Keynes’ first work was in probability. He was a successful investor. He used probabilities where the law used operations (Legal transactions). He institutionalized the ludic fallacy: that games with limits mirrors human actions that consistently expand limits. All economies head toward disequilibrium. Growth is in fact an instance of disequilibrium.
Category: Epistemology and Method
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DOGMATISM ISN’T IN ITSELF A CRITICISM. Dogmatism isn’t a criticism. One can be d
DOGMATISM ISN’T IN ITSELF A CRITICISM.
Dogmatism isn’t a criticism. One can be dogmatic about the truth, theft, parasitism or predation – and there isn’t any criticism one can levy at that. One can be dogmatic about (a) a stated preference (b) a hypothetical good (c) an arbitrary definition, conclusion, narrative, or theory. The question is only whether one is dogmatic about a truth and theft or the arbitrary and utilitarian.
DOGMA: a principle or set of principles laid down by an authority as incontrovertibly true.
Well, sorry, but truth and theft are natural laws just as every other law of nature. It’s not a matter of opinion. The fact that one STATES these laws does not mean they are imposed by authority, or are arbitrary, but that they simply incontrovertibly exist.
Source date (UTC): 2018-06-09 13:39:00 UTC
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The Trick to Understanding Statistics Isn’t Math – Its ‘markets’ (competition in Equilibration)
THE TRICK TO UNDERSTANDING STATISTICS ISN’T MATH – ITS ‘MARKETS’ (COMPETITION IN EQUILIBRATION) There is nothing in genetic charts that requires mathematics to understand, just like there are no mathematical statements that cannot be expressed in ordinary (natural) language, and therefore understandable. The vast majority of genetics is nothing other than statistical analysis. The vast majority of statistical analysis is a list of single-regression analysis (set of variables), and then organizing those ‘lines’ into supply demand curves. It’s the second part – supply demand curves – rather than trying to produce a single line (distribution) using complex mathematics that (a) leads to errors and (b) is so prominent in the data. Some of us intuitively understand this, or have been educated in markets or economics or the competition of life, or the competition of evolution such that we are not so easily fooled. But the average person still operates by intuition considering himself as the standard unit of measure when interpreting data – which is precisely the same as creating a complex series of regression analysis in an attempt to produce a single statement. Think about that a bit.
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The Trick to Understanding Statistics Isn’t Math – Its ‘markets’ (competition in Equilibration)
THE TRICK TO UNDERSTANDING STATISTICS ISN’T MATH – ITS ‘MARKETS’ (COMPETITION IN EQUILIBRATION) There is nothing in genetic charts that requires mathematics to understand, just like there are no mathematical statements that cannot be expressed in ordinary (natural) language, and therefore understandable. The vast majority of genetics is nothing other than statistical analysis. The vast majority of statistical analysis is a list of single-regression analysis (set of variables), and then organizing those ‘lines’ into supply demand curves. It’s the second part – supply demand curves – rather than trying to produce a single line (distribution) using complex mathematics that (a) leads to errors and (b) is so prominent in the data. Some of us intuitively understand this, or have been educated in markets or economics or the competition of life, or the competition of evolution such that we are not so easily fooled. But the average person still operates by intuition considering himself as the standard unit of measure when interpreting data – which is precisely the same as creating a complex series of regression analysis in an attempt to produce a single statement. Think about that a bit.
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“Every time we put truth into practice we ruin someone else’s business model.”–
—“Every time we put truth into practice we ruin someone else’s business model.”— John Mark
(genius)
Source date (UTC): 2018-06-07 13:23:33 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1004715486381314048
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“Every time we put truth into practice we ruin someone else’s business model.”–
—“Every time we put truth into practice we ruin someone else’s business model.”— John Mark
(genius)
Source date (UTC): 2018-06-07 09:23:00 UTC
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“Truth seeking is a competitive advantage.”—Dan T Eggmn (It is for the able…
—“Truth seeking is a competitive advantage.”—Dan T Eggmn
(It is for the able….)
Source date (UTC): 2018-06-07 00:39:42 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1004523258325229568
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“Truth seeking is a competitive advantage.”—Dan T Eggmn (It is for the able…
—“Truth seeking is a competitive advantage.”—Dan T Eggmn
(It is for the able….)
Source date (UTC): 2018-06-06 20:39:00 UTC
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“Most people don’t seek truth. They seek to feel better. It has taken me many ye
—“Most people don’t seek truth. They seek to feel better. It has taken me many years and some painful lessons to learn this. Think how many enemies we (the Real (scientific) Right) have – people who react emotionally and instinctively against us because we speak truth (or as close as we have been able to get to it) on various topics: the whole Left, the Swamp, all religions. Against these odds we must win. And we will.”—John Mark
Source date (UTC): 2018-06-06 20:17:00 UTC
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HOW TO STUDY ANY SUBJECT Some idiot on Quora counter-signaling one of my posts o
HOW TO STUDY ANY SUBJECT
Some idiot on Quora counter-signaling one of my posts on ethnicity, by demanding sources. You know, I don’t put sources for a lot of things because it requires a second copy-paste, and google image search or text search will always find it. (and maybe subconsciously i like to bait these assholes.) As usual, it’s a diagram and quotes from Nature. Which is pretty much the top of the scientific stack. and… Fuck. Do people think I make this shit up? Fucking read something other than stupid shit….
You know how easy getting a grasp of anything is? You find a subject. You search wiki and read the articles and copy the references.
Now you search for those references. you read reviews of published papers that were published later, and you read reviews of books on amazon. You read the reviews of all related books suggested by amazon. You make a list of names, and terms, and key-phrases. You repeat this process until ‘I cant find anything that isn’t a duplicate of something someone else said’.
Once you’ve done that pick the best book, and read it’s table of contents. Try figure out which chapter makes the argument rather than prepares for it or explains it. Scan that chapter. then read it. Then if you think there is more to learn read more until there isn’t. Check the back of the book’s glossary and bibliography. Just scan them for things you either don’t know or sound interesting.
Pick another book. Do the same. Most of the time BOOKS CAN BE REDUCED TO A SET OF KEY PAPERS REFERENCED IN THE BIBLIOGRAPHY. If not, they can be reduced to a central thesis, and the rest of the book is just DEFENSE of it.
My opinion on research is not to put a lot of stock in any defense, but to put stock tin the competition of books and papers that compete with one another on the topic. So I recommend using the cheapness of the internet to survey a subject and then get into the books.
Most of the time I work by finding an author that has created a novel insight and then reading the papers in his bibliography. It may seem like a lot is published but the truth is very few books in any year are of substance at the level of group evolutionary strategy and politics.
Once you are ‘current’ with the state of knowledge you just literally follow the top blogs, and read the relatively few papers that have any meaning.
What you find is that all the discipilnes duplicate effort on what you would consider awfully obvious matters.
By contrast, what most people do is the other way around: try to find one book and they get ‘hooked by the authors frame.’ and then they’re anchored. Start with an overview of the ‘market for ideas’. This isn’t the middle ages. Nearly every book more than a year old is available for free somewhere somehow. In fact, we have just about everything worth reading already in our library in digital form.
(Rant off.)
Source date (UTC): 2018-06-06 20:04:00 UTC