Curt Doolittle

Author: Curt Doolittle

  • TOP 100 PRESIDENTS (just a thought experiment) So what if instead of the preside

    TOP 100 PRESIDENTS

    (just a thought experiment)

    So what if instead of the presidency, we added another house, and the top 100 individuals who got votes in the election got to form a parliament and select their own leader to act as president (prime minister)?

    Then we return almost all power to the states, recalling the 14th amendment and all consequent legislation dependent upon it. leaving only 2/3 of the budget for the federal government(military and insurance) and returning the other 1/3 to the states (discretionary spending).

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-19 09:29:00 UTC

  • Is capitalism good? Yes is a half statement. A statement of the OBVERSE. But it

    Is capitalism good? Yes is a half statement. A statement of the OBVERSE. But it lack the REVERSE: If and only if all parasitism under it is still eliminated by rule of law and universal standing.

    There are few unlimited theories. Parasitism is the limit of cooperation.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-19 08:55:00 UTC

  • capitalism moral? Walter Williams says yes, it is the most moral philosophy mank

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJr2RO7g7jI—-Is capitalism moral? Walter Williams says yes, it is the most moral philosophy mankind has ever pondered! Do you agree?—-

    It is, if:

    (a) it doesn’t occur under a representative government open to special interests that can seek rents, and instead operates by either direct democracy if people are marginally indifferent, or economic democracy if they are substantially different, or by different houses using either direct or economic democracy for diverse polities.

    And (b) if there is rule of law (universal application) whose decidability in law is against parasitism,

    (c) and where there exists universal standing (universal right of suit), so that groups of individuals can punish organizations that engage in parasitism either directly, or via the state.

    Capitalism is moral ( non-parasitic and produces rational, voluntary, cooperation ) if and only if there are no means available FOR IT TO BE USED IMMORALLY.

    There is no common good other than cooperative non parasitism. After that it’s all a matter of market choice in production of consumption or commons.

    Curt Doolittle

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-19 08:54:00 UTC

  • IS WRONG WITH BRITS ANYWAY? (Curt Doolittle | 19th January 2016 at 1:44 pm) Why

    http://dabonxie.com/politics/797-david-cameron-set-to-deport-entire-whalsay-population-for-failing-to-learn-how-to-speak-english-properly/WHAT IS WRONG WITH BRITS ANYWAY?

    (Curt Doolittle | 19th January 2016 at 1:44 pm)

    Why the UK penchant for nonsense arguments? The Romans held disdain for the immorality of the greeks for the very same reason that the rest of the world holds disdain for Brits.

    Sentences, paragraphs, and speeches rarely consist of recipes. Just because a man refers to a cake, does not mean he cannot bake one from constituent parts..

    Just because a public servant refers to a policy agenda, does not mean he cannot create a practical one from practical measures.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-19 08:45:00 UTC

  • “Shrapnel focuses the mind.”— lol

    —“Shrapnel focuses the mind.”—

    lol

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-19 08:41:00 UTC

  • THE MOVIE “TRUTH” AS FALSEHOOD – ALBEIT WELL WRITTEN OMG, what a hollywood-engin

    THE MOVIE “TRUTH” AS FALSEHOOD – ALBEIT WELL WRITTEN

    OMG, what a hollywood-engineered piece of propaganda for resurrecting their own morally dead.

    But as dialog for smart people, with a good cast, if you ignore the almost non-existent excuse-making narrative, you can find Sorkin’s style in there.

    What is that style? The discourse of inferences.

    The opening scene where she walks into an office and the conversation is not reduced to proletarian simplicity by actors pretending to be members of the upper middle educated classes.

    It’s a model of dialog only possible if you first flesh out your character’s entire life, interests, portfolio of views, and

    Unfortunately, all these characters have the same progressive (fantastical) lives, interests, and portfolio of views.

    Characters should represent real world entities, working through mythic (universal lessons) problems. Mythology requires exaggeration – which we usually call hyperbole in order to draw attention to relevant properties of individuals and circumstances that they encounter.

    I am not impressed by the depth of psychology one can explore in the nuance of incentives of the dysfunctional – which is the postmodern trend using psychologizing for status signals. In fact I am not sure that the entire literary edifice is other than a vast church for the distribution of immorality for the purpose of obtaining status signals despite doing nothing productive on this earth.

    Why should one care about the depth of your dysfunctional feelings, rather than the means by which you conquer them and life’s challenges?

    The postmoderns, feminists, socialists, libertines, are all a cancer fed by consumerism, made possible by debt, made possible by the burning of thousands of years of western evolutionary history.

    Kill them all and let their gods sort it out.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-19 06:35:00 UTC

  • 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.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-19 06:24:00 UTC

  • THINKING OF BERNARD WILLIAMS (PHILOSOPHER) : THE MIND OF ARTISTS, ENTREPRENEURS,

    THINKING OF BERNARD WILLIAMS (PHILOSOPHER) : THE MIND OF ARTISTS, ENTREPRENEURS, AND JURISTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF PHILOSOPHY.

    You know, there is a natural conflict between judges, entrepreneurs, and artists. A judge makes no proactive statements, only prohibitionary. Artists and entrepreneurs envision possibilities, and rarely issue prohibitions.

    But it is somewhat of a difference between the sculptors of stone and of clay.

    A sculptor of clay creates from either skeleton or nothing, A sculptor of stone eliminates all that is not that which he desires. Working with clay is much more forgiving than working with stone. The sculptor of stone works with what exists, and the sculptor of clay works with what yet may be. The Judge works with what exists, and the artist and entrepreneur work what may be.

    Together they produce the same art.

    I agree with Williams that scientism is tedious for the artist, of limited use to the entrepreneur – but it is of necessity to the jurist.

    Reasonableness, Reason, Justification are tools of artist and entrepreneur for the purpose of creating hypotheses – that which may yet serve man.

    Science, Criticism, and Testimonialism are the tools of the jurist for the purpose of determining truth – that which exists independently of our opinions.

    The division of perception, cognition, knowledge, advocacy, negotiation, and labor, exists everywhere.

    For every OBVERSE (hypothesis) there must exist a REVERSE (criticism).

    Creator and Jurist are necessary for a two dimensional imaginary plane to be represented as a three dimensional object in reality.

    (You see, I am perfectly capable of argument by informative analogy. But that is only because I know the truth, and wish to inform. It is not because I want to inform without first knowing the truth.)

    Theory:obverse and limits:reverse.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-19 06:20:00 UTC

  • WHY ARE SOME PROGRAMMERS 10,000 TIMES BETTER THAN THE REST? DOES IT MATTER? THEY

    WHY ARE SOME PROGRAMMERS 10,000 TIMES BETTER THAN THE REST? DOES IT MATTER? THEY ARE.

    Kirill just fixed a problem that has been with us for two years, that he solved in just a few hours – flawlessly. Yet, instead of being arrogant, he will also say “Alexey will do that, he has more patience than I do”. And Alexey will make fun of us both at times because we miss the logically obvious (to him). The difference is “Talent”, experience, research, persistence, hard work, and humility.

    So:

    – There many reasons that make a happy family, any one or more of which will make an unhappy family.

    – There are many reasons that an animal is domesticatable, any one of which will make it impossible to domesticate.

    – There are many reasons that make a programmer great any one of which will make the others only adequate.

    We have only four substantial issues left that I know of before BETA clients can use it:

    a) deliverable (sprint) accounting – which should not be hard. It means tracking the history of additions and subtractions of children from estimated and in-progress work.

    b) The reports which are our last feature for v1.

    c) The addition of reservations and appointments (forecasting) to the gantt chart. (I should never have cut it. it’s my fault. I know). We have to have them.

    d) Then my job…. :

    d0) Edit all the error and other messages.

    d1) Documentation and tutorials.

    d2) Default (sample) workflows and projects.

    I GO THRU THE LIST EVERY DAY, AND THATS IT FOR BETA.

    We’re in the last stretch!

    NITS I”M CONFESSING

    Some nits I’ve noticed that make me a little crazy, but aren’t blockers for release to beta sites.

    d) the inconsistency of button labels when editing tables. This will be something Kirill and I do in a few hours over coffee.

    e) a lot of the admin screens need to separate SELECTED items from UNSELECTED items. Right now they are combined in one table and this is confusing for users.

    I SUSPECT I WILL NOW BE THE SOURCE OF ANY DELAY since the documentation is enormous, and while I write fast, and I am partly through it, I degrade quickly when switching between the screen capture and art, and the text.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-19 05:57:00 UTC

  • OBVERSE THEORY, REVERSE CRITICISM: EXTERNALITIES? If we choose to try to fix thi

    OBVERSE THEORY, REVERSE CRITICISM: EXTERNALITIES?

    If we choose to try to fix this problem in society better than the market will, then, (a) what will we not fix instead, (b) what will we un-fix that the market of commons has fixed already, (c) what negative externalities will be created that we did not think of?

    Impulsivity is for answering the cries of children. Love of man requires doing no harm.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-19 05:56:00 UTC