http://www.ibtimes.com/ibms-watson-gets-swear-filter-after-learning-urban-dictionary-1007734OLD NEWS, BUT I LOVE IT.
Ever teach some five year old a dirty word by accident? I feel bad. But only for a minute.
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-09 10:36:00 UTC
I am really trying to work. I am. But these freaking drugs, the sunshine and long days are making me a lazy sloth.
Scrivener is looking at me from the laptop, intently, like a dog that wants to go outside – and i feel like a cat in the sun, unwilling to consider much more deliberate than rolling over to warm the other side…
Thank god for alt-tab. Go away…. lol
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-09 10:33:00 UTC
The new Reality By Chanting summer office. 🙂
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-09 10:15:00 UTC
My favorite coffee shop in Kiev. Trying to restate Jan Lester’s definition of liberty in operational language. (Good exercise really).
It’s a bit hot. About F80*. It’s a holiday so all the offices are closed. People are happy. Relaxed. And as always, beautiful. 🙂
The crew is sending me photos of Cyprus – yesterday of them playing in the pool; today of them working. The women promise me they will make the men work. lol.
Miss them. 🙂
Roman is back in Lviv after playing soldier in the woods this weekend. (Roman is my hero.)
Too long since my daughter Caitie Doolittle gave me a hug. 🙂
Kiev feels like home.
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-09 09:57:00 UTC
Since moral differences are expressions of differences in reproductive strategy, and since moral intuitions are reflections of those differences, and since we appear out of necessity to be morally blind to competing sets of differences, then moral intuition tells us noting whatsoever. We can agree to cooperate on means, but we cannot agree to cooperate on ends. In the end, we are competing, and the byproduct of our reproductive cooperation is generally beneficial for all. Government can be used to transfer the benefits between classes (as it has been for 150 years) at the expense of dysgenic reproduction.
The value of property rights (propertarianism) is that it reduces all statements to non-moral form.
Property is the logic of cooperation.
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-09 09:14:00 UTC
Curt Doolittle shared a post.
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-09 08:11:00 UTC
There are things you dont want to be right about. Sigh.
Like the scion of your movement investing half his effort in an error.
I set out to prove him right. He is mostly right. But only mostly.
At least he is right about the important things.
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-09 08:09:00 UTC
So, why is the liberty movement moving from the states as the central point if advocacy, to the UK?
(Part of me blames the damage done by MI.)
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-09 08:03:00 UTC
I agree to cooperate with you as long as it is not harmful to do so. I dont even require that it is profitable. It just cannot subject me to effort, expenditure or loss.
But parasitism is not something I agree to.
And progressivism is parasitism.
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-09 07:51:00 UTC
Yesterday, Yulia, Suliko, and Amanda had Roman and I over for a wonderful home cooked meal. It was beautiful. It’s hard to explain to Ukrainians that Americans don’t talk to their neighbors. Usually we live very far from the rest of our family. And we live in these physical as well as mental ‘boxes’ we rarely see out of. New England, or at least what’s left of it, still has a concept of family. So does the south – or what’s left of it. But that’s what I love about this country, Ukraine (and their cousins the lovable insanely crazy russians). It’s extremely genuine. I’m incredibly cognizant now of the constant status-warfare that’s the central ambition of american life. And I want nothing at all to do with it. I don’t like the countries that were fully brought into orthodoxy and dominion of the turks. Too much low trust. But you don’t see that here in Ukraine. Both the Catholics, Protestants, and the Orthodox ethics are here. and they tended to protect the value of each other somehow.
It’s also helped me understand myself. I am really happy with a backpack, some technology, some nice clothes and a sports car. As a child I felt the same way. I used to think of it as ‘traveling light’ (freedom.) But something happened in college. I felt the need to become wealthy as a status symbol. But the truth is that, after all those serious illnesses, and selling pretty much all my ‘material burdens’, I’m a hell of a lot happier. Of course, being healthy is probably most of it. 🙂
Because i’m free.
I know it sounds trite. Because before I actually HAD all the things people dream of, i wanted them. But AFTER I had them all, I realized that all that matters is the people you spend time with. And that to have good friends you must supply something to the friendship. And if you need ‘things’ to get their attention, then you should probably work on your character and love instead. Because all money did for me is attract parasites and free riders that you must protect your ‘stuff’ from.
Everyone should feel safe. And comfortable. But the data shows that after you make 60K a year, increases in wealth do not bring you happiness. Now, for me, just ’cause I’m an information junkie, it’s more expensive to feed the machine in my head. So that number appears to be about twice as high before I feel ‘comfortable’.
And I really would just laugh at myself ten years ago. But it’s the truth. This is where I ended up. Material shit is a boatanchor. Money is freedom.
Make money. Collect experiences. Collect friends. Collect accomplishments. And leave the ‘stuff’ to the people who only CAN collect stuff.
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-09 06:57:00 UTC