by Noah J Revoy
We eat harmfully.
We choose partners dysgenically.
We manage stress short-sightedly.
We don’t “weed our own garden”.
We give our children to the government too deeply, too young and for too long.
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-01 18:14:00 UTC
QUOTES
—“Beware the beast, man. Let him not breed in great numbers. For he will make a desert of his home, and yours. Shun him. Drive him back into his lair. For he is the harbinger of death.”—
—“The zombie apocalypse is here. They just have 80 IQ’s rather than 40, the virus is linguistic, and not very contagious, and you don’t have to shoot them in the head – anywhere at all will do.”—
—“By any measure there is no intrinsic value to a given human life. Just the opposite – value is rare, and man is an expensive, destructive, and toxic life form for the biosphere to carry in great numbers. There is no problem facing mankind that is not trivial in comparison to the rates of reproduction of the underclasses. Eugenic reproduction will provide the next century with higher returns than any technology.”—
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-01 18:09:00 UTC
“CURT, WHAT IS YOUR POSITION ON THE ORIGIN OF LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE?”
—“Where are you on the ‘origins’ questions, life and the universe? Do you think it matters if we are here by chance or by design?”—Matt Lawlor
As far as I know we are nothing but a consequence of emergent complexity as life is the only known means of defeating entropy – with cooperation a multiplier, communication a multiplier, and intelligence a multiplier.
So just as we see particles (wave effects) culminating in the components of atoms, culminating in elements, culminating in materials, culminating in cycles, culminating in biology, culminating in advanced life forms, I just see our existence as the net result of trial and error made possible by relatively ideal conditions in our rather rural safe zone in the galaxy in the relatively ideal conditions in this zone of the universe.
It’s a beautiful thing that we exist, and we exist at this very young stage of the universe, and it’s possible or likely that we are a relatively rare thing in this galaxy if not in the universe, but the fact that sentient life exists is probably a relatively deterministic consequence of the value of conservation of energy in the face of permanent entropy.
I think we are rare and the only crime we can commit is not seeking to be the gods we can be, in case there are no others yet, because of infrequency of conditions.
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-01 18:01:00 UTC
WHY DIRECT REDISTRIBUTION OF LIQUIDITY VS TAX BREAKS, MONETARY POLICY(INTEREST) OR FISCAL POLICY(SPENDING)
Timeliness. In a shock, tax breaks, lowering interest rates, and fiscal policy are extremely slow, and it certainly appears from the data, largely ineffectual compared to simply distributing cash to every citizen to do with as he may.
During the 2008 Crisis only me and Galbraith were talking about it (and I am nobody). Later a few others tepidly put forward the argument. Galbraith died, or he might have gotten somewhere.
We could have all but paid off american home mortgages with the trillions we spent. So that was what I recommended. We could have done that and the world pricing structure would not have had to adjust.
Since then I’ve come to understand that while MMT cannot work without hyperinflation, (a) there is no meaningful reason for consumer interest, and (b) there is no meaningful reason for NOT distributing liquidity directly to consumers rather than through the financial system (monetary policy), the state (fiscal policy), or tax rebates (tax policy).
The problems with these methods is that they must be algorithmic (rule of law) just as is targeting the money supply today, or politicians will destroy the economy for votes.
The reason I advocate this system is not just reciprocity (and therefore morality) but I want to force the financial system to seek returns on innovation (investment) rather than returns on rents (loans). And I want to addict the population to those returns, so that the bureaucratic government is incrementally eroded in return for increasing those direct redistributions, and so that people are hesitant to allow immigrants who merely capture those dividends leaving less for the citizenry.
This is the best way to kill the state I have ever come across.
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-01 17:51:00 UTC
From what I can gather, the current price of a slave in Libya is $200. Which is about the going price of an AK-47 around the world. It’s interesting that the price of a human life is equal to the price of ending it.
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-01 17:37:00 UTC
THE SEMANTICS OF AGENCY
(a) when I define a thing, in my arguments, a thing means what I define it to mean, and nothing else. In this case the limit of my definition of agency is omniscience, “omniexperience”, “omnigrammar”, and omnipotence, in thought, emotion, word, and deed.
(b) I chose the term agency as I generally do, to extend an existing term that was partly false to one that is not false.
(c) I developed ‘Agency’ to provide commensurability with ‘Truth’, ‘Sovereignty’, as approaching but never reaching Completion.
(e) and the reason is, that in agency, like truth and sovereignty I cannot know the future structures of all kinds that make those conditions possible, and as such defined it for likewise infinite decidability.
(d) The fact that we can organize to produce agency is handled elsewhere, and a given.
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-01 16:46:00 UTC
http://www.positivemoney.eu/2016/12/ecb-confirms-helicopter-money-legally-feasible/POSITIVE MONEY
(“Helicopter Money”)
Direct Redistribution of Liquidity to Consumers (Citizens).
I’ve been talking about this forever, and written it into the new constitution. But there is a small group in europe that’s put together a web site and initiative.
The EU is much more complicated than the states. And they are … overly protective of investors (which I don’t recommend), so it’s actually quite a bit easier in the states.
My proposal was to buy (nationalize) Mastercard (good infrastructure, horrible company), and use their network for direct redistribution of liquidity (money).
http://www.positivemoney.eu/2016/12/ecb-confirms-helicopter-money-legally-feasible/
http://www.positivemoney.eu/2016/10/report-ecb-helicopter-money/
(I’ve contacte them)
Thanks to @[1102637653:2048:Moritz Bierling] for the head’s up.
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-01 16:31:00 UTC
http://www.positivemoney.eu/2016/12/ecb-confirms-helicopter-money-legally-feasible/POSITIVE MONEY
(“Helicopter Money”)
Direct Redistribution of Liquidity to Consumers (Citizens).
I’ve been talking about this forever, and written it into the new constitution. But there is a small group in europe that’s put together a web site and initiative.
The EU is much more complicated than the states. And they are … overly protective of investors (which I don’t recommend), so it’s actually quite a bit easier in the states.
My proposal was to buy (nationalize) Mastercard (good infrastructure, horrible company), and use their network for direct redistribution of liquidity (money).
http://www.positivemoney.eu/2016/12/ecb-confirms-helicopter-money-legally-feasible/
http://www.positivemoney.eu/2016/10/report-ecb-helicopter-money/
(I’ve contacte them)
Thanks to Moritz Bierling for the head’s up.
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-01 16:31:00 UTC
Old news, but interesting nonetheless
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-01 15:53:00 UTC
—“Generation Z (adults ages 18-22) is the loneliest generation and claims to be in worse health than older generations.”—
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-01 13:40:00 UTC