https://twitter.com/curtdoolittle/status/799610418914332672/photo/1?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=fb&utm_campaign=curtdoolittle&utm_content=799610418914332672COMPARATIVE RELIGIONS #tcot #libertarian #conservative #NRx #NewRight (This ought to get me in a little trouble – as usual.) https://t.co/OLQAK80p7D
Source date (UTC): 2016-11-18 08:49:00 UTC
Eli Harman:
—“If you disallow heuristics based on statistical data which is more readily available and less costly than individual information, you leave huge gains on the table. You will be beaten by people who seize them. Institutions, at least at the higher levels, can be composed of and by cognitive elites who can afford a more correct and complete account of things. But for the man on the street, tribes are an indispensable expedient.”—
Source date (UTC): 2016-11-18 08:08:00 UTC
The evolution of life is humorous if you consider most life forms either matter-bags in water, or water-bags on land and air. How far can I get from the water, and how big can I get if i can’t just absorb water from condensation?
Source date (UTC): 2016-11-18 08:05:00 UTC
With horse bronze and wheel, they began to raid.
The Range of Territory They Could Domesticate.
Take exclusive possession of.
Transform into productive ends.
Domesticate plant, animal, and man.
Transform man and nature.
Source date (UTC): 2016-11-18 08:03:00 UTC
Some arguments ask if statements are ‘possible’ or ‘impossible’.
Some arguments ask if statements are ‘good’ or ‘bad’.
Some arguments ask if statements are true or false.
Some arguments ask if statements are gains or losses.
Some arguments ask if statements are exchanges or transfers
Some arguments ask if statements are investments or frauds
Some arguments ask if statements are any of the above.
Source date (UTC): 2016-11-18 08:01:00 UTC
Many methods of decidability are useful. The question is whether or not they are useful for self-and-other deception.
Source date (UTC): 2016-11-18 07:50:00 UTC
YOU DON’T HAVE THE RIGHT TO SPREAD IGNORANCE
( Nick Heywood and Curt Doolittle )
Why do you have the right to ignorance?
Well, there is a difference between enjoying the luxury of ignorance at other’s expense, and distributing ignorance by your words and deeds.
And there is a difference between general knowledge that allows us to escape our ignorance, and the means of testing information against error, bias, wishful thinking, suggestion, overloading, pseudoscience and deceit, that allows us to increase our knowledge and decrease our ignorance, and to speak truthfully and avoid speaking untruthfully.
And since the animal man evolved to negotiate and deceive as well as describe and inform, and since we evolved to act rationally – meaning morally when in our interests and immorally when in our interests – the reason it has taken us thousands of years to develop the technology of truth telling that we call ‘science’, is because it is unnatural to us. We evolved to negotiate, not testify.
So just as we must learn manners, ethics, morals, and laws to obtain access to and participate in the benefits of that market for cooperation that we call the ‘social order’, we must learn the ethics of knowledge: how to eliminate error, bias, wishful thinking, suggestion, loading and framing, overloading, pseudoscience, and deceit.
And we must teach one another manners, ethics, morals, laws – not only defensively: to limit the ill-mannered, unethical, immoral, and illegal – but also as investment: to increase the number of people with whom we have an option to cooperate at ever lower costs, in the production of private and common goods, services, and information, for mutual benefit.
So defensive and investment reasons we must invest constantly in the teaching of manners, ethics, morals, and laws, including the ethical science of interpreting and giving testimony: truth telling.
And conversely we must punish those who cause harm to manners, ethics morals and law; cause harm to the production of private and common goods, services, and information.
But how do we punish? By the incremental suppression of ill-mannered, unethical, immoral, illegal, speech:
DEPRIVATION OF OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK
1st with ridicule & shame
(Ya f’n idiot! What are ya thinkin’? Or ya not thinkin’?!?)
DEPRIVATION OF OPPORTUNITY TO COOPERATE:
2nd with ostracism
(I’m afraid I can’t associate with you. You’re deceitful and just repeat lies you’ve been convinced of as true in order to influence)
DEPRIVATION OF GOODS, SERVICES AND INFORMATION
3rd loss of privilege
(I can’t trade with you or offer service, ya on ya own!)
DEPRIVATION OF CHOICE
4th loss of liberty
(You’re a danger. You lose the ability to make your own decisions. You demonstrate a high risk to other’s welfare)
DEPRIVATION OF ACTION
5th loss of freedom!
(Off to Jail ya go ya f’er! Or war in the case of the state 😉 )
DEPRIVATION OF EXISTENCE
6th loss of life
(hanging)
Source date (UTC): 2016-11-18 07:40:00 UTC
The central problem of our era:
most property is now in the form of information. and the problem of our era, is the incremental suppression of crimes against information. we must reverse the industrialization of lying
Source date (UTC): 2016-11-18 07:07:00 UTC
COMPARATIVE RELIGION: GROUP STRATEGIES
1) Aryan Expansion of sovereignty, domestication, and invention.(E)
2) (Reformed) Christian expansion of duty, trust, and production.(E)
3) Jewish expansion of separatism, deceit, and parasitism.(E/D)
4) Marxist expansion of rebellion, pseudoscience, and parasitism.(D)
5) Islamic expansion of submission, ignorance, and predation. (D)
(E: eugenic/domestication. D:dysgenic/un-domestication. E/D: internal eugenic and external dysgenic)
Source date (UTC): 2016-11-18 06:37:00 UTC
THE GREATEST HAPPINESS VERSIONS
NICE VERSION
—“The greatest happiness is to scatter your enemy, to drive him before you, to see his cities reduced to ashes, to see those who love him shrouded in tears, and to gather into your bosom his wives and daughters.”—
LESS NICE VERSION
—“The real greatest pleasure of men is to repress rebels and defeat enemies, to exterminate them and grab everything they have; to see their married women crying, to ride on their steeds with smooth backs, to treat their beautiful queens and concubines as pajamas and pillows, to stare and kiss their rose-colored faces and to suck their sweet nipple-colored lips.”—
THE ORIGINAL?
As far as I know the original is from the carvings on the Palace of Nimrud. And is nowhere near as ‘romantic’.
WHAT DO I HEAR WHEN I READ IT?
“The greatest pleasure is to defeat, and rule.”
BTW: this is probably fabricated. Since it was written long after his death. But all falsehoods originate in some grain of truth.
Source date (UTC): 2016-11-17 17:59:00 UTC