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  • ENVIRONMENT DOESN”T MATTER MUCH AT ALL –“The bad habit of assuming that anythin

    ENVIRONMENT DOESN”T MATTER MUCH AT ALL

    –“The bad habit of assuming that anything not classically genetic must be ‘environmental’ has blinkered behavioral geneticists (and those who interpret their findings) into the fool’s errand of looking for environmental effects for what may be randomness in developmental processes.”–

    NURTURE ONLY MATTER IN SO FAR AS YOU DON”T HARM YOUR KIDS. THATS THE EXTENT OF IT.


    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-31 10:27:00 UTC

  • THANK YOU -ALL- FOR LETTING ME TEST MY RECENT IDEAS ON YOU AND YOUR PATIENCE 🙂

    THANK YOU -ALL- FOR LETTING ME TEST MY RECENT IDEAS ON YOU AND YOUR PATIENCE 🙂

    It was necessary. It’s the only way to test ideas that I know of. I just construct arguments. They’re like little robot gladiators. If they succeed we learn, if they fail we learn. But the only way to test your own understanding is to argue your points, and see if they survive.

    UNITING FACTIONS

    I should, at this point, be able to achieve my goals, and unite the Conservative (normative and moral), Dark Enlightenment (scientific and political) and Anarcho Capitalist (economic and philosophical) movements in a common rational, political and moral language.

    Each group is ‘right’ about something and ‘wrong’ about other things. This is because each group gives greater weight to some social properties and less to others.

    POLITICAL IDENTITIES

    The rough strategy involves giving each group an identity or specialization, and using propertarian language as a means of working together, so that each group does not have to master, or even value, the biases of the other.

    Although the work of doing all that ought to be a bit daunting. Mostly because intellect is not evenly distributed across these groups. It’s hard enough to have a challenging talk with libertarians, but …. you know, having that talk with conservatives, and some DE folks, is an exercise in futility.

    But reality is created by chanting. Repetition allows us to gradually connect the networks of neurons needed to understand associations.

    The grammar of this language is pretty simple. It takes some getting used to. Because we’re linguistically lazy, and formal logic is linguistically burdensome, in exchange for argumentative clarity, and praxeological testability.

    I HAD TO TEST MY ARGUMENTS AGAINST ROTHBARDIAN ETHICS TO REPLACE THEM WITH PROPERTARIAN ETHICS.

    I’m sure that I frustrated some libertarians. No one likes the slaughter of their sacred cows. Even though, it’s pretty clear that I’ve forever dispatched Rothbardian ethics from rational consideration.

    I put a bullet in the NAP/PrivateProperty that it cannot recover from. The wound is mortal. It just depends on how long it will take for the idea to die.

    I’ve demonstrated that either the NAP is the wrong test of violation of property, OR that the definition of property is insufficient in scope for rational use in a polity.

    In propertarianism I have taken the approach of extending the definition of property and maintaining the principle of aggression against it because I have based, correctly, the source of property rights on the organized use of violence, and aggression is consistent with that argumentative logic.

    I HAD TO TEST OPERATIONALISM AS AN ATTACK ON PLATONISM IN ORDER TO CREATE UNIVERSAL ETHICS, AND CONVERT PRAXEOLOGY INTO THE MISSING BRANCH OF LOGIC.

    It was actually fascinating to see people in math and science DESPERATELY cling to their platonic arealism with the same fervor that mystics justify their defense of a supernatural god.

    I’m still …. really… awed, that anyone presented with constructive(intuitionist,realist,operational) arguments would even for a MOMENT question that platonism was merely a crutch for the weak mind.

    But operationalism and the logic of cooperation (praxeology) form the missing logic with which we begin to see all philosophy as a theory of action.

    SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE

    I guess I have to get serious now about (a) contributing to the other political dialogs, (b) introducing them to these ideas, and (c) producing the grammar and (d) finishing the first book (at least).


    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-31 03:54:00 UTC

  • Untitled

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/01/30/9-questions-about-ukraine-you-were-too-embarrassed-to-ask/


    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-30 16:11:00 UTC

  • DARK ENLIGHTENMENT FOR DUMMIES THE DARK ENLIGHTENMENT

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYMkl2H55MwTHE DARK ENLIGHTENMENT FOR DUMMIES

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYMkl2H55Mw

    THE DARK ENLIGHTENMENT

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EdMvOJx0ls


    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-30 15:24:00 UTC

  • KIEV UPDATE Talked to one of the active protesters today at lunch. He said that

    KIEV UPDATE

    Talked to one of the active protesters today at lunch.

    He said that they way they work is to wait on chat rooms, message boards, twitter, and all other sort of hangouts. Then someone will say “we need to build a barricade at [wherever] in an hour. They flash mob the location, work for an hour with many hands, then return to coffee shops or food or whatever to get warm. Then repeat the process. I mean, battlefield communications and all that.

    I mean, it’s GENIUS. They have the fortification process down cold.

    BTW: The Ukrainian President “called in sick” today. 😉 Seriously.

    (I LOVE BEING A SPECTATOR TO THIS KIND OF THING)


    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-30 14:23:00 UTC

  • (funny) “I’m trapped here until I get some clothes.” – Roman Skaskiw Invent your

    (funny)

    “I’m trapped here until I get some clothes.” – Roman Skaskiw

    Invent your own story behind THAT quote……


    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-30 10:52:00 UTC

  • If you get all your neighbors together, sing a few songs, march in a parade, joi

    If you get all your neighbors together, sing a few songs, march in a parade, join in a feast, participate in a festival, celebrate a holiday, listen to speeches, watch plays, or play games, then pretty much it’s a good thing at all times. It pretty much doesn’t matter what songs are about, the reason for the parade, the food you eat, the origins of the festival, the content of the speeches, the plot of the play, or the rules of the game.

    What matters is that everyone feels the joy of all these many substitutes for running with the pack – where we act as one. As a tribe, pack, flock, school … a single body and soul.

    That’s what ‘church’ is for.

    Now, I would prefer that w sang songs of our pagan and heroic past, toasted our generals and politicians, celebrated the festivals of our scientists, philosophers and poets, gave speeches to current good deeds, watched plays about the civic virtues, and played games that celebrated our victories.

    But we can do non of that living in commercial rabbit warrens, protecting our status signal nest, and insulating ourselves from the reality of our irrelevance independent of one another.

    In the end of it all, you cannot be happy without people whom you love and are loved by. Everything else is just decoration.


    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-30 09:08:00 UTC

  • WTF. I grew up confident that conspiracy theorists wore tinfoil hats, enjoyed to

    WTF. I grew up confident that conspiracy theorists wore tinfoil hats, enjoyed too many pharmaceuticals, and flirted with schizophrenia. But the number of conspiracies of idiocy that have turned out to be true, or at least, substantially true, in my lifetime, is just …. it’s just getting depressing.

    I mean. It’s not the people with tinfoil hats I’m afraid of. Its the people who DON”T wear tinfoil hats but BEHAVE LIKE IT that scare the hell out of me.

    When are we going to understand that “GOOD GOVERNMENT” and “THE PUBLIC GOOD” are oxymorons?

    I’ve sort of come around full turn. I think military intelligence might actually have something to it: “Stay home in the barracks whenever possible”. But I can’t say the same thing for anything about the state.


    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-30 08:56:00 UTC

  • (I love text and email culture. I hate talking on the phone. Always have. )

    (I love text and email culture. I hate talking on the phone. Always have. )


    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-30 04:42:00 UTC

  • TACIT AGREEMENT ON OUR ‘A’ ROUND OF INVESTMENT. Straight purchase of commons sha

    TACIT AGREEMENT ON OUR ‘A’ ROUND OF INVESTMENT.

    Straight purchase of commons shares. 🙂

    This takes us through most of the year.

    Now Max, Iain and I are prepping a pitch deck for the B round.

    I want to double our headcount and burn.


    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-30 03:44:00 UTC