More dangerous than a cyborg migrant self-driving truck.
Automation pales in comparison as a driving force of unemployment to outsourcing and assbackward pay structures that hire two high paid managers to oversee the work of one underpaid productive employee.
These are social problems not technological problems.
Maybe if everyone stopped having a wank about trendy topics that give them an air of intellectualism like robots, AI, IQ, etc there wouldn’t be hordes of degreed zombies from good intellectual stock burning down cities.
No one gets a grip on living. The uncanny fact of existence is elusive. This is, no doubt, due to the transitory nature of mankind.
How well can existence register in a mere eighty years?
Are there any mortals that can pluck the flower of being?
Such questions may never be answered.
Even if one were to take into account the emerging trend of transhumanism.
Such an extension of faculties would merely yield an excess of yeses and no’s.
One’s and zero’s, life and death, light and shadow – the inescapable binary of mortality.
Suppose one extends this one material life we know. Suppose one extends it to eternity, whatever that is.
What then?
Can an eternal biological calculator fathom the mystery of being? Why there is an is, its relation to is not and the peculiar arrangement thereof?
Perhaps, but this perhaps is tenuous.
This past century mankind has exponentially increased its capacities. Yet such an increase has yielded more of the same. The same miasmic binary that limited Plato limits the 21st-century technocrat.
What are we to do in such a dispiriting situation?
Perhaps the answer is nothing.
All this wild blossoming is indicative of one thing.
The best thing to do with the flower of being is to water it.
0 – 8 min : The why and how of my interest in Eastern European politics. With some discussion of my strict originalist Constitutionalism. Why global tensions are a threat to that position etc.
8 – 9:12 min : Talk about this Bob Lazar body language analysis video:
9:12 – end: I practice ‘social courage’ by wearing a funny hat and discuss the result
In this installment of the stream of consciousness show from my shitposting channel, I get into why I give a fuck about Eastern Europe.
Why should I as a United States citizen, homeowner, and patriot give a fuck about a bunch of bickering Gypsies and Slavs?
Ok, so I’m originally from Russia. But I’m pretty fucking comfortable and have basically been marinated in Americana since I was eight years old.The family I was adopted into having roots in the country going back to before the Civil War.
So, why do I get so up in arms about nations that will probably never be able to fully adopt the enlightenment principles I hold dear?
Well, as global economic tensions rise and converge with tribal tensions exacerbated by corporate media and powerful business interests THAT DOESN’T BODE WELL FOR STABILITY.
And stability is precisely what’s required for us to be able to pursue those things higher up on Maslow’s hierarchy.
Besides even gopniks will eventually crave a white picket fence and 2.5 kids who suck at piano. But, that craving will be somewhat dampened if people that claim to represent us keep being a global bar fly and playing the game of ‘let’s you and him fight.’
Dude!This Bob Lazar shit has me losing my mind. He’s so believable. What do you think alien life/technology/time travel mean for metaphysics?! Mind is so fucking blown. Gonna steal all his shit and use it in story after story.
Heard Peter Hitchens mention social courage so I decided to practice some by wearing a funny hat in public. It’s hilarious how people go around with half shaved Skrillex haircuts, purple hitler hair, piercings, lumberjack beards, and pants that showcase their HooHah but the minute you wear a funny hat YOU’RE THE FREAK!
This too is its own tribalism.
I suppose I should explain how exactly wearing a funny hat is ‘social courage.’ People give you shitty looks. This makes you uncomfortable. You start to question yourself. If you’re used to doing this then you will have less trouble having necessary but difficult conversations.
Aright, well there we have it there was some synopsis that happened there.
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One event that has sustained emotional resonance is that evening on the outskirts of Moscow. I was a kid of six or so. It was 1995ish and my mother and I were ferried to some bestial monument to Brutalism in a creme colored Soviet Era drandulet.
As we approached the long low apartment complex shrouded in trees and twilight I noted an eerie passage to some inky basement.
My mother mentioned something about the spirit of death lingering there. And we scurried past the monstrosity into a green tinted hallway and up a flight of stairs.
At the time I was often surprised that not evervyone lived eleven stories high.
We’d arrived for tea. As with all such memories of early life I can’t for the life of me recall if we were the guests of friends or family.
Anyhow the sixtyish woman and her husband were hospitable as all great Russians are. Offering the best of a meager stock of crackers and aromatic Chai.
Though the reminiseces the adults had seemed pleasant there was notheless a certain pensiveness. And then the conversation turned to hunger.
So, I suppose my mother was right. The spirit of death did linger there.
It was the spectre of famine, the monster of want.
Though he was gone he lingered.
Here some twenty five years later in the post industrial land of endless buffets such a beast seems less likely than unicorns.
But, perhaps this is an illusion.
As I said, the emotional resonance of that night, the tension in the air, has been sustained throughout my life.
So, I am keenly aware of the precarious balance of agriculture and transport that makes our plenty so commonplace.
Unfortunately, this balance may be skewing towards a dangerous direction.
Alarm is the enemy of wisdom.
But, when Tyson big wigs warn of food shortages, eyebrows should be raised.
Yes, of course there is corporate interest there in spinning things towards favorable legislation but that doesn’t change the fact that our infrastructure is a miracle hanging on a thread.
Here is Ron Paul’s excellent video on this troubling development:
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I ramble about turmeric and discuss some points from VivaFrei’s vlog about the legal, economic, and social consequences of the government’s reaction to the Coronvirus Pandemic.
Viva’s vlog is in the form of a discussion between three lawyers one of whom agrees with the governments response (more or less) and one that disagrees strongly.
Here is the link:
My shitty notes for what it’s worth:
Viva Frei
Robert Barnes
Nate Broady
There is a problem with mass testing
US has an unprecedented economy based on overnight trades of debt.
“If writing checks could solve problems the Soviet Union would still exist.”
A few month shutdown is what led to the great depression.
US is in the worst possible situation to survive this.
Our supply chains are a major issue.
33 min in.
Reporting raw numbers without context causes fear.
This new virus rate is thirty times more deadly than flu rate. This was a bogus stat. And it’s bogusness was rarely questioned. It was bad math based on missing data point.
Scott Adams and others on the bandwagon of “it’s not just the flu” are assholes. There’s not enough info to know.
Early on viruses are bad and then after going through most vulnerable rate goes down.
The fed is on a defacto policy to keep interest rates under 4%. Because people wouldn’t buy it otherwise. So they are under enormous pressure to keep the repo markets at a certain rate.
Is this scale of QE going to have counterproductive results.
Speech control, governmental control, and YT = Creepy.
This situation is a statists delight.
China bought up all the respirators.
China covered stuff up, shoulda controlled wet markets, etc.
Epoch Times = Chinese Americans very critical of China
“He who defines the terms wins the debate.” – debaters, lawyers tip
Things in New York are getting bad.
Anecdotal vs Scientific
Science is abductive
You don’t have a lot of evidence with a lot of evidence
Projections from a small amount of data
Looking at data and modelling says this a choice between the economy and two million peoples lives.
The infection rate is what’s different from the flu.
Harvard guy said 40 percent infection rate and predicted school shutdowns etc.
There is a real problem here.
The New Rochelle bomb
7 days later lawyer who had been tested positive was in a hospital with a ventilator
New York officials traced 50 Coronavirus to this one attorney (anecdotal)
Apparently contrary to UPS this shit can live on surfaces for a bit
Mass transit = HUUUUGE vector
50 ppl infect 50 people per initial 50 = exponential growth
Without intervention the curve will continue
Hence the measures
Overuns of healthcare systems occur due to this virus (my ob: or the panic/hypochoindria)
There is a high recovery rate (question)
Robert Barnes doesn’t like the universality of the model
3 big assumptions
is the exponential rate continuos
The curve is deceptive
Why not use money to build more facilities rather do a life threating shut down
3 key assumptions about the models
modeling is correct
mitigation efforts succed
mitigation doesnt have worse or other impacts
theres no evidence that these measures wouldnt be impacted by the measures themselves
this is what happens when we have pure academcis making polilcy decisions
the first thirty days of virus as data is nuts as proof
even in countries with shitty mitigation after thirty days there is a drop off
Peter Hitchens attacks the models
Correlation does not equal causation necessisarily
Israeli guy who said the virus would die out on its own in China and he was closer to correct than imperial college
First thirty days the virus is vicious but tapers off
Not everyone is equally susceptible
if its 50 to eighty percent infection why didnt it happen on the ship?
Infection is not the fear, hospitalization, and death is the fear
So the people at risk for this should be the ones quarantines etc
3 prexisting conditions on average for corona deaths in italy
we make these difficult decisions all the time
the backfire is terrifying
we live in a world of tradeoffs
who or what do you prioritize
people dont realize the economic extent of this
doesnt appear to have been a lot of estimates done
unemployment causes death and risk
persuaders
partisans
public
if exponential rate is correct theres going to be more than just the elderly overwhelming the hospitals
the law is more political than it is legal
courts have taken the contrarion perspective on the constitution
you cant legally defacto suspend the constitution
resteraunt guy had to lay off 80% of his staff – due to no business at resteraunt
people are afraid to deliver due to panic of this disease
all this stuff is based on speculative assumptions
these are troubling precedents
diamond princess
in academia consensus thought is encouraged and dissident discouraged
r naught (linear regression model) .975
95% of the press has gone let’s assume the models are right and let’s dismiss
dissident opinion
Israel is maximizing their hospitals and social distancing elderly and risky populatioin
but not doing anything else
if were waiting for a vaccine that could be 18 mo or never
the press is uninformed. This is a version of a coronavirus
normally during a pandemic ppl would go to the press but now
the public is so disgusted they arent
and this current coverage isnt helping
newsome made the mistake of saying hell send the national guard out
he doesnt actually wanna follow through with this
theyre doing this because theyre trying to test their limits
kungflu virus lol
south korea 663 thousand beds
331 million 925 thousand hospital beds if heard correctly for us
19 million ppl and 56 hospitals beds in NY
2.8 hospital beds/1000 ppl less than 3
every coutnry on the list has a higher per capita hospital bed than the us
15% of ppl who get this disease need a ventilator/hospital
it would take you one month to take care of just corona ppl
so this could get real bad hospitalization-wise
social distancing, isolation, etc
or you build extra beds which would probably cost less
than this current approoach
but you need doctors nurses etc to man these beds so…
the doctors that looked at say its natural (bioweapon question)
even if the worst case scenario is true it would be far less
disastrous thanthe economic fallout of this extreme quarantine
the big question is about the 30 days after the first 30 days
95% didn’t even get the infection when you adjust 4 age demographics
if the modellers turn out wrong then in the future
they are not going to get any confidence
academics do not have very good life experience
eric weinstein and peter theil
its why we havent invented anything of consequence for the
last 60 years
the problem is we cant judge whether or not the mitigation
effects work
the indefinite nature (there is no two weeks) is troublesome
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