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Intelligence and Rule-Breaking Deception
Smart kids lie 100% of the time? Q: More intelligent children tend to be more deceptive—can you explain this? A: The experiment was simplicity itself. A child is asked to sit facing away from a box. The experimenter puts something in the box and says “Do not peek, do not peek” and then leaves the…
Dear Fellow Intellectuals – Especially in Academia. Learn The Language of Economics.
[T]he language of social science is now and will forever be, economics, just as the language of ratios is and will be mathematics. But when we say economics, we mean not monetary economics, but the terminology of costs, discounts and premiums. The effect of asymmetry of information. The language of equilibria. Acquisition, Inventory, Property-en-toto (demonstrated…
Hierarchy Of Ethical Logics
(worth repeating) [H]IERARCHY OF ETHICAL LOGICS 1) Pedagogical Myths…(very young)……….Stories 2) Virtue Ethics…….(young)……………Biographies 3) Rule Ethics………(inexperience adult)..Laws 4) Outcome Ethics……(experienced adult)…Science
Lying: Methods and Techniques .. Plus A Reading List
(important) (first draft) (this ought to make some people think) [W]hat I am struck by when researching this topic, is how primitive the research is into HOW lies are constructed. Here are the Axis I am working with: So sticking with the general rules that: 1) All language consists of negotiation on behalf of our…
How Do We Identify The Commons?
[I]nformation, Air, Water, Land, Physical Capital, Institutions, Norms, Traditions, Myths – people DEMONSTRATE that they treat these as commons: “that which may not be consumed”. That is what constitutes property-en-toto: that which man has paid costs (of any kind) to acquire and inventory.
Explained: The Libertine Fallacy Of Crusoe’s Island Thought Model
“[T]he Fallacy of Crusoe’s Island, Surrounded by the sea. But what does the sea that surrounds and defends Crusoe’s island represent? It represents the walls of the ancient master’s house defended by master and warriors. It represents the ghetto’s walls defended by the European nobles and knights. It represents the eastern European territories defended by…
Plutarch Supports : The Only Things That Melt In This Pot …
THE ONLY THINGS THAT MELT IN THIS POT, ARE RULE OF LAW, HIGH TRUST, THE COMMONS, AND THE VOLUNTARISM OF THE CIVIC SOCIETY —-“For along with strange people, strange doctrines must come in; and novel doctrines bring novel decisions, from which there must arise many feelings and resolutions which destroy the harmony of the existing…
The Nobel Prize is an Instrument of Propaganda Supporting Democratic Socialism
[W]ell, the Nobel Prize is awarded for POLITICAL ACTIVISM, not for content. Is her work worthy of a Nobel? Not likely. Is Solzhenitzyn? Maybe. The only Nobel prizes that are not rewarded on the basis of political progressivism are the hard (physical) sciences. The nobel prize is a vehicle for promoting european social democracy. So…
Why Is Bellevue, Wa Considered One Of The Best Places To Live In America?
(trigger warning)j Truth: 1) it’s a relatively new city built with money generated by proximity to Microsoft, and because it is new and expensive, and populated by an almost entirely college educated population, it has not (yet) accumulated an underclass. 2) Seattle/bellevue/redmond started as a heavily Scandinavian lumber and coal region, but never experienced the…
The Open Society Experiment Failed
[J]ust like every other cosmopolitan pseudoscience. Just another ideological catastrophe. Sorry Karl Popper. You were just subconsciously hoping to recreate your ancestral home in eastern Europe under the remote and disinterested tsars. The Ancient Slaves. The Medieval Jewish Ghetto. Eastern Europe under the Tzars. Israel defended by American arms and money. And the Fallacy of…
Propertarianism is Now Available in Spanish!
(pinned) Alberto Zambrano has been converting past posts into Spanish. For the time being they will be mixed in. When we have a bit of time we will install the multi-language plugins and let you switch between different language versions of the same article. To see posts available in Español or back to English, select…
El significado del “incremento de la supresión”
Original article by Curt Doolittle (http://www.propertarianism.com/2015/06/23/the-meaning-of-incremental-suppression/) Translation by Alberto R. Zambrano U. [L]a lógica de incrementar la supresión del parasitismo por medio del “common law” o derecho consuetudinario . Los seres humanos adquieren al costo y defienden lo que han adquirido al costo. La cooperación es desproporcionadamente más productiva que la depredación. La cooperación es preferible a…
¿Cuáles son las bases mínimas de la ley necesaria para la libertad?
Original article by Curt Doolittle / Artículo escrito por Curt Doolittle (http://www.propertarianism.com/2015/07/02/propertarianism-vs-rothbardiansm/) Translated by Alberto R. Zambrano U. EL PROBLEMA ES LA LEY, NO LA CREENCIA [E]s verdad que la agresión es inmoral, y es verdad que para que la gente racionalmente coopere la agresión debe ser ilegal. Pero esto es una afirmación engañosa e incompleta, porque todos intuimos que…
Cleanse the Earth Of Lies and Theft – Pacification of Man
COMBINE SCIENCE, TRUTH, PHILOSOPHY, MORALITY, LAW, AND ECONOMICS – CLEANSE THE EART OF LIES AND THEFT, AND WE WILL BE IN PRACTICE GODS [P]hysical Science as practiced is merely incomplete. When completed, Science is a moral discipline laundering imagination from free association. Physical Science advanced faster than Social Science because in Physical, truth is advantageous…
More Awareness of IQ’s Effect On Institutions-
[A]dam, Thanks for giving this book and this concept airtime. Le Griffe has been talking about this issue for years. I have been stating it in relation to Pareto’s work on the distribution of property necessary to organise voluntary production. And the usual suspects in IQ research have been concerned about it for decades now.…
The Andresson Horowitz Model as Landless Monarchy
“Most of our first customers that were over a $1M have come as relationships through Andreessen Horowitz.”—Jessica Lessin @Jessicalessin @pmarca 1) Not surprisingly, the Andreessen Horowitz model is identical to that of the monarchies – albeit without land holding. 2) Entrepreneurial Paternalism vs State Capitalism seek the same end by different means. Classes differ in…
The Multitude of Luddisms We Call Political Philosophy – Our Failure to Scale
[I] am beginning to see Rothbardian Libertinism, if not Puritanism, Socialism and Communism, as intellectually limited failures of maturity. They’re all forms of Luddism. They are failures to innovate to adapt to changes in scale. Just as the 20th century thinkers failed to grasp the problem of existential possibility (operationalism and intuitionism) and of criticism…
Q&A: Did You Ever Think That Lying Makes Life Beautiful?
—“Curt Doolittle , did you ever think about the fact that truth is boring and lying (telling stories) makes the life beautiful? You have to be talented in order to lie, not everybody can do it well… BuI bet that many people have not the time and patience to read your arguments…”—Grete Tartler Tabarasi [I]…
The West Needs Russia To Save It From Utopian Democracy As The West Saved Russia From Communism.
LETS FLIP THIS AROUND: THE WEST NEEDS RUSSIA TO SAVE IT FROM UTOPIAN DEMOCRACY JUST AS RUSSIA NEEDED THE WEST TO SAVE IT FROM UTOPIAN COMMUNISM —“The memory of the Soviets still exists in the minds of Eastern Europeans. But it would be dishonest to say that the U.S does not whip up fear of…
¿Objetividad o Relatividad Moral?
Original article by Curt Doolittle / Escrito por Curt Doolittle: http://www.propertarianism.com/2015/06/17/moral-objectivity-or-relativity/ Translation by Alberto R. Zambrano U. [L]a moralidad es tan absoluta como la matemática. Todo lo demás no es moralidad sino estrategias competitivas: variaciones contractuales sobre la moralidad objetiva. Así como toda la ley es tan absoluta como la matemática excepto las variaciones contractuales de…