Category: Thoughts

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http://www.positivemoney.eu/2016/12/ecb-confirms-helicopter-money-legally-feasible/ POSITIVE MONEY (“Helicopter Money”) Direct Redistribution of Liquidity to Consumers (Citizens). I’ve been talking about this forever, and written it into the new constitution. But there is a small group in europe that’s put together a web site and initiative. The EU is much more complicated than the states. And they are … overly…

(a) when I define a thing, in my arguments, a thing means what I define it to mean, and nothing else. In this case the limit of my definition of agency is omniscience, “omniexperience”, “omnigrammar”, and omnipotence, in thought, emotion, word, and deed. (b) I chose the term agency as I generally do, to extend…

Timeliness. In a shock, tax breaks, lowering interest rates, and fiscal policy are extremely slow, and it certainly appears from the data, largely ineffectual compared to simply distributing cash to every citizen to do with as he may. During the 2008 Crisis only me and Galbraith were talking about it (and I am nobody). Later…

—“Where are you on the ‘origins’ questions, life and the universe? Do you think it matters if we are here by chance or by design?”—Matt Lawlor  As far as I know we are nothing but a consequence of emergent complexity as life is the only known means of defeating entropy – with cooperation a multiplier,…

—“One-against-one, the Spartans are as good as anyone in the world. But when they fight in a body, they are the best of all the world. For though they are free men, they are not entirely free. They accept Law as their master. And they respect this master more than your subjects respect you. Whatever…

“Reforming Mises, and the Jewish (Ukrainian) Wing of Austrian Economics.” A RECONSTRUCTION OF PRAXEOLOGY AS ECONOMIC INTUITIONISM FULLY COMPATIBLE WITH RATIO-EMPIRICAL SCIENCE I. PURPOSE: 1) To restore credibility to Austrian Economics by transforming it from Rationalist and pseudoscientific, to consistent with all scientific and logical disciplines. 2) To quash rationalist and pseudoscientific fallacies that have discredited…

by Emil Prelic The Janissary System It (JS) was the literal theft of Balkan children, overwhelmingly Serbs, who were then turned into elite Islamist terrorists of their day (except they were more like cops due to the Sharia element of the Ottoman Empire) and sent back to murder, rape, pillage, and torture their literal brothers…

THE HISTORY OF PILPUL Pilpul is the Talmudic term used to describe a rhetorical process that the Sages used to formulate their legal decisions. The word is used as a verb: one engages in the process of pilpul in order to formulate a legal point. It marks the process of understanding legal ideas, texts, and…

As far as I know the IE peoples separated into european and indo-iranian branches, and my understanding via Armstrong is that it was because the eastern peoples ‘left’ (created a diaspora) because they could not compete against the west but they could compete south and east. As far as I know (from the record) The…

THE RUSSIAN SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC CYCLE Nefedov, Turchin and Malkov: sociodemographic cycles (The implied argument is that the Kondratiev wave and the agrarian waves are about the same, and that we exhaust possibilities of expansion on a predictable cycle (it takes two generations to exhaust and opportunity) The basic logic of these models is as follows: 1)…

I can find dozens of liars throughout history, and tens of thousands to rewrite their words, and millions to repeat their words – on any subject. Just as we can find millions of liars today in the postmodern movement, just as we could find millions a few decades ago in the marxist and bolshevik movement.…

—“What is your endgame?”— A Christian Believer I understand that believers are non rational, and un-persuadable, and over invested in a network of falsehoods, and so believers will not change except to follow an even larger and safer herd. So my objective is to use arguments to search for people in the herd who know…

—“How do you verify truth?”— Verification is a method of falsification not a means of identifying truth. No matter how many excuses you make (justifications) that does not provide us with confidence of truth. Instead…. Survival, not Proof. You eliminate all falsehoods, and what remains is a truth candidate. You eliminate all falsehoods by attempting…

I might argue that Hindus are an exception having been conquered, repeatedly, and never ascending into the age of commerce and affluence. We can see the indus valley civilization did. But India seems to not have ascended, but stagnated, and china was not able to enter the age of intellect and stagnated. This is very…

1) The USA proposed a ‘Third Way’ (meritocracy), but that “third way” is very hard for the underclasses, who want to restore the old. 2) Fiat money, Scale, Wealth from selling off a conquered continent, Inheritance of the British empire and German science, created windfalls. 3) But those windfalls, and the temporary lifting of the…

WOMEN’S MURDERING OF THEIR CHILDREN IS MORE COMMON THEN MEN MURDERING THEIR ENEMIES I suppose I could estimate the stats, but I’m pretty sure there is an even balance between the number of men killed by violence, and the number of children killed by their mothers. There are very good reasons women are treated as…

LIBERTARIANISM FAILS BUT SOVEREIGNTY DOESN’T ––“How does libertarian/anarcho capitalism and aim to prevent company cooperation? If four health companies decided that they would hike prices and violently attack competition, what would stop them? They are health companies so can’t be boycotted.”—- Quora User Well, let’s keep in mind that Libertarianism is just Pilpul (Sophistry) for…

PROMISCUITY AND MARKETS (important post) Promiscuity breaks the compromise between male and female reproductive strategies and undermines the necessity of the family as the first organization (production of generations), in the hierarchy of cooperative organizations. The French and Italians solve the problem through the sacredness of the family and ‘graceful philandering’ by both genders. Whether…

RIGHTS In practice, you have the property and property rights that the people around you are willing to concede that you have, and willing to help you defend and uphold. One man cannot stand alone against the world. But enough in confederation can hold hostile hordes at bay indefinitely. Property and property rights are obtained…

TRAUMA ETC (open book policy is the best self defense) Nah. No secret. Easy: Aspiness, Alcoholic father (but Amazing mother), violent childhood with lots of fist fighting. Long history of illness, Cancer twice, some nasty biz stuff. So, I’m not special in any of those regards. Autism can be best explained by the “intense world…

YES, STUPID PEOPLE CREATE MORE CRIME People commit crimes across the spectrum. State and Local IQ corresponds to crime rates. Stupid people get caught more often. Stupid people tend to pursue low risk low reward crimes. (those requiring little planning and high opportunism) When it comes to murder a surprisingly high percentage of murderers are…

LOWER VERBAL ABILITY AND THE CONSEQUENCES by Liam Eddy Lower verbal ability is due to the structure of the brain. The recognition of feeling occurs in the left hemisphere while the ability to speak is governed in the right. When there is a little cross over between the hemispheres alexithymia is common. Common in the people…

—“Female superiors are more likely to be critical of female subordinates, high-ranking women are less likely to collaborate with same-sex subordinates, and female US workers tend to prefer a male boss.”— Rolf Degen

OUR STRATEGY IS LIMITED BY THE COMMAND AND CONTROL STRUCTURES When there is chaos the opportunist wins, which is why politicians do not operate like Trump, while entrepreneurs and soldiers do. In other words, we all use the strategy that our command and control structure tolerates. This is why democratic polities are a disaster. They…