Category: Personal Reflections and Diary

  • Testimony (awesome)

    Testimony (awesome) https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/29/testimony-awesome/


    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-29 20:53:02 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1266472642250407936

  • Testimony (awesome)

    Mar 4, 2020, 3:01 PM (ok. so this made my day)

    —“There is such a great benefit to mastering even a small aspect of P in personal life. I am still trying to figure a lot of it out, but whatever I do has served me a lot personally far more than my useless university education that was the biggest waste of money. I am glad I went to trade school after. What Curt Doolittle is teaching is why originally people were hoping to get paying $60,000+ in student loans to what has devolved into baiting into hazard into debt slavery for a marxist indoctrination center that rewards a useless piece of paper. I am really grateful to this.”— Maria Al Masani Makienko

    The problem is that it’s hard to know the value of P until you know it. So we need enough people to ‘verify’ P’s utility so that we stop people from having to pay 60K in debt for what should be a thousand dollars or so in basic courses. If we do that we change the world.

  • Testimony (awesome)

    Mar 4, 2020, 3:01 PM (ok. so this made my day)

    —“There is such a great benefit to mastering even a small aspect of P in personal life. I am still trying to figure a lot of it out, but whatever I do has served me a lot personally far more than my useless university education that was the biggest waste of money. I am glad I went to trade school after. What Curt Doolittle is teaching is why originally people were hoping to get paying $60,000+ in student loans to what has devolved into baiting into hazard into debt slavery for a marxist indoctrination center that rewards a useless piece of paper. I am really grateful to this.”— Maria Al Masani Makienko

    The problem is that it’s hard to know the value of P until you know it. So we need enough people to ‘verify’ P’s utility so that we stop people from having to pay 60K in debt for what should be a thousand dollars or so in basic courses. If we do that we change the world.

  • The Manufacture of Ignorance

    The Manufacture of Ignorance https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/29/the-manufacture-of-ignorance/


    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-29 20:50:39 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1266472044507602946

  • Learning P Is Like Going Back to School

    Learning P Is Like Going Back to School https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/29/learning-p-is-like-going-back-to-school/


    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-29 20:38:16 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1266468924855631872

  • Learning P Is Like Going Back to School

    Mar 4, 2020, 5:57 PM by Ryan O’Connor

    —“First competence: consume P accurately.”—Luke Weinhagen

    Still working on step one. It’s like going back to school… okay, not LIKE it, it IS going back to school – and learning a new subject. I’m reading English, but it feels like a foreign language – having to re-read and look up terms, check context. I haven’t had to really use my brain this much in years 😅 But thanks for everyone who puts it all out and breaks it down for the rest of us.

  • Learning P Is Like Going Back to School

    Mar 4, 2020, 5:57 PM by Ryan O’Connor

    —“First competence: consume P accurately.”—Luke Weinhagen

    Still working on step one. It’s like going back to school… okay, not LIKE it, it IS going back to school – and learning a new subject. I’m reading English, but it feels like a foreign language – having to re-read and look up terms, check context. I haven’t had to really use my brain this much in years 😅 But thanks for everyone who puts it all out and breaks it down for the rest of us.

  • Testimony

    Testimony https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/29/testimony-16/


    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-29 13:57:08 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1266367975616962563

  • Testimony

    Ryan Drummond: I often tell Alice: “I don’t feel like I really live a human life any more. I just walk around processing information and responding to stimuli accordingly. It’s strange. But it gets things done in accordance with natural law.” I think once you start unpacking things in that sort of way – you feel more machine than man. But there is a deep, deep comfort in it. And an immense sense of control and understanding. Eric Danelaw:  yeah. let’s commiserate. 😉 It’s kind of creepy. But you have SO MUCH AGENCY. Ryan Drummond:  I think I will always find it a bit creepy, yet comforting. But not quite comforting enough…because Agency is omniscience and omnipresence, and I certainly have neither of those. Perhaps that’s why I find it creepy… We have much more work to do as a species…

  • Testimony

    Ryan Drummond: I often tell Alice: “I don’t feel like I really live a human life any more. I just walk around processing information and responding to stimuli accordingly. It’s strange. But it gets things done in accordance with natural law.” I think once you start unpacking things in that sort of way – you feel more machine than man. But there is a deep, deep comfort in it. And an immense sense of control and understanding. Eric Danelaw:  yeah. let’s commiserate. 😉 It’s kind of creepy. But you have SO MUCH AGENCY. Ryan Drummond:  I think I will always find it a bit creepy, yet comforting. But not quite comforting enough…because Agency is omniscience and omnipresence, and I certainly have neither of those. Perhaps that’s why I find it creepy… We have much more work to do as a species…