Curt Doolittle shared a photo.
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-29 08:20:00 UTC
Curt Doolittle shared a photo.
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-29 08:20:00 UTC
Dear women over 40. If you keep your hair long and your weight down you still got it. Maybe not so easy. But you still got it.
If you are lucky enough to be from a family that taught you grace rather than feminism, you never lost it, and will always have it.
Youth is cheap and accidental. Grace is priceless and accumulated.
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-29 07:33:00 UTC
You can keep your whole foods and QFC. I’ll take my Ukrainian supermarket Kosmos.
Awesome.
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-29 07:33:00 UTC
I dunno if math is signaling. I kind of suspect it’s not.
I dunno if programming and engineering are signaling. I kind of suspect not.
I am pretty sure that philosophy when it’s’ not seeking algorithms, but persuasion, is in fact MOSTLY SIGNALING.
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-29 05:36:00 UTC
CRITICIZING PUBLIC SPEAKER’S DEMANDS
(cross posted for archival purposes)
So and so speaker, actress, musician, diva etc, demands these things from his/her hosts.
You know, this stuff is pretty normal – its not demanding. When you come to talk somewhere they ASK YOU what you want for intelligent reasons. You write it into the agreement. For me I want apples, pears, bananas, coca cola, Evian. No local bottled water please. Coke is safe world-round, grapes contain allergens that set off my asthma, and other fruits are too challenging to be sure are safe. If I can’t eat local-anything, I can survive on Evian, fruit and coca cola for a few days – especially if I can find granola bars.
If you haven’t lived your life in planes, airports, taxis and hotels over many time zones – and done so for extended periods, then you don’t really grasp how important it is to have ‘anchors’ – things that are familiar. I stay in five star hotels for an extra two or three hundred dollars a night. I fly business class. And I eat very carefully. Because otherwise I can’t PERFORM my function when people pay a LOT for you to perform your function. (and get really angry if you can’t.)
Now if you’re just an average joe that doesn’t matter. But when people pay you real money for your time, and when their time is precious, the RISK of non-performance is a serious issue for everyone involved. So rooms that are away from elevators (noise) above a certain floor (noise) without the hindi-family next door (noise), where you can count on the heat, air-conditioning, and cleanliness (disease). Where fans, prostitutes, scam artists, paparazzi, thieves, and whatever are trying to put you on the defensive or get your scarce, tired, attention.
So it’s not self appreciation that these things are meant to serve, but SELF PRESERVATION.
Only privileged […insert derogatory….] who live life in a western-bubble fail to grasp this kind of thing.
Anchors matter.
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-29 05:35:00 UTC
(Really do gotta stay off the alcohol. Three drinks on Thursday and I’m still not ‘all there’ today.)
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-29 04:13:00 UTC
IF POLITICAL SPEECH IS RENDERED CALCULABLE THEN WHAT?
what happens if public intellectuals can only construct commons instead of power?
I mean. Seriously. You aren’t going to stop people from wanting to organize to change the world. You aren’t going to stop people from changing it to suit their biases, interests, class and kin. You can stop them from lying – or at least make it much harder for them to lie. You can limit them to construction of commons, and exchanges between groups. You can try hard to limit the obscurantism that they rely upon do achieve discounts (lying again). But they will keep on being human (gossiping).
I think it’s pretty hard to engage in corruption under a Propertarian constitution. But it isn’t impossible. Man will always invent new means of lying to obtain discounts.
On the other hand, I think that since the only outlet that is economically inexpensive to follow is that of voluntary exchange, then I can see most efforts returning to civic rather than political life: that we try to construct truths and commons and trades rather than lies, and rents, and thefts.
This is what prohibiting lying does for us. This is what Propertarianism allows us to do.
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-29 04:12:00 UTC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc073RIC7_MLANGUAGE MEANING AND RATIONALISM : THE TOOLS OF LYING
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-29 04:04:00 UTC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSHCdalj3FoLANGUAGE, MEANING AND RATIONALISM: THE TOOLS OF LYING
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-29 04:02:00 UTC
http://bleedingheartlibertarians.com/2014/11/on-reverse-racism-three-thought-experiments/RACISM AND REVERSE RACISM: OR PERHAPS IT’S TRIVIALLY SIMPLE AND SUCH DISCUSSION IS DISHONEST
1) The distribution of physical desirability for mating, the demonstrated behaviors of impulsivity and time preference, aggression, and demonstrated intelligence vary between individuals. (true)
2) The social classes are organized by these distributions due to reproductive desirability, status utility, and cooperative (economic) utility. (true)
3) The races demonstrate different relative distributions of these classes. (true)
4) Racial groups demonstrate kin selection in mating, neighborhoods, friendship, social organizations, and business organizations. (true).
5) The norms demonstrated by racial groups reflect behavior at the mean (true). This means lower trust, less intelligent groups must compete against norms in groups with higher trust and higher intelligent groups. (true). It also means that the group that holds dominant political power, and biases toward their norms, determines the economic velocity of the entire polity (true).
6) Racial groups demonstrate kin selection in voting (true).
7) INABILITY to use the state for rents and privileges limits political competition and conflict, whereas ABILITY to use the state for rents and privileges increases political competition and conflict. (true)
8) Economic Wealth reduces dependence upon kin for mutual insurance under kin selection. (true). Economic stress increases dependence upon kin for mutual insurance via kin selection. (true)
9) The difference between economic, political, social, reproductive and status success of one race or another is due to the distribution of superior talents versus inferior liabilities of the members of those races – plus normative factors, the most important of which is in-group trust, and the second is the degree of the suppression of free riding. (true)
10) As such the only reason for racism is the rates of reproduction between the classes. And the only possible means of achieving equality in any and all cases is to suppress the reproduction of the lower classes of the races whose distribution is bottom weighted.
11) It is non-rational to treat unknown individuals who are visually indistinguishable by other than the properties of their peer groups. (true) (which is what people do). One cannot both demand rational action, defend Praxeology, and deny this statement.
12) Equality is achievable and desirable in just four generations. But it is upward reproductive redistribution that must mach downward economic redistribution for equality to be possible. If china can do this so can the rest of the world.
Otherwise, it is non-rational for people with higher reproductive desirability, lower impulsivity, lower aggression, and higher intelligence to tolerate political competition from those who are less desirable and in the net, parasitic, just as it is politically preferable to compete via parasitism if one is less desirable at the bottom.
Human beings are not unique and precious snowflakes. It is only that disregard for life is a moral hazard. The fact that mothers MUST believe their dysgenic offspring are precious is an evolutionary convenience, not a demonstrable fact.
The purpose of science is quite often to force us to acknowledge uncomfortable truths. Equality is not a problem of belief (lying), but one of fact (truth).
Try not to lie.
It hurts the discipline of philosophy. It hurts mankind.
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-29 03:20:00 UTC