Category: Thoughts

[P]eople who live in tents, ride animals, and shepherd other animals, talk about beliefs. People with fixed capital, who live in castles talk about laws. There is a reason for that. When you ask people to value something that’s an informal institution we call belief. When you tell people that property is a rule that…

[I] want to also chime in that I am thankful for the  friends who support, follow, resist, challenge me on my journey every day. I have made and lost both. And I know that my current line of inquiry is really exasperating for some – if not offensive. (It would have been offensive to me…

Marxists assume people will voluntarily work (if they are honest). Libertines (Libertarians) assume people will voluntarily be honest (if they are honest). Neocons assume people desire democracy (if they are honest). And each of those assumptions is clearly false. Why is it that we accept falsehoods? Is it nothing more than our genes causing words…

[Y]es, we can suggest that liberty is better for all, but that doesn’t stand scrutiny. Yes, liberty,for at least some of us, is a better social order for all. And probably, Liberty for those who desire it, and socialism for those that don’t, is better for all, than liberty for all. But we do not…

[I]t is interesting, as an autistic, who thinks in almost entirely spatial terms, and who, for many, many years, as struggled to find a language for communicating those ideas in as unloaded form as I visualize them (and found it), to watch one’s own skill improve with constant practice, to the point where one sees…

[N]o one in history has made it this far. Standing on the shoulders of giants and all that, sure. But it’s a more humbling recognition of the human condition than I want to really accept. And it feels a bit like standing on the edge of a canyon looking into the abyss. “What lies beyond…

POPPER’S COSMOPOLITANISM(worth repeating) [I] increasingly position Popper as trying to defend against the authoritarian use of science promoted by the (pseudo)scientific socialists. And his moral propositions are true, albeit not much of an advance on Socrates’ less elaborate one: that wisdom is knowing our ignorance, and being none-to certain of anything, that we are willing…

POPPER’S COSMOPOLITANISM(worth repeating) [I] increasingly position Popper as trying to defend against the authoritarian use of science promoted by the (pseudo)scientific socialists. And his moral propositions are true, albeit not much of an advance on Socrates’ less elaborate one: that wisdom is knowing our ignorance, and being none-to certain of anything, that we are willing…

ON THE EXISTENTIAL, EXPERIENTIAL, AND OBJECTIVE (OBSERVABLE)(worth repeating) [H]umans are usually, when not defective, capable of reasoning – meaning comparing and contrasting properties, methods and relations, then forecasting, then ranking and choosing – usually without much introspective requirement – although our abilities to do so differ vastly. Very often we use language to organize these…

[I] wish I could bottle the experience of the transformation of life in the early 80’s after the tragedy of the 60-77 period. Star wars started the new positive mythos. Reagan restored confidence, discourse and hope. Gibson and Scott gave us visions of a technological rather than warfare future. Technology promised economic opportunity. Studios produced…

[I]NTERESTING QUESTION: How do family structures vary? The family structure determines: the amount of inbreeding the inheritance system the private property rights that originate with the inheritance system the degree of trust extended to non-family members, with inbreeding producing lower overall trust, and outbreeding higher trust. the degree degree of authority necessary to maintain order…

FOR ASPIES: UNDERSTANDING NORMALS(Normals talk about meaningless nonsense all the time. we can learn to talk about meaningless nonsense too. it’s kind of hard at first to imagine meaningless nonsense, or even why you’d care about it. but it’s a product that the market wants, and if you want to obtain attention in the market,…

Question: —“Curt, does Bitcoin meet this Criteria? Is Bitcoin superior to Gold in terms of means of exchange?”— Steven, [I]nteresting question. Lets look at the list.1) Scarcity (no. as long as people want them we can create more of them at a constant rate – the problem is actually the opposite: requiring constant adjustment to…

[T]he unpleasant truth is that the USA is anti masculine; and black males are more masculine – with much more testosterone and much more impulsivity – so black males endure disproportionate suppression of their masculinity, and exhibit a disproportionate intolerance for submission to the state. This is the real, unstated, incognizant origin of black criminalization:…

[T]he unpleasant truth is that the USA is anti masculine; and black males are more masculine – with much more testosterone and much more impulsivity – so black males endure disproportionate suppression of their masculinity, and exhibit a disproportionate intolerance for submission to the state. This is the real, unstated, incognizant origin of black criminalization:…

—“That we have immoral politics for thousands of years does not make crass politics any less evil.”– David Macdonough. (Note, I just wanted to capture this response here, as a good illustration of the familial origins of morality. In this reply, I’m trying to suggest why government must be not just rational but scientific. Because,…

CLARIFYING THE ETHICAL SPECTRUM [R]oman has suggested that I try to clarify: (a) Ethical statements are truths, not Preferences. (b) Some groups prefer MORE moral and ethical societies, and some LESS moral and ethical societies, depending upon the homogeneity of the group. (c) Criminal, Ethical, Moral and Conspiratorial prohibitions constitute a spectrum from the most…

ETHICS: IMPROVING FUZZY LANGUAGE —“To be correct, ethical memes need to be universal. It cannot be right or wrong only for some but not for all. But all mere values are personal, but a value is only like a belief in that respect.”— David M. Excellent. I’d suggest improving this a bit. First:“All true ethical…

[W]hat is the return on an individual’s respect for property rights? For him? For the polity? For man? We cannot construct the voluntary organization without widespread respect. So then how do we calculate the cost if that adherence? Labor has no known value except in exchange. At which point we learn its value. But respect…

Peace is an idiot’s obsession. [T]he only rational pursuit is the positive expression in property rights of the negative prohibition on free riding. Violence toward that end is always rational and moral. Peace is an undesirable pursuit, since it simply justifies whatever level of immorality is currently extant. People who pursue peace for its own…

Peace is an idiot’s obsession. [T]he only rational pursuit is the positive expression in property rights of the negative prohibition on free riding. Violence toward that end is always rational and moral. Peace is an undesirable pursuit, since it simply justifies whatever level of immorality is currently extant. People who pursue peace for its own…

Critique != Criticism  In Criticism the alternative choice must be defended. In critique the alternative choice must be obscured. The purpose of Criticism is to identify truth. The purpose of Critique is obscurantism: complex deception. Critique is deception. Control by deception using  obscurantism. We forgo our opportunity for violence in exchange for pursuit of the truth.…