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

This is pretty interesting Meet the Renegades of the Intellectual Dark Web (IDW). Not only did this blog correctly predict economics and fiance stuff, but it also predicted an intellectual movement. This agrees with the themes I have been writing about for the past three years, especially as it pertains to the rise of centrism… Continue reading The Intellectual Dark Web

Remember Inflation? It’s coming to a grocery store near you. Bloomberg is either so biased against Trump or so naive of economics, that they are inventing an inflation problem when none exists. In an earnings conference call last week, a little-known private label food company told investors and analysts that it had little choice other… Continue reading Shoddy reporting from Bloomberg View

If you think I’m too hard on Taleb, in the span of just a few weeks Vox Day has written more articles about Jordan Peterson than I have written about Taleb in over two years of blogging. You really don’t want to get on Vox Day’s bad side, because he will not relent. Vox’s biggest… Continue reading Vox Day vs. Jordan Peterson, take 3