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photos_and_videos/TimelinePhotos_43196237263/31543373_10156337078467264_8777614105805586432_o_10156337078462264.jpg IF YOU CAN’T CALCULATE IT, IT’S JUST AN EXCUSE

This is part of a list of interview questions an interviewer took from reading just one article. And that’s just one. That’s not on any of the other major topics I cover.

And scanning that list, you don’t have to wonder why I say “It requires a great deal of knowledge to hold discussions on any of these topics” and very, very, few people have the requisite knowledge to do so.

Yet we are all convinced of the value and veracity of our opinions. You don’t find people claiming knowledge of anything calculable, but you find people claiming knowledge of everything intuitable.

Hence why I’ve made speech, ethics, morality, politics, and law, commensurable and operationally calculable, so that we can end the cognitive bias that every idiot’s opinion is worth anything other than the choice of his favorite flavor of ice cream.

We make excuses. That’s what thinking and reasoning do. If you aren’t calculating you’re making an excuse. Because you can’t do otherwise. You evolved to make excuses, not to calculate. Intuition substitutes what you can’t calculate. In this way evolution provides us with the confidence to act probabilistically, despite our profound fallibility – and we don’t give up except by suicide.James SantagataIf we are talking Psychohistory in Asimov’s Foundation series, is Doolittle the Mule? – Claire.May 08, 2018 12:37pmCurt DoolittlelolzMay 08, 2018 1:28pmCurt DoolittleI had to look that up…May 08, 2018 1:29pmJames Santagatalol. It was compliment, just to clarify. :DMay 08, 2018 1:54pmCurt Doolittlelol… i still had to look it up…. ;)May 08, 2018 1:55pmNicholas Arthur CattonJust going through the first interview.

I actually think there lot of value came of the dislocated nature of this conversation. It made for more diverse range associations, and Propertarianism by analogous description by Curt than is usual in a more methodically curated conversation.

If Clare is willing to accept that she may not get clearer on the topic herself, she is surely giving other prop fans insight and angles and associations that arent the standard. It broke beyond the preaching to converted and had the live flavour or an AMA.

It was Good stuff.May 09, 2018 5:50pmCurt Doolittlewell saidMay 09, 2018 7:13pmIF YOU CAN’T CALCULATE IT, IT’S JUST AN EXCUSE

This is part of a list of interview questions an interviewer took from reading just one article. And that’s just one. That’s not on any of the other major topics I cover.

And scanning that list, you don’t have to wonder why I say “It requires a great deal of knowledge to hold discussions on any of these topics” and very, very, few people have the requisite knowledge to do so.

Yet we are all convinced of the value and veracity of our opinions. You don’t find people claiming knowledge of anything calculable, but you find people claiming knowledge of everything intuitable.

Hence why I’ve made speech, ethics, morality, politics, and law, commensurable and operationally calculable, so that we can end the cognitive bias that every idiot’s opinion is worth anything other than the choice of his favorite flavor of ice cream.

We make excuses. That’s what thinking and reasoning do. If you aren’t calculating you’re making an excuse. Because you can’t do otherwise. You evolved to make excuses, not to calculate. Intuition substitutes what you can’t calculate. In this way evolution provides us with the confidence to act probabilistically, despite our profound fallibility – and we don’t give up except by suicide.