Very smart.
Source date (UTC): 2023-12-11 14:17:20 UTC
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Very smart.
Source date (UTC): 2023-12-11 14:17:20 UTC
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RT @AutistocratMS: @curtdoolittle FWIW, even though I don’t attribute our ills to liberalism, I’m seeing majority needs third position and…
Source date (UTC): 2023-12-11 14:17:09 UTC
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(Thoughts on Intellectual Decline)
The postwar academy was bad enough. We lost the ability to conduct social science rather early – during the world wars. We lost the ability to think scientifically by the capture of the academy by the jewish left. And we lost the ability to…
Source date (UTC): 2023-12-11 13:24:49 UTC
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(Thoughts on Intellectual Decline)
The postwar academy was bad enough. We lost the ability to conduct social science rather early – during the world wars. We lost the ability to think scientifically by the capture of the academy by the jewish left. And we lost the ability to speak the truth with the capture of the academy by women. As a consequence we are losing the capacity to think and reason as well as speak the truth before face.
I’m listening to a late eighties interview of an influential scholar at Cambridge. And I’ve listened to and read Bertrand Russell for example. And while Russell is quite silly in many ways, he is a solid thinker. Of course I consider myself a product of Darwin, Hayek, Popper, Becker, and Turing. Though we should give credit to Aquinas, Bacon and Occam in their generation and Smith-Hume-Blackstone in theirs, as much as Darwin, Spencer, Nietzche, Maxwell in theirs. But otherwise, outside of genetics, medicine, and tech, we have seen nearly all thought in the behavioral sciences (other than some aspects of economics), result in error, bias, and fraud.
So, it’s become increasingly clear that (a) classical liberalism = being english, and (b) scientific thought = being english. The degree to which these genetics culture institutions and systems of thought are related is not something we were terribly happy in the postwar period to imagine. Even if it was considered obvious pre-war.
Source date (UTC): 2023-12-11 13:24:48 UTC
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(Ruminations)
Watching the people working closest to me incrementally understand ‘the work’ is fascinating. Yesterday, Brad seemed to finally understand ‘it’s all geometry’. (Explaining this is quite difficult however.) Better said that geometry is a superior frame of reference for understanding the first principles, applied first principles, and resulting general rules of all existence.
Now, for those who have been with me for say, the past six years, you might recall that back then, I attempted to create a course on natural law (“The Work”) starting with geometry as the model upon which the rest would be built. But it wasn’t long before I understood people couldn’t grasp it because more context was needed TO grasp it.
Brad helped convince me to construct The Work from physics upward instead of logic (geometry) upward, or ethics outward. And it’s fascinating that having worked on reducing the first principles of the physical world to ternary logic, that upon doing so, sufficient context exists that Brad, on his own, grasped “it’s just geometry”.
Working from physics upward was not intuitive – at least for me – because I spent so much effort and interest on logic and grammars. So in my ‘worldview’, we start with logic and language to connect man’s ability to sense, percieve, and test information about the world by ‘man is the measure of all things to man’, to the physical, behavioral, and evolutionary laws. But this approach was backwards – for no other reason than the internal workings of the brain and mind are unknown and often not only misunderstood, but entirely false, for most ( almost all ) of mankind.
So we must teach the patterns of existence first, and then teach the logics – and in teaching the logics we learn the mind of man and the ‘mind’ of the universe, and realize …. they are the same.
Source date (UTC): 2023-12-11 13:09:16 UTC
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RT @WalterIII: @elonmusk @DavidSacks Science is divided from pseudoscience by one question: Is the theory testable? If its not testable th…
Source date (UTC): 2023-12-11 10:29:39 UTC
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RT @curtdoolittle: @banananoonoo @tired_sun_aeiou @DanAronstein @charlesmurray We have done the work to roll back such violations of the na…
Source date (UTC): 2023-12-11 01:27:07 UTC
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We have done the work to roll back such violations of the natural law, the common law, and the constitution, and prevent a repetition of such violations.
The Civil War killed the constitution, but the civil rights movement killed the Common and Concurrent law. All of these…
Source date (UTC): 2023-12-11 01:26:52 UTC
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FYI: Paying the upgrade to $16 has restored my ‘reach’.
Source date (UTC): 2023-12-11 01:10:06 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1734017680154169793
P-LAW STYLE GUIDE
(repost for newbies)
I use a number of techniques in the text that are the product of the Popperian analytic movement in the philosophy of science. These tools are meant to reduce ‘texty’ arguments to simple sequences or what in programming are called ‘data…
Source date (UTC): 2023-12-11 00:57:50 UTC
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