tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post4669294583793696391..comments2024-03-27T23:12:08.917-07:00Comments on CONTRARY BRIN: Fixing class & political disparities without (much) revolutionDavid Brinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465315130418506525noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-45164676398578724132022-12-11T21:53:25.062-08:002022-12-11T21:53:25.062-08:00matthew @10:12,
Noted.matthew @10:12,<br /><br />Noted.ozajhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09089912457655079936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-6016895891380521672022-12-11T13:07:51.503-08:002022-12-11T13:07:51.503-08:00sorry, missed the "onward"
onwardsorry, missed the "onward"<br /><br />onwardLarry Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01058877428309776731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-26119165768248713432022-12-11T13:03:35.695-08:002022-12-11T13:03:35.695-08:00Dr Brin in the main post:
using the illicitly rat...Dr Brin in the main post:<br /><i><br />using the illicitly ratified majority of the Supreme Court to support the 'Independent State Legislature' theory. That State Assemblies are the fundamental and final arbiters of electoral sovereignty, <br /></i><br /><br />This one boggles my mind, on mere semantic grounds. What the heck is it supposed to mean that a state legislature "declares" <b>anything</b> except by the way the legislature is defined by the state constitution.<br /><br />Is the Roberts opinion that whatever 51% of both chambers of the legislature votes for constitutes an assertion of policy by that legislature? What if the two chambers don't agree? The idea that both chambers of a legislation have to agree to the same words a rule established by the state constitution? What if the speaker of the state lower chamber insists that his chamber is the one "closest to the people", so he actually speaks for the entire legislature? What if he says he does so even if his own chamber didn't vote to agree with him? And how about Nebraska's legislature with only one chamber? Isn't that a function of the state constitution which established it?<br /><br />Without the constitution describing exactly how the legislature works, what does it mean for the legislature to do anything? And who but the state courts are arbiters of what the state constitution actually says?<br /><br />While I understand that the current US supreme court thinks it can decide whatever it feels like, regardless of custom, precedent, or even the law itself, I don't see how this "theory" makes even syntactical sense.Larry Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01058877428309776731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-67272918498766431852022-12-11T12:40:10.106-08:002022-12-11T12:40:10.106-08:00Der Oger, that is why the humor element of my anti...Der Oger, that is why the humor element of my anti-private jet radicalism is essential. "Chese em back into First Class where they belong!" Let them put me on trial.<br /><br />onward<br /><br />onwardDavid Brinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14465315130418506525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-80860705815187157142022-12-11T12:09:24.888-08:002022-12-11T12:09:24.888-08:00From the article:
If there's any type of radi...From the article:<br /><i> If there's any type of radicalism that must spread round the globe, it is this one! Not just because under-taxed private jets are polluting parasites, symbolic of wealth disparities skyrocketing near French Revolution levels. But also because all forms of transport deteriorate when the rich abandon them. </i><br /><br />Friedrich "Black Rock" Merz, who inherited the CDU chairmanship and chancellor candidacy from Merkel, and owns at least two private jets, and the Springer Press (Politico!) would have called you a "danger to the constitution and faciliator of eco-terror."<br /><br />Up to the arrests ... Now, only the sound of crickets. And bothsideisms and reframings.Ogerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12821068416792203568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-19767088232786457442022-12-11T11:44:35.101-08:002022-12-11T11:44:35.101-08:00There's a punch line to be had somewhere in he...There's a punch line to be had somewhere in here...<br /><br />https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/09/opinion/donald-trump-constitution-kanye-georgia.html<br /><i><br />Two nights before Thanksgiving, he [Trump] ate dinner with a white supremacist and Kanye West,...<br /></i>Larry Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01058877428309776731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-46552437550669079822022-12-11T10:12:02.461-08:002022-12-11T10:12:02.461-08:00ozajh, I am a metallurgist. I run a facility that ...ozajh, I am a metallurgist. I run a facility that spends a very large amount on electrical power. I work closely with my local power utility. My facility's usage is comparable to a small/medium-sized town.<br />matthewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17757867868731829206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-45573652183163697222022-12-11T09:10:01.786-08:002022-12-11T09:10:01.786-08:00Re: The "keep it secret" solution cannot...Re: The "keep it secret" solution cannot be a long term "fix"<br /><br />I'm always mulling over either open- or crowd-sourcing my SELDON I processor. Probably not crowd-funding though, too many obligations and even masters. I've never been about getting rich anyway. Watching TSMC-Arizona closely. Do you Americans realize what a hero Joe Biden is? I hope so. Sinema talks while Biden walks the walk.scidatahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07152319593457629592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-86176182715386656572022-12-11T08:14:45.165-08:002022-12-11T08:14:45.165-08:00Alfred Differ:
But... how would we ever know if i...Alfred Differ:<br /><i><br />But... how would we ever know if it ain't happening because of some other reason?<br /></i><br /><br />Aren't we talking about an error function that doesn't converge with time?<br /><br />I'm thinking back to high school math (mid 70s), but I remember there were classes of functions that could be described as an approximation plus or minus an "error" or divergence. In some instances, that error function converged to 0 as the predicted time approached, which meant that the approximation became more and more accurate with time. In other cases, the error did not converge, which meant that there was an inherent uncertainty in the prediction right up until the moment of truth.<br /><br />I know I'm rambling with the terminology, but it seems to me that something of that type is at work with psychohistory. Public knowledge of a prediction in itself helps define the error function. If the public is in favor of the prediction coming true, that error function might converge to 0. If the public works against the prediction, then it does not.<br /><br />Larry Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01058877428309776731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-23001737931540892652022-12-11T05:56:38.511-08:002022-12-11T05:56:38.511-08:00matthew:
Someone is attacking and sabotaging powe...matthew:<br /><i><br />Someone is attacking and sabotaging power grid stations in the pacific northwest.<br /></i><br /><br />The south too, particularly in both Carolinas. The North Carolina incident was the first one I heard about.<br /><br /><i><br />Here's hoping that the FBI are busy infiltrating these terror cells. Our local "protector caste" is much more likely to be active participants in the plotting than to be sleuths that solve the crime.<br /></i><br /><br />Hmmm, probably the case in the south as well.<br /><br /><i><br />Best guess of the authorities is that this is the work of white nationalist accellerationists, hoping to touch off a race and class war. <br /></i><br /><br />Ok, on this one, I seriously wonder about their perception of cause and effect. White people don't mind going without power, but Blacks and Hispanics will be mad? The same people who insist the left wants people to shiver in the dark now insists that we all shiver in the dark?<br /><br />I'm cynically reminded of a British tv cartoon that a roommate put us onto in the 80s called "Danger Mouse". Typical James Bond spoof with anthropomorphic animals. The villain, a talking frog named Baron Greenback, had a new plot every show which would allow him to "rule the world!" And in some shows, the idea that the plot would lead to that outcome was absurdly ridiculous, such as the one in which he would cause all traffic stoplights to malfunction, "...and then I will <b>rule the world!</b>". Even in the spirit of the thing, I thought they were phoning it in.<br /><br />These white supremacists who think that any sort of harm that they cause will spark a race war seem to be cut from the same cloth.Larry Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01058877428309776731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-46360530234152548672022-12-10T23:03:07.759-08:002022-12-10T23:03:07.759-08:00mmm...
That paradox is in the class of ideas that...mmm...<br /><br />That paradox is in the class of ideas that are inherently unprovable.<br /><br />1. If it ain't happening it's because we are paying sufficient attention to causes and preventing them.<br /><br />2. If it is happening it's because we aren't paying sufficient attention....<br /><br /><br />But... how would we ever know if it ain't happening because of some other reason?<br /><br />Meh. Could be true, but too circular for me to like it.Alfred Differhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01170159981105973192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-25200781396752268982022-12-10T20:56:12.937-08:002022-12-10T20:56:12.937-08:00Paradoctor's - "Seldon's Paradox"...Paradoctor's - "Seldon's Paradox" is the core of Kingsley's "Psychohistorical Crisis"<br /><br />The "keep it secret" solution cannot be a long term "fix" duncan cairncrosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14153725128216947145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-33022554542408540092022-12-10T19:46:58.022-08:002022-12-10T19:46:58.022-08:00Fascinating.
Btw, to change gears for a moment, w...Fascinating. <br />Btw, to change gears for a moment, what do you make of this?:<br />https://spectator.org/the-american-who-gave-us-pearl-harbor/Alan Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17996922923136240709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-12947532783811893142022-12-10T19:42:17.166-08:002022-12-10T19:42:17.166-08:00Regarding paradoctor @11:48, it suddenly occurs to...Regarding paradoctor @11:48, it suddenly occurs to me that this logic about Marx's predictions probably is also applicable to the area of Climate Change.<br /><br />That's very bad, given the inherent lag times. I in fact predict we will see insufficiently thought through geoengineering "solutions" adopted, perhaps unilaterally, when things like sea-level rise reach the point where G20 countries are significantly affected.ozajhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09089912457655079936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-28243049294812317722022-12-10T19:32:18.543-08:002022-12-10T19:32:18.543-08:00Two comments to matthew @9:56,
Firstly, I can'...Two comments to matthew @9:56,<br /><br />Firstly, I can't help being intrigued about what you do to make you a <i>large-scale consumer of power in the region</i><br /><br />Secondly, I have read reports indicated this sabotage is not limited to the PNW.ozajhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09089912457655079936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-54626384048444360662022-12-10T19:16:18.088-08:002022-12-10T19:16:18.088-08:00Paradoctor gets post of the day. Cogently said! I...Paradoctor gets post of the day. Cogently said! In fact I just moved it as a blovk into a daft of a future blog.David Brinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14465315130418506525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-35313915885894265772022-12-10T11:48:17.369-08:002022-12-10T11:48:17.369-08:00When the capitalist class takes seriously Marx'...When the capitalist class takes seriously Marx's predictions of mass immiseration and political unrest, then they enact mixed-economy reforms to ensure the stability of the middle class, as insurance. The reforms work, and Marx's predictions are falsified. <br /><br />This is an instance of Seldon's Paradox: that accurate psychohistorical predictions, once made known, set into effect psychohistorical forces that falsify the prediction. <br /><br />But the Paradox has more work to do. When Marx's predictions fail, then the capitalist class stops taking those predictions seriously. Therefore they stop supporting semi-socialism, the reforms unravel, resulting in mass immiseration and political unrest, as Marx predicted. <br /><br />So to the capitalist class, Marx is as true a prophet as he is a false prophet. Likewise for the Seldonian psychohistorian: when first stated, the prediction sets into motion forces that deny it; yet when the prediction is denied, the forces against it abate, and it comes true. Therefore to the society, the psychohistorical prediction is as confirmed as it is denied. Paradoctorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04821968120388981470noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-29594268050391776572022-12-10T09:56:10.227-08:002022-12-10T09:56:10.227-08:00Keep your eye on this ball:
https://www.theguardi...Keep your eye on this ball: <br />https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/09/us-power-grid-pacific-northwest-attacks<br /><br />Someone is attacking and sabotaging power grid stations in the pacific northwest. I've been following this series of events closely since I'm a large-scale consumer of power in the region.<br /><br />Best guess of the authorities is that this is the work of white nationalist accellerationists, hoping to touch off a race and class war. https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/federal-law-enforcement-warned-of-attacks-on-power-plants/<br /><br />Here's hoping that the FBI are busy infiltrating these terror cells. Our local "protector caste" is much more likely to be active participants in the plotting than to be sleuths that solve the crime. matthewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17757867868731829206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-75937927101238644782022-12-10T06:44:56.643-08:002022-12-10T06:44:56.643-08:00On whether math is invented or discovered...
This...On whether math is invented or discovered...<br /><br />This complete amateur's take on the question is: the art of mathematics--the collection of symbols and axioms and methods of proof--is an invented method whereby properties which exist and relationships which are true irrespective of how they're expressed can be discovered.Larry Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01058877428309776731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-88830781353809213542022-12-10T06:38:27.389-08:002022-12-10T06:38:27.389-08:00Der Oger:
While the official leader of this terro...Der Oger:<br /><i><br />While the official leader of this terrorist gang was a delusional noble, many others were active service or retired army officers and cops. Their plan included entering the Reichstag and executing certain persons.<br /></i><br /><br />Sounds like a re-enactment of the January 6 insurrection attempt over here. Did others around the world really look at that and think, "There's a good plan."?Larry Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01058877428309776731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-19797302314779161202022-12-10T03:07:54.513-08:002022-12-10T03:07:54.513-08:00Some update and commentary on the coup attempt and...Some update and commentary on the coup attempt and crackdown:<br /><br />1) Conservative politicians and pundits have waged an anti-climate activist campaign in the weeks prior to the arrests, conjuring the image of a new "Red Army Faction" which operated in the seventies. They remain eerily silent on both matters now or try to deflect the coup attempt as an action of demented seniors.<br />2) A large number of persons was informed of the operation, and there is evidence that some putschists have been warned.<br />3) While the official leader of this terrorist gang was a delusional noble, many others were active service or retired army officers and cops. Their plan included entering the Reichstag and executing certain persons. One report indicates that they intended to strike before Christmas.<br />4) High Treason is in play as a possible accusation (ten to life), but they might get away with a minor case of it (one to ten years), plus Formation of a terroristic organisation (one to ten).Der Ogerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00977602334642769985noreply@blogger.com