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You’ve probably heard that the average person can only hold about five items in visual space at any time without resorting to groupings or organizing into grids of one sort or the other. You might have heard that the average person sort of maxes out at remembering a phone number. And that phone numbers…

Without Time, we cannot speak of constant relations, because we cannot perceive either constant relations or changes in state that would falsify those freely associated relations. IDENTITY: Identity consists of some set of marginally indifferent constant relations that persists over some period of time. CATEGORIES Categories: Marginal differences in state of constant relations…

by William L. Benge When the state claims rights to a person’s agency, it is an egregious offense against the commons – because first, it is untruthful and damages the informational commons; and second, the presumption doubles it’s trouble to create an even greater crime of staking a false claim on life-property (one’s…

(important concept) Identity Consists of a set of Constant Relations (Properties) – all the way up from the senses and all the way down from our ideas. Identity is discovered by free association, followed by elimination of non-constant relations. (falsification) Commensurability can be produced by use of a third reference that renders…

Aesthetic and generational returns for the aristocracy. Investment returns for the bourgeoise. Discounts for the laymen.

The only decidable good is demonstrated voluntary reciprocity.

COOPERATION < NON-COOPERATION < PREDATION Cooperation is only valuable if it is more valuable than non cooperation. Non cooperation is only valuable if it is more valuable than predation. If cooperation is no longer valuable then non-cooperation must be possible. If the state or some other organization prohibits non-cooperation, then predation is preferable…

But when to Revolution men bend their will, How soon they find fit, instruments of ill. Revolution Comes! #Trump #NewRight #Conservative

Anarcho capitalist societies are impossible because it is impossible to create any competitive order without a territorial monopoly, and impossible to create a territorial monopoly without competitive defense, and impossible to create a competitive defense without competitive commons, because it is impossible to create concentrations of wealth without competitive commons. Moreover, all competitive commons in…

(in response to a request for technology review)(from elsewhere) My particular audience expects me to write about (a) artificial intelligence (b) the future of programming languages (c) digital currency and shares, (d) organizational management, and (e) the software development consulting business. They are a very high level audience, and would find it ‘odd’ or…

Speech is a low bar for ‘human’.

I just went through the comment and it consists of standard language from law, philosophy, social science, and economics. The fact that I am knowledgeable in many fields is uncommon, but the language is neither opaque, or difficult to research, which is – usually – what people do, rather than ascribe to terms of art…

—“When I first began reading you Curt, the difficulty was understanding your implied word definitions, many of which conflicted with my own, and therefore made some of your arguments seem nonsensical. Like any new vocabulary, once I learned the language, your arguments seem quite simple. That’s not an insult but a heroic compliment. …

I’m a scientist. I look at the empirical evidence. The empirical evidence is that the most monstrous of the arts is writing in the grammar and semantics of fictionalism (pseudo-science, pseudo-rationalism, and pseudo-mythology), and in particular the conflation of all of the above. The greatest cause of death in history, other than the great…

Curt Doolittle please forgive my intrusion today but I wonder if I accidentally stumbled upon your reason for venturing into the libertarian realm in your evolution, followed by disaffection. It has to do, I’m convinced at the moment, with your sympathy with the elegance of the human mind; the human mind’s nature is…

(birth certificate)(from elsewhere) I rec’d one of the early copies of the pdf, along with a request to review it, and the cuts and pastes were still visible, (pdf’s store revision history just like word documents) and it was obvious that the background was added to the xerox copy afterward as an under-layer. It was…

White america speaks english, and uses english institutions, but for all intents and purposes, it is culturally german. For the simple reason that most of white america has german origins. England is celtic, german, and scandinavian with french decoration. Germany is the heart of europe. It has no choice. Unlike scandinavia it has enemies at…

|| Sparta > Rome > Prussia > England > America (and Australia). No one else has done it.

In English, the word ‘brother’ in military context, is a ‘term of art’, meaning that one will remain loyal under duress. (See Shakespeare). In other words, you can trust one another to ‘cover your ass’ on the battlefield. We often claim that this extension of kinship ‘love’ to non-kin has it’s origins in Christianity. But…

THE FUNCTION AND LIMITS OF MORAL “AUTHORITY” (important piece) (*read this*) – Authority (via positiva) vs Decidability (via negativa). – Judges employ the via negativa of decidability in matters of tort for the simple reason that all reciprocity is decidable. The difference between individuals, groups, and nations, is in the scope of…