1. Nothing is hidden in the public records about imperial terrorism network, because officials are disciplined.Summary of some points in my own words:
1. Nothing is hidden in the public records about imperial terrorism network, because officials are disciplined. Problem is that average Americans never look or read them. 2. Manufacturing consent. If you lose trust of people when using power, then you just need better indoctrination through highly centralized and concentrated corporate media propaganda. 3. American "democracy" is a belief that people should be ruled by a class of "elites". Translating from American Newspeak, democracy here in reality means sort of plutocracy, or the new aristocracy. In my opinion, American Revolution had failed then. 4. Prosperity. U.S. is the richest country in the world partly due to many expansionary and, in Newspeak, - "preventive", or even "we should help them" wars. far from it. 5. Classical conservatives had died. Translating from American Newspeak, today's conservatives are "extreme statists". 6. Free market. Translating from Newspeak, free market is only for elite, not you. 7. Free speech. Translating from Newspeak, it means, you can say everything, except anything that shatters The King or ruling class or "American way of life". 8. Classical liberals had died too, because freedom doesn't exist in aristocracies. 9. Religious fanaticism, deeply permeating indoctrination. Like, try to say something about social rights to an average (brainwashed) Joe :-D 10. A heart of plutocracy. What happens after democratic election takes place in Latin America: a) military cue, supported by U.S. or b) capital flows out from country (hopeless problem). So, the whole society should care only about how well rich are feeling in their mansions. 11. Why empire? There is no logical, i.e. economic reason, as costs are pretty equal to profit, but empire exists, because ordinary people ("slaves") are paying all the expenses for everlasting "fight for democracy", but profits are reaped only by their masters (the rich). 12. Any rich country is sort of Nazi country, highly controlled state. 13. Corporations don't want to pay for research, why should they? They want that R&D, ex. "high technology", like internet, would have paid in taxpayers money via "star wars" propaganda. Everybody's a fascist, the difference is what form it takes. Ex., military spending doesn't redistribute wealth and is totally worthless for the majority. 14. On the "evil empire". U.S. can't confront directly with the "evil empire", but they can find someone like Muammar Gaddafi. 15. International terrorism is overwhelmingly founded by expansionary imperial U.S. actions, but it is legit (basically, because beta-monkeys are afraid to confront the biggest dick in world). When terrorism is done by weird looking guys, with dark skin and mustaches, then imperial alpha-monkeys are threatened and don't like it. 16. "Progress" is another word from Newspeak. Its is neither bad or good, just a way of capitalism to adapt and exploit the existing system. When capitalists (moral or not) started to lose value in slavery, it was abandoned for another type of slavery, called "job". Slaves can't buy shit you produce, but "workers" and "middle class" can, and with pretty low investment. 17. How much people are required to destroy indoctrination? Just one. Crowd consciousness theory also confirms that. My experience when trying to refute or amplify the effect - somewhat too. 17. In a capitalist society, there is so much freedom as you can buy. 18. Independence. Empire tries not to stop "spread of communism", like media brainwashing says, but to control the world as a "superpower", and stop any country from becoming independent. Non-independent from the empire countries are more vulnerable and in a worse state, consequentially, capital of whose is flowing into the hands of empire's rich. 19. Social spending. From the economics perspective there is no big difference where you spend public funds - military or social. But social spending has one negative side effect - more of democracy and independence. So, the empire has an incentive to keep people passive and spend on military instead. 20. "Russians are coming". After the fall of Soviet Empire, the narrative and military spending had switched to the Middle East. 21. Law is basically meaningless, because there are a lot of gray zones how to break unions or avoid penalties (see the point about buying the freedom). 22. Despite everything mentioned, there is still a chance of social improvement. 23. Everything is a conspiracy. If Ford Motors directors gather together and decide what model of car to produce next year, it is a conspiracy. But "conspiracy theory people" get it wrong with CIA, FBI, etc., because those institutions are mostly obedient to the Congress, and all operations (see the first point) are well documented. 24. Violence. Fear propaganda is the best way to control people. In the Nazi Germany it was "Jews", now it is "terrorism". 25. Big business is afraid of fanatics, because owners of big businesses, despite that they like wages going down, they still want their daughters have rights and to avoid poisoning from the lead paint. It is why they tend to favor Democrats style fascism over new right wing style fascism.
All in all, this is excellent book, putting it into my top 1% of books.
Bonus. If business will go slow, expect war with North Korea (at least, because it can be extended to war with China and Russia). Propaganda already started several years ago.
P.S. Trump is already withdrawing from nuclear missiles treaty (1987)....more
What I see first coming to this page? Philip G. Zimbardo book's rated 3.8, some random B.S. is rated 4.5+. You are sheep, people :-D Sheep are [image]
What I see first coming to this page? Philip G. Zimbardo book's rated 3.8, some random B.S. is rated 4.5+. You are sheep, people :-D Sheep are dangerous :(
Despite watching at least few movies about Stanford prison experiment, I had realized only just now that research findings basically confirms my own empirical view acquired on the social internet - too much of people are obedient and can be easily controlled. Some are so deep into their own social environment "authority" that only back-door (Daoistic-like, let you realize it later, or Akidoish, pump up negative emotions for other side with precise shots and then enemy will die from own exhaustion) "arguments" (or,, carefully calculated (to avoid belief-backfire bias), often very quiet actions that make them doubt their authorities or beliefs) can work over long run.
Revolutionary experiment, showing us more of reality on human behavior. Everyone should know it, because time goes and nothing changes, every time appRevolutionary experiment, showing us more of reality on human behavior. Everyone should know it, because time goes and nothing changes, every time appears the "superleader" promising fantastic holly lands and those p-zombies are going on. Human morals are contradictory since the start of life: "don't beat smaller children" at one hand, and "do as I say!" at another....more
This is advanced math book, so it can easily break brain for unprepared,but that doesn't mean it can't be summarized into more simple philosophical stThis is advanced math book, so it can easily break brain for unprepared,but that doesn't mean it can't be summarized into more simple philosophical statements. I put this book into my top 1% "game changers" list.
1. You will not get rich without risking bankruptcy. More broadly, you should bet more (or risk more) than you have if you want X.
2. "If reality plays against you, you can give valid sequential probabilities (based on moves, without probability distribution) and you can use them to make optimal decisions." A lot of (novice) Sceptics believe they should know the future when actually they don't.
3. If Sceptic can weakly influence E, he can influence E (on another round). (Redefining second point.)
4. "Changes in market prices over an interval of time of length dt scale as √dt." If Reality doesn't obey this rule, a Sceptic can make a lot of money.
5. You can still make forecasts (based on your previous successful outcome) about reality even if you know nothing about the reality.
6. The expected value of (dS(t))2 just before Market makes the move dS(t) is approximately sigma2S2(t)dt.
A bit more precise examples from book:
Why stock prices movements look like brownian motion? "Market can avoid allowing Investor to become infinitely rich only by choosing his dS(t) so that S(t) [martingale] has variation exponent exactly equal to 2 [look like random]."
This is game changer. I have just finished one year of 12-hour workdays, without weekends or sick days, except several days off, using just one techniThis is game changer. I have just finished one year of 12-hour workdays, without weekends or sick days, except several days off, using just one technique from this book - delay reward and reward yourself ONLY after (meaningful) work.
Actually that year started after almost one year realizing this idea. No wonder, reformatting any habits is hard. This simple switch in work-reward cycles led from a) talks: I was writing blog for fun, then lost interest in that after about 3 months, to b) much more interest in what creates results.
It's easy to disrupt the good work-reward cycle, especially over longer term, it always starts from small distraction and eventually grows into bigger problem. For example, you get distracted by social network, reading news, emails, etc. etc. and start doing that at the same time, voila, you have new not so useful habit.
The same rule remains true - if you start rewarding yourself BEFORE doing useful tasks, the new bad (or returned old) habit will start to form. Sprint/ Kanban boards or other task managers can help here greatly, because it allows you to determine where you are and whether you're not doing so called "fake work".
Another thing - you always can improve. It isn't a matter of "hard" (or long work hours). Better habit is always to do smarter and more meaningful* work.
* Meaningful here means - results oriented, because work without results is useless. Results here can be anything: money, experience, education, new skills, new opportunities, etc., i.e. what creates value. Value not in terms of "I had a great time when I drank this coffee with friends" (coffee with friends is always reward, not the work value), but "I learned this, earned this, and now I can learn/ earn more with less effort".
The society of addiction, the writing style is for purpose. Too much in the world became oversimplified "fast food" for "dumb masses". Too much of peoThe society of addiction, the writing style is for purpose. Too much in the world became oversimplified "fast food" for "dumb masses". Too much of people are now addicted to dopamine. They consume what they see on billboards, when bored and doing nothing they invent imaginary problems and consume fast pills to treat them, they no longer have real problems. The simulation now is the new reality.
Probabilistic truth never was "popular", it's more efficient to be "couch potato" and get the fast daily dose of dopamine than to even try to use brains (rating of this book shows that). People no longer try to see ideas or essence or true nature of things, they want pleasant, candied and easy going through throat delusions.
Informational advantage of capitalism is to exploit this dopamine addiction (through media) by making things "contagious", or "hook" on Facebook, or reach the "tipping point" of the corporation value. People are becoming the "Surrogates" with fancy "selfies" made with even "precious" new diamonds - iPhones and nothing else inside.
The simulation is the new real because you are not human being anymore if you don't have that clothing, nails things, status(!) and other sh.t. Now you can easily kill other people with drones sitting besides you PC and never going outside to the real world talking with people.
People are so much addicted to fast bursts of dopamine, they don't even try to understand something (or someone), they want someone else to tell them what to do (real story with nowadays programmers), where to look or what to think. Even Google helps to see the skewed picture of the world with their so popular "algorithms" they hardly understand themselves.
In overall, this is one of the most important books of my life. "The matrix" greatly influenced my mind since its appearance. I had a long "preparation" for expressed ideas....more
Best of the best, this book influenced my life even without me knowing it as a lots ad lost of subsequent information included bits of knowledge of thBest of the best, this book influenced my life even without me knowing it as a lots ad lost of subsequent information included bits of knowledge of this one....more
Those few years after reading this book... No one gives attention to "smart data", it should be accompanied with three themes action. I mentioned thatThose few years after reading this book... No one gives attention to "smart data", it should be accompanied with three themes action. I mentioned that many many times everywhere I could. We probably even can go further with this - no one likes "good people", they are boring losers that are eaten by other crocodiles*. This was a game changer.
* Doesn't mean I share this, but it's how world of apes works....more
Great book for open minded, who think, don't react. I consider myself changing my opinion when some new perspective is opened for me. But in this bookGreat book for open minded, who think, don't react. I consider myself changing my opinion when some new perspective is opened for me. But in this book, Taleb really grabs me by balls. Not agree with everything (I'm seems pro-"progressive" simply because life is much easier now thane twenty years before when I had nothing with same amount of money). For some things I'm more aggressive (like considering all emotions are ape-like croc-brain holdover, that will probably not be needed by future generations of new "species").
Thinking in 3-D I also often call something "idiocy" just because too often you should explain hundreds of things to unprepared brain and its' just too much time consuming, so it's easier to say "you're an idiot" than to try explaining what maybe "another full city in another part of the world" already knows as "better solution" than your "idiotic cognitive biases full of beliefs". So I completely understand this "negativity" of Taleb''s in this book.
I am a trader and have terminal CKD, and lived in Soviet Union, so I very clearly understand Taleb's points and inability to explain those concepts to "static" brains of "established professions". Really, it's just energetically more efficient to say "f... you" that invest energy in useless debates.
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