I’ll hold my own against any academic living. But they don’t matter now. The only people who matter in a revolution are those who fight.
Source date (UTC): 2016-08-11 02:38:00 UTC
Form: Aphorism
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0) Current innovators talk in group evolutionary strategies 1) Intelligent peopl
0) Current innovators talk in group evolutionary strategies
1) Intelligent people talk in institutions and incentives.
2) Educated idiots talk in laws and rights.
3) Well meaning fools talk in shoulds and morals
4) Idiots talk in meanings and contradictions
5) animals express emotions of acceptance and rejection.
Or like David said the other day, 2500 years after Aristotle we still have idiots arguing the meaning of terms like medieval theologians pondering the words of god.
It is more frequent on the left since their objective is to invoke feeling not to construct a rational argument
Source date (UTC): 2016-08-08 07:52:00 UTC
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Zero Tolerance is the best evolutionary strategy with which to compete against i
Zero Tolerance is the best evolutionary strategy with which to compete against incrementalism.
Source date (UTC): 2016-08-07 08:30:00 UTC
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Gods exist like numbers exist. And they exist for similar purposes: to provide u
Gods exist like numbers exist. And they exist for similar purposes: to provide us with decidability on matters which we cannot directly sense, perceive, compare, and judge, without such measures.
Western Law (conflict resolution) is separate from Western Religion (festivals)
Western civilization like western law, and western politics, and western science, is (was) empirical.
The meaningful content of western christianity is the extension of kinship trust to non kin.
This extension of trust requires we teach humility and skepticism.
This empiricism requires we teach skepticism
Testimony, jury, judge, natural, common discovered law requires we testify truthfully.
We developed testimony, jury, senate, debate, reason, rationalism, science and now, ‘complete science’ (testimonialism).
We developed reason, philosophy, natural law, and science because we spoke truthfully.
We developed a religion that assisted in the practice of skepticism, humility, and truthfulness.
Moreover, every time we have a great war, we evolve quickly by reformation after it.
This is why we do not stagnate like all other civilizations:
There is no faster way to evolve a people than through truth, science, natural common law, a multitude of independent polities, and the capacity for conflict between them.
The west was not first, but it is fastest.
Source date (UTC): 2016-08-06 17:44:00 UTC
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Of all the enlightenment cultures, only the Germans didn’t lie. They just can’t
Of all the enlightenment cultures, only the Germans didn’t lie.
They just can’t figure out the truth.
Source date (UTC): 2016-08-06 11:41:00 UTC
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They don’t get it. We aren’t trying to win their hearts and minds. We are prosec
They don’t get it.
We aren’t trying to win their hearts and minds.
We are prosecutors.
Source date (UTC): 2016-08-06 11:31:00 UTC
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Intense-world people do not need more intensity. Normals are good for us, and we
Intense-world people do not need more intensity. Normals are good for us, and we seem to intuit it. Conversely, normals do not realize we are good for them.
Source date (UTC): 2016-08-06 01:58:00 UTC
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“mathematicians think in (well precisely defined and mapped) objects, philosophe
—“mathematicians think in (well precisely defined and mapped) objects, philosophers in concepts, jurists in constructs, logicians in operators (…), and idiots in words”— Taleb
(Mathematicians think in consistent axiomatic categories and operations, jurists in hierarchical construction, logicians in sets of internal consistency, scientists in thoeretic models of external correspondence, and philosophers selectively in any of them. Idiots however think in ‘words’ or technically, ‘meaning’.)
Source date (UTC): 2016-08-05 10:23:00 UTC
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Only fight those who are worthy of your efforts to defeat them. Pet children wit
Only fight those who are worthy of your efforts to defeat them. Pet children with wooden swords, and women with tears.
Source date (UTC): 2016-08-04 17:44:55 UTC
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My ex-wife had this advice: Don’t Stomp On Bunnies. We don’t beat fools, women o
My ex-wife had this advice: Don’t Stomp On Bunnies. We don’t beat fools, women or children even if they’re idiots. Its cruel.
Source date (UTC): 2016-08-04 17:44:11 UTC
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