You didn’t seek the truth. You sought whether a statement was desirable or not. You conflated truth and approval. Many truths are undesirable. But knowing them we can seek alternative means of achieving beneficial ends – despite those who have failed to reach adulthood by evasion…
Source date (UTC): 2023-12-17 16:08:52 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1736418191813873901
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I just seek the truth.
You don’t.
And it has benefitted me and others more in life than your failure to seek the truth.
Source date (UTC): 2023-12-17 16:07:14 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1736417779891281978
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If you did then you’d seek the truth not whether anyone likes or dislikes a statement. That’s taking responsibility.
Source date (UTC): 2023-12-17 15:53:40 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1736414364729573691
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Word game. IN the current scientific literature the term is ‘agency’. In the entire history of the word power, as far as I know, at least in the past two centuries, it’s been ‘the capacity to alter the probability of outcomes.”
So when you made your claim it’s all about power this was as is common an ambiguous statement, because to nearly anyone with any education in law political theory or history power means ‘coercion’. And Nietzche’s ethics can be easily interpreted (and often are) to state that power and coerciove power are heroic rather than immoral.
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Source date (UTC): 2023-12-13 18:14:37 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1735000285053927424
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Either statemetns are true, partially true, false, or irrelevant. You have yet to demonstrate that I am stating anything false (and you won’t be able to unless you attempt to misstate or misrepresent something I’ve said).
Truth requires we engage in exchanges and limit ourselves…
Source date (UTC): 2023-12-13 17:48:16 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1734993655390151048
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(Lesson of the Day)
Most folks if not all folks outside of our organization are unable to disambiguate terms into their constituent parts and therefore tend to throw the baby out with the bathwater. This means that some ‘philosophical frames or biases’ are cumulatively good or bad in outcome. But it does not mean that all concepts within them are good or bad. The same is for people. Idiots my speak wisdom, genius may speak folly, good folk may act unethically and immorally and bad folk may act ethically and morally.
In other words, while ‘averages’ are true at scale so to speak, that does not mean that averages tell the whole story – and there is a tendency of the less able and less sophisticated (and most disagreeable and overconfident) to categorically dismiss a system of thought or at least system of values without learning what is harmful in it, and defending against what is harmful in it instead of defending against a thing that is comprised of both goods and bads.
Source date (UTC): 2023-12-11 17:00:22 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1734256824524685312
(Thoughts on Intellectual Decline)
The postwar academy was bad enough. We lost the ability to conduct social science rather early – during the world wars. We lost the ability to think scientifically by the capture of the academy by the jewish left. And we lost the ability to…
Source date (UTC): 2023-12-11 13:24:49 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1734202577321861560
(Thoughts on Intellectual Decline)
The postwar academy was bad enough. We lost the ability to conduct social science rather early – during the world wars. We lost the ability to think scientifically by the capture of the academy by the jewish left. And we lost the ability to speak the truth with the capture of the academy by women. As a consequence we are losing the capacity to think and reason as well as speak the truth before face.
I’m listening to a late eighties interview of an influential scholar at Cambridge. And I’ve listened to and read Bertrand Russell for example. And while Russell is quite silly in many ways, he is a solid thinker. Of course I consider myself a product of Darwin, Hayek, Popper, Becker, and Turing. Though we should give credit to Aquinas, Bacon and Occam in their generation and Smith-Hume-Blackstone in theirs, as much as Darwin, Spencer, Nietzche, Maxwell in theirs. But otherwise, outside of genetics, medicine, and tech, we have seen nearly all thought in the behavioral sciences (other than some aspects of economics), result in error, bias, and fraud.
So, it’s become increasingly clear that (a) classical liberalism = being english, and (b) scientific thought = being english. The degree to which these genetics culture institutions and systems of thought are related is not something we were terribly happy in the postwar period to imagine. Even if it was considered obvious pre-war.
Source date (UTC): 2023-12-11 13:24:48 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1734202577175162880
(Ruminations)
Watching the people working closest to me incrementally understand ‘the work’ is fascinating. Yesterday, Brad seemed to finally understand ‘it’s all geometry’. (Explaining this is quite difficult however.) Better said that geometry is a superior frame of reference for understanding the first principles, applied first principles, and resulting general rules of all existence.
Now, for those who have been with me for say, the past six years, you might recall that back then, I attempted to create a course on natural law (“The Work”) starting with geometry as the model upon which the rest would be built. But it wasn’t long before I understood people couldn’t grasp it because more context was needed TO grasp it.
Brad helped convince me to construct The Work from physics upward instead of logic (geometry) upward, or ethics outward. And it’s fascinating that having worked on reducing the first principles of the physical world to ternary logic, that upon doing so, sufficient context exists that Brad, on his own, grasped “it’s just geometry”.
Working from physics upward was not intuitive – at least for me – because I spent so much effort and interest on logic and grammars. So in my ‘worldview’, we start with logic and language to connect man’s ability to sense, percieve, and test information about the world by ‘man is the measure of all things to man’, to the physical, behavioral, and evolutionary laws. But this approach was backwards – for no other reason than the internal workings of the brain and mind are unknown and often not only misunderstood, but entirely false, for most ( almost all ) of mankind.
So we must teach the patterns of existence first, and then teach the logics – and in teaching the logics we learn the mind of man and the ‘mind’ of the universe, and realize …. they are the same.
Source date (UTC): 2023-12-11 13:09:16 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1734198665760133120
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(repost for newbies)
I use a number of techniques in the text that are the product of the Popperian analytic movement in the philosophy of science. These tools are meant to reduce ‘texty’ arguments to simple sequences or what in programming are called ‘data…
Source date (UTC): 2023-12-11 00:57:50 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1734014596392878361