Curt Doolittle

Category: Epistemology and Method

  • The Value of Truth Increases with the Scale of the Consequences

    [T]he more parsimonious the statement of correspondence the more truth content and decidability. (This is a very loaded sentence.)
     
    As scale increases or decreases, and as consequence increases, and as the number of people affected increase, then the value of truth increases.
     
    Conversely, loose general rules expressed allegorically or in parable of one king or another are equally useful for individual action.
     
    For these reasons we increasingly favor increases in precision (parsimony) as the division of labor and scale of polity have increased.
     
    Because our collective actions are of greater consequences to those external to the decision.
     
    That is the explanation for the value of different systems of thought.
     
    Wisdom can be found many places but truth that survives falsification or criticism is a different thing altogether.
     
    In matters of money or life and death I think most moral men prefer to be adjudicated by truth.

  • The Value of Truth Increases with the Scale of the Consequences

    [T]he more parsimonious the statement of correspondence the more truth content and decidability. (This is a very loaded sentence.)
     
    As scale increases or decreases, and as consequence increases, and as the number of people affected increase, then the value of truth increases.
     
    Conversely, loose general rules expressed allegorically or in parable of one king or another are equally useful for individual action.
     
    For these reasons we increasingly favor increases in precision (parsimony) as the division of labor and scale of polity have increased.
     
    Because our collective actions are of greater consequences to those external to the decision.
     
    That is the explanation for the value of different systems of thought.
     
    Wisdom can be found many places but truth that survives falsification or criticism is a different thing altogether.
     
    In matters of money or life and death I think most moral men prefer to be adjudicated by truth.

  • The Aristocracy Game.

    [T]HE ARISTOCRACY GAME. We don’t play truth or dare. We play truth or DIE.

  • The Aristocracy Game.

    [T]HE ARISTOCRACY GAME. We don’t play truth or dare. We play truth or DIE.

  • “Truth is a moral and ethical absolute. Truth works. By the time you’re thinking

    —“Truth is a moral and ethical absolute. Truth works. By the time you’re thinking it’s relative, and that it depends on a person’s character (or lack thereof), this reveals more about you than you would probably like to. And if you don’t see how the Truth benefits you even in the short term, I would advise you to try it, even if only for a month or two. Chances are you will not go back.”—Johannes Meixner

    Source date (UTC): 2015-08-21 20:08:00 UTC

  • Curiously, what many people don’t realize is the extent to which giving truthful

    —Curiously, what many people don’t realize is the extent to which giving truthful testimony, having skin in the game (borrowing from Taleb), speaking one’s mind without regards to political correctness, and acting in line with what one says, generate both short-term AND long-term gains.— Johannes Meixner

    Source date (UTC): 2015-08-21 04:49:00 UTC

  • THE SECOND RESTORATION We had to restore science in order to end more than a tho

    THE SECOND RESTORATION

    We had to restore science in order to end more than a thousand years of levantine mysticism. We are now going to have to restore truth in order to end more than a century of levantine pseudoscience.

    Liberty in our lifetimes.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-08-16 06:43:00 UTC

  • PROGRAMMING RELIES UPON STRICT CONSTRUCTION And decidability. So do propertarian

    PROGRAMMING RELIES UPON STRICT CONSTRUCTION

    And decidability.

    So do propertarian ethics.

    That is the reason I figured it out.

    And it’s the reason hayek didn’t.

    I think he would have but he started with psychology.

    I started with decidability and strict construction.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-08-11 15:22:00 UTC

  • Pronunciation. Didn’t is NOT pronounced “didint”, “did-int”, “dident”, “did-ent”

    Pronunciation.

    Didn’t is NOT pronounced “didint”, “did-int”, “dident”, “did-ent” or “di-dunt’ but “didnnt”.

    Hasn’t is NOT pronounced “hasint”, “has-int”, “hasent”, “has-ent” or “haz-unt” but “haznnt”

    Wasn’t is NOT pronounced “wasint”, “was-int”, “wasent”, “was-ent” or “waz-unt” but “wasnnt”.

    This is one of the main signals of class in American English. The upper classes preserve higher cost pronunciation as a means of signaling. Just as received pronunciation was spread as a means of signaling. And conversely to the french, which effeminised the pronunciation of the court’s more germanic sound as a means of signaling.

    Signals matter. They affect everyone you interact with.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-08-11 13:57:00 UTC

  • THOSE WHO FEAR THE TRUTH – DISCOUNTING. The truth may be an advantage, neutral,

    THOSE WHO FEAR THE TRUTH – DISCOUNTING.

    The truth may be an advantage, neutral, or disadvantage for you. But if the truth is a disadvantage, that does not mean that we need to lie to preserve that advantage. Instead, we need to determine what we have to trade to restore it. But there are two reasons that we cannot conduct a trade to restore an advantage: (a) the institutions make trade impossible (as does democracy), or (b) you seek avoiding the payment of the cost of the exchange to obtain the advantage.

    THERE ARE NO FREE LUNCHES

    Source date (UTC): 2015-08-11 08:56:00 UTC