—“Popularity is not an antidote to deception. … Truth and violence are.”–Christopher Bates
Source date (UTC): 2015-04-13 15:26:00 UTC
Theme: Deception
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More politicians should take acting lessons. If only to make it more tolerable t
More politicians should take acting lessons. If only to make it more tolerable to listen to them.
Source date (UTC): 2015-04-08 05:49:00 UTC
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RATIONALISM – INTERNALLY CONSISTENT ANALOGY – IS AN EXEPTIONAL MEANS OF DECEIT.
RATIONALISM – INTERNALLY CONSISTENT ANALOGY – IS AN EXEPTIONAL MEANS OF DECEIT. HERE IS WHY.
(from elsewhere)
The use of invocation by analogy, allows us to conflate the perspectives of imagination, experience, action, and observation, such that we cause substitution of relations, and the pretense of existence, because we require substitution, to compensate for the conflation – which as a consequence allows us to use suggestion, loading, framing, and overloading.
The reason science (truth-telling) has defeated rationalism(story-telling), is the requirement for operational definitions, and therefore the mandate for perspective that is free of imagination, analogy, loading, framing, overloading; and as such, free of suggestion.
Now, our cognitive biases, and our moral biases perform suggestion for us. So it is not necessarily that we intend to deceive by analogy, substitution, loading, framing, overloading, and suggestion. We often have little choice. Our genetic and learned intuitions drive us to justify our strategies.
So even when we practice critical reasoning we are engaging in justification – because critical reasoning is an advantage for us. It just so happens that for some of us truth is an advantage, and for many others it is a disadvantage. Individual and group strategies often depend upon useful falsehoods.
The minimum reducible statement is something on the order of “Operations are names, not analogies, and as such the informational content of names is complete.”
Source date (UTC): 2015-04-08 03:22:00 UTC
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LIE BY ANALOGY One can lie easily using analogies. It is extremely difficult to
LIE BY ANALOGY
One can lie easily using analogies. It is extremely difficult to lie using operational language. That is why science requires operational definitions. Whenever someone makes a statement about ‘law’ and rule of law, it is helpful to ascertain whether the person is engaged in deceit, by questioning whether he is talking about law, contractual provision, command, or permission.
Humans evolved cooperation from non-cooperation because it was an unequalled multiplier in the production of calories, and concentration of calories in expensive offspring. But as soon as one develops cooperation one invites free riding (parasitism). The prevention of free riding is necessary for the preservation of cooperation – otherwise cooperation is irrational and counter-productive. Without the prevention of free riding, and without aggressive punishment of free riders – from the lazy family member to the aggressive alpha, to the predatory competitor – people cease to cooperate, and must cease to cooperate. And productivity declines accordingly. And trust declines accordingly. And economic velocity declines accordingly. And violence theft, fraud, free riding, and rent seeking and corruption and conspiracy – including political conspiracy at scale, and bureaucratic conspiracy of common malincentives expand to the point of equilibrium.
We either possess rule of law: constraint, without exception, or discretion, or conversely, independence from discretion in matters of involuntary transfer – or we do not.
Rule of law is not a mater of opinion. It is either true or not true.
Source date (UTC): 2015-04-08 03:20:00 UTC
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IMMORAL DECEITS MUST BE CAST ASIDE. WE MUST PROVIDE PEOPLE WITH INCENTIVES TO CO
IMMORAL DECEITS MUST BE CAST ASIDE. WE MUST PROVIDE PEOPLE WITH INCENTIVES TO CONSTRUCT THE VOLUNTARY ORGANIZATION OF PRODUCTION
(important sketch)(capitalism)(efficient uses of capital)
There are many more empirically efficient allocations of capital at any given moment. But there are not necessarily more efficient allocations of incentives. Since the voluntary organization of production requires an efficient allocation of incentives, then the maximum efficiency of any allocation of capital, is one in which we produce the widest distribution of incentives. The reason being that the construction of the voluntary organization of production that we call capitalism is not (as libertarians fantasize) natural behavior or rational choice, whatsoever. People must be provided with incentives to voluntarily organize production.
This means that the entire cosmopolitan fantasy promoted by Rothbard on one side, and Soros on the other, and other advocates of immorality like Walter Block, is a justification. The most efficient use of capital is that in which the population is incentivized to construct and preserve the foundation of the economy: the voluntary organization of production.
And so we seek a Pareto optimum between incentives to produce the voluntary order, and the efficiency of capital allocation in production within that voluntary order. And any increase in capital efficiency that produces a decrease in incentives is actually destructive.
In Propertarianism I have tried to demonstrate that if people cannot join the market for production, that we must compensate them for the work of constructing the voluntary organization of production that makes the high productivity, high trust, high velocity and low friction under the voluntary organization of production possible.
From this perspective, most rothbardian thought, like most cosmopolitan thought, is merely an elaborate obscurant art of fraud for the purpose of declaring without cost, that which is hugely expensive: high trust, high velocity, and the voluntary organization of production.
If you understand this you will abandon libertinism (cosmopolitan libertarianism) and revert to aristocratic libertarianism (classical liberalism). Because we had it right. We did. But the American Neo-Puritans put a dent in it, women put a hole in it, and Jews and Catholics made a fissure out of it.
Thankfully it isn’t impossible to fix: truth telling is enough.
Source date (UTC): 2015-04-08 02:38:00 UTC
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EXPERIENCE WITH INTENTIONAL IMMORALITY IN BUSINESS (worth repeating) Before I ha
EXPERIENCE WITH INTENTIONAL IMMORALITY IN BUSINESS
(worth repeating)
Before I had my personal moral reformation, and rejection of what I learned in university, I considered going into the private espionage business. (Such business does exist, and is totally above board when it is used to uncover illegal activity. You can hire security firms that have specialized groups that perform the work legally.)
After working with the Koenigs, the Golubs and the Seminoffs (all descendants of Russian jews) and filing racketeering charges against the Koenigs, turning the Golobs in to the justice department for wire fraud, and turning Seminoff in for Tax Evasion and Fraud, it seemed like I was making a career out of stumbling into illegal financial activity, and I might as well take the moral high ground.
Instead, I did the opposite, which was to search for only moral people to work with, and avoid the scumbags entirely. It was a good personal decision. But the awareness of how damned evil some people were never left me. And I always felt that my moral business partners were naive idiots that I had to make sure didn’t hurt themselves or me. (I failed by the way.)
I used to tell these stories to everyone. I don’t anymore. I prefer to focus on the positives. But there is a whole world of shitty people out there using every financial and legal scam in the book to hook crook and steal from others. And you would be surprised that that list includes some of the most prestigious legal firms in america with whom I have sat on boards, and listened to explicit instructions on how to get away with theft.
My ancestors were puritans and I suspect that it’s a genetic bias. But I have come to detest the institutionalization of immorality imposed on my people during the 20th century.
And so I am fighting back at grand scale.
Source date (UTC): 2015-04-08 02:23:00 UTC
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Brad DeLong and Paul Krugman and Their Anti-Science Economics
I would counter, as I have since 2009, that you and your intellectual kindred fail to grasp that politics is moral not merely empirical. That humans are tribalists not universalists. That universalism suits the interests of the academy’s revenues, but not the interests of all polities. The human morality is roughly translatable into a prohibition on free riding. And that under plenty, humans share excess in exchange for status, and under duress humans punish free riders.What you have seen in the great recession is a evidence of moral expression that will always exist under democratic polities that are able to express moral instincts. Under the great recession we are punishing free riders built up under the era of plenty.
You may call this irrational. But the use of this moral intuition is doing precisely what those who carry that instinct intuit that it should: punishing free riders – even and extreme personal expense. The middle class votes against its material interests out of altruistic punishment of free riders.
Until we find an institutional means of controlling free riding, we will continue to see this behavior in high-trust high-altruistic-punishment societies. And it is only high trust high altruistic punishment societies that matter. Because they are always the only societies with wealth to distribute. Since those societies are the only ones that produce excesses.
I will not live long enough I think, to restore morality to economics. But at some point someone will. Because good economics is empirical. And empirically – humans do, and must, act morally. And morality is a synonym for the prohibition on free riding.
Democracy is incompatible with your interpretation of ‘good’ economics. And economics without morality is not scientific, but ideological and dysgenic.
Curt Doolittle
The Propertarian Institute
Kiev, Ukraine. -
Brad DeLong and Paul Krugman and Their Anti-Science Economics
I would counter, as I have since 2009, that you and your intellectual kindred fail to grasp that politics is moral not merely empirical. That humans are tribalists not universalists. That universalism suits the interests of the academy’s revenues, but not the interests of all polities. The human morality is roughly translatable into a prohibition on free riding. And that under plenty, humans share excess in exchange for status, and under duress humans punish free riders.What you have seen in the great recession is a evidence of moral expression that will always exist under democratic polities that are able to express moral instincts. Under the great recession we are punishing free riders built up under the era of plenty.
You may call this irrational. But the use of this moral intuition is doing precisely what those who carry that instinct intuit that it should: punishing free riders – even and extreme personal expense. The middle class votes against its material interests out of altruistic punishment of free riders.
Until we find an institutional means of controlling free riding, we will continue to see this behavior in high-trust high-altruistic-punishment societies. And it is only high trust high altruistic punishment societies that matter. Because they are always the only societies with wealth to distribute. Since those societies are the only ones that produce excesses.
I will not live long enough I think, to restore morality to economics. But at some point someone will. Because good economics is empirical. And empirically – humans do, and must, act morally. And morality is a synonym for the prohibition on free riding.
Democracy is incompatible with your interpretation of ‘good’ economics. And economics without morality is not scientific, but ideological and dysgenic.
Curt Doolittle
The Propertarian Institute
Kiev, Ukraine. -
Can we get a facebook label for ‘Russian Troll”?
Can we get a facebook label for ‘Russian Troll”?
Source date (UTC): 2015-04-04 03:53:00 UTC
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FOR RUSSIA’S TROLL ARMY
http://gizmodo.com/what-its-like-to-work-for-putins-internet-troll-army-1695391818WORKING FOR RUSSIA’S TROLL ARMY
Source date (UTC): 2015-04-03 16:29:00 UTC