/edu/ - Education

I saw someone post a quote accusing George Orwell of raping an indian boy and I need it sauced because if that's true I can shut up 1984 libs forever.

Here I have edited and compiled a collection of Early Modern Economic Literature from the 16th and 17th century (1500 - 1690), which majorly comprises the "mercantilist" period of Political Economy, before the Liberal period afterwards in the 18th century - preceded by Boisguilbert in his "Le Detail" (1695), and for which my translation can be found here: >>25874

This compendium is directly sequential of my earlier compilation of Ancient and Medieval Literature (400 BCE - 1400 CE), republished.

In this current volume is the included literature:

• Nicolaus Copernicus - Monetae Cudendae Ratio (1526)
  
• Antoine Montchretien - "Treatise" (1615)
  
• Thomas Mun - "England's Treasure" (1641)
  
• Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan, Ch. X, Sct. II (1651)
  
• William Petty - Treatise of Taxes (1662)
  
• Josiah Child - Brief Observations (1668)
  
• William Petty - Political Anatomy, Ch. IX-XI (1672)
  
• William Petty - Political Arithmetick (1677)
  
• Philipp von Hornick - Austria Over All (1684)
  
• Nicholas Barbon - A Discourse on Trade (1690)
  

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I haven't read theory in maybe 8-10 years, back when I still worked with the local militant left (OWS and Chile's 2011 were a fresh memory then), OG /leftypol/ had a vibrant and active community and I still had some of the sparkle in my eyes left. Nowadays I lurk here, leftychan and other boards every once in a new moon

Been meeting with old friends, exchanging ideas, talking about books and Monitoring The Situation™, and more generally I've been interested in reading, and pondering about e.g. Marxist views on ecology, the AI boom and behavioral control through machine learning-powered social media, China's development and governance, some Latin American history, lots of random bits about anthropology and prehistoric humans, etc.

Can't say I've read a lot; being a second year PhD student in applied mathematics has kept me busy. Would love to think further about how that ties in to socialist theory and praxis – I definitely read Cockshott-Cottrell as an edgy teenager and am very familiar with Allende era Chile's Cybersyn experience, but I'm sure there's potential to further understand and develop these things given our current comprehension and understanding of ML/AI and data. Cockshott's own takes on that have been kind of shallow imo, nowadays he seems to be focusing on his YouTube/Zoom lectures about political economy and sometimes world news?

Attached is one of the last books I've read about China. Also here's a historical study on Cybersyn if anyone's interested: https://leftypol.org/leftypol/src/1623233979634.pdf

@ theory, might eventually revisit Gramsci or something now that I have a developed frontal lobe

>>22761
baby tier:
Marx: Wages Prices and Profit
Intermediate tier:
Capital volumes 1-3
advanced tier (requires linear algebra, probability, statistics and other math:
review: Mathematics for planning an economy by cibcom. Not specific to cybercom/planning but a good review of general math for political economy.
Farjoun and Machover – The Laws of Chaos
Sraffa – Production of Commodities by means of Commodities
Kalecki – Selected Essays on the Dynamics of the Capitalist Economy, 1933-1970,1971
Classical Econophysics by Allin Cottrell, Greg Michaelson, and Paul Cockshott

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A lolbert wrote this book on why he thinks education is bad:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Case_Against_Education

>>25894
liberal take

>>25876
>What awaits the future?

AGI Takes all jobs.
Humans get welfare or starvation.
Agent swarms do what humans would have done.
Jobs that can't be automated get flooded with Masters Degree Applicants.
Laws get made to license AI into specific roles like Law and Medicine.
Tasks get automated one by one until no one is left.
Humanoid Robots invade manual labor.

What is the leftypol take on this book? It's main argument is that college/university is basically just a big hazing ritual for employment, and doesn't actually impart much useful, human capital-increasing knowledge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Case_Against_Education

>>25887
Very true.

>>25930
its been done better

What is tetration? Never heard of it…

>>25626
It raises questions about how we'd be able to tell if a species had been domesticated and later feralized, or whether we would think to look for that. If you look at the wild types of many cultivars, there is not much to suggest they would be serviceable once domesticated.

in more infuriating news
mexican president claudia sheinbaum and inah announce the discovery of a classical zapotec tomb designated as tomb 10 in huitzo, oaxaca
https://www.elfinanciero.com.mx/nacional/2026/01/23/asi-es-la-tumba-10-de-huitzo-el-descubrimiento-zapoteco-mas-relevante-de-la-ultima-decada-en-mexico/
the tomb is quite grand and imposing and features carved lintels, door jambs, a modeled stucco mask of an owl and murals, however the tomb was only located after locals complained about looting.
some weeks before this, dozens of objects from a postclassical mixtec tomb were unofficially excavated and taken out by a local community under the guidance of an influence named sr blue who documented the whole thing live on his facebook page:
https://oaxaca.eluniversal.com.mx/municipios/hallan-piezas-arqueologicas-en-san-pedro-jaltepetongo-oaxaca-inah-hace-llamado-al-no-saqueo/
which then led me to becoming aware of this individual with almost 1 million followers:
https://www.facebook.com/srbluemx/
whose gimmick consists in publicizing and showing off unexplored or unattended archeological sites around oaxaca allegedly to "bring attention to inah's negligence" of less famous archeological sites while writing self-righteous posts about how he's just a simple businessman who "devours" books in his free time who thinks people don't need no evil government to tell them how to take care of archeological sites or how to excavate them because folk wisdom will lead the way or whatever bullshit.

literally the 1st post as i'm writing this is a drone video showing a likely (and completely unguarded) pyramidal group atop a mountain near a highway in the etla valley.

New Ancient Americas on a popular topic:
The Secrets of Inca Masonry

Basketmaker Culture and Puebloan Origins

>>25919
Sources on what?

>>25920
The two articles where you got your two screenshots from

>>25921
Pew Research Center:
<Highly educated adults – particularly those who have attended graduate school – are far more likely than those with less education to take predominantly liberal positions across a range of political values. And these differences have increased over the past two decades.
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2016/04/26/a-wider-ideological-gap-between-more-and-less-educated-adults/

Variability Hypothesis:
<The variability hypothesis, also known as the greater male variability hypothesis, is the hypothesis that human males generally display greater variability in traits than human females do [including cognition].
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variability_hypothesis

Supporting Article 1:
<In the majority of countries, male variability is higher than female variability in both reading and math.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1162573

Supporting Article 2:
<Males are more variable on most measures of quantitative and visuospatial ability, which necessarily results in more males at both high- and low-ability extremes
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In addition to the raised points on autism score, big 5 personality traits have good correlations: low openness, mid-high conscientiousness (rule following), low agreeableness, generally low neuroticism = rightoid traits, opposite profile = leftist traits.

>>25923
Most people are also moderate in their personality, so don't fall into extremism

>>25854
Romania and Transnistria

Sorry, Moldovia, not Transnistria

Test

>>25414
Harder than English. Chinese sentence structure lacks all those redundant Germanic particles like "the," "an," and "of."

Mi estas lernanto esperanto