Theme: Incentives

FAME AND INTELLECTUAL INCENTIVES

We gain fame by inventing new tools.

We do not gain fame by inventing new prohibitions.

Maybe no one invented Propertarianism and Testimonialism before, because the central problems they faced were advancement of utility rather than constraint of falsehoods.

You can see Hibert didn’t understand his own arguments.

He doesn’t help us expand the knowledge of mathematics, he just tells us how to ensure that we haven’t erred.

But you know, the 20th century has a lot of pseudoscientific

If math is no longer correspondent, it is just a language game.

Or stated, if math is not used in measurement it is just a puzzle, not a problem.

While I am trying to create rule of law for heterogeneous polities, I am doing so largely by prohibiting falsehoods. The central problem we face today, is the conflict between authoritarian leftism of diverse polities, and egalitarian libertarianism of homogenous polities. Just as the enlightenment problem was one between the authoritarian state-church mysticism, and the egalitarian rational emergent middle classes. Just as the late roman problem was one between the totalitarian christians of the eastern empire, and the egalitarian stoics and pagans of the western empire. Just as between the establishment and the philosophers in athens. This battle seems never to end.

I have a vision of a future where Testimonialism is so fully integrated into our language, that the transformation from our current language is as monumental the transformations from mystical, to religious, to rational, probabilistic, and to scientific language.

At that point, no one remembers (or cares about) the invention of Testimonialism and Propertarianism. They live it every day. They care only about the constitution that makes government of a heterogeneous population possible.

If a man has a reason to not be remembered, I would love to not be remembered for that reason.