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  • TO DEVELOP As far as I know, the reasons we desire anti-depressants in so many p

    http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-rise-of-all-purpose-antidepressants/FAILURE TO DEVELOP

    As far as I know, the reasons we desire anti-depressants in so many people, are

    (a)a lack of physical exercise (which teaches brain regions to work together), and (b) the use of sugars as a substitute for oxygenation (oxygen causes mild euphoria), and (c) decline in meaningful interpersonal contact (interpersonal relations that require only intuition rather than judgement).

    The problem is in testing this theory. You have to wait for the data because it’s impossible to construct it intentionally. (BTW: this is one of the fallacies of positivism that people attach to empiricism: a human-generated test is MORE suspect than a naturally occurring test.)


    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-17 02:47:00 UTC

  • THINKING OUT LOUD (Product Development) CLOUD DRIVES. We’ve been discussing exte

    THINKING OUT LOUD (Product Development)

    CLOUD DRIVES.

    We’ve been discussing external file systems, because some people integrate with Google docs, or Sharepoint. And I’ve considered (my favorite) integrating with Dropbox. But honestly, while it originally made sense, i can’t see the point in it.

    I mean, lets say that Facebook allowed file sharing. They can’t because it would turn into a pirate bay. But Oversing is not very different from FB except it’s for business instead of social activity, and it costs money, rather than advertising, and so liability remains with the content originator, and anonymity isn’t possible like it is in social media. Just the opposite. So, if you upload a file of any kind to Oversing, it’s within that business-social network, and you have to be in the network to use it. We do that on purpose. Furthermore, Dropbox is in the amazon cloud and so is oversing. I mean, the only reason we can think of is to separate file system costs. But that’s meter-able anyway.

    So the only reason I get to, I guess, is for really large files we will have a problem with our technology, because we would have to provide a background upload manager of some sort.

    I can see adding external links, but we do that anyway. I mean, if you’re doing large media gigs, it’s much easier to just mirror your local drive in Dropbox or share on Google Drive and then send links to customers.

    So do we implement a max file size and then ask customers to link external files for over that size? That seems like the best option to me.

    But I would love advice.


    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-08 10:26:00 UTC

  • IDEOLOGICAL SUPPLY LINES: A FRAMEWORK IS A NECESSARY SOLUTION TO LOGISTICS You s

    IDEOLOGICAL SUPPLY LINES: A FRAMEWORK IS A NECESSARY SOLUTION TO LOGISTICS

    You see I’m building an entire philosophical frame. From truth, metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, politics, and aesthetics, as well as the moral arguments for and against. And I’m giving people moral authority to put it into action.

    This is what our people need. And once they have it they will work autonomously to develop their own narratives, applications and arguments.

    I am very excited. It’s been a long journey.

    Let a thousand flowers bloom… 🙂


    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-31 09:22:00 UTC

  • I UNDERSTAND HOW THEY HAVE DONE IT – OVERLOADING (important sketch) A puzzle tha

    I UNDERSTAND HOW THEY HAVE DONE IT – OVERLOADING

    (important sketch)

    A puzzle that doesn’t fit together, but consists of many moral statements. Like any puzzle we heuristically fill in the gaps because we want to justify the moral statements – rather than object to the gaps because of illogical or immoral statements.

    It’s freaking genius. It’s brilliant. You just need to be a little better at verbal storytelling and it’s performing ‘suggestion’ on a grand scale. You need to be able to lie in greater numbers, and more frequently, then we can correct for the lies.

    They start with a metaphysical intuition to lie, and just use many, many, micro-narratives to overload us. Like a massive organized form of psychopathy.

    We are the most *objectively* moral people who most aggressively defend teh commons, and so we are vulnerable to overloading the same way we are programmable by religious narratives and myths. If we were not programmable by myths and religious narratives we would not be programmable by norms.

    Likewise, conservatives win elections using overloading, and so do progressives. Rathe than reason. Because reason is frail, but intuition is extremely powerful. They overload our reason while over-saturating our intuition.

    It’s not that he who is right wins. It’s he who talks most.

    Medial, like the church, is a vehicle for programming.

    And they programmed us with every pseudoscience possible.

    They created religion – the first lie. Then they created Pseudoscience – the second great system of lies.

    They used the same technique both times.

    LAW AND DEFENSE ARE DIFFERENT FROM LYING AND ADVOCACY

    Our system is purely defensive. We prevent against lies, leaving only truth. We prevent against free riding, leaving only production. The common law is not a form of advocacy, it is a form of defense. Liberty is not a commandment it’s a defense against creating tyrants, and it leaves freedom to innovate behind. Science is not a form of advocacy, it’s a form of correcting our interpretations of the world, and it leaves techniques and technology behind. Conservatism is not a means of advocacy, it’s scientific: if it works we will adopt it, but do not forcibly adopt that which hasn’t been demonstrated to work. We don’t tell people what to do, we tell people what not to do:

    It’s the job of the church (public intellectuals) to advocate for private action, but advocacy for public action is theft, and destroys the civic society.

    Political advocacy is lying. In fact, isn’t all political speech an attempted theft?

    The Nazarene was wrong, and Aethelred was right: you don’t do unto others as you would have done unto you. You do not unto others as they would not have done unto them.

    We had it right: church/academy/intelligentsia for advocacy, state for resolution of disputes, militia for prevention of power accumulation, and the civic society for action. There are no unemployed in the civic society. There is always civic work to be done.

    All so that we could steal the state from the aristocracy and use it to improve our economic standing, by using the state and the military to improve it. We opened Pandora’s box. And the new world funded it.

    ADVOCACY IS AGGRESSION, BECAUSE POSITIVE ACTION BY THE STATE CAN ONLY BE VIA AGGRESSION.

    We were the people who told the truth. We were conquered by the people who lied. For the N’th time.

    F__k.


    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-30 01:17:00 UTC

  • WITH PROPERTARIAN PROPERTY RIGHTS…. …universal standing, the common (polycen

    WITH PROPERTARIAN PROPERTY RIGHTS….

    …universal standing, the common (polycentric) law, shareholder dividends (what we think of as direct redistribution, but is constructed as a dividend), what policy is there for us to advocate? If we can’t justify stealing from one another by force of law then what can we try to do, without majority rule?

    Well, a lot of commons, a lot of contracts, but no thefts. Propertarianism leads us to contractual government. We separate the law, from our contracts. Our law remains constant but we construct voluntary contracts for whatever we need to. Contracts expire, have terms and conditions, and laws do not.


    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-27 02:20:00 UTC

  • Completing the Transformation of Man?

    [I] want to talk about the experience of the mind, under economics, science and operationalism, versus under language, logic and math under platonism. But I don’t know the words to use. There is a very great similarity between language, logic, math, mysticism and religion, that is not extant in economics, science, and operationalism. Now, I sort of ‘get’ it. But I can’t quite figure out how to talk about it. One of the problems is that under internally consistent mythos (declarative inventions) we call axiomatic systems, and objective reality (externally correspondent descriptions (descriptive statements) we call theoretical systems, is that there is some strange appearance of the infinite in axiomatic (mythical) systems that does not exist in theoretical (descriptive) systems. And I can’t quite put my finger on it. But I think Operationalism cures it. Maybe that is one of the metaphysical consequences of studying science and economics? Does it cure our native imaginary mysticism? Usually by writing something like this I can touch what is on the tip of my tongue. And I’m failing. But I know it’s something like this: when we describe an axiomatic system, it is unbounded by reality’s limits. I even know why it is so – the limit of the number of concepts we can run at one time. I know that we are often ‘awed’ by what should not awe us but be obvious: that whenever we stipulate models or axioms we construct all possible consequences in that utterance, even though we cannot ‘imagine’ all such possible consequences. Our imagination takes license to create ‘the imaginary reality’ out of what was merely a computationally larger set of consequences than our feeble minds can process. What bit of cognitive bias and psychology makes us attracted to the imaginary? Is it another garden of eden? An intellectual space where we are unbounded by reality for just a moment? I think so. I think it evokes the feeling of the undiscovered valley full of new resources and prey. It’s a cognitive bias. An evolutionary instinct. And another instinct or cognitive bias that is no longer useful in our current state. Does science train us out of it? I think so. We still have people, and I think we try to create people, who obtain their awe from scientific, or in the case of TED viewers, pseudoscientific, rather than imaginary exploration? But without operationalism the ‘conversion’ of scientific man is incomplete. Maybe that is what the 20th century represented? The last throws of mysticism? Our attempt to hold onto the imaginary garden of eden where we are unburdened by reality? Is that fascination in the 20th century a reaction to the vast increases in scale that affected all of our lives? Is it a distraction from alienation, disempowerment, the loss of our traditions, and the desperate need to feel we could regain previous sense of control and certainty. Is our job to complete the transformation? To abandon our last mysteries? So that we can RESTORE OUR CIVIL SOCIETY and once again eliminate our alienation? The central problem of modernity?

  • Completing the Transformation of Man?

    [I] want to talk about the experience of the mind, under economics, science and operationalism, versus under language, logic and math under platonism. But I don’t know the words to use. There is a very great similarity between language, logic, math, mysticism and religion, that is not extant in economics, science, and operationalism. Now, I sort of ‘get’ it. But I can’t quite figure out how to talk about it. One of the problems is that under internally consistent mythos (declarative inventions) we call axiomatic systems, and objective reality (externally correspondent descriptions (descriptive statements) we call theoretical systems, is that there is some strange appearance of the infinite in axiomatic (mythical) systems that does not exist in theoretical (descriptive) systems. And I can’t quite put my finger on it. But I think Operationalism cures it. Maybe that is one of the metaphysical consequences of studying science and economics? Does it cure our native imaginary mysticism? Usually by writing something like this I can touch what is on the tip of my tongue. And I’m failing. But I know it’s something like this: when we describe an axiomatic system, it is unbounded by reality’s limits. I even know why it is so – the limit of the number of concepts we can run at one time. I know that we are often ‘awed’ by what should not awe us but be obvious: that whenever we stipulate models or axioms we construct all possible consequences in that utterance, even though we cannot ‘imagine’ all such possible consequences. Our imagination takes license to create ‘the imaginary reality’ out of what was merely a computationally larger set of consequences than our feeble minds can process. What bit of cognitive bias and psychology makes us attracted to the imaginary? Is it another garden of eden? An intellectual space where we are unbounded by reality for just a moment? I think so. I think it evokes the feeling of the undiscovered valley full of new resources and prey. It’s a cognitive bias. An evolutionary instinct. And another instinct or cognitive bias that is no longer useful in our current state. Does science train us out of it? I think so. We still have people, and I think we try to create people, who obtain their awe from scientific, or in the case of TED viewers, pseudoscientific, rather than imaginary exploration? But without operationalism the ‘conversion’ of scientific man is incomplete. Maybe that is what the 20th century represented? The last throws of mysticism? Our attempt to hold onto the imaginary garden of eden where we are unburdened by reality? Is that fascination in the 20th century a reaction to the vast increases in scale that affected all of our lives? Is it a distraction from alienation, disempowerment, the loss of our traditions, and the desperate need to feel we could regain previous sense of control and certainty. Is our job to complete the transformation? To abandon our last mysteries? So that we can RESTORE OUR CIVIL SOCIETY and once again eliminate our alienation? The central problem of modernity?

  • (sketch) (model) (computer model of polities) The literature of psychology and s

    (sketch) (model) (computer model of polities)

    The literature of psychology and sociology is not just littered, but polluted with the errors of universalism (equality etc). Where it isn’t it’s polluted with socialism or the fallacy of treating non-compliance and conformity as a disease rather than a specialization. So the axis of thought tends to be largely pseudoscientific if not just plain ‘wrong’. You may want to help an individual in terms of diagnoses, but you want to help a culture with an understanding of psychological _supply and demand_.

    ———————–

    Pretty sure this is about right. All can be represented as ‘v’ shaped curves I think, or overlapping bell curves

    1) SOLIPSISTIC – AUTISTIC SPECTRUM

    –FEMININE–

    …………”CRAZY”

    …………SOLIPSISTIC

    …………SENSITIVE

    …………CONSIDERATE

    –NORMAL–

    …………FOCUSED

    …………OCD

    …………ASPIE

    …………AUTIST

    –MASCULINE–

    2) IQ SPECTRUM – VERBAL SPECTRUM and SPATIAL SPECTRUM

    3) IMPULSIVITY SPECTRUM and TIME PREFERENCE SPECTRUM

    4) REPRODUCTIVE DESIRABILITY SPECTRUM and GROUP UTILITY SPECTRUM

    5) FAMILY STRUCTURE SPECTRUM MATERNAL(COLLECTIVE – socialism) and PATERNAL(INDIVIDUAL – property rights)

    6) MILITARY CRITERIA FOR ‘WINNING’ and GEOGRAPHY/TERRAIN SPECTRUM

    That’s a simple model. And I think it’s probably very predictive. I could add geography, and competitors to it and probably produce a wonderful model (simulation) and that would be pretty interesting.

    Be fascinating to start out with different data sets and see what survives to some sort of equilibrium.


    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-10 10:49:00 UTC

  • I suppose that I could draw a grid with the fields of inquiry on the left, and p

    I suppose that I could draw a grid with the fields of inquiry on the left, and proof criteria across the top. But I’d just rather keep it simple.

    Truth (testimony) in which you attest to some subset of the following:

    – Proof of Construction (causality in the form of actions of measurement reducible to sympathetic testing: ie: empiricism and instrumentalism)

    – Proof of Consistency (Internal Consistency: math, logic, protocol/test)

    – Proof of Falsification (parsimony)

    – Proof of Correspondence/Verification (correlation)

    Regarding a:

    – Theory (general rule of arbitrary precision) or if possible;

    – Theory (general rule of perfect parsimony)

    While paradigmatic shuffles are affected by changes in basic concepts, as far as I can tell, all statements reduced to operations, and satisfying the test of construction will result in increases in precision, not in falsification.

    At least, I can’t think of any exception to this theory that is not a mere verbalism, or mistake in understanding of the nature of precision. But it’s possible I am wrong.

    I could also take a clue from popper’s use of the funnel of time to illustrate a sort of spectrum of proofs. But I’ll have to think about it.

    What bothers me most is that we have ruined the term ‘truth’ in the vernacular and in science and philosophy. It is used as an allegorical, and general term for a multitude of cases most of which are not truths whatsoever, but mere analogies to truth. Worse, Popper brought his mystical heritage with him and conflated perfect parsimony (ultimate truth), with proof (demonstration of truth) and testimony (truth telling). Only one of those three things can exist – the last.

    Sigh….


    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-09 05:41:00 UTC

  • ARISTOCRATIC EGALITARIAN LIBERTARIANISM A kinship of property rights. The initia

    ARISTOCRATIC EGALITARIAN LIBERTARIANISM

    A kinship of property rights.

    The initiatic brotherhood of warriors.

    The cult of egalitarian sovereignty

    The origins of western exceptionalism.

    The only possible means of possessing liberty.

    I didn’t invent it. I just wrote it down. For the first time in 4000 years.


    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-17 07:30:00 UTC