1/4/18

Rigid Designators of Realism and Reality

When Plato described the realm of forms he created a field of philosophy that would occupy the thought of those concerned with such arcane interests for millennia. The realm of forms had a perfect form or model for each and every real existing item finding itself to have an appearance in the spatio-temporal empirical world. That of course included words themselves. The realm of forms thus had some similarities to Kurt Godel’s incompleteness theorems generated 2500 years later.

W.V.O. Quine and Saul Kripke along with numerous linguistic philosophers considered the meanings and nature of words and the philosophy; did words have any actual nature of Platonic realism about them such that their meanings existed forever (though of course it was always possible to generated another new word version 1.1, 1.2,1.n etc.).
Quine believed that meanings were entirely nominal and cohered within a linguistic lexicon that might evolve. Kripke seemed to think that word meanings had a mildly lasting form though, even if not within a realm of forms. He believed that some words were rigid designators and that their meanings could not really change although they might be lost.

I would think that his idea would be that a word meaning at a given time, such as Mona Lisa, might like the painting always be the same even if viewed or understood correctly 4000 years after construction. When considering the nature of reality itself however, as might metaphysicians, can there be said to be rigid designators?

Physicists today have numerous terms for sub-atomic particles, waves and other theoretical objects. Physiologists also have numerous ways of explaining how it is that humans interpret and experience sense data with inherent cognitive faculties. So philosophers reached the a point of understanding that what is seen is an appearance of reflected light wavelengths interpreted by others in ways the cognitive faculties allow. A black object is not for instance, actually black; it just appears so because it won’t reflect light in any other way. What about invisible to the human eye theoretical objects comprising the sub-atomic world; can they be said to have characteristics comparable to those of neo-Platonic rigid designators?

In a sense the complete sub-atomic world that comprises the physical cosmology of the apparent Universe is forever unknowable as a thing-in-itself, or what it is really like for-itself. Humans beings experience it in a particular way, or at least select features of it and perhaps at best learn about certain aspects of it work or function instead of how they actually are. Physicists might be regarded as developing rigid designators for apparent cause-effect relations though they do not regard cause and affect as valid ideas themselves these days I believe.

What if there are no actual rigid designators possible for sub-atomic entities that theoretically exist such as quarks and strings? Quarks and strings may be physical locations for force events understood perhaps as locations along wave segments that exist as emergent though not independent entities. Perhaps the entire sub-atomic world is a monistic whole with variable constituent parts. Human beings encounter and explain the behavior and shape of such elements of the universal object-for-sentient-others as they may and endeavor to observe and learn more.
Forming rigid designators that correspond to subatomic forces such as the nuclear force or the theoretical gravitational force that has no immediate explanation or object to associate a cause with seems challenging. Yet rigid designators for the effects of forces may be the better practice for contemporary scientists or philosophers.

In that sense science investigating the subatomic realm and quantum cosmology maps the observable and inferential behavior of mass and energy, even unto larger structures such as a Higgs field, that cohere as greater non-rigid designators for the Universe.

Beau-Hunting with Drones (fiction)

I put on my cammies and cinched the Velcro fasteners on my thermal equilibrium vibrant soled all season hunting boots. I looked forward to the day’s hunt with eager anticipation of the thrill of victory when sighting a prime animal with vast left right and center balanced rack. The supply situation was grim though. In spite of making a trek to a grocery early last night, visitors had depleted the stock. Nothing was left for me this morning besides a little orange juice and a quarter-liter of Sky vodka.
This Christmas my beau got me what I really wanted; a new .30-06 cal barrel for my drone Tom. Tom is an A-Hawk flier with the standard three extensible leg tripod , range finder, gps. Night vision and 100x scope. He has a good A.I. wit and sense of humor that has brought me through some fairly difficult moments encountering the beast on the hunt.

Tom has brought me to appreciate the joy-sticks of couch huntin controlling the flight path stalking to take down deer in a distant forest, a moose in the hills or even a lone wolf skulking about trying to hide somewhere in the fringe lands of the U.S.A.
This morning I was ready to hunt on the Wyoming open country in quest of taking down a raging, wild antelope that can run nearly as fast as a fossil fuel injected SUV if the driver’s stoned on too much California gold, I ran low on Dorritos and had to think quickly to substitute cheese puffs wand had to put Tom on automatic to fly over the parched grassy hills looking for those white tailed threat targets solo; just machina a animal. I knew Tom could handle that.

I quietly flopped down onto a specially designed hunting sofa in my living room where I had a good view on a big screen of Tom’s live eye-stalk vision of the field more or less a thousand miles away. Tom found a clump of quarry browsing rare, endangered prairie grass half-mile from a highway and with the silent electric fuel cell powered flight engines was able to close in to a hill just a few feet higher in elevation at a distance of fewer than 400 yards.

Hovering briefly holding three feet over the ground I ordered Tom to extend and level his three legs anchor them firmly in the ground with talon hooks. I have a subroutine for accurate target sight acquisition that calculates trajectory from all the data such as wind speed and distance, elevation to target and so forth needed to make a good kill shot, and it relieves me of all that brain work that makes couch-huntin less than a visceral, primitive, manly pursuit. Thus with one of the animal threat vectors in the cross-hairs and the .30 caliber barrel and Teflon coated intelligent bullets putting the picture of hurt in the present I toggled the joystick to firing position sending the RSVP for dinner the next week to the global warmin production unit downrange. It fell over.

I was glad that the hunt had reached its climax. After that stressful and challenging morning in the field I could only think of having a beer and chips. The work never ends though so I had Tom’s friend the rental hover drone company fly over to extract the antelope carcass and remove it to a local butcher for packaging and shipment to my freezer. With the long hunting day over I recalled Tom to rail-hanger so he could return to the city by the Bay cleaned, polished, lubed and ready for his next field adventure.


Retail Job Losses and Productivity

Cutting thousands of retail jobs annually is an easy way for the most rich to eliminate business components (people) that cannot have efficiency increases. Increasing productivity yet not passing on the profit to employees is a good way of helping the rich toward their goals of converting mankind into complacent, emotive slaves. While computers improve performance that of human workers remains basically the same without much improvement even after centuries. Thus on-line retailers that can eliminate retail employees are a logical evolution for the money machine logic to gorge upon.

The delivery on packages from on-line retailers appears to be the salvation of the long declining post office that is regarded as snail-mail in comparison to e-mail. Yet the Jeff Bezos may be a false savior of the postal service who can support increasing hours and workers only until the robots take over to deliver packages far more efficiently than humans. In fact the U.S. postal service may itself be replaced by robots within twenty years.

Though robots may increase performance significantly in delivering packages from year to year, large web stores sending packages may find competition for their own fleets of robot door to door delivery metal from Uber-like own-your-own-robots delivering packages for a fee from those smaller sellers such as are found on e-bay that don’t have a fleet of robots able to take that battery or fold-up bicycle from the postal terminal to the door.

The dark side of the entire robot army of delivery metal is that they may be equipped with a variety of data scanning technology that can view anything in any home they approach, from the outside and send that data through dark Internet wireless channels to the most evil computer located in the Big Store. It will even have rtf scanners to read whats on that card in a wallet on a table while using infrared to scan the bodies of the occupants in order to better customize marketing sales pitches.

12/13/17

Alpha-Zero-A.I. and Synergistic Tactical Weapons Apps

Alpha-zero's style suggests obvious applications for military command-control of tank and fighter-jet attacks of multiple pieces in the air or on the ground against an opposition force concerning deployment and firing position optimalization. Since capitalism is itself running a few centuries late philosophically, and only about a century and a half ahead of the era of the invention of the Giocco Piano, steady evolution to the day of AI and robots replacing human workers fundamentally is moving on. They would make cheap, effective bank guards anyway.

https://gizmodo.com/alphazero-annihilates-world-s-best-chess-bot-after-just-1821081928

Synergetic chess piece movement with A.I. plainly presents the prospect of air and ground weapons orchestration with faster and better geodesic selections of styles for opfor degradation. Along with the ability to miniaturize weapons and bring them into intermodal puzzle box packaging it seems that there is a good future in the short term for improving tools to take human life on large scales. Eliminating humans from weapons delivery packages such as tanks and ships, aircraft etc would permit numerous new styles of A.I. concerts of war with the music of death. That seems plainly human.


Human society today is drawn largely toward abstract money streams for-themselves rather than for eco-economical reasons. People follow the largest chunks of mass behaviorally usually. In Alaska for example Chinook salmon are the best and largest salmonid and so is the most over-fished. Tow of the largest S.E. Alaska rivers for Chinook salmons returns historically may have no open seasons in 2018. Over-consumption and overuse of resources is just the human practice. development of military structures is a similar paradigm where social structure and average economic methods continue beyond their rational and optimal structure no uncommonly in the modern era.


That reminds me of another trait of human social reality; what the philosopher Jean Paul Sartre called 'use-truth'. Rather than explain the meaning of the term as found in his existential works here, I will illustrate that with a bit of an example.


An individual may believe they are the king of France, yet the reality is that there is no king of France. Social groups and entire societies on the other hand may regard what is false as entirely true and not be shown to be wrong. Social reality may create its own use-truths that are constructions of fiction. There are innumerable examples such as global warming unbelievers, the 20 trillion dollar U.S. public debt is no problem for the near or long range future, that the broadcast media had no influence on the recent election in Alabama (were they financed by foreign political contributors or governments and they shouldn't be registered as foreign agents or political action activists). One can never be certain of the veracity of certain truth propositions when their basis is within social reality itself. Large groups however have the discretionary power to disregard truths and inertially continue falsehoods that individuals do not.


Certain U.S. government approaches to a variety of substantive issues may be wrong in relation to the effectiveness in a contemporary setting. Maladaptation of historically valid policies to new times isn't uncommon. Several administrations have failed to recognize the need to develop a reformation of the government control of capitalism, that they do not is explicable for the same reason that North American and world fisheries decline inevitably; use-truths and mal-adaptive social inertia.

12/12/17

AI Replacing Humans is the Natural Evolution of Capitalism

Artificial intelligence replacing humans including white color workers is the natural evolution of unreformed 18th century capitalism. Sorry- that's just the way it is.

http://interlochenpublicradio.org/post/when-artificial-intelligence-comes-white-collar-jobs-will-people-revolt

Tax cuts for the rich will help accelerate the transfer of wealth and power to the 1% and the most efficient in the creative destruction economic phenomenon increasing efficiency. 

I saw a movie like that somewhere. It may be true.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g9SlVdv1PY Self-Learning AI is new chess champ


Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

I wanted to say hi and Merry Christmas to all those that had occasion to read my blog this year. Christmas is a special time of year reminding us of the birth, life and sacrifice of our Lord Jesus Christ.

From the book of Matthew chapter 1 verses 20-22-

...while he thought on these things, behold the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost. And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shall save his people from their sins. Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet...”

Many citizens of the United States today have fallen away from a true faith in the Lord and God (as there are three persons of one God) and are assaulted by commercialized powers of atheism through a plethora of media. That crowding makes it sometimes difficult to consider the Lord and God in an ideal, contemplative way. The headlong rush for sensation and sales that drive society without too much though even for using rational economic political philosophy sometimes is supported by commercial franchise priesthoods unable to address contemporary empirical challenges effectively.

Even so God has pre-determined the fate of mankind and in the end someday when the age of the gentiles is fulfilled, the last day will arrive for humanity even if it has settled the galaxies of the Universe over a billion years of time.

I added a couple of remarks in parenthesis within this quote from the King James version… In the book of Mark chapter 13 verse 30 through 36 Jesus said;

Verily I say unto you, that this generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled” (and they were in the 1st century apocalypse) “Heaven and Earth may pass away; but my words shall not pass away. But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the father.
Take ye heed, watch and pray; for ye know not what the time is.
For the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work and commanded the porter to watch.

Watch ye therefore; for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning: lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.

Dialectical Threat of Democrats

The American Democrat Party blue-bloods progressively brought the U.S. working and middle classes to their knees as they chased after foreign hog-wart ideas for public education. Nothing looked so good to the left as feminist atheism and the westernization of godlessness to replace the faith of the founders and Ronald Reagan. Losing the Cold War to capitalism, national self-determination and freedom meant that leftist ideologues had to undergo a rethink of methods and goals to combat the shibboleth-monolithic objects they abhorred.

The military-industrial complex itself was required to evolve new dialectical threats to replace the worthy former adversary Soviet Union war machine. Jean Paul Sartre had bridged the philosophical chasm between Marxism and existential providing a path for the tanks of capitalism to rumble into Red Square and military ontology at the Pentagon was re-theologized toward a doctrine of preparedness against existential threats in replacement of dialectical threats that lacked sales credibility for congressional funding.

Plainly when the late Senator Edward Kennedy attacked his hated party leaders President James Earl Carter in his primary race for the party Presidential nomination in 1980 he drove a permanent wedge in that split the party apart from its traditional focus on bettering the life of the poor and middle class. Kennedy abandoned the American working party paradigm of J.F.K., LBJ. and Scoop Jackson for a Harvard blue-blood agenda promoting sexist special interests, illegal immigration and globalism over U.S. nationalism. President Clinton consummated that new Democrat ethic of deregulating Wall Street and brought the party to be an accomplice of the elites of Harvard and Wall Street that is pure expansionism in unsustainable economics. Democrats in effect joined with Republicans at the elite levels to share the fruits of the Universal phase of a synthetic American universal phase of history (in Toynbean terms). Toynbee’s universal phase is usual followed, like a super-nova, with burnout and collapse into a white dwarf or even, black hole.

Pentagon military theologians were left with a rotting infrastructure as the nation was left with a rotting infrastructure while investment in foreign infrastructure ran ahead. The Pentagon was left with complex and difficult to finance choices between theoretical new weapons systems that would be obsolete even before a somewhat minimal 20-year shelf life. Wars to use the old inventory and reorder new inventory were difficult to find without sufficient conventional foes. Nuclear disarmament advocates did try to help eliminate all nuclear weapons that at least when limited to a few major powers had prevented another world war for 70 years; if nuclear weapons were eliminated a new global arms race to field non-nuclear weapons of mass destructions might commence a new round of pragmatic empirical threats to species survival of many species of terrestrial mammals as well as human beings if cross-over biological vectors had pan-lethal epidemic capacity.

A new generation of drone army tanks without crew compartments and cannon potential facing forward and backwards simultaneously might have been the least of the empirical and utilitarian threats challenging Pentagon theology. Capital ships and aircraft might have become challenged by stealthy, small, malingering air, land and sea attack drones drawing power from a number of sources like clouds of mosquitoes refueling before attacking large craft that aegis weapons systems could not recognize ore react to at all given the multi-environmental drone tactical capabilities. Nations and corporations would research mobile fuel cell power platforms to power particle beam and microwave anti-personnel weapons in order to more neatly depopulate dialectical threats allowing quick recycling opfor establishments for the use of imperial plutocrats globally.

The democrat Party under president Obama failed to advance a pragmatic approach to tax reform and simple through in the towel completely giving permanent and vast tax cuts designed by President G.W. Bush to the Harvard elites of Wall Street. He was the one percent's strongest ally that future Presidential candidate Congressman and Speaker Jack Ryan of Wisconsin seeks to emulate and even go one better on.

The problem with establishing corporatism and its perennial revolutionary non-sustainable expansion with the fires of creative destruction is the progressive abandonment of traditional statecraft and national logic for globalist elitism concentrating wealth and promoting establishment of a planetary proletariat divided on racial, gender and perversity lines with religious factionalism and sectarianism easily exploited too. Good governments in history try to improve citizen productivity from the bottom up. They realize that increasing education for all makes a stronger, more productive nation. The U.S.A. is in a new era technologically and also internationally and should raise its support for education minimums from its century old level. Americans should be the best they can be if they want to remain a little competitive the next century.

A strong national program that recapture political fundamentals would at least create a special tax on the most rich to pay for free Universal education for American citizens to as high of a level as they can and want to achieve including graduate school to the PhD level. No American should be prevented from completing graduate education for financial and social reasons rather than for lack of ability or interest.

Historical the value to a nation of mass public education was regarded as equivalent to mass conscription in time of war and national defense. My grandfather attended school to the 4th grade in the early part of the 20th century. I did a little better, yet could not afford graduate school needed to become a journeyman educator and work in Texas, Mississippi and abroad with volunteer work based on savings in East Africa and Eastern Europe. That for me was quite a waste and left little besides homelessness in search of painting around the nation riding a bicycle for more than 35,000 miles over a decade. None should be compelled to waste their lives with Democrat ‘progressive’ programming the speech and daily hate of their minions to make even ordinary employment the right of just those matriculated in the hog-wart school of swing.

Instead of capping American compulsory education at grade eight, the new tax plan should provide for the financing of free higher education, as high as it goes in order to make Americans a better work force that is more entrepreneurial and less subject to the three-generation planned obsolescence of the present day. Illegal aliens help subvert U.S. wage values and burn up a high amount of political time over decades. They are presented as success stories. Yet in three generations while Balkanizing the nation they too would to a large degree be cast off to the obsolete Americans rubbish pile of history who must join the politically incorrect and work for minimum wage while their grandkids are saddled with taxation to subsidize corporate health care policies. Corporate cherry-picking from the pool input aliens would require that those professional class servo-units of Wall Street bear truth faith and allegiance to plutocracy and perhaps even Exxon-Mobile and Halliburtion. It would be nothing less than fair and balanced if the most rich were in turn required to pay for the free college tuition of all Americans that want to attend college to the highest level.


When democrat party leaders choose to become servo-unit accomplices of global imperial elites and render the former poor, working and middle class to the future status of communicable disease infected warted hogs led by benighted foreign musicians a future was cast that not even industrial strength barnacle removers could dislodge should any democrat party theorists even receive a spark of interest in trying.

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