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  • MARXIST AND CAPITALIST ERRORS (THE UNDERLYING ISSUE IS NATURAL LAW NOT ECONOMICS

    MARXIST AND CAPITALIST ERRORS (THE UNDERLYING ISSUE IS NATURAL LAW NOT ECONOMICS)

    Better if I list the ‘set’ of the most significant marxist errors.

    1) Labor Theory of Value vs Subjective theory of value

    2) Value of voluntarily organizing labor, vs value of labor in production

    3) Value of risk of extant capital vs value of risk of opportunity

    4) Prices and calculation without money and prices.

    5) Knowledge and Incentives with and without private property

    6) Oppression by Discretion vs Domestication by Market Means.

    7) Demonstrable superior benefit to working classes (reduced prices and increased consumption) than to middle and upper classes (capital increases).

    8) Tendencies of bureaucracies to maximize rents vs Tendencies of bureaucracies to dissipate.

    9) Greater susceptibilities of bureaucracies to corruption than markets.

    10) Demonstrated failure of all attempts at socialism and empirical evidence that the underlying causal problem is iq and trust (genetics).

    I mean, that’s JUST THE BEGINNING.

    Here is some of what’s wrong with capitalism.

    1) There are no unlimited ‘goods’, at some point one is destroying capital rather than decreasing prices. And most capitalist theory assumes endless goods – particularly consumption, just as most marxist theory assumes endless goods – particularly of human beings (a very expensive and toxic life form.)

    2) The assumption that all can survive in a competitive market when all cannot if for no other reason than every half standard deviation in IQ roughly doubles the cost of training and limits the possible scope of work, meaning that many people are increasingly dead weights on society no matter how moral their intentions.

    3) The assumption of the superiority of cities whereas it is fairly obvious that cities are IQ and ovary sinks that cause continuous damage to the gene pool (yeah, that one surprised me). The better method would have been to encourage people to return to the farm and live tax free, agrarian lives, and to increase taxes in the cities since all profitability is a function of density.

    4) The state is a horrible method of defense against abuse of markets, and bureaucracies and politicians exacerbate the problem by making privileges and rents available. For a market to function the people must have universal standing in court against companies for violations of common capital by externality, not just fraud, monetary coercion, and violence against people.

    5) The current keynesian economic models do not measure changes in the full set of capital, only largely changes in velocity of consumption. This means we are destroying genetic and cultural and institutional capital in exchange for short term consumption and downward redistribution of reproduction.

    6) We do not regulate the size of the population pool, especially the underclass, and actively immigrate underclasses reversing 4000 years of european evolution.

    7) A polity must produce sufficiently valuable market goods in order to organize a voluntary organization of production (capitalism). the problem is that the external market not the polity determines the minimum demand for goods, services, and information. As such, it is almost impossible for all but northern european and east asian economies to make use of democracy and capitalism, and socialism will always fail them, so they are all doomed unless they repair the size of their underclasses.

    That’s just a beginning. If I sit here and write about ‘evangelical capitalism’ all afternoon I’ll want to go shoot myself…..

    -Curt Doolittle


    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-22 12:45:00 UTC

  • (I am firmly convinced that monsters live in the basement of this 19th century h

    (I am firmly convinced that monsters live in the basement of this 19th century house – that used to be a carriage house for the Church next door. Bart is downstairs talking to someone. There is no one else down there. And this confirms my theory that there are monsters in the basement. And that he is attempting to keep them under control, and me ignorant of them, so that I am not afraid to do the laundry down there. And you know what? It’s not working.)


    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-22 12:21:00 UTC

  • London school: statistical management of estates scaled too fast to be governed

    London school: statistical management of estates scaled too fast to be governed by natural law.– Josh Jeppson


    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-22 11:27:00 UTC

  • NO DEBATE: WALTER BLOCK AND THE ROTHBARDIANS CHICKEN OUT The Rothbardian Circle

    NO DEBATE: WALTER BLOCK AND THE ROTHBARDIANS CHICKEN OUT

    The Rothbardian Circle withdrew their invitation to debate Walter Block.

    I was surprised Block would accept it. I was surprised dedicated Rothbardians wouldn’t be terrified by it. So I wasn’t surprised that within 24 hours they chickened out.

    Now first, I would have owned the argument. The reason being that I know all of Walter’s arguments and I know his technique of using suggestion by incremental reasonableness. And I have extraordinary practice at falsifying Mises, Rothbard, and Hoppe, while preserving each of their insights.

    But it’s disappointing because it is possible to save the jewish ancap program from the dustbin of intellectual history, if it is possible to switch from having to falsify their program, to demonstrating that despite each generation’s failures, they incrementally produced insights such that by my generation the solution that Mises had intuited but could not solve, could be articulated. So that we solved social science in four generations.

    Now, I can’t, science can’t, and western civilization can’t, tolerate preserving any of mises, rothbard, and hoppe at all unless we can move away from the possibility of an anarchic (Separatist or Borderland) polity, or the claim that economics isn’t scientific like all other sciences, or that the NAP/ISV is sufficient, or that argumentation applies only under extant civil order and law, or that scarcity is perceptible rather than cost being perceptible. Or that the a priori describes an ideal rather than a real distribution. Or any of the other dozen fallacies that the rothbardians propagate to the educated but not terribly intelligent.

    So what rothbardians are doing today, is simply demonstrating the cognitive bias of throwing good time, effort, thought, and money after bad (Sunk Cost Fallacy) – just as do the marxists and neocons.

    And by doing so killing their heroes for all time.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-22 11:10:00 UTC

  • ASYMMETRY IN DUELS I took fencing in my 20’s got reasonably good despite the fac

    ASYMMETRY IN DUELS

    I took fencing in my 20’s got reasonably good despite the fact that I have the wrong build for it. And here is the thing. The average person with very little training can point-shoot successfully to the point where differences are marginal. This is why the aristocracy was overthrown. The difference between skilled swordsmen without armor is much greater. The difference between skilled warriors with swords and armor much greater. The difference between skilled fighters without weapons even greater. My opinion on these things is that we solve the difference with numbers as we always have (go to court) if we cannot find a reasonable compromise between our size and ability. And as such, as long as ‘court’ is one of the available options, dueling is simply rational.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-22 10:20:00 UTC

  • 4)RE:Economists/Astrology: But this is too complex a topic to cover in ‘tweets’.

    4)RE:Economists/Astrology: But this is too complex a topic to cover in ‘tweets’. 😉 @alanlevinovitz @aeonmag


    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-22 09:43:00 UTC

  • 3)RE:Economists/Astrology: Advances in Lie grp./Lie algebra will solve some of t

    3)RE:Economists/Astrology: Advances in Lie grp./Lie algebra will solve some of the prediction problem this century. @alanlevinovitz @aeonmag


    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-22 09:43:00 UTC

  • 2)RE:Economists/Astrology: So the Mathiness is correctable. But it will falsify

    2)RE:Economists/Astrology: So the Mathiness is correctable. But it will falsify much of 20th c. political theory. @alanlevinovitz @aeonmag


    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-22 09:42:00 UTC

  • THOUGHTS ON STATE OF PHYSICS AND QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT Given the history of man’s

    THOUGHTS ON STATE OF PHYSICS AND QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT

    Given the history of man’s cognitive development and that at each stage of our development the innovation has been in correcting a cognitive bias or error rather than providing an insight into the simplicity of the universe, it still appears more likely that quantum theory is simply incomplete (the ‘hidden variable’ question) and that we simply do not understand what is occurring. At present the most likely explanation is that particles per se, even as described as fields, consist of different levels of excitement and density of a single substance we do not yet understand, that CAN disentangle (unwind) faster than the speed of light even if it cannot ‘transmit’ (wind/unwind) faster than the speed of light. This is a fairly simple explanation that preserves all our existing observations, but requires us to imagine something even less biased by the evolutionary condition of our minds, than quantum theory and relativity and electromagnetic radiation(fields) and the excitement of gasses (steam) and evolution itself (adaptation) have been. The universe is simple. Our evolutionary cognitive biases given our need to act at human scale simply cannot yet imagine something ‘that simple’.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-22 09:27:00 UTC

  • Moritz Bierling shared a post to your timeline

    Moritz Bierling shared a post to your timeline.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-22 08:14:00 UTC