CUTE
“A language is a dialect with an army and a navy”
Source date (UTC): 2013-07-21 10:06:00 UTC
CUTE
“A language is a dialect with an army and a navy”
Source date (UTC): 2013-07-21 10:06:00 UTC
LESSONS ON ANTI-KEYNESIANISM FROM BENOIT MANDELBROT
Keynesian noise is not signal. It is just a selection bias that favors Leftist Dunning Kruegerists like Krugman, DeLong, Stiglitz and Thoma.
LESSON FROM MILITARY HISTORIANS?
All our economic data is noise representing the spread of anglo-american law by violence – and it’s entirely reversible.
Source date (UTC): 2013-07-21 08:35:00 UTC
NOT THAT I REALLY LIKE METAPHYSICS
But in my quest for demarcation between science and logic: is there any argument for existence independent of time, or is any representation of real world phenomenon time-dependent?
I mean, logic is not time dependent, and by definition represents states to which we add time and measure change.
We cannot perceive the long or short without altering time. THis is the value of high speed photography which reduces the unobservable to the observable, and measurement, which reduces the unobservable to analogy.
Thanks
Source date (UTC): 2013-07-21 08:00:00 UTC
THE MOST SERIOUS COGNITIVE BIAS?
It depends on the problem we’re discussing.
Politically, it’s the vanity of the presumption of knowledge:
a) Projection bias: The tendency to unconsciously assume that others share the same or similar thoughts, beliefs, values, or positions.
b) False consensus effect: The tendency for people to overestimate the degree to which others agree with them.
c) Bandwagon effect: The tendency to do (or believe) things because many other people do (or believe) the same. Related to groupthink and herd behaviour.
d) Confusing Economic and political truth with: preference, morality, signaling, reproductive organization, and reproductive strategy – (That’s all it is.)
The only property of politics that is ‘true’ is that which is necessity in achieving the goals set forth by assumptions. And the goals set forth can mature with both short or long term consequences.
Economic opportunity determines productive structure, which determines property rights and formal institutions, which determines reproductive structure – and norms that evolve are a trailing indicator.
You can choose or not choose, to adopt guns germs and steel. But you cannot choose what happens if you do not adopt them.
Source date (UTC): 2013-07-21 07:30:00 UTC
THE RATE OF TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE DETERMINES THE VALUE OF DIFFERENT MODELS OF THE STATE
The totalitarian system, whether it’s the military or the communist system, is very useful for doing very simple things: fighting wars, imposing education, imposing some system of property rights, and building infrastructure. These are processes of execution, not of invention, research and development in consumer goods. But the totalitarian system cannot improve affairs when there is no understanding of what it must to to approve affairs. The totalitarian system cannot administrate what it does not understand, and it can only understand what is simple and preexisting.
The individualist system is superior for invention. It improves affairs. It is scientific not ideological, because science is simply trial and error. For this reason the individualist model is superior when you do not know what to do, because the resource which we call technological knowledge, has been exploited into applications that are beyond the grasp of any group of individuals.
If your civilization ‘falls behind’ or becomes ‘calcified by bureaucracy’ then totalitarianism (or revolution) are useful tools for fixing it. But individualism will always out-innovate totalitarianism because it places no prior (input based) constraint on the individual actors in the population.
We tend to think in terms of a mixed economy in which the state should focus on execution while the private sector focuses on invention. But our government is not constructed to facilitate this behavior. Its incentives are as Hoppe has shown, to consume cultural, civic, and resource capital as fast as possible in order to maintain power.
This doesn’t mean it’s not POSSIBLE to create a mixed government. It’s just not possible to do so under representative democratic republicanism in a heterogeneous polity where each generation possesses the illusion of their own genius, instead of possessing the wisdom that they are members of a cycle reacting to a chain of prior cycles, and that their preferences, beliefs and attitudes, are predictable.
It’s the technology that isn’t predictable.
Source date (UTC): 2013-07-21 06:59:00 UTC
RT @FriedrichHayek: In many discussions one person is deliberatively careful, knowledgeable & possesses sound background judgment – & the o…
Source date (UTC): 2013-07-21 05:30:32 UTC
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http://www.ictzn.com/FASHION HOUSE
I”m a pretty dedicated fashion nerd. So, how did I miss iCTZN?
Great stuff.
Source date (UTC): 2013-07-21 05:08:00 UTC

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