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Sideways: The Dimensions of Sentience
The Dimensions of Sentience: SENTIENCE (decidability) > …. ALGORITHMS (COMPUTABILITY) > …. …. MATHEMATICS (deducibility), …. …. …. SETS(membership) > …. …. …. …. IDENTITY. with each removing dimensions of the previous.
Restore the monarchies, rule of law, multi-house government, and the militia
WHAT I’M SAYING ISN’T THAT COMPLICATED. IT”S THE OPERATIONALIZATION, ADVOCACY, AND DEFENSE OF IT THAT’S COMPLICATED. Michael Churchill Curt you’ve argued that you want the US to have multiple legal frameworks via devolution of power from the national to the state level. Isn’t that a sort of acceptance of different strokes for different folks? Curt…
Reciprocity just makes it preferable to cooperate rather than engage in predation.
t’s not that Reciprocity is good for all of us – even though it is. It’s just that it’s the only condition under which it’s not more profitable, preferable, logical to kill you, take you things, and enslave your women and children. Personally, I kind of prefer the whole kill, take, and enslave thing, but…
The Grand Sequence
THE GRAND SEQUENCE Oath, Truth, Manners, Ethics, Morals, Liberty, Aristocracy, Beauty OATH: THE FULLY ARTICULATED OATH I shall not lie, cheat, steal, cause others to bear unwanted cost, or the commons to suffer loss, nor shall I tolerate those who do, nor leave them unpunished by censure, restitution, imprisonment, banishment, or death. TRUTH: TESTIMONY Identity…
Because I Don’t Trust You
THINK ABOUT THIS SERIES OF POLITICAL QUESTIONS 1) Why don’t I fight with you? 2) Why don’t I steal from you? 3) Why don’t I trade with you? 4) Why don’t I finance with you? 5) Why don’t I (exchange-or-create norms) with you? 6) Why don’t I create laws (government) with you? 7) Why don’t…
You Cannot Trust What You Cannot Measure – That’s not Trust, but Faith
Apr 17, 2017 12:29pm You cannot trust what you cannot measure. If you cannot measure it you are acting not on trust but on faith. And faith is not a way to govern, but a way to hide the extraction of rents before the opportunity is lost.
Becker’s Use of Marginalism in Violence and Revolution
BECKER’S USE OF MARGINALISM IN VIOLENCE AND REVOLUTION (predatory gains are linear, losses to prey are exponential) —“…a simple calculation that predatory interest groups and their taxpaying victims make: what return on my investment can I get by lobbying government? Becker’s insight is that the gains to predators are linear, but the losses to prey…
The Total Cost of Revolution? It’s the difference between the Cost of Not Revolting.
You are a prisoner of your frames. If you don’t start any political question with violence and predation and construct from the bottom up, you are engaging in one of many forms of wishful thinking and deceit. Curt Doolittle updated his status. The total cost of revolution is unknowable. The total cost of the loss…
Another Useful Idiot – Rothbardian Flavor
ANOTHER USEFUL ROTHBARDIAN IDIOT —“> asserts that there can never be a social order based on private property norms > engages in argumentation, thereby demonstrating a preference for and participation in a libertarian social order based on private property norms You wrote 10 paragraphs of performative contradiction, but at least you felt cool doing it.”—-Jared…
Rothbardians Excel At Demonstrating The Evolution of Lying
Apr 18, 2017 9:32am ROTHBARDIANS ARE EXCEPTIONAL AT DEMONSTRATING THE EVOLUTION OF LYING I love destroying Rothbardians. It’s…. it’s such a great way of showing the way that Pilpul > Scriptural Justification > Hermeneutics > Legal Rationalism > and Lying by Rationalism > Lying by Pseudoscience, has evolved from the origins of scriptural monotheism until…
The Origins of Ratio-Deceptionism – And the Roman Counter via Stoicism and Law
THE ORIGINS OF RATIO-DECEPTIONISM – AND ROMAN COUNTER VIA LAW Both the Jews and the Greeks discovered Ratio-Deceptionism. The greeks were treated the same way we treat the Jews today (as skillful liars). But the Romans, from whom we inherit our laws, and our government, actively ridiculed the greeks, used them as we use jews…
First Questions of Personal, Ethical, Political Philosophy?
—” Does “why shouldn’t I kill myself?” Qualifies as political question? Or polarity is internal here?”—Mea Culba 1) PERSONAL Q: First question of philosophy why do I not commit suicide? A: possibility for acquisition and influence (power) 2) ETHICAL Q: First question of ethics: why do I not kill you and take your things? A:…
Argument vs Argumentation Ethics
LETS LOOK AT ARGUMENT VS ARGUMENTATION ETHICS. Argument: the use of statement to construct an hypothesis and eliminate error, for the purpose of persuasion in order to choose between interpersonal avoidance, cooperation, parasitism, or violence, or personal inaction, action, or delay. Argumentation: the action or process of reasoning systematically in support of an idea, action,…
The Evil of Comforting Lies
THE EVIL OF COMFORTING LIES I have a thing: I like calculations. I like calculative technologies. I like them because they require specialists. And because they require specialists we get fewer idiots claiming they know what they’re talking about. why isn’t public speech in politics regulated as highly as a series seven license for example?…
Consent?
CONSENT? We can’t hold people to specific implicit consent because we can’t really state that they understood what they were doing. What we tend to do is hold people account for continuous implicit consent because they can’t say they didn’t understand. this is how the law works today. You can demonstrate your consent by benefiting…
The Evolution of Martial Truth and Religious Lies
THE EVOLUTION OF TRUTH “Reporting” (evidence) …. Oath of Warriors …. …. Oath to Tribe (Passage) …. …. …. Oath before jury and judge …. …. …. …. Oath before senate and thang …. …. …. …. …. Records,Accounts, Contracts, Law, Architecture …. …. …. …. …. …. Greek Math, Reason and philosophy …. ….…
Truth and Lies
TRUTH AND LIES All truth is very simple: Deflation and Full Accounting, and absence of suggestion by consequence. The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. All Lying is very simple: Conflation, and Partial Accounting, and Suggestion. No truth, a little truth, not enough truth to require a combination of self substitution and…
Imagine a Very Different World
Apr 18, 2017 11:29am IMAGINE A VERY DIFFERENT WORLD…. Imagine how much smarter you would be, the entire population would be, if the same increase in intelligence made possible by physical science was made possible by operational science? In other words, imaging how much smarter people were after literacy. (about a full standard deviation) Imagine…
What Lesson Do Our Women Teach Us?
WHAT LESSON DO OUR WOMEN TEACH US? We live In a world where we have worked hard to ensure that women were no longer stolen for sex, offspring, and labor. A world where women were no longer stolen for slaves, prostitution, and labor. A world where women were no longer sold for sex, labor, and…
The Post-Love Civilization?
THE POST-LOVE CIVILIZATION? Under agrarianism, the marriage bond was an extension of the existing family and family relations, the want of children, the need to share labor in a household, and if possible, the need to survive, and sometimes if not often – erotic attraction. The ‘family’ was much closer to a ‘tribe’ or ‘clan’…