Tuesday, August 13, 2019
Thiel's question
Via MindMatters.
How would you respond if PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel asked you his favorite interview question: “Tell me something that’s true that almost nobody agrees with you on.”
I'd been thinking along similar lines lately. Not exactly true-but-nobody-agrees; more like true-but-nobody-knows.
There are four things I've figured out in recent years that nobody else seems to have figured out. Two are big, two are tiny.
Big 1: Rights vs duties, Paine vs Morris. This probably fits the Thiel question, since many others have examined the subject and reached the opposite conclusion.
Big 2: Broadly the whole subject of real-value economics and skill-estate. Specifically the FACT that GDP and growth are precisely backwards from real value-added measurements. Leftist economists have approached the question but haven't hit the specific point.
Tiny bit of history: Cave Gas. I've been modeling these Lost Places for quite a while. Cave Gas is the only one that nobody else has documented.
Tiny bit of science: Hubbard's E-Meter. I examined the original schematic and noticed that it's not a passive meter but an active stimulator. Then I built the original schematic and proved it, rather painfully.
The last one is most important by my standards because it was an EXPERIMENT.
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Sidenote for clarity and credit: The above list includes things I've discovered on my own. The most important thing I've learned from others in recent years, which seems to be unnoticed by anyone else, is the sucker filter. A brilliant observation that explains many otherwise mysterious events. I wish I could remember who wrote about it!
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Later sidenote: Thiel has been revealed as a Deepstate monster, but the question is still good. Smart is smart no matter who says it, stupid is stupid no matter who says it.
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Added more of these items here.
Labels: Aberree, Carver, From rights to duties, skill-estate, Sucker Filter
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