Curt Doolittle

Category: Commentary, Critique, and Response

  • (more on eli harman and jared how on truediltom’s stream) So what you saw was El

    (more on eli harman and jared how on truediltom’s stream)

    So what you saw was Eli understanding (without any effort) Howe, but no attempt for Howe to understand Eli. Eli was searching for opportunities to explain. Howe was searching for opportunities to disagree and repeat talking points. And making zero effort to understand. Seek to understand. Define terms. Create models. Paraphrase your opponent.

    The reality is that these subjects are over the heads of the people so passionately debating them.

    Libertarianism = Marxism = Neoconservatism = Parasitism.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-21 08:27:00 UTC

  • “I think the biggest problem with arguing is two people whose beliefs are differ

    —“I think the biggest problem with arguing is two people whose beliefs are different at the foundation will probably never be able to convince each other of anything.”— Skyler Sickinger

    Well I disagree because we see it happen all the time between people who are intellectually honest. What they disagree over is (a) predicted people’s behavior, (b) utility of the idea in changing it (c) priority among available ideas.

    If you define terms and make models (constructions) then it’s very easy for intellectually honest and able people to agree.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-21 07:48:00 UTC

  • @Outsideness ( Just a humble thank you for points of articulate and poetic light

    @Outsideness ( Just a humble thank you for points of articulate and poetic light amidst the industrialized production of sophistry. )

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-21 02:21:14 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/998388216062533638

  • (Bait and Ban. Works Flawlessly.)

    (Bait and Ban. Works Flawlessly.)

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-21 02:15:11 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/998386694952022016

  • (Honestly, I’ve been baiting Trolls and trying to dox some of them.)

    (Honestly, I’ve been baiting Trolls and trying to dox some of them.)

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-21 02:11:38 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/998385801695318016

    Reply addressees: @catoletters

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/998384141518491650

    IN REPLY TO:

    @catoletters

    Toll Warning: An increasing # of trolls are baiting people to say things that will get your account suspended. Attempt dialogue, but when it deteriorates and trolls emotionally attack, better to block trolls and protect your account so that you can continue to share information

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/998384141518491650

  • The Grammar of Pseudoscience

    (Sorry for interjecting on your post but it’s such a great example of psychologism versus incentives, it’s hard to let the opportunity pass.) INTERSECTIONALITY: The study of intersections between forms or systems of oppression, domination or discrimination. Or in economics (real social science, not pseudoscience) we call it the study of formal and informal institutions, and the competition between heterogeneous interests, in markets for association, cooperation, reproduction, production, production of commons, production of polities, production of group evolutionary strategies. IDENTITY POLITICS: A tendency for people of a particular religion, race, social background, etc., to form exclusive political alliances, moving away from traditional broad-based party politics. Or in economics (real social science, not pseudoscience) we call it ‘kin selection’ and ‘rational self interest’ because the cost of in-group cooperation(opportunity) is lower and the return on in-group signaling higher. The long term consequences result either in small populations and nationalism or large populations and castes. This is because our biological differences are extraordinarily differentiating in all markets for cooperation. THE GRAMMAR OF INTELLECTUAL FRAUD If suggestion, loading and framing are present in a discourse then it’s not science, it’s pseudoscience. All human behavior is reducible to the same laws as that of the physical universe: defeat of entropy. Emotions are just our reward or punishment for success or failure in fulfillment of those laws. All speech is either descriptive (in economic terms) or coercive (in psychological terms). And therefore truthful or fraudulent. There are only three methods of organizing human beings (coercion). 1) Force, 2) Compensation, 3) Ostracization (guilt, shaming, rallying). Truth is the only reciprocal compensation among those choices. Everything else is ignorance, error, bias, deceit, fraud, or predation. Cheers -Curt.

  • The Grammar of Pseudoscience

    (Sorry for interjecting on your post but it’s such a great example of psychologism versus incentives, it’s hard to let the opportunity pass.) INTERSECTIONALITY: The study of intersections between forms or systems of oppression, domination or discrimination. Or in economics (real social science, not pseudoscience) we call it the study of formal and informal institutions, and the competition between heterogeneous interests, in markets for association, cooperation, reproduction, production, production of commons, production of polities, production of group evolutionary strategies. IDENTITY POLITICS: A tendency for people of a particular religion, race, social background, etc., to form exclusive political alliances, moving away from traditional broad-based party politics. Or in economics (real social science, not pseudoscience) we call it ‘kin selection’ and ‘rational self interest’ because the cost of in-group cooperation(opportunity) is lower and the return on in-group signaling higher. The long term consequences result either in small populations and nationalism or large populations and castes. This is because our biological differences are extraordinarily differentiating in all markets for cooperation. THE GRAMMAR OF INTELLECTUAL FRAUD If suggestion, loading and framing are present in a discourse then it’s not science, it’s pseudoscience. All human behavior is reducible to the same laws as that of the physical universe: defeat of entropy. Emotions are just our reward or punishment for success or failure in fulfillment of those laws. All speech is either descriptive (in economic terms) or coercive (in psychological terms). And therefore truthful or fraudulent. There are only three methods of organizing human beings (coercion). 1) Force, 2) Compensation, 3) Ostracization (guilt, shaming, rallying). Truth is the only reciprocal compensation among those choices. Everything else is ignorance, error, bias, deceit, fraud, or predation. Cheers -Curt.

  • The Atlantic’s 2009 Atlantic 50 list of the 50 most influential pundits.

    Retweeted Steve Sailer (@Steve_Sailer): Here are demographics of “The Atlantic’s” 2009 Atlantic 50 list of the 50 most influential pundits. I found backgrounds of 48.5 of the 50: 96% white 82% male 50% ethnically Jewish 23% ethnically R Catholic 20% ethnically Protestant 3% Armenian 2% black 1% Hisp 2% Muslim https://t.co/O8JMvNw3wj

  • The Atlantic’s 2009 Atlantic 50 list of the 50 most influential pundits.

    Retweeted Steve Sailer (@Steve_Sailer): Here are demographics of “The Atlantic’s” 2009 Atlantic 50 list of the 50 most influential pundits. I found backgrounds of 48.5 of the 50: 96% white 82% male 50% ethnically Jewish 23% ethnically R Catholic 20% ethnically Protestant 3% Armenian 2% black 1% Hisp 2% Muslim https://t.co/O8JMvNw3wj

  • “I believe that the enlightened people, should immediately remove themselves fro

    –“I believe that the enlightened people, should immediately remove themselves from the repulsive non-culture whites have perpetrated upon them.”—Andrea McIntosh

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-21 00:23:32 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/998358593727582208