Sucker selectors
Madman Lincoln advised his Deepstate tyrant successors to fool some of the people etc.

I've been noticing the rule for a long time, and it's especially strong in the current hoax.

I was fooled by 9/11 but not by the "virus". Most of the people who were NOT fooled by 9/11 are fully on board with the "virus".

These two #WholeOfSociety hoaxes are nearly disjunct, mutually exclusive, in their selection of suckers.

Assassinations and shooting wars and 9/11 are conjunct for obvious reasons. People with real experience in war know the difference between real wars and fake wars. I don't have experience in war and guns, so I'm easily fooled in this area.

Gaia and "Virus" are conjunct. People with real experience in science know the difference between real science and fake science. The exact same people buy both of these hoaxes, and many of the worst tyrants smoothly shifted from Gaian genocide to Viran genocide. Same agencies, same methods.

Noam Chomsky is today's example. He was a careful and consistent exposer of Deepstate hoaxes in the area of war and surveillance. Now he says antivaxers should be slaughtered.

So we have two separate classes, war suckers and science suckers, at least partly based on personal experience. But as Lincoln advised, there are also people who will climb on EVERY bandwagon and cheerfully join the slaughter. These people aren't really fooled, they're just demons.

Labels: Carbon Cult, Carver, Sucker Filter

  ¶ 11:40 PM

  SETI + METI = SILLY
More silliness about talking to aliens.

SETI/METI is the ultimate replacement of What by Who. Aliens are expected to be cult leaders for the cult of IQ and abstraction. Presumably they will be just like Fauci but cooler. We are waiting to be led by them.

Vakoch is planning on sending messages containing references to the periodic table. The idea being that certain elements, such as hydrogen, are abundant across the Universe so any receiving civilisation is likely to recognise a reference to the chemical signature of those elements.

Another important requirement is making sure that whoever is on the receiving end of the message knows what they’re tuning into, says Jacob Haqq-Misra, a researcher at the Blue Marble Space Institute of Science. “The basic idea is to define some sort of mathematical language,” he says. Initial messages might establish some basics. One is not equal to zero, but one is equal to one, for example. “And now we've established a common language, we can talk about physics with each other.”

No, no, no. Your "basics" are NOT the basics of math. Axioms and definitions are the fake "foundation" stuffed under the REAL structure of math by Peano and Hilbert and Godel.

Why should we talk about physics? Real humans don't talk about physics.



One good idea: Do what hams do. Talk about antennas and transmitters and receivers and propagation. In other words, talk about the process of communicating.

A better idea: Talk in parallel instead of serial. Talk the way we talk. Send harmonies on many frequencies at once, so the receiving party could build a 3d object from the spectrogram.

The best idea: Shut up. First listen to the universe itself, instead of searching for a cult leader who is Just Like Me But Cooler. Figure out what the universe has in mind for us and for me.

This was the purpose of astronomy from Plato through the Arabs and Persians to Brahe and Kepler. After Kepler we stopped listening to the universe and started listening to cult leaders who spoke in the name of Science.

= = = = =

Later and more random thoughts:

Discussion of aliens is packed full of CASTE. The trite old cartoons featured an alien who looks like a vacuum cleaner approaching an Earthly vacuum cleaner and saying "Take me to your leader." He wasn't saying "Tell me about your life and your place."

The people who wish for aliens are high-caste Courtiers, the same type who wish to be leaders. Courtiers dress like leaders (including ballgags), drive the right cars and eat the right foods and medicines as recommended by leaders. They don't realize the leaders don't actually wear or eat or drive or inject any of those recommendations. It's a cargo cult.

BUT: The people who report actual contacts with aliens are pure 100% Deplorables. White Christians in Dixie, the lowest caste of all, the caste every leader and influencer wants to EXTERMINATE, but only Lincoln actually accomplished the task.

Conclusion: If the aliens are really landing and contacting us, they're good scientists following Carver's rules. They realize that Deplorables are sane. They want to interrogate sane realistic people instead of wacked-out cargo cultists. A vacuum cleaner can tell you more about the house than the owner can.

Labels: AI point-missing, Carver, Real World Math

  ¶ 12:35 AM

  Chancy niche
Pointed by UncommonDescent, a truly weird creature....



Triops is a mini-trilobite. In a larger size it would be scary as hell, but at this size it's sort of cute.

It's weird in two ways.

1. The eyes themselves are not weird. They're typical arthropod eyes, two big compound eyes with one or more light-sensors between them. (Note that the AI generating the synthetic speech in the video doesn't know the word 'ocellus'.) The mounting is weird. Normally arthropod eyes would be on the sides of a very small head, surveying all directions at once. On Triops the eyes are inside the huge shield, pointing only forward. This defeats the advantage of compound eyes without adding any obvious counter-advantage.

2. It emerges from eggs only in an uncertain and brief environment. Dry lakes may go for many years without enough rain to be worth hatching, and only last a few days or at most weeks when they do get wet. Many insects have a long larval or non-reproductive stage and a brief flying or swarming stage. For example, the aphids who swarmed here last week. But the Triops pattern is more like plants than animals. Purely dormant for years if necessary, emerging into life only when conditions are just right.

The uncertain environment has one obvious advantage: Predators can't depend on Triops as a food source, and can't develop strategies for hunting it.

I guess Triops is just an extreme example of the Booker T rule. Find your niche and stick to it. Store your skills and amortize. In this case we have 350 million years of amortizing.

Sidenote on AI: A human announcer hired to do a voiceover would rehearse the script first, catch the unfamiliar word, and look it up. In the age of radio, announcers were expected to be thoroughly versed in the phonetics of most languages, and expected to have serious dictionaries on hand for unfamiliar words. The AI didn't bother to look up the unfamiliar word. It wasn't in the standard database, so the AI guessed badly, not following the normal phonetic semi-rules of English.

Labels: AI point-missing, Carver, storage

  ¶ 11:31 PM

  More on medieval mode
John Horvat, writing in Imaginative Conservative, makes a strong case for the CORRECT UNDERSTANDING of feudalism. I've been hammering this point for quite a while in the context of agrarian vs sweatshop "slavery".

Horvat starts with an unconvincing example from current events: soldiers who helped evacuate their Afghan assistants last month. The military has always maintained a special form of teamwork which doesn't readily extend or apply to normal life.

He brings the point home here:

As shocking as it may sound to modern ears, these ties have something of a feudal nature. The historically misunderstood feudal bond consisted of mutual ties that bound people together in friendship and service. It was a flexible and creative bond inside a family-like relationship where each party agreed to be at the disposition of the other—even risking life if necessary.

Unlike the cold bureaucratic relationships that bind people today to abstract corporate and governmental structures, the feudal bond was extremely personal. Each party seriously assumed duties and responsibilities to the other and saw it as a sacred duty.

Starting in 1700, London and NYC financiers ripped these bonds asunder, and simultaneously turned the definitions and stories upside down. All propaganda and all written history since then has told us that feudal bonds were "slavery", which was uniformly horrible for the slave and wonderful for the owner. The same propaganda instructs us that impersonal NON-CONTRACTUAL relationships give freedom to the employee.

Madman Lincoln was acting for those financiers, who had prepared the ground for his holocaust by sending bands of ascetic RELIGIOUS activists to spread sweatshops in the West.

Outside of agrarian serfdom there were other commercial bonds, equally strong and bilateral. Apprentices were BOUND to the masters for 7 years. Some bad masters exploited the apprentices in the same way that a wage-paying capitalist exploits his "free" employees. But other masters recognized the talents and skills of their apprentices, and sacrificed profit to develop the skills. The latter story shows up repeatedly in the biographies of inventors and scientists and leaders, from Carver to James Ferguson.

Labels: 2000=1000, Carver, Equipoise, the broken circle

  ¶ 1:51 PM

  Grandpa said it
Continuing from previous item.

1. The sequence of events is a good example of evolution by subtraction, which is the way Nature, language, and human inventions work. The first genome, or the first language, or the first version of an invention, has all the features it needs. As the genome spreads into different places and creatures, or the language spreads to different people with different tendencies, or the invention tries to seek a global audience, the product simplifies.

My 2004 loader had all the features needed. Some of them were later incorporated into Poser itself, and some of them were copied in the plagiarizer's loader.

2. Fast change destroys creativity. When rules and programs and browsers are constantly changing, you have to carve away pieces of your product or mind or soul on each side to remain alive. Adapting to all possible countries and all possible users forces rigid conformity.

3. Rentalism is an alternate form of globalism. When you don't have direct control of the product or house or life, you can't learn or create effectively. Learning and creativity require a STABLE SITUATION so you can distinguish between constants and variables. When the machine or culture is constantly stealing control from your own hands, you eventually give up and stop trying to create.

Reminds me of what my dying grandpa tried to tell me in 1962.

= = = = = START REPRINT:

This line of thought originated from a specific conversation with Grandpa in 1962. Grandpa was dying early from alcohol and tobacco, and the family went to visit him one last time. As we hung around Grandpa's house, or visited nearby parks, Grandpa kept saying true things, and parents kept trying to Rectify him, nervously painting over the facts with conventional leftist crap. I wasn't sure what to think. Grandpa's observations matched what I saw with my own eyes, but didn't match what I'd always heard from parents and TV and books.

I think Grandpa got tired of being painted out. At one point he decided to go for beer and cigarettes (yeah, those were killing him, but it was too late to stop) and took me along. No parents, just me. I don't remember most of the conversation but I remember one emphasized item that seemed to summarize his intentions.

We were talking about his old '52 Ford Mainline. I must have been asking why anyone would want a plain car with no power steering, no radio, no automatic, none of the 'exciting' stuff that 'everyone wanted' in 1962.

Grandpa pointed to the manual choke. He told me that Ford was the only car that still offered a manual choke. He said it was important to have a simple car that you could understand and fix by yourself, and it was important to have direct control over the car.

Extend car to life, and there's the message.

Same as Carver's message.

Look about you. Take hold of the things that are here. Talk to them. Let them talk to you.

Dying old engineer trying to pass the key to young potential engineer. He succeeded. I've done a shitty job of following his advice, but I've always remembered and tried.

= = = = = END REPRINT.

Labels: Carver, defensible cases, defensible times, Grand Blueprint, storage

  ¶ 2:10 PM

  Not blinded by stats!
Here's a refreshingly HARDASS critique of the FRAUD called statistics, in a mainstream science mag. Bruce Bower tells the history of the 'p-value' that allegedly measures significance. Unsurprisingly it began shortly after WW2, like all the other frauds and crimes of science.

By calculating just one number from their experimental results, called a P value, researchers could now deem those results “statistically significant.” That was all it took to claim — even if mistakenly — that an interesting and powerful effect had been demonstrated. The idea took off, and soon legions of researchers were reporting statistically significant results.

Bower states the solution clearly:

Keep it simple, Loftus advised. Remember that a picture is worth a thousand reckonings of statistical significance. In that spirit, he recommended reporting straightforward averages to compare groups of volunteers in a psychology experiment. Graphs could show whether individuals’ scores covered a broad range or clumped around the average, enabling a calculation of whether the average score would likely change a little or a lot in a repeat study. In this way, researchers could evaluate, say, whether volunteers scored better on a difficult math test if first allowed to write about their thoughts and feelings for 10 minutes, versus sitting quietly for 10 minutes.

Graphs, graphs, graphs. Let readers SEE what's there. Don't smash the graphs into one number that collapses the time axis.

= = = = =

Calibrating: I played the p-value game once. I wrote some rather neat software for one of the speech grad students at Penn State. She wanted to try computers in teaching foreign languages. (This was 1988; sound handling was still a new trick and an expensive option on computers.) She used the software with a fairly large number of students, and taught the same words the old-fashioned way with a control group. She got ambiguous results, which isn't surprising. Tech is NOT magic. The old-fashioned way is often better! As the deadline for her thesis got closer, she wondered if I could use a neural net to reprocess the results. I did, and the significance looked better that way.

I'm proud of making the sample-and-compare software, which was original at the time. I'm not proud of playing the p game.

Labels: Blinded by Stats, Carbon Cult, Carver

  ¶ 2:04 PM

  More accuracy
I'm encouraged when I see hints of a trend away from holocaustal orthodoxy. Last week I noted this James Hankins essay on the decadence of philosophy.

Nathan Smith writes on the decadence of economics as an academic field. He slams the mind-destroying effects of tenure:

Moreover, it remains hard to open people’s eyes to the stupidity of much empirical economics, because the econometrics treadmill is useful as a make-work and credentialing program for tenure seekers.

“Publishing” is really the wrong word for what journals do in the age of SSRN. They certify work, for a fee, the return on which may consist in a “peer-reviewed” publication leading to tenure.

If journals are sometimes as boring to read as a stack of resumes, that’s because they largely serve the same function. Job applications masquerade as science because perverse customs make original scholarship—however trivial, wrong, and/or unread that scholarship may be. That’s the price of admission to a career explaining demand, supply, and market equilibrium to undergraduates.

Job applications masquerading as science. On the fucking dot.

Concluding, Smith approaches my theme of science as entertainment, attempting to rebuild science as a hobby outside of the OFFICIAL TEMPLE OF WAR AND GENOCIDE.

What do you do when the emperor has no clothes? Other people need to step up and provide leadership. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Enlightenment sprang not from established universities, but from gentleman soldiers and courtiers and statesmen, popular writers and clergymen, bohemians and sponges, who boldly called themselves philosophers and lived up to the name. Today, similarly, economics’ best hopes lie in uncredentialed economists from business, journalism, and government, abetted by academic mavericks.

Now that we see where the Enlightenment led, it's time for a counter-enlightenment. The enlightenment bred the myth of Free Will and Meritocracy, which allowed psychopathic monsters to justify their holocausts. It began immediately with the French Terror in 1789, and continued seamlessly through the "Virus" Terror of 2020.

The pre-1700 idea of reality was accurate. The universe has unchanging resonances. Our job is not to defy the universe and create chaos. Our job is to find and measure the real resonances and try to swing with them, joyfully and loosely.

LOOK ABOUT YOU.
TAKE HOLD OF THE THINGS THAT ARE HERE.
TALK TO THEM.
LET THEM TALK TO YOU.

Labels: Carver, Entertainment, Equipoise

  ¶ 10:03 AM

  When you're the mouse
Two sources for this rant:

1. Irritation at the Weather Bureau's failure to predict simple temperature one day in advance. They're always wrong, and always wrong in the same direction.

2. Reading Pat Foster's history of American Motors. Nash/AMC had three brilliant managers who understood Booker T's rule. When you're a mouse living with a cat, you can't afford illusions. You have to live carefully, stay under the cat's radar, find your unique talent and optimize it. Nash had succeeded longer than the other mice by following the rule. Roy Abernethy took over from Romney and spoiled it because he didn't grasp reality. He wanted to beat GM at its own game.

Foster has a sharp observation:

"Perhaps he felt that he would be the one to beat the odds, just as Henry Kaiser had felt."

= = = = =

Low-status people and companies survive by knowing the odds. We live by anticipating and predicting.

Government ruins both types of knowledge. Government and media give us fake ideas of risk and fake predictions.

What's the purpose of governmental and corporate predictions? In the current insane era, the ONLY purpose is creating chaos and panic. The extreme (but certainly not final) example is the grotesque HOLOCAUSTAL use of predictions and models to IMPRISON AND GAG THE ENTIRE WORLD. We see the curves, and we think we are guaranteed to die from a perfectly ordinary flu bug. Without the constant hammering of curves and models, we would simply

LOOK ABOUT YOU.

TAKE HOLD OF THE THINGS THAT ARE HERE.

and we would realize there's no epidemic at all and no risk at all. When we can see and sense the risk for ourselves, we judge the risk correctly.

When we rely on externally supplied predictions and odds instead of our own, we are completely vulnerable to the monsters... AND we lose our own ability to predict. Muzzles and distancing destroy physical immunity. Models and fake risks destroy mental immunity. USE IT OR LOSE IT.

= = = = =

The Weather Bureau no longer predicts weather. They're too busy fulfilling their PANIC QUOTA. Every day must have at least one PANIC. A dry summer is EXTREME DROUGHT WARNING. Nice calm fall weather? STAGNANT AIR WARNING. Nice calm spring weather? POLLEN WARNING.



Before the current UNIVERSAL PANIC, what was the point of predicting? The old Islamic astronomers had it right, and later astronomers also had it partly right, though they had already surrendered most of the battle.

When you know how the universe moves, you can move with it.

This is just a longer-timeline version of basic neural prediction. When you walk, all of your senses anticipate each step and move with it. When you hear a sentence you know the pattern and your semantic predictor stays ahead of it.

= = = = =

Long before the 2020 monstrosity, western culture stopped moving with the universe. Meritocracy and free will are an intentional ASYNCHRONOUS departure from the universal rhythm.

We delusionally believe that we will be "the one to beat the odds", and many of us waste our own lives and ruin our employees and citizens in futile pursuit of beating the odds.

Exceptionalism and Messianism are two good names for this delusion.

Nature doesn't have exceptions. Nature doesn't have messiahs. Nature has one way of doing things, and you can live and profit best when you swing WITH nature instead of trying to be the exception.

Or in less ethereal terms: NOBODY beats the odds. The mouse can't beat the odds. The cat doesn't have to beat the odds because the cat MAKES THE ODDS. GM was the perfect example.

THEY KNOW IT'S A HOAX BECAUSE THEY'RE MAKING THE HOAX.


= = = = =

Footnote on AMC: Abernethy took over in 1962 after Romney went into politics. Abernethy's decision to play GM's game was doubly stupid because Rambler was already moving into the Big Three's sales league by PLAYING ITS OWN GAME. The Big Three introduced their compacts in 1960, attempting to PLAY RAMBLER'S GAME. This only helped Rambler, which continued gaining sales from '60 to '62, beating Plymouth. Abernethy was trying to copy the obviously losing strategy, at the exact moment when the Big Three were trying to copy Rambler's winning strategy.

His stupidest move came in '66. Ford had opened up a new and successful segment with the Mustang, a RAMBLER-SIZED sport coupe. Abernethy answered with the Marlin, a FULL-SIZED and weird-looking fastback, which immediately failed. Even stupider, the Argentine branch of AMC had already created THE perfect answer to the Mustang. The IKA Torino was a beautifully modified Rambler American with an elegant British wood and leather interior. A little Jaguar. Abernethy had the correct answer IN-HOUSE, but he insisted on spending millions to find the wrong answer.

Most non-SUV cars in recent decades have been in Rambler's size range of 100 to 108 inch wheelbase. Rambler won in the end, despite Abernethy's stupidity.

Labels: Carver

  ¶ 6:13 AM

  Wrong question as always
Quora question: Does science produce atheists?

This is well-traveled territory among ID types, but I never stopped to think about it from the other angle.

What DOES produce "science-led" atheists?

For 5000 years we've had specialized scientists who weren't called scientists. Astronomers/astrologers, as I've been discussing lately. Alchemists/chemists. Blacksmiths/metallurgists. Aristocratic doctors who had the time to do research on diseases.

The vast majority of them were solid theists, in the prevailing system of their era. Among those who wrote about the subject, opinion is unanimous. The more you learn about stars or organs or cells, the more you recognize that this stuff was created and designed. Only a superficial text-based knowledge can retain a belief in atheism.

I've gone through this sequence personally. After public school I was a standard Dawkins-type atheist, contemptuously dismissing all theism. After I started learning and teaching (via courseware) the fine details of human speech and perception, I was FORCED BY FACTS to see the design. The more I learn about the details, the more I'm convinced of design.

And that's the key.

Science doesn't produce atheists.

Science EDUCATION, and superficial public science as seen on TV or magazines or government genocides, produces atheists.

Labels: Carver, Grand Blueprint

  ¶ 6:22 AM

  Bryan again
An old thought leads to a new 'data visualization'.

Old thought. This is one of my Thiel questions, one of the relatively unknown facts I've figured out by research.

Jennings Bryan was a faker like Trump. The other populists of that era were following Bryan and proposing the same fake solution, but I'm pretty sure most of them didn't understand it was fake.

They diagnosed the PROBLEM of globalism brilliantly. Graybill stated it elegantly. Their SOLUTION, more debt and looser money, was precisely backwards.

More debt and looser money means more power for bankers. More savings and harder money means more power for real business, including farmers.

Bryan was smart enough to know this. He was also working toward a goal, using the populist appeal to catapult him into power. After he got into the Wilson administration, he IMMEDIATELY abandoned populism and started making foreign wars and designing the League of Nations. Total betrayal, just like Trump.

= = = = =

This basic rule about savings vs debt was NOT NEW, to put it mildly.

DON'T LET THE BANKERS CONTROL THE WORLD.

Jesus taught it firmly and violently. Mohammed and his economic writers put the principle into complete and logical form.

So there was no excuse for missing it. The lesser populists were most likely swept along on Bryan's coattails, eager to gain power and not thinking deeply about the principles.

Visualization: Storage and savings and experience and culture are on the real axis. Just-in-time and debt and theory and Room 101 are on the imaginary axis.

When you stay within known cultural and economic territory you're always on solid ground, always sure of your steps. When you think you're Innovating and Changing The World, you're on IMAGINARY TERRITORY, always vulnerable to psychopaths and scammers who are CREATING FAKE MAPS for you.

EXPERIENCE SURVIVES. THEORY KILLS.

= = = = =

Later and alternative thought. Returning to the Pied Piper theme. We know that Trump's purpose was to guarantee that no American would EVER consider any agenda besides Soros and Bezos. Like all the other "terrorists" created by Deepstate, he made populism look HORRIBLE.

Bryan was designed for the same purpose, but the Piper pooped out. Wilson took globalism to the extreme with Bryan's full collaboration, and took internal tyranny to the extreme via Lady Edgar. The people saw the problem and chose Harding, who tried to break down both sides of globalism. Deepstate scandaled him and possibly killed him, so Coolidge and Hoover reverted to norm. But the people still remembered, and FDR finally got past the assassins and started to solve problems for the first and last time in our miserable fucked vile history.

Did Trump take the HORRIBLE too far by piling the "virus" on top of all the pre-existing panics and depressions? We can't tell yet. Some factions in the Biden administration appear to be vaguely Hardingish, attempting to dial down the panic.

Labels: Answered better than asked, Carver, Natural law = Sharia law

  ¶ 3:11 AM

  By the Booker Book
Yesterday we finally got the first REAL relief from the holocaust locally. It's partial, but worth a celebration.

I made my usual hellish store trip, muzzling in the bus and muzzling in the store, carefully keeping the Time Under Ballgag to an absolute minimum number of milliseconds. I noticed that Safeway no longer had the MUZZLE UP signs outside, and then CAREFULLY read the new inside sign with disbelief melting into relief.

"Masks ENCOURAGED for non-vaccinated customers."

Well, I'm vaxed, so I'm strictly legal. I yanked off the ballgag and enjoyed shopping without immediate danger of tripping and falling over boxes on the floor, and above all without the horrible SATANIC DEVICE SIGNALING COMPLIANCE. First freedom in a full fucking year.

This is a partial relief, but it's the majority of the hell. The bus system still absolutely requires ballgags, but the total time on bus is only four minutes, compared to 20 minutes in the store.

Most of the store employees are also unmuzzled now. Their relief must be INFINITELY larger, since they've been gagged 8 hours a day for 14 months. Employee strangulation started in May, customer strangulation started in July.

Time for a bit of celebration, even if it's a partial victory!



[Graphic note: I've added the Chumbe lighthouse to this scene as a tribute to the BEACON provided by heroic martyr Magufuli and the ONE SANE COUNTRY of Tanzania.]

= = = = =

I've been playing this shit strictly by the book, never taking advantage of unofficial "tolerance".

Partly the caution arises from personal experience with psychopaths. After spending six months locked in a prison cell with a demon, I understand how they work, and I don't want to be the one who triggers the killing frenzy.

More broadly I'm following Booker T's book.

When you're at the bottom of the status stack, YOU WILL NOT GET AWAY WITH ANYTHING. Unofficial tolerance is NOT FOR YOU. If you try to push the unofficial limits, YOU WILL BE THE SCAPEGOAT. Low-status people have to survive by obeying and serving, not by sneaking past the Gates.

As it happens, I first learned the Booker lesson from the prelude to the prison experience. I had thought I was just another hippie. I saw some of the high-status hippies openly dealing drugs and getting away with it. I thought I could try using pot since there was "unofficial tolerance". Nope. A "friend" bought his way out of jail by framing me.

Many years later the lesson emerged from a different angle. In 1969 my parents "had to move" out of Ohio "because" of the shame I brought on the family. In 2000, my mother finally told me the disgusting truth. My father was leaving ANYWAY because he was in a tenure-track position and hadn't published anything. After three years without Publishing he was automatically Perished in the same month when I was framed.

The real framing and reputational framing may be connected, since there was a suspiciously close relationship between the abovementioned "friend" and my parents. Did my parents trigger the whole pile of shit? We'll never know.

Labels: Carver, Jackboot NOT stomping forever, Jail mode, Natural law = Sharia law

  ¶ 12:04 AM

  From an extremely different era 15
From an 1880 guidebook for weather observers, published by the official British Meteorological Council.

Mistrust all rules.

Study all supposed weather signs, and collect all available information thereon.

From those signs which appear in your part of the country to be well authenticated, deduce such inferences as our present knowledge of atmospheric phenomena shows to be probable.

Fancier language than Carver's guidance for scientists, but conveys the same meaning. Can you imagine OFFICIAL guidance starting with Mistrust all rules now?

Labels: Carver

  ¶ 11:06 AM

  Another home run by Avi Loeb
Loeb analyzes orthodoxy.

He starts with the response of other astronomers to his assertion that a big space rock might be an alien spacecraft.

Innovation blossoms in a culture willing to acquire new knowledge rather than being trapped in its past belief system. A mainstream astronomer who worked on rocks in the solar system for decades commented grudgingly: “‘Oumuamua is so strange…. I wish it never existed.” Such a sentiment is not the trademark of an intellectual culture that fosters discovery. In the weeks following the publication of my book I received numerous e-mails from astronomers, some tenured, who confessed that they agree with me but are afraid to speak out because of the potential repercussions to their careers.

Loeb sticks to astronomical questions, thus avoiding THE BIGGEST CRIME IN HISTORY, which is probably wise. Writers who want to keep their heads attached to their necks need to talk sideways. In a total tyranny, oblique references are harder to chop. See nursery rhymes.

I notice only one missed point:

Finding extraordinary evidence requires a commitment of extraordinary funds. This was true in the successful searches for the Higgs boson or gravitational waves, and it is definitely true in the so-far unsuccessful search for the nature of dark matter. Lack of evidence can be a self-fulfilling prophecy, the result of not investing enough in the search.

Might be true in quantum crap, but it's NOT true in biology. Big money and big equipment haven't made any big discoveries. In fact big money and big equipment LIMIT your vision, because (as Loeb noted) the grantors and administrators are unwilling to devote part of the big equipment to an unpopular search.

Big discoveries happen when you take off your equipment, take off your theory goggles, and

LOOK ABOUT YOU.

TAKE HOLD OF THE THINGS THAT ARE HERE.

TALK TO THEM.

LET THEM TALK TO YOU.

Labels: Carver

  ¶ 8:26 AM

  They don't skill 'em like they used to.
Vintage.es has a wonderful photo feature showing a HUGE ship being towed through the Chicago Ship Canal in 1953, with only a few inches clearance at some points. The ship was being refitted for Great Lakes bulk carrier service, and Chicago Shipbuilding was contracted to do the work. The planners had to do some serious math and geometry to determine if the move was possible, and clearly they got the math right. The ship carried freight until 1979, then was cut down to a barge and served until 2012. It's still functional but not currently used.

Compare with the ship jamming up the Suez Canal, despite modern GPS and computer autopilots.

DESPITE always means BECAUSE. When you rely on high tech you lose your contact with physical reality. River and canal captains before tech knew every foot of their banks and beds, AND took physical soundings to verify the shape.

USE IT OR LOSE IT.

Labels: Carver, skill-estate

  ¶ 12:55 AM

  Superstar vs Carver
Some botanists are starting to realize the trouble with tenure and grants. A welcome dose of real humility.

It turned out that the species that were most at risk of extinction weren’t the most likely to be written about. Instead, appearance seems to play a big part in research interest, as they report in the journal Nature Plants. For example, plants with blue flowers were found to be studied the most – much more so than brown or green ones. Also, the taller the plant was, the more likely it was to appear in scientific publications. This disparity could be chalked up to what Mammola and Adamo deem an “aesthetic bias” in botany. “We pretend as scientists to be the quintessential example of objectivity,” says Mammola. “But in reality, we are just as biased as the rest of the world.”

Tall people have all the advantages. Blue-eyed blondes have all the advantages. Turns out to be true with plants as well.

Plus, research tends to follow a self-fulfilling cycle: the more that is known about a certain species, the more likely it is to be studied by other researchers. “And then all the efforts in the fundraising or whatever happens to go towards that one, and then others sort of fall by the wayside – and go extinct,” says Cowell.

Tenure perpetuates orthodoxy. Funding always goes to the most popular views and theories and plants.

Here's the junction point with Carver:

She encourages early-career researchers to pay attention to all the plants around them, not just the ones that catch their eye. “Be the next group of discoverers and explorers. It may be in your own backyard.”

Carver specifically studied the plants of the South, the plants that his people knew, the plants that could help his people. He advised scientists:

LOOK ABOUT YOU.
TAKE HOLD OF THE THINGS THAT ARE HERE.
TALK TO THEM.
LET THEM TALK TO YOU.

Labels: Carver

  ¶ 12:31 AM

  Standard assumption
From New Superstitionist, a fascinating and worthy piece of archeology is spoiled by the usual unnecessary assumptions.

A vast site in north-west Saudi Arabia is home to 1000 structures that date back more than 7000 years, making them older than the Egyptian pyramids and Stonehenge in the UK.

Named after the Arabic word for rectangle, mustatil structures were first discovered in the 1970s, but received little attention from researchers at the time.

Using helicopters to fly over north-west Saudi Arabia and then following up with ground explorations, the researchers found more than 1000 mustatils across 200,000 square kilometres – twice as many as were previously thought to exist in this area.

That's about 250 by 250 miles in real measure, or roughly a county.

Made from piled-up blocks of sandstone, some of which weighed more than 500 kilograms, mustatils ranged from 20 metres to more than 600 metres in length, but their walls stood only 1.2 metres high. “It’s not designed to keep anything in, but to demarcate the space that is clearly an area that needs to be isolated,” says Thomas.

In a typical mustatil, long walls surround a central courtyard, with a distinctive rubble platform, or “head”, at one end and entryways at the opposite end. Some entrances were blocked by stones, suggesting they could have been decommissioned after use.

Sounds like a market square or mall. An area where traders and butchers and food vendors could set up their stalls. The walls and constrained entrance helped to police the area and avoid raids by gangs. The shape also suggests a loading pen or corral for cattle, perhaps with slaughter in the 'head' chamber.

Excavations at one mustatil showed that the centre of the head contained a chamber within which there were fragments of cattle horns and skulls. The cattle fragments may have been presented as offerings, suggesting mustatils may have been used for rituals.

"Fragments of cattle" suggests food processing, not rituals.

Modern "scientists" are so deeply religious in their own satanic way that they can't imagine TRULY SECULAR people and institutions. Plain old business for profit. Everything must be religion, and all non-Gaian and non-Viran religions are cults.

If scientists would just stick to carefully observing and measuring stuff, they'd be a lot more credible and a LOT LESS GENOCIDAL.


OCKHAM! OCKHAM! OCKHAM!

Labels: Carver, Metrology

  ¶ 10:15 PM

  Reprint on auts and krauts
Mentioning autists and Krautists in previous item reminded me of this 2019 defense of a "woke" math movement.

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This academic movement is more important and more valid than it sounds.

First, how it sounds:

Since apartheid ended in 1994, South Africa’s universities have struggled to transform themselves, leading to escalating student protests over the last three years — including the toppling of a prominent statue of Cecil Rhodes, an infamous colonizer who donated the land on which the University of Cape Town now stands. And as students and academics accelerate the process of decolonization across South African universities, the spotlight has fallen onto mathematics.

Exactly what decolonizing math would entail isn’t entirely clear: Curriculum revisions that promote non-Western contributions to the field, new teaching methods rooted in indigenous cultures, and greater openness to ideas outside the academic mainstream are all under discussion. Some want to go further, challenging the philosophical foundations** of mathematics itself.

Sounds like the usual SJW crap.

But the actual leader of the movement is onto something entirely different and hugely more important.

In his evening classes, meanwhile, Chinyoka hopes to broaden students’ understanding of what they can do with the mathematics they are presented with in lectures — from engineering to academia to law. He believes that South African mathematics should be reframed around the challenges faced by South Africa, as well as other developing countries.

In fact Chinyoka is not going far enough in the correct direction. He's treating the real life problems as a supplement after the theory. This is somewhat better than the normal math class which PROHIBITS any mention of the real world. The CORRECT method is to train students in real job-related or household-related solving, and let math come in naturally as a supplement. You're starting to cook a meal for your family. You set out the pans and read the recipe. The recipe is for 4 people but your family is 6 people. Now we have a problem that needs to be solved, and math provides a way to solve it.



After you solve the problem, you can eat the solution.

Back to Chinyoka:

“We still have this more Westernized view: You sit in a mathematics class on topology or abstract algebra, with zero idea about which context it applies to,” he says. Pointing to the current water and energy crises in South Africa, he argues that math should be taught with concrete applications in mind, rather than purely theoretically, which is a luxury afforded only by the West.

Not really a Westernized view, more precisely a Krautized view. Before we surrendered to the Krauts, US math and science teaching often had "concrete applications in mind". Around 1910 we went full Kraut. Theory in the morning, theory in the evening, theory at suppertime, concrete applications verboten all the time.

Soviet math and science teaching recovered from Krautism, focusing PROPERLY on real-life problem solving. That's why they beat us with Sputnik. As always we learned backwards. Fucking idiots.

Chinyoka is on the right track. His approach is better for ALL kids except autists and Krautists.

Western math is SOLELY for autists and Krautists. The EXPLICITLY STATED PURPOSE of math class in elementary and secondary school is to FRUSTRATE AND REPEL non-autists, so only the most precise and bizarre and reality-free wackos will end up with PhDs.

Unfortunately the movement toward USEFUL APPLICATIONS is confused and conflated with silly DieVersitarian nonsense. Many of the participants are more concerned with measuring Identity than measuring rice yield or baking temperatures or generator output. They are simply replacing one set of useless theories with another set of useless theories.

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** Footnote: there's no point in challenging the philosophical foundations of math because they don't exist. A real foundation goes in FIRST, and the rest of the building depends on the strength of the foundation. Math developed in all sorts of useful and interesting directions for 5000 years WITHOUT explicit foundations. Around 1880 the Kraut fetish for thoroughness demanded a "logical" foundation, and Krauts shoved in some logic stuff under the massive structure that obviously didn't need the logic stuff. Soon thereafter, a Kraut named Gödel detemined, using the rules of the Kraut logic stuff, that the logic stuff was internally contradictory and thus pointless.

So: If you believe that math has philosophical foundations, you must also believe that math can't have philosophical foundations. If you find math to be a wonderfully useful tool for real life problems, you don't need to think about the foundation question. Just use math.

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I can't immediately find any more recent writings by Tiri Chinyoka, except for an applied math research paper that isn't about education.

Labels: Carver, Experiential education, Real World Math

  ¶ 2:58 PM

  Trivalent? No.
From previous: Binary logic forces us to play team games, in sports and in politics. Teaming makes it EASY for Deepstate to keep us in an artificial stageplay, where we believe we're "discussing" or "voting" or "deciding" between two views that are both written by the same author to serve the evil purposes of the same author.

First thought: Would a three-value logic system help to deal with the teamplay situation?

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When dealing with media figures, the only constant fact is that everything you hear is intended to make one side or the other look bad. Some of one side may be true or not. There's no point in evaluating the truth.

Deepstate is jumbling up everything. Time, space, logic, memory.

We're supposed to ignore experience and accumulated knowledge.

We're supposed to pay sole attention to the displays presented by Deepstate.

And we're supposed to "vote" and "decide" according to these displays. The "control" is in our hands! Better make the right "decision" or the "Constitution" and the "Republic" will be trashed!!!!!!!



Polistra and Happystar have a better display.

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Second thought: Three-value logic doesn't really describe the solution. Trivalent systems start with the assumpion that T and F are the desired goals. The in-between range is considered as undefined. Not enough info available to pick T or F. The third value is still outside of teamplay, off the field. You're supposed to resolve the lack of info and join one of the teams.

Life doesn't have teams. Life has tanh. Analog systems and our sensory systems are based on tanh. Every smoothly variable control has endpoints. A volume control or a tuner has endpoints. The stereo balance control has endpoints.

In an analog system the area between the teams is the ONLY area. The two endpoints are available, but you rarely need to use them. If you have to turn the volume to max all the time, you need a more powerful amplifier. If you turn the volume to zero all the time, you don't need the radio at all. You can throw it away.

This is a sloppy metaphor because it still implies that the endpoints are part of the "usable" spectrum. They aren't. The picture above is a better metaphor. Endpoints are fake scenes generated by Deepstate to prevent us from opening the window and looking at plain old reality.

Nevertheless, pure binary thinking was much less prevalent when we were more accustomed to analog systems like slide rules and mercury thermometers and radio tuning dials. Our math is now digital, with every number appearing as a falsely precise set of digits. Our tuning is channeled, with each channel coming from a specific company. Watch this on Youtube or Hulu or Disney. Get your "news" from CNN or FOX. There's no uncharted space on the dial. These choices aren't necessarily binary, but they are digital. You have to click the rotary switch to one of the approved teams.

Polistra's 1938 Philco was all analog.



Here's the dial:



The top line suggested bands typically used by various parts of the world, but most of the dial was 'uncharted', with unexpected goodies available to the patient listener. The physical characteristics of shortwave reception also contributed to the unexpected SPORT of listening. Sometimes the ionosphere would bring in Norway or Burma with local volume while blocking nearby stations. It was a game of skill AND chance.

1938 was the peak of analog news and entertainment. Government and corporations INVITED us to listen outside the team boundaries. Most radios had shortwave bands. Newscasters in WW2 explicitly stated that BOTH of the endpoints were censored propaganda. We were expected to favor our censored propaganda because we were fighting a real and JUSTIFIABLE war, but we needed to know WHY our side was better.

After FDR died, Deepstate rose from its grave. Lady Edgar resumed playing her old "two" "sides" fake-terrorist games, and we immediately returned Russia to its old familiar role as boogeyman. We stopped making SW radios for consumer use. TV was divided into 12 channels with no uncharted tuning allowed. We started down the ever-narrowing canyon toward today's rigid channelization.

Labels: Carver, Entertainment, Equipoise

  ¶ 1:38 AM

  More
More SCIENCE DENIALISM and HORRIBLE CREATIONISM and DEVIATIONIST LYSENKOISM from a nasty anti-Darwinian named Francis Darwin. Cancel him now!

No doubt if we take a severely logical view of the universe with Descartes, we may be obliged to admit that our actions are the direct inevitable result of what has previously occurred in the world, and that we are forced into a certain action just as inevitably as the mercury in a thermometer is forced to rise to a certain point. But this is a point of view which leads us no further, it is not an instrument of research. To get a point of view which is physiologically valuable we must retain the idea of spontaneity.

What we do at a particular juncture depends on the nature of our previous experiences and actions. The “self” which seems to be spontaneous is the balance which weighs conflicting influences. It is for this reason that even in plant physiology we want the idea of an individuality, a something on which the past experience of the race is written and in which the influences of the external world are weighed. I do not of course imply conscious weighing, nor do I mean that the plant has memory in the sense that we have memory. But a plant has memory in Hering's and Butler's sense of the word, according to which memory and inheritance are different aspects of the same quality of living things. Thus in the movements of plants, as in the instincts of animals, the spontaneity of the individual has disappeared, the balance of profit and loss has been struck during the past experience of the species, and the individual acts by that unconscious memory we call inheritance.

Labels: Carver, Smarty-plants

  ¶ 10:28 AM

  It's fortunate....
It's too bad that Darwin's vague theories about species turned into an ISM. His real scientific EXPERIMENTS, continued by his son Francis, were hugely valuable. We've forgotten the long set of experiments on plant intelligence.

I ran into this 1891 experiment while looking for old devices to animate...

Mr. Francis Darwin, president of the Biological Section, read a paper by himself and Miss D. F. Pertz on "The Artificial Production of Rhythm in Plants." The paper was illustrated by experiments. The apparatus employed is a new form of klinostat designed by the Cambridge Scientific Company. The plant to be experimented on is fixed to a spindle, which, by means of a clockwork escapement, makes a sudden semi-revolution every half hour. Thus the plant is subjected to a series of alternate and opposite influences from light or gravitation, as the case may be. To take the case of gravitation, the plant will tend to curve upwards during the first half-hour, and during the second interval (when the horizontal spindle has made half a turn) it will tend to curve geotropically in the opposite direction.

Under these conditions it is found that a rhythmic state is induced which closely resembles the periodicity in rate of growth which is set up in plants by the alternation of day and night.

A remarkable result is obtained by stopping the clockwork; that is to say, by substituting a continuous for a changing stimulus. The plant continues to curve with an acquired rhythm just as if the clockwork were still in action; it has, in fact, learned and remembered the half-hourly period. This is precisely similar to certain natural rhythms - for instance, to the "sleep" of flowers, which for a short time continue to open and shut although kept constantly in the dark.

This work was forgotten for a long time, and "newly discovered" about 20 years ago, after many decades of THEORY that told us plants can't possibly learn.

Our THEORY, which still battles against the horrible forces of Lamarck and Lysenko, tells us that plants can't possibly remember anything. We call our THEORY Darwinism. It's fortunate that Francis Darwin wasn't a Darwinist.

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Here's the Cambridge Instruments klinostat. The plant is clamped (without soil?) in the box, and the clockwork can be set to flip at intervals or turn steadily.



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What about Miss Pertz? According to Wikipedia, Dorothea Pertz co-authored five papers with Francis, and gained membership in various societies, but didn't stick around.

After Darwin's retirement, Pertz was encouraged by Frederick Blackman to undertake research on meristematic tissue, but after a year observing germinating seeds her results were inconclusive. She abandoned research, possibly over disappointment, though Agnes Arber claimed "she came to recognize that the plant physiology of the twentieth century was developing on lines widely divergent from those on which she had been educated and that it demanded a grasp of mathematics, physics, and chemistry, which she did not possess."

I'm betting that her grasp of math wasn't the real "divergent lines". More likely she was disappointed by the focus on math and the loss of experimentation. She continued working in botany outside of the academy, making illustrations and indexes for texts.

Labels: Carver, Smarty-plants

  ¶ 5:31 AM