Curt Doolittle

Author: Curt Doolittle

  • DEAR CHINA You should be very careful with your antagonism of Japan. While the r

    DEAR CHINA

    You should be very careful with your antagonism of Japan.

    While the rest of the world may be impressed by your progress now that you have abandoned communism and joined the rest of the modern world, it is not LOST ON US that Chinese history is a story of building an empire for the purpose of conducting war, and exploiting, and if necessary, exterminating the opposition.

    And if you fail to grasp that your corporatist ‘Party’ will be extremely fragile in the near future, our combined interest in protecting Japan will make us all to happy to exploit your tyrannical stupidity, and thereby demonstrate your material weakness, and with that demonstration remove any vestige of legitimacy that party claims.

    Defeat is destructive, and while we may not like it, you will be defeated. Americans love the Japanese more than they enjoy the europeans, and will be only too happy to punish a malcontentious China into civil chaos.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-11-24 07:18:00 UTC

  • IS MATH INVENTED, DISCOVERED, OR BOTH? (cross posted) “Question for you Curt – d

    IS MATH INVENTED, DISCOVERED, OR BOTH?

    (cross posted)

    “Question for you Curt – do you believe mathematics to be invented, discovered, or an element of both?” – Davin Eastley

    Invented.

    The natural world does not have this flexibility so the natural world can be expressed in mathematical terms. The natural world must of necessity be a subset of mathematical possibilities. Even mathematical possibilities are most often determined by the numerical base rather than

    For example, is Pi a number then, or the name of an operation (function)?

    All numbers are a ratio, and must be to be identical. 3=3/1 : three equals three one’s. One represents some unit – an arbitrary category, unit, or an instance. So 1 = 1/1 of some category, unit or instance. We use zero, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten as names for natural numbers, and then use the OPERATION of positional notation to produce names for the rest (with ten, eleven and twelve added for antique convenience).

    The difficulty in training humans to generalize these names and operations so that they may be used as analogies in multitudinous contexts tends to confuse ordinary minds, who then Platonize these names. But just because we can arbitrarily say that we IDENTIFY one of anything, and can from that singular act of identity, produce the full range ratios and functions of mathematics, does not mean anything more than that if we practice we can create those multitudinous ratios and functions (operations).

    Simple people are misled by the same process when anthropomorphizing divinities – which are a form of very abstract moral calculation – a sort of specialized mathematics. Educated people often ridicule this primitive form of reason. Then at the same time, in the very next breath, make the mistake of Platonizing mathematics, which is likewise to believe in ‘magic’. To say that numbers ‘exist’ or are ‘discovered’ is … intellectually embarrassing. It means that one uses a tool like an ape but fails to grasp the reason that the tool performs the function that it does.

    Math can be accurately correspondent with anything we choose to measure, as long as what we choose to measure can be expressed in constant relations. Unfortunately we have not yet conceived of a means of measuring inconstant relations. Although, I’ve written elsewhere, that this is most likely a problem of data collection and computation not one of impossibility.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-11-24 06:46:00 UTC

  • DANCING I can dance you know, thanks to my mother’s patiently teaching me. Veron

    DANCING

    I can dance you know, thanks to my mother’s patiently teaching me. Veronika is an AMAZING dancer. And, it’s such a pleasure to dance with a woman who actually CAN dance. Who doesn’t fight your lead. Or who confuses steps with moving together as a single unit. Or who confuses simply rhythmic reaction to the base, with sweeping dance moves as a couple. It’s awesome.

    Gotta do more of it. Just awesome. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2013-11-24 06:43:00 UTC

  • IS MATHEMATICAL PLATONISM IMMORAL? (with Davin Eastley) Isn’t math just an abstr

    IS MATHEMATICAL PLATONISM IMMORAL?

    (with Davin Eastley)

    Isn’t math just an abstraction? A language? Well, so is postmodernism a language. So is marxism a language. So are all monotheistic religions constructed of a language.

    1) Abstraction is a fuzzy word. It can either mean “imaginary” as in “I imagine”, or “analogy” which is a higher constraint. I think you mean, analogy.

    2) Operational language, in both science and philosophy, makes fuzzy, loaded, or erroneous analogy extremely difficult. Because, if you cannot explain something in operational language YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND IT. Operational language is not only a truth test, but a comprehension test.

    3) The language of mathematics is platonic. And the fact that it is so common to use terms like ‘mathematical structure’ is because of obscurant, non-operational (unscientific) language. But it does not have to be stated in obscurant, non-operational (unscientific) language.

    4) I think its useful to ask the question, WHY we need mathematics as a tool? Why? Since nothing in mathematics cannot be expressed in operational language, and mathematical platonism is an unnecessary but useful linguistic convenience, then, why do we need it to augment or extend our sense, perception, understanding, memory and comprehension?

    5) Does the flight of an arrow exist? Or can we forecast and recall the flight of an arrow? Does an n-dimensional cartesian point exist? Or can we describe such a thing via operations? Both are reproducible. What is the difference between the description of a unicorn and the description of a vector space? Surely we would not say that the unicorn exists?

    6) Existence is persistence. How do unicorns, flights of arrows, and vector spaces exist IF they exist? And is that existence a form of persistence? If so, do then, our emotions exist? Do gods exist?

    They do not exist. They can be constructed. They can be repeatedly constructed. But they cannot exist.

    Mathematics is the process of constructing proofs. Proofs are internally consistent. But they are not statements of ‘truth’. Mathematics as expressed is non-correspondent. However, there are no mathematical constructs that cannot be expressed as relations that ARE at least conditionally correspondent.

    And this is a very important question for ethics to answer. Yes, ETHICS.

    Obscurant language is unethical.

    It is no different to teach infinity as extant, versus as an impossible operation that we forecast as a potential, than it is to teach god is extant, versus the anthropomorphization of a given family structure too large to cooperate by familial means.

    It is no different to teach a limit function as a compensation for the variability of precision given the context of the calculation, than it is to teach that our collective belief can alter the course of natural events.

    These are fallacies.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-11-24 06:37:00 UTC

  • LESSONS Some people are just naturally unpleasant. They don’t know how to be oth

    LESSONS

    Some people are just naturally unpleasant. They don’t know how to be otherwise. They have a very narrow window of either environment or behavior in which they are tolerable, but the remainder of the time they’re just impossibly unpleasant to be around, and they can’t even grasp that fact.

    I have this sort of need to better, help, and even ‘rescue’ people, if they’re willing. And while I have a pretty good success rate, I fail too.

    For most people, making them feel safe, listening to them, giving them a little financial and emotional support, a stable force to lean on, and a behavioral example to work from, will allow them to sort of re-balance with the world.

    But, the only thing that will help some people is prescription drugs and years of counseling.

    I just wish I could tell going in which was which. But I can’t.

    I wrote a piece a long time ago called “The Cowardly Wise”. In it, I tried to make the point, that if you luck out with wisdom and achievement in life, and you don’t share it, then you’re depriving people of it – and that’s actually, in my book, cruel. Because people want you.

    But some people can’t do much with it, even if they pretend to.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-11-23 15:21:00 UTC

  • Im surrounded by beautiful women dancing. Life is awesome. 🙂

    Im surrounded by beautiful women dancing.

    Life is awesome. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2013-11-23 13:19:00 UTC

  • Veronika is SUCH a daddy’s girl. She looks and acts like her father, and loves h

    Veronika is SUCH a daddy’s girl. She looks and acts like her father, and loves him to pieces.

    That is a father’s job. It’s how you know you did it right.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-11-23 12:50:00 UTC

  • 1. THERE IS ONLY ONE LAW AND THAT IS PROPERTY. All else is a command given by ma

    1. THERE IS ONLY ONE LAW AND THAT IS PROPERTY.

    All else is a command given by man.

    2. THE ONLY NUMBERS ARE NATURAL NUMBERS.

    All else is ratio and relation.

    3. THERE IS ONLY ONE MEANS OF REASON, AND THAT IS NATURALISM.

    All else is deception or self deception.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-11-23 02:15:00 UTC

  • ANOTHER NAIL IN THE AMERICAN COFFIN Two centuries of senate supermajority brough

    ANOTHER NAIL IN THE AMERICAN COFFIN

    Two centuries of senate supermajority brought to an inglorious end.

    A Supermajority doesn’t just empower the opposition, it requires more homogenous policy with broader support.

    And it suppresses policy in general, such that you produce less government that is better thought out.

    I prefer no government of course. But the less of it and better of it is still an improvement.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-11-23 01:21:00 UTC

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    Source date (UTC): 2013-11-22 16:10:00 UTC