Form: Critique

  • SAINI is wrong. Reich is right and told her so. Eugenics was a missed opportunit

    SAINI is wrong. Reich is right and told her so. Eugenics was a missed opportunity. Galton isn’t discredited just unfashionable in the moral pretense of postmodern and feminist sophistry and pseudoscience. Do women generate a market for social pseudoscience? Data says yes. Why?


    Source date (UTC): 2020-02-18 09:24:21 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1229698156906131456

    Reply addressees: @GilesPalaeoLab @MikeAlphaOne @royalsociety

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1229371206656241664

  • CRITICIZING AND REFORMING “LOGOS” I disagree with every use of Logos I’ve ever s

    CRITICIZING AND REFORMING “LOGOS”

    I disagree with every use of Logos I’ve ever seen.

    As far as I know it’s original use meant ‘order identifiable and explicable through reason’. Which doesn’t tell us anything, unless we have some claim on the truth or falsehood of it.

    Instead, civilizations evolve strategies (group competitive strategies), and persist them through metaphysical (unstated, presumed, unconscious) premises(laws of nature), and paradigms (plots), advanced by archetypes (characters) that anthropomorphize (mirror and amplify psychological or behavioral traits), which recursively reinforce the group strategy as if it is a law of nature.

    For this reason I argue that metaphysics as a discipline ‘doesn’t exist’ so to speak and that there is only one testifiable answer to existence (realism, naturalism, operationalism, empiricism, rational choice, reciprocity, transcendence) and that all else is fiction(parable, myth, literature) or fictionalism (theology, sophistry, pseudoscience) that either mirrors or does not mirror that most parsimonious testimony and strategy.

    Man must act. To act he must remember. With memory he must predict futures to choose from to act upon. To choose from those futures he must reason. To continuously improve his choices continuously reducing costs, he must improve his reason. To reason at any scale other than the trivial requires forms of categorizing, organizing, predicting, and calculating. Language allows us to calculate increasing complexity. Cooperation lets us produce disproportionate returns on our actions. Cooperation on increasingly complex production requires collective ends within which to discover cooperative means. Narratives allow us to calculate collective means of cooperation within complex social groups. Complex social groups using the same narratives make the majority of tie-breaking decisions in favor of the group strategy. It is the countless decisions we make in favor of the group strategy when it costs little or nothing to do so, or at least the not-prohibitive to do so, that produce our group strategy more than does any organized and intentional production of commons.

    So I don’t use “logos” because of it’s nonsense connotations. Instead I create an operational description of the world and therefore continue my war on nonsense terms from history that were invented to wow nonsensical ignorant people into the pretense that some presumed good was in fact true as well as presumed good.

    See what I did there?

    😉


    Source date (UTC): 2020-02-18 09:11:00 UTC

  • #Picard is … unwatchable. Seriously. Ending of Game of Thrones? Star wars? Now

    #Picard is … unwatchable. Seriously. Ending of Game of Thrones? Star wars? Now Star Trek? Is Dune Next?

    The Hollywood Woke-tastrophe of Science Fiction Mythos?


    Source date (UTC): 2020-02-14 23:16:05 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1228457914358214656

  • A Critic

    Feb 13, 2020, 8:44 AM

    —“Curt was trying to defend his statement that “Entropy is the prime mover” to refute the theistic claim that God is the prime mover. In the analysis of entropy, he reduced all phenomena to a “fundamental” component, namely “Differences in charge”. There are plenty of other obtuse statements that Curt ought to defend in order to protect his reputation, such as his declaration that “philosophy is a pseudoscience.” That is a wildly hilarious and blatant domain error, that it ought to have disqualified anything Curt has to say on metaphysics or reason.”—- Josef Kalinin Prem Prayojan

    1) Entropy/Charge: Any of the terms: entropy( order to disorder), equilibration (equalization of differences), energy(frequency), charge (energy in difference in states), pressure(effect of different states on one another), and difference satisfy the demand for truthful operational speech. The fact that we are as yet uncertain of the classical (geometric) structure of the universe that we describe with quantum mechanics, is a problem of our present technical inability to measure (observe) it. However, there is no evidence it is other than expressible in the same terms of differences in energy, organization, state, and available transformations (operations). No physicist of note will disagree with this statement. 2) Philosophy is a pseudoscience: Yes, as far as I know, the demarcation between philosophy and science is complete with philosophy limited to choice of preference, and science to decidability independent of preference. I can find no evidence that what remains of philosophy consists of other than the history of the evolution of science from philosophy. And I can find no evidence of those practicing philosophy for advocacy of truth claims instead of advocacy for preference claims engaging in other than deception. Part of the reason for this is that we have accumulated evidence of human behavior in large groups across mankind on one hand, and we have discovered the tediously simple method by which brain, mind, and experience are constructed on the other – although I do recognize I’m very current or ahead of the curve in that knowledge. 3) Domain error. There are no domain errors any longer. There is one most parsimonious operational paradigm across all grammars (paradigms) from the deflationary to the descriptive to the inflationary to the deceptive. That paradigm is language because language is the system of measurement we use for thinking and speaking about the world. It will be very difficult to falsify those arguments.

  • A Critic

    Feb 13, 2020, 8:44 AM

    —“Curt was trying to defend his statement that “Entropy is the prime mover” to refute the theistic claim that God is the prime mover. In the analysis of entropy, he reduced all phenomena to a “fundamental” component, namely “Differences in charge”. There are plenty of other obtuse statements that Curt ought to defend in order to protect his reputation, such as his declaration that “philosophy is a pseudoscience.” That is a wildly hilarious and blatant domain error, that it ought to have disqualified anything Curt has to say on metaphysics or reason.”—- Josef Kalinin Prem Prayojan

    1) Entropy/Charge: Any of the terms: entropy( order to disorder), equilibration (equalization of differences), energy(frequency), charge (energy in difference in states), pressure(effect of different states on one another), and difference satisfy the demand for truthful operational speech. The fact that we are as yet uncertain of the classical (geometric) structure of the universe that we describe with quantum mechanics, is a problem of our present technical inability to measure (observe) it. However, there is no evidence it is other than expressible in the same terms of differences in energy, organization, state, and available transformations (operations). No physicist of note will disagree with this statement. 2) Philosophy is a pseudoscience: Yes, as far as I know, the demarcation between philosophy and science is complete with philosophy limited to choice of preference, and science to decidability independent of preference. I can find no evidence that what remains of philosophy consists of other than the history of the evolution of science from philosophy. And I can find no evidence of those practicing philosophy for advocacy of truth claims instead of advocacy for preference claims engaging in other than deception. Part of the reason for this is that we have accumulated evidence of human behavior in large groups across mankind on one hand, and we have discovered the tediously simple method by which brain, mind, and experience are constructed on the other – although I do recognize I’m very current or ahead of the curve in that knowledge. 3) Domain error. There are no domain errors any longer. There is one most parsimonious operational paradigm across all grammars (paradigms) from the deflationary to the descriptive to the inflationary to the deceptive. That paradigm is language because language is the system of measurement we use for thinking and speaking about the world. It will be very difficult to falsify those arguments.

  • Why do I care? No more woo woo in cognitive science please. If you can’t pass th

    Why do I care? No more woo woo in cognitive science please. If you can’t pass the mirror test, the gesture test, sympathy test (cooperation), demonstrate natural operational grammar (language), and create multi-part tools, or enter into agreement (consent) then you’re far behind.


    Source date (UTC): 2020-02-12 19:41:42 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1227679190314573825

    Reply addressees: @robinhanson

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1227678491539365890


    IN REPLY TO:

    Unknown author

    @robinhanson To equate sentience (feeling of changes in state), and awareness (of change instate of environment) and semi-consiousness (prediction of future states and possible reactions), consciousness (prediction of future permutations of state), to transformations of state is a leap.

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1227678491539365890

  • Listen twinkles. If you demonstrate a lack of intelligence, reciprocity, compreh

    —Listen twinkles. If you demonstrate a lack of intelligence, reciprocity, comprehension of human capital, the asymmetry of traits and class sizes in racial and sub racial groups, the disproportionate dependence upon the median for standard of living, then defacto you’re an idiot.

    Your father raised you to have confidence. That says nothing to do with your intellectual competence. The single greatest falure of the 20th was the successful postwar suppression of the soft eugenics movement, and the hart cellar act that opened the doors to genetic collapse.—


    Source date (UTC): 2020-02-11 15:45:00 UTC

  • This artist demonstrates skill at photorealism, which is a technical craft, but

    This artist demonstrates skill at photorealism, which is a technical craft, but does not produce “Art” that captures the period. Painting Art (rather than decoration) requires composition, monumental scale, civilizational narratives, in current aesthetic and cultural context.


    Source date (UTC): 2020-02-10 20:17:44 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1226963480311451648

    Reply addressees: @Juan200363

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1226962682563190785


    IN REPLY TO:

    Unknown author

    @Juan200363 Blame the left (Marxists >Cultural Marxists >Postmodernist >Feminists), who by design, with malice and intent, undermined the Western Heroic, and Monumental Civic Arts tradition, with Critique (undermining). Craftsmanship != Art. Civilizational ideals are required for (high) Art.

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1226962682563190785


    IN REPLY TO:

    @curtdoolittle

    @Juan200363 Blame the left (Marxists >Cultural Marxists >Postmodernist >Feminists), who by design, with malice and intent, undermined the Western Heroic, and Monumental Civic Arts tradition, with Critique (undermining). Craftsmanship != Art. Civilizational ideals are required for (high) Art.

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1226962682563190785

  • “What is your opinion on anarcho-capitalism?”

    [T]he origins of Rothbard’s anarcho-capitalism (a sophism) and Mises’ wing of Austrian economics( praxeology as a pseudoscience), are in the ethics Jews of the Pale and Russia – evasion of payment for the commons, and licensing of profit from baiting into hazard (usury, alcohol, prostitution, slave trading, gambling, organized crime), investing assets from criminal activity into rent-seeking (non productive parasitic returns) and specializing in use of the state against the people (tax collection, money changing), and slowly migrating into mixed criminal, black market, grey market, and open market industries – the same pattern we saw with other non-northern European immigrants in the states, this by this method the Jews by undermining and the Muslims by invasion and raiding seek to devolve the west into low trust tribalism, face before truth, ignorance, and poverty of the middle east. While Rothbardian ghetto ethics are positioned as in the favor of entrepreneurs this is false – it’s in the interest of rent-seekers (rent-seeking is an economic term referring to obtaining profits without contributing the production) – and this is against the interests of entrepreneurs, professionals, managers, clerical workers, craftsmen, laborers, mothers, children, the elderly, and the dependent due to defect or infirmary – all of whom benefit from the multipliers produced by commons over their ability to individually produce income – which s So Rothbardian Ghetto ethics, like Misesian Separatist exploitative economics, favor exploitation of the people through non violent means, including specialization of the technique of Baiting (seducing) into Hazard, where baiting into hazard consists in: “Using False Promise, Baiting Into Hazard, Advocated by Pilpul, Defended by Critique, Escaping Liability and Warranty, by Pretense of Plausible Deniability, Despite Deliberate Avoidance of Due Diligence, And Deliberate Evasion of Warranty, Deliberate Escape From Liability, Given the Asymmetry of Knowledge, the Presence of Malincentives by both Agent(s) and Victim(s) – And Pursued for the Purpose of Attention, Reward (profit), Influence(power), Undermining (Power), of the Trust and Cooperation, of a Population in Normal Distribution, Thereby Generating accelerating Cycles of Internal Conflict, Generating Demand for Authority to Control by the Hazard Maker.” And Mises entire economic theory is designed for the sole purpose of preserving rights to voluntary usury on one hand and rights to monetary appreciation on the other – both of which violate the western requirement for productivity (production of a common) in exchange for profits. So while we praise ourselves for individualism and democracy, neither of these is good or true – they are sophistries (lies). Instead, the long tradition of western ethics and morality consists in the use of rule of law of tort (forbidding trespass) as a system of measurement for the production of commons: reciprocal gain. It is not individualistic other than individually demonstrated interest (expense) is a means of suppression of inter-personal, inter-social, inter-political parasitism. We restate this rule of law of reciprocity as a positive just as all civilizations state their laws as positive aspirations. But these positive aspirations are merely inversions on negative prohibitions to provide positive moral incentive rather than negative moral threat. The unique advantage of western civilization is the production of commons, by the requirement for reciprocity in display, word (truth), and deed (action). This produces markets in everything, maximizes the production of commons(for all parties) producing meritocracy at the cost of limiting the reproduction of the unproductive underclasses, and thereby ensuring continuous improvement from genetics to institutions to technology to arts. This western ethic requires the inverse of the Semitic (Jewish Muslim) ethic. Our western ethic is in individual sovereignty upon demonstration of contribution to the commons – by oath against lying, stealing, and cowardice, and demonstrated in military contribution (a militia). Sovereignty leaves only reciprocity as a possible means of survival – where reciprocity consists of productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary transfer of demonstrated interests, free of imposition of costs upon the demonstrated interests of others, by externality, where demonstrated interests consist of cost born by action or inaction. But Rothbard’s Ghetto (separatist) ethics and Mises’ Usurious (separatist) economics are presented to westerners by suggestion using its half-truth as equal to western sovereignty and reciprocity – for whom baiting into hazard is prohibited so deeply in our languages, thoughts, norms traditions, and ethics, we are not even conscious of its existence. And as we see in Ukraine today under the ‘oligarchs’ and in Russia, prior to Putin’s seizure of assets from the oligarchs, the societies are run by a small number of large organized crime families and the people suffer in poverty corruption from an absentee political and justice system under the oligarch’s control. We tend to put moral weight behind capitalism and democracy, but the exceptionalism of the western world in the ancient and modern worlds and the reason we survived the Christian attempt to destroy our civilization, is due to our rule of law, the empiricism we must practice to adjudicate differences under our rule of law, the application of that empiricism by externality to all human knowledge, and the markets that result from the suppression of ignorance, error, bias, fraud, free riding, privatization of commons, socialization of losses, corruption, immigration, and conversion. The function of a Germanic-Christian Monarchy, Constitutional Monarchy, or a Germanic-Christian Republic under the European traditional rule of law of reciprocity that we know as property (tort, trespass), is to centralize rents seeking in the state as profits for producing property rights in our courts, in exchange for suppressing local transaction costs – and corruptions – of all kinds. This is how and why states produce economic velocity. Just as the Abrahamic religions used false promise of life after death to undermining the old world aristocracies, and through Judaism to undermine, Christianity to weaken, and Islam to conquer and destroy the ancient world, in the modern world we are faced with a mere transformation of the false promise of supernatural returns under deception by theological sophistry, to the false promise of supernormal returns under deception by pseudoscientific sophistry by marxism to undermine market cooperation between the classes, socialism to undermine market cooperation via the government, feminism to undermine market cooperation between the genders, and postmodernism to undermine truth and reciprocity as the means of resolving disputes and preventing parasitism in the market for Truth, knowledge, information, opportunity. Lies all lies. Nothing but lies.

  • “What is your opinion on anarcho-capitalism?”

    [T]he origins of Rothbard’s anarcho-capitalism (a sophism) and Mises’ wing of Austrian economics( praxeology as a pseudoscience), are in the ethics Jews of the Pale and Russia – evasion of payment for the commons, and licensing of profit from baiting into hazard (usury, alcohol, prostitution, slave trading, gambling, organized crime), investing assets from criminal activity into rent-seeking (non productive parasitic returns) and specializing in use of the state against the people (tax collection, money changing), and slowly migrating into mixed criminal, black market, grey market, and open market industries – the same pattern we saw with other non-northern European immigrants in the states, this by this method the Jews by undermining and the Muslims by invasion and raiding seek to devolve the west into low trust tribalism, face before truth, ignorance, and poverty of the middle east. While Rothbardian ghetto ethics are positioned as in the favor of entrepreneurs this is false – it’s in the interest of rent-seekers (rent-seeking is an economic term referring to obtaining profits without contributing the production) – and this is against the interests of entrepreneurs, professionals, managers, clerical workers, craftsmen, laborers, mothers, children, the elderly, and the dependent due to defect or infirmary – all of whom benefit from the multipliers produced by commons over their ability to individually produce income – which s So Rothbardian Ghetto ethics, like Misesian Separatist exploitative economics, favor exploitation of the people through non violent means, including specialization of the technique of Baiting (seducing) into Hazard, where baiting into hazard consists in: “Using False Promise, Baiting Into Hazard, Advocated by Pilpul, Defended by Critique, Escaping Liability and Warranty, by Pretense of Plausible Deniability, Despite Deliberate Avoidance of Due Diligence, And Deliberate Evasion of Warranty, Deliberate Escape From Liability, Given the Asymmetry of Knowledge, the Presence of Malincentives by both Agent(s) and Victim(s) – And Pursued for the Purpose of Attention, Reward (profit), Influence(power), Undermining (Power), of the Trust and Cooperation, of a Population in Normal Distribution, Thereby Generating accelerating Cycles of Internal Conflict, Generating Demand for Authority to Control by the Hazard Maker.” And Mises entire economic theory is designed for the sole purpose of preserving rights to voluntary usury on one hand and rights to monetary appreciation on the other – both of which violate the western requirement for productivity (production of a common) in exchange for profits. So while we praise ourselves for individualism and democracy, neither of these is good or true – they are sophistries (lies). Instead, the long tradition of western ethics and morality consists in the use of rule of law of tort (forbidding trespass) as a system of measurement for the production of commons: reciprocal gain. It is not individualistic other than individually demonstrated interest (expense) is a means of suppression of inter-personal, inter-social, inter-political parasitism. We restate this rule of law of reciprocity as a positive just as all civilizations state their laws as positive aspirations. But these positive aspirations are merely inversions on negative prohibitions to provide positive moral incentive rather than negative moral threat. The unique advantage of western civilization is the production of commons, by the requirement for reciprocity in display, word (truth), and deed (action). This produces markets in everything, maximizes the production of commons(for all parties) producing meritocracy at the cost of limiting the reproduction of the unproductive underclasses, and thereby ensuring continuous improvement from genetics to institutions to technology to arts. This western ethic requires the inverse of the Semitic (Jewish Muslim) ethic. Our western ethic is in individual sovereignty upon demonstration of contribution to the commons – by oath against lying, stealing, and cowardice, and demonstrated in military contribution (a militia). Sovereignty leaves only reciprocity as a possible means of survival – where reciprocity consists of productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary transfer of demonstrated interests, free of imposition of costs upon the demonstrated interests of others, by externality, where demonstrated interests consist of cost born by action or inaction. But Rothbard’s Ghetto (separatist) ethics and Mises’ Usurious (separatist) economics are presented to westerners by suggestion using its half-truth as equal to western sovereignty and reciprocity – for whom baiting into hazard is prohibited so deeply in our languages, thoughts, norms traditions, and ethics, we are not even conscious of its existence. And as we see in Ukraine today under the ‘oligarchs’ and in Russia, prior to Putin’s seizure of assets from the oligarchs, the societies are run by a small number of large organized crime families and the people suffer in poverty corruption from an absentee political and justice system under the oligarch’s control. We tend to put moral weight behind capitalism and democracy, but the exceptionalism of the western world in the ancient and modern worlds and the reason we survived the Christian attempt to destroy our civilization, is due to our rule of law, the empiricism we must practice to adjudicate differences under our rule of law, the application of that empiricism by externality to all human knowledge, and the markets that result from the suppression of ignorance, error, bias, fraud, free riding, privatization of commons, socialization of losses, corruption, immigration, and conversion. The function of a Germanic-Christian Monarchy, Constitutional Monarchy, or a Germanic-Christian Republic under the European traditional rule of law of reciprocity that we know as property (tort, trespass), is to centralize rents seeking in the state as profits for producing property rights in our courts, in exchange for suppressing local transaction costs – and corruptions – of all kinds. This is how and why states produce economic velocity. Just as the Abrahamic religions used false promise of life after death to undermining the old world aristocracies, and through Judaism to undermine, Christianity to weaken, and Islam to conquer and destroy the ancient world, in the modern world we are faced with a mere transformation of the false promise of supernatural returns under deception by theological sophistry, to the false promise of supernormal returns under deception by pseudoscientific sophistry by marxism to undermine market cooperation between the classes, socialism to undermine market cooperation via the government, feminism to undermine market cooperation between the genders, and postmodernism to undermine truth and reciprocity as the means of resolving disputes and preventing parasitism in the market for Truth, knowledge, information, opportunity. Lies all lies. Nothing but lies.