Imagine that, following the earth being hit by a giant asteroid, the government mandated that every person must wear a helmet and carry a shield whenever they were outside of a building as a means of protecting themselves against the threat of future asteroid strikes.
Tag: logic
First, Do Not Destroy Scarce Resources
If there is one lesson that everyone should learn from studying even the most elementary economics, and if there is one major intellectual gift that sound economists gave humanity, then it is precisely this vaccine against Orwellian superstition, according to which destruction contains any productive value.
Peaceful Anarchism 021 – Danilo Interviews Nick Hazelton (1h11m)
Peaceful Anarchism 021 features an interview of Nick Hazelton by Danilo Cuellar. Topics covered include voluntaryism, peaceful parenting, veganism, animal rights, abortion, logical fallacies, and more.
More Reasons to Read About Religion
Studying religion teaches us a tremendous amount about human psychology: our eagerness to embrace doctrines that outsiders consider nonsense, our pretentious overconfidence and hyperbole, our willingness to oppress and even murder over objectively trivial issues.
Pick Up a Bigger Pile of Shit
When a conversation isn’t about ideas, but rather someone trying to portray dominance through moralizing, intimidation, virtue signaling, disgust, or whatever … I will either opt not to continue the discussion, or I will play to win. I lose all pretense of the conversation being about ideas, and I will merely strategically try to dominate them.
The Problem with Ancap Thought Experiments
Yes, you can make a point with using an example of a small number of people interacting in an isolated system, but you could just as easily create a thought experiment starting from our current situation that people might find easier to follow. Such a thought experiment might look something like this.
Peaceful Anarchism 020 – Suffering is the Greatest Teacher (7m)
Peaceful Anarchism 020, “Many of us tend to shy away from and avoid suffering, hardship, and pain. It is only natural since our bodies are constructed to desire pleasure and shun discomfort. It is our biological imperative. Nevertheless, sometimes it becomes necessary to override our limbic system base desires in order to attain a nobler goal.”
The Learner Precedes the Teacher
The learner comes first. Their desire to learn a fact or method or subject is – must be – the first mover in order for genuine education to occur. If that desire prompts them to seek formal or informal teachers, the teaching is valuable. If teaching is imposed on unwilling learners, it’s the opposite of valuable. It does violence to education.
Cognitive Bias #4 — Overconfidence
Self-appointed experts, aka politicians, seem to be the worst. Here’s an example: Everybody I talk to, and I talk to a lot of people, say that there is climate change. So, I have educated myself about it.
Cognitive Bias #3 — Choice-Supportive
This may be my most egregious bias. I have a great deal of trouble reversing field after a choice of any kind. Reversals only take place after some sort of random collision with reality. We see evidence that I am not alone, scattered throughout my neck of the woods.