Theme: Truth

  • No, Supernatural Authoritarian Religion Is Not Best – and The Externalities Are Horrid.

    The cognitive bias of cherrypicking is everywhere. That is why we must always seek falsification not justification. Our biological need is to create regularity in order to limit demands on our individual and group neural (cognitive) economy. The most scientific method of doing so is self authoring. we can self author by the disciplined construction of virtues, by imitation of archetypes, or by submission to the pack and authority. We do not comprehend this as ‘self authoring’ – discipline of the intuition just as we discipline our bodies and reason through training – but it is as necessary if not the most necessary of the three. In practice only ‘repetitive rituals’ matter. The question is only how we perform those rituals, and what we program ourselves to do by performing those rituals, and the externalities caused by that programming (self authoring). We can program ourselves (virtues), or we can insulate our selves (buddhism, ritualism), or we can take programming from our kin (familialism) or we can take programming from authoritarian submission (prayer and community prayer). We can produce training to defeat nature (west), to live in harmony with nature (east), to an ideal (india), and to abandon reality (semitic). When augmented by festival (feast), sport, and civic ritual, we build training in trust of one another – the ritual of running with the pack is still in our genes. Piety and all synonyms are just submission to the pack. The more competitive the rituals the more militial. The more submissive the rituals the more slaves. China is the most durable civilization, our only substantial competitor, and not in any way like the semitic. Heterogeneity creates demand for authority. Homogeneity not. It was semitic heterogeneity, and east asian and western homogeneity that prevented demand. Just as today, the religion of postmodernism is a result of demand due to heterogeneity. In fact, they have and continue to ridicule us over our superstitions. We have a fairly good understanding of the evolution of authoritarian religion in response to demand for cooperation among peoples with demographically disadvantaged populations. Just as we have a fairly good understanding of the creation of familialism (emperor, king, ancestor) ‘worship’ (thanks, respect) in homogeneous societies. The dumber your people the greater your heterogeneity (number of signal competitors) the greater demand for authority. That authority will come in the form of propaganda (religion) and violence (the state), and not civil society and rule of traditional common law of property (tort). Choose: Kin (homogenous high), corporation (expansionary middle ), authoritarian religion (exhausted low). Human capital determines everything

  • Excellence, Beauty, Truth, Duty, Reciprocity, Charity

    Excellence, Beauty, Truth, Duty, Reciprocity, Charity.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-09-10 20:49:41 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1039254607380336640

  • Excellence, Beauty, Truth, Duty, Reciprocity, Charity

    Excellence, Beauty, Truth, Duty, Reciprocity, Charity.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-09-10 16:49:00 UTC

  • Notes: Jordan Peterson and Jonathan Haidt

    (notes) 1) You (and jonathan) are correct that the internet has had the suggested effect, but incorrect that it has created a false impression. Instead, we all have a much more HONEST and UNFILTERED view of each group’s narrative and ambitions when absent curation by filters. The fact that you’re discounting this is rather odd, and I’ll expand this in a moment. 2) Pinker’s work misses (or artfully avoids the fact) that while violence has seemingly decreased, it has simply moved from physical attack on physical property to financialization and political parasitism that has redistributed middle and working class reproduction familial insurance, and retirement to the underclass and immigrants, and destroyed the nuclear family central to the USA’s groups strategy by malincentives in the name of virtues. 3) The principle problem in primary education is that the differences between racial groups is largely one of neotonic evolution in response to geographic demands. And that we mature at different rates, some faster and some slower, and that the rates of aggression and sensitivity to existential differences in irreversible sexual, social, economic, political, and market value come into play at different times, to different intensities. One cannot have any knowledge of the classroom and understand the violence that children are exposed to. Compare this to my current home in Ukraine where the homogeneity of the 1950’s is everywhere and conformity mandated everywhere, and civility still exists, despite being the only poor european country remaining. As far as I know the bottom has been repaired to wealth, health and nutrition and the Flynn effect is reversing. Why? It is more important to remove negative influences than try to create positive influences. We have lost vast portions of the always-troublesome white laboring and working classes to malincentives already. 4) The university isn’t as much a problem as pseudoscience: teach basic accounting, credit, micro and macro economic principles so that people undrestand the world we live in and why no alternative is possible. The university does not teach that the principle problem of differences in national income have to do with (a) degree of homogeneity, and (b) size of the underclass vs the middle class. Lastly is to cut the pseudosciences that women in particular create demand for, in exchange for vast student debt and no increase in calculative capacity. 5) The right does not see eugenic organization of society as oppression but domestication of humans just like all other animals and plants. Western civilization has been aggressively eugenic for all of its recorded history, with no myth of equality whatsoever. Limiting the damage of the bottom is seen as a necessary good. (The male reproductive strategy, versus the left’s female reproductive strategy.) 6) Neither of you take the position that just as the scandinavians naturally diverge in specialization under equality of choice and opportunity rather than converge, (despite being tiny homogenous 5-10m populations), that in larger groups it is in the intersets of groups of separate interests of separate strategies, to separate and produce norms, traditions, commons, and institutions, that are preferable for each group. 7) The Jewish question is driven almost entirely by (a) the jewish continuous advocacy for leftism and records of what they have done elsewhere, (b) activism in the process of undermining the constitution as a document of reciprocity (natural law) by selective advancement of cases before the court, and activism in suppression of western identitarianism (SPLC), (b) dominance in media and entertainment, and (c) demonstrated superiority at extemporaneous discourse in an era of high demand for extemporaneous speech in the media. It’s very easy to survey any publication for ant-white posts and determine the ethnicity of the authors, and this drives the perception. The use of argumentative techniques of poly-ethicalism, ir-reciprocity, relativism, combined with shaming, rallying, gossip, and reputation destruction, and of Pilpul(sophism) and Critique(straw manning extension of rallying shaming etc); 8) The right is terribly empirical AND hyperbolic in its interpretation of empirical evidence. The denial of HBD, the Negative consequences of diversity, the reality of IQ and the value of every single point of IQ in the standard of living of the people, the uniqueness of high trust in northern europeans, the general hostility against white people is endemic. (Moreover, you are mistaken about the percentage of the population that is aggressively advancing revolutionary activism. It’s just underground, and like all underground movements produces status signaling as a reward for participants. (The zero turnout in DC was by design.)) 9) There is no evidence that the mutli-culturalism in this country will succeed any more than hit has in any other region, particularly the middle east, south america, india, and africa – or europe for that matter. All data I know of says it INCREASES DEMAND FOR AUTHORITARIANISM, which, as I understand it, is, and has been, the left’s objective. 10) Peoples demonstrate kin selection except at the top, are more dependent on shared information and the discounts on kin vs non-kin cooperation at the bottom, differ in the distribution of the two traits most influential in social, economic, political, and technological development. Those of us in the high standard deviations from the mean are too insulated from the perceptions of common people – and the relative immutability of those perceptions as necessary for preservation of their will to continue to act in service of themselves and others. 11) Outside of china there is no evidence that the human capital reserves that existed prior to 1900, exist any longer, and the period by which a backward State could use pre-existing western technology and local resources to leverage a growth of the middle class has passed. (Note: I do not understand why chinese intelligence doesn’t pay the rural IQ cost like the rest of us, or if there is something in the collection of data or effect of literacy in character memorization that I don’t understand.). 12) The value of women added to the economy has been completely absorbed by increases in taxation. Ergo we have merely engaged in reproductive redistribution, and to the right wing white male, that just translates into genocide. Which is what is driving the right. “We were too kind, and let them win. With just that one law under johnson, they lied and we let them win.” My observation of both of you which is my observation of most people in the academy, is that understanding of economics in incentives, in behavior, in the micro economics that are perceptible to each of us, and macro economics that are not observable are counter to our intuitions, is as necessary a method of cognition as reading and mathematics, and that programming, being an operational and existential rather than sets and ideal is superior to mathematics. There is no commons possible to construct that is superior to upward redistribution of reproduction, and no harm that can be done to a polity other than it’s reversal. Lastly: We were wrong about south africa. The same is happening in southern brazil. And unless these are corrected the narrative will continue to accelerate.

  • Notes: Jordan Peterson and Jonathan Haidt

    (notes) 1) You (and jonathan) are correct that the internet has had the suggested effect, but incorrect that it has created a false impression. Instead, we all have a much more HONEST and UNFILTERED view of each group’s narrative and ambitions when absent curation by filters. The fact that you’re discounting this is rather odd, and I’ll expand this in a moment. 2) Pinker’s work misses (or artfully avoids the fact) that while violence has seemingly decreased, it has simply moved from physical attack on physical property to financialization and political parasitism that has redistributed middle and working class reproduction familial insurance, and retirement to the underclass and immigrants, and destroyed the nuclear family central to the USA’s groups strategy by malincentives in the name of virtues. 3) The principle problem in primary education is that the differences between racial groups is largely one of neotonic evolution in response to geographic demands. And that we mature at different rates, some faster and some slower, and that the rates of aggression and sensitivity to existential differences in irreversible sexual, social, economic, political, and market value come into play at different times, to different intensities. One cannot have any knowledge of the classroom and understand the violence that children are exposed to. Compare this to my current home in Ukraine where the homogeneity of the 1950’s is everywhere and conformity mandated everywhere, and civility still exists, despite being the only poor european country remaining. As far as I know the bottom has been repaired to wealth, health and nutrition and the Flynn effect is reversing. Why? It is more important to remove negative influences than try to create positive influences. We have lost vast portions of the always-troublesome white laboring and working classes to malincentives already. 4) The university isn’t as much a problem as pseudoscience: teach basic accounting, credit, micro and macro economic principles so that people undrestand the world we live in and why no alternative is possible. The university does not teach that the principle problem of differences in national income have to do with (a) degree of homogeneity, and (b) size of the underclass vs the middle class. Lastly is to cut the pseudosciences that women in particular create demand for, in exchange for vast student debt and no increase in calculative capacity. 5) The right does not see eugenic organization of society as oppression but domestication of humans just like all other animals and plants. Western civilization has been aggressively eugenic for all of its recorded history, with no myth of equality whatsoever. Limiting the damage of the bottom is seen as a necessary good. (The male reproductive strategy, versus the left’s female reproductive strategy.) 6) Neither of you take the position that just as the scandinavians naturally diverge in specialization under equality of choice and opportunity rather than converge, (despite being tiny homogenous 5-10m populations), that in larger groups it is in the intersets of groups of separate interests of separate strategies, to separate and produce norms, traditions, commons, and institutions, that are preferable for each group. 7) The Jewish question is driven almost entirely by (a) the jewish continuous advocacy for leftism and records of what they have done elsewhere, (b) activism in the process of undermining the constitution as a document of reciprocity (natural law) by selective advancement of cases before the court, and activism in suppression of western identitarianism (SPLC), (b) dominance in media and entertainment, and (c) demonstrated superiority at extemporaneous discourse in an era of high demand for extemporaneous speech in the media. It’s very easy to survey any publication for ant-white posts and determine the ethnicity of the authors, and this drives the perception. The use of argumentative techniques of poly-ethicalism, ir-reciprocity, relativism, combined with shaming, rallying, gossip, and reputation destruction, and of Pilpul(sophism) and Critique(straw manning extension of rallying shaming etc); 8) The right is terribly empirical AND hyperbolic in its interpretation of empirical evidence. The denial of HBD, the Negative consequences of diversity, the reality of IQ and the value of every single point of IQ in the standard of living of the people, the uniqueness of high trust in northern europeans, the general hostility against white people is endemic. (Moreover, you are mistaken about the percentage of the population that is aggressively advancing revolutionary activism. It’s just underground, and like all underground movements produces status signaling as a reward for participants. (The zero turnout in DC was by design.)) 9) There is no evidence that the mutli-culturalism in this country will succeed any more than hit has in any other region, particularly the middle east, south america, india, and africa – or europe for that matter. All data I know of says it INCREASES DEMAND FOR AUTHORITARIANISM, which, as I understand it, is, and has been, the left’s objective. 10) Peoples demonstrate kin selection except at the top, are more dependent on shared information and the discounts on kin vs non-kin cooperation at the bottom, differ in the distribution of the two traits most influential in social, economic, political, and technological development. Those of us in the high standard deviations from the mean are too insulated from the perceptions of common people – and the relative immutability of those perceptions as necessary for preservation of their will to continue to act in service of themselves and others. 11) Outside of china there is no evidence that the human capital reserves that existed prior to 1900, exist any longer, and the period by which a backward State could use pre-existing western technology and local resources to leverage a growth of the middle class has passed. (Note: I do not understand why chinese intelligence doesn’t pay the rural IQ cost like the rest of us, or if there is something in the collection of data or effect of literacy in character memorization that I don’t understand.). 12) The value of women added to the economy has been completely absorbed by increases in taxation. Ergo we have merely engaged in reproductive redistribution, and to the right wing white male, that just translates into genocide. Which is what is driving the right. “We were too kind, and let them win. With just that one law under johnson, they lied and we let them win.” My observation of both of you which is my observation of most people in the academy, is that understanding of economics in incentives, in behavior, in the micro economics that are perceptible to each of us, and macro economics that are not observable are counter to our intuitions, is as necessary a method of cognition as reading and mathematics, and that programming, being an operational and existential rather than sets and ideal is superior to mathematics. There is no commons possible to construct that is superior to upward redistribution of reproduction, and no harm that can be done to a polity other than it’s reversal. Lastly: We were wrong about south africa. The same is happening in southern brazil. And unless these are corrected the narrative will continue to accelerate.

  • One Moral + One Immoral Acts in the Universe There is an objective morality to t

    One Moral + One Immoral Acts in the Universe

    There is an objective morality to the universe that can be honed down into one moral and one immoral act.

    The holiest thing one can do is… https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=292423691354528&id=100017606988153


    Source date (UTC): 2018-09-10 11:53:56 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1039119780287053824

  • One Moral + One Immoral Acts in the Universe There is an objective morality to t

    One Moral + One Immoral Acts in the Universe

    There is an objective morality to the universe that can be honed down into one moral and one immoral act.

    The holiest thing one can do is succeed. The Greatest sin is failure.

    Should an animal find a mate and reproduce, it’s genes pass on and it, in this way, achieves an extension of life, a conditional immortality.

    If it does not, the “Gods” condemn it to be erased from the Earth. A vague memory, a fossil, if that.

    This simple law, the law which governs all living creatures, is the only morality which exists. This is the true will of God. This is the only Divine Truth.

    There are no miracles. No magic men in the sky. There is merely iron and stone, flesh and blood, struggle and the will to power.

    All other beliefs are merely delusions, and stray from the true nature of our world with predictable results.

    Monks could not have sex.

    Thus the monks died in service of an imaginary God and their genetics died with them.

    Abandoning the one true God, that of natural law, will destroy your soul in a much more immediate way than some illusion of fire and brimstone.

    – Travis Pearce

    via James Santagata


    Source date (UTC): 2018-09-10 07:53:00 UTC

  • is that a rational or empirical judgement?

    is that a rational or empirical judgement?


    Source date (UTC): 2018-09-09 23:39:00 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1038934829834878976

    Reply addressees: @dagmar_schmitt @MartianHoplite

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1038830620741267457


    IN REPLY TO:

    @GudistGrug

    @MartianHoplite @curtdoolittle Neither is nessisarily eugenic or dysgenic. They are simply different strategies that require selecting for different behaviors. Both have their place, but must be in balance.

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1038830620741267457

  • The Purpose of Right Fascism is to punish opposition to truth, duty, family, nat

    The Purpose of Right Fascism is to punish opposition to truth, duty, family, nation, and continuously evolutionary and eugenic civilization.

    The Purpose of Left Fascism is to punish truth,… https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=291706308092933&id=100017606988153


    Source date (UTC): 2018-09-08 11:37:29 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1038390865067225088

  • The Purpose of Right Fascism is to punish opposition to truth, reciprocity, duty

    The Purpose of Right Fascism is to punish opposition to truth, reciprocity, duty, family, nation, and continuously evolutionary and eugenic civilization.

    The Purpose of Left Fascism is to punish truth, reciprocity, duty, family and nation to produce continuously devolutionary and dysgenic civilzation.

    There is every reason in the world for the left to suppression Truth, Reason, Reciprocity, and Science. Dysgenia is in their reproductive interests.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-09-08 07:37:00 UTC