I love kids in this part of the world. They aren’t attention starved. They don’t have this urgent almost panicked need for mommy and daddy to provide boundaries and information. Not as good as Austria (my favorite). But still wonderful.
Source date (UTC): 2016-01-10 03:30:00 UTC
REASONS TO ARGUE WITH “AMATEURS” ON THE WEB.
There are two reasons to conduct arguments in forums, or their long history of ancestors back to Newsgroups, CompuServe, bulletin boards, and newsletters.
First is to learn how to defeat BAD arguments made by amateurs. Primarily because the mass of political voters in this world are amateurs.
Second to understand the psychology of those who engage in sentimental rather than informed arguments.
What you learn is that many men cannot argue from a position of weakness by simply asking questions. And that many young men in particular who feel outcast, hold to rationalist status seeking life rafts like rats in a sinking ship.
So what you eventually come to understand, is that (a) it’s a combative way of learning for some who do not have access to quality teachers, professors, or the ability to digest written material. And (b) a combative way of getting attention on the other, from those who feel alienated. And lastly (c) a way to develop skill debating amateurs.
I have a great deal of respect for the latter use, and used it myself. It is a great way to learn to conduct verbal sparring, and to learn all the logical fallacies that amateurs depend upon.
I like to help individuals who need access to someone informed due to their inability to make a connection during their education. I see this as something between a moral obligation and a public service. Men are not treated well by our feminized education system.
But I don’t like to waste my time on the borderline schizotypal personalities or those who merely want attention.
Cheers
Source date (UTC): 2016-01-08 11:29:00 UTC
[I]gnorance isn’t a criticism. (Instead, say “I don’t know that subject”.) Lack of understanding isn’t a criticism. (Instead, say “I don’t understand”.) Difficulty in learning isn’t a criticism. (Instead say “this is hard, so I don’t understand.”) Falsification of meaning isn’t falsification of a central argument is a criticism. (instead say “I don’t think the example supports the theory”) Falsification requires you both understand and can falsify a central argument. (the theory). Like the wise man says: in any technical field people will say “I don’t know”. Btu when we talk of epistemology, ethics, morality, politics and economics, for some reason the average idiot has a vested interest in his nonsense opinion. Now, this is rational because we must make use of epistemology, ethics, morality and politics, while we probably do not need to make use of other disciplines. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t exhausting.
[I]gnorance isn’t a criticism. (Instead, say “I don’t know that subject”.) Lack of understanding isn’t a criticism. (Instead, say “I don’t understand”.) Difficulty in learning isn’t a criticism. (Instead say “this is hard, so I don’t understand.”) Falsification of meaning isn’t falsification of a central argument is a criticism. (instead say “I don’t think the example supports the theory”) Falsification requires you both understand and can falsify a central argument. (the theory). Like the wise man says: in any technical field people will say “I don’t know”. Btu when we talk of epistemology, ethics, morality, politics and economics, for some reason the average idiot has a vested interest in his nonsense opinion. Now, this is rational because we must make use of epistemology, ethics, morality and politics, while we probably do not need to make use of other disciplines. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t exhausting.
Ignorance isn’t a criticism.
(Instead, say “I don’t know that subject”.)
Lack of understanding isn’t a criticism.
(Instead, say “I don’t understand”.)
Difficulty in learning isn’t a criticism.
(Instead say “this is hard, so I don’t understand.”)
Falsification of meaning isn’t falsification of a central argument is a criticism.
(instead say “I don’t think the example supports the theory”)
Falsification requires you both understand and can falsify a central argument. (the theory).
Like the wise man says: in any technical field people will say “I don’t know”. Btu when we talk of epistemology, ethics, morality, politics and economics, for some reason the average idiot has a vested interest in his nonsense opinion.
Now, this is rational because we must make use of epistemology, ethics, morality and politics, while we probably do not need to make use of other disciplines.
But that doesn’t mean it isn’t exhausting.
Source date (UTC): 2016-01-05 08:59:00 UTC
MORE AND MORE AND MORE OF THE SAME
Simple trick to making a healthy happy child: No matter what, always display joy when you see them. Approval provides security and security creates love. Love creates patience, reciprocity, and understanding.
Teach them patience with interruptions. Children should not think they are more important than adults. But do not carry on nonsense conversation at the expense of your children’s time. And do not let children interrupt you with nonsense at the expense of your opposite’s time.
Never white-lie to your kids. I am very cautious with promises. I have a whole artful language to avoiding them. Maybe must mean maybe. I don’t know must mean I don’t know. Yes must mean yes. Promise must mean promise. Threat must mean punishment. And the best answer to promise is to avoid ‘when’. I never promise when I will do anything. I don’t control that. I promise only that I will. This combination trains everyone to use the best behavior.
Source date (UTC): 2016-01-04 11:27:00 UTC
MORE AND MORE OF THE SAME
Your child will be far better adjusted if he or she has three or more siblings than anything else you can do to help him or her. Thats’ just how it is. Kids mostly need attention, not things. They need enough not to feel bad, not enough to feel better than others.
We should pay the productive to have kids and the unproductive not to.
Instead we do the opposite.
Source date (UTC): 2016-01-04 11:17:00 UTC
—“I did things like reading the encyclopedia for fun,”—Bill Gates
That’s the way it’s done kids.
Guaranteed results.
Little else needed. 🙂
Source date (UTC): 2016-01-03 05:55:00 UTC
Working on Oversing’s Introductory Video Scripts
Thinking about Culture Programs (team building).
Remembering the first significant software I wrote that monitored employee activity. The first thing I noticed was that some people lost energy around ten, then ‘crashed’ earlier in the day than others: about 2:00pm rather than 4:30pm. It was interesting. It took me a couple of days.
It was the smokers.
Should have been obvious.
Source date (UTC): 2015-12-27 10:26:00 UTC
IQ AND EUGENICS
As far as I know, there are something on the order of 80 different agencies that contribute to the experience we call ‘mind’.
As far as I know, and as far as the research seems to indicate, “G” or ‘general intelligence’ is an attempt to measure DEMONSTRATED intelligence, when it was found (and still remains) that people who did better on intelligence tests, do better in every dimension of testing, and also, in every dimension of LIFE.
Now Aggregates (Averages), are necessary for us to make general statements, but aggregates launder interesting noise. So while it may be true that people with higher general intelligence excel at pretty much everything, that does not ALWAYS mean that some people are capable in niche functions of which there are 80. However, what appears to be the case, is that IQ reflects DEMONSTRATED intelligence remains very consistent in all walks of life.
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF OBJECTIONS
Most of what we see from objections to IQ are either differences in rates of maturity (girls feel smarter than boys at certain points in development because they mature faster), Dunning-Krueger effects (which are optimistic biases necessary for an acting organism’s survival), or fear demonstrations of denial, (“I will be left behind”), or solipsisms (inability to separate the self from general statements about humans – necessary for raising children). The people who practice denial are demonstrating fear and that is all.
Most of this problem in society comes from the transition of polytheistic individualism that seeks utility in the , to monotheistic, idealistic, collectivism that seeks sameness.
Hence my preference for market government and polytheistic orders, so that each of us feels good finding a niche rather than feel bad if we are not the top 10% in our class.
THE VALUE OF EUGENICS
As far as I can tell, the spatial (modeling), and verbal (observing, ordering and describing the the model), are sufficiently correlative with demonstrated intelligence that these two factors are accurate predictors of nearly all areas of life.
And those that are not, are due to patience and discipline – which is why westerners have and easterners have been so successful: culling the impulsive, and pressing discipline and patience into the lower classes which nearly always are a drag on society other than providing labor and serving as armies with which to hold land.
Eugenics can take positive (enhancement) or restrictive(limiting or prohibiting reproduction), or negative(culling by killing or hanging) strategies – or all of the above.
And it is probably the most important commons that we can construct.
Propertarianism: Since all ‘goods’ are known by exchange, my solution to the problem of eugenics is merely to do the opposite of what we do now: pay unproductive people not to have children, or to have only one child, and punish them if they do otherwise.
Source date (UTC): 2015-12-25 05:43:00 UTC