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  • EDUCATION. via Nassim Nicholas Taleb (NNT) Distilling the conversation with @bry

    EDUCATION.

    via Nassim Nicholas Taleb (NNT)

    Distilling the conversation with @bryan_caplan hosted by Tyler Cowen

    1) There has been a traditional separation between:

    + “liberal education” for free men, (liber), who didn’t work for a living, &

    +”technical education”, for those who labor.

    2) For instance, mathematics as taught for “liberal” education, was theoretical mind exercise. Euclid’s theorem was never used in building.

    Meanwhile builders (parts of guilds with trade secrets) were using their own heuristic, richer, geometry. (see #Antifragile)

    3) The Anglo-Saxon world conflated the two, with aristocrat-envy:

    + Education to be civilized. (Literature, philosophy, poetry, abstract math, history, stamp collecting, etc.)

    + Education to learn to do things. (Engineering, medicine, accounting, law, belly dancing, plumbing)

    4) So we need to separate “things to learn to be civilized” and “things you learn to do things” with separate institutions.

    The only overlap I could find was mathematics, though not a strong argument since applied math is a v. different animal.

    5a) The problem of the peer review system is selecting professors on theories abt subject never checked for basic knowledge of subject. It is common for people to know the “post colonial gender theory” of Levant, teach it, but never the actual facts.

    5b) The French solved the problem with knowledge exams for educators (“aggregation”); you never end up having people judged solely by peers (See #SkininTheGame ).

    6) The educational model is now imploding as the only thing people seem to learn at colleges is ideology by losers who became professors because they aren’t good enough to create things & got together to BS in a citation ring #RentSeekers (not just in economics, but everywhere)

    7) Finally, we can split education:

    + Taught by nonskininthegame people (math, poetry, etc.)

    + Taught by skininthegame people (engineering, medicine, belly dancing, plumbing, finance, law, burglarizing, computer “science”, accounting, …)

    In SEPARATE institutions.

    8) The idea that liberal education makes free thinkers is about the greatest myth: empirically, liberal education creates the exact opposite of “thinkers” and “free”: indoctrinated and slaves.Nassim Nicholas Taleb added,

    Patrick Lee Miller

    9) Remember that the “University” system for this “liberal education” (trivium/quadrivium) was historically closely associated with, and supervised by, the Church.

    Technical education was left to free thinkers.

    10 In #Antifragile I document the confusion

    Business =>Technology => Science,

    far far far far more frequent than the reverse.

    Problem is that academic, not practitioners, write the books.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-04-26 10:23:00 UTC

  • THE CIRCULAR ARGUMENT OF HOW PEOPLE THINK AND FEEL, OR THE SCIENTIFIC ARGUMENT O

    THE CIRCULAR ARGUMENT OF HOW PEOPLE THINK AND FEEL, OR THE SCIENTIFIC ARGUMENT OF THE CONSEQUENCES OF WHAT PEOPLE THINK AND FEEL?

    1) while I must understand how people came to their group strategies (habitual, normative, traditional, intellectual, institutional, and technological), I must also understand the outcomes (externalities) produced by those strategies.

    2) if the world dislikes you and your people and their behaviors and their externalities, they must have a reason for it.

    3) So the question is, if you and your people have failed in every social, economic, political, and technological, possible dimension except malthusian reproduction, and the world dislikes you, do they have a reason to?

    4) People invent excuses for employing their group strategies. Otherwise those strategies would cause mental and emotional labor, and openness to failure of that strategy.

    We all just negotiate on behalf of our personal, gender, class, and group strategies.

    5) Our feelings then are mere reflections of success with or failure of our actions in correspondence with our justifications(habits). So the excuses (justifications) we use are a measure only of correspondence with our strategies, but that tells us nothing about the good/bad, morality/immorality of our actions and our strategies. Or more simply put, our emotions are reflections of the competitiveness of our strategies.

    6) So as westerners we tend to consider the individual and his emotions, yet his emotions are just a reflection of the success or failure of his strategies. As such, what are those strategies and are they good/moral/constructive, or bad/immoral/destructive?

    7) War and Genocide have an illustriously successful history. And islam and judaism have been more destructive than all other forces combined other than the great plagues and diseases. You have to get to the black plague even if not malaria before you’ve killed enough people to match the death, destruction, and dark ages created by islam, judaism(communism), and christianity(anti-aristocracy). Communism has been murderous under the pretense of ‘good’, and Islam has been nearly ten times as murderous under the pretense of ‘good’. Christianity was spread as a means of undermining the western empire from within by the syrians and byzantines, and ‘old europeans’. Islam was spread by force, and resulted in the destruction of the great civilizations: egypt, north african, levantine, mesopotamian, persian, roman, and eventually byzantine.

    8) Despite its beginnings in the 600’s, islam had conquered and exhausted the assets of the great civilizations of the ancient world by 1200, and declined rapidly thereafter, brought only into survival by the migration of the turks and their adoption of islam.

    9) At present we are fighting judaism(communism, libertarianism, neo-conservatism), postmodernism(French catholicism), and islamic fundamentalism, all of which originate with rabbinical judaism. (Christianity is a Jewish heresy and Islam a Christian heresy).

    So by the logic of caring ‘what people feel or think’ instead of “what is the result of what people feel and think” we should allow our civilization to be overrun as were all other great civilizations, and leave only the chinese, japanese, and koreans holding back the tide of dysgenia, ignorance and violence?

    Islam has been at war with the west for 1400 years and if you do nothing more than review an animated history of islamic raids and conquests in europe and the number of deaths they perpetrated, and the change in standard of living under those conquests, and the absolute destruction of all knowledge after 1200, then our conquest of the americas pales by comparison – if for no other reason than we used the wealth generated by it to drag humanity kicking and screaming out of the ignorance produced by judaism, christianity, and islam.

    We were able to resist islam only because of our advanced technology, and because the turkish empire had exhausted itself under islam as well – and could not develop a european network under rule of law, or an asian network under rule of professional bureaucracy, or an indian network under rule by cast and religion. Instead, islam created iteratively dysgenic ignorance and tribalism.

    Islam, south america, india and africa, all have the same problems: by adopting political systems favoring the increase in the size of the underclass, those underclasses are such a heavy burden that they cannot participate in the modern world economy.

    If we stack countries by IQ we find their economic performance.

    If we stack people by economic, and social class, we find IQ, personality, and physical attractiveness largely rise and fall in concert, with the upper middle class the peak, and the upper class consisting of random outliers.

    Cheers


    Source date (UTC): 2018-04-26 09:20:00 UTC

  • (from elsewhere) 1 – Russians murdered millions of ukrainians, ukrainians didn’t

    (from elsewhere)

    1 – Russians murdered millions of ukrainians, ukrainians didn’t murder millions of russians.

    2 – Russians invaded ukraine with ‘little green men’, ukraine didn’t invade russia.

    3 – Ukrainians west of the Dnieper were prosperous, peaceful, members of the Austrian and Polish empires, and had their assets taken, their property taken, the graves despoiled, their traditions and culture destroyed, by russians, but ukrainians didn’t do that to russians.

    4 – Russians (The Kingdom of Muscovy) conquered east ukrainians (today’s southern russians) and converted them to russian speakers, or ‘resettled them’. Ukrainians didn’t do that to russians. (Most russians do not understand that southern russians spoke ukrainian.)

    5 – Russians relocated ethnic russians to eastern european lands in order to put (underclass) people who could easily be ruled (who had been sefs just one or two generations before), into lands with middle classes (who could not be easily ruled) and destroyed those middle classes. Ukrainians didn’t do that to russians.

    6 – Russians used secret police and prisons to ‘make people disappear, and nearly everyone in ukraine today has a relative in living memory who was ‘made to disappear’. Ukrainian’s didn’t do that to russians.

    7 – Russians set eastern europe back a century, failed, and caused devastation across the former (((soviet))) empire, and have neither solved the problem of ukrainian oligarchs, but put the people into greater submission to them.

    8 – Russians paid 200 uah to poor people to vote for Yanukovych and then paid Yanukovych to undermine the ukrainian military so that the country could be easily conquered – ukrainians didn’t undermine russians so that they could be easily conquered, or pay to interfere in their elections. (russians did that themselves).

    9 – Ukrainians are governed by the Oligarchs (gangsters) who are jewish and russian, and the government is just a proxy for the corruption. Ukrainians want to follow the poles into peaceful transparent democracy, but russians want to force ukrainians into remote russian corruption instead of Intermarium (polish-ukrainian) conservative democracy. (Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic are slowly developing the Intermarium, and Ukraine will very likely join them as soon as poland decides to expand its military.

    10 – Ukrainians do not speak russian but ukrainian, just as poles do not speak ukrainian. Ukrainians and poles, the baltics, and the Old Europeans (Southern Slavs) are culturally european, and russians were conquered by and then conquered their mongol rulers – and the mongolian ethics. Muscovites and Kievans are only distant relations. Muscovites were the barbarians that conquered kiev the same way that the mongols had.

    Because I understand russian struggles, love russian culture, and respect russian people, and very much understand that russia is right to resist democracy and the (((disease))) of ‘progressivness’ I am a russophile by any measure.

    But until russians understand that their ‘mythos’ was as bad as the mongols, and that the germans were in the right to oppose the soviets, and that russia did far worse to themselves and the world than the germans ever imagined doing, then this russian fantasy will continue.

    Europe ends at the Dnieper until russians learn to speak the truth no matter what the consequences, because that is what separates the ‘naive’ west, from the ‘cruel and dishonest’ east.

    Clean your own dirty house first. Then the world will stop trying to contain you.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-04-26 08:57:00 UTC

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  • is excellent, because we can create a political movement and discriminate agains

    https://nypost.com/2018/04/25/judge-bars-are-allowed-to-throw-out-trump-supporters/This is excellent, because we can create a political movement and discriminate against members on a political basis.

    —“A Manhattan judge ruled Wednesday that there’s nothing “outrageous” about throwing the president’s supporters out of bars because the law d


    Source date (UTC): 2018-04-25 23:13:00 UTC

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    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43884075?SThisFB


    Source date (UTC): 2018-04-25 21:47:00 UTC

  • Um. My view is that women’s social priorities and sensitivities are often in con

    Um. My view is that women’s social priorities and sensitivities are often in conflict with any organization that they participate in. Men are just far less ‘influenced’ by those sensitivities and priorities, which turns out to be the reason women prefer working for (competent) men: they insulate the workplace from women’s baser instincts.

    Water will find a way through any wall. I tend to view women’s intuitions as shit testing everyone until the walls fall apart. The only way that women are truly safe is if they can’t break the wall. Ergo, I am not sure men need to tell women what to do, as much as prevent them from defecting and undermining to the point where the wall may fracture.

    Men have different behaviors which are largely masked by marriage (redistribution of females). Without that arrangement, there is always a surplus of men, and while women are dangerous in the long term. ANGRY MEN EVEN IN VERY SMALL NUMBERS ARE VERY DANGERS IN EVERY SINGLE MOMENT.

    Hence the universal religious attempt to pair us off.

    Men think more, women feel more, and there is value in both techniques.It’s when we limit eachother not command each other that we make the optimum use of those intuitions.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-04-25 21:44:00 UTC

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