What, Why & How do we Know ?
Heard Sacks on BBC Sunday, talking sense as usual. Not really digested this yet. Contentious, was equating trust with religion – with which I have no problem – religion / trust is what binds “us” together. Only question is who is “us” and the nature of the “bondage”. In essence I agree with Sacks point … Continue reading “Losing the Plot @BHAhumanists”
I have a pretty evident agenda here that objectifying (and measuring in order to manage) the wrong things, or too narrow a slate of things, is counter-productive: Partly because objectifying or reifying the issue may be misguided in itself, and partly because “governance” is at least a two-way, if not more complex, system-behavioural game anyway, … Continue reading “Measure What Matters”
Interesting post from Dave Pollard (hat tip to Euan Semple) on the illusory nature of all those coherent structures that enable life, the universe and everything to tick along as if “business as usual”. Those coherent structures cover everything from politico-economic structures of mutual governance, down to apparently fundamental physical and cosmological models – and … Continue reading “Illusory Coherence”
Never seen it formalised before, though I’ve expressed it so many times. Posted as David Gurteen’s quote of the day with the source identified by @BrianSJ. When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. The basic reason why MBO is doomed; the antidote to “if you can’t measure, you can’t … Continue reading “Goodhart’s Law”
I’m an “anti-realist” in the sense that my world view (in the header by-line, the manifesto and anywhere else in the blog) is epistemological – about what we can know about the world, to the extent that what the world out there really is is NOT what really matters. That is I’m not concerned with correspondence … Continue reading “Objects without SOMism”
Just finished reading Tom Holland’s In the Shadow of the Sword – the battle for global empire and the end of the ancient world. Thoroughly referenced history of the place of Zoroastrian, Christian, Jewish and Muslim religions in warlike power politics of domination across the “civilised” world from the pre-Hellenic origins centred on the Tigris and … Continue reading “In the Shadow of the Sword”
One major reason why “democracy” by popular vote is the worst form of governance (apart from all the others). (Consensus vs tyranny of the majority, etc. Concensus = Parker-Follett integrationism.) Interesting review of David Graeber (Occupy Wall Street) book The Democracy Project by Dave Pollard.
Hi, thanks for responding. First I must assume since you replied to my tweet that you at least saw this post linked in that tweet? https://www.psybertron.org/?p=5492 You will find linked in that post links to other specific relevant posts. (And of course if you were to browse, there are many more on the relevant topics on that blog … Continue reading “Open Letter to BHA”