(HINDU WEDDING AT THE HOTEL)
Formal dress. Elaborate Saris. The women look devastatingly beautiful. Everyone is happy. The men are charming. It’s awesome.
Source date (UTC): 2014-04-20 10:58:00 UTC
Form: Short Note
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(HINDU WEDDING AT THE HOTEL) Formal dress. Elaborate Saris. The women look devas
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vs UKRAINE (good read) My position is that the world needs an economically and m
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/may/08/let-the-past-collapse-on-time/RUSSIA vs UKRAINE
(good read)
My position is that the world needs an economically and militarily strong Russia. And since I love Russians so much I want them to prosper. Like I want nearly all people to prosper.
The problem is, that until Russians do what the Ukrainian’s have done, and kick out the corruption with acts of violence, that Russia remains a net exporter of poverty and corruption, and has nothing to offer the world whatsoever except increases in poverty and corruption.
A Russia that aggressively suppresses corruption would be a positive influence in the east. An expansionist Russia, as a net exporter of poverty and corruption is yet another evil empire that must be contained, and conquered if necessary.
Source date (UTC): 2014-04-19 18:38:00 UTC
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This article seems to track to the evolution of events in the Old Testament: a s
This article seems to track to the evolution of events in the Old Testament: a small society of up to 70 people faces depredations until, through an extended series of skirmishes, it becomes a kingdom.
Source date (UTC): 2014-04-18 10:16:00 UTC
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Untitled
Source date (UTC): 2014-04-17 14:29:00 UTC
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EXTENDING KAHNEMAN: “SYSTEM 0” IS PROPERTY. (interesting) Our logical capacity e
EXTENDING KAHNEMAN: “SYSTEM 0” IS PROPERTY.
(interesting)
Our logical capacity extends to the limits defined by the flight of an arrow. For more complex multi-dimensional relations we resort to the cartesian representations. And if the problem is more complicated than that, then our reason, and ability to envision causal relations, is terribly frail.
And if I am correct (and it appears at present that I am), then “System 0” is little more than a producer of reward and punishment endorphins in response to increases or decreases in an individual’s inventory of “property”. Property that is necessary for his life, cooperation and reproduction.
Emotions are reactions to changes in state. Changes in state are determined by changes in property. Humans act to acquire that which improves their condition. Humans resent, and punish, at great personal expense, appropriations of that which they have acted to acquire.
Reason (Kahneman’s System “2”) rides on the elephant of intuition (Kahneman’s System “1”), whose objects of consideration (System “0”) are what we call ‘property’. Our brains are difference engines. And we calculate differences in property: that which we have acted to obtain.
Curt Doolittle
The Propertarian Institute
Kiev.
Source date (UTC): 2014-04-17 05:30:00 UTC
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Politics isn’t Collectivist unless you choose it to be. Um. It’s not ‘Collectivi
Politics isn’t Collectivist unless you choose it to be.
Um. It’s not ‘Collectivist’ to pursue a solution to political institutions. It’s collectivist to redistribute. The difference between the philosophical-religious, and the political-institutional, is that diasporic unlanded groups do not require formal institutions, and groups that control land do.
Libertarians can be very frustrating.
Source date (UTC): 2014-04-16 17:45:00 UTC
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IMPENETRABLE INTUITIONS Conservatives are not anti statists – they are happy to
IMPENETRABLE INTUITIONS
Conservatives are not anti statists – they are happy to use the state to enforce the family as the central organization of society. Neo reactionaries are, I think, monarchists and private statists. Libertarians are anarchists.
So my argument for the expansion of the common law to address all forms of theft (involuntary transfer) is a violation of scripture for libertarians. It may be overly intellectual for reactionaries. And it is both overly intellectual, morally counter intuitive, and unnecessary to conservatives. 😉
I’m sitting with a friend. A highly informed libertarian. “I cant understand what you’re saying.”
Its not morally intuitive. And that statement tells you everything you need to know about the problem of expressing a universal logic if moral philosophy in rational and ratio-scientific terms.
Sigh.
Source date (UTC): 2014-04-16 15:21:00 UTC
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UNFORTUNATELY, PSEUDOSCIENTIFIC LANGUAGE IS REALLY USEFUL. 😉 (cross posted for
UNFORTUNATELY, PSEUDOSCIENTIFIC LANGUAGE IS REALLY USEFUL. 😉
(cross posted for archival purposes)
The question is whether “truth” in the context of Critical Rationalism is an analogy or not. I posit that it’s analogistic language just like nearly all uses of ‘truth’. The only action that can exist is attestation. And nothing can be said to be ‘true’ independent of someone’s cognition.
I’m trying to eliminate pseudoscientific language. Because pseudoscientific language is unethical and immoral. It may be efficient. It may be useful. It may even in some cases be conceptually necessary.
All disciplines rely upon such contrivances for the sake of brevity and ease.
These contrivances my be utilitarian, but that is different from saying that they are ‘true’.
Source date (UTC): 2014-04-15 21:15:00 UTC
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*Best Idea I’ve Heard Today* Disarm every federal agency except the the US Marsh
*Best Idea I’ve Heard Today*
Disarm every federal agency except the the US Marshals. Require all US Marshall’s have law degrees. Require all US Marshall’s carry insurance. Separate investigatory power from enforcement power.
Source date (UTC): 2014-04-15 08:39:00 UTC
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London The architecture, the art, the history, the shopping, the security of you
London
The architecture, the art, the history, the shopping, the security of your rights, and the quality of the infrastructure almost can aesthetically compete with the beauty, culture, and character of Ukrainian people themselves.
Almost.
I prefer my art in human form.
Source date (UTC): 2014-04-13 19:13:00 UTC