Curt Doolittle

Author: Curt Doolittle

  • We Can Prevent Lies Easily If The Normative Commons Is Common (Shareholder) Property

    [S]o, under freedom of speech, libel, slander, defamation, are acceptable to you? So are Keynesian economics, Marxism upon which it is based, Freudian Psychology, Cantor’s sets, Mises’ Praxeology, Rothbard’s Ethics, The Frankfurt School, Feminism (feminist socialism), Boasian Pseudo-Anthropology, Postmodernism (the attack on truth), the marxist attack on education, the marxist attack on art? All of which were constructed of pseudoscientific arguments and all of which were permissible under free speech, but none of which would have been possible if individuals possessed the right of standing to require truth in free speech. It is ok I suspect to pollute the physical commons but not the normative commons? Do you have some evidence that such constraints place such limits on progress rather than improve progress? Or even a rational argument to demonstrate why (because you can’t, which is Bridgman’s position). Calling a woman a whore under anglo saxon law was equivalent to attempted murder that exposed the skull. Words have consequences. Why would some people prefer that words NOT have consequences unless they feared being held accountable for their consequences? THE PEOPLE WHO TAUGHT US TO LIE

  • Operationalism Is A Test of Truth Telling (Honesty), Not The Truth Of A Theory

    (possibly the latter bit is profound) [F]rom my notes…. –“An operational definition is produced by defining a process of operationalization and recording the results of operating that process; in order to define a variable, term, or object in terms of a set of tests needed to determine its existence, duration, and quantity or quality. Operational definitions define changes in state as those operations necessary to change state; define unobservable entities concretely in terms of the physical and mental operations used to measure them; and ensures that the definition of each observable and unobservable entity has been uniquely identified with the instrumentation used to define it. Just as the operational naming of numbers via positional numbering gives a unique name to every number, this process of operationalization gives a unique name to an extant entity consisting of the definition for that step, rather than consisting of an analogy that approximates it in some form or other. Operationalism is a process of granting unique names.”– This ensures that we are discussing names of extant entities rather than allegories, functions, experiences, or imaginary projections. Operationalism is not a truth test, it is a test of truth telling.

  • Operationalism Is A Test of Truth Telling (Honesty), Not The Truth Of A Theory

    (possibly the latter bit is profound) [F]rom my notes…. –“An operational definition is produced by defining a process of operationalization and recording the results of operating that process; in order to define a variable, term, or object in terms of a set of tests needed to determine its existence, duration, and quantity or quality. Operational definitions define changes in state as those operations necessary to change state; define unobservable entities concretely in terms of the physical and mental operations used to measure them; and ensures that the definition of each observable and unobservable entity has been uniquely identified with the instrumentation used to define it. Just as the operational naming of numbers via positional numbering gives a unique name to every number, this process of operationalization gives a unique name to an extant entity consisting of the definition for that step, rather than consisting of an analogy that approximates it in some form or other. Operationalism is a process of granting unique names.”– This ensures that we are discussing names of extant entities rather than allegories, functions, experiences, or imaginary projections. Operationalism is not a truth test, it is a test of truth telling.

  • “Liberty will win because it is the most robust sort of authoritarianism.”— El

    —“Liberty will win because it is the most robust sort of authoritarianism.”—

    Eli on a roll today. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-25 15:09:00 UTC

  • Operations: A General Rule Of Ethics in Politics

    [O]perationalism asks us to demonstrate that we are conducting observations of extant entities not projecting imagination and subjectivity. As a general rule: *** We shall define all phenomenon which we choose to observe, in terms of the sequence of physical operations (actions) used, the instruments used, and the measurements taken with those instruments (whether cardinal or ordinal), rather than either the use of analogies of any form, interpretations of those observations, or subjective experiences of those observations, so that we guarantee to any audience that all entities that we refer to exist, and that no information is added to the observation but that which can be observed when reproduced by the repetition of those actions, instruments and measurements by others.***

  • Operations: A General Rule Of Ethics in Politics

    [O]perationalism asks us to demonstrate that we are conducting observations of extant entities not projecting imagination and subjectivity. As a general rule: *** We shall define all phenomenon which we choose to observe, in terms of the sequence of physical operations (actions) used, the instruments used, and the measurements taken with those instruments (whether cardinal or ordinal), rather than either the use of analogies of any form, interpretations of those observations, or subjective experiences of those observations, so that we guarantee to any audience that all entities that we refer to exist, and that no information is added to the observation but that which can be observed when reproduced by the repetition of those actions, instruments and measurements by others.***

  • OVERSING TODAY Well, I went through my original designs today to look at the rem

    OVERSING TODAY

    Well, I went through my original designs today to look at the remaining scope of work. And … I’m not happy about what I found. lol. Everything is just partway done. And while the framework of the app is there, the amount of work left is just frustratingly large. Yes, I don’t include Commissions, Career Development, Sales, Recruiting, in v1. But if we just look finishing off all the existing features, it’s still a truckload of work. Sure, yes, enhancing features is a lot easier than inventing them.

    But it’s still a lot of work. 🙁

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-25 13:00:00 UTC

  • Should I change how I talk about operationalism? I suppose emphasizing an existe

    Should I change how I talk about operationalism? I suppose emphasizing an existence proof is easier on the brain? Mathematical, logical, and existence proofs? Is that easier to understand than getting lost?

    I dunno. I’m going home and watch netflix lol.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-25 12:57:00 UTC

  • KNOWING IS AN EXPERIENCE NOT AN ACTION Knowing is an experience. Constructing an

    KNOWING IS AN EXPERIENCE NOT AN ACTION

    Knowing is an experience. Constructing an existence, logical, or mathematical, proof is an action. We can demonstrate them. That is not to say that they are true, it is to say that they are proofs. If we have constructed proofs, we may err, but it is very hard to lie. And even if one does, err, we need not hold him accountable for his error.

    Speaking truthfully, constructing a proof, and possessing the ultimate truth are very different things. I can however speak truthfully, and I can construct an existence proof, and that is the most that I can do. I can know those things even if I cannot know if I possess the truth. So what does that do for me? I doesn’t tell me anything about whether I possess the ultimate truth, but it does allow me to speak truthfully to the best of my ability – and that is all that we can ask of anyone. Because it is all that is possible for anyone.

    Conversely, we must ask it of anyone who seeks to place an argument into the commons the result of which would subject others to harm.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-25 12:55:00 UTC

  • “CR does not assert that we cannot possess the truth”— That too is a platonic

    —“CR does not assert that we cannot possess the truth”—

    That too is a platonic statement. So I must act as though I never possess it, correct? If we cannot know we have it, then we cannot act as if we have it. “knowing” is an experience, not an action.

    I think I could make a career out of making that single point….. lol

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-25 12:55:00 UTC