Intellectually, I am a master MMA fighter that has mastered all of the most efficient attacks and defenses. A lot of supposed interesting intellectual content is very uninteresting to me because it is false or shallow or superfluous. You are like people who want to talk about wing chun and dim mak and trying to make me look ignorant for sticking to my shin kicks and BJJ.
1. Learn about biology. Learn "the central dogma of biology" and how genetics work on a molecular level in and out. You can do this even by taking a good biology 101 university class. Obviously you need to put more effort and intelligence in than your average student to the point that you understand it intuitively AND the implications of this so that you can synthesize this with economics, politics, philosophy. You probably have to be a born a genius like me to do this, but please at least try. Learn everything there is to know about IQ science and race science. The Alternative Hypothesis is the best resource.
2. Learn about finance/economics. First of all start trading stocks with actual money. Having a few hundred dollars in the stock market will be like a harsh karate master that beats the shit out of you for your retardation. Learn about EV, diversification, the Kelly Criterion, American vs European binary options, efficient market hypothesis, index funds, leverage, forex, the Greeks, etc. You should eventually learn that you are too stupid to generate alpha in the stock market because it is an efficient market. What markets are efficient and what markets are not efficient? Why are they efficient or not efficient? You should be able to answer these. Take a microeconomics course. Austrian economics is real economics, everything else is Marxist lies. The Fiat Standard and The Bitcoin Standard are probably the best books to learn actual economics.
I can add more to this. The gist of the philosophy section will be that you can just read Nietzsche and Alex Kierkegaard and skip everything else. The truth is that a small number of philosophers made everything before and after them either debunked, irrelevant, or in the best case marginal.
These are actual real things and they are part of the reason that i. am. so. much. smarter. than. you. People recommend things like Evola but it is simply not real stuff, or these people have not been able to sell it to me as anything but racist-flavored hippy shit. I would much rather read whatever YA novels are currently popular with teen girls than whatever Keith Woods reads. He is like a fake Chinese martial artist who claims he can't be knocked down because he learned how to root his Chi in the Earth from ancient scrolls.
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We should all hold reverence for Billy’s humility. It would not be an overstatement to say he is the spirit of humility that has taken a corporeal form on earth to teach all of humanity.
Agreed, excessive esotericism is just another form of escapism. No amount of Hidden Truths you find in some oriental scripture are going to get you out of the Warehouse.
I appreciate the fighting metaphors and insistence upon practicality and grounding in observable results.
However, I am inclined to doubt the usefulness of much of what you raise here. In particular, biology. I beat up on this point a lot but only because I think someone needs to. With the finance I can just ask you how much money you have. But with biology what good comes of it? Alt Hyp knows poor people and niggers tend to be stupid? Cool. So does anybody who has lived around them. Why are the 10k hours spent studying DNA necessary now? And why are there so many libtard biologists? Yes we can say they're all retarded natural slaves incapable of synthesising true understanding from individual pieces of data. Sure, I can buy that. But then what does a smart person (like me, maybe?) need this data for? What invaluable synthesis will I be able to create from these elements?
Everything original that I've ever said that ever impressed anybody came from synthesising together my haphazardly assembled mental library of humanities works, arts, and things that have come together talking to my fellow /lit/ people. You can call it mental Wing Chun and mysticism if you like, but it still brought you here, didn't it Billionaire?
03-09-2023, 10:31 PM
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I wasn't dissing you. Your knowledge is quite grounded in reality. However, it is important to know the fundamentals of how civilization works. The two big topics I thought of to get a better understanding of this were biology and economics. I am not recommending you get any more than a 101 level of understanding these things. However, you should master the fundamentals of these things to the point where you can quickly and intuitively apply your knowledge to The Arguments. That is what makes people geniuses. Psychology is equally important but it is difficult to explain. I can't just point you to read 3 books and give you some search terms to google for psychology. My point is that knowledge is like a pyramid. You need an iron-solid huge base. It's embarrassing to be an intellectual if you don't understand things like algebra and basic genetics and logical fallacies work. You will make all kinds of mistakes due to your ignorance (like thinking mixed race people are healthier lol). Calculus before Kali Yuga.
Quote:Why are the 10k hours spent studying DNA necessary now?
Read again. It's not like I am recommending you get a PHD. Just the equivalent of an intro course. Chud and rockies probably know way more than me about biology and genetics. Economics is easy too. Finance is more complicated; it gets into very heavy logical, mathematical, and philosophical puzzles that will trap you if you don't have perfectly clear thinking.
Quote:But then what does a smart person (like me, maybe?) need this data for? What invaluable synthesis will I be able to create from these elements?
This is a good example of bounded cognition. People underestimate the benefits of mental skills they haven't mastered because the benefits can't be imagined. A child who says math will never be useful, doesn't understand basic mathematics, becomes a pipefitter. They say "I never use anything I was taught in school", doesn't realize they are less efficient at work. Someone who is smart and mastered algebra will say they always use algebra in their daily life and it is quite useful. But they say calculus is not useful at all in their daily life because they can't do it in their head quickly. I'm sure that the rare people who have mastered calculus find all sorts of useful applications.
Also pardon the confused metaphor, but the point isn't that these things are useful. It is more so that they are Real and True (which is useful in the long term, but not my main point). Contrast this with mysticism, Dostoevsky, the turd position, spiritualism. These things are all thoroughly debunked by much smarter theories, much smarter people.
Bravo! Death to Erroneous Doctrines!
This thread has had an effect on me, I feel a new desire to learn about Biology and Economics. It’s said that Truth has its time and place, and this thread was what I needed to read right now.
(03-09-2023, 10:31 PM)BillyONare Wrote: I wasn't dissing you.
I'm aware and wasn't reading the thread that way.
Quote:Your knowledge is quite grounded in reality. However, it is important to know the fundamentals of how civilization works. The two big topics I thought of to get a better understanding of this were biology and economics. I am not recommending you get any more than a 101 level of understanding these things. However, you should master the fundamentals of these things to the point where you can quickly and intuitively apply your knowledge to The Arguments. That is what makes people geniuses. Psychology is equally important but it is difficult to explain. I can't just point you to read 3 books and give you some search terms to google for psychology. My point is that knowledge is like a pyramid. You need an iron-solid huge base. It's embarrassing to be an intellectual if you don't understand things like algebra and basic genetics and logical fallacies work. You will make all kinds of mistakes due to your ignorance (like thinking mixed race people are healthier lol). Calculus before Kali Yuga.
I agree with the general principle of building a pyramid with a massive base. My big issue with STEM supremacy and utility focused learning is that it has a tendency to ultimately constrain one's base. I believe that you'll get more for your efforts if you're curious and open. Not so much doing the hard and tedious work of building as achieving the growing and flourishing state of intellectual curiosity. The things you collect might be haphazard and the assembly perhaps a bit eclectic, but I believe that the energy and openness are worth it. Of course ideally we'd probably start with an initial work period of hard essentials, then open and flower into our own curiosities bolstered by this now potentially useful foundation of imparted hard knowledge. Why I don't recommend this for us is unfortunately just that we're simply too damn old. The time to do this is with children. And our youths were wasted by those who held authority over us, not spent. We invested the countless hours of obedient misery, and what do we have to look back upon for our efforts? No mental garden was built. Fertile soil was almost rendered a desert.
If you're over the age of 20, have obligations, only so much energy, etc. I would recommend investing what efforts you can manage into the power to generate more growth, rather than tediously hauling individual blocks of knowledge into your base. Becoming curious and thoughtful is worth more than dragging your eyes over the pages of a thousand books cover to cover. You might read less, you might take forever to get to certain issues considered essential, but this way you'll always get somewhere.
You say "calculus before kali yuga". I think the problem of most of the people jumping into kali yuga have is the same problem I see in people making too much of STEM. It's this totemic appreciation of knowledge as power-imparting and valuable for its own sake. With potential reality hacks and big payoffs waiting if you can somehow get it right. Esoteric is more of a mindset than a field of study.
Quote:It's not like I am recommending you get a PHD. Just the equivalent of an intro course
If I get curious I might look at something sooner or later. Also I'm touching on a little economics because Princes of the Yen interests me. Thing: Japan.
Quote:People underestimate the benefits of mental skills they haven't mastered because the benefits can't be imagined.
Sure. But this seems like more of a general argument for learning than for any particular thing. My art theory is my political theory is my personal psychology theory. I probably have more faith in the lateral application of mental tools and ideas than most people.
I agree with the general ideas put forth in this thread (aside from the biology part, where I think anthony is quite right; I would like to know how YOU have practically applied the study of biology in your life, as to me it seems, while not unimportant, nonetheless not the first priority any burgeoning intellectual should have), and do believe many people get lost in ideas and live fantasy lives they believe are meaningful, but I quite disagree with this part:
(03-09-2023, 08:37 PM)BillyONare Wrote: People recommend things like Evola but it is simply not real stuff, or these people have not been able to sell it to me as anything but racist-flavored hippy shit. I would much rather read whatever YA novels are currently popular with teen girls than whatever Keith Woods reads.
[Image: https://i.ibb.co/1Rs4V00/image.png] I think that literature is very important, even if the ideas put forward may have been debunked. It allows you to peer into the thoughts of great men of the past, and you glean things from these thoughts that you simply will not from even the most correct philosophers. It's true that overreading will turn you into a philonigger who speculates more than he acts, but underreading turns you into a materialistic dog. Every man should give good precedence to both practical matters such as finance, and to spiritual matters such as philosophy.
03-10-2023, 10:09 PM
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(03-10-2023, 01:57 PM)Guest Wrote: I would like to know how YOU have practically applied the study of biology in your life
Since billionaire flattered me earlier in this thread, I'll defend the need to know biology. You don't need to know cell membranes or nictating membranes or even the names of the DNA bases, but you do need to know the basic mathematical and game-theoretical shapes of the things that biology, esp. evolutionary and socio-biology, posit and empirically describe. How genomes decay over time, and improve rarely and at complete random; how they scramble between generations and confer traits in predictable distributions; how social behavior arises from populations of genetically-distinct individuals; how inter / intra- sexual behavior stems from biological incentives; how certain genetic tendencies can exert a pull on society, and vice versa.
This is the substrate on which the whole human experience is based. It's alluded to in the very beginning of the Western Canon; it underlies every pastoral romance and every tale of dynasty and lineage, true or fictional. Once you really understand it you'll find yourself constantly making biological analogies to human culture and behavior. Growth and decay, profligacy and constraint, cooperation and subversion - these are qualities of the universe itself, and the domain of self-replicating DNA molecules is merely the most intriguing, fleshed-out, and intuitively-sympathetic area of study in which one can see these qualities express themselves.
Reading List (peculiar to me, that I do not expect anyone else to follow, but which may be instructive): Richard Dawkins - The Selfish Gene; Jared Diamond - Collapse + The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee + Why Is Sex Fun; Gregory Cochran - The 10,000 Year Explosion; Richard Lynn - Dysgenics + Eugenics; Lewis I. Held, Jr. - How the Snake Lost Its Legs + Quirks of Human Anatomy; Gregory Clark - A Farewell to Alms
03-13-2023, 09:33 PM
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(03-09-2023, 08:37 PM)BillyONare Wrote: People recommend things like Evola but it is simply not real stuff, or these people have not been able to sell it to me as anything but racist-flavored hippy shit. I would much rather read whatever YA novels are currently popular with teen girls than whatever Keith Woods reads. He is like a fake Chinese martial artist who claims he can't be knocked down because he learned how to root his Chi in the Earth from ancient scrolls.
The "secret scrolls" dogma is a constraint upon the right wing. Guys who chain themselves to word salad mystical idiot shit. It "seems important" because its hard to understand, but there's nothing to understand, no arguments, no facts, no clarity at all.
The world beware a reich armed with analytic philosophy, biology, game theory, economics, BillyONare Weltanschauung, Templism.
The karate or whatever analogy is quite good. Like karate, kung fu , tawekwondo, it takes people to stop smugly virtue signaling stupid dogmas to develop a real system of fighting.
I still think the esoteric faggot shit is good, but not for an elite. But that isn't what we're talking about here. We are not developing a strategy for mass propaganda. Instead, talking about what an elite Amarnite ought to concern himself with.
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