HIS WEEK’s ASPIE POST Aspies tend to love everyone. The difficulty in empathizing, common rejection, and desire for connection with others makes all successful connections more enjoyable. The hard part to manage comes in three: 1) It’s hard to find …
nce you learn propertarianism’s basic principles: acquisition, property en toto, inventory, transaction cost, opportunity cost, cooperation, suppression of free riding, reproductive strategy and group evolutionary strategy, and all speech as negotiation for acquisition, you replace totalitarian Freudian psychology and cosmopolitan …
HE SILVER RULE IS THE ORIGIN OF COOPERATION THEFT The only ‘shame’ is theft. The only oath, not to lie, cheat, steal or impose harm. The summary of this ethic is: “Do not unto others as you would not want …
Hi Curt, I wanted to let you know I discovered you and your work after listening to your appearance on The Right Stuff. Very interesting episode that stands out from the rest. I have never had much interest in libertarianism …
HE THEORETICAL HIERARCHY OF ORGANIZATIONAL EVOLUTION (useful idea) 4 – LAW: Customers, Brand, Channels, and Income Stream, Predictability 3 – THEORY: Innovation (business model), Investment, Possibility 2 – HYPOTHESIS: Talent, Effort, Searching For A Business Model 1 – FREE ASSOCIATION: …
en have had a much harder time taming women’s irrationality and impulsivity than they have their own. We kill off troublesome men. We just constrain troublesome women. We spent tends of thousands of years incrementally suppressing male behavior while merely …
(very important) ime is amoral. It is put either to good ends or bad. Violence is amoral. It is either put to good ends or bad. Money is amoral. It is either put to good ends or bad. Law is …
market for consumer goods and a market for commons both benefit from producers and consumers. But I am an Aspie. I hate conflict. I don’t shun from it. That would be immoral. But I hate it none the less. I …
(important piece) (on the existence of gods) —“You’re one of my favorite Catholic Atheists”— ell, thank you. Although, while a scientist, I am not an atheist. I am just what is called a Naturalist, and not a Supernaturalist. I understand …
f you adopt paternalism: that your kin are an extended family, and that you will work with other extended families to cooperate non-parasitically with all other extended families, and that we produce nations not states, then you get this wonderful …
ROPERTARIAN CLASS STRUCTURES (draft)(note that education is a commercial class) Martial Class (suppression of parasitism) —Kings and Generals —Knights(professionals), Soldiers —Judges, and Sherriffs Commons Class (Construction of Commons) —Infrastructure Institutions —Civic Organizations —Beauty and Maintenance —Disaster Services Insurer Class (Insurance) …
Eli Harman One of Robert Axelrod’s findings from studying iterated prisoner’s dilemma competitions (“The Evolution of Cooperation”) is that the standard “tit for tat” strategy can be improved upon by adding an element of forgiveness, to break otherwise insoluable and …
—uslims everywhere (or rather i should say most Muslims i have encountered) do not accept the logical and normative distinction that western philosophy effectuates between the truth-value of statements and the origin of those statements. This is the true nexus …
olitical Philosophy is a lot easier when you just start from the premise that all goods are hypothetical, all bads are not, and that the only means of accumulating the knowledge to determine good from bad is exchange. This eliminates …
here is very little difference between the negotiated construction of the Pentateuch, or the Bible, and the American Constitution: they were the product of committees constructing the criteria for civil law. This is quite contradictory to the Indo European Tradition …
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