Curt Doolittle

Category: Epistemology and Method

  • FOR NEWBIES: WORK METHODOLOGY (worth repeating) The way I work is by relating id

    FOR NEWBIES: WORK METHODOLOGY

    (worth repeating)

    The way I work is by relating ideas across the spectrum in a series of shorter arguments – because I ‘whittle away’ at the stone so to speak, turning it to view it from different angles, working to gradually expose the figure (truth) below.

    I try to produce operational definitions in series, and to describe behavior as supply and demand using those series of definitions.

    Then I attempt to turn the fundamental insight into one or more aphorisms (summaries).

    Then to create a narrative that explains the topic and its applications.

    Then to weave these narratives together using the same constant language – this editing is what exhausts me and is why it takes me so long to produce a work.

    WORKFLOW

    I work from an outline of the complete scope of human thought.

    I work through the outline from metaphysics to group competitive strategy.

    Then I work with (many) sketches on FB. I move most of them to the web site.

    Then I collect the best of them into what I call ‘short courses’ or collections of posts.

    Then I take those ‘short courses’ and put them into the book.

    Then edit it all into an explanation.

    That’s my workflow.

    It’s actually painfully methodical. It just doesn’t look like it to the casual observer, because most people are desirous of rushing to judgment whereas i tend to exhaust a topic completely (very) before adding it to the canon. Then refine the network of concepts added to the canon once there.

    cheers.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-28 08:51:00 UTC

  • But likewise, just as it has taken you many years to migrate from the positivist

    But likewise, just as it has taken you many years to migrate from the positivist search for mathematical discovery of units of informational prediction, to the demand for warranty of due diligence (falsification), you too are vulnerable to innumeracy, pseudoscience, ‘literature’.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-27 20:33:26 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1078388408278499329

    Reply addressees: @nntaleb

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1076845397795065856

    IN REPLY TO:

    @nntaleb

    “IQ” THREAD

    “IQ” measures an inferior form of intelligence, stripped of 2nd order effects, meant to select paper shufflers, obedient IYIs.

    1- When someone asks you a question in REAL LIFE, you focus first on “WHY is he asking me that?”, which slows down. (Fat Tony vs Dr John)

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1076845397795065856

  • TERMINOLOGY: NO SHORTCUT TO UNDERSTANDING One does not criticize either terminol

    TERMINOLOGY: NO SHORTCUT TO UNDERSTANDING

    One does not criticize either terminology or deviation from normative definitions, but instead, the precision of the definitions, such that we are free of opportunity for conflation, and subsequent error.

    Each field uses terminology particular to it, and propertarianism (law) uses universals (operational names in series) across all fields. In either case we define terms that eliminate the error and potential for error in colloquial speech (“ordinary language”).

    In other words no field is, can be, reduced to ordinary language without the introduction of the vast ignorance and error that separates ordinary language from scientific language.

    That is because the existence of, and market demands for science and scientific prose evolved precisely to compensate for the ignorance, error, bias, fictionalism, and deceit in ordinary language.

    And moreover, since propertarianism serves as the scientific language of social science – including history, economics, law, sociology, morality, ethics, psychology, and language itself – we are forcing into the political discourse the same adaptation as did the revolution in physical science: and with equally disruptive consequences to normative language, ideas, ideology, religion, and language of those disciplines.

    So the criticism that we should use the colloquial speech in our effort to change social sciences from sophisms and pseudoscience dependent upon intuition and projection, and monopoly and conformity, into a form of calculation as is used in the other sciences, and divisions of cognition and labor, and conditions of cooperation, competition, and war, is rather … ridiculous really.

    All systems of symbolic calculation whether they be the small difference between spoken language and written language, or great differences between spoken language, written language, arithmetic, accounting, geometry, the calculus, relativity, chemistry, biology, ecology, economics, require training.

    The great difference is that we are all more invested in our daily use of the psychological, social, and political, such that we defend those investments no matter how bad they are.

    Unfortunately the average idiot who will readily say he understands neither advanced mathematics, economics, or subatomic physics will not similarly question his understanding of ethics, morality, and politics – thereby demonstrating his lack of agency due to malinvestment and ignorance, and genetic, gender, class, cultural bias.

    Ergo, there is no shortcut to knowledge. Calculation is counter intuitive – particularly in intuitionistic subjects.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-27 10:46:00 UTC

  • Grammar: Rules of continuous disambiguation producing a well formed statement fu

    Grammar: Rules of continuous disambiguation producing a well formed statement functioning as a series of transactions in a contract for meaning.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-23 15:27:12 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1076861788061356032

  • I have to create a page for “Short Course in The Grammars” because I think that’

    I have to create a page for “Short Course in The Grammars” because I think that’s what’s missing from the ‘short courses’ that constitute the fundamentals of propertarian reasoning.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-23 15:23:29 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1076860855860506625

  • CORRECTION (to a meme) Information (measurements)> … Knowledge (paradigm) > ..

    CORRECTION (to a meme)

    Information (measurements)>

    … Knowledge (paradigm) >

    … … Conspiracy of intent (design) >

    … … … Conspiracy of common interest (interest) >

    … … … … Conspiracy of cognitive bias (bias) >

    … … … … … Conspiracy theory ( wishful thinking ) >

    … … … … … … Schizophrenia or psychosis (paranoia)

    Conspiracy of common interest: bureaucracy, marxism, postmodernism, feminism.

    Conspiracy of cognitive bias: females, christians, jews, muslims. (anti-masculinity)

    Conspiracy Theory: that conspiracy of common interest or of cognitive bias, is conspiracy of intent.

    Psychosis: contrails. lizard men. et al.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-23 11:19:00 UTC

  • Grammar: Rules of continuous disambiguation producing a well formed statement fu

    Grammar: Rules of continuous disambiguation producing a well formed statement functioning as a series of transactions in a contract for meaning.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-23 10:27:00 UTC

  • I have to create a page for “Short Course in The Grammars” because I think that’

    I have to create a page for “Short Course in The Grammars” because I think that’s what’s missing from the ‘short courses’ that constitute the fundamentals of propertarian reasoning.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-23 10:23:00 UTC

  • dear overconfident young man. words mean what we define them to mean, that is wh

    dear overconfident young man.

    words mean what we define them to mean, that is why definitions evolve with our knowledge.

    i have to convert terms and phrases, sentences and arguments into operational language, and deconflate terms into series in order to increase precision and prohibit error, bias, and deceit. Ergo, words mean what i define them to mean. Reforming language is part of what we do here in our pursuit of defeating the lies of the left.

    re: a term such as natural law. search my site for ‘a short course in natural law’ for definitions and explanations.

    I use the internet for market testing not peer review. You arent the peer review because you lack sufficient knowledge to function as a peer, or a reviewer. at best you are a market test of the difficulty of educating the ignorant and lazy, who demand spoon feeding in fast food rather than engaging in educational discourse. yet i am at present investing my time in attempting to educate you anyway. because i understand the folly of young men, but also that such folly can be put to good use if correctly directed.

    i dont make claims i am infallible, only that i limit myself to claims upon which i have performed the scientific method of due diligence against ignorance error bias, fictionalism, and deceit. as such it is extremely difficult to err. and i have applied this technique in many fields so i have accumulated an inventory of claims i can make with high confidence. otherwise i say i dont know, or the question is undecidable, or my presumption not having performed due diligence, is that this set of options is possible.

    i teach men by playing king if the hill games, and rewarding those that succeed with feedback and additional investment in their progress. the internet is a locker room and i teach men in mens fashion: dominance play.

    i am nothing like this in person. this is my job and it is how i have learned to do my job by managing, teaching, negotiating with, and persuading people over decades.

    i have written about each of these topics dozens of times.

    yet you walk into my virtual classroom and presume you are a font of intelligence, wit, wisdom, knowledge, and virtue, and have no idea what goes on or why, nor basic knowledge of the subjects spoken of, when in fact you are just another young man taught by too many women and postmodernists to have conviction despite your ignorance.

    i teach many such foolish young men. and those who have the intellectual honesty to admit their error are the ones i invest in.

    things are not what they seem on first blush. first blush is nothing but a measure of you ignorance of the context.

    cheers.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-22 22:44:00 UTC

  • NIT: English has 470k words in the OED, and estimates of 1M, if we account for s

    NIT: English has 470k words in the OED, and estimates of 1M, if we account for synonyms and references rather than just spellings, with 1.2-1.5M if we account for what are two and three word terms in english but one word in a compound language like german, and then there is scientific terminology. English is a very low context high precision language especially suited for science and law. (Although german appears to be better for engineering because it evolved to be.)

    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-22 21:10:00 UTC