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IQ Cognitive ability and Intelligence

Therefore
1. IQ is NOT a standard mesure of Cognitive Ability (CA) like Blood Pressure is for blood. ▪︎⇊ average CA → IQ average normal
2. CA is NOT Intelligence. It deteriorates with age. Still elders have ↑ experience-based Intelligence (e.g. W. Buffett in investing).

Chinese proverb 老马识途 (“An old horse knows the way.”) There is no general metric for experience-based (specific) intelligence.

Intelligence consists of 2 contradictory elements:
(1) The ability to learn (input experience / training)
(2) The ability to unlearn (question the existing training models) Similar for humans & Machine Learning.

There is a fundamental difference between learning & not-learning a training model Learning: needs ↑ CA (Cognitive Ability) Unlearning/not-learning: simple choice You need ↑ CA to learn the procedure of lobotomy. It’s just a choice to reject it as BS (& refuse to learn it)

Animals make intelligent survival decisions in the wild. They have low CA (Cognitive Ability) but make “paranoid” negative choices, too often reject all sounds as threatening. (rejecting = simple choice).
To enslave an animal you have to… train it!
Slavery = proper training.

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Hate speech

Hate speech: what the heck is going on?
1/ The Council of Europe: an international organisation whose stated aim is to uphold HUMAN RIGHTS. ECHR: European Court of Human Rights, the main organ of the Council of Europe “Manual on hate speech” (2009), by the Council of Europe

2/ From the Manual on hate speech: Hate speech, by definition, covers ALL forms of xenophobia. By the greek etymology xenophobia is the fear (phobos) of xenos (stranger). Seems Hate Speech is a tool to protect
1. strangers against natives
2. minorities against the majority.

3/ The concept of Hate Speech faced 2 problems:
1. The European Court enforces the European Convention of Hunan Rights. The convention has NO REFERENCE on hate speech.
2. On the contrary, article 10 of European Convention of Human Rights supports freedom of speech.

4/ The “obstacle” of article 10. In 2007 the European Parliament passed the 1805 Recommendation that interprets article 10.
Three tricks:
1st trick: The assembly considers that religious insults (aka hard criticism) to any religious PERSON or GROUP should be penalised.

5/ 2nd trick: The assembly considers that religious insults (aka hard criticism) to any RELIGION should NOT be penalised. In other words: Europe should abolish all blasphemy laws NOW!

Do you get the scheme? Blasphemy laws protected both majority + minorities.

6/ Third trick: there was still a problem. Most “cultural laws” (e.g. blasphemy) in most periods of time are inactive. Even in the time of Constantine (4th century) were mostly inactive.
Inactive religious laws DISCOURAGE radical behaviour against the majority belief system.

7/ Solution: In order to ABOLISH inactive laws, you have to ACTIVATE them first.
That’s exactly what happened. Not in 1950. Not in 1960. Very, very recently. Usually it takes at least one parliamentary cycle from the activation to the abolishment of a law.

8/ Suddenly, in 2012, Javier Krahe (famous artist) is prosecuted in Spain for a scene shot 34 years ago ! An old scene lasting just 54 seconds.
Spain: Blasphemy law – activated.

9/ The same year, in 2012, Elder Pastitsios (a twitter trol) is arrested in Greece. Why? Because he insulted Orthodox Christianity. A penal procedure profoundly strange for modern Greece.
Greece: Blasphemy law – activated

10/ Suddenly, in 2017 the Irish police contacted Stephen Fry, the famous actor, and questioned him for breaking the constitutional blasphemy laws of Ireland.
Ireland: Blasphemy law – activated.

11/ By activating dead blasphemy laws, then it’s a playground for the media & progressivists to do their thing. RESULTS?
2008: United Kingdom – ABOLISHED the common law offences of blasphemy and blasphemous libel in England and Wales.
2012: Netherland ABOLISHED blasphemy laws.

12/
2013. Russia INTRODUCES blasphemy laws (the Pussy Riot staged event led Putin to the PERMANENT ACTIVATION of blasphemy laws)
2015: Iceland ABOLISHED blasphemy laws
2015: Norway ABOLISHED blasphemy laws
2016: Malta ABOLISHED blasphemy laws

13/
2018: Ireland, by referendum, ABOLISHED the constitutional ban on blasphemy
2018: Canada ABOLISHED blasphemy laws (LAST YEAR!)
2018: New Zealand ABOLISHED blasphemy laws.

14/
2019: Greece ABOLISHED blasphemy laws
2019: Spain, the government and its allies have promised to ABOLISH their blasphemy laws.

15/ No blasphemy laws! We are free! Right? Not so fast.
October 25, 2018, the European Court of Human Rights ruled one particular prophet (Muhammad) from one particular religion (Muslim) is protected from insults under the European Convention.

16/ The protection of European Court didn’t include Christian religion or Jesus.
but… but… but… in 2007 the European Parliament passed the Recommendation that religious blasphemy should be tolerated …. that’s why Europe abolished the blasphemy laws? No.

17/ What happened is this: National Laws (specific) & National Courts (specific) have been replaced by European Law (a vague convention) & European Court (specific). Do you get it?

18/ Nations abolished their National religious laws, and the JURISPRUDENCE of European Court can decide and interpret what type of criticism on what religion, what prophet, and in what circumstances should be tolerated or not.

19/ If you study the French Revolution, it was exactly the same story.
The Revolution was orchestrated mostly by LAWYERS fighting for NATIONAL LAW that would replace the arbitrary judgement of the Courts (named “le Parlement” back then)

20/ Fr Revolution summarised by Robespierre: «Le mot de jurisprudence doit être banni de notre langue.» (The word jurisprudence must be banned from our language.)
The arbitrary judgement of Courts (minority) were replaced by LAWS representing the Nation (majority).

21/ Now we have the reverse going on. The National Assemblies become “tolerant” in a maximum way (idealism) and the European Court becomes specific to its intolerance (in the name of pragmatism).
It’s a game that transfers the sovereignty to the European Court.

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The demographics of freedom and slavery

1/ A graph of historical significance, when US is sleepwalking towards losing its fundamental constitutional freedoms.

2/ Demographics of ancient Athens, at the point where democracy was coming to an end. Easy naturalisations & illegal enrolments. The “sons of slaves” took over democracy.
Source: The Greek City and its Institutions, G. Glotz, 2010 p358

3/ Demographics in Rome.
In 376, barbarians forced to leave their territories (Eastern Europe), pushed by the Huns, “a race savage beyond all parallel.” (Marcellinus) (Huns like modern ISIS)
IMMIGRATION CRICIS → Rome accepted + protected barbarians (system of hospitalitas)

4/ Rome did NOT fall because it was attacked by the OUTSIDE. Rome fall because INSIDE barbarians enjoyed imperial protection (hospitalitas) and demanded FULL INDEPENDENCE.
In 418 AC – Hospitalitas + Federation (European Union of Barbarians)
In 476 AC – Fall of Rome

60 years

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Google (2)

Google, give me the most famous economists.

2/ Google, show me the most influential economists. well… the order just changed… Stiglitz & Krugman on top. Both winners of the Nobel prize.

3/ Google, show me Stiglitz books.
Making globalisation work (2006) The price of inequality (2012) So, inequality is the problem, to be solved with… globalisation.

4/ Google, show me Krugman books. “The Conscience of a Liberal: Reclaiming America from the Right” (2007)
Notes: The following year (2008) Krugman won the Nobel prize. In 2009 Obama also won the Nobel trophy (he reclaimed America from the right)

5/ More by Joseph Stiglitz: US will go down.
Joseph Stiglitz: U.S. Would Lose Its Vote At The U.N. https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/05/25/economist_joseph_stiglitz_us_would_lose_its_vote_at_the_un_if_trump_budget_were_implemented_trump_probably_doesnt_even_know.html

6/ Joseph Stiglitz: Key Role of UN in Global Financial Architecture
US hegemony should be replaced with UN!
“towards a new global financial and economic architecture delivered at the United Nations” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiJza5iJSVY

7/ Does Paul Krugman share similar views?
No borders. No economic sovereignty. The fall of American Empire.

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On abortion

A single cell to depths greater than 7.5 meters below the planet’s surface? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_on_Mars…
—-> Life on Mars!

Developed embryo with beating heart (3-4 weeks pregnancy).
—-> Life? What life?

US abortions – the numbers.
.001% resulted from an incestuous relationship
<0.5% victim of rape
3% fetal health problems

92.330% declare no reason (elective)
Black women 3.5 times more likely

40% of minors having an abortion report that neither of their parents knew about the abortion (AGI)
97% of abortions take place in freestanding abortion clinics—without any established doctor-patient relationship.

Protection is… not protection. – The most common method of contraception? Oral contraceptives. They have failure rates of 6 to 8% in actual practice. – Abortions usually result from unintended pregnancies, which often occur despite the use of contraception.

The moral of the story.

1/ “Which side are you on? […] look at the countries abortion is illegal and ask yourself if you really truly want to live this way”. Excellent question. Let’s explore it.

2/ Mental experiment: Take any group of victorian puritans and put them in the same living conditions. Within a couple of years they would have build a community getting out of poverty, without moral disgrace & abortion chaos.

3/ Do another experiment. Take any group of christians and impose them marxist moral values & laws. It’s a matter of time to talk about alcohol addictions (linked to atheism), social immorality, abortions and chaos.

4/ CATHOLIC vs. ORTHODOX HUMANISM
In principle I’m in favour of Greek & Christian Orthodox type of humanism. Freedom, consent, and informed choices having conscience formed by education & traditions, family support & patriotism (family considered issue of national security).

5/ Although the objectives are similar, Latin & Catholic type of humanism often imposes morality through legal means, rules & hierarchy.

6/ However, I’m not sure all societies can handle freedom without sliding to chaos.
Greece & Russia are two statistical extremes. Both Orthodox. In 1920, Communist Soviet Union became the 1st in the world to allow abortion in all circumstances. Compare the results…

7/ France is another particularity. Most think France is about secular humanism against religious dogmatism. Until they experience…. french education.
French humanism: Rule-based, external discipline, micromanagement (no personal space) & constant shadow of an authority.

8/ We can’t have both. We can’t have a culture with no moral compass (as @SeloSlav puts it, without the critical view of our babushka overshadowing our lifestyle) and at the same time not imposing external restrictions.

9/ So, which side am I?
I’m not an aristocrat but embrace aristocratic view of meaning. I see all people as aristocrats, not as pleb. The “perfect laws” should be compared with those applied to Queen Elizabeth, not to South Africa (top rates of abortion).

10/ Old Testament contains books written by prophets or kings (King David, King Solomon etc.) as instructions for future kings. Jesus, is the model of eternal King. Aristotle taught Alexander, the greatest King. Aristocratic education starts with one lesson: αμαρτια (sin).

11/ Today we have films shaping our cultural values. In ancient Greece they had Poems. Poets like Homer.
Aristotle, in his Poetics, raises the question: what kind of poems should be promoted to the public?
Sin-based morality = action-based morality

12/ In christian/humanistic evolution of west, αμαρτια (sin) is about instilling responsibility and regard LIFE as higher value.
Left-wing liberal politicians & all the scum of the earth look people as pleb. As controllable puppets moved by impulsions & sexual drives.

13/ When a Royal Family talks about the “rights of the foetus”… suddenly… roman legal maxims apply. Nasciturus pro iam nato habetur, quotiens de commodis eius agitur
“The unborn is considered as already born to the extent that his own benefits are concerned”

14/ King John I of France inherited the throne of France in utero with with this legal maxim (legal tradition). Queen Victoria, by inheriting the British throne, claimed that any unborn progeny of Queen Adelaide would have had a prior claim to the throne.

15/ The elitist logic (not aristocratic view) divides into royal & pleb.
So, are you a Queen or a King?
–> Foetus is unborn baby with full legal rights to the throne.
Are you a pleb?
—> Foetus is a parasite. Particularly if you’re black woman (3.5 times more abortions).

16/ Blind legal banning doesn’t seem to work. In South Africa most abortions (57%) are illegal.
However, the left promotes a slippery slope of disgrace & degeneracy based on sinless rationalisations about life. That’s the point of my previous thread.

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Why do we find 300+ references to the word “Roman” in The Alexiad?

Since the latest debate is spread all over the place, let’s do a thread.
1/ Q. Why do we find 300+ references to the word “Roman” or “Romans” in the most famous work of Byz Princess Anna Komnene (“The Alexiad”)? https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/basis/AnnaComnena-Alexiad00.asp

2/ The book is written in greek.
In introduction she poses her credentials: she characterises her Hellenic (Greek) education as TOP/EXTREME (Ἑλληνίζειν ἐς ἄκρον) quoting Greek authors (e.g. Plato Dialogues & Aristotle) and citing ZERO Roman / Latin scholarship.

3/ Can you imagine a capitalist proudly inspired by Marx? A Marxist proudly inspired by Freedman?
Why did the most well-educated “Roman” princess, proudly introduced her most famous work, with Greek scholarship & zero Latin/Roman citations? Something looks out of place here.

4/ On top of that, Anna characterises Latins (Λατῖνοι) as “arrogants”.
To summarise: she’s a “Roman”…

– that studies greek literature
– uses in the introduction only greek authors (Homer, Plato, Aristotle)
– and considers the latin culture as inferior & arrogant

5/ However, she routinely uses the word “Roman”.
Examples (in english):
– Emperor of the Romans
– Roman Empire
– Roman Army

All references come straight out of the ROMAN CIVIL CODE. They are state titles. Official [legal] references.

6/ That’s why I use the UN-China analogy. United Nations is based in New York. Byzantine christian citizens in greek territory (mostly Greeks) using titles like “Roman” 300 times is like Chinese Buddhists using the title “United Nations” 300 times. It doesn’t make them yankees.

7/ All this, to rephrase what most scholars already agree:

Byzantine “Romans” = Roman State Titles + [mainly] Greek cultural identity.
That’s why back then they called them… Greeks.

8/ Since Anna Komnene has a clear, acute, no-BS style of writing, she makes clear reference on the culture she represents.
But first of all, what is the greek word for culture? It is “παιδεία”. Meaning both “culture” and “cultural education” or just “education”.

9/ So, when Anna criticises Nilus as illiterate heretic, she claims he is “UNINITIATED INTO HELLENIC CULTURE”. (Ἀμύητος δὲ πάσης ἑλληνικῆς παιδείας).
She considers the Hellenic as the ONLY culture necessary for the initiation to the “deep meanings of the Divine writings”.

10/ And here she talks about her father, the Emperor Alexios Komnenos (named after Alexander the Great).
I let you guess what kind of culture her father was promoting throughout the “Roman Empire”.

11/ Note: The Komnenian dynasty ruled the Byzantine Empire for a period of 104 years, from 1081 to 1185. The “Grand Komnenoi” ruled in Trebizond for over 250 years, until 1461. The Palaiologoi (closely related to the Komnenoi) ruled until the fall of Constantinople in 1453.

12/ In 2019: Non-Greek Macedonia. Non-Greek Byz. Non-Greek Aegean sea (natural resources). Homer from Turkey (by MIT database).
A market for carnivores eating Greece (heritage, econ, territory).
However, I explore the space of good intentions of all.

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On Measles

Let’s talk about Measles
– Measles was declared eliminated from the US in 2000
– Eliminated is “absence of continuous disease transmission for greater than 12 months”
– From January 1 to April 26, 2019, 704 individual cases of measles have been confirmed in 22 states.
Why?

The difference between SCIENCE and SCIENTISM rests in understanding one key thing: the answer to “WHY?” is mainly philosophical and philosophy is multilevel & systemic.
So…
1. Why measles was considered eliminated in the first place? 12 months of absence is elimination?

2. Anti-vaxxers! That’s the problem! And why citizens suddenly don’t trust vaccines? Just idiots? The same scientists, who declared measles eliminated (!), fail to understand why a parent would be afraid in 2019 to put state-sponsored substance to the blood of his baby?

3. The same guys, who labeled measles eliminated, also inform us that immigration is not the cause. It’s a myth by anti-vaxxers.
Yet a widespread GLOBAL increase in measles preceded the US incidents. Coincidence?

4. According to NYT current measles outbreak in US is linked to travellers from Israel (Orthodox Jewish). However, vaccination rates among the Orthodox in Israel were in the 80 % range — better than in many other countries, but not enough to stop measles. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/03/health/measles-outbreaks-ukraine-israel.html

5. So, again, why do we have a measles outbreak? Conservative religiously-inclined Anti-vaxxers! As if Big Pharma is a trustworthy enterprise in the first place. The World Health Organisation has announced another main factor: POVERTY in a global level.

6. NOTE: If you search “Big Pharma” in Google the first result is a Wikipedia article on “Big Pharma conspiracy theory”. Big Pharma… is a … conspiracy theory. Let that sink for a minute. Rational Wiki (the BS skeptics) also put it in the “conspiracy” section.

7. The solution? Germans… being Germans.

what’s your point exactly? that it’s ok to be against vaccines? come-on, whatever the reason there’s a measles outbreak, being an anti-vaxer is dangerous bordering on criminal
Enforced use of vaccines (& centralised medical treatment) is not borderline criminal: it’s profoundly criminal breaching the Nuremberg Code & the foundation of the “right of human dignity”. It opens the doors of hell. More on my thread here:

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On idiots

Let’s talk about idiots.

1/ Definition. A practical definition of an idiot could be this: binary thinking, either PRO or AGAINST sth. No nuance.
– throw all gays to jail or Soros-sponsored LGBT parades?
– blindly accept ALL vaccinations or blindly reject them? etc.

2/ Idiots see the PRESENT, the PAST and the FUTURE through binary thinking.
> In fact, classical manuals of propaganda teach step-by-step how to create a BIPOLAR AXIS (black & white) to dominate the debate before even starting it.

3/ The two principles for idiots:
(1) It would idiotic to presume that all idiotic trends are equal.
(2) Never underestimate the power of idiots in large groups
Let’s explore the first principle…

4/ All idiots are NOT equal:
– (A) All vaccines are evil … or … (B) all vaccines are safe
– (A) Muslim caliphate … or … (B) atheism is the “scientific” way of life
– (A) White nationalism … or … (B) open borders .
.. you know the rest

5/ Today the B-type of idiots have into their disposal:
– academy
– mass media & social media powerhouses
– political & economic establishment
– power of law & constitutional reforms (e.g. UN reports on “toxic masculinity”)
Anti-vaxxers don’t have a chance to compete with UN.

6/ B-Type of pro-vaccine idiots are marching into open VIOLATION OF NUREMBERG CODE and the foundations of modern Civil Rights. They have no clue on the legal territory we are entering.

7/ B-Type of idiots talk about science having no clue on relevant scientific literature and risks. Like kids playing with matches.

8/ B-Type of idiots. Again.

9/ It’s a trendy to talk about “natural selection” having zero understanding.

EVOLUTION 101
Deers & antilopes pause at any subtle noise from the woods presuming there is a hidden threat. ANY NOISE = DEATH SIGNAL. The less paranoid deers didn’t survive. Period.

10/ Today, having people going PARANOID to the point of refusing all vaccines (anti-vaxxers) by a central government is a proof that humanity may have a chance after-all. Again, oh… what a coincidence… religious groups being the non-conformists to central authority.

11/ Evolution is about understanding worst case scenarios (WCS). The WCS is NOT a plague. Humanity survived countless plagues. The worst scenario is being hunted by the most potent HUNTER: a human with tools. And, at the same time, living a natural catastrophe (e.g. plague).

12/ So…

am I an anti-vaxxer? No.
am I pro-vaccines? No.

I’m pro judging ALL medical treatments individually case-by-case and use them ONLY with informed consent. At any point, when an unidentified noise comes from the woods….. it may actually kill us.

13 / Western civilisation faced many threats: plagues, wars, muslim occupation, communists, nazis… you name it. And still, our values evolved in favouring CONSENT over COERCION, INSPIRING & PERSUADING over THREATENING. Favouring the COMPLEX over the EASY social solutions.

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On paganism and christianity

While pagan Kings sacrificed 100s bulls to the Gods, poor & slaves did NOT have any expectations for divine or earthly power. The sacrifice of Ἰησοῦς (Jesus) introduced aggressive decentralisation to theology. So, no @nntaleb, the opposite is actually true.

There were a handful of Gods in ancient Greece, but it’s impossible to quantify christian Saints. Some estimates have the number exceeding 10,000, including countless local saints, raised and born in local regions. You can’t beat this level of embedded decentralisation.

The Greeks introduced voting & elections in a city of free men (Ecclesia). The christian church introduced procedures of voting & elections within religion, with the participation of poor & slaves. The term Ecclesia (ἐκκλησία) appears in NT 114 times.

The fondamental idea of western enlightenment, the Social Contract between governed and governors, was a CHRISTIAN movement of monarchomaques (protestants, catholics) of 15th & 16th c. that promoted the idea of decentralisation of power in Europe.

The fondamental idea of western enlightenment, the Social Contract between governed and governors, was a CHRISTIAN movement of monarchomaques (protestants, catholics) of 15th & 16th c. that promoted the idea of decentralisation of power in Europe.

And the opposite is also true. Neo-paganist movements are fundamentally submitted to animalistic representation of power, embracing the strongest forms of CENTRALISATION. Examples: Thule Society & Nazis LGBT & Wicca paganism.

Question from Nassim Taleb: Yes but Christianity came from monotheism, no?
I avoid terms like monotheism or panpsychism. Jesus framed his teachings on Daemons & Άδης (Hades) & Judgement (Apology of Socrates) & psyche (Thales) + 1000 things not found in “monotheism”. The Christ was worshiped by the Greeks for the same reasons the Jews crucified him.

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On Prisons

Note #1 Prisons were created by christian priests to avoid the alternative: death. When the first high courts developed in France (“Parlements” of middle ages) the priests were finally kicked out of the criminal chamber. Why? The king wanted to reinstate death penalty.

Note #2 After the enlightenment kicked off (17th and 18th centuries) when we talk about “privileges of the priests”, we include their privilege to have special courts where the penalty is PRISON instead of DEATH PENALTY.

Note #3 People who rationalise virtue & humanism outside the limits of religion, when given the power, they RATIONALISE VIOLENCE.
In France, they went as far as sending women to the guillotine in the name of “sex equality”.
“Virtue without terror is powerless” (Robespierre)

Note #4
The history of prisons is the result of GOOD (compassion) prevailing over EVIL (death).
This doesn’t mean that correctional rehabilitation doesn’t need reform. It implies, however, that ignorant libtards (evolutionary BS vendors) have taken over the academy.

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