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  • MORE ‘BERNARD’ (A SYNONYM FOR SOPHISM?) —A simple empirical issue with “Natura

    MORE ‘BERNARD’ (A SYNONYM FOR SOPHISM?)

    —A simple empirical issue with “Natural” Law based systems: The delusion of natural law is a design to create an unchangeable law.”—

    All laws of nature of unchangable, that’s what categorizes them as laws. We did not invent reciprocity. We discovered it. Every language throughout history that we know of has some version of ‘True/Not-False’ and ‘fair’/right/just’.

    Again, reciprocity is calculable and decidable independent of opinion.

    —“-A system based on an unchangeable law is a fixed system that cannot adapt to situations.”—

    I mean, there are very few laws of nature, and the whole of reality including us obeys them. There is only one law of cooperation and that is reciprocity, and all legal codes, all moral codes, and all civilizations obey them in one way or another. But we construct all sorts of arrangements using that very simple law – from the primitive consanguineous to the most advanced technological. And it has to be that way for people to rationally cooperate. (The fact that it produces Pareto power distributions and Nash equilibriums not optimums for any or equality for all is a feature, not fault – otherwise evolution by suppression of the parasitic (and defective) would be impossible. This is a physical law of nature. The fact that we use reciprocity to CALCULATE (measure) that physical law is simply knowledge of it’s existence. And the fact that some try to cheat that law to defeat their inferiority is also knowledge of its existence.

    So while all laws are unchangeable, our creativity in making use of them has been nearly endless.

    —“-Any system of rules can be abused (hacked).”—

    All social order suffer from the problem of centralizing rents(thefts, frauds, free riding) in order to suppress local rents, thereby increasing trust in production at the cost of decreasing trust in government. The problem is that few peoples have been successful at using central suppression of local (thefts, frauds, and rents). So yes because of the concentration of power in central suppression only courts and rule of law of reciprocity, and high trust society have succeeded in suppressing central rent seeking whatsoever. That said, as I’ve tried to show in my work, there is no reason why we cannot suppress those centralized rents as well as localized rents. It’s just a matter of continuing the expansion of the investments we insure against parasitism and predation, by expansion of the law, and removal of the freedom from prosecution of those in the centralization of suppression.

    —“As opposed to the delusions of Fascistic objectivists, hackable systems reward not the “geniuses” they envision, but the ones that are most able to hack the particular system.”—

    Well, truth, sovereignty, reciprocity, and as a consequence, markets in everything, are indeed fascist in the sense that such juridical system (nomocracy) leaves no room for opposition (lying, non-sovereignty, irreciprocity, and involuntary organization of productions of all kinds.) SO yes, that’s why I call nomocracy (humorously) market fascism for the same reason truth is a fascism. You can’t really oppose truth, sovereignty, and reciprocity and justify it as anything other than parasitism and dysgenia.

    —“As people realize a patch is impossible, they will slowly develop a desire to change the law so that it rewards people for helping the group instead of abusing it.”—-

    Historically, the means of circumventing a failure of legal operation is civil conflict, revolt, or revolution. The anglo saxon system has lasted the longest by far for the simple reason that all that has been required is a conflict followed by increasing the limits on the state and increasing the participation of the membership. Compare that with the french or italian or for god’s sake russian and chinese…. The Hindus are interesting because while a deeply feminine civilization and easily and repeatedly dominated, and unable to develop technological civilization, they maintained the same system of rule effectively forever.

    But conversely what you suggest is simply false. Monarchies and governments have allowed trading posts or ‘ghettos’ to use their own customary rule internally but forced reciprocity across groups. In fact every attempt to produce a competing law has been suppressed because the only reason to do so is fraud. This is the purpose of pirate alliances, borderlands, and libertarian and marxist communes, and neoconservatives empires. They are always defeated because they must of necessity exist by escaping the costs of the commons that make private production possible.

    —“This creates a subgroup that will crush the fixed system as hacking becomes more and more optimized and more and more unfair.”—

    Except that has never happened right? Look what France and the Church did to the Templars. The opposite has always happened. Subgroups are crushed. Because in the end, we are always evolving toward reciprocity because we are always expanding scale of cooperation. Otherwise we enter into war. Which is simply the choice of predation over cooperation.

    —“-Eventually, a patchable system will be created to allow the group to react to hackers.”—

    Again that’s never happened. The best can be said is that the jews in the absence of the templars exploited the aristocracy’s bias against usury, and eventually rolled into the Rothschild/Napoleon/Bank of England debacle. Precisely becuase aristocracy found usury irreciprocal (dirty, and immoral).

    So the rest of what you wrote is just wishful thinking nonsense contrary ot history contrary to incentives, and as such contrary to logic.

    The strong rule, the weak are ruled, and the strong practice extraction in exchange for forcing reciprocity upon the ordinary people – because it’s simply the most profitable option, and profits are needed to finance the most profitable industry of all: RULE.

    –DRIVEL BELOW THIS LINE—

    —“-The power to patch will be more and more decentralized to avoid abuse as time shows that fixed authority figures are too hackable a feature. -Eventually, any group will very slowly decentralize law systems to make them too fluid to hack. -The system is as unhackable as possible when it is fully decentralized. At that point, hacking the system will require hacking an amount of subsystems equivalent to a human critical mass necessary for coercion.-To defend against it, people will slowly develop their own patchability via philosophy so that they themselves become hard to hack. This is done by abandoning individual morality and adopting a dialectical ethical system within oneself. This is only true if the original system allows for something to abuse. Property is such a feature.”—

    Like i said. Drivel.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-17 14:27:00 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle shared a post

    Curt Doolittle shared a post.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-17 14:16:00 UTC

  • Every forced transfer is a loss at the expense of an opportunity for a productiv

    Every forced transfer is a loss at the expense of an opportunity for a productive reciprocal exchange. The exchange the wealthy desire is respect for property of all kinds, leading to stoicism in the individual, since it is only stoicism that both requires action and prevents all imposition of costs upon *everything*: display (sound, sight, appearance, movement), word, and deed.

    The underclass wants redistribution AND discounts on consumption without paying the cost of respect for the property that makes it possible: physical, behavioral, informational, institutional, territorial, environmental.

    The underclass lacks agency which is the reason for their low GMV (genetic market value: reproductive, social, economic, informational, political, and military).

    If we train one another in stoicism we can implement redistribution.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-17 14:15:00 UTC

  • “—“Any even semi free nation that doesn’t have ICBMs is a free rider on the co

    —“—“Any even semi free nation that doesn’t have ICBMs is a free rider on the commons of the USA”— I don’t know why I never thought of the military as the commons. Just hit me”— A Friend.

    Once you start seeing it, you start seeing it everywhere – and then you understand…..


    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-17 13:58:00 UTC

  • Untitled

    https://www.quora.com/Do-any-philosophers-take-Modal-realism-seriously-How-Why/answer/Curt-Doolittle?share=ec2058bd&srid=u4Qv

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-17 11:03:00 UTC

  • NO, WE CAN DESIGN SAFE AI (AS WELL) Decidability. We have intuition to decide wh

    NO, WE CAN DESIGN SAFE AI (AS WELL)

    Decidability. We have intuition to decide what we cannot reason. A machine needs the same intuition (biases). We could give it a bias to ‘give up’ or ‘go to sleep’. Or we could give it a bias to merely ‘talk’. We don’t like to confront the fact that ‘consciousness’ of a human being relies upon a competition between a predator-bias, and a prey-bias. We can likewise create all AI’s in pairs sharing the same memory but relying upon different decidability (weights), one with a change bias, and one with a safety bias, with decidability provided by the differences (limits). I don’t fear AI because I have worked on the problem for a long time and I understand that most of the experience of human consciousness evolved to keep us motivated amidst extraordinary informational challenge. All AI’s have to do, is what we do: no violate property (investments) of others. The difference is that it’s actually easier to regulate an ai with algorithms. With people we need norms, traditions, laws, courts, and punishment, and we still are just barely good enough at it.

    The problem is creating and enforcing a death sentence for every single person involved in creating any other kind of AI.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-17 08:42:00 UTC

  • “Politics and religion are different and are extremely hard to mix together”—J

    —“Politics and religion are different and are extremely hard to mix together”—James Portocarrero

    Judaism and islam do it. The church was too weak to do it. Chinese never had the problem.

    WHY:

    homogeneity = reason. Heterogeneity = Religion.

    THAT’S THE REASON

    The problem is heterogeneity (diversity).

    Religion = Stagnation to create homogeneity that doesn’t exist.

    Law = Adaptation to change in homogeneity that does exist.

    REALLY. THAT’S IT.

    There is a reason for ‘demand’ for religion

    There is a reason for ‘demand’ for socialization.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-17 08:13:00 UTC

  • MORE ON THE ECONOMICS OF NEURONS by Pat Ryan Neurons don’t have a complete nucle

    MORE ON THE ECONOMICS OF NEURONS

    by Pat Ryan

    Neurons don’t have a complete nucleus. Evolution has determined that letting neurons go through mitosis is a terrible idea and when you think about it, that makes sense.

    If I can just conjure up a huge amount of neurons to process all of the information the universe can generate, I will quickly run myself out of glucose and oxygen to the point of death.

    So… any organism that went down the road of mitosis scale died for those reasons and only neurons that were denied access to mitosis persisted.

    That means a fundamental disconnect between genetic cognition and neural cognition: Genetics operates on exponential scales to match inputs, but neurons operate by intentionally limiting inputs. You just can’t see every photon a light bulb generates or you’re going to literally die very quickly.

    Therefore, what you see about reality is the direct byproduct of this lack of scale-driven neural mitosis. This is the root mechanism responsible for “awareness” and is the core part of all evolution of intelligence.

    The alternative is a slime mold, which DOES go through mitosis and operates somewhat like a colony of neurons.. but it cannot get beyond that state because there is no pressure to manage established connections when you can just always grow outward to solve your problems.

    Locationists can suck it! Entropy is the only way!


    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-16 21:00:00 UTC

  • re: commensurability —“Time horizons and acquisition strategies couple to whic

    re: commensurability

    —“Time horizons and acquisition strategies couple to which grammar one uses (low investment, short time horizon etc etc)”— Bill Joslin


    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-16 18:28:00 UTC

  • If we forcibly moved all of them to Palestine, then in about four centuries they

    If we forcibly moved all of them to Palestine, then in about four centuries they’ll be ethically protestant. Why? Landholding ethics, and high trust ethics needed to scale organizations. Either that or they’d be defeated. We forget they had a professional class but never a middle MANAGERIAL class.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-16 18:15:00 UTC