I let a troll get to me on discord tonight. That’s two in two weeks, and five this year, and two on discord. What do i do? It’s a waste of my time. I don’t want to shrink from arguments, but is it time to follow every other intellectual and just block everyone who starts anything?
Source date (UTC): 2017-12-11 02:03:00 UTC
Many thinkers produce meaningful methods of categorization. Few thinkers produce those that are continuously correspondent (causal) and meaningful. It isn’t something that I want to look into, but just as I was able to explain meyers briggs in terms of big five, I am pretty sure I could do the same with Wilber.
In other words, there are many systems with explanatory power, but few if any that survive use in DEDUCTION.
Any ‘true’ model must survive deduction.
When we say a statement is either true or false, that is itself false. A statement is either true or false for the purpose of deduction in the comparison of two or more statements.
The “TRUTH” is that statements are either false (certain), true(contingent), undecidable, incoherent, or unknown(Null).
Logical ‘means’ that constant relations are preserved between the two states. The problem is, we must deflate quite a bit to isolate and understand the constant relations that we are measuring.
Source date (UTC): 2017-12-10 15:06:00 UTC
via Michael Churchill
Ken Wilber: Multiculturalism is highly evolved … but won’t admit it.
Wilber has a fabulous breakdown of the ethical knots the left gets into by embracing multiculturalism as an end in itself. In Wilber’s model of human development, elite democrats are at a higher stage of evolution than garden-variety republicans. Generally speaking, the elite left sees that there are multiple valid perspectives, whereas the middle-brow right tends to focus on the Truth of just one perspective. The former is more evolved … BUT there is a huge caveat to this.
Wilber makes his case eloquently on pages 171-173 of A Brief History of Everything:
1) ACHIEVING the multiculturalist worldview (i.e grasping the validity of diverse viewpoints and cultures) is a very rare, difficult and elite accomplishment.
2) While you yourself may have evolved from egocentric to ethnocentric to worldcentric, and see that everyone deserves equal opportunity, few of the people you treat with your universalist consideration SHARE your universalism. They are not as evolved as you are — they are still egocentric or ethnocentric. You are extending universalist courtesy to people who absolutely won’t extend the same courtesy to you.
This creates multiple contradictions for the multiculturalist:
* The multiculturalist claims to be non-elite, but the mere capacity for worldcentric pluralism is a rare, elite accomplishment. (Only 10% of Americans have achieved it.) “So multiculturalism is a very elite stance that then claims it is not elitest.”
* The multiculturalist confuses his highly evolved stance with the fact that getting to that high stance is a very rare and difficult accomplishment.
* The multiculturalist claims we must treat all individuals and movements the same (no hierarchies) … and thus has no language to argue why some movements can or should be shunned.
[In theory this leaves the multiculturalist in a position where he has to accept the KKK and Nazis as valid positions, but in reality he gets around this by claiming that only white supremacy is bad. Thus the ethnocentric movements of other races get a free pass.]
At the core, the multiculturalist cannot allow for superior and inferior stances because he denies distinctions between stances altogether. Because the multiculturalist cannot defend the contradiction in this position, he is forced to become completely intolerant of anyone who disagrees. The result is censorship of dissenting opinions.
“And so off we go with vicious intolerance in the name of tolerance, censorship in the name of compassion, with we-know-best thought police and mindless political correctness — with a bunch of elitists trying to outlaw everybody else’s elitisms … They have an elite stance that denies its own elitism — and they are lying about their actual identity. They have a false self system. And that is an identity crisis.”
“The American universities have been hijacked by it. All that is doing is contributing to the retribalization of America.”
Source date (UTC): 2017-12-10 11:11:00 UTC
Holochain – Ceptr is pretty much ‘there’.
I love that I don’t go thru holochain docs and say “well, that’s gonna fail” or, “well that’s not true”, or “well, that’s bordering on fraud”.
Tho, I wish these people would include an architecture section on the site where they write pseudocode for basic transactions as they work thru the system, so that we don’t have to sit through hours of nonsense-jargon to deduce it, but … that said, I’m glad someone’s putting it together. My favorite part of Holochain is that are can write a GOOD UI, whereas with the various ‘coins’ it’s nearly impossible.
Secondly, I like that it’s a freaking ACCOUNTING system (Journal) rather than a BTC style LEDGER. I mean. YOu can build grownup applications that way.
( I could for example, improve our product (oversing/runcible) dramatically by basing it on Holochain. it would dramatically simplify the backend architecture, which, for all intents and purposes, consists of a single enormous journal->ledger class.
I played a very small part in the database replication era via MSFT. Replication and Federation have always been a problem. And as someone who builds tech for business and industry (usually user interface or marketing heavy) I like the problems the tech solves.
Now, when they produce a js, php, or python app framework, that’s the biggie. Because it will make the tech available to the masses of programmers (vs engineers). Building ‘plumbing’ is really boring…. Frameworks let you build whatever you want.
The first product that I “owned” (and only one) at microsoft was a suite of sample applications for developers. These were fully capable apps. And as I watched the universe of apps roll out, they were very frequently built on top of one of the sample apps or the libraries. Now, today we have app frameworks everywhere. And the data is pretty clear that the framework sells the technology.
So I’ll say that again: frameworks sell technology…..
( Something I wasn’t able to get thru to MSFT server and tools mgmt or the VS team. Even though there were advocates there at the time. This was something Borland and other tech companies understood. And it’s something that the framework producers understand. )
Source date (UTC): 2017-12-10 08:41:00 UTC
Revolution is the only possible outcome now. There is no other way to win.
Source date (UTC): 2017-12-09 20:01:00 UTC
( FYI: This account shows up as “The Propertarian Institute” on that page and “Eric Danelaw” everywhere else. )
Source date (UTC): 2017-12-09 14:29:00 UTC
I PLAN ENTIRELY UPON THE TEMPLAR STRATEGY.
Violence, Banking, Education.
Source date (UTC): 2017-12-09 13:49:00 UTC
PROPERTARIANISM AND ITS DISCONTENTS (sic)
So far Propertarianism has spun off a number of groups, and affected change on related philosophical schools.
However, what does not seem to ‘spin off’ is the reduction of all thought and action to economic language of gains, losses and incentives.
I explain traditions in economic prose that is merely an extension of physical science.
The reason others don’t take this with them, being that most folks are looking for mindfulness (stoic exit) or fulfillment (romantic exit) or some sort of justification for their intuitions (philosophical exit), or excuse for lack of competitive ability (fictional exit). They’re looking for exit – not responsibility.
They are not looking for a METHOD OF RULE that produces superior competition for the group, and superior rewards for rulers, or competitive transcendence (meaning evolution and speciation) of man.
Aristocracy = Rule by the Best, Continuous Competitiion, and as a result Continuous Evolution, resulting in Speciation and Transcendence – all of it at a higher standard of living, and therefore with greater agency.
A religion that provides mindfulness in the personal, interpersonal, and political realms, to those what want the benefits of aristocracy without the responsibility, is only interesting to me so far as it provides means of producing that mindfulness in favor of action, of competition, of invention, of transcendence – not by exit, but by responsibility.
Eat The Weak.
Source date (UTC): 2017-12-09 13:43:00 UTC
THE ECONOMICS OF PLANETS AND THEIR POPULATIONS
Humans will make excellent domesticated animals to use as pets (amusing slaves), slaves(cheap labor), or food (I”m betting on food). Otherwise It sure looks like planets are rare and valuable enough – and trade costly and useless enough – that they are the ultimate ‘good’ in the community.
Economics in everything.
Marginal difference produces trading incompatibility, and cooperative in compatibility. Investment in a competitor is a catastrophe – which is the less on I take from Colonization. Habitable planets are scarce *in time*.
Source date (UTC): 2017-12-09 13:33:00 UTC
LOOK, DIGITAL CURRENCIES WILL EVOLVE. THEY HAVE TO.
I doubt very seriously that such a thing will be btc. On the other hand, the moment they reach such potential the largest actors will invest in, and manipulate it.
Source date (UTC): 2017-12-09 13:07:00 UTC