Category: Epistemology and Method

  • WHEN WE PERCEIVE SOMETHING WRONG – WE’RE RIGHT (The Economics of Communication)

    WHEN WE PERCEIVE SOMETHING WRONG – WE’RE RIGHT

    (The Economics of Communication)

    To profit we must exchange.

    To trade (communication) requires we discover a medium of exchange.

    To exchange we must discover coincidences of wants using the available medium of exchange.

    All language consists of measurements. Measurements within paradigms. Paradigms that serve interests. Interests that are achievable with abilities. And values that measure the degree of interests.

    So we are trying to achieve commensurability so that we can measure the value of the exchange.

    When we are frustrated it means we are seeking cooperation (exchange, trade, returns) where the transaction costs are higher than the rewards.

    When we are not frustrated it means we have divided the labor of discovering coincidences of wants, commensurable mediums of exchanges, given abilities, values, and paradigms.

    Are we frustrated that they don’t think like us or that the cost of thinking like them, or reducing our thoughts to their level of precision is too costly?

    Are we frustrated by those cost or are we frustrated that that we no longer function in an aristocratic hierarchy because under democracy our words despite our differences in ability are mispriced?

    If we were still ruled by Nindsors, Nevilles, Fitzroys, Marlboroughs, Curzons rather than the parliament of fools would we have this problem? If the anglo-dutch aristocracy and the german labor majority were not undermined by underclass immigration? If our society was organized multi dimensionally so that the martial hierarchy, the commercial hierarchy, and the informational hierarchy were mediated by the law preventing ‘putting fingers on the scale’, would this be the case?

    So my view is the over-commercialization of society, and the over-politicization of society that were the result of the windfalls of the industrial revolution, and the (((world wars))) we tolerated by not nationalizing banking, and redistributing the windfalls of interests on state credit, as we all sought to seek commercial success where the balance of military-aristocratic, comercial-noble, and intellectual-arts and knowledge, and priestly-service could compete on their own terms rather than unviersal commercialization (privatization).

    We are at the end of the windfall. And we must learn, that like the athenian discovery of the silver mine, the roman conquest of the celts, the spanish conquest of the mezzo americas, that the industrial revolution created the ability to devote our energies increasingly away from food production to innovation. And that we followed the folly of the athenians, romans, the spanish, into the false promise of endless growth and the abandonment of aristocratic martial discipline, in favor of commercial overconsumption.

    If something is’t computing without substantial friction than the computation system is ‘programmed’ with the incorrect incentives and resulting division of labor.


    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-02 11:07:00 UTC

  • 1. If you can write a definition like you can demonstrate you know what you’re t

    1. If you can write a definition like you can demonstrate you know what you’re talking about.

    2. If you CAN’T write a definition like this you CAN’T demonstrate you know what you’re talking about.

    3. Trying to write a definition like this is how you learn what you don’t yet know.

    4. So you discover what you don’t know, then learn, and then write definitions like this until you ‘complete the proof’ that you know what you’re talking about. 😉

    The fact that you (Gary) don’t find it remotely hard to do is what I’m sorta awed by. But then learning by exposure probably helps. lolUpdated May 2, 2020, 8:25 AM


    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-02 08:25:00 UTC

  • THE METHOD TO THE APPEARANCE OF MADNESS (An Opus for the Newbies and Normies) Fe

    THE METHOD TO THE APPEARANCE OF MADNESS

    (An Opus for the Newbies and Normies)

    February 11th, 2019

    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).

    (g) 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.

    (j) 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.

    All I care about from the Libertarians, Traditionalists, Constitutionalists , and Religious, is to i) not impede our work ii) be willing if the time comes to raise the few million we need to bring this entire country to a halt in short order, such that once published, our demands are met without bloodshed. ii) BEcause while you don’t understand, and I do, the ability to starve tens of millions of our enemies and turn their island cities to ruin is about as difficult as having a sandwich and beer.

    Thanks for your time and attention.The gods, all of them, are with us. Because only a devil would leave behind so many dead gods, and so many dead people, a genetic wasteland, and the attempted reversal of human history back into the stone ages.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Winning is easy once you know how to win and what to do once you’ve won.


    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-01 08:58:00 UTC

  • I don’t believe anything. The data either forces me to consent to it or not. And

    I don’t believe anything. The data either forces me to consent to it or not. And it does.


    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-01 02:01:05 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1256040916651069440

    Reply addressees: @cubancafecito @kennethmejiaLA

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1256037150468067328

  • Why is evidence privilege? Stereotypes are the most accurate measurement in soci

    Why is evidence privilege?
    Stereotypes are the most accurate measurement in social science for good reason: they are subject to continuous confirmation and falsification. And they survive that market competition.


    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-01 01:11:34 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1256028454602113026

    Reply addressees: @kennethmejiaLA

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1255983937844678656

  • I mean, humans have three sets of faculties: The physical(existential), the ‘rat

    I mean, humans have three sets of faculties: The physical(existential), the ‘rational-reciprocal'(value), and the logical(possible).

    So of course we need to perform falsification in all those dimensions:

    LOGICAL

    Categorical consistency (identity)

    Internal Consistency (logical)

    RATIONAL

    Rational Choice

    Reciprocal Rational Choice

    PHYSICAL

    Operationally possible

    Empirically consistent

    SCOPE (COMPLETNESS)

    Limits (have I stated the limits)

    Fully accounting (have i fully accounted for all)

    LIABILITY (OTHERS)

    Warranty (is it warrantable)

    Liability (is it within the limits of possible restitution)


    Source date (UTC): 2020-04-30 13:07:00 UTC

  • It’s more that Hayek is the philosopher and I’m the logician – but I”m only the

    It’s more that Hayek is the philosopher and I’m the logician – but I”m only the logician because my generation included Gary Becker’s application of economics to all social science, Hoppe’s near analytic reduction of property to a system of measurement, the popperian-falsificationary and scientific method debate was still in progress, the revolutions of algorithmic programming, the genetic revolution and the cognitive science revolution. Great insights are the result of being born in a time where the generations before have distilled various streams into a river of knowledge for one to bathe in.


    Source date (UTC): 2020-04-29 09:18:00 UTC

  • Adage: “Better to be silent in public and thought a fool rather than speak and r

    Adage: “Better to be silent in public and thought a fool rather than speak and remove all doubt”. Inverse: ‘Better to argue honestly in private with other fools and add to one’s doubts, than fail to argue, and retain them.”


    Source date (UTC): 2020-04-28 12:54:31 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1255118197453398018

    Reply addressees: @mutedilettante

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1255114665434071040

  • Adage: “Better to be silent in public and thought a fool rather than speak and r

    Adage: “Better to be silent in public and thought a fool rather than speak and remove all doubt”. Inverse: ‘Better to argue honestly in private with other fools and add to one’s doubts, than fail to argue, and retain them.”


    Source date (UTC): 2020-04-28 08:57:00 UTC

  • TOOLS OF DECEIT |Falsehood -> Deceit|: … Ignorance -> Error > … … Bias->wi

    TOOLS OF DECEIT

    |Falsehood -> Deceit|:

    … Ignorance -> Error >

    … … Bias->wishful_thiking >

    … … … Loading->framing >

    … … … … Suggestion->Obscurantism >

    … … … … … Sophistry->Idealism (verbal) >

    … … … … … … Magic ->Pseudoscience (physical) >

    … … … … … … … Occult-> Supernaturalism (imaginary) >

    … … … … … … … … Fiction (fabrication) >

    … … … … … … … … … Denial


    Source date (UTC): 2020-04-27 12:19:00 UTC