https://twitter.com/steve_sailer/status/483497920092581888BLACKWATER: AN EXAMPLE Of PRIVATIZATION OF THE MILITARY
http://www.unz.com/isteve/great-moments-in-privatization-blackwater/
https://twitter.com/steve_sailer/status/483497920092581888
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-30 05:49:00 UTC
—“if one can demonstrate construction then all further expansions will consist of increases in precision, not declarations of falsehood.”—-
I am pretty sure this is correct. But, how do I test it? Need to talk to Mokyr…..
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-29 23:14:00 UTC
Brace yourself, Doolittle.
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-29 20:45:00 UTC
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/29/opinion/sunday/why-teenagers-act-crazy.htmlLIKE I SAID – “DIFFERENT RATES OF BRAIN DEVELOPMENT”
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-29 12:01:00 UTC
SCRUTON DISCOVERED THE COMMON LAW (AS DID HAYEK AND WEBER)
—-Scruton took the opportunity to study law and “discovered … the answer to Foucault” in the common law of England, which he took as proof “that there is a real distinction between legitimate and illegitimate power, that power can exist without oppression, and that authority is a living force in human conduct.”—
But does anyone grasp that the common law, voluntary exchange and property rights form a calculable, not rational, set of operations?
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-29 10:36:00 UTC
Knowledge of change in state (awareness)
Knowledge of correlation between cause and effect (knowledge of use) (hypothesis)
Knowledge of causality (knowledge of construction) (truth)
Knowledge of Increases in precision (increase in parsimony and explanatory power)
Knowledge of the limit of marginal indifference ( ultimate truth ) The point at which the question must change in order for the theory to change.
I am aware of it.
It’s over there somewhere.
I can reach it today
I’s N paces away
It’s X feet away.
It’s Y * 10^Zth mm away.
It’s L light seconds away.
Precision is determined by context, and so the theory above, of the location of whatever I am aware of, is never false.
Achilles always passes the tortoise (marginal indifference)
You always can get close enough moving halfway across the couch, to obtain a kiss. (marginal indifference)
Buridan’s Ass always can make a choice (and so can we – information is always available).
No case of infinity exists (only cases of arbitrary precision)
Not enough ‘marginal indifference’ in math.
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-29 08:42:00 UTC
The supreme court is just fine with undermining the constitution, undermining the rule of law, destroying the family, and creating special inegalitarian rights for minorities. But god forbid they should limit the power of the other two branches of government. If we have a revolution I want the privilege of pulling the gallows lever for Roberts. I assume there is too much competition ahead of me for both Ginsberg and Sotomayor.
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-29 07:27:00 UTC
http://thelibertarianrepublic.com/relationship-terrorists-study-finds-women-likely-physically-abusive-men/#axzz361QwDcBMYES: WOMEN ARE MORE LIKELY TO USE VIOLENCE IN A RELATIONSHIP.
(My personal experience is certainly the same)
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-29 06:20:00 UTC
http://www.quora.com/What-can-the-Indian-government-do-to-protect-the-rights-of-Indian-laborers-in-foreign-countries-especially-in-the-Middle-East-Why-has-it-not-taken-any-action-till-now/answer/Curt-Doolittle?srid=u4Qv&share=1″What can india do to protect the rights of indians working overseas- particularly in Saudi Arabia.”
Nothing other than trade sanctions, which would only cause those countries to deport the workers.
One has no “rights” external to the territory we stand in. That is a phrase of modern mysticism. The USA postwar effort to encourage all states to care for their citizens in order to be treated as legitimate is or was a function of US military and Ideological dominance.
As the postwar consensus fails, and american hegemony declines, and the american mandate for fixed borders and human rights declines, and america can no longer project sufficient power to mandate fixed borders and human tights, neither fixed borders nor human rights will remain.
We have seen Russia conquer Ukraine. Mexico invade the USA through mass immigration. Israel extend its borders. China invade russia through mass immigration. China conquer the nearby sea and threaten Japan. And ISIS and Iran try to reestablish the caliphate.
Meanwhile the euro project is failing. Civil wars and and secessionist movements are spreading.
So if you cant keep your own country’s economic house in order (and india cant because of corruption – india is too big), and the USA cannot play world policeman, then you will be subject to whatever arbitrary rules exist wherever you are standing.
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-29 04:32:00 UTC
http://www.quora.com/Genius-and-Geniuses/How-long-before-we-have-another-Einstein/answer/David-Minott/comment/5201426?srid=u4Qv&share=1THE NEXT EINSTEIN?
This enthusiastic fellow thinks (Einstein was somehow both rare and unique.)
We have many people as smart or smarter than Einstein today. There is never a shortage of geniuses.
To create a bach/mozart, aristotle/hume, maxwell/einstein requires three prior generations to attempt to solve a significant problem, so that the knowledge accumulated is sufficient for an individual to synthesize it. We have known this at least since Durant argued for it, and more recently and thoroughly by Murray.
You may not know that Einstein’s chief role in relativity was not so much of innovator as it was communicator since the ideas had already been disussed by others. Just as the lightbulb, calculus, and the television had multiple inventors. We pick a hero to single out. But great inventions are the product of many people over many years.
It apprars that I myself may have solved a century old problem in philisophy that is profoundly important for ethics, economics and politics. But I was only able to do so because of the accumulated effort of hundreds of people in the last century who did the vast majority of the work, while only failing to put the last few pieces together. Even my work was only possible because the internet dramatically teduced the time neede to conduct resrarch across multiple disciplines. And it still took me fifteen years.
To flip it around, intellectual historians have noted, not infrequently, that Einstein was a very naive individual, and that it is a credit to our civilization that such a soul could survive in it and still contribute a great achievement.
There is an organization dedicated to propagandizing Einstein’s mythos. His heroism is as much the result of their publicity efforts than his achievements.
And as Bridgman noted, and fought his whole life for: the reason we did not discover relativity earlier (its discovery was delayed) was an intellectual error that invaded physics from mathematics, and had been in mathematics since at least the invention of geometry – cured by proof of construction: the scope of measures.
A problem that remains with us today, and which is responsible for most pseudoscience – especially the pseudoscience remaining in our most respected sciences.
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-29 04:17:00 UTC