( it’s one thing to be assumed stupid, another to say stupid things, and yet another to spam my feed with moronic comments removing all doubt. Confidence is not a substitute for knowledge and intelligence. )
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-20 22:07:00 UTC
We have entered an age where all increases in productivity are offset by increases in inflation, the purpose of which is to preserve employment, of people who are increasingly unemployable, and wage suppression of the working (meaning non-calculating, professional, non-entrepreneurial) classes will continue indefinitely as the world increasingly adds competing labor to the world labor pool. Every person in the middle is only 20% more productive than consumptive, and then only so for certain period of his or her life. so every person at the bottom quartile requires five people to pay for his existence throughout his life. Ergo, we must choose between decreasing the standard of living for all but the upper quintile, and constantly increasing inequality, or suppressing the rates of reproduction of the bottom and producing increasingly consistent equality. There is no alternative. Economics is just an extension of physics.
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-20 22:04:00 UTC
https://www.quora.com/Do-all-Americans-realise-how-lucky-they-are-For-all-their-shortcomings-they-have-a-prosperous-beautiful-land-with-many-different-ideas-and-people-The-Constitution-which-protects-their-rights-e-g-free-speech-which-is/answer/Curt-Doolittle?share=ffbf12ed&srid=u4QvOur constitution was the best yet written, because it attempted to create a “third way” alternative to church or state under Natural Law – a middle class country – but it has been fairly easy to circumvent for the simple reason that the supreme court has no vehicle for ‘returning law to the congress’, and therefore can legislate from the bench. As far as I know the basis of common law is optimum (natural law of tort) and the level of detail in continental law is less open to circumvention.
Our political system is outright bad, with parties, prime ministers and a monarch empirically superior by all the evidence.
While conceived as a loose collection of states like europe, we have failed to preserve the independence of the states, and the presidency, and the majority election of the president, has only reinforce that problem.
As such we have a continent-wide empire where everyone is always angry because each state or region has a different culture with different social, economic, political, and strategic demands.
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-20 20:31:00 UTC
ROUGH DISTRIBUTION OF IQ BY DEGREE.
Now, what these distributions tell us is that the Minimum IQ for university level courses (calculations) is > 120 rather than the past > 115. And That means, again, that all university degrees are nonsense under 120, and that this vast debt does nothing but indoctrinate people into the cult of the state.
— learn by invention –
130 Physics
129 Mathematics
128.5 Computer Science
128 Economics
127.5 Chemical engineering
127 Material Science
126 Electrical Engineering
125.5 Mechanical Engineering
— learn by research —
125 Philosophy
124 Chemistry
123 Earth Sciences
122 Industrial Engineering
122 Civil Engineering
121.5 Biology
— learn by reading-
120.1 English/Literature
120 Religion/Theology
119.8 Political Science
119.7 History
118 Art History
117.7 Anthropology
116.5 Architecture
116 Business
–learn by instruction-
115 Sociology
114 Medicine (nursing etc)
112 Communication (marketing)
–learn by repetition –
109 Education
106 Public Administration
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-20 17:32:00 UTC
IN PRISONS AS WELL – THE BOTTOM DETERMINES THE MEDIAN
—“We definitely don’t understand the entire package as far as how IQ explains the process leading to an inmate engaging in misbehavior,” Morris said. “It’s more about IQ playing a role, and that it’s not only about a particular person’s IQ, but it’s about collective IQ in an environment of confinement.”—
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-20 16:14:00 UTC
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-20 16:11:00 UTC
My understanding is two sexes and therefore two genders develop from neutral stem, but failure of expression in utero, failure of expression in development, failure of expression due to trauma, and that infantilization via suppression of play, lack of exercise, diet, and exposure to manmade chemistry in the environment is the primary cause of variations in expression.
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-20 16:08:00 UTC
—“Curt: Whats the most inspiring philosophical text you’ve read?”—
(a) Inspiration is something I don’t really need, which is why I don’t see philosophy as self-help but decidability.
(c) I don’t read philosophy except to understand how previous generations of thinkers have failed. (really). Instead, I read science and art history, both of which are *demonstrated*, not fantasized (as is philosophy). In fact, I still read philosophers and generally thing “OMG this is sh-t”.
(b) The only books I can recall inspiring me were those of history, particularly military history, and within that group ‘Strategy” by Liddel-Hart, and the history of the Mongols. I consider my study of the mongols my first really independent research program outside of arts and sciences.
(e) And whether you consider Sun Tsu, Alexander, Caesar, Machiavelli, Napoleon, Clausewitz, and Keegan philosophy or military strategy and history is a question of bias in categorization.
(d) I can only remember being affected heavily by Hayek’s two papers on knowledge, less so his work on law, and more so Popper and Kuhn’s work on scientific epistemology. In my understanding of history I have combined nietzsche’s aryanism, hayek’s knowledge and law, weber/mises/simmel’s calculation problem, completed popper’s epistemology, and Hoppe’s reduction of all social science to statements of property (tort).
(e) In aesthetics I was affected by rand’s romantic manifesto in no small part because my university’s art college was based upon it – and it stuck with me HARD.
(f) You might call Simmel’s “The Philosophy of Money” a book on philosophy or work of social science. I deem it the latter. And I read Weber, Durkhiem, and Pareto to understand economics for the same reason.
(g) You might call Nietzche’s Birth of Tragedy philosophy but I consider it social science. I respect nietzsche but I don’t read him for philosophy or inspiration (I find german literature ridiculous), but I did try to understand how he failed to produce a more scientific program for his insight into heroic ethics.
SO WHAT I HEAR FROM PEOPLE WHEN THEY ASK ME ABOUT PHILOSOPHY:
is there a literature in ordinary language that I can read as a shortcut to understanding? And the answer is I don’t think so. And I am pretty sure you will learn more from following me for two years than you will learn from any study of philosophy. Not because I”m particularly good, but because I’m actually a scientist, and most philosophers have been tragic.
I started with history, then science, then artificial intelligence, and then economics. And so my ‘route’ to wisdom was scientific not literary.
cheers
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-20 11:40:00 UTC
THE INVERSION OF THE IQ CONTROVERSY
The IQ Controversy misses the point that it is not so much exceptional ability, which exists in all groups, that is so demonstrably advantageous for the GROUP, but the relative absence of lack of ability at the bottom end that is advantageous for the group. In other words, one can raise the average IQ of a group by trying to increase the number at the top, despite regression to the mean, or one can reduce the number at the bottom thereby changing the mean to which populations regress. And while we now know that lower intelligence is the product of accumulated defects, and that higher intelligence is the produce of eliminating defects, not necessarily any particular gain, the problem should be fairly obvious in that the greatest investment peoples can make in their present and future is the suppression of reproduction in the lower classes in exchange for redistribution.
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-20 10:37:00 UTC
The difference between well meaning fools and scientists is the use of economics and demographics in intertemporal affairs. There are many well meaning fools, and they are well meaning because they have never had the responsibility for the organization of persisting populations in a market for survival with competing interests, whether at commercial, industrial, or political scale.
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-20 10:28:00 UTC