You know, it seems like if you make enough progress in philosophy, then you run out of people to talk to. 🙂
It’s true in all fields, really. Philosophy isn’t special. But I don’t think I’d mind running out of people to discuss human-machine interfaces with. While I’d mind running out of people to discuss politics and philosophy with.
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-17 20:06:00 UTC
THE BEAUTY OF TRUTH: TRUST AND ALL THAT COMES FROM IT
Truth is such a beautiful thing. Not in the holier than thou, messianic, and judgemental sense. But in the wonder that results from our ability to rely upon it and trust our fellows. Only truth-tellers will invent science, medicine and freedom.
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-17 20:02:00 UTC
THREE OPTIONS FOR GOVERNMENT FREE OF CORRUPTION
The only way to avoid the principle-agent problem in politics is simply NOT to use agents. In order to avoid using agents, we have three choices:
1) Anarchic Contractual Government (no commons)
2) Direct Democracy (auctions to fund proposals for commons)
3) Demarchy / Lottocracy (randomly selected juries that judge policy proposals).
THe problem of politics is not the production of commons. It’s politicians, bureaucracy, and the inability to secede.
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-17 20:01:00 UTC
http://coinvox.org/the-future-of-governance/BTC DOEDNT MATTER AS MUCH AS THE BLOCKCHAIN.
Artificial intelligence, like human intelligence, requires the world divided into property such that actions are possible.
Words are not sufficient for man to think and plan or computer without property.
BTC may not revolutionize money. But it will revolutionize artificial intelligence.
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-16 22:54:00 UTC
Property rights defined by aggression are necessary and sufficient for limiting the state, sure. But they aren’t necessary and sufficient for limiting each other in a voluntary polity.
If you want a voluntary polity in the absence of a state then you must provide a means of resolving all conflicts with each other.
We don’t have the privilege of determining what causes conflict – evolution mandated it: we can cooperate if and only if we cannot parasite or prey on each other by doing so. Otherwise evolution will punish us for it.
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-16 15:28:00 UTC
http://taxvox.taxpolicycenter.org/2014/07/16/six-takeaways-cbos-new-long-term-budget-outlook/#comment-241060—“Michael Bindner says:
July 16, 2014 at 2:03 pm
The further takeaway is that electing a Republican President and Senate is the only thing that can create near term fiscal disaster. Health and the retirement of the boomers is still a concern – but both of those are, in my opinion, due to inadequate replacement levels – a birth dirth.
The debt percentage is going up, for now, but won’t hit the record anytime soon. That is not a problem as long as Europe and China stay out of the business of selling their debt as a package or buying ours. The continued uncertainty is likely as much about policy. A strong bipartisan budget agreement will likely change that – but is unlikely to occur just yet. This also kills the prospect of long term reform being easy (but that is a fantasy anyway). The baseline itself is also fantasy – as always. Of course, the alternative scenario is just as unlikely. There may not even be a United States in 2039 – we may unite with Europe, and maybe Latin America and Africa by then (indeed, not uniting by then is probably a bad thing).”—-
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Curt Doolittle says:
July 16, 2014 at 2:38 pm
Conservatives value norms, nuclear family, and liberty because they have a Durkheimian view of man: that our culture’s economic advantage is the product of high trust created only under self sufficiency, and such self trust must be constructed normatively first and institutionally second, only as a consequence of those norms. And all evidence around the world un all cultures at all points in time confirms this belief. We cannot run private corporations or corporeal states independent of family structure and norms. This is the fendamental fallacy if universalism whether capitalist or socialist.
The conservatives speak in myth and allegory, but the empirical content if those myths is correct, while the empirical content of macro economic theory converted from Marx byKkeynes in economics and the universalism of the classicals in mathematics both fail correspondence with drminstrated human behavior. We are tribal beings and only pseudoscientific westerners divorce morality ; the necessary rules required of any cooperative species – from the science that purports to mrasure such things. American divisiveness and europesn divisiveness, and add the divisiveness in the world is caused first znd foremost by attempts of states to violate those necessary laws of cooperation: the prevention of free riding is the cause if moral intuitions.
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Source date (UTC): 2014-07-16 15:00:00 UTC
Lets face it. Men invented sunglasses so we could leer less obviously on one hand and show less fear and insecurity on the other. 😉
Its a win under both conditions. 😉
Rayban polarized. )
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-16 05:03:00 UTC
The team is working on FB style blocking and banning in Oversing today. Blocking is an individual thing but banning is managed by a configurable vote/based workflow. I havent figured out the weighting of votes yet but I assume it will be managed by your Karma level. In other words, the better your reputation the more influential your vote. Likewise a bunch of douchebags cant ban someone easily,
But for all intents and purposes you and your peers can effectively “fire” someone in Oversing by making it impossible to obtain work.
Anyway, they are using my account to test the feature and its giving me subconsious feelings of rejection every time, and elation when I am forgiven. 😉
So i guess it sorta works. 🙂
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-16 04:58:00 UTC
PAINFULLY PROFOUND THOUGHT FOR TODAY.
Philosophers of science just got confused by their nascent mysticism.
Scientific search for theories is just free association. But their free association requires instrumentation of logical and mechanical and operational forms since they cannot perceive the imperceptible, unmeasureable and incalculable without such instrumentation.
Free association by way of instruments is still free association: creativity. Its just harder.
But association, analogy, and correspondence are not equal in empirical content to the empirical statement of causality. For that we require operations on order to construct proofs. Those proofs demonstrate that we have not erred by association, analogy, and correlation, and as such have found causality. As such we can make a truth claim.
A scientist, nor any theorist, is not bound by operational discovery. That would be uselessly limiting. Immoral even. But to make a truth claim he must seek empirical and therefore operational proof that he does not err by confusing causality with association, analogy nor correlation.
We need not understand all causes behind each measure (operation) only that such operation is both possible, extant, and reproducible.
This is, in much better terms, and terms bound by objective reality, what Kripke demonstrated in his rather cantorial proof of truth in language.
(Although I am not sure that anyone else had made that connection. I suspect not. I understood kripke’s argument in this manner when I first read it at an Iranian friend’s suggestion. But assumed I erred since my interpretation was unique. Even though I am pretty sure that he meant the same thing about reality that I read in him. )
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-16 04:43:00 UTC
( Does anyone know anything about shaking or trembling from heat? I can’t stop. Three minutes of activity or sun and I’m cooked. Pretty sure it’s the level of thyroid they’re giving me to suppress any chance of repeat illness. Started getting bad yesterday, but it’s become unbearable. Going to try to dramatically increase hydration today and see if that helps. Otherwise I’m a prisoner of air conditioning. )
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-16 02:33:00 UTC