October 18th, 2018 10:22 AM EVOLUTIONARY SPECTRUM: LITERARY, EMPIRICAL, AND SCIENTIFIC CONSERVATIVE AUTHORS [P]ropertarianism (law of cooperation) is a proof system (logic of falsification) for all cognitive dimensions, and survives falsification in all cognitively possible dimensions (science). Once you have the proof system (tests of falsification), ‘experiential stories’ and ‘opinions’ can be tested. In other words, it’s one thing to have other author’s options and another to show that they are TRUE. So It’s possible to show that the LITERARY conservatives of the Continental Tradition (secular theology) Nietzsche, Evola, Kuhnelt-Leddhin, Stirner, Kirk , Spengler and the EMPIRICAL conservatives (Social Science) Locke, Hume, Smith, Hamilton, Burke, Spencer, et all, were right. But it required SCIENTIFIC conservativism (Hayek, Doolittle) to explain WHY.
Theme: Truth
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The ineffable is that which one is simply to ignorant to explain. There is nothi
The ineffable is that which one is simply to ignorant to explain. There is nothing that is not explicable with the knowledge to do so.
People use such terms to retain self image and status despite their ignorance.
Source date (UTC): 2018-10-18 16:22:25 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1052958085784965120
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The ineffable is that which one is simply to ignorant to explain. There is nothi
The ineffable is that which one is simply to ignorant to explain. There is nothing that is not explicable with the knowledge to do so.
People use such terms to retain self image and status despite their ignorance.
Source date (UTC): 2018-10-18 12:22:00 UTC
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THE MARKET COMPETITION BETWEEN MEANING AND TRUTH Education: the market competiti
THE MARKET COMPETITION BETWEEN MEANING AND TRUTH
Education: the market competition between:
…. POSITIVA: MEANING: Literature, Myth, Parable – The act of Generating constant relations, and The Promise of Reward.
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…. NEGATIVA: TRUTH: History, Law, Science, Mathematics – Falsify (test) constant relations: The act of Performing Due Diligence against ignorance, error, bias, and deceit and The Warranty (Promise) of Truth (non-falsehood).
Source date (UTC): 2018-10-18 10:53:00 UTC
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EVOLUTIONARY SPECTRUM: LITERARY, EMPIRICAL, AND SCIENTIFIC CONSERVATIVE AUTHORS
EVOLUTIONARY SPECTRUM: LITERARY, EMPIRICAL, AND SCIENTIFIC CONSERVATIVE AUTHORS
Propertarianism (law of cooperation) is a proof system (logic of falsification) for all cognitive dimensions, and survives falsification in all cognitively possible dimensions (science).
Once you have the proof system (tests of falsification), ‘experiential stories’ and ‘opinions’ can be tested.
In other words, it’s one thing to have other author’s options and another to show that they are TRUE.
So It’s possible to show that the LITERARY conservatives of the Continental Tradition (secular theology) Nietzsche, Evola, Kuhnelt-Leddhin, Stirner, Kirk , Spengler and the EMPIRICAL conservatives (Social Science) Locke, Hume, Smith, Hamilton, Burke, Spencer, et all, were right.
But it required SCIENTIFIC conservativism (Hayek, Doolittle) to explain WHY.
Source date (UTC): 2018-10-18 10:22:00 UTC
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#Facebook The reason Mark will lose his role as Chairman (eventually) is because
#Facebook The reason Mark will lose his role as Chairman (eventually) is because he has a resistance to transparency and truth – and always has had. Something which is advantageous in entrepreneurship and disadvantageous in stewardship of capital, norms, and laws.
Source date (UTC): 2018-10-17 21:25:11 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1052671893466169348
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Solving Religion: The Ultimate Test of Agency
October 17th, 2018 11:42 AM SOLVING RELIGION: THE ULTIMATE TEST OF AGENCY [S]olving religion was the hardest problem. Truth was trivial by comparison. The reason being that we are less invested in truth (reason) than we are in intuitions (training). I solved religion. The question is, what can be done about it for the masses, when the purpose of faith is to circumvent reason and to relieve the individual of all sorts of calculation, particularly STATUS (self image), which is the human’s instinctual accounting system. So, people malinvest in religions (wisdom narratives) for the purpose of cognitive and signaling discounts, and as such they defend their malinvestments like they defend all forms of investment (property). Hence why religion is the ultimate test of Agency.
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Religious Justification (excuse) vs Scientific Falsification (survival)
October 17th, 2018 11:01 AM RELIGIOUS JUSTIFICATION (EXCUSE) VS SCIENTIFIC FALSIFICATION (SURVIVAL)
—“Accepting scientific authority without conducting the experiments and doing the research yourself is an expression of faith.”— Clay Caldwell
[L]ikewise, accepting supernatural authority without direct, testifiable, experience of the people and events, and miracles(magic) is an act of faith. Whereas due diligence in science is an effort to disprove a theory, not prove one. we cannot prove science. We can only find possibilities and seek to falsify them until we can’t. When we can’t falsify them (because of coherence, consistency, and correspondence, and explanatory power, and parsimony) then we have to admit to ourselves that it’s likely true. So it’s not true that one has ‘faith in science’ but one simply does the hard work of falsifying our fantasies such that only that which we cannot make false remains – that’s the entire point of scientific research: to perform due diligence against your imagination, by producing measurements that eliminate the possibility of your imaginings. The problem is that one can read either the research or other’s fictionalism or sensationalism of that research. And it takes great knowledge to understand such research, while only takes the mind of a child to understand mythology by intuition and imitation. So knowledge < wisdom < parable describe a means of graceful failure from those who possess knowledge and ability to those that possess neither. We can train people’s intuition many ways, and it turns out that abrahamic religion, like marxism, postmodernism, and feminism, is just the worst way possible.
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Curt: Can a Sane Person Have Faith?
October 17th, 2018 CURT: CAN A SANE PERSON HAVE FAITH?
—“Curt, is it possible for a man to believe in Christian doctrine without being a borderline schizophrenic or a closet atheist with personal issues? Can a sane man of at least average intelligence believe in Jesus Christ as the Son of God in good faith?”— Scott Cameron
[W]ell, this confuses Sanity with Agency. Can a sane man do so? Well, evidence that sane and insane people do so. The question is can a man possessed of Agency do so? I mean, for all intents and purposes I ‘believe’ in the characters of history although they are constructed through recursive narrative improvement into myths. That does not stop me, but helps me refer to them (imitate them) in disposition, frame of mind, and method of problem solving. The question is, whether you are imitating a history, a myth, or an occult version of whatever it is, and the assumptions you have about the universe when you imitate each of those criteria. Ergo: are you Relying on Knowledge (techne/history), Seeking Wisdom (general rules), or Seeking false comfort (falsehoods)? Christians tend to make pretty good people – a dumb christian is still a lot better than just about anything else because of its optimism (exhaustive forgiveness) which is the optimum group evolutionary strategy. I’ll refer you to this post (Oath): https://propertarianinstitute.com/2017/11/12/the-oath-of-transcendent-man-a-pagan-a-christian-an-aryan-a-warrior-a-man-transcendent/ And this paragraph:
—“I am a christian if I have adopted the teaching of christianity: 1) the eradication of hatred from the human heart. 2) the extension of kinship love to non-kin. 3) the extension of exhaustive forgiveness before punishment, enserfment, enslavement, death, or war.”—
This is the element of ‘faith’ in christianity. And it turns out to be correct: exhausting opportunities for cooperation before retaliating is the optimum cooperative strategy – there is none better. Nearly all humans (and animals) will cooperate given enough time to learn its value. Faith, in all its forms, is merely a way to circumvent problem solving when the neural (Bayesian) accounting (calculation) is beyond our capacity to reason. So faith allows us to ignore our intuitions and frustrations and calmly continue our efforts, with some semblance of piece of mind (confidence) in the outcomes. The rest of christianity is just nonsense. The act of ‘praying to’ (role playing with) a super-parent (fictional character) that you cannot lie to (omniscience) simply works by taking advantage of our innate abilities to self program our intuitions (pre rational searching). Role playing with Gods (eternal, magical), Demigods (immortal), heroes (simple superiors), and Ancestors and parents (our own heroes as children), works for the same reason talking to priests, shrinks, and friends works: if we can train ourselves not to lie to ourselves the role playing will ‘work’. We consist of a physical body, a set of physical (cognitive) biases, a set of intuitions that are limited by those biases, and our ability to reason, and speak. Speech allows us to program our intuition and therefore compete with our genetic biases that evolved under primitive circumstances of the pack and tribe. THere is nothing terribly magical about this process. Nor need there be. The stoics learned how to do it without superstition. The buddhists did not. There is no reason we cannot ‘train ourselves’ in stoicism on the one hand, and role playing with heroes, demigods, and gods on the other, while not understanding what it is that we do. It is far better than allowing ourselves to be constantly manipulated by priests, politicians, public intellectuals, and marketers of all kinds. Fairy tales -> Myths and Legends -> Historical Biographies -> Histories -> Legal Histories + Economic Histories + Technological Histories -> The Sciences -> Mathematics.I talk to my god every day. I largely do what he informs me. I do not however mistake his existence for his function. The simpleton cannot do such a thing. But he can worship nature, ancestors, and not be taught lies.
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What Are You Measuring?
October 17th, 20 WHAT ARE YOU MEASURING?FEELS (immediate experience) or REALS (consequences)? [S]elf Delusion feels good to the Faithful. Drugs feel good to the drug user. Stealing feels good to the thief. Murder feels good to the murderer. Just about anything we evolve a moral disposition against feelsgood. That’s why we limit it.