being relies upon…

In Short “No”. We can in mathematics assert axioms and fail to or choose not to assert axioms. In logic, we can assert axioms and fail to or choose not to assert axioms. In reality (the existential universe) we discover laws, or fail to discover laws – we cannot assert them or fail to assert…

—“—“Any even semi free nation that doesn’t have ICBMs is a free rider on the commons of the USA”— I don’t know why I never thought of the military as the commons. Just hit me”— A Friend. Once you start seeing it, you start seeing it everywhere – and then you understand…..

Every forced transfer is a loss at the expense of an opportunity for a productive reciprocal exchange. The exchange the wealthy desire is respect for property of all kinds, leading to stoicism in the individual, since it is only stoicism that both requires action and prevents all imposition of costs upon *everything*: display (sound, sight,…

  *AI’S WILL BE MORE ETHICAL THAN HUMANS, NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND.* The way humans determine permissible and impermissible actions is a test of reciprocity, and we determine it by demonstrated investment of time effort and resources, and we categorize such investments as interests from self, to kin, to property, to shareholder interests, to…

( OWNED ) @Bernard Mitochondrie Well, here is something to work with, since we are finally narrowing this down to decidability on one hand, and limits to choice on the other. And my use of evolutionary necessity of reciprocity, correspondence with the evidence in norms and laws at all scales, logical decidability of reciprocity, the…

I dunno about that… lol. But I will say that working on Propertarianism has made my mind extraordinarily CLEAR – mindful so to speak. With very little noise. And much more agency. And if I could propagate that utility to people I would feel like I did the world a lot of good.

by Bill Anderson You have the causality backwards. Males form tribes so that they can control a breeding population of women. Males who fail to do so will be conquered and their genes displaced, so violent conflict is unavoidable. These breeding populations will produce survival behaviors based on their genetic inclinations and their environment. These…

by Bill Anderson —-“A small group of people gather together and then invent debts that the rest of some population owes them, then goes about publicizing and collecting those invented debts.”— J R Fibonacci Hunn I think you’re addressing a couple of issues in your larger post: the money system and taxation. Let me address…

https://www.quora.com/Who-is-the-most-influential-living-philosopher-1/answer/Curt-Doolittle?share=b44bec67&srid=u4Qv Interesting question. Good answers. Let’s look at how we can ask this question. 😉 Technical Innovation <-> Practical Utility <——> Popular Influence Successful Technical  Hard to argue that the Russel-Frege-Kripke chain didn’t provide answers but it’s also hard to argue that they weren’t wasting their time. Because Babbage-Cantor-Goedel-Turing produced superior methods and answers. Failed…

—“Once one sees the MORALITY of ruling … the smoke starts to clear.”—Michael Churchill  We all slowly are working toward consensus on this very issue. Our men just need to exhaust all other possibilities before they will accept the truth. Rule is good. We must rule.

@ Bernard Mitochondrie(… “you are a legend in some” … ) The more enemies a man has the more substantive his threat to them. Friends tell us little. Enemies tell us a great deal. The fact that people must counter-signal to defend their malinvestments from my arguments is simply evidence of their malinvestments, and nothing…

1) Children’s potential is 80% genetics, and 20% early physical development, and nearly zero anything else. 2) You cannot improve on genetics – and all temporary gains measured will dissipate within one forgetting cycle (3 years). 3) You can harm children’s development through trauma and exposure to malincentives and bad behavior, but you cannot improve…