RT @SteveStuWill: The same facts are compatible with any number of different theories. https://www.facebook.com/groups/PsychologicalDynamics/permalink/2076196065971778/ https://t.co/BEsY7vPVXC
Source date (UTC): 2018-12-06 23:09:18 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1070817489108512769
–“lies and licentiousness vs logic and love”– James Santagata
Source date (UTC): 2018-12-06 20:18:00 UTC
photos_and_videos/TimelinePhotos_SxeO6JU-xg/47460782_10156829220882264_452702558159372288_o_10156829220877264.jpg Even if the illustration is a poor analogy, it does get the point across that constant relations may remain constant across inconstant (inconsistent, incompatible, incommensurable) theories, paradigms, sciences(frames). (The illustration is consistent, compatible, commensurable.)John EdwardIt depends on whether the theory is predictive or not. If the theory has predictive value (for instance, “global warming” has zero predictive value as a theory), it’s worthwhile and approximates the truth.Dec 6, 2018, 11:53 PMEven if the illustration is a poor analogy, it does get the point across that constant relations may remain constant across inconstant (inconsistent, incompatible, incommensurable) theories, paradigms, sciences(frames). (The illustration is consistent, compatible, commensurable.)
Source date (UTC): 2018-12-06 20:15:00 UTC
photos_and_videos/TimelinePhotos_SxeO6JU-xg/47577615_10156828919192264_3193857261785055232_n_10156828919182264.jpg photos_and_videos/TimelinePhotos_SxeO6JU-xg/47482283_10156828919237264_7587453542525304832_o_10156828919227264.jpg Noel FritschFlame wars are so boring.Dec 6, 2018, 8:39 PMCurt Doolittlenever miss a marketing opportunityDec 6, 2018, 9:03 PMWidukind FünfzehnWell you’re standing in a good position if logic is the criterion for success. With leftists, its emotions.Dec 7, 2018, 1:02 AM photos_and_videos/TimelinePhotos_SxeO6JU-xg/47683261_10156828919197264_1465378717533470720_n_10156828919187264.jpg photos_and_videos/TimelinePhotos_SxeO6JU-xg/47575271_10156828919252264_8002822187658510336_n_10156828919247264.jpg DOOLITTLE JOINS LAUREN ON MOLY ON WEINSTEIN
@BretWeinstein
You stepped in it. Anyone who studies any of history will discover that the group strategy and tactic of some civilizations cause invention, some cause stagnation, and some cause devolution.
2) Just because you are getting support and attention, do not assume you have license to overreach and hubris. Civilizational differences are in our Laws: Western Empiricism, Easter Wisdom, Indian Mythology, Semitic Fraud (Pilpul/Critique), African Magic, Australian Devolution.
3) That We dragged humanity kicking and screaming out of supernaturalism in the ancient world, and ignorance, superstition, poverty, starvation, hard labor, child mortality, early death, disease, suffering, tyranny, and the vicissitudes of nature is purely empirical.
4) …. The indo european expansion, the ancient world reason, the modern world empiricism, science, and technology.
5) Where would the world be had Europe, like China, built a wall at the Bosphorus, Caucuses and Urals? Where would the world be without the Semitic Dark Age and its thousand years of decline, and 1B dead, and the destruction of the great civilizations of the ancient world?
Where would the world be without Supernaturalism, Sophism, and Pseudoscience: The Semitic Dark Age of Judaism, Christianity, Islamism, and the attempt to do the same in the modern world of Marxism, Postmodernism, Feminism’s to repeat Ancient destruction in Modernity?
6) So it is not that some Gene Pools, some Civilizations, are just variations on a theme like the Cervidae. Some Rapidly Evolve, some Slowly Evolve, some Stagnate, and some bring about decline through the destruction of civilization in every one of its dimensions.
Just like the Classes, some Civilizations are innovators, some producers, some some consumers, some free riders, some parasites, and some predators.
And I have, we have, had enough of the sophism of relativism and the pseudoscience of equalitarianism, and the pseudosciences of man: Boas et all, Marx et al, Freud et al, Cantor and the Logicians, Mises and the libertarians, Adorno et al, Keynes, Derrida et al, neocons et al.
So before you cast the stone of Critique, reciprocity would demand you do not live in the Glass House of sophism and pseudoscience.
Source date (UTC): 2018-12-06 17:43:00 UTC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw_dIFcqtW4REQUIRED WATCHING
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw_dIFcqtW4
Source date (UTC): 2018-12-05 22:54:00 UTC
THE GOAL OF MEMORY IS TO OPTIMIZE DECISION-MAKING.
—“The predominant focus in the neurobiological study of memory has been on remembering (persistence). However, recent studies have considered the neurobiology of forgetting (transience). Here we draw parallels between neurobiological and computational mechanisms underlying transience. We propose that it is the interaction between persistence and transience that allows for intelligent decision-making in dynamic, noisy environments. Specifically, we argue that transience (1) enhances flexibility, by reducing the influence of outdated information on memory-guided decision-making, and (2) prevents overfitting to specific past events, thereby promoting generalization. According to this view, the goal of memory is not the transmission of information through time, per se. Rather, the goal of memory is to optimize decision-making. As such, transience is as important as persistence in mnemonic systems.”— Neuron, The Persistence and Transience of Memory
Blake A. Richards
Paul W. Frankland
Source date (UTC): 2018-12-05 03:04:00 UTC
Source date (UTC): 2018-12-04 08:55:00 UTC
YES, LACK OF AGENCY DRIVES POSTMODERN THOUGHT
—“The postmodernists say that agency is a comforting falsehood. How does one adjudicate between you and them?”— John Tangney
They are correct – for them. Agency is demonstrably the entire problem. And postmodernists, feminists, women, and the underclass are completely correct: they don’t have it. On the other hand, enough ‘men’ do if trained in what IS (the conservative empirical) rather than what SHOULD BE (the consumptive ideal), to govern in everyone’s interests despite the lack of agency by the vast majority of peoples.
The question is why someone some group or some class would consider rule if one was in fact lacking agency — and worse, if both lacking agency and f–king aware of it.
Source date (UTC): 2018-12-04 08:55:00 UTC
by Ahmed Reda
The enlightenment – or rather – the continuous evolution of western man from blacksmith to aristotle, to hume, to darwin et all, is produced by the incremental suppression of comforting falsehoods that imprison us in lack of agency. -Doolittle
*NEVER FORGET THAT Rousseau, Kant and the Continentals were the Abrahamist reaction against Hume’s resurrection of Greek reason.
Source date (UTC): 2018-12-04 05:15:00 UTC
—“Chinese scientist who claims gene-edited babies — goes missing.”—
ie: gene edited babies, free of HIV, were fake news.
(all chinese science is largely fake news. Low trust culture, low trust economy, low trust polity, produces low trust science.)
Source date (UTC): 2018-12-03 17:56:00 UTC