Minor movies worth watching if you haven’t seen them.
The reason I want to call them out, is in part, that villenueve’s use of kubrick’s techniques combined is (thankfully) spreading into the indie and drama markets. Secondly, the use of increasingly layered plots is also becoming ‘a necessity’. (Whch we all attribute to the HBO series’ etc).
(I want to see the whole ‘vfx spectacle’ die as soon as possible.)
– The Beyond (different tack on Arrival)
– Devil’s Gate (very fun and unexpected)
– The Strange Ones (if you can’t get into it)
– 2:22 (um… a bit predictable, and beyond suspension of disbelief, but well done)
And of course:
– Three billboards, which is not quite Tarantino, but a nod to the form.
It’s getting to the point where if a star is included in the lineup the movie is guarranteed to be sh–t. If it’s using lots of character actors, then it’s going to fly. It’s almost a truism.
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All grammars limit the domains (property ranges) of semantic content. Semantic l
All grammars limit the domains (property ranges) of semantic content. Semantic limits do not exist independent of grammars, but expand (inflate) fictionally or contract (deflate) operationally, empirically, and logically (meaning scientifically). In fact, the purpose of deflationary grammars is primarily to decrease deception, fiction, disambiguation, and dimensions, and therefore increase precision. -
All grammars limit the domains (property ranges) of semantic content. Semantic l
All grammars limit the domains (property ranges) of semantic content. Semantic limits do not exist independent of grammars, but expand (inflate) fictionally or contract (deflate) operationally, empirically, and logically (meaning scientifically). In fact, the purpose of deflationary grammars is primarily to decrease deception, fiction, disambiguation, and dimensions, and therefore increase precision. -
Moritz Bierling – thank you for all you do. The little stuff also matters
Moritz Bierling – thank you for all you do. The little stuff also matters. -
Moritz Bierling – thank you for all you do. The little stuff also matters
Moritz Bierling – thank you for all you do. The little stuff also matters. -
“What are you meaning by subatomic multipliers?”— Davin Eastley In economics,
–“What are you meaning by subatomic multipliers?”— Davin Eastley In economics, the term ‘multiplier’ means that more is gained than lost by the operation(transaction), ergo, in physics, a more complex organization is created and stable state retained. (or stated in economic terms, a more complex capital is formed.) (BTW: good question.) -
“What are you meaning by subatomic multipliers?”— Davin Eastley In economics,
–“What are you meaning by subatomic multipliers?”— Davin Eastley In economics, the term ‘multiplier’ means that more is gained than lost by the operation(transaction), ergo, in physics, a more complex organization is created and stable state retained. (or stated in economic terms, a more complex capital is formed.) (BTW: good question.) -
Discussion: Richland Spencer, Millenial Woes, Styx, Sargon,
(Adam Walker Gets It Right) by Adam Walker (CD: update, discussion link at end) There were a lot of good ideas exchanged in this discussion. The funny thing is Curt Doolittle’s work actually solves most of the conflicts in fundamental disagreements. Sargon wants to retain the autonomous sustainability of liberty and has a problem with Richard’s embrace of authoritarianism and see’s it as a way of moving backwards. Richard and Woes are presenting the very clear and present danger of encroaching collectives from the outside of western civilization emphasizing that if we don’t embrace a little collectivism or a little authoritarianism ourselves, we’re simply going to be bulldozed into the trash bin of history. Curt’s vision of markets in everything, the key being market governments, allows for ethnostates to form organically and autonomously and also compete meritocratically with other polities or governments, that say, Sargon would prefer. The problems that ethnonationalists have is of course the over focus on race. I’m not saying race isn’t one of the most important issues of our time, but we tend to be so focused against Marxism that we forget to concentrate on one of the things that has made Marxism so effective and that if the right focused on more, we’d get around a lot of hurdles that cause so much infighting. And that one thing is Class. We’re arguing for ethnostates essentially because it is easy to produce the kind of high trust society we envision if we simply make everyone look and think like us. But what we really want is a high class society and a great aristocracy to rule us. To be truly ruled by our betters and not corrupt unelected and unwanted politicians is what we want. These problems have solutions that these personalities just haven’t discovered yet and been able to discuss. In those discussions, a coalition of bright minds could form such that could design a system after the American system eventually collapses. Until then, I just wish more people could understand the importance of Curt’s work and the impact it will have on the future of the civilized world. If we can’t recognize truth and slaughter all our sacred cows we’ll fail to resurrect western civilization’s greatness forever. ============ via Adam Walker: Conversation was from a livestream Google hangout between Richland Spencer, Millenial Woes, Styx, Sargon, and some others on Andywarski’s YouTube channel. Link: https://youtu.be/UiUH-tWHbr8 -
Discussion: Richland Spencer, Millenial Woes, Styx, Sargon,
(Adam Walker Gets It Right) by Adam Walker (CD: update, discussion link at end) There were a lot of good ideas exchanged in this discussion. The funny thing is Curt Doolittle’s work actually solves most of the conflicts in fundamental disagreements. Sargon wants to retain the autonomous sustainability of liberty and has a problem with Richard’s embrace of authoritarianism and see’s it as a way of moving backwards. Richard and Woes are presenting the very clear and present danger of encroaching collectives from the outside of western civilization emphasizing that if we don’t embrace a little collectivism or a little authoritarianism ourselves, we’re simply going to be bulldozed into the trash bin of history. Curt’s vision of markets in everything, the key being market governments, allows for ethnostates to form organically and autonomously and also compete meritocratically with other polities or governments, that say, Sargon would prefer. The problems that ethnonationalists have is of course the over focus on race. I’m not saying race isn’t one of the most important issues of our time, but we tend to be so focused against Marxism that we forget to concentrate on one of the things that has made Marxism so effective and that if the right focused on more, we’d get around a lot of hurdles that cause so much infighting. And that one thing is Class. We’re arguing for ethnostates essentially because it is easy to produce the kind of high trust society we envision if we simply make everyone look and think like us. But what we really want is a high class society and a great aristocracy to rule us. To be truly ruled by our betters and not corrupt unelected and unwanted politicians is what we want. These problems have solutions that these personalities just haven’t discovered yet and been able to discuss. In those discussions, a coalition of bright minds could form such that could design a system after the American system eventually collapses. Until then, I just wish more people could understand the importance of Curt’s work and the impact it will have on the future of the civilized world. If we can’t recognize truth and slaughter all our sacred cows we’ll fail to resurrect western civilization’s greatness forever. ============ via Adam Walker: Conversation was from a livestream Google hangout between Richland Spencer, Millenial Woes, Styx, Sargon, and some others on Andywarski’s YouTube channel. Link: https://youtu.be/UiUH-tWHbr8 -
OK. so I will make a painful set of observations that I promise are correct. 1)
OK. so I will make a painful set of observations that I promise are correct. 1) never, ever, every, extrapolate a curve. Almost every human error in intellectual history has been the result of doing so. 2) all phenomenon in the universe produces cycles of that repeat at increasing scales, because the maximum energy use given the available operations (lie groups) create multipliers at their maximum causal density. (Think subatomic, atomic, chemical, organic, sentient, environmental, economic, energy-production.) 3) Every quadrant in the diagram is the victim of this error. 4) If this diagram were true we would not encounter speciation. But we do. We would not find a LIMIT to subatomic multipliers in atomic interactions. We would not find a LIMIT to atomic multipliers in the chemical interactions, and not find a limit to chemical multipliers in biological interactions. But we do. 5) The question is, what is the limit of cooperation at human scale before cooperation is NO LONGER OF VALUE, and competition is of higher value. 6) all theories (descriptions of possible operations made possible by causal relations) have limits, and only in the expression of these limits do we test (subject to falsification) our theories. 7) All theories must be internally consistent, externally correspondent, operationally possible, limited, and scope complete. In the case of sentient theories, they must be 8) This chart is missing either LAW or PROPERTY, or SUPPRESSION OF DEGREES OF PARASITISM BY NORM ETHIC MORAL AND LAW. I don’t have time at the moment to spend more time on the subject but I think northwest is out of order, southweste is out of order becasue reason was a late development and contract early, and I don’t now whether contract refers to agreement, and normative habit or third party insurance, northwest and southeast are … justificationary not predictive. NOrtheast is conflating instruments and fiat is in the wrong place, and derivatives is incorrect. The general idea CAN be done. I do it. But until you significantly increase causal density (the number of axis) and realize we make excuses and narratives to justify our siezure of opportunities, it will simply be justificationary, and neither descriptive or predictive. At what point is cooperation no longer in one’s interest? A tribe’s? A nation’s? A civilization’s? What civilizations resist cooperation today and why?