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THE ECONOMICS OF DATING AFAIK, both women and men want to obtain a premium, but a premium they can afford (not lose their investment); Women want to insure they attract the majority of attention in the relationship (are consumers of attention), or that through a relationship they increase their attention. Attention provides discounts on access…

THE PRINCIPLE PROBLEM SOLVED BY P There is nothing in psychology, sociology, ethics, politics, or group strategy that is not readily expressible in economic terms – emotions and intuitions are nothing more than evolution providing us with information on how to acquire some sort of resource discounting our costs. Any theory in metaphysics, psychology, sociology,…

GENDER AND THE BRAIN AS A MARKET FOR ATTENTION The brain functions by a market for attention. Differences in brain structure especially between genders, provide increases or decreases in attention achievable by different regions, with urgent attention provided by fears, and long term attention provided by incentives. Attention is easier for men because we compartmentalize…

DIFFERENCES IN GENDER NEUTRAL MEASUREMENT Training, bias, intuition, impulse, and predisposition are a spectrum of very different things, yet most of the gender-neutral literature measures the results of training not disposition, impulse, and bias. Why? Measurements evolved for measurement of men trained to fulfill roles in a hierarchical distribution.

IT MATTERS: DISAMBIGUATION, SERIALIZATION, OPERATIONALIZATION (and competition) —“Good format”— @AHayhes (In response to serialization of properties of religion) P-method of “Disambiguation, Serialization, Operationalization”. Popper didn’t quite get there. Programming and databases (relational calculus) got me there. Some of us are better at it (pattern recognition, systematizing) and others need hand holding (narrative). Both are required.

AA CHRISTIANITY? —“Hey on the religion topic. I might’ve mentioned it before, but the AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) version of Christianity might be useful to consider: • They don’t preach or advertise, they share their experience, strength, and hope to people that express interest in getting help—but the person has to want to change. • They…

Teaching is a talent, with a tiny bit of craftsmanship. You can’t teach a talent. You’ve got the talent or you don’t. Too many don’t. Teaching consists almost entirely of the Grammars (means of comparing, reasoning, calculating with different smantics (terms) and operators (operations) in complete sentences (transactions),) and history (evidence, data). Answering synthetic questions…

“WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY FALSIFICATION? (IN COURT)” —“I don’t think I understand what you mean by “falsification.” I doubt you mean it in the Popperian sense because it is entirely possible to put questions before the judiciary that pray for verification, rather than falsification. And falsification does not just happen on the basis of…

OPERATIONALIZING AN ARGUMENT FOR THE PRESERVATION OF MALINVESTMENT IN PRIORS (example of faith or other desirable false beliefs) —“My solution is values testing. Which turns out to be epistemology testing. Meaning being downstream from epistemology, and values are downstream from meaning. The semiotic link between concept, word and thing cannot be broken in empiricism. Redefinition…

—“Terminology comes after knowledge, not before; it’s the philosophical knowledge they lack, not terminology.”—Drew John Possibly, although paradigms and terms form systems of comparison and measurement. And moreover, although sophism and idealism in philosophy are it’s curse, and I’ve tried I think successfully to solve that which is why I’m no longer sure of the…

Oct 24, 2019, 8:20 PM People are rational actors acting in their rational self interests, that observe the minimum conformance to rule, procedure, norm, tradition, regulation, legislation, and law, necessary to preserve their status in the social order. Period. End of Story. Good luck falsifying it. People are not good, ethical, or moral. They are…

  —“You’re not the first person I’ve encountered for whom Hans-Hermann Hoppe was the capstone that raised them from intelligent libertarian to dissident right. Sovereigntarianism is the best fleshed-out dissident right philosophy, with perhaps the only real competitor being Nick Landian Dark Enlightenment/accelerationism. But the latter is far more, shall we say, “Continental,” in its…

  —“Why is the IT guy saying that he doubts Russia’s will succeed? Isn’t North (or south) Korea already doing this?”—Michelle German I suspect he means that there will be some ‘cheating’ – and well that’s true But in general, Russia and China’s effort will succeed. It’s not complicated. All that matters is that you…

Oct 25, 2019, 12:30 PM “CURT, WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY ‘SERIALIZATION’?” (important) —“What is serialization?”—Duke Newcomb (From the P-Method of “Disambiguation, Serialization, and Operationalization”) Before using a term, define the term, by researching the etymology of the term (history), then collecting all synonyms and antonyms (and etymology) and organizing them into one or more…

(important)(core)(learning opportunity) —“So, [propertarianism uses] a fixed grammar which diagrams or “measures,” as you say, how far a use of a particular word is from the precise meaning of the term in propertarian parlance. I’m guessing there has to be a reason to do this rather than give a straightforward definition like all non-initial words…

SET MATH, OPERATIONS, AND QUANTUM MECHANICS —“I suspect because in set theory and calculus infinities are the bleeding edge of the discipline, in the same way that paradoxes are the bleeding edge of logics and, to put it more operationally, black holes are the bleeding edge of astrophysics. That makes them the more interesting structures…

THE PROBLEM OF LEFT EGALITARIAN THOUGHT —“That is the problem with the egalitarian program in a state of post-industrial revolution production. A uniform level of income distribution is unnecessary in order for everyone to have an adequate level of consumption for necessary goods. I think the naive intuition of the leftist is that any hierarchy…

THE GODS WILL IT!!!! THEY DEMAND A SACRIFICE!!! 🙂 lolz

DUKE NEWCOMB EXPLAINS DECIDABILITY by Duke Newcomb (important) This notion of decidability, as you say, strikes me as one of your most important contributions. By decidability, I take it you mean a diffuse decision architecture that allows people at various levels to make decisions that are consistent with the intent of the program. It is…

  A Priori: “independent of observation.” There are three dimensions to a priori truth claims: i) Aprioricity vs A posteriori, ii) Analyticity vs Syntheticity, and iii) Necessity vs Contingency Therefore we can produce at least the following spectrum of a priori claims. (a) Analytic A Priori: tautological: 2+2=4 and all deductions thereof. (c) Necessary Synthetic…