Theme: Predation

  • Evolutionary Origins of Moral Intuitions

    Humans are demonstrably amoral (both predatory and productive) as we see fit in the moment. If this was not true we would not need so many institutions to train people on the one hand; and manners, norms, traditions and laws to assist us in cooperating; and parents, neighbors, police, judges, generals and soldiers to insure those manners, norms, traditions, and laws. We feel (almost all of us) the instinct to lie/cheat/steal/kill, just as we feel (almost all of us) the instinct to tell the truth, to transact honestly, to avoid imposition of costs, and avoid harm. Just as we feel (almost all of us) the instinct to invest in future cooperation and engage in signaling. The simple truth is that we are so exceptional at creating manners, ethics, morals, traditions, laws and institutions of their defense, that it is almost always inadvisable to violate them rather than engage in productive cooperation, no matter how limited the value or returns on cooperation are to us. That evolution has provided us with the emotions of pride and fulfillment and shame and fear, when we demonstrate those moral and immoral actions, is simply evolution’s expansion of offspring-defense to the rest of the band, and tribe (now community). And the value of that expansion of that trait of kin-selection to what we call ‘morality’ is the result of nothing more than the danger of being outcast versus the (absurdly high) rewards of cooperation. Language evolved (it appears) to increase the (absurdly high) rewards of cooperation. The adage “many hands make light work” doesn’t include a metric, but Adam Smith gave us one: divsion of labor does not merely increase linearly, but logarithmically such that the labor of one person when spread to ten is on the order of ten THOUSAND times more productive. In simple terms the better your language(correspondence), the better your verbal ability (iq), the better your division of labor (institutions of property), ad the greater your suppression of free riding, parasitism and predation (crime), the faster you will produce, the more calories you will capture in relation to output, and the more offspring you can afford, the more advanced tools and weapons you can produce. Hence why tolerance for milk (40% increase in calories form the same production) plus horse+wheel+plus bronze), allowed a small population north of the black sea to spread from spain to china. ANd why guns, germs, steel, law, and accounting allowed a small population to rapidly rule and transform the world. The primary problem is that we wish to remain children with a steady state and little stress, when it is the continuous conquest of stresses that provides evolutionary adaptation and innovation. In other words, our moral sensations are evolutionarily correct, but our work sensations are evolutionarily counter-productive. You cannot save your way out of poverty, nor avoid work your way into prosperity.

  • EVOLUTIONARY ORIGINS OF MORAL INTUITIONS Humans are demonstrably amoral (both pr

    EVOLUTIONARY ORIGINS OF MORAL INTUITIONS

    Humans are demonstrably amoral (both predatory and productive) as we see fit in the moment. If this was not true we would not need so many… https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=283467602250137&id=100017606988153


    Source date (UTC): 2018-08-21 18:34:36 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1031972855725088769

  • EVOLUTIONARY ORIGINS OF MORAL INTUITIONS Humans are demonstrably amoral (both pr

    EVOLUTIONARY ORIGINS OF MORAL INTUITIONS

    Humans are demonstrably amoral (both predatory and productive) as we see fit in the moment. If this was not true we would not need so many institutions to train people on the one hand; and manners, norms, traditions and laws to assist us in cooperating; and parents, neighbors, police, judges, generals and soldiers to insure those manners, norms, traditions, and laws.

    We feel (almost all of us) the instinct to lie/cheat/steal/kill, just as we feel (almost all of us) the instinct to tell the truth, to transact honestly, to avoid imposition of costs, and avoid harm. Just as we feel (almost all of us) the instinct to invest in future cooperation and engage in signaling.

    The simple truth is that we are so exceptional at creating manners, ethics, morals, traditions, laws and institutions of their defense, that it is almost always inadvisable to violate them rather than engage in productive cooperation, no matter how limited the value or returns on cooperation are to us.

    That evolution has provided us with the emotions of pride and fulfillment and shame and fear, when we demonstrate those moral and immoral actions, is simply evolution’s expansion of offspring-defense to the rest of the band, and tribe (now community).

    And the value of that expansion of that trait of kin-selection to what we call ‘morality’ is the result of nothing more than the danger of being outcast versus the (absurdly high) rewards of cooperation.

    Language evolved (it appears) to increase the (absurdly high) rewards of cooperation.

    The adage “many hands make light work” doesn’t include a metric, but Adam Smith gave us one: divsion of labor does not merely increase linearly, but logarithmically such that the labor of one person when spread to ten is on the order of ten THOUSAND times more productive.

    In simple terms the better your language(correspondence), the better your verbal ability (iq), the better your division of labor (institutions of property), ad the greater your suppression of free riding, parasitism and predation (crime), the faster you will produce, the more calories you will capture in relation to output, and the more offspring you can afford, the more advanced tools and weapons you can produce.

    Hence why tolerance for milk (40% increase in calories form the same production) plus horse+wheel+plus bronze), allowed a small population north of the black sea to spread from spain to china.

    ANd why guns, germs, steel, law, and accounting allowed a small population to rapidly rule and transform the world.

    The primary problem is that we wish to remain children with a steady state and little stress, when it is the continuous conquest of stresses that provides evolutionary adaptation and innovation.

    In other words, our moral sensations are evolutionarily correct, but our work sensations are evolutionarily counter-productive. You cannot save your way out of poverty, nor avoid work your way into prosperity.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-08-21 14:34:00 UTC

  • Spring Eli Harman Quotes

    –If my ancestors did anything bad to yours, the fact that you’re complaining about it just means it wasn’t bad enough. It’s never too late to rectify their oversight…– –Crimes of a genocidal nature we will punish with death, not just of the perpetrator, but of everyone related to the perpetrator. It’s the only way to reciprocate.– —“A few grams of lead, administered fast enough, will cure most addictions.”—Eli Harman —“People have lost sight of the origin and purpose of tolerance and secularism, to reduce conflict between parties willing to reciprocate a minimum level of basic respect, and have universalized it into an absolute principle. But all principles are valid only within limits.”— Eli Harman —The “tolerance” ideology is actually just gussied up intolerance rooted in hatred. This is obvious from the fact that “tolerance” is extended only to certain, protected, categories and denied to select others, whom this one-way “tolerance” is merely a weapon against. Whites must tolerate non whites. Men must tolerate women. Straights must tolerate gays. But the reverse is never true. Nobody ever need tolerate straight white males, and we may be punished and excluded with impunity, according to this ideology, which originates in hatred and envy directed specifically at us and aimed at our destruction. And while our enemies virtue signal about “love” (meaning their hate) conquering “intolerance” (meaning normalcy, virtue, tradition, homogeneity, borders, Eugenia, and everything else worthy and good) we know that the only thing which can beat genuine intolerance is even more intolerance…— —“Understanding is hard. Obedience is easy. This is partially reversed if you’re autistic, but probably not fully.”— Ely Harman —“It’s only worthwhile to argue equality from a position of inferiority.”—Ely Harman —If resources (power, territory, capital, subject population) are being mismanaged, then entrepreneurs of violence can profit by taking them over and putting them to more productive or sustainable uses.–Eli Harman —“Appeasement is not a winning strategy.”— Ely Harman —“Paganism is the monarchy and aristocracy of the gods. The intertemporal model we seek to both emulate and avoid the hubris of.”– Eli Harman —“Permissiveness and promiscuity haven’t done anything good for Western societies. We’ve just been able to afford more of them by spending down capital accumulated through past repression.”— Ely Harman —“Postmodernism is the 5th Abrahamic revolt against Western Reason, Empiricism, Aristocracy, and Eugenia – their ongoing struggle to drag humanity back into ignorance, poverty, disease, filth, parasitism and superstition:. The 1st, Judaism; 2nd Christianity; 3rd, Islam; 4th, classical, Marxist, pseudoscientific, Socialism; 5th, Postmodern, cultural Marxist, critical theory and intersectional socialism.” — Eli Harman —“The inescapable, inexorable, distributed dictatorship of free men…”—Ely Harman —“Incremental Suppression is a marginal approach to enforcement, a bologna slice strategy. If you are powerful, you identify the most egregious instances of violation and go after those first, working your way down the list until it’s no longer worth the cost. If you are not powerful, you identify the violators within your reach and begin suppressing them, working your way outward as your power grows and your enemies’ diminish.” —- Ely Harman —“Nobody makes it off this world alive. We differ mainly in how many assholes we take with us. So be a high-scoring hero. Don’t be a low-scoring chump – or worse still, a no scoring zero.”— Eli Harman —“The 2nd Amendment isn’t written with pen and ink on paper, but with fire and fury in the hearts and souls of men and with lead and blood in the dust of the ground.”— Ely Harman      

  • Spring Eli Harman Quotes

    –If my ancestors did anything bad to yours, the fact that you’re complaining about it just means it wasn’t bad enough. It’s never too late to rectify their oversight…– –Crimes of a genocidal nature we will punish with death, not just of the perpetrator, but of everyone related to the perpetrator. It’s the only way to reciprocate.– —“A few grams of lead, administered fast enough, will cure most addictions.”—Eli Harman —“People have lost sight of the origin and purpose of tolerance and secularism, to reduce conflict between parties willing to reciprocate a minimum level of basic respect, and have universalized it into an absolute principle. But all principles are valid only within limits.”— Eli Harman —The “tolerance” ideology is actually just gussied up intolerance rooted in hatred. This is obvious from the fact that “tolerance” is extended only to certain, protected, categories and denied to select others, whom this one-way “tolerance” is merely a weapon against. Whites must tolerate non whites. Men must tolerate women. Straights must tolerate gays. But the reverse is never true. Nobody ever need tolerate straight white males, and we may be punished and excluded with impunity, according to this ideology, which originates in hatred and envy directed specifically at us and aimed at our destruction. And while our enemies virtue signal about “love” (meaning their hate) conquering “intolerance” (meaning normalcy, virtue, tradition, homogeneity, borders, Eugenia, and everything else worthy and good) we know that the only thing which can beat genuine intolerance is even more intolerance…— —“Understanding is hard. Obedience is easy. This is partially reversed if you’re autistic, but probably not fully.”— Ely Harman —“It’s only worthwhile to argue equality from a position of inferiority.”—Ely Harman —If resources (power, territory, capital, subject population) are being mismanaged, then entrepreneurs of violence can profit by taking them over and putting them to more productive or sustainable uses.–Eli Harman —“Appeasement is not a winning strategy.”— Ely Harman —“Paganism is the monarchy and aristocracy of the gods. The intertemporal model we seek to both emulate and avoid the hubris of.”– Eli Harman —“Permissiveness and promiscuity haven’t done anything good for Western societies. We’ve just been able to afford more of them by spending down capital accumulated through past repression.”— Ely Harman —“Postmodernism is the 5th Abrahamic revolt against Western Reason, Empiricism, Aristocracy, and Eugenia – their ongoing struggle to drag humanity back into ignorance, poverty, disease, filth, parasitism and superstition:. The 1st, Judaism; 2nd Christianity; 3rd, Islam; 4th, classical, Marxist, pseudoscientific, Socialism; 5th, Postmodern, cultural Marxist, critical theory and intersectional socialism.” — Eli Harman —“The inescapable, inexorable, distributed dictatorship of free men…”—Ely Harman —“Incremental Suppression is a marginal approach to enforcement, a bologna slice strategy. If you are powerful, you identify the most egregious instances of violation and go after those first, working your way down the list until it’s no longer worth the cost. If you are not powerful, you identify the violators within your reach and begin suppressing them, working your way outward as your power grows and your enemies’ diminish.” —- Ely Harman —“Nobody makes it off this world alive. We differ mainly in how many assholes we take with us. So be a high-scoring hero. Don’t be a low-scoring chump – or worse still, a no scoring zero.”— Eli Harman —“The 2nd Amendment isn’t written with pen and ink on paper, but with fire and fury in the hearts and souls of men and with lead and blood in the dust of the ground.”— Ely Harman      

  • Look at the faces of the Antifa Left and the Nationalist Right. It’s nothing mor

    Look at the faces of the Antifa Left and the Nationalist Right. It’s nothing more than class warfare.The media, academy, state and underclass rent seekers, against the working/middle classes producers. The Top and Bottom against the middle. So Revolution Comes. #UniteTheRight


    Source date (UTC): 2018-08-12 16:22:06 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1028678020868042753

  • The study of history tells us all empires collapse for the same reasons: overext

    The study of history tells us all empires collapse for the same reasons: overextension, demographics, and raiding. However, in our case we are most similar to Rome (policing trade to obtain discounts) and less similar to the British (colonies and extraction to obtain premiums).


    Source date (UTC): 2018-08-11 17:10:21 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1028327774103261185

    Reply addressees: @dagmar_schmitt

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1028326558824464384


    IN REPLY TO:

    @GudistGrug

    @curtdoolittle Which historical empire collapse do you see as most similar to our current situation? Mongols? Rome? Hapsburg’s? Something else? Or are we so different nothing is really analogous?

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1028326558824464384

  • the relations Different from, superior to, inferior to; and reciprocal, parasiti

    the relations Different from, superior to, inferior to; and reciprocal, parasitic, and predatory are empirically, logically, and operationally testable – whether we like it or not.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-08-08 00:37:56 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1026990862922903552

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    photos_and_videos/TimelinePhotos_dJ9jhts2Ng/38679659_270690276861203_6526544612654317568_o_270690273527870.jpg MILITARY SERVICE: INVESTMENT IN THE COMMONS VS PARASITISM UPON IT

    —“The parts of the country that are the most liberal are pulling the least weight with regard to military service. This has exponential effects, in that over time, as liberals do not take part in military service, the military becomes more conservative not through any movivated action of corruption by conservatives, but to liberals as a group electing not to serve, a fact which makes many, many conservatives very bitter to this day.”—

    —“…most of the people in the military still come from lower middle and working class homes, and primarily from small towns. This is not to mention a major portion of the military coming from the the South with an awkward silence from wealthy New England states and the Midwest.”—

    As I have said, the difference is largely in the scale of commons that one defends, and that commons is the inverse of population density.

    What this map doesn’t tell you directly, is that the military is predominantly anglo-scotts-irish and that the germans do not serve in proportion to their territorial power. Which is not what you’d expect. But it’s true.

    **Most of the military comes from lower middle and working class homes, and primarily from small towns.**

    (The people I feel are underserved, yet most moral of all.)

    This is where one ‘recruits’ the revolution.MILITARY SERVICE: INVESTMENT IN THE COMMONS VS PARASITISM UPON IT

    —“The parts of the country that are the most liberal are pulling the least weight with regard to military service. This has exponential effects, in that over time, as liberals do not take part in military service, the military becomes more conservative not through any movivated action of corruption by conservatives, but to liberals as a group electing not to serve, a fact which makes many, many conservatives very bitter to this day.”—

    —“…most of the people in the military still come from lower middle and working class homes, and primarily from small towns. This is not to mention a major portion of the military coming from the the South with an awkward silence from wealthy New England states and the Midwest.”—

    As I have said, the difference is largely in the scale of commons that one defends, and that commons is the inverse of population density.

    What this map doesn’t tell you directly, is that the military is predominantly anglo-scotts-irish and that the germans do not serve in proportion to their territorial power. Which is not what you’d expect. But it’s true.

    **Most of the military comes from lower middle and working class homes, and primarily from small towns.**

    (The people I feel are underserved, yet most moral of all.)

    This is where one ‘recruits’ the revolution.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-08-07 13:56:00 UTC

  • There Can Be No Hypocracy in Postmodernism

    by Austyn Pember There is no hypocrisy – only strategies of deceit for self-interest: – The left is not hypocritical. They set up or use your moral framework as a tool against you. Whatever moral justification they are using to have their interests met is just a practical strategy of achieving said interests. they do not believe in truth, reciprocity, principle, reason, or science – only power. – When they say “you are a racist,” they are using your moral guilt about that principle against you. They don’t actually adhere to the premise that ‘racism is bad’. It’s only that they don’t want yourself or your demographic resisting against the thing they are championing or demographic they are aligning themselves with – they do not believe in truth, reciprocity, principle, reason, or science – only power. This can be shown when they are perfectly fine with ‘racism’ against whites, like the latest NYT editor. ALL VIOLATION OF RECIPROCITY VIOLATES NATURAL LAW – AND ALL VIOLATION OF NATURAL LAW GRANTS LICENSE AND AUTHORITY FOR THE USE OF EXTRA-LEGAL ACTION.