Theme: Science

  • by Steve Pender What other good can exist than that which expands the only known

    by Steve Pender

    What other good can exist than that which expands the only known form of life that has power to delay/counteract entropic forces? Only intelligent life seems to be aware that life even exists.

    Some policies can be tough (require more steps) to demonstrate their higher survival value, but most don’t require being a rocket surgeon or a brain scientist. Island morality (whatever extends life on a deserted island for the most people for the long-term) looks to be a useful micropropertarian guide to develop macropropertarian policy.

    Example: 80 IQ mother of 5 can’t afford to feed her babies but wants another baby

    Dysgenic left argument typically assumes that further expansion of intelligent life in the universe isn’t necessary, that we can feed endlessly using extant food. It takes for granted a level of food/resource stability/surplus that it doesn’t contribute to.

    Eugenic right wants symbiosis, mutually beneficial trade. What do we get for feeding someone who does not contribute to our global “island’s” resource surplus? A big nothing burger for ourselves.

    We can also point to traditions that increased the survival of the people who followed them, and at least have data points that show that an anticipated good has indeed been a past outcome for a disputed policy.

    We can’t point to any cultures that normalized children being sexualized at a very early age, or encouraged to be gay, or transgender, for instance, and showing positive results. We can’t point to *any* cultures that ever existed doing so, so on that policy, we have a whole world of cultures who were, in practice, uniformly against such policies, that continue to expand in the absence of that desired policy.

    We can’t point to any culture that disarmed the bulk of their population, and successfully expanded their *own* culture afterwards.

    Some policies have been “scientifically tested” and failed. Dysgenic leftists are therefore more like alchemists and conspiracy theorists who offer no evidence for their arguments.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-03 10:19:00 UTC

  • MATHEMATICAL PLATONISM IN THE BROADER INTELLECTUAL CONTEXT, AND THE CURRENT STAT

    MATHEMATICAL PLATONISM IN THE BROADER INTELLECTUAL CONTEXT, AND THE CURRENT STATE OF DEVELOPMENT IN MATHEMATICS (the study of measurement using constant relations via positional naming)

    (continuing discussion)

    Converting statements of mathematical platonism:

    If we say: “Can we say a subset…?” rather than “All is/are…” we eliminate a great deal of mathematical platonism, that requires us to use terminological special pleading.

    This eliminates the cultism (fictionalism) of mathematical platonism and ensures that the speaker knows of what he speaks, rather than simply performing operations he does not understand, but is still capable of constructing proofs of possibility.

    In other words, there is a difference between an idiot savant who masters pattern recognition and the individual who explains why the patterns can exist in the first place.

    As the intuitionists discovered, (and authors of proof software have taken advantage of), a proof must be falsified, and the two dimensions of doing so are via negativa (application tests), and via positiva (construction from operations)

    Unfortunately it seems that Wolfram is trying to cast operationalism as a separate science, rather than restoring mathematics to operations AND deductions, and it seems theoreticians are still describing symmetries (lie groups), it appears we are stuck with fictionalisms in each sub discipline rather than the rather obvious: that by free association we can either identify or search for patterns, and by a competition between construction and deduction we can test them, in any number of dimensions. And that our topography is largely little more than puzzles, while the problem of N-dimensional permutations producing consistent intermediary symmetries whose change in state is measurable, and lends prediction to heretofore unimaginable outcomes of n-dimensional high causal density is the holy grail of mathematics at which point we will be able to produce semantic intelligences rather than mere computations and algorithms.

    This is a perhaps more articulate explanation of the pseudoscience and pseudo-rationalism of the 20th (and now 21st century) that Hayek chastened us would be remembered in history as a second age of ‘mysticism’.

    Unfortunately, the great wars interfered wth the second enlightenment and the second industrial revolution, and gave the common man economic and political influence by which to distribute that new mysticism (Boaz/marx/freud/cantor/frankfurt school/postmodernism) when poincare, hayek, popper, brouwer, bridgman, and mises all failed to complete the operational revolution.

    (I’m doing my best to pick up the pieces.)

    Cheers.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine


    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-03 10:03:00 UTC

  • CURT: DISTURBING SEXISM??? —“You display disturbing signs of sexism.”— (A fr

    CURT: DISTURBING SEXISM???

    —“You display disturbing signs of sexism.”— (A friend)

    (A comment from an otherwise obviously rational and scientific woman)

    Great observation and great opportunity to repeat a central theme: compatibility and the need for markets in everything.

    I’m going to suggest this instead: I display CONSISTENT criticism of the female gender biases given the evidence, in matters of politics and reason. (And I display consistent submission to female superiority in interpersonal matters.)

    Sexism. So, why?

    It’s because I advocate compatibilism rather than equality. And because the ratio of men to women in psychosis-to-solipsism vs rationalism-to-autism remains consistent in every single sampling from the behavior of female and male psychopaths, to the difference between male openness to pure ideas, and female openness to aesthetics, to the male concern for the best and female strong for the weakest, to the male concern for excellence to the female concern for equality, the the competence of females in interpersonal skill to the male competence in political skill.

    There is literally no domain where compatibilism is not more evident than equality. Even in intelligence testing we had to lower the standard by increasing weights to verbal acumen. I mean. yo have’t been following me long enough so you haven’t seen my frequent ‘how the heck do women do that amazing stuff’.

    So since NEITHER gender can satisfy the demand for perception, cognition, knowledge, specialization, negotiation, and advocacy, then the only way to ‘calculate’ (rendered commensurable) our division of cognitive labor is through voluntary exchange. And it is marriage that creates an informationally complete market for the use of the division of perception.

    Now, I have written about this reproductive (short-child, vs long-tribe) division of cognitive labor. I have written about (and produced a video about) the classes as an extension of this temporal division of labor to the circumpolar people (white people and chinese people).

    So I consider my ‘intertemporal division of cognitive labor’ concept covered. And I consider my ‘markets in everything’ to take advantage of our temporal specializations covered. And I am currently working on a constitution that denies equality and expressly RESTORES western ‘markets in everything’. With the principle difference that I’ve used testimonialism to eliminate the ability to even TALK about falsehoods and deceptions in public matters by extending fraud protections from goods and services to information (speech).

    Now, I expect this solution that forces compromises to be LESS acceptable to women for the simple reason – mirrored by prison populations – that women ‘steal’ and ‘cheat’ the dominance hierarchy asymmetrically in favor of ridicule, shaming, gossip (suggestion), obscurantism, and advocacy of fictionalism (social construction of artificial realities) far more so than do men – even if men are the minority of practitioners and but the nearly exclusive producers (outside of feminists). And I make this case because as we can see, women have been, in almost all cases, domesticated animals herded by men, since the beginning of man, just like most other mammalian species.

    And women have been the vehicle for the spreading of attractive lies in the ancient world (abrahamism) and the modern world (postmodernism). So the solution to the subjugation of women CANNOT be equality, but can ONLY be markets (trade). Men are not CAPABLE of the information processing and adaptability to local circumstances as are women, and women are not CAPABLE of reason in advancement of excellence (eugenics) in politics. I mean, it is almost impossible to find women who are not so lacking agency because of their solipsism that one can have a scientific conversation. I mean, I have women followers here and most of them know this by now. You just don’t know it.

    So I remain on the attack against the falsehoods of equality and in advocacy of the science, and that is the only equality between any of us is that which is achieved by the market, and those who cannot succeed in that market provide evidence of their need of ‘pruning’ from the gene pool (error reduction), and the only market means of ‘pruning’ is the elimination of reproduction for those people, and the prevention of immigration of those people. Unfortunately, it’s women who produce dysgenic offspring. Men can’t. They can only more easily DEMONSTRATE that their genes are failures.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-03 08:59:00 UTC

  • TRUTH: OUR 4000 YEAR TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANTAGE Truth. It is our civilization’s pri

    TRUTH: OUR 4000 YEAR TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANTAGE

    Truth. It is our civilization’s primary technological advantage and one that none other can duplicate – assuming we preserve our separatism.

    The lesson of history is that Truth cannot survive conflation. Whether in meaning, in disciplines, in institutions, or in Populations.

    Ergo, the choice is truth and paganism, truth and specialization, truth and markets, truth and separatism.

    And that is not something that I would have expected when I started out on my journey.

    Ely Harman / Eli Harman


    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-02 18:09:00 UTC

  • I would say that ZFC constitutes a proof of the limits of mathematics. I would s

    I would say that ZFC constitutes a proof of the limits of mathematics.

    I would say that the construction of all of mathematics from operations is trivial. Which is its strength.

    I would say that the the development of techniques of deduction (proofs of possibility) given constant relations made possible by positional names is one of the high points of human intellectual achievement.

    I would say that those that are capable of applied mathematics in the discovery of patterns in reality is an art that never ceases to amaze me. if for no other reason, than like chess, it requires extraordinary state memory (modeling), extraordinary discipline, and the exercise of talent without much chance of material reward.

    I mean, the only people I am absolutely awed by when I meet them are applied and theoretical mathematicians. And I know that in the very least, they have far superior short term memories and modeling capabilities.

    And while I seem to have a talent for deflation (causality), I could never compete with that category of mind.

    I am fairly happy playing second fiddle to their art.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-02 18:04:00 UTC

  • The “Unreasonable effectiveness” trope annoys the hell out of me. The only reaso

    The “Unreasonable effectiveness” trope annoys the hell out of me. The only reason this ‘magical mathematics’ nonsense perpetuates, and the average person is still afraid of mathematics, is because it’s taught as a superstition.

    Math is trivial. 1 = any unitary measure. By the combination of some number of symbols – in the current case 0123456789, we can create positional names. By adding, subtracting units, and by adding and subtracting sets of units (multiplication and division), we can create positional names (numbers) for an unlimited set of positions. we can create names of positions in an unlimited number of directions (dimensions). We can create positions relative to any other position (relative positions). We can create changes in positions of relative positions. producing numbers, sets, and fields, and topographies (many different fields.

    So the fact that math is ‘unreasonable’ is rather ridiculous. It’s people who are unreasonable. Math is TRIVIAL. Deduction in multiple dimensions is hard because we are not well suited to it.

    I mean, we have 26 letters, and 44 phonemes in the english language. If we were ‘elegant’ we might increase the 26 to 44 letters, so that english was easier to read. but look at what we can say with those 44 phonemes, 26 characters, and 250K words in some including terms, and maybe 200K words that are not archaic.

    There are roughly 100,000 word-families in the English language.

    A native English speaking person knows between 10,000 (uneducated) to 20,000 (educated) word families.

    A person needs to know 8,000-9,000 word families to enjoy reading a book.

    A person with a vocabulary size of 2,500 passive word-families and 2,000 active word-families can speak a language fluently.

    Of those we can pretty much COMMUNICATE anything, although in wordy prose, with only 300 words.

    Now think of how much MORE you can say in language than you can say in mathematics.

    Why should it surprise you that running around with a perfectly scalable yardstick that can measure any distance, allows you to measure and compare anything? It shouldn’t. It’s freaking obvious.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-01 14:46:00 UTC

  • This and one more. Touches on some things, evolutionary

    This and one more. Touches on some things, evolutionary.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-01 11:21:00 UTC

  • THE THREE GOALS: NATURAL LAW, ARTIFICIAL WOMBS, SETTLING THE STARS. The most imp

    THE THREE GOALS: NATURAL LAW, ARTIFICIAL WOMBS, SETTLING THE STARS.

    The most important innovation on behalf of white people and western civilization, is the artificial womb. By harvesting eggs and sperm, even without much genetic modification, we can make armies by selective breeding with or without the cooperation of women, and with or without the limitation of the few exceptional women, and with or without the rate and tolerance for births of exceptional women.

    So you might say the stars, and I will say the artificial womb. and I will venture that the artificial womb will get us to the stars faster than is otherwise possible. If for no other reason than we are no longer paying the high cost keeping human beings alive for much of the journey.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-01 08:24:00 UTC

  • = FAKE NEWS / PSEUDOSCIENCE Yeah. Well studied territory. Totally false. Reality

    https://www.vox.com/conversations/2017/6/27/15873072/google-porn-addiction-america-everybody-lies?utm_campaign=vox&utm_content=entry&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebookVOX = FAKE NEWS / PSEUDOSCIENCE

    Yeah. Well studied territory. Totally false.

    Reality? people search for novelty. So what we see at any given time is the market for novelty given the inventory of consumption of the individuals.

    I investigated the homosexuality thing, and the findings will surprise you. (Fascinating)

    it’s just possible to search for homosexual porn in some countries then use the search results to get access to regular porn through proxy servers.

    Pakistan for example (as many muslim countries) most commonly searches for homosexual porn. But the reason is not intuitive. 😉

    The measure of sexual interest is the individual porn sites and dating sites and this is pretty well understood territory, and every stereotype you can imagine turns out to be true.

    Just another example of the fact that ‘stereotypes are the most accurate measure in the social sciences”.

    So (a) as is usual, vox = fake news. (b) as usual, vox = pseudoscience.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-06-30 14:02:00 UTC

  • WHAT HISTORY TELLS ME ABOUT THE STATE OF PHYSICS My reading of intellectual hist

    WHAT HISTORY TELLS ME ABOUT THE STATE OF PHYSICS

    My reading of intellectual history suggests humans make the same mistakes over and over again, and the current paradigm in physics just radiates those mistakes.

    And I am pretty sure that confirms my central thesis: that the problem of advancement in science is primarily one of costs. And that the current problem in physics is a combination of anchoring, first principle, causal (dimensional) density, and cost of conducting the research necessary to run tests rather than mathematical models.

    I have seen nothing to counter most parsimonious explanation of the universe as a single medium, expressing a simple geometry, the different forces of which, are produced by different degrees of excitement (density), the apparent complexity of which is nothing more that overlapping field effects, and that the general problem of comprehension is reducible to the measurement of a subset of states ( fields, waves, particles) rather than merely densities). In other words, our attempts at deflation are causing categorical analysis that obscures the underlying symmetry.

    That is not a statement about the universe. It is a statement only of observations of the categories of human error in the past, and by analysis of those errors we can look for the solution. Not in our findings, but our errors.

    Meaning that in general, we have a serious problem increasing the number of dimensions we can comprehend, and the tools necessary for their comprehension. A problem which historically is solved by advances in mathematics. The applied elsewhere – endlessly for generations.

    In other words I don’t need to understand much about physics to make that statement. I just need to understand that all similar problems in history follow a similar pattern.

    At present the study of intermediary phenomenon (advanced mathematics) and operational patterns (computer science) appears to be providing us with slow but incremental progress in the hope of identifying patterns of causal relations that limit the variation in high causal density (high numbers of dimensions).

    So I suspect that the possibility is out there. And I suspect the central problem is not awarding prizes for the solutions to this category of problem and therefore ending the incentives to reinforce the paradigm.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-06-30 11:13:00 UTC