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Friday, September 20, 2013

Charles Manson, Liberalism, and Information Theory

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Okay, I get it. Information theory is not your thing. Well, I'm also reading a book about the life and times of Charles Manson . Woul...
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Thursday, September 19, 2013

All We are Saying is Give Information a Chance

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Gilder writes that "When law becomes high-entropy, the flow of information halts and knowledge withers." Again, this is becaus...
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Wednesday, September 18, 2013

On Building a Better Human for Fun and Profit

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It is strange how one seemingly random book resonates with and expands upon the next, but I've long since stopped trying to figure out e...
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Monday, September 16, 2013

Cosmo-Economics and the Metaphysics of Surprise

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Same post, just a better title. It's all I had time for today... If the second law of thermodynamics -- i.e., the inevitable drift tow...
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Friday, September 13, 2013

Economics and the Noosphere

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Picking up where we left off yesterday, we're inquiring into mankind's great leap forward, after thousands or even millions of year...
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Thursday, September 12, 2013

Busting Out of Our 99,000 Year Economic Slump

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Williamson asks, "Are you so sure that your preferred model of education or health care is the right one?" Yeah, I'm pretty s...
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Wednesday, September 11, 2013

The Secret of Left's Success: Speaking Power to Truth

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Kevin Williamson's The End is Near reminded me once again of how the illiberal left is at an advantage, since for them politics reduces...
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Monday, September 09, 2013

The Left has No Means of Becoming Less Stupid

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Which, of course, I mean literally, not polemically, and certainly not as some kind of gratuitous insult. I am always here to help. It...
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Friday, September 06, 2013

Government: The Left Wing Noise Machine

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I want to go back to the similarity between information and randomness, and how both appear different from order. Again, it's a tricky ...
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Thursday, September 05, 2013

The Left Talks About Evolution. Why Not Put it into Practice?

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I mentioned yesterday that Gilder -- although he doesn't describe it as such -- implicitly presents what amounts to scientific basis fo...
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Wednesday, September 04, 2013

Our Low-Entropy President

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I don't want to poison the well, but this cold has moved north from the throat to the head, which has compromised my usual powers of syn...
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Friday, August 30, 2013

Progressives: Parasites on Progress

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Insufficient time for a fully loaded post, but maybe enough to nibble at the margins of George Gilder's Knowledge and Power , which is a...
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Thursday, August 29, 2013

Tending to Your Own Isness in the Present Tense

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There is only one method: to be intelligent . --Voegelin Just a few more items to cover in Voegelin's massive missives before moving...
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Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Reality and its Alternatives, Philosophy and its Apes

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If one thinks and lives philosophically -- as in seeking after and loving Wisdom -- then the world -- the human world -- is indeed a strange...
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Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Sniffing Out God

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We're still trying to figure out why religion, which once spoke to everyone in a direct and intimate way, no longer does so, at least in...
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Monday, August 26, 2013

Bob's Weekend Acid Trip

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In a letter, Voegelin speaks of how "metaphysical concepts are symbols which only make sense as the terminal points of the existential...
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Friday, August 23, 2013

Man is a Miracle of Evolution (and Evolution is a Miracle of Man)

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Humans, in the ironic words of Schuon, are condemned to transcendence, so we can't really escape it short of being comatose. Indeed, ...
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