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[I] have a lot of friends who are good at chess, and I do think chess is a pretty good determinant of intelligence, and perhaps a better determinant of academic and career success. I was in a chess club through seventh or eighth grade, and really never got that good until the first machines came…

—We can purge all forms of lies from this earth. And in doing so, transform man into gods. For what is a god but a wielder of truth? And what is a devil, but a wielder of error, bias, wishful thinking, and deceit?— (worth repeating)

[T]he other point I try to make is that while the world practices political monotheisms (Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Christianity), that this is a POLITICAL statement not a factual one. In china they practice Maoism in the leadership, Confucianism in the upper classes, Lao Tzu in the lower, and Buddhism as a moral binding principle…

(feminist trigger warning)(individualist trigger warning) RE: (https://www.reddit.com/…/renegotiating_the_marriage_contra…/ ) 1) Pretty good analysis. I’d recommend reading the origin and development of the family and property by Engels. That is a more accurate history. It’s short and well written. 2) Biologically, females were treated as (and therefore were) our property under hostile competition, they were an exchange…

[E]xtreme wealth ruins a culture. Spain, France, Britain, America, in that order all suffer from creating elites during time of plenty that attempt to perpetuate and expand the institutions that they occupy even after the period of prosperity has ended. Worse, formerly hard working people are lifted up out of the peasant, working and middle…

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—The Constitution is not a “living document” but a dead letter. The only purpose that lie now serves is to induce the right to expend their efforts in a vain attempt to “restore the Constitution” while the left focus their own efforts at reform on the “constitution” (little “c”), the unwritten balance of powers that…

–“Myths and Traditions provide information, not argument. It’s often good information. But that does not mean it provides us with an argument.”—

[A]lmost all of philosophy after Aristotle up until Hume consists of a few feathers of wisdom and a vast amount of hand waving. Justification, wishful thinking and cunning lies. The the evolution of law is the only meaningful source of insight into western man’s mind. the evolution of art, the evolution of war, the evolution…

[E]ven if I am skilled in the arts, it is an intellectual skill. Even if I enjoy the arts, it is an intellectual appreciation – a sense of wonder not empathy. I am very well aware that I have a ‘scientistic’ mind both by nature, by upbringing, and by choice, and that experiential methods of…

  —“It sounds like you’re recognizing there are higher psychologies than that of the mere scientist.”— [W]ell, I disagree that for the purposes of LAW and TRUTH claims, that there are ‘higher’ psychologies, but for the purpose of CREATIVITY yes, I agree. My position is that matters of creativity are the subject of aesthetics, not…

  [I] see class theory as a set of elites in each of four disciplines of only three of which produce political coercion: 1) Violence(male conservative)/Law, 2) Gossip(female progressive)/Speech 3) Remuneration (male)/Trade, 4) Transformation(male and female)/Production-Craftsmanship. With Transformation not producing elites other than scientists (who are weak influencers). And with some groups succeeding in combining…

(important summary) [W]hen we write a proof, we demonstrate that our testimony is existentially possible. Proofs demonstrate existential possibility. But they do not necessarily demonstrate uniqueness. So a proof does not say that this particular road led one to Rome. It merely says that it is indeed possible to arrive in Rome via this road.…

—“Communication, Argument, and Proof are different things unfortunately. I don’t really communicate. I construct arguments and proofs. My “managers” tell me to do that, and leave communication of it for others. And that seems to work best. There are already a few people that are better at communicating these ideas than I am.”—Curt

“There is a huge gap between liberalism and the life sciences.”-Yuval Harari https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6BK5Q_Dblo [T]HOUGHTS: 1) Any entity with which we can cooperate need only observe the principle of non-imposition of costs either directly or through externality, which we institutionalize as property rights. Whether mechanical or biological, natural life or artificial life, cooperation is dependent upon…

[R]evolution requires (a) one weapon: fire (b) shorting power lines (c) blocking roads (d) making police, fire and emergency workers fear to leave their barracks (e) encouraging the military to intervene, (f) collapsing both the economy and the government by the persistence of military occupation, and slowly enfranchising the military so that they take over…

(eugenic institutions) Yes, they did. see http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-ancient-greeks-sacrificed-ugly-people?

R-SELECTION HIERARCHY (The Female Reproductive Strategy) —————————————————————————————— Women, Socialists + Communists Libertine Libertarians Ashkenazim Gypsies Tinkers Career Criminals Incompetents Invalids TECHNOLOGY: (LIARS AND THIEVES). —————————————————————————————— Lie, Gossip, Rally, Shame, Obscure Conflate, Load, Frame, Overload. PURPOSE —————————————————————————————— Given that the only moral cooperation one can engage in is productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary exchange, free of…

WHO YOU SHOULD BE READING Ricardo Duchene (intellectual history) Curt Doolittle (political economy, law, philosophy, truth, trust) Emmanuel Todd (Marriage, Norms, Morals, Genes) HBD-Chick  (Familes, groupishnesss, Marriage, reproduction) Hackett Fischer (Group Trait Persistence) Gregory Clark (Genetics, Class, Class Rotation) MacDonald (Group Evolutionary Strategy) Jayman (Genetics) Steve Sailor (genetics and culture) Jonathan Haidt (Morals) Van Creveld…