Theme: Science

  • MAYBE BUT I CAN’T SEE ROLLING BACK THE CLOCK OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE. —“White

    MAYBE BUT I CAN’T SEE ROLLING BACK THE CLOCK OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE.

    —“White Anglo-Saxon Protestants, in particular, might turn to the Bible in somewhat the manner of their Angelcynn ancestors in the time of Alfred the Great.”— Kevin Macdonald.

    @TOOEdit

    I would love to have this discussion with you because I’m torn between the demonstrated value of the group strategy in Christianity, and the method of delivery (semitic parable) and the method of persuasion (False Promise, Baiting into Moral Hazard, Pilpul and Critique.)

    Same with Duchesne. He also puts value in Christianity that I don’t see. And it might be because of the radius of corruption that extends out from the Church – especially Italy. Studying Economics and Law produces a very different history from Theo, Phil, and and Literature.

    All peoples need a binding narrative that contains a group strategy, a means of decidability(morality), a means of ‘mindfulness’ for personal, interpersonal, and social, a means of status equalization (festivals), for what’s reducible to maintaining a neural economy. Why Xianity?

    And can Christianity be reformed so that we preserve the historical commonality of strategy, but have supernatural, moral-normative, and ratio-scientific means of education (indoctrination, training) that doesn’t make us vulnerable to semitism (submission, sophism) and “lying”?

    Religion has been the hardest problem in social science, and it’s precisely the invulnerability to rational argument that provides intergenerational transmission with minimum modification of the underlying strategy.

    (Thanks for letting me think out loud. 😉 )


    Source date (UTC): 2019-07-26 14:08:24 UTC

    Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/102508141243321700

  • I’m a fan of the laws of nature, the natural law, the grammars (law of language)

    I’m a fan of the laws of nature, the natural law, the
    grammars (law of language) and the human potential to
    transcend into the gods we imagine, and conquer the
    universe using all three. Everything else is just
    contributing or detracting from that. 😉 -hugs


    Source date (UTC): 2019-07-26 13:53:30 UTC

    Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/102508082625928926

  • So, we all create echo chambers and most of the literature, especially in behavi

    So, we all create echo chambers and most of the literature, especially in behavioral economics, focuses on various forms of selection bias. The thing is that it’s NECESSARY because groups have different degrees of agency, and the commons is saturated with undecidable falsehoods.


    Source date (UTC): 2019-07-26 00:24:03 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1154547894155743232

    Reply addressees: @AlanLevinovitz @EPoe187

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1154546415642611712


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    @AlanLevinovitz @EPoe187 As far as I know sophism, pseudoscience, fraud, ideology, philosophy, theology, are just means of avoiding engaging in private (economy) and public markets (politics), in order to obtain something by stealing it rather than trading for it. This problem is undermining democracy.

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    @AlanLevinovitz @EPoe187 As far as I know sophism, pseudoscience, fraud, ideology, philosophy, theology, are just means of avoiding engaging in private (economy) and public markets (politics), in order to obtain something by stealing it rather than trading for it. This problem is undermining democracy.

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1154546415642611712

  • “Western civ and natural law are simply a continuation of the physical sciences.

    —“Western civ and natural law are simply a continuation of the physical sciences. People have a hard time seeing this extension; the natural law is as real as the laws of physics and accurate in its predictions.”–Brandon Hayes


    Source date (UTC): 2019-07-22 17:06:32 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1153350626060972034

  • LOW. TRUST. SOCIETY. Face before Truth. Utility before Contract. Self before Com

    LOW. TRUST. SOCIETY.
    Face before Truth.
    Utility before Contract.
    Self before Commons.
    Family before Polity.
    Corruption before Production.
    Cunning before Wisdom.
    Magic before Science.


    Source date (UTC): 2019-07-21 14:39:27 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1152951225828204545

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    Interesting theory on why the Chinese aren’t into cryonics. https://t.co/41t1pqrxz1

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1152686837762351105

  • (Love everything by Terrance (Terry) Tao. Talk about a beautiful lucid and artic

    (Love everything by Terrance (Terry) Tao. Talk about a beautiful lucid and articulate mind. )


    Source date (UTC): 2019-07-21 00:18:46 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1152734626529591296

  • No. It falls into the category of NATURAL SELECTION. 😉

    No. It falls into the category of NATURAL SELECTION. 😉


    Source date (UTC): 2019-07-20 15:37:08 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1152603352854945794

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  • “The longer you defy natural selection, the longer the genetic trash piles up.”-

    —“The longer you defy natural selection, the longer the genetic trash piles up.”—Claire Elise II


    Source date (UTC): 2019-07-19 20:56:25 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1152321314495111169

  • RT @hbdchick: the family that goes a viking together… Population genomics of t

    RT @hbdchick: the family that goes a viking together… Population genomics of the Viking world https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/703405v1 https://t.co/QhiLMU…


    Source date (UTC): 2019-07-18 17:20:36 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1151904616096964609

  • SUPERNATURAL LIARS ALL – A SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION OF DEITIES AS SYSTEMS OF MEASU

    SUPERNATURAL LIARS ALL – A SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION OF DEITIES AS SYSTEMS OF MEASUREMENT

    I don’t make errors. It’s my job. My job is to articulate the law that prevents liars (or technically, addicts who lie) from further harm to the population by creating false narratives, of false debts, and false causes.

    My principal challenge is in collecting enough errors from an individual that I can thoroughly falsify is or her methods of lying by identifying (a) means of lying, (b) motive for lying (c) opportunity to engage in the lie – where opportunity is simply demonstrated by the act of attempting to argue with me.

    1. Define “Scientism”
    “The cosmetic application of science in unwarranted situations not amenable to application of the scientific method or similar scientific standards.” or “In the philosophy of science, the term scientism frequently implies a critique of the more extreme expressions of logical positivism” or” an uncritical eagerness to accept any result described as scientific” (taken from wiki – those are the three criteria that I know of. None of which claim scientific claims do not defeat fictionalisms, but that science (social science in particular) may make false or trivial or irrelevant claims.) That is not the case in the distinction between the supernatural and the natural, but between variations in the natural, and normative.

    2. —“accept … god exists”–
    If one does not place faith in the existence of a deity for which there is no evidence other than human fictionalism. Where as like all ancient anthropocentric, and anthropomorphic pretense of knowledge has fallen to falsehood rapidly under scientific investigation. In other words, if a theory is anthropocentric, and anthropomorphic, and unbound by naturalism (itself counter to anthropocentrism and anthropomorphism), then it corresponds MOST with ignorance, error, wishful thinking, fictionalism and deceit (lying). All such claims are false. We can find NO such claims that are NOT false.

    3. —“science”–
    Science consists of warrantied due diligence by the exhaustive, systematic, falsification of human tendency to engage in justification of ignorance, knowledge pretense, error, bias, wishful thinking, suggestion, loading, framing, obscurantism, fictionalism(sophism, pseudoscience, and supernaturalism) fraud, and deceit.

    4. —“empirical facts”—
    You did not present empirical facts (theory of an observation of measurement.) You offered opinion on correlation.
    You did not state the operational causation for the correlation. You CANNOT prove anything, only falsify the alternatives leaving the most competitive solution (parsimonious, consistent, correspondent, operational, rational choice, reciprocal, complete, limited, fully accounted, and coherent (collectively internally consistent). All non-trivial statements are open to falsification by greater parsimony under realism and naturalism (absent the fictionalisms).

    (continued…. in part 2)


    Source date (UTC): 2019-07-15 13:46:31 UTC

    Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/102445769725073371