Dec 25, 2019, 9:46 PM Consciousness is deterministic with scale, and biased by body form. Any being with sufficient neural capacity will develop similar intuitions and behaviours. Consciousness means modelling recursive future states by grammar of action. And we are programmed by action in reality. There is no mystery to consciousness. The interesting question is what happens if we can extended it?
Theme: Agency
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Consciousness
Dec 25, 2019, 9:46 PM Consciousness is deterministic with scale, and biased by body form. Any being with sufficient neural capacity will develop similar intuitions and behaviours. Consciousness means modelling recursive future states by grammar of action. And we are programmed by action in reality. There is no mystery to consciousness. The interesting question is what happens if we can extended it?
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On Writing Fiction
Jan 5, 2020, 12:47 PM All the time in every submission, every publisher’s read of it, and every rejection of it, and every reaction to rejection, and every thought about your reaction to rejection is a reflection of the time that you didn’t put into researching people, places, and things, that would fill your head with possibilities for novelty that would inform the reader, capture the reader’s attention, and increase the chance of publication. All entertainment is novelty seeking. Human experience is translated into emotion, and into memory, and into auto-association, and later contemplation by its degree of novelty. If you aren’t teaching the reader something new about others, about life, about people, about places, about things, or asking the reader to outwit you and your characters, you’re wasting your time, the editors time, the publisher’s time and the reader’s time – if you ever manage to get one.
- Learning the archetypes and the plots is trivial.
- Adapting them to contemporary life takes a bit of thought.
- Informing the reader about life takes more thought.
- Planting clues for the reader to speculate where the plot is going takes a bit more thought.
- Planting outwitting the reader’s speculation takes more thought.
- Novel combinations of all the above takes much more thought.
- More characters and more plot lines and more sets of clues takes much more thought.
- Using all of the above to teach the audience a philosophy for the present, a state of the world in the past or future – a system of thought that reframes the world – that is what literature means.
- Doing #8 so that you capture the essence of the age in the myths of the age: theology, fantasy, science fiction, fiction, biography, history, philosophy, law or science is extremely difficult and those that endure are extremely rare.
But in the end, answer the question every art, music, literature, play, and script professional will ask you? 1. Are you engaging in therapy? 2. Are you engaging in escapism? 3. Are you engaging in self-entertainment? 4. Are you engaging in approval-seeking? 5. Are you engaging in business or entrepreneurship? 6. Are you engaging in craftsmanship or engineering (production)? 7. Are you engaging in entertainment (novelty)? 9. Are you engaging in politics or propaganda? 9. Are you engaging in philosophy? 10. Are you engaging in art? The amount of knowledge that you must reflect in, or incorporate in your work increases with scale. Postmodernism is a cancer on mankind – as bad as monotheism was in the past. But we are almost done with it. We are in a period of chaos. The period before the great change. We require authors to create a new vision. We live the vision of technology created in 1980 by William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, and Bruce Sterling. We live in the vision of civilization destruction created by Derrida. We live in the literary model of GRR Martin’s Futility of heroism, where the meek inherit the devastated earth. We live in the reverse gender model of harry (Harriet) Potter vs Hermione (Herman) Granger. We live in the political order of George Orwell’s Animal Farm. What are you bringing to the table in exchange for others attention? Because they couldn’t care less, nor should they, about your therapy, escapism, self-entertainment, approval seeking, entrepreneurship, and they expect at least craftsmanship and production quality in exchange for not only their (increasingly trivial) money, and (increasingly costly) attention. I’ve taught creativity for decades and it’s trivial. 1. Fill the shelves of your mind with everything possible until you have so many ideas you can’t choose among them. 2. Sketch characters, locations, things, incentives, and obstacles. 3. Sketch plots (arcs) That’s filling your head. 4. Write scenes with beginning middle and end. 5. Write chapters with beginning middle and end. 6. Write arcs with beginning middle and end. 7. Write stories with beginning middle and end. The rest is editing- be merciless. You want to feel your way through a writing book, but you can’t feel your way through emptiness. Give yourself resources to work with. Otherwise, you’re just using free association to create a poor imitation of whatever authors you’ve read who did what you didn’t.
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On Writing Fiction
Jan 5, 2020, 12:47 PM All the time in every submission, every publisher’s read of it, and every rejection of it, and every reaction to rejection, and every thought about your reaction to rejection is a reflection of the time that you didn’t put into researching people, places, and things, that would fill your head with possibilities for novelty that would inform the reader, capture the reader’s attention, and increase the chance of publication. All entertainment is novelty seeking. Human experience is translated into emotion, and into memory, and into auto-association, and later contemplation by its degree of novelty. If you aren’t teaching the reader something new about others, about life, about people, about places, about things, or asking the reader to outwit you and your characters, you’re wasting your time, the editors time, the publisher’s time and the reader’s time – if you ever manage to get one.
- Learning the archetypes and the plots is trivial.
- Adapting them to contemporary life takes a bit of thought.
- Informing the reader about life takes more thought.
- Planting clues for the reader to speculate where the plot is going takes a bit more thought.
- Planting outwitting the reader’s speculation takes more thought.
- Novel combinations of all the above takes much more thought.
- More characters and more plot lines and more sets of clues takes much more thought.
- Using all of the above to teach the audience a philosophy for the present, a state of the world in the past or future – a system of thought that reframes the world – that is what literature means.
- Doing #8 so that you capture the essence of the age in the myths of the age: theology, fantasy, science fiction, fiction, biography, history, philosophy, law or science is extremely difficult and those that endure are extremely rare.
But in the end, answer the question every art, music, literature, play, and script professional will ask you? 1. Are you engaging in therapy? 2. Are you engaging in escapism? 3. Are you engaging in self-entertainment? 4. Are you engaging in approval-seeking? 5. Are you engaging in business or entrepreneurship? 6. Are you engaging in craftsmanship or engineering (production)? 7. Are you engaging in entertainment (novelty)? 9. Are you engaging in politics or propaganda? 9. Are you engaging in philosophy? 10. Are you engaging in art? The amount of knowledge that you must reflect in, or incorporate in your work increases with scale. Postmodernism is a cancer on mankind – as bad as monotheism was in the past. But we are almost done with it. We are in a period of chaos. The period before the great change. We require authors to create a new vision. We live the vision of technology created in 1980 by William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, and Bruce Sterling. We live in the vision of civilization destruction created by Derrida. We live in the literary model of GRR Martin’s Futility of heroism, where the meek inherit the devastated earth. We live in the reverse gender model of harry (Harriet) Potter vs Hermione (Herman) Granger. We live in the political order of George Orwell’s Animal Farm. What are you bringing to the table in exchange for others attention? Because they couldn’t care less, nor should they, about your therapy, escapism, self-entertainment, approval seeking, entrepreneurship, and they expect at least craftsmanship and production quality in exchange for not only their (increasingly trivial) money, and (increasingly costly) attention. I’ve taught creativity for decades and it’s trivial. 1. Fill the shelves of your mind with everything possible until you have so many ideas you can’t choose among them. 2. Sketch characters, locations, things, incentives, and obstacles. 3. Sketch plots (arcs) That’s filling your head. 4. Write scenes with beginning middle and end. 5. Write chapters with beginning middle and end. 6. Write arcs with beginning middle and end. 7. Write stories with beginning middle and end. The rest is editing- be merciless. You want to feel your way through a writing book, but you can’t feel your way through emptiness. Give yourself resources to work with. Otherwise, you’re just using free association to create a poor imitation of whatever authors you’ve read who did what you didn’t.
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Wisdom Learned and Wisdom Earned: We Are Self Domesticating
Wisdom Learned and Wisdom Earned: We Are Self Domesticating https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/30/wisdom-learned-and-wisdom-earned-we-are-self-domesticating/
Source date (UTC): 2020-05-30 16:30:19 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1266768916048752641
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Wisdom Learned and Wisdom Earned: We Are Self Domesticating
Jan 10, 2020, 11:02 AM
—“The hardest thing over the last few years I’ve had to come to accept has had to be be the proposition that “we are self-domesticating.” That we must own efforts in every “agent-arena” relationship because no one but us will. For those of us like myself that “wandered through the existential desert”, wasting years of life without guidance, that we must climb near-vertical trajectories. All the while respecting Hanlon’s Razor[1] as you brush arms with others. It’s tough at times. The etiquette and refinement is a lifelong investment. It doesn’t get easier, you just get better. All the while expecting nothing, keeping humility, etc.”— Todd E. Magnusson
Elegant. Honest. Heartfelt. From experience. True. Staying on message: This is the reason we need to teach the stoic method as basic emotional fitness. It provides mindfulness without the need for falsehoods (religion). Realism, Naturalism, Empiricism, Operationalism, Acquisitionism-Propertarianism, Cooperationism, Reciprocity, Reciprocity to our Ancestors, Mindfulness. That is the only ‘True’ Religion we know of.
[1] Hanlon’s Razor: “Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.”
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Wisdom Learned and Wisdom Earned: We Are Self Domesticating
Jan 10, 2020, 11:02 AM
—“The hardest thing over the last few years I’ve had to come to accept has had to be be the proposition that “we are self-domesticating.” That we must own efforts in every “agent-arena” relationship because no one but us will. For those of us like myself that “wandered through the existential desert”, wasting years of life without guidance, that we must climb near-vertical trajectories. All the while respecting Hanlon’s Razor[1] as you brush arms with others. It’s tough at times. The etiquette and refinement is a lifelong investment. It doesn’t get easier, you just get better. All the while expecting nothing, keeping humility, etc.”— Todd E. Magnusson
Elegant. Honest. Heartfelt. From experience. True. Staying on message: This is the reason we need to teach the stoic method as basic emotional fitness. It provides mindfulness without the need for falsehoods (religion). Realism, Naturalism, Empiricism, Operationalism, Acquisitionism-Propertarianism, Cooperationism, Reciprocity, Reciprocity to our Ancestors, Mindfulness. That is the only ‘True’ Religion we know of.
[1] Hanlon’s Razor: “Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.”
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Parenting
Parenting https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/30/parenting/
Source date (UTC): 2020-05-30 16:29:28 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1266768702617391104
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Parenting
Jan 10, 2020, 12:41 PM Again: if parenting was that influential we couldn’t exist. Instead, parents primary control is ONLY who they mate with, and while you can’t make your kids ‘better’ you can do them harm. So in parenting, as in ethics, DO NO WRONG is far more important than trying to do right. Because once they are in the real world they will always and everywhere revert to type – hence why your ancestors and mine sought to give them enough MANNERS to get prestige jobs young. This is how we ‘buy’ positions for our children. The half-life of your parenting is short. Training in Hygiene, Dress, Manners, Diction, Active Listening, Vocabulary, Ethics, Morals, and especially the basics of lists, money, accounting, interest, and contract, help everyone. Because success is caused by conscientiousness (discipline) regardless of intellectual ability. Let me say that again for clarity: Economic returns on intelligence are marginal and economic returns on behavioral training (manners, ethics, morals etc) are exponential. And the importance of Active Listening, Seeking To Understand, Hygiene, Grooming, Dress and Vocabulary, Weightlifting for men and Dancing for Women, and team sports for both cannot be overstated. All those disciplines produce mindfulness. This is counter-intuitive to people but your stress in life is usually determined by your success at training yourself out of impulsivity through rituals, and training in Hygiene, Dress, Manners, Diction, Active Listening, Seeking to Understand, Vocabulary, Ethics, Morals, and especially the basics of list-making, money, accounting, interest, and contract, produce a calm mind far better and more productively than religion or therapy. One’s natural Intellectual ability only grants access to complexity, and marginal increases in income, while conscientiousness and training (above) grant access to opportunity, success, and wealth. Getting kids into ‘good schools’ etc doesn’t improve them it filters them (buys them access). That explains classes. (Uncomfortable truth warning) Different ethnic groups differ largely because of differences in neoteny(rate and depth of maturity) and as such sexual, social, and economic market value – more importantly in the short term, it affects ages for learning different skills. This is why our education system ‘treating us as equal’ is a failure since the most neotenous (east Asians) can learn anything young at the cost of ‘topping out’ young, where less neotenous (Europeans) need more development, and least neotenous afro-Asiatic and Africans more physicality and socialization, before they can be relaxed enough for intellectualization – even so, the Asian method of combining group movements, recitation, and learning are disproportionately more effective than seated classroom work. And seated classroom work is far more effective with lots of slowly incremental rather than short steep increases in difficulty. Girls aren’t ‘getting ahead’ of boys in mixed-gender, mixed-race schools – the schools are damaging boys development of physical movement, planning, and dominance play, making them care nothing about self others or society, and increasing psychosis in girls without a hierarchy of multiple ages to limit behavior and focus emotion on reciprocal training – and we are seeing it play out in all walks of life. Competition socializes. So, tiger moms are buying children access to filters not improving their children (and we see this in the workforce over time). And by not TRAINING in the basics (manners ethics and aggressive competition) that matter most we are creating an infantilized emotional population unfit or not only military service, the workforce, but a political system we call democracy.
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Parenting
Jan 10, 2020, 12:41 PM Again: if parenting was that influential we couldn’t exist. Instead, parents primary control is ONLY who they mate with, and while you can’t make your kids ‘better’ you can do them harm. So in parenting, as in ethics, DO NO WRONG is far more important than trying to do right. Because once they are in the real world they will always and everywhere revert to type – hence why your ancestors and mine sought to give them enough MANNERS to get prestige jobs young. This is how we ‘buy’ positions for our children. The half-life of your parenting is short. Training in Hygiene, Dress, Manners, Diction, Active Listening, Vocabulary, Ethics, Morals, and especially the basics of lists, money, accounting, interest, and contract, help everyone. Because success is caused by conscientiousness (discipline) regardless of intellectual ability. Let me say that again for clarity: Economic returns on intelligence are marginal and economic returns on behavioral training (manners, ethics, morals etc) are exponential. And the importance of Active Listening, Seeking To Understand, Hygiene, Grooming, Dress and Vocabulary, Weightlifting for men and Dancing for Women, and team sports for both cannot be overstated. All those disciplines produce mindfulness. This is counter-intuitive to people but your stress in life is usually determined by your success at training yourself out of impulsivity through rituals, and training in Hygiene, Dress, Manners, Diction, Active Listening, Seeking to Understand, Vocabulary, Ethics, Morals, and especially the basics of list-making, money, accounting, interest, and contract, produce a calm mind far better and more productively than religion or therapy. One’s natural Intellectual ability only grants access to complexity, and marginal increases in income, while conscientiousness and training (above) grant access to opportunity, success, and wealth. Getting kids into ‘good schools’ etc doesn’t improve them it filters them (buys them access). That explains classes. (Uncomfortable truth warning) Different ethnic groups differ largely because of differences in neoteny(rate and depth of maturity) and as such sexual, social, and economic market value – more importantly in the short term, it affects ages for learning different skills. This is why our education system ‘treating us as equal’ is a failure since the most neotenous (east Asians) can learn anything young at the cost of ‘topping out’ young, where less neotenous (Europeans) need more development, and least neotenous afro-Asiatic and Africans more physicality and socialization, before they can be relaxed enough for intellectualization – even so, the Asian method of combining group movements, recitation, and learning are disproportionately more effective than seated classroom work. And seated classroom work is far more effective with lots of slowly incremental rather than short steep increases in difficulty. Girls aren’t ‘getting ahead’ of boys in mixed-gender, mixed-race schools – the schools are damaging boys development of physical movement, planning, and dominance play, making them care nothing about self others or society, and increasing psychosis in girls without a hierarchy of multiple ages to limit behavior and focus emotion on reciprocal training – and we are seeing it play out in all walks of life. Competition socializes. So, tiger moms are buying children access to filters not improving their children (and we see this in the workforce over time). And by not TRAINING in the basics (manners ethics and aggressive competition) that matter most we are creating an infantilized emotional population unfit or not only military service, the workforce, but a political system we call democracy.