PEOPLE I WANT TO SEE:
Ray Scott Percival (Discuss the completeness of popper’s program. And the scientific method’s status)
Haille Mariam-Lemar (Universalist Strategy – is it possible.)
Andy Curzon (limits to commons)
David McDonagh (Apologize for past sins)
And anyone else who is willing. 🙂
Source date (UTC): 2015-07-14 04:03:00 UTC
ON REPAIRING WESTERN PRESS
Roman got me thinking last week, about the central difficulty with western press’ reliance on telling both sides of the STATED story, instead of whether they tell the truth given the INCENTIVES of both sides, regardless of what they state.
Telling both sides merely gives the liars equal air play as the truth tellers.
And it’s much easier for a ‘journalist’ to report on someone’s feelings, and speech than it is to report on facts and incentives. It’s much easier to create moral outrage or high ground with verbalism that obscures incentives, rather than the incentives themselves.
To report ‘scientifically’ is possible with propertarian incentives and testimonial truth. We can systematically criticize what people say, and report on their incentives rather than their propaganda.
But that means retraining a lot of ‘journalists’ and eliminating the perverse incentives that we have produced with the popular press.
And the press, who free rides on destruction of the informational commons, may not like carrying the burden. On the other hand, we would have a lot fewer ‘journalists’ and they would be highly respected – and highly paid.
And I think that’s something all of us would like.
Source date (UTC): 2015-07-14 04:02:00 UTC
A sequence of operations consists of names. I can name that sequence of operations. An experience or an observation or an imagination of cause and effect is an analogy. Names may or may not convey meaning. THey may or may not convey loadings which we, as moral creatures, feel are terribly important. But operations are names and experiences are analogies.
I have a pretty low opinion of meaning.
It’s a vehicle for comprehension yes.
But that comprehension is by definition loaded.
And loading and framing are means of deceit.
Source date (UTC): 2015-07-11 07:58:00 UTC
@RBEdmiston @macmason09 @voxdotcom Unfortunately if one relies on rationalism and moralizing it is terribly easy to err.
Source date (UTC): 2015-07-08 20:07:48 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/618874142637576193
@RBEdmiston @macmason09 @voxdotcom Fortunately, if one sticks to operational construction it is fairly hard to err.
Source date (UTC): 2015-07-08 20:07:26 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/618874049989595137
[C]RITIQUE VS CRITICISM
Correct incentives are those that do not create hazards thereby encouraging parasitism (involuntary transfer), but instead construct incentives for productive voluntary transfers. The counter proposition is that deceit and parasitism are somehow objective ‘goods’, rather than providing a disincentive for cooperation, increasing transaction costs, lower trust, lower economic velocity, lower production and lower consumption. In order to counter this argument one would have to provide a different method of decidabily in the conduct of human interactions. (which will be very difficult)
—“write as more idealistic than moralistic, “—
Well I don’t have to think of it ‘like’ anything, I can categorize it as analogical appeal to subjective preference rather than operation description without appeal to subjective preference.
Source: Curt Doolittle
[C]RITIQUE VS CRITICISM
Correct incentives are those that do not create hazards thereby encouraging parasitism (involuntary transfer), but instead construct incentives for productive voluntary transfers. The counter proposition is that deceit and parasitism are somehow objective ‘goods’, rather than providing a disincentive for cooperation, increasing transaction costs, lower trust, lower economic velocity, lower production and lower consumption. In order to counter this argument one would have to provide a different method of decidabily in the conduct of human interactions. (which will be very difficult)
—“write as more idealistic than moralistic, “—
Well I don’t have to think of it ‘like’ anything, I can categorize it as analogical appeal to subjective preference rather than operation description without appeal to subjective preference.
Source: Curt Doolittle
—“But my experience is that language, like traditions, and genes, grows to contain useful, useless, and damaging content.”—
Source: Curt Doolittle
—“But my experience is that language, like traditions, and genes, grows to contain useful, useless, and damaging content.”—
Source: Curt Doolittle
[T]ruth: Laundering Error, Bias, Imaginary Content, Wishful Thinking, and Deceit from our free associations, hypothesis, theories, and laws. Source: Curt Doolittle