Nov 25, 2019, 9:21 AM Told you so.
—“So has the fact that, whenever women enter a field or profession, that field or profession will start going downhill in terms of both prestige and income.”— Van Creveld
Martin also predicts (as do I) the re-separation of genders in education.
Nov 25, 2019, 9:21 AM Told you so.
—“So has the fact that, whenever women enter a field or profession, that field or profession will start going downhill in terms of both prestige and income.”— Van Creveld
Martin also predicts (as do I) the re-separation of genders in education.
Our Brain Works Sort of The Opposite of How You’d Think https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/27/our-brain-works-sort-of-the-opposite-of-how-youd-think/
Source date (UTC): 2020-05-27 04:34:45 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1265501674254274560
Dec 2, 2019, 3:41 PM
—Our brain works sort of the opposite of how you’d think: it’s always running, always forecasts everything, in a vast competition for attention, what’s most coherent and rewarding gets attention. The brain never stops, ever. We disconnect from it to daydream, relax, rest, or sleep. It never, ever, ever, stops.—
(from elsewhere)
Dec 2, 2019, 3:41 PM
—Our brain works sort of the opposite of how you’d think: it’s always running, always forecasts everything, in a vast competition for attention, what’s most coherent and rewarding gets attention. The brain never stops, ever. We disconnect from it to daydream, relax, rest, or sleep. It never, ever, ever, stops.—
(from elsewhere)
Philosophers Are Born https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/27/philosophers-are-born/
Source date (UTC): 2020-05-27 04:33:05 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1265501253079126017
Dec 2, 2019, 4:39 PM Philosophers are born I think. But they still must find a team to play on. Look at the Damned P-leadershp now. These guys are scaring me. It’s glorious. Luke is innovating and increasingly quickly. Brendon is increasingly judicial in his rulings. Martin … well, martin is that elegant balance of considerate, and correct. Alain is likewise, friendly and explicative. We see our Anonymous James back around here and there – and he is very likely, if he chooses, to run away with yet another level of sophistication. And I’m staring to see others come up now that are clearly trying. Some days I just want to say fk it. Other days I wanna cry with joy that this kind of thing is even possible. I hope we have time. If we have time we will have our school that reverses the second abrahamic dark age of ignorance and deceit. Edit
Dec 2, 2019, 4:39 PM Philosophers are born I think. But they still must find a team to play on. Look at the Damned P-leadershp now. These guys are scaring me. It’s glorious. Luke is innovating and increasingly quickly. Brendon is increasingly judicial in his rulings. Martin … well, martin is that elegant balance of considerate, and correct. Alain is likewise, friendly and explicative. We see our Anonymous James back around here and there – and he is very likely, if he chooses, to run away with yet another level of sophistication. And I’m staring to see others come up now that are clearly trying. Some days I just want to say fk it. Other days I wanna cry with joy that this kind of thing is even possible. I hope we have time. If we have time we will have our school that reverses the second abrahamic dark age of ignorance and deceit. Edit
“Domestication” vs”Genetic Pacification” https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/27/domestication-vsgenetic-pacification/
Source date (UTC): 2020-05-27 04:31:34 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1265500871447785473
Dec 7, 2019, 9:33 AM
–“Domestication isn’t defined the way you just defined it.”–
As socrates said “define your terms”. A term must only be consistent with the use as the speaker defines it. We can use “Domestication” (reproductive selection) or the more unpleasant term “Genetic Pacification” (law, war). The truth is that we use both Domestication and Genetic Pacification. And the unpleasant truth is that Different fields use the same terms differently. Colloquial speaking people conflate them because they lack the specialized knowledge of those fields. A common series I deal with daily is {reason, rationalism, and logic}. So, in science, domestication of plants, animals, and man, refers to the same process: making useful (cooperative) with man, by breeding favorable traits and unfavorable traits. At present our understanding is driven by Soviet Scientist Dmitry Belyaev, and his demonstration that foxes could be domesticated in under ten generations. When we study this process what do we find? We find that we are breeding for the extension of youth, where plants grow, and animals grow, but neither achieves early or FULL maturity. In animals this reduces the impulse to fight, so that the brain can continue to develop. What does it develop instead of impulse? It maintains the socialization of youth, and gains agency over the self (consciousness, patience, and conscientiousness). So we are using the term as it is used in science. Humans domesticated themselves, plants, and animals – and some of us domesticated other peoples (and frankly are still trying but failing to do so).