[I]f you adopt paternalism: that your kin are an extended family, and that you will work with other extended families to cooperate non-parasitically with all other extended families, and that we produce nations not states, then you get this wonderful ability for us to religion, culture, race, class and caste. We struggle with a certain problem: that while small nations are better for the development of community and mutual insurance, large states are materially valuable for the conduct of war and less so for trade bargaining. But once we have nuclear weapons it is very hard to violate borders without committing suicide. So there appears to be no reason for large states other than aggressive warfare. And yes, some territory is objectively better than other territory. And some genes are objectively better than other genes. And we start from different levels of development. But states are as much a barrier to development as they are to improvement precisely because of scale. Scale increases the ability to engage in corruption. With scale we find anonymity. With anonymity we have informational asymmetry. With informational asymmetry we have opportunity for corruption (privatization of commons). So you know, I’m a CLASSIST, in that i recognize the problem of carrying a large and counterproductive underclass, but I am not a RACIST in that I want all groups to transcend the animal, become fully human, and evolve into what we imagine as gods. And its possible. We had it right. Unfortunately we blew it. And now we have to fix it.
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Propertarian Class Structures
[P]ROPERTARIAN CLASS STRUCTURES (draft)(note that education is a commercial class) Martial Class (suppression of parasitism) —Kings and Generals —Knights(professionals), Soldiers —Judges, and Sherriffs Commons Class (Construction of Commons) —Infrastructure Institutions —Civic Organizations —Beauty and Maintenance —Disaster Services Insurer Class (Insurance) —Priesthood and Intellectuals —Insurers, and Insurers of last resort —Medicine and Nursing —Mothering and Child Care —Elder Care —Poor Care Commercial Class (organization and execution of production) —Major Corporate Alliances —Finance, Banking —Business and Entrepreneurship —Distribution and Trade Producer Classes —Calculators ——Scientists (discover) ——Engineers (build) ——Programmers (instruct) ——Accountants (measure) ——Project Managers (time) —Artist Class … —Labor Class … —Dependent Class (incapable of engaging in goods and service production) … —Out of Sight Class (incapable of engaging in commons production) … Criminal Class (forcing costs on commons and production) …
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Propertarian Class Structures
[P]ROPERTARIAN CLASS STRUCTURES (draft)(note that education is a commercial class) Martial Class (suppression of parasitism) —Kings and Generals —Knights(professionals), Soldiers —Judges, and Sherriffs Commons Class (Construction of Commons) —Infrastructure Institutions —Civic Organizations —Beauty and Maintenance —Disaster Services Insurer Class (Insurance) —Priesthood and Intellectuals —Insurers, and Insurers of last resort —Medicine and Nursing —Mothering and Child Care —Elder Care —Poor Care Commercial Class (organization and execution of production) —Major Corporate Alliances —Finance, Banking —Business and Entrepreneurship —Distribution and Trade Producer Classes —Calculators ——Scientists (discover) ——Engineers (build) ——Programmers (instruct) ——Accountants (measure) ——Project Managers (time) —Artist Class … —Labor Class … —Dependent Class (incapable of engaging in goods and service production) … —Out of Sight Class (incapable of engaging in commons production) … Criminal Class (forcing costs on commons and production) …
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Eli Harman One of Robert Axelrod’s findings from studying iterated prisoner’s di
Eli Harman
One of Robert Axelrod’s findings from studying iterated prisoner’s dilemma competitions (“The Evolution of Cooperation”) is that the standard “tit for tat” strategy can be improved upon by adding an element of forgiveness, to break otherwise insoluable and never-ending patterns of recrimination. Clinging steadfastly to vengeance as an aim, when peace and cooperation are within reach, is an example of the sunk cost fallacy.
Quite simply, our parents and grandparents could afford a lot of folly that we cannot, now that they have squandered our inheritance on empty signaling.
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Eli Harman One of Robert Axelrod’s findings from studying iterated prisoner’s di
Eli Harman
One of Robert Axelrod’s findings from studying iterated prisoner’s dilemma competitions (“The Evolution of Cooperation”) is that the standard “tit for tat” strategy can be improved upon by adding an element of forgiveness, to break otherwise insoluable and never-ending patterns of recrimination. Clinging steadfastly to vengeance as an aim, when peace and cooperation are within reach, is an example of the sunk cost fallacy.
Quite simply, our parents and grandparents could afford a lot of folly that we cannot, now that they have squandered our inheritance on empty signaling.
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The Source of Difference Between Center and West
—[M]uslims everywhere (or rather i should say most Muslims i have encountered) do not accept the logical and normative distinction that western philosophy effectuates between the truth-value of statements and the origin of those statements. This is the true nexus of the conflict between Islam and the West. It is a real conflict with stunning consequences.—-Ayelam Valentine Agaliba
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The Source of Difference Between Center and West
—[M]uslims everywhere (or rather i should say most Muslims i have encountered) do not accept the logical and normative distinction that western philosophy effectuates between the truth-value of statements and the origin of those statements. This is the true nexus of the conflict between Islam and the West. It is a real conflict with stunning consequences.—-Ayelam Valentine Agaliba
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The Principle of Exchange Makes Philosophy Much Easier
[P]olitical Philosophy is a lot easier when you just start from the premise that all goods are hypothetical, all bads are not, and that the only means of accumulating the knowledge to determine good from bad is exchange. This eliminates the fallacy that any of us know what is in fact good for all, other than institutions that allow us to choose any possible good but prohibit us from pursuing any known bad are a de facto good by prohibiting bads. This is contrary to human cognition because we evolved for negotiating cooperation not truth telling. It is contrary to human desire, because we desire consensus. It is contrary to political incentive because it limits political power. We all think we are ‘right’. But the only ‘right’ we can know is trade. Just as the only way we know whether we engaged in production or engaged in waste, consumption, or entertainment, is if others trade for what we create. Information and volition tell us what ‘right and wrong’ do not.
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The Principle of Exchange Makes Philosophy Much Easier
[P]olitical Philosophy is a lot easier when you just start from the premise that all goods are hypothetical, all bads are not, and that the only means of accumulating the knowledge to determine good from bad is exchange. This eliminates the fallacy that any of us know what is in fact good for all, other than institutions that allow us to choose any possible good but prohibit us from pursuing any known bad are a de facto good by prohibiting bads. This is contrary to human cognition because we evolved for negotiating cooperation not truth telling. It is contrary to human desire, because we desire consensus. It is contrary to political incentive because it limits political power. We all think we are ‘right’. But the only ‘right’ we can know is trade. Just as the only way we know whether we engaged in production or engaged in waste, consumption, or entertainment, is if others trade for what we create. Information and volition tell us what ‘right and wrong’ do not.
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The Pentatuch, Bible, and Constitution?
[T]here is very little difference between the negotiated construction of the Pentateuch, or the Bible, and the American Constitution: they were the product of committees constructing the criteria for civil law. This is quite contradictory to the Indo European Tradition in which law EVOLVES. But these things are constructs of man for the purpose of governing man.