Everquote released the data today that Connecticut has the worst drivers in the country, followed by Rhode Island – ‘due to bad driving habits’.
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-19 09:07:00 UTC
Form: Short Note
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THE “PROBLEM” OF CORPORATIONS Actually, the corporation was produced and remains
THE “PROBLEM” OF CORPORATIONS
Actually, the corporation was produced and remains, a means of insuring risk takers such that their losses are limited to their shared investments in the experiment.
The problem with corporations is that they, much like the government bureaucracy and politicians, are insulated from tort (universal standing) so that we cannot correct behavior of organizations for their harm to the commons.
Class actions are too hard to pursue, and we cannot sue in defense of the commons. The government prevents us from doing so.
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-19 08:53:00 UTC
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(important concept) ***But when you (or others) say ‘national socialism’ I don’t
(important concept)
***But when you (or others) say ‘national socialism’ I don’t really know what that means, other than to say that in my understanding we run the government in the interest of the tribe (nationalism) using rule of law, without engaging in discretionary rule.” And in that case I don’t know what ‘socialism means’ since nationalism and socialism are synonyms, just as communism and universalism are synonyms.***
(worth repeating, worth memorizing)
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-19 08:41:00 UTC
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Incentives of Individualists
—“My collectivism and ethnocentrism is ultimately founded upon individualism. Individual incentives and self interests lead individuals into groups, because they can obtain more in groups than they can on their own. Kinship just happens to be a sensible criterion around which to organize a group, for a variety of evolutionary reasons. Individual incentives also lead people to group others into groups and consider them in terms of statistical, rather than individual, criteria. People will consider each other as individuals when they have individual information at hand. But sometimes, in light of statistical data, the cost of obtaining the individual information, or the risk of getting it wrong, do not outweigh the expected benefit from doing so.”— Ely Harman
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Incentives of Individualists
—“My collectivism and ethnocentrism is ultimately founded upon individualism. Individual incentives and self interests lead individuals into groups, because they can obtain more in groups than they can on their own. Kinship just happens to be a sensible criterion around which to organize a group, for a variety of evolutionary reasons. Individual incentives also lead people to group others into groups and consider them in terms of statistical, rather than individual, criteria. People will consider each other as individuals when they have individual information at hand. But sometimes, in light of statistical data, the cost of obtaining the individual information, or the risk of getting it wrong, do not outweigh the expected benefit from doing so.”— Ely Harman
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All Peoples Can Adopt the Best of The European Civilizational Technologies
Only europeans could invent sovereignty, rule of law, reason, low context, high precision language, and markets in everything. And as such only europeans dragged humanity kicking and screaming out of superstition, ignorance, poverty, starvation, hard labor, child mortality, early death, disease, and the vicissitudes of nature in a universe hostile to life. But that said, *Any people willing to adopt the Government of the Universal Militia of Sovereign Men, and constrain the base impulses of the under classes can make use of that european civilizations technology.* Any group willing to do so can adopt it. It’s difficult. But it will work.
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All Peoples Can Adopt the Best of The European Civilizational Technologies
Only europeans could invent sovereignty, rule of law, reason, low context, high precision language, and markets in everything. And as such only europeans dragged humanity kicking and screaming out of superstition, ignorance, poverty, starvation, hard labor, child mortality, early death, disease, and the vicissitudes of nature in a universe hostile to life. But that said, *Any people willing to adopt the Government of the Universal Militia of Sovereign Men, and constrain the base impulses of the under classes can make use of that european civilizations technology.* Any group willing to do so can adopt it. It’s difficult. But it will work.
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Asymmetry in Our Confidence of Scientific Discovery
The principle success in the physical sciences is the publication of many findings that eventually converge (possibility) or diverge (falsehood). We know we cannot intuit the first principles of the universe – although IMHO we are getting close to returning to ‘ether’ lol. But when in matters of biology, sentience, and cooperation, we cannot STOP ourselves from intuiting answers, and as such we attempt to propose conclusions too early. Worse, we cannot even compose tests that do not in and of themselves produce desired answers. We simply do not know how to. So in both the imperceptible physical world, the imperceptible sentient world, and the imperceptible cooperative (social/political/economic) worlds, we are equally blind. The problem is we think we are unequally blind. Anything you intuit that conflicts with the least-cost algorithm of nature is wrong. Nature can’t choose. She does what is cheapest, and what is cheapest is the first available transformation. Apr 18, 2018 1:02pm
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Asymmetry in Our Confidence of Scientific Discovery
The principle success in the physical sciences is the publication of many findings that eventually converge (possibility) or diverge (falsehood). We know we cannot intuit the first principles of the universe – although IMHO we are getting close to returning to ‘ether’ lol. But when in matters of biology, sentience, and cooperation, we cannot STOP ourselves from intuiting answers, and as such we attempt to propose conclusions too early. Worse, we cannot even compose tests that do not in and of themselves produce desired answers. We simply do not know how to. So in both the imperceptible physical world, the imperceptible sentient world, and the imperceptible cooperative (social/political/economic) worlds, we are equally blind. The problem is we think we are unequally blind. Anything you intuit that conflicts with the least-cost algorithm of nature is wrong. Nature can’t choose. She does what is cheapest, and what is cheapest is the first available transformation. Apr 18, 2018 1:02pm
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It Doesn’t Matter if Rich People Breed.
(It matters that the underclasses don’t) Rich people are outliers. It’s not that important that rich people reproduce. Although we should laud the great (noble) families that persist in the reproduction of excellence across generations and ask them to serve us by greater reproduction. But wealth tells us very little. Economies are lotteries, and they must be or people would cease to play the economic game. So in the end, the general necessity is that the middle class is afforded all opportunities to breed, and the underclass is afforded all opportunities to consume rather than breed, so that we constantly defeat the red queen’s regression to the mean.