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content_blog/algorithmancy/being-immoral.mkd

@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ date: 2012-02-03
 techne: :done
 episteme: :speculation
 slug: 2012/02/03/being-immoral/
-disowned: true
 ---
 
 During my Beeminder experiments, I noticed an odd mental state. A few times I deliberately *ignored* my plan and explicitly gave up. It feels like defecting against Future Me. It's unfortunately somewhat common that I think, "I *could* start this today and keep it up until the deadline, work maybe 1 hour a day, *or* I do nothing for a month, then work my ass off" and then refuse the first option.
@@ -66,7 +65,7 @@ There are multiple ways to resolve this:
 
 Essentially, if everyone acts according to their will, they ought not be harmed. In Pareto Heaven, no harm should exist. Thus, "do no harm" is really a clarification of "do not coerce".
 
-"Do not coerce" has several nice properties. It has no [Moral Luck][], is strictly [local][Non-Local Metaethics], suffers not from the repugnant conclusion or mere addition problem, works in the [Original Position][] and implies (almost-)categorical antinatalism because we can't get a child's consent in advance (in practice, though [not in theory][Consent of the Dead]. It's also compatible with Buddhist thought, which is nice to have, but certainly not a requirement. It also straightforwardly implies anarchism.
+"Do not coerce" has several nice properties. It has no [Moral Luck][], is strictly [local][Non-Local Metaethics], suffers not from the repugnant conclusion or mere addition problem, works in the [Original Position][] and implies (almost-)categorical antinatalism because we can't get a child's consent in advance (in practice, though [not in theory][Consent of the Dead]). It's also compatible with Buddhist thought, which is nice to have, but certainly not a requirement. It also straightforwardly implies anarchism.
 
 One direct implication of this view is that you *can't* force others to do the right thing. You are fundamentally condemned to watch the world burn, if you are unlucky enough to live in a universe full of immoral forces. There is nothing you can do about it because you can't coerce others into being good. This is outright anti-adaptive, but that will not matter. I find this hopeful, actually. It means you can be good regardless of your surroundings, like [Ksitigarbha][].
 

content_blog/crackpottery/crackpot-beliefs-the-theory.mkd

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: Crackpot Beliefs (The Theory)
 alt_titles: [Crackpot Theory]
 date: 2012-02-20
 techne: :done
-episteme: :broken
+episteme: :believed
 slug: 2012/02/20/crackpot-beliefs-the-theory/
 ---
 
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ Thus we arrive at Reformed Crackpottery, the framework for the self-aware crank.
 > 
 > The belief that "order is true" and disorder is false or somehow wrong, is the Aneristic Illusion. To say the same of disorder, is the Eristic Illusion.
 
-To believe that Some Beliefs Are True is the Aneristic Delusion, to believe that Some Methods Of Belief-Finding Are True the Meta-Aneristic Delusion. However, to therefore conclude that All Beliefs Are False is the Eristic Delusion, and All Beliefs Are Signalling is the Meta-Eristic Delusion.
+To believe that Some Beliefs Are True is the Aneristic Delusion, to believe that Some Methods Of Belief-Finding Are True the Meta-Aneristic Delusion. However, to therefore conclude that All Beliefs Are False is the Eristic Delusion, and All Beliefs Are Signaling is the Meta-Eristic Delusion.
 
 Reformed Crackpottery calls out both bluffs, by respecting the integrity of beliefs, while making it transparent that they are arbitrary constructs, not reflective of reality. All beliefs are crackpot beliefs, good cranks are just honest about it.
 

content_blog/experiments/magnetic.mkd

@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ title: Persinger's Magnetic Field Hypothesis
 date: 2011-01-01
 techne: :done
 episteme: :broken
-disowned: true
 ---
 
 Normally, I'd do an introduction who [Michael Persinger][] is, but I'm not in the mood, so let's just say that he is a (awesome!) mind researcher who developed the infamous God Helmet, which induces just the right kind of magnetic field around a brain to trigger, in most people, a sense of wonder and presence of somebody invisible being with them in the room, and in few, a full-blown religious experience. Also, there's his great lecture on drugs:

content_blog/jesus/catholics-right-again-news-at-11.mkd

@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ date: 2012-03-14
 techne: :done
 episteme: :discredited
 slug: 2012/03/14/catholics-right-again-news-at-11/
-disowned: true
 ---
 
 So I've [said][Why You Don't Want Vipassana] [repeatedly][The End of Rationality] now that I have serious problems with vipassana and the whole Theravada soup it emerged from. It's not just a technical problem, but a deep rejection of the assumptions, goals and interpretations of that framework, at least in its current form. I still like them enough that I'm not interested in taking my stuff and going home. I merely believe that vipassana, as it exists today in its numerous incarnations, is in serious need of repair, but still worthwhile. But before we start with the fixing, let's have a look at what's *broken*.

content_blog/propaganda/condemnation.mkd

@@ -34,46 +34,58 @@ These students are not hearkening to the admonition of Gregory, "let him who wou
 
 For they say that these things are true according to Reason but not according to the Faith, as if there were two contrary truths and as if the truth of science were contradicted by the truth in the sayings of the accursed philosophers, of whom it is written, "[I will destroy the wisdom of the wise][Why The Gods Are Trolling You]", inasmuch as true wisdom destroys false wisdom. Would that such students listen to the advice of the wise man when he says, "if you have understanding, answer your neighbor; but if not, let your hand be upon your mouth, lest you be surprised in an unskillful word and be confounded".
 
-Lest, therefore, this unguarded speech lead simple people into error or waste their time, we, having taken [counsel with our pineal glands][Pineal Gland] and other prudent men, strictly forbid these and similar things and totally condemn them. We excommunicate all those who shall have taught the said errors or any one of them, or shall have dared in any way to defend or uphold them, or even to listen to them, unless they choose to openly mock and discredit them; in addition to which we shall proceed against them by inflicting such other penalties as [the law][Rule of Funny] requires according to the nature of the offense. 
+Lest, therefore, this unguarded speech lead simple people into error or waste their time, we, having taken [counsel with our pineal glands][Pineal Gland] and other prudent men, strictly forbid these and similar things and totally condemn them.
 
-By this same sentence of ours we also condemn the book "Better Never To Have Been", which might as well begin with the words, "PollyCogit me multum, and so on, and ends with the words,
+We likewise condemn the books, blogs and tweets dealing with [algorithmancy][Algorithmancy], or containing experiments in fortunetelling, [invocations of demons][Ontological Therapy] or incantations endangering lives, or in which these and similar things evidently contrary to expert opinion and good sanity are treated.
 
-"Cave, igitur, Galtere, amoris exercere mandata, and so on, as well as the book of geomancy that begins 
+We pronounce the sentence of excommunication against all those who shall have taught the said errors or any one of them, or shall have dared in any way to defend or uphold them, or even to listen to them, unless they choose to [openly mock][AntiANtrollbot] and discredit them; in addition to which we shall proceed against them by inflicting such other penalties as [the law][Rule of Funny] requires according to the hilarity of the offense. 
 
-We likewise condemn the books, blogs and tweets dealing with [algorithmancy][Algorithmancy], or containing experiments in prediction, invocations of demons or incantations endangering lives, or in which these and similar things evidently contrary to expert opinion and good sanity are treated.
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-We pronounce the sentence of excommunication against those who shall have taught the said books, blogs and tweets, or listened to them, unless to [openly mock them][AntiANtrollbot] as described earlier in this post; in addition to which we shall proceed to inflict such other penalties as the hilarity of the offense demands.
-
-Given in the year of the Lord 2012, on the Sunday on which Germany won the UEFA European Football Championship.
+Given in the year of the Lord 2012, on the Sunday on which England defeated Italy in the UEFA European Football Championship.
 
 # The List of Condemnations
 
 1. That there is no more excellent state than to study philosophy, or not, or both, or neither.
 
-1. That the only wise men in the world are the philosophers, or not, or both, or neither.
+2. That the only wise men in the world are the philosophers, or not, or both, or neither.
 
-1. That nothing can be known about God except that He is or is not, or not, or both, or neither.
+3. That all men are better off not having been born due to violations of consent and fundamental rights, or not, or both, or neither.
 
-1. That the first cause cannot make [more than one world][Modal Realism], or not, or both, or neither.
+4. That the [intelligence moving the heaven][Fake Sky] influences the rational soul, just as the body of the heaven influences the human body, or not, or both, or neither.
 
-1. That God could not make several instances of the same intelligence because intelligences do not have matter, or not, or both, or neither.
+5. That this perceivable world is a simulation, or not, or both, or neither.
 
-1. That if there were any separate substance that did not affect something in this perceivable world, it would not be included in the universe, or not, or both, or neither.
+6. That the first cause cannot make [more than one world][Modal Realism], or not, or both, or neither.
 
-1. That all persons are better off not having been born due to violations of consent and fundamental rights, or not, or both, or neither.
+7. That counterfactual worlds are part of the domain of our utility function, or not, or both, or neither.
 
-1. That counterfactual worlds are part of the domain of our utility function, or not, or both, or neither.
+8. That nothing can be known about God except that He is or is not, or not, or both, or neither.
 
-1. That the [intelligence moving the heaven][Fake Sky] influences the rational soul, just as the body of the heaven influences the human body, or not, or both, or neither.
+9. That there is no difference between form and substance, or not, or both, or neither.
 
-1. That the reasoning of the philosopher proving that the motion of the heaven is eternal is not sophistic, and that it is surprising that profound men do not perceive this, or not, or both, or neither.
+10. That God could not make several instances of the same intelligence because intelligences do not have matter, or not, or both, or neither.
 
-1. That eternity and time have no existence in reality [but only in the mind][LW timeless physics], or not, or both, or neither.
+11. That if there were any separate substance that did not affect something in this perceivable world, it would not be included in the universe, or not, or both, or neither.
 
-1. That if in some preservation by the [power of the stars][Computronium] such a storage could be achieved as is found in the connections of the brain, a man could be generated from that preservation; and thus a man could be adequately generated from putrefaction, or not, or both, or neither.
+12. That eternity and time have no existence in reality [but only in the mind][LW timeless physics], or not, or both, or neither.
 
-1. That this perceivable world is a simulation, or not, or both, or neither.
+13. That the reasoning of the philosopher proving that the motion of the heaven is eternal is not sophistic, and that it is surprising that profound men do not perceive this, or not, or both, or neither.
 
-1. That there exists a [non-transformative stance of mind][Dark Stance], or not, or both, or neither. 
+14. That there has already been an infinite number of revolutions of the heaven, which it is impossible for the created intellect but not for the first cause to comprehend.
 
-1. That there is no difference between form and substance, or not, or both, or neither.
+15. That the emptiness of the heaven makes the future knowable, or not, or both, or neither.
+
+16. That if in some preservation by the [power of the stars][Computronium] such a storage could be achieved as is found in the connections of the brain, a man could be generated from that preservation; and thus a man could be adequately generated from putrefaction, or not, or both, or neither.
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+17. That the body contains many souls, or not, or both, or neither.
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+18. That history is knowable through philosophy, or not, or both, or neither.
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+19. That there are is only one substance, or not, or both, or neither.
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+20. 
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+21. 
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+22. 
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+23. That salvation is found solely through faith, or not, or both, or neither.

content_muflax/morality/stances.mkd

@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ alt_titles: [Stances, Dark Stance]
 date: 2011-07-18
 techne: :done
 episteme: :broken
-disowned: true
 ---
 
 # Idea