Form: Mini Essay

  • WHY “EVERYTHING SUCKS” AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT. Easy explanation is that you are

    WHY “EVERYTHING SUCKS” AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT.

    Easy explanation is that you are in control of yourself, have constant reinforcement from family and community, and are isolated from status signal information in every meaningful way as a subsistence farmer.

    Today, we allowed the progressives and the left to destroy the relationship between the sexes, the security of the nuclear family, and the safety of familial insurance for all, in order to extend it to the minority margins who failed at it.

    The problem is alienation, powerlessness, and victimization by scales they have no control over because power distance in Federal States this large is so great that there is ZERO correlation between public want and political action.

    Small ethnically homogenous nation-states with natural law constitutions, rule of law, constitutional monarchy, parliament, participatory government, and policy that favors the intergenerational family as the primary organization of all social economic, and political production, over that of the marginal individual, and with populations under 10M or so are the optimum political order and always will be.

    These small, low power distance states, allied into defensive alliances, are necessary to preserve the high trust, high redistribution and low alienation we require when we are for all intents and purposes victims of the broader polity and economy more so than our own actions – and will increasingly be so for all futures imaginable other than our ending.

    There is no alternative. (really)

    -FIN-


    Source date (UTC): 2023-02-21 19:40:57 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1628117593759285248

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1627901830209437696

  • FIRST AND LONGEST VS FASTEST AND MOST : CIVS (comparison and explanation) This i

    FIRST AND LONGEST VS FASTEST AND MOST : CIVS
    (comparison and explanation)

    This is largely correct. China has the geographic advanteage of multiple river systems for irrigation, a wet season, and even greater territorial isolation than Europe from ‘the bad people in the middle’, but less isolation than Africa. So china had access to trade, but, limited genetic and cultural conflict compared to Europe, and almost nothing compared to the continuous conflict of the middle east because of its intersection of the four continents.

    However, that’s like saying egypt was a durable civilization because it’s a long river (highway) with constant irrigation, surrounded by nearly impenetrable deserts, and was one of the most defensible positions in the world. however they all but stagnated for effectively 3000 years.

    The same is true of china. They had better conditions, a better crop (rice), and more time to develop than all other civs. And they had a large enough population (like india) that it was all but impossible to conquer them, and instead, everyone who tried was merely integrated and bred out of existence.

    To claim that china was more developed that Greece and Rome is a questionable argument since they focused their energy on the administration of a huge population and Europeans on commerce and innovation with a small population.

    The question is why did every civilization other than Europe fail to progress, exhausting knowledge and industry by 800ad. Every single one. Whereas Europe experienced a pretty bad time from 400-800 but after 800 restored rather quickly, and progressed faster than the rest, in every aspect of life.

    And this leads to my primary criticism of the frame of reference that is common, and that you’ve just demonstrated: confusing first-and-longest with fastests-and-most. Europeans are the fastest-and-most. But we burn out by overexpansion. Others aren’t fast or most, but they endure even if they stagnate and decline.

    So the bronze age expansion, the Mediterranean expansion, and the Atlantic-pacific expansion are three waves that are ended by over-expansion and the exhaustion of the founding European population – which is always smaller.

    Why? 😉

    -FIN-


    Source date (UTC): 2023-02-21 19:29:33 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1628114721776799761

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1628108195695677440

  • STOCK ANSWER (I get this a lot) Q: “Curt: What were you doing in Ukraine?” I wen

    STOCK ANSWER
    (I get this a lot)
    Q: “Curt: What were you doing in Ukraine?”

    I went to Ukraine on the advice of friends, to start a tech company. I’d had my third nearly fatal illness in 2012. After surgery I decided I wanted to “Get away from what was making me ill.”

    So I looked for somewhere to start a smaller company that was more ‘a bunch of guys having fun making money’ than a corporation with all its stresses. Developers cost about 200K fully loaded in Seattle, where I’m from. That means you give up half or more of your company to investors at the start. In Ukraine the SAME developer is only 40K, rent is trivial, and there are essentially no taxes on startups. (And people are nicer than Americans, the food is better, and quality of life is better. 😉 ) So that means you can pay five developers in Ukraine for the price of one developer in the States, plus pay no taxes until you make revenue. And in my case that meant I didn’t need to give the company away to investors. Just fund it myself with friends.

    I just loved it there enough to get married and stay permanently. The Maydan revolution kind of hurt. Caused delays. Added costs. And got seriously ill again. So I came to the states to recover and raise another round of funding. (Then all this and other things happened.) If I’m ever healthy enough again, and it’s ever safe enough again, I’ll go back for certain.

    -Cheers

    (BTW: Honesty: There are also a bunch of other rumors about my time in Ukraine and most of them have at least a grain of truth in them. 😉 Better to admit it than have the rumors grow into fish stories. It’s not that interesting. 😉 )


    Source date (UTC): 2023-02-21 19:09:09 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1628109589462892544

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1628105191001030658

  • (twitter change is working) THOUGHTS: GROWTH IN OUR REACH ON TWITTER CONTEXT Wha

    (twitter change is working)
    THOUGHTS: GROWTH IN OUR REACH ON TWITTER

    CONTEXT
    What I do: I use social media as a research, education, and talent recruiting vehicle.

    So for the first time in history, it’s possible to run ‘tests of demonstrated interest’ in unlimited contexts for zero cost. In other words, instead of running a survey, and collecting ‘reported’ behavior (mostly lying) one can create a question, proposition, or argument in almost any social or political context, and collect ‘demonstrated’ behavior (mostly truthful).

    Then I use the results of this research to explain sex, class, group, culture, domain, and civilizational differences, in cognition, value, method of persuasion, and method of deceit (with emphasis on deceit).

    And then I explain western civilization’s discovery, application, and adaptation to the laws of nature, and Western institutions that result, to explain the uniqueness of western civilization, and why ‘it evolves faster than all the rest combined in the bronze, iron, and steel ages.”

    And then I explain our constitution and our laws (and how to complete them) as the science of cooperation – not philosophy ideology or religion. And the minimum variation between our western institutions and the science explains the importance of those institutions and traditions and values.

    But more importantly, and most importantly, I unified the sciences, and science our civilization and its laws, and restated our constitution and our laws as a complete coherent science. Thereby ending the ability to use deception and ideology to undermine our civilization – perhaps forever.

    NOW, BACK TO TWITTER (AND FACEBOOK)
    I’d maxed out the friends etc on FB, and we had many many more silent followers. I only used Twitter to read news, not to post (much). The reason was, that **Twitter’s character limit prevented education, understanding, and argument, and instead fosters virtue signaling and moral outrage. Whereas Facebook’s Long form assisted in education, understanding, and discourse, which facilitated agreement – or at least agreement to disagree.**

    But a group of Nazis ran a deliberate cancel-campaign resulting in banning the institute members and me from FB.

    Now, for those who understand my research and teaching method using social media for King of the Hill Games, it’s easy to understand that when I was researching a taboo subject (most subjects of political importance), the content I would post could easily provoke offense – but that was the point of it: I wanted to ‘science’ the cognitive origin of biases, and the means of deception we use to advocate and defend them. (I’m mostly an epistemologist after all.) So, despite very cautious and deliberate construction, it was possible to mass-report posts to have us canceled.

    When I switched from FB to Twitter as my primary channel follower count went to about 4K in a month – then I was shadowbanned and removed from search results. And the number stayed relatively static.

    Since musk took over I’m gaining 1K followers per month. (That might not seem like a lot, but this is pretty cerebral content, with domain-specific vocabulary – the audience is only so large).

    And since Long Form Tweets are possible, I can return to educating, and discussing – though given we’re unable to curate responses to our tweets (delete comments from bad actors), keeping the discussion mature, intellectually honest, and constructive is still difficult. ( I’d spent an absurd amount of time curating my facebook feed.)

    And what I mean, is that bad actors poison discourses that would otherwise accumulate better eyeballs and followers.

    So with long-form, hopefully, I can continue to build an audience.

    I’m hoping to get to 10K in the next few months. I suspect we might over time reach 25k or more. But the pool of people who we can reach … I doubt it’s large.

    We had 2M on YT but that requires we return to populism and … that doesn’t work well for us. 😉

    -FIN-


    Source date (UTC): 2023-02-21 17:25:27 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1628083493593919489

  • WHY WE MUST CONTINUE TO LIBERATE PEOPLE FROM EMPIRES, AND INTO FEDERATIONS – SEL

    WHY WE MUST CONTINUE TO LIBERATE PEOPLE FROM EMPIRES, AND INTO FEDERATIONS – SELF DEFENSE

    Our liberties depend on producing custom commons for differing peoples in small states with low power distance and limited internal competition, thereby fostering maximum redistribution.

    But our small states depend on large federations for defense, trade policy, and reciprocal insurance.

    There is only safety in numbers – especially given that the USA will likely devolve back more to reflect the diversity of Europe than Europe will reflect the domestic government of empire across our Nine Nations, that is the US federal government.

    There is no moral or practical argument against the continued gradual conversion of agrarian empires into industrial federations.

    There is no safety for all, especially the weak, in cowardice. Europe has grown externally weak. We have grown internally weak. Perhaps the privilege of weakness that was the optimistic democratic socialist age has finally come to call its debts.

    I respect Dr Peterson, but a life with the broken, the academic, the political, has failed to teach him the nature of men with real power, allies, and capacity for violence – and they are the most pragmatic and empirical of all.

    It is very hard for such men to push buttons on command that mean their suicide – and the suicide of their kith and kin, to keep in place a government that you distrust.

    Maybe in Islam. Maybe in Asia. But not so in Christendom.

    -FIN-


    Source date (UTC): 2023-02-21 16:33:47 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1628070489393442817

  • (Irony)(social media manners) Every year, at least twice a year, I try to convin

    (Irony)(social media manners)
    Every year, at least twice a year, I try to convince myself to comment on posts, answer questions, and respond to comments that are intellectually honest, respectfully stated, morally curious, and worthy of my time.

    That confluence of events is so rare that I generally comment on it and thank individuals when it happens. And that’s … more than twice a year, but not much more. 😉

    I answer very hard questions, usually questions that are obscured by taboo or ideology or status signaling, or deceit or fraud.

    And now that long-form tweets are here, I can return to my practice of incrementally educating followers in comparative civilization and the reasons for the disproportionate success of western civilization in the bronze, iron, and steel ages.

    I just wish there was some way of adding people to the discourse without first having to filter the intellectual dishonest failures-in-life that seek sedation in social media to compensate. Or who are frustrated because of the courage of their convictions despite the nonsense of those convictions.

    I’d just prefer talking to good, moral, solution-seeking people, who have the best interests of all at heart. Not their interests alone. Not the interests they have taken for granted and believe are right and just for all (you’re probably wrong). But that want to fix the crisis of our age brought on by the movement of class marxism to the west, and by converting the hatred of class marxism, to the hatred of sex marxism and race marxism.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-02-21 01:05:16 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1627836822414843905

  • The whole point of western truth-before-face is to teach you to tolerate being o

    The whole point of western truth-before-face is to teach you to tolerate being offended, so that you cannot easily hold false self-image, status, competency, meritocracy, so that those that possess competency meritocracy can accumulate responsibility so that those who don’t possess competency need not – for the betterment of all.

    The reason the west ‘evolve faster than the rest’, in the Bronze, Iron, Steel, and Technological ages, has nothing to do with democracy or religion, it’s entirely due to the Unique Western Practice of “Truth Before Face Regardless of Cost to the status, competency, and dominance hierarchy.”

    All other civilizations failed to progress beyond 800ad, and stagnated – exhausting the opportunities of agrarianism.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-02-20 21:26:37 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1627781797898584065

  • I can’t help you son. The world you understand ended. It’s a new one. It’s going

    I can’t help you son.
    The world you understand ended.
    It’s a new one.
    It’s going to take 10 years to unveil.
    It might take 15 before peaking.
    We have to reindustrialize and repatriate industry faster than the war era.
    If you are going to repatriate the industry where are you going to repatriate it to?
    If you want children where will you move to.
    The cities are dying one at a time and under an inescapable debt load that masks their long-term insolvency.
    I just look at the data and the demographics.
    Reproduction rates do their job.
    Genetics do their job.
    The Big Sort does its job
    And modernity and wealth levels suggest that the past century of behavior will continue and we no longer have the same incentives as under agrarianism – so – we are returning to choosing preference of commons because of heterogeneity instead because we’re ending asymmetry of income by geography.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-02-20 21:20:41 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1627780303052759040

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1627775685312774145

  • CHAT GPT AS FACILITATING SOCIAL COLLAPSE #ChatGPT + #Woke + #PC + #Feminism DEFI

    CHAT GPT AS FACILITATING SOCIAL COLLAPSE
    #ChatGPT + #Woke + #PC + #Feminism

    DEFINITIONS
    – Truth Before Face (Europe) – Lying is a crime (sin) against the people
    – Face Before Truth (Asia) – lying is courtesy to the hierarchy
    – Facelessness (Middle East) – lying and cunning is heroic
    – Face Blindness (Africa)

    IMPORTANCE OF TRUTH BEFORE FACE
    One principle allowed western civilization to produce 98% of innovations. To develop reason, empiricism, and science, as systems, and to drag mankind kicking and screaming out of superstition, ignorance, hard labor, poverty, starvation, disease, suffering, child mortality, early death, and the vicissitudes of nature, geology, sun, and universe all but hostile to human life – and Europeans largely did this despite being a small population on the edge of the bronze age.

    So Truth Before Face, this one practice, one founding principle, one requirement of all, is the reason it’s possible to create and maintain:

    A high trust polity, large scale or organizations, organizations, Western Production of artful Commons, the velocity of trade, the innovation and wealth that results, the raising of people from slave, to serf, to freeman, to citizen, to sovereign, the rule of law, by the natural law of sovereignty and reciprocity, the citizen jury, the electoral vote, the parliamentary vote, and the relatively peaceful competition between sexes and classes, and Religion and State.

    Marxism is a lie that classes war rather than do the best they can in the service of one another without harming one another.

    NoMarxism is a lie that culture is other than a system of weights and measures that assist or inhibit us from peaceful reciprocal cooperation across sexes, classes, regions, and more.

    Postmodernism is a lie that seeks to prevent the use of truth to resolve conflicts, such that sexes and class and regions and more, can for peaceful reciprocal cooperation by respect for sovereignty and reciprocity thereby doing no harm.

    Feminism is a lie that seeks to prevent the necessary compromises between the sexes required to cooperate in the production of generations, necessary to continue the production of goods, services and information, both private and common, by the pretense that it is possible for women and men to intuit, feel, think, want, and succeed at the same things to the same degree given the relatively vast differences in those same things.

    Political Correctness is a lie that seeks to prevent the sortition of people by demonstrated competency into positions of responsibility that maximize the production of goods, services, and information for the benefit of all, in competition with those doing the same, who may have alterior motives.

    Race Marxism or Wokeness is a lie that seek to promise that after whiteness, after white people, after white european government, law, institutions, science, and reason, that other people, or other classes that do not practice those same habits, particularly soverignty, reciprocity, truth before face, and duty to the commons, and the institution of natural law and rule of law by those self same principles, can be replaced by any alternative political system, or even any other group of people, with different traditions trying to repeat those same principles, without ending the benefits of western civilization’s ‘whiteness’ – meaning ‘science’ – of cooperation, and thereby ending the returns on that high cost.

    You are not oppressed.

    You are domesticated.

    You are domesticated because you need to be.

    And that domestication whether plant, human, or animal requires behavioral modification. And part of that behavioral modification is acceptance of your relative status and worth versus others. And tolerating that status of yours and others, in exchange for the benefit of all of us doing so.

    Because the rest of us have no choice but to separate from you, domesticate you, because we will not be reduced to equal failure by you.

    Cheers.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-02-20 21:05:14 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1627776416480743452

  • AUTHORING NOW THAT WE HAVE ELICIT AND CHATGPT: I use both and ChatGPT, (and once

    AUTHORING NOW THAT WE HAVE ELICIT AND CHATGPT:

    I use both https://t.co/V3eUVfhiXL and ChatGPT, (and once in a while https://t.co/m953qzBngk) and am unconsciously, rather than deliberately incorporating them into my workflow.

    I’ve found is Elicit is a huge improvement when I’m looking for source material.

    And I find ChatGPT helps with search and especially enumerating lists, dimensions, and properties, as well as … well, it preserves tone.

    I’m not rapid adopter. But if I’m correct, my workflow will continue to follow this sequence:

    Outline -> Topic -> Topic Sketches and Draft(s) -> Elicit(Verify, Cites etc) -> Chat GPT (sketch) -> Expand and Clarify -> Revise and improve -> Send out for review.

    I know a lot of coders are finding that ChatGPT improves their productivity. And for some, it produces better code – in some cases than they might themselves.

    Most content production is spam. My work is technical with very precise vocabulary. But when I’m referring to some aspect of one science or another ChatGPT does a pretty good job of outlining the concept in accessible terms.

    I would love a ChatGPT that worked in my domain of expertise, but we’d have to train it ourselves. (Oddly ChatGPT can approximate my writing style somewhat if asked, to write it using my name – which is interesting.)


    Source date (UTC): 2023-02-20 17:24:37 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1627720894142349314