Theme: Science

  • THE WESTERN GROUP STRATEGY: SPEED, MANEUVER, ADAPTATION, AND INITIATIVE : THE MA

    THE WESTERN GROUP STRATEGY: SPEED, MANEUVER, ADAPTATION, AND INITIATIVE : THE MAXIMZATION OF EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION.
    (bookmark)(core)
    -“
    With Bronze (Technology)
    Horse (Distance, Speed, Maneuver)
    Wheel (Logistics)
    Cattle (Capital)
    Alliance of Clans (Federation)
    Of Warriors, WiseMen, Craftsmen, Wives, Kin and Cattle
    By Voluntary Membership (prohibition on authority)
    Organized into a Universal Militia (Society as Army)
    Election of Leadership by Merit (license of decidability)
    Limited by Contract Terms (Rule of Law)
    And so:
    Self-Governed by the Natural Law of self-determination, by self-determined means,
    By the reciprocal grant of, the defense of, the inalienability of, and insurance of;
    Individual sovereignty in all demonstrated interests, and reciprocity in all display, word, and deed;
    To all members of the polity that are demonstrably able, willing, worthy, and sworn to exchange them;
    Producing adversarial markets in all aspects of life: association, cooperation, production, reproduction, commons, polities, and war;
    And directing all dominance expression to the production of commons for all;
    By the Demand for Truth, Excellence, and Beauty.
    And as a consequence, the fastest discovery, innovation adaptation and evolution of knowledge, technology, economy, polity, war, and man that is possible for man;
    By the continuous evolution of human;
    Producing the greatest transcendence of man;
    In the shortest time, under the greatest prosperity, with the greatest certainty;
    And by the continuation of natural selection;
    By suppression of the reproduction of those demonstrating unfitness for those markets;
    An aristocracy, holding to the primacy of man;
    Profiting from the incremental domestication of the human-animal into peers.
    And as a consequence, institutionalizing and industrializing the production of human agency,
    Rapidly evolving man from animal, to slave, to serf, to freeman, to citizen, to sovereign –
    And into the gods they imagined.”–

    –“The West’s Group strategy is a universal militia maximizing speed, maneuver, adaptation, innovation, by the continuous domestication by farming human agency, through self-determination, sovereignty and reciprocity, oath and truth before face, dependent on meritocracy, absent authority, leaving only adversarialism as a means of decidability, voting for production of commons, rule of law for dispute resolution, and markets for the production of goods services and information, and the necessity governing those with less agency, and culling those who lack agency, by natural and market selection, producing the civilization with the greatest conformity to and discovery of, adaptation to and application of the formal, physical, natural, and evolutionary laws of the universe.”–

    This strategy is consistent across European Steppe Herders practicing entrepreneurial cattle raiding and warfare; European mixed herder agrarians practicing conquest of Europe – killing the men and keeping the women as they had captured cattle and women on the steppe; With the only example in written memory being the Spartans, who for all intents and purposes retained the strategy by which the European steppe herders conquered the European continent.
    As such, they commercialized with the other Greeks conquering locals and overextending; Romans conquering locals and overextending; Franks conquering Europe and overextending. Conquering the Levant and overextending. Conquering the new world and overextending; the British restoring the Roman Empire an overextending – all in the greatest commercial enterprise in history: the domestication of animal man for profit. And by overextension, collapsing, as did Rome, out of unwillingness to use middle eastern or far eastern brutality ‘on their inventory’.”-

    The western hubris is only in overextension.
    Because only western man is fit for western strategy.
    Because we left the rest behind.
    To transcend into the gods we imagine.
    Supremacy? No. Superiority yes.

    -Curt Doolittle


    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-12 21:16:40 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1635027048866430978

  • You’re not making a scientific argument. I am

    You’re not making a scientific argument.
    I am.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-12 17:55:16 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1634976365442392064

    Reply addressees: @Mathilduhhhh @FrailSkeleton

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1634976058041851904

  • EE ON ROUBINI ON MEGATHREATS (please watch. my two comments below for general au

    EE ON ROUBINI ON MEGATHREATS
    (please watch. my two comments below for general audiences:)

    1) EE made a minor point that was helpful for general audiences: Lawyers and Economists are paid to identify risks, that improve your chances regardless of which https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmxRR3ZG02M…


    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-12 16:35:02 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1634956174582849536

  • I think they work out the same. We can science both Truthfulness (testifiability

    I think they work out the same. We can science both Truthfulness (testifiability) and Lying (untestifiability).
    And once you study lying a bit, you realize how much we are saturated with lies every day of our lives.
    It’s pretty hard to speak truthfully. 😉


    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-12 02:06:01 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1634737478908166147

    Reply addressees: @BrianHatano @pmarca

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1634736652169154560

  • Marc. (all); It’s under 3% It’s probably closer to 2%. In some fields ( psych, s

    Marc. (all);
    It’s under 3% It’s probably closer to 2%. In some fields ( psych, soc, pol) it’s right of the decimal if not a negative number (sic). In other fields (philosophy) it’s multiple digits to the right of the decimal point. I don’t know how many papers I read a month, but its many tens. And all I see that has any value with any regularity is applied sicence (neurology, biology, chemistry, materials). Though some fields (genetics, archaeology, one or two AI papers a year) are useful. Franky, randomly shuffling thru patent apps is at least entertaining.

    You know how we used to track news narratives over time? It’d be interesting to do the same with theories, and then group papers under those theories and watch them over time. Without context we lose the opportunity for the rather obvious observation that it’s mostly nonsense.
    -cheers


    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-11 22:42:24 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1634686236068659205

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1634484210009522176

  • Marc. (all); It’s under 3% It’s probably closer to 2%. In some fields ( psych, s

    Marc. (all);
    It’s under 3% It’s probably closer to 2%. In some fields ( psych, soc, pol) it’s right of the decimal if not a negative number (sic). In other fields (philosophy) it’s multiple digits to the right of the decimal point. I don’t know how many papers I read a month, but its many tens. And all I see that has any value with any regularity is applied sicence (neurology, biology, chemistry, materials). Though some fields (genetics, archaeology, one or two AI papers a year) are useful. Franky, randomly shuffling thru patent apps is at least entertaining.

    You know how we used to track news narratives over time? It’d be interesting to do the same with theories, and then group papers under those theories and watch them over time. Without context we lose the opportunity for the rather obvious observation that it’s mostly nonsense.
    -cheers

    Reply addressees: @pmarca


    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-11 22:42:24 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1634686235925946373

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1634484210009522176

  • NEOTENY AND CRANIAL VOLUME Decreasing Returns On Increase in Cranial Volume: AFA

    NEOTENY AND CRANIAL VOLUME
    Decreasing Returns On Increase in Cranial Volume:
    AFAIK, yes, intelligence appears to correlate with cranial volume, but there is also a declining return on cranial volume. So were our ancestors smarter than we are? Or is it that we traded volume for agency, and we’re less aggressive than they are?

    I said appears. It’s just consistent with everything we know. 😉


    This is a napkin sketch. It’s bad data and bad math so don’t use it for anything.
    Chimp:400@24 – Black:1267@75 =867@51pt= 43*20:17
    African:1267@75 – White1347@100 = 80@25pt = 4*20:3.2
    SEurasian:(???)@85 – European:1347@100 =??@15pt=?*?
    European:1347@100 – Asian:1364@105 = 20@5pt=1*20:4
    Roughly 4 IQ/cm.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-11 18:32:35 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1634623369965445120

  • NEOTENY AND CRANIAL VOLUME Decreasing Returns On Increase in Cranial Volume: AFA

    NEOTENY AND CRANIAL VOLUME
    Decreasing Returns On Increase in Cranial Volume:
    AFAIK, yes, intelligence appears to correlate with cranial volume, but there is also a declining return on cranial volume. So were our ancestors smarter than we are? Or is it that we traded volume for agency, and we’re less aggressive than they are?

    I said appears. It’s just consistent with everything we know. 😉


    This is a napkin sketch. It’s bad data and bad math so don’t use it for anything.
    Chimp:400@24 – Black:1267@75 =867@51pt= 43*20:17
    African:1267@75 – White1347@100 = 80@25pt = 4*20:3.2
    SEurasian:(???)@85 – European:1347@100 =??@15pt=?*?
    European:1347@100 – Asian:1364@105 = 20@5pt=1*20:4
    Roughly 4 IQ/cm.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-11 18:32:35 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1634623369860481025

  • CHATGPT WOKE SCIENCE DENIAL: “NO MORE LIES” Denying IQ (the most accurate measur

    CHATGPT WOKE SCIENCE DENIAL: “NO MORE LIES”
    Denying IQ (the most accurate measure in pyschology)
    Denying IQ by Denomination (the studies exist with large sample sizes.)
    Denying IQ is a proxy for ALL individual, group, class, civilization and state measures. (I keep a massive… https://t.co/kVUgbzoKUu


    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-11 16:29:38 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1634592426034601985

  • There are no inter-dimensions. It won’t make sense if I try to explain it, but t

    There are no inter-dimensions.
    It won’t make sense if I try to explain it, but there are reasons there are only three spatial and one temporal dimension. Nothing else is possible or ever will be.
    As for the word itself.
    A dimension means a measurement.
    It requires three measurements to describe space.
    It requires a fourth to describe change (time)
    When nitwits talk about 11 dimensions that does not mean 11 spatial dimensions exist. It means it takes eleven measurements of causality to describe a behavior.
    Most of these people are telling pseudoscience fiction for entertainment purposes the same way women go to fortue tellers and card readers. That’s all. It’s fun. But like horoscopes it’s just entertainment.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-11 03:06:23 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1634390283860279296

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1634385695207997440