Theme: Cooperation

  • THE HIGH COST OF HIGH TRUST, HIGH RISK, HIGH VELOCITY, HIGH PROSPERITY Knowledge

    THE HIGH COST OF HIGH TRUST, HIGH RISK, HIGH VELOCITY, HIGH PROSPERITY

    Knowledge (costs) > Virtues (costs) > Manners (costs) > Ethics (costs) > Morals (costs) > Norms (costs) > Duty and Service (costs) > Taxes (Cost)

    We pay many costs to create a high trust civic order. People free ride by not paying those costs. People rebel by not paying costs and forcing others to pay them. People conduct a cold war by intentionally not paying costs and forcing others to pay them.

    The west is unique because of our high trust, high velocity, culture. Not paying costs is a luxury those who pay those costs may or may not tolerate.

    Marxism was an attempt to steal. Postmodernism is an attempt to destroy.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-25 19:33:00 UTC

  • Well, that’s just it, isn’t it? 1 – The individual only needs to understand his

    Well, that’s just it, isn’t it?

    1 – The individual only needs to understand his choice is preferable.(person)

    2 – Those cooperating only need to understand their choices are good.(group)

    3 – Those deciding conflicts only need to understand whether the conflict is decidable. (judge)

    Now people conflate the possible, the preferable, the good, and the true, as if they’re synonyms, without considering the implied grammar.

    A preference isn’t true. It’s just a preference and possible or not.

    A good isn’t true, it’s just preferable, and good, and possible or not.

    A truth isn’t preferable or good, it’s just true.

    Yet another example of the problem of conflation rather than operational grammar and definitions.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-25 15:00:00 UTC

  • Facts about (Facebook) friends by Tyler Cowen 1. For the population of the avera

    Facts about (Facebook) friends

    by Tyler Cowen

    1. For the population of the average county, 62.8% of FB friends live within 100 miles.

    2. Over distances of less than 200 miles, the elasticity of friends to distance is about – 2.0, and about – 1.2 for distances greater than 200 miles.

    3. Conditional on distance, social connectedness is significantly stronger within state lines.

    4. “Counties with a higher social capital index have less geographically concentrated social networks.”

    5. Social connectedness predicts trade flows, even after controlling for distance, and it also predicts patent citations.

    That is all from a new NBER working paper by Bailey, Cao, Kuchler, Stroebel, and Wong. Here is an ungated version.

    (CURT: Not true for me at all.)


    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-25 07:24:00 UTC

  • MATURITY 1) In the family we subsidize one another. 2) In the community we coope

    MATURITY

    1) In the family we subsidize one another.

    2) In the community we cooperate with one another – at least to the point where we do not impede each other.

    3) In business we conduct a cold war by competition for customers.

    4) In internal politics we conduct a warm war with the possibility of rebellion or revolution if we fail.

    5) In international relations we conduct a continuous hot war that we try to keep as cold as possible.

    Only children try to extend the family and community to business, politics, and international relations.

    There are a lot of children. Especially women.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-25 07:05:00 UTC

  • THE CHALLENGE OF MAINTAINING A HIGH TRUST NEOTONIC GENE POOL It’s not race, per

    THE CHALLENGE OF MAINTAINING A HIGH TRUST NEOTONIC GENE POOL

    It’s not race, per se, since any race can produce excellences. It’s neotonic selection (speciation), and distributions. So the problem is that homo-sapiens-sapiens races and subraces, nations and communities vary by (a) the amount of reproductive domestication by neotonic selection of the ‘animal’ man, and (b) the success or failure at reducing the size of the underclasses (less fit, less desirable, less productive).

    Europeans and east asians were the most successful at both. We could even argue easily that the east asians have taken it too far. IQ and lack of Impulsivity are the result of neotonic selection of females by males, and selection of males with demonstrated ability to climb the dominance hierarchy by females. By the use of marriage and farming we have been able to control this process in the east and west but not in the rest.

    The success of the chinese, korean and japanese, like that of the europeans, nordics, and british, is relative isolation from the population pressures of the under domesticated peoples of the steppe and desert. Worse, it is far harder to cleanse a gene pool than we had imagined. So pollution of high trust, highly neotenic, high-iq gene pools is extremely costly and nearly impossible to reverse without deliberate eugenic programs.

    And that is still at large scale. We still do not know the subtle differences between groups. Whites and east asians are ‘special’. At least among the middle and lower asians and whites, cross breeding apparently produces benefits for both.

    Bte even between advanced subraces, whites differ from east asians in inverting our specializations in verbal and spatial. And It appears that we can out-breed the bad behavior out of the Ashkenazi, but it is almost impossible to lose the feminine traits, even if it is possible to retain the extra verbal abilities.

    So I do not think markets solve the problem at scale and in cities like markets solve the problem in small agrarian communities, because it is easy to observe subtle differences between people who are similar and to produce excellences, and it is harder to produce excellences when differences are not subtle. Because are limited in our discretionary ability. Men are less discriminate and women discriminate by status. So it appears that the best reproductive strategy is upward redistribution of reproduction, and culling of the bottom through through sterilization or one-child policy, near-breeding, and miscegenation, all of which will lead to ‘higher experimentation’ which is the advantage of all market innovation.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-22 07:25:00 UTC

  • THE RESTORATION OF THE DUEL: MORE HONEST AND POLITE SOCIETY I have lived in Ukra

    THE RESTORATION OF THE DUEL: MORE HONEST AND POLITE SOCIETY

    I have lived in Ukraine and spent time in russia, where a punch in the face is quick, expected, not uncommon, respected, and use of it keeps men fit. And it is a much more civil society. It is one of the principle reasons I prefer their society. For all our rule of law, without punching in the face, it is just a license for degeneracy.

    I remember when we still had a lot of punching in the face. I did quite a bit of it and received quite a bit of it. Because it was part of becoming a man: be careful with your word and deed because other men will not tolerate you. And I was small. So I get good at the ground game.

    Lessons of history are this:

    – An armed society is a safe society.

    – A punch-in-the-face society is a polite society.

    – A dueling society is an honest society.

    The duel works well because it (a) imposes constant caution in one’s words, allows for (b) immediate fights (rapid suppression), (c) immediate apologies (rapid de-escalation), (d) immediate silence, but demand for court trial instead. (e) satisfaction in a court trial. (f) far lower cost of settlement of differences and less malincentive to try to get away with impolite or dishonest words and deeds simply because the opposing party can’t resist you.

    The failure to innovate with ‘judicial dueling’ was that (a) pistols equalized the difference between swordsman or size (good), (b) but they were more deadly, where in swordfighting or knife-fighting, ‘one could collect an honorable scar’, and then surrender and apologize. (c) the combination of practice of substitutes, and the increase in size of the middle class with less ‘cultured’ (intelligent) histories and access to better weapons, was what ended it, not the practice of duelling itself. Everyone had always criticized it. But for sovereign men there is no substitute.

    This is particularly useful if not necessary for controlling the gossip, ridicule, shaming, and rallying by betas and women. Since women have no possible chance unless very highly trained, men must warranty them, and therefore take responsibility for teaching them discipline.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-20 09:16:00 UTC

  • DIMENSIONS OF LEGAL COMPOSITION 1 – Relative value of the individual’s cooperati

    DIMENSIONS OF LEGAL COMPOSITION

    1 – Relative value of the individual’s cooperation.

    2 – Relative distribution of decisions over property (individual, family, extended family, clan, tribe, polity.)

    3 – Relative equality in defense (of mind, body, action, and property)

    4 – Relative inequality in offense (politics) demonstrated by achievement in the various markets. (association, production, reproduction, commons production, defense production)

    5 – Limited by duty of the Insurer (parent, clan, polity, soldiery)


    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-19 07:47:00 UTC

  • “THESE PEOPLE ARE OUR FOOD, NOT OUR ALLIES” I told you a few months ago I had co

    “THESE PEOPLE ARE OUR FOOD, NOT OUR ALLIES”

    I told you a few months ago I had come to a suspicion that I needed to think about a bit before bringing in to the public discourse. But that I think is simply ‘true’ and the truth of which will restore ‘honesty’ to western civilization, and provide clarity into eastern civilization. And that we might want to change our strategy one way or the other in response to this ‘uncomfortable’ conclusion. So over the next few weeks I’m going to take the controversial position of explaining this hypothesis, which should probably sound obvious to conservatives but which will require me to attack competing ideas for a bit. We fail when we overreach. The chinese stagnate because they do not. But they were not defeated by abrahamism and without the USA to assist abrahamism the chinese will defeat it there. And they will stand alone. Unless we restore the west to not over-reaching.

    —“For f–k’s sake these people are our food, not our allies.”—

    Well, they certainly produce our food, even if we don’t eat them directly.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-17 21:51:00 UTC

  • INGROUP VS OUTGROUP MORALITY? Below, find a list of the spectrum of value creati

    INGROUP VS OUTGROUP MORALITY?

    Below, find a list of the spectrum of value creation. The items with a * include those which we ingroup westerners intuit a demand for shared compensation, and both low-trust ingroups do not share, and outgroups do not share.

    ==List of Settled and Unsettled Property Rights==

    *the valuable consequences of an idea discovered by others

    an idea of value one produces

    *one’s gene(copyable) of value discovered by others

    *one’s tissue(self replicating) of value discovered by others

    *a product one produces with hidden/unknown value

    *a product one produces with accumulating windfall values

    a product one produces with inaccessible value: b/c no $

    a product one produces independently

    a product into which you sold your labor with hidden value

    a product into which you sold your labor

    a product one acquires from others.

    *a product one acquires from others with hidden value.

    *a product one acquires from others but was stolen.

    a resource discovered from one’s territory.

    *a resource one discovers on other’s territory.

    *a resource one discovers on common territory.

    a resource one discovers on unsettled/unclaimed territory.

    a resource one discovers on enemy territory


    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-17 08:56:00 UTC

  • 7) Kin-Militia(West)=high-trust, Warrior(chin/pers)=low-trust, Steppe/Desert-rai

    7) Kin-Militia(West)=high-trust, Warrior(chin/pers)=low-trust, Steppe/Desert-raider= lowest-trust, Diasporic=Med-ingroup/low-outgroup trust.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-16 19:46:42 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/886673466036019200

    Reply addressees: @JayMan471 @SpeakingBee

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/885485834308333568


    IN REPLY TO:

    @JayMan471

    @SpeakingBee A) That’s not true B) Group selection doesn’t exist https://t.co/UYUFRfwnSv

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/885485834308333568