Month: May 2018

Another hugely viral Scott article: BASIC INCOME, NOT BASIC JOBS: AGAINST HIJACKING UTOPIA He’s possibly overestimating the efficacy of a UBI. A UBI, according to Scott, is supposed to eliminate poverty and bring individual life fulfillment. If a UBI is $10,000/year, that is still just slightly below the poverty line (for a single person). For… Continue reading ‘Basic Jobs’ vs. Basic Income

An excellent article from the NYTs, Liberals, You’re Not as Smart as You Think This passage stood out, but the entire thing is relevant: But accusers can paint with very wide brushes. Racist is pretty much the most damning label that can be slapped on anyone in America today, which means it should be applied… Continue reading Liberals, You’re Not as Smart as You Think

I say this sort jokingly but this qualifies as possibly the ‘worst HBD article ever’: Why Do Many Geniuses Have a Large Forehead? There is a lot wrong with this short article But quite a few super geniuses with IQ’s of 160–200 have extremely large heads. Christopher Langan had to special order a motorcycle helmet… Continue reading ‘worst HBD article ever’

Scott continues to raise the bar of blogging to heights never before imagined. In his recent post VARIETIES OF ARGUMENTATIVE EXPERIENCE he discusses what he calls the “hierarchy of disagreements”. At the bottom is shaming, followed by ‘gotchas’, nitpicking, etc., and at the top of the pyramid are ‘high level generators of disagreement’. My experience… Continue reading High-level generators of disagreement

One of my favorite lines is, “no one is gonna get rich with Bitcoin.” People may debate it, use it, hold conferences about it, and watch YouTube videos of Andreas Antonopoulos (who looks like a Guild Navigator from Dune)–but no one is gonna actually get rich with it. To reiterate, my prediction is Bitcoin (and… Continue reading Bitcoin: it’s not decentralized

A lot of people have heard of Nash Equilibriums and cooperative games, but don’t understand why and how they are so powerful and useful. John Forbes Nash’s major contribution to game theory was showing how cooperation can yield better results than competition, overturning conventional economic notions that competition and the so-called ‘invisible hand’ always yields… Continue reading Nash Equilibrium and cooperative games: example

The one-sided Vox Day vs. Jordan Peterson feud is the gift that keeps on giving. The whole thing is amusing. Dr. Peterson will not respond. Vox Day will not relent. One of Vox’s arguments against Jordan Peterson is that he is is ‘false opposition’–that is, Dr. Peterson is intentionally misleading his followers by pretending to… Continue reading Vox Day vs. Jordan Peterson, Take 5

From Derb published on Unz.com: Slipping Backwards On Immigration—Get On It, Mr. President! You got elected largely on this, Mr. President. We’re a year and a half in, and nothing’s happened. And that’s pretty much what I predicted in early 2017 would happen–nothing. At the time I felt maybe I had jumped to conclusions and… Continue reading Trump Slipping Backwards On Immigration

To take a trip down memory lane, as early as 2000 and all the way until 2010 so, you could get articles viral by provoking emotional triggers. Although emotional triggers still work, people have become much less impressionable, especially as of 2013, and now you need data visualizations, graphs, code excerpts, cartoons, and other accouterments… Continue reading Wealth, Intellectualism, and Individualism, Part 11 (evolution of online journalism)

Vox Day continues ankle biting Jordan Peterson, writing: You know I’ve said repeatedly that the philosophy Jordan Peterson is pushing is an evil one, and it is, and one aspect of that evil, one way that we know that it is wrong, is that he and Shapiro and all these other Fake Opposition members are… Continue reading Vox Day vs. Jordan Peterson, take 4