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  • Sorry guys but all austrian economics is practiced empirically today and the mis

    Sorry guys but all austrian economics is practiced empirically today and the misesian program was abandoned as an ideological failure. Just how it is.

    1) I can identify economic phenomenon empirically.

    2) I cannot identify all economic phenomenon deductively.

    3) I must be able to explain all economic phenomenon operationally or it is false.

    4) I cannot claim to know the limits of an apriori general rule without empirical analysis. If I cannot know the limits of a general rule I cannot use it for the purpose of argument and deduction of consequent states. Even if I *can* use it for the purpose of explanation of the current state.

    YOU CAN THROW AWAY EVERYTHING MISES INSTITUTE SAYS ABOUT ECONOMICS


    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-16 17:01:00 UTC

  • THE ANSWER 1) Our moral biases are transferred genetically, and predictably. (ye

    THE ANSWER

    1) Our moral biases are transferred genetically, and predictably. (yes)

    2) These biases are expressions of the distribution of male and female reproductive biases necessary for our survival.

    3) All of us are born with some distribution of male and female sentiments.

    4) These biases are complementary but competitive and mutually exclusive.

    5) The distributions of Socialist, Libertarian, and Conservative reflect the female, aspiring male, and dominant male reproductive strategies.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-16 16:32:00 UTC

  • Three strategies for free riding: – Marxism (on private production) – Libertaria

    Three strategies for free riding:

    – Marxism (on private production)

    – Libertarianism (on commons production)

    – Neo-Conservatism (on military expansion of markets)


    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-16 16:30:00 UTC

  • THE THREE CULTS (PILLARS) OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION by Simon Ström (brilliant) I l

    THE THREE CULTS (PILLARS) OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION

    by Simon Ström

    (brilliant)

    I like to conceive of the essential ideology of the West, from which myths, tales, rituals and institutions emanate, as consisting of three basic interdependent sacraments, “sub-cults” or “pillars”, fashioned almost like a constitution for our civilization.

    Dumezil noted that the Indo-European gods mainly represented three societal functions.

    Duchesne successfully argued that Western Civilization fundamentally derives from Indo-European cultural impulses, stressing the Faustian spirit of transcendence.

    Doolittle has shown that truth-telling emanates from martial epistemology and that natural law (reciprocity) is empirically discovered by a militia of sovereigns pursuing markets in everything.

    So I think that we may craft an “articles of association” of Western Civilization, similar perhaps to the one above, to serve as a positiva-and-negativa framework for stories, rituals, etc. and perhaps also polity and law.

    1) The cult of transcendence, represented by an archetypical Sky Father (‘Odin’), the supreme sovereign and the god of wisdom and law. (truth, of which natural law is a subset)

    2) The cult of non-submission, and the virtues of sovereign militiamen, represented by the archetypical striker/thunderer (‘Thor’) entangled in a heroic cosmogonic duel against a serpent (chaoskampf).

    3) The cult of family and kindred, the complementary obligations of monogamous marriage and the virtues of community and commons, represented by a plethora of gods, demigods and apical ancestors honored in ancestral cult, ensuring continuity of any extant kinship organization whether tribe, nation state, house, clan, etc.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-16 16:08:00 UTC

  • INGROUP SELECTION? @ Jayman on Twitter 1) I think this (ongoing) discussion fail

    INGROUP SELECTION?

    @ Jayman on Twitter

    1) I think this (ongoing) discussion fails to address the advantages of ingroup reproduction, and expression of advantages to BOTH.

    2) AFAIK group members select for traits ind.-advant. in the local group, that relies on a strategy, that results in ind.-expr. of traits.

    3) Most traits vary endocrine development esp. neoteny. Most environments +/- rate of maturity. All Homo-S/S variation explainable 1 cause.

    4) Most group delta amounts to suppression of underclass reproduction under extended agrarianism or neotonic selection failure without it.

    5) AFAIK Marginal diff. between HSS groups is settled. Central prob. is reduct’n of size of the underclass and expr. of middle class traits.

    6) All normative, cultural, institutional, differences result from this + organization of Transformation Age military orders.

    7) Kin-Militia(West)=high-trust, Warrior(chin/pers)=low-trust, Steppe/Desert-raider= lowest-trust, Diasporic=Med-ingroup/low-outgroup trust.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-16 15:48:00 UTC

  • My accusation is this: – one can speak descriptively of the existential; one can

    My accusation is this:

    – one can speak descriptively of the existential; one can speak of a general rule as an ideal to obscure ignorance of causality, one can claim authority over the ideal by supernatural.

    – Man can speak testimonial by math, science, witness; man can speak honestly by memory or history; man can speak allegorically with literature, and illustratively (hyperbolically) through myth(supernormal but not supernatural). Man can also speak falsely by ideal (rationalism), by supernaturalism, by pseudoscience – the name for this is called ‘fictionalism’.

    – That man must have an incentive to speak by other than descriptively and demonstrable. What incentive is there to do so?

    The answer is to justify immoral, unethical, and anti-social argument, action, and strategy.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-16 14:28:00 UTC

  • ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: EASTERN MORAL CRITICISM VS ANGLO INTELLECTUAL CRITICISM

    ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: EASTERN MORAL CRITICISM VS ANGLO INTELLECTUAL CRITICISM

    (act in harmony with nature: eastern and western versions)

    I’m going to “anglicize” his statements because the buddhism is hard for me to wade through.

    (a) the movement is unnatural because they didn’t account for costs. if the algorithm accounted for a maximum watts of output in the human form: 400 for short periods, 100 for maybe an hour, and 60-75 for an 8 hour work day. or roughly 1200-1500 watts per day before exhaustion (or death). starting from a standing position, an algorithm ‘should’ eventually develop walking by trial and error, and hemispheric mirroring of successes. THe general problem with mathematical analysis, logical analysis, philosophical analysis, and all models that derive from them, is an insufficient allocation of costs which nature does not and cannot tolerate without immediate failure.

    So where Hayao Miyazaki speaks in eastern ethics of shame, an anglo like myself speaks in anglo ethics of stupidity.

    This in itself is an interesting observation of our cultural differences.

    Not that one or the other is better.

    Ours just provides more actionable results.

    Both of us are saying the same thing: “ACT IN HARMONY WITH NATURE” in different ways.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-16 14:20:00 UTC

  • WHY THE WEST COULDN’T ARTICULATE ITS STRATEGY AND THE JEWS COULD —” Curt, can

    WHY THE WEST COULDN’T ARTICULATE ITS STRATEGY AND THE JEWS COULD

    —” Curt, can you explain this part more fully, possibly in a new post?

    <quote>”just as all three jewish class philosophies (marxism/libertarianism/neo-conservatism), lacked a full accounting. And while western made did not lack this full accounting, he developed it by competition in war, rule, polities, markets, and marriage, by tradition and habit and trial and error, not by articulated reason and deliberative law as did the jews. So while western man could defeat with physical science the supernatural fictionalism of the jews, he could not resist marxism, libertarianism, and neo-conservatism of the jews. And Rand supplied that articulation.”<end quote>”—Brett Sterling

    The short answer (well, not so short) is that pastoral and diasporic peoples can privatize the commons or parasite upon the territorial commons, while land holding people must pay the high costs of holding the territorial commons. And so you see this difference in the ethics of the agrarian-militia, agrarian-imperial, and pastoral-raider, and diasporic merchant peoples.

    So the commons (capital inventories) produced by each of these people differs greatly. So inventory all that is necessary to hold a nation, and inventory what is necessary to hold a tribe or family under an agrarian or agrarian-pastoral empire, or to hold a tribe as a separatist free-rider on another group’s territorial commons.

    What you find is that self, family, tribe, nation capital distributions between private, familial, tribal, common, national, and portable, fixed capital, territorial capital, institutional capital, and normative capital investments vary between them – predictably.

    In other words, just as conservatives(fathers) invest equally in all six moral foundations, libertarians(brothers) in fewer, and progressives(mothers and sisters) in fewest, that land holders(aristocracy), landed merchants(classical liberals), diasporic merchants(jews), parasites(gypsies), and raiders (pirates, islamic slavers etc) collect the capital that they can make use of – and obtain the rewards of capital they either do posses, or the discounts from the elimination of capital that they don’t need to possess.

    In other words, people develop capital strategies, people hold moral, legal, cultural, codes, that reflect those strategies and people develop methods of argument (science or pseudoscience, reason or ‘pseudo-reason’, ‘religion or law’, history or myth, advice or command, low trust or high trust) – that reflect the needs of their group’s evolutionary strategy (competitive strategy, survival strategy). And as far as I know the cause of a group’s strategy was temporal and environmental (where they were when they encountered more or less advanced competition), but that over time their demographic distribution(low or high pedomorphism and iq) and genetic distribution (personality traits), evolved to reflect that strategy, and they cannot easily escape it without integration into a much larger host (genetically, strategically, culturally).

    So the problem was that ‘those who rule do’, and ‘those who wish otherwise write about it’. The aristocratic cultural tradition, the common law, the art of battle, the art of running a business, these were all handed down from generation to generation. They only needed replication once we started moving people into the middle class. It was only those lacking power that wrote anything.

    Western man debated real things in reality with real consequences. And he had no authority to appeal to (until christianity, which he subverted for his needs – at least in europe.)

    This was not true in the jewish tradition because they used the ability to debate jewish religion and law to force failures out of the group and indoctrinate group members. So this tradition was heavily articulated. And it was also abstract.

    So we hit the enlightenment and the agrarian and industrial revolutions and western man struggled to produce in each of his cultures a means of perpetuating his traditions in rational form.

    So we see:

    1 – (anglo) Empirical: locke/smith/hume/american-legalists,

    2 – (german) Rational: kant/schopenhauer/hegel,

    3 – (jewish) Pseudo-science: Mendelsohn/marx/freud/boaz/frankfurt-school,

    4 – (french) Literary: montesquieu/voltaire/rousseau/postmodernists

    Each trying to preserve their method of argument and their group evolutionary strategies, and their capital structures.

    THE UNDERLYING PROBLEM;

    The western group evolutionary strategy was to industrialize the domestication of man, for profit through dragging men through barbarism > slavery > serfdom > freeman > citizen and to profit from the proceeds of doing so.

    The abrahamic evolutionary strategy was to organize barbarians, slaves, serfs and some of the freemen to resist domestication and achieve in resistance and reproduction by declaration of solidarity to a cult, what could not be achieved by civilization.

    In other words: the west cant, or at least couldn’t until Darwin, Spencer and Nietzsche, that the success of the western tradition was largely in its eugenics: the domestication of the animal man for profit.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-16 13:51:00 UTC

  • “I’m going to let you in on a little known secret. You ready? Lean close, becaus

    –“I’m going to let you in on a little known secret. You ready? Lean close, because I don’t want anyone to overhear: (*stage whisper*) Nobody cares what color you are as long as you are a law abiding citizen. Shhhhh! Don’t tell anyone though! — (Police Officer)


    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-16 13:29:00 UTC

  • ARISTOCRACY (ACTION) VS PRIESTHOOD (RESISTANCE) (The economics of aristocracy an

    ARISTOCRACY (ACTION) VS PRIESTHOOD (RESISTANCE)

    (The economics of aristocracy and priesthood.)

    This is the fundamental difference between aristocracy and priesthood: The action/aristocratic reduction of the underclasses and the upward redistribution of aggregate reproduction empowering their profiting from advancing meritocracy, and the gossiping/priestly-cast’s reduction of the middle classes and downward redistribution of production empowering their profiting from advancing equalitarianism.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-16 13:20:00 UTC