http://www.amazon.com/dp/1137382902/ref=tsm_1_fb_lkSkye Stewart
I know it’s not out yet, but If I spring for this will you do a thorough summary for me? I am looking for a set of bullet points for both their belief system, and for their action plan.
I am pretty sure my blood pressure can’t take that much time with this book. I have to reduce my salt intake for a month every time I get close to Rawls. 😉
Source date (UTC): 2013-10-14 11:59:00 UTC
CAUSAL AXIS OF MORAL BIASES
(update)
This weekend I spent working on the connection between COOPERATION and morality. Now I have to tie cooperation to REPRODUCTION and reproduction to morality. This really is pretty simple. It’s there between Boehm, Ridley and Haidt. Once I do that I have the full chain from memory, to thought, to reproduction, to cooperation, to extended cooperation, which yields the axial dimensions of ‘calculation’ and ‘reproduction’ and ‘cooperation’ and ‘population’. With those axis, I can demonstrate most (all) of human moral behavior.
I actually get pretty bored with just copying down citations. I know that’s good academic practice and labor, but it’s justificationism to me. Either something has explanatory power or not. Whether it’s justified isn’t something that usually troubles me. 🙂 A descriptive ethic does not need much justification. It’s purely explanatory. A prescriptive (normative) ethic, requires justification.
Not sure if many people get what that means. But it doesn’t say much for the chance we’d ever come up with a prescriptive set of ethics that wasn’t nonsense. 🙂
Although only my fellow critical rationalists will really grasp that.
My objective here, will be to articulate moral biases the way that we articulate cognitive biases. I think, if I can reduce all of the moral biases, via Haidt, to just that, it’ becomes pretty easy to articulate them. And if it’s easy to articulate them, and in turn, show that they are claims against property, then it will mean that I have converted all moral discourse into propertarian language.
And I am pretty sure then, that I can prove, that most political language is an attempt to use obscurantism to steal.
And that’s pretty interesting.
Source date (UTC): 2013-10-14 11:46:00 UTC
Another reason to hate MSFT…. I just bought a brand new, Acer, Windows 8 laptop. The box text, and the manuals are in English and in Russian. But you can’t install English in addition to Russian. You can use an english keyboard. But they blocked the auto update service from adding English.
Very nice. Although the irony is, that if any nation of people on earth can hack language packs it’s the russians…. I mean, the average admin chick can hack windows here. It’s just cultural knowledge. So the only people end up penalizing is people like me who speak english but want to buy windows internationally.
So what do I do? I go to a russian language site and download the hack. Just like every other person here does.
And they wonder why we hate them….. It’ s not random.
They deserve it.
Source date (UTC): 2013-10-14 10:31:00 UTC
AMERICAN (strategy)
Well, amidst this wonderful bit of rebellion we’re seeing, at least the media are mentioning us as ‘conservatives and libertarians’, or as ‘the libertarian wing’, and positioning us as cooperating ideologies.
We need policy control of the second party. I don’t care what it is called.
The meme we must get out there is ‘the conservative wing of the was not able to either protect our liberty or our family, or our culture, nor produce policy. We can do that. Because we speak in rational terms about liberty.’
And then we need to critique the progressive wing of libertarianism as ‘the crazy people’ who prevented us from uniting with conservatives – ‘because its true.
I think that demographics tell us that the time is past, and that we must break up the country into no less than three, if not many, many, more, new states. But working all strategies simultaneously is something that works as well – buying lots of options so to speak, because they’re cheap options. So, there isnt any harm in trying to work within the existing system, using the threat of breaking the country apart through nullification and secession, or civil war.
But I’m up for any strategy. Although civil war would be the most entertaining, nullification and secession is the cheapest and easiest, that creates many new opportunities for increasing capital.
Source date (UTC): 2013-10-14 05:28:00 UTC
“Boehm (1999) shows that human hunter-gatherer groups have been characterized by an “egalitarian ethic” for an evolutionarily significant period—long enough to have influenced both genetic and cultural evolution. The egalitarian ethic implies that meat and other important resources are shared among the entire group, the power of leaders is circumscribed, free-riders are punished, and virtually all important decisions are made by a consensus process. The egalitarian ethic thus makes it difficult for individuals to increase their fitness at the expense of other individuals in the same group, resulting in relative behavioral uniformity and relatively weak selection pressures within groups. Mild forms of social control, such as gossip and withholding social benefits, are usually sufficient to control would-be dominators, but more extreme measures, such as ostracism and execution, are recorded in the ethnographic literature. By controlling behavioral differences within groups and increasing behavioral differences between groups, Boehm cogently argues that the egalitarian ethic shifted the balance between levels of selection and made selection between groups an important force in human evolution.”
Kevin MacDonald (2002-06-06). A People That Shall Dwell Alone: Judaism as a Group Evolutionary Strategy, with Diaspora Peoples (Kindle Locations 81-89). iUniverse. Kindle Edition.
Source date (UTC): 2013-10-13 07:06:00 UTC
I used to be such a patriotic lover of my country.
Past tense. 🙁
Source date (UTC): 2013-10-13 06:30:00 UTC
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/12/us-usa-fiscal-banks-idUSBRE99B09F20131012PLEASE DEFAULT. SHUT IT DOWN. SHUT IT ALL DOWN.
I guy can dream, can’t he? 🙂
Source date (UTC): 2013-10-12 18:43:00 UTC
LOTTOCRACY
“Democracy as it was meant to be.”
Kills the party system. Kills the Special Interest system. Eliminates Politicians. Eliminates Voting. Eliminates Campaigning.
Take the power out of politics.
Lottocracy. Secession. Competing Currencies.
Source date (UTC): 2013-10-12 18:05:00 UTC
LIBERTARIAN HELP DESK.
“Random hours. No promises. Questionable results.”
Idea via Drew Keenan and Roman Skaskiw. I am not sure why I find that so funny. Perhaps I need a drink. (Or smoke.) There is a whole building full of crazy women next door in questionable clothing and proffering alcohol. Veronika has gone out with the girls to a Disco. And for some reason the idea of playing libertarian help desk at this particular moment, in this state of ‘punchy’ sounds very funny. Possibly because it is absurdly nerdy given the many options available on a saturday night in Kiev.
That said. I think I might, out of some code of man-honor, choose the alcohol and rock music over staffing the desk tonight. 🙂 Even if there was a desk. … 😉 And even if anyone cared. lol
Source date (UTC): 2013-10-12 17:58:00 UTC
MORAL HIERARCHY:
1) I CAN USE THAT IN MY LIFE
2) I CAN HOLD OTHERS ACCOUNTABLE FOR THAT
3) WE SHOULD ALL ACT TO PERPETUATE THAT
4) WE SHOULD ALL SACRIFICE TO CONTRIBUTE TO THAT
Which cultures employ which techniques. Why? Family structure.
Source date (UTC): 2013-10-12 17:13:00 UTC