BANNING DEDICATED FOOLS COMMITTED TO THEIR CERTAINTY On advice of followers, beg

BANNING DEDICATED FOOLS COMMITTED TO THEIR CERTAINTY

On advice of followers, beginning in January I started banning people who were trolling. It improved the conversation immensely. I then prohibited ridicule, memes and links as substitutes for arguments. It improved the conversation immensely. I’m currently considering banning the terminally stupid but willfully argumentative.

There is a small group of people committed to priors who do not follow me to learn or contribute but to defend their intellectual lifelines. These people are all functionalists whose fundamentalism is resistant to deflation, operationalization, reciprocity and full accounting.

Some of us search for an cult, ideology, philosophy, pseudoscience that we think is ‘right’ or will ‘work’ because it suits our interests. Some of us search for truth because truth is in our interests. Some of us try to achieve what is in our interests AND continue the never ending search for truth at the same time, while constantly reforming our philosophies (means of decidability and narratives) as we constantly use truth to eliminate our ignorance, error and bias.

So I am not terribly interested in people who are ‘frozen’ and seek to prevent the process of continuous reformation of truth and philosophy as we continue to learn. That is why I can appreciate all the various social orders people prefer. I dont care which one you want for you. I care only that it’s possible, and what you believe about it is not false. Whether it is ‘good’ or ‘right’ is up to you. Whether it’s possible and true is something I have strong arguments for and against. This is why I advocate for a thousand nations: so that we all live in social orders that suit our interests.

I don’t mind stupid if you don’t waste my time. But I really don’t want my time (and others) wasted. After all, I’m not hosting a public service here. This is my classroom and I use my classroom for research. And if you’re not helping me with my research with quality advice and criticism you’re just wasting my time trying to perpetuate your illusion. Dunning Kruger is everywhere and fictionalism in all its forms exists to provide the unable with means of resistance against the truth which would force them to confront the reality of their inadequacy.

I can’t play basketball or professional football. I am physically inadequate and mentally uninterested and emotionally unrewarded in them. I am more than a tad insensitive to insecurities, fears and incuriousness, and am inadequate for many professions and social circumstances. Face your inadequacy. It is the only means of transcending it.