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Posted on December 7, 2014 by Leif Powers

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  • Index – What You Should Read On This Site
  • The 20th Century Is Why You Can’t Give Up Your Guns (or Liberal Government, or…)
  • How to Vote; Personnel Evaluation with Focus on Elected Officials/Candidates
  • In 2023, The Elites Formalized The Return To American Terror
  • ————————
  • —Process Control—
  • Options for Influencing Outcomes
  • The Basic Human Roles And MOEs In Processes
  • Proper Economic Measures Of Effectiveness / Compensation / Non-Bribery (Used To Describe Jobs, Economic Checklists, and Processes) (draft)
  • How To Defeat Metrics And Get Efforts Abandoned
  • Ideologies: Even Brief and Unsophisticated Ones Outperform Most Governments
  • Progressive Levels of Plan Goodness (Executing Ideal Plan For Robots Is Not Necessarily Optimal For Humans)
  • Risk Mitigation and Why Even Poor Backup Plans Make Sense When Nothing Is Working
  • Determining That A Process Is Effective (for some input set) Despite Usually Poor Results
  • Winning Strategy Decomposition: A Human-Friendly Approach (drafty)
  • Progressive Levels of Correctness: Omniscient Optimal vs. Correct vs. Justified vs. Reasonable
  • Planning Reference – Limits On Human Performance And Reliability
  • Miscellaneous Checklists
  • ————————
  • —Prediction General Principles—
  • How Correctly To Predict From A Logical And Economic Perspective
  • Correctly Bounding Critical Estimation Parameters
  • Prediction And People (Claims And Actions)
  • ————————
  • —Things To Do (Government)—
  • A More Proper Hierarchy Of Government Coercion / Acceptable / Non-Arbitrary Policies When Aesthetic Considerations Are Implicated, With The Example Of Energy Efficiency
  • Adjustments To The Liberal Order Caused By The Mass Surveillance Of Ubiquitous Recording Devices
  • Alternative Confessions of Guilt (why your favourite dictator did kill his critic, and the proper treatment of criminal conspiracies)
  • Filtered (Devices, Internet, etc.) Are Expensive, And Dangerous, Toys – And Allowing Them To Exist Wastes Many Billions Of Dollars
  • Minimum Requirements To Make A Contract (and some situations in which those have not been met)
  • Overall Results of Rape Standards Study – Need to Formalize Consent
  • The List Of Actually Required Emergency Powers
  • The Now Obviously Correct Foreign And Domestic Policy: Biodefended Alliance
  • The Only Way To Run An Effective Professional Police Force You Can Afford
  • The Voting Procedure Compromise Which All People Can Tolerate
  • Why We Should Always Be Comparing (And Contrasting) Ourselves To Hitler
  • You Only Can Have A Strong Military If You Grant The Franchise (and other freedoms) At Fighting Age
  • ————————
  • —Things NOT To Do (Government)—
  • Abortion, Drug, Information, And Some Gun Bans Have Been Practically Obsoleted By Portable Technology In Any Partially-Free Society
  • Banning The Use Of A Single Decision Criterion Without A Larger Decision Framework Is Not Legally Coherent
  • Confessions And The Foolish Practice Of Prosecuting Non-Reporting
  • Demonstration of Poor Legal Drafting Technique and Its Consequent Enabling of Arbitrary Rule
  • Establishing No-Evidence Denunciation Rules Enforces Self-Imprisonment, Failed Marriages, High-Cost Child Care, And General Terror
  • Gun Insurance (for gun control/responsibility) Does Not Make Sense
  • How To Commit Property Crimes In Major American Cities And Get Away With It (I’m not writing the “how to hire a hitman who eliminates your target and get away with it”, but please accept my claim that there are plenty of policies in major American cities that enable that, too)
  • How To Enforce Royal Privileges By Parts In The Presence Of Contrary Proclamations (example: civilian gun possession is illegal in the American Empire)
  • Occupational Pensions Promote Crime
  • Preferring Security over Liberty Turns Countries into Open Air Prisons
  • Putting Indefinite Exceptions On Human Rights Effectively Removes Protections Of Those Liberties
  • Specifying Information Contraband (e.g. Kiddie Porn) Enables Anyone To Frame Anyone, Creating General Terror
  • The Government Practically Cannot Uphold A Policy Of Neutrality In Offenses Against The Just Law
  • Ways People (usually in government) Steal Money And Goods Without Calling It Theft
  • What Debt Instruments Should Be Substituted, Or Just Eliminated
  • Why You Don’t Want to Stop Reputational Attacks Like Revenge Porn
  • You Don’t Want Your Workplace Or Other Organization To Grade Themselves On Diversity Similarity To A Larger Population
  • ————————
  • —Government And Education—
  • Alternative Approaches To Reduce The Cost Of Urban Public Education And Maintain Or Improve Quality
  • Relative Cost and Quality of Schooling Options
  • The Historical Evidence Now Proves School Choice And Mobility Are Required To Achieve Maximum Student Learning
  • Measurements Of Effectiveness And Performance Relating To Voting Capability Achieved By Formal Education (currently: not very effective)
  • The Critical Importance Of The Specialized Instruction Benefit Hypothesis In Organization And Equality In Education
  • The Purposes Of Applying Taxpayer Funds To Schooling, And How Those Purposes Dictate Your Decisions About Curriculum and School Structure
  • ————————
  • —Government – Law Enforcement—
  • (only) Registering Guns May Increase Crime
  • (partial and currently only indicative of future direction, list of) Notorious Criminals, in rough order of magnitude of crimes committed (2021)
  • A Class Of Reliable Evidence Found During Other Searches? (drafty, optional read for bedtime, not conclusive)
  • In What Order Should Targets Be Neutralized/Punished/Eliminated?
  • Non-Professional Policing Approaches
  • Open Carry Is Far More Secure Than Paid, Armed Security Guards Protecting The Unarmed Masses
  • Proper Approaches To Neutralization Of Threats And Use Of Force In Policing – Draft
  • Reporting Crimes In Situations Where The Police And Military Are Dangerous
  • The Correctness Of Emergency Vigilante Law Enforcement As Exampled Using Sutherland Springs
  • The Infeasibility Of Self-Kept Circumstantial Evidence (ignoring forgery and provenance issues)
  • The Odds Of Assassination And Its Consequences For Plans To Prevent The Next Hitler
  • Tiers Of Due Process And The Optimality Of Professional vs. Layman Response To Crime (in well-resourced policing settings)
  • What Are The Optimal Individual Actions Against Dictators Whom You Can’t Reach With A Suicide Attack?
  • What Does It Mean To Be A Lawful Government/A Government That Abides By Its Written Constitution?
  • ————————
  • —Government And The Economy—
  • Fully Accounting For Homemaker And Caregiver Labor
  • List Of Jobs That Need Doing To Absorb Mass Unemployment (intermittently updated)
  • Tax Dollars Come From Individuals, So They Either Can Be Proportionally Spent On The Same Individuals’ Preferred Options, Or On Required Common Needs
  • The Requirements That Defeating Russia/China-sized Military Threats Places On The Economy And Civil Society
  • What Is The True “Market Rate” Of Labor In Economic Scarcity? (specifically related to charity and ethics)
  • ————————
  • —Government – General Thoughts—
  • Accounting For Justice And Reparations Across Generations
  • Almost Everything (including guns) Has A Legitimate Civilian (Ordinary Person) Use
  • Current Alliances – American Empire, Russo-Iranian Alliance, Beijing East Asia, etc. (2020)
  • Generative AI Means Publicly Published And Kept Records Are The Only Remaining Reliable Documentary (not physical) Evidence
  • Land Use And City Transportation Modality/Infrastructure – Suggestions For Guiding Principles For Accommodating Everyone’s Preferences In The Context Of A Growing City/Province
  • Options For Re-Constituting Intact Family Units Capable Of Properly Raising Children
  • Options To Ensure That A Well-Run Prison System Isn’t As Good As The Outside
  • Punishments That Align To Desired Actions For People Caught Up In Murderous Regimes
  • Ranking Of Most Important Criteria When Setting Up A Representative Body (e.g. Redistricting) And A Suggestion (among many possible ways) Deterministically To Approximate It
  • Recognizing The Practical Limits Of Illiberal Value Systems (e.g. you are better than everyone else) And Knowing What Kind Of Government Corresponds To Each Value System
  • Reference Threats (Incomplete)
  • Sensitivity Analyses Via Facts->CEPs->Models->Predictions->Evaluation In Value System For Various Policy Controversies
  • The Military Is Best Served Preferentially To Draft The Old, Decrepit, And Highly Skilled
  • The Nicholas Roske Case Is The New Canonical Example Of Lawlessness and Royalism Obscured By Complex Laws and Implemented With Enticement Propaganda
  • The Requirements And Limits Of Free Speech In All Areas Of A Free Society
  • The Saturation Point Of Transportation Trips And The Economic Upper Bound On Lightweight Passenger Travel (related to the technical and economic feasibility of mass transit, including BRT)
  • There Are No Risk-Free Choices When It Comes To Potentially Or Actually Violent People
  • There Is No Broadly Defensible General Principle That Prevents The Inhibition Of Religion By Government
  • Why Any Censorship Or Gross Opacity Imposed By Force Or Threat (vs. the coordination of like-minded people) Is A Capital Offense
  • ————————
  • —Explanations—
  • “You’re right, but…”
  • Even In Liberal Democracies, Large Numbers Of People Never Consent To Their Situation
  • If You Believe In It So Much, Why Don’t You Do It? Here’s Why (Limited Resources and Specialization of Labor Angle)
  • If You Believe In It So Much, Why Don’t You Do It? Here’s Why (Functional Angle)
  • What Do We Have to Hide? Plenty
  • Why Charity Is A Tax On Righteousness
  • Ambiguity Reductions Of General Words
  • “Gun Safety” Is Poor Rhetoric
  • “It hasn’t happened yet, so there is no threat and no problem with this”
  • “We Can’t / It’s Not Realistic”
  • “Why Don’t You Feel Emotion/Talk About This?”
  • “You Don’t Have The Right/Who Gave You The Right To Enforce The Law?”
  • Disambiguating What People Mean When They Talk About “Respect”
  • Hope (Maybe) Only Makes Sense When You Talk About Human Decisions
  • Paranoia Is Obsolete
  • Restraint, Choices, And Constructive Alternatives
  • The Essential Conditions Of Slavery
  • The Religious Statement “Believe In Science”
  • Why Erasing History Isn’t What You Want (not even as a dictator)
  • Why Government (or social, etc.) Actions And Regulation May Make The Term “Owner” Inaccurate
  • Why I Don’t Worry About Being Taken Out Of Context
  • “Real Work”, Valuable Work, and What It Takes to Succeed
  • Self-Righteousness, Purity, “True” Whistleblowers, And Other Means Of Punishing Correct Behavior
  • ————————
  • —Technique Discussions—
  • A God May Be Able To Change The Whole World, But You Never Will Know It
  • Evaluating War-Winning Plans
  • How To Make A Conspiracy Theory Impossible To Dismiss (feat. Plandemic and Great Replacement)
  • Prediction Bounds’ Implicit Consequences on Model Composition and Validation
  • The Impossibility of Denying Most Threats
  • When To Use Experiments/History Instead of Theory/Prediction Techniques
  • You Rationally Cannot Proselytize Religion Without Converting Your Listener To National Socialism
  • Bounding The Limits Of Appeals To Expertise As A Proxy For Understanding
  • Consequence Alienation – Why Only Long-Term Rational Approaches Usually Maximize Utility
  • History Partitioning To Determine Probability Always Is Possible, And Always Is Wrong (This Time Never Is Different)
  • ————————
  • —Personal Philosophies—
  • There Are Exactly Two Good Reasons To Have Children
  • Our Children Have To Become Adults Around The Age Of 12 And How We Can Enable Them To Do So
  • Understanding Benefits (or not) of (for instance athletic) Competitions
  • My Prediction Record (inconsistently updated)
  • You Should Make The Pledge, “I Will Never Commit Suicide”, If You Have Powerful Enemies
  • Only The Rich Can Know What They Can Afford To Give To Charity (In Many Societies)
  • Diet and Fitness Approach – Average People
  • Suggestion For Personal Routine Checklist
  • A Typically Optimal Personal Growth/Study/Child-Raising Checklist/Map
  • Are There Practical Limits To Self-Harming Questions Or Information?
  • In The American Empire, You Will Be Punished For Saying How You Feel (Especially If You Are Suicidal), So Never Answer The Question
  • What I Hide On My Profile, And What You Should As Well
  • What I Will Lie to You About
  • Making The Right Choices When You’re Tired Of Life, Terminally Ill, Or About To Be Demented
  • ————————
  • —Sex, Relationships, Children, and Marriage – Not Because I’m The Ideal Of Knowledge, But Because It Relates To Government And Too Many Others Are Scared To Tell The Truth—
  • Contract And Compatibility Marriages, And Why A Contract Marriage Is Not Viable In A Free Society
  • Frequent, Good Sex (especially without condoms) With A Serially Monogamous Person, Is The Only Common Reason Why You Would Date/Marry A Single Parent As An Engaged Co-Parent
  • High Divorce and Infidelity Rates Are The Most Important Reason To Have Children That Look Like You
  • If You Want Kids Raised By Their Biological Spouse, You Only Can Compromise On Lifestyle And Looks
  • The Sex Contract Concept And The Tradeoffs Of Rape, Marriage, and Prostitution
  • The Tradeoffs Of Child Custody And Support Policy
  • Waiting To Find The Right Person With Whom To Start A Family Is Not Feasible For 95+% Of The Population In Liberal Societies
  • Why Screening Mates By Sexual Compatibility Isn’t Viable (and not only because you will get VD)
  • With The Usual Caveats, In Developed Society, Women Have Almost Every Veto On Child Conception, And They Have Sole Power Over Every Choice To Proceed With Pregnancy
  • The Kind Of Sex (And Relationships) You Should Be Having
  • Why Promiscuous Sex (and Rubbering) Is Not Worth It For Most People
  • Various Tests I’ve Heard People Recommend As A Yes/No On Whether You Should Marry Your Lover
  • ————————
  • —Various Opinions—
  • Measures of Effectiveness & Personnel Evaluation Related to Software
  • A Stronger Argument For Selling Oneself Into Slavery
  • Buying Patriotic Is Not A Simple Thing
  • Characterizing Effectiveness Of Influence (WIRMA)
  • Collection of Official Testimony (Maryland / Howard County based)
  • Configuration, Detailed Consultation, And Non-Obvious Monitoring Is Infeasible For Marginally Beneficial Activity (Aesthetics Economy Focus)
  • Examples of Systemic Racism In The American Empire (2020)
  • Income Inequality And Why Getting Filthy Rich Must Be Realistic In Today’s Economy
  • Maybe Effective Ways To Refute Criticism of Your Credibility Based On Your Emotional Presentation And Social Status?
  • Organizational Accountability And Why Modifications To Current Strategy Require A Full Stakeholder Approval To Avoid Embezzlement
  • Perspective Is The Typical Information-Age Casual Conversation Benefit
  • Prisoners Should Be The Healthiest, Most (Health) Experimented On Individuals In Society
  • Pronoun Wars, Transgender Bathrooms, and Other Such Considerations (alternatively, the “small minority wants something and what do you do about it”)
  • The Factors That Determine The Value Of A Human Birth Currently (2023) Do Not Indicate Any Possible Average Contribution Other Than Personal And Religious
  • The Infeasibility of Taboos And Aesthetic Totalitarianism
  • Ways to Reduce Risk of Rape
  • We Are Not Honoring The Hippocratic Oath When We Build Barriers To Practicing Medicine That’s Better Than Nothing
  • We Can’t Save The Planet (e.g. climate change) Because We Refuse To Save Ourselves
  • Whether Conflicts of Religious Civilizations Are Inevitable
  • Why Almost Everyone Will Mislead Or Lie To You
  • Why Community Standards And “Consensus” Heeding Guarantee Censorship And Make Services And Content Useless
  • Why Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew Was Not Exceptional
  • Why You Should, Or Should Not, Believe In Religion
  • ————————
  • —Metaphysics Header—
  • Metaphysics Conclusions Brief Summary
  • 1. Sensations – Basic Metaphysical Vocabulary
  • 2. Memories – Describing The General Nature of My Conscious Thought
  • 3. Describing the Operation of Reason & “Free Will”
  • 5. Compressing High-Correlation Sensation Data into Colloquial Terms
  • Explaining Human Happiness As The Evaluation In Actual Situations Of The Lifetime Value Function
  • Casual Metaphysics of Sight
  • Interpersonal Value Systems (e.g. Royalism vs. Counters)
  • ————————
  • —Miscellaneous—
  • Hints on Learning Languages involving Chinese Characters/Kanji
  • Notes on Types of Games and the Ideal Gaming Experience
  • What Kind Of Car And Options Do You Need? (off-road, performance, etc.) (as of early 2023, 48-states focused)
  • References (ridiculously incomplete)
  • Hey, this site sux! I want to complain!
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  • Index – What You Should Read On This Site
  • The 20th Century Is Why You Can’t Give Up Your Guns (or Liberal Government, or…)
  • How to Vote; Personnel Evaluation with Focus on Elected Officials/Candidates
  • In 2023, The Elites Formalized The Return To American Terror
  • ————————
  • —Process Control—
  • Options for Influencing Outcomes
  • The Basic Human Roles And MOEs In Processes
  • Proper Economic Measures Of Effectiveness / Compensation / Non-Bribery (Used To Describe Jobs, Economic Checklists, and Processes) (draft)
  • How To Defeat Metrics And Get Efforts Abandoned
  • Ideologies: Even Brief and Unsophisticated Ones Outperform Most Governments
  • Progressive Levels of Plan Goodness (Executing Ideal Plan For Robots Is Not Necessarily Optimal For Humans)
  • Risk Mitigation and Why Even Poor Backup Plans Make Sense When Nothing Is Working
  • Determining That A Process Is Effective (for some input set) Despite Usually Poor Results
  • Winning Strategy Decomposition: A Human-Friendly Approach (drafty)
  • Progressive Levels of Correctness: Omniscient Optimal vs. Correct vs. Justified vs. Reasonable
  • Planning Reference – Limits On Human Performance And Reliability
  • Miscellaneous Checklists
  • ————————
  • —Prediction General Principles—
  • How Correctly To Predict From A Logical And Economic Perspective
  • Correctly Bounding Critical Estimation Parameters
  • Prediction And People (Claims And Actions)
  • ————————
  • —Things To Do (Government)—
  • A More Proper Hierarchy Of Government Coercion / Acceptable / Non-Arbitrary Policies When Aesthetic Considerations Are Implicated, With The Example Of Energy Efficiency
  • Adjustments To The Liberal Order Caused By The Mass Surveillance Of Ubiquitous Recording Devices
  • Alternative Confessions of Guilt (why your favourite dictator did kill his critic, and the proper treatment of criminal conspiracies)
  • Filtered (Devices, Internet, etc.) Are Expensive, And Dangerous, Toys – And Allowing Them To Exist Wastes Many Billions Of Dollars
  • Minimum Requirements To Make A Contract (and some situations in which those have not been met)
  • Overall Results of Rape Standards Study – Need to Formalize Consent
  • The List Of Actually Required Emergency Powers
  • The Now Obviously Correct Foreign And Domestic Policy: Biodefended Alliance
  • The Only Way To Run An Effective Professional Police Force You Can Afford
  • The Voting Procedure Compromise Which All People Can Tolerate
  • Why We Should Always Be Comparing (And Contrasting) Ourselves To Hitler
  • You Only Can Have A Strong Military If You Grant The Franchise (and other freedoms) At Fighting Age
  • ————————
  • —Things NOT To Do (Government)—
  • Abortion, Drug, Information, And Some Gun Bans Have Been Practically Obsoleted By Portable Technology In Any Partially-Free Society
  • Banning The Use Of A Single Decision Criterion Without A Larger Decision Framework Is Not Legally Coherent
  • Confessions And The Foolish Practice Of Prosecuting Non-Reporting
  • Demonstration of Poor Legal Drafting Technique and Its Consequent Enabling of Arbitrary Rule
  • Establishing No-Evidence Denunciation Rules Enforces Self-Imprisonment, Failed Marriages, High-Cost Child Care, And General Terror
  • Gun Insurance (for gun control/responsibility) Does Not Make Sense
  • How To Commit Property Crimes In Major American Cities And Get Away With It (I’m not writing the “how to hire a hitman who eliminates your target and get away with it”, but please accept my claim that there are plenty of policies in major American cities that enable that, too)
  • How To Enforce Royal Privileges By Parts In The Presence Of Contrary Proclamations (example: civilian gun possession is illegal in the American Empire)
  • Occupational Pensions Promote Crime
  • Preferring Security over Liberty Turns Countries into Open Air Prisons
  • Putting Indefinite Exceptions On Human Rights Effectively Removes Protections Of Those Liberties
  • Specifying Information Contraband (e.g. Kiddie Porn) Enables Anyone To Frame Anyone, Creating General Terror
  • The Government Practically Cannot Uphold A Policy Of Neutrality In Offenses Against The Just Law
  • Ways People (usually in government) Steal Money And Goods Without Calling It Theft
  • What Debt Instruments Should Be Substituted, Or Just Eliminated
  • Why You Don’t Want to Stop Reputational Attacks Like Revenge Porn
  • You Don’t Want Your Workplace Or Other Organization To Grade Themselves On Diversity Similarity To A Larger Population
  • ————————
  • —Government And Education—
  • Alternative Approaches To Reduce The Cost Of Urban Public Education And Maintain Or Improve Quality
  • Relative Cost and Quality of Schooling Options
  • The Historical Evidence Now Proves School Choice And Mobility Are Required To Achieve Maximum Student Learning
  • Measurements Of Effectiveness And Performance Relating To Voting Capability Achieved By Formal Education (currently: not very effective)
  • The Critical Importance Of The Specialized Instruction Benefit Hypothesis In Organization And Equality In Education
  • The Purposes Of Applying Taxpayer Funds To Schooling, And How Those Purposes Dictate Your Decisions About Curriculum and School Structure
  • ————————
  • —Government – Law Enforcement—
  • (only) Registering Guns May Increase Crime
  • (partial and currently only indicative of future direction, list of) Notorious Criminals, in rough order of magnitude of crimes committed (2021)
  • A Class Of Reliable Evidence Found During Other Searches? (drafty, optional read for bedtime, not conclusive)
  • In What Order Should Targets Be Neutralized/Punished/Eliminated?
  • Non-Professional Policing Approaches
  • Open Carry Is Far More Secure Than Paid, Armed Security Guards Protecting The Unarmed Masses
  • Proper Approaches To Neutralization Of Threats And Use Of Force In Policing – Draft
  • Reporting Crimes In Situations Where The Police And Military Are Dangerous
  • The Correctness Of Emergency Vigilante Law Enforcement As Exampled Using Sutherland Springs
  • The Infeasibility Of Self-Kept Circumstantial Evidence (ignoring forgery and provenance issues)
  • The Odds Of Assassination And Its Consequences For Plans To Prevent The Next Hitler
  • Tiers Of Due Process And The Optimality Of Professional vs. Layman Response To Crime (in well-resourced policing settings)
  • What Are The Optimal Individual Actions Against Dictators Whom You Can’t Reach With A Suicide Attack?
  • What Does It Mean To Be A Lawful Government/A Government That Abides By Its Written Constitution?
  • ————————
  • —Government And The Economy—
  • Fully Accounting For Homemaker And Caregiver Labor
  • List Of Jobs That Need Doing To Absorb Mass Unemployment (intermittently updated)
  • Tax Dollars Come From Individuals, So They Either Can Be Proportionally Spent On The Same Individuals’ Preferred Options, Or On Required Common Needs
  • The Requirements That Defeating Russia/China-sized Military Threats Places On The Economy And Civil Society
  • What Is The True “Market Rate” Of Labor In Economic Scarcity? (specifically related to charity and ethics)
  • ————————
  • —Government – General Thoughts—
  • Accounting For Justice And Reparations Across Generations
  • Almost Everything (including guns) Has A Legitimate Civilian (Ordinary Person) Use
  • Current Alliances – American Empire, Russo-Iranian Alliance, Beijing East Asia, etc. (2020)
  • Generative AI Means Publicly Published And Kept Records Are The Only Remaining Reliable Documentary (not physical) Evidence
  • Land Use And City Transportation Modality/Infrastructure – Suggestions For Guiding Principles For Accommodating Everyone’s Preferences In The Context Of A Growing City/Province
  • Options For Re-Constituting Intact Family Units Capable Of Properly Raising Children
  • Options To Ensure That A Well-Run Prison System Isn’t As Good As The Outside
  • Punishments That Align To Desired Actions For People Caught Up In Murderous Regimes
  • Ranking Of Most Important Criteria When Setting Up A Representative Body (e.g. Redistricting) And A Suggestion (among many possible ways) Deterministically To Approximate It
  • Recognizing The Practical Limits Of Illiberal Value Systems (e.g. you are better than everyone else) And Knowing What Kind Of Government Corresponds To Each Value System
  • Reference Threats (Incomplete)
  • Sensitivity Analyses Via Facts->CEPs->Models->Predictions->Evaluation In Value System For Various Policy Controversies
  • The Military Is Best Served Preferentially To Draft The Old, Decrepit, And Highly Skilled
  • The Nicholas Roske Case Is The New Canonical Example Of Lawlessness and Royalism Obscured By Complex Laws and Implemented With Enticement Propaganda
  • The Requirements And Limits Of Free Speech In All Areas Of A Free Society
  • The Saturation Point Of Transportation Trips And The Economic Upper Bound On Lightweight Passenger Travel (related to the technical and economic feasibility of mass transit, including BRT)
  • There Are No Risk-Free Choices When It Comes To Potentially Or Actually Violent People
  • There Is No Broadly Defensible General Principle That Prevents The Inhibition Of Religion By Government
  • Why Any Censorship Or Gross Opacity Imposed By Force Or Threat (vs. the coordination of like-minded people) Is A Capital Offense
  • ————————
  • —Explanations—
  • “You’re right, but…”
  • Even In Liberal Democracies, Large Numbers Of People Never Consent To Their Situation
  • If You Believe In It So Much, Why Don’t You Do It? Here’s Why (Limited Resources and Specialization of Labor Angle)
  • If You Believe In It So Much, Why Don’t You Do It? Here’s Why (Functional Angle)
  • What Do We Have to Hide? Plenty
  • Why Charity Is A Tax On Righteousness
  • Ambiguity Reductions Of General Words
  • “Gun Safety” Is Poor Rhetoric
  • “It hasn’t happened yet, so there is no threat and no problem with this”
  • “We Can’t / It’s Not Realistic”
  • “Why Don’t You Feel Emotion/Talk About This?”
  • “You Don’t Have The Right/Who Gave You The Right To Enforce The Law?”
  • Disambiguating What People Mean When They Talk About “Respect”
  • Hope (Maybe) Only Makes Sense When You Talk About Human Decisions
  • Paranoia Is Obsolete
  • Restraint, Choices, And Constructive Alternatives
  • The Essential Conditions Of Slavery
  • The Religious Statement “Believe In Science”
  • Why Erasing History Isn’t What You Want (not even as a dictator)
  • Why Government (or social, etc.) Actions And Regulation May Make The Term “Owner” Inaccurate
  • Why I Don’t Worry About Being Taken Out Of Context
  • “Real Work”, Valuable Work, and What It Takes to Succeed
  • Self-Righteousness, Purity, “True” Whistleblowers, And Other Means Of Punishing Correct Behavior
  • ————————
  • —Technique Discussions—
  • A God May Be Able To Change The Whole World, But You Never Will Know It
  • Evaluating War-Winning Plans
  • How To Make A Conspiracy Theory Impossible To Dismiss (feat. Plandemic and Great Replacement)
  • Prediction Bounds’ Implicit Consequences on Model Composition and Validation
  • The Impossibility of Denying Most Threats
  • When To Use Experiments/History Instead of Theory/Prediction Techniques
  • You Rationally Cannot Proselytize Religion Without Converting Your Listener To National Socialism
  • Bounding The Limits Of Appeals To Expertise As A Proxy For Understanding
  • Consequence Alienation – Why Only Long-Term Rational Approaches Usually Maximize Utility
  • History Partitioning To Determine Probability Always Is Possible, And Always Is Wrong (This Time Never Is Different)
  • ————————
  • —Personal Philosophies—
  • There Are Exactly Two Good Reasons To Have Children
  • Our Children Have To Become Adults Around The Age Of 12 And How We Can Enable Them To Do So
  • Understanding Benefits (or not) of (for instance athletic) Competitions
  • My Prediction Record (inconsistently updated)
  • You Should Make The Pledge, “I Will Never Commit Suicide”, If You Have Powerful Enemies
  • Only The Rich Can Know What They Can Afford To Give To Charity (In Many Societies)
  • Diet and Fitness Approach – Average People
  • Suggestion For Personal Routine Checklist
  • A Typically Optimal Personal Growth/Study/Child-Raising Checklist/Map
  • Are There Practical Limits To Self-Harming Questions Or Information?
  • In The American Empire, You Will Be Punished For Saying How You Feel (Especially If You Are Suicidal), So Never Answer The Question
  • What I Hide On My Profile, And What You Should As Well
  • What I Will Lie to You About
  • Making The Right Choices When You’re Tired Of Life, Terminally Ill, Or About To Be Demented
  • ————————
  • —Sex, Relationships, Children, and Marriage – Not Because I’m The Ideal Of Knowledge, But Because It Relates To Government And Too Many Others Are Scared To Tell The Truth—
  • Contract And Compatibility Marriages, And Why A Contract Marriage Is Not Viable In A Free Society
  • Frequent, Good Sex (especially without condoms) With A Serially Monogamous Person, Is The Only Common Reason Why You Would Date/Marry A Single Parent As An Engaged Co-Parent
  • High Divorce and Infidelity Rates Are The Most Important Reason To Have Children That Look Like You
  • If You Want Kids Raised By Their Biological Spouse, You Only Can Compromise On Lifestyle And Looks
  • The Sex Contract Concept And The Tradeoffs Of Rape, Marriage, and Prostitution
  • The Tradeoffs Of Child Custody And Support Policy
  • Waiting To Find The Right Person With Whom To Start A Family Is Not Feasible For 95+% Of The Population In Liberal Societies
  • Why Screening Mates By Sexual Compatibility Isn’t Viable (and not only because you will get VD)
  • With The Usual Caveats, In Developed Society, Women Have Almost Every Veto On Child Conception, And They Have Sole Power Over Every Choice To Proceed With Pregnancy
  • The Kind Of Sex (And Relationships) You Should Be Having
  • Why Promiscuous Sex (and Rubbering) Is Not Worth It For Most People
  • Various Tests I’ve Heard People Recommend As A Yes/No On Whether You Should Marry Your Lover
  • ————————
  • —Various Opinions—
  • Measures of Effectiveness & Personnel Evaluation Related to Software
  • A Stronger Argument For Selling Oneself Into Slavery
  • Buying Patriotic Is Not A Simple Thing
  • Characterizing Effectiveness Of Influence (WIRMA)
  • Collection of Official Testimony (Maryland / Howard County based)
  • Configuration, Detailed Consultation, And Non-Obvious Monitoring Is Infeasible For Marginally Beneficial Activity (Aesthetics Economy Focus)
  • Examples of Systemic Racism In The American Empire (2020)
  • Income Inequality And Why Getting Filthy Rich Must Be Realistic In Today’s Economy
  • Maybe Effective Ways To Refute Criticism of Your Credibility Based On Your Emotional Presentation And Social Status?
  • Organizational Accountability And Why Modifications To Current Strategy Require A Full Stakeholder Approval To Avoid Embezzlement
  • Perspective Is The Typical Information-Age Casual Conversation Benefit
  • Prisoners Should Be The Healthiest, Most (Health) Experimented On Individuals In Society
  • Pronoun Wars, Transgender Bathrooms, and Other Such Considerations (alternatively, the “small minority wants something and what do you do about it”)
  • The Factors That Determine The Value Of A Human Birth Currently (2023) Do Not Indicate Any Possible Average Contribution Other Than Personal And Religious
  • The Infeasibility of Taboos And Aesthetic Totalitarianism
  • Ways to Reduce Risk of Rape
  • We Are Not Honoring The Hippocratic Oath When We Build Barriers To Practicing Medicine That’s Better Than Nothing
  • We Can’t Save The Planet (e.g. climate change) Because We Refuse To Save Ourselves
  • Whether Conflicts of Religious Civilizations Are Inevitable
  • Why Almost Everyone Will Mislead Or Lie To You
  • Why Community Standards And “Consensus” Heeding Guarantee Censorship And Make Services And Content Useless
  • Why Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew Was Not Exceptional
  • Why You Should, Or Should Not, Believe In Religion
  • ————————
  • —Metaphysics Header—
  • Metaphysics Conclusions Brief Summary
  • 1. Sensations – Basic Metaphysical Vocabulary
  • 2. Memories – Describing The General Nature of My Conscious Thought
  • 3. Describing the Operation of Reason & “Free Will”
  • 5. Compressing High-Correlation Sensation Data into Colloquial Terms
  • Explaining Human Happiness As The Evaluation In Actual Situations Of The Lifetime Value Function
  • Casual Metaphysics of Sight
  • Interpersonal Value Systems (e.g. Royalism vs. Counters)
  • ————————
  • —Miscellaneous—
  • Hints on Learning Languages involving Chinese Characters/Kanji
  • Notes on Types of Games and the Ideal Gaming Experience
  • What Kind Of Car And Options Do You Need? (off-road, performance, etc.) (as of early 2023, 48-states focused)
  • References (ridiculously incomplete)
  • Hey, this site sux! I want to complain!
  • Site Copyright and Attributions (Public Domain / CC0 except where specifically noted)
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