Form: Definition

  • USURY (repost) Interest vs Usury. Interest is necessary for the organization of

    USURY

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    Interest vs Usury.

    Interest is necessary for the organization of complex production. it is beneficial for production of generations. It is risky for the purpose of consumption. It is harmful for the production of entertainment. It is very harmful for the production of anti-social behaviors.

    What demarcates Interest from Usury?

    (a) credit for consumption rather than production.

    (b) borrower beware rather than lender beware.

    (c) collateral

    If lending is limited to production, lender risk, and un-recoverability for anything other than fraud, then it’s shared risk. And it increases use of stock markets where access to liquidity is possible instead of collateral recovery.

    The enemy’s technique consists of false promise, baiting in to moral hazard, pilpul, critique, and profiting from capture of hazards, and capitalizing those captures as systems of rents.

    Usury is the most common example of baiting into hazard, by the extension of credit for the purpose of consumption, the use of collateral, and the use of the court to transfer assets to the lender.

    The enemy’s technique uses every possible means of baiting into hazard, defending this bait by pilpul and critique, profiting from the hazard – both private and public – then taking the accumulated capital and seeking rents against the population until they revolt and prosecute their revenge. …

    There is a reason this technique works with high trust europeans but not elsewhere. There is a reason it works with women and underclasses but not established men. Because our democracy makes us vulnerable to false promise, and the underclasses are easily baited by false promise, we are tolerant of meritocracy until too late.

    Worse, it is easiest to exploit our social order of MARKETS and LAGGING legal codes in defense of those markets and our people. And lagging technology for replacing each of the means of parasitism: financial, commercial, educational, informational, political, social, normative, and traditional


    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-30 12:06:00 UTC

  • “Lying, fraud, libel, slander, misrepresentation, misleading, suggestion, loadin

    —“Lying, fraud, libel, slander, misrepresentation, misleading, suggestion, loading, framing, obscuring, baiting into hazard, advocacy of, conspiracy of, involuntary transfer, is illegal. All speech is promissory, testimony, and is warrantied, and you’re liable for its consequences.”—Even simpler version


    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-29 20:27:00 UTC

  • WHITE, GREY, BLACK, LIES IN P-LAW by Stephen Thomas No one really cares if you l

    WHITE, GREY, BLACK, LIES IN P-LAW

    by Stephen Thomas

    No one really cares if you lie for vanity’s sake. That’s a white lie.

    Libel, Slander

    False Advertising

    Baiting into Hazard

    Fraud private or Political

    Subversion of the Commons

    Conspiracy to subvert the Commons

    All of which are well defined. Those are black lies.

    You must lie in public to the public about matters public or conspire to propagate lies to the public about matters public

    And worse, you musn’t lie FROM a position OF influence TO the public ABOUT the public, about products, policy, economics, science or law.

    If you want to tell everyone you wear the wrong size shoe. No one is gonna to arrest you. We will however laugh at you for being so damn petty!

    (—“I would tell you your baby’s is cute, your children are beautiful, your wife is lovely, and you are charming, brave, and witty. None of those is true. But they demonstrate I will invest in building trust in our relationship.”—CurtD )


    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-29 19:54:00 UTC

  • INTEREST VS USURY

    INTEREST VS USURY https://t.co/5v7Jn6WvJw


    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-29 01:25:52 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1188990299969904640

  • I don’t know what ‘my humanity’ means. Sentience(animal) > Consciousness(potenti

    I don’t know what ‘my humanity’ means. Sentience(animal) > Consciousness(potential human) > Agency(human).


    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-28 14:00:21 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1188817785415180289

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  • P is falsificationary, not justificationary. We don’t say “This is the best way

    P is falsificationary, not justificationary. We don’t say “This is the best way to cooperate”. We say, “these are the minimum terms of cooperation, and otherwise we prefer conquest, taxation, enserfdom, slavery, or extermination.”


    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-27 16:11:39 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1188488438397444098

  • DISAMBIGUATION OF ‘RATIONAL’ Rational choice(as in reasonable) within the limits

    DISAMBIGUATION OF ‘RATIONAL’

    Rational choice(as in reasonable) within the limits of knowledge and ability, not rational(logical) as in logical when possessed of sufficient information (justification), or rationalism using logic and tests of non-contradiction (textual or linguistic argument).

    Free Association

    … Competing Hypotheses

    … … Rational Choice (reasonable)

    … … … Logical Conclusion

    … … … … Using philosophical Rationalism


    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-26 14:16:00 UTC

  • CONVERTING KANT’S APRIORISM TO SCIENCE(TESTIMONY) A Priori: “independent of obse

    CONVERTING KANT’S APRIORISM TO SCIENCE(TESTIMONY)

    A Priori: “independent of observation.”

    There are three dimensions to a priori truth claims:
    i) Aprioricity vs A posteriori,
    ii)… https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=492678057995756&id=100017606988153


    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-25 19:15:49 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1187810011755503616

  • CONVERTING KANT’S APRIORISM TO SCIENCE(TESTIMONY) A Priori: “independent of obse

    CONVERTING KANT’S APRIORISM TO SCIENCE(TESTIMONY)

    A Priori: “independent of observation.”

    There are three dimensions to a priori truth claims:
    i) Aprioricity vs A posteriori,
    ii)… https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=492634931333402&id=100017606988153


    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-25 17:45:07 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1187787185266798592

  • “Curt, What Do You Mean by ‘Serialization’?”

    “CURT, WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY ‘SERIALIZATION’?” (important) (core)

    —“What is serialization?”—Duke Newcomb

    (From the P-Method of “Disambiguation, Serialization, and Operationalization”) [B]efore using a term, define the term, by researching the etymology of the term (history), then collecting all synonyms and antonyms (and etymology) and organizing them into one or more series by common properties. We use serialization to force disambiguation between terms that appear similar but are not equal for use in naming(referencing) or deduction. This is how we converted common language into a fully commensurable system of measurement, and expose our errors, and our ignorance, and most sophisms whether a deceit-fallacy, ideal-verbal, pseudoscientific-magical, or supernatural-occult Examples using ‘True’: DUE DILIGENCE AS CONSTANT RELATIONtautologically true, idealistically true, testimonially(really) true, honestly true, impulsively true. and: DECIDABILITY AS CONSTANT RELATIONincomprehensible, comprehensible(understandable), agreement(on understanding), preferential(for me), good(mutually preferential), testimonially true (decidable); ideally true(logically), or tautologically true(identical). Some Other Examples on our site, particularly after item seven: https://propertarianinstitute.com/basic-concepts/the-cheat-sheet/ It’s sort of like (exactly like) creating a number line, or a series of points on a line. The number line creates a system of measurement by some underlying constant relation (in the case of numbers, position), and then points on a line which test conformity to the constant relation (constant positional relation between n-dimensional positions. Operationalism is a bit harder: writing complete sentences as transactions with a consistent point of view, in ePrime. Testimonial Operationalism is a bit harder: writing those same complete sentences as promissory observations, Operationalism into Acquisition, Property-in-toto, and Reciprocity is a bit harder. This requires you start using economics of human behavior. But once you get there by combining serialization, operationalism, and acquisitionism, you have the formal logic of all human language – a universal commensurable system of measurement for human speech. “The Grammars” just provide a sort of (precise) equivalent to the table of fundamental particles, the periodic table of the elements, the dimensions of geometry, except, for all human language from the logics on one end to lying on the other, and with the Grammars you can learn rather easily to quickly recognize what techniques others are using to justify their ignorance, error, bias, wishful thinking, or deceit. This is why I usually refer to the P-Method as the ‘Geometry of Thought”. Because just as Descartes restored mathematics to geometry, The british empiricists restored testimony to geometry (empiricism, I’m restoring all language to geometry. By geometry I mean real (aristotle) constant relations(engineering), instead of ideal (platonic) constant relations(literary association), or supernatural(semitic) constant relations (astrology, making-stuff-up (ie: lying)). However this big picture of the differences caused by the civilizational origins of their thought and it’s incorporation into the their rationalizations and language, and metaphysics, and habits, is invisible to almost everyone. I just write it here so the few who might want to see that pattern can discover it. -Curt