Author: Curt Doolittle

  • CUTE “A language is a dialect with an army and a navy”

    CUTE

    “A language is a dialect with an army and a navy”


    Source date (UTC): 2013-07-21 10:06:00 UTC

  • LESSONS ON ANTI-KEYNESIANISM FROM BENOIT MANDELBROT Keynesian noise is not signa

    LESSONS ON ANTI-KEYNESIANISM FROM BENOIT MANDELBROT

    Keynesian noise is not signal. It is just a selection bias that favors Leftist Dunning Kruegerists like Krugman, DeLong, Stiglitz and Thoma.

    LESSON FROM MILITARY HISTORIANS?

    All our economic data is noise representing the spread of anglo-american law by violence – and it’s entirely reversible.


    Source date (UTC): 2013-07-21 08:35:00 UTC

  • NOT THAT I REALLY LIKE METAPHYSICS But in my quest for demarcation between scien

    NOT THAT I REALLY LIKE METAPHYSICS

    But in my quest for demarcation between science and logic: is there any argument for existence independent of time, or is any representation of real world phenomenon time-dependent?

    I mean, logic is not time dependent, and by definition represents states to which we add time and measure change.

    We cannot perceive the long or short without altering time. THis is the value of high speed photography which reduces the unobservable to the observable, and measurement, which reduces the unobservable to analogy.

    Thanks


    Source date (UTC): 2013-07-21 08:00:00 UTC

  • THE MOST SERIOUS COGNITIVE BIAS? It depends on the problem we’re discussing. Pol

    THE MOST SERIOUS COGNITIVE BIAS?

    It depends on the problem we’re discussing.

    Politically, it’s the vanity of the presumption of knowledge:

    a) Projection bias: The tendency to unconsciously assume that others share the same or similar thoughts, beliefs, values, or positions.

    b) False consensus effect: The tendency for people to overestimate the degree to which others agree with them.

    c) Bandwagon effect: The tendency to do (or believe) things because many other people do (or believe) the same. Related to groupthink and herd behaviour.

    d) Confusing Economic and political truth with: preference, morality, signaling, reproductive organization, and reproductive strategy – (That’s all it is.)

    The only property of politics that is ‘true’ is that which is necessity in achieving the goals set forth by assumptions. And the goals set forth can mature with both short or long term consequences.

    Economic opportunity determines productive structure, which determines property rights and formal institutions, which determines reproductive structure – and norms that evolve are a trailing indicator.

    You can choose or not choose, to adopt guns germs and steel. But you cannot choose what happens if you do not adopt them.


    Source date (UTC): 2013-07-21 07:30:00 UTC

  • THE RATE OF TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE DETERMINES THE VALUE OF DIFFERENT MODELS OF THE

    THE RATE OF TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE DETERMINES THE VALUE OF DIFFERENT MODELS OF THE STATE

    The totalitarian system, whether it’s the military or the communist system, is very useful for doing very simple things: fighting wars, imposing education, imposing some system of property rights, and building infrastructure. These are processes of execution, not of invention, research and development in consumer goods. But the totalitarian system cannot improve affairs when there is no understanding of what it must to to approve affairs. The totalitarian system cannot administrate what it does not understand, and it can only understand what is simple and preexisting.

    The individualist system is superior for invention. It improves affairs. It is scientific not ideological, because science is simply trial and error. For this reason the individualist model is superior when you do not know what to do, because the resource which we call technological knowledge, has been exploited into applications that are beyond the grasp of any group of individuals.

    If your civilization ‘falls behind’ or becomes ‘calcified by bureaucracy’ then totalitarianism (or revolution) are useful tools for fixing it. But individualism will always out-innovate totalitarianism because it places no prior (input based) constraint on the individual actors in the population.

    We tend to think in terms of a mixed economy in which the state should focus on execution while the private sector focuses on invention. But our government is not constructed to facilitate this behavior. Its incentives are as Hoppe has shown, to consume cultural, civic, and resource capital as fast as possible in order to maintain power.

    This doesn’t mean it’s not POSSIBLE to create a mixed government. It’s just not possible to do so under representative democratic republicanism in a heterogeneous polity where each generation possesses the illusion of their own genius, instead of possessing the wisdom that they are members of a cycle reacting to a chain of prior cycles, and that their preferences, beliefs and attitudes, are predictable.

    It’s the technology that isn’t predictable.


    Source date (UTC): 2013-07-21 06:59:00 UTC

  • RT @FriedrichHayek: In many discussions one person is deliberatively careful, kn

    RT @FriedrichHayek: In many discussions one person is deliberatively careful, knowledgeable & possesses sound background judgment – & the o…


    Source date (UTC): 2013-07-21 05:30:32 UTC

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  • HOUSE I”m a pretty dedicated fashion nerd. So, how did I miss iCTZN? Great stuff

    http://www.ictzn.com/FASHION HOUSE

    I”m a pretty dedicated fashion nerd. So, how did I miss iCTZN?

    Great stuff.


    Source date (UTC): 2013-07-21 05:08:00 UTC

  • What Is Post-modernism?

    POSTMODERNISM IS AN ATTEMPT TO RECONSTRUCT TOTALITARIANISM DESPITE THE FAILURE OF SOCIALISM IN THEORY AND PRACTICE BY PROMOTING A NEW SECULAR RELIGION THROUGH REPETITION OF DESIRABLE BUT FALSE AND IRRATIONAL STATEMENTS AND REJECTING REALISM, SCIENCE AND HISTORY – THE PROMISE OF EQUALITY AS THE EQUIVALENT TO THE PROMISE OF LIFE AFTER DEATH.

    Postmodernism is a sophisticated set of ideas constructed to account for the failure of Socialism, both ideological and ‘scientific’ in theory and in practice, by changing the  values associated with the language and symbolism of realism (truth is objectively knowable by scientific means) and the nature of man (equality, diversity), and morality ( moral relativism).

    The same Left that traditionally promoted reason, science, optimism and equality for all – has now switched to themes of anti-reason, anti-science, double standards, and cynicism  But why? Because with the failure of socialism it has adopted the strategy of abrahamic and zoroastrian religions which involves reciting blatant falsehoods in by repetition, peer pressure and indoctrination: that multiculturalism and diversity are ‘good’, and that equality of outcome rather than opportunity is desirable and possible, despite the contrary theory and evidence. That norms – morals, ethics, and manners – have no meaning or value. That all cultures are relative except european, which is bad.  That men and women are equal, but men are bad.

    This ideology, like Marxism, is present largely in liberal arts departments, despite being rejected by STEM and Economics departments where science retains it’s superiority over anti-realism (and where IQ’s are significantly higher.)

    Thorough attempts have been made by Heidegger and Rorty in particular, to attempt to create a non-rational language for discussing experience in subjective terms, rather than objective.

    However, despite the failure of these intellectual endeavors, ideological Postmodernism has in fact been adopted as the religion of the state, left intellectuals, and liberal arts graduates at all levels.

    However, genetic science, neurobiology, anthropology, and economics continue to counter ideological postmodernism with scientific realism with scholars in each field continuing to undermine these attempts to construct a secular religion of anti-scientific irrationality without the burden of mysticism.

    The best way to explain postmodernism today, is the philosophical equivalent of christianity as was used against Roman pragmatism: the promise of magic to motivate the masses.




    From Stephen Hicks – Explaining Postmodernism.
    Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault (Expanded Edition): Stephen R. C. Hicks: 9780983258407: Amazon.com: Books

    https://www.quora.com/What-is-post-modernism

  • What Books Should Be Banned For Being Offensive To Women?

    What books should be banned for being offensive to males?

    🙂

    Troll question.  But the consistency of the responses to the question is encouraging.

    https://www.quora.com/What-books-should-be-banned-for-being-offensive-to-women

  • What Is Post-modernism?

    POSTMODERNISM IS AN ATTEMPT TO RECONSTRUCT TOTALITARIANISM DESPITE THE FAILURE OF SOCIALISM IN THEORY AND PRACTICE BY PROMOTING A NEW SECULAR RELIGION THROUGH REPETITION OF DESIRABLE BUT FALSE AND IRRATIONAL STATEMENTS AND REJECTING REALISM, SCIENCE AND HISTORY – THE PROMISE OF EQUALITY AS THE EQUIVALENT TO THE PROMISE OF LIFE AFTER DEATH.

    Postmodernism is a sophisticated set of ideas constructed to account for the failure of Socialism, both ideological and ‘scientific’ in theory and in practice, by changing the  values associated with the language and symbolism of realism (truth is objectively knowable by scientific means) and the nature of man (equality, diversity), and morality ( moral relativism).

    The same Left that traditionally promoted reason, science, optimism and equality for all – has now switched to themes of anti-reason, anti-science, double standards, and cynicism  But why? Because with the failure of socialism it has adopted the strategy of abrahamic and zoroastrian religions which involves reciting blatant falsehoods in by repetition, peer pressure and indoctrination: that multiculturalism and diversity are ‘good’, and that equality of outcome rather than opportunity is desirable and possible, despite the contrary theory and evidence. That norms – morals, ethics, and manners – have no meaning or value. That all cultures are relative except european, which is bad.  That men and women are equal, but men are bad.

    This ideology, like Marxism, is present largely in liberal arts departments, despite being rejected by STEM and Economics departments where science retains it’s superiority over anti-realism (and where IQ’s are significantly higher.)

    Thorough attempts have been made by Heidegger and Rorty in particular, to attempt to create a non-rational language for discussing experience in subjective terms, rather than objective.

    However, despite the failure of these intellectual endeavors, ideological Postmodernism has in fact been adopted as the religion of the state, left intellectuals, and liberal arts graduates at all levels.

    However, genetic science, neurobiology, anthropology, and economics continue to counter ideological postmodernism with scientific realism with scholars in each field continuing to undermine these attempts to construct a secular religion of anti-scientific irrationality without the burden of mysticism.

    The best way to explain postmodernism today, is the philosophical equivalent of christianity as was used against Roman pragmatism: the promise of magic to motivate the masses.




    From Stephen Hicks – Explaining Postmodernism.
    Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault (Expanded Edition): Stephen R. C. Hicks: 9780983258407: Amazon.com: Books

    https://www.quora.com/What-is-post-modernism