Simple solution: teachers must be separate from students they teach, by a generation, (ie:25 years).
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-05 01:49:00 UTC
Theme: Education
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RETURNING ARISTOCRACY, AND THEREFORE TRUTH, TO THE ACADEMY (worth repeating) My
RETURNING ARISTOCRACY, AND THEREFORE TRUTH, TO THE ACADEMY
(worth repeating)
My preference would be to teach War, Politics, Law, Economics, Finance, and Propertarian philosophy as a curriculum in all universities so that the Cathedral possessed internal competition. And it would restore male female balance to the Academy’s numbers of graduates.
I should add to that that in high school or in college, either one, we should restore, grammar, rhetoric and testimony.
if we taught grammar, rhetoric and testimony, within a generation that would restore western civilization.
“What color is the cube”
“From this angle I see two sides of the cube, and those two sides are white”
“So the cube is white”
“No, I cannot testify to that, I can only testify to seeing two sides of the house, and they are white”.
You see, warriors cannot add imaginary content to observations because people will die, or opportunities will be lost, if they do. So testimony evolved in the west out of the cult or raiders, and the rituals of initiatic warriors.
The truth is enough.
But only if people know the difference between observation and imagination.
Filling in the blanks is lying.
You don’t fill in the blanks. Because imagination contains bias.
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-03 05:08:00 UTC
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TEACHING US TO SPEAK THE TRUTH AGAIN To some degree, we are confused: the scient
TEACHING US TO SPEAK THE TRUTH AGAIN
To some degree, we are confused: the scientists developed the method of truthful speech out of necessity AND out of a lack of malincentives. The problem that other disciplines face is that either the externalities produced are somewhat limited, such as the use of mathematical platonism, or the incentives to lie are greater – far greater – than any incentive to tell the truth: such as in politics, law, advertising, the academy in general, or for public intellectuals.
So what we have done is created an asymmetry of incentives by our incorrect, inappropriate, and morally mistaken advocacy of free speech.
It is not that we must possess free speech, it is that we are prohibited from bringing a verbal, written, and conceptual product to the market for the consumption of ideas, without requiring that we warranty that good, in an attempt to insure that we do not harm ourselves through excessive warranty.
However the jury is in on this matter, and instead of spending two centuries defining truthful speech under the limits of law of warranty, we have spent two centuries learning how to improve our lies. And we have, as evidenced by the pseudoscientific efforts of the marxists, and pseudoscientists, and pseudo-rationalists, dramatically improved our ability to lie.
But since the cause of this continuous improvement of the technology of lying is something we know, and we know how to fix, then there is little stopping us from fixing it.
All we need to do is return to treating speech as a product and the commons as property, and one may not pollute the commons any more than one may pollute the land.
It will take very little time, less than two generations, to teach people to speak the truth again.
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-02 07:18:00 UTC
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(I never did homework that I couldn’t do in class. I never took notes. I never s
(I never did homework that I couldn’t do in class. I never took notes. I never studied. I read books. I listened. I answered questions. It’s actually anarchistic temperament: I am uninterested in your evaluation of me, I am only interested in my evaluation of my improvement from yesterday to today, and that I make that improvement every day. And my experience is that I make that improvement with or without you. So if you are a good and interesting speaker than you are making good use of my time, and if not then you are not. I chose college classes by the textbooks the professors chose. I read the textbooks for all my classes by the end of the first week of class. I usually lost interest in the class within the first third of its duration. Just how it is. I read. Reading is enough. reading a lot defeats practice on any memorization or any rule. Read more, exercise more, teach less.)
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-01 03:38:00 UTC
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Rather than seek approval or consent, offer support, kindness, affection, love,
Rather than seek approval or consent, offer support, kindness, affection, love, and education to fellow moral men. Never cede control to the immoral – which is what asking, begging, working for, approval and consent give him. Instead, spend your efforts on the true, good and beautiful. Never compromise or suffer the immoral, unethical, the deceitful, and the fool. Merely defeat, conquer, punish and ostracize the wicked.
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-28 02:07:00 UTC
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Rather than seek approval or consent, offer support, kindness, affection, love,
Rather than seek approval or consent, offer support, kindness, affection, love, and education to fellow victors. Never cede control to the immoral – which is what approval and consent give him. Spend your efforts on the true, good and beautiful. Never compromise or suffer the immoral, unethical, the deceitful, and the fool. Merely conquer, punish and ostracize the wicked.
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-27 08:03:00 UTC
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Val told me that I have improved in the past six months, but I want to turn that
Val told me that I have improved in the past six months, but I want to turn that around and suggest that if you randomly selected twenty posts from each member of this group a year ago and compared them to the last twenty they have made – particularly in the past three weeks – you would notice dramatic improvements in the sentence structure, informational density, length, analytic content, empirical references, and sheer confidence of each writer. What were expressions of criticism or advocacy have evolved into arguments.
It’s moving. Spiritually.
100 is all we need.
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-26 07:57:00 UTC
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ETHICS: THE RIDER SERVES THE ELEPHANT —“Nobody is ever going to invent an ethi
ETHICS: THE RIDER SERVES THE ELEPHANT
—“Nobody is ever going to invent an ethics class that makes people behave ethically after they step out of the classroom. Classes are for riders, and riders are just going to use their new knowledge to serve their elephants more effectively. “— Jonathan Haidt.
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-21 20:35:00 UTC
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EDUCATION: CUNNING VS MORAL The Perverse Incentives of the Academy. –“education
EDUCATION: CUNNING VS MORAL
The Perverse Incentives of the Academy.
–“education makes one cunning, not wise, and not moral”–
I was kind of ‘moved’ by Michael Philip’s post today on the motives of members of the academy. It’s been bothering me all day because not only is it true, but I think it qualifies as a bias, and a formal bias at that. Or rather, I think status-biases are probably a category of cognitive bias that I (we) should investigate, document, expand upon, and communicate with some frequency. Because most of the progressive status signals are constructed of cognitive biases (falsehoods).
Cunning favors complexity. Dishonesty favors complexity. Speaking truthfully is in fact laborious – it requires a lot of effort. Speaking the truth however, is a very simple strategy, that requires very little cunning – maybe none at all. Because prohibiting the imposition of costs is a very simple rule. Voluntary exchange is a very simple rule. The rule of law under Propertarian Property Rights (Property-in-toto), is a very simple rule. That demand for the state will increase if their is a lag in the development of property rights, is a very simple rule. These are all very simple rules.
If all moral propositions are decidable, (under propertarian logic, they are), then there is no room for cunning, except to lie. I fact, cunning is a contrary indicator of truth, and of morality.
Yet cunning is such an attractive means of dominance display. For those of us trying to eliminate cunning, we can temporarily display dominance, but only in the art of refuting loading, framing, overloading and suggestion. And since I have no illusions that the incentives to construct complex lies via cunning verbalisms will ever disappear, then I suspect that the defense against cunning will always require wisdom and cunning.
So I have a new to-do, which is to enumerate the cognitive biases we fall victim to in the pursuit of status signals.
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-20 19:25:00 UTC
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WHY MUST STOICISM BE A CHOICE? Question: If one chooses a stoicism as personal p
WHY MUST STOICISM BE A CHOICE?
Question: If one chooses a stoicism as personal philosophy, or if one is pedagogically indoctrinated into stoic behaviors, why does it matter?
If what remains of stoic thought is largely personal, ethical, and tangentially political, versus metaphysical, pseudoscientific, or particularly rational, then why does it matter if it is the deliberate choice of a minority, or a formal institution imposed upon the majority?
Is it not the behaviors that produce beneficial ends? Is not much of any philosophical framework, mere justification for choosing it? Whereas the product of practicing the necessary disciplines, and adopting the suggested frames of reference, is that we produce beneficial ends whether we make a deliberate choice, or whether we are simply trained like we are trained in all systems of pedagogy: myth, tradition, norm, habit, and justification for them.
All cultures ‘train’ in one civic and personal philosophy or another – because all humans need a framework for decision making given their fragmentary knowledge and diverse abilities. Why should a stoic philosophy be imposed versus a secular humanist, or a buddhists, or a jewish, or a muslim, or even one of ‘scientism’?
Isn’t it a refutation of the value of any framework to claim that it must be chosen deliberately? In other words, are advocates lacking confidence or evidence that that practice of stoic behaviors will in fact produce a good life, a good society, and a good mankind?
(I have touched on this before but I am trying to ask the question a bit better this time.)
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-20 03:23:00 UTC