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Eventually We Run Out
Eventually we ran out of local flora and fauna. Eventually we ran out of new regions of flora and fauna. Eventually we ran out of arable land. Eventually (soon) we will run out of resources. Eventually (later) we will run out of a capacity to transform energy. We are never free of the universe’s limits.…
Never Has An Empire Been So Fragile
NEVER HAS AN EMPIRE BEEN MORE FRAGILE There is no natural gas, electrical, or electronic infrastructure that can survive a magazine of steel core 7.62 ammunition. There are no transformers that can survive a collision with a pickup truck. There are no poles that can survive a man with a chainsaw. There is no physical…
The Limits of Political Protest
THE LIMITS OF POLITICAL PROTEST 1 – There are limits to interpersonal action – that is the meaning of ‘ethical’. 2 – There are limits to social action – that’s the meaning of ‘moral’. 3 – There are limits to political action – that is the meaning of ‘sacred’. 1 – There are circumstances that…
The Route to Operational Grammar
I’m trying to find a way of artfully explaining the difference between teh ‘verbalists’, (Cosmopolitans) and analytic logic, through to the ‘Turingists’ or Algorithmists, and then to operational logic. and I really don’t want to defecate on the analytic movement so much as get across the point that identities(math) and sets(‘logic’), just like empiricism(correspondence) are…
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I’m trying to find a way of artfully explaining the difference between teh ‘verbalists’, (Cosmopolitans) and analytic logic, through to the ‘Turingists’ or Algorithmists, and then to operational logic. and I really don’t want to defecate on the analytic movement so much as get across the point that identities(math) and sets(‘logic’), just like empiricism(correspondence) are…
Humans Are Easy: 1 – (Human): Acquisitiveness 2 – (Gender): Gender Difference In Reproductive Strategy 3 – (P
Rest > Explore > Stressor > Search > Stalk > Chase > Bite > Dissect > Consume, (repeat the cycle) 1) REST : SEARCH (Self) (our brain is always searching) 2) STRESS TRIGGER: Need for Stability: Stress triggers your automatic nervous system, or fight-or-flight response. A period of arousal is followed by a…
The Big Scary Question
Are women able, meaning do they possess the physical, emotional, and intellectual agency, to speak the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, without regard to the signal and status economy? If the west is demarcated from all other civilizations by the demand for truth, the whole truth, and nothing but…
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Rule of law under natural law of reciprocity requires markets in everything, that are limited to productive externalities, without possibility of competition or even criticism since any criticism of rule of law of reciprocity can only consist of fraud or deceit. If fascism means “prohibition on political competition” then that is in fact ‘rule of…
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Socialists(priesthood): Faith in Technology -vs- Aristocrats(military): Certainty of Genetics feminine vs masculine
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If you think I’ve made a fuss about idealism in mathematics, wait to you see what I do to english grammar….. lol
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Interesting. I have an ancestor in the New Haven Colony that lived to 103, dying in Wallingford. Didn’t know that.
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If you don’t ‘go slumming’ you cannot understand the lower middle, working, laboring, and underclass peasantry. The vast majority of these people who are above 95 at least, are not immoral. They may be ignorant. They may lack opportunity to produce competitively enough to prosper, and they may feel left behind, that their contribution to…
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Six Italian men in their 50’s and 60’s sitting outside a coffee shop talking nonsense. Living in the moment. They are happier the than most of us will ever be in late age. Why? Friends are the best investment in entertainment, and that’s not only because the only investment required is time.
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Just as progressives demonstrate caution in the face of artificial intelligence, progressives(dysgenicists) fear conservatives(eugenicists). Because if we are successful in restoring our eugenic personal, social, economic, and political order, we will leave them behind. Just as they fear the mechanical social, economic, and political order, will leave them behind. This is the intuition…
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The universe, like our parents, births life which itself will replace that universe if successful. And expire like that universe if not. Life is deterministic. Action is deterministic. Intelligence is deterministic. Cooperation is deterministic. Self replacement is deterministic. That’s all the wonderous beauty we need.
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There is an aristocratic ethic in the literature of exploration and colonization – and science fiction of the postwar period replaced the *actual* aristocracy of exploration and colonization that had existed prior to the war. So just as James Bond is really a lament to lost british power, science fiction of the period…
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—“Did Heinlein have an influence on you? I have been listening to Starship Troopers and I swear I hear you and Eli, mostly you.”— Anne Summers Great Question. (a) I had only read Time Enough for Love (which I read upon release). I was heavily influenced by it and think I still am…