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March 09, 2014, 11:44:33 AM
#74
I'm beginning to think Dark Enlightenment is a doomsday cult.
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March 09, 2014, 05:37:09 AM
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Btw, that entire thread is a great read of my (a.k.a. JustSaying's) logic on socialism, God, and the universe. I was clairvoyant at the time (unlike now my now foggy mind is in a slog from overworking,  not eating properly, not seeing the sun in weeks, etc).

Several tidbits...

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=4757&cpage=1#comment-394266

Quote from: JustSaying a.k.a. AnonyMint
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@JAD
> Thus belief in equality and social justice reliably leads to persecution, mass murder,
> and genocide, because reality is that people and groups are not equal.

Agreed. Politics legislates that which can not be controlled top-down, magically promising the people what they think should be but either can not or not sustainably. Equality and social justice means plunder and the redistribution of wealth.

An insidious form of redistribution that enables many aspects of the political illusion is borrowing from the predicted future using debt to redistribute capital FROM necessary real-time demand, e.g. currently TO excess consumption (west) and excess fixed investment (china). Compared to binding to years of prediction, real-time feedback loops have orders-of-magnitude higher fitness (dynamic adaptability to dynamic opportunities) due the geometrically permuted network effects of real-time degrees-of-freedom. Unfitness manifests as inefficiency, laziness, ignorance, inability, corruption, brutality, etc..

If I am correctly interpreting esr’s summary of Olson, it implies the special interests groups are a minority, however they comprise the entire population playing the political game.

Why do you protest against politics, given it is a natural form of human competition? Anarchism would unrealistically require that everyone is a pure sigma (the sigma in PUA theory)– not libertarians who think we can legislate liberty.

Sigmas are successful when they reject political capital (and money as much as practical) and make innovations or insights in the free market. When they drift to relying on the monetary or political capital they’ve earned from those innovations or insights, they are falling away from their optimum efficacy.

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> More to the point, why can’t we help the best individuals with their best learing modes?

When it is done in the private sector then it does not fall victim to the Olson failure, see khanacademy.org and codecademy.com (the future of education).

Compare the fitness of accomplishments in the competitive free market, versus the blindness of legislating with no market feedback what other people should do.

Non-sigmas don’t think they can get all their desired results without some politics. The alphas serve their demand to be deluded on the efficacy of political action.

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=4757&cpage=1#comment-394267

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@JustSaying
> they are falling away from their optimum efficacy.

Well their efficacy in the role of sigma to maximize individual freedom and fitness. This is not to say that alphas, betas, etc are not effective in the complex game of evolution. I should not assert that some sprinkling of alpha mode could not be evolutionary advantageous for a sigma.

The unfitness of debt and political action is apparently evolutionary necessary or optimum, else it wouldn’t be natural and someone would devise a private sector solution.

For example, from the perspective of debt money as the antithesis of gold, they compete and balance the opposing disadvantages, e.g. gold encourages burying savings in hole and rewards non-production.

Even if the masses held physical gold (i.e. well distributed wealth), then the money supply could not expand fast enough for financed production to outpace the natural population growth rate. And with that inherent deflation, conservative savers are either motivated to hold the physical thus removing it from the circulating money supply, or to deposit it in return for an interest rate in which case mathematically the banks must do fractional reserve banking.

Debt is natural and required.

Infinite degrees-of-freedom (perfect fitness) could not be observable in any reality. There are no absolutes. Contrast requires imperfection. Existence requires perception. Perception requires contrast. Full circle to my early comment.

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=4757&cpage=1#comment-394401

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@JAD there is an article on your blog claiming the US Treasury might not possess any unencumbered gold.

Ah the baiting of the soul with the “gold will save us” emotional trap.

History has shown that the stored value medium for money is always debased, regardless whether it is gold, paper, Tally sticks, electronic digits, etc..

An insoluble fact is that debasement is always assured with politics, because the costs of the voters’ desires is obfuscated in the debasement of all citizens, instead of applied individually w.r.t. individual performance.

Don’t confuse the desire to work and get paid, or to start a business and earn a profit, with the political promises made to voters. Don’t confuse “economic value” with “I saw jobs, prosperity being created”. Economic value is a network of feedback loops from investment followed by profit or bankruptcy. The more individually directed these investments are, the more chances of finding the profitable ones that fit the economic demand. The collective politics has an incentive (to earn votes) to invest in everything voters want, economic or not.

This insoluble power vacuum (that sucks in a leader who can make the political promises) can not be wished away just because it is repulses a person’s emotions. There is no possible mechanism to remove it.

For example, some claim that Hitler and Lincoln or recently Iceland and China, took the power from the banking establishment and gave it to the citizens, by handing the control over the creation of paper money to the national treasury. Hitler and Confederate notes both debased their society by spending on uneconomic projects. China is doing the same now. Hitler initially made the people happy with lavish public works spending (e.g. the road network and health care), promising the people more than the economic value of the projects could sustain. When he could not get enough oil to sustain it, he was forced to expropriate via war in order to fulfill the collective social promises. That summary probably misses some complexities, but the essential point remains valid.

Since the masses don’t hold most of the wealth, if the society enforces a strict gold standard, then the masses don’t get what they want. This is why gold standards are always subverted by politics.

A strict gold standard would over time concentrate relative wealth from the consuming middle class to the wealthy, who save say 99% and consume 1% of their income. Politics demands debasement, because the rich concentrate wealth (with or) without debasement.

Some refer to the Byzantine era as an example of a sustainable gold standard. I have not studied the period intensely. Apparently gold was being imported into the economy by their trade surplus, so perhaps political promises were less attractive to citizens who were finding sufficient opportunities to be busy and prosperous. Unlike China’s current situation, their trade surplus was not due to a mercantile policy of debasement of their currency, rather apparently due to some situational and technological advantages, e.g. their cannon spraying flaming oil on pirates. Further insight on this would be appreciated.

I posit the taxonomy of male social order types from PUA type theory applies to this power vacuum. I asserted that the alphas get their power from public politics and/or Theory of the Firm (corporate politics), with the lower order male types (betas, gammas, omegas) employing politics to fight back. They can band together with politics to fight the rich with political promises including Doublethink such as equality and social justice, which actually end up as debasement and plunder. The sigmas don’t play the class warfare delusion, instead create technology to empower individuals.

Stored wealth is ephemeral and depleting. It should be this way, otherwise people become unmotivated to continue producing. The rate of growth of relative wealth of the rich decelerates as they grow richer and less in tune with the markets invested in, i.e. smaller things grow faster because of the fitness. I don’t hate the bankers+politicians because I don’t want to hate most people (i.e. the symbiotic borrowers+voters). Why hate what can’t be changed? Why be bitter and perceive the glass as half-empty? The inspiring fact is that despite the booms and busts (and occasional resultant atrocities and wars) caused by the political promises, everyone gets wealthier over time. The cost of commodities is inexorably declining as a relative share of the global GDP. In 323 B.C. iron was a precious metal. Technology, innovation, and art (i.e. knowledge) is the savior of mankind.

Atrocities repulse all of us. Religion is not the only cause. To entirely prevent them, we would have to somehow eliminate political promises and the Doublethink they create. Unfortunately I don’t see how such a goal is possible or congruent with evolution.

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=4757&cpage=1#comment-394413

Quote from: JustSaying a.k.a. AnonyMint
@Greg, we are both correct. Agreed stored wealth should not disappear too fast to discourage saving and planning. It should deplete fast enough so that we remain competitive. Planning too far into the future or managing too much capital, reduces degrees-of-freedom and fitness. For dynamic systems, the best strategy is often an incremental adaptive approach of plan, implement, re-evaluate and repeat. I suppose divergence could be an issue in some cases.
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March 09, 2014, 05:10:53 AM
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I dump this here for lack of a better place to quickly record this publicly in such an unpolished state.

Someday I want to blog in careful detail about Eric's insightful refutation of Schrödinger’s Cat (which parallels some of the ways I initially thought about it, yet he adds some details such as the decoherence aspect):

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=690

The quick, uncareful dump of my thoughts is to tie this into my existing articles on my blog. Eric S. Raymond is correct that observation doesn't have an absolute point (everything in our universe is relative), but he missed is the conclusion from his own point which that the classical physics objects are also superimposed. There is no absolute point where classical objects exist and are no longer superimposed. Every day the earth has billions of simultaneous realities going which do not connected to your life in any way that you could possibly measure scientifically unless the speed-of-light was not finite and you could measure forever to capture all the possible long-tail butterfly effects of zillions of interactions of events that are not observable to you now.

There are few times I have been able to see things that Eric didn't and corrected him.

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=4757&cpage=1#comment-393293

Quote from: JustSaying a.k.a. AnonyMint
I posit that Eric is smart enough to recognize his mistake. Eric, you are conflating the mathematical duality of the inductive construction of the universe with the coinductive construction of infinity.

Quote from: Eric S Raymond
> First, give up one of omnibenevolence, omnipotence, or omniscience.
> Then we could talk contingent existence.

Indeed it would be impossible to construct an INSTANCE that is simultaneously all good, all powerful, and all knowing, because nothing imperfect could be constructed. Perfection would require infinite degrees-of-freedom, thus a dynamic, competitive world could not exist– the Second Law of Thermodynamics could not exist.

In type theory, top is the inductive bound and bottom is the coinductive bound. Top is the intersection of all types and bottom is the union of all types. Thus bottom can never be constructed as an instance, yet it exists as type bound.

Shift your frame-of-reference into the type of types domain of the universe to find the existence you claim is impossible.

Note that the operations (e.g. methods of a class) of an inductive type are a coinductive type and dually vice versa, e.g. the top class type contains the union of all methods of all types in the universe, thus can not be constructed. And dually, the bottom class type contains the intersection of all methods of all types, thus can be constructed.

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=4757&cpage=1#comment-393314

Quote from: JustSaying a.k.a. AnonyMint
Quote from: Eric S Raymond
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>Shift your frame-of-reference into the type of types domain of the universe to find the existence you claim is impossible.

You’re uttering nonsense. The relationship between mathematical theory and observed reality is not even nearly that simple.

I understood your tripartite impossibility claim to be that a good God would not be powerless to make good all that is in the universe.

The claim is illogical in several orthogonal ways.

1. Good does not exist without evil. Perception requires contrast.
2. Good is evil, and vice versa, from different perspectives.
3. Some cases of global or greater good require local or lesser evil.

Essentially by implication you claimed that infinity (infinite degrees-of-freedom to attain good at all possible perspectives) must be observable, else it is impossible. Or by implication you claimed that we can prove the universe is finite, thus the necessary degrees-of-freedom would be observed and achieved by such a God.

Some theories of the universe posit that infinity exists as an unreachable bound in some domain, e.g. entropy, space, time, or precision. True or not, we can not prove that infinity does not exist as unreachable bound. Your claim of impossibility is too strong. Such a God can not provably exist, because we can’t observe for infinite time, precision, etc..

A possible interpretation of your linked essay on math, is that an infinite universe can not be completely described by any finite set of theories or axioms.

Infinity can not constructed inductively from a starting point, because infinity (final unreachable bound) can not be observed.

Whether it exists or not, infinity or the finite bound is decomposed co-inductively as observations directed towards its final unreachable or finite bound that we can not prove is final.

How sad a finite universe would be, where the scientific method could be shelved and knowledge would cease to expand at some finite bound. The scientific method requires that we never trust a bound (e.g. Planck’s constant precision) as final and continue searching and testing forever.

There is another one where I corrected him about computer language theory, but I don't have time to dig it up right now.

Any one who doubts the depth of my computer science knowledge can start reading here.
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March 08, 2014, 08:52:33 PM
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Before you read my response, note that I grew up in the inner cities slums of New Orleans and Baton Rouge. My sister and I were once the only white kids in the entire elementary school, and our hair was always oily from all the kids touching our fine hair from behind. It was irritating.

 Wow - sounds like you had it really rough - what with them black folk touching your hair and everything  Grin

You have no idea how dangerous it was to grow up in inner city New Orleans.

You sound to me like a borderline trustafarian

My family was never rich until my father become West Coast Division Head attorney for Exxon during the 1980s (think Exxon Valdez since Prudhoe bay was under his sphere of responsibility).

I only experienced his wealth for a brief few years in my 20s, then I became destitute again, then I became middle class on my own when I released CoolPage in 1998. Since then my moderate wealth or lack thereof has vacillated.

- over here the PM's wife (aristocrat Samantha Cameron), used to make a big noise about when she used to hang around with Tricky - back in the day, when she'd slum it as a student in the wrong part of Bristol. Tricky has to this day never heard of the woman - let alone played pool with her   Cheesy

I tried to have many friends who are black.

Yeah - and I tried to have some of my best friends as gay  Roll Eyes

I had a very handsome friend in high school who drove a fast car and I thought he was cool until one day he tried to touch my leg, then I amicably stopped being his friend.

Where I live now the ladyboys are very attracted to me (even more universally so than the ladies), but I refuse to befriend them (after some aborted trials to see if there was any symbiosis there) because I find them annoying and the thought of man-on-man sex is repulsive to me.

Since per what I wrote upthread, I am entirely against the concept of a state enforced marriage contract, then I have no problem if gays do what ever they want, as long as they don't try to mess with me.

As George Carlin says, "I'm tired of these rock stars dealing with their cocaine guilt by saving a forest somewhere", arrogant white people are dealing with their socialism debt and colonialism guilt by saving nature (of races). It is just more irrational bullshit. What they are really saving is their socialism system that enables them to have their cake and eat it too (but this is coming to end with $150 trillion global debt). The socialism is going away folks, and you are too. Reality check.

You really need to educate yourself buddy. Have a look at Adorno/the Frankfurt School and the "culture industry" - you might then have some understanding of why the patronising ramblings of egotistical rock stars have absolutely fuck all to do with socialism

And massive debt doesn't enable massive collective misallocation of consumer expenditures much.   Roll Eyes

Myopic, Dunning-Kruger, charlatans don't impress me, so be gone from me.

And you ARE going away and I am going to do my technological part to make it so.

- and indeed, if you are able to make the connections, why in turn socialism has absolutely fuck all to do with the US driven debt problem.

Socialists blame debt on the effects of the vested interests due to the power vacuum of democracy, then they try to put the blame on capitalism to deflect it away from its root cause which is democracy. You forgot the adjective "usury". I've explained in great detail which is discussed in the Economic Devastation thread, why large capital is inherently dumb (because smaller things grow faster and knowledge generation is not fungible) thus only can grow when that power vacuum in place.

We recently had floods in the UK due to a shift in the jet stream and exceptional levels of precipitation. I suppose this had something to do with "socialism" as well, right ?

You incorrect man-made global warming proponents try to claim socialism is responsible, because you claim only socialism can fix the problem. Kaplunk.

(and the entire hysteria is junk science which is another effect of socialism).

But no worries, you ARE going away soon.

And as I explained upthread, the D.E. will sneak up on you and it won't be announced on TV. By the time you realize what we have done to you, you will be swept away already.

I am not just a theorist, I am also a man of action.

A longer penis means the women were having sex with more men, as the longer penis would have a better chance of depositing the sperm deep and greater change of spreading the male's genetics.

Hold on a minute  Huh  Wouldn't this mean that the women would have had to have had sex with fewer men, not more.

Thanks for confirming for all to see how low your IQ is.

Impregnating a woman is normally a function of repetition, as in about 1 in 11 attempts will result in a pregnancy. Thus the woman's evolutionary strategy is maximized in one vector by accepting as many mates as possible. Other vectors include hypergamy and enough support to raise the children.

The more mates depositing sperm the more evolutionary strategy advantage each male needs to get his sperm into a slightly better swimming position to maximize the odds of fertilization.

You put the cart before the horse. One vector of a feral woman's evolutionary strategy is competing predatory males to maximize her gene pool, so the penis must get longer in societies where the man doesn't marry, guard the woman, and maximize the other vectors in her evolutionary strategy. East Asians have even smaller penises than whites because they control the women even more than we whites do, but this comes at the expense of creating a docile population with reduced willpower, independent thought and creative output. East Asian babies don't even fight when put in a position where they can't breathe. It seems the whites probably had the best balance when we weren't destroyed by the power vacuum of democracy, yet who is to say what is "best". The races adapted to what was best in their environs.

practicaldreamer is apparently too dumb, obstinate, or lazy to understand the linked math.

FWIW I read the article - you were, as indeed I was, educated to first degree level (to a greater or lesser extent) in Mathematics - nothing more than that. So I understand the language, if you like. But all I can see is a disjointed rambling, without a clear or cited aim/intention - the majority merely describes what we already know, but attempts to link it altogether in a way that is clearly tenuous and over ambitious.

Your low IQ explains why you are unable to comprehend why the logic is exclusionary of other possibilities.
  
In short, I'm not sure there's many here has the slightest idea WTF you are going on about.

Indeed at least 25% don't have the IQ to comprehend a very simple case of my reductionist ability, so certainly they can't understand the more complex cases of reductionist logic I employ.

As William James said in the Unheresy link, “The essence of genius is to know what to overlook”.

Good to see you are trying to learn from my blog (that quote he saw there), and the operative word there is "what".
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March 08, 2014, 03:41:48 PM
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   Still, I don't feel good about keep butting into his threads like this - if for no other reason that I'm merely feeding the troll.

But surely he's just misguided? We ought to lead him back to the light -- that would be the morally right thing to do Tongue

Sadly I have conversed extensively with AnonyMint and determined that he is beyond salvation. He will not be led back to the light despite being shown the way on several several occasions.

When dealing with dangerous fanatics such as this ignoring them messenger and public ridicule as our friend L'Estrange advised is best tried first. Sadly in tough cases such as this we must move on to more advanced L'Estrange tactics.

Quote from: Roger L'Estrange
'Tis not necessity, but opinion, that makes men miserable; and when we come to be fancy-sick, there's no cure.
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There is no opposing brutal force to the stratagems of reason.
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That which the world miscalls a jail,
A private closet is to me.

The solution is quite apparent. We need to find a nice private closet for AnonyMint where his dangerous sickness can be contained.

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March 08, 2014, 11:14:19 AM
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Before you read my response, note that I grew up in the inner cities slums of New Orleans and Baton Rouge. My sister and I were once the only white kids in the entire elementary school, and our hair was always oily from all the kids touching our fine hair from behind. It was irritating.

 Wow - sounds like you had it really rough - what with them black folk touching your hair and everything  Grin

You sound to me like a borderline trustafarian - over here the PM's wife (aristocrat Samantha Cameron), used to make a big noise about when she used to hang around with Tricky - back in the day, when she'd slum it as a student in the wrong part of Bristol. Tricky has to this day never heard of the woman - let alone played pool with her   Cheesy

I tried to have many friends who are black.

Yeah - and I tried to have some of my best friends as gay  Roll Eyes


As George Carlin says, "I'm tired of these rock stars dealing with their cocaine guilt by saving a forest somewhere", arrogant white people are dealing with their socialism debt and colonialism guilt by saving nature (of races). It is just more irrational bullshit. What they are really saving is their socialism system that enables them to have their cake and eat it too (but this is coming to end with $150 trillion global debt). The socialism is going away folks, and you are too. Reality check.

You really need to educate yourself buddy. Have a look at Adorno/the Frankfurt School and the "culture industry" - you might then have some understanding of why the patronising ramblings of egotistical rock stars have absolutely fuck all to do with socialism - and indeed, if you are able to make the connections, why in turn socialism has absolutely fuck all to do with the US driven debt problem.

We recently had floods in the UK due to a shift in the jet stream and exceptional levels of precipitation. I suppose this had something to do with "socialism" as well, right ?

My Great Aunt Minnie just found a hair in her soup - them bloody socialists at it again I'd say  Grin




A longer penis means the women were having sex with more men, as the longer penis would have a better chance of depositing the sperm deep and greater change of spreading the male's genetics.

Hold on a minute  Huh  Wouldn't this mean that the women would have had to have had sex with fewer men, not more.




practicaldreamer is apparently too dumb, obstinate, or lazy to understand the linked math.
You are asking me to play a game of your choosing, on your court, to rules of your design and which may change at your behest
- and you are surprised that I don't have the desire to engage/play the game ? I'd much prefer to let you play with yourself, so to speak  Wink

FWIW I read the article - you were, as indeed I was, educated to first degree level (to a greater or lesser extent) in Mathematics - nothing more than that. So I understand the language, if you like. But all I can see is a disjointed rambling, without a clear or cited aim/intention - the majority merely describes what we already know, but attempts to link it altogether in a way that is clearly tenuous and over ambitious.
  



In short, I'm not sure there's many here has the slightest idea WTF you are going on about. It doesn't help that you bandy about terms such as "contentionism" - a term that yourself and Coincube only dreamt up together a couple of weeks ago (you aren't the same person are you ?) and yet today seem to think that everyone is au fait with the term. You can see the problem can't you - you are making utterances in what is essentially a private language  - it won't wash I'm afraid.

   Its all well and good all these types of threads - I mean, its quite a spectacle and everything - but I do worry that people new to this forum will view Anonymints voluminous postings and think Bitcoin is some kind of cult, its forum populated by whacko's.

   Still, I don't feel good about keep butting into his threads like this - if for no other reason than I'm merely feeding the troll.
Looks like the ignore button might be the only option left here I'm afraid. As William James said in the Unheresy link, “The essence of genius is to know what to overlook”.

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March 08, 2014, 04:50:44 AM
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D.E. thinks anthropogenic, man-made global warming (AGW) is junk science...
It only takes a bit of logical thinking to come to a conclusion that the actions of mankind are warming the globe.

Spend some time in the AGW thread to correct your understanding.




All those who voted "Yes" have an IQ I would guess below 120, maybe even lower.

(I would have said 100 or below, but we have to account for smart people who are ignorant about the history of Satoshi's interaction on this forum and the technical capabilities of tracking someone via their IP address)

Those who vote "yes" are just dumb.

That's a lot of anger about a poll result O.o

You confused the definition of "anger" with that of "frank statement of reality".

Who is angry? Maybe those who are stupid are angry. They usually get angry about anything being stupid as they are. They especially believe that no one should ever speak Truth when it impacts someone's emotional delusion.

One of the reasons I started this thread, was to teach. To help others be smarter. That is empathy.

Is this an emotional test or an analytical poll?

I want to be analytical and rational. Emotions usually interfere with these goals. There is a role for empathy, but not when making an analysis.

Even Spock expressed empathy (about teaching) didn't he (because it was logical to do so)?
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March 08, 2014, 12:42:19 AM
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D.E. thinks anthropogenic, man-made global warming (AGW) is junk science...
It only takes a bit of logical thinking to come to a conclusion that the actions of mankind are warming the globe.
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March 08, 2014, 12:37:53 AM
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So shove your politically correct bullshit up your arse. I am not a racist. I am a realist with real life experience.
I may lack your real life experience, but I do acknownledge the statistical differences you're talking about (I never opposed them in the first place). Neither did I ever think you're a racist. I've probably used wrong terms in my posts if my opinion came out so unclearly, the word "race" itself might have much more negative tone in english than it does in finnish.

My position on the issue doesn't come out of political correctness, but from my concern that any order to be will be influenced more by political opinions than "natural factors" (what is natural and what is not is a whole another debate Roll Eyes). Because of that I feel it will be better, not only for individuals, but for the human species as well to collaborate instead of forming an order by (arguably unnatural) competition.
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March 07, 2014, 09:32:07 PM
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D.E. thinks anthropogenic, man-made global warming (AGW) is junk science...

We are safe from Guacamolegeddon people! Back to Defcon 4

Hahaha

Stick a fork in that AGW turkey, all d'juice done oozed outta her...

Causes and implications of the pause

Dan's comments are always satirical:

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=5297&cpage=1#comment-426394

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I would say “shadenfreude!” but what we’re witnessing isn’t really ‘misfortune’ as much as it is a predictable slo-mo head-on collision trainwreck full of drunk Irishmen boldly predicting that the other train will swerve first.
I guess the reason I am interested and post on this subject is that it is not a "complex" subject, but one in which chaotic behavior predominates, and in which people try to apply all their little rationalizations and prejudices to.

Yeah is akin to playing Whac-A-Mole when you are drunk and reaction speed has slowed.  Cheesy

Well that was a nice TL;DR, summing up parts of the ideas discussed among the 25+ pages.

But he missed all the satire which laid (pun intended) out those ideas.  Cheesy
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March 07, 2014, 09:16:11 PM
#64
Before you read my response, note that I grew up in the inner cities slums of New Orleans and Baton Rouge. My sister and I were once the only white kids in the entire elementary school, and our hair was always oily from all the kids touching our fine hair from behind. It was irritating.

I tried to have many friends who are black.

When I tell you we are not usually the same (I'm French, Welsh, German, Cherokee), I speak from experience. Note the Cherokee's arrived in the first wave and thus originated from Europe, unlike the second wave of North American natives which are Asian.

So shove your politically correct bullshit up your arse. I am not a racist. I am a realist with real life experience.

As George Carlin says, "I'm tired of these rock stars dealing with their cocaine guilt by saving a forest somewhere", arrogant white people are dealing with their socialism debt and colonialism guilt by saving nature (of races). It is just more irrational bullshit. What they are really saving is their socialism system that enables them to have their cake and eat it too (but this is coming to end with $150 trillion global debt). The socialism is going away folks, and you are too. Reality check.

What I am saying is that it is fine-grained, bottom-up competition is an order in itself.
The underlined sentence above is what my entire argument is based on. There is no natural order to races because in the natural environment it was impossible for different races to even meet each other, let alone compete to form an order!

...

My emotions behind that concern are not irrational at all. As I argued above, races were never put into an order by nature. Every racial order to have ever existed have been synthetic and so will every racial order in the future be.

Blacks are different because they come from a different continental environment. It is actually a fact that certain sub-races within blacks have an average penis size which is larger than whites, and in fact whites have an average penis size which is larger than Asians. This is all about environment. For example much of East Asia was not as affected by Ice Ages.

A longer penis means the women were having sex with more men, as the longer penis would have a better chance of depositing the sperm deep and greater change of spreading the male's genetics.

Many sub-races of blacks have greater relative muscle mass to bone structure, and thus they are on average greater physical athletes. But where mental acumen and accuracy of physical repetition is required the greater average IQ of whites will allow whites to compete on average (i.e. the ratio of whites to blacks in a sport).

Have you ever been physically close with a black woman? There are distinctive differences such as very oily skin, which they needed to deal with the dry climate of the savanna and the greater sun exposure. Black women typically have much more defined muscles on their shoulders and biceps too.

Etc....
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March 07, 2014, 09:05:52 PM
#63
D.E. will sneak up on at least 30% of the people because at least 30% people are too dumb. And as I explained upthread, the D.E. is a bottom-up, coinductive phenomenon which won't appear as the top-down, inductive consensus on TV that the masses are accustomed to.

As everyone plainly knows we live in a 4 dimensional universe

No I showed mathematically that can't be true and that we actually live in a universe where spacetime exists in the domain of unbounded frequencies and phases. This explains how to conceptualize that there is no edge to the universe in 4D. That is my blog.

practicaldreamer is apparently too dumb, obstinate, or lazy to understand the linked math.
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March 07, 2014, 03:33:22 PM
#62
Contentionism doesn't appear to be falsifiable. Grin


Agreed, Contentionism is a theory and as it currently stands is not falsifiable.

Its validity, like the validity of other non-falsifiable theories will have to be determined by its accuracy in in predicting future events.

Contentionism is new thus has no such track record. It is therefore up to individuals to determine if they agree with the premises and conclusions of the theory.

For Example, if you agree with Contentionism you should probably invest in both the dominant anonymous and non anonymous cryptocurrency as soon as said dominance establishes itself if not sooner. You should also stay far far away from any and all government bonds.

If you think Contentionism is false then these recommendations, at least for the reasons argued in the theory, can be ignored.


 
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March 07, 2014, 03:05:53 PM
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- how about this one Coincube, if we are throwing googled quotations about :-

     "When men will not be reasoned out of a vanity, they must be ridiculed out of it." - L'estrange.

Roger L'Estrange huh... let's take a look at the source of your quote

Quote from: wikipeida
As Licenser and Surveyor, L’Estrange was charged with the prevention of the publication of dissenting writings, and authorised to search the premises of printers and booksellers on the merest suspicion of dissension.[5] L’Estrange excelled at this, hunting down hidden presses and enlisting peace officers and soldiers to suppress their activities. He soon came to be known as the “Bloodhound of the Press.”[6] His careful monitoring and control of nonconformist ideas and opinions succeeded not only in checking seditious publications,[4] but also in limiting political controversy and reducing debate.[7]

Yep sounds like someone who would support ridicule to suppress knowledge. I will respond with a good old fashion American revolutionary.

"But resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us." -- Thomas Jefferson

http://books.google.com/books?id=zJchn31t7DgC&pg=PA288&dq=%22resort+is+had+to+ridicule%22,+%22Thomas+Jefferson%22&hl=en&ei=L4FqTdiPGYaCgAfSkenLCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=ridicule&f=false
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March 07, 2014, 02:34:24 PM
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we can't top-down provide an environment
I agree.

rather we push on the environment and see how it anneals (this is effectively what government does, although it may wish it was actually setting the environment).
I agree.

If your assertion were true that we can top-down create an environment..
You are mistaken. I have not made such assertion.

You claim there is no order, but then why did evolution give females an accelerated fertility curve as compared to males, which has numerous serious ramifications. Why did evolution give women a different strategy for hypergamy and short-term time preference. Because this strategy was the most optimally fit for the survival of the human race.
My claim was against your premise of a natural order of races. You keep on bringing up the sex issue when it's in no way relevant to discussion about races. You might be surprised to hear we are in no disagreement on the natural differences of man and woman. Our biological bodies are still operating the same way, from the same instincts they did as hunter-gatherers in the wilderness. And that environment is, by the very biology of our bodies, the natural environment of our species where natural order took place.

What I am saying is that it is fine-grained, bottom-up competition is an order in itself.
The underlined sentence above is what my entire argument is based on. There is no natural order to races because in the natural environment it was impossible for different races to even meet each other, let alone compete to form an order!

The government wants to ... but this is just pushing on the natural order in the environment and the environment annealed by producing a failed society with insufficient youth to support the elderly and a $150 trillion global debt bomb that will soon explode and then we go back to the natural order again.
I agree that modern society is a failure, but I'm not as set on how we got here and disagree on the outcome. Whenever this bubble bursts it's highly unlikely we will end up with anything close to natural order. People will still be plagued by the same beliefs (or as afaik D.E. says, learned lies) they had before the collapse. And when a new society emerges, perhaps some things will be learnt, but for generations the new society will carry along the shadow of the one before it.


Not only do I disagree on the existence of any definitive order, but I also think it's a very dangerous premise to build an ideology on. It will be used as an excuse for discrimination or something much worse.
Your irrational emotions aside, the mathematical facts are irrefutable.
My emotions behind that concern are not irrational at all. As I argued above, races were never put into an order by nature. Every racial order to have ever existed have been synthetic and so will every racial order in the future be. Your premise of the racial order and your scenario about the collapse of society are your own political beliefs, not facts given to you by math and science.
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March 07, 2014, 01:33:17 PM
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    Many computational biologists would agree that (and I'm sure Anonymint would have to, albeit begrudgingly, concur) , had it not been for lambda calculus, the understanding of spreadsheets might never have occurred. An essential challenge in artificial intelligence is the understanding of probabilistic information.

What does this statement have to do with the Dark Enlightenment?

I believe practicaldreamer may be trying to demonstrate that true statements may also possibly have no relevant implication.

Jesus Christ man - you are conflating your orthoganals - I don't think I could have articulated myself any more succinctly, in fact I thought my previous post was almost poetic - why should I waste time explaining myself to intellectually challenged charlatans who are prone to wearing the emperors new clothes just because their mothers told them they were clever boys when they were 6 - and you dare to question my intent with your vacuity posing as metaphor, your sociopathy and your vanity. Speaking of which :-

“Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge: the serenity to accept the things we cannot predict, the courage to predict the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”
― Nate Silver

 - how about this one Coincube, if we are throwing googled quotations about :-

     "When men will not be reasoned out of a vanity, they must be ridiculed out of it." - L'estrange.
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March 07, 2014, 08:35:32 AM
#58
Contentionism doesn't appear to be falsifiable. Grin

It may depend on how the definition is framed. I haven't had much time to think about it. I am very busy on more urgent matters.

The definition of the products of democracy is not holistically falsifiable either. Neither is man-made global warming, etc..
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March 07, 2014, 12:51:07 AM
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I've exchanged some discussion with James A. Donald in his blog (and actually he seems like a reasonable man and amicable with me). It appears to me his hate derives from the bad outcomes he sees from the state supporting females and minorities, thus causing great ruin (as explained in my prior post). Yet this is irrational. Hating individuals for their choices when the causes are macro-economic (socialism) and technological (i.e. lack of anonymity to destroy the state), is irrational...

ESR makes the same point and articulates it better:

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=5238&cpage=1#comment-425929

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I don’t interpret the experience ais JAD would; he needs these incidents to be evidence of black and female inferiority, which I don’t. No, the problem was that as an unintended consequence of civil rights law this woman had power and immunity without responsibility. That can make anybody stupid and arrogant, no matter what their skin color or the shape of their genitalia.

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March 06, 2014, 10:01:01 PM
#56
    Many computational biologists would agree that (and I'm sure Anonymint would have to, albeit begrudgingly, concur) , had it not been for lambda calculus, the understanding of spreadsheets might never have occurred. An essential challenge in artificial intelligence is the understanding of probabilistic information.

What does this statement have to do with the Dark Enlightenment?

I believe practicaldreamer may be trying to demonstrate that true statements may also possibly have no relevant implication.

    On a similar note, given the current status of optimal symmetries, hackers worldwide daringly desire the emulation of object-oriented languages.

I have no idea that means.

Nevertheless, context-free grammar alone is able to fulfill the need for the construction of context-free grammar especially with special reference to ECDSA and its existential threat to the farthing.

I don't understand how ECDSA is related to CFGs in any relevant way?
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March 06, 2014, 09:14:42 PM
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About the racial equality:

It takes half a brain to realize people are different. Not much more to understand different races have characteristic features other than the looks. "The Cathedrals" "lying" and "bad-policies" are imho misinterpretations of the actual noble cause to provide an environment where all the different people may flourish and feel equally respected, which is the right thing to do.

The comments below are about sexism (masquerading as the realities of differences between sexes), but can be similarly applied to racism (masquerading as the realities of differences between races).

If I am correct at representing the thinking of the D.E., we can't "provide an environment..." because there is a natural order to such matters.
There is no natural order. To assume such order you'd have to incorrectly assume that
1. Individuals within each group do not differ from each other.
2. Environment for every group is the same.

You have argued that the only order that could possibly exist would be the uniform distribution, which of course is dead thus can't exist.

http://unheresy.com/The%20Universe.html#Matter_as_a_continuum

If the above two points were true, evolution would have already come up with the superior race and wiped out all the others.

Illogical. If your assertion were true that we can top-down create an environment, then evolution wouldn't exist.

You claim there is no order, but then why did evolution give females an accelerated fertility curve as compared to males, which has numerous serious ramifications. Why did evolution give women a different strategy for hypergamy and short-term time preference. Because this strategy was the most optimally fit for the survival of the human race.

The government wants to turn women into men (and men into women, and here is more on that), and does its damn best to destroy the marriage economics by funding all the needs of women, but this is just pushing on the natural order in the environment and the environment annealed by producing a failed society with insufficient youth to support the elderly and a $150 trillion global debt bomb that will soon explode and then we go back to the natural order again.

In fact, evolution would preserve wide diversity (within the group) even if the environment was set, so as to allow survival of the species in a future change of the environment. When we observe evolution, "Survival of the fittest" is not exactly accurate. "Elimination of worst losers" fits much better.

That is not a refutation of my logic.

Where D.E. stands on this is still not exacly clear to me, and it doesn't seem to be very clear to you either.

It is mathematically and precisely clear to me as explained above.

If your premise was to acknownledge and appreciate the differences between peoples I'd agree, but right now it looks to me like you're more set on assuming and finding a "natural order" to put people in.

As I explained above, there must be a contention between order and disorder. And top-down order is the antithesis of degrees-of-freeom and fitness, because the speed-of-light isn't infinite and if it was past and present would collapse into one and nothing would exist.

Not only do I disagree on the existence of any definitive order, but I also think it's a very dangerous premise to build an ideology on. It will be used as an excuse for discrimination or something much worse.

Your irrational emotions aside, the mathematical facts are irrefutable.
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