Theme: Agency

  • Japan and Face

    October 30th, 2018 8:29 AM

    —“I lived in Japan for five years. Pet peeve. Face is a weak male pretending to be dominant. Only weak males give a shit about face.—Richard Nikoley

    [W]estern civilization is heroic (and we are the subject of worldwide ridicule for it.) Honor (telling truth regardless of the consequences) is our promise we are NOT weak. And because we are not weak, peers rather than subjects. We pay a high cost to create the high trust society we live in, and we actively suppress ‘the weak’, their parasitism, their behavior, and reproduction because of it.

  • The Future of Man

    October 30th, 2018 11:49 AM [S]o we have the genes for autobiographical (perfect) memory and we know the brain structure required. We have the genes for eliminating or drastically reducing pain. We have the genes for eliminating lactic acid buildup that would let us run continuously without tiring. We have the genes for heart size that improve our exercise ability. We have the genes for muscle density that improve our strength. It will take longer to find the genes for intelligence since there appear to be many involved, and it may be a developmental consequence of complexity. We will eventually find a way to prohibit errors in replication that give rise to accumulated cellular damage and eventually cancer. And it’s not inconceivable that we could begin our productive lives at 5-7 years old, and live in good health to well over 100. So, that revolution, if it is on the horizon, will be the next ‘big thing’. And one must choose between that vision (musk and augmentation) versus independent sentient machines (which I think will remain forever expensive, and I’m not sure will innovate faster than networks of humans will.)

  • The Future of Man

    October 30th, 2018 11:49 AM [S]o we have the genes for autobiographical (perfect) memory and we know the brain structure required. We have the genes for eliminating or drastically reducing pain. We have the genes for eliminating lactic acid buildup that would let us run continuously without tiring. We have the genes for heart size that improve our exercise ability. We have the genes for muscle density that improve our strength. It will take longer to find the genes for intelligence since there appear to be many involved, and it may be a developmental consequence of complexity. We will eventually find a way to prohibit errors in replication that give rise to accumulated cellular damage and eventually cancer. And it’s not inconceivable that we could begin our productive lives at 5-7 years old, and live in good health to well over 100. So, that revolution, if it is on the horizon, will be the next ‘big thing’. And one must choose between that vision (musk and augmentation) versus independent sentient machines (which I think will remain forever expensive, and I’m not sure will innovate faster than networks of humans will.)

  • So we have the genes for autobiographical (perfect) memory and we know the brain

    So we have the genes for autobiographical (perfect) memory and we know the brain structure required. We have the genes for eliminating lactic acid buildup that would let us run continuously without tiring. We have the genes for heart size that improve our exercise ability. We have the genes for muscle density that improve our strength. It will take longer to find the genes for intelligence since there appear to be many involved, and it may be a developmental consequence of complexity. We will eventually find a way to prohibit errors in replication that give rise to accumulated cellular damage and eventually cancer. And it’s not inconceivable that we could begin our productive lives at 5-7 years old, and live in good health to well over 100. So, that revolution, if it is on the horizon, will be the next ‘big thing’. And one must choose between that vision (musk and augmentation) versus independent sentient machines (which I think will remain forever expensive, and I’m not sure will innovate faster than networks of humans will.)


    Source date (UTC): 2018-10-30 11:49:00 UTC

  • We All Stand on The Shoulders of Others

    October 28th, 2018 9:06 AM DON’T SELL YOURSELF SHORT. WE ALL STAND ON THE SHOULDERS OF OTHERS WHO DID WORK ON OUR BEHALF

    —“Great another video of me realizing I’m a god damn chimp”— Nick Mallar

    [D]on’t sell yourself short. I’m radical outlier who has spent a lot of time – a lifetime – learning how to understand and explain these ideas. Most of us can’t afford it, and lack the ability to focus on a single process for that length of time. As Einstein said, it’s not that he was exceptionally smart, but that he just spent more time on the problem than anyone else. IMO i’m the beneficiary of a point in time where we desperately need a solution to current intellectual problems, and a lot of people have done a lot of work I depend upon, and I have the internet and search engines making me and my generation the first people to be able to synthesize that much information from so many different fields. if you can UNDERSTAND what I’m saying, then you are no chimp at all. There is no need for you to duplicate my efforts. Just USE THE RESULT. (Now for the people that DONT understand what I’m saying, we just have to limit the damage that they can do to the rest of us. 😉 )

  • The Occult Is One of The Fictionalist Grammars. It’s Just Neurologically Cheaper

    October 28th, 2018 10:14 AM THE OCCULT IS ONE OF THE FICTIONALIST GRAMMARS. HERE IS WHY IT WORKS. CLASSES OF PACKS.

    —“I think occult literature is to exercise and train the mind. Seeing the world through symbolism and allegory gives you a more well rounded world view. The imagination training alone to keep a sharp inner vision is worth the effort.”– Zack Sunday

    Contrast with:

    —“I started following your new friends. I think I just gagged on an Ebola”— a friend —“Evola is Harry Potter for the resurgent right.”—Neil A. Bucklew

    —“It’s cool, it’s hip, and it’s accessible. You read something like Metaphysics of War, and it’s not that different from The Fellowship of the Ring. Same beautifully constructed sentences, full of poetic words, riddled with lofty nouns that are inevitably capitalized like the philosophical texts of old. One of my favourites is when they capitalize Truth (whatever the fuck that’s supposed to mean). Who the fuck wants to read this “operational”, “via negativa” garbage, whatever that is? It all looks like computer code to me and that stuff is for nerds, right? These kids grew up with this stuff, this poison from Arktos and Counter-Currents. And what’s more, they will never, for the life of them, consider that maybe – just maybe – they shouldn’t trust these jesters and their sources, all of which are rooted in religious texts. You see, atheism or even agnosticism, those aren’t options; those are the tools of the Left. Surely, we cannot espouse the opinions of the Left, so instead, we will regress further and further and become ever more backward until this vile, leftist materialism and its child, despicable Science, are utterly obliterated and replaced with a spiritually transcendent society, which will be guided by religious texts, “perennial truths”, that were totally not written by fools and deceptive human beings, but instead written by people possessed by powerful, metaphysical forces, the names of which are once again capitalized for effect and this perverted stack of lies continues getting higher and higher and higher..”—by Göran Dahl —“We live in a natural world. The Mere belief in an old order and the mere feeling of how that order looks like or how it would look like in this age is not the right way to re-evolve it. Evola and Doolittle are observing the same thing, but the holes of Doolittle’s sieve are much smaller compared to those of Evola’s. If Evola and Doolittle are to observe, for example, the solar system, Evola would propose that the reason a planet orbits the sun is that its matter has some kind of tendency for orbiting or a sort of motility. But Doolittle WILL explain that the reason a planet orbits the sun is a central force which varies exactly inversely as the square distance from the center. Now what I’m aiming at is that while Evola knows exactly what he wants to impose, he lacks A THEORY, he lacks a scientific language that would’ve helped him in understanding what he intuited, and therefore he fell into many traps, one of them is the savior myth. What we need is a scientific research paper that uses measurements and organizational charts not intuitions and poetic licenses.”–by Ahmed Reda

    —“I dont understand why people are so blind to the point of fact that it is necessary to hit a problem from multiple angles ….. We need the Evolas, Doolittles, Spencer’s, Trumps, IEs, nordfronts, TWPs, Dark enlightenments, Molyneuxs…. if even for the sole purpose of competition to strengthen the winners in their respective actionsets.”—Austyn Pember

    — CURT — SENTIMENTS: IT’S JUST NEUROLOGICALLY CHEAPER The Occult? Fiction? Sophisms? [I]ts actually just easier (cheaper) – to reduce dependence upon reason and memory, and let the connections be made by free association and suggestion. (it is easier to be programmed than to program the self) These free associations cast a broader opportunity net at the expense of deduction and inference. When you say ‘well rounded’ that’s nonsense. when you say ‘cheaper and easier with greater reach for opportunity’ that’s true. So, increase precision with calculation and computation, and decrease precision with reason and more so with intuition. There is a correlation between age and dependence upon intuition vs reason. There is a correlation between isolation and dependence on intuition vs reason. I can intuit those relationships but I don’t feel comfortable stating the causality yet, although it does remind me of the feeling testosterone produces, that in turn, increases the radius of our awareness and thought in males as we mature. I suspect that this is the causal relationship between neural economy, state of endocrine development, and accumulated knowledge. -Curt Doolittle

  • We All Stand on The Shoulders of Others

    October 28th, 2018 9:06 AM DON’T SELL YOURSELF SHORT. WE ALL STAND ON THE SHOULDERS OF OTHERS WHO DID WORK ON OUR BEHALF

    —“Great another video of me realizing I’m a god damn chimp”— Nick Mallar

    [D]on’t sell yourself short. I’m radical outlier who has spent a lot of time – a lifetime – learning how to understand and explain these ideas. Most of us can’t afford it, and lack the ability to focus on a single process for that length of time. As Einstein said, it’s not that he was exceptionally smart, but that he just spent more time on the problem than anyone else. IMO i’m the beneficiary of a point in time where we desperately need a solution to current intellectual problems, and a lot of people have done a lot of work I depend upon, and I have the internet and search engines making me and my generation the first people to be able to synthesize that much information from so many different fields. if you can UNDERSTAND what I’m saying, then you are no chimp at all. There is no need for you to duplicate my efforts. Just USE THE RESULT. (Now for the people that DONT understand what I’m saying, we just have to limit the damage that they can do to the rest of us. 😉 )

  • More From My Portfolio of CEO Responses

    October 28th, 2018 2:20 PM [M]ore From My Portfolio of CEO Responses 1) “You’re right. We should do that. Are you volunteering to get it done?” 2) “Really? I have simple means of testing demonstrated preference: He who does, chooses. He who doesn’t, doesn’t.” 3) “Really, now you don’t understand why I did that? Why do you think I would do that” (Silly reason follows.) “Actually, here is why I did it ….” (Stunned) (Teaching Moment Succeeded). 4) “Great idea. Given that we must, and do, at all times make use of all available capital, What should we not do in order to pay for doing that?” Teaching People to fish never ends. Why? They actually want someone to catch the fish for them.

  • Explaining Consciousness Indirectly

    October 28th, 2018 1:03 PM EXPLAINING CONSCIOUSNESS INDIRECTLY

    —“Where does “the present” (initial, whole experience) as opposed to memory and the rest (post hoc, partial translations) fit into your model?”— Ben Quimby

    [W]e create the latter in order to increase our chose and volume and intensity of consumption of the former.

    —“But it *is* something that stands alone outside of all these categories, yes? Part of each moment, necessarily, does not carry over into any translation, making said parts, by definition, “ineffable”, correct?”— Ben Quimby

    Well, you know, if you ask it that way I have to defend against misinterpretation. “experience” is our ultra-short-term memory continuously learning and forgetting the cacophony of stimuli from our nervous system, and the ‘echoes’ that they produce in from our memories, and the consequent chemical responses (feelings) that those echoes produce Memories require we merely ‘choke’ our senses and focus on (not sure how we do that, but I assume it’s the hippocampus) the echoes rather than the perceptions (senses). I know it’s related to how we focus our vision, and I know it’s an evolution of the prey drive, but that’s all I know. So there is no difference except focus. All experience is RECONSTRUCTED from the combination of sensation and memory. We just bias our focus on present(sense) vs past(memory) within that stream of stimulation. So there are not two separate things, but simply the resources devoted to senses vs recalls so that we experience greater now than the past. GIven that our brains allow us to do both of these at the same time only enhances the illusion.

  • Explaining Consciousness Indirectly

    October 28th, 2018 1:03 PM EXPLAINING CONSCIOUSNESS INDIRECTLY

    —“Where does “the present” (initial, whole experience) as opposed to memory and the rest (post hoc, partial translations) fit into your model?”— Ben Quimby

    [W]e create the latter in order to increase our chose and volume and intensity of consumption of the former.

    —“But it *is* something that stands alone outside of all these categories, yes? Part of each moment, necessarily, does not carry over into any translation, making said parts, by definition, “ineffable”, correct?”— Ben Quimby

    Well, you know, if you ask it that way I have to defend against misinterpretation. “experience” is our ultra-short-term memory continuously learning and forgetting the cacophony of stimuli from our nervous system, and the ‘echoes’ that they produce in from our memories, and the consequent chemical responses (feelings) that those echoes produce Memories require we merely ‘choke’ our senses and focus on (not sure how we do that, but I assume it’s the hippocampus) the echoes rather than the perceptions (senses). I know it’s related to how we focus our vision, and I know it’s an evolution of the prey drive, but that’s all I know. So there is no difference except focus. All experience is RECONSTRUCTED from the combination of sensation and memory. We just bias our focus on present(sense) vs past(memory) within that stream of stimulation. So there are not two separate things, but simply the resources devoted to senses vs recalls so that we experience greater now than the past. GIven that our brains allow us to do both of these at the same time only enhances the illusion.