Category: Thoughts

People overestimate past genius, because after you’ve cross about what we consider 130 today discoveries have a lot more to do with hard work and the person’s position history. Smart is pretty good but hard work … no substitute.

(PARIS IS BURNING) —“…he defended the way police had handled the violence, saying little could be done to stop trouble-makers from infiltrating the crowds. “We can only detain a certain number of people who turn up like you or I in civilian clothing and then suddenly are dressed in black bloc outfits in the middle…

The upper classes make good families because they propagate good genes. The lower classes make bad families because they propagate bad genes. It’s not surprising why the upper classes would form packs and the underclasses want to join a herd: bad genes seek safety in numbers. Good genes seek safety in competition.

As I’ve said before, the ratio of police to citizens is very low, and the number of casualties they will absorb before they stay in the barracks or stay home is under ten percent. They are not 19 year old single male soldiers, with combined arms, but 105 IQ working class high dominance men with…

( Curt Doolittle > Paul Conroy ) (counter-ad-hom) I dunno Paul, most thinkers come up with one or two innovations, and I’ve come up with at least two, if not three or more. And, um, the ‘masses’ hardly are able to comprehend my dense operationally-grammared, SAT-word, syntheses, which is fairly common knowledge, and my average…

I don’t have the luxury of those arguments because I’m not trying to make excuses for the past, only to correct the present, and prevent catastrophes in the future. The fact that a people can do well in a germanic country says nothing about them and everything about the germanic country. The question I want…

  The suppression of local rents by the empire and the increases in trade from the north sea to india made choices available to the underclasses in the past, just as the industrial revolution made choices available to the underclasses in modernity. And so you’re saying that because it is far harder to train those…

I mean, I don’t know were current mythology and propaganda developed, but Judaism is a counter-revolution against (a) hellenic reason because of the conquest of alexander (hellenic judaism), (b) roman law under the conquest of rome (rabbinical judaism), (c) and western science (socialism: boas, marx, freud, cantor, lenin/trotsky, mises, rand/rothbard) The entire history of judaism…

Well my view is that we create our gods by thinking of them, talking to them, and acting because of them; and that any other beings in this universe, if so needing gods, do so too, for the same reason they persist among humans: defensive mindfulness. So as far as I know our gods human…

—“A while back I did a bit of research to verify if Buddhism actually increased compassion of its followers. I looked for rates of philanthropy and charity works. The only religious community which was over represented in terms of good works were the Protestants (they account for about 68% of philanthropic work globally while representing…

—“Where do you draw the line? Which are animals of pure determinism and which a men of will?”—Colin Everett Truthful speech. See? Easy.

There is no such thing as legitimacy other than the legitimacy of a child. There is no such thing as validity other than a stamp of certification. In argument there is only soundness, and soundness is not a proxy for true, simply for reasonableness – meaning it’s understandable and so far not false.

  Irish and italian immigrants (catholics) had precisely the effect on the political order that protestants argued they would. In fact, the protestants have been correct every single time without fail, that the underclasses (catholics are largely the underclass and protestants largely the middle class) would destroy the experiment in ‘a third way’ government not…

Such nonsense. Northern europeans (descendants of The Yamna > Corded Ware culture in Northern (scandinavia) central (celtic) and southern (italic) replaced (all but exterminated) late neolithic settlers, and everyone from central spain to the urals is as closely related as are the han, if not as closely related as the Japanese. I mean, look at…

THE ETERNAL QUESTION? (natural law on deserving) —“how do you know who deserves to live and die?”— It is very easy to determine who needs to die. We have done it for millennia. The only question is that since we have shifted our principle means of predation from from murder, to theft, to fraud, to…

Humans hit each other. I have had to teach every woman in every relationship not to hit me. Women conduct more domestic violence than men.Women are responsible for more verbal abuse than men. Women are responsible for more child abuse than men. The difference is that they aren’t dangerous – and men are. So, while…

You see, they swarm through an urban area, shoot out the transformers or short the wires with chain, turn on then break the hydrants eliminating water pressure, start interior fires in every building they pass. Hammer open the cash machines, load up on food from the markets, and entrap and decimate first responders, and then…

The best way to prevent a violent revolution is to submit an equitable proposal for the resolution of conflicts, and to create the absolute certainty that the status quo will end violently otherwise. The best revolutions are those that are resolved out of fear of fighting, not those that are fought.

—“It’s worth distinguishing between the knowledge of a referrer and the existence of its referent. We clearly know of the referrer (concept) we call ‘unicorn’, and might someday be able to bring some approximation of a unicorn into existence as a referent. The referent of the referrer ‘unicorn’ is not real, meaning it does not…

THE WEAK USE TOOLS OF THE WEAK The problem with mythology, conflation and fictionalism is that like numerology astrology and scriptural interpretation, you can find any meaning you look for. Just as any opponent can do the same. As such it is just the wittiest liar that wins the tactical argument and the most utilitarian…

DEFINITION: AGENCY Agency is the capacity for human beings to identify opportunities and make choices that are consistent, correspondent, existentially possible, and coherent with and within reality, and to act upon them, unimpeded by knowledge limitation (ignorance), intellectual limitation(intelligence), mindfulness limitation (impulse), physical limitations(body), instrumental limitations(technologies), resource limitations, the impediments of others and their organizations…

via Steve Pender “The social psychologists of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods of producing an unshakable conviction that snow is black. Various results will soon be arrived at. First, that the influence of home is obstructive. Second, that not much can be…

by Steve Pender Extending someone the privilege of assuming them to be trustworthy is costly (risk of theft, personal harm). Not extending the privilege of trust is also costly (extra security costs, loss of trade). Granting trust to one person but not another hinges on choosing which costs you want to pay at that time.…

Yes, agency, like truth, or infinity, or perfection, or godhood, or moving half-way across the couch, or half-way across zeno’s line, describes an infinitely logarithmic curve. I always take my terms, whenever possible from the existing sciences, and ‘correct’ (redefine) the term. In social science, one’s social, economic, and political agency is limited by ‘structure’…