Oct 13, 2019, 10:34 AM by Martin Štěpán If your faith helps you behave according to natural law, whether your pantheon is Zeus/Jupiter and his family or Odin/Wodan and the Æsir or the Trinity, Mary and the saints, I will absolutely support it. But I’m unable to believe it even if I wanted to. Those of us significantly higher in systematizing than empathizing hardly ever can. But I can believe in natural law in itself because I see evidence of it all around me. That’s what I attribute all the beauty of creation to. And we both agree that our actions in this life will have consequences in the next. For believers, it might be the afterlife or reincarnation, for me, it will be the lives of my descendants, whereas I would consider each of my children half myself. Whichever you believe, or even if you believe neither, rule of law will incentivize the same behavior even without belief by ensuring that breaking the law won’t have consequences only in the next life but also in this one. Even the most extreme nihilists believe in pain. And it is the only way we can prevent ourselves from being the cause our end times and push them to the physical limits of our Universe.
Theme: Reciprocity
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Oct 14, 2019, 3:08 PM —“If one is profiting from the commons one must reciproc
Oct 14, 2019, 3:08 PM
—“If one is profiting from the commons one must reciprocate by being responsible to maintain the commons.”—Christopher Kilgore
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Oct 14, 2019, 3:08 PM —“If one is profiting from the commons one must reciproc
Oct 14, 2019, 3:08 PM
—“If one is profiting from the commons one must reciprocate by being responsible to maintain the commons.”—Christopher Kilgore
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It’s All Reciprocity … Extension of Physical Laws to Human Display Word and Deed
It’s All Reciprocity … Extension of Physical Laws to Human Display Word and Deed https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/27/its-all-reciprocity-extension-of-physical-laws-to-human-display-word-and-deed/
Source date (UTC): 2020-05-27 16:55:38 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1265688121930387456
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It’s All Reciprocity … Extension of Physical Laws to Human Display Word and Deed
Oct 17, 2019, 8:57 AM While the principal innovation of P is Testimonialism, truthful testimony is merely reciprocity in speech. Agency is only possible under reciprocity. Trust is only possible under Reciprocity. Eugenia is only possible under Reciprocity. The foundation of P, the Natural Law of Reciprocity – is of course, just reciprocity: limiting one’s display word and deed to the productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary transfers of demonstrated interests, free of imposition of costs upon the demonstrated interests of others by externality. So while the physical world is dependent upon entropy and it’s consequences in the laws of thermodynamics, life requires reciprocity across generations; and humans have memory and the ability to predict futures using it, and to act to seize opportunities from those predictions. But while cooperation is disproportionately productive (advantageous), and while we can trade debts, resulting in reciprocity over time, we can also consistently generate debts and live parasitically off others – until they retaliate (which they always do). Reciprocity breaks down through disintermediation that limits the ability to test whether the sum of debts and repayments result in a balance (reciprocity). And this is what the state has achieved in all walks of life under pursuit of equality. But the result has been reversal of the universalization of middle class manners ethics and morals, and the reversal of underclass eugenics. Humans can, through life, defeat entropy, and through productivity, continue to defeat it, despite our increasingly costly brains; but reverse that existence through the continuous production of debt (parasitism) rather than reciprocity (mutually beneficial production), and continuous eugenics.
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It’s All Reciprocity … Extension of Physical Laws to Human Display Word and Deed
Oct 17, 2019, 8:57 AM While the principal innovation of P is Testimonialism, truthful testimony is merely reciprocity in speech. Agency is only possible under reciprocity. Trust is only possible under Reciprocity. Eugenia is only possible under Reciprocity. The foundation of P, the Natural Law of Reciprocity – is of course, just reciprocity: limiting one’s display word and deed to the productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary transfers of demonstrated interests, free of imposition of costs upon the demonstrated interests of others by externality. So while the physical world is dependent upon entropy and it’s consequences in the laws of thermodynamics, life requires reciprocity across generations; and humans have memory and the ability to predict futures using it, and to act to seize opportunities from those predictions. But while cooperation is disproportionately productive (advantageous), and while we can trade debts, resulting in reciprocity over time, we can also consistently generate debts and live parasitically off others – until they retaliate (which they always do). Reciprocity breaks down through disintermediation that limits the ability to test whether the sum of debts and repayments result in a balance (reciprocity). And this is what the state has achieved in all walks of life under pursuit of equality. But the result has been reversal of the universalization of middle class manners ethics and morals, and the reversal of underclass eugenics. Humans can, through life, defeat entropy, and through productivity, continue to defeat it, despite our increasingly costly brains; but reverse that existence through the continuous production of debt (parasitism) rather than reciprocity (mutually beneficial production), and continuous eugenics.
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Yes We Are Slowly Changing the World
Yes We Are Slowly Changing the World https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/27/yes-we-are-slowly-changing-the-world/
Source date (UTC): 2020-05-27 16:55:05 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1265687986009751554
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Yes We Are Slowly Changing the World
Oct 17, 2019, 9:38 AM
—“Reciprocity is EVERYWHERE the last few weeks. P is changing the language being used, which in turn will change the conversations being had, which creates different attitudes (frames), which leads to different actions being taken. This is how to change the world.”—Noah J Revoy
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Yes We Are Slowly Changing the World
Oct 17, 2019, 9:38 AM
—“Reciprocity is EVERYWHERE the last few weeks. P is changing the language being used, which in turn will change the conversations being had, which creates different attitudes (frames), which leads to different actions being taken. This is how to change the world.”—Noah J Revoy
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Only the West Could Invent Science
Oct 17, 2019, 9:50 AM You’re missing the point that only the west could invent science (testimony) because only the west practiced the combination of militia, truth, reciprocity, heroism, excellence, markets, and aristocracy (meritocracy). Now that we have given the world our science and technology and law and finance like we gave the world empiricism, like we gave the world logic and reason and roman law, like we gave the world horse, bronze, and wheel, and like the old world gave us writing, bronze, and agriculture. And like we gave the world eugenics. Now, we will see how the chinese do vs the europeans. If the british choose to restore the british empire rather than fall to the french conquest of europe, and the russian re-conquest of eastern europe, then china will have a competitor. But this presumes we will not have a revolution on the scale of the past, or the scale of the chinese, and reverse the primitivization of western civilization by the second abrahamic conquest and the defection of our women. Did you see what I did there? You can have the technological products of our people, but you can’t have our ‘technology’ because it’s genetic and cultural. We only have to preserve that technology to win.