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THE MARKET FOR DECIDABILITY

When the ordinary person fails he appeals to associates.

When associates fail he appeals to superiors

When superiors fail he appeals to professionals

When professionals fail the appeals to thought leaders.

When instincts fail we appeal to familial ethics.

When familial ethics fail we appeal to virtue ethics.

When virtue ethics fail we appeal to rule ethics

When rule ethics fail we appeal to outcome ethics.

When intuition fails one must appeal to logic.

When logic fails, one must appeal to empiricism.

When empiricism fails one must appeal to operationalism.

When operationalism fails one must appeal to limits scope and parsimony.

When religion fails, one appeals to reason

When reason fails one appeals to philosophy

When philosophy fails, on appeals to science

When science fails, one appeals to testimony.

And the opposite is true.

Why?

We only have so much knowledge, and so much time, to satisfy the market for decidability in time for taking action.

  • Curt Doolittle
  • The Propertarian Institute.

PS

by Bill Joslin

Incremental Disambiguation in one direction (from low to high investment)- Graceful failure in the other (from high to low cost) which explains why the later presents stronger incentives than the former.z