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  • Objective Measures of Good and Evil?

    by Brandon Hayes

    —“Do you believe there are any objective measures of good and evil?”—Tim Allen Musse

    I would use the term Righteous and Evil. Evil < Bad < Immoral < Unethical < Amoral > Ethical > Moral > Good > Righteous Measures for a given action are put up against a test of reciprocity. Evil is harm done for harms sake. Good = Productive Bad = Unproductive Righteous is the extinguishing of Evil.

  • Objective Measures of Good and Evil?

    by Brandon Hayes

    —“Do you believe there are any objective measures of good and evil?”—Tim Allen Musse

    I would use the term Righteous and Evil. Evil < Bad < Immoral < Unethical < Amoral > Ethical > Moral > Good > Righteous Measures for a given action are put up against a test of reciprocity. Evil is harm done for harms sake. Good = Productive Bad = Unproductive Righteous is the extinguishing of Evil.

  • Interesting Choices of Gods

    I think it’s interesting that our ancestors whose civilization depended on blacksmith, bronze, horse, wheel, used giants, titans, and gods that lived on mountains, and the sun. And the semitics, whose civilization of myths about the stars; And the chinese pantheon who found heaven as a sort of parallel; All chose different means of representing what we think of as gods, with western gods the most material, then eastern, then semitic.

  • Interesting Choices of Gods

    I think it’s interesting that our ancestors whose civilization depended on blacksmith, bronze, horse, wheel, used giants, titans, and gods that lived on mountains, and the sun. And the semitics, whose civilization of myths about the stars; And the chinese pantheon who found heaven as a sort of parallel; All chose different means of representing what we think of as gods, with western gods the most material, then eastern, then semitic.

  • Censored from LessWrong 😉

    (LessWrong February 25, 2020 9:07 PM) [I]’ve been working on the problem since about ’92 and like many things, the curatorial function performed by the top handful of intellectuals alive at any given time is not able to keep pace with the volume of pseudoscience, sophistry, ideology, propaganda, and marketing over the past thirty or more years. This is not the first time there has been a rebellion against science and reason. It happened in the ancient world and resulted in the medieval dark ages. That the rebellion against science and reason is nothing more than a reflection of a rebellion against western evolutionary pressure is less obvious. If not for immigration it appears that we would have succeeded in falsifying the Jewish pseudoscientific counter-enlightenment just as we survived the German Rationalists (kant et all an the german secular theologists) and the French Moralists (Rousseau et al and the French Revolution). The difference being that the Jewish counter enlightenment (exemplified in Cantor-Bohr, Boas-Freud, Marx, Adorno-Fromm, Trotsky-Strauss-Kristol, Derrida, Friedan, and ongoing by Krugman-Stiglitz-DeLong et al ) is so broadly based, covers the entire scope of the disciplines, and is united in the past century, just as were Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in the ancient world, to resist Evolution. Or stated more simply, the current debate remains the same, which is dysgenic female equalitarian strategies, vs the eugenic, male, hierarchical strategies. In other words, both the ancient world religions and the modern world ‘cults’ of pseudoscience, sophistry, and denial, are united in a single purpose, and that is the suppression of evolution by competitive, hierarchical, market meritocracies, of any kind, whether genetic (hindu), bureaucratic (chinese), or technical (european). So in summary, (a) democracy combined with underclass or out-class immigration has created continued market demand for falsehoods. (b) resistance to the increase in market demand for falsehoods has created market demand for counter-arguments. (c) monopoly democracy (selection of priorities for the application of scarce resources) is incapable of suppression the increase in demand for falsehoods. (d) the Finance, State, Academy, Media, Entertainment, Advertising industries benefit from the the sale and distribution of these falsehoods. So yes, market demand for falsehood is increasing market demand for conflict, which cannot be resolved due to the cheap cost and incentives for the distribution of falsehoods, and suppressed the production and distribution of truths. And that is why yes, intelligence, education, the quality of information, and the curatorial function of intellectuals have all declined. Either you have a eugenic polity whose wealth is limited to productivity independent of increases in population, or you will have a dysgenic polity whose accumulated genetic, behavioral, cultural, institutional, territorial capital are consumed by a small number of generations. This isn’t a novel theory. The cycles of rise and decline have been studied by multiple historians for thousands of years. The chinese found a method of persistence through vicious prosecution of criminals, intolerant colonization and forcible integration, and perhaps most importantly agrarian and financial eugenics that over three generations continuously cull family after family from the reproductive pool. America was founded by eugenicists -they just didn’t use that terminology. They used ‘people of good character’. And we maintained the eugenic movement through the first world war. It was the intentional effort of the post war eastern european ashkenazi that worked full time every day to underming every single institution. Conspiracy? No It’s their way of life. Just like islam is the muslim way of life. Just like sovereignty and markets are the european way of life. Just like harmony, hierarchy and bureaucracy are the chinese way of life. Unsubscribe (from all emails from LessWrong) or Change your notifications settings

  • Censored from LessWrong 😉

    (LessWrong February 25, 2020 9:07 PM) [I]’ve been working on the problem since about ’92 and like many things, the curatorial function performed by the top handful of intellectuals alive at any given time is not able to keep pace with the volume of pseudoscience, sophistry, ideology, propaganda, and marketing over the past thirty or more years. This is not the first time there has been a rebellion against science and reason. It happened in the ancient world and resulted in the medieval dark ages. That the rebellion against science and reason is nothing more than a reflection of a rebellion against western evolutionary pressure is less obvious. If not for immigration it appears that we would have succeeded in falsifying the Jewish pseudoscientific counter-enlightenment just as we survived the German Rationalists (kant et all an the german secular theologists) and the French Moralists (Rousseau et al and the French Revolution). The difference being that the Jewish counter enlightenment (exemplified in Cantor-Bohr, Boas-Freud, Marx, Adorno-Fromm, Trotsky-Strauss-Kristol, Derrida, Friedan, and ongoing by Krugman-Stiglitz-DeLong et al ) is so broadly based, covers the entire scope of the disciplines, and is united in the past century, just as were Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in the ancient world, to resist Evolution. Or stated more simply, the current debate remains the same, which is dysgenic female equalitarian strategies, vs the eugenic, male, hierarchical strategies. In other words, both the ancient world religions and the modern world ‘cults’ of pseudoscience, sophistry, and denial, are united in a single purpose, and that is the suppression of evolution by competitive, hierarchical, market meritocracies, of any kind, whether genetic (hindu), bureaucratic (chinese), or technical (european). So in summary, (a) democracy combined with underclass or out-class immigration has created continued market demand for falsehoods. (b) resistance to the increase in market demand for falsehoods has created market demand for counter-arguments. (c) monopoly democracy (selection of priorities for the application of scarce resources) is incapable of suppression the increase in demand for falsehoods. (d) the Finance, State, Academy, Media, Entertainment, Advertising industries benefit from the the sale and distribution of these falsehoods. So yes, market demand for falsehood is increasing market demand for conflict, which cannot be resolved due to the cheap cost and incentives for the distribution of falsehoods, and suppressed the production and distribution of truths. And that is why yes, intelligence, education, the quality of information, and the curatorial function of intellectuals have all declined. Either you have a eugenic polity whose wealth is limited to productivity independent of increases in population, or you will have a dysgenic polity whose accumulated genetic, behavioral, cultural, institutional, territorial capital are consumed by a small number of generations. This isn’t a novel theory. The cycles of rise and decline have been studied by multiple historians for thousands of years. The chinese found a method of persistence through vicious prosecution of criminals, intolerant colonization and forcible integration, and perhaps most importantly agrarian and financial eugenics that over three generations continuously cull family after family from the reproductive pool. America was founded by eugenicists -they just didn’t use that terminology. They used ‘people of good character’. And we maintained the eugenic movement through the first world war. It was the intentional effort of the post war eastern european ashkenazi that worked full time every day to underming every single institution. Conspiracy? No It’s their way of life. Just like islam is the muslim way of life. Just like sovereignty and markets are the european way of life. Just like harmony, hierarchy and bureaucracy are the chinese way of life. Unsubscribe (from all emails from LessWrong) or Change your notifications settings

  • Going Into Depth on Trifunctionalism vs Competing Civilizations

    [I]n the Proto-Indo-European mythology, each social group had its own god or family of gods to represent it and the function of the god or gods matched the function of the group. There are only three possible means of coercion (weapons of influence) available to humans, and we have developed genetic abilities, moral intuitions, and cultural institutions to reflect them: 1) The Established Male: Defense/Force 2) The Ascendent Male: Trade/Deprivation 3) The Female: Advocacy/Undermining We have three sets of faculties 1) The Physical and Performative : Science and evidence 2) The Verbal and Rational : Reason and logic 3) The Emotional and Intuitive: instincts and incentives There are also three methods of Fictionalisms (falsehoods) 1) Override Physical Intuition Magic to Pseudoscience 2) Override Verbal Intuition: Sophistry to Philosophy 3) Override Emotional Intuition: Occult to Theology This specialization has led to three classes: 1) Those who Fight (and judge) > Force/Defense 2) Those who Pray (an teach) > Undermining/Advocacy 3) Those who Produce (work) > Trade/Deprivation and 4) … Slaves (farm and household labor) and 5) … Animals (farm labor and foodstuffs) This pattern remains the same throughout western history until the possibility of the organization of complex production, distribution and trade, expands the influence of the middle class (elites) from those who produce, making them equal to those who fight and pray. The reason is simple, because of the division of labor between the material and spiritual elites, there was never the necessity for either to claim authority over the other. The result then was that during the age of transformation – the beginning of our religious traditions – the west developed a market of philosophy rather than a monopoly theology. it wasn’t until the intentional destruction of the western roman empire and the extermination of western thought by the jews christians and then muslims that we lost our philosophy to the semitic attempt at replicating supernatural equalitarian monopoly in Western tripartism and its markets. Semitic monotheism was not successful in europe because it was unable to displace the military aristocracy and instead evolved into a corrupt wing for second tier sons of wealthy families who could obtain political position. By the end of the early middle ages the church was so corrupt that the monasteries took over – hence poverty – as a means of suppressing the parasitism of the church. So our aristocracy and our common law remained and the catholic church was an unsuccessful competitor to the traditional european group strategy, and served only as administrative wing of the aristocracy and nobility. And then when Aristotle was restored to Europe, the legal profession advocated empiricism and once literacy returned then our ancient traditions were again expressed in wave after wave of reformation, resulting in the english constitution on one end, the protestant reformation, and the french attempt at preserving that feminine authoritarianism of the church first by killing the middle class – the protestants – and then by killing the aristocracy, and the by killing the church – all the most backward institutions in europe and instead of a protestant reformation and a middle class, napoleon’s conquest sought to achieve by arms what the church failed to do, and destroy the aristocratic heart of europe: the holy roman empire of the german states, that had governed the majority of europe from the 800’s onward – and defended europe against the dangers (hordes) of the east. The germans unified into a modern state in order to prevent yet another french conquest, and the french conspired with the rest of the world to keep german expansion in check – to continue the long running attempt by France to restore roman authoritarian order over Europe under the pretense of french enlightened view of man. But France’s enlightenment was a reaction AGAINST – a counter -revolution against – the british restoration of the european tradition of our Natural law, Sovereignty, and aristocracy and the meritocratic rather than elite government that results from meritocracy. Germany was suppressed and ‘de-prussianized’ by design by france’s dictate, and american self demagoguery not by anglo demand. So, today, because of increases in the complexity of production we have: 1) Those who Fight: Military and … Judiciary (rules, order) 2) Those who Pray: Priesthood(replaced), and … Politicians / Academy / Media / Entertainment 3) Those who Produce: Finance and Entrepreneurs, and … Craftsmen, Engineers, Professionals, and Scientists and 4)… “Slaves”: Labor, Service Labor, and 5) … “Animals”: Machines And in our gods we still have: 1) Fight: The Heroes of History and … Aristotle and the Law (rules, order) 2) Pray: The Philosophers (and theologians – what is left of them) … and Writers and Artists (Verbal) 3) Produce: The Economic Scientists, and Physical Scientists, … the Artisans (Material) and 4) … Slaves: The Liars: pseudoscientists sophists and supernaturalists and 5) … Machines: The Engineers And we see Civilizational Differences in Strategy: 1) The West (Tri-Hierarchy: Fight, Pray, Produce) Markets in everything. We use Extend tolerance as long as we can in favor of developing markets. Solve Problems Quickly when they arise so that they do not escalate beyond our ability to correct them 2) The Steppe (Russian) tries to balance the European tri-functionalism, with the Chinese mono-hierarchy, in an attempt to produce (unique) byzantine durability, and this balance has served them. And the west has not yet helped them. And this is yet another of our real crimes vs the false crimes of slavery and colonialism we have been criticized for. 3) The Chinese use Mono-Hierarchy: Bureaucratic familial hierarchy – by contrast use ‘reasonableness’ rather than reason proper. They use Delay, Deceive, and Accumulate power sufficient that they cannot be fought. 4) The Hindus use Caste Hierarchy: a “soft” military hierarchy – by contrast use myth and wisdom literature. They use their peninsular isolation, vast population, and lack of formal organization to make capture of rule possible but conquest impossible – only islam (the cancer) has been effective. 5) The Semites(Equalitarian families) by contrast use monopoly conflation of law, history, mythology. The use social cultural institutional and civilizational undermining from the bottom up, and continuous raiding to destroy the economy and exhaust the military, as a means of competition. They then destroy knowledge arts and letters, and use dysgenic reproduction to destroy the gene pool. I solve for transcendence: Adaptability and rapid evolution by Sovereignty, Reciprocity, Truth, Heroism, Adversarialism, and Markets in Everything, at the cost of the suppression of the production of the underclasses, so that proceeds can be devoted to the production of commons and the high returns therefrom. The only counter-claim is devolution – anti-evolution. This means it is always and everywhere decidable whether a claimed good is such. The west was not first, but fastest. And because fastest best. And best because of commons. That is what I seek to restore.

  • Going Into Depth on Trifunctionalism vs Competing Civilizations

    [I]n the Proto-Indo-European mythology, each social group had its own god or family of gods to represent it and the function of the god or gods matched the function of the group. There are only three possible means of coercion (weapons of influence) available to humans, and we have developed genetic abilities, moral intuitions, and cultural institutions to reflect them: 1) The Established Male: Defense/Force 2) The Ascendent Male: Trade/Deprivation 3) The Female: Advocacy/Undermining We have three sets of faculties 1) The Physical and Performative : Science and evidence 2) The Verbal and Rational : Reason and logic 3) The Emotional and Intuitive: instincts and incentives There are also three methods of Fictionalisms (falsehoods) 1) Override Physical Intuition Magic to Pseudoscience 2) Override Verbal Intuition: Sophistry to Philosophy 3) Override Emotional Intuition: Occult to Theology This specialization has led to three classes: 1) Those who Fight (and judge) > Force/Defense 2) Those who Pray (an teach) > Undermining/Advocacy 3) Those who Produce (work) > Trade/Deprivation and 4) … Slaves (farm and household labor) and 5) … Animals (farm labor and foodstuffs) This pattern remains the same throughout western history until the possibility of the organization of complex production, distribution and trade, expands the influence of the middle class (elites) from those who produce, making them equal to those who fight and pray. The reason is simple, because of the division of labor between the material and spiritual elites, there was never the necessity for either to claim authority over the other. The result then was that during the age of transformation – the beginning of our religious traditions – the west developed a market of philosophy rather than a monopoly theology. it wasn’t until the intentional destruction of the western roman empire and the extermination of western thought by the jews christians and then muslims that we lost our philosophy to the semitic attempt at replicating supernatural equalitarian monopoly in Western tripartism and its markets. Semitic monotheism was not successful in europe because it was unable to displace the military aristocracy and instead evolved into a corrupt wing for second tier sons of wealthy families who could obtain political position. By the end of the early middle ages the church was so corrupt that the monasteries took over – hence poverty – as a means of suppressing the parasitism of the church. So our aristocracy and our common law remained and the catholic church was an unsuccessful competitor to the traditional european group strategy, and served only as administrative wing of the aristocracy and nobility. And then when Aristotle was restored to Europe, the legal profession advocated empiricism and once literacy returned then our ancient traditions were again expressed in wave after wave of reformation, resulting in the english constitution on one end, the protestant reformation, and the french attempt at preserving that feminine authoritarianism of the church first by killing the middle class – the protestants – and then by killing the aristocracy, and the by killing the church – all the most backward institutions in europe and instead of a protestant reformation and a middle class, napoleon’s conquest sought to achieve by arms what the church failed to do, and destroy the aristocratic heart of europe: the holy roman empire of the german states, that had governed the majority of europe from the 800’s onward – and defended europe against the dangers (hordes) of the east. The germans unified into a modern state in order to prevent yet another french conquest, and the french conspired with the rest of the world to keep german expansion in check – to continue the long running attempt by France to restore roman authoritarian order over Europe under the pretense of french enlightened view of man. But France’s enlightenment was a reaction AGAINST – a counter -revolution against – the british restoration of the european tradition of our Natural law, Sovereignty, and aristocracy and the meritocratic rather than elite government that results from meritocracy. Germany was suppressed and ‘de-prussianized’ by design by france’s dictate, and american self demagoguery not by anglo demand. So, today, because of increases in the complexity of production we have: 1) Those who Fight: Military and … Judiciary (rules, order) 2) Those who Pray: Priesthood(replaced), and … Politicians / Academy / Media / Entertainment 3) Those who Produce: Finance and Entrepreneurs, and … Craftsmen, Engineers, Professionals, and Scientists and 4)… “Slaves”: Labor, Service Labor, and 5) … “Animals”: Machines And in our gods we still have: 1) Fight: The Heroes of History and … Aristotle and the Law (rules, order) 2) Pray: The Philosophers (and theologians – what is left of them) … and Writers and Artists (Verbal) 3) Produce: The Economic Scientists, and Physical Scientists, … the Artisans (Material) and 4) … Slaves: The Liars: pseudoscientists sophists and supernaturalists and 5) … Machines: The Engineers And we see Civilizational Differences in Strategy: 1) The West (Tri-Hierarchy: Fight, Pray, Produce) Markets in everything. We use Extend tolerance as long as we can in favor of developing markets. Solve Problems Quickly when they arise so that they do not escalate beyond our ability to correct them 2) The Steppe (Russian) tries to balance the European tri-functionalism, with the Chinese mono-hierarchy, in an attempt to produce (unique) byzantine durability, and this balance has served them. And the west has not yet helped them. And this is yet another of our real crimes vs the false crimes of slavery and colonialism we have been criticized for. 3) The Chinese use Mono-Hierarchy: Bureaucratic familial hierarchy – by contrast use ‘reasonableness’ rather than reason proper. They use Delay, Deceive, and Accumulate power sufficient that they cannot be fought. 4) The Hindus use Caste Hierarchy: a “soft” military hierarchy – by contrast use myth and wisdom literature. They use their peninsular isolation, vast population, and lack of formal organization to make capture of rule possible but conquest impossible – only islam (the cancer) has been effective. 5) The Semites(Equalitarian families) by contrast use monopoly conflation of law, history, mythology. The use social cultural institutional and civilizational undermining from the bottom up, and continuous raiding to destroy the economy and exhaust the military, as a means of competition. They then destroy knowledge arts and letters, and use dysgenic reproduction to destroy the gene pool. I solve for transcendence: Adaptability and rapid evolution by Sovereignty, Reciprocity, Truth, Heroism, Adversarialism, and Markets in Everything, at the cost of the suppression of the production of the underclasses, so that proceeds can be devoted to the production of commons and the high returns therefrom. The only counter-claim is devolution – anti-evolution. This means it is always and everywhere decidable whether a claimed good is such. The west was not first, but fastest. And because fastest best. And best because of commons. That is what I seek to restore.

  • Simplified Map of The Grammars

    [H]ow do we demarcate math, science, law, economics, history, philosophy, literature, mythology, and theology? (Best diagram I can do with unformatted text) ANALOGY AND CONFLATION ^ | … INFLATION | … … Literature …-> Mythology …-> [Theology] . … Essay … Philosophy … [Sophistry] . Law ->Economics ->History ->[Deceit] |->[FICTIONALISMS| . … Science …-> Technology …-> [Pseudoscience] . … … Mathematics …-> Logic …-> [illogical] | | … DEFLATION v MEASUREMENT AND DISAMBIGUATION As far as I know this diagram cannot be false.

  • Simplified Map of The Grammars

    [H]ow do we demarcate math, science, law, economics, history, philosophy, literature, mythology, and theology? (Best diagram I can do with unformatted text) ANALOGY AND CONFLATION ^ | … INFLATION | … … Literature …-> Mythology …-> [Theology] . … Essay … Philosophy … [Sophistry] . Law ->Economics ->History ->[Deceit] |->[FICTIONALISMS| . … Science …-> Technology …-> [Pseudoscience] . … … Mathematics …-> Logic …-> [illogical] | | … DEFLATION v MEASUREMENT AND DISAMBIGUATION As far as I know this diagram cannot be false.