Category: Thoughts

a) there is a vast difference between what is said, what is believed, what is practiced, and the consequences of what is said, believed, and practiced, because of the malincentives it produces. b)if god is truth, then why lie? The evidence is that god of abraham in his three forms is evil, and…

—“The only thing anyone needs to live a good life is “be excellent to each other.”if everyone did that or tried their best to do that,the world would be fine. You’re all spouting philosophical bollocks.pipe down and be nice.”— No, if enough people do that then they are overwhelmed by the people who don’t.…

by Alexander Brown I used to be a total Christian. And that was when I was very very stupid. I was even a practising Jew. I observed the seventh day sabbath. Now, I know that the only thing to trust is truth, and that God that is compatible with truth, science, natural…

The purpose of community activism – was intentionaly developed to undermine western civilization. it has served the realistic purpose of destroying the homogenous, familial, hard working culture that was america prior to 1960 and the postmodernist invasion via the university system from France. https://www.quora.com/Do-you-think-community-activism-serves-a-realistic-purpose

—“You’re in a position of power in a fictional state, tasked with designing your own variant of the Nuremberg laws, as well as immigration policy. What’s the required vetted minimum IQ for migrants and citizens reaching the age of majority, among other requirements in maintains a viable polity?”— It depends upon two factors: …

http://www.wnd.com/2018/03/fatal-delusions-of-western-man/

Women need to feel others, like men need to fire gaze. Same Need, Different Stimuli.

THE PROCESS OF COMMUNICATION ENDS WITH DISAMBIGUATION (due diligence) — “we need both fiction and science” — John Dow Well that’s the argument I make right? That we TEACH (transfer relations) and IMITATE by fictions, but that we JUDGE and DEDUCE from SCIENCE. Via positiva ‘fictions’ and via negativa ‘truth’. The problem then becomes limiting…

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5443599/White-South-African-farmers-removed-land.html#ixzz58VXEVgp7

Because the question isn’t and never was, about capitalism vs socialism or any variation – those were contrivances. The question was, is, and always will be, rule of law (which will produce markets), or rule by discretion (which will produce corruption). https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-jargon-term-free-market-a-myth

–“The market for AI agent Advanced Persistent Threat detection and handling is going to be multibillion. Always on, looking at all of the set-and-forget influencing and nuding variables (scarcity, commitment, etc.) along with more direct persuasion + economics calculating the Economic Value of decisions, in short, mid and long term. That is what I am…

—“Simple stories are useful for children and the simple, because they lack the ability to identify and retain complex causal relations. Thus, “though shall not kill” becomes “though shall not murder” becomes “though shall not murder under ordinary circumstances.”— James Santagata

—“If the marginal utility of conflict is greater than cooperation or boycott, one should choose conflict.So to make you not kill me, in our polity, conflict needs to more symmetrical to raise costs so we should all have access to weaponry, as well as free association and disassociation, discrimination, to lower the price of boycott.…

Well, we know that Google and FB will be targets of Direct Action during any revolution…. wow.

I am asked to review work frequently to determine whether people should invest in learning it, or whether it’s somewhere between erroneous and absolute nonsense. Someone asked me to review your work. It’s good work. And morove, you have enough charisma and likability to make use of it in the benefit of yourself and others.…

(via James Santagata) —“From Twitter. Based on previous findings, we hypothesized that the language used by liberals emphasizes their perception of uniqueness, contains more swear words, more anxiety-related words and more feeling-related words than conservatives’ language. Conversely, we predicted that the language of conservatives emphasizes group membership and contains more references to…

(from elsewhere, To Alex Tabarrok, marginal revolution) I think the more operational answer is that all AI’s will be able to do is drastically reduce informational asymmetries, and predict reactions to them out to the first or second order. Just as money, accounting, and now digital accounting have drastically reduced asymmetries of information. However,…

–“The basic ratio between German and English is 1000 to 1200 words”–

—” is a basic ratio between the English word count and Chinese character count. To our experience, each 1000 Chinese characters will be translated into about 600-700 English words, or each 1000 English words will be translated into about 1500-1700 Chinese characters (depending on the nature of the text).”—

The first question of group strategy is “Is it more adnvantageous to boycott, destroy, conquer, or trade with you?”

The first question of philosophy is “Why do I not commit suicide?” –Camus

The first question of ethics is “Why should I not kill you and take your things?”

The better advice is “Do not unto others what you do not want done unto you.”

The better question is, “What Would Achilles Do?”.

In English, the average word length is 5.1 (8-bit ASCII) characters. You need a word delimiter, let’s just use the space character. 200 characters would contain 32.8 chunks of 6.1 characters, including the trailing space (which the last word doesn’t need), or 32 chunks of 6.1 characters and one of 4.8 characters. So on…