(FB 1543591794 Timestamp) by Luan Raphael Via Positiva: Provide us with a precise description so that we can construct the experience you seek to communicate. Via Negativa: Provide us with a description so that we can constrain our imagination to that which you seek to communicate. Identity allows us to constrain our imagination so that we can construct the experience.
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(FB 1543607997 Timestamp) Another nit: Great Men “Candidates” evolve (emerge) in batches, usually over three generations of incentives (really). In other words, the market for great men exists at all times (iron law of oligarchy so to speak). World Communism was such a threat (and it’s legacy still is) that it created demand for great men to both take advantage of it, and to oppose it with Fascism. Everything else that occured within those societies was simply utilitarian. whether we get a Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot is merely a function of utility in the sphere of influences. And as controversial as it might seem today, Hitler and Mussolini if not Stalin and Mao, will be judged by history quite differently. And it is happening already. Science evolves with the death of the advocates of theories. As a struggle for expansion during an era of western dominance we skew one bias, and as an attempt to save the core of western civilization in a period of anticipation of decline, we skew yet another. History is unkind to the consensus of an era. That is because consensus is merely utilitarian – rarely true. Its not uncommon to see informed debate that the anglos should have stayed out of the wars, rather than contributing to cause and conflict.
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(FB 1543588907 Timestamp) —“If your speech does not satisfy the categories necessary to demonstrate due diligence or establish warrantee against fraud, bias, or error, why on earth would I take you seriously?”—Micah Pezdirtz
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(FB 1543605282 Timestamp) Your choice of grammar (paradigm) tells us how you understand yourself in relation to others.
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(FB 1543588356 Timestamp) —“Metaphor: low resolution vs. E-prime: high resolution”—Micah Pezdirtz
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(FB 1543603044 Timestamp) ARE HISTORIANS OR ECONOMISTS MORE RIGHT? Um…. Let me help you: OUTLIERS. Economists are better at explanation post hoc, and historians are better at prediction, for the simple reason that history consists of the analysis of outliers (opportunities in signal), and economics the analysis of regularities (opportunities in noise). At present it is painfully clear to me that we are both at the most fragile condition any empire has been in history, and we have a surplus of agitated external competitors, and a surplus of agitated internal males ready to seize the opportunity. If the economics profession measured ALL capital changes and incentives those changes cause, and demand for it’s reallocation, as well as rates of consumption and production, then the profession MIGHT come close to the predictive ability of historians. But as we have consistently seen, (which I have been measuring since 2002), the opinions of economists (confidence) vary inversely to the predictability of the conditions. So, it’s not an either or proposition. Bias Confirmation in History, Projection in Psychology and Sociology, and; Cherry Picking in Economics. Next time you hear an economist say ‘but we don’t try to measure that’, inform him that his position is no different from theologians saying ‘we don’t account for that’.
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(FB 1543587328 Timestamp) INDIVIDUALS, GROUPS, AND CIVILIZATIONS FILL EVERY NICHE |FEED|: Herd > Pack > Solitary Hunter > Scavenger > Kleptoparasite > Parasite. Mammals cover the full range. Humans cover the full range. Civilizations cover the full range.
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(FB 1543600878 Timestamp) —“Personally I think a semantically commensurable language creates a problem of cost, but alas we must bear costs.”—Micah Pezdirtz
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(FB 1543586504 Timestamp) —âOne of my philosophy professors said, itâs not that you canât use analogy and metaphor to express some difficult ideas, but eventually you have to actually tell us what you MEAN. We will insist on that point.â—Daniel Roland Anderson
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(FB 1543600820 Timestamp) “LYING” IN THE WHITE LAW (PROPERTARIANISM) by Daniel Roland Anderson —âI (we) require you to perform due diligence before making a truth claim. In other words, we have a higher standard of not lying. This prevents people (as we do in law) from claiming ignorance.â—Curt Doolittle This is the first time Iâve seen you explain why you use the term âlieâ the way you do. Iâm glad I randomly scroll through comment sections like this looking for gold. Iâm thinking another couple paragraphs, and this is a post that resolves some angst with IQs all the way down to 95. The rest of this discussion on the relationship between truth, meaning, and lying is more important for a lot of us though because it seems to cause a lot of confusionâmore so the truth and meaning thing. INCREASE IN THE SCOPE OF LYING RESULTS FROM AN INCREASE IN THE SCOPE OF WARRANTY, DUE TO AN INCREASE IN THE SCOPE OF DUE DILIGENCE