voice-of-reason/mathematics

From the page: "Early in the game it is often best to get out as soon as possible so as to have more opportunities to buy property. Later in the game, it is best to stay in jail as long as possible to avoid landing on an opponent's property."
Is the lesson here that to be a really successful capitalist (oligarch?) you need to end up in jail?

This looks promising.

I've puzzled over this presumably pseudonymous writer. The kindest judgment would be `provocative'. The Clark Ashton Smith tributes are most enjoyable (see
The Grove Of The Dendromancer), and I like the mathematic angles (what is the expected daily dice-rolling frequency of the Blind Priests of Aikkos?). But then there is the frankly objectionable line of argument expressed in the
bigot page, albeit qualified with the words `I want to suggest...'. And there are links to some thoroughly nasty websites under the heading `Thought Crime'. At face value, the label `Thought Crime' is not an endorsement. But it is hard to take this particular writer at face value. That's a shame, since I like the CAS tribute material and the mathematical stuff.

The world confronts us with a mass of information that we must somehow interpret, to do this we develop an epistemology or theory of knowledge. There are many possible ways we can interpret the world, some are part of our basic human nature, some are culturally determined. It is pretty much up to us to decide how to arrange these different classificatory dimensions, but there are all sorts of reasons to avoid using race. Racism brings out the worst in people, and besides that one can't choose one's parents. These are my own comments.