Form: Excerpt

  • The Feet of Clay (stagnation)

    Apr 29, 2020, 11:15 AM by Bjarg Jonsson Each pagan god or goddess typically contained well rounded attributes, not just one. Freya, usually associated with sex and fertility, received first choice of the battle slain for her hall. Freya was followed by some warriors as their patron goddess. Thor, the god of the common man, was also associated with fertility. His hammer was placed in the lap of a new bride, to bless the marriage with children. Odin/Woden/Wotan, the god of the nobility, was not very popular. He was associated with death (the business of nobility). He was associated with the boatman, ferryman, disapater, selector and conductor of the slain. God of the subconscious and dark places. The cost of reciprocity with Odin could be death, he is a collector of the select dead. All of these gods were caught up in an epic struggle, which was cyclical. The cycle would end and begin again. It was a mythology, which brought order. Each diety could play the central part for that diety’s followers. The big G god, is everything all together and therefore unknowable or comprehensible. Pagan gods are not everywhere or all knowing. The Romans of the time considered Christians to be atheists. The big G was beyond understanding and certainly not a Phonecian thunder god adopted as the Hebrew big G or the rabbi version of Mythris. The Christians gave themselves feet of clay when they went from mythology to saying their cosmology was fact and without error. The great falling away was in the cards when they lost the capability of killing people for pointing out the obvious. The power is in the myth (J. Campbell). If not then the sword, I suppose.

  • Testimony

    Apr 30, 2020, 8:47 AM

    —“Hey Curt, I just listened to episode 2 of thechoice. I was incredibly impressed at how much knowledge you have and how well you articulate it, you are talking about complex thoughts and ideas with the ease of someone speaking informally with a friend. … I would equate it to watching a musician who’s a master of their instrument playing incredibly complex music with ease. …. Also i was happy that, after following your fb page for a short while, i was able to follow along and understand all the content (bar getting a bit lost/confused when you were speaking about mathematics and geometry, but i understood the point regarding mysticism in the field). …. Anyways I will be following and supporting going forward and also spreading the word to people over here as i see fit.”—-

  • Testimony

    Apr 30, 2020, 8:47 AM

    —“Hey Curt, I just listened to episode 2 of thechoice. I was incredibly impressed at how much knowledge you have and how well you articulate it, you are talking about complex thoughts and ideas with the ease of someone speaking informally with a friend. … I would equate it to watching a musician who’s a master of their instrument playing incredibly complex music with ease. …. Also i was happy that, after following your fb page for a short while, i was able to follow along and understand all the content (bar getting a bit lost/confused when you were speaking about mathematics and geometry, but i understood the point regarding mysticism in the field). …. Anyways I will be following and supporting going forward and also spreading the word to people over here as i see fit.”—-

  • That’s Our Unity with P

    THAT’S OUR UNITY WITH P by Jay AmeriSor P is actually very inclusive with the key being is that whoever participants from the different camps/tribes/clans they must be disciplined to follow P bylaws. You can be multiethnic, multi-religious, and variances of gifts/talents. Meaning stay within your in-group “clubs, cults, gossip circles” when expressing your cultural, religious, cognitively bias preferences. BUT, when within the commons you speak only one language, and it’s law is supreme “P RECIPROCITY.” That’s our unity sanctuary. That’s how we compromise and prosper and not destroy our ancestral heritage.

  • That’s Our Unity with P

    THAT’S OUR UNITY WITH P by Jay AmeriSor P is actually very inclusive with the key being is that whoever participants from the different camps/tribes/clans they must be disciplined to follow P bylaws. You can be multiethnic, multi-religious, and variances of gifts/talents. Meaning stay within your in-group “clubs, cults, gossip circles” when expressing your cultural, religious, cognitively bias preferences. BUT, when within the commons you speak only one language, and it’s law is supreme “P RECIPROCITY.” That’s our unity sanctuary. That’s how we compromise and prosper and not destroy our ancestral heritage.

  • RT @DegenRolf: All measures of unhappiness and discontent peak in midlife and li

    RT @DegenRolf: All measures of unhappiness and discontent peak in midlife and lighten up in old age. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167268120301414#sec0019 https://t.co/l…


    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-08 12:51:19 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1258741268995280897

  • RT @DegenRolf: The human quest to explicitly search for the “meaning of life” ca

    RT @DegenRolf: The human quest to explicitly search for the “meaning of life” can only be traced back about 200 years in our cultural herit…


    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-08 12:15:23 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1258732227506122760

  • RT @DegenRolf: Lombroso app predicts whether you look like and will become a cri

    RT @DegenRolf: Lombroso app predicts whether you look like and will become a criminal. https://www.improbable.com/2020/05/06/software-that-predicts-whether-you-look-like-and-so-will-be-a-criminal/ https://t.co/lCjoxnug5Y


    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-08 12:09:12 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1258730668240048133

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    photos_and_videos/TimelinePhotos_kg5QueHwVw/95897385_273884627343031_8933192037608456192_o_273884620676365.jpg photos_and_videos/TimelinePhotos_kg5QueHwVw/96102822_273885477342946_2118672384608174080_o_273885470676280.jpg photos_and_videos/TimelinePhotos_kg5QueHwVw/95489626_273885537342940_144587634478415872_o_273885530676274.jpg photos_and_videos/TimelinePhotos_kg5QueHwVw/95875216_273886190676208_1169880307529154560_n_273886187342875.jpg A USEFUL IDIOT ILLUSTRATES MARXIST PILPUL TRYING TO RETALIATE AGAINST MY (MAINSTREAM) ARGUMENT AGAINST MARX

    Before we begin, if you want to counter a scientific proposition raised from the underlying data you have to address the data. I know the underlying data in most every field other than chemistry and molecular biology (which I consider ‘icky’ subjects )

    So as an example if you wanted to counter my arguments on the five factor model, the facet model under it, you could argue the foundation (that it’s top down diagnosis not bottom up) and I would respond with say, the diagrams attached, and show the biological construction of different emotional impulses. If pressed I would explain how different facets would emerge simply by simple differences in developmental connectivity between regions both in utero and during the first two years of development. And I would move from the diagrams to the literature.

    In other words, as in all things, as a practitioner of operationalism, I would explain the physical construction of behavioral differences in humans from the bottom up. And from there I would link you to the vast literature on the subject which would take you (anyone) somewhere between a year and four years to comprehend.

    If you questioned it then I would take you to the research on the duplication of human brain functioning in computer science and the differences between what we are able to accomplish in computers, and in what biology can accomplish that computers cant and why.

    Now, you know, I know the average idiot doesn’t have access to people like me. But I also know that the average idiot has been taught pseudoscience for the past seventy years or more.

    In the following ‘rebuttal’ from a useful idiot, please note he’s not once used a scientific argument. he’s actually applying sophistry (as if I’m making a rhetorical argument) and applying sophistry (as if I’m making a philosophical argument) to what is a scientific question: “is this from observations sufficient to suppress human tendency to error bias and deceive by due diligence against error base, wishful thinking, fictionalisms and deceits. Is this consistent with realism, naturalism, and operationalism, and is it categorically consistent, internally consistent, externally correspondent, operationally constructed, fully accounted, parsimonious, competitive.

    SUMMARY: (To Lee Meyers)

    You use the word ‘Vague’ to reverse blame. You use “Suspect” to accuse. You do both to claim I’m vague or ill intentioned when you’re ignorant at best and intellectually dishonest at worst. You use your ignorance as the test or measure of deep rich complex scientific literature of which you clearly have no demonstrated knowledge whatsoever.

    You employ philosophical rationalism that was developed for legal and scriptural interpretation of language, against evidentiary claims – without consciousness of the difference between axiomatic(declared), rational(deduced)), and scientific (laws). In doing so you practice sophistry becuase you aren’t sufficiently cognizant of the misapplication of the method of testing – or if intentional you’re making false claims dependent on others ignorance of your deceit.

    You cast the foundations of all my statements such as the fact of existential sexes as if they are arbitrary categories of sex preference. You imply that marginal differences and their causes and consequences in individuals and groups are immaterial. You cast a century of economic evidence, decades of rigorous science in psychology, cognitive science, and neurobiology as presumptions from general observation.

    You pose as if you are more than a petulant schoolchild. You presume that your opinion has value, rather than people like me (us) seek to limit the harm you do to the informational commons with you ignorance and self importance. You do this because you’re operating under the pretense that your approval, or agreement is somehow necessary despite your demonstrated ignorance.

    And that the collective you have any choice whatsoever if those of us who find you undesirable and disgusting, from separating from you. And you illustrate better than the less articulate but equally ignorant and incompetent why we must separate from you so that the harm you do by your very display, word, deed – even your very existence, can be contained like the biology of plagues, the pseudosciences of marxism, communism, and theology of islam have been contained.

    CURRENT USEFUL IDIOT:

    === by: @lee.myers.148 Lee Myers ===

    Man premise objections

    —“1) Stereotypes are the most accurate measures in the social sciences”—

    Premise 1 is just false

    (CD: non-argument)

    —“2) While personality factors are relatively similar between the sexes other than male disagreeablness-domnance-political-physical, and female agreeableness-submission-interpersonal-empathic that the underlying personality facets of each factor differs by sex accordingly”—

    Premise 2 is false and subscribed to a completely unjustified normative claim on maleness and Feminity

    (CD: False. Ascribed to structural and behavioral differences in cognitive development, in the evidentiary record. )

    —“3) that we all vary in the distribution of male and female cognitive biases, but that collectively (in distributions) we cluster in three stereotypical traits: i) the female (socialist) ii)the ascendent male (libertarian), and the established or dominant male (conservative).”—

    Premise 3 again is false, and the typology is not justified or grounded at all.

    (CD: false it is in fact scientifically grounded in empirical measurements of sex differences and… I’m not sure how you can even disagree with xx xy chromosome differences and their expressions in brain structure.)

    —“4) that nature-nurture debate is over via twin studies and genetic studies, and that 80% of behavior is genetic, and the other 20% is the result of idiosyncratic developmental differences.”—

    Premise 4 is not only false, but arrogant and unbecoming of actual scientific discourse.

    (CD: No argument. Not an argument)

    —“5) that intelligence is a personality trait and that it may be indistinguishable from openness to experience,”—

    Premise 5 is vague.

    (no argument, not an argument. it’s a common question in the literature.)

    –“6) that individuals and groups differer by genetic load (accumulation of errors not of excellences),”–

    CD: Premise 6 is incredibly vague and partly incoherent.

    (It’s a simple statement: look up ‘genetic load’. the lower classes carrier heavier genetic loads (defects). which is rather obvious if you look at photos of large numbers of people.)

    —“7) that the differences between races, subraces, and classes is due largely but not entirely to:

    … i) the group’s development of neoteny which produces cognitive agency,

    … ii) the local adaptation to local environmental conditions such as disease gradients in africa, closed group winter living along the ice, time under agrarianism, time under eastern or western manorialism (or worse, under middle east agrarianism)

    … iii) the group’s genetic load which we express as the ratio of the genetic underclass (those that cannot learn by at least reading), versus those that can learn by reading self study self investigation or self theorizing.”–

    Premise 7 is racist, incoherent, not justified or grounded, false and completely unaware of the history of race construction

    (CD: non argument. false. yes it’s grounded in data. and I am certain I can recount the history of race construction from aristotle to the present, which is why i’m the most citied person on the subject in Quora.)

    –“8) that a group’s relative condition is dependent upon the median of the group’s abilities more so than the outliers,”–

    Premise 8 is unfalsifiable and extremely vague and therefor not apt to Popperian-scientific testing.

    (CD: it’s easily falsifiable. It’s not falsified. There is a whole literature on it. (See IQ and the wealth of nations))

    (CD And at present I’m the leading theorist in the completion of the scientific method. and while the subject is over your head because it’s over almost everyone’s head, I’ll debate any philosopher living on the subject and it won’t be a contest.) And that said you clearly don’t know what falsification means in popperian reasoning.

    —“9) that unless a group can organize a pareto hierarchy of voluntary organization of production it cannot compete in the world market for goods services and information and drag the population out of poverty.”—

    Premise 9 assumes General Equilibrium and Pareto Optimality holds in the world market as a wealth building mechanism and is a necessary precondition for engagement as such when in fact neither completely hold empirically.

    (CD It doesn’t assume anything. It’s that pareto identified it a century and a half ago and we can’t find a single counter-example nor rationally explain how alternative is possible, and every attempt at alternatives has failed.)

    None of these are actual premises for an argument and appear to look like they divine some type of ideal or current humanity, I’m not completely sure, but all around unclear as to why these are premised as such.

    (CD: you mean you can’t comprehend it? Lack the knowledge to comprehend it? because clearly thousands of others do comprehend it. So why can’t you comprehend it? The premise is pretty simple: man demonstrates all these behaviors – that’s the evidence. Can you counter that these are evidentiary claims? No. you can’t. That’s why you didn’t.


    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-04 22:49:00 UTC

  • Data check: U.S. government share of basic research funding falls below 50% By J

    Data check: U.S. government share of basic research funding falls below 50%

    By Jeffrey Mervis

    For the first time in the post–World War II era, the federal government no longer funds a majority of the basic research carried out in the United States. Data from ongoing surveys by the National Science Foundation (NSF) show that federal agencies provided only 44% of the $86 billion spent on basic research in 2015. The federal share, which topped 70% throughout the 1960s and ’70s, stood at 61% as recently as 2004 before falling below 50% in 2013.

    The sharp drop in recent years is the result of two contrasting trends—a flattening of federal spending on basic research over the past decade and a significant rise in corporate funding of fundamental science since 2012. The first is a familiar story to most academic scientists, who face stiffening competition for federal grants.

    But the second trend will probably surprise them. It certainly flies in the face of conventional wisdom, which paints U.S. companies as so focused on short-term profits that they have all but abandoned the pursuit of fundamental knowledge, an endeavor that may take decades to pay off. (This month, for example, Duke University’s Center for Innovation Policy will hold a conference entitled “The Decline in Corporate Research: Should We Worry?”)

    NSF defines basic research as “activity aimed at acquiring new knowledge or understanding without specific immediate commercial application or use.” In contrast, it says applied research is “aimed at solving a specific problem or meeting a specific commercial objective.”

    The U.S. pharmaceutical industry is the major driver behind the recent jump in corporate basic research, according to NSF’s annual Business Research and Development and Innovation Survey (BRDIS), which tracks the research activities of 46,000 companies. Drug company investment in basic research soared from $3 billion in 2008 to $8.1 billion in 2014, according to the most recent NSF data by business sector. Spending on basic research by all U.S. businesses nearly doubled over that same period, from $13.9 billion to $24.5 billion.

    Basic research comprises only about one-sixth of the country’s spending on all types of R&D, which totaled $499 billion in 2015. Applied makes up another one-sixth, whereas the majority, some $316 billion, is development. Almost all of that is funded by industry and done inhouse, as companies try to convert basic research into new drugs, products, and technologies that they hope will generate profits. (The pharmaceutical and biotech industry, for example, spent a total of $102 billion on research and development in 2015, according to Research!America, an Arlington, Virginia–based advocacy group.)

    Those private sector efforts are now the dominant form of research activity in the United States, with business spending $3 on research for every $1 invested by the U.S. government. In the 1960s the federal government outspent industry by a two-to-one margin, but the balance tipped in 1980.

    Although eye-opening, the NSF business data are not as definitive as agency officials might like. About 30% of the companies that receive the BRDIS don’t respond; in comparison, nearly every university fills out NSF’s survey on research in higher education. And even companies that do return the business survey often ignore the question asking them to divide the company’s overall research investment into basic and applied pots, notes John Jankowski, head of R&D statistics within NSF’s National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics in Arlington.

    The NSF data capture another notable trend: a slow but steady rise in spending on basic research by universities and private foundations. Their combined $22 billion investment in 2015 represents a 25% share of the U.S. total, up from 21% in 2010 and 17% in 1995.


    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-01 09:42:00 UTC