Jan 3, 2020, 6:50 PM Continental Army 1775 George Washington … Right Wing … … 1st (Ward’s) Division (Major General Artemas Ward) … … … (Six Regiments) … … 3rd (Spencer’s) Brigade (Brigadier General Joseph Spencer). … … … (Six Regiments) … Left Wing … … 2nd (Lee’s) Division (Major General Charles Lee) … … … 5th (Sullivan’s) Brigade (Brigadier General John Sullivan). … … … … Doolittle’s Regiment, or 18th Massachusetts Regiment. (Colonel Ephraim Doolittle.) … … … … (Plus Six More Regiments for a total of seven) … … … 6th (Greene’s) Brigade (Brigadier General Nathanael Greene) … … … … (Eight Regiments) … Reserve … 3rd (Putnam’s) Division (Major General Israel Putnam) … … 2nd (Heath’s) Brigade (Brigadier General William Heath) … … 4th Brigade (vacant) (commanded by Putnam because Seth Pomeroy declined his commission) There were 688 men in a colonial line regiment. This total consisted of 8 infantry units of 86 men. The colonial rifle regiment would have 680 men. This was 10 units of 68 riflemen. 6+6+7+8 = 27 * 680 men = in theory, 18,000 men Over 230,000 soldiers served in the Continental Army during the American Revolution, although no more than 48,000 at any one time. The largest number of troops gathered in a single place for battle was 13,000. The majority were from new england. (Colonel Ephraim Doolittle is my 5th grandfather, or 4th great grandfather. He was a captain in the army under General Amherst in the French War of 1755, and served under him at the capture of Ticonderoga and Crown Point. The Revolutionary Regiment was disbanded at the end of the first year of battle (congress).) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_Ephraim_and_Sarah_Doolittle_Farm ) I’m making a point here about numbers….. You don’t need many.
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On the Limits of Mathematics
Jan 5, 2020, 3:52 PM Mathematics is the measurement of averages with limited variance in category, and economics is the measurement of averages in wide variance in category. The universe changes state by operations. We use mathematics to describe point changes. Calculus breaks down at the subatomic level. Calculus breaks down at the economic level. The problem is we don’t have a calculus of geometries (yet) and we may not have one until we solve either the subatomic problem, or the protein folding problem or the economic problem. I’m betting on the second mostly because both math and physics are lost in nonsense land.
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The Grammars of Civilizations
Jan 5, 2020, 4:52 PM Europeans Develop Competition-law, Reason, Realism, Naturalism, Empiricism, Technology-Science, Geometry. CALCULATION Chinese Develop Bureaucracy-rule, Reason-lite-Wisdom Literature, Realism, Naturalism, Technology but not science, and Arithmetic. They settle on Reason and Bureaucracy. ~REASON Indians Develop Class Roles, Political Reason, Supernaturalism, Mythicism, Pragmatism, limited technology, arithmetic and positional names. That this is the remnant of a military order is lost in time. The indians settle on “the Way” – wisdom literature. REASONABLENESS Iranians-Persians Develop the optimum human, Hierarchy instead of Castes and Roles. But are seduced by babylon and their own aryan religion. The are ruined by the muslims and despite, like the Germans, rising out of it, descend once again and they can’t get out of it now (similar to how the west is being brought down again by Judaism and islam). IDEALS The Egyptians Run with Animism and Archtetypes and Myth and it’s beautiful. They try a single dominant god but the priests wisely reverse it. MYTHS The Jews Invent the abrahamic method of deceit by combining DICTATORSHIP LAW OF PARASITISM The Arabs DICTATORSHIP WISDOM LIT OF PREDATION
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The Grammars of Civilizations
Jan 5, 2020, 4:52 PM Europeans Develop Competition-law, Reason, Realism, Naturalism, Empiricism, Technology-Science, Geometry. CALCULATION Chinese Develop Bureaucracy-rule, Reason-lite-Wisdom Literature, Realism, Naturalism, Technology but not science, and Arithmetic. They settle on Reason and Bureaucracy. ~REASON Indians Develop Class Roles, Political Reason, Supernaturalism, Mythicism, Pragmatism, limited technology, arithmetic and positional names. That this is the remnant of a military order is lost in time. The indians settle on “the Way” – wisdom literature. REASONABLENESS Iranians-Persians Develop the optimum human, Hierarchy instead of Castes and Roles. But are seduced by babylon and their own aryan religion. The are ruined by the muslims and despite, like the Germans, rising out of it, descend once again and they can’t get out of it now (similar to how the west is being brought down again by Judaism and islam). IDEALS The Egyptians Run with Animism and Archtetypes and Myth and it’s beautiful. They try a single dominant god but the priests wisely reverse it. MYTHS The Jews Invent the abrahamic method of deceit by combining DICTATORSHIP LAW OF PARASITISM The Arabs DICTATORSHIP WISDOM LIT OF PREDATION
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Declaring War
Jan 5, 2020, 6:26 PM The United States Congress has not formally declared war since World War II. There have only been 11 instances of declaring war, almost all of which are during WW2. The President can MAKE war but cannot DECLARE war. “The president has the power to initiate hostilities without consulting Congress.” There are limits to these conflicts. Presidents can and have engaged in plenty of conflicts. They don’t include the civil war, korea, vietnam, grenada, panama, the balkans, the gulf, … any. Engaging in conflict is different from war, because war powers convey DOMESTIC powers to the president.
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Declaring War
Jan 5, 2020, 6:26 PM The United States Congress has not formally declared war since World War II. There have only been 11 instances of declaring war, almost all of which are during WW2. The President can MAKE war but cannot DECLARE war. “The president has the power to initiate hostilities without consulting Congress.” There are limits to these conflicts. Presidents can and have engaged in plenty of conflicts. They don’t include the civil war, korea, vietnam, grenada, panama, the balkans, the gulf, … any. Engaging in conflict is different from war, because war powers convey DOMESTIC powers to the president.
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Understanding
Jan 6, 2020, 3:32 PM A little frustrated with the conservative vox populi. The liberals think you are evil for requiring meritocracy, and you think they have your agency. You’re both wrong. If you think people know what they’re doing then you tend to hate them. If you think all but a few of us are gene-machines and barely domesticated animals following genetic, traditional, cultural, and institutional programming, you just hate the programming that enables the irreciprocal bias in genes. I say this all the time but (a) I am pretty certain even those of us with cognitive agency are gene machines, (b) people have no idea what they’re doing, they’re just poorly trained animals,( c) that those of us with agency must create institutions, education, and rules (laws) to train and constrain the barely domesticated animals from falsehood an irrecirocity – even if it is against their will, and even if it requires force. (d) So I don’t hate people, (e) and I realize that words do not work when depriving people of their parasitism, rent seeking, and free riding, so (f) the poorly trained animals need those of us with agency to ‘do what we must’ to design, create, and enforce institutions, positive education, and negative rules (laws) that constrain them to truth, reciprocity, and therefore cooperation via exchange, and as a consequence the limiting of reproduction to self sufficiency – largely of the underclasses.
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Understanding
Jan 6, 2020, 3:32 PM A little frustrated with the conservative vox populi. The liberals think you are evil for requiring meritocracy, and you think they have your agency. You’re both wrong. If you think people know what they’re doing then you tend to hate them. If you think all but a few of us are gene-machines and barely domesticated animals following genetic, traditional, cultural, and institutional programming, you just hate the programming that enables the irreciprocal bias in genes. I say this all the time but (a) I am pretty certain even those of us with cognitive agency are gene machines, (b) people have no idea what they’re doing, they’re just poorly trained animals,( c) that those of us with agency must create institutions, education, and rules (laws) to train and constrain the barely domesticated animals from falsehood an irrecirocity – even if it is against their will, and even if it requires force. (d) So I don’t hate people, (e) and I realize that words do not work when depriving people of their parasitism, rent seeking, and free riding, so (f) the poorly trained animals need those of us with agency to ‘do what we must’ to design, create, and enforce institutions, positive education, and negative rules (laws) that constrain them to truth, reciprocity, and therefore cooperation via exchange, and as a consequence the limiting of reproduction to self sufficiency – largely of the underclasses.
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Perceptions of Possibility and Probability Are Always Determined by Knowledge
Perceptions of Possibility and Probability Are Always Determined by Knowledge https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/26/perceptions-of-possibility-and-probability-are-always-determined-by-knowledge/
Source date (UTC): 2020-05-26 14:12:19 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1265284636281843712
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Height Aversion Is Genetic
Height Aversion Is Genetic https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/26/height-aversion-is-genetic/
Source date (UTC): 2020-05-26 01:18:34 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1265089913654931456