Curt Doolittle shared a post.
Source date (UTC): 2017-06-11 21:00:00 UTC
Curt Doolittle shared a post.
Source date (UTC): 2017-06-11 21:00:00 UTC
#Trump USE THE BASE. We will make your monuments shake for it.
Source date (UTC): 2017-06-11 20:36:00 UTC
#Trump Never has an empire been so fragile, a government so weak, a people so willing, and a time so opportune. USE THE BASE.
Source date (UTC): 2017-06-11 20:35:00 UTC
#Trump Have you figured out yet that you can’t win without the activism of the base? We are sitting here.The 60’s was amateur hour. Not us
Source date (UTC): 2017-06-11 20:34:00 UTC
CONSPIRACY THEORIES
omg. I am a specialist in the exposition of pseudoscience. You only need to know the form of the argument. You do not even need to know that much about the technology in question.
Here is another bit of science: affinity for conspiracy theories results from the combination of schizotypal behavior, and dunning kruger effects.
Hell, I can identify a f–king schizotypal dunning kruger-ite by the vocabulary and grammar he uses – even before he makes an argument….
In other words, stupid and crazy people flock to stupid and crazy shit.
Source date (UTC): 2017-06-11 19:21:00 UTC
Eli Harman:
—“What’s the basis for prosecuting the purveyors of perverse and pernicious entertainment fiction, such as that which has proliferated lately? They use it for the purposes of ideological warfare, so there must be one…”—
I don’t think we get into true/false with fiction with any more difficulty than we get into true/false with biographies, and fiction as false history. The court is pretty good at this process.
So:
1 – We have the easy problem of whether it’s stated as fiction or not.
2 – We have the the easy problem of whether someone’s making an argument or not.
3 – We have the medium problem that someone is engaged in fraudulent representation of the narrative or not.
4 – And we have the hard problem that someone is promoting immorality or not (indirect ir-reciprocity).
5 – And we have the easy problem that someone is promoting crime or not (direct ir-reciprocity).
6 – And we have the very easy problem of someone SPEAKING OR TEACHING literature as science or truth.
I am not sure this is all that difficult.
We do most of it today. The only difference is that we don’t punish advocacy of parasitism and the teaching of it.
I mean, if you write a novel where a murderer, or a terrorist or communist is a hero I think we might get there but I think that is very hard to take seriously. That’s the only question.
I think the issue is one of authority:
Pretense of truth.
Academy, church, or state.
Eli Harman:
—“What about if you’re using fiction to teach lies, like equality. It could be that an exceptional female or minority character is just an extreme outlier. But when the DISTRIBUTION of female and minority characters is systematically shifted toward “extreme outlier” territory across ALL popular fiction, how do you prosecute any one content creator for lying?”—
I think that the only reason this is even a question is because we haven’t had our revolution yet and put the law into place, and I”m very certain that the world will change radically because it will be economically too dangerous to tread those waters.
I think that just as there are things you are careful about doing today – promoting terrorism and thievery in the classroom. And I think that there are things that we don’t do in the classroom – making arguments to supernaturalism. And I think it will be just as uncommon to make pseudo-rational, pseudo-moral, pseudoscientific, arguments in the future as it will be to make supernatural arguments in school and university today
Source date (UTC): 2017-06-11 18:30:00 UTC
If you see something wrong, please help me. More editors is better. As you probably can see I’m extremely prolific at the cost of … well, lots of error between the keyboard and the chair.
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Source date (UTC): 2017-06-11 18:22:00 UTC
—-yeah, well, the application of calculus to financial transactions does tell us a lot about people but that whole “economic imperialism’ thing is dead in the water. It died in 2008.—
Source date (UTC): 2017-06-11 18:18:00 UTC
—“There are no such thing as races, subraces…99% of anthropologists agree…”—
Appeal to majority fallacy. Appeal to authority fallacy. Appeal to self reporting fallacy. Appeal to statistics fallacy. (Do I need to list more of them?)
1) is it possible to classify people into categories of major races, minor races, subraces, tribes, clans, and families. (yes evidently so. it’s been done on geographic, linguistic, cultural, archeological migration, morphological, blood type, and genetic testing and is remarkably consistent)
2) do these classifications carry visibly morphological or empirically genetic correspondence (yes)
3) How many samples of a kin group do we need to trace their relations (~1000 to get within 3%), (why? genes are complicated and we do not know the causal relations, we can only now identify a few common markers, so we must output-test morphology (evidentiary features)as well as input test our limited understanding of markers.
4) what degree of precision do we need to falsify morphological, historical, linguistic, cultural differences? (given the colloquial measure that we are very little different from chimps, the degree of precision necessary to genetically falsify categories is ‘near complete’.)
5) do these evident categories correspond to evolutionary, reproductive, linguistic, and cultural records? (yes)
6) do people self identify with these categories? (yes)
7) do people demonstrate preference in association for these categories. (yes, in all walks of life)
8) do people demonstrate kin selection according to these classifications? (yes)
9) do people in democratic countries vote by these categories (yes, when demographic distributions are to their advantage)
10) do people in all countries report preferences (surveys) differently from how they demonstrate preferences (economic, marital, dating, friendship, phone calls, text messages, business relationships) (yes, universally – which is why the polling industry is in such a crisis)
11) do people in the the media, academy, state, and church historically lie about scientific theories and facts that would cause them disfavor with their customer bases? (yes, always and everywhere)
12) do people in the academy and the sciences demonstrate paradigm anchoring so severely that that they block research that contradicts their investments, and often paradigm reformation occurs only after prior paradigm authors have died? (yes)
13) do people in the social sciences demonstrate the highest rates of falsehood in the publications of papers, books, and articles? (yes)
14) does all the evidence lead us to conclude that reported opinions by social scientists differ from the scientific evidence? (yes).
99% of psychologists *report* that iq has no meaning.
Pretty much the entire social science profession other than economics is pseudoscience.
In economics we know (finally) why much of economics is pseudoscience. (data. method. cherry-picking and selective accounting. political bias, moral bias, class bias. gender bias..)
Don’t get me started on ‘global warming/cooling/climate change’. Or that we don’t have too many people living on the planet, or …..
Please do not come to a gunfight with a squirt gun. I don’t like having to waste my time defending myself against the room-temperature-iq crowd. You’re clearly a well intended useful idiot indoctrinated into marxist and postmodern pseudoscience just as the church indoctrinated centuries of idiots before you.
But thanks for forcing me to make this list so that I can use it over and over again.
Source date (UTC): 2017-06-11 17:43:00 UTC
FICTIONAL WOO (HYPERBOLE) VS FICTIONALISM WOO (LIES)
I am fine with fiction.
-but-
I am not fine with FICTIONALISM. (Lying)
Fiction: analogy, metaphor, and parable. A method of transferring meaning.
-vs-
Fictionalism: supernaturalism, pseudo-rationalism, pseudoscience. or any combination thereof, that serves as a false substitute of argument.
Wisdom-and-meaning,
-vs-
Truth-and-argument,
They are two different things.
We cannot argue from meaning without lying.
We may not be able to produce meaning from truth.
So, to make use of both without fictionalism:
Via Positiva construct meaning.
-then-
Via Negative leave only truth remaining.
So no conflation.
No abrahamism.
End abrahamism forever.
Source date (UTC): 2017-06-11 17:08:00 UTC