We hunted iron like wild game, and iron-smelting families lived apart to preserve their secrets. Today we have a pretty clear idea of how they made iron – and it was a group project: time consuming and hard work. But it produced high returns in exchange. One could not divulge his source of ore. Nor the process. And the process is as much art as science.
Source date (UTC): 2019-11-21 11:32:00 UTC
—“That’s what altruistic punishment is. Making immorality more expensive than morality”—Martin Štěpán
Source date (UTC): 2019-11-20 20:19:42 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1197248172516618241
—“That’s what altruistic punishment is. Making immorality more expensive than morality”—Martin Štěpán
Source date (UTC): 2019-11-20 15:19:00 UTC
Never occurs to anyone that european high investment parenting is in the production of COMMONS goods, services, and information, rather than PRIVATE alone. And that THAT is the secret to our civilization – and what all others fail to accomplish.
Source date (UTC): 2019-11-20 14:53:00 UTC
ECONOMICS OF INTER-GROUP AND INTRA-GROUP MORALITY
by Micah Pezdirtz
(flawless, brilliant)
—“Morality describes good in-group behavior. The in-group defines the limit of moral utility. Outside of the in-group, “moral” actions cease congruence with moral actions within it (betraying outsiders does not carry the same cost as betraying your kin).
Westerners have a proclivity to universalize the in-group in part due to the particular pro-social behavior selected for by ice age survival conditions. Easterners have evolved differently, where in-group members demand morality towards each other and demand immorality towards outsiders.
Reciprocity completes the moral system. A Hegelian synthesis, if you will, of the universalist hypothesis and dualist antithesis. A problem we face switching over to Reciprocity comes from the counter selection factors from both groups: to the universalist, reciprocal behavior violates the silver rule (do not do unto others what you would not have done unto you); to the polymoralist, reciprocal behavior accepts costs to the in-group instead of transference to out-groups.
Monomoralists bear costs rightfully owed by out-groups and polymoralists impose costs rightfully due by in-group. So how does this relate to scale? Scale does not only present an explosively high quantity of group members, in and out, but an explosively high quantity of groups. Calculation costs of identifying groups individuals belong to as well as identifying a spectrum of group allegiance to hostility becomes completely heuristically impossible for any practical effectiveness. which may explain why Polymoralism has gained an upper hand (focus on in-group identity, plunder all others) but it destabilizes itself over time as all other out-groups eventually unify against them.” –
(via Brandon Cheshire )Updated Nov 20, 2019, 10:56 AM
Source date (UTC): 2019-11-20 10:56:00 UTC
THE MEANING OF TRUST
–“If there are some general rules by which we can expect behavior of others to be governed by, we have to pay less opportunity costs for figuring everyone out and can invest time into other things. That’s what trust is.”— Martin Štěpán
Source date (UTC): 2019-11-19 19:42:00 UTC
THE SMITH AND THE DEMON – OUR OLDEST FOLK TALE AND OUR FIRST MORAL LESSON: BAITING INTO HAZARD
According to research applying phylogenetic techniques to linguistics by folklorist Sara Graça… https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=510422932887935&id=100017606988153
Source date (UTC): 2019-11-19 18:08:21 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1196852730192678912
THE SMITH AND THE DEMON – OUR OLDEST FOLK TALE AND OUR FIRST MORAL LESSON: BAITING INTO HAZARD
According to research applying phylogenetic techniques to linguistics by folklorist Sara Graça da Silva and anthropologist Jamie Tehrani,”The Smith and the Devil” may be one of the oldest European folk tales, with the basic plot stable throughout the Indo-European speaking world from India to Scandinavia, possibly being first told in Indo-European 6,000 years ago in the Bronze Age.
Our ancestors were metalworkers – and the most common name – smith – a reminder. Medieval hell evolved from the blacksmith’s forge.
The oldest myth of the west is Faust (the devil and the blacksmith)
The Europeans worship a sky god (nature, sun) and magic, the Semites a moon and star (astrology, heavens)
Why isn’t Faust Europe and the devil Abrahamism’s false promise?
In other words, why isn’t our foundational myth a warning against Abrahamism/Semitism?
Because what does the demon practice?
False promise, baiting into moral hazard, defended with pilpul and critique.
Source date (UTC): 2019-11-19 13:08:00 UTC
WE DON’T NEED A THREAT TO BE GOOD
by Predmetsky Rosenborg
(Most) people have evolved to be basically pro-social, given the right minimally decent conditions, and don’t need religion to teach them how to not be a sociopath. tons of studies demonstrate as much. religion is not very helpful.
If you think that the only reason people don’t act like sociopaths is because they are afraid of being tormented for eternity, YOU might be the one who is projecting 😉
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CD: we are biased for pro-sociality because it is always and everywhere in our interest to both (a) reduce conflict and enemies, (b) cooperate on production, (c) generate incentives for future cooperation.
THERE IS NO CALORIC EFFICIENCY AVAILABLE TO LIFE FORMS LIKE COOPERATION IN A DIVISION OF LABOR under reciprocity (non parasitism) and proportionality (preservation of incentive not to defect)
Source date (UTC): 2019-11-18 14:51:00 UTC
Sam is a cognitively female jewish relativist, who cannot tolerate the truth that morality is merely reciprocity (persistence of cooperation) within the limits of proportionality (defection), that varies within the portfolio of exchanges (sum of benefits and costs) we call a social order.
I wasn’t ready but I should have taken him up on his 10K bet to prove him wrong. He will always favor harmony in the herd at the cost of stagnation and devolution over continuing the european transcendence of man.
Source date (UTC): 2019-11-18 12:32:00 UTC