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George Ought to Help

Everyone's wrong about the burden of proof

A person has a burden of proof when–and only when–they want to persuade another.…

  • 2 months ago
  • rhetoric, language
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A libertarian fish farm miracle

In Ancapistan - a libertarian society with private law and no state - coordination problems are solved organically by private ownership and torts.…

  • 2 months ago
  • property, future, economics, anarcho-capitalism
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My experience of a psilocybin ceremony lead by the Essence Institute

On November the 4th 2021 I attended a psilocybin retreat lead by the Essence Institute, in the Netherlands. It was incredible.…

  • 9 months ago
  • mind, science
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You've been mislead about the environmental cost of cryptoart NFTs

The calculations of cryptoart.wtf ignore the central role of the Ethereum network subsidy in incentivizing mining. This mistake invalidates the site's findings.…

  • a year ago
  • economics, cryptocurrency, ethereum
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The Perverted Analogy Fallacy

An analogy doesn't imply that two things are similar in every way, or even most ways; they’re similar in a limited way that’s relevant to the topic of the discussion.…

  • 2 years ago
  • rhetoric, language
  • Comments

Is Your Worldview Vulnerable to 'Hate Facts'?

I think it’s unwise to attach normative judgements to empirical claims about the world that might turn out to be true.…

  • 2 years ago
  • language, psychology, racism
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Mutually Assured Snooping

When an act of snooping is itself subject to watching eyes, and indelibly etched into the public record, is it still worth it?…

  • 3 years ago
  • future
  • Comments

Free will is a squircle

A decision is mine, it’s the product of my will, to the extent that the prior state of my brain causes it.…

  • 3 years ago
  • mind
  • Comments

School is preparation for the real world, where you have to do things you don’t want

I'm convinced that if we want to prepare our children for the real world, we can do a lot better than sending them to school.…

  • 3 years ago
  • education
  • Comments

Body ownership is private property

A person considers a thing his property if he believes he’s justified in using force to exclude others from its unauthorised use.…

  • 3 years ago
  • property, rights
  • Comments

The Problem of Political Authority - Review

If I had the power to persuade non-libertarians to read one book right now I’d choose for it to be The Problem of Political Authority by Michael Huemer.…

  • 3 years ago
  • Comments

PSYOP versus the mutual benefit of trade

It is false that voluntary exchange always benefits both parties in the ex ante sense. At least some voluntary exchanges are precipitated by factors not under conscious control, and thus not sensitive to expectation of benefit in the usually understood sense.…

  • 3 years ago
  • psychology, economics, science
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Guns, homicide, and the inadequacy of prohibitionist “common sense”

Easy access to a firearm may be the dispositive factor that leads the marginal killer to commit a crime ,  increasing the homicide rate. But firearms are also used defensively, and  in these ways guns decrease the homicide rate.…

  • 3 years ago
  • guns, rights
  • Comments

We Can Do Better Than a Right to Healthcare

I hope to show here that it's not a right to healthcare that you really want, but something much more valuable.…

  • 4 years ago
  • health, rights
  • Comments

Virtual Rothbardianism

I identify as an anarcho-capitalist and a moral nihilist. Here I'll sketch how these pieces fit together for me.…

  • 4 years ago
  • anarcho-capitalism, ethics, rights
  • Comments

NAPI. Non-Aggression Principle Insufficiency

Followers of Rothbard invoke the non-aggression principle (NAP) as the standard against which the permissibility of any action is to be judged. But the NAP is insufficient for this use. I call this idea non-aggression principle insufficiency. NAPI for short.…

  • 4 years ago
  • anarcho-capitalism, rights
  • Comments

The Weak Argument Against Taxation

There should be a strong presumption against threatening people with violence — Unless those people are threatening others, or violating their property rights (e.g. Robbers, murderers, rapists).…

  • 4 years ago
  • anarcho-capitalism
  • Comments

De-escalating The Zwarte Piet Conflict

We have two groups with opposing views about the appropriateness of this tradition. The stakes of the conflict are raised by the poisonous involvement of the state.…

  • 4 years ago
  • racism
  • Comments

Against the presumption of open borders. Border policy agnosticism.

Libertarians cannot assume that a state-controlled open border policy is automatically a more libertarian option than the state restrictively policing the border.…

  • 4 years ago
  • borders, anarcho-capitalism, rights
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Gun Governance without Government

Private ‘Rights Enforcement Agencies’ allow a granular approach, better for finding the proper balance between the harms and benefits of gun ownership.…

  • 4 years ago
  • anarcho-capitalism, rights, guns
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