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Source date (UTC): 2024-07-23 16:19:45 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1815783872728101073
A Method of Research and Teaching
RESEARCH: Everything I Do Is In The Context of An Experiment, Run As A King of The Hill Game.
What I Do Here: An Experimental Classroom
For new friends and followers, please understand what I do here and on FB. It is my sketch pad. I work in public like a village blacksmith where you can peer into the forge and see the experimental work being done – good and bad.
Games are Experiments where I use the public for research. So I trade education for research participation.
King of the hill games are the alternative to Surveys – and surveys are useless because they are dependent upon reporting – which humans are incapable of honestly answering, while king of the hill games demonstrate by evidence what you are willing to defend. We can learn what you intuit and what you believe.
Propertarianism is a very special thing and you can learn a lot about the world by following me. But it does require that you keep in mind that I am constantly using the community as an experimental pool to test ideas and seek criticism.
I slay a few hundred years of sacred western ideas, and do so mercilessly. This often requires that I experiment in everything from very rigorous philosophy, to the most general of aphorisms and narratives. Some of which are guaranteed to offend you. (And me sometimes, too.)
But my goal is to capture what made the west competitively successful in our history in formal logical and scientific terms – for the first time, to capture it as an analytic political philosophy, recommend formal institutions, espouse it as an ideology, and provide moral authority for revolution, the strategic and tactical means of conducting that revolution.
I am not so much a populist as an engineer. Its not my job to be popular. It’s my job to discover the truth.
Acting in Good Faith: Running Experiments on the Audience
But playing King of The Hill games? Is that teaching and researching in good faith?
Well, I will tell you how I DO NOT act in good faith:
I don’t have a classroom to experiment on students. I don’t have a research budget, and I don’t have graduate students (indentured labor) to conduct experiments for me. What I do have is access to a very inexpensive medium for experimenting with arguments.
In my process of inquiry, I work very hard to construct conditions under which I can obtain what I consider honest or truthful information, vs reported information.
I work very hard to understand how and why people hold positions, and to test my theories against those positions. So all my arguments are tests. I iterate these tests about ten times before they seem to be fairly good, and then over the next few years refine them until I can state them as aphorisms or series, or something incredibly dense – effectively as verbal proofs. I construct proofs.
This work requires that I ‘get inside the heads’ of the people who hold these positions, and then reduce those positions to a series of testable criteria (incentives) regardless of position.
And since I am a philosopher of science, and a falsificationist, I do this by attacking ideas until I see if and how they survive – or not. So I investigated sovereign monarchism, classical liberalism, libertarianism, anarcho-capitalism, neoreaction, and now the ‘nazis’ with sympathy to understand them then I attack those ideas to falsify them. And what remains is a set of ‘goods and bads’ from each model.
In other words, in some ways, because I treat everyone I interact with in business and intellectual life, as a participant in an experiment, I am continually operating under conditions that you might consider disingenuous in the moment but profoundly moral in the end result.
I learned most of this technique negotiating (i have bought a lot of companies, closed a lot of deals, and done deals that were meritous and some I regret today as immoral. But I see my chief problem in negotiation, simply living in a world full of relative upper class scoundrels, educated imbeciles and underclass zombies, and a middle and working class that appears to consist of the only moral people extant in western society, and they are the ones that least benefit from the current order – because they are being exterminated by it.)
Now, there are a good number of people who follow me that know exactly what I am doing. And I think it is this form of cunning they appreciate almost as much as the output of my work. But in my world I am literally nothing more than a scientist using verbal experiments to investigate the human mind so that I can construct a body of law that will reverse the beneficiaries of the western order, and restore them to the middle and working classes, and save my people and our priceless civilization in doing so.
So if that ‘disenginuity’ makes me immoral somehow in your world because I am ‘using’ people, when they are voluntarily engaging in these discussions, and I have to do nothing more than stand on the top of the hill and say I’m the king in order to get them to play this very elaborate verbal game, then I think you practice a woman’s morality, rather than a man’s. I take responsibility for not only myself, but for my people and for mankind, and I do so by asking people to play a game with me that they willingly play, are entertained by, and learn from.
Honestly? The cost of dealing with all these shitty, selfish, arrogant,immature, ignorant, people in all these ridiculous niches of political masturbation tires the hell out of me. But just as we must go live among the animals to understand them, and bear the costs and risks of doing so, I must do the same with every shitty immoral, selfish, justificationary, eddy of the human political tidal pool.
The Method to The Appearance of Madness
(An Opus for the Newbies and Normies)
0) I work through the combination of aristotelian, logical, scientific, social scientific, pedagorical-religious, and cognitive-linguistic fields with a discipline that most cannot imagine. And at any time I’m attempting to solve a handful of problems. If the audience understands what problem I am solving it does not help me with their reactions so I tend to mix them up to prevent it.
1) I ‘riff’ off arguments wherever i find them in order to create controversy in order to draw attention in order to educate those who are educable, and filter out those who are not.
2) I never resist the opportunity for a fight for this reason: it is exceptional, relatively free advertising, that lets us search for people that have potential for contribution to the development of an intellectual movement sufficient to counter second era abrahamism: destruction of advanced civilizations by islamism, judaism, marxism, postmodernism, feminism, denialism, and outright lying that baits the ignorant and foolish into moral hazard, and civilizational collapse.
3) I teach by conducting a continuous the king of the hill game, which consists of making an argument or assertion which generates either defense of a prior assumption, offense against a presumption, or conflict between assumptions. This is how men must be taught. There is no penalty for failure except one’s learning. The only reward is attention, respect, quoting, and republication of good arguments. One does not need to be ‘right’ in this game, one needs only continuously strive to improve his abilities at discourse, debate, argument, and prosecution.
4) The principle methods we teach are actually quite simple:
(a) deflate, operationalize, disambiguate, serialize, define limits and completeness and express as a supply demand curve. This produces ‘better definitions, redefinitinos, and new definitions which are not possible to use in decet by the incomplete sentences, inflation, conflation, sophism, or the fictionalisms of idealism, supernaturalism, and pseudoscience.
(b) All human behavior can be reduced to attempts to obtain, maintain, or defend expenditures of investment, whether physical, emotional, or intellectual. … As a consequence we can enumerate everything that humans attempt to acquire as some form of property. … As a consequence we can test whether attempts at obtaining property are reciprocal and if reciprocal within the limits of proportionality – thus maintaining the incentive to cooperate …. or they are not. if they are not then they are violations of reciprocity and proportionality, and as such simply ‘violence by other means’. Violence by any means, invites reciprocity by retaliation by violence by any means. Therefore the only reason for those who are able, to cooperate rather than exterminate, enslave, enserf, en-tax, or en-debt, is reciprocity within the limits of proportionality.
(c) humans divide not only labor, but time-frame, perception, cognition, memory, paradigm, opportunities for predation and conditions of(fear of being) prey, demands, advocacy, negotiation, cooperation, rejection, conflict, and warfare.
(d) there are a limited means of dividing that cognition and advocacy and those are primarily driven by gender differences in cognition and intuition, the bias of male or female brain structure and resulting behavior in the group, very minor differences in personality trait within the group (stages of the prey drive or reward system), the degree of neoteny in a group, and the success of the group in upward redistribution of reproduction thereby limiting the dead weight of the unproductive or costly.
(e) Within groups there are only three means of persuasion i) force, ii)remuneration, iii) ostracization. These three strategies reflect the masculine conservative(defensive), ascendent male (opportunistic), and female(consumptive) biases in cognitive strategy. We see this in extreme conflict behavior between the genders as men fight only to preserve hierarchy then end the conflict. Ascendent men (libertarians) rarely fight but move to other opportunities. Females undermine by reputation destruction and do not stop until the enemy is destroyed. We also see this same effect in three personality type clusters. In other words all human groups cluster around three sets of personality types (big5/6) that reflect the masculine, libertarian, and feminine reproductive and social competitive strategy. This strategy is modified slightly by the sexual, social, economic, political, and military genetic, cultural, and knowledge value that the individual demonstrates by his display word and deed. and if we modify by the increasing adaptation provided by intelligence we see that there are a finite number of means by which individuals and groups compete. Therefore, all group strategies can be understood as genetic expression of group evolutionary demands.
(f) Societies form elites in each of the means of coercion: i)force, government, and law, ii) finance, production, and trade, iii)education, gossip, propaganda, moralism, religion and these elites compete to make use of their strategy on behalf of their followers. They ally with one another. Traditionally religion and state. At the present it is religion and the middle class and the military (the middle) against the immigrants, minorities (non whites), underclasses (disenfranchised), and media, academy, state complex. In other words the new ‘religion’ of the academy and state is in competition with the old religion of the church, law, and people – it’s the top and bottom against the middle classes.
(g) Since this new ‘religion’ is imposed upon our people by the same technique as the abrahamic religions (false promise, baiting into moral hazard, sophism, pilpul(excuse making), and critique (undermining), by a process of environmental overloading (informational saturation by repetition), that takes advantage of our genetic and cultural high trust (vulnerability to moral deception by moral hazard), and particularly because this is the natural intuition of the female biased mind out of evolutionary necessity, the increase in females in the work place, in voting, in consumption, and in particular in education in pseudosciences (social science and psychology and literature) which are simply vehicles for deceit by baiting the female mind into moral hazard, we can make use of the law to suppress falsehood, fraud, and high-fraud: baiting into moral hazard, in commerce, finance, economics, law, politics, and pedagogy (the academy), and let the natural competition between offenders and defenders incrementally suppress these frauds through the court system. and this will produce the most rapid change possible, and the costs of prosecution will, as in most things, drive the bad out of our society by negative market pressure (the law) alone, using natural self interest of even a minority of ordinary people.
(h) It is quite possible using ‘testimonialism’ to define what is truthful speech (really, it is, surprisingly, and without that much difficulty) and teo extend the same involuntary (forced) warranty of due diligence against harm (falsehood, fraud, high fraud: baiting into moral hazard).
5) And we teach what to do with that method:
(a) We have in the west relied on a unique, counter-intuitive human evolutionary strategy, evolved by our early military origins as charioteers, raiders, pirates, vikings, conquerors when we combined horse, wheel, bronze, language, and developed sky worshiping and paternalism as means of expressing our new found dominance over others and nature. However, this military order required personal investment by families in expensive equipment (arms, men) necessary to conduct raids and wars, and conquest. This order required putting TRUTH BEFORE FACE REGARDLESS OF COST TO THE HIERARCHY. Including the self. And it required relatively ‘democratic’ rights among those raiders (warriors, vikings, conquerors), who fought by choice not command. With the headman (chieftain) being the judge of last resort, and the people as the jury. As a result we produced heroism (risk) for the franchise (equality), and resulting sovereignty, reciprocity, common law, meaning the law of tort (property), and as a consequence, markets for voluntary cooperation in association, reproduction (marriage), production(economy), commons (‘society’), polity (government), and war (defense and offense), where war is another business venture like any other. And this tradition and this tradition alone – our sovereignty by earning it, our law, our militia, our jury, is all that separates us from the rest of the world that did not develop these traits. And the east asians were insulated from the barbarians by their territory, more so than we were by the Urals, black sea, caspian, bosphorus and mediterranean. So they not only had a longer time to develop, fewer genetically different neighbors, a larger population, and and the flood river alleys to feed themselves. They never developed truth over face, and because of that were not able to organize as fast and invent as fast as europeans in the ancient and modern worlds. The middle of the earth was destroyed by the semites over the past few thousand years, and their destruction and reduction of man to ignorance dysgenia, and poverty, is universal. They have destroyed and consumed the genetic, informational, normative, political, administrative, fixed, environmental capital of every great civilization of the ancient world reducing them to ashes of superstition. WHen rome discovered it must build a wall they did not choose the bosporus the caucuses, and the urals – and they should have. Because beyond there. nothing but Mordor waits. We are the people of science and law, the east are the people of reason and family, and the middle are the people of cancer upon the world that we must all defend against.
(b) There are enemies among us that are not europeans and do not have our genetic and cultural dispositions, that exist (survive competition) ENTIRELY BY BAITING IN TO MORAL HAZARD and preying upon our people. We do not need to war against these people. Only outlaw their behavior in self defense. If we do so those people will have a choice of conforming, leaving, or prosecution and if necessary, execution. These people specialize in Advertising, Finance, Media, Entertainment, Propaganda, Activism, Law, Government, Prostitution, Gambling, Pornograpy, and white collar crime. And they do so by immigration, undermining, baiting into moral hazard, profiting from it, investing in the privatization of commons (rent seeking), and sponsoring further immigration, conversion, and destruction of all we have spent 4000 years developing.
We can end the 2000 year war against our people very easily.
A moral license (predation upon us, extermination of us)
A set of demands (new constitution and policies)
A plan of transition (how to reorganize peacefully)
A means of altering the status quo. (uprising to delegitimize the state.)
It is hard for people to argue with definancialization, de politicization, de propagandism, de population replacement, and the total criminalization of lying, fraud, and high fraud against our people in matters commercial, financial, political, economic, and military.
We must choose. At least. The answer is about two million of us must choose. And we must choose to pay the price of defense of our people from the current attacks on our civilization.
We can easily win.
It’s just a choice.
5) I am, we are, creating a movement the size and scope of marxism and postmodernism precisely to counter the use of semitic abrahamism version two, against our people in the forms of the great deceits of baiting into moral hazard: boazianism, freudianism, marxism, socialism, keynesianism, postmodernism, denialism, and outright lying; the destruction of our rule of law, of our constitution of natural law, and our civilization nearly devoid of burdensome underclasses that must of necessity parasitically depend upon us just as the utility of unskilled labor, skilled labor, clerks, craftsmen, are being eliminated from the economic pool. I’m searching for the members of our equivalent of the ‘frankfurt school’ – the development of our arguments of Restoration.
Competition in “King of The Hill Games” is the Optimum Means of Teaching Men.
King of The Hill Game: Teaching Men
My Version of The Socratic Method: Adversarialism (Competition)
The difference between how I teach and the mainstream is that I create king of the hill games so that men feel comfortable playing the game of climbing to the top.
I teach as by sport not by lecture. I teach by creating games that men will compete in. I have developed the King of the Hill strategy of teaching because it is actually THE BEST method of teaching (masculine) men. I’ve been doing this since we used 300 baud dial up modems and 80 character monochrome screens. And I learned it early.
This is how men are best taught. Instead of asking questions I start arguments. Instead of preaching an angle, I attack a proposition and force others to defend it. Instead of assuming equality I play king of the hill and bait them into attacking me. Instead of writing essays of appeal I write arguments to criticize.
Men can attack me and my ideas, without acting vulnerable, or submissive, or begging for attention, but by exercising their dominance. And they can fail and no one cares. This is actually the optimum method of reaching men: we create a dominance game of low risk. We learn from playing this dominance game. The secret is to reward dominance expression if its backed by insight, argument, or wit. And to stop on effeminate, abrahamic, and non-argument.
I post things that I disagree with, or that can be interpreted other ways, to start debate. Congratulate even the smallest success. Edit and quote others to inspire them to keep trying. Audit the feed and comments. Ask others to contribute or handle those i can’t. Run experiments so others can help me and themselves. Keep a loose inventory and estimate of people who are talented and drip ideas to them as needed while letting them own the discoveries they make.
I make serious arguments to teach. I make half arguments to encourage debate. And I push controversial ideas to encourage people to refute them.
This is how men learn best. It is the method of professing, teaching, debating that is the least affected by norm, signaling, and pretense. It is how men can and should be taught.
I want to celebrate, the male desire to learn through competition. The problem with learning through competition is understanding that you’re testing yourself, not the other. I run my “classroom” so to speak as a great game of king of the hill, because I understand that competition – and heroism is how men are willing to ‘invest’ in their education; the same way that women are willing to invest by obedience and conformity.
Men need a game – a proxy for war – to have the incentive to learn. This is why mixed-gender education is literally causing brain damage to men.)
My role in this game is to play king of the hill, and say “come get me” – bait men to try to take me down. I provide symbolic rewards (sharing quotes), and meaningful rewards (investing time in those with potential), and lifetime rewards (skill development).
Yes, there is a difference between contributors, commenters, followers, and lurkers – but it’s only in the degree of participation. Everybody learns.
King of The Hill is educational entertainment and theatre. That is why this game works.
But King Of The Hill Isn’t For Everyone
Not everyone can play this game. But if they can play this game, and get good at it they will master a very special skill. And it’s that collection of talent I’m interested in creating.
The internet does change. Men don’t change. The number of stupid men with access to digital discourse simply increases.
The internet of such men requires street fighting, and I try to create a locker room for street fighters. In that locker room we play king of the hill. We Put Dominance Play to Constructive Use. If you want beta-and-chick-friendly theatre watch TED videos. It’s a cult of pseudoscience.
Teaching by the king of the hill game weeds out the betas faster than all other tactics combined. Why? Female/Beta Moral intuition cannot resist self defense. It’s so obvious that once you see it, you see it everywhere. It’s like NAXALT bait in a Pringles can.
Those that can’t learn as men – I understand. But if they can’t they are of no use as judges.
A Necessary Arrogance To Play The King
You might not realize that I know this is a game – and that we are playing a game – until you meet me in person or talk to me in an interview. Because I’m not very much like my online persona.
But strategically speaking, (a) controversy is more interesting than discourse which any tv producer will tell you. (b) interest draws attention for reasons I’ve stated in the post above, (c) the king of the hill game requires me creating ‘bait’ by being a ‘pompous ass’. (d) filtering and educating men is best done by this competition because fools, intellectually dishonest, and the like cannot survive that competition, and can’t stand it. (e) it allows me to recruit the smartest people and leave behind the dim and dishonest.
I mean. I’m a very smart guy. I do things for what are usually very deliberate reasons. I learned how to teach men who have potential. Filter out those that do not.
And that’s what I do.
You Must Be What You Wish to Become.
(Masculinity. Aversarialism. King of the Hill. War)
Teach men Adversarialism.
Teach by (forgiving) king of the hill games.
Teach men across their ages, not by their age – to lead, advise, follow.
Teach by metaphor:
1. Kings (dominant male leadership – quarterbacks)
2. Bishops (cunning, intelligence, spies, advisors)
3. Knights (fast, maneuver – receivers, raiders )
4. Rooks (Heavy Infantry – Bearers – linebackers)
5. Pawns (Infantry – Defense)
6. Fools ( Messengers, Negotiators)
7. Queens (Ambassadors)
Teach Men
War – Adversarialism
… … … (Evolution)
… – Politics – the Proxy for War
… … … … (Political War)
… … – Law – The Organization of Polities
… … … … … (Procedural War)
… … … – Economics – the funding of Polities and War.
… … … … … … (Productive War)
… … … … – Engineering – the manipulation of the world
… … … … … … … (Innovative war)
… … … … … – Testimony – the art of truthful speech
… … … … … … … … (War against ignorance error deceit)
… … … … … … … – Negotiation – The art of compromise.
Trading Masculine European Adversarialism for Feminine Abrahamic Undermining
The western canon consists of the study of Adversarialism: Truth(Science), Law, Politics, Economics, and War. That’s my ambition for the Propertarian Institute.
The postwar doctrine consists in the eradication of Adversarialism – because women can’t compete. Without grasping that it is the foundation of our civilization.
So we have replaced truthful Adversarialism with dishonest, sophomoric, and pseudoscientific feminine undermining.
Why? Sexual Genetics: Truth and Systems Vs Approval and Experiences.
Adversarialism: truth seeking,
Discourse: consensus seeking,
Undermining: deception seeking.
Blocking Policy
I hate blocking people and my block list was very short until peers and followers asked me to stop wasting my time; to clean up the feed; and to preserve the educational environment.
I teach the Law and its application. I run a class 24×7 to a global audience. My goal is to preserve the environment.
I (We) Block For:
1 – Wasting my (our) time. Which consists of:
2 – Ridicule, Sarcasm, Gossiping, Rallying Shaming, Moralizing (GSRM) as a substitute for argument.
3 – Memes as a substitute for argument. (no meme zone)
4 – Intellectual Dishonesty in argument
5 – Antagonism as a substitute for argument.
6 – Faith or Sophism as a substitute for argument.
7 – Occasionally: Argument from Ignorance and Arrogance (attacking the work while not knowing enough to do so.)
8 – Occasionally also: Common Stupidity, Schizotypal stupidity (paranoia), Other Psychological Problems.
I (we) Do Not Block For
– Good natured teasing. I am easy to tease. Height, age, generation, weight, aspieness, number of women/divorces, tech stuff, abundance of typing mistakes, being a 1%er, teaching by king of the hill game, the difference between my real and online personalities. You know, the list is endless.
NOTE:
I (we) practice reciprocity. So if you use GSRM against me (us) , I(we) will use it against you … and then return to the central point – over, and over, and over again.
Thanks for your time and attention.
CD
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I. THE FORMAT OF POSTS – A STYLE GUIDE
I wrote this article to explain the style I use in writing in the P-Method, using P-Prose.
1 – A POST ————————–
THIS TITLE IN CAPS MEANS I WROTE IT FOR YOU TO READ AS AN ARGUMENT (this cues you to important stuff)
And this is the body text here.
Particularly if I break it into paragraphs.
––“this is quoting someone else”––
—this is quoting myself—
… this … … is a … … … series that you might want to learn.
|SERIES|: This > Is > A > Dimensional > Definition
SUBHEADING
And more text goes here. Subheadings cue you to the content.
Signature Line
I use the signature line for myself. So that I can search for the posts I want to publish on my web site later. So they are sort of a ‘stamp of approval’.
2 – A NOTE OR SKETCH ————————–
this doesn’t have header, isn’t broken into paragraphs, and doesn’t even use init-caps, so it’s just a record from elsewhere or quick thought or observation, or a work in progress – rumination.
3 – A PERSONAL OPINION ————————–
(this doesn’t have a header, is in parenthesis and in all lower case, which means it’s possibly something to ignore … because it’s not an argument. it’s just an opinion or feeling.)
4 – A DIARY ENTRY ————————–
(diary entry) this is something I wrote for myself that is unfiltered, and likely includes very personal feelings of my own, or on the state of my thinking, and not something that you will probably want to read unless the psychology that I operate under is of some interest to you or other.
. . .
II. ON STYLE ————————–
Karl Popper created (from aristotle, weber, and pareto) the method of analytic philosophy I make use of, which includes Definitions, Series, Lists, Tables, and parentheticals. He used italics a lot but italics aren’t available in FB or I would us Italics where I use Initial Capitals to denote the name of a definition in a series I have defined elsewhere.
( … ) : Means ‘undone’ or ‘to be completed’. Its a marker for me to come back to it, or because I’ve cut something out for the (rare) sake of brevity.
Bold to allow for those of us who read quickly to scan by keywords.
German Capitals: for names of Ideas, like “Rationalism”, “Sovereignty”, “Propertarianism”, or Neologisms, or to alert you to disambiguation (redefinitions).
Parentheticals “(…)”: to bridge operational(technical) and meaningful(familiar) terms, or to limit interpretation. I try to use parentheticals to create parallel sequences between vernacular terminology and technical terminology, or to insert my ‘voice or opinion’ into the middle of an objective text.
Series and Lists : a sequence of definitions representing a spectrum of terms. The use of series deflates, increases precision, and defeats conflation. First exposure to the methodology’s use and repetition of series tends to both be the most obvious and most helpful of the techniques.
Constructions : tracing the path of the development of ideas from primitive to current constructions.
Algorithms : general processes for the construction of deflations.
(Repetition) : I use a great deal of repetition in order to assist the reader in remembering terms that have specific meaning in P-Method, P-Logic, and P-Law.
(Repetition of series) : Most importantly, I repeat sequences of terms for the same reason – to help develop pattern recognition in the reader and to assist in remembering sequences. For example |Morality|: Evil < Immoral < Unethical < Amoral > Ethical > Moral > Virtuous:
Wordy Prose.
– Analytic Philosophy is, of necessity, WORDY.
– Operational Language is, of necessity, WORDY.
– Programming Algorithms is, of necessity, WORDY.
– Law, whether Contractual, Legislative, or Constitutional, is WORDY.
– Algorithmic Natural Law is of necessity, WORDY.
Technical Languages evolve to speak precisely. Precise language contains technical terms and is wordy. Why, if all the other sciences require technical language, would we think that speaking technically in the science of cooperation is not going to be wordy?
Well, it’s going to be wordy.
. . .
USE OF PARENTHETICALS (LIKE THIS)
The use of parenthesis (parentheticals) to carry on (communicate) related (parallel) meanings (definitions) so that we both (simultaneously) convey meaning (free association), but at the same time prevent misinterpretation (provide limits).
In other words we can carry on via positiva and via negativa in the same paragraph or sentence. Or that we may use colloquial verse, but include technical terms. It’s profoundly effective.
If you read Popper’s work he uses italics (which was criticized at the time) for similar purposes.
IMHO parentheticals solve the problem of choosing latin prose consisting of long sentences, consisting of many related phrases (which Claire Rae Randall has brought up recently), or separating two sides of an argument into separate paragraphs.
Latin prose tends to be poetic in order to prevent judgment until later phrases emerge (lincoln’s gettysburg address). This becomes increasingly difficult as we speak in increasingly technical terms.
So my opinion is that the parenthetical technique is evolving as our grammatical solution to conceptual density in technical matters, where we can more easily communicate such concepts without burdening and confusing the audience with ‘hanging incomplete ideas’ (separate paragraphs), or too many hanging incomplete ideas (many phrases), by simply limiting each positive concept as its being used (via parentheticals).
But the operational definition would be to provide both meanings in common prose and limits in parentheticals or the reverse: provide precise terms in prose, and common examples in parenthesis, in the same sentence structure.
Now if you read Frank’s comments on other’s posts, at all you’ll see him do both Precise/Example, and Common/Technical at the same time.
This turns out to be what I suggest, is an almost perfect grammar. Or rather, the next evolution of grammar as we increase informational density.
Because like the common law, it ‘corrects’ or ‘informs’ you immediately without requiring that you hold multiple dense contexts in your head until they are later resolved in the text.
My opinion, taken from Greg Bear, is that if we could talk and show flashes of images at the same time – say on our phones, or floating above our heads – then the combination of words (precision) and examples (Images) would create nearly perfect communication.
Writing in Parentheticals, Series, and Axes (grammar)
I learned the technique of writing with series(sequences) and parenthetic parallels(like this) from Karl Popper (Critical Rationalism). And it was his adoption and use of of series rather than sets that distinguished Popper from the Analytic school. I did not understand originally what was superior about his approach to analytic philosophy, but I understood he had improved upon it. I only understood that he had identified that science was critical not justificationary (like morality and law), and that along with Hayek they were the first to grasp that social science like physical science, must be modeled as a problem of information, not an analogistic model from of prior generations(electricity, steam, water, mechanicals) – just as I understand our problem today is an artifact of industrialization and the attempt to manufacture identical units rather than ‘grow’ a portfolio of the best humans.
Later I came to understand that both parenthetic parallels, series, and relations between axis (think supply demand curves), provided tests of the NECESSITY of meaning, rather than NORMATIVE or COLLOQUIAL meaning. In other words, they limit the reader (and the author) from mal-attribution of properties that occur in normative and colloquial, and particular, and ‘ignorant’ speech.
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USE OF DISAMBIGUATION, OPERATIONALIZATION, SERIALIZATION,
What the heck does that mean?
serialize: to arrange (something) in a series.
series: a number of things, events, or people of a similar kind or related nature coming one after another.
From “Disambiguation by serialization by constant relation, and operationalization.”
The constant relation (falsehood, epistemology, morality)
The serialization: ignorance > error > bias > wishful thinking…
Where operationalization means converting into a series of subjectively testable human actions thereby producing measurements given the marginal indifference in human action.
So where |falsehood| is a monodirectional series, |epistemology| is monodirectional loop, and |MORAL| is bidirectional from the center ‘amoral’.
This process requires we collect all synonyms and antonyms, organize them by some constant relation into a series of less or more of that constant relation.
Why?
All words (nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs) are constructed of dimensions (scales, series of measurements), open to sense, perception, emotion, or action.
In most cases the human sense perception spectrum appears to produce no more than five degrees of difference for any measurement, such as “distant past, past, recent past, now.” And there are a number of reasons for this – which is why you can only visualize so many of the same things, remember so many numbers or terms, or discern so many directions etc.
In general terms our universe is triangular bias left, forward, bias right, which is our direction of motion. This is also the minimum and maximum necessary decision criteria.
If I go deeper it will get too complicated. So I’ll leave it there.
So, by disambiguation by inventorying, operationalizing, serializing into sequences we create unambiguous measurements for language that prohibit conflation and ambiguity and therefore errors of inference and deduction, effectively turning language – especially language like english with so many terms – into a system of measurement.
By combining this technique of very specific terms (measurements), using operational language that is testable, in promissory form (I Promise that…), absent verb-to-be (meaning “I dunno the condition of existence”) in complete sentences, of complete transactions of changes in state, we convert language to a via-negativa equivalent of a via-positiva programming language with the same test of possibility (compilability) since the ability to compile is a test of disambiguity (yes that’s the secret sauce).
By using supply demand tests of statements rather than ideals we end up with the formal economics of human behavior.
For example, decidability = demand for infallibility in the context in question.
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USE OF TESTING RECIPROCITY, PROPERTY IN TOTO, TESTIMONY,
( … ) (Undone)
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USE OF ARROWS? >, <, ->, <-
—“Can you clarify for me your use of the greater than symbol”–
HIERARCHY OF PURPOSE
1. Logical: The Direction of Serialization,
2. Dependency: Hierarchy of Dependency,
3. Evolution: Evolution of Development
4. Physical Causality: Sequence of Operations.
FORMAT
|CONCEPT| neutral > low > medium > high > upper limit |CONCEPT| upper limit < high < medium < low < neutral |CONCEPT| worst < much worse < worse < neutral > better > much better > best
EXAMPLES:
Hierarchy less to more:
|FALSEHOOD|: Ignorance > error > bias > wishful thinking > obscurantism > fictionalism > deceit > denial.
Direction Less to more in both directions:
|MORAL|: Evil < immoral < unethical < amoral > ethical > moral > Righteous.
Process less to more:
|EPISTEMOLOGY| Observation > Auto-Association > Free Association > hypothesis > (mind-test) > theory > (action-test) > established theory or law (market-test) > limit discovery (falsification) > repeat (revision)
I could write |Falsehood| like this, in code:
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USE OF GRAPHS
A Triangulation:
Or many other shapes and tables.
A Hierarchy:
A Comparison:
Multi-Hierarchies
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USE OF SEQUENTIAL DECLARATIVE STATEMENTS
I don’t frequently use the narrative style. In fact almost everything I write is in programmatic style, where one declarative statement follows another, each incrementally adding to the one before it – brick by brick.
PREMISE OF AN OPTIMUM GOVERNMENT OF MAN
A militia consisting of shareholders who reciprocally and unconditionally, insure one another’s property-in-toto from the involuntary imposition of costs by both members and non.
A contract (constitution) between those shareholders for that reciprocal insurance, consisting of Rule of law, natural law, universal standing, universal applicability, absence of discretion through strict construction, with a monarchy as a judge (veto) of last resort. And providing for:
A market for polities in which many small polities compete by the production of different commons. (btw: what polities will attract not only the most, but the best women?)
A market for the production of commons within any given polity, by exchange between the classes (those with different reproductive strategies, capabilities, and capital interests)… (more) …
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USE OF PSEUDOCODE
Programming is not just a tool for using computers, but it is a new way of thinking that affected mathematics, logic, cognitive science, and now is altering physics.
P-Logic consists in the convergence of programming, operationalism (which developed from praxeology), economics (supply and demand).
P-Law consists of the application of P-logic to Reciprocity including that subset of reciprocity we call testimony, or more commonly, truthful speech.
We construct P-Law just like a program:
This law is ‘rigorous’ because of the following reasons:
We define all properties of man and mankind such that false claims cannot be made.
We define testimony and reciprocity such that false and irreciprocal claims cannot be made.
We enumerate all rights and obligations such that they are uninterpretable.
We require proof by internal construction that the contract or legislation is permissible under the natural law.
We require strict construction of complete sentences in operational language producing complete transactions of change in state.
(and more)
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CLOSING:
I work in public, partly to conduct experiments. I am personally open in public because this prevents people attributing psychological motivations to me that I don’t have. I create conflict in order to run tests. The purpose of running a test is to attempt to create a proof.
Curt Doolittle
The Propertarian Institute
Kiev, Ukraine
Source date (UTC): 2024-07-23 15:33:42 UTC
Original post: https://x.com/i/articles/1815772283648045056
–“[Using Big Words?] Is this what you’re saying?”–
As someone who is daily accused of using “big words”, “word salad”, and “incomprehensibility”, that would hardly be the case.
What I’m saying is that in the spectrum of precision of means of communication, argument, and persuasion, adults who are intellectually honest favor those paradigms that limit loading, framing, obscuring and fictionalism as means of suggestion deceit or fraud. In other words The theological (Abrahamic), the literary (Plato) vs the Empirical (Aristotle).
Because the capacity for deception increases with the decrease in precision and the increase of the capacity to appeal to intuition instead of reason.
Repeating from a post a few minutes ago:
|Scale of Precision|: Embodiment <> (Narrative: Anthropomorphism <> Mythology <> Literature )<>( Systematizing: Theology <> Philosophy <> History )<> (Measuring: Empiricism <> Science <> Operationalism (causality)).
In that sequence “< Easier to vs Harder to >” lie, deceive, suggest, conflate, load, frame, obscure, and fictionalize.
It is conversely easier to communicate to those with less knowledge and ability as we move downward on the scale.
Cheers
CD
Reply addressees: @ccllaazz
Source date (UTC): 2024-07-22 22:25:09 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1815513439650865152
Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1815488774161526896
RT @NoahRevoy: Many so-called “think tanks” do very little thinking and a lot of emoting and story-telling. They are not focused on finding…
Source date (UTC): 2024-07-22 16:22:31 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1815422180940718544
LANGUAGE CONSISTS OF EMBODIED COGNITION
All words (referrers) and names for references, and references a consisting of a category consisting of of properties reducible to analogy to experience.
Even in the case of “abstract concepts, emotions, or entities” the fact that we cannot introspectively disambiguate those referents has no bearing on whether or not the words provoke an experience, or that those experiences are not constructed from complex experiences, only that the word provokes an often ambiguous set of experience, that we lack often lack the vocabulary, knowledge, or experience to disambiguate.
Source date (UTC): 2024-07-21 22:17:29 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1815149122011136000
RT @curtdoolittle: P-LAW STYLE GUIDE
(repost for newbies)
I use a number of techniques in the text that are the product of the Popperian an…
Source date (UTC): 2024-07-20 18:46:51 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1814733728683291086
Thats false. Why would you think so? “is” means “exists as” and it exists as the memory of changes in the stream of sensations and perceptions resulting from disambiguation of sensations, by associtaion with prior of the same.
Source date (UTC): 2024-07-17 09:37:41 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1813508362073768270
Reply addressees: @AndrewAtkin75 @RichardDawkins
Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1812230185414234175