Author: Curt Doolittle

  • Against Dysgenia, Does Not Imply Active Eugenia

    —“Surely you understand how individualists might view your little eugenics project as pretty unworkable, fucked and backwards, don’t you”— [I] don’t have a eugenics project, I make the argument that at some point in your chain of reasoning you must have a means of making judgements between one set of preferences and another, and that the progressive preference is dysgenic. To warn against dysgenia is very different from conducting eugenia. I do not see the political reason for redistributing from the middle class to the lower class if this constructs dysgenia that inhibits the formation of the high trust society which is necessary for the standard of living that allows for redistribution. In other words, i’m making an argument against a logical fallacy. This might seem to you as if I am making a sentimental argument,b ecause you argue largely sentimentally. But I don’t. I might actually be largely incapable of it. Most of my arguments are in the general vein of pointing out the fallacy of the libertarian and classical liberal, and progressive canons that do not account for the problem of trust, intelligence, and impulsivity in the construction of a polity capable of constant innovation necessary to stay ahead of both the genetic red queen, the malthusian red queen, and the technological red queen, and how those three red queens must be defeated in order to preserve economic prosperity that allows us to have whatever nonsensical social order we choose. I suspect that this argument is not obvious to you and most others, but that is my fundamental argument and the insight I am trying to incorporate into political science, political economy, economics, and philosophical ethics. -Cheers

  • Against Dysgenia, Does Not Imply Active Eugenia

    —“Surely you understand how individualists might view your little eugenics project as pretty unworkable, fucked and backwards, don’t you”— [I] don’t have a eugenics project, I make the argument that at some point in your chain of reasoning you must have a means of making judgements between one set of preferences and another, and that the progressive preference is dysgenic. To warn against dysgenia is very different from conducting eugenia. I do not see the political reason for redistributing from the middle class to the lower class if this constructs dysgenia that inhibits the formation of the high trust society which is necessary for the standard of living that allows for redistribution. In other words, i’m making an argument against a logical fallacy. This might seem to you as if I am making a sentimental argument,b ecause you argue largely sentimentally. But I don’t. I might actually be largely incapable of it. Most of my arguments are in the general vein of pointing out the fallacy of the libertarian and classical liberal, and progressive canons that do not account for the problem of trust, intelligence, and impulsivity in the construction of a polity capable of constant innovation necessary to stay ahead of both the genetic red queen, the malthusian red queen, and the technological red queen, and how those three red queens must be defeated in order to preserve economic prosperity that allows us to have whatever nonsensical social order we choose. I suspect that this argument is not obvious to you and most others, but that is my fundamental argument and the insight I am trying to incorporate into political science, political economy, economics, and philosophical ethics. -Cheers

  • Failure To Use Operational Definitions In Economics, Politics and Law Is Criminal (Really)

    (Profound)(reposted)(worth repeating) [W]hile a failure to rely upon operational definitions in mathematics, logic and philosophy may only be immoral, and in science unethical – in economics, politics and law it is criminal. In Mathematics avoiding operationalism merely perpetuates an error; in logic and philosophy it is deceptive of both others and one’s self; in science wastes others’ time. But in economics, politics and law, failure to use operationalism creates theft. That is the answer to the riddle Mises, Rothbard, and Hoppe couldn’t solve in economics and ethics. Nor Hayek and Popper and their followers in politics and philosophy. But then, neither did Bridgman and his followers in science, nor Brouwer and his followers in math. I don’t think the long list ending with Kripke solved it either in logic. One cannot use this heavily loaded term ‘true’ as other than analogy without a constructive knowledge of its meaning. And the only meaning that is constructively possible is testimony: performative truth. All else is merely proof. And the quaint linguistic contrivance that conflates the most parsimonious possible theory with testimony is, much like multitudinous abuses of the verb to-be, nothing more than a means by which we obscure our ignorance as a means of making mere analogies as a substitute for truth claims. Only constructive proofs demonstrate that one possesses the knowledge to make a truth claim. Everything else is merely analogy.

  • Failure To Use Operational Definitions In Economics, Politics and Law Is Criminal (Really)

    (Profound)(reposted)(worth repeating) [W]hile a failure to rely upon operational definitions in mathematics, logic and philosophy may only be immoral, and in science unethical – in economics, politics and law it is criminal. In Mathematics avoiding operationalism merely perpetuates an error; in logic and philosophy it is deceptive of both others and one’s self; in science wastes others’ time. But in economics, politics and law, failure to use operationalism creates theft. That is the answer to the riddle Mises, Rothbard, and Hoppe couldn’t solve in economics and ethics. Nor Hayek and Popper and their followers in politics and philosophy. But then, neither did Bridgman and his followers in science, nor Brouwer and his followers in math. I don’t think the long list ending with Kripke solved it either in logic. One cannot use this heavily loaded term ‘true’ as other than analogy without a constructive knowledge of its meaning. And the only meaning that is constructively possible is testimony: performative truth. All else is merely proof. And the quaint linguistic contrivance that conflates the most parsimonious possible theory with testimony is, much like multitudinous abuses of the verb to-be, nothing more than a means by which we obscure our ignorance as a means of making mere analogies as a substitute for truth claims. Only constructive proofs demonstrate that one possesses the knowledge to make a truth claim. Everything else is merely analogy.

  • (Brief panic attack as I fear that 30 days of work on my book were lost to the h

    (Brief panic attack as I fear that 30 days of work on my book were lost to the hard disk crash. Not all, but about maybe, three weeks of research notes. Why? the save directory and backup directory were outside of Dropbox for some reason, and while travelling I didn’t have time machine available. Not sure how I moved it or how it ‘got moved’, but I lost quite a bit of work there. And it’s my fault for not looking carefully at where the docs were saving. Great hardware and software can’t compensate for human error. )


    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-07 11:25:00 UTC

  • (neighborhood hangout)

    https://foursquare.com/v/%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%84%D0%B8%D1%8F–mafia/4bd73bb732a29521ee18d6b8/photos(personal) (neighborhood hangout)


    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-07 09:37:00 UTC

  • (Is it OK if I actually think like this? At least, metaphorically that is. lol )

    (Is it OK if I actually think like this? At least, metaphorically that is. lol )


    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-07 09:21:00 UTC

  • FUTURE VIDEOS We are going to start making regular videos on: (a) The Evolution

    FUTURE VIDEOS

    We are going to start making regular videos on:

    (a) The Evolution of the High Trust Society (The Western Protestant Ethic)

    (b) Aristocratic Egalitarianism (Propertarian restatement of western ethics)

    (c) Propertarianism (Moral Realism/Logic of Cooperation)

    (d) Post Democratic Solutions to Political Institutions

    and, if anyone is crazy enough to want to follow the “hard stuff”

    (f) Instrumentalism, Operationalism and Intuitionism (Praxeology restated ‘correctly’)

    Unfortunately, I cannot pull a Monlyneux, and talk to the camera. I need an interview format to think and speak comfortably. So we’ll be doing these in interview format.

    Cheers


    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-07 06:42:00 UTC

  • Click for video: videos/10536312_10152565041752264_655761083_n_10152565024892264

    Click for video: videos/10536312_10152565041752264_655761083_n_10152565024892264.mp4 Curt Doolittle on the entrepreneurial opportunity in Ukraine.


    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-07 04:49:00 UTC

  • Click for video: videos/10539961_10152564978272264_1472034547_n_1015256496236226

    Click for video: videos/10539961_10152564978272264_1472034547_n_10152564962362264.mp4 Short video on my work on Propertarianism.


    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-07 03:52:00 UTC