Category: Commentary, Critique, and Response

  • So you mean it’s a philosophy?

    So you mean it’s a philosophy?


    Source date (UTC): 2016-12-17 05:01:16 UTC

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  • (Usually a very bad idea to assume I don’t know what i’m doing. 😉 )

    (Usually a very bad idea to assume I don’t know what i’m doing. 😉 )


    Source date (UTC): 2016-12-17 04:55:27 UTC

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  • I promise I will be a nice guy – just for you Stefan. 😉

    I promise I will be a nice guy – just for you Stefan. 😉


    Source date (UTC): 2016-12-17 02:25:13 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/809947526438785024

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  • love your postings….. some fun here, maybe…. enjoy! feel free to quote or us

    love your postings….. some fun here, maybe…. enjoy!

    feel free to quote or use any way y’like, Cheers! nonistJohn


    Source date (UTC): 2016-12-16 16:20:00 UTC

  • “FWIW I still think about you and what you’ve sunken into. It’s deeply disappoin

    —“FWIW I still think about you and what you’ve sunken into. It’s deeply disappointing to see that someone I used to think of as a good and intelligent person has sunk to a level of such desperation for validation that they have to enjoy it from neo-nazis – even those who don’t accept the label.”—

    I set out to do a very simple thing: produce a rational scientific language for the discussion of manners, ethics, morality, law, politics and economics. The fact that I ended up in the New Right movement rather than the previous Libertarian Movement is the product of many years of work, and simply following the evidence. I do not know if I am a good person. Most of the time I think not. My ‘mission’ has become so consuming that like many innovators I give it more priority in my life than being a ‘good person’ permits. But having said that, the problem I would face would be that as a scientist, and in particular a scientist of truthfulness, I know very well how to test my own ideas and those of others with such thoroughness that I CANNOT hold a belief that I suspect to be false – at least for long.

    Everyone who follows me knows that I have a very clear agenda of creating a pool of people who can practice this deconflation, and prosecute the many false arguments, ideas, and opinions that people rely on to rally and shame and deceive. But most people know that I’m also ‘respectful’ of those men who will fight. And I understand the language of those men who will fight. They speak hyperbolically. But they speak hyperbolically because they have no concrete plan to follow. They have no leader that can lead them to success. So my belief is that if I am respectful of their hyperbole, that when I supply concrete methods of action – and as long as I do so tactically so that they don’t self-fantasize away their rage – then I will be able to make use of both the intellectual as well as the rebellious personalities.

    ( BTW: the neo-nazis hate me because I don’t play the racism game. All groups can transcend the animal man. )

    I demonstrate EVERY DAY that I can deflate arguments, opinions and ideas into causal properties and so far the world is unable to raise me an opponent that can survive my ability to do so.

    So the question is, since (a) you have offered only an attempt to morally shame me – the ‘tell’ of a lie, (b) you have offered only the criticism that IQ (an aggregate but correspondent measure of rates and degrees of demonstrated intelligence) is somehow ‘false’, (c) you pull out Godwin’s Law, (e) and offer no substantive arguments whatsoever against anything I say. (which I can only suggest that you don’t understand it.

    —“Your reference to “data” and “facts” – I hope you understand that given my previous respect for you, that I have a hard time believing that the horse shit you spew is something that you actually take as data and facts.”—

    Do you have some examples, because you know, I’m pretty thorough about what I do….. and so far, you’re just throwing spaghetti at the wall.

    —-“Someone with a deeper sense of objectivity would be able to see through and discount these fallacies fairly quickly. It’s something that should be very embarrassing for you. It’s hard for me to believe that you don’t “—–

    Well you know, you are not really sure of the meaning of what you just said. Because you just said someone with subjective opinions that you agree with speak the truth, not arguments that show due diligence of consistency across all dimensions. I don’t do that. I just “do the accounting”: are statements true or false, and do they seek to change state of capital, and for whom?

    —-“I made a documentary about a UFO cult once. From that I learned that people who want to believe nonsense will believe it. It’s up to them to yank their heads out of their asses.”—-

    Yes the question is whether it’s me that’s more scientific and therefore truthful and objective or you. And so far I keep winning all the hands for the simple purpose you don’t bring any cards to the table.

    My argument is pretty simple: we can live in harmony and relative equality if we live in small european style states under which each group can express its evolutionary strategy without dominating the evolutionary strategy of others. And that we can – through trade – compensate for our biological differences as groups. conversely to ask other groups to pay for the ‘domestication’ (or civilization, or enlightenment) of your group rather than pay for it yourself, is to place an immoral burden on others.

    Let a thousand nations bloom.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-12-15 11:07:00 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle shared a post

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    Source date (UTC): 2016-12-14 08:30:00 UTC

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    Source date (UTC): 2016-12-13 22:21:00 UTC

  • “Sorry, but killing people who need killing is one of those professions that is

    —“Sorry, but killing people who need killing is one of those professions that is morally necessary, personally fulfilling, and if done well, is both thrilling and an absolute joy. That’s even if you common folk don’t not wanna see it up close and personal. I know. You are glad for the butchers of this world. You just don’t want to see the work-in-progress.”—


    Source date (UTC): 2016-12-13 15:12:00 UTC

  • DO WE HAVE ENOUGH WITH PETERSON AND DOOLITTLE? So really, it’s one thing to argu

    DO WE HAVE ENOUGH WITH PETERSON AND DOOLITTLE?

    So really, it’s one thing to argue via positivia (myth and literature) like Peterson (who is amazing). It’s another to argue via negativa (law). As Josh has said – the law isn’t really inspiring. The power of it is. The moral license of it is. But it isn’t ‘spiritual’ in the sense that it invokes that feeling we call spirituality (the pack response) – that abandonment of reason and reliance on intuition – where we can ‘feel’ our way through with joy what we must think our way through with reason.

    But you can’t prevent existential bads with positiva, any more than you can create spiritual goods with negativa.

    If we took a sort of Janus Faced approach, (Arrows and Olive Branches) we find the ‘balance’ between positive and negative.

    I wonder if I could get this all thru to him? He has so many pieces but he is, at heart a literary rather than analytic thinker.

    ( Dr Jordan B Peterson, Professor of Psychology )


    Source date (UTC): 2016-12-12 19:35:00 UTC

  • Um. I would say this analysis is exceptionally well done, other than i mean ‘cal

    Um. I would say this analysis is exceptionally well done, other than i mean ‘caloric’ in the broader sense of literally ‘anything’ that changes the state of the individual’s possessions, property, assets, capital (property in toto), either as a premium or discount, gain or loss.

    So the first sentence I’d cut. Otherwise ‘this is how it is done’.

    by James Augustus Berens

    —“[CUT:] Caloric shortages shouldn’t be given too much weight as a selection pressure for cooperative human groups.[/CUT]

    Cooperation arose from intergroup warfare: cooperative groups out-compete less-cooperative groups, increasing the frequency of genes, norms and institutions that encourage and maintain cooperation.

    However, this brings into question free-ridership. An individual can benefit by defecting from his groups expensive war efforts. Groups with high-proportions of free-riders, those unwilling or unable to fight, were out-completed by more cooperative and able groups. Hence, altruistic punishment becomes adaptive insofar as it allows groups to discourage defection, desertion & free-ridership. Punishment occurs even in small-scale societies [1]. And there are some suggestions that cooperation, sharing, raiding and defense, punishing free-riding or other violations of social norms are a costly signals of an individuals fitness [2].

    Again, caloric-shortages likely had a negligible impact–as an incentive for cooperation–by the time we were anatomically modern humans. Cooperation evolved via group-selection; and warfare was the major selection-pressure. Along with cooperation, we have a a co-evolution of prosecution and punishment. Which brings us to the crux of the issue: scale. (I will leave the treatment of asymmetric warfare for a later date)

    As cooperation increases, so to does complexity, and so to the cost we must pay to IDENTIFY the more abstract forms of human parasitism (because they simply no longer occur on a human scale). So rather than a shift from caloric shortage to caloric surplus as the impetus for the formal suppression of parasitism (as shown above we have been prosecuting/punishing since we’ve been cooperating), it is the increased scale (complexity) of the post-industrial ‘information’ age that necessitates extending the domain of law to be inclusive of the production of information–the latest, and most complex human endeavor.

    The problem and solution are the same: free-riding and suppression, respectively. What’s novel is that because of cooperation, we’ve surpassed human scale, and so to has parasitism. Before propertarianism, we had no means of resisting, identifying and prosecuting impositions of costs on the informational commons.

    We do now.

    Postscript (bonus for the autistes): The Evolution of the Scope of Natural Law

    |—–cooperation—->

    |—–complexity—–>

    …………..Law

    |—(0)(1)(2)(3)(4)(5)->

    0. Domestication of alphas (in-group elimination of asymmetric violence)

    1. Reproduction

    2. Inter-subjectively verifiable property.

    3. Normative and Institutional Commons.

    4. Capital & Credit

    5. Information

    [1] Punishment sustains large-scale cooperation in prestate warfare

    http://m.pnas.org/content/108/28/11375.short

    [2] Costly Signaling and Cooperation

    http://www.sciencedirect.com/…/pii/S0022519301924063

    “— James Augustus Berens


    Source date (UTC): 2016-12-12 17:05:00 UTC