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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

To play devils advocate one could argue that the theory of relativity stated as a matematical metaphor is already the information as processed by humans. And that such a descriptive statment about the world implies a belef in consistent natural laws.

I also dont see how that description about religion is useful. Dont worry abou being sleepy. Rest comarade. Somtimes i have migranes and take days to reply

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good response. Agree. In general. I specially agree with the last paragraph.

But it is also the case that diferent owner clases beneffit from diferent laws and ideology. The common example is the american civil war were feudal aristocrats favored low tariffs while industrial capital prefered protectionist tarifs and wage labor, and a strong state that invested in infraestructure like railroads. Views on ussury in feudal vs trade vs mixed societies is another example.

Similarly labor relations as determined by the means of production influence the ideological positions of a society towards labor.

No society has a single means of production, there is usually an amalgam of economic interests each of this benefits from a different law, ideology or coustom. My line of questioning was in this sense, wether diferent material basis of siciety for example pastoralists vs agriculturalists lead to different ideological spaces, and how much of that is pure idealism and how much correlates to differences in the mode of prodiction.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Good response. Agree. In general. I specially agree with the last paragraph.

But it is also the case that diferent owner clases beneffit from diferent laws and ideology. The common example is the american civil war were feudal aristocrats favored low tariffs while industrial capital prefered protectionist tarifs and wage labor, and a strong state that invested in infraestructure like railroads. Views on ussury in feudal vs trade vs mixed societies is another example.

Similarly labor relations as determined by the means of production influence the ideological positions of a society towards labor.

No society has a single means of production, there is usually an amalgam of economic interests each of this benefits from a different law, ideology or coustom. My line of questioning was in this sense, wether diferent material basis of siciety for example pastoralists vs agriculturalists lead to different ideological spaces, and how much of that is pure idealism and how much correlates to differences in the mode of prodiction.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Does anybody have jerry pournelles phd thesis? I have not been able to find it. But its related to this type of horoscope.

Now idealy each question should be its own axis of variation. And then you would do a pca or similar to define your political space with that basis. That method would be more objective.

And could lead to interesting questions, how do these arrangments vary culturally. Both the spaces and their dimentionality. Maybe in some cultures the first "n" axes are all really similar while in others one axis sufices to represent most of the variation? How does these variations relate to social economic and other struvctural forces? Do diferent compositions and or historical pathways to capital produce diferent ideological relations in semengly unrelated isues? Etc.

Or you could run all sorts of analysis to create your ideological space not just pca but network embeding or some of the fancy new shit.

But in this case the space is asumed a priori wich is shit. I dont know if dr pournelle also pulls the space out of his ass or if he does some statistical justification. The psichological tests that look for protestant virtues like agreeablnes, concienciousnes etc serm to operate under a similar system are those categories aslo bullshit or is there a correlation analysis used to define them?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Superhuman order not necessarily supernatural. Unless you hold the philosophical position in wich reality is a product of human subjective experience. No i have not read the book but it says rigth there in the screenshot.

Its certainly a wierd taxonomy and i have no idea of what uses it may have. But there are sets that can be defined in such a way.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

With covid around you shuldnt go to a movie teather.

Disney cape shit sucks i agree. But be responsible and dont go to enclosed crowded places when there is an airborn plague.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The gordon dickson book?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Putin is rasputin confirmed again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Maneuverable reentry vehicles the iranian hypersonic misslies that were unveiled were these types too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I asume its the same for other us warheads claimed to be hypersonic like the minute man ones. Is this also the case for similar gizmos in use by other countries like iran?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thanks in the wikipedia it says 8 - 10 so thats why i asked

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

What if covid was a terrorist atack on china and iran by obama loyalists? With the aded benefit ithat it put them back in power.

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