Category: Epistemology and Method

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status. —“Ball as in ‘sphere’ comes from Norse ‘bÇ«

    Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    —“Ball as in ‘sphere’ comes from Norse ‘bÇ«llr’ /bɔlːr/, while ball as in ‘dance party’ comes from Latin ‘ballare’, which in turn became ‘bal’ (French for ‘a dance’). Totally different roots, it’s just one of those quirks of English having absorbed bits of so many different languages.”—


    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-27 21:02:15 UTC

  • WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A LOGIC AND A GRAMMAR? (important)(core) There isn

    WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A LOGIC AND A GRAMMAR?

    (important)(core)

    There isn’t any.

    Logic…>…Grammar….>….Speech………>…Story

    Is the same as:

    Law…..>…Theory……..>….Hypothesis…>…Observation

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

    Any person who has spent enough time with complex databases has made the ironic assertion that everything in the universe can be Normalized down to ones and zeroes.

    Fewer of us recognize that this is very close to the structure of the human nervous system.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-27 19:02:00 UTC

  • Logic is like physical fitness for the mind. Stoicism is like physical fitness f

    Logic is like physical fitness for the mind.
    Stoicism is like physical fitness for the emotions.
    Physical fitness is … well, just more fucking obvious… lol


    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-27 18:27:07 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1012039638398259207

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status. Logic is like physical fitness for the mind.

    Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    Logic is like physical fitness for the mind.
    Stoicism is like physical fitness for the emotions.
    Physical fitness is … well, just more fucking obvious… lol


    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-27 18:26:54 UTC

  • “Ball as in ‘sphere’ comes from Norse ‘bǫllr’ /bɔlːr/, while ball as in ‘dance p

    —“Ball as in ‘sphere’ comes from Norse ‘bǫllr’ /bɔlːr/, while ball as in ‘dance party’ comes from Latin ‘ballare’, which in turn became ‘bal’ (French for ‘a dance’). Totally different roots, it’s just one of those quirks of English having absorbed bits of so many different languages.”—


    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-27 17:02:00 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status. Tip that some people get and some people fail

    Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    Tip that some people get and some people fail to get: *Always Use Series*.

    —“mythology, values, rituals, signals, institutions, language, culture, and kinship”—

    —“ignorance, error, bias, wishful thinking, suggestion, obscurantism, fictionalism, and deceit”—

    —“murder, violence, theft, fraud, free riding, socialization of losses, privatization of the commons, conspiracy, statism, conversion, immigration, conquest”—

    —“Idealism, abrahamism, pilpul vs critique, sophism, justificaitonary rationalism, propaganda”—

    —“Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Rousseauianism, Kantianism, Marxism, Keynesianism, Frankfurt School, Feminism, Postmodernism, Outright Lying”—-

    —” logic, math, accounting, algorithms, recipes(protocols), science (operations), testimony, written prose, ordinary language, idiomatic speech, storytelling, fiction, fictionalisms, deceits”—

    —“Sovereignty, Reciprocity, Truth, Duty, Natural Law and Markets in Everything”—

    Each of these series contains all the information necessary to construct very complex arguments. and the virtue of repeating them, and any other series of definitions, is that it is extremely hard to play word games when all words as such are subject to competition in each such series.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-27 16:49:35 UTC

  • “Those who don’t take the red pill willingly will have it shoved down their thro

    —“Those who don’t take the red pill willingly will have it shoved down their throat by reality any way.”—Steve Pender


    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-27 15:37:23 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1011996924176674817

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status. —“Those who don’t take the red pill willing

    Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    —“Those who don’t take the red pill willingly will have it shoved down their throat by reality any way.”—Steve Pender


    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-27 15:37:10 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status. LACK OF DUE DILIGENCE = LYING Aug 06, 2017 1:

    Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    LACK OF DUE DILIGENCE = LYING

    Aug 06, 2017 1:51pm
    by Bill Joslin

    —“Curt equates a lack of due diligence to vet ones ideas against error, bias, self deception, overloading etc as lying. Any primacy of consciousness or theism stands as arguing for a preference opposed to arguing a point in the commons.

    Theism and primacy of-conciousness are not verifiable in the commons – to proceed with them you must accept these premises.

    ***When we verify via our best empirical methods, our arguments gain credibility from reality. When we assert based on a priorisms which can not be found in reality we use logic to “steal credibility from reality” – we assert it as reality without consulting reality- a transfer of credibility from existence in reality, to the interpretive framework.***

    If an argument holds arbitrary assertions we can dismiss it off-hand. (If asserted without evidence it can be dismissed without evidence)”—


    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-27 14:14:38 UTC

  • Tip that some people get and some people fail to get: *Always Use Series*. —“m

    Tip that some people get and some people fail to get: *Always Use Series*.

    —“mythology, values, rituals, signals, institutions, language, culture, and kinship”—

    —“ignorance, error, bias, wishful thinking, suggestion, obscurantism, fictionalism, and deceit”—

    —“murder, violence, theft, fraud, free riding, socialization of losses, privatization of the commons, conspiracy, statism, conversion, immigration, conquest”—

    —“Idealism, abrahamism, pilpul vs critique, sophism, justificaitonary rationalism, propaganda”—

    —“Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Rousseauianism, Kantianism, Marxism, Keynesianism, Frankfurt School, Feminism, Postmodernism, Outright Lying”—-

    —” logic, math, accounting, algorithms, recipes(protocols), science (operations), testimony, written prose, ordinary language, idiomatic speech, storytelling, fiction, fictionalisms, deceits”—

    —“Sovereignty, Reciprocity, Truth, Duty, Natural Law and Markets in Everything”—

    Each of these series contains all the information necessary to construct very complex arguments. and the virtue of repeating them, and any other series of definitions, is that it is extremely hard to play word games when all words as such are subject to competition in each such series.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-27 12:49:00 UTC