Category: Thoughts

(I have had the same experience, but the difference is, that as a male, we are often happy to compete rather than conform. So as she describes herself as a bleeding heart liberal – in other words has the intuitions of a female – I ended up the opposite specializing in competition and natural law…

MATHINESS, SCIENTISM, AND IDEALISM vs OPERATIONALISM Many people here scientism or mathiness and hear profundity. I hear a pseudoscientific priesthood talking just like you hear theologians or rationalists (or continental philosophers) speaking. Mathiness is actually the origin of the failing of western philosophy until the stoics. Pythagoras, Aristotle, Zeno’s genius was undermined by…

–“the left and right both argue for inclusion but along different lines.”– A Friend Dysgenic expansion on the left (female), vs eugenic expansion on the right (male) Female and male strategies compete. Or perhaps ‘adapt’ is a better way of looking at it. So ‘along different lines’ obscure that those lines are…

The free market was envisioned for the known purposes of (a) creating peaceful relations between then expanding empires, and (b) explaining why people treated each other well in ordinary commercial life vs inter-tribal life, (c) making use of comparative advantage between non-enemies. (d) reducing artificial shortages of food in particular that gave profits to large…

He is attempting (unconsciously) to restore Stoicism (Self authoring) while also restoring mythology because of the correlation between our intuitions (biology) and archetypes (narratives). In this sense he is reforming religion from supernatural to scientific. We all carry our class, culture, and religion with us. We don’t know how much of it is genetic,…

(very important read) via Steven Pinker ? —“I’m often compared to Peterson–Canadian psychologist, Harvard prof, Pinker, takes evolution seriously–but our styles and philosophies couldn’t be more different. We’ll explore them in a dialogue at some point soon.”— Steven Pinker If one’s style and philosophy matter then it is not truth we espouse, but…

IF YOUR STYLE AND PHILOSOPHY MATTER THEN YOU”RE LYING If one’s style and philosophy matter then it is not truth we espouse, but deception. If we can end the century of 1/2 truths with devastating externalities that would be better than to continue the course that is breeding civil war and the filling of…

Useful? Because it’s Useful? That’s not an argument. Defecation is useful, and necessary, it’s the externalities that are the problem. Most substantive problems are very much like Defecation: it’s necessary and useful function for individuals and groups, but the externalities produced by it are horrific for individuals and groups without a commons to defend against…

Description (testimony) differs from Story (fiction) as does Measurement from General rule.

1) Money(commodity) vs Money Substitutes (instruments) 2) Law (Reciprocity) vs Law Substitutes (legislation/command) 3) History(description) vs History Substitutes (wisdom lit) 4) Description(measurements) vs Description Substitutes (narrative) 5) Deflationary (logical) vs inflationary (fictional) 6) Truth (Survival) vs Truth Substitutes (Justification)

If you study the evolution and spread of technology, then on the other hand, study linguistics, comparative law, comparative literature, and comparative religion, you fairly quickly understand that certain methods of persuasion are more truthful (recipes, procedures, operations, designs), and some are allegorical (history and literature), and some are loaded, framed, and suggestive (mythology), and…

There is a difference between obeying THE law (reciprocity) independent of regulation, legislation, and command, and obeying regulation, legislation, and command that violates that law. If we obey THE law we are sovereign. Otherwise, prisoners, serfs or slaves.

As far as i know we have discovered only one law and that is reciprocity. in addition we produce findings of law, legislation with the power of law, and regulation with the power of law in cases of prior restraint. law persists while findings, regulation, legislation, and command, do not. Ergo, people want the…

BECAUSE THEY KNOW WE ARE HERE. https://www.quora.com/Why-are-gun-control-advocates-and-the-left-wing-of-politics-so-concerned-with-what-law-abiding-citizens-own-and-possess-after-all-Marxism-and-Left-Wing-Socialist-Ideology-has-caused-more-death-and-suffering-than

I use three.Something to reference.Something to code.Something to communicate with. https://www.quora.com/Why-do-programmers-prefer-two-large-monitors

“Wealthy Enough To Practice Folly” That’s actually the answer. I debated a famous communist painter back in the 80’s. He was angry when I explained to him that every work of art he’d mentioned was the product of an expansionary empire that practiced slavery, serfdom, and suppression of local custom in order to increase general…

I reported this post as insincere and intending to incite hate. https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Donald-Trump-so-persistent-about-sending-Blacks-back-to-Africa

The British wanted to (rightly) recover the high cost of defending the colonies – the recent war had nearly emptied the treasury – and the colonies didn’t want to pay for it. This process escalated to the point of civil (revolutionary) war. This was extremely foolish for both parties, as creating a house of the…

Stop thinking of them as women, and just other people you talk to. Learn to be friends. Then in a few years you will find a woman. You are too underdeveloped socially to be worth anything to a woman. Women are not stupid. They know you are not worthy yet. https://www.quora.com/Im-inexperienced-with-women-and-I-never-know-what-is-the-next-step-to-take-What-should-I-do

No. A cause generally refers to a particular strategy. It may be charitable, political, social, inspirational, or aesthetic. Many charities have a cause, charity itself is an action, or category. https://www.quora.com/Do-Americans-refer-to-a-charity-as-a-cause

This is not so much a philosophy as the results of science that I can no longer deny, and so I live according to the science – in large part because it is advantageous. We are an expensive life form. Particularly our brains. We must acquire, and we acquire at cost to ourselves. All our…

Hmmm…. Interesting question. Can you trust your own thoughts? Does intelligence mean you can trust your own thoughts? I have an answer for you that you’ll find insightful. Intelligence generally translates to time required to learn – although below somewhere in the 80’s learning even the most trivial of sequences appears nearly impossible. And below…

“Yes, my dear, there is evil in this world.” Every person who does evil, does not do so because he thinks he is evil, but because he thinks his actions are warranted – either via punishment, retribution, restitution, profit, or some version of ‘getting his or her fair share’ (which is the justification we make…

This is a question that demonstrates a misunderstanding of the function of genes. You can’t measure genetic distance by comparison of the genome but by comparison of the consequences produced by the combinations of genes over time. In other words a single change may cause a disease, a small number of changes may produce profound…

Curt Doolittle’s answer: Every person who does evil, does not do so because he thinks he is evil, but because his actions are warranted – either via punishment, retribution, restitution, profit, or some version of ‘getting his or her fair share’ (which is the justification we make for most of ou…