Curt Doolittle

Category: Epistemology and Method

  • A (Very) Short Course In Decidability.

    (learning propertarianism)

    [W]hat does Decidable mean?

    REVERSE: In logic we state that a question (statement) is DECIDABLE if an algorithm (set of operations) exists within the limits of the system (rules, axioms, theories) that can produce a decision (choice). In other words, if the sufficient information for the decision is present within the system (ie: is decidable).

    OBVERSE: Instead, we should determine if there is a means of choosing without the need for additional information supplied from outside the system (ie: not discretionary).

    Or in simple terms, if DISCRETION is unnecessary, a proposition is decidable.

    This separates reason (or calculation in the wider sense) from computation (algorithm).  

  • CALCULABLE, RATIONAL, IRRATIONAL, ARATIONAL and “BLACK BOX” (draft) (learning pr

    CALCULABLE, RATIONAL, IRRATIONAL, ARATIONAL and “BLACK BOX”

    (draft) (learning propertarianism)

    DEFINITIONS:

    CALCULATIVE (HYPOTHETICAL) vs COMPUTATIONAL(DETERMINISTIC) – A process is CALCULATIVE if human beings are required to perform it, and COMPUTATIONAL if (current) computers can perform it.

    CALCULATIVE INSTITUTIONS – The set of technologies that permit human beings to extend their perception and comparison ability, and therefore their ability to understand and forecast in complexity, particularly a division of knowledge and labor, as a means of assisting in planning, forecasting, production and decision making. Specifically: numbers, counting, arithmetic, accounting, algebra, calculus, statistics, combined with money, numeric time, banking, interest, contract, rule of law, combined with narrative, history, objective truth, combined with property, exchange, trade, markets.

    CALCULATION / CALCULATIVE: A calculation is a deliberate process for transforming one or more inputs into one or more results, with variable change. The term is generally used to describe a spectrum of methods of reasoning, from the very definite arithmetical calculation of using an algorithm, to the vague heuristics of calculating a strategy in a competition or calculating the chance of a successful relationship between two people.

    OPERATIONAL: A recipe for a description of a series of actions that produce a result within a limit of precision. (an existence proof)

    COMPUTATIONAL: A sequence of mechanically producible and repeatable operations.

    LOGICAL – A sequence of operations Not entirely a synonym for rational, since logical statements should be formally testable, while rational statements nearly need not be irrational.

    RATIONAL – Reasonable. Reasoned. A conclusion achieved through the process of reason. Drawing hypotheses from juxtaposing facts against each other and determining their relations. Does not imply that the answer is correct. Only that logic was reasoning was properly applied.

    IRRATIONAL – Not reasonable. Not correctly reasoned. In philosophical usage, means illogical, or poor reasoning. Specifically that the reasoning applied or decision made, does not result in the desired ends.

    ARATIONAL – Having no rational characteristics; having no capacity to reason. In philosophy, not within the domain of what can be understood or analyzed by reason; outside the competence of the rules of reason.

    ARATIONAL BLACK BOX – I use the terms “Black Box” and “Arational” to refer to non-logical content that produces beneficial ends. The problem with all religions other than perhaps stoicism and Buddhism, is that their resulting strategy differs from their claimed mythology. Christianity for example is a set of myths and ideals the purpose of which is to encourage if not force the extension of kinship love to non-kin, and by consequence, produce a high trust society.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-30 15:42:00 UTC

  • #tcot #tlot Strict construction merely makes it very hard to err, bias, and dece

    #tcot #tlot Strict construction merely makes it very hard to err, bias, and deceive: it’s falsification. What remains is a truth candidate.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-30 10:05:07 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/626695006292717568

  • #tcot #tlot I’m not arrogant when I say that there is all philosophy prior to Pr

    #tcot #tlot I’m not arrogant when I say that there is all philosophy prior to Propertarianism, and all after. Justificationism is now dead.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-30 10:03:04 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/626694489520926720

  • #tcot #tlot The reason I’m merging philosophy with science, and destroying ratio

    #tcot #tlot The reason I’m merging philosophy with science, and destroying rationalism is simple: philosophy has been used largely to lie.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-30 10:01:37 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/626694123626622976

  • MONUMENTS Outdoor monuments must be of stone, brick(ceramic) or bronze. Everythi

    MONUMENTS

    Outdoor monuments must be of stone, brick(ceramic) or bronze. Everything else is pretense of monument at a discount.

    False signals are lies.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-30 06:40:00 UTC

  • OUR FEELINGS TELL US VERY LITTLE WITHOUT BOUNDARIES Falsification (Limits) tells

    OUR FEELINGS TELL US VERY LITTLE WITHOUT BOUNDARIES

    Falsification (Limits) tells us what is true. Confirmation is often comforting lie.

    Heroin feels good. Many drugs feel good. Beer and chips and soccer feel good. Democracy feels good. Security feels good. But many things that feel good are not in fact good. Comforting lies are suicidal.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-30 06:36:00 UTC

  • Education: We Do It Wrong.

    [W]e do it wrong. 1) Reading and writing. 2) Testimony( witness, grammar, rhetoric, logic, moral law, contract). 3) History(technical,organizational,economic,artistic). 4) Arithmetic( arithmetic, checkbooks, accounting, credit and interest, banking), 5) Mathematics(algebra, trigonometry, statistics, calculus), 6) Economics (micro-economics, institutions of cooperation, macro-economics). 7) Physics(physics, chemistry, biology). Note the absence of politics and indoctrination.

    Get a job as young as you can. Youth employment not immigrant employment. Elderly employment, not immigrant employment. Travel for a year or two in your late teens. Borrowing to travel is the best investment you can make in your youth. Parochialism is the greatest liability you can most easily overcome. ( Look at the Mormons ) Or do two years in military service learning emergency skills, crowd control, civil defense, and the basics of weapons, fire, movement, communication and fitness. Then go to college. If you go to college you can learn a skill: a quantitative discipline. Or you can seek entertainment: non-quantitative fields. College is a *shitty* filter with not enough variation in filtration. Little of it is useful. And universities teach and distribute cathedral ignorance. Learning selflessness, cooperation, variation, emergency and fighting teaches you to be successful regardless of what technical skill you possess. Then learn a technical skill: the hardest that you can manage and feel confident in using.

  • Education: We Do It Wrong.

    [W]e do it wrong. 1) Reading and writing. 2) Testimony( witness, grammar, rhetoric, logic, moral law, contract). 3) History(technical,organizational,economic,artistic). 4) Arithmetic( arithmetic, checkbooks, accounting, credit and interest, banking), 5) Mathematics(algebra, trigonometry, statistics, calculus), 6) Economics (micro-economics, institutions of cooperation, macro-economics). 7) Physics(physics, chemistry, biology). Note the absence of politics and indoctrination.

    Get a job as young as you can. Youth employment not immigrant employment. Elderly employment, not immigrant employment. Travel for a year or two in your late teens. Borrowing to travel is the best investment you can make in your youth. Parochialism is the greatest liability you can most easily overcome. ( Look at the Mormons ) Or do two years in military service learning emergency skills, crowd control, civil defense, and the basics of weapons, fire, movement, communication and fitness. Then go to college. If you go to college you can learn a skill: a quantitative discipline. Or you can seek entertainment: non-quantitative fields. College is a *shitty* filter with not enough variation in filtration. Little of it is useful. And universities teach and distribute cathedral ignorance. Learning selflessness, cooperation, variation, emergency and fighting teaches you to be successful regardless of what technical skill you possess. Then learn a technical skill: the hardest that you can manage and feel confident in using.

  • The Purpose of the Technologies of Truth and Falsehood.

    [T]he purpose of that technology that we call ‘Truth’ is largely one of persuasion. The purpose of that technology we call ‘falsehood’ is largely the prevention of persuasion by imaginary, erroneous, biased, wishful, or deceitful means. In any scale beyond the directly perceivable – meaning beyond no more than 150 people – we cannot rely upon persuasion but instead must rely upon falsification: reason not to do something.

    There are few known goods. There are some known good processes. At any scale assent is the default. Falsification by the imposition of costs not assent by majority rule. Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine.