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Worse, the continental tradition continues to practice Abrahamic (religious) invention of conflating both point of view (experience, intention, action, observation) as well as the utility (true, good, preferable, useful, and possible), and even worse, the existential dimensions (real, hyperbolic, ideal-platonic, and supernatural-impossible). So the entire continental program is engaged in secular theology and nothing more.
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Source date (UTC): 2017-06-17 19:53:00 UTC
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Philosophy has faced a worse decline than science, if for the simple reason that separating truth, goodness, preference, utility, and possibility in the discipline of philosophy in the same way that physics, chemistry, biology, and cognitive science has been separated in the sciences, has been almost impossible.
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Source date (UTC): 2017-06-17 19:52:00 UTC
My female ‘entanglement’ in Ukraine is losing patience with me.
( I thought I would be back in 3-6 months. ) 🙁
Source date (UTC): 2017-06-17 19:50:00 UTC
The ukrainians assume that if they give up the territory the russians will keep pushing to cut them off from the black sea (probably true) and unite russia with Transnistria. The russians have already taken ukrainian oil deposits in the black sea. They’ve already taken Crimea. They’ve already taken the donbas. They are just waiting for a period of geopolitical opportunity under which they can solidify their gains.
By this act of aggression russia has broken the postwar consensus and ended the prohibition on involuntary changes in borders – which was the whole reason for the world wars.
Putin repeatedly threatened all of eastern europe with reoccupation during 2014, and caused nato to re-pivot toward russia, after having nearly denuded nato in europe. There were only 60k total US personnel in all of europe. So this ‘surrounding russia’ stuff from the west’s perspective was ‘russia will unite with germany and we will achieve our long term goals if we can get russia to modernize her government and economy.’ (whch was Gorbachev’s position.)
The western perspective is that the sanctions against russia were serious enough and threat threat of being cut off from the world financial system enough of a death sentence, that this contained russian reassertion.
Now, this does not eliminate the fact that russia was right against the chechens. And that russia was right about serbia. and that russia was right about all the islamic countries. Or that the west is constantly wrong.
This does not eliminate the fact that NATO did not add russia immediately to is membership when putin asked – or that westerners are too fucking stupid to understand russians well enough to just fucking do it. (americans are just too fucking stupid for words).
This does not eliminate the fact that putin’s attack on populism (democracy) is an attack on hedonism in an effort do defend the family and the nation from regression. And that he is right and the west is wrong and suicidal.
The problem is the international principle that “no agreement with russia is worth the paper it’s printed on” holds. And so 2014 fucked up the entire world order.
In other words, putin fucked up. he could have done what was needed and he fucked up. He was the strongest most powerful man in the world and he ‘flinched’.
Source date (UTC): 2017-06-17 19:47:00 UTC
You know, I work on these ‘seven theses’ of Propertarianism, and it’s … it’s a lot more like math or programming. Where you’re trying to figure out how to do something. And you try this and that and the other thing over and over again, and they don’t work. And then… And then you finally get the ‘equation-algorithim’ to work and you look at it. You hold it up – all proud. And you look around and say “Look mom! Look what I made!”. But ’cause it’s all formal, and declarative like a legal pronouncement, it sounds all pompous and high-falutin’. And everyone thinks you’re smart and stuff. And I giggle at that irony. And that irony never goes away. ‘Cause really. It’s just a whole lotta trial and error. A lotta work with the crayons of reason.
Source date (UTC): 2017-06-17 19:14:00 UTC
Damn. I love that header. Great idea. Clear Message. (Nice work)
Source date (UTC): 2017-06-17 19:07:00 UTC
I don’t understand the whole summer-alcohol thing. Water, Teas, coffees, fruit drinks, but alcohol in summer during the day? damn.
Source date (UTC): 2017-06-17 19:04:00 UTC
COMPARING TESTIMONIALISM AND MATHEMATICS AS TESTS OF DESCRIPTIONS OF INCREASING DIMENSIONS OF REALITY
(more very important ideas in here for serious philosophy students)
Testimonialism = test all possible dimensions of reality.
categorical, logical, empirical, operational, rational, reciprocal, and fully accounted (scope and limits).
Just like math: identity, correspondence, positional name, arithmetic (quantity) operations, geometric (space) operations, Algebra (change) operations, Calculus (relative change) operations, algebraic geometry (pure relations) operations.
So in both mathematics and testimony we test all possible dimensions of reality. The difference is that in mathematics we are familiar with the choice of which level of math is necessary to describe a problem, whereas in Testimony we are not yet familiar enough to understand which level of reasoning is necessary to describe a problem.
So think of Testimonialism as differing from math in that mathematical objects consists of identical categories of constant relations in relation to the possible dimensions of reality. Whereas Testimonialism consists of any set of categories and any set of relations, in relation to the possible dimensions of reality.
Or another way, mathematics and logic and empirical science and law are subsets of testimonialism. (truthful testimony)
Source date (UTC): 2017-06-17 18:53:00 UTC
(diary)(getting curt back into prime condition)
OK, so it is taking me 12-14 hours of rest to get 7-8 house of enough sleep to function at the top of my game. If I get heavy exercise it condenses the time back down to 10 hours because I sleep better. If I avoid dusty (or animal) environments, and I avoid cheese, sulfites, and pasta (cheese has been the big culprit) then I seem to do even better. So I’ve been cheating on a paleo for about a month but it is working. The air quality in Kiev/L’viv was apparently affecting me more than I thought. In the past eight months I’ve killed off the pneumonia, the depression, the exhaustion, got my skin color and tone back, most of my coordination and some of my agility, and started running(jogging) a bit. My bp is a touch higher than usual. and so is my heart rate. That means I need to up my fitness. I am still having low blood pressure problems when I laugh or wheeze too much. I need to drop ten pounds and work on some basic weights. And so in three or four months I should be ‘healthy’ again. My guess is it will take another year of not burning myself out to get back to prime. I just … The big trick was just sleeping enough and not trying to work 14-16 hours a day. It was just preventing me from recovering.
Source date (UTC): 2017-06-17 18:44:00 UTC
THE STATES OF SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY
(very important ideas in here for serious philosophy students)
If we define ‘science’ as ‘the invention of instruments by which we produce measurements, with which to reduce the imperceptible and incomparable to the perceptible and comparable, such that it is accessible to reason’ and that ‘the scientific method’ is the process by which we do that, then ‘science’ succeeds in applied science, (chemistry, biology, engineering, programming, mathematics) and is stalled in physics, and has been an utter failure in the social pseudo-sciences, and was an utter failure in ( the pseudoscience of ) psychology – although, in the past two decades, thanks to advances in imaging, have attempted to rectify psychology to some degree.
So the problem is better stated as “science does well in the use of instruments’ and not so well in the use of reason.
Philosophy has faced a worse decline than science, if for the simple reason that separating truth, goodness, preference, utility, and possibility in the discipline of philosophy in the same way that physics, chemistry, biology, and cognitive science has been separated in the sciences, has been almost impossible.
Worse, the continental tradition continues to practice Abrahamic (religious) invention of conflating both point of view (experience, intention, action, observation) as well as the utility (true, good, preferable, useful, and possible), and even worse, the existential dimensions (real, hyperbolic, ideal-platonic, and supernatural-impossible). So the entire continental program is engaged in secular theology and nothing more.
Worse, despite the (wasted century) culminating in Frege/Kripke, and the knowledge that set operations cannot result in meaningful truth propositions and that ‘all logic is but a test of tautology’ the discipline of philosophy still relies on language and set membership rather than operations and existential possibility (and if necessary, external correspondence).
Worse, philosophy continues (to talk nonsense) to practice the long tradition of ignoring costs, or full accounting. And while, via negativa, this made sense in the ancient world, where all virtues require little more than refraining from imposing costs upon others – in the modern world, where we can use the vote as a proxy for violence by which to impose costs upon others, this is far less “honest and truthful” a tactic -and instead, is a means of self, and other-deception.
If your discipline cannot fully account for all dimensions of reality in its propositions ABOUT reality. Particularly in the Possible, GOOD and the TRUE, then the entire purpose of the discipline is nothing more than evading reality (religion) and a means by which to produce falsehoods for the purpose of justifying parasitism on the left, and predation on the right.
I am one of the harshest anti-philosophy philosophers, precisely because I do not practice ‘cherry picking’ of what I account for, nor do I tolerate conflations in any of the common dimensions.
The excuse that philosophy is philosophizing is about as honest as religion’s claims – including the entirely falsifiable claim that philosophy ‘does good’.
Either philosophy is the means by which we develop methods of decidability in possibility, utility, preference, good, and true, where the ‘true’ is that which is decidable independent of goodness, preference, utility, and possibility, or it is, like religion, a method by which – at best – dilettantes produce witticisms with which to deceive honest and moral people, and – at worst – the means by which the crimes of marketers, frauds, priests, academics, politicians, prey upon others for fun and profit.
So, I don’t see much serious philosophy going on in this world outside of a few individuals who work in the sciences. What I see instead, is a vast number of dilettantes virtue signalling their cunning, while advocating their preferred version of self-rewarding immorality over that preferred vision of self-rewarding immorality of others.
And that’s probably the most accurate description of philosophy today you will find.
Source date (UTC): 2017-06-17 18:34:00 UTC