12/18/19

On the Cheaters at Chess

There was sadly, a GM recently that was caught cheating at chess. I am not at all confident that cheating would be of any value to me on-line especially. I think there is a coefficient of slowness on the baud rate or transmission speed such that if I start a game with x milliseconds delay it will be 3x before the game is over. That aside, I don't really know tablebase too well and reading the notation about suggested lines from SF wouldn't be much help either because it takes too long to decipher and when the opponent makes a different move that would throw everything all akimbo.

Why does sitting on the composting toilet and looking once at SF help a GM? I can understand that if it was a live following of move by move and a cheater played the best move that would help, unless playing against alpha zero.

With a beard or a bun one could hide a small receiver that quickly whispers the best move found by an accomplice on a computer. Alternatively dedicated cheaters could have a cochlear implant with a radio in it with some adjustable freq the accomplished engine could through-put. Maybe top-level chess player's matches should have a bio-radio-hazard level 4 screening (like the Andromeda Strain) before admission to the table to reduce skepticism about the veracity of the games. With so much trouble and expense cheating one should need, I think, to earn a lot from the cheating.

A Question About God's Trans-(In) Finite Power

One may rely on authority and history to a certain extent. How can one know that Caesar existed for example? Generally the authority of history research, articles, and so forth. Caesar even wrote a book or two. There is a continuum of writing and thought going to the time of Jesus, and his status as the Son of God (the Trinity) provides first person experience. Intellectually one may approach the existence or logic of the existence of God in numerous ways including that of Plotinus the Neo-Platoinst. I wrote a bit on a subject that leads to the logic of the existence of God simply as an evident conclusion to thinking about being on the basis of science and logic. Someone asked if God has trans-infinite power. I thought about that and wrote this...

If the question refers to Gregory Cantor’s trans-finite infinities, whereat some infinities are greater than others, the obvious answer is that God is greater than all else. One would be aware that God is the issuer of all that exists including infinity (s) of any stature.

Infinity for God would be contingent being or a contingent state of relations. Infinity one might recall is generally taken to be a mathematical term; an abstract idea, rather than a physical existent, or even a physical construct of infinite scale.

One could consider Plotinus’ Enneads- 54 tractates, and regard infinity as a condition of a form rather than some physical thing of a lower order. That is kind of a fascinating (mildly) topic. Is a pure idea infinite (probably not) except for ideas that are Gods? Are all ideas created by God infinite a priori as a genre? Could ideas of God be categorizable as either finite or infinite (probably not I.M.O.)? If the Intelligence of Plotinus’ Enneads is equivalent to the Word of God in the Bible, are forms made or actualized by the Intelligence infinite?

One may wonder if ideas that are infinite could be considered at all, for the comprehension to know the idea would need be greater than the particular infinite nature or structure of the idea?

Power that is infinite is trans-finite. When learning about Cantor it is easy initially to write trans-infinite instead of the accurate trans-finite infinities.

Transfinite number - Wikipedia

It is possible to regard nothingness, theoretically, as the greatest physical, actualizable infinity. * That also seems implicitly self-contradictory. The total mass-energy of the Universe issued from a Big Bang or inflation would be finite. The total energy of an infinite Multiverse would be a finite mass forever expanding perhaps with ‘fuel’ from a pre-existing field of virtual energy that may be finite, or a priori infinite. If that monistic field has always existed without any Time=Alpha that just is unsatisfyingly improbable. It is simpler to regard God as Alpha and Omega preexisting any actualized field whom created the initial field that supported the growth of Multiverse. I suppose one could say in that context that God has trans-finite power.

*What is nothing anyway? There are at least two paradigms of nothingness. One is that of naive physics meaning absolute vacuum of space (and that may not exist). That is taken to mean physical nothingess, or the absence of anything existent at all, with pure space where nothing is.

Nothingness would perhaps be refuted as infinite by something or being exiting anywhere and displacing it. However if being and nothingness are each infinite one could use them as examples of Cantor's transfinite infinities.

The second meaning is that of Jean Paul Sartre where in nothingness is an absence of being or presentness rather than meaning empty space. In his book Being and Nothingness he used an example of the absence of a waiter in a restaurant named Pierre as an example of nothingness. In other words nothingness is ore than a memory of someone being gone, it is a change in the present array of physical being. So the past may be said to be nothingness in that it no longer exists as it was- even Mt. Everest is not the same way, exactly, as it was a few thousand years ago.

Therefore if space-type nothingness does not exist- it is just the condition of sparse being with virtual particles and other unknown content comprising it- the transformations of form of a Universe or Multiverse primordial field of solid state, decohered physical being is the source of comments about nothingness existing. Change has converted what was into a state of non-being.

If the entirety of the Multiverse content is one monistic field; changes of form and structure within it comprise nihilations of what was that ended with new forms and structures replacing them. Though there is a conservation of mass and energy over-all, it is believed that the loss of structure through change brings nothingness into being regarding what was and now is nothing.

If there is a conservation of information though, as Shannon entropy perhaps, then there may be eternal being for structure and forms as information conserved in some way- perhaps in the mind of God.

In the Christmas Season, Reflect on Hebrews 7

In the Christmas season it is good to reflect on Hebrews 7 wherein the Apostle Paul relates the history and person of the King of Salem; Melchisedec.

One knows the Lord's birth is celebrated on December 25 and that He was born of a woman, Mary. Abraham's encounter with Melchisedec provides an insight into the eternal nature of Christ.

Hebrews 7 King James Version (KJV)

7"For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him;

2 To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is, King of peace;

3 Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.

4 Now consider how great this man was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.

5 And verily they that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the office of the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren, though they come out of the loins of Abraham:

6 But he whose descent is not counted from them received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises.

7 And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better.

8 And here men that die receive tithes; but there he receiveth them, of whom it is witnessed that he liveth.

9 And as I may so say, Levi also, who receiveth tithes, payed tithes in Abraham.

10 For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec met him.

11 If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?

12 For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.

13 For he of whom these things are spoken pertaineth to another tribe, of which no man gave attendance at the altar.

14 For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda; of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood.

15 And it is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude of Melchisedec there ariseth another priest,

16 Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.

17 For he testifieth, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

18 For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof.

19 For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.

20 And inasmuch as not without an oath he was made priest:

21 (For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:)

22 By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.

23 And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death:

24 But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood.

25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.

26 For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

27 Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.

28 For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore."

12/17/19

Rep Schiff's Verizon-AT&T Quid Pro Quo Was the Most Impeachment Worthy Act of 2019

California Representative Adam Schiff who has been a leader in the start-a-firing of President Trump impeachment movement committed the most impeachment worthy act of the year. The Representative had no legal right to get phone records from the two telecom giants that he hoped would provide fuel to the fire-the-President movement of partisan Democrats.

The Congress has the purse of government and if the telecom giants Verizon and AT&T might have wanted more government contracts so apparently they felt they needed to quid pro quo, kow tow and brown nose the influential chairman of the House Ersatz Intelligence Committee and submit the call logs of the President and other insider officials to Rep Schiff.

Using the James Comey F.B.I. as a tool for political spying and hegemony on a rival Presidential campaign seems to be the new Democrat Party method for what used to be accomplished with burglary. The F.B.I. and F.I.S.A. court appear to have been used in the pursuit of political power by the Democrat Party.

Ungodly atheist crud seeks to divide the nation to get rid of a President tolerant to friendly toward the faith community, in the week before Christmas. What unbrotherly hate.

After the release of I.G. Horowitz's report on the unprecedented violations of the Trump campaign driven by Democrats there are several reports that the F.B.I. and others took possibly illegal steps to get inside the Trump campaign. Recently Rep Schiff was found to have perhaps illegally obtained phone records of calls between the President and his personal attorney. One might infer that Democrats have made serious upgrades to the comparatively clumsy Nixon era methods of getting inside information on political opponents.

The dog and pony show trial prep seems an example of average idiots that want to run everything without the competence or learning to know exactly what everything is- even for the nation.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/12/10/ig-report-fbi-fisa-abuse-secret-court-trump-campaign-column/4383722002/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/inspector-general-michael-horowitz-testimony/2019/12/11/b6632b6c-1ba1-11ea-8d58-5ac3600967a1_story.html

https://www.foxnews.com/media/rep-devin-nunes-says-the-fisa-court-needs-to-be-shut-down

A.G. Barr said the 2016 Trump campaign " was clearly spied on". https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/12/10/ag_barr_president_trumps_2016_campaign_was_clearly_spied_on.html

The other point for impeachment is an even more vague abuse of power pretext that the Democrats are perpetrators of themselves. They also speak about national security failures of the President, and in fact quite the opposite is true with the Democrat Party agenda of homosexualizing the military, corrupting heterosexual marriage to throw in homosexual marriage as a kind of blackface mooning of marriage, flooding the nation with illegal aliens, forcing bad relations with Russia to increase the threat of nuclear holocaust , legalizing dope, running up vast public spending debts and so forth all leading to security weaknesses.

12/16/19

Dictator Kim Promises Big Changes in Nuclear Program if U.S. Doesn't Concede

North Korean dictator Kim Un has warned the United States of substantial changes if the U.S. doesn't give sanctions relief before year's end (2019). The Dictator's nuclear weapons and rocket program may be making ICBMs able to hit D.C., so the glimmer of more leverage on decadent Democrats seeking to impeach the President may have emboldened the N.K. Rocket Man.

President Trump hasn't too many stronger negotiating points available to induce North Korea to quit with the nuclear war development and just get rid of the big bangers. He might try a quid pro quo with nuclear upgrades in South Korea to match the North's on a 3 to 1 basis. Hardened short range nuclear missile silos on the DMZ pointed North might convey a message to the Dictator. Perhaps hardened nuclear bomb carrying drone bases could be made underground to assure complete geographic nuclear det coverage. Maybe a nuclear weapons fast boat port with magnetohydrodynamic engines able to launch along the North Korean littoral; there must be dozens of new missile launching designs that could be built around North Korea to assure that communist dictatorships hasn't a good chance of taking over the South.

It would of course be better if the Dictator was Christlike and a man of faith with a good plan for upgrading the standard of living of North Koreans through free enterprise; even V.I. Lenin had a five year plan for mixed free enterprise called the N.E.P. plan that he put into effect before dying to clear the way for the Dictator Stalin to take over and end N.E.P. Dictator Kim could go the way of Lenin or Stalin. One leads toward prosperity and the other complete destruction of his people (probably).

There is another alternative of course- sudden transition to liberal free enterprise economics with a surge of South Koreans into the North bring swift prosperity comparable to the liberation of East Germany from communist dictatorship. For sure though, arms manufacturers would like the nuclear weapons and missile silos and perhaps an underground mobile missle launching track as well.

12/15/19

F.B.I. Spying on Trump Campaign was an Upgrade on Watergate Political Burglary Tech

With the House scheduled to vote on impeachment this week one must be very amused at the silliness of the vague paradigm for impeachment that is entirely partisan. Obstruction of Congress- Democrat majority interests in getting rid of the President is one of two points. The other point for impeachment is an even more vague abuse of power pretext that the Democrats are perpetrators of themselves. They also speak about national security failures of the President, and in fact quite the opposite is true with the Democrat Party agenda of homosexualizing the military, corrupting heterosexual marriage to throw in homosexual marriage as a kind of blackface mooning of marriage, flooding the nation with illegal aliens, forcing bad relations with Russia to increase the threat of nuclear holocaust , legalizing dope, running up vast public spending debts and so forth all leading to security weaknesses.

https://pjmedia.com/trending/holy-schiff-phone-records-show-schiff-spied-on-giuliani-rep-devin-nunes-and-a-hill-reporter/

https://www.wsj.com/articles/schiff-threatens-press-freedom-11575937690

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/comey-defends-fbis-fisa-process-after-scathing-ig-report

https://www.wsj.com/video/opinion-how-the-steele-dossier-drove-the-fbi-fusion-fiasco/EB6461D1-809F-4E7A-95BB-D9D3BACCC8D9.html

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/12/15/russia-collusion-investigation-witch-hunt-ig-trump-column/2637744001/

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2019/12/12/cuomo-gets-slapped-down-former-ag-shady-bidens-impeachment

It seems as if the actual impeachment worthy offense and abuse of power was done by Representative Schiff of California in getting phone record illicitly by levering AT&T and Verizon because Congress has the money. Records of calls by the President and his personal attorney and others were submitted to Rep. Schiff at his command. and AT&T certainly didn't care about defending the constitution so much as brown nosing Rep c.

12/13/19

Global Lag in Transition to Ecological Economic Policy

Ecological economics don't appear like Haley's comet for extra light whenever you need it. Empires and nations evolved into being for sundry reasons along common economic and geographical principals; live near water sources, build farm to market roads, aggregate populations at commercial sales centers, advance technology, consume environmental resources to progress the quality of life. That basic pattern continues to this day when the limits to demographic growth and exploitation of environmental resources have been reached. The end in sight for human civilization might be viewed as a fork in the course without adoption of ecological economic infrastructure.

The boomer generation was the first in human history to formalize the study of environmental economics aka ecological economics. Besides being a generation that implemented mass human and civil rights legislation and actualized advanced computer and software technology bringing knowledge and data from all of human history to anyone, a core formed amidst the traditional economics social reality that recognized the fact that human economics needs to transition to economic production that minimizes loss of natural resources, conserves the ecosphere's health and supports the continuing advance of quality of life for the masses.

That core tech-science of ecological economics is the generational hand off that need be taken up and run with a Walter Payton-like determination, growing to large scale to energize an economic transition of traditional methods into ecologically efficient ones through free enterprise, the fountainhead of creativity and adaptation. Reforming the national and global political economies with clever and fair legislation to encourage free enterprise to act within ecologically synergistic ways will be quite challenging, since mass changes need be financed with traditional economic methods and tax revenue support. It is like burning the planks of a wooden ship to fuel the ship steam engine while constructing a magnetohydrodynamic drive to power a hydrofoil trimaran with carrying capacity of all the passengers.

https://islandpress.org/books/ecological-economics-second-edition

It is a good idea to act where possible to respond to point environmental challenges (i.e. global warming) on a pay-as-you-go basis. It would be unwise to tie up the political economy with such pursuits that spend trillions of dollars added to public debt while neglecting the foundation problem of non-ecologically sustainable economic infrastructure, ecologically destructive legal paradigms and as a mass extinction of wildlife and ecosphere progresses actively. An ecological economic political economy should meet the challenges of global warming, habitat loss, mass extinction and support free enterprise within ecologically and economically sustainable criteria.

Logically there are two basic options. One is to ignore global ecosphere degradation and count on space science and technology to build new mansions in micro gravity for humanity to occupy as the Earth is lost to life. The second is to restore the ecosphere with ecological economics while developing micro gravity habitats to expand to. The first option is a loss of natural life leader and has no return to Earth option if micro gravity or extra terrestrial housing flops because human life cannot adapt evolutionary speaking, to the different gravity and extra-terrestrial conditions. The second option keeps the Earth as a viable ecosphere for human and all forms of Earth life for millions of years while space colonization is slowly evolved along ecological economic lines.

Machiavelli vs Nietzsche

Machiavelli is the better realist regarding politics. He is on the short list of political philosophers of history that were most influential.'The Prince' is basic and easy to read. Politicians have read him over the course of history.

Nietzsche hadn't much to say that was useful regarding philosophy. He actually taught a course in philology and just a couple of people ever attended including a college janitor. Nietzsche has been revered by atheists and Nazi symps. His primary interesting point is the eternal recurrence at the core of Thus Spake Zarathustra where he is an advocate for being beyond good and evil as a superman.

Nietzsche was more of a philosophically minded romantic political anarchist social commentator than actual philosopher; I like metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, truth theories and social philosophy concerning government more than weird ontological theories that appear prima facie wrong. It is useful to know what Nietzsche had to say in order to reply to dopers that venerate him, should one encounter them circumstantially on the road of being

12/12/19

A Description of Truth Theory Parameters

There are numerous truth theories. Some people assume that truth is an objective thing-in-itself, as if it were an object. 'Is truth out there?" Tom asked Jane.
"Yes Tom, Jane said, "Truth is sitting at a cafe table across the bay having an espresso."
"So Jane, I must go for myself and talk with truth, what does he or she look like?"
Truth is something more like a correspondence of an answer to a statement, or a relation of descriptive words that are consistent and verifiable.
"Is it raining outside Jane" asked Tom."
"Yes Tom, it is raining outside this house".
"Well Jane, I trust you, if you say it is then it must be true." Is 1 + 1, 2? Yes. "Is that answer true?". "No" "Then there is an inconsistency between the question and answer."
- x- = +. A statement that is true and false regarding the existence and non-existence of a single item, that it exists or doesn't exist in one moment in time is apparent contradiction. Quantum uncertainty is like that sometimes, supposedly some quanta can be at all places in theory yet at just one place when observed. Most statements concerning truth do not involve quantum uncertainty and trying to juxtapose the same conditions of being in two different realms, that of quantum particles and solid-state, decoherent mass.

Most statements using the word true or false are simply attempting to express the existence or non existence of select, designated states of affairs. Christians and Plato may describe some Supreme Being as truth-in-itself (realism and the Lord), yet that is like the problem of conflating different realms of being into one system using one lexicon for both instead of appropriate and different lexicons for each. People should agree to use a particular lexicon and then determine the existence or non existence of particular states of affairs or relation among objects, being and non-being. Sometimes the lexicon is tacitly accepted. Use-truth and social agreement, and convenient social truths aka big lies (some believe the Democrat impeachment effort is a big lie and like a Soviet show trial) can blind people with truth paradigm relativism of course. I believe Sartre called that false consciousness, although he was generally referring to self-deceit rather than a social paradigm of one class with operative lies that are regarded as truths as he described in The Critique of Dialectical Reason.

One might ask; "Should electric Yeti and Sasquatch be added as Christmas lawn decorations to reflect contemporary American ideals, to compliment the the nativity scene." -Where is the truth in that?

I like disquotation theory a little more than correspondence theory although they are similar. Coherence theory is often exemplified with religions.Maybe Democrats have a coherence theory based on hate of President Trump (so all attacks on him are true). I.M.O truth theories have a basic premise of saying what exists and what doesn't. Without that language is fairly meaningless, or rather, the meaning would be confused with the meaningless.

Truth theories were made by philosophers as a tool for examining how various propositions were determined to be true. That is a particular truth theory is a method-a logically, structured method, for determining the truth or falsehood of something expressed in words. I like coherence theory because of its Christian applications. It is important to remember though that the a given truth theory method paradigm can be applied to sundry applications. Disquotation theory has other names for it.

https://www.oxfordreference.com/.../authority...

Syllogistic logic has its own implicit truth determining structure, yet it is well known that categorically or wrongly defined premises may invalidate the logical truth structure of a syllogism. Truth theories may be complimentary rather than in opposition sometimes. Stanford's encyclopedia has a lot of content about truth theory. Logicians and linguistic philosophers have made a great investment in structuring truth theories. Deontological and coherence theories tend to go together. One may have a lexicon or universe to drop into a truth testing paradigm or modal logic structure. Boolean algebra truth tables are a good place to learn about logical structures for truth. Here is a description of the correspondence theory of truth.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truth-correspondence/

Articles of Impeachment for No High Crimes or Misdemeanors

The Democrat lynch mob in Congress brought articles of impeachment for 'high crimes and misdemeanors' without naming a single crime or misdemeanor. The lynch leading theme is that the President abused power and obstructed congress (the Democrat Congress' political agenda as the majority since 2018). Apparently making no crimes or misdemeanors is an impeachable offense to Democrats.

That's really about it except for all of the tech stories for support that ignore exculpatory material, political history or dissenting opinion. The most humorous point is the fake news point that the President has weakened national security in comparison to Democrats that flood the nation with illegal alien support policy, legal dope and so forth.

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