POPPER, HAYEK, AND HOPPE: INFORMATION AND CALCULATION IN SOCIAL SCIENCE Popper a

POPPER, HAYEK, AND HOPPE: INFORMATION AND CALCULATION IN SOCIAL SCIENCE

Popper and Hayek treat information (knowledge) as the model for analysis of man but fail to complete it. (Just as physicists treat the universe as information.)

Hoppe (by way of rothbard) creates the method of categorization, measurement, and operations of information: property and voluntary cooperation.

Popper: sources of knowledge and ignorance.(individual/critical/truth)

Hayek: use of knowledge in economics and society (group/law/cooperation/liberty)

Hoppe: propertarian ethics (cooperation) as entities (property) and operations (voluntary transfers).

Doolittle: the division of perception, cognition, knowledge and labor by reproductive demand, and the use of voluntary cooperation to consolidate it into a network that acts on the behalf of the network of individuals.

Together this creates is a system of constant calculation, whose test is volition (demonstrated use of existing knowledge)

In my early work I referred to the problem of ‘calculation’. I knew it was the problem I had to solve. I just didn’t realize how enormous a problem it was other than it was the only way of preventing thievery in government.

I knew my writing was difficult to understand because of the influence of writing software. It took me a very long time to understand that I was intuiting the relationship between the existential dependence of software (computability) and testimonial (existential) truth. And that the only way to write this way was to write in the same style as programming.

Like I tell people – my autistic intuition finds patterns. I just have to work out what it’s telling me and determine if its true or not. For this reason I never think I am particularly smart – it’s more that I am gifted, and I work hard at translating my gift into language.