Tag: natural law = soviet law
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Hoel’s insight
Now that the OpenAI soap opera has turned out to be solely a Microsoft soap opera, Erik Hoel writes a rigorous economic discussion of the true potential of AI. He reaches two parallel conclusions: (1) The jobs that AI can replace are low-wage jobs or ‘open-source’ jobs like editing Wikipedia or writing drab repetitive music.…
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REA was Stroybank
Was the New Deal “Soviet”? Yes, in the best sense of the word. FDR tried to adopt parts of the Soviet system because suffering Americans recognized that the Soviet system worked better than ours. The best way to prevent a revolution is to treat the radicals as a corrective signal. Pull the system in the…
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More Thiel Questions
Thiel Questions are arguments or views that others don’t share. The last time I updated them was more than a year ago. Time to add a few more. I’ve written about each of these before but didn’t treat them as Thiel. = = = = = (1) Standard “history” tells us that we didn’t offshore…
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Round trip
Suddenly this year, plenty of people who were stoutly defending absolute free speech “rights” have turned into censors. Before October, these “conservatives” had been smashing “liberals” for turning into censors. What makes this particular reversal salient is the round trip. 9/11 turned many “freedom”-loving people into censors against Islam. I was among that crowd. Afterward,…
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Natural, not natural
Advertising is natural. Most plants and animals advertise either positively or negatively. Plants create colors and smells and electrostatic fields to attract pollinators. Male animals use color and smell and sound to attract females and scare off competitors. Some are false advertisers, disguising themselves as poisonous or attractive or big. Basing a business on advertising…
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Two-headed coins
Stock trading is the exact opposite of real business. A real business makes real things or fixes and maintains real things. Selling and delivering real things are also real businesses. A stock trader doesn’t make or fix or sell anything real. He just makes sidebets ABOUT the people who make and sell. Above all he…
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Reprint from 2014
Linked in previous, worth a reprint. The footnote at the end turned out to be especially permanent. I’ve made one important edit. In 2014 I was calling the modern elite Commies. I later learned more about the real Soviet system, and more about Stalin himself. These modern idiots are the exact opposite of real Communists…
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From an extremely different era 20
From an 1886 printers trade journal: Mahomet had said: The ink of the wise is worth more than the blood of the martyrs. Before 1990 it was possible to treat Mohammed as a source of wisdom. After Bush The Father declared war on Islam, the entire religion of Islam became our enemy, and we decided…
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Newtonian politics
The current spate of canceling academics for holding balanced and objective views is being compared to McCarthyism. In a general sense this is valid but it misses the important TIMELINE of the HUAC/McCarthy period. HUAC started its inquisition in 1947. ALL of Congress was on the same side. It wasn’t Joe McCarthy’s “indecency” vs the…
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Huge explanation
Tiffany’s recount of Nishad Singh’s testimony includes one huge explanatory fact. Sammy spent unspeakably huge amounts to buy endorsements. Michael Kives was the agent, a “one-stop shop” for other celebrities. Sammy paid 500 million to Kives. Kives then paid for the most important endorsement of all: Satan’s pet author Michael Lewis. Satan’s pet wrote the…
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The usual Shocked
From NewSuperstitionist: = = = = = START QUOTE: People’s likelihood of being vegetarian seems to be influenced by several gene variants, including some that are involved in fat metabolism. This hints that some people may find it easier to give up meat. An analysis of data in the UK Biobank has covered about 5300…
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Ohmari’s law
Sohrab Ahmari gets everything right. So far I haven’t heard one false note in his discussions. In this interview with Trish Wood he focuses on the standard Friedmanite lie that price is an automatic result of equal forces on two sides, like a drain trap. Nobody believes this brazenly delusional lie. Even the economists don’t…
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More reprint on the same subject
From 2017 as usual = = = = = START REPRINT: Similar to this item, here’s another strong piece of pre-Bergoglio Catholic thinking, based on a Ratzinger quote. He continues by noting “energies eroded to routine as entropy increases . . . the drowsy nausea . . . exasperated, vague waiting – but for what?”…
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If you really want…
If you really want to encourage families and civilization, you MUST force business to provide secure jobs. Secure employment and independent artisans (gig work) have always been the two poles of work. Most people are worker bees. Only a few are designed for the gig life. = = = = = START REPRINT: There is…
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Sailer atypically misses
Sailer on India: = = = = = START SAILER: Narendra Modi is fooling around, Elon Musk-style, with the idea of changing the name of his country to “Bharat” as an anti-colonial gesture. And the California legislature has, after much acrimony among Hindus, sent a bill to governor Gavin Newsom’s desk outlawing the ancient Hindu…
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