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[T]he Author’s criticisms stand (mostly), if we restate them as “increases in productivity and decreases in prices are beneficial only so long as the externalities are not more costly than the price discounting”. I think all of us are now aware that the big box reseller movement was as disastrous as he suggests. I think…

[I]’m working through Kripke again because I know it’s a half truth and I can’t quite put my finger on what’s missing. I know what is wrong with analytic philosophy (sets): their construction destroys information, causation, and operational construction, and therefore existential possibility. I know what’s right with information analysis: marginal difference (cause of change…

[A]M I FREE? Do I have freedom of association and disassociation? (No) Do I have the freedom of creating productive, voluntary exchange? (No) Do I have freedom to retain the products of my work? (No) Do I have freedom to defend my life and property? (No) Do I have freedom to defend the commons? (No)…

[H]UMOR OR SARCASM OR TRUTH? All my posts referencing Rothbard’s Ghetto Ethics. http://www.propertarianism.com/en_US/?s=ghetto+ethics

[I]gnorance isn’t a criticism. (Instead, say “I don’t know that subject”.) Lack of understanding isn’t a criticism. (Instead, say “I don’t understand”.) Difficulty in learning isn’t a criticism. (Instead say “this is hard, so I don’t understand.”) Falsification of meaning isn’t falsification of a central argument is a criticism. (instead say “I don’t think the…

[T]HIS WEEK’s ASPIE POST Aspies tend to love everyone. The difficulty in empathizing, common rejection, and desire for connection with others makes all successful connections more enjoyable. The hard part to manage comes in three: 1) It’s hard to find relations since listening to others most of their language consists of signals we consider either…

[O]nce you learn propertarianism’s basic principles: acquisition, property en toto, inventory, transaction cost, opportunity cost, cooperation, suppression of free riding, reproductive strategy and group evolutionary strategy, and all speech as negotiation for acquisition, you replace totalitarian Freudian psychology and cosmopolitan sociology with universal amoral, unloaded, rational incentives. And when you do that you see all…

[T]HE SILVER RULE IS THE ORIGIN OF COOPERATION THEFT The only ‘shame’ is theft. The only oath, not to lie, cheat, steal or impose harm. The summary of this ethic is: “Do not unto others as you would not want done unto you.” The anglo saxons were right and the Christians wrong. MORALITY (RULE OF…

[T]HE THEORETICAL HIERARCHY OF ORGANIZATIONAL EVOLUTION (useful idea) 4 – LAW: Customers, Brand, Channels, and Income Stream, Predictability 3 – THEORY: Innovation (business model), Investment, Possibility 2 – HYPOTHESIS: Talent, Effort, Searching For A Business Model 1 – FREE ASSOCIATION: Idea (Free Association) All human endeavors follow this principle just as most physical evolutionary organisms…

[M]en have had a much harder time taming women’s irrationality and impulsivity than they have their own. We kill off troublesome men. We just constrain troublesome women. We spent tends of thousands of years incrementally suppressing male behavior while merely containing female behavior. But we turned the ballot box into Pandora’s box and let loose…

[A] market for consumer goods and a market for commons both benefit from producers and consumers. But I am an Aspie. I hate conflict. I don’t shun from it. That would be immoral. But I hate it none the less. I grew up in an environment so horrible that no one would envy it. And…

(important piece) (on the existence of gods) —“You’re one of my favorite Catholic Atheists”— [W]ell, thank you. Although, while a scientist, I am not an atheist. I am just what is called a Naturalist, and not a Supernaturalist. I understand that Gods exist. They exist as numbers exist. If I was an atheist you wouldn’t…

[I]f you adopt paternalism: that your kin are an extended family, and that you will work with other extended families to cooperate non-parasitically with all other extended families, and that we produce nations not states, then you get this wonderful ability for us to religion, culture, race, class and caste. We struggle with a certain…

[P]ROPERTARIAN CLASS STRUCTURES (draft)(note that education is a commercial class) Martial Class (suppression of parasitism) —Kings and Generals —Knights(professionals), Soldiers —Judges, and Sherriffs Commons Class (Construction of Commons) —Infrastructure Institutions —Civic Organizations —Beauty and Maintenance —Disaster Services Insurer Class (Insurance) —Priesthood and Intellectuals —Insurers, and Insurers of last resort —Medicine and Nursing —Mothering and Child…

Eli Harman One of Robert Axelrod’s findings from studying iterated prisoner’s dilemma competitions (“The Evolution of Cooperation”) is that the standard “tit for tat” strategy can be improved upon by adding an element of forgiveness, to break otherwise insoluable and never-ending patterns of recrimination. Clinging steadfastly to vengeance as an aim, when peace and cooperation…

—[M]uslims everywhere (or rather i should say most Muslims i have encountered) do not accept the logical and normative distinction that western philosophy effectuates between the truth-value of statements and the origin of those statements. This is the true nexus of the conflict between Islam and the West. It is a real conflict with stunning…