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George Ought to Help

The Perverted Analogy Fallacy

An analogy doesn't imply that two things are similar in every way, or even most ways; they’re similar in a limited way that’s relevant to the topic of the discussion.…

  • 7 months ago
  • rhetoric, language
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Is Your Worldview Vulnerable to 'Hate Facts'?

I think it’s unwise to attach normative judgements to empirical claims about the world that might turn out to be true.…

  • a year ago
  • language, psychology, racism
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Mutually Assured Snooping

When an act of snooping is itself subject to watching eyes, and indelibly etched into the public record, is it still worth it?…

  • a year ago
  • future
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Free will is a squircle

A decision is mine, it’s the product of my will, to the extent that the prior state of my brain causes it.…

  • a year ago
  • mind
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School is preparation for the real world, where you have to do things you don’t want

I'm convinced that if we want to prepare our children for the real world, we can do a lot better than sending them to school.…

  • a year ago
  • education
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Body ownership is private property

A person considers a thing his property if he believes he’s justified in using force to exclude others from its unauthorised use.…

  • a year ago
  • property, rights
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The Problem of Political Authority - Review

If I had the power to persuade non-libertarians to read one book right now I’d choose for it to be The Problem of Political Authority by Michael Huemer.…

  • a year ago
  • Comments

PSYOP versus the mutual benefit of trade

It is false that voluntary exchange always benefits both parties in the ex ante sense. At least some voluntary exchanges are precipitated by factors not under conscious control, and thus not sensitive to expectation of benefit in the usually understood sense.…

  • 2 years ago
  • psychology, economics, science
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Guns, homicide, and the inadequacy of prohibitionist “common sense”

Easy access to a firearm may be the dispositive factor that leads the marginal killer to commit a crime ,  increasing the homicide rate. But firearms are also used defensively, and  in these ways guns decrease the homicide rate.…

  • 2 years ago
  • guns, rights
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We Can Do Better Than a Right to Healthcare

I hope to show here that it's not a right to healthcare that you really want, but something much more valuable.…

  • 2 years ago
  • health, rights
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Virtual Rothbardianism

I identify as an anarcho-capitalist and a moral nihilist. Here I'll sketch how these pieces fit together for me.…

  • 2 years ago
  • anarcho-capitalism, ethics, rights
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NAPI. Non-Aggression Principle Insufficiency

Followers of Rothbard invoke the non-aggression principle (NAP) as the standard against which the permissibility of any action is to be judged. But the NAP is insufficient for this use. I call this idea non-aggression principle insufficiency. NAPI for short.…

  • 2 years ago
  • anarcho-capitalism, rights
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The Weak Argument Against Taxation

There should be a strong presumption against threatening people with violence — Unless those people are threatening others, or violating their property rights (e.g. Robbers, murderers, rapists).…

  • 2 years ago
  • anarcho-capitalism
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De-escalating The Zwarte Piet Conflict

We have two groups with opposing views about the appropriateness of this tradition. The stakes of the conflict are raised by the poisonous involvement of the state.…

  • 2 years ago
  • racism
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Against the presumption of open borders. Border policy agnosticism.

Libertarians cannot assume that a state-controlled open border policy is automatically a more libertarian option than the state restrictively policing the border.…

  • 2 years ago
  • borders, anarcho-capitalism, rights
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Gun Governance without Government

Private ‘Rights Enforcement Agencies’ allow a granular approach, better for finding the proper balance between the harms and benefits of gun ownership.…

  • 2 years ago
  • anarcho-capitalism, rights, guns
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002: Max Borders – The Social Singularity and Distributed Income Support Cooperatives (DISCs)

I talked with Max Borders about his new book, The Social Singularity. We also touch on social technologies, incentive systems and scarcity, the importance of culture, and Distributed Income Support Cooperatives (DISCs).…

  • 3 years ago
  • podcast
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001: Justin Goro – Programmable scarcity, the oracle problem, and Pythia.

Justin Goro is a developer building tools on the Ethereum network.…

  • 3 years ago
  • podcast
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Bitcoin has no intrinsic value. Neither does gold.

Bitcoin doesn’t have intrinsic or inherent value. This isn’t as serious a handicap as it might seem, because nothing has intrinsic value. Not government notes, not gold, not even grain, or salt.…

  • 3 years ago
  • bitcoin, economics
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The Motte and Bailey of NAP Libertarianism

The problem has to do with overselling libertarianism with attractive anti-violence/anti-aggression catchphrases.…

  • 4 years ago
  • anarcho-capitalism, language
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