Category: Commentary, Critique, and Response

RESPONSE TO STEVE’S “BIG TEN”

(While I can agree that most of steve’s responses are true with my undrestanding, I cannot say that they would be interpreted correctly by those without such understanding.

Most of my responses illustrate the far greater precision of Testimonial Truth over the current vernacular. Some of my statements include some insight into why Steve’s observations are true.)

1. We’re in the middle of a dark age.

(CURT: yes. Where Poincare labeled current thinking ‘mere philosophy not mathematics’, and Hayek said ‘new era of mysticism’, I call it ‘the pseudoscientific era’ or ‘the second chirstianization of the west – this time through material false promises whereas in the ancient era, through supernatural false promises of life after death. But yes, we are in either the beginning or early middle of a dark age.)

2. Intelligence is about thought processes, not IQ.

(CURT: Either no or unclear. IQ is a physical property of brains, and demonstrated intelligence includes more than IQ. If that’s the meaning the author intends it should be stated as such. demonstrated intelligence requires short term memory, general knowledge, and the absence of ignorance-creating errors, biases, and deceits. )

3. Extroversion and critical thinking are often inversely

related.

(CURT: Depends upon your definition of extroversion. If it means you obtain information from others vs test it yourself then, yes. If you mean whether we ‘recharge’ by social interaction or ‘quiet time’ that doesn’t appear to be true. Socrates was a gadfly. I work in cafe’s. )

4. The Copenhagen interpretation is the second-worst

idea in the modern era.

(CURT: Yeah, well that’s for damned sure.)

5. Cantor’s “diagonal proof” is an embarrassment to

human reason and will be used as a demonstration of

the irrationalism of the 20th century.

(CURT: Um, it is possible to restate his use of mathematical platonism in operational – and therefore mathematical – terms, by simply talking about generating sets of numbers operationally. But as stated, yes, it’s mystic not math.)

6. The theory of evolution has holes in it.

(CURT: I don’t know what that means, but I think it doesn’t. I think our understanding of genetics has holes in it. The theory of evolution is pretty simple. )

7. Rationalist theories of economics are correct, but

they’ve been greatly damaged by Hoppe.

(CURT: this is incorrect. there is but one epistemological method available to man, and one of the tests of internal consistency consists in the possibility of operational construction by subjective testing. This means rationalist theories of economics are false, and hoppe’s justifications are false. But it also means his deductions from private property as a means of decidability are correct.)

8. Governments are unnecessary.

(CURT: False. Monopoly governments are unnecessary. if we have a nomocracy (rule of law) and we create markets under rule of law for the construction of commons, then in fact we have removed DISCRETION from rule, but we still are ruled – by natural law.)

9. Confusion is the source of nearly all mankind’s

problems.

(CURT: this is… not helpful. I would say that in a period or rapid change, we lack the technologies of commensurability to resolve our differences. In fact, I think ‘science’ or what we call Aristotelianism is working its way across humanity quite nicely at this point.)