Methodological Ternary-ism: Physical Instrumentation, Logical Instrumentation, Social Instrumentation
[T]ruth. This word can be translated as the “mind of God”. Because this word is used as if referring to the mind of God. But, this use is a deception in and of itself. There exists no mind to discover, and no truth to discover: it isn’t hidden. The universe lies bare for us all…
The Spectrum of Terms for Impulsivity
[P]reference is a choice. Demonstrated time preference (useful for the economic concept of interest but not scientific in that it’s causally descriptive) appears to be largely genetic, and is determined by what we consider the ‘frustration budget’:our ability to suppress the urge for gratification. So the terms, Impulsivity, frustration budget (tolerance), and time preference represent…
Usufructs Under Propertarianism
QUESTION: Curt Doolittle, how do you reconcile usufructs with Propertarianism? ANSWER: Just for everyone’s benefit, lets understand what these things mean: DEFINITIONS – Commons (common ownership) – where the three rights of ownership are held by more than one individual: 1 – Usus (use) The right to use or enjoy a commons, directly and without altering it.…
Does Walter Block Represent The Mindset Of Most Libertarians?
In the sense that Walter Block advocates the Non Aggression Principle (the “NAP”), as did Murray Rothbard; and in the sense that most self identified libertarians have also adopted the NAP – then, yes, he reflects a common libertine-libertarian rational justification of the common libertine-libertarian moral sentiment. However, the liberal libertarians (the classical liberals) –…
Winter Victories, and Letting God Sort Them Out
[I]t’s winter in Kiev. It’s 27F. It’s noticeably dark early again. I’ve hung up the leather jacket, switched to the wool coat and layers. The shops have heavily discounted what remains of fall, and those without winter stock are empty. They’ve skipped the ‘autumn’ coat season here and gone right to winter-wear. The music playlists…
Speaking Honestly vs Truthfully (vs Dishonestly)
[I]’m really happy with having captured the difference between speaking honestly, speaking truthfully, and the mere concept of . Platonic (Analytic) Truth: the most parsimonious description that is not a tautology. Speaking Truthfully: promising an epistemic warranty, that you possess the knowledge of construction(causation) and of use(correlation), necessary to make a truth claim, consisting of…
Citizens vs Shareholders
—“Service guarantees citizenship. – This is why I served in the US military even though I wasn’t compelled to.”—David M. [S]o, for use by our Corporations we have created various forms of stock: including Controlling, Various Preferred, Common, Non-Voting, and Options. These different shares roughly reflect the different value that we bring to companies. Controlling…
Haidt on the Rationalist Delusion
http://youtu.be/kI1wQswRVaU That’s an indictment. My indictment is far harsher.
How Do Different Countries And Governments Incorporate Meritocracy Into Their Political Systems?
Assumes, that the mere accumulation of power itself is not meritocratic. Yet it is. Assumes that the skill in accumulating power is not the primary skill required for the obtainment of power. Power requires talent. The question is, given that humans can accumulate power by different means, what is it that we wish to achieve…
Why Do Nepalese Maoists Want Ethnicity-based Federalism In Nepal’s New Constitution? Will Ethnicity-based Politics Do Any Good To Nepal In The Long Run?
ETHNO-NATIONALISMEthnically homogenous polities, and particularly SMALL ethnically homogenous polities demonstrate higher tolerance for high taxation and high redistribution because of our biological preference for kin selection. People often advocate the scandinavian model, but these are very small countries where all individuals are near-relations, where cousin-marriage is prohibited, and where the absolute nuclear family is practiced…
What Is The Appropriate Role And Amount Of Government Regulation Of Businesses?
(The word ‘appropriate’ is a form of linguistic dishonesty that attempts to create a moral statement where none exists.) Instead, the question is whether a MONOPOLY (in this case, the government), that is insulated from prosecution under the law (bureaucrats), and insulated from market pressures (competition), is superior to a POLYPOLY, in which all members…
What Are The Assumptions Of The Law Of Diminishing Marginal Utility?
I can’t figure out if this is an honest question or some moron’s bot-work. The only assumption in marginal utility is that it is a general rule of arbitrary precision like all general rules must be constructed of arbitrary precision by logical necessity. So as far as I know, no assumptions external to the construction…
How Much More Capitalist Is The Us Than Germany?
Capitalism: the voluntary organization of consumer production. (Liberty) Socialism: the involuntary organization of consumer production. (Totalitarianism) Mixed Economy: the voluntary organization of consumer production, and the involuntary redistribution of the rewards earned by organizing consumer production. (A trade-off between liberty and totalitarianism). Socialism is impossible, since neither the incentives to produce, nor the means of…
Was Karl Popper Right To Blame Plato’s Concept Of The Philosopher King For The Rise Of Totalitarianism In The Twentieth Century?
No. Popper’s argument (like many of his disingenuous political arguments) was an attempt at deflection from Popper’s factions. His contribution to science not withstanding. The reason for the rise of totalitarianism in the west was the moral legitimacy given to statism by the Marxists, Socialists, Keynesians and Postmodernists, and later the neo-Conservatives. However, the Marxists,…
Mises’ Position In Intellectual History
MISES POSITION IN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY? (reposted from elsewhere) (I think this will blow your mind a little bit.) Mises Human Action as Cosmopolitan Stoicism. [H]e was almost right. If Rothbard and the Rothbardians had not damaged his legacy so severely, he would not be ostracized by the main stream intellectual community. At present any mention…
Law’s Perverse Incentives
[R]ule of law, given a homogenous and therefore universal definition of property rights, constitutes a central authority. Just as mathematical operations constitute a central authority. Just as the scientific method constitutes a central authority. Humans must make judgements. A central authority can be reduced to judgements and decidability requires humans to make decisions. If we articulate…
The Evolution of Cooperation
1) Acquisitiveness: To survive and reproduce, humans must acquire and inventory many categories of resources, and evolved to demonstrate constant acquisitiveness of those resources. 2) Property: The scope of those things they act upon, or choose not to act upon, in anticipation of obtaining as inventory (a store of value), constitute their demonstrated definition of…
Moral Foundations as Property Rights
(a central concept of Propertarianism) [O]f Haidt’s evolutionary origins of moral intuitions, three can be expressed as individual property rights: 1. Care/harm for others, protecting them from harm. (The asset of life and body.) 2. Proportionality/cheating, Justice, treating others in proportion to their actions. (The asset of goods.) 3. Liberty/Oppression, characterizes judgments in terms of…
Propertarian Class Theory
1) CLASS BY SPECIALIZATION Weapon of Coercion (influence) Product of Coercion TABLE: ARISTOCRACY……..OLIGARCHY…………PRIESTHOOD…CRAFT Violence………..Payment…………..Gossip…….Production Suppress Disorder..Organize Production..Resistance…Goods Humans are capable of only three means of coercion: violence, payment and gossip. Every society produces specialists (elites) in the three means of coercion, violence, payment and gossip, and one non-coercive group: producers. The size of each…
Rents.
Economic Rents create lost opportunities for exchange. A cost. They grant a privilege whose results are incalculable (unavailable because profit and loss are externalized) and therefore unmeasurable (comparable with other investments) and invisible (they are forgotten and never rise again), instead of creating a calculable, measurable, investment and return for the polity. Unfortunately, democracy – majority…
Neo-Reaction in a Nutshell: We Are Ruled By A Theocracy – An Evil One.
(worth repeating) [T]he central proposition of neo-reaction is that the enlightenment was dangerously optimistic about humans, human nature, and the state; and that as a consequence, society is just as religious as ever it was, with an official state religion of progressivism: the promise of an aristocracy of everyone. It is another “good-news” religion, telling…
Can Professors At Universities Teach And Have Opinions That Are Very Much Contrary To The Scientific Community At Large?
THE BEST ANSWER YOU WILL FIND All university departments hold biases, and the careers of the members of the department depend upon upholding those biases, because of the incentives to publish, and the authoritarian hierarchy of the university and departments that was inherited from the church – which invented the university. There is very little…
What Are The Principle Ideas Of The American Political Theorist James Burnham And What Is Their Importance?
1) That the family structure of all worldwide organizations, from business and industry to politics and government would be replaced by professional managers with empirical expertise in individual disciplines. (Law, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Marketing (Propaganda), etc.)“The Managerial Society” 2) That Democracies must always result in Oligarchies, without exception, out of necessity. 3) That the entire…
Does Civil Society Include Business?
Um. Yes. It doesn’t include GOVERNMENT https://www.quora.com/Does-civil-society-include-business
How Can I Know How People View Me As A Person?
Stop having ignorant, liberal-ed twits write bot-like questions that do nothing more than persist postmodern pseudoscience? Learn something empirical. Ok? https://www.quora.com/How-can-I-know-how-people-view-me-as-a-person