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  Now, in order for each of us to create commensurability between ideas we tend to specialize in one of the grammars, and pull from other grammars as necessary. Myself I learned history first, physics and math second, algorithms third, and economics fourth. My understanding of psychology was produced by indoctrination into the “Predictive Index”…

—“Politics and religion are different and are extremely hard to mix together”—James Portocarrero Judaism and islam do it. The church was too weak to do it. Chinese never had the problem. WHY: homogeneity = reason. Heterogeneity = Religion. THAT’S THE REASON The problem is heterogeneity (diversity). Religion = Stagnation to create homogeneity that doesn’t exist.…

Decidability. We have intuition to decide what we cannot reason. A machine needs the same intuition (biases). We could give it a bias to ‘give up’ or ‘go to sleep’. Or we could give it a bias to merely ‘talk’. We don’t like to confront the fact that ‘consciousness’ of a human being relies upon…

In Short “No”. We can in mathematics assert axioms and fail to or choose not to assert axioms. In logic, we can assert axioms and fail to or choose not to assert axioms. In reality (the existential universe) we discover laws, or fail to discover laws – we cannot assert them or fail to assert…

—“—“Any even semi free nation that doesn’t have ICBMs is a free rider on the commons of the USA”— I don’t know why I never thought of the military as the commons. Just hit me”— A Friend. Once you start seeing it, you start seeing it everywhere – and then you understand…..

Every forced transfer is a loss at the expense of an opportunity for a productive reciprocal exchange. The exchange the wealthy desire is respect for property of all kinds, leading to stoicism in the individual, since it is only stoicism that both requires action and prevents all imposition of costs upon *everything*: display (sound, sight,…

  *AI’S WILL BE MORE ETHICAL THAN HUMANS, NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND.* The way humans determine permissible and impermissible actions is a test of reciprocity, and we determine it by demonstrated investment of time effort and resources, and we categorize such investments as interests from self, to kin, to property, to shareholder interests, to…

( OWNED ) @Bernard Mitochondrie Well, here is something to work with, since we are finally narrowing this down to decidability on one hand, and limits to choice on the other. And my use of evolutionary necessity of reciprocity, correspondence with the evidence in norms and laws at all scales, logical decidability of reciprocity, the…

I dunno about that… lol. But I will say that working on Propertarianism has made my mind extraordinarily CLEAR – mindful so to speak. With very little noise. And much more agency. And if I could propagate that utility to people I would feel like I did the world a lot of good.

by Bill Anderson You have the causality backwards. Males form tribes so that they can control a breeding population of women. Males who fail to do so will be conquered and their genes displaced, so violent conflict is unavoidable. These breeding populations will produce survival behaviors based on their genetic inclinations and their environment. These…

by Bill Anderson —-“A small group of people gather together and then invent debts that the rest of some population owes them, then goes about publicizing and collecting those invented debts.”— J R Fibonacci Hunn I think you’re addressing a couple of issues in your larger post: the money system and taxation. Let me address…

https://www.quora.com/Who-is-the-most-influential-living-philosopher-1/answer/Curt-Doolittle?share=b44bec67&srid=u4Qv Interesting question. Good answers. Let’s look at how we can ask this question. 😉 Technical Innovation <-> Practical Utility <——> Popular Influence Successful Technical  Hard to argue that the Russel-Frege-Kripke chain didn’t provide answers but it’s also hard to argue that they weren’t wasting their time. Because Babbage-Cantor-Goedel-Turing produced superior methods and answers. Failed…

—“Once one sees the MORALITY of ruling … the smoke starts to clear.”—Michael Churchill  We all slowly are working toward consensus on this very issue. Our men just need to exhaust all other possibilities before they will accept the truth. Rule is good. We must rule.

@ Bernard Mitochondrie(… “you are a legend in some” … ) The more enemies a man has the more substantive his threat to them. Friends tell us little. Enemies tell us a great deal. The fact that people must counter-signal to defend their malinvestments from my arguments is simply evidence of their malinvestments, and nothing…

1) Children’s potential is 80% genetics, and 20% early physical development, and nearly zero anything else. 2) You cannot improve on genetics – and all temporary gains measured will dissipate within one forgetting cycle (3 years). 3) You can harm children’s development through trauma and exposure to malincentives and bad behavior, but you cannot improve…

by Luke Weinhagen The way it hit me was that libertarianism survives/exists by miscategorizing relations. Specifically, libertarians interpret commons(cooperation) as commons(conflict) and use property rights(IVP) to attempt to resolve that conflict. In doing so they justify libertarianism’s parasitism of the commons(that can only be generated via cooperation) as defense and that justification requires it not…

Men really need to speak to other men, without women in the room for the same reason women like to speak to women without men in the room. There are market value vulnerabilities that build trust between men but women abuse, and visa versa.

If your goal is to improve an idiot – it’s hopeless. if your goal is to reduce the spread of idiocy – it’s not hopeless but nearly. If your goal is to improve your ability to communicate your ideas, argue your ideas, and argue against ignorance, error, bias and deceit – then that’s something else.…

There is a very great difference between transforming the state of the physical world by physical coercion (labor), and transforming the choices and organization of people using incentives (layers of entrepreneurship and management). The physical world can’t choose between options. Man can choose between options unless he is in fact a slave – thereby lacking…

Dear idiots. You don’t get to choose a personal philosophy that isn’t bound by a political philosophy agreed to by others – and still survive competition in that polity. Just as groups don’t get to choose a political philosophy that can’t survive the market for territories. It doesn’t matter what you alone think or want.…