Polymoralism And Commons
POLYMORALISM AND COMMONS [A]nd of course there are other options: Land can be owned by no one. Land can be owned by one person. Land can be owned by a group of contractual shareholders. Land can be owned by normative shareholders. The problem of a commons lies in determining use of a resource that CAN…
We Were Wrong And They're Killing Us For It
WE WERE WRONG AND MANKIND IS COMMITTING GENOCIDE AGAINST US FOR OUR SINS. [Y]ou know, I’m chiseling away at correcting the enlightenment. I didn’t realize that’s what I was doing, but thats what, under the chisel, lies inside the stone, ready to emerge. – Fallacy of the Anglo Enlightenment – universalism and the aristocracy of…
We Were Wrong And They’re Killing Us For It
WE WERE WRONG AND MANKIND IS COMMITTING GENOCIDE AGAINST US FOR OUR SINS. [Y]ou know, I’m chiseling away at correcting the enlightenment. I didn’t realize that’s what I was doing, but thats what, under the chisel, lies inside the stone, ready to emerge. – Fallacy of the Anglo Enlightenment – universalism and the aristocracy of…
Is Self Deception Possible?
IS SELF – DECEPTION POSSIBLE? YES. IT TURNS OUT IT IS. AND MOREOVER WE ARE SURROUNDED BY MASTERS OF IT.( Lesterians ) ( Austrians ) [O]ver the past better part of a year, Lee Waaks, a Lesterian who has taught me quite a bit about Jan Lester’s ideas, and to whom I am forever grateful,…
A Gap?
CAN THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE PEOPLE WHO DEVELOPED SCIENCE HAVE A DANGEROUS GAP? (Yes) [I]f you had told me that western philosophy contained such a catastrophic hole that we could be nearly destroyed by ideas even worse than monotheism, I would have told you to write science fiction novellas. It turns out it’s true. We…
The Impact of Ordinary Man?
(Hampering the fantasies of ordinary people everywhere, but giving them a note of solace in return…. Can an ordinary person significantly change society?) [A]n important and interesting question, So I will do my best. Although you might not like the answer. 1) Well, a common man certainly can make a positive impact on society merely…
The Aristocratic Contract vs Patriotism
[I] don’t like the word patriot, because it suggests fealty to church or state. Instead: the obligation of every man who accepts the aristocratic contract is to deny power to any and all over any and all. In this sense patriotism is impossible for members of the aristocracy because it implies a moral choice rather…
The Truth: Making Honest Can't VS Should Arguments
If you’re making a “CAN’T” argument, then just admit it’s because you can’t. If you’re making a “SHOULD or SHOULDN’T” argument, then state why you should or shouldn’t. But if you’re making a can’t argument while saying it’s because you shouldn’t, then that’s not truth that’s deception. It’s true that you CAN’T hold Russia accountable…
The Truth: Making Honest Can’t VS Should Arguments
If you’re making a “CAN’T” argument, then just admit it’s because you can’t. If you’re making a “SHOULD or SHOULDN’T” argument, then state why you should or shouldn’t. But if you’re making a can’t argument while saying it’s because you shouldn’t, then that’s not truth that’s deception. It’s true that you CAN’T hold Russia accountable…
An Advancement On E-Prime?
… I THINK? CHANGING IT FROM PREFERENCE FOR MEANING TO NECESSITY FOR TESTIMONY? [I]’ve been reading more on General Semantics and their meme E-Prime, and it’s pretty interesting how they advocate GS/E’ for the purpose of clarity and meaning. Now, I advocate E’ and Operationalism because one cannot testify to the truth of a statement…
The Mere Mortal's Journey To Economic Literacy
1) -The Single Idea-Economics in One Lesson, by Henry Hazlitt : Economic thought, unlike Moral thought, asks us to think about equilibrating consequences, and opportunity costs. If you understand the “one lesson” of the broken window fallacy, then that teaches you economic thinking in a nutshell. 2) –The Application of The Single Idea To The…
The Mere Mortal’s Journey To Economic Literacy
1) -The Single Idea-Economics in One Lesson, by Henry Hazlitt : Economic thought, unlike Moral thought, asks us to think about equilibrating consequences, and opportunity costs. If you understand the “one lesson” of the broken window fallacy, then that teaches you economic thinking in a nutshell. 2) –The Application of The Single Idea To The…
An Interesting Path To A New Secular 'Religion'
(insight) [I] want to take you through an interesting line of thought, starting with creativity, and ending with something profound. Unfortunately for all of us, creativity is terribly time consuming. You cant sit down and say “I’m going to be creative now”, and cram through it like you can with calculations, or organizing or planning…
An Interesting Path To A New Secular ‘Religion’
(insight) [I] want to take you through an interesting line of thought, starting with creativity, and ending with something profound. Unfortunately for all of us, creativity is terribly time consuming. You cant sit down and say “I’m going to be creative now”, and cram through it like you can with calculations, or organizing or planning…
Liberty In Modernity Isn't For Simpletons
People 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…
Liberty In Modernity Isn’t For Simpletons
People 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…
Is It Good To Do A Ph.d. In Theoretical Computer Science (e.g. Complexity) If You Intend To Go To Work In The Industry?
As far as we know, a PhD does not increase you earning capacity or your credibility and demonstrably harms it. The value of a PhD is either entirely personal (and expensive) or necessary as entry into the teaching field. In practice a PhD is certification by a board of specialists that they can treat you…
Why Is It Many Times Cheaper To Send Physical Mail Across The Ocean Than An Electronic Money Transfer?
Because the government subsidizes and insures physical mail that is hard to steal, and less desirable to steal, using low skilled labor when handling mail, while private industry absorbs risks and the cost of semi-skilled manual labor to manually process wire transfers that are unprofitable, and easily fraudulent, and highly desirable to steal, but without…
When Might Apple Begin To Decline?
When the profitability of the iPhone is sufficiently diminished that a new income stream must be developed, yet Apple execs are unwilling to conquer the desktop market that is sitting there for them to just take away from Microsoft on a scale not seen since Microsoft did the same to IBM. https://www.quora.com/When-might-Apple-begin-to-decline
How Do Family Relationships Differ Between Countries?
INTERESTING QUESTION: 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 (prevent violence in retaliation for…
What Percentage Of New Questions On Quora Are Created By Software Bots?
Enough that I don’t want to play this fking game much longer. https://www.quora.com/unanswered/What-percentage-of-new-questions-on-Quora-are-created-by-software-bots
How Does The Libertarian Party View The Electoral College? Are There Any Reasons, If They Do Or Do Not?
The libertarian argument would suggest that if an electoral college is necessary to prevent the imposition of the will of the populated states upon the less populated states that it is time to move to nullification and secession. Any statement beyond that is mere pragmatism on the part of the party members. https://www.quora.com/How-does-the-Libertarian-party-view-the-electoral-college-Are-there-any-reasons-if-they-do-or-do-not
Is It Possible To Reconcile Tort Reform And Libertarian Philosophy?
Um. This isn’t necessarily a libertarian issue so much as a logical one. The problem is that jury determination of penalties is arbitrary, and incalculable so that risk is un-measurable, and that penalties of scale are just passed on to consumers. This means that lawsuits can be pursued as lottery ticket purchases by all but…
If You Could Only Own One Libertarian Treatise, Which One Would You Choose: ‘human Action’,â ‘man, Economy, And State’, Or ‘the Constitution Of Liberty’?
Human action is a work of pseudoscience through chapter 15, and after 15 is fully integrated into mainstream economics. So it is not useful. Mises failed to discern that economics, like physics and mathematics was subject to an epistemic requirement for operational definitions. And while he intuited something close to correct, he was unable to…
Why Is Gold Or Silver Precious In The First Place? I Would Say That Rice Is Precious.
I will improve Paul Frank’s statement slightly:1) Scarcity2) Universal Utility.3) Non-perishability 4) Volume and weight to value ratio (and therefore transportability)5) Nearly universal convertibility.6) Functional unit of account, store of value, and medium of exchange. Very few goods meet this criteria. Silver and gold are pretty much the only goods that do meet this criteria.…