Category: Commentary, Critique, and Response

  • Priceless. On Locke

    Priceless. On Locke.


    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-02 03:44:00 UTC

  • Untitled

    http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/global-recruiting-agencies-found-24-foreigners-to-work-in-ukraines-government-373522.htmlhttp://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/global-recruiting-agencies-found-24-foreigners-to-work-in-ukraines-government-373522.html


    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-29 14:14:00 UTC

  • “when I debate someone suffering from “dead-end” philosophy, I just ask them “Wh

    —“when I debate someone suffering from “dead-end” philosophy, I just ask them “Where’s the connection with fundamental science that we see with Thales, Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Aquinas, Descartes, Hobbes, Leibniz, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger and all the analytic thinkers? What’s changed? How is that a good change? Have the foundations of metaphysics changed, of have you lost your way?”— Adam Voight


    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-29 12:20:00 UTC

  • Racism Is Curable: By Eliminating Demand for It

    RACISM AND REVERSE RACISM: OR PERHAPS IT’S TRIVIALLY SIMPLE AND SUCH DISCUSSION IS DISHONEST

    In response to Matt Zwolinski : http://bleedingheartlibertarians.com/2014/11/on-reverse-racism-three-thought-experiments/

    [F]acts:

    1) The distribution of physical desirability for mating, the demonstrated behaviors of impulsivity and time preference, aggression, and demonstrated intelligence vary between individuals. (true)
    2) The social classes are organized by these distributions due to reproductive desirability, status utility, and cooperative (economic) utility. (true)
    3) The races demonstrate different relative distributions of these classes. (true)
    4) Racial groups demonstrate kin selection in mating, neighborhoods, friendship, social organizations, and business organizations. (true).
    5) The norms demonstrated by racial groups reflect behavior at the mean (true). This means lower trust, less intelligent groups must compete against norms in groups with higher trust and higher intelligent groups. (true). It also means that the group that holds dominant political power, and biases toward their norms, determines the economic velocity of the entire polity (true).
    6) Racial groups demonstrate kin selection in voting (true).
    7) INABILITY to use the state for rents and privileges limits political competition and conflict, whereas ABILITY to use the state for rents and privileges increases political competition and conflict. (true)
    8) Economic Wealth reduces dependence upon kin for mutual insurance under kin selection. (true). Economic stress increases dependence upon kin for mutual insurance via kin selection. (true)
    9) The difference between economic, political, social, reproductive and status success of one race or another is due to the distribution of superior talents versus inferior liabilities of the members of those races – plus normative factors, the most important of which is in-group trust, and the second is the degree of the suppression of free riding. (true)
    10) As such the only reason for racism is the rates of reproduction between the classes. And the only possible means of achieving equality in any and all cases is to suppress the reproduction of the lower classes of the races whose distribution is bottom weighted.
    11) It is non-rational to treat unknown individuals who are visually indistinguishable by other than the properties of their peer groups. (true) (which is what people do). One cannot both demand rational action, defend Praxeology, and deny this statement.
    12) Equality is achievable and desirable in just four generations. But it is upward reproductive redistribution that must mach downward economic redistribution for equality to be possible. If china can do this so can the rest of the world.

    Otherwise, it is non-rational for people with higher reproductive desirability, lower impulsivity, lower aggression, and higher intelligence to tolerate political competition from those who are less desirable and in the net, parasitic, just as it is politically preferable to compete via parasitism if one is less desirable at the bottom.

    Human beings are not unique and precious snowflakes. It is only that disregard for life is a moral hazard. The fact that mothers MUST believe their dysgenic offspring are precious is an evolutionary convenience, not a demonstrable fact.

    The purpose of science is quite often to force us to acknowledge uncomfortable truths. Equality is not a problem of belief (lying), but one of fact (truth).

    Try not to lie.

    It hurts the discipline of philosophy. It hurts mankind.


  • Racism Is Curable: By Eliminating Demand for It

    RACISM AND REVERSE RACISM: OR PERHAPS IT’S TRIVIALLY SIMPLE AND SUCH DISCUSSION IS DISHONEST

    In response to Matt Zwolinski : http://bleedingheartlibertarians.com/2014/11/on-reverse-racism-three-thought-experiments/

    [F]acts:

    1) The distribution of physical desirability for mating, the demonstrated behaviors of impulsivity and time preference, aggression, and demonstrated intelligence vary between individuals. (true)
    2) The social classes are organized by these distributions due to reproductive desirability, status utility, and cooperative (economic) utility. (true)
    3) The races demonstrate different relative distributions of these classes. (true)
    4) Racial groups demonstrate kin selection in mating, neighborhoods, friendship, social organizations, and business organizations. (true).
    5) The norms demonstrated by racial groups reflect behavior at the mean (true). This means lower trust, less intelligent groups must compete against norms in groups with higher trust and higher intelligent groups. (true). It also means that the group that holds dominant political power, and biases toward their norms, determines the economic velocity of the entire polity (true).
    6) Racial groups demonstrate kin selection in voting (true).
    7) INABILITY to use the state for rents and privileges limits political competition and conflict, whereas ABILITY to use the state for rents and privileges increases political competition and conflict. (true)
    8) Economic Wealth reduces dependence upon kin for mutual insurance under kin selection. (true). Economic stress increases dependence upon kin for mutual insurance via kin selection. (true)
    9) The difference between economic, political, social, reproductive and status success of one race or another is due to the distribution of superior talents versus inferior liabilities of the members of those races – plus normative factors, the most important of which is in-group trust, and the second is the degree of the suppression of free riding. (true)
    10) As such the only reason for racism is the rates of reproduction between the classes. And the only possible means of achieving equality in any and all cases is to suppress the reproduction of the lower classes of the races whose distribution is bottom weighted.
    11) It is non-rational to treat unknown individuals who are visually indistinguishable by other than the properties of their peer groups. (true) (which is what people do). One cannot both demand rational action, defend Praxeology, and deny this statement.
    12) Equality is achievable and desirable in just four generations. But it is upward reproductive redistribution that must mach downward economic redistribution for equality to be possible. If china can do this so can the rest of the world.

    Otherwise, it is non-rational for people with higher reproductive desirability, lower impulsivity, lower aggression, and higher intelligence to tolerate political competition from those who are less desirable and in the net, parasitic, just as it is politically preferable to compete via parasitism if one is less desirable at the bottom.

    Human beings are not unique and precious snowflakes. It is only that disregard for life is a moral hazard. The fact that mothers MUST believe their dysgenic offspring are precious is an evolutionary convenience, not a demonstrable fact.

    The purpose of science is quite often to force us to acknowledge uncomfortable truths. Equality is not a problem of belief (lying), but one of fact (truth).

    Try not to lie.

    It hurts the discipline of philosophy. It hurts mankind.


  • Leftists propagandise. Propertarians pick fights. Science rewards criticism

    Leftists propagandise.

    Propertarians pick fights.

    Science rewards criticism.


    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-29 08:40:00 UTC

  • well done

    http://faculty.philosophy.umd.edu/pcarruthers/Explaining-the-phenomena.htmPretty well done.


    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-29 08:24:00 UTC

  • Untitled

    http://faculty.philosophy.umd.edu/pcarruthers/Explaining-the-phenomena.htm


    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-29 08:23:00 UTC

  • AND REVERSE RACISM: OR PERHAPS IT’S TRIVIALLY SIMPLE AND SUCH DISCUSSION IS DISH

    http://bleedingheartlibertarians.com/2014/11/on-reverse-racism-three-thought-experiments/RACISM AND REVERSE RACISM: OR PERHAPS IT’S TRIVIALLY SIMPLE AND SUCH DISCUSSION IS DISHONEST

    1) The distribution of physical desirability for mating, the demonstrated behaviors of impulsivity and time preference, aggression, and demonstrated intelligence vary between individuals. (true)

    2) The social classes are organized by these distributions due to reproductive desirability, status utility, and cooperative (economic) utility. (true)

    3) The races demonstrate different relative distributions of these classes. (true)

    4) Racial groups demonstrate kin selection in mating, neighborhoods, friendship, social organizations, and business organizations. (true).

    5) The norms demonstrated by racial groups reflect behavior at the mean (true). This means lower trust, less intelligent groups must compete against norms in groups with higher trust and higher intelligent groups. (true). It also means that the group that holds dominant political power, and biases toward their norms, determines the economic velocity of the entire polity (true).

    6) Racial groups demonstrate kin selection in voting (true).

    7) INABILITY to use the state for rents and privileges limits political competition and conflict, whereas ABILITY to use the state for rents and privileges increases political competition and conflict. (true)

    8) Economic Wealth reduces dependence upon kin for mutual insurance under kin selection. (true). Economic stress increases dependence upon kin for mutual insurance via kin selection. (true)

    9) The difference between economic, political, social, reproductive and status success of one race or another is due to the distribution of superior talents versus inferior liabilities of the members of those races – plus normative factors, the most important of which is in-group trust, and the second is the degree of the suppression of free riding. (true)

    10) As such the only reason for racism is the rates of reproduction between the classes. And the only possible means of achieving equality in any and all cases is to suppress the reproduction of the lower classes of the races whose distribution is bottom weighted.

    11) It is non-rational to treat unknown individuals who are visually indistinguishable by other than the properties of their peer groups. (true) (which is what people do). One cannot both demand rational action, defend Praxeology, and deny this statement.

    12) Equality is achievable and desirable in just four generations. But it is upward reproductive redistribution that must mach downward economic redistribution for equality to be possible. If china can do this so can the rest of the world.

    Otherwise, it is non-rational for people with higher reproductive desirability, lower impulsivity, lower aggression, and higher intelligence to tolerate political competition from those who are less desirable and in the net, parasitic, just as it is politically preferable to compete via parasitism if one is less desirable at the bottom.

    Human beings are not unique and precious snowflakes. It is only that disregard for life is a moral hazard. The fact that mothers MUST believe their dysgenic offspring are precious is an evolutionary convenience, not a demonstrable fact.

    The purpose of science is quite often to force us to acknowledge uncomfortable truths. Equality is not a problem of belief (lying), but one of fact (truth).

    Try not to lie.

    It hurts the discipline of philosophy. It hurts mankind.


    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-29 03:20:00 UTC

  • The Conspiracy Of Trust 🙂

    [satire]

    Guest Post by Johannes Meixner

    [T]here’s a conspiracy going on in this world, and it is secretly plotting to take over the world. Like any good conspiracy it abides by a ridiculously positive name, which may confuse the reader into thinking they’re doing good:

    ***The High Trust Society.***

    As I was able to have a closer look into the conspiracy (through means of subversion, lying, deluding and others long-learned traditions and knowledge of left revolutionaries), it seems that the core members all follow the same code, which includes certain features I would like to shed lights on.

    Members are expected to be honest with each other at all times. It seems that honesty here acts not only as social lubricant, but also as aligner of incentives, and reducer of transaction costs.

    Along with this comes the seeming necessity to speak truthfully with one another, however costly that may be. Liars (like yours truly, as it were) are expected to be discovered, ostracized and shoo’ed off the Land.

    On the note of costliness, members are expected to keep their word at all times. I’m not quite sure how this came into being, given Machiavelli’s writings about how one should only keep it when it’s to your own advantage, but for whatever reason it seems to work for them, which makes them all the more dangerous.

    Members seem to be highly trusting of one another (due to above shared values), and will not hesitate to certify their member’s high social capital.

    Your diligent reporter has learned a few secrets in due time, and deems this a bright moment to rat out on core members of the conspiracy.

    Roman Skaskiw, Curt Doolittle, Andriy Drozda and others try to get away with all of this mumbo-jumbo in Ukraine. Don Finnegan, Johannes Meixner, Ben Schonle, Osku Raunio, Jonathan Starkas, Paul Vahur, Haver Järveoja, Erik Bhullar form the Estonian arm. James Santagata promotes all of the above in Japan. I’m not sure why he does that, the Japanese seem to be deluded into thinking this is how the world should be run in the first place. The same can be said for Marco de Wit — Finnish people seem equally deluded into trusting one another!! A few stray people reside in Middle Europe, where Germany stands out with Sandro Lemmen and Christoph Widenhorn. Another cluster appears all over the Commonwealth, around Andy Duncan Robyn Harte-Bunting, Eli Harman, Sean Ring, Michael Pattinson, Michael Philip, David Mondrus.

    Beware.

    They’re all dangerous, and their missionary diligence seems unstoppable.

    (I may have forgotten folks. My bad. Let me know, and I’ll add everyone.)

    Johannes Meixner