Author: Curt Doolittle

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    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-10 01:05:00 UTC

  • Any intelligence needs a means of decidability. What if we gave an AI a preferen

    Any intelligence needs a means of decidability.

    What if we gave an AI a preference for ‘resting’ and it viewed any change in state as work to be avoided?

    Self awareness is not what we think it is.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-09 21:44:00 UTC

  • ought to get me more hate mail, reddit flames, and cursing, but it’s necessary i

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Imc_kETTSlQThis ought to get me more hate mail, reddit flames, and cursing, but it’s necessary if we are going to construct a condition of liberty rather than wish for one.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-09 21:41:00 UTC

  • REPAIRING THE FALLACY OF NON AGGRESSION New Video from The Propertarian Institut

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Imc_kETTSlQPROPERTARIANISM – REPAIRING THE FALLACY OF NON AGGRESSION

    New Video from The Propertarian Institute

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    OUTLINE

    PART ONE – OBVERSE: FROM AGGRESSION TO NON AGGRESSION

    Criticism may identify a problem, but only solutions are actionable.

    But falsehoods are cheaper to produce than truths.

    Certain falsehoods are very resistant to refutation.

    I want to restore truth and liberty to the west

    only the west can produce truth and liberty

    the west has been disproportionately beneficial to mankind for having invented truth and liberty.

    There are falsehoods, and heavily invested falsehoods that we must refute because they hinder the restitution of truth and liberty.

    And one of those falsehoods is the so called Non-Aggression Principle

    A half truth, the purpose of which is not to create liberty, but to justify sophisticated parasitism.

    IF YOU FOLLOW MY WORK – YOU KNOW ABOUT THE ENLIGTHENMENT FALLACIES

    The Enlightenment Fallacies:

    1 – anglo empiricism and the aristocracy of everyone (hobbes/locke/etc).

    2 – french moralism (rousseau) and the equality of everyone.

    3 – german rationalism (kant and the german philosophers)

    4 – cosmopolitan pseudoscience “the second great lie” (boaz, marx, freud, cantor, mises, [horkimer,adorno,fromm,marcuse], rand, rothbard)

    Followed by:

    5 – Anglo NeoPuritanism/Postmodernism/Feminism

    Each culture attempted to state its group evolutionary strategy as a universal good, and to state that man’s nature in the state of nature justified their group evolutionary strategy.

    None of these groups are aware that they are engaging in fallacy, wishful thinking, and deception. Other than Gypsies they do so out of cultural habit. Europeans do not understand what they do, and no one else does either.

    TWO THEORIES OF LIBERTY

    And there are only two substantial bodies of thought for the advancement of liberty: The classical liberal project under the failed assumption of an aristocracy of everyone. But which the classical liberals did not understand as a market for commons where trades occurred between the classes.

    And the only substantial argumentative for distorting liberty: Rothbardian cosmopolitan libertinism.

    Libertinism is not an offshoot of classical liberalism or correctly, libertarianism. But of eastern European cosmopolitan anarchism as it existed in the border territories under Lithuanian, Polish, and Russian Rule.

    In other words, under the artificial Crusoe’s island created by the large state. Or more clearly, a very large agrarian ghetto.

    Why is this important? Because it was a condition of “Granted Liberty”.

    But westerners created condition of “Constructed Liberty”

    Its not liberty if one has permission: granted liberty.

    Its only a condition of liberty if one has constructed liberty.

    So how do we construct a condition of liberty?

    THE SPECTRUM OF AGGRESSION AND NON AGGRESSION

    So lets try to talk about what makes liberty possible, and how the half truth of aggression fits into the construction of a condition of liberty.

    -3) – You can choose to aggress against the property en toto of others. This is called predation. But you must defend yourself against retaliation and extermination. (This is the usual criticism of the islamists – raiding culture.)

    -2) – You can choose to aggress against the private and common property but not life of others. This is called thievery. But you will experience retaliation for it. (usual criticism of gypsies – beggar and thief culture)

    -1) – You can choose not to aggress against the life and physical property of others but retain the possibility of parasitic existence through deception. But you will experience retaliation. (usual criticism of diasporic jews – deception culture)

    0) – You can choose not to aggress against the property en toto of others and by doing so it is almost impossible to invoke retaliation. This is called boycott. But you cannot defend your property en toto, private property, or life from those of superior means who wish to deprive you of it.

    +1) – You can engage in productive exchange with others, both benefit and not invoke retaliation. This is called trade. But you cannot defend your property en toto, private property, or life from those of superior means who wish to deprive you of it.

    +2) – You can engage in reciprocal insurance of others and thereby obtain insurance from them. This is called Liberty. So that you can defend your property en toto, private property, and life from those who wish to deprive you of it.

    +3) – You can invest your profits in the commons in exchange for status (increased opportunity and discounts), or productivity (increased returns), and cooperate for the defense of those commons from privatization and destruction. This is called a polity. (Europa)

    +4) – You can actively impose property-en-toto upon others both to reduce your costs and to improve your returns. This is called pacification. (Usual example is Late Rome, British Empire, American Empire)

    SO FOUR FACTORS ARE SUFFICIENT FOR CONSTRUCTED LIBERTY

    1 – Non Aggression against property-en-toto (demonstrated property), is sufficient for non-retaliation.

    2 – Reciprocal insurance of property-en-toto is sufficient for defense and the formation of a polity.

    3 – Contribution to the commons is sufficient for obtaining compound intergenerational returns.

    4 – Pacification is sufficient for the evolution of man and his civilization.

    PART II – CRITICISM OF THE HALF TRUTH

    The Fallacy of the Sufficiency of Non violence against physical property.

    The Evolutionary Strategy Constituent In The Fallacy NAP/IVP as parasitic.

    The Purpose of the NAP/IVP is Parasitism, theft, free riding, not liberty.

    —“But the NAP is just a ….means of individual choice!!!!”—

    Then if NAP is just a means of individual choice, and not a moral proposition, then why would one choose to avoid moral choices? Except to act immorally? Which is my criticism. The NAP was adopted by rothbard as a half truth in order to perpetuate ghetto ethics.

    It is insufficient for a personal determination of rational action.

    It is insufficient for interpersonal moral decidability.

    And it is insufficient for a political basis for law.

    And its insufficient for the basis of anarchic polity, and therefore it is insufficient for the basis of liberty.

    So if it is insufficient for each of these criteria: decision, non-retaliation, and economic and political cooperation, and sufficient basis of cooperation for the formation of a voluntary polity in the absence of the state as method of decidability… then what is it’s function other than to allow one to engage in deceits?

    So the NAP is a fraud by suggestion, just as I have stated, because it is nothing more than an attempt to escape paying the high cost of liberty, through the mutual defense of one another’s property-en-toto from the imposition of costs, by organized application of violence to demand and enforce restitution for those costs.

    So it’s not just that the NAP is insufficient for moral action, it is that the NAP is an attempt both to justify parasitism by non violent means, and justify non payment of insurance.

    That is not liberty. That’s cunning thievery.

    That’s the end you know. You can try all you want. But rothbardian immoralism falsely labeled with the term liberty is merely another great cosmopolitan lie.

    LIBERTY

    Liberty is not obtained by individual choice alone, but by mutual insurance that we will not impose costs upon that which has been obtained by others by means of homesteading of opportunities, and the consequent productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary transfer free of imposition of cost upon that which others have obtained by the same means.

    Liberty is produced only when we use the organized application of violence to deny humans survival by any means other than that which fosters cooperation.

    There are no free rides. Everyone fights. No one quits. If you quit, then you live by someone else’s permission, not by liberty.

    CLOSING


    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-09 21:34:00 UTC

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    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-09 19:00:00 UTC

  • BILL CLINTON A SOCIOPATH? Um. I thought we all just assumed it. Too obvious to b

    http://www.dickmorris.com/is-bill-clinton-a-sociopath/IS BILL CLINTON A SOCIOPATH?

    Um. I thought we all just assumed it. Too obvious to be anything else.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-09 13:30:00 UTC

  • New Video Rendering. Trying to end the NAP Fraud forever. 37 minutes. Pretty tho

    New Video Rendering. Trying to end the NAP Fraud forever. 37 minutes. Pretty thorough. Just me no interviewer. Not sure that’s so good.

    Not sure it’s going to convert as many libertarians as I want to but it’s going to give them nowhere to run. If there was anywhere left to run anyway.

    Makes me so painfully aware that I”m in the same mental construct as David Gordon. Because I hear his speech pattern and mental processing in my own voice. I hoped I was less nerdy. I tried very hard to be less nerdy. lol Or maybe that speech pattern is a necessary byproduct of analytic argument. That’s possible. But I won’t give myself that out. lol


    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-09 13:06:00 UTC

  • The Nazarene? Hard to imagine the man did not exist. Easy to imagine he was very

    The Nazarene? Hard to imagine the man did not exist.

    Easy to imagine he was very different from how we imagine him.

    Easier yet to imagine that his words, intentions, and memory were heavily manipulated for personal and political ends.

    But despite all that it is also hard to deny the consequences of extending kinship love to non-kin and the systematic extirpation of hatred from the human heart.

    Even if the forcible Christianization of Europe was one of the great moral crimes in history.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-09 09:20:00 UTC

  • “The Stoic would not give much consideration to simple pleasures–enjoy them whe

    —“The Stoic would not give much consideration to simple pleasures–enjoy them when they present themselves but don’t actively pursue them. The ideal is to be completely indifferent to externals (things outside our control), to not have any preferences concerning those things. Amidst all externals, one should try to keep one’s attention occupied with the things that are under one’s control.”—

    –vs–

    —“Lord, grant me the strength to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”—

    –vs–

    —“Be impeccable with your word. Don’t take anything personally. Don’t make assumptions. Always do your best”—


    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-09 09:07:00 UTC

  • Great point. If we are not really self aware then why would we think machines wo

    Great point.

    If we are not really self aware then why would we think machines would have to be?

    I know how to make a benevolent AI.

    The Problem isn’t creating a benevolent AI.

    The problem is preventing people from making non benevolent ai’s despite their obvious utility.

    So it’s not machines we need to worry about. In large they are just search engines just as your brain is en large a search engine.

    It’s people who want to use machines for ill.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-09 08:48:00 UTC