October 20th, 2018 9:08 AM GENDER DIFFERENCES IN NONSENSE-SPEECH (humor)
—“Girls talk about stupid girl stuff, and guys talk about stupid guy stuff. We all do it. The difference is guys know it’s stupid stuff.”— A Friend
It’s just that girls maintain the peace by not ADMITTING its stupid stuff (Defecting), where men preserve loyalty by admitting it’s stupid stuff. Inverse relations, same purpose.
October 20th, 2018 11:49 AM MORE ON THE FRAUD OF TOLERANCE AND THE PAYMENT OF FORBEARANCE
—“The centre holds onto tolerance because tolerance is passive. Those lacking agency can participate in tolerance while ignoring limits, because they don’t have the agency to enforce limits, and by ignoring limits they can stay in denial of their lack of agency. Forbearance includes tolerance AND limits (until the cost one was willing carried has been exceeded), AND active participation – its a choice which one can boycott/defect based on the cost carried.” —- @[655376421:2048:Bill Joslin]
“FORBEARANCE”
—-“I use Tolerance to mean allowing costs to be assessed against non-consenting parties as ambiguity makes it unclear what additional party is specifically responsible for costs. It is a passive state. No agency. …. I use Forbearance to mean I intentionally take responsibility for the cost to allow someone else not to (ex. my children, my disabled kin, my employee that has not matured fully yet). It is an active state. Allows agency.”— @[1013719133:2048:Luke Weinhagen]
CD: This is great line of original thinking. I don’t know where it’s coming from but it’s an example of how we are all increasing precision and measurement. (thanks to Brandon Hayes for looping me in)
October 20th, 2018 8:43 AM THE ECONOMICS OF CANNIBALISM? (humor)
—“They still practice cannibalism there”—Andy Ujku
[I] always wonder ‘what are the choice cuts‘ for cannibals? Because, humans have glutes and thighs and calves but we have evolved to trade muscle for heat dissipation and brain size – and that made us expensive life forms. People are plentiful herd animals, and great beasts of burden, as the ancient slave societies illustrated, but because humans grow and mature slowly and expressively, they provide poor caloric returns. Stuff that eats grass provides better investment for eating – and humans serve better as beasts of burden than food source. 😉 (See? Economics in everything. lolz;)
October 20th, 2018 11:25 AM NPC’S AND THE RIGHT [L]ook, the left is a herd (monopoly), the right a collection of packs (market). We can’t script like NPC’s do because we have no herds. We have a thousand packs. Each pack uses its own language. That’s why NPC’s are so hysterical to us: we debate between our packs – we use different arguments values, terms. NPC’s dont. The herd follows scripts. That’s what makes it a herd.
October 20th, 2018 8:33 AM REAPING THE EXTREMIST FRUITS OF THE MIDDLE’S TOLERANCE by John Mark (cd: this is brilliant) [W]hat these “We can all come together” people don’t understand is that the most intolerant group (the group most willing to punish anyone who deviates from their agenda) wins. Thus the middle groups, continuing their attempt at the failed strategy of tolerance, allow the totally intolerant far left progressive activists to take more and more power, while the only group smart enough to counter them with total intolerance in return is the hard right. The “exhausted majority” is reaping the fruit of their own
October 20th, 2018 11:21 AM ONE OF MY ALBUMS: A COLLECTION I KEPT AT MY HOUSE. SECRET: Almost everything you read on manliness will teach you to be an officer and a gentleman in civilian clothes. That’s all it is. We tend to create soldiers of the state today, who are participants in the administration of combined arms. In that sense we produce few Officers and Gentlemen. We have lost our intergenerational military aristocracy as the principle origin of our political representatives. So it is increasingly difficult to imitate an aristocrat. One can still learn how to be a warrior. It is increasingly difficult to learn to be an aristocrat. For that reason we can and must restore the skill base deliberately. Um. It sells. Aristocrat Sells, Athlete sells, Musician sells, Money Sells. Sell women less (they consume) and sell men more (produce together).
October 20th, 2018 8:27 AM
—“Did your views on allocation of public funds change at all when you had children from when you didn’t?”— Dan Springhorn
[N]o. It was just study of economics and history: data. And most importantly, when I understood the uniqueness of western civilization as commons. Now, there are no such thing as ‘public funds’ other than credit money. The rest is private funds that have been possible because of the political order of property rights. So, there is a difference between redistribution for consumption, and redistribution into commons, and the externalities whether consumptive or common. In general, parks, infrastructure, and insurance are good commons, but charity needs be private so that it produces the optimum externalities (charity) vs the worse possible externalities (welfare that breeds dysgenia). ( As a side note, I (me, myself) don’t figure into my thinking much at all. My test is reciprocity, capital production, competition, eugenics, and evolution-transcendence. )
October 20th, 2018 10:58 AM UNDERSTANDING MINDFULNESS, CLASS, COSTS
October 20th, 2018 10:34 AM
—“CURT: HOW CAN I LEARN WHY PSYCHOLOGY IS A PSEUDOSCIENCE?”— A Friend
[H]mmm…. Well, psychology(Investigation/measurement) vs freudian psychology(projection/fictionalism). Start at the beginning with Karl Popper on Freud. The read about the “Operationist” movement in psychology. Then read about “The replication crisis”. Then take note of how hard it is to find any papers that do not try to deny psychology is a pseudoscience despite the near zero replicability of findings. “The Ladies Doth Protest Too Much” is rather obvious. Data is data. Replication is replication. Psychology and sociology don’t replicate. Ergo, it’s not science. Freudian categories are outright fabrications – he just made it up. Why? We all carry our cultural baggage with us. Judaism enforces conformity with the feminine bias (entrapment/herd) and europeanism encourages exceptionalism (innovation/pack). Freud stated the jewish and feminine psychology in pseudoscientific terms, (he basically invented the concept of ‘rape culture’ that is a psychosis of the feminine mind). Nietzsche stated the european and masculine psychology casting the feminine as a catastrophe (correctly). Just as Marx was a Jewish reaction to Darwin, Freud was a Jewish reaction to Nietzsche, Frankfurt was a Jewish Reaction to Spencer et al. Jung came along and tried to correct Freud by using literary archetypes, which were free of Jewish/Feminine psychosis, and provided a normative model compared to Nietzsche’s reformation and restoration of western civilization. The war period resulted in pseudoscience through about the Regan Revolution of the 1980s, and the technological revolution and fall of the soviet and chinese empires in the 1990’s. As usual, science (empiricism, and warranty of due diligence) saved us from nonsense. Psychotherapy is a pseudoscience (talk therapy), although counseling (mentoring) is not. Cognitive behavior therapy (training) is not a pseudoscience, it is just stoicism applied correctively rather than as an ordinary universal training of the mind. Psychiatry (medication and surgery) is not a pseudoscience and it was the first strike against the pseudosciences of the Freudians. Psychology isn’t always a pseudoscience – but is mostly – because only economics provides us with good data on human behavior (demonstrated preference and bias). The fact that we cannot actually run experiments in economics is precisely the reason we have a harder time projecting, and that economic pseudoscience is largely achieved by innumeracy: cherry picking the income statement over the balance sheet in order to hide destruction of accumulated capital. Cog Sci is not really a term used any longer, but represented an attempt by a GENERATION of scholars to LEAVE the pseudoscience of psychology behind. It was made possible largely by imaging and computer imaging technology which let us examine (relatively un-intrusively) the workings of the brain. And we have made huge progress in the past twenty years in exposing psychology (projectionism) as a pseudoscience. And replaced it with subfields that study language, cognitive bias, emotions, neurology, brain structure, etc without the ‘projection’ (fantasizing) that constituted psychology. Propertarianism/Acquisitionism provide a superior means of describing behavior (incentives, biases, and actions). This is why it’s so important a vocabulary and grammar for metaphysics, psychology, social science, politics, and law. Curt
October 20th, 2018 9:49 AM
PROPERTY MAY BE INTANGIBLE BUT THE COSTS OF IT ARE NOT —“Intangible property exists inside the realms of both personal and group property. Intangible property exists in ideas or information which men are willing to defend, such as a man’s reputation, or the reputation of a man’s family or ancestors. These things may not be tangible in such that you can point at or identify them, but they exist as property because men are willing to defend them with violence, often times even more so than the more tangible types of property.”— Allen Freeman via Oliver Westcott