Yep. Transcendence and Sovereignty were the last pieces. In the end, warriors make rule possible, but Judges rule. In the monopoly of soldiery officers rule, and in the market of cooperation judges rule. Judges and Officers provide the same function under positiva (military) and negativa (market) organizations. The question is only which method judges use to rule. And there is only one scientific, logical, true, and perfectly decidable method by which judges *can* rule, and that is Reciprocity: The Natural Law of Sovereign Men. The west has always been poly-narrative. With each class evolving its own narrative. And with each class narrative justifying its role in the natural law of sovereign men. The cult of sovereignty for the aristocracy, the cult of law for the priesthood of the aristocracy, the cult of philosophy for the middle aspirational classes, and the cult of religion for the laboring classes, and the cult of rejection, rebellion, and escape by the undesirable classes. And in turn, there is only one method of producing Sovereignty, liberty, freedom, and sufficient surplus for subsidy, and this is via the incremental suppression of parasitisms in all its forms, producing sovereign men, and eliminating parasitic men – leaving only means of survival in markets for association, cooperation, reproduction, production, production of commons, and production of polities. The monarchy provides the judge of last resort in war, the judiciary the judge of markets, and the officer corps the commander of the monopoly that is war. And so, as long as the men willing and able to fight for sovereignty are trained in, and participate in, a local militia, a regional regimental system, and are trained by a national army, in exchange for rights of public speech, access to territorial and capital ownership, and participation in the choice of commons, then because of their arms and their numbers, no usurper can deprive them of sovereignty; and because of their investment and advantage from it, they will preserve their sovereignty, and because of their universal standing in courts of natural law, they will have incentive and peaceful and productive means of preserving their sovereignty, through the incremental suppression of all parasitism of which they are aware. Men must create a market for the suppression of parasitism, by in turn creating a market for cooperation, because of the market for violence that is the result of a large militia of diverse personal but homogenous collective, interests. There is but one method of obtaining and preserving the sovereignty, necessary for the production of agency, necessary for the transcendence of man, and that is the organization of a franchise (corporation) of warriors of sufficient number, with sufficient incentives, and sufficient institutional means, that the only conditions that prevent conflict and preserve cooperation. The advantage of this order is that we preserve our original innovation: maneuver (what we call today ooda-loops) because of the distribution of decision making to the lowest possible level of the organization: a market for heroism in battle. We developed markets in everything, because markets adapt faster and innovate faster than all alternatives. And for a small population of people, the use of excellence(professionals) and technology (excellence), and markets (maneuver) is simply *faster* in all dimensions than all larger and slower alternatives. He who adapts fastest and best has the advantage. Because the first and last enemy of all is TIME.
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Transcendence and Sovereignty Were The Last Pieces
Yep. Transcendence and Sovereignty were the last pieces. In the end, warriors make rule possible, but Judges rule. In the monopoly of soldiery officers rule, and in the market of cooperation judges rule. Judges and Officers provide the same function under positiva (military) and negativa (market) organizations. The question is only which method judges use to rule. And there is only one scientific, logical, true, and perfectly decidable method by which judges *can* rule, and that is Reciprocity: The Natural Law of Sovereign Men. The west has always been poly-narrative. With each class evolving its own narrative. And with each class narrative justifying its role in the natural law of sovereign men. The cult of sovereignty for the aristocracy, the cult of law for the priesthood of the aristocracy, the cult of philosophy for the middle aspirational classes, and the cult of religion for the laboring classes, and the cult of rejection, rebellion, and escape by the undesirable classes. And in turn, there is only one method of producing Sovereignty, liberty, freedom, and sufficient surplus for subsidy, and this is via the incremental suppression of parasitisms in all its forms, producing sovereign men, and eliminating parasitic men – leaving only means of survival in markets for association, cooperation, reproduction, production, production of commons, and production of polities. The monarchy provides the judge of last resort in war, the judiciary the judge of markets, and the officer corps the commander of the monopoly that is war. And so, as long as the men willing and able to fight for sovereignty are trained in, and participate in, a local militia, a regional regimental system, and are trained by a national army, in exchange for rights of public speech, access to territorial and capital ownership, and participation in the choice of commons, then because of their arms and their numbers, no usurper can deprive them of sovereignty; and because of their investment and advantage from it, they will preserve their sovereignty, and because of their universal standing in courts of natural law, they will have incentive and peaceful and productive means of preserving their sovereignty, through the incremental suppression of all parasitism of which they are aware. Men must create a market for the suppression of parasitism, by in turn creating a market for cooperation, because of the market for violence that is the result of a large militia of diverse personal but homogenous collective, interests. There is but one method of obtaining and preserving the sovereignty, necessary for the production of agency, necessary for the transcendence of man, and that is the organization of a franchise (corporation) of warriors of sufficient number, with sufficient incentives, and sufficient institutional means, that the only conditions that prevent conflict and preserve cooperation. The advantage of this order is that we preserve our original innovation: maneuver (what we call today ooda-loops) because of the distribution of decision making to the lowest possible level of the organization: a market for heroism in battle. We developed markets in everything, because markets adapt faster and innovate faster than all alternatives. And for a small population of people, the use of excellence(professionals) and technology (excellence), and markets (maneuver) is simply *faster* in all dimensions than all larger and slower alternatives. He who adapts fastest and best has the advantage. Because the first and last enemy of all is TIME.
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Via Negativa of Gods
VIA-NEGATIVA OF GODS Rome was pagan all along, and christians were a tiny minority, The emperor’s emphasis on the SI cult was somewhat of an attempt to bring unity (monotheism) to the empire, by expanding the cult of mithras. Its fairly obvious that the christians basically attempted to defeat the martial cult of the western roman empire by appropriating mithraism, the sol invictus cult, and the submission demanded of the jewish and persion and egyptians gods, and then justified it later with the biblical readings and instittions. So the army was infected by exposure to the persians from alexander onward. We already practice polytheism today. The question is not which gods we will all follow, but WHICH GODS WE WILL OUTLAW AND DESTROY. Let me say that again. Via Negativa: We destroy the false gods, the false rationalism, and the false sciences, and only the true gods, the true rationalisms, and the true sciences remain. WE NEED NOT INVENT NEW GODS TO FOLLOW BUT DEFEAT ALL GODS THAT ARE INCOMPATIBLE WITH NATURAL LAW
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Via Negativa of Gods
VIA-NEGATIVA OF GODS Rome was pagan all along, and christians were a tiny minority, The emperor’s emphasis on the SI cult was somewhat of an attempt to bring unity (monotheism) to the empire, by expanding the cult of mithras. Its fairly obvious that the christians basically attempted to defeat the martial cult of the western roman empire by appropriating mithraism, the sol invictus cult, and the submission demanded of the jewish and persion and egyptians gods, and then justified it later with the biblical readings and instittions. So the army was infected by exposure to the persians from alexander onward. We already practice polytheism today. The question is not which gods we will all follow, but WHICH GODS WE WILL OUTLAW AND DESTROY. Let me say that again. Via Negativa: We destroy the false gods, the false rationalism, and the false sciences, and only the true gods, the true rationalisms, and the true sciences remain. WE NEED NOT INVENT NEW GODS TO FOLLOW BUT DEFEAT ALL GODS THAT ARE INCOMPATIBLE WITH NATURAL LAW
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Deflating Science
DEFLATING “SCIENCE” (personal)(sketch) The Discipline of Science Consists of: 1) An aesthetic discipline – the search for status, power(influence), and profit through the acquisition of decidability (truth) and recipe (knowledge) and ‘stories’ (narratives), by observation, free association, and the elimination of ignorance thru deceit. 2) A technical discipline – the application and inventions of measures both physical, logical, and social(market) that reduce our possibility of engaging in ignorance thru deceit, leaving only truthful candidates for decidability, recipe and story. 3) A moral discipline – the means of describing and publishing our measurements, decidability, recipe, and stories by performing due diligence against: ignorance thru deceit, and publishing (speaking) the measurements, decidability, recipes, and ‘stories’ for testing by the market for measurements, decidability, recipes, and stories, consisting of others who share the aesthetic discipline of searching for status, power(influence) and profit through the acquisition of decidability(truth) reciepe(knowledge) and stories(narratives.) MAN IS THE MEASURE – THE UNIT OF COMMENSURABILITY ( … ) THE EPISTEMIC METHOD There exists only one epistemological method for the discovery of recipes and theories: – Observation->perception, – Free association-> wayfinding, – Hypothesis->construction, – Theory->survival from criticism, – Law->survival in the market for criticism, – Habituation -> survival, – Metaphysical inclusion -> replication. Within this method we find special cases of the epistemological method: non-contradiction, apriorisms, simplicity – in the same way we discover special cases of prime numbers – and for the same reason: coincidence of simplicities amidst the chaos of possibilities. But we eventually run low on simplicities at any given level of precision, and must develop new logical and physical and moral instrumentation in order to obtain sufficient information to discover more simplicities at greater precision. All the while defending against our tendencies to engage in error, bias,wishful thinking, suggestion, obscurantism, pseudoscience, pseudorationalism, pseudo-moralism, and deceit. THE DIMENSIONS OF TESTING To warranty our speech against the dark forces of error, bias, and deceit, we can test each existentially possible dimension – in which humans can act – against error, bias, and deceit. – Categorical Consistency – identity – Logical Consistency – internal correspondence – Empirical Consistency – external correspondence – Existential Consistency – operational correspondence – Moral Consistency – reciprocal correspondence – Scope Consistency – full accounting – dimensional correspondence. PARTIAL TESTING : THE SPECIAL CASE: APRIORISM 1) Apriorism is but a special case of Empiricism, just as Prime Numbers are a special case in mathematics, and just as is any set of operations that returns a natural number; and again, is a special case, just as contradiction is a special case in logic.The laws of triangles form a particularly useful set of special cases. 2) Few (possibly no non-tautological, or at least non-reductio) aprioristic statements survive scope consistency (I can find none in economics that are actionable). 3) We can establish free associations(hypotheses) empirically (top down) or constructively (bottom up). But the method of discovery places no truth constraint on the statement. All must survive the full test of dimensions. 4) This does NOT mean that we cannot use a ‘partial truth’ (an hypothesis that does not survive all six dimensions) to search for further associations (partial search criteria). It is this UTILITY IN SEARCHING that we have converted first into reason, second into rationalism, third into empiricism, fourth in to operationalism, and fifth into scope consistency, and sixth into ‘natural law’ or morality or ‘voluntary cooperation’ – volition which is necessary to ensure the information quality in small groups, just as norms and laws are necessary methods of establishing limits in larger groups, just as money is necessary for producing actionable information in very large groups. 5) there is but one epistemological method: accumulate information, identify pattern, search for hypothesis, criticize hypothesis to produce a theory, distribute the theory (speak), let others criticize the theory until it fails, or we create a conceptual norm of it (law), and finally until we habituate it entirely (metaphysical judgment). THE OUTPUTS OF THE DISCIPLINE OF SCIENCE 1) Stories (Theories): Theories describe an Opportunity Field. 2) Decidability (Instruments): Decidability describes objects, relations, values, and comparison operators. 3) Recipes (Operations or ‘transformations’): Recipes describe actionable knowledge that we can use to transform state. 4) Measurements (‘Facts’): Measurements describe (obviously) the operations and resulting measurements of objects, relations, and values. THIS COMPLETES THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD This process constitutes the completion of the scientific method for the warranty of due diligence of one’s testimony in every domain of human inquiry without exception. Now, lets look at its uses… THE MEASURE 1) Meaning (Awareness) ….True enough to imagine a conceptual relationship 2) Preference ….True enough for me to feel good about. 3) Actionability ….True enough for me to take actions that produce positive results. 4) Morality ….True enough for me to not cause others to react negatively to me. 5) Rationality ….True enough to resolve a conflict without subjective opinion among my fellow people with similar values. 6) Decidability ….True enough to resolve a conflict without subjective opinion across different peoples with different values. 7) Truth ….True regardless of all opinions or perspectives. 8) Tautology ….Tautologically true: in that the two things are equal. THE MARKETS There is nothing special about physical science other than philosophy was free of COST constraints but held by moral constraints, and science was free of MORAL constraints as well as cost constraints, and judicial law was bound by both. Personal Associative Cooperative Reproductive Productive Commons Polities DISCIPLINES: 0 – Sentience (cognitive science – limits of cognition) 1 – Philosophy (science of truthful speech) 2 – Law (social/cooperative science) 3 – Economics (organizational science) 4 – Mathematics ( science of measurement ) 5 – Physical Science (physical sciences of the universe) 6 – Technology (physical sciences in materials) 7 – Engineering, (physical sciences in construction) 8 – Commerce, THE VALUE OF OUTPUTS OF THE DISCIPLINE OF SCIENCE Stories (Opportunities [search]) : Decidabilty (Choice / Persuade / Decide:) Recipies (Transformations): Measurements (facts): THE DEFLATION OF “THEORY/THEORIES” The Story of a theory can fail. The Decidability can fail. The Recipe can fail The Measurements can fail. Newton’s Story failed, but his Decidability, and Recipe, and Measurements survive. So while hypotheses fail, it is not necessarily true that theories fail, so much as we continuously improve the precision of those narratives, decidability, recipe and measurements. Why? Because the question itself frames the theory. In other words, if we are asking about gravity, newtons question, his decidability, his recipes, all survive and constitute the majority of calculations we perform to this day. Measurement provides a means of warranty of due diligence against ignorance, error, bias, wishful thinking, suggestion, obscurantism, and deceit. And in fact, we can state that all logical methods constitute some means of measurement. Anything that is testable constitutes a measure. The question is only what dimensions of relations that we wish to measure, and the constancy of those relations.
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Deflating Science
DEFLATING “SCIENCE” (personal)(sketch) The Discipline of Science Consists of: 1) An aesthetic discipline – the search for status, power(influence), and profit through the acquisition of decidability (truth) and recipe (knowledge) and ‘stories’ (narratives), by observation, free association, and the elimination of ignorance thru deceit. 2) A technical discipline – the application and inventions of measures both physical, logical, and social(market) that reduce our possibility of engaging in ignorance thru deceit, leaving only truthful candidates for decidability, recipe and story. 3) A moral discipline – the means of describing and publishing our measurements, decidability, recipe, and stories by performing due diligence against: ignorance thru deceit, and publishing (speaking) the measurements, decidability, recipes, and ‘stories’ for testing by the market for measurements, decidability, recipes, and stories, consisting of others who share the aesthetic discipline of searching for status, power(influence) and profit through the acquisition of decidability(truth) reciepe(knowledge) and stories(narratives.) MAN IS THE MEASURE – THE UNIT OF COMMENSURABILITY ( … ) THE EPISTEMIC METHOD There exists only one epistemological method for the discovery of recipes and theories: – Observation->perception, – Free association-> wayfinding, – Hypothesis->construction, – Theory->survival from criticism, – Law->survival in the market for criticism, – Habituation -> survival, – Metaphysical inclusion -> replication. Within this method we find special cases of the epistemological method: non-contradiction, apriorisms, simplicity – in the same way we discover special cases of prime numbers – and for the same reason: coincidence of simplicities amidst the chaos of possibilities. But we eventually run low on simplicities at any given level of precision, and must develop new logical and physical and moral instrumentation in order to obtain sufficient information to discover more simplicities at greater precision. All the while defending against our tendencies to engage in error, bias,wishful thinking, suggestion, obscurantism, pseudoscience, pseudorationalism, pseudo-moralism, and deceit. THE DIMENSIONS OF TESTING To warranty our speech against the dark forces of error, bias, and deceit, we can test each existentially possible dimension – in which humans can act – against error, bias, and deceit. – Categorical Consistency – identity – Logical Consistency – internal correspondence – Empirical Consistency – external correspondence – Existential Consistency – operational correspondence – Moral Consistency – reciprocal correspondence – Scope Consistency – full accounting – dimensional correspondence. PARTIAL TESTING : THE SPECIAL CASE: APRIORISM 1) Apriorism is but a special case of Empiricism, just as Prime Numbers are a special case in mathematics, and just as is any set of operations that returns a natural number; and again, is a special case, just as contradiction is a special case in logic.The laws of triangles form a particularly useful set of special cases. 2) Few (possibly no non-tautological, or at least non-reductio) aprioristic statements survive scope consistency (I can find none in economics that are actionable). 3) We can establish free associations(hypotheses) empirically (top down) or constructively (bottom up). But the method of discovery places no truth constraint on the statement. All must survive the full test of dimensions. 4) This does NOT mean that we cannot use a ‘partial truth’ (an hypothesis that does not survive all six dimensions) to search for further associations (partial search criteria). It is this UTILITY IN SEARCHING that we have converted first into reason, second into rationalism, third into empiricism, fourth in to operationalism, and fifth into scope consistency, and sixth into ‘natural law’ or morality or ‘voluntary cooperation’ – volition which is necessary to ensure the information quality in small groups, just as norms and laws are necessary methods of establishing limits in larger groups, just as money is necessary for producing actionable information in very large groups. 5) there is but one epistemological method: accumulate information, identify pattern, search for hypothesis, criticize hypothesis to produce a theory, distribute the theory (speak), let others criticize the theory until it fails, or we create a conceptual norm of it (law), and finally until we habituate it entirely (metaphysical judgment). THE OUTPUTS OF THE DISCIPLINE OF SCIENCE 1) Stories (Theories): Theories describe an Opportunity Field. 2) Decidability (Instruments): Decidability describes objects, relations, values, and comparison operators. 3) Recipes (Operations or ‘transformations’): Recipes describe actionable knowledge that we can use to transform state. 4) Measurements (‘Facts’): Measurements describe (obviously) the operations and resulting measurements of objects, relations, and values. THIS COMPLETES THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD This process constitutes the completion of the scientific method for the warranty of due diligence of one’s testimony in every domain of human inquiry without exception. Now, lets look at its uses… THE MEASURE 1) Meaning (Awareness) ….True enough to imagine a conceptual relationship 2) Preference ….True enough for me to feel good about. 3) Actionability ….True enough for me to take actions that produce positive results. 4) Morality ….True enough for me to not cause others to react negatively to me. 5) Rationality ….True enough to resolve a conflict without subjective opinion among my fellow people with similar values. 6) Decidability ….True enough to resolve a conflict without subjective opinion across different peoples with different values. 7) Truth ….True regardless of all opinions or perspectives. 8) Tautology ….Tautologically true: in that the two things are equal. THE MARKETS There is nothing special about physical science other than philosophy was free of COST constraints but held by moral constraints, and science was free of MORAL constraints as well as cost constraints, and judicial law was bound by both. Personal Associative Cooperative Reproductive Productive Commons Polities DISCIPLINES: 0 – Sentience (cognitive science – limits of cognition) 1 – Philosophy (science of truthful speech) 2 – Law (social/cooperative science) 3 – Economics (organizational science) 4 – Mathematics ( science of measurement ) 5 – Physical Science (physical sciences of the universe) 6 – Technology (physical sciences in materials) 7 – Engineering, (physical sciences in construction) 8 – Commerce, THE VALUE OF OUTPUTS OF THE DISCIPLINE OF SCIENCE Stories (Opportunities [search]) : Decidabilty (Choice / Persuade / Decide:) Recipies (Transformations): Measurements (facts): THE DEFLATION OF “THEORY/THEORIES” The Story of a theory can fail. The Decidability can fail. The Recipe can fail The Measurements can fail. Newton’s Story failed, but his Decidability, and Recipe, and Measurements survive. So while hypotheses fail, it is not necessarily true that theories fail, so much as we continuously improve the precision of those narratives, decidability, recipe and measurements. Why? Because the question itself frames the theory. In other words, if we are asking about gravity, newtons question, his decidability, his recipes, all survive and constitute the majority of calculations we perform to this day. Measurement provides a means of warranty of due diligence against ignorance, error, bias, wishful thinking, suggestion, obscurantism, and deceit. And in fact, we can state that all logical methods constitute some means of measurement. Anything that is testable constitutes a measure. The question is only what dimensions of relations that we wish to measure, and the constancy of those relations.
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Western Polytheism Expressed in Languages of the Classes
WESTERN POLYTHEISM AND THE LANGUAGES OF THE CLASSES While truths must exist universally but are invariant (the meaning of a truth), there are also some universal goods (like truth), but many variable and often competing goods (wants and needs). And as such we require narratives to explain both the universal truth, the universal good, and the particular goods that are used by each class.
That said, the strong rule and decide, the burghers organize, produce, distribute, and exchange, and the poor and weak gossip and complain. And each tells the story of his class by attributing virtue to his utterances. We learn to speak the law of the strong, the philosophy of the utilitarian, and the religion of the weak. These are not complicated concepts to master. -
Western Polytheism Expressed in Languages of the Classes
WESTERN POLYTHEISM AND THE LANGUAGES OF THE CLASSES While truths must exist universally but are invariant (the meaning of a truth), there are also some universal goods (like truth), but many variable and often competing goods (wants and needs). And as such we require narratives to explain both the universal truth, the universal good, and the particular goods that are used by each class.
That said, the strong rule and decide, the burghers organize, produce, distribute, and exchange, and the poor and weak gossip and complain. And each tells the story of his class by attributing virtue to his utterances. We learn to speak the law of the strong, the philosophy of the utilitarian, and the religion of the weak. These are not complicated concepts to master. -
Information, Measurement, Negotiation
Man as the measure of all things man Actually, the concept I am working on is whether we have everything backwards, and language consists entirely of measurements of different degrees of precision, and mathematics and operations are merely more precise measurements than we are familiar with speaking of. What does it mean to measure? Man is the unit of measure for all he measures. The limits of his existence, perception, action, and comprehension, provides him with units of measure. Measurements provide us with constant relations. All our other methods of measurement merely extend the constant relations provided by the limits constraining the existence, perception, action, and comprehension of man. This appears to be the correct model.
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Information, Measurement, Negotiation
Man as the measure of all things man Actually, the concept I am working on is whether we have everything backwards, and language consists entirely of measurements of different degrees of precision, and mathematics and operations are merely more precise measurements than we are familiar with speaking of. What does it mean to measure? Man is the unit of measure for all he measures. The limits of his existence, perception, action, and comprehension, provides him with units of measure. Measurements provide us with constant relations. All our other methods of measurement merely extend the constant relations provided by the limits constraining the existence, perception, action, and comprehension of man. This appears to be the correct model.