Theme: Cooperation

  • The Conspiracy Of Trust 🙂

    [satire]

    Guest Post by Johannes Meixner

    [T]here’s a conspiracy going on in this world, and it is secretly plotting to take over the world. Like any good conspiracy it abides by a ridiculously positive name, which may confuse the reader into thinking they’re doing good:

    ***The High Trust Society.***

    As I was able to have a closer look into the conspiracy (through means of subversion, lying, deluding and others long-learned traditions and knowledge of left revolutionaries), it seems that the core members all follow the same code, which includes certain features I would like to shed lights on.

    Members are expected to be honest with each other at all times. It seems that honesty here acts not only as social lubricant, but also as aligner of incentives, and reducer of transaction costs.

    Along with this comes the seeming necessity to speak truthfully with one another, however costly that may be. Liars (like yours truly, as it were) are expected to be discovered, ostracized and shoo’ed off the Land.

    On the note of costliness, members are expected to keep their word at all times. I’m not quite sure how this came into being, given Machiavelli’s writings about how one should only keep it when it’s to your own advantage, but for whatever reason it seems to work for them, which makes them all the more dangerous.

    Members seem to be highly trusting of one another (due to above shared values), and will not hesitate to certify their member’s high social capital.

    Your diligent reporter has learned a few secrets in due time, and deems this a bright moment to rat out on core members of the conspiracy.

    Roman Skaskiw, Curt Doolittle, Andriy Drozda and others try to get away with all of this mumbo-jumbo in Ukraine. Don Finnegan, Johannes Meixner, Ben Schonle, Osku Raunio, Jonathan Starkas, Paul Vahur, Haver Järveoja, Erik Bhullar form the Estonian arm. James Santagata promotes all of the above in Japan. I’m not sure why he does that, the Japanese seem to be deluded into thinking this is how the world should be run in the first place. The same can be said for Marco de Wit — Finnish people seem equally deluded into trusting one another!! A few stray people reside in Middle Europe, where Germany stands out with Sandro Lemmen and Christoph Widenhorn. Another cluster appears all over the Commonwealth, around Andy Duncan Robyn Harte-Bunting, Eli Harman, Sean Ring, Michael Pattinson, Michael Philip, David Mondrus.

    Beware.

    They’re all dangerous, and their missionary diligence seems unstoppable.

    (I may have forgotten folks. My bad. Let me know, and I’ll add everyone.)

    Johannes Meixner

  • The Conspiracy Of Trust 🙂

    [satire]

    Guest Post by Johannes Meixner

    [T]here’s a conspiracy going on in this world, and it is secretly plotting to take over the world. Like any good conspiracy it abides by a ridiculously positive name, which may confuse the reader into thinking they’re doing good:

    ***The High Trust Society.***

    As I was able to have a closer look into the conspiracy (through means of subversion, lying, deluding and others long-learned traditions and knowledge of left revolutionaries), it seems that the core members all follow the same code, which includes certain features I would like to shed lights on.

    Members are expected to be honest with each other at all times. It seems that honesty here acts not only as social lubricant, but also as aligner of incentives, and reducer of transaction costs.

    Along with this comes the seeming necessity to speak truthfully with one another, however costly that may be. Liars (like yours truly, as it were) are expected to be discovered, ostracized and shoo’ed off the Land.

    On the note of costliness, members are expected to keep their word at all times. I’m not quite sure how this came into being, given Machiavelli’s writings about how one should only keep it when it’s to your own advantage, but for whatever reason it seems to work for them, which makes them all the more dangerous.

    Members seem to be highly trusting of one another (due to above shared values), and will not hesitate to certify their member’s high social capital.

    Your diligent reporter has learned a few secrets in due time, and deems this a bright moment to rat out on core members of the conspiracy.

    Roman Skaskiw, Curt Doolittle, Andriy Drozda and others try to get away with all of this mumbo-jumbo in Ukraine. Don Finnegan, Johannes Meixner, Ben Schonle, Osku Raunio, Jonathan Starkas, Paul Vahur, Haver Järveoja, Erik Bhullar form the Estonian arm. James Santagata promotes all of the above in Japan. I’m not sure why he does that, the Japanese seem to be deluded into thinking this is how the world should be run in the first place. The same can be said for Marco de Wit — Finnish people seem equally deluded into trusting one another!! A few stray people reside in Middle Europe, where Germany stands out with Sandro Lemmen and Christoph Widenhorn. Another cluster appears all over the Commonwealth, around Andy Duncan Robyn Harte-Bunting, Eli Harman, Sean Ring, Michael Pattinson, Michael Philip, David Mondrus.

    Beware.

    They’re all dangerous, and their missionary diligence seems unstoppable.

    (I may have forgotten folks. My bad. Let me know, and I’ll add everyone.)

    Johannes Meixner

  • THE CONSPIRACY OF TRUST [satire] There’s a conspiracy going on in this world, an

    THE CONSPIRACY OF TRUST

    [satire]

    There’s a conspiracy going on in this world, and it is secretly plotting to take over the world. Like any good conspiracy it abides by a ridiculously positive name, which may confuse the reader into thinking they’re doing good:

    ***The High Trust Society.***

    As I was able to have a closer look into the conspiracy (through means of subversion, lying, deluding and others long-learned traditions and knowledge of left revolutionaries), it seems that the core members all follow the same code, which includes certain features I would like to shed lights on.

    Members are expected to be honest with each other at all times. It seems that honesty here acts not only as social lubricant, but also as aligner of incentives, and reducer of transaction costs.

    Along with this comes the seeming necessity to speak truthfully with one another, however costly that may be. Liars (like yours truly, as it were) are expected to be discovered, ostracized and shoo’ed off the Land.

    On the note of costliness, members are expected to keep their word at all times. I’m not quite sure how this came into being, given Machiavelli’s writings about how one should only keep it when it’s to your own advantage, but for whatever reason it seems to work for them, which makes them all the more dangerous.

    Members seem to be highly trusting of one another (due to above shared values), and will not hesitate to certify their member’s high social capital.

    Your diligent reporter has learned a few secrets in due time, and deems this a bright moment to rat out on core members of the conspiracy.

    Roman Skaskiw, Curt Doolittle, Andriy Drozda and others try to get away with all of this mumbo-jumbo in Ukraine. Don Finnegan, Johannes Meixner, Ben Schonle, Osku Raunio, Jonathan Starkas, Paul Vahur, Haver Järveoja, Erik Bhullar form the Estonian arm. James Santagata promotes all of the above in Japan. I’m not sure why he does that, the Japanese seem to be deluded into thinking this is how the world should be run in the first place. The same can be said for Marco de Wit — Finnish people seem equally deluded into trusting one another!! A few stray people reside in Middle Europe, where Germany stands out with Sandro Lemmen and Christoph Widenhorn. Another cluster appears all over the Commonwealth, around Andy Duncan Robyn Harte-Bunting, Eli Harman, Sean Ring, Michael Pattinson, Michael Philip, David Mondrus.

    Beware.

    They’re all dangerous, and their missionary diligence seems unstoppable.

    [I may have forgotten folks. My bad. Let me know, and I’ll add everyone.]

    Johannes Meixner


    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-26 07:51:00 UTC

  • WHY WE NEED RELIGIONS Humans will and must develop a ‘religion’ because without

    WHY WE NEED RELIGIONS

    Humans will and must develop a ‘religion’ because without some set of narratives most questions on a daily basis from the most mundane to the most complex are undecidable. Pedagogical requirements force us to resort to narratives during youth in order to construct relations from experiential rather than abstract lessons – we cannot wait to teach morality until reason forms, and not enough ofus are capable of reason: which is why we must have character, rule, and outcome ethics. Because each is more demanding than the prior method. The only question is the externalities produced by that religion and whether that religion is closer to a reflection of heroic history or farther from heroic history. The monotheisms are pretty awful, but democratic statist secular humanism is far worse.

    SO

    1) Many decisions are undecidable without some means of decision making: breaking ties.

    2) Even if they are decidable it is often necessary to force tie-breaking decisions such that they produce positive externalities. In fact, almost all social benefits are obtained by the choice between otherwise indifferent actions.

    3) We must train the young to intuit such tie-breaking decisions, not reason them.


    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-26 00:23:00 UTC

  • My Position on Race

    [I] don’t care about your race. I care about your IQ, impulsivity, aggression, time preference, degree of suppression of free riding, and total integration into every possible aspect of the culture.

    You are not going to find anyone, me included, caring about the immigration of smart, un-impulsive, non-aggressive, low time preference (long term thinking), individuals. Not only because they’re rare. But because they’re nice to have around.

    But everything else is costly invasion for a high trust polity.

    So I don’t care about race. I care that there are differences in the distribution of these properties in the races, and that people from races act as blocs in politics, economics, society, and reproduction.

    Integrate entirely or leave. Absolute nuclear family. High trust ethics. Religion and myths, institutions and norms.

    Period.


    NO SEPARATISM. PERIOD. IF YOU CHOOSE TO BE SEPARATE I AM HAPPY TO SEPARATE YOU FROM THE REST OF US WHO AGREE WITH YOUR CHOICE.

    (I think this is very close to my position on racism. I just don’t like it. if it’s present, that’s because something else is wrong: invasion, non-integration, material difference in distribution, and an impact on norms.)

  • My Position on Race

    [I] don’t care about your race. I care about your IQ, impulsivity, aggression, time preference, degree of suppression of free riding, and total integration into every possible aspect of the culture.

    You are not going to find anyone, me included, caring about the immigration of smart, un-impulsive, non-aggressive, low time preference (long term thinking), individuals. Not only because they’re rare. But because they’re nice to have around.

    But everything else is costly invasion for a high trust polity.

    So I don’t care about race. I care that there are differences in the distribution of these properties in the races, and that people from races act as blocs in politics, economics, society, and reproduction.

    Integrate entirely or leave. Absolute nuclear family. High trust ethics. Religion and myths, institutions and norms.

    Period.


    NO SEPARATISM. PERIOD. IF YOU CHOOSE TO BE SEPARATE I AM HAPPY TO SEPARATE YOU FROM THE REST OF US WHO AGREE WITH YOUR CHOICE.

    (I think this is very close to my position on racism. I just don’t like it. if it’s present, that’s because something else is wrong: invasion, non-integration, material difference in distribution, and an impact on norms.)

  • I don’t care about your race. I care about your IQ, impulsivity, aggression, tim

    I don’t care about your race. I care about your IQ, impulsivity, aggression, time preference, degree of suppression of free riding, and total integration into every possible aspect of the culture. You are not going to find anyone, me included, caring about the immigration of smart, un-impulsive, non-aggressive, low time preference (long term thinking), individuals. Not only because they’re rare. But because they’re nice to have around.

    But everything else is costly invasion for a high trust polity.

    So I don’t care about race. I care that there are differences in the distribution of these properties in the races, and that people from races act as blocs in politics, economics, society, and reproduction.

    Integrate entirely or leave. Absolute nuclear family. High trust ethics. Religion and myths, institutions and norms.

    Period.


    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-25 04:45:00 UTC

  • SPECIALIZATION AND THE REPRODUCTIVE DIVISION OF LABOR

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBNg4NpDTxMMORAL SPECIALIZATION AND THE REPRODUCTIVE DIVISION OF LABOR


    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-21 22:11:00 UTC