Theme: Agency

  • Everything Is Reducible to Calculation at Degrees of Precision and Degrees of Agency.

    READ JUST ONE PAPER BY POPPER, HAYEK, MISES, AND TURING BEFORE CHOMSKY – OR YOU WILL MISS THE POINT. Understand that Chomsky applied Turing to Grammar (language). That’s his insight. Just as Popper really needed to produce one paper (sources of knowledge and ignorance), Hayek One Paper (uses of knowledge in society), Mises (economic calculation), Turing (turing machine recursive computation), Chomsky produced one paper (Grammar). Most of this occurred in the pre-postmodernist period prior to 1960. We have been fighting pseudoscience since then, for the simple reason that universities could sell shit courses to proles and in doing so finance postmodern propaganda through tuition-debt, and the burning of intergenerational savings (Retirement Savings) as tuition fees. This is the most suicidal economic set of polities in western history other than perhaps the selling of indulgences. Once we further understand that universities do not teach but simply filter in, and out, we realize how catastrophic this entire state-propaganda driven experiment has been. Instead we should put the vast majority of people to work in part time apprenticeship (entry level work) by age 12-14, and limit university training to those forms of calculation (STEM) that cannot be learned until the brains are more fully matured. EVERYTHING IS REDUCIBLE TO CALCULATION AT DEGREES OF PRECISION AND DEGREES OF AGENCY.

  • Everything Is Reducible to Calculation at Degrees of Precision and Degrees of Agency.

    READ JUST ONE PAPER BY POPPER, HAYEK, MISES, AND TURING BEFORE CHOMSKY – OR YOU WILL MISS THE POINT. Understand that Chomsky applied Turing to Grammar (language). That’s his insight. Just as Popper really needed to produce one paper (sources of knowledge and ignorance), Hayek One Paper (uses of knowledge in society), Mises (economic calculation), Turing (turing machine recursive computation), Chomsky produced one paper (Grammar). Most of this occurred in the pre-postmodernist period prior to 1960. We have been fighting pseudoscience since then, for the simple reason that universities could sell shit courses to proles and in doing so finance postmodern propaganda through tuition-debt, and the burning of intergenerational savings (Retirement Savings) as tuition fees. This is the most suicidal economic set of polities in western history other than perhaps the selling of indulgences. Once we further understand that universities do not teach but simply filter in, and out, we realize how catastrophic this entire state-propaganda driven experiment has been. Instead we should put the vast majority of people to work in part time apprenticeship (entry level work) by age 12-14, and limit university training to those forms of calculation (STEM) that cannot be learned until the brains are more fully matured. EVERYTHING IS REDUCIBLE TO CALCULATION AT DEGREES OF PRECISION AND DEGREES OF AGENCY.

  • Continuing My Attack on Male Escapism

    (leave escapism for women. they have an excuse. men don’t.) I think most young men lack agency, and that we all evolve from impulsive to imitative, to intuitionistic to calculative as we move from searching for strategy, retreat, for opportunities, consolidating capital, and managing our assets. I think that stating man has universals rather than stages is the result of youthfulness (ignorance). I think the state indoctrination program seeks to create obedience to free expression without explication of the limits of that value. I think that seeking universals is an appeal for numbers (allies) to compensate for lack of agency. I think that individualism and atomism is why men seek these things since men only possess agency in groups. I think it is possible to produce agency and eliminate escapism in all its forms by producing groups and agency, by design (as we did in the past). (BTW: I was trying to explain the draw of the ‘almost religious’ and ‘religious’ methods of emotional inspiration as substitution for pursuit of existential opportunity. It’s not about individuals but that individuals are easily seduced by false promises.)
    May 31, 2018 8:03pm
  • Continuing My Attack on Male Escapism

    (leave escapism for women. they have an excuse. men don’t.) I think most young men lack agency, and that we all evolve from impulsive to imitative, to intuitionistic to calculative as we move from searching for strategy, retreat, for opportunities, consolidating capital, and managing our assets. I think that stating man has universals rather than stages is the result of youthfulness (ignorance). I think the state indoctrination program seeks to create obedience to free expression without explication of the limits of that value. I think that seeking universals is an appeal for numbers (allies) to compensate for lack of agency. I think that individualism and atomism is why men seek these things since men only possess agency in groups. I think it is possible to produce agency and eliminate escapism in all its forms by producing groups and agency, by design (as we did in the past). (BTW: I was trying to explain the draw of the ‘almost religious’ and ‘religious’ methods of emotional inspiration as substitution for pursuit of existential opportunity. It’s not about individuals but that individuals are easily seduced by false promises.)
    May 31, 2018 8:03pm
  • WHAT IS AGENCY? (DEFINING AGENCY)

    https://propertarianinstitute.com/2017/12/05/whats-the-definition-of-agency-as-you-use-it/
    (repost) Agency, like Knowledge, and Truth Proper, and the speed of light, is something we seek more and more of but cannot ever perfectly attain – unless we in fact become gods.
  • WHAT IS AGENCY? (DEFINING AGENCY)

    https://propertarianinstitute.com/2017/12/05/whats-the-definition-of-agency-as-you-use-it/
    (repost) Agency, like Knowledge, and Truth Proper, and the speed of light, is something we seek more and more of but cannot ever perfectly attain – unless we in fact become gods.
  • by Richard Nikoley To be fair, I disagree with the categorical imperative in whi

    by Richard Nikoley

    To be fair, I disagree with the categorical imperative in which this is put forth.

    Everyone is rational, everyone has strategies, everyone is biased, everyone is irrational, everyone is logical, everyone is illogical. Everyone is kind sometimes. Everyone is gratuitously mean sometimes. Everyone loves. Everyone hates. Everyone is indifferent about some things.

    Mostly, everyone is wrong all the time if ultimate Truth is the standard. The best we can manage is the lifelong struggle to be a little less wrong each cycle.

    In this very difficult post, I seek to unpack Curt Doolittle’s views on the subject of, given all the foregoing, how we manage to get along in a certain synchronicity.

    Believe it or not, we all need each other


    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-31 17:57:00 UTC

  • Rat Strategy, Hyena Politics, Ghetto Ethics, Rabbit Heroism

    Rat Strategy, Hyena Politics, Ghetto Ethics, Rabbit Heroism


    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-31 15:58:06 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1002217665753174016

  • “Corporal Punishment, Limited Self Expression, Sacredness and the elimination of

    —“Corporal Punishment, Limited Self Expression, Sacredness and the elimination of self expression”—

    You get what you measure, but is what you measure that which is good?

    Stress is good.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-31 15:22:02 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1002208589547753474

  • “Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have

    —“Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.”—Friedrich Nietzsche

    (h/t:Amed Reda)


    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-31 12:29:49 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1002165248244310016