Some of my thinking was ‘catalyzed’ by Matt Levine at Bloomberg discursively talking about gold.
Sure, the modern Cathedral can dismiss gold as a negative carry, non-interest bearing flight of fancy valued by fools (disclosure: I do own gold but not in size).
Mr Levine basically said (paraphrased) well, hang on, gold historically has been a social-proofing status enhancer.
Why? To woo a Prince or Princess with a Golden Crown embedded a statement that one is in control of mining technologies, distribution networks, protected storage, rendering skills into consumer goods, and marketing technology.
Is crypto mining really that different?
Instead of digging dirt we are digging digital constructs.
The successful arbitrage is ruthlessly exploiting tax, energy, labor and chip technology to maximize coin intake. And not inconsiderable skill to choose which coin to mine.
For all of my friends who challenge me crypto is utter chaff, please deliver me 5 bitcoins 3 ethers and 2 moneros within four weeks that you did not purchase on an exchange or off-market swap.
Coins that you mined. Is it free?
Is it money for nothing? Do academic credentials mint pure profit?
It is utter chaff, right? No serious men could be competing.
A Milton Friedman license to print. A James Bond license to kill. A PT Barnum Bailey Bros license to thrill.
Um. I don’t think they’ll be different, for reasons I hope to publish this year. Although there is a substantial difference…
Chomsky can take 40 minutes to communicate an idea, and if you look at his sentence structure and vocabulary it’s extraordinary. I cannot match Chomsky’s context-retention during his discourses. This is how I know he’s smarter than I am. His ability to ‘maintain state’ while communicating complex relations and stories is exceptional.
Despite working at it terribly hard, I find ‘simplification’ extremely difficult, and I find I use a variation on latin grammar, more 19th century sentence structure, and overwhelm the audience very easily with content.
If you listen to young adults they often have trouble forming complete sentences, paragraphs, and narratives with any degree of precision (they require shared context).
Some people (me when I was younger) and many people in the tech field for example, speak very very fast with very high word counts. Some people cannot manage that at all.
Some people use large vocabularies to concentrate more content in fewer words while preserving or increasing precision.
Some groups use terms (english, german) and some tones (chinese). Where terms are more precise because they are less demanding of deduction.
Some groups use (awful) high context grammar, and some low context grammar.
It appears that once you develop the ability to communicate in language all that matters is the increasing content and precision of that communication method. So we evolved from simple vocal sounds serialized. Others might evolved from parallel tones. Maybe others from some other form of display.
Language must at least originate with analogy to experience, so its possible that creatures with different senses or processing (octopods) might use analogies that took us time to decode.
So if you look across just that set of dimensions you can imagine that some very smart species would speak very quickly, in very precise very dense grammar, with a very large vocabulary, with long sentences (transactions), and long narratives, in serial (informationally limited) or more parallel (informationally dense) means.
And thisso their context retention ability and processing ability would be higher than ours.
That said, for reasons that chomsky defends his universal grammar (and for the same reasons that while base number would change and the vocabulary will change, all mathematical systems would be the same)
Once you grasp that the term ‘grammar’ means ‘continuous disambiguation’, but that actions in the real world cause languages to eventually converge on the descriptive through nothing other than competition, then
This continuous disambiguation is important because it corresponds to falsification (eliminative), just as continuous construction correspondes to justificationism (cumulative). And as such it turns out that since falsehood has a higher truth content than truth claims, the via negativa of continuous disambiguation is the counter intuitive but descriptive and necessary means of communication of truth content.
—“Curt, would you say the English model of “contracts” paved the way for removing people from blood, soil and kinship loyalty?”—
Um. It looks like Scandinavian and maybe northern european groups in general were organized as militial freemen back into prehistory – they could choose their leadership and form ‘private corporations’ so to speak to raid, conquer, and settle land. This ancient european custom led to Germanic law in general which lead to anglo-saxon law in particular, incorporated manorialism (sort of like land owners seeking franchisees), and prior to and up into the Hansa, iteratively developed ‘rule of law’ or rather ‘rule without rulers’, and english law is essentially contractualism, and the British and American constitutions contracts. At present we call this the ‘anglo saxon model’ in which (until say the 1970’s) has been employed across the anglosphere (britan, america, canada, australia, new zealand). This ‘contractualism’ is not existent elsewhere. Because militial civilization (sovereignty, reciprocity, truth, duty, voluntary organization/markets) was not possible or did not evolve elsewhere. So I think it’s been a battle between contractual, kinship-contract, and dominance/ownership models throughout time with the militial and naval developing contractual, and the militial and army developing kin-contract, and we have been largely free of the rest of the world’s ‘dominance/ownership’ and ‘religious kinship’ models. And I think until the postwar years we preserved it. (Women and other groups cannot function in this model. The enlightenment was wrong, women’s suffrage was wrong, universal suffrage was wrong.)
photos_and_videos/TimelinePhotos_43196237263/33613824_10156384250962264_6901631257734545408_o_10156384250952264.jpg UM, DO YOU THINK I SHOULD TREAT THIS AS HATE MAIL?
wth? (From my Facebook Inbox)Rafa Flaco DominguezHe Dindu nuffin wrong. LmaoMay 27, 2018 3:20pmHoward Van Der KlauwI got something similar from courageous “Facebook User”May 27, 2018 3:22pmBjorn MoritzIf it was printed out, at least you could wipe your arse with it.May 27, 2018 3:22pmCJ Carver@[741197263:2048:Curt Doolittle] here is the proper response to that kind of message.May 27, 2018 3:23pmBarry BroomeComplete misapplication of the term ‘subhuman trash’.May 27, 2018 3:27pmRussell WagnerJust more blah-blah-blah.May 27, 2018 3:27pmChris McAn inferiority complex is a helluva drug.May 27, 2018 3:36pmCJ CarverIt keeps me busy lol.May 27, 2018 3:39pmCJ CarverJk but i think everyone is a little worried about that 😅May 27, 2018 3:40pmCJ CarverJust keep this saved on your phone 📲May 27, 2018 3:40pmNeil A. Bucklewenvy mailMay 27, 2018 3:55pmJean LeonardPerfectly lovely, but I’ve heard far worse…in public.May 27, 2018 3:58pmEric BestWOKEMay 27, 2018 4:07pmBrandon VaughnYes.May 27, 2018 4:14pmBrandon VaughnThat guy really gets around.May 27, 2018 4:15pmLuke Weinhagenit’s fear mailMay 27, 2018 5:08pmPj PridgenThis is like if someone conducted an experiment where they kept a kid in a cell and taught them everything exactly backward.May 27, 2018 5:27pmChris McThis is basically what has happened.May 27, 2018 5:38pmRoss LampersIt’s true, curt, you are a cave man. It’s just like, Ugh.May 27, 2018 5:57pmJaimz Beel(((Which))) white man is he actually referring to?May 27, 2018 5:58pmSteven KolpekHe says via world wide web on his computational device in the English language.May 27, 2018 6:06pmDaniel Roland AndersonMay 27, 2018 6:55pmAleksandr J. McIntyreWEMay 27, 2018 6:56pmAndrew ClaytonI’d like to see @[741197263:2048:Curt Doolittle] vs that guy (assuming it’s a guy) on the next internet bloodsportsMay 27, 2018 7:20pmRory Yngvilderwell, these are your followers… look her up. says alot about u i guessMay 27, 2018 8:10pmLincoln Thurmanwho, who, Who.. the f-ck are You.. Man?May 27, 2018 8:13pmJames SantagataIt could well be hate mail, if so, your Yeoman’s work is paying off. Sadly, there is a good possibility, it could be some Alt-righter taking a page outta of the “Hey Rabbi, what chya doing?” and sending out the equivalent of Lefty Swastikas to all rightwingers. Could be a fake hate crime. :DMay 27, 2018 8:46pmShea McCurdyRespond with a song from our mmbuddy Sven.
http://youtu.be/3tWWyUK560YMay 27, 2018 9:11pmAlex BirchThat was my sock puppet. Sorry I was drunk won’t happen again.May 27, 2018 9:17pmJeff UrizenSpamMay 27, 2018 9:25pmAlberto R Zambrano UIts love mailMay 27, 2018 9:27pmMatt JohnsonThe West is the bestMay 27, 2018 9:33pmDavin EastleyOh, sure, the West has produced nothing! HHAAHAHA. Does he realise the irony of that, typing that on Facebook, on a computer or phone, which is the product of, um, Western science, mathematics and engineering?May 28, 2018 3:56amKaleb ParisPostbellum descendant.May 28, 2018 8:13amDarren O’ConnorWUZMay 28, 2018 9:19amAleksandr J. McIntyreKAAAAAANNNGGZMay 28, 2018 11:30amZak HaffnerWhat ignoranceMay 28, 2018 11:55amHoward Van Der KlauwMy version was GFYS western caveman (paraphrased). Someone doesn’t like Curt’s aristocratic learnings or his listeners.May 28, 2018 6:50pmEric RushIf you scroll down, it’s signed, “Love, mom.” :)May 28, 2018 7:40pmHank Hill-whipLmao thats a good one!May 28, 2018 11:21pmRory YngvilderHank Hill-whip ^^racistMay 28, 2018 11:23pmRory YngvilderChris Carmichael do you hate blacks? Want me dead? 😂 Have the balls to say it hereMay 29, 2018 12:31amHank Hill-whipI don’t hate blacks but i certainly don’t want to live anywhere with a black majority and i bet you feel the same way daquanMay 29, 2018 12:51amRory YngvilderHank Hill-whip most racists like you don’t have the courage to say that you want blacks dead or out of the country. You’re a coward just like all other racists. Just say what you mean.May 29, 2018 1:01amRory YngvilderChris Carmichael Your civilization is a legacy of murder, rape, theft and slavery. Why don’t you tell me what you really think of me, you coward?May 29, 2018 1:23amHank Hill-whipLmao no i actually respect blacks for not being afraid to speak their mind, for telling homosexuals to fuck off, for being unapologetically ethnocentric, and for their masculine character. I do not hate black people. I hate you. Your a filthy m**key and lack all of the black traits i admire. Frigg off loser.May 29, 2018 2:05amHank Hill-whipBlack civilization is a history of tribes literally doing nothing creating nothing and being nothing. You are nothing and your people have only been able to actualize themselves through white intervention and you should be groveling, not at the feet of individual white men, but at the legacy of whitenessMay 29, 2018 2:07amRory YngvilderHank Hill-whip America is no longer your country. 100 years from now you won’t recognize America, and there’s nothing a white racist piece of shit like you can do about it. That’s the funniest thing…May 29, 2018 2:34amRory YngvilderChris Carmichael my goal in life is to impregnate as many white women as possible… They love it, because they’re so unsatisfied with tiny white penis. I’m gonna breed out you white people.. 😂🍆🍆🍆May 29, 2018 2:36amHank Hill-whipThe funniest thing will be when all the monkeys starve after we are gone because after 20k years y’all still haven’t figured out farmingMay 29, 2018 8:49amCurt Doolittlewe are gonna starve them out becasue cities are just plantations subject to easy seige.May 29, 2018 8:50amHank Hill-whip@[741197263:2048:Curt Doolittle] That’s if we can ever muster up the will to fight to survive. It’s not a matter of if we can beat them we have throughout history its the will to fight we lackMay 29, 2018 8:51amCurt DoolittleWe just need a single event and it will occur before, during, or right after the next election cycle. We would have already had it had clinton been elected.May 29, 2018 8:52amHank Hill-whipWhat kind of event are you thinking? Im thinking our zookeepers are keeping us too well fed and entertained for enough people to want to rock the boatMay 29, 2018 8:54amCharlton WardI absolutely love personal attacks.. it proves they have no other argument, and are ill informed.. checkmate normieMay 29, 2018 10:35amJames Dmitro MakienkoN SHIIIIIIET!!!!!May 29, 2018 10:37amCharlton WardSaying what i mean/how i feel:
I know plenty of blacks that are great individuals, but I’m not going to cry NAXALT. We know the black community statistically and it is in need of help. Be it a cultural revamp or ethno stateMay 29, 2018 10:46amBill JoslinRory is why we have a resurgence of hateMay 29, 2018 3:28pmZach Matto”Never been able to build advanced civilization”
Yet the Romans had hot running baths and working sewers before some cultures even invented the wheel…May 29, 2018 4:26pmCharlton Ward”Your civilization is a legacy of murder, rape, theft and slavery..”
The black community leads our country in murder, rape, and theft per capita.. what a great addition!
Slavery is a history of nearly every nation. What makes America unique is whites killed other whites and family to free said slaves.. no other nation has done this..
Just a question.. if blacks are so great, why are you with a white girl? 🤔May 29, 2018 4:42pmHaley HardingOh you edited out your creepy sexual advances huh?
The only white women who are interested in you are fat & homelyMay 29, 2018 10:39pmZak Douglaslol. you couldnt build a civilization in the stone age cave man….. yeah but we built one now so what’s your point.May 30, 2018 11:33amUM, DO YOU THINK I SHOULD TREAT THIS AS HATE MAIL?
—“SHOULD I STUDY (FOR A PHD IN ) AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS?”—-
If you study to be an Austrian Economist at GMU you will be in demand. (Ask them, and they’ll tell you. Look at placement data.) Why? Austrian Econ (bottom up, micro, entrepreneurial, and political economy) is a rare specialization that is methodologically rigorous and extremely valuable to certain sectors, certain governments, certain political parties, and to the financial and investment sector in particular.
If you just want to teach orthodox (Leftist) econ (top down macro and public choice) you are better off in the orthodox camp. If you want a balance, study at Chicago.
I think we are within twenty years of catastrophic reorganization of the field, and that if you are young, and interested in Austrian Econ, your long term prospects are quite good.
I have evolved (by accident) into a specialist in natural law (reciprocity) and rule of law (non-discretion), resulting in markets(voluntary cooperation) in all walks of life. Part of this specialization is an extraordinarily precise criteria for truthful speech, the result of which is completing the scientific method.
So since Austrian econ is the closest possible model to rule of law, I tend to consider myself somewhere between austrian and chicago, with a bias to austrian in law, and a bias toward chicago in the production of commons.
Austrian econ is an appropriated term. Because there are two branches : Mengerian, which is fully integrated into mainstream thought, and Misesian, which is not.
I’ve written exhaustively about the failures of Mises and Rothbard even if Mises came very close to one of the most important discoveries in economic history. He calls this positivist (justificationary) discipline ‘praxeology’, but this is a pseudoscientific claim.
If however, we combine mises with popper (falsificationism), and mathematical intuitionism and the operationalist movement in physics, you realize that mises tried to make a positive axiomatic logic out of economics, rather than realize he had discovered falsificationism in economics. And then rothbard came along and ruined Mises reputation so badly that we can’t rescue it.
To say you are an Austrian today probably means nothing other than that you seek to improve institutions of cooperation, and are rather firm in the belief that the business cycle must be allowed to self correct regularly or it will only increase and expand corrections until a ‘collapse’.
To be a ‘praxeologist’ in the positivist stense requires you’re a bit of an idiot – because in fact, economic phenomenon at any scale must eventually be discovered empirically. On the other hand, as a falsificationist, to say ‘If I can’t construct that observed phenomenon from rational human choices then it can’t be true” means you’ve learned the lesson that Mises inarticulately tried to teach us.
And if you study both austrian econ and the law you understand that mises and rothbard (and hoppe) were confused, in that mainstream econ violates natural law (reciprocity), spends down accumulated capital of the most precious categories to increase population that overloads the earth, and is objectively immoral by ever standard.
As far as I know Austrian Econ today favors the study of behavior, entrepreneurship(individual choice), political economy(institutional impact on economies), and preservation of rule of law over rule by discretion. So the state is the provider of cooperative institutions.
As far as I know Chicago tends to maintain these but emphasize monetary policy moreso – with the state as insurer of last resort.
As far as I know Saltwater (Mainstream) tends to seek to maximize consumption at the expense of rule of law – replacing it with rule by discretion, with the state as the direct manipulator of the economy.
These are actually moral predispositions which is why people self select into these specializations.
Feminine coercion, the hostile male vs female environment our society creates with all the negative incentives and the lack of punishment for telling lies. Every thing you talked about on the shoah summed up in a single case of what is actually a common occurrence. Not only lying, but flagrant lying that nearly killed a man is unpunished.
I think nietzsche is mandatory reading IF you can enjoy reading him. I think if you can’t handle nietzsche then try Evola for the esoteric and Chesterson for the realistic.
