Curt Doolittle

Category: Civilization, History, and Anthropology

  • Just Like Industrial And Technological Revolution, What Possibly Will Be The Next Big Revolution Which Would Change The World Order?

    I’m going to posit a very different revolution, that is far more important. Lets look at a set of revolutionary inventions:
    1. Cooperative Revolution
    2. Tool Use Revolution
    3. Language Revolution (??)
    4. Oral History Revolution
    5. Metalwork revolution
    6. Reading, Writing and Arithmetic (first computational revolution)
    7. Greek Rationalism (Aristotelianism and stoicism)
    8. Christian Mysticism ( a regression if there ever was one )
    9. The Printing Press (close analogy to the computational revolution)
    10. Italian Accounting : complex production distribution and trade.
    11. Anglo-Italian Empiricism : industrialization
    12. German and Anglo Mathematics
    13. American Legal Revolution (attempt at making natural law internally consistent)
    14. Darwinian Revolution. (transition from moral justificationism – justification of an argument,  to scientific criticism – survival of ideas from criticism)
    15. Scientific Revolution (exiting human scale, and the socialization of research)
    16. Computer Storage and Computation Revolution. (exiting human operational capacity)

    What I am working on, and what I hope is the next great revolution, is to provide a reformation to counter the Pseudoscientific Era (Boaz, Marx, Freud, Cantor, Keynes, Mises) imposed by Academia, the same way that the British (English and Scottish enlightenments) provided a reformation against the era of mysticism (Justinian and Augustinian imposed Christianity).

    We know now that the Flynn effect is caused largely by the incremental conversion of human thinking from a multitude of case specific rules of utility (think recipes) to a limited number of general rules describing the behavior of similar systems (think theories).   Depending upon who you ask, this education in scientific thinking appears to have created a 20 point increase (more than one standard deviation) in demonstrated human intelligence. 

    Likewise, the application of scientific thought to the social sciences in order to overcome the equivalent of the second christianization of European civilization – this time with pseudoscience instead of mysticism –  will very likely produce an equal if not greater affect on our economies, our polities, and our demonstrated intelligence. 

    And like the conversion from mysticism to physical sciences, the conversion of pseudoscience to social science, will be just as difficult and costly and require an equally challenging and costly effort.

    We have only half-escaped our primitive mysticism.  The next revolutionary science is not robotics. It’s social science: morality: natural laws of cooperation.   With which any advancement in machine intelligence is governable, and without which it is a risk.

    THE WARRANTIES OF TRUTHFUL TESTIMONY
    If you cannot warranty that your testimony survives these tests then you cannot claim you speak truthfully.
    • Identity (property consistency)
    • Internal Consistency (logical consistency)
    • External Correspondence (empirical consistency)
    • Existential Possibility (operational definitions)
    • Parsimony (identified limits – what we refer to as falsification)
    • Full Accounting (full accounting of all costs including opportunity costs)
    • Demonstrable Morality (consisting of fully-informed, productive, warrantied, voluntary transfer, free of imposition of costs by externality.)

    Cheers

    Curt Doolittle
    The Propertarian Institute
    Kiev, Ukraine

    https://www.quora.com/Just-like-Industrial-and-Technological-Revolution-what-possibly-will-be-the-next-big-revolution-which-would-change-the-world-order

  • They have also no Noblessé Obligé. They have hierarchy but their concept of nobi

    They have also no Noblessé Obligé. They have hierarchy but their concept of nobility is power not paternalism. Signals. It’s +/-.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-11-24 12:01:56 UTC

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  • LEARNING ABOUT RUSSIAN HUMOR (sketch) They don’t have the tradition of slapstick

    LEARNING ABOUT RUSSIAN HUMOR

    (sketch)

    They don’t have the tradition of slapstick, and so pain isn’t funny – it’s a form of hyperbole. And they don’t generally engage in hyperbole either. (hyperbole is a universal component of american humor.) They don’t think being stupid is funny.And rather than finding humor in the violation of manners that is so common in western humor, people find humor in the violation of the principle of usefulness: futility.

    But, they do think inebriated behavior is funny. And, the theme of ‘cognitive impairment’ is what ties together the most intellectual joke, and the most base: cognitive impairment of ignorance, bias, experience, ego, rule following, or whatever other source can be imagined.

    To some degree this mirrors old english teasing, riddle, trickery, and pranking (my tradition). Although trickery in english humor is a criticism for not paying attention, not a criticism of inescapable and ever-present human stupidity.

    I actually can’t watch american humor because of its slapstick. I don’t find it funny. Worse, it’s stupid and annoying. But most russian humor contains bitter insight into the human condition. And I pretty much always find it funny. Even if it always seems a bit sad or fatalistic.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-11-24 06:17:00 UTC

  • As a Yankee from upstate

    http://www.unz.com/isteve/how-to-decimate-a-city/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-to-decimate-a-cityInteresting. As a Yankee from upstate

    Source date (UTC): 2015-11-23 08:54:00 UTC

  • (venting) I will be happy when all these 60’s scions are settled in the earth, a

    (venting)

    I will be happy when all these 60’s scions are settled in the earth, and I don’t have to hear one more time how great the sixties were. I was there. They sucked. It was the proletarian generation. The first chance the proles had at participating in higher education and consumer society, and look what they did with it. … Yeah, I’m sure you’re impressed by the rapid expansion of folk, prole, and dance music. Sorry. It’s the hot-dog of the artistic diet. Dished up in heaping piles for the bread and circus of the half human beasts that destroyed our great artistic civilization. Thankfully, your forgettable audio and visual dysentery will be forgotten, and dismissed as another product of the second attempted conversion of the west, and the century of pseudoscience, propaganda, outrightlying, and neo-mysticism. So die already. Thanks.

    Signed

    The Future

    (vent off)

    Source date (UTC): 2015-11-23 05:05:00 UTC

  • Not quite correct. Tribe=Kin. Cult=Non-kin. Cults survive longer the higher the

    Not quite correct. Tribe=Kin. Cult=Non-kin. Cults survive longer the higher the behavioral cost of entry. Tribe=Respect/Cult=Not. 🙁

    Source date (UTC): 2015-11-22 19:20:47 UTC

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  • Reframe Developed and Developing Nations as High Trust and Low Trust Nations.

    Reframe: DEVELOPING/DEVELOPED Should be restated as High Trust vs High Corruption. This would more clearly address the cause of differences. WORDS MATTER: “The High Trust World vs the Low Trust World.” We can implement fiat money and credit but not high trust. (ie: common law)

  • Reframe Developed and Developing Nations as High Trust and Low Trust Nations.

    Reframe: DEVELOPING/DEVELOPED Should be restated as High Trust vs High Corruption. This would more clearly address the cause of differences. WORDS MATTER: “The High Trust World vs the Low Trust World.” We can implement fiat money and credit but not high trust. (ie: common law)

  • The Shift In Violence

    1) Violence is not less. It shifts from violent to indirect, and transfers from destructive to constructive use. War. Religion. Law. Credit. 2) Violence. Theft shifts from territory and women, to things, to money, to taxation, to credit, to fraud, to free riding, to conspiracy. 3) Much of the world is less violent because of prosperity. The rest is because most thefts like most property is of non-physical things. 4) If I respect life, property, norm, and tradition with expectation of purchasing a future, yet policy steals it from me – why respect it? 5) Much of postmodern theft depends on the perpetuation of habits without the incentive to produce them. We have run out of both. 6)If we no longer have the incentive to respect life, property, norm, and tradition, then why not instead construct an order in which we do? 7) Rule of Law. Strict Construction. Textualism. Property-en-toto. Informational commons. Universal standing. Class Houses. Market Gov’t.

  • The Shift In Violence

    1) Violence is not less. It shifts from violent to indirect, and transfers from destructive to constructive use. War. Religion. Law. Credit. 2) Violence. Theft shifts from territory and women, to things, to money, to taxation, to credit, to fraud, to free riding, to conspiracy. 3) Much of the world is less violent because of prosperity. The rest is because most thefts like most property is of non-physical things. 4) If I respect life, property, norm, and tradition with expectation of purchasing a future, yet policy steals it from me – why respect it? 5) Much of postmodern theft depends on the perpetuation of habits without the incentive to produce them. We have run out of both. 6)If we no longer have the incentive to respect life, property, norm, and tradition, then why not instead construct an order in which we do? 7) Rule of Law. Strict Construction. Textualism. Property-en-toto. Informational commons. Universal standing. Class Houses. Market Gov’t.