Mythology makes no pretense, nor law, nor requests no compensation. I’m a fan of fairy tales, myths, legends, histories. They are necessary due to the intertemporal content of their information, and the increasing precision and depth we need as we accumulate knowledge. In the end we should find science and law. But not all of us can complete the journey. My problem is the pretense of truth.
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Mythology Makes No Pretense
Mythology makes no pretense, nor law, nor requests no compensation. I’m a fan of fairy tales, myths, legends, histories. They are necessary due to the intertemporal content of their information, and the increasing precision and depth we need as we accumulate knowledge. In the end we should find science and law. But not all of us can complete the journey. My problem is the pretense of truth.
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Extending Eli’s Necessity of Commensurability and Decidability
Long (Established Male), medium (ascendent male), short term (female consumption) division of perception, cognition, knowledge, labor, and advocacy demand different degrees of calculation – computational stress. This is why trust, reciprocity, norms, traditions, myths, institutions and laws matter most to those of us with conservative and long term values (intuitions/genes) and not to those with progressive and short term values (intuitions/genes). Physical stress, lower emotional stress, higher intellectual stress and more accumulated cellular damage. (Male) -vs_ Physical stress, higher emotional stress, lower intellectual stress, and less accumulated cellular damage (Female) —“Without shared mythology, values, rituals, signals, institutions, language, culture, and kinship …. without some local commonality in these, there is no commensurability or decidability possible between individuals, and no coincidence of interests, and therefore no cooperation, only conflict.”— Eli Harman -
Extending Eli’s Necessity of Commensurability and Decidability
Long (Established Male), medium (ascendent male), short term (female consumption) division of perception, cognition, knowledge, labor, and advocacy demand different degrees of calculation – computational stress. This is why trust, reciprocity, norms, traditions, myths, institutions and laws matter most to those of us with conservative and long term values (intuitions/genes) and not to those with progressive and short term values (intuitions/genes). Physical stress, lower emotional stress, higher intellectual stress and more accumulated cellular damage. (Male) -vs_ Physical stress, higher emotional stress, lower intellectual stress, and less accumulated cellular damage (Female) —“Without shared mythology, values, rituals, signals, institutions, language, culture, and kinship …. without some local commonality in these, there is no commensurability or decidability possible between individuals, and no coincidence of interests, and therefore no cooperation, only conflict.”— Eli Harman -
What’s the Difference Between a Logic and A Grammar?
(important)(core) There isn’t any.
Logic...>...Grammar....>....Speech.........>...Story
Is the same as:
Law.....>...Theory........>....Hypothesis...>...Observation
Grammar: Rules of continuous disambiguation producing a well formed statement functioning as a series of transactions in a contract for meaning. Any person who has spent enough time with complex databases has made the ironic assertion that everything in the universe can be Normalized down to ones and zeroes. Fewer of us recognize that this is very close to the structure of the human nervous system.
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What’s the Difference Between a Logic and A Grammar?
(important)(core) There isn’t any.
Logic...>...Grammar....>....Speech.........>...Story
Is the same as:
Law.....>...Theory........>....Hypothesis...>...Observation
Grammar: Rules of continuous disambiguation producing a well formed statement functioning as a series of transactions in a contract for meaning. Any person who has spent enough time with complex databases has made the ironic assertion that everything in the universe can be Normalized down to ones and zeroes. Fewer of us recognize that this is very close to the structure of the human nervous system.
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They are all cognitively female
Ever since my discovery that “They” are all cognitively female, I’ve had this idea for an experiment where we find gender-typical arguments (naxalt etc) and then put the text under photos of opposite gender but same age and race, and class. When I listen to “Them” I realize that they are making cognitively female arguments, but with greater agency. I mean, it’s pretty simple: reverse dimorphism
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They are all cognitively female
Ever since my discovery that “They” are all cognitively female, I’ve had this idea for an experiment where we find gender-typical arguments (naxalt etc) and then put the text under photos of opposite gender but same age and race, and class. When I listen to “Them” I realize that they are making cognitively female arguments, but with greater agency. I mean, it’s pretty simple: reverse dimorphism
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American Policy Is Not Morally Good – Just Pragmatic Pursuit of Market Prosperity
Let me put something into perspective. America advocates markets and meritocracy and fixed borders. This sounds very ‘moral’ but it is just profitable for an advanced country to advocate meritocracy. For the same reason it is sensible for a less advanced country to advocate authoritarianism. We all pursue self intersets. It is just that sometimes, self interest is in everyone’s interest. And America’s self interest is most often in everyone’s interest. It’s not because americans are good or smart. it’s because it is more profitable.
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American Policy Is Not Morally Good – Just Pragmatic Pursuit of Market Prosperity
Let me put something into perspective. America advocates markets and meritocracy and fixed borders. This sounds very ‘moral’ but it is just profitable for an advanced country to advocate meritocracy. For the same reason it is sensible for a less advanced country to advocate authoritarianism. We all pursue self intersets. It is just that sometimes, self interest is in everyone’s interest. And America’s self interest is most often in everyone’s interest. It’s not because americans are good or smart. it’s because it is more profitable.