Curt Doolittle

Category: Epistemology and Method

  • 2 – As a consequence, parables, analogies, fictionalisms and ‘ways of thinking’

    2 – As a consequence, parables, analogies, fictionalisms and ‘ways of thinking’ not yet operationalized, and therefore not yet scientific, must bear the cost of more disciplined efforts. Else the functionalists who created the last dark age and threaten another will continue.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-04-08 16:10:07 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/983014131992231937

    Reply addressees: @PeterBoettke @pavelkuchar @FerlitoCarmelo

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/983005370657501184

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    @PeterBoettke

    @curtdoolittle @pavelkuchar @FerlitoCarmelo Austrian economics is much more vibrant and varied within the scientific community that you are recognizing Curt. I believe this is because you are looking at it through a certain window, a window I would argue is the least productive of plausible readings of a tradition.

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  • 1 – Peter: I am trying to solve, or have solved, a profoundly difficult problem,

    1 – Peter: I am trying to solve, or have solved, a profoundly difficult problem, across the full scope of disciplines, completing the scientific revolution – the purpose of which is to insulate us against past present and future fictionalisms, by strict construction of law.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-04-08 15:45:51 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/983008028143312897

    Reply addressees: @PeterBoettke @pavelkuchar @FerlitoCarmelo

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/983005370657501184

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    @PeterBoettke

    @curtdoolittle @pavelkuchar @FerlitoCarmelo Austrian economics is much more vibrant and varied within the scientific community that you are recognizing Curt. I believe this is because you are looking at it through a certain window, a window I would argue is the least productive of plausible readings of a tradition.

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  • We get what we measure. When we start over in economics by measuring the full su

    We get what we measure. When we start over in economics by measuring the full suite of capital instead of how fast we burn it down, then economics will be a science rather than an excuse by which to substitute consumption for morality in the production of policy. 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2018-04-07 22:55:06 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/982753663230840840

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  • There are many useful means of free association (conflation) but only one means

    There are many useful means of free association (conflation) but only one means of falsification (deflation). Justificationism is false.

    The question is not what is true such that we can make an excuse, so that we can claim justification for preference, but whether we engage in falsehood, deception, reciprocity, and externality. Wisdom lit is full of falsehood, deception, suggestion, obscurantism reciprocity and externality.

    So solving for a truth claim in wisdom lit is simply an act of fraud. What you mean is ‘it works to satisfy a need’. Whether or not it ‘s true reciprocal, and free of externality is still open to question regardless of opinion.

    The question then is wheher something is preferable yet not false, irreciprocal and plagued with externatlities

    That is the only wisdom we need understand.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-04-04 22:21:00 UTC

  • they are too inaccurate to do more than the most obvious. anything under 15% is

    they are too inaccurate to do more than the most obvious. anything under 15% is noise not signal

    Source date (UTC): 2018-04-04 07:14:02 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/981429672746651651

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  • My presumption of best way = continuous competition (empiricism), and continuous

    My presumption of best way = continuous competition (empiricism), and continuous success at competition (dynamic markets), which requires continuous defeat of the red queen (regression to the mean), by continuous improvement of the gene pool (kin group eugenics.)

    Source date (UTC): 2018-04-03 16:44:00 UTC

  • WHAT’S FICTIONALISM???? 😉

    https://propertarianism.com/2017/03/24/definition-fictionalism/GEE, WHAT’S FICTIONALISM???? 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2018-04-02 21:15:00 UTC

  • –“Curt: How Would You Explain Your Beliefs?”—

    https://propertarianinstitute.com/basic-concepts/
    Well, I .. I don’t use the word ‘belief’, because I don’t use the concept of ‘faith’, or the concept of ‘justification’. So I would instead, say “this is my understanding, or this is history as I understand it, or these are my understandings.” (I will explain some other time why resource and opportunity scarcity and lack of agency attract ‘beliefs’ and why resource and opportunity plenty and possession of agency attract ‘understandings’. Or you can ponder that on your own.) Let’s, for the sake of argument, say that: 1. my work consists of completing that thing we call the scientific method, and systematically applying it to the entire scope of human knowledge. 2. My ambition is to eliminate the propagation of falsehoods in the commons – particularly given that we’ve industrialized lying during the past century, and that this means of lying has been designed to undermine our civilization just as were judaism, christianity, and islam in the ancient world, and marxism, boazianism, freudianism, and Frankfurt and postmodern schools in the modern world. 3. my understanding of history is that western civilization evolved not first but fastest because we required a militia in our territory, and as a byproduct of organizing a militia, discovered what we think of today as scientific (or I call ‘testimonial’) truth – and as a consequence, markets in every aspect of life. 4. The rest of my work explains how to evolve our traditional system away from a second dark age, and continue the process of dragging humanity kicking and screaming out of ignorance, superstition, poverty, disease, and lack of agency. In historical context, let’s just say that almost all of the world is only partly through the scientific revolution, and that this will help humanity with understanding the ‘rest of the way’. ITS ALL AVAILABLE If you want an understanding of propertarianism, believe it or not, ‘its all there for the taking’. See … https://propertarianinstitute.com/basic-concepts/ And if you read …. https://propertarianinstitute.com/2016/01/05/an-overview-of-propertarianism-for-serious-newbies/ … which includes a description of history and western civilization’s unique place in it. Then you will have a basic understanding. But this is like learning any other discipline – and is very close to learning a mixture of programming and law. The technical part is quite difficult. But you don’t need to understand it. All you need to understand is that small homogenous nationalist polities operating under what I call ‘perfect government’ will produce the desires of socialists, libertarians, and aristocrats, without providing any of the m with a monopoly that allows them to live parasitically upon the others.
    Mar 30, 2018 12:16pm

  • –“Curt: How Would You Explain Your Beliefs?”—

    https://propertarianinstitute.com/basic-concepts/
    Well, I .. I don’t use the word ‘belief’, because I don’t use the concept of ‘faith’, or the concept of ‘justification’. So I would instead, say “this is my understanding, or this is history as I understand it, or these are my understandings.” (I will explain some other time why resource and opportunity scarcity and lack of agency attract ‘beliefs’ and why resource and opportunity plenty and possession of agency attract ‘understandings’. Or you can ponder that on your own.) Let’s, for the sake of argument, say that: 1. my work consists of completing that thing we call the scientific method, and systematically applying it to the entire scope of human knowledge. 2. My ambition is to eliminate the propagation of falsehoods in the commons – particularly given that we’ve industrialized lying during the past century, and that this means of lying has been designed to undermine our civilization just as were judaism, christianity, and islam in the ancient world, and marxism, boazianism, freudianism, and Frankfurt and postmodern schools in the modern world. 3. my understanding of history is that western civilization evolved not first but fastest because we required a militia in our territory, and as a byproduct of organizing a militia, discovered what we think of today as scientific (or I call ‘testimonial’) truth – and as a consequence, markets in every aspect of life. 4. The rest of my work explains how to evolve our traditional system away from a second dark age, and continue the process of dragging humanity kicking and screaming out of ignorance, superstition, poverty, disease, and lack of agency. In historical context, let’s just say that almost all of the world is only partly through the scientific revolution, and that this will help humanity with understanding the ‘rest of the way’. ITS ALL AVAILABLE If you want an understanding of propertarianism, believe it or not, ‘its all there for the taking’. See … https://propertarianinstitute.com/basic-concepts/ And if you read …. https://propertarianinstitute.com/2016/01/05/an-overview-of-propertarianism-for-serious-newbies/ … which includes a description of history and western civilization’s unique place in it. Then you will have a basic understanding. But this is like learning any other discipline – and is very close to learning a mixture of programming and law. The technical part is quite difficult. But you don’t need to understand it. All you need to understand is that small homogenous nationalist polities operating under what I call ‘perfect government’ will produce the desires of socialists, libertarians, and aristocrats, without providing any of the m with a monopoly that allows them to live parasitically upon the others.
    Mar 30, 2018 12:16pm

  • How Would You Explain Your Beliefs?”— Well, I .. I don’t use the word ‘belief’

    https://propertarianism.com/basic-concepts/–“Curt: How Would You Explain Your Beliefs?”—

    Well, I .. I don’t use the word ‘belief’, because I don’t use the concept of ‘faith’, or the concept of ‘justification’. So I would instead, say “this is my understanding, or this is history as I understand it, or these are my understandings.”

    (I will explain some other time why resource and opportunity scarcity and lack of agency attract ‘beliefs’ and why resource and opportunity plenty and possession of agency attract ‘understandings’. Or you can ponder that on your own.)

    Let’s, for the sake of argument, say that:

    1. my work consists of completing that thing we call the scientific method, and systematically applying it to the entire scope of human knowledge.

    2. My ambition is to eliminate the propagation of falsehoods in the commons – particularly given that we’ve industrialized lying during the past century, and that this means of lying has been designed to undermine our civilization just as were judaism, christianity, and islam in the ancient world, and marxism, boazianism, freudianism, and Frankfurt and postmodern schools in the modern world.

    3. my understanding of history is that western civilization evolved not first but fastest because we required a militia in our territory, and as a byproduct of organizing a militia, discovered what we think of today as scientific (or I call ‘testimonial’) truth – and as a consequence, markets in every aspect of life.

    4. The rest of my work explains how to evolve our traditional system away from a second dark age, and continue the process of dragging humanity kicking and screaming out of ignorance, superstition, poverty, disease, and lack of agency.

    In historical context, let’s just say that almost all of the world is only partly through the scientific revolution, and that this will help humanity with understanding the ‘rest of the way’.

    ITS ALL AVAILABLE

    If you want an understanding of propertarianism, believe it or not, ‘its all there for the taking’.

    See …

    https://propertarianism.com/basic-concepts/

    And if you read ….

    https://propertarianism.com/2016/01/05/an-overview-of-propertarianism-for-serious-newbies/

    … which includes a description of history and western civilization’s unique place in it.

    Then you will have a basic understanding. But this is like learning any other discipline – and is very close to learning a mixture of programming and law.

    The technical part is quite difficult. But you don’t need to understand it. All you need to understand is that small homogenous nationalist polities operating under what I call ‘perfect government’ will produce the desires of socialists, libertarians, and aristocrats, without providing any of the m with a monopoly that allows them to live parasitically upon the others.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-03-30 12:16:00 UTC