In employment, IQ tests are used for two reasons.
One, to filter people out both above(who would be bored) and below(who would be incompetent).
Second to provide a legal means of defending against racism/sexism/forced intergration charges.
Source date (UTC): 2017-07-02 18:15:00 UTC
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0146167208323933UNDERAPPRECIATED TRUTH: THE COSTS OF CREATIVITY.
Source date (UTC): 2017-07-02 18:13:00 UTC
TRUTH: OUR 4000 YEAR TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANTAGE
Truth. It is our civilization’s primary technological advantage and one that none other can duplicate – assuming we preserve our separatism.
The lesson of history is that Truth cannot survive conflation. Whether in meaning, in disciplines, in institutions, or in Populations.
Ergo, the choice is truth and paganism, truth and specialization, truth and markets, truth and separatism.
And that is not something that I would have expected when I started out on my journey.
Ely Harman / Eli Harman
Source date (UTC): 2017-07-02 18:09:00 UTC
I would say that ZFC constitutes a proof of the limits of mathematics.
I would say that the construction of all of mathematics from operations is trivial. Which is its strength.
I would say that the the development of techniques of deduction (proofs of possibility) given constant relations made possible by positional names is one of the high points of human intellectual achievement.
I would say that those that are capable of applied mathematics in the discovery of patterns in reality is an art that never ceases to amaze me. if for no other reason, than like chess, it requires extraordinary state memory (modeling), extraordinary discipline, and the exercise of talent without much chance of material reward.
I mean, the only people I am absolutely awed by when I meet them are applied and theoretical mathematicians. And I know that in the very least, they have far superior short term memories and modeling capabilities.
And while I seem to have a talent for deflation (causality), I could never compete with that category of mind.
I am fairly happy playing second fiddle to their art.
Source date (UTC): 2017-07-02 18:04:00 UTC
THE MIND OF A POSTMODERNIST – THE ART OF DECEIT.
The reason I don’t ban Zachary Davidson is because he is exceptional at the use of an extensive vocabulary for the purpose of obscuring his technique, which is the postmodern denial of truth.
Abrahamism is the most creative vector for lying ever created but the technique is quite simple: suggestion by straw men, ridicule, criticism, and overloading.
The fact that he uses the via negativa of skepticism suggesting that all truth is impossible, and therefore only scripture (authority) or preference (regardless of consequence) is just the inverse of the promise of salvation.
Just as marxism inverted the promise of life after death and a second coming. Just as postmodernism inverted the class warfare into an identity warfare.
So once you understand the technique it’s a bit like understanding literary analysis and losing your ability to enjoy fiction.
Or in most people’s cases, understanding science, and losing your ability to enjoy religion.
Or in my case, understanding the dimensions of reality and the various logics we have invented for testing each of them (and losing your ability to enjoy philosophy.
Postmodernism is just the most recent generation of the technique of lying we call Abrahamism.
Whereas Political Correctness is just outright denial and outright lying but repetitive chanting.
Source date (UTC): 2017-07-02 16:48:00 UTC
“WHAT YOU SAY, WHAT PEOPLE HEAR, WHAT YOU MEAN.”
by Ben Smith
1) When you say this: “I’m all for highly redistributive nationalism.”
2) What people hear is this: “I want to take from the rich and give to the poor.”
3) What you mean is this: “I want to redistribute a lot, but there won’t be anything for free. Everything will be paid for, one way or another.”
Source date (UTC): 2017-07-02 13:27:00 UTC
So:
Kin (national) or Universal
Eugenic or Dysgenic
Market or Discretion
Source date (UTC): 2017-07-02 12:43:00 UTC
—“If consumers are supplied funds directly from the treasury, and their loans are subsidized by the state, how does this not lead to rampant over consumption by high time preference and inflation? With the inflation being essentially a tax on savers, what is supplied to the savers in return?”—John Zebley
People borrow money now. They pay principal and interest now. If they paid only principal, directly to the treasury, what is different other than the deprivation of the market of rents on loans from the treasury? In other words, where would the inflation come from? Where is the increase in money supply going to come from? The question is, what happens to all those who currently invest in consumer loans and now have to find alternative sources of investment that are less predictable?
Now you might say that the total money supply for consumption would increase by the amount of the interest that is currently paid, but one can take the smart way out and simply shorten the payment period, or one can take the chaotic way out and let prices adjust given the short term windfall that such policy would create.
Source date (UTC): 2017-07-02 12:36:00 UTC
Follow me a bit longer. Because in my proposition, the primary new cost is truth. The primary new benefit is dramatic reduction in parasitism upon you and work you must provide. And there is nothing obtained by redistribution that is not paid for. And the payment for non contribution is merely non reproduction – not suffering.
(worth expanding and repeating)
Source date (UTC): 2017-07-02 12:21:00 UTC
I think Zachary Davidson is objecting to my PROCESS, which consists of iterative attempts to construct proofs of existential possibility or impossibility, and to attract criticism, and to repeat, until by using a competition between the proofs of possibility and impossibility, and criticism, only the possible (truth candidates remain). And that’s just how science works through iterative exploration.
Because all he is criticizing is my use of contrasts and measurements to quash ignorance, error, bias, wishful thinking, suggestion, obscurantism, fictionalism and deceit.
And he is criticizing that effort in order to preserve the utility of lying on the one hand and the use of lie and ritual to produce chemical reward, and the addiction behavior that is produced by self deception, and then avoidance of the combination of un-anchoring, cost of abandoning intuition (the animal), relief from the burden of reason, relief from the burden of learning, relief from the burden of adaptation, relief from the burden of constant reorganization of cooperation.
I mean. He works hard to preserve the lie and the feeling of success he gets from the lie, in contrast to his competitive success in reality. In other words, he wants to find escape from evidence of his reproductive disutility, and reward for it. He wants to make a failing a virtue.
Source date (UTC): 2017-07-02 12:17:00 UTC