—“Imagine what that will do for us – to recognize ORGSM as violence, and to treat its uncontrolled expression just as we do male violence? Truly this is warp-drive for the human mental condition. We will be limitless. We will Become Gods through this discovery…we will revert back to the mud and be another forgotten species without it.”—Joseph E. Postma
Source date (UTC): 2019-10-03 18:36:00 UTC
—“Quote: If FAMGA dropped off the face of the Earth, “Nearly all of your electronic devices would either stop working or would disappear, the internet would become nothing short of mass chaos, nearly all e-commerce activity would halt, and your undying thirst to watch cat videos would forever go unquenched.””—Matt Hulbert
These companies are protected by a combination of
1) effectively unlimited access to speculative credit markets;
2) domestic intellectual property rights;
3) ability to grind the court process;
4) unconstitutional (irreciprocal) disintermediation of the public from juridical defense in matters of the commons; 5) unhealthy american habit of inaction on consumer protection;
6) the slow pace of american legal adaptation to novel monopolies (Oil, Telecom, now internet service providers); 7) And at least, recently concern that such interference cascade would expose the weakness of the economy and its dependence on debt (financialization) and a narrow distribution of tech companies whose assets are being duplicated in china where none of these american ‘issues’ are a problem.
I’m a conservative libertarian but our lack of consumer protection is criminal – tech is just obvious. Credit is even more criminal. I’ve lived in a very poor country (Ukraine) born costs in many, and there is no reason for most of the absurd costs we pay for what have converted from luxuries to infrastructure.
Google is the national resource location platform, amazon the national shopping and delivery platform, and Facebook the national communication platform.
Source date (UTC): 2019-10-03 18:29:00 UTC
Pls Follow for something beautiful every day.
Source date (UTC): 2019-10-03 17:25:00 UTC
They’re getting conservative postmodernism from Schmidt (authority) and Eric Ganz (social construction). And boy do they get mad when I (correctly) reduce Schmidt’s entire edifice to one statement, and state it’s simply because they were so far behind developmentally.
Source date (UTC): 2019-10-03 16:11:00 UTC
TALEB AS SCAM ARTIST UNDERMINING WESTERN CIVILIZATION
(tough talk from twitter)
(read at your own risk)
—“Taleb, like Gould, is trying to demonise mainstream psychology–but he’s only successful in creating a folk demon for the lay public. He knows that anyone with any technical expertise thinks he’s a clown. But he doesn’t care, because accuracy is less important to him than fame.”—Claire Lehmann @clairlemon
I don’t want to be the front man on this subject but he’s not trying to take down psychology, he’s trying to justify arab immigration to the west, and satisfy the chip on his shoulder as a christian arab. His empirical work was a dead end, and he can’t tolerate the truth: Trust.
West and east used tests successfully to filter out corruption for positions in government. Same for military, then same for academy. Wealth is available across the bell curve, with complexity (IQ) determining your market. You need conscientiousness to accumulate that wealth.
What taleb is attempting to obscure is west can create large complex organizations because of trust and trust under rule of law, and rule of law by filtering out corruption granting privilege to IQ. He can’t face that because levantines cannot create trust, rule of law or …
… large complex organizations, because they thing lying is a tool, cunning is of merit, outwitting by cunning superior than outwitting by increase in productivity, quality, or innovation, and that the commons is to be pilfered rather than invested in at every opportunity.
So taleb is missing the whole point: that he is only able to use his techniques of via-negativa risk invstment, becuase he is in the only high trust polity, using IMMORAL MEANS OF GAIN, and so is his alter ego “Fat Tony”. These men are, by western ethics and morality ‘Scammers”.
Yet Taleb’s entire literature is devoted to lionizing scamming while ridiculing those who hold positions of privilege (influence) precisely because they are not in the scamming business. Now, this analysis will expose the primary difference between middle eastern and western…
… people and it will explain why certain groups profit in certain industries: because they are immoral, and westerners are not.Morality requires reciprocity: productive, fully informed,warrantied, voluntary transfer, free of imposition of costs by externality against interests.
It is quite profitable to engage in immorality among moral people, just as it is less so among immoral people. And the finance business is by and large unproductive. In other words a westerner would never engage in the tactic used by Georg Soros, which was extractive. He did.
So whether you cast these people as amoral or immoral, intentional or unintentional, or genetically or culturally different,the reality is that only westerners practice material Reciprocity and verbal reciprocity Truth,and because we do we produce high trust and large complex …
… disproportionately productive organizations from the family to the enterprise to the state. And lower trust people that do NOT sort for trust and grant privilege to people who have ability in complexity to PRESERVE that TRUST. That is what the chinese and the west did.
What institutions did the middle east foster instead? Cunning, Cheating, Lying, Rent seeking, taxing trade routes rather than producing. They lauded inbreeding, familiasm, tribalism, and not trust and productivity – and they rewarded dogmatists not talent.
As such they could not produce a middle class, middle class majority population, and middle class ethics, and as such they could not push trustworthiness down into the middle, working, and lower classes. Which is why they remained poor despite taxing world trade and …
… consuming the genetic, cultural, institutional, knowledge and aesthetic capital of five great civilizations and reducing them to ignorance, poverty and dysgenia.
So yes you can make money if your conscientious at every point in the IQ curve …
… but you cannot push trust, reciprocity, truth, and duty, judge and jury, contract and rule of law, down into a population and produce the multiples of scale, unless you FILTER upward for both intelligence (complexity) and conscientiousness, and you reward the combination …
… with status and income, forcing a status hierarchy that must be imitated. And that’s before we get to the fact that smarter people are better at suppressing error – which strangely, Taleb, as another proponent of via-negativa seems to overlook. And that as we scale …
… opportunities are not scarcer, but more plentiful, but so are the increasing cascades of error.
So you know, basically, Taleb has been trying to teach the west how to devolve into a low trust bunch of middle eastern scam artists and calling it ‘smart’. …
Meanwhile, he fails to grasp that those ‘educated but unintelligent people’ are in their position to eliminate error and low trust, not to maximize profits. Which if you have been following along this argument I’m making, means that not maximizing personal profit maximizes ALL.
So let me reduce Taleb’s life’s work as an essayist in ridicule of western civilization to its foundations: (a) Mandelbrot was right that the stock market is just noise so w/o inside information just invest in funds. … (and here comes the big one) …
…. (b) rule of law and involuntary warranty must be extended from commercial goods and services to all information in the marketplace. yes that’s right. We gave license to people to not warranty their words in the 20th, and that’s the reason we are where we are today. Period.
Did you make that leap with me? Well, then follow me.
Taleb is a Charlatan who at first glance popularized Mandelbrot’s insights through humorous ego-inspiring essays making us feel smart like it made him feel smart. But the reality is, we have been smart for 5000 years: …
… warranty of one’s words, martial testimony “reporting” in all walks of life. The RETURNS ON COMMONS make Private returns possible, and commons require high trust and that’s why europeans are the only people to have produced them.
We call it the civil society.
Source date (UTC): 2019-10-03 11:51:00 UTC
TRUTH BEFORE FACE
(sensitive but true topic warning)
(this is advanced political theory, read at your own risk)
Postmodernism(Political Correctness, Denial of Cultural Racial and Class Differences) and Feminism(Denial of Gender Differences) are attempts to undermine the uniqueness of western civilization’s MALES. Males who speak Truth before Face, Truth Regardless of Status, Truth Regardless of offense; Truth regardless of the Competence Hierarchy, Truth regardless of the Dominance Hierarchy.
The entirety of our way of life, Rule of Law, Sovereignty, Reciprocity and Jury and the reason, science, and technology that arose from it, are dependent upon the ond thing western men do that no other people do: and that is to report and report alone by speaking martial, empirical, testimonial, truth before face – anyone’s face – regardless of cost to self or others. This is the highest cost an individual can pay for his civilization. And institutionalizing it has only been done once: at the origins of western civilization, thousands of years ago.
Why the change: women cannot bear it, that is why they are easy victims and practitioners of feminism and postmodernism. Women fight one another by undermining with words. So among women, because they have had so little time in the public sphere, truth before face has not been institutionalized. And just as women were sold christianity in the ancient world, they have been sold postmodernism and feminism in the modern world. And because they (a) spend 80% of the income (b) spend the majority of money (on unscientific non-STEM courses) in university, (c) consume 80% of tax revenues, (d) white women are the only group that defects against their males, and vote against truth before face, against meritocracy, and against defense of the commons from consumption. They have the entire Cathedral Complex (State, Academy, Media, Finance) working to cater to their denial, and doing so by degradation of men, truth before face, rule of law, and the entire western edifice that has made women’s freedom from labor and servitude possible.
We spent millenia outlawing male anti-social behavior, but we have ceased outlawing female anti-social behavior, and face before truth, denial, and undermining are anti-social behaviors that must, like violence, be equally suppressed.
That’s what our Natural Law did, and that’s what it must do again.
It’s a test of Reciprocity: If men may not undermine by violence and force, women may not undermine by denial, gossiping, rallying, shaming, psychologizing, moralizing, ridiculing, and will limit themselves to truthful reciprocal speech, not disapproval and undermining as a substitute for truthful speech. If not then men will return the favor with their method of undermining, and then both genders lose.
Source date (UTC): 2019-10-03 10:25:00 UTC
EXCHANGE OF KIN AS SECURITY
—“Uncle Curt, what was it called when Kings would exchange Princes for a required amount of time, and keep as their ward the exchanged Prince? As this was keep the Peace.”—
Meaning changes over time. So that’s why it doesn’t immediately come to you.
Hostage: “a lodger held by a landlord as security”.
It’s hostage, although it means something more like ‘guest held as security’. The modern meaning has been twisted – and fairly recently.
COMPARISONS
A hostage held as security under guarantee of safety vs a hostage hold for ransom under threat of harm. So it’s held as hostage (safe), vs held for ransom (harm).
ETYMOLOGY
hostage (n.)
late 13c., from Old French ostage, hostage “kindness, hospitality; residence, dwelling; rent, tribute; compensation; guarantee, pledge, bail; person given as security or hostage” (11c., Modern French ôtage), which is of uncertain origin. Either from hoste “guest” (see host (n.1)) via notion of “a lodger held by a landlord as security” [Watkins, Barnhart]; or else from Late Latin obsidanus “condition of being held as security,” from obses “hostage,” from ob- “before” + base of sedere “to sit,” with spelling influenced by Latin hostis. [OED, Century Dictionary]
Source date (UTC): 2019-10-03 10:12:00 UTC
WESTERN MEN USE TRUTH BEFORE FACE. POMO’S UNDERMINE IT. THEY USE WOMEN TO DO IT. BE A MAN.
—“Stefan Molyneux: Every day you go out of your way to insult someone. People who come to your channel genuinely curious about what you may have to say quickly realize you were just another internet troll. There are too many of those. Be something different.”—SufficientlyWhelmed@SufficientlyWh1
You apparently have been feminized so that you don’t understand the optimum means of masculine education: King of the Hill games. You also don’t understand the enemy’s undermining by GSRRM and how Stefan counter-signals it all day long. If you are turned off then you don’t matter.
It’s hard to face the fact that you don’t matter. But if you won’t put Truth Before Face, you are in fact, an enemy of the uniqueness of western civilization.Truth before Face is the highest cost we pay, and the left has sought to undermine it – because it’s our civ’s foundation.
The purpose of the marxist program was to bait decivilization with false promise and pseudoscience. It didn’t work. But Women naturally use face-before-truth, and by selling it to women and undesirable men, political correctness is simply undermining Truth before Face.
So please man up and stop being a useful idiot. Truth before Face, Reciprocity, Sovereignty, and Jury is the foundation of western civilization.
Stop helping the enemy by virtue signaling.
Pay the cost of maintaining Truth Before Face.
Source date (UTC): 2019-10-03 08:18:00 UTC
WISDOM LITERATURE GOOD AND BAD
Wisdom literature is necessary. Fairy Tales, Myths, Legends, all use unknown forces to educate us. That’s just different from using wisdom (advice) as truth (decidability). One cannot deduce in argument from such premises. But one can seek counsel, and give counsel with wisdom.
It’s just a degree of precision:Analogy (wisdom) for broad, Virtues for less broad, General Rules for narrower, Law for narrower, science for narrower, and math for narrowest. This range allows us graceful increase and decrease in precision – or dishonestly, to obscure precision.
We must only know whether we are using the sufficient degree of precision for the question, whether we lack information for, or are ignorant of, further precision, or whether we are obscuring greater precision for dishonest purposes. Theology uses all three – unfortunately.
Source date (UTC): 2019-10-03 07:34:00 UTC
OMG Jay AmeriSor can teach some P!!
Source date (UTC): 2019-10-03 07:25:00 UTC