Welfareville - Notebook

Postulating indeterminate loci
- Normative and Applied
- Intuitionists, Particularists, ...
Differential social phenotypes: Economics
- Mercantilism
- Stock markets: a mechanism that enables people with opposing opinions to put a price on their differences
  - Commodities, from the Code of Hammurabi to alternative investments (spot price, roll return, collateral interest)
- Capitalism
  - Neoliberalism
  - Finance capitalism
    - Financialization
  - Welfare capitalism
    - Nordic socialism
    - Freedom of expression vs. minimum wage
- Rational equilibria in an illogical world
Game theory
The Flynn Effect
Sex, Gender, "race", and the modern misandrist
- Civilization and Cultural Genocide of the proletarii: Identitarian bourgeoisie
  - Creative destruction
- Gender studies
- Critical race theory
How did we get here?
- Aristotle
- Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
  - Empiricism
- Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)
  - Absolute monarchy
  - Social contract
- René Descartes (1596-1650)
- John Locke (1632-1704)
  - Liberalism
  - Social contract
- David Hume
- Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
  - prima causa
- Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
  - utilitarianism
- John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
- George Edward Moore
- John Austin (1790-1859)
  - legal positivism
- John Keats (1795-1821)
- Louis Pasteur (1822-1895)
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
  - legal realism
- Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann (1844-1906)
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
- John B. Watson (1878-1958)
  - behaviourism
- Lon Luvois Fuller (1902-1978)
  - The Morality of Law (1964)
  - principles of legality (eight minimal conditions)
- John von Neumann (1903-1957)
- Burrhus Frederic Skinner (1904-1990)
- Herbert Lionel Adolphus Hart (1907-1992)
- John Rawls (1921-2002)
- Thomas Samuel Kuhn (1922-1996)
  - Structure of Scientific Revolutions
  - Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge
  - Road Since Structure (2000)
- Melvin J. Lerner (1929)
  - just-world hypothesis
- Ronald Myles Dworkin (1931-2013)
- Noam Chomsky
  - linguistic analysis
    - Generative grammar
  - cognitive psycology
Equal rights and the corollaries
- Taking life
  - Self-defense
    - Deontology, Utilitarianism, Moral rights theory
    - Protection of boundaries against invasion
    - "It doesn't matter how it starts" -- Scott K. Campbell
      - Consent
      - Natural events
      - Attacks from animals, etc.
      - An innocent person violently thrown against you
      - Pre-emptive force
      - Bystanders (trolley case)
  - Boundary-crossings and moral rights theory
    - The risk of being killed and consent
- Assimilation by the host
- Critical race theory
- Paradigm shifts vs. a socially constructed STEM field world
  The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow. They come to be accepted by degrees, by dint of constant pressure on one side and constant retreat on the other – until one day when they are suddenly declared to be the country's official ideology. Ayn Rand
  - Overton and Windows
Time, sequence, and human perception
- It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards. t, -t, and repetition
Cutting the Fucktardian Knot? Let slip the dogs of war!

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