Zero Contradictions Philosophy - Directory

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

• Philosophy of Race FAQs ***

  Addressing the common misconceptions and implications of race, race realism, race-mixing, and ethnostates from a biological realist perspective. Race realism is a scientific position that acknowledges evolutionary differences and does not imply racism nor tribalism.

• Overpopulation and Demographic Transition Theory FAQs ***

  The only ways to avoid overpopulation are mass death or low birth rates (population control). Overpopulation is otherwise inevitable. Once there's overpopulation, it's game over for civilization.

• Eugenics And Reproduction Licenses FAQs ***

  Reproduction licenses are the most reasonable and effective way to implement eugenics. Laissez-Faire Eugenics protects human rights and will be necessary to sustain modern civilization.

• The Case Against Libertarianism and Anarchism ***

  Libertarianism and Anarcho-Capitalism are unsustainable, incompatible with human nature, and they fail to understand the nature of freedom and civilization.

• A Rational Critique of Ayn Rand's Objectivism **

  Objectivism faces the same problems that most philosophies do: it neglects the implications of the subject-object dichotomy, as well as the implications that evolution, biology, and game-theory have for humanity.

• Morality and Selfishness FAQs *

  These are mostly intended to be a set of follow-up questions that people may ask after reading: What is Morality?

• Georgism & Natural Resources Taxation FAQs

  Explaining the following and so much more: Addressing the problems, technicalities, and theoretical implementation of Georgism, natural resources taxation, and the implementation.

• The Pro-Gun Arguments Guide, 232 pages (Hosted On This Website)

  This document would be written and formatted better if I wrote it myself, but it does have comprehensive rational arguments for supporting gun rights nonetheless.

• Philosophical Terminology And Pragmatosphere Glossary

Epistemology

• Knowledge, Truth, Skepticism & Certainty, The Structure of Knowledge, Etc
• • The Representationalist Theory of Knowledge
  • The Skepticism-Certainty Continuum
  • Evaluating Tabula Rasa, Axioms, and the Münchhausen Trilemma *
  • Performative Contradictions And Their Theorems *
• The Reasoning Process, Reasoning Skills, Belief Networks, Etc
• • The Reasoning Process and Scientific Method
  • Reasoning Skills: Logic, Fallacies, Biases, Heuristics, Proofs, Etc **
  • Why It's So Difficult To Change People's Minds *

• A Rational Critique Of Academic Research ***

  This sequel essay elaborates on the causes of fake academic research and other types of unproductive research: plagiarized, redundant, out-dated, and useless. My solutions for fixing academia are to require a minimum age, overhaul funding with a bounty system, and an improved social structure for organizing research, among other things.

• Sapir-Whorf Theory: How Language Influences Thought ***

  An overview of Sapir-Whorf theory, gavagai semantics, classical conditioning, selective attention, and examples where language influences thought and vice versa.

• Classifying Fields of Knowledge by Ontologies *

  This is a classification scheme for knowledge that I came up with that I sometimes reference in my other blog pages, mainly because the terminology is convenient to use.

• Determinism and Physicalism *

  Free Will and Determinism are best understood via subject-object compatibilism, spatio-temporal envelopes, chaos theory, and materialism / physicalism. Multiple definitions and arguments are given to clarify the main misunderstandings and implications of physicalism.

• Evolution And Its Implications *

  Some musings about evolution, memetics, and biology. All the thoughts in this file are grouped together under one page because I didn't have enough to say to make them separate posts in their own right.

• Axiology: The Nature of Value *

  Axiology studies the nature, properties, rationality, judgment, and ranking of values. Axiology has implications for ethics, game theory, and political philosophy.

• Originally, I wrote most of these epistemology pages as I was trying to form and write my own understanding of epistemology, independently of other people as a young college student in his early 20s. Discovering Blithering Genius's content caused my theory of epistemology to fundamentally and substantially change. I had already put in so much effort in trying to theorize and write about epistemology, but I also didn't want to display my ideas that I no longer endorse, so I edited all these pages to reflect a more accurate and complete understanding of epistemology. As a consequence, many of the ideas presented on these pages are not original ideas that I thought of by myself, but I consider the pages with more asterisks next to them to be more original and unique from other people's works.

• If it is confusing to read and navigate any of the epistemology pages, it's due to how they were created, and since I now mostly lack the desire to edit or improve them much further. I don't think it will be worthwhile to expand or finish writing most of these pages since my understanding is still subject to change, and since I think Blithering Genius's next philosophy book will probably be substantially more comprehensive and better written than anything displayed here. Nevertheless, if anybody wants to read these pages anyway, they are free to do so. Every reader should understand that it's better to recognize these pages as collections of thoughts of varying quality and originality, as indicated by the asterisks.

Civilization and Its Trajectory

• The Case Against Libertarianism and Anarchism ***

  Libertarianism is unsustainable, incompatible with human nature, and it fails to understand what freedom is and why/when it's desirable.

• A Rational Analysis of "Social Justice" ***

  The nature of discrimination, the origin of diversity equal representation, racial "oppression", transgender people, etc.

• Climate Change And Global Warming ***

  This analysis compares climate change with overpopulation, pollution, and other environmental problems. Climate activism is moralized, ineffective, and counter-productive. To solve environmental issues, we'll need to reduce fossil fuel consumption, switch to nuclear energy, tax natural resources, and reduce population growth.

• Thoughts on Democracy ***

  Democracy exists to enable societal compromises. My proposal is to overhaul it with a system that emphasizes meritocracy and sortition. This page also analyzes other reforms to democracy, First-Past-The-Post (FPTP), parliaments vs presidencies, different democratic procedures, redrawing state boundaries, and big tent strategy.

• Technology and Civilization ***

  This page lists the main problems that are caused by increasing or adopting new technologies, as well as my thoughts on AI, peak technology, and speculations about the collapse of modern civilization.

• Political Philosophy: Defining An Ideal Government *

  Some musings for defining an ideal government's political philosophy and legal code, and the best solutions to the game-theoretic problems that every society must face.

• Thoughts on Geopolitics *

  Some musings about geopolitics that follow some basic principles and observed history. All competition ultimately stems from competition for scarce natural resources. Defense, law, and order are the first duties of a state. Geography shapes the battlefield. Peace can only be secured by preparing for war.

• Determining The Legal Age of Adulthood

  There are practical physical and mental milestones for determining adulthood. Different people are ready for adulthood at different ages.

• Why is the Average Ashkenazi Jewish IQ So High? (Hosted On This Website)
• Biological Realism Summary
• Disagreements Summary For Less Wrong

Programming

• Blogging Tools & Advice **

  This page explains how I created this website using Emacs org-mode, CSS, an HTML template, and other tools. I also give some advice on writing, copyrighting, licensing, SEO, and some tools to use.

• My Keyboard Setup And Why I Use Emacs *

  I use the Colemak keyboard layout, a ZSA Moonlander keyboard, Linux Mint Xfce, GNU Doom-Emacs, and FOSS software whenever possible. I argue that Emacs offers the best brain-computer integration experience there is, with our current technology.

• ZC’s Programming Project Ideas
• Coding Style Guidelines
• Unix/Linux Commands, Syntax, And Notes

Language / Linguistics

• Sapir-Whorf Theory: How Language Influences Thought ***

  An overview of Sapir-Whorf theory, gavagai semantics, classical conditioning, selective attention, and examples where language influences thought and vice versa.

• The Implications of Adopting a Constructed Universal Auxiliary Language (Worldlang) ***

  The effects and implications of adopting an Universal Auxiliary Language (worldlang), and why it would be a better solution than universal translators.

• Mathematical Methods for Modeling Phonetics & Phonology **

  Language phonology can be modeled using set theory, string theory, combinatoritcs, finite-state transducers, and calculus-based statistics. When I have more time, I plan to make a major expansion to this paper to talk about more modern and complex models of phonology.

• Heuristic Strategies for Identifying Etymology in English and Various Other Languages **

  Heuristics for recognizing pronunciation, spelling, syllables, morphemes, grammar patterns can identify the etymology of a language's lexicon with high accuracy.

• A Better Way To Think About Morphological Typology *

  The traditional system for classifying language typology conflates many different morphological characteristics into a 1D or 2D spectrum that does not descriptively characterize language morphology. I explain the more modern approach to classifying language morphology, as well as my own similar system of parameters for classifying language morphology.

• Advantages And Disadvantages To Logographic Writing Systems *

  Logographic writing systems draw their advantages from linking meanings to writing, rather than sounds to writing, as a phonetic writing system would. From a linguist's perspective, they both have their strengths, and neither is better than the other.

• The Best Way to Learn Logographic Writing Systems: Heisig's Method *

  Heisig's Method is the best way to learn Hanzi and Kanji since it separating the learning process into two phases: memorizing the characters themselves and their semantics, and learning how to pronounce the characters and their various connotations.

• Subjunctive Verb Conjugations In English *

  Many foreign language teachers and English speakers are unaware that English has subjunctive verb conjugations, which is one reason why many English speakers struggle with using subjunctive conjugations in foreign languages. This page gives many English examples to help with this.

Economics & Georgism

• Georgism Crash Course: A Benefits Overview of NRT ***

  Explaining Georgism and the Georgist Theory of Property, the benefits of land value and natural resource taxes, Georgism vs other economic ideologies, etc.

• Why Georgism Lost Its Popularity During the 20th Century ***

  The Georgism movement used to be fairly popular during the Progressive Era from the 1880s to 1920s. However, the rising dominance of the automobile, mortgage loans, Keynesianism, and the Cold War era Capitalism-Communism dichotomy all contributed to the decline of Georgist activism. And now we have to endure a century's worth of successive mistakes.

• Why Georgism and Population Control Both Imply Each Other ***

  This essay debunks chapters 6-9 of Henry George's Progress and Poverty. It proceeds to explain an interesting and coherent connection between Georgism and Population Control. Both concepts aim to conserve natural resources that exist in fixed supply.

• Philosophy Of Planned Obsolescence ***
• g-Factors and s-Factors ***

  In many cases, it's useful to have a single rating that works as a general measurement for multiple specific measurements overall. These sections explore the fairness, validity, and implications of this concept.

• Thoughts on Economics **

  This page has miscellaneous thoughts and musings that I have on economics that don't fit in with other pages. The main theme is proposing economic solutions for improving labor efficiency and preventing market failures, planned obsolescence, and monopolies. I also critique LVT-funded UBI and its effects.

• A Critique of "Bullshit Jobs" by David Graeber

  David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs is Western-centric, it doesn't address rent-seeking or broken incentives in Academia, and it doesn't have any solutions to the problems with UBI. Most importantly, it doesn't propose any solutions to problems of cooperation.

• Land Economics Part I: Ricardo's Law of Ground Rent

  Laying out the foundational economic theory behind Georgism, and illustrating how unequal land distribution depresses wages. (Downloadable Infographic)

• Land Economics Part II: Speculation and Idle Land

  Government Policies Enable Rent-Seeking, Untold Economic Inefficiency, and Lower Living Standards (Downloadable Infographic)

• Land Economics Part III: Mortgage Debt and Lending

  How Land Speculation, Mortgages, and Banks Cause Real Estate Bubbles and Recessions (Downloadable Infographic)

• Graphs of LVT Outcomes (Downloadable Infographics)

  A visualization of all the positive feedback loops that would result from implementing a Georgist Economic Policy.

Miscellaneous

• My Philosophical And Political Journey

  The evolution of my personal philosophy over the years.

• Life Advice
• The Case Against Efilism: Why Efilism Will Never Win *

  Efilism is self-defeating and unlikely to succeed. The Efilist mindset is based on ignorance, rhetoric, and unquestioned assumptions like hedonism and altruism.

• The Pathogen Hypothesis For Male Homosexuality *

  The causes of (male) homosexuality are not fully understood, but one possible cause that hasn't been explored very well is intestinal pathogens. This essay details the reasons in favor of this hypothesis, and how it's more compatible with evolutionary theory than other hypotheses.

• Response To RatWiki's Pragmatosphere Article

  My response to RatWiki's Pragmatosphere Article, as written by LiamM32 / Electric-Gecko.

• The Case Against The Carnivore Diet

  Someone tried to persuade me to switch to the carnivore diet, so I wrote this essay as a rebuttal.

• Why Lockdowns Don't Work

  Lockdowns fail by every metric, regardless of implementation: common sense, basic economics, statistics, and costs-benefits analyses.

• If Ideologies Were Honest
• Standards, Units, and Measurements In An Ideal World *

  If humanity had to start over and decide the best standards, units, and measurements for everything in an ideal world, these are what I propose.

• Industrial Society and Its Future by Ted Kaczynski (Hosted On This Website)
• Market Failures in Science - Milan Cvitkovic
• You're Ruining Your Feet References PDF - Jake Leary (Hosted On This Website)

  Most modern shoes cram the toes of our feet into pointy toe boxes. This ruins the natural shape of our feet, it atrophies the muscles for moving our toes sideways, and it negatively affects the muscles that we use to walk. Everybody realizes that foot-binding is bad, but we don't realize that we've been micro-dosing it.

• Unofficial Advice For Working At Jersey Mike's

  I used to work at Jersey Mike’s for a while as a shift-lead and I’ve made thousands of sandwiches, so I compiled a list of helpful notes and tips to help me do the job more efficiently.