THE ORIGINS OF RATIO-DECEPTIONISM – AND ROMAN COUNTER VIA LAW Both the Jews and the Greeks discovered Ratio-Deceptionism. The greeks were treated the same way we treat the Jews today (as skillful liars). But the Romans, from whom we inherit our laws, and our government, actively ridiculed the greeks, used them as we use jews today, and prohibited them from office, and instead adopted the stoicism and empirical law. The greeks proliferated ‘ways of thinking’ – advocating markets for preferences, the jews doubled-down on one way of thinking – advocating an authoritarian way of thinking. But the Romans, conquering both sets of ‘liars’ did the opposite: there exist ways of not-acting and ways of not-speaking, and ways of not-arguing, that you may not demonstrate – but you may think and choose otherwise however you please. It was their failure to crush religious lies that was their falling. In other words, roman social science, like the social science I advocate, was via negativa: law. Why? aristocracy vs peasantry. We have, with the scientific enlightenment, continued this tradition to the present – and in the current era, to our detriment. The technique is quite simple: Rationalism is easily used to deceive, so when the information is insufficient to decide by rational means, we must gain more information by the empirical (existential). if that information is insufficient to decide by empirical means, we must gain more information by the operational (causal). If that information is insufficient to decide by causal means, then we must gain more information by the full accounting of consequences. If we possess categorical, internal-rational, external empirical, causal operational, fully accounted consequence, then the only means of decidability is PREFERENCE (trade). Cheers
Theme: Deception
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Argument vs Argumentation Ethics
LETS LOOK AT ARGUMENT VS ARGUMENTATION ETHICS. Argument: the use of statement to construct an hypothesis and eliminate error, for the purpose of persuasion in order to choose between interpersonal avoidance, cooperation, parasitism, or violence, or personal inaction, action, or delay. Argumentation: the action or process of reasoning systematically in support of an idea, action, or theory. (IOW: Abstraction of Argument) Argumentation Ethics: —“Hoppe states that because honest argumentation aimed at resolving a conflict over scarce resources must presuppose various norms including non-violence to be meaningful, then it follows that propositions propounded during such argumentation cannot contradict these norms, from which, he claims, the non aggression principle can be logically derived. So Hoppe claims that to deny the non aggression principle during such argumentation is a performative contradiction between one’s actions and one’s words. For example, to argue that violence should be used to resolve conflicts is an obvious performative contradiction if one is to engage in a meaningful argument to resolve such a conflict.”— Wiki OK, NOW LET’S BREAK THIS DOWN A BIT (IT’S HARD) Presuppositions (requirements) – honest argument – promise of non violence in other words, an already existing contract for cooperation eschewing deceit (honest argument, non-coercion-by-fraud) and violence (non-coercion-by-violence), and unstated (non-theft-independent of coercion) Evidence Instead: – arguments consist of negotiations in pursuit of wants, not truths independent of wants. – it is almost impossible for people to construct arguments that are truthful, and instead, people engage in ignorance, bias, suggestion, and deceit. – Violence is just another input to negotiations, and is always ‘available’ unless a third party insurer demands and warrants restitution(theft), punishment(harm) or death(ostrasization). So, for Argumentation ETHICS to exist, we must be within a contract for cooperation, insured by a third party. For argument to exist requires only humans. For truthful argument we require a means (skill or technology) for the purpose of testing whether arguments are in fact, honest and truthful – even if we can never know if they are in fact true since we are never possessed of perfect information. So lets fully expand these sentences: “Those who are already in an agreement not to engage in parasitism through violence, theft, and fraud, demonstrate that they agree not to engage in parasitism through violence, theft, and fraud, by engaging in truthful argument, and as such the use of truthful argument demonstrates that non aggression against (some scope of) property in and of itself serves as a test of a contract for reciprocity (non aggression).” Yeah. That’s what’s called a very elaborate tautology. A circular definition. Which is OK. Because all he’s saying that non-aggression is a sufficient rule of thumb for simple people, even if he hasn’t deduced from CAUSALITY, because if he did, he would have to admit that the scope of property necessary for non aggression within a polity is pretty much ‘everything’ (what we call ‘property-in-toto’) in order to prohibit enough conflict that we would eliminate the demand for a state to impose cultural, normative institutional laws upon us. In other words, by RATIONALIZATION from internal consistency rather than from construction by operational causality hoppe makes it impossible to determine the scope of property necessary to eliminate demand for the state to impose rules of the commons both physical and normative. How about this instead: Use of honest and truthful argument in a court of law under a third party insurer, and under some scope of property, wherein we prohibit the imposition of costs against that property, and provide the court as a means of dispute resolution, restitution, punishment and ostracization, in order to prevent retaliation cycles that will cumulatively destroy the market created by the polity’s insurer’s market for dispute resolution, can be summarized in the general rule of thumb: dont aggress against that scope of property, and the fact that you are arguing in a court over it rather than engaging in violence, theft, or fraud instead, demonstrates the sufficiency of the above methods, which are reducible to: don’t aggress against life, and property. To which I would argue we must add “don’t aggress against life, property, commons, norm, institution, tradition, and myth’, because all of those aggressions produce the violent retaliation that non aggression as a test of the basis for law demonstrably advocates. In other words, hoppe is showing that the argument is in fact circular, but only once we have established such a contract in the first place, And therefor he does not include the CAUSAL: People fucking lie, cheat, defraud, bribe, externalize costs, conspire, free ride, socialize losses and privatize gains, engage in propaganda, conversion, asymmetric and therefore parasitic reproduction, immigration, warfare, conquest, and genocide. I don’t play this game. I start with: 1) “Why don’t I kill you and take your stuff? (Ethics). 2) And “why don’t we kill you, your sons, and rape and enslave your women?” (Politics) 3) “Why should I invest in a corporation, rather than in my kin?” (Government) 4) And “Why don’t we conquer, enslave and sterilize your people, so that our people can prosper further? (Group Evolutionary Strategy) The reason being, that the scope of law necessary to eliminate demand for the state is equal to the scope of law necessary to eliminate the incentives to engage in violence against that which I have born a cost. And why? BEcause people will not pay the high cost of creating a higher trust social order than their neighbours, and therefore one that produces greater prosperity and security if it is possible for invaders to constantly lower that level of trust by claiming that only private physical property is protected, instead of all that individuals and groups invest in. Thus Endeth The Lesson Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine
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Argument vs Argumentation Ethics
LETS LOOK AT ARGUMENT VS ARGUMENTATION ETHICS. Argument: the use of statement to construct an hypothesis and eliminate error, for the purpose of persuasion in order to choose between interpersonal avoidance, cooperation, parasitism, or violence, or personal inaction, action, or delay. Argumentation: the action or process of reasoning systematically in support of an idea, action, or theory. (IOW: Abstraction of Argument) Argumentation Ethics: —“Hoppe states that because honest argumentation aimed at resolving a conflict over scarce resources must presuppose various norms including non-violence to be meaningful, then it follows that propositions propounded during such argumentation cannot contradict these norms, from which, he claims, the non aggression principle can be logically derived. So Hoppe claims that to deny the non aggression principle during such argumentation is a performative contradiction between one’s actions and one’s words. For example, to argue that violence should be used to resolve conflicts is an obvious performative contradiction if one is to engage in a meaningful argument to resolve such a conflict.”— Wiki OK, NOW LET’S BREAK THIS DOWN A BIT (IT’S HARD) Presuppositions (requirements) – honest argument – promise of non violence in other words, an already existing contract for cooperation eschewing deceit (honest argument, non-coercion-by-fraud) and violence (non-coercion-by-violence), and unstated (non-theft-independent of coercion) Evidence Instead: – arguments consist of negotiations in pursuit of wants, not truths independent of wants. – it is almost impossible for people to construct arguments that are truthful, and instead, people engage in ignorance, bias, suggestion, and deceit. – Violence is just another input to negotiations, and is always ‘available’ unless a third party insurer demands and warrants restitution(theft), punishment(harm) or death(ostrasization). So, for Argumentation ETHICS to exist, we must be within a contract for cooperation, insured by a third party. For argument to exist requires only humans. For truthful argument we require a means (skill or technology) for the purpose of testing whether arguments are in fact, honest and truthful – even if we can never know if they are in fact true since we are never possessed of perfect information. So lets fully expand these sentences: “Those who are already in an agreement not to engage in parasitism through violence, theft, and fraud, demonstrate that they agree not to engage in parasitism through violence, theft, and fraud, by engaging in truthful argument, and as such the use of truthful argument demonstrates that non aggression against (some scope of) property in and of itself serves as a test of a contract for reciprocity (non aggression).” Yeah. That’s what’s called a very elaborate tautology. A circular definition. Which is OK. Because all he’s saying that non-aggression is a sufficient rule of thumb for simple people, even if he hasn’t deduced from CAUSALITY, because if he did, he would have to admit that the scope of property necessary for non aggression within a polity is pretty much ‘everything’ (what we call ‘property-in-toto’) in order to prohibit enough conflict that we would eliminate the demand for a state to impose cultural, normative institutional laws upon us. In other words, by RATIONALIZATION from internal consistency rather than from construction by operational causality hoppe makes it impossible to determine the scope of property necessary to eliminate demand for the state to impose rules of the commons both physical and normative. How about this instead: Use of honest and truthful argument in a court of law under a third party insurer, and under some scope of property, wherein we prohibit the imposition of costs against that property, and provide the court as a means of dispute resolution, restitution, punishment and ostracization, in order to prevent retaliation cycles that will cumulatively destroy the market created by the polity’s insurer’s market for dispute resolution, can be summarized in the general rule of thumb: dont aggress against that scope of property, and the fact that you are arguing in a court over it rather than engaging in violence, theft, or fraud instead, demonstrates the sufficiency of the above methods, which are reducible to: don’t aggress against life, and property. To which I would argue we must add “don’t aggress against life, property, commons, norm, institution, tradition, and myth’, because all of those aggressions produce the violent retaliation that non aggression as a test of the basis for law demonstrably advocates. In other words, hoppe is showing that the argument is in fact circular, but only once we have established such a contract in the first place, And therefor he does not include the CAUSAL: People fucking lie, cheat, defraud, bribe, externalize costs, conspire, free ride, socialize losses and privatize gains, engage in propaganda, conversion, asymmetric and therefore parasitic reproduction, immigration, warfare, conquest, and genocide. I don’t play this game. I start with: 1) “Why don’t I kill you and take your stuff? (Ethics). 2) And “why don’t we kill you, your sons, and rape and enslave your women?” (Politics) 3) “Why should I invest in a corporation, rather than in my kin?” (Government) 4) And “Why don’t we conquer, enslave and sterilize your people, so that our people can prosper further? (Group Evolutionary Strategy) The reason being, that the scope of law necessary to eliminate demand for the state is equal to the scope of law necessary to eliminate the incentives to engage in violence against that which I have born a cost. And why? BEcause people will not pay the high cost of creating a higher trust social order than their neighbours, and therefore one that produces greater prosperity and security if it is possible for invaders to constantly lower that level of trust by claiming that only private physical property is protected, instead of all that individuals and groups invest in. Thus Endeth The Lesson Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine
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The Evil of Comforting Lies
THE EVIL OF COMFORTING LIES I have a thing: I like calculations. I like calculative technologies. I like them because they require specialists. And because they require specialists we get fewer idiots claiming they know what they’re talking about. why isn’t public speech in politics regulated as highly as a series seven license for example? Or a Legal License? Or a medical license? Are you saying that the construction of commons by political mans, backed by violence, is somehow less dangerous or open to misuse than financial predation, legal predation, or medical predation? Why is it so hard to imagine a world in which a journalist, in order to publish content for money, would have to be able to write in propertarian language, a propertarian argument, defending his or her position, even if summarizing that argument in an abstract? Why is it so hard for a politician to do the same? Why can we ship s—t arguments into the commons?
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The Evil of Comforting Lies
THE EVIL OF COMFORTING LIES I have a thing: I like calculations. I like calculative technologies. I like them because they require specialists. And because they require specialists we get fewer idiots claiming they know what they’re talking about. why isn’t public speech in politics regulated as highly as a series seven license for example? Or a Legal License? Or a medical license? Are you saying that the construction of commons by political mans, backed by violence, is somehow less dangerous or open to misuse than financial predation, legal predation, or medical predation? Why is it so hard to imagine a world in which a journalist, in order to publish content for money, would have to be able to write in propertarian language, a propertarian argument, defending his or her position, even if summarizing that argument in an abstract? Why is it so hard for a politician to do the same? Why can we ship s—t arguments into the commons?
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The Evolution of Martial Truth and Religious Lies
THE EVOLUTION OF TRUTH “Reporting” (evidence) …. Oath of Warriors …. …. Oath to Tribe (Passage) …. …. …. Oath before jury and judge …. …. …. …. Oath before senate and thang …. …. …. …. …. Records,Accounts, Contracts, Law, Architecture …. …. …. …. …. …. Greek Math, Reason and philosophy …. …. …. …. …. …. …. Roman law, engineering, accounting …. …. …. …. …. …. …. …. European Science …. …. …. …. …. …. …. …. …. European “Operationalism” (Complete) Science THE EVOLUTION OF LYING: Wisdom Literature > …. Scriptural (Authoritarian) LIterature > …. …. Pilpul (Jewish Priests) > …. …. …. Hermeneutics (All cults) > …. …. …. …. Ideal Rationalism (Plato Aquinas) > …. …. …. …. …. Legal Rationalism (everywhere)> …. …. …. …. …. …. Kantian Rationalism (europe) > …. …. …. …. …. …. …. Marxist Rationalism (spread fast)> …. …. …. …. …. …. …. …. Rothbardian Rationalism > …. …. …. …. …. …. …. …. Postmodern Pseudo-Rationalism > …. …. …. …. …. …. …. …. Postmodern Pseudoscience. …. …. …. …. …. …. …. …. Postmodern / Feminist Lying
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The Evolution of Martial Truth and Religious Lies
THE EVOLUTION OF TRUTH “Reporting” (evidence) …. Oath of Warriors …. …. Oath to Tribe (Passage) …. …. …. Oath before jury and judge …. …. …. …. Oath before senate and thang …. …. …. …. …. Records,Accounts, Contracts, Law, Architecture …. …. …. …. …. …. Greek Math, Reason and philosophy …. …. …. …. …. …. …. Roman law, engineering, accounting …. …. …. …. …. …. …. …. European Science …. …. …. …. …. …. …. …. …. European “Operationalism” (Complete) Science THE EVOLUTION OF LYING: Wisdom Literature > …. Scriptural (Authoritarian) LIterature > …. …. Pilpul (Jewish Priests) > …. …. …. Hermeneutics (All cults) > …. …. …. …. Ideal Rationalism (Plato Aquinas) > …. …. …. …. …. Legal Rationalism (everywhere)> …. …. …. …. …. …. Kantian Rationalism (europe) > …. …. …. …. …. …. …. Marxist Rationalism (spread fast)> …. …. …. …. …. …. …. …. Rothbardian Rationalism > …. …. …. …. …. …. …. …. Postmodern Pseudo-Rationalism > …. …. …. …. …. …. …. …. Postmodern Pseudoscience. …. …. …. …. …. …. …. …. Postmodern / Feminist Lying
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Truth and Lies
TRUTH AND LIES All truth is very simple: Deflation and Full Accounting, and absence of suggestion by consequence. The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. All Lying is very simple: Conflation, and Partial Accounting, and Suggestion. No truth, a little truth, not enough truth to require a combination of self substitution and suggestion. The problem is that the transfer of meaning is conducted by the same method as lying – because its cheap and independent of prior knowledge in the audience. While at the same time the transfer of truthfulness (parsimony: deflated yet fully accounted), is expensive and dependent upon prior knowledge in the audience. We suggest by conflation of properties that assist in the formation of free associations, then we deflate until only the truthful associations remain. So you get an ‘aha’ moment, if you convey meaning, but then you deflate error from that meaning. Or, as popper said, you cast a really wide net to convey meaning, and then you have to filter out all the stuff you didn’t mean to catch.
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Truth and Lies
TRUTH AND LIES All truth is very simple: Deflation and Full Accounting, and absence of suggestion by consequence. The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. All Lying is very simple: Conflation, and Partial Accounting, and Suggestion. No truth, a little truth, not enough truth to require a combination of self substitution and suggestion. The problem is that the transfer of meaning is conducted by the same method as lying – because its cheap and independent of prior knowledge in the audience. While at the same time the transfer of truthfulness (parsimony: deflated yet fully accounted), is expensive and dependent upon prior knowledge in the audience. We suggest by conflation of properties that assist in the formation of free associations, then we deflate until only the truthful associations remain. So you get an ‘aha’ moment, if you convey meaning, but then you deflate error from that meaning. Or, as popper said, you cast a really wide net to convey meaning, and then you have to filter out all the stuff you didn’t mean to catch.
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Never try to fool your mother
Never try to fool your mother.
Source date (UTC): 2017-04-20 07:25:00 UTC