Tenderlysharp
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I spend time weekly looking into the health effects of food. I could be more methodical and get a degree in nutrition, but I haven't. My perspective of junk food poison is from a lifetime of integrating the information I have found.
One biochemist studying nutrition is Johana Budwig, she claims that when oils are cooked to a certain temperature (fries, chips) they plasticize, your body needs oils so it will try to use the plasticized oil, which results in degradation of your DNA's ability to regenerate. Her work and work similar to hers has not been taken into consideration by the FDA. Uncooked extra virgin olive oil, and Flax oil are reported to be good for you.
https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=johana+budwig&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
Corn syrup is very difficult for our bodies to process. Those interested in making money off the corn industry flood the debate with a favorable view of their product.
There are pockets of humans all over the world where a larger percentage of people live to be over 100, these cultures do not eat much deep fried food, or corn syrup. They eat a diverse diet, have clean water, and get exercise.
https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=diets+of+centenarians&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
For practical real world contemplation... compare the abundance of puss on the faces of McDonnalds workers to the abundance of radiant skin on the faces of WholeFoods workers.
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Well thought out critical feedback is exceedingly valuable to running a business. If these businesses are not objective enough, insight into how they would gain immediate practical benefit from moving toward more objective principles could do a lot to move understanding forward.
I see many objective principles being implemented in these companies. Decreasing the inefficiency in government spending has been huge. Attracting skilled labor by trading value for value with engineers has made the engineer and the company more productive. Open communication. Trusting your vision. The hyper loop competition between engineering colleges was interesting. Deflecting the control tactics of an often hostile media is something very few objectivists have skillfully navigated.
Seeing deeply into the heart of human nature is only possible for one who genuinely values people... sending a Tesla roadster into space with a space man in the drivers seat, blasting David Bowie music was an abstraction worthy of Joy.
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On 3/31/2018 at 11:23 AM, Nicky said:
Btw., there was no reason for you to assume that I'm a doctor. You just did, without any anchor in reality to support that assumption. Which is what you're doing with the "medical industrial complex conspiracy", as well.
This is a very dangerous pattern of thinking, and you should start paying attention to it.
You are right, I apologize.
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On 3/31/2018 at 11:23 AM, Nicky said:
(Buffett) He's a business man, responding to demand, not Jesus.
I don't quite understand a world where an objectivist would defend a mystic junk food Buffett, and devalue an engineer who works tirelessly toward technological innovation. If that future Capitalist economy were real I think Musk would adjust his business plan and be very successful in that world. Unfortunately I wonder if there are Objective Capitalists who put themselves in a position to value or make profound investments in technological advancement.
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15 hours ago, Nicky said:
government assistance?
Not viable.... why, because he isn't waiting for an Objectivist Utopia before asserting some efficacy?
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On 3/28/2018 at 2:45 AM, Repairman said:
One day, there may be more humans living in outer-Terrestrial habitats than on Earth, or the human race could revert to a new dark age, and once again on the verge of extinction.
I saw an interview where Musk is talking about this. They try to discourage him, saying we have enough problems here on earth. He mentioned some ancient wonders that we forgot how to build. The way space travel has been gaining inertia since the 60's. Knowledge and progress are not automatic. It takes a lot of work by a lot of people to get us to another planet.
I sometimes wonder if Objectivism has the vital vigor it had when Ayn Rand was alive?
I like that his companies have a "No Assholes Policy".
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IQ Test:
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Competition is a challenge, whether it is between men or machines. Its a good time to explore fields that are difficult for machines to compete in. Figuring out skills you may still be able to develop within the confines of your condition. Look into services the owners of the machines might need, where are they going to spend their money? There will be work in engineering and designing machines.
If goods are produced with greater efficiency, what use are all those goods if no one has a job to earn money to buy them? We may see a rise in human jobs that make use of our creative capacity. Brainstorm starting as many businesses as you can that train humans in jobs that humans are better at.
'Long term competitive advantage' is a term some entrepreneurs use. How can you develop your own personal competitive advantage? What books can you read to maximize your potential?
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It took three days of contemplation to bring together my current responses. I'm not an expert, I know I have a lot of growing to do. It is overwhelming, and I would like to have more speedy access to my entire memory. Introspection is vital to growth. I am discovering the immense value in seeking critical feedback. Capacity grows with the effort to communicate about difficult subjects and to develop understanding.
I have a strong aversion to wasting anyones time, I spend hours editing an idea in order to make it more concise and clear.
On 3/31/2018 at 11:23 AM, Nicky said:I don't think Warren Buffet... has a moral responsibility to treat humanity as his flock, and craft our diet for us. It's okay that he feeds people what they want to eat, not what he thinks we should eat. He's a business man, responding to demand, not Jesus.
Yes freedom allows for it, but is it objective to take advantage of stupidity? Is stupidity a viable commodity? When do we enter a reality where its not marketable to capitalize on stupidity, fear, and an endless bureaucracy of hoops to jump through? Doing so cripples you, it makes your brain shrink.
Capitalizing on stupidity goads the stupid into fits of rage.
How can one deconstruct/clarify manipulation in a way where stupid people begin to recognize when they are being manipulated? When will taking advantage of stupidity make you less able to compete with a person of integrity?
The idealism of objective thought is to eliminate the murky grey evasive areas that allow for corruption. Collectivists are angrily averse to Objectivism because it has the power to strike at the foundation of their control. If, an objectivist wants to use their volition to cause change in their world.
Ayn Rand may have worked to reduce the grip of second handers on the minds of those who read and integrate her words. Her efficacy would have been greatly diminished if she had never escaped Russia. Middle men are still using billions of susceptible bodies as their batteries. When will the fundamentals of objectivism become common sense?
When I see that Ayn Rand could walk into an angry booing crowd, and have them cheering by the end I contemplate the undercurrent of profound respect for the rational capacity of men, even apparent enemies, that she held. Someone in the crowd stands up to speak and is critically missing all of her context... “well go write YOUR OWN book about it.” Rand recommends...
Sometimes playing stupid can keep one under the radar. Developing an abstraction that at face value is easily taken for granted by malicious knee jerk competitors, but if taken in the context of all her work was genius. It was something Ayn Rand did, that I marvel at.
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On 3/29/2018 at 4:30 PM, softwareNerd said:
When you swing away from discussing the health care system, to the more general conspiracy theories, then it's wild. You should not do that, even if you want to blame someone...
Given the title of this topic, my response hasn’t strayed too far off the exploration of why someone might feel overwhelmed by the problems in the world.
Conspiracy implies secrecy. People like George Soros and Warren Buffet are very open about their control agendas.
I am deconstructing fundamental driving forces in collectivist movements:
Attention seeking and control.The Bible is a tomb of psychological warfare that has kept Judaeo/Christians in power for 5000 years and helped them dominate much of the western world. Many of the control tactics they used in the past have taken on more modern sounding guises. Playing victim, raising mascots that look like the demographic they are trying to control, media control, fear, telling you what you want to hear....
“If you want to know who is oppressing you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize” -Voltaire
The various mystical texts of other major religions cater their control tactics to, and develop the sensibilities of, the people of the regions they dominate.
I’m taking a closer look at the places modern collectivists can dominate with fear and control while hiding under a of cloak manipulation. Anywhere there is a grey murk of evasion, and wishful thinking there is a bureaucracy to add inexplicable expenses to the mess.
There has been talk of “draining the swamp”. If all of those swamp dwellers don’t find something else to do with their “talents” they are going to run around sinking their bureaucratic fangs into any industry they can needle their way into.
Manipulation depends on the susceptibility of a person. What are you susceptible to? How have you been manipulated?
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14 hours ago, Sameak said:
...lofty ...just calling things invalid ...common mainstream ... far left.... Disregard ...
Nope, not me
On 3/26/2018 at 3:01 PM, Sameak said:if you are going to give me a ________________ argument and just call anyone _____________ racist, please move on to another post.
I do what I can to approach any argument with the intention of a win/win mutual understanding. I am bringing my understanding of race to this discussion because it seems superfluous to start my own topic on the same subject.
14 hours ago, Sameak said:please source some evidence
Types of intelligence that are not measured in IQ tests:
Humor
The Arts/Creativity
Olympics
Holding Context
Seeking Critical Feedback
Understanding/Developing broad abstractions
Developing Axioms
Time scheduling priorities
Measuring Probabilities
Recognizing exponential shifts
The ability to cross reference differing fields to bring a new solution
Determination
Tolerance for Pain
Deconstruction
Being Concise
Integration
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9 hours ago, StrictlyLogical said:
You speak of the failings of an improper and immoral society....
The failings of THIS very real society happening now.
9 hours ago, StrictlyLogical said:I sense you do not have a clear and solid idea of, or have not yet made up your mind about, just what constitutes a proper society and just what would exemplify a proper trade occurring within it, or perhaps a hesitation to share such.
As much as I want to believe in the rightness of a proper free Objective society, how can it be achieved when the money and power are being stacked in favor of mystics and collectivists? I have read all of Ayn Rand's books. I feel pride in my capacity to understand Objective Epistemology, and many abstractions in Ayn Rand's work affect me deeply. Yet , I still don't know the best concrete systematic steps I can take to create a better world.
I have read, and sometimes re-read every response in this topic, and value the time and attention that each person invests into ideas that they care about.
I often feel too emotional, and a lack of efficacy.
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35 minutes ago, StrictlyLogical said:
Sellers know there will be no sale if they price themselves out of an exchange
Pay or die is often the ultimatum in the medical industry, and in the case of my father's cancer, he asked repeatedly how much it was going to cost and they gave him Obfuscations and never answered him, showing him funding information that appeared like it was going to pay for everything, until weeks after the procedure was over he got his bill. Add high pressure sales tactics that the longer he waited to act the worse it would get. Add the fact that brain researchers have found that much of your frontal cortex goes offline when shocked with a traumatic event like Cancer, you just don't have the full functioning of your reasoning capabilities.
Are the exorbitant costs in the medical industry malice or happenstance?
Mystics used shame and war to control the populace, in order to reduce overpopulation. Shame and war aren't working like they once did. The humans who are susceptible to shame or who can be goaded into war are being systematically eliminated from the DNA pool.
Mystics seem to have a strong need for control and attention. An over active frontal cortex causing obsessive compulsive disorder. How have these controllers evolved with modern times? Medical controllers. Media controllers. Political controllers. "Humanity is an infection" Controllers. There are so many floating abstractions in all of these industries it is easy to control people through their fear.
How do you usurp control out of the controllers hands? How do you trick them into running on their own hamster wheel away from the rest of us?
Would there be ten times as many people here today if it weren’t for the controllers?
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8 minutes ago, DavidOdden said:distinguishing fair from unfair is the essence of reasoning.
The price tag applied to the medical industry is high. Ten to a thousand times higher per hour of work rendered by most other professions.
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16 minutes ago, StrictlyLogical said:
In a proper society with a proper laissez-faire government, what do you see as a fair trade between an individual customer for medical/health goods and services and an individual producer?
What do I see? Can hours of life be quantified? If the hours invested by the doctor equal the hours invested by the producer. Can the doctor add productive hours to the producers life? Can the producer add productive hours to the doctor or another producer? There is something I am missing, I'm groping, not seeing context clearly enough.
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32 minutes ago, StrictlyLogical said:
As someone familiar with Objectivism what do you think constitutes a "fair trade" in the realm of health/medicine goods and services industry? i.e. given all the various trades what distinguishes between those which are unfair and those which are fair?
I honestly don't know how to quantify fairness when it comes to health, the workings of each person's body is such a random variable. There is so much room there for ignorance to be taken advantage of. Researchers might find that snake oil actually does work. I can see that I am emotionally charged on this issue.
Most people don't know how they got sick or better ways to heal their bodies. It would be fair to raise awareness, to promote some basic health education.
It is an industry that receives billions upon billions of dollars regardless of whether they heal people or not. I wonder if there is a way to incentivize positive results, so that healing people, and preventing illness is more profitable than what I have seen done to all my grandparents, where they pay thousands of dollars a month to maintain their slowly declining conditions. They have the same faith in their doctors that they have in their priests.
A person ought to have some knowledge of any industry they are trading their money in. There is so much to learn. It seems overwhelming to get an experts education in Medicine, Law, Media, Insurance, Politics in order to recognize when you are being manipulated.
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Perhaps watching my father trade the fruits of an entire lifetime of work for a couple days at the Huntsman Cancer Institute has made me insane. Observing the fear manipulation, the placations, the luxury hotel surroundings. It was fake, like a Las Vegas casino, glitz painted cardboard. I also let him drag me to a faith healing ministry in Colorado, very similar to the Huntsman Center, and Vegas. Sell you on your own fantasy. So, yeah when I read most stories related to medicine, I think its another part of the manipulation. Who else but the pharmaceutical industrial complex would benefit from the public sympathy that these stories stir?
Why are people lured into the nursing profession by offers of free education, then turn around and complain endlessly about how much they hate their jobs?
Why does it cost $10,000-$20,000 to give birth, when the nurses are not good, and the doctor is there for maybe an hour?
Warren Buffet invests billions into the junk food industries that cause diabetes and cancer, then invests those billions he made into medicine and insurance, its a win/win/win situation for him, and it gets better the sicker people become. The world is overpopulated anyway, why not sterilize people with their own stupidity and insure that the next generation has to start from nothing unless they are the children of doctors, lawyers, insurance providers, and social media advertisers.
Tell me Nicky how much money do you and the people close to you make off of the sick and dying? Is it a fair trade?
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Pondering the irony that a fanatic of individualism emerged from Russia. It may be that the pressure of thousands of years of expectation, of conformity to the values of regional collectivist groups, can act as a catalyst for the emergence of an individual of that group to burst forth with such a vigor of rebellion that it releases the group from limiting dogma and allows them to evolve. Ayn Rand had special insight into the nature of Russians that no one else could articulate so clearly.
Each person alive today has survived 3.8 billion years of wars, famines, plagues, predators, oppression, humiliation, upheaval, adaptation to new environments... It is a mistake to take anyone for granted, no matter how you might believe yourself superior, their DNA has as much survival instinct as yours.
IQ tests are biased and not advanced enough to measure many kinds of conceptual abstractions of intelligence.
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4 hours ago, Nicky said:
You're welcome to...
You're welcome to elaborate on why an observation of thousands of near identical social media accounts is insane.
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Sex is a trade for sex. I think women want good sex as much as men do. Sex is a thousand times better, in my opinion, if there is deep understanding, intimacy, bonding, humor, connection. I wouldn't buy a guy eggs to get him to have sex with me. The context or the wording is off. It doesn't seem romantic. I would buy him eggs because I enjoy doing nurturing, nourishing things for the person I love, it adds to a feeling of well being in the home. It might inspire him to feel more sexual in the future.
I wouldn't negotiate sex. If he doesn't want sex it may be a sign of a deeper problem, or time to leave the relationship. If someone doesn't 'feel' like it, the belief that they could just lay there and let it happen anyway is sad.
The belief that there is some kind of sexual/favor debt to charge each other with, and the expectation of immediate pay off will kill the passion.
I am attracted to a mans mind, his integrity, his work ethic, his creativity... not so much his semi-willingness to fetch eggs.
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Recognizing when someone is testing if you are susceptible to their agenda is interesting. Increasing your awareness or radar for detecting manipulation from various pressure groups is helpful in deconstructing their tactics.
'The Gift of Fear' by Gavin DeBecker is a great read, he spent his career protecting high profile people from predators. How to spot a predator, tactics predators use. He helps people stop living in fear so that they can recognize the rare moments of real danger.
Another interesting tangent, I watched a bunch of youtube videos about pick-up-artists to get an idea of how to recognize the difference in a guy who is genuinely interested in me as a person, and a guy who just wants a fantasy to jerk himself off with.
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Tesla - Automatizing electric cars, and semi-trucks. A self-driven car will become as rare as having a horse.
SpaceX - A million people to Mars.
Solar City - Enough energy hits the earth in one day to supply all our power needs for a year.
Giga Factories - Lithium Ion Batteries.
The Boring Company - Travel 200 miles per hour, in underground tunnels. Funded through merchandise sales. A Boring Flame Thrower anyone?
Star Link - Access to high speed Internet anywhere
Open AI - Working to ensure safety in quickly advancing Artificial Intelligence technology. Is AI our greatest existential threat?
In 2008 Elon Musk's companies were nearly bankrupt, he put everything he had into keeping them afloat. Today these companies are developing work environments that foster thousands of the best engineers to live up to their potentials and make exponential breakthroughs in their fields.
What are your thoughts?
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How many people would consider Ayn Rand a typical Russian? Filter your experience of an individual through a preconceived expectation and you eclipse your direct, immediate awareness of the evidence that the individual is presenting. The aptitudes I have seen among friends varies so greatly it seems inconvenient to have a preconceived notion about what a person is capable of. It seems condescending to express surprise when someone is smarter than their demographic would suggest. I might have some higher aptitudes than my parents, but what does that do for our relationship, if I am not careful to respect that they are doing what they can with what they have?
There are greater aptitudes among any organic creature that has been navigating the same geographical challenges for thousands of years. Fat/energy storage, cooling, sun and oxygen absorbency, fighting predators. Inuits and polar bears are better at surviving in the cold. This knowledge seems superfluous unless there is something I need to learn from one of them for my own work or survival.
Why should an individual of one demographic refrain from exploring a path of knowledge that excites him because it isn't considered a strength among those who look like him?
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On 3/14/2018 at 2:42 PM, Nicky said:
Well, if we're sharing what things "seem like" to us, to me that suggestion seems insane.
Is it insane?
Elon Musk
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Posted · Edited by Tenderlysharp
Perhaps I am being idealistic as well. I haven't yet come to your conclusions.
https://futurism.com/images/a-comprehensive-list-of-elon-musks-breakthroughs-in-2017/
It seems he has been delivering something.
Ayn Rand Apollo Launch
https://ari.aynrand.org/issues/science-and-industrialization/scientific-and-technological-progress