People overestimate past genius, because after you’ve cross about what we consider 130 today discoveries have a lot more to do with hard work and the person’s position history. Smart is pretty good but hard work … no substitute.
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-02 15:13:00 UTC
EXISTENCE
—“It’s worth distinguishing between the knowledge of a referrer and the existence of its referent. We clearly know of the referrer (concept) we call ‘unicorn’, and might someday be able to bring some approximation of a unicorn into existence as a referent. The referent of the referrer ‘unicorn’ is not real, meaning it does not exist insofar as there isn’t a thing you can point to in the world and say ‘this is what I mean’.”–Trent Fowler
Knowledge(know,knowing) is a verb – an action – not a noun (thing). Knowledge exists as long as a living mind exists to hold it, or a record of knowledge exists that is reconstructable into knowledge (experience), just as running exists only while a person runs.
Knowledge of a unicorn exists, and we label such knowledge a ‘concept’ which means some category or other of referrer. Knowledge of concepts exists, but concepts do not. Knowledge of unicorns exists, but unicorns do not.
Horses exist.
Dinosaurs did exist, but other than their descendants: reptiles and birds do not.
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-02 12:54:00 UTC
It takes a great deal of Agency to speak truthfully; and learning to speak truthfully provides you with Agency. Operational grammar of testimonial speech is as important as reading, mathematics, and logic.
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-02 12:41:00 UTC
—“Italy has more genetic diversity than the rest of Europe combined.”—Alexander Zavialov
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-02 12:27:00 UTC
-“Northern Europeans are closely related to each other, not Southern. The genetic distance between a Welshman and a Russian is smaller than the distance between a Northeast Frenchman and a Southern Frenchman.”-Alexander Zavialov
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-02 12:26:00 UTC
The best way to prevent a violent revolution is to submit an equitable proposal for the resolution of conflicts, and to create the absolute certainty that the status quo will end violently otherwise. The best revolutions are those that are resolved out of fear of fighting, not those that are fought.
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-02 12:06:00 UTC
You see, they swarm through an urban area, shoot out the transformers or short the wires with chain, turn on then break the hydrants eliminating water pressure, start interior fires in every building they pass. Hammer open the cash machines, load up on food from the markets, and entrap and decimate first responders, and then just keep moving. Amidst the chaos they empty the banks, and with sufficient numbers take the armories. It’s when they’re dramatic rather than practical that they lose. Now, they had a minimum of 30k men, and possibly a maximum of 200k men. What do you think would happen with one, two, or five million men? There are four hours of power, maybe three days of water, five to seven days of food, and without electronic transfers and distributions, millions of malcontents with pent up anger and ready violence to exacerbate the chaos. If men spread out into a small number of large groups in a series of cities it will take less than three weeks. Revolutions are always suspect in prospect but deterministic in retrospect. And those are just the revolutions that are unplanned. The era of state warfare is over. They have proven it. There has never been a civilization more fragile, and a government so weak.
(Let a thousand nations bloom.)
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-02 12:01:00 UTC
(brilliant)
by Ana Stowe
—“Is hitting ok?”—
Oh I see. This is a question from a man who likes women who bite and wants the thrill of taming her.
It’s the same selfish line of reasoning as a woman who dates the dregs of society thinking she can “fix” him.
I say “selfish” because neither thinks of the children. Have you ever even been around domestic violence? Gotten a frantic phone call from a younger sibling who’s scared because they saw dad hit mom through a crack in the bedroom door?
Men who hit women have an awful effect on the children. And your wife, your children, and everyone who knew you will breathe a sigh of relief and spit on your grave when you’re dead.
Stop indulging in film noire fantasies and get a woman who’s going to work with you for the wellbeing of your children
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-02 11:36:00 UTC
by John Reeves
“The poor will always be with you.” ~ Jesus Christ
“No they won’t.” ~ CRISPR
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-02 11:25:00 UTC
Reminder: I’m an anti-philosophy philosopher. I do science, economics, and law. Everything else is fictionalism.
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-02 11:23:00 UTC