https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610808/chinese-entrepreneurs-have-some-creative-responses-to-the-governments-crackdown-on-crypto/?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_content=2018-04-22&utm_campaign=Technology+ReviewPROBLEMS WITH CRYPTOCURRENCIES – TWO
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-26 14:54:00 UTC
EDUCATION.
via Nassim Nicholas Taleb (NNT)
Distilling the conversation with @bryan_caplan hosted by Tyler Cowen
1) There has been a traditional separation between:
+ “liberal education” for free men, (liber), who didn’t work for a living, &
+”technical education”, for those who labor.
2) For instance, mathematics as taught for “liberal” education, was theoretical mind exercise. Euclid’s theorem was never used in building.
Meanwhile builders (parts of guilds with trade secrets) were using their own heuristic, richer, geometry. (see #Antifragile)
3) The Anglo-Saxon world conflated the two, with aristocrat-envy:
+ Education to be civilized. (Literature, philosophy, poetry, abstract math, history, stamp collecting, etc.)
+ Education to learn to do things. (Engineering, medicine, accounting, law, belly dancing, plumbing)
4) So we need to separate “things to learn to be civilized” and “things you learn to do things” with separate institutions.
The only overlap I could find was mathematics, though not a strong argument since applied math is a v. different animal.
5a) The problem of the peer review system is selecting professors on theories abt subject never checked for basic knowledge of subject. It is common for people to know the “post colonial gender theory” of Levant, teach it, but never the actual facts.
5b) The French solved the problem with knowledge exams for educators (“aggregation”); you never end up having people judged solely by peers (See #SkininTheGame ).
6) The educational model is now imploding as the only thing people seem to learn at colleges is ideology by losers who became professors because they aren’t good enough to create things & got together to BS in a citation ring #RentSeekers (not just in economics, but everywhere)
7) Finally, we can split education:
+ Taught by nonskininthegame people (math, poetry, etc.)
+ Taught by skininthegame people (engineering, medicine, belly dancing, plumbing, finance, law, burglarizing, computer “science”, accounting, …)
In SEPARATE institutions.
8) The idea that liberal education makes free thinkers is about the greatest myth: empirically, liberal education creates the exact opposite of “thinkers” and “free”: indoctrinated and slaves.Nassim Nicholas Taleb added,
Patrick Lee Miller
9) Remember that the “University” system for this “liberal education” (trivium/quadrivium) was historically closely associated with, and supervised by, the Church.
Technical education was left to free thinkers.
10 In #Antifragile I document the confusion
Business =>Technology => Science,
far far far far more frequent than the reverse.
Problem is that academic, not practitioners, write the books.
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-26 10:23:00 UTC
https://nypost.com/2018/04/25/judge-bars-are-allowed-to-throw-out-trump-supporters/This is excellent, because we can create a political movement and discriminate against members on a political basis.
—“A Manhattan judge ruled Wednesday that there’s nothing “outrageous” about throwing the president’s supporters out of bars because the law d
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-25 23:13:00 UTC
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43884075?SThisFB
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-25 21:47:00 UTC
https://www.fastcompany.com/40563225/chinas-terrifying-social-credit-surveillance-system-is-expandinghttps://www.fastcompany.com/40563225/chinas-terrifying-social-credit-surveillance-system-is-expanding
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-25 19:59:00 UTC
https://youtu.be/UxpVwBzFAkwWOMEN AND MEN DIFFER DRAMATICALLY IN LOYALTY
via @[100003258598828:2048:John Fouad]
This is the difference in our moral and political intuitions.
It’s an evolutionary necessity.
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-25 18:26:00 UTC
https://youtu.be/UxpVwBzFAkwWOMEN AND MEN DIFFER DRAMATICALLY IN LOYALTY
via John Fouad
This is the difference in our moral and political intuitions.
It’s an evolutionary necessity.
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-25 18:26:00 UTC
by Candice Mary
When foreigners kill men’s comrades and give them the option to surrender and become slaves, men attack.
Women ask instead “what language do we speak? What god do we worship?”
Women evolved to shape themselves to the men who capture them.
Now, just replace “Foreign men” with “Government” and there is the answer.
We can be mad about that or accept reality and manage it.
“Women seek and adapt to power.”
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-25 17:17:00 UTC
–“Melania Trump has more children than the leaders of Germany, France, England and Italy combined.”– Steve Pender
The leaders of genocide are genocidal. 😉
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-25 13:37:00 UTC
–“The story of [the Empire’s] ruin is simple and obvious; and, instead of inquiring why the Roman empire was destroyed, we should rather be surprised that it had subsisted so long. The victorious legions, who, in distant wars, acquired the vices of strangers and mercenaries, first oppressed the freedom of the republic, and afterwards violated the majesty of the purple [the color of the robes of the Roman magistrates, ie: THE LAW]. The emperors, anxious for their personal safety and the public peace, were reduced to the base expedient of corrupting the discipline which rendered [the citizens both] alike (each other,) formidable to their sovereign, and to the enemy; the vigour of the military government was relaxed, and finally dissolved, by the partial institutions of Constantine [Christianity]; and the Roman world was overwhelmed by a deluge of Barbarians.”— Edward Gibbon. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, “General Observations on the Fall of the Roman Empire in the West”, Chapter 38 IT ALL BEGINS AND ENDS WITH OUR MILITIA, AND OUR MILITIA BY THEIR LAW, AND THEIR LAW BY EXCEPTIONLESS INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY.