Yes. Although I can’t really provide much other than the correlation between (full) autistics and frontal lobe injury appears legit.
Source date (UTC): 2021-06-05 20:18:36 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1401272262850977792
Reply addressees: @JarvisWitts @WorMartiN
Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1401269362808430596
False. IQ is an indirect measure of neurological adaptive response time. The biological potential of the genes remains constant even if unexercised. Genetics are the only cause of intelligence. What you mean is that accumulated knowledge and experience increase its evidence.
Source date (UTC): 2021-05-30 21:23:49 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1399114349357289473
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Neither. There is no actor. There are just the laws of the universe. They favor adaptation that seizes more energy from its entropic process. Our evolution consists of increasing energy capture and transformation. It’s an accident. It’s a glorious accident. Nothing else.
Source date (UTC): 2021-05-29 21:24:47 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1398752204375396356
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Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1398750846083547138
They are both supernatural questions.
1. Free will to do what?
2. Are there deterministic forces that limit our choices?
3. Are there deterministic forces that limit our potentials?
Source date (UTC): 2021-05-29 20:08:15 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1398732943728775174
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Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1398714286567010310
That’s not technically true. Everything is made of matter. Chemistry consists of the combination of force,temperature, and combinations to create or break bonds – doing work. The ‘interesting’ things happen with complex molecules that can do work without such manual intervention.
Source date (UTC): 2021-05-28 18:55:50 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1398352331566092288
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I’m also bad at anything that requires a great deal of working memory, which maximizes state management, vs a great deal of predictive memory which maximizes causally dense prediction. I wish I’d understood that when I was younger …
Source date (UTC): 2021-05-28 18:52:44 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1398351549844410370
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@WorMartiN @lawrence1978_ Obviously – I’m pretty bad at estimating the competence of normies, and I find anything to do with chemistry somehow disgusting. lol. The scope of dimensions of error and deceit are universal across disciplines. If none are present then we have a Truth candidate.
Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1398351041486372870
To say that there is one set of laws of the universe is simply obvious. To say that gods are emergent is simply obvious. To say that they are emergent from the minds of any conscious social hierarchical creatures is obvious. To say that they must converge over time is uncertain.
There is no battle between good and evil, but between great men and nature – a nature constructed of god’s laws – where the only reward is our transcendence into godhood by their mastery, domestication, and transformation for our use.
The religions of the middle east – all religions of the south eurasians – appear to be submissive counter-revolutions against the indo-europeans that had conquered the old world. They took largely from egypt – the only substantive surviving pre-collapse civilization.
Begging their gods to save them from the indo-europeans.
Note that this does not occur in east asia where the ie expansion did not reach.
Egyptian > [Collapse] > Judaism > Christianity > Islam > ?
… … … … … Aryanism > Hinduism > Buddhism > ?
… … … … … Aryanism > Germanic > Mediterranean > Stoicism > Fail.
… … … … … … … … … … Synthesis: Augustine > Acquinas > Scholastics > Fail.
… … … … … … … … … … … … … … … Restoration: Renaissance > ..to.. > Romanticism > Fail
… … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … Next???
The majoritarian religions teach signaling non-aggression since this is the principle method by which we increase trust – especially among low trust peoples. It’s also the principle direction of human self-domestication.
Signaling non aggression is the first state of the female method of seduction. But we haven’t constrained female aggression by undermining.
In this sense the woke priestesses inverted non-aggression into aggression just as islam inverted christian non aggression into aggression…. by undermining
It’s clear Christianity became dominant the same way wokeness does. Demand tolerance for your belief system until you gain sufficient numbers at which point you become intolerant of the other belief systems. -(Martin Štěpán)
True. And it seems Communism, Fascism, and of course other religions are using the same system.-(Eric Liford)
Worse, Islam is not a religion like Stoicism, Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism. Islam is an ideology, like Judaism, Communism, and Fascism
I find amusing the irony that even national socialists were abrahamists. But it fits.-(Martin Stepan)
Source date (UTC): 2021-05-28 13:58:31 UTC
Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/106313174947685793
INCREASE IN COST:
Religion -> Intuition
Philosophy -> Reason
Testimony -> Evidence
Science and Law -> Decidability
First Principles -> Causality
Source date (UTC): 2021-05-25 18:42:36 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1397261837327024128
Reply addressees: @blamblamtheman @Ozpin_88
Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1397260766772858883
For our purposes note (a) the absence of the north sea, (b) the closure of the red sea, (c) the absence of the persian gulf, (d) the ability to reach australia, (e) the ability to reach the americas and (f) the size of the caspian sea, and (g) the size and number of large lakes in Africa. In other words, walking across the planet is possible.
The Next Ice Age
According to Milankovitch theory, the advent of the ice age depends on the coincidence of the following three conditions:
Elongation or eccentricity: Eccentricity is the shape of the Earth’s orbit around the Sun. It is constantly fluctuating with the orbital shape ranging between more and less elliptical, every 100,000 years. This alters the distance from the Earth to the Sun which in turn reduces or increases the amount of radiation received at the Earth’s surface in different seasons. The northern hemisphere experiences winter while the southern hemisphere experiences summer at perihelion position, which is the position where the distance between the earth and the sun is the least. The opposite happens at the aphelion position which is the position where the distance between the earth and the sun is the most. The solar energy received at the perihelion is 20-30% more than the energy received at the aphelion position. These fluctuations around the globe result in prominent changes in the Earth’s climate and glacial regimes. This means that the winter experienced at the aphelion would be bitter and due to the slow rotation of the earth at the aphelion (as per calculations based on Kepler’s second law), the winter would get more time to strengthen itself. For example, the glaciers from the north may start to extend southwards.
Rotation of Precession: While the bottom part of a top is spinning, the top part also sort of revolves. The earth spins like a spinning top on its axis, while its axis also sort of revolves. It takes 26,000 years to complete one such revolution. Because of this movement, we notice the change in the night sky during different seasons. If you compare the night sky of summer in the northern hemisphere today to the night sky of summer in the northern hemisphere 5,000 years ago, it will be very different. When the precession of equinoxes sends the glaciations-prone northern hemisphere to the aphelion position, the winter becomes fierce, freezing the arctic and most of the northern hemisphere.
Tilt or Obliquity: Currently, the tilt of the earth’s axis or its obliquity is at 23.5 degrees. But every 41,000 years, the obliquity shifts between low (22.1 degrees) to high (24.5 degrees). When the obliquity is at its lowest, the higher latitudes don’t receive much sunlight, leading to increase in ice cover over these latitudes.
According to the Milankovitch criteria, to predict the next ice age, we can use the above information and find out when the next ice age is due. The earth’s orbit is almost circular today and 10,000 years from now, the orbit will be an ellipse. Obliquity will be at its lowest in 12,000 years from today while the precession would have reversed in almost10,000 years. So, we can predict that almost 10 to 12 thousand years from now, a new ice age may begin.
The Problem of Prediction: Only 11,000 years have passed since the last Ice Age, so scientists cannot be certain that humans are indeed living in a post-glacial epoch instead of an interglacial period of the Pleistocene and thus due for another ice age in the near geologic future. It’s possible that an increase in global temperature, as we’re experiencing now, could be a sign of an impending ice age and could actually increase the amount of ice on the earth’s surface. Why? Because the cold, dry air above the Arctic and Antarctica carries little moisture and drops little snow on the regions. An increase in global temperature could increase the amount of moisture in the air and increase the amount of snowfall. After years of more snowfall than melting, the polar regions could accumulate more ice. An accumulation of ice would lead to a lowering of the level of the oceans and there would be further, unanticipated changes in the global climate system as well.
Conclusion: The next ice age will occurr anytime between immediately and ten thousand years from now.
To serve our purposes this map could be a little clearer, but notice that the earth’s wobbles but it’s tilt is 23 degrees at present, and the pattern of precipitation is 12 degrees. This means that with normal ocean rotation, western europe is warmer and wetter, and east asia is colder and drier. Meanwhile, between the solar radiation across Saharan africa the arabian peninsula, central asia, and the himalayas, the rotation of the earth, the pitch of the earth, and the circulatory patterns of the oceans, that glaciation, cold, temperate and hot climates are distributed unevenly.
In an effort to illustrate the many rivers and streams of the fertile world, in contrast with the drier regions, this map crosses over into overrepresentation of smaller rivers and undrerepresentation of the major rivers. That said, the point we want to make is that while we live in an agrarian age, and we live in a land of territorial states, that mankind evolved near, and populated the world, by following waterways. Not just because mankind requires fresh water, but because the animals we fed on from the fish in the waters, to those that came to drink from it did also.
Illustrating those many waterways obscures the difference between rivers that provide fresh water, rivers that are navigable (provide transport), and rivers that provide sufficient water for widespread seasonal irrigation, and those that supply sufficient irrigation that they can sustain civilizations dependent upon widespread river-irrigation. This better illustrates the main waterways that make civilization possible.
Less than five percent of the planet consists of arable land. The rest is artic, tundra, desert, or mountainous, or otherwise difficult to farm. Note the concentrations in china, india, europe, and north america versus south america, africa, australia and east central asia.
This map of soil quality provides a bit more precision than the one above for those areas that are arable, but gives the wrong impression otherwise. I’ve added it here to show the difference between sout asia (india), se asia, and particularly northeast china to call attention to the fact that the high population of these regions isn’t cultural it’s geographic.
The Continents: The dark orange area at 1500 kWh/m^2, is largely between 35 degrees and 60 degrees latitude, with southern china extending south to 20 degrees.
The Planet: The map of the full planet shows us the oceans as well. The red hot-spots are the Andes mountans in south america and the Himalayan mountains in South Asia from Pakistan (old India), to India, Nepal, and Bangladesh in the south, and Tibet in the north.
Southwest Asia, subregion of Asia, bounded on the west by the Mediterranean Sea, the Sinai Peninsula, and the Red Sea and on the south and southeast by the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf. The region reaches the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea to the north.
–Southern Eurasian
–Northwest Eurasian
–Southwest Eurasian
–Eastern Eurasian
–African
–Amerindian
–Oceanian
–Multiracial
This is the most intuitive map of the world for the purposes of country comparisons.
| Estimated Human Population Worldwide | Year |
|---|---|
| 200,000 | c. 130,000 BCE |
| 3 Million | c. 10,000 BCE |
| 10 Million | c. 6,500 BCE |
| 50 Million | c. 2,000 BCE |
| 200 Million | c. 0 CE/BCE |
| 1 Billion – Carrying Capacity | 1804 |
| 2 Billion – Limit of Carrying Capacity | 1927 |
| 3 Billion | 1959 |
| 4 Billion | 1974 |
| 5 Billion | 1987 |
| 6 Billion | 1999 |
| 7 Billion | 2012 |
| 2023 | |
| 2037 | |
| 2057 | |
For our purposes note (a) the absence of the north sea, (b) the closure of the red sea, (c) the absence of the persian gulf, (d) the ability to reach australia, (e) the ability to reach the americas and (f) the size of the caspian sea, and (g) the size and number of large lakes in Africa. In other words, walking across the planet is possible.
The Next Ice Age
According to Milankovitch theory, the advent of the ice age depends on the coincidence of the following three conditions:
Elongation or eccentricity: Eccentricity is the shape of the Earth’s orbit around the Sun. It is constantly fluctuating with the orbital shape ranging between more and less elliptical, every 100,000 years. This alters the distance from the Earth to the Sun which in turn reduces or increases the amount of radiation received at the Earth’s surface in different seasons. The northern hemisphere experiences winter while the southern hemisphere experiences summer at perihelion position, which is the position where the distance between the earth and the sun is the least. The opposite happens at the aphelion position which is the position where the distance between the earth and the sun is the most. The solar energy received at the perihelion is 20-30% more than the energy received at the aphelion position. These fluctuations around the globe result in prominent changes in the Earth’s climate and glacial regimes. This means that the winter experienced at the aphelion would be bitter and due to the slow rotation of the earth at the aphelion (as per calculations based on Kepler’s second law), the winter would get more time to strengthen itself. For example, the glaciers from the north may start to extend southwards.
Rotation of Precession: While the bottom part of a top is spinning, the top part also sort of revolves. The earth spins like a spinning top on its axis, while its axis also sort of revolves. It takes 26,000 years to complete one such revolution. Because of this movement, we notice the change in the night sky during different seasons. If you compare the night sky of summer in the northern hemisphere today to the night sky of summer in the northern hemisphere 5,000 years ago, it will be very different. When the precession of equinoxes sends the glaciations-prone northern hemisphere to the aphelion position, the winter becomes fierce, freezing the arctic and most of the northern hemisphere.
Tilt or Obliquity: Currently, the tilt of the earth’s axis or its obliquity is at 23.5 degrees. But every 41,000 years, the obliquity shifts between low (22.1 degrees) to high (24.5 degrees). When the obliquity is at its lowest, the higher latitudes don’t receive much sunlight, leading to increase in ice cover over these latitudes.
According to the Milankovitch criteria, to predict the next ice age, we can use the above information and find out when the next ice age is due. The earth’s orbit is almost circular today and 10,000 years from now, the orbit will be an ellipse. Obliquity will be at its lowest in 12,000 years from today while the precession would have reversed in almost10,000 years. So, we can predict that almost 10 to 12 thousand years from now, a new ice age may begin.
The Problem of Prediction: Only 11,000 years have passed since the last Ice Age, so scientists cannot be certain that humans are indeed living in a post-glacial epoch instead of an interglacial period of the Pleistocene and thus due for another ice age in the near geologic future. It’s possible that an increase in global temperature, as we’re experiencing now, could be a sign of an impending ice age and could actually increase the amount of ice on the earth’s surface. Why? Because the cold, dry air above the Arctic and Antarctica carries little moisture and drops little snow on the regions. An increase in global temperature could increase the amount of moisture in the air and increase the amount of snowfall. After years of more snowfall than melting, the polar regions could accumulate more ice. An accumulation of ice would lead to a lowering of the level of the oceans and there would be further, unanticipated changes in the global climate system as well.
Conclusion: The next ice age will occurr anytime between immediately and ten thousand years from now.
To serve our purposes this map could be a little clearer, but notice that the earth’s wobbles but it’s tilt is 23 degrees at present, and the pattern of precipitation is 12 degrees. This means that with normal ocean rotation, western europe is warmer and wetter, and east asia is colder and drier. Meanwhile, between the solar radiation across Saharan africa the arabian peninsula, central asia, and the himalayas, the rotation of the earth, the pitch of the earth, and the circulatory patterns of the oceans, that glaciation, cold, temperate and hot climates are distributed unevenly.
In an effort to illustrate the many rivers and streams of the fertile world, in contrast with the drier regions, this map crosses over into overrepresentation of smaller rivers and undrerepresentation of the major rivers. That said, the point we want to make is that while we live in an agrarian age, and we live in a land of territorial states, that mankind evolved near, and populated the world, by following waterways. Not just because mankind requires fresh water, but because the animals we fed on from the fish in the waters, to those that came to drink from it did also.
Illustrating those many waterways obscures the difference between rivers that provide fresh water, rivers that are navigable (provide transport), and rivers that provide sufficient water for widespread seasonal irrigation, and those that supply sufficient irrigation that they can sustain civilizations dependent upon widespread river-irrigation. This better illustrates the main waterways that make civilization possible.
Less than five percent of the planet consists of arable land. The rest is artic, tundra, desert, or mountainous, or otherwise difficult to farm. Note the concentrations in china, india, europe, and north america versus south america, africa, australia and east central asia.
This map of soil quality provides a bit more precision than the one above for those areas that are arable, but gives the wrong impression otherwise. I’ve added it here to show the difference between sout asia (india), se asia, and particularly northeast china to call attention to the fact that the high population of these regions isn’t cultural it’s geographic.
The Continents: The dark orange area at 1500 kWh/m^2, is largely between 35 degrees and 60 degrees latitude, with southern china extending south to 20 degrees.
The Planet: The map of the full planet shows us the oceans as well. The red hot-spots are the Andes mountans in south america and the Himalayan mountains in South Asia from Pakistan (old India), to India, Nepal, and Bangladesh in the south, and Tibet in the north.
Southwest Asia, subregion of Asia, bounded on the west by the Mediterranean Sea, the Sinai Peninsula, and the Red Sea and on the south and southeast by the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf. The region reaches the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea to the north.
–Southern Eurasian
–Northwest Eurasian
–Southwest Eurasian
–Eastern Eurasian
–African
–Amerindian
–Oceanian
–Multiracial
This is the most intuitive map of the world for the purposes of country comparisons.
| Estimated Human Population Worldwide | Year |
|---|---|
| 200,000 | c. 130,000 BCE |
| 3 Million | c. 10,000 BCE |
| 10 Million | c. 6,500 BCE |
| 50 Million | c. 2,000 BCE |
| 200 Million | c. 0 CE/BCE |
| 1 Billion – Carrying Capacity | 1804 |
| 2 Billion – Limit of Carrying Capacity | 1927 |
| 3 Billion | 1959 |
| 4 Billion | 1974 |
| 5 Billion | 1987 |
| 6 Billion | 1999 |
| 7 Billion | 2012 |
| 2023 | |
| 2037 | |
| 2057 | |