Curt Doolittle

Category: Epistemology and Method

  • well that’s kind of the point right? You can’t testify to it so you can’t assert

    well that’s kind of the point right? You can’t testify to it so you can’t assert it as true.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-15 15:05:21 UTC

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  • One does not prove a truth. One tests if one can falsify it. To say otherwise is

    One does not prove a truth. One tests if one can falsify it. To say otherwise is to lie. There are findings of the natural world obtained by proofs, instead by evidence and falsification of ignorance, error, bias, and deciet.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-15 14:40:14 UTC

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  • Curt Doolittle shared a post. REJECTING BRETT WEINSTEIN’S METAPHORICAL TRUTH (Sa

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    REJECTING BRETT WEINSTEIN’S METAPHORICAL TRUTH

    (Same as rejecting Jordan Peterson’s Darwinian Truth)
    (Same as rejective Mathematical Idealism)
    (Same as rejecting all fictionalisms – ‘Conveniences’)

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-14 15:25:42 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status. THE APHORISM AND RIDDLE: SELF EQUILIBRATING K

    Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    THE APHORISM AND RIDDLE: SELF EQUILIBRATING KNOWLEDGE

    An aphorism is the penultimate device for the parsimonious conveyance of knowledge. The Chinese lack the concepts and vocabulary to produce aphorisms(science) so they produce ‘riddles'(wisdom). But only the far west and the far east have produced the technique of testable statements that produce competition rather than monopoly. The despotic people have developed monopoly, analogy, monotheism and obedience rather than competition and knowledge.

    I gotta tell you that despite knowing this for decades the time it has taken me to come anywhere close Nietzsche is horrifying. His talent is awe inspiring. But once you understand that this is how ‘it is best done’, at least you know what to strive for.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-14 14:44:29 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status. LANGUAGE CAUSES OVERESTIMATION OF SIMILARITIE

    Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    LANGUAGE CAUSES OVERESTIMATION OF SIMILARITIES

    We all have a will to power, but we also have physical, mental, and emotional resources to obtain it with; and that will is countered by fear and insecurity.

    Language is as natural as walking. But it causes us to overestimate our similarities. Empathy causes us to overestimate our similarities. Submission causes us to overestimate our similarities. Need causes us to overestimate our similarities. And a host of our cognitive biases evolved to convince us we are normal, or average, or like everyone else. But despite all those cognitive biases, we are demonstrably not all that similar in MARGINAL difference in the performance of emotional, cognitive, and physical tasks.

    We can often judge someone’s ability by their vocabulary and their reasoning – language is how we measure (diagnose) the mind. But the fact that we can speak to people across the human spectrum tells us nothing about our marginal (effective) differences.

    In fact, those cognitive biases for similarity(indifference) may be nothing other than an adaptation to the use of language, by providing us with greater imitation(of actions), sympathy(for wants), and empathy(for feelings), so that we more readily comprehend one another’s use of language so that in turn we may more readily reap the rewards of opportunities for the high returns on cooperation.

    The more Empathic, Sympathetic, Needful, and Vulnerable we are, the more incentive we have to find similarities (female) and the Dispassionate, Analytic, Independent, and Dominant we are the more incentive we have to identify and preserve our dissimilarities.

    Now think about that a little bit.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-14 12:22:22 UTC

  • REJECTING BRETT WEINSTEIN’S METAPHORICAL TRUTH (Same as rejecting Jordan Peterso

    REJECTING BRETT WEINSTEIN’S METAPHORICAL TRUTH

    (Same as rejecting Jordan Peterson’s Darwinian Truth)

    (Same as rejective Mathematical Idealism)

    (Same as rejecting all fictionalisms – ‘Conveniences’)

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-14 11:25:00 UTC

  • THE APHORISM AND RIDDLE: SELF EQUILIBRATING KNOWLEDGE An aphorism is the penulti

    THE APHORISM AND RIDDLE: SELF EQUILIBRATING KNOWLEDGE

    An aphorism is the penultimate device for the parsimonious conveyance of knowledge. The Chinese lack the concepts and vocabulary to produce aphorisms(science) so they produce ‘riddles'(wisdom). But only the far west and the far east have produced the technique of testable statements that produce competition rather than monopoly. The despotic people have developed monopoly, analogy, monotheism and obedience rather than competition and knowledge.

    I gotta tell you that despite knowing this for decades the time it has taken me to come anywhere close Nietzsche is horrifying. His talent is awe inspiring. But once you understand that this is how ‘it is best done’, at least you know what to strive for.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-14 10:44:00 UTC

  • LANGUAGE CAUSES OVERESTIMATION OF SIMILARITIES We all have a will to power, but

    LANGUAGE CAUSES OVERESTIMATION OF SIMILARITIES

    We all have a will to power, but we also have physical, mental, and emotional resources to obtain it with; and that will is countered by fear and insecurity.

    Language is as natural as walking. But it causes us to overestimate our similarities. Empathy causes us to overestimate our similarities. Submission causes us to overestimate our similarities. Need causes us to overestimate our similarities. And a host of our cognitive biases evolved to convince us we are normal, or average, or like everyone else. But despite all those cognitive biases, we are demonstrably not all that similar in MARGINAL difference in the performance of emotional, cognitive, and physical tasks.

    We can often judge someone’s ability by their vocabulary and their reasoning – language is how we measure (diagnose) the mind. But the fact that we can speak to people across the human spectrum tells us nothing about our marginal (effective) differences.

    In fact, those cognitive biases for similarity(indifference) may be nothing other than an adaptation to the use of language, by providing us with greater imitation(of actions), sympathy(for wants), and empathy(for feelings), so that we more readily comprehend one another’s use of language so that in turn we may more readily reap the rewards of opportunities for the high returns on cooperation.

    The more Empathic, Sympathetic, Needful, and Vulnerable we are, the more incentive we have to find similarities (female) and the Dispassionate, Analytic, Independent, and Dominant we are the more incentive we have to identify and preserve our dissimilarities.

    Now think about that a little bit.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-14 08:22:00 UTC

  • Language Causes Overestimation of Similarities

    We all have a will to power, but we also have physical, mental, and emotional resources to obtain it with; and that will is countered by fear and insecurity. Language is as natural as walking. But it causes us to overestimate our similarities. Empathy causes us to overestimate our similarities. Submission causes us to overestimate our similarities. Need causes us to overestimate our similarities. And a host of our cognitive biases evolved to convince us we are normal, or average, or like everyone else. But despite all those cognitive biases, we are demonstrably not all that similar in MARGINAL difference in the performance of emotional, cognitive, and physical tasks. We can often judge someone’s ability by their vocabulary and their reasoning – language is how we measure (diagnose) the mind. But the fact that we can speak to people across the human spectrum tells us nothing about our marginal (effective) differences. In fact, those cognitive biases for similarity(indifference) may be nothing other than an adaptation to the use of language, by providing us with greater imitation(of actions), sympathy(for wants), and empathy(for feelings), so that we more readily comprehend one another’s use of language so that in turn we may more readily reap the rewards of opportunities for the high returns on cooperation. The more Empathic, Sympathetic, Needful, and Vulnerable we are, the more incentive we have to find similarities (female) and the Dispassionate, Analytic, Independent, and Dominant we are the more incentive we have to identify and preserve our dissimilarities. Now think about that a little bit.

  • Language Causes Overestimation of Similarities

    We all have a will to power, but we also have physical, mental, and emotional resources to obtain it with; and that will is countered by fear and insecurity. Language is as natural as walking. But it causes us to overestimate our similarities. Empathy causes us to overestimate our similarities. Submission causes us to overestimate our similarities. Need causes us to overestimate our similarities. And a host of our cognitive biases evolved to convince us we are normal, or average, or like everyone else. But despite all those cognitive biases, we are demonstrably not all that similar in MARGINAL difference in the performance of emotional, cognitive, and physical tasks. We can often judge someone’s ability by their vocabulary and their reasoning – language is how we measure (diagnose) the mind. But the fact that we can speak to people across the human spectrum tells us nothing about our marginal (effective) differences. In fact, those cognitive biases for similarity(indifference) may be nothing other than an adaptation to the use of language, by providing us with greater imitation(of actions), sympathy(for wants), and empathy(for feelings), so that we more readily comprehend one another’s use of language so that in turn we may more readily reap the rewards of opportunities for the high returns on cooperation. The more Empathic, Sympathetic, Needful, and Vulnerable we are, the more incentive we have to find similarities (female) and the Dispassionate, Analytic, Independent, and Dominant we are the more incentive we have to identify and preserve our dissimilarities. Now think about that a little bit.