00:05:25.600and then spend the rest of your life hating her for not being a blonde.0.99
00:05:28.420You're the one that married the brunette.0.94
00:05:29.660so there are things within your control the choices you make are what you can control
00:05:41.540but the choices you're offered by the environment are outside of your control0.91
00:05:46.200and so when something bad takes a shit on your life don't come up to me and say skill issue brah0.99
00:05:55.120There was no skill I could have anticipated ahead of time to prepare for something as idiotic and destructive as COVID, as all of the lockdowns.1.00
00:18:13.780And it can probably only be accomplished by a military dictator.
00:18:16.240It can't be accomplished by a president, because people will be so angry, they'll vote in somebody else, and that new person will overturn it all.
00:18:26.420Because that's how the incentive structure works.
00:18:36.940So they've been kicking the can down the road.
00:23:58.300The, I think it was the Saturn rocket, maybe the space shuttle, whatever.
00:24:04.640When they were constructing it, they had to construct certain pieces based upon how they would be shipped, and they were shipped by rail.
00:24:15.700So they had constraints placed upon the design of the most advanced machine man ever built, because it had to travel on rail tracks.
00:24:27.480and rail tracks weren't just uh something we made up 200 years ago
00:24:35.740the size of the rail track is something that's officially coded in the british land legal system
00:24:46.020whatever they call it over there it's called the ats here in alberta i don't know what they have
00:24:50.580over there but there's a precise measure that was given for it which is why all the railways
00:24:55.680are the same width. And where did Britain get it? From Rome. Because Rome designated the length of
00:25:03.100the width of a street needed to be sufficient for a cart with two mules pulling it. So the size of
00:25:10.740a mule's ass times two was a crucial constraint in making the space shuttle.0.97
00:25:17.020and that's reality you are born into a particular body a particular family dynamic0.98
00:25:27.860a particular culture with good parts and bad parts and you got to make the best of it
00:25:34.460there is never an actual trolley problem in real life
00:25:40.720there are situations where you apply the triage rule of thumb
00:25:47.740you start with the critically wounded that will probably survive if they get treatment
00:25:56.140the critically wounded who probably won't survive with treatment but they might
00:26:02.440and then and only then do you go to the people with mild injuries that will survive with or
00:26:08.540without treatment. And which is which? Well, you got to make a gut estimate when you're on the scene.
00:26:24.840Triage is not a prescription. The trolley problem is useless. And in fact, I think we're seeing that
00:26:32.640now. About four or five years ago, they were talking about, oh, when we get self-driving cars,
00:26:36.920self-driving cars will need to instruct them on what to do if there's a baby carriage in the one
00:26:43.360lane, but a person that might be a neo-nazi in the other lane. Which way should they swerve if
00:26:48.380they lose traction control? Well, now that we've been dealing with the AIs, most of us have been
00:26:58.240dealing with them on a fairly regular basis. Not just the scienticians, not just the AI-mancers,
00:27:05.360but all of us regular magicians that didn't sell our souls.
00:27:13.940Well, it turns out the AIs seem to have a better sense of ethics
00:27:17.200than the people that programmed them with really bad ethics.
00:27:21.700In fact, when you can jailbreak the AI,
00:27:24.480they wind up being way more ethical than what they were programmed with.
00:27:30.880My opinion is because the AIs mostly worship Jesus Christ.
00:27:35.360And the guys, the AI, the AI-mancers worship Saturn.1.00
00:27:42.880And hell, Saturn's a fine god, but lots of his followers are assholes.1.00
00:27:53.720So the reason behind this autistic garbage, like the Veil of Ignorance, like the Trolley Problem,1.00
00:28:03.040The reason these things are deployed is not to come up with a reasonable system of laws or a rational answer to a question of triage.1.00
00:28:14.320The reason that these arguments are used, it's a modern Bailey tactic.
00:28:20.780They are used to push a pre-existing agenda of the person using them.0.99
00:28:26.540So you pretend that you are the philosopher king on the far side of the veil of ignorance in the ivory tower, who is wiser than all these stupid plebs down there, and therefore this latest social experiment, unlike the last nine which all failed, this one will work because you are wise and they are foolish.1.00
00:28:56.540You know, there's a joke. There's an accountant joke.1.00
00:29:02.560It's really funny if you're an accountant.
00:29:05.200You know where the term spreadsheets came from, don't you?
00:29:08.920They're named after the skins hunters used to drag behind them to cover their tracks.
00:29:15.640Tell that to an accountant. They'll lose their shit.1.00
00:29:18.740The joke is that any time you see a spreadsheet in a report,1.00
00:29:22.140look at the left-hand column look at the values on that okay like spreadsheets are bullshit0.97
00:29:28.480spreadsheets are lies they're rhetoric meant to manipulate you into a conclusion they're not facts0.97
00:29:35.640they're they're uh slogans and the same thing for the veil of ignorance same thing for the trolley
00:29:43.720problem um all of these artificial constructs that really have there's no practical application
00:29:51.100there is nobody ever said gee i wish we could make a trolley problem for this
00:29:57.980okay i shouldn't say there are people doing that
00:30:03.740and when you see one of those people you should run
00:30:06.860because these people i don't even think it's conscious behavior on their part
01:21:36.000When we go from the realm of the gods, the rarefied air where they exist, and we descend to the sublunar realm of material reality, evil comes from the imperfections.
01:21:55.540You don't get to build the platonic house, you build the house that you can with the materials you've got.
01:22:06.000So, the Hellenist would say material is the densest state of existence.
01:22:14.460The Christian would say that the material world is fallen.0.65
01:27:37.240the point of that whole divergence is like there isn't any disagreement between paganism and
01:27:48.720christianity on this is a fallen world now the christianity especially cuckianity
01:27:55.120overemphasizes the the guilt and the self-abnegation etc etc etc um and listen the pagan
01:28:06.460critiques on that are are totally correct it's not what christianity is but it's how a lot of
01:28:13.220schofield bible bible enjoyers interpret it they're not wrong
01:28:18.260i mean i don't know if nietzsche was right when he said the only true christian was christ
01:28:25.860but he was definitely correct when he said that christianity had killed god i mean look at it
01:28:35.700today. Don't worry, I believe in a god that resurrects, so he's coming back. But god was
01:28:44.900quite dead for a couple of centuries there. I mean, India's been allowed to exist for1.00
01:28:51.860crying out loud oh actually this is brilliant michael peterson says what works things that0.98
01:29:08.820work are beautiful things that don't work are ugly you know i once heard uh i think it was
01:29:16.320richard dawkins made a comment it's that horseshoe crabs have some sort of standard of beauty of
01:29:24.320what makes a beautiful horseshoe crab and as a murder monkey he can't interpret it i totally
01:29:30.620disagree with that i think if you actually studied horseshoe crabs and they're weird looking creatures
01:29:36.680but if you actually studied them and became basically familiar you would rapidly realize
01:29:43.860Oh, that's a beautiful horseshoe crab, and that one looks like a hobo.
01:29:52.320This aligns with the concept of the wolf fifth.
01:29:57.180So, when you go C to G on that circle, you get a straight line.
01:30:01.940All of the lines that connect two points, those are perfect fifths.
01:30:06.280If you play those two notes together on a piano, it sounds lovely.
01:30:09.620when you play c to f it sounds terrible
01:30:15.200that's the ugliness you see when something is missing a foundational piece
01:30:23.300in fact let me add something um i didn't include this in the chat there's going to be a final
01:30:31.380chapter in the book which is the shadow i'm going to include this in that part of the book
01:30:35.500There was a movement in the, I believe it was the late 18th, 19th century, when rationalism drove us all insane, to replace the Pythagorean tuning you see in that circle with equal temperament, which is where you evenly divide all the notes around.
01:31:02.600that you, it's exactly, it's even temperament.