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  • Yes, reforming philosophy, or more specifically, the unification of the sciences

    Yes, reforming philosophy, or more specifically, the unification of the sciences (disciplines) is what we’re working on. Given that the structure (first principle) of the universe and the structure (first principle) of language (Grammar), is the same, it’s possible to unify the sciences. At which point philosophy proper would remain as the study of preference and choice and be fully demarcated from science as the study of decidability.

    Reply addressees: @matterasmachine @Plinz


    Source date (UTC): 2024-07-30 14:53:48 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1818298959246319616

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1818279818485448782


    IN REPLY TO:

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    IS ANYTHING WRONG WITH MATH?
    1) A great deal is wrong with math in the sense that the externalities produced by the framework of of its evolution are vast and negatively consequential.

    2) Yes. You are correct that matter is discrete (operational, computational) and physics is continuous (statistical, calculative), and the failure of this comprehension has led to founding mathematics on sets instead of operations.

    3) In economics we are painfully aware of the limits of mathematics and we account for those limits even if most economists use the wrong calculus in their calculations. In physics they are more likely to use the correct calculus but not understand the limits of mathematics. In mathematics all to often they use platonic forms and create and export nonsense ideas to justify what would be perfectly rational if explained operationally (for example the square of negative one).

    So the claim from mathematicians that ‘it works and we don’t want to reform’ is the same reason philosophy died by the 1970s.

    CD

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  • IS ANYTHING WRONG WITH MATH? 1) A great deal is wrong with math in the sense tha

    IS ANYTHING WRONG WITH MATH?
    1) A great deal is wrong with math in the sense that the externalities produced by the framework of of its evolution are vast and negatively consequential.

    2) Yes. You are correct that matter is discrete (operational, computational) and physics is continuous (statistical, calculative), and the failure of this comprehension has led to founding mathematics on sets instead of operations.

    3) In economics we are painfully aware of the limits of mathematics and we account for those limits even if most economists use the wrong calculus in their calculations. In physics they are more likely to use the correct calculus but not understand the limits of mathematics. In mathematics all to often they use platonic forms and create and export nonsense ideas to justify what would be perfectly rational if explained operationally (for example the square of negative one).

    So the claim from mathematicians that ‘it works and we don’t want to reform’ is the same reason philosophy died by the 1970s.

    CD

    Reply addressees: @matterasmachine @Plinz


    Source date (UTC): 2024-07-30 13:37:45 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1818279818372222976

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1817993361699098667

  • “Q: SO WHAT SEARCH ENGINE SHOULD I USE INSTEAD OF (BIASED, CENSORED) GOOGLE?”–

    –“Q: SO WHAT SEARCH ENGINE SHOULD I USE INSTEAD OF (BIASED, CENSORED) GOOGLE?”–
    I use Microsoft’s Bing for simple searches like products and services, Twitter’s Grok for news and opinion, ChatGPT for general knowledge, and Perplexity for academic content – though Perplexity is has a sort of ‘Newspaper’ feature that I’m beginning to use for news as well.

    ( I understand Musk’s vision for Twitter, Search, and Video Hosting – and I just wish it he’d push it along a bit faster. 😉 )

    Reply addressees: @minocrisy @elonmusk @nicksortor


    Source date (UTC): 2024-07-30 11:22:24 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1818245757180297216

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1818054095812595828

  • CIVILIZATIONAL DIFFERENCES IN THE MEANING OF WHAT WESTERNERS CALL “LAW” Historic

    CIVILIZATIONAL DIFFERENCES IN THE MEANING OF WHAT WESTERNERS CALL “LAW”

    Historically we use the same term ‘law’ to refer to rules in both our civilization other civilizations, but with different criteria and legitimacy. So given the major civilizations, what are these differences in the origin of legitimacy and the criteria for decidability? And what terms do those other major civilizations use to refer to their political rules?

    1. Western Legal Tradition:
    – Origin of Legitimacy: Western law is largely based on contract, with legitimacy derived from sovereignty, reciprocity, duty, and truth.
    – Criteria for decidability: Tort – violation of demonstrated interests.
    – Term: The term used is generally “law” (lex in Latin, nomos in Greek).

    2. Chinese Legal Tradition:
    – Origin of legitimacy: Harmony with natural order (Tao), social stability
    – Criteria for decidability: Confucian ethics, precedent, and imperial edicts
    – Terms: Fa (法) meaning “law” or “method”, and Li (禮) meaning “rites” or “propriety”

    3. Japanese Legal Tradition:
    – Origin of legitimacy: Imperial authority, social harmony (wa)
    – Criteria for decidability: Custom, precedent, and later, Western-influenced codified law
    – Term: Hō (法) meaning “law”, borrowed from Chinese

    4. Islamic Legal Tradition:
    – Origin of legitimacy: Divine revelation (Quran) and prophetic tradition (Sunnah)
    – Criteria for decidability: Interpretation of religious texts by scholars (ijma and qiyas)
    – Term: Sharia (شريعة) meaning “the way” or “path”

    5. Hindu Legal Tradition:
    – Origin of legitimacy: Dharma (cosmic order, duty, righteousness)
    – Criteria for decidability: Sacred texts (Dharmasastras), custom, and interpretation by scholars
    – Term: Dharma (धर्म)

    6. African Customary Law:
    – Origin of legitimacy: Ancestral traditions, community consensus
    – Criteria for decidability: Oral traditions, elder councils, reconciliation
    – Terms vary by region and language, but often translate to “custom” or “way of the ancestors”


    Source date (UTC): 2024-07-29 12:27:30 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1817899753365008384

  • AMERICA’S GERMANIC ORIGINS … AND FUTURE (Repost from Nov 5, 2020) Germanic pol

    AMERICA’S GERMANIC ORIGINS … AND FUTURE
    (Repost from Nov 5, 2020)

    Germanic political civilization begins with the Frankish nobility’s attempt to restore Roman order in Europe in the 600’s. Anglo civilization was part of germanic civilization until about 1830 or so b/c of Napoleon’s ‘total war’ on european civilization: The Holy Roman Empire.

    The Holy Roman Empire wasn’t holy, wasn’t roman, and wasn’t an empire. It was a confederation of germanic peoples and their micro-states, under an emperor, under manorial law for serfs, germanic rule of law for freemen, church as a weak judiciary for states, and emperor-judge.

    American history is that of the anglo branch of the germanic people (anglo, scandinavian, low contries, high, middle, and low german, and parts of today’s austria, france and poland.)

    The combination of the Great Fiction of the Enlightenment (the french murder of the aristocracy, secularization of the church, and adoption of church mission and bureaucracy), and the ‘de-germanification’ (French/Jewish) of our education since 1920 or so, ignores our origins.

    The USA was as german as english,and the declaration and constitution written in both german english, because so many of our people spoke german.116

    So while we tend to think of ourselves as a British country, (we are), we don’t realize that the British system is the traditional germanic legal system that survived the Napoleonic destruction German civilization, and imposed the state-dominant, Napoleonic legal code instead.

    Britain, because of her geography, history, navy, and trade, like the Netherlands, was merely the most politically advanced of the germanic states when the french destroyed traditional germanic civilization.

    So when the founders settled, founded, and wrote the declaration for, and the constitution for, the united states, it was using the most advanced legal and political system (British), with the 5000 years of germanic legal tradition, and the 1000 years of the holy roman empire.

    So the united states was organized as another member of the 1000 year history of the germanic peoples and the holy roman empire and it’s satellites (england, scandinavia, germania, north italy, etc).

    With its principle error being nothing more than George Washington’s refusal to be monarch (emperor) over the American ‘micro-states’ like the Germanic princes, kings and emperors were of the germanic microstates.

    This failure, and the necessity of creating a ‘presidency’ as temporary bureaucrat rather than intergenerational monarchy as a judge of last resort, leaving the governance of the states to the people therein, set the future in motion.

    There is no reason why we cannot devolve the federal government into state(inventory) treasury(finance), military(defense), eliminate the house, convert the senate to the house of governors, and correct washington’s mistake, or just move under the british throne.

    Because perfect government consists of a monarch as judge of last resort (like Elizabeth today), a professional cabinet, a house of the states, and within each state houses for the classes doing as they may in their common interests.

    With Military, Treasury, Inter-state judiciary under ‘strictly constructed traditional natural law of the european peoples”, a Professional Cabinet approve by the governors, and monarchy as the judge of last resort.

    This is all that is required to return western civilization to its thousands of years of political excellences, with local low power distance, and the optimum incentives for all, and to leave behind the french-catholic and jewish-marxist counter-revolutions against the west.

    -Curt Doolittle
    -The Natural Law Institute


    Source date (UTC): 2024-07-27 19:10:16 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1817276334030135296

  • A CHANGE IN MANUFACTURING? If we repatriate industrial production we might need

    A CHANGE IN MANUFACTURING?
    If we repatriate industrial production we might need to reorganize how production is managed, because the legacy manufacturing in the country is NOT operating by say, japanese standards of behavior and process, and still by early 20th standards. It’s not a good ‘culture’ so to speak.
    I’ve only become aware of this over the past few months when someone approached me with an methodology for manufacturing that has been emerging in the military and air space, but is also visible in Musk’s approach.
    This reformation will increase the tolerance for white collar and service people to move into manufacturing as the repatriation proceeds.


    Source date (UTC): 2024-07-25 16:15:59 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1816507700043489280

  • THE ORIGINS OF OUR POLITICAL TRIANGLE I did the original work in 2009. It evolve

    THE ORIGINS OF OUR POLITICAL TRIANGLE
    https://t.co/OxtxSespIP
    I did the original work in 2009. It evolved out of work on sex differences in cognition, three means of persuasion, elite and institution formation, and european trifunctionalism. We published the triangle in 2012, and it’s visible online.
    Next, Butch Leghorn popularized it with a set of videos, Max Danger expanded it by combining it and my diagram of the biochemistry of personality with input from Nick Land, and someone who wishes to remain anon is pursuing a PhD based upon it his work on hundreds of diagrams.
    In other words, we produced it bottom up from basic science, not top down from political bias.
    So like much of my work (our work) the public is interested in the political triangle or our work on sex differences, while our organization is interested in the Ternary Logic that is visible and emergent at all scales from the quantum background through to human words and thoughts.
    So we have literally hundreds of these diagrams illustrating all of cognitive and behavioral science from neurochemistry through moral and political bias.
    I suspect that by emphasizing the political triangle the broader meaning is a bit lost and the importance of it a bit obscured.
    But I love this video because it does popularize the basics, and that helps everyone.

    Cheers


    Source date (UTC): 2024-07-25 15:16:33 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1816492744115707904

  • MUSK: CULTURAL CHRISTIANITY – HOOPLA OVER NOTHING There are two possible interpr

    MUSK: CULTURAL CHRISTIANITY – HOOPLA OVER NOTHING
    There are two possible interpretations of ‘Cultural Christian’.
    1) The first is that it’s all but impossible to be ethnically european raised in european civilization and NOT be indoctrinated subconsciously into culturally christianity , whether consciously or not – our norms traditions values include an admixture of early european, classical, germanic, and Christian metaphysical presumptions and values. This is why
    2) The second, consists of your understanding of its legitimacy in the sequence:
    |Religiosity|: Fundamentalist <> Devoted <> Traditionalist <> Philosophical <> Cultural <> Unconscious Conformity.
    So consciously cultural or unconsciously it doesn’t really matter, you’re thinking and speaking christian ethics (Even if they are largely early european and classical ethics in christian form). This is why even wicca and pagans are transparently spreading christian values even if in the form of naturalism.
    Cheers
    CD
    https://t.co/NEKA4lSuFJ


    Source date (UTC): 2024-07-23 15:30:59 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1815771598822981632

  • COULD THE PRIVATE SECTOR PRODUCE A MILITARY SUFFICIENT TO POLICE IT’S TRADE OR W

    COULD THE PRIVATE SECTOR PRODUCE A MILITARY SUFFICIENT TO POLICE IT’S TRADE OR WORLD TRADE?
    While in the Roman era, any number of families could afford to fund the legions for a year, there is no equivalent today, by an individual or a corporation. Apple is the wealthiest company and it only produces 100B.
    The US military budget alone is 850B this year, and while I cannot find any semblance of accurate figures, it’s existing assets that those figures support is on the order of 6+ Trillion at a minimum. And that’s before the costs of training, policies, procedures and off-book production that’s required. The private sector could not possibly fund an expeditionary military, even if it could form a domestic militia. But assuming a domestic militia is necessary, it is unlikely that the top one hundred profitable companies would maintain their revenues and profit.
    And it’s not as though we’re in the age of sail and nations protected their merchant fleets collecting resources, transforming them at home, and then shipping the finished products for sale. Instead parts are built by specialty businesses and shipped on containers between countries in a sequence of complex steps. In other words the “I, Pencil” problem applies not just to the knowledge of production, but to the knowledge of transporting the components of production,
    So, the problem of ‘being everywhere all the time’ is much more complex than previous eras of being just on the major resource and distribution routes you had to police.
    And we have seen recently how easy it is for pirates today (Ukrainian defenders just blew up a houthi suicide pirate recently) vs the past.
    No one wants the international system that the USA put into place to end – especially the smaller countries. What the big countries want is the capacity to conduct policy against their people and their neighbors (war) without losing the protection of the world patterns of finance and trade.
    The problem is, at least while energy is so critical, anything that affects food or energy supplies does affect the rest of the world and often dramatically and painfully.

    Cheers
    CD


    Source date (UTC): 2024-07-23 15:14:40 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1815767495078240257

  • COMPASSION FOR PETERSON Just to demonstrate a bit of compassion, when I came dow

    COMPASSION FOR PETERSON
    Just to demonstrate a bit of compassion, when I came down with undiagnosed cancer it had a terrible effect on me and I was given the equivalent little benzo pills Peterson was – they effectively anti-pain pills, even if it’s psychological pain.
    I went off the cold turkey when I realized what they were doing to me and it was … extremely unpleasant, same symptoms, and all but unbearable. Though I would assume only twenty percent of what Peterson felt. And I have an unhealthy insensitivity to pain in the first place.
    So, I have sympathy. But I also recognize while I have an extreme male brain, he doesn’t. He’s actually on the feminine side of the cognitive spectrum. So I suspect that not only the experience but the consequence has been hard on him.
    And he’s going off the rails of rationality – and I don’t really know why he’s incognizant of doing so especially when surrounded by family and friends. I don’t know whether it’s the result of changes due to trauma. Of if the trauma merely expressed his inner sensibilities all along.

    Cheers
    CD

    Reply addressees: @Sturzen5


    Source date (UTC): 2024-07-22 22:42:00 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1815517681308598272

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1815513592680055071