Philosophy, to be true, must be critical. There are no answers in philosophy itself. It’s conceptual laundry detergent. Philosophy consists either of telling us how to speak truthfully, or it is just a means of loading, framing and overloading The greatest lies in history have been produced philosophically: monotheism, marxism, freudianism, postmodernism. Philosophy has done more harm that good. That’s because it’s an exceptional vehicle for deception by suggestion. Philosophy can be performed wishfully, morally, rationally, historically, and scientifically. Only the last has any value. Does your government improve cooperation and exchange, or create conflict and takings? That’s an easy question to answer. But why must we persist in a submissive mythos of federation, truth, trust and love, instead of just truth, trust and love? The Church then chartered nobility with love and trust – and left them to war and justice (production). They federated our tribes The Church manufactured idealism, and used Love to break kin and tribal biases, extending trust, and creating economic velocity. Aristocracy must rule by the formal logic of cooperation: non parasitism expressed as property. Else be ruled by worse. That is my answer to yesterday’s question about the failure of South Africa and the genocide conducted against its farmers. Rule of law, and production of commons are two different things. Democracy is a catastrophe because it merges law and commons. Failing to parent the young, and failing to parent less advanced polities differ only in scale. Aristocracy must parent. Take nothing not paid for. Master a craft. Speak the truth. Safeguard the weak. Mete justice. Improve commons. Show love. Add beauty. Cultures vary in their needs for commons. But rule of law, common law, property rights are objectively universal for all men. Rule of Law and Contractually Constructed Commons are different things. Rulers can adjudicate while leaving commons to locals. Rule and Colonization are two different things. Rule by rule of law and strict property rights is objectively universally moral. Religions evolved for the poor. Philosophy for the middle. And Law for the Ruling classes. The three metodologies reflect perceived control. Islam is a religion of submission, Christianity less so. But western Aristocracy is a cult of non-submission to man, government, or god. I don’t like analogies. They’re used to lie. Myths are analogies. But at least Christianity’s myths teach us love, truthfulness and beauty. The obvious failure of progressivism is that it is constructed entirely of lies. It isn’t philosophy then. It’s just lying. Cultures are not equal. They suppress parasitism more or less, display corruption more or less, and speak the truth more or less.
Category: Epistemology and Method
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The Costs of Truth
[T]RUTH, HONESTY, COSTS, JUSTIFICATION, CRITICISM COSTS OF TRUTH Hierarchy of Truths by internality to externality of costs.: 1) True enough to imagine a conceptual relationship 2) True enough for me to feel good about myself. 3) True enough for me to take actions that produce positive results. 4) True enough for me to not cause others to react negatively to me. 5) True enough to resolve a conflict without subjective opinion among my fellow people with similar values. 6) True enough to resolve a conflict without subjective opinion across different peoples with different values. 7) True regardless of all opinions or perspectives. 8) Tautologically true: in that the two things are equal. CATEGORIES OF TRUTH 1) TRUTH: That testimony (description) you would give, if your knowledge (information) was complete, your language was sufficient, stated without error, cleansed of bias, and absent deceit, within the scope of precision limited to the context of the question you wish to answer; and the promise that another possessed of the same knowledge (information), performing the same due diligence, having the same experiences, would provide the same testimony. 2) TRUTHFULNESS: that testimony (description) you give if your knowledge (information) is incomplete, your language is insufficient, you have performed due diligence in the elimination of error, imaginary content, wishful thinking, bias, and deceit; within the scope of precision limited to the question you wish to answer; and which you warranty to be so; and the promise that another possessed of the knowledge, performing the same due diligence, having the same experiences, would provide the same testimony. 3) HONESTY: that testimony (description) you give with full knowledge that knowledge is incomplete, your language is insufficient, but you have not performed due diligence in the elimination of error and bias, but which you warranty is free of deceit; within the scope of precision limited to the question you wish to answer; and the promise that another possess of the same knowledge (information), performing the same due diligence, having the same experiences, would provide the same testimony. ….CATEGORIES OF HONESTY ….3.1 Demonstrated Preference: – Evidence of intuition, preference, opinion, and position as demonstrated by your actions, independent of your statements. ….3.2 Position: (criticism) – a theoretical statement that survives one’s available criticisms about external questions. ….3.3 Opinion: (justificationism) – a justified uncritical statement given the limits of one’s knowledge about external questions. ….3.4 Preference (rational expression) : a justification of one’s biases (wants). ….3.5 Intuition: (sentimental expression) – an uncritical, uncriticized, response to information that expresses a measure of existing biases (priors). JUSTIFICATION (SUPPORT) VS CRITICISM (SURVIVAL) 1) OBVERSE: We justify moral arguments given the requirement to preserve the disproportionate rewards of Cooperation, without which survival is nearly impossible. Law and Morality are Contractual, informationally complete, and open only to increases in precision – we know the first principles of cooperation. 2) REVERSE: We criticize intuitions, hypothesis, theories and laws to remove imagination, error, bias, wishful thinking, and deception from our imaginations in order to identify truth candidates. Reality is Non Contractual, informationally incomplete, and forever open to revision. We do not yet know the fist principles of the universe. The reason it took us so long to identify the meaning of truth (Testimony) was that we evolved from moral and cooperative creatures, and we evolved science from moral and cooperative and therefore justificationary reasoning. However, now that we know the first principles of cooperation we can complete the evolution of physical science by adding to it the criticisms necessary for cooperative science: Physical Science Criticisms i. identity (category) ii. internal consistency (logic) iii. external correspondence (often called empirical testing) iv. existential possibility (existence proof) v. limits (falsification) (often called parsimony) Additional Cooperative Science Criticisms: vi. full accounting (prohibition on selection bias) vii. morality (consisting of productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary transfers of property en toto)
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The Costs of Truth
[T]RUTH, HONESTY, COSTS, JUSTIFICATION, CRITICISM COSTS OF TRUTH Hierarchy of Truths by internality to externality of costs.: 1) True enough to imagine a conceptual relationship 2) True enough for me to feel good about myself. 3) True enough for me to take actions that produce positive results. 4) True enough for me to not cause others to react negatively to me. 5) True enough to resolve a conflict without subjective opinion among my fellow people with similar values. 6) True enough to resolve a conflict without subjective opinion across different peoples with different values. 7) True regardless of all opinions or perspectives. 8) Tautologically true: in that the two things are equal. CATEGORIES OF TRUTH 1) TRUTH: That testimony (description) you would give, if your knowledge (information) was complete, your language was sufficient, stated without error, cleansed of bias, and absent deceit, within the scope of precision limited to the context of the question you wish to answer; and the promise that another possessed of the same knowledge (information), performing the same due diligence, having the same experiences, would provide the same testimony. 2) TRUTHFULNESS: that testimony (description) you give if your knowledge (information) is incomplete, your language is insufficient, you have performed due diligence in the elimination of error, imaginary content, wishful thinking, bias, and deceit; within the scope of precision limited to the question you wish to answer; and which you warranty to be so; and the promise that another possessed of the knowledge, performing the same due diligence, having the same experiences, would provide the same testimony. 3) HONESTY: that testimony (description) you give with full knowledge that knowledge is incomplete, your language is insufficient, but you have not performed due diligence in the elimination of error and bias, but which you warranty is free of deceit; within the scope of precision limited to the question you wish to answer; and the promise that another possess of the same knowledge (information), performing the same due diligence, having the same experiences, would provide the same testimony. ….CATEGORIES OF HONESTY ….3.1 Demonstrated Preference: – Evidence of intuition, preference, opinion, and position as demonstrated by your actions, independent of your statements. ….3.2 Position: (criticism) – a theoretical statement that survives one’s available criticisms about external questions. ….3.3 Opinion: (justificationism) – a justified uncritical statement given the limits of one’s knowledge about external questions. ….3.4 Preference (rational expression) : a justification of one’s biases (wants). ….3.5 Intuition: (sentimental expression) – an uncritical, uncriticized, response to information that expresses a measure of existing biases (priors). JUSTIFICATION (SUPPORT) VS CRITICISM (SURVIVAL) 1) OBVERSE: We justify moral arguments given the requirement to preserve the disproportionate rewards of Cooperation, without which survival is nearly impossible. Law and Morality are Contractual, informationally complete, and open only to increases in precision – we know the first principles of cooperation. 2) REVERSE: We criticize intuitions, hypothesis, theories and laws to remove imagination, error, bias, wishful thinking, and deception from our imaginations in order to identify truth candidates. Reality is Non Contractual, informationally incomplete, and forever open to revision. We do not yet know the fist principles of the universe. The reason it took us so long to identify the meaning of truth (Testimony) was that we evolved from moral and cooperative creatures, and we evolved science from moral and cooperative and therefore justificationary reasoning. However, now that we know the first principles of cooperation we can complete the evolution of physical science by adding to it the criticisms necessary for cooperative science: Physical Science Criticisms i. identity (category) ii. internal consistency (logic) iii. external correspondence (often called empirical testing) iv. existential possibility (existence proof) v. limits (falsification) (often called parsimony) Additional Cooperative Science Criticisms: vi. full accounting (prohibition on selection bias) vii. morality (consisting of productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary transfers of property en toto)
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A SHORT COURSE ON DECIDABILITY (learning propertarianism) REVERSE: In logic we s
A SHORT COURSE ON DECIDABILITY
(learning propertarianism)
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).
OBVERSE: Instead, we should determine if there is a means of choosing without the need for additional information supplied from outside the system.
Or in simple terms, if DISCRETION is unnecessary.
Source date (UTC): 2015-07-27 11:46:00 UTC
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THE EXPANSION OF PERCEPTION 1) All language is allegory to experience. The most
THE EXPANSION OF PERCEPTION
1) All language is allegory to experience. The most complex terms are simply increasingly loaded combinations of basic experiences.
2) as we evolved, the content of our communication changed: things that are deducible or imaginable rather than visible, audible etc.
2) Our experiences are limited. We can only sense so much on our own, with the physical bodies that we have to work with.
3) Language allows us to collect a greater range of experiences than we can on our own. Even experiences separated by time and space.
4) Our ‘calculative’ (not computational) ability is limited. We can only ‘figure out’ so much on our own.
5) Language allows others to help us calculate what we could not calculate on our own.
6) Systems of measurement allow us to ‘sense’ what we cannot sense with our senses alone.
7) Systems of calculation and computation let us compare and contrast what we cannot figure out on our own.
8 ) Language, Measurement, and Calculation and Reason allow us to extend our perceptions, and to create symbols that we can manipulate with the limited abilities that we do possess.
9) The purpose of philosophy is to test, integrate, reconstruct, rearrange, evaluate, prioritize and articulate our body of knowledge to our advantage given the new information available to our senses by way of our tools, measurements, communications, and calculations, so that we can make best use of the information at our disposal.
Source date (UTC): 2015-07-27 11:24:00 UTC
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EDUCATION We do it wrong. 1) Reading and writing. 2) Testimony( witness, grammar
EDUCATION
We 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.
Source date (UTC): 2015-07-27 03:12:00 UTC
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THE PURPOSE OF THE TECHNOLOGIES OF TRUTH AND FALSEHOOD The purpose of that techn
THE PURPOSE OF THE TECHNOLOGIES OF TRUTH AND FALSEHOOD
The 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.
Source date (UTC): 2015-07-25 12:21:00 UTC
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THE TRICK IS NOT BELIEVING IN THAT WHICH IS FALSE (worth repeating) We believe t
THE TRICK IS NOT BELIEVING IN THAT WHICH IS FALSE
(worth repeating)
We believe true things, but largely we believe partly true things, somewhat true things and false things. Every time we USE one of these not-entirely-true beliefs to make a judgement, we produce, remember, and habituate errors. We create a frame: “pattern of decision making”, worldview, and metaphysics, unconsciously.
One can be quite bright, but never express one’s intellectual potential for no other reason than accumulated error.
We all believe in unicorns.
The trick isn’t so much believing anything in particular, as it is not believing so much that is false.
Source date (UTC): 2015-07-25 11:15:00 UTC
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APRIORI AND RATIONAL VS EMPIRICAL AND OPERATIONAL —“Anything that can be shown
APRIORI AND RATIONAL VS EMPIRICAL AND OPERATIONAL
—“Anything that can be shown apriori can be demonstrated or translated empirically with higher confidence but not everything that is empirical can be demonstrated apriori.”— Ayelam Valentine Agaliba
I am sure he thinks I’m crazy but honestly I see Val as a guardian angel without whose scarce but precious counsel I would not have made the progress I have over the past few years.
Thank you Val.
Source date (UTC): 2015-07-25 09:10:00 UTC
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VS RATIO-SCIENTIFIC ARGUMENTS (learning propertarianism)
http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/11/26/the-problem-of-ratio-moral-versus-ratio-scientific-arguments/RATIO-MORAL VS RATIO-SCIENTIFIC ARGUMENTS
(learning propertarianism)
Source date (UTC): 2015-07-25 08:56:00 UTC