" Some intellectuals since the Industrial Revolution have hypothesized that economic growth is essentially limited. But [Mark Zuckerberg's] prediction of the launch of the metaworld is a good example of why this line of thinking is wrong. In his book The Ultimate Resource 2 , economist Julian Simon explains why there is no real constraint on economic growth, no shortage of resources, because one resource can always be replaced by another, always applying enough ingenuity to the problem.
“Using lead-acid batteries as an example, Simon writes,“ What matters to us is not whether we can find lead in existing lead mines, but whether we can service batteries at the lead price; It doesn't matter. this is achieved by recycling lead, permanently storing batteries or replacing acid lead batteries with another device.
"In recent decades, technology has replaced more efficient use of resources with more efficient use of resources. Instead of using more land to build new hotels, for example, Airbnb has found a way to take passengers to second place. As a structure for infrastructure land ownership.
"And now Metavers can give humanity more technological capabilities than ever before. By allowing us to cater to a growing part of our material space, it will allow us to do much more and save resources such as fuel. Instead of consuming building materials and land." .
"Metaverse does not solve everything and will create unexpected difficulties and negative side effects like any new technology. But what entrepreneurs and consumers can do best is the fact that such technological advances can help solve the problems ... of the future and even greater well-being than we began to measure. ”~ Saul Zimet from his article " Three Huge Benefits That Could Come From Metaberts"
Kamis, 30 Juni 2022
The Limitless Potential of Technology
The 'upper-income trap'
If we write about the "highest income trap" in the coming decades, rich economies will be bureaucracy, inflation, social instability, rents and anti-industrial sentiment .
“Because we explain, poorer companies may now be richer than the United States and growth is not expected to slow after the country's industrialization. But for some reason it seems like we're slowing down.
“The United States and all rich economies have great growth potential in rent seeking, anti-industrialism, inefficient governance and immigration, trade, catechesis, intellectual property, land use and research and development.Tweet from @DurhamFella [tweeted]
“Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state...."
" I really want to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state lives at everyone's expense."
~ Frédéric Bastiat from the 1850 book The Law
Mātauranga Māori is mythology, not science
For an ad paragraph a few years ago, they read our bullshit there ...
Toby Young points out the stupidity of the British audience :
As a defender of freedom of speech, I sometimes feel like a person who has fallen into a building that is collapsing. The floor gave way again when you thought you had finally arrived. That’s what I felt last week when I read about Professor Garth Cooper’s disciplinary inquiry into the Royal Society of New Zealand.
For the background, Professor Cooper is great in his case. He is Professor of Biochemistry and Clinical Biochemistry at the University of Auckland, where he also heads the Protomics and Biomedical Research Group. He is a Chief Investigator at the Maurice Wilkins Center for Advanced Molecular Bioengineering, a member of the Endocrine Society (USA) and was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (UK) in 2013.
So why is this outstanding scholar facing expulsion from New Zealand's most prestigious academic community? A few months ago, one in seven of the signatories to a letter to New Zealand's "audience" opposed a proposal by a government task force that schools should value Mরিori myth as much as classroom science. This means that the meaning of the Mওori world - for example, all living things rank and arise from the Pope, the Mother of Heaven and the God of Heaven - is certainly consistent with the theories of Galileo, Newton and Darwin.
Knowing the title and the pope will not let you enter the medical school.
Or, to be honest, as the Czech physicist Lubas Mattel said with him in the title of the play: " Maturanga M মাori is a myth, not science ."
Cooper and his colleagues were less open because they wanted to know the place of the myth - although not the place of the scientific table:
The authors of the article "In Defense of Science" warn that indigenous knowledge is "necessary to preserve and preserve local culture and practice and to play an important role in governance and policy" and should be taught in New Zealand. Schools. But they remove the boundaries by considering them at the same level as physics, chemistry, and biology: "In the discovery of empirical and universal truth they are far from what we can define as science."
In the rational world, this message is out of the question. Surely the Scoops Assembly in 1925 resolved the controversy over whether scientific or religious explanations of the origin of the universe and the rise of man could be taught to schoolchildren? In addition to the difficulty of prioritizing religious views in an ethnically diverse society like New Zealand (what about Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism?), There is a problem that Mরিori students who are already in a predicament will find themselves in a predicament. When teachers protect them, they say there is no need to teach the basics of scientific knowledge. Knowing the title and the pope will not let you enter the medical school.
But when that message is published, that's all.
These witches have been expelled from their universities and the Royal Society of New Zealand - and possibly from society - with open letters in the form of attacks by professionals, including "Hell". Polite
It should be noted that the original Royal Society was at the center of the original Enlightenment project - a historic moment when science was finally (we believe) freed from the confusion of religion and science was finally placed on the throne of reason.
Note that these same rabbis note that ( still ) myth is a science: more than a vice chancellor, assert that
We believe that Mরিori-Mওori and Western empirical science are not mutually exclusive and should not compete. They complement each other and have something to learn from each other.Instead, they talk about the “trauma” they feel. And keep quiet when other fools shovel:
Daniel Hikurua, a scientist from Auckland, also mentions that M মাori-Mওori, like the Marmataka (Mওori lunar calendar), is "an obvious science." “We didn’t travel to Atero in mythology and legend,” they say to McAllister. "We have failed to balance the environment without knowledge. The Mরিori were the first scientists in Atheros. This letter is all his glory," wrote Tina Engata, living proof of how racism is nurtured and propagated at the New Zealand Academy. .An example of what happened is a letter from the New Zealand Psychological Association, the president of which. Vaikoremvana Waituki, who said:
"While reviewing the article, it is clear that ethnic characteristics, including a general interpretation of moral panic, were used to justify the exclusion of Mরিori knowledge as forensic science ... Science is a real weapon in the hands of the invaders. A
Isolation of material. 'Colony'. A real weapon. The author, on behalf of his community, concludes that this outrage “emphasizes the need to colonize the existing power base in our educational institutions”. So, the infidels were expelled - and their opinions.
How are you here We come here from their shameless opponents when post-modern philosophers and educators argue that race and the "life experience" of colonialism and slavery obscure today's reality - that epistemology (epistemology) is based on knowledge of ethnic and racial identities. - That science is a subject. The “model” and not the evidence - and the conclusion that everyone’s real subject is now “the science of the victims” and the winner of the group (it was always a group in tribal times) can show most of the historical scars.
Fortunately, not everyone in this pile is silent. One of the indicators of how far witch hunters are from the mainstream is the reaction of the rest of the world. Two responses, in particular, deserve a full quote: one from an open letter from British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins (which requires no introduction) and one from his University of Chicago colleague Jerry Cohen (who wrote a large part on the subject). They were harassed by witch hunters ...
Hand. Roger Ridley
Royal Society of New Zealand
Dear Dr. Ridley,
I have read Jerry Cowen's long, detailed and simple critique of the Royal Society of New Zealand's unreasonable move to include the M পথori "path of knowledge" in New Zealand science curriculum and the Royal Society's public refusal to protect science - which, above all, your community must do.
The world is full of thousands of creation myths and other colorful legends, each of which can be explored with M মাori myth. Why choose a Mওori legend? Nevertheless, the Mওori came to New Zealand centuries before the arrival of the Europeans. This would be a good reason to study M মাori myth in an anthropology lesson. There may be a good reason for Australian schools to learn about their Aboriginal legends, which were published a few thousand years earlier than the Europeans. Or to teach Celtic mythology in a British school. Or Anglo-Saxon mythology. But no original legend from anywhere in the world, no matter how poetic or extraordinarily beautiful, is classified as science. A science class is not a place to study science that goes hand in hand with real science. There is still plenty of creativity, though many relatives.
The Royal Society of New Zealand, like the Royal Society of which I am honored to be a member, must represent the flag. Not the "West" flag, not the "Europe" flag, not the "white" flag, not the "colonial" flag. Just science. Science is science, and it doesn't matter who does it, where it comes from or what "tradition" it comes from. True science is based on evidence, not imitation. These include preventive measures such as peer review, re-examination of empirical assumptions, double-blind testing, supplementation of false feelings, and testing equipment. True science works: it lands on a comet, creates a plague vaccine, predicts eclipses in the next few seconds, and restores the life of an endangered species, such as the tragic Moa.
If the Royal Society of New Zealand does not keep the original flag in your country, then who? What is the community for? What are the other reasons for its existence?
Very loyal to you
Richard Dawkins FRS
Honorable Professor of Public Understanding of Science
Oxford University
Hand. Roger RidleyRoyal Society of New Zealand
Dear doctor. Ridley
From the news, I understand that the Royal Society of New Zealand is considering expelling two scientists for signing a message against the joint teaching of "true" science and the equality of modern science. As a biologist who has conducted research all my life and spent time with biologists in New Zealand, I found this opportunity very tedious.
The letter, written by two members, along with five others, defended modern science as a way to understand the truth and argued that M মাori should not be taught as a "way of knowing" although culturally and ethnographically in values, like these two disciplines. It was just as effective in telling the truth about our universe. They don't. M মাori science is a collection of myths, religions, and legends that may contain some scientific information, but in order to determine which part is truly true, these claims must be evaluated by modern science: our only "true" path.
I think you know how M মাori are known to incorporate creationism: a creation advocated by fundamentalist Christians in the United States based on a literal text of the Bible. Both American and Mওori creationism are wrong - they deny all the facts about biology, paleontology, embryology, biology, and so on. I have spent my life against creationism as a dignified view of life. It is a matter of shame that your society expels members for advocating against opinions, creations and non-experiential views like evolution.
I hope you will reconsider this move to reject these two members, which, if done, will make the Royal Society of New Zealand laugh.
Heart,
Jerry Quinn
Honorable Professor Dr.
Department of Environment and Development
University of Chicago
We
You can (politely) write your letter to the doctor. Roger
Ridley, if you don't want to be quiet. Email roger.ridley@royalsociety.org.nz .
Rabu, 29 Juni 2022
What is Liberty?
The philosopher Stephen Hicks answered the question, "What is freedom?" - as part of the Philosophy in Real Life video series.
Housing justice'?
Il devient de plus en plus populaire d'associer les visages à la « justice ». En conséquence, "justice sociale", "justice ethnique", "justice environnementale" et maintenant "justice domestique"...
«Ajouter un adjectif à la justice n'apporte plus de clarté ni de perception. Ce qu'il fait confond le sujet et déforme le concept de justice.
"Il est bien entendu que la justice est" notre devoir les uns envers les autres ".
থেকে " Nous n'avons pas besoin d'un adjectif pour la justice " message
...ignorance.
"We live in a world where smart people must remain silent so as not to offend ignorance."
Selasa, 28 Juni 2022
Trump: "all his 'writing like crazy' has produced … a picture book."
" Trump hinted last June that he had a book in the works," Trump said in a statement. But in any case, I write like crazy, and when the time comes, you will see a book with all the books." About Trump. About six months later, he wrote all these "crazy writings"... a picture book.”
The source of all invention ...
" All human inventions have their individual purpose, because they come from the individual function of the mind, which is a creative and effective source."
~ Isabelle Patterson, from her book The God of the Car
Forced
I can take the above comments almost anywhere, because this dream doesn't make sense everywhere.
NZ Herald: A Christchurch man says he was forced to leave his apartment because he didn't like getting the Covid-19 vaccine.
Yahoo News: MAFS Dean Wells has lifted new lockdown rules for vaccinated and unvaccinated people, saying it's a "separate" community.
BFD: If my employer makes it clear that if I don't sleep with him I will lose my job, that's no different than asking for a vaccination. Either way, I am forced to bring into the body what I don't want.
'Strength' means something specific; means physical violence; it means that with a stick, a gun, a whip; Threatening or using violence. So the "force" is a bit strong. More specifically, "things that are the result of my stupid choice."
To confuse an option and to confuse the effects of a contraction and its predecessors is to confuse a tarantula with something that you have to press against your chest. But that's what those thinkers above do.
Think About It: Should You Get a Life-Saving Vaccine? No, but it does have consequences (to work; for their living conditions; to be able to visit a bar without endangering the health of others; and perhaps -the main reason for the vaccination- if it is for their damn health). Idiot * don't do it.
Is rape "domestic" (as the stupid BFD posters said)? No, if you decide not to clean, it's "similar" to asking you to drop out of a political campaign. Or if you anointed yourself. Or is it obvious that you are stupid. In other words, because those who follow basic hygiene rules don't want you around.
Are you "cut off" from society because you are not protected? No, business owners and others reject you for your stupid decisions. The opportunity, by the way, remains reversible. As opposed to being stupid forever.
Is this the "apartheid" that we have before us? No, apartheid is basically a denial of what makes us human and what we do according to our choices. What we see here is a complete acknowledgment of the others you have chosen . This is a stupid choice.
* No point in telling you now - I don't want to spoil the surprise. There is not.
Artificial intelligence can mimic art, but it can’t be expressive at it because, other than the definition of the word, it doesn’t know what expressive is.
" The power of the machine to create or enrich a person is a pleasure at least once ... Do the impossible with talents, skills, opportunities, do something beautiful, difficult, or fun, or scary, or what the artist intends. to do. "
“ True wisdom is in the flesh. Wisdom outside the living body, as a delicate egg, is impossible from the beginning or should be called by another name. When it comes to the meaning of life. love, loss, desire, longing, anger, confusion, my God, we are amazed at the sight of the universe, etc. Artificial intelligence is incapable of և a little stupid, time և other practical և ability to better understand potential issues ... AI can emulate. That's right.Ան Ian Swafford from your post; Philosophical և musical flaws of Bethoven X ፡ AI AI project.
[ Ted Goya hat cap offer]
Senin, 27 Juni 2022
One says: ‘Merry Christmas’ — not ‘Weep and Repent'.
The secular meaning of Christmas is broader than the principles of any religion: it is good for people - this is not an exclusive feature (although it should be a part, it is essentially an invisible part).
The beauty of Christmas is that it expresses good intentions in a joyful, happy, polite, sacrificial way. The man says "Merry Christmas", not "Think and repent." “Good intentions are expressed in a material and mundane form - in gifts to friends or in commemorative postcards.
“The best thing about Christmas is that it is often condemned by mystics: the fact that Christmas is commercialized. merchandise and other businesses - Christmas trees, twinkling lights, bright colors - offer breathtaking views of the city that only the "commercial greed" of a terrible depression can afford.~ Ayn Rand, Objective Calendar, December 1976
Inflation: "One of the biggest taxes is one that is not even called a tax"
One of the biggest taxes is even an unnamed tax - inflation. When the government spends the money it earns, it takes over part of the value of your money. "It's a quiet tax, but it's often a heavy tax for everyone, not everyone," he said. Incomes are low.From Thomas Sewell's article , "Taxing the Rich Will Have Disastrous Consequences for Others."
Christmas: It's thanks to capitalism
“ I rose after capitalism, I had enough resources to make freebies possible, I had a great productive tool to advertise them and make them free, and it was a place where men wanted to go to friends and express their life satisfaction.থেকে Philosopher Leonard Bykov from the article " Why Christmas should be more commercial "
Minggu, 26 Juni 2022
The concept of 'force' is widely misused and misunderstood today....
The concept of " ball" ... was misused today ...
"Physical force is coercion applied by physical force, such as, among many other cases, beating, seizing, shooting or seizing a person's property [this is physical contact with another person or property of another person without his consent or Consent and / or Threats of such communication] ....
"There is only one way to try to influence a person's mind: to exert force on his body (or property) ... the arbitrary entity, untouched, begins the process of freely recognizing. What you can not resist in "An intellectual way is that you do not rely on an intellectual way if a party, public or private, says to someone: 'Take us, or we'll steal your bank account, break your leg and kill you.' For its part, the process of perception is ineffective and this process does not help in the face of threats. And nothing more: it is forced, it is obscured by the memory of the victim ..."Obligation is not in proportion to the frustration caused by others, it only refers to the frustration caused by people who use cruelty ..."Leonard Bykov, his book Objective: From the Philosophy of Law Rand
Read old books: "Every age has its own outlook."
Summer reading
Last week my boyfriend figuratively attacked me for not posting another photo from the meeting I read over the summer. "no fear". I explained that everything was taking longer this year and played for a while...
What are you planning to read during the long summer days in hell?
Sabtu, 25 Juni 2022
All humans are somewhat nutty because they refuse pigheadedly to accept reality and, therefore, make themselves depressed, anxious, and enraged.
"I think that practically the whole human race is out of its goddamed mind and could use therapy. All of them, not equally so, are crazy. Males and females are biologically prone to think crookedly. They don't get it from their mothers, or [the latest political cause celebre]. They think crookedly because they are easily prone to do so. All humans are somewhat nutty because they refuse pigheadedly to accept reality and, therefore, make themselves depressed, anxious, and enraged.
"Because they won’t accept the reality that things should be exactly the way they are right now because that’s the way they are. (Now, I'm not saying it's good that they're that way, it's bad, often quite crummy. So it's crummy. But that's the way it is)....
"But if you’re pretty crazy then you’re in very good company, because the human race as a whole is really out of its goddam head. Now all of you, of course, know this about others – about your mother and father and sister and brothers and friends and wives and husbands. You know how nutty they are. Now the problem is to get you to admit this about yourself and then to do something about it."~ Albert Ellis, quoted in Michael Bernard's book Staying Rational in an Irrational World
"Because they won’t accept the reality that things should be exactly the way they are right now because that’s the way they are. (Now, I'm not saying it's good that they're that way, it's bad, often quite crummy. So it's crummy. But that's the way it is)....
"But if you’re pretty crazy then you’re in very good company, because the human race as a whole is really out of its goddam head. Now all of you, of course, know this about others – about your mother and father and sister and brothers and friends and wives and husbands. You know how nutty they are. Now the problem is to get you to admit this about yourself and then to do something about it."
~ Albert Ellis, quoted in Michael Bernard's book Staying Rational in an Irrational World
Books, Ethics, Psychology
... sustained thinking.
“ No. The problem is that the endless thought can withstand the onslaught.”
Voltaire
[ Jean Moroni hat suggestion]
Is it an oxymoron to say that suffering can make us… happy?
" Do you like spicy food? Horror movies? Super hot baths? If so, why? It's a contradiction in the sense that suffering can make us happy ... It may not sound so radical in these simple cases, but psychologist Paul Bloom points out a most powerful point ... [that] suffering can bless us.
"So why do we do awkward և / or difficult tasks?" "We promote pluralism," Bloom said. Suffering is a necessary part of a meaningful life, as opposed to a life of absolute pleasure.
"According to the title of Bloom's book , where's the sweet spot?" Bloom suggests that worrying is more or less a curse. "~ Amy Willis explores how often suffering can help us at the end of a Ras Roberts podcast interview with author Paul Bloom.
Sidney Poitier (1927 - 2022) [updated]
One of my heroes passed away at the age of 94. Throughout his role, actor Sidney Poitier has been a symbol of dignity, thought and determination. He always had a flash in his eyes.
If you haven't done this before, I highly recommend you watch three of his favorite films.
- night heat
- Guess who's coming to dinner as well
- They walk in the sun
It's fair to say they'll never do it again. Both cinema and people.
Refresh
“You ask me questions about black, universal in my life. I am an artist, a man, an American, a modern person. It's a lot of things, so I want you to respect me."Context-
“Why are you chasing bad news? You can ask me many questions about the many positive and wonderful things that are happening in this country right now. But we are here to fix happiness…negative.”
Julie Burchill in The Beauty and Importance of Sydney Poetry
According to Martin Scorse, "He had the ability to possess the precision of sound, physical strength, and sometimes supernatural grace."
Play the role of scientists, academic and professional people. Virgil Fiebes, Investigator and Criminal Investigator for Eternity Morning, insisted on calling Mr. Tybes. In Sir, With Love, Poitier tells his white-haired teenagers, "You always respect me and others." You call me "sir" or "Mr Thackeray". Children are named after grandparents; The girls are treated the same and love "Miss Queen". ...
Poitier was an excellent man with composure... When division and rebellion were considered extremism, we missed the example that the color of our skin is one of the most insignificant aspects of our lives. A wonderful person.
Jumat, 24 Juni 2022
There has been considerable debate around the intersection of NCEA, mātauranga Māori, and science. But it is the wrong debate....
" There is a lot of talk about the NCEA, the Maori matauranga and the crossing of science . But this is the wrong argument...
"Like many of the significant changes we have seen in education and the NCEA in recent decades, the current debate is backed by slogans and almost unfounded."
First of all, there is no doubt that our national teaching of science, technology and mathematics (hereinafter simply “science”) yields difficult results.
In 2018-2019, our 13-year-olds had the worst results in the International Mathematics and Nature Research (TIMSS) trends (60 countries); (PISA) in reading, mathematics and science (about 90 countries).
“We have been experiencing a relative and absolute decline for more than 20 years. The economic cost to the country and the consequences to the people are truly staggering. Read an experimental portrait of a New Zealand adult living with low levels of literacy and numeracy , from the AUT study group, and then pay up: I did it...
"But.
The current slogan of the NCEA change [requiring Matauranga Māori to equate science education] is: "Many Māori are left out of science because they don't see it as a reflection of their culture."
"There is no evidence that this statement is relevant to academic achievement."
“It is ridiculous that students from lower socio-economic levels or Maori and Pacific students are not as smart and capable as they are; We are talking about learning opportunities. They take away from our system and its superstitions that they can make it better.
Another slogan: “The rise of the Matauranga Maori is not a weakening of science. What is really useful is the incorporation of indigenous knowledge, such as conservation approaches that complement science.
“I think that's a very generous explanation of what the NCEA changes are actually proposing. But more importantly, this change in some PRCA standards will not solve any real problems.
“However, this debate reflects the cynical movement of the Department of Education, which claims that we are dealing with serious unfair consequences for our system. "The real problems are very complex and there is no quick fix."~ Gavin Martin, Professor of Mathematics at Messi University, wrote in the article " We have the wrong debate about how we teach science ".
[Instructions from Jerry Coyne What's Happening in New Zealand? Three simple pieces . "You should also read its sequel, which makes you think, ' Is learning through science a science? '
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't -- or won't ...
" The whole world is made up of people who have something to say but can't say; the other half has nothing to say and keeps saying."~ attribute. Roberta Gela
The country is splitting into dozens of blind, deaf, but screaming camps, each drawn together not by loyalty to an idea, but by the accident of race, age, sex, religious creed, or the frantic whim of a given moment—not by values held in common, but by a common hatred of some other group....
The country is divided into dozens of camps blind, deaf, but screaming, not all following a unified idea, randomly assigned to race, age, gender, religion or anger. No shared values, no general hatred towards other groups...
“When men abandon principle (that is, their conceptual skills), there are two main consequences: individually, an inability to project into the future; The inability to communicate socially ... the direct cause of the problems of narrow mindset that develop today; He could no longer see; The only reaction he could understand was to impose his demands on others."What [people] need most is guidance, reassurance, inspiration of faith, and adherence to basic principles ... all they will achieve is the ability to understand, reason, judge, and" communicate with one another. "They will lose the feeling of being plunged into a helpless mist of confusion."~ Ayn Rand, from his 1971 article " Reliability + Bias ".
[ Ion Rand Institute Cap Annual Report ]
How to help keep supermarket prices higher
The Unknown Trade Commission (whose job is to cripple the market to somehow free it up) saw this as the best way to force supermarkets to lower prices. Whatever you think, the opposite will happen.
The committee's advisers are currently investigating the gold -plated proposal to force the owners of the two largest supermarkets to "lose" their businesses in all regions with a market share of more than 27%.
What could be the consequences of such a thing other than the loss of market freedom? easy .
The trade committee is full of bad ideas, such as the advice of their favorite advisers, mostly hammer boys looking for nails, that there is no such need for nails (they have the opposite effect). Not because they care. They are so happy as they try to find the best way to create bigger regulatory barriers that the owners of the two big supermarkets have to lower their prices. They do not want to say that the real solution is to remove all obstacles to having more than two large supermarkets for newcomers .The ban on exceeding market share is preparing them to stop competing. This doesn't seem like a good idea.
But that could have destroyed several hammer throwers.
* The Trade Commission has no problem with the centralization of power represented by the same government agencies, only producers can have it.
Kamis, 23 Juni 2022
The science is clear: the vaccines work.'...
" There is no doubt about science : vaccination [against coronavirus] works" ... Yes, those who are fully vaccinated can still end up in hospital. In fact, there are more vaccines in hospitals than there are people who have not been vaccinated. But the numbers show significant numbers: those who did not get the vaccine were 6.93 times more likely to be admitted to the hospital and 17.5 times more likely to be in intensive care.~ Lindsey Mitchell, from her contribution toVaccine Effectiveness in New South Wales .
The Great Awokening has not crowded out Millennial Socialism. It has absorbed it....
It is generally believed that " capitalism versus socialism" was once seclusion, while "caution versus caution" is now the place of movement: conscience is the new tax rate, and abolition is a new nationalization.
The problem with this argument is that it is right on one side of the abyss, toward 'non-vigilance' or 'anti-vigilance.' Awakened opponents are more enthusiastic about the recent scandal. Alliance with (eg, left-wing critics of abolitionism) can easily get a part. called] the center-right version.)
“But on the other side of this abyss, it would be a grave mistake to suppose that something similar is true, and that progressive left-wing policies are somehow suppressing the socialist economy. And vice versa, it is true. It is hard to imagine.
“The Great Awakening did not suppress Millennium Socialism. It embraced it… Therefore, the Culture War is by no means ‘outside the economy.’ Instead, the economy has become an important front in the culture war.”বন্ধ From Christian Nimitz's article, "For Awakened Warriors, Culture and Economics Are Two Sides of the Same Coin - Ask Molly Mick "
[ Samizdata point ]
Trader v Warrior ...
“You can be a multi-million dollar industry, but the high tone prevents you from making money trading. As strange as it may sound, it is socially acceptable to inherit your wealth from knights who killed people in the Middle East. Get old, but not yourself, by doing useful things that improve people's lives.~ Ian Mortimer, from the new book The Time Traveler's Guide to Regency Britain 1789 and 1830.
[HumanProgress constraint type]
SEE ALSO:
- Rules, not good warriors - NOT PC
- Three Horsemen of the Neapocalypse - EZ PC
The Government Science-Agency Oxymoron'
" No matter what the political crisis in Kovid does, the state science agency is like a military intelligence, a giant crab or a Marxist economist. The bureaucracy cannot" participate in science "because all its incentives are wrong.Robert E. Wright, Oxamaron State Science Agency
Rabu, 22 Juni 2022
Global warming has saved 500,000 lives in England and Wales in the last 20 years
For more than 20 years , the estimated change in heat- or cold-related deaths was a net decrease of 555,103, with an average of 27,755 deaths per year (Table 1). Heat death.অফিস From the UK Office for National Statistics (ONS) report " England and Wales Climate-related Deaths and Hospitalization: 2001 to 2020 "
[ NetZeroWatch Tip ]
Is the statement 'We are living in a post-truth world' true? If your answer is 'yes' then the answer is 'no' ...
Did I say, "We live in a world after the truth" ? If your answer is "yes" then the answer is "no" because the statement is based on the verdict and the evidence is still relevant and the information is still relevant ...[Together with Stephen Hick's hat]
"Anyone who pushes universities to fulfill their mission of expanding knowledge, truth and rationality will face opposition because these are exactly the twentieth century. Aren't we living in a post-apocalyptic age? Conscious psychologists show that" people are fundamentally irrational. Not right? Is it acceptable to think recklessly and pursue the truth? Is it an information-based defense? "
The answer to all these questions is "no".Steven Pinker: Why Don't We Live in a Post-Fact? Protection of (unnecessary) factors and (important) role of universities in their development
A unique aspect of art is that it represents the purpose of what one lives for. It represents the 'point' of life.
“Every civilization has works of art, including buildings, that represent the values of that country. The unique thing about art is that it represents the meaning of life. It represents the "point" of life. Art too. * In a major artistic institution that represents the soul of a culture or civilization ... "
~ Artist Michael Newberry, his 2001 article from Pandora's Box , written and published shortly after 9/11
* In 2022 he stated: "Of course, Marcel Duchamp's urinal was not part of any development, but it is unanimously recognized as one of the most influential works of visual art of the 20th century. The moment ..."
From "meaningless phrase" to "a string of 'principles of co-governance'"
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| Nick Kim cartoon from Free Radical |
The pure words " Whiteington Agreement" are included in the law on state enterprises only because the then Attorney General [David] Lang (Jeffrey Palmer) has proved that the phrase does not make sense to the Cabinet. Thanks to some legal opinions, this introductory phrase is easily associated with "partnership". Nearly thirty years later, this link has been fine-tuned to "Partnership Principles " to transform it into a "Collective Principles " set.~ Barry Brill : Does the word "partnership" mean the same thing as "marriage"? '
Selasa, 21 Juni 2022
It looks like literature is wasting time...
" It may seem like a waste of time, but literature actually saves the most time, because it gives us access to so many emotions and events that it takes years, decades, millennia to try to survive. Literature is the greatest imitation." The instrument that takes you to infinitely more situations than to testify directly. "~ Quoted from the poet Mary Ruffel, " Anyone who reads a book is a sign of world order ."
[Hattrick Lynn.C.]
An individualist is a man who says: 'I will not run anyone’s life—nor let anyone run mine'.
Do not make the mistake of fooling people who think an individualist is someone who says, "I will do what I want at the expense of others." An individualist is a person who recognizes the inalienable individual rights of a person: his own and others'.
"An individualist is someone who says, 'I will not control anyone's life and I will not allow anyone to control my life.' I will not rule and I will not rule, to sacrifice someone for yourself.
~ Ayn Rand, from " His Textbook of Americanism "
That the central banks were totally surprised by today’s inflation indicates a fundamental failure. Surely, some institutional soul searching is called for....
"The obvious question is, first of all, how has the Fed [և the domestic reserve bank] distorted its primary objective of maintaining price stability. The fact that the Fed [և the Reserve] has surprised by today's inflation is a sign of fundamental failure. Of course. An institutional reassessment of values is in order...
"America [և the world] is full of debt. Everyone assumes that taxpayers will lose out in the next economic downturn. Student loans, state pensions, and mortgages are piling up waiting their turn to save Uncle Sam. But each crisis demands more and more blood transfusions in the city, and the fire will spread.
“In 2008, regulators and lawmakers were at least smart enough to take moral risks, fearing that investors would profit in good times and taxpayers would absorb losses in bad times.
The same Fed that missed mortgage risk in 2008 – the 2020 pandemic – now wants a “climate risk” stress test that will surely see the next war, the next pandemic, the default or failure of sovereign debt. . Next war, other major sabotages. Federal Reserve regulators don't even ask the final questions. And although they speak rhetorically of "linkages", "strategic interactions", "network effects" and "credit cycles", they have not yet decided what "systemic" risks are. », they did not give everything. An inclusive term to make it inclusive. Regulatory authorities.
"Regulators will never be able to anticipate risks, skillfully measure the assets of financial institutions, or ensure that huge debts can always be repaid." We need to change the basic principle of the financial system, where the government always guarantees huge debts in times of crisis. difficulty. We have to do it before the firefighters test."
John Cochran from his book " Accounting" .
...New Zealand, a nation whose science is circling the drain
The study of modern science in New Zealand was sufficient as the Ardennes government settled on the original treaty between the "crowns" (settlers) and Maori contained in the Waitangi Treaty of 1840 (known as "Te Tiriti " by the Maori). . This means that over time the Maori will receive not only capital (and this is a minority of kiwis), but also additional capital: half the money and half the power ...
“It won't work with time. The Māori matauranga ["way of knowing"] rarely changes and is largely immune to falsification as science continues to advance. This is not to say that the Maori should not have more power than them (I can't talk about it), but the New Zealand government seems so guilty that it is ready to give up its science and its universities. its wealth to anyone who claims to be Maori or of Maori descent ....
Despite the size of the University of Auckland and the size of a global research institute, it and the government of New Zealand are confident that the quality of research and the reputation of the country as a whole will be compromised, mainly through justice alone. actions cannot be justified ...~ Evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne from his post "More from New Zealand, a sinking country"
Senin, 20 Juni 2022
The Simple Life
We often hear or doubt that life was easy "then". No, there's Don Boudreaux in this guest post ; If you read these words, he is the simplest person in his life.
I recently saw a nature show on TV in Zanzibar . The narrator says that people who came to the islands of the Indian Ocean 20,000 years ago led a simpler life, and some inhabitants of Zanzibar still live in it.
The audience watched a video of two young men from Zanzibar rowing in a wooden boat at sea and throwing their fishing nets into the water. These fishermen caught beautiful fish. Before going out on the water, these young men were sure to catch a good catch, because after looking at the sea for a while, they finally saw a shark, which is a good sign that there are many fish is. Locations.
When I saw these young men dragging their nets on the beach, I said to myself: “Easy ?! These two people have more problems and complexities than fish.
And I'm definitely right. When I need fish for dinner - I do this regularly - I go to a restaurant in my spare time to look for fish. I arrived at the restaurant in peace and ease, and my food was immediately cut on my table, seasoned and prepared. Alternatively, I sometimes take a few steps to the nearest supermarket and buy fresh or frozen (or pre-cooked) fish as I please.
Finding fish is very easy for me and other modern residents of our Paramood ancestors and for those who have not benefited from modernity today.
Of course, the truth about fish is true in almost every aspect of life. Contrary to many claims, life is not as simple as it is today. We are not ancestors, we live a "simple life".
Imagine what it was like for a typical farming family in New England more than 200 years ago. When he woke up on a cold winter morning, he had to put out the fire. As the fire had not yet started, the operation was carried out in an unoccupied house. The house did not have a thermostat controlled AHT room. And the person who started the fire did not have an automatic lighter or safety seat to light the fire. The artificial stumps were not ready for lighting.
The kitchen had to be turned on by hand and just like a stove.
Self-healing without tap water, liquid water and antibacterial soap was less boring, less comfortable and cleaner than it is now. They had to milk the cows - the temperature below zero is not far from the "easy" task in the morning, I think. And buying milk is not as easy as going to the supermarket.
Even then, it was not "easy" to convert live animals to table meat compared to the fact that almost all of us take meat for our table. If I kill my cattle, pigs and chickens, I'm willing to believe that the meat I get in restaurants and supermarkets will be sweeter than the meat I buy. But I do not want to believe that the taste improvement will be big enough to make up for the big problem I had with the meat.
After the shower? Two hundred years ago, in rural America, bath water had to be heated in a flame before it could be poured into a container. (Forget the shower) Back then bathing was much easier than today.
Would you like to visit Uncle Josiah, who lives 180 miles from Providence? If you can not ride faster than a horse, you get off, you really go. So that journey, by today's standards, is also easy. It was not comfortable.
Today's anthropologists only have to look at themselves and those around them if they want to find the simplest group of people in history.
Most of us now wake up and spend most of our time indoors, indoors and in the winter with automatic HVAC systems that keep us warm in the summer and pleasantly cool in the summer. We literally go to supermarkets and restaurants around the world for food. Sometimes we go to the farmers market because we and our farmers use cars, sidewalks and refrigerators because many of today's farmers receive credit cards.
Compared to our ancestors, it is now much easier for us to communicate without hearing. In fact, for most of our ancestors, real-time communication was not as simple as "easy". It is now much easier to enjoy TV, satellite radio, video and music broadcasting, post books and board games overnight, cell phones, laptops, YouTube and the internet.
How much easier is it to call city or suburban transportation than to call or chase taxis with Uber or elevator applications? Answer a lot.
Or consider washing your clothes. We just throw our dirty clothes in clean carts with lots of soap. easy come easy go.
To the bank? We simply deposit our payment electronically into our account and then send our payment in various electronic ways. Say goodbye to the "complex" dance by personally going to the bank and writing and sending checks on paper.
The 24-year-old quickly told me that Dordash used his hand to search for a paper napkin that was sent home within 20 minutes. This saved him from the complicated task of driving to the supermarket to pick up and buy towels. When my son was reluctant to cook or leave the apartment, he was ordered to deliver fresh pizza directly.
The journey to modernization can be described in detail. The lives of our pre-industrial ancestors - and indeed the lives of our ancestors - are much simpler than those of many or more generations. Compared to the past, it is very easy to eat, as well as wet, dress, hold, clean, repair diseases and injuries, comfortable and safe, information and fun, and transport back and forth.
If you read these words, your life is the simplest that people have ever experienced.
The audience watched a video of two young men from Zanzibar rowing in a wooden boat at sea and throwing their fishing nets into the water. These fishermen caught beautiful fish. Before going out on the water, these young men were sure to catch a good catch, because after looking at the sea for a while, they finally saw a shark, which is a good sign that there are many fish is. Locations.
When I saw these young men dragging their nets on the beach, I said to myself: “Easy ?! These two people have more problems and complexities than fish.
And I'm definitely right. When I need fish for dinner - I do this regularly - I go to a restaurant in my spare time to look for fish. I arrived at the restaurant in peace and ease, and my food was immediately cut on my table, seasoned and prepared. Alternatively, I sometimes take a few steps to the nearest supermarket and buy fresh or frozen (or pre-cooked) fish as I please.
Finding fish is very easy for me and other modern residents of our Paramood ancestors and for those who have not benefited from modernity today.
Of course, the truth about fish is true in almost every aspect of life. Contrary to many claims, life is not as simple as it is today. We are not ancestors, we live a "simple life".
Imagine what it was like for a typical farming family in New England more than 200 years ago. When he woke up on a cold winter morning, he had to put out the fire. As the fire had not yet started, the operation was carried out in an unoccupied house. The house did not have a thermostat controlled AHT room. And the person who started the fire did not have an automatic lighter or safety seat to light the fire. The artificial stumps were not ready for lighting.
The kitchen had to be turned on by hand and just like a stove.
Self-healing without tap water, liquid water and antibacterial soap was less boring, less comfortable and cleaner than it is now. They had to milk the cows - the temperature below zero is not far from the "easy" task in the morning, I think. And buying milk is not as easy as going to the supermarket.
Even then, it was not "easy" to convert live animals to table meat compared to the fact that almost all of us take meat for our table. If I kill my cattle, pigs and chickens, I'm willing to believe that the meat I get in restaurants and supermarkets will be sweeter than the meat I buy. But I do not want to believe that the taste improvement will be big enough to make up for the big problem I had with the meat.
After the shower? Two hundred years ago, in rural America, bath water had to be heated in a flame before it could be poured into a container. (Forget the shower) Back then bathing was much easier than today.
Would you like to visit Uncle Josiah, who lives 180 miles from Providence? If you can not ride faster than a horse, you get off, you really go. So that journey, by today's standards, is also easy. It was not comfortable.
Today's anthropologists only have to look at themselves and those around them if they want to find the simplest group of people in history.
Most of us now wake up and spend most of our time indoors, indoors and in the winter with automatic HVAC systems that keep us warm in the summer and pleasantly cool in the summer. We literally go to supermarkets and restaurants around the world for food. Sometimes we go to the farmers market because we and our farmers use cars, sidewalks and refrigerators because many of today's farmers receive credit cards.
Compared to our ancestors, it is now much easier for us to communicate without hearing. In fact, for most of our ancestors, real-time communication was not as simple as "easy". It is now much easier to enjoy TV, satellite radio, video and music broadcasting, post books and board games overnight, cell phones, laptops, YouTube and the internet.
How much easier is it to call city or suburban transportation than to call or chase taxis with Uber or elevator applications? Answer a lot.
Or consider washing your clothes. We just throw our dirty clothes in clean carts with lots of soap. easy come easy go.
To the bank? We simply deposit our payment electronically into our account and then send our payment in various electronic ways. Say goodbye to the "complex" dance by personally going to the bank and writing and sending checks on paper.
The 24-year-old quickly told me that Dordash used his hand to search for a paper napkin that was sent home within 20 minutes. This saved him from the complicated task of driving to the supermarket to pick up and buy towels. When my son was reluctant to cook or leave the apartment, he was ordered to deliver fresh pizza directly.
The journey to modernization can be described in detail. The lives of our pre-industrial ancestors - and indeed the lives of our ancestors - are much simpler than those of many or more generations. Compared to the past, it is very easy to eat, as well as wet, dress, hold, clean, repair diseases and injuries, comfortable and safe, information and fun, and transport back and forth.
If you read these words, your life is the simplest that people have ever experienced.
***
Donald J. Boudreaux is a member of the FA Haik program of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the American Institute of Economics and George Mason University Mercatus Center. Member of the Board of Trustees; And George Mason, professor of economics and former professor of economics. He is the author of The Essential Hay, Globalization , Hypocrites and Half-Wits , and his articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times , American News and World Report , and several academic journals. Cafe Haik writes regularly for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review blog and economic column . Boudreaux holds a doctorate in economics from Auburn University and a law degree from the University of Virginia.
This issue first appeared on AIER .
Omicron: "...it’s misleading to quote a number that’s twice as soon and an order of magnitude higher."
The ADO NZ is headlined "Amicron: Simulation suggests New Zealand could face peak of 80,000 daily infections" and the report begins with the words "New Zealand Spokespersons Weekend to UK could cause 50,000 a day”. It's technically correct, but in this context it's not the best view.
“First of all, it's an infection pattern, not a case. This includes asymptomatic infections (which of course is important) and infections that are not just reported . cases, including a peak of around 11,000 daily cases at the end of March, if the models are to be believed, we have seen that over the past two years we have seen case reports rather than of infections. "
~Thomas Lumley, from his posts ' How Many Amicrons? '
Broken supply-chains...
" Major supply chains are a thing of the past now, but what I think is really significant is that almost no one understands that it is the price system, only the price system that operates the supply chain. Your table is with everything else. Makes it necessary. "It's amazing knowledge that makes our lives risky to get stuck in the sand."থেকে Steven Kates from his post: "Pricing is the most important element of a market economy."
Minggu, 19 Juni 2022
...the distinction between fact and fiction...
" The ideal subjects of totalitarian regimes are not Nazis or Communists who are convinced, but people who have a difference between fact and fiction ( i.e. experiential reality) and the difference between right and wrong ( i.e. ) exists......"
[ Why?] In an incomprehensible world that is constantly changing, the masses have reached a point where they believe everything and nothing, they believe that everything is possible and nothing is true. ... Mass propaganda finds that its audience always ready to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and not overly deceived, still believing every false statement.Totalitarian mass leaders base their propaganda on the psychologically correct assumption that under such conditions people can someday be made to believe claims the most fantastic and that if they were presented with irrefutable evidence of their lie the next day they would believe it would flee in cynicism; instead of abandoning the leader who lied to them, they would protest that they always knew the statement was a lie. and admire leaders for their superior tactical intelligence.
~ Hannah Arendt, from her book The Origins of Totalitarianism.
It's not really the Auckland Tram anymore, is it ...
Late last week, the government announced its new plan to spend billions of dollars on a light rail to Auckland Airport, which it has promised to complete by 2023. He wants to put about half of it underground. From that moment on, as the non-public official points out in this guest post , it is no longer a tram ...
The world is full of well thought out railway / tram proposals. Some even show up, in places like Newcastle, Australia. They usually appear to be very expensive remover, look good in shiny layouts, add some property value to homes and apartments near train stations, but have minimal impact on transportation, both traffic jams and exhaust fumes. The subway offered by Auckland is one of them.
Like most of these projects, it is not about transport or economic impact, and it has everything to do with ideologically closed politicians, who are sometimes eager to build monuments for themselves at the expense of their children and grandchildren.
At least the government's proposal, Michael Wood's Memorial Money Pit, is not such a stupid idea of street trams, so valued by environmentalists and urban planners, that it takes so much capacity off existing streets - this elimination is essential. The reason environmentalists and urbanites who hate cars are so fond of trams is because they have found that the primary way to stop people from driving is to make it much harder, more expensive and cheaper, more convenient and tram down the street make. Trams are one of the best ways they can think of to make things harder, more expensive and more uncomfortable. (It does not matter if someone else takes the tram, because its main purpose is not to transport people, but to prevent people from traveling by car, taxi or truck.)
So the tip is not as bad as it could be. Actually, it's better than it sounds (who in their right mind thinks of ordering an underground tram to Mount Roskill?) Would be some public transportation that can travel fast enough, at least for the tunnel segments - but it is the cost of putting those discs in it is the problem: $ 15 billion!
$ 15 billion is an incredible amount.
- $ 15 billion is three times the total budget that will be spent on public transportation by Waka Kutahi and all local authorities for the entire 2021-2024 period across the country. (Source NLTP 2021-2024)
- $ 15 billion is almost double what Waka Kotahi spends in a year on transportation and all municipalities - road maintenance and construction, all bus and train subsidies, everything.
- $ 15 billion is 23 times what it would cost to build Auckland Harbor Bridge today (and remember, Auckland Harbor Bridge was financed by borrowing and then paying taxes).
In fact, $ 15 billion makes it the largest transportation project in the country's history. (By comparison, $ 115 billion in cash today is what the New Zealand government paid for the entire WWII!) Dream of appearing on the back of an inappropriate envelope of a fraudulent commission. You will also lose money as there is no way for the fees charged to offset even half of your operating costs.
It was initially proposed as a way to solve two problems:
It was initially proposed as a way to solve two problems:
- Overcomes the demand for capacity on bus routes along Dominion Road; And the
- Bus congestion in central Auckland.
Originally designed to solve these two problems, the "solution" inevitably grew as the newly elected politician's ego grew. Politicians love big, exciting projects, and (with an almost ideological romance of planners and planners with trams), Auckland Rail's "solution" has grown like a seaweed, slowly absorbing and absorbing more and more revenue.
Like the highway planners they criticize, public transportation planners believe that the growth in demand is endless, and therefore they believe that they need to plan more and more capacity for their preferred mode of transportation. However, the time and willingness of people to move through cities is not unlimited, and as the pandemic has shown, there are no endless requests for bus travel in this corridor.
In fact, there are cheaper ways to increase bus capacity, for example
- Wider priority bus lanes and traffic light features
- Peak price of the bus ride, to have a net income from a widely used service that can be used to increase capacity.
I mentioned it earlier as the Auckland tram, but the graded version of the tunnel, proposed by Grant Robertson and Michael Wood (and paid for by children and grandchildren) is indeed a "light rail"; This is what Brussels calls "pre-metro" - a small subway train that looks less like the slow tram of Melbourne and Sydney than the light rail. This irritates the Green Party, which supports planners who want slow-moving trams to block cars, but should worry anyone who thinks $ 15 billion could be better spent elsewhere.
So what are you going to do ? The government's press release is instructive in what it does not say as much as it does. It is noteworthy that it does not mention the cost, for example.
This is what it says:
- Auckland's growing population means they need a way to get around ... many of them are probably flats along Sandringham Road, Onyonga or Manger Bridge, which residents will want to travel to the CBD, the airport or elsewhere. between
- Without this light rail, Auckland would be stranded ... even if there is no place in the world where the construction of a light rail would have alleviated the situation; It may take a few buses from Sandringham Road and Dominion Road, but that's about it
- 12,000 cars will leave the road , but where and when? Total number of cars in one day, on which roads? Some short stretches of highway have more than 100,000 vehicles a day; On average, about 35 million kilometers a day are driven on Auckland's roads (pre-pandemic), so at best that $ 15 billion will reduce traffic by only 0.03%.
- 97 000 new jobs will be created by 2051 ... by whom? It also does not build or operate the light rail. Does that mean more property taxes on the road? Were the jobs created anyway? It remains for us to guess.
- It will halve some people's travel time to and from the airport ... no mention of who those people are - and honestly, if you do not live near a stop on your route, especially at the southern tip, you will not be do not rush because you will stop several times before reaching your destination
- The cost of capital or annual support required, compared to the amount of support that current services must continue to operate
- Expected demand and percentage of light rail capacity that will be used during peak hours (and off-peak hours).
- Where should people who live along the subway line work or learn? (Only 1 in 8 jobs in Auckland is in the CBD, and if you add the airport and Eat in, the line only serves 1 potential job out of 7 for the people who live there)
- Effect of actual travel time on current road traffic, including cargo.
- Why not Britomart or the new series of high-cost subways, the construction of which is now destroying most of city life?
- Because the government is now proposing the light rail that runs through the north coast tunnel, rather than the heavy rail that connects it to the urban rail network that is under construction, so that people on the north coast can catch a train to get there, says Newmarket, Henderson, New Lane, Sylvia Park, Manukau or Papakura or Onehunga - Instead of an easy subway ride so far on almost everyone's favorite destination list: Roskill Mountain.
What is absolutely clear is that this is an amazing project, long to complete , poorly thought out, and that it will in no way even begin in the next two years. There is no possibility. So there is still time to go back to the definition and analysis of the problem ... what is the project trying to do? Who are the people trying to move? Good value for money or a sea of high cost Keynesian helicopters? Does the city really need another multi-billion dollar memorial?
Even public transportation promoters wonder what is happening here. For example, imagine spending a tenth of the budget proposed here on improving bus services in Auckland! But this, of course, will not be a ribbon-cutting time for any politician.
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