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  • I remember when I was first programming that I wanted a language to work ‘this w

    I remember when I was first programming that I wanted a language to work ‘this way instead’ so that it was far closer to language than math and engineering, and PHP really got us close. Even after I started working in assembler and began to really understand the problem of memory management it always seemed to me that this should be an operating system problem and no my responsibility. The serving of html pages meant that a question and answer created and released memory. And that solution never occurred to me.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-19 12:02:00 UTC

  • ( I like programming, and I love PHP as much as I loved LISP, but you know js ow

    ( I like programming, and I love PHP as much as I loved LISP, but you know js owns the future and as far as I can tell unless your communicating directly with hardware the question is settled science. )


    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-19 11:59:00 UTC

  • THE MODEL OF ALL COMPARISON (CALCULATION) IS INFORMATION. We still have a lot of

    THE MODEL OF ALL COMPARISON (CALCULATION) IS INFORMATION.

    We still have a lot of people practicing the justificationism of saying “Can I get away with saying this without a contradiction?” and too few of us saying “What information was present and where did it go or come from?” It is as antique to use justificationism as it is to use mysticism. And by antique I mean ‘false’.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-19 11:58:00 UTC

  • CHOICE WORDS —“In a sense science is a political agenda, since it is a set of

    CHOICE WORDS

    —“In a sense science is a political agenda, since it is a set of norms that guide human cooperation in an effort to implement an adaptive strategy that is based upon the expansion of knowledge.”— Adam Voight


    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-19 11:52:00 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle shared a post

    Curt Doolittle shared a post.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-19 08:58:00 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle shared a post

    Curt Doolittle shared a post.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-19 08:57:00 UTC

  • THE NON-OBVIOUS BENEFITS OF MARKET GOVERNMENT (important topic) William Butchman

    THE NON-OBVIOUS BENEFITS OF MARKET GOVERNMENT

    (important topic)

    William Butchman just indirectly reminded me that when I say ‘market government’ is the most likely candidate for creating a beneficial form of ‘post majoritarian rule’ while retaining the benefit of creating non-monopolistic commons:

    a) that groups are not prevented from creating what we call anarchic (private contractual) commons, simply by setting conditions of use for the semi-private property. In other words, the Hoppeian contractual model of commons still exists.

    b) however, by creating a market for the EXCHANGE of commons, we can conduct trades between classes for the construction of commons, thereby obtaining through the exchange of commons what we cannot obtain through either the market, or by the private production of commons.

    c) the importance of this insight is that we are all compelled to think of what commons we can offer to others just as we are compelled to think of what private goods and services we can offer to others. The most common exchange will be behavior and norms for material goods, services, access and various forms of insurance.

    d) and that we can create competing commons (monorail vs trains) where before – only monopoly existed.

    If you can create a commons by wholly private construction, public non-prohibition of private construction, public competition with other common projects, or shared consent via exchange, or shared consent by mutual interest, then you are able to construct commons in every possible means rather than by the one means of majority rule – and that the most effective method of constructing commons is to trade with other classes what you have to supply: labor and good normative public behavior, for knowledge, organization, and wealth.

    While at the same time, no one can create parasitic commons because no such contract can survive the test of natural law that all contracts must survive.

    Furthermore, without monopoly production of commons there is no reason for politicals to pass legislation or regulation, only facilitate the market for the production of commons – which is in all our interests, and requires very little that we ask of man’s character to work other than by natural incentives.

    Again, a legal system that takes its decidability from the natural law and evolves by empirical experimentation via the common law, with universal standing and universal applicability, combined with a market for reproduction (family), a market for production of goods and services (the economy), and a market for the production of commons (government in the loosest sense), is the most empirical and truthful non-parasitic order that we can construct.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Philosophy of Aristocracy

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine


    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-19 08:51:00 UTC

  • My grandmother, in her French accent would say ‘Cuuuuuurt, you need to learn pat

    My grandmother, in her French accent would say ‘Cuuuuuurt, you need to learn patience’. Now people tell me I am waaaay to patient. Irony of age.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-19 06:50:00 UTC

  • You know, every libertarian goes through his period of revelation, and almost al

    You know, every libertarian goes through his period of revelation, and almost all of these poor fools write an ‘introduction to libertarianism’ of some sort as a means of trying to understand it themselves, and of sharing their revelation.

    But you know, the evidence is pretty clear: Saying something synthetic about a topic (most intellectuals) requires two years of work on top of six years of specialization. Saying something innovative and intelligent in any discipline takes six to nine years of hard work, and two to three years to write down.

    The world doesn’t need more intros. Revelations are for diaries and autobiographies.

    A PhD takes what – on average six years? The great thinkers seem to take seven to ten, or even twenty. It depends on whether they publish in the interim (wittgenstein, Nietzche) or they don’t (spinoza, kant).

    SPecialization has really hurt our intellectual movements.

    A side effect of propertarianism and testimonialism is that all disciplines can use the same language, and the same structure, and all that changes are the names and processes of specific applications in the spectrum from the subatomic physical world on one end, to epistemological truth at the other.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-19 05:55:00 UTC

  • NATURAL LAW ISN”T COMPLICATED Imagine you visit a totally alien island, and have

    NATURAL LAW ISN”T COMPLICATED

    Imagine you visit a totally alien island, and have no knowledge of manners, ethics, morals, traditions myths, rituals, laws, institutions, and metaphysical value judgments.

    History is replete with the difficulty of establishing communication, trust, cooperation, trade, and especially, non-conflict.

    But because of natural laws we can start from the lowest methods of communication: giving gifts, and avoiding threats, while maintaining capable defense.

    It is these lowest common denominators that we refer to with ‘natural law’.

    *Impose no cost, nor threaten to impose a cost, upon those who have expended efforts in the accumulation of whatever reproductive, productive, institutional, and territorial assets that they have.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-19 05:23:00 UTC