Curt Doolittle

Category: Epistemology and Method

  • Are We Living In Post-truth Era?

    GREAT QUESTION. HERE IS AN UNCOMFORTABLE ANSWER

    —-”Do you think we live in a post-truth world?”—-

    1 – Yes.
    2 – It’s by design (intent).
    3. It’s a reformation of the first organized means of creating post truth.

    The purpose of the Marxist, Freudian, Boazia, Cantorian, Misesian, Frankfurt, Rothbardian, Straussian counter-enlightenment was to create a pseudoscientific alternative to the German’s second scientific revolution provided by Maxwell, Darwin, Durkheim/Pareto/Weber, Spencer, Nietzsche, and Romantic school, which along with the German second technical revolution, and the Germanic rediscovery of pre-christian aesthetics, ethics and mythos – would restore meritocracy to its pre-christian origins, and pre christian empirical truth.

    With the combination of the industrial revolution freeing the underclasses from subsistence living and the Darwin’s ending of mysticism, and the opportunity for a new religion emerged, and the academy stepped in seize the opportunity with the Marxist pseudosciences – and took over the role of the church.

    When by the 1960’s no intellectually honest person could any longer support Marxism, the French invented ‘Postmodernism’ , which is not just pseudoscientific, but pseudo-rational, and constitutes a complete denial of the existence of decidable truth – only power to bring about one’s will mattered.

    Political Correctness roughly translates to ‘lying’ outright the same way that abrahamic religion translates roughly to lying by parable.

    Yet, especially beginning in about 2000 with The Blank Slate, largely due to the self interest of psychologist having been falsified by cognitive science, and therefore trying to save their careers and their profession psychology, cognitive science, genetic science, and economists, have falsified the remainder of the Marxist (economic and historical), Boazian (Anthropology and sociology), Freudian(psychology), pseudosciences. I work on reforming political speech, sociology, law and government, to prevent lying in the market for information the same way we have struggled to eliminate lying in the market for goods, and the market for services.

    So at the present we are in a narrow window and determining whether the truth prevails (a minority of us) or ‘lies of convenience’ prevail ( the majority) and whether we will enter another abrahamic dark age, of outright lying like we almost entered one from abrahamic pseudoscientific lying in the 1900’s, and did enter into the first abrahamic dark ages, with the sequential development of systemic lying in judaism > christianity > islam > and the rational justifications of them we call most ‘philosophy’.

    The universe is not kind. We are not the center of it. We are a glorious accident in an old and peaceful suburb of a minor galaxy. And we do not yet know if we are alone completely or alone by distance, or not alone at all.

    There is only one problem: excessive reproduction below the threshold of reason (about 106 iq) and below the threshold of neoteny (aggression) and below the threshold of agency (impulsivity). Why? Because the inferior need lies to compete. And those of us fully human are bounded by those that are not yet so.

    https://www.quora.com/Are-we-living-in-post-truth-era

  • Are We Living In Post-truth Era?

    GREAT QUESTION. HERE IS AN UNCOMFORTABLE ANSWER

    —-”Do you think we live in a post-truth world?”—-

    1 – Yes.
    2 – It’s by design (intent).
    3. It’s a reformation of the first organized means of creating post truth.

    The purpose of the Marxist, Freudian, Boazia, Cantorian, Misesian, Frankfurt, Rothbardian, Straussian counter-enlightenment was to create a pseudoscientific alternative to the German’s second scientific revolution provided by Maxwell, Darwin, Durkheim/Pareto/Weber, Spencer, Nietzsche, and Romantic school, which along with the German second technical revolution, and the Germanic rediscovery of pre-christian aesthetics, ethics and mythos – would restore meritocracy to its pre-christian origins, and pre christian empirical truth.

    With the combination of the industrial revolution freeing the underclasses from subsistence living and the Darwin’s ending of mysticism, and the opportunity for a new religion emerged, and the academy stepped in seize the opportunity with the Marxist pseudosciences – and took over the role of the church.

    When by the 1960’s no intellectually honest person could any longer support Marxism, the French invented ‘Postmodernism’ , which is not just pseudoscientific, but pseudo-rational, and constitutes a complete denial of the existence of decidable truth – only power to bring about one’s will mattered.

    Political Correctness roughly translates to ‘lying’ outright the same way that abrahamic religion translates roughly to lying by parable.

    Yet, especially beginning in about 2000 with The Blank Slate, largely due to the self interest of psychologist having been falsified by cognitive science, and therefore trying to save their careers and their profession psychology, cognitive science, genetic science, and economists, have falsified the remainder of the Marxist (economic and historical), Boazian (Anthropology and sociology), Freudian(psychology), pseudosciences. I work on reforming political speech, sociology, law and government, to prevent lying in the market for information the same way we have struggled to eliminate lying in the market for goods, and the market for services.

    So at the present we are in a narrow window and determining whether the truth prevails (a minority of us) or ‘lies of convenience’ prevail ( the majority) and whether we will enter another abrahamic dark age, of outright lying like we almost entered one from abrahamic pseudoscientific lying in the 1900’s, and did enter into the first abrahamic dark ages, with the sequential development of systemic lying in judaism > christianity > islam > and the rational justifications of them we call most ‘philosophy’.

    The universe is not kind. We are not the center of it. We are a glorious accident in an old and peaceful suburb of a minor galaxy. And we do not yet know if we are alone completely or alone by distance, or not alone at all.

    There is only one problem: excessive reproduction below the threshold of reason (about 106 iq) and below the threshold of neoteny (aggression) and below the threshold of agency (impulsivity). Why? Because the inferior need lies to compete. And those of us fully human are bounded by those that are not yet so.

    https://www.quora.com/Are-we-living-in-post-truth-era

  • Math Exists As A Logic, Not A Science.

    As far as I know, mathematics consists not of science but of a logic. A logic meaning a grammar of decidability. And in the case of mathematics, the grammar of decidability consists of reduction of all references to positional names, and therefore all relations to positional relations. And we can do so with an unlimited number of dimensions, A science is necessary when we do not know the first principles (causal relations) of phenomenon and seek to identify them. Science therefore consists of theories and laws. A logic is necessary when we do know the first principles (causal relations). Ergo, logics consist of axioms. You can declare an axiom, but only identify a law. Once a law is known you may model it with axioms. That I know of there are only two assumptions in mathematics, and both are necessary for the simple reason that independent of context (applied mathematics) we have no means of decidability in matters of scale independence. The law of the excluded middle. The need for choice. Mathematics is actually quite simple. Its that because it is so simple, consisting only of positional relations, we can describe any set of constant relations with it.

  • EXISTS AS A LOGIC, NOT A SCIENCE. As far as I know, mathematics consists not of

    https://www.quora.com/If-mathematics-is-an-exact-science-why-are-there-assumptions/answer/Curt-Doolittle?share=8eada093&srid=u4QvMATH EXISTS AS A LOGIC, NOT A SCIENCE.

    As far as I know, mathematics consists not of science but of a logic. A logic meaning a grammar of decidability. And in the case of mathematics, the grammar of decidability consists of reduction of all references to positional names, and therefore all relations to positional relations. And we can do so with an unlimited number of dimensions,

    A science is necessary when we do not know the first principles (causal relations) of phenomenon and seek to identify them. Science therefore consists of theories and laws.

    A logic is necessary when we do know the first principles (causal relations). Ergo, logics consist of axioms.

    You can declare an axiom, but only identify a law.

    Once a law is known you may model it with axioms.

    That I know of there are only two assumptions in mathematics, and both are necessary for the simple reason that independent of context (applied mathematics) we have no means of decidability in matters of scale independence.

    The law of the excluded middle.

    The need for choice.

    Mathematics is actually quite simple. Its that because it is so simple, consisting only of positional relations, we can describe any set of constant relations with it.Updated Dec 29, 2017, 8:21 PM

    Source date (UTC): 2017-12-29 20:21:00 UTC

  • Math Exists As A Logic, Not A Science.

    As far as I know, mathematics consists not of science but of a logic. A logic meaning a grammar of decidability. And in the case of mathematics, the grammar of decidability consists of reduction of all references to positional names, and therefore all relations to positional relations. And we can do so with an unlimited number of dimensions, A science is necessary when we do not know the first principles (causal relations) of phenomenon and seek to identify them. Science therefore consists of theories and laws. A logic is necessary when we do know the first principles (causal relations). Ergo, logics consist of axioms. You can declare an axiom, but only identify a law. Once a law is known you may model it with axioms. That I know of there are only two assumptions in mathematics, and both are necessary for the simple reason that independent of context (applied mathematics) we have no means of decidability in matters of scale independence. The law of the excluded middle. The need for choice. Mathematics is actually quite simple. Its that because it is so simple, consisting only of positional relations, we can describe any set of constant relations with it.

  • THE TECHNOLOGY OF TRUTHFUL SPEECH [S]cience is a moral discipline wherein we cri

    THE TECHNOLOGY OF TRUTHFUL SPEECH

    [S]cience is a moral discipline wherein we criticize our ideas, so that we can speak them truthfully:

    1 — We test our relations for categorical consistency (identity)

    2— We test our reasoning with logic for internal consistency.

    3— We test our observations with external correspondence.

    4— We test the existential possibilities of our premises by defining them in operational language

    5— We test the rationality of our choices by subjective testing of incentives – all human action is rationally self interested.

    6— We test the morality of our display, word, and deed by reciprocity: reciprocal tests of rationality.

    7— We test the consequences of our theories for externalities (involuntary transfers).

    8— We test the completeness of our statements with a tests of full accounting and limits.

    9— We test the coherence of our statements with this list of constant relations both categorical, internal, external, existential, complete, and limited, including the rational when a matter of personal action, and reciprocal when a matter of interpersonal and political action.

    Once we have tested our theories by these means, then we can say that we speak truthfully – and as such do no harm.

    Because scientific method consists of due diligences necessary to warranty that we speak truthfully. And by truthfully we mean consistent, correspondent, complete, rational, and moral, and laundered of ignorance, error, bias, wishful thinking, suggestion, obscurantism, fictionalism and deceit.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine

    Source date (UTC): 2017-12-29 08:51:00 UTC

  • Cultural Variants of Truth and the Consequences 1 – Truth and Adherence to Rules

    Cultural Variants of Truth and the Consequences

    1 – Truth and Adherence to Rules are two different things. (submission)

    2 – Truth and Fidelity to Contract are two different things.

    3 – Truth and Duty are two different things.

    4 – Truth and Knowledge are two different things.

    Truth as Adherence – Familialism (most of the world)

    Truth as Fidelity – Tribalism (judaism)

    Truth as Duty – Nationalism (german)

    Truth as Science – Universalism. (english)

    [T]hat members of a community follow rules and conventions with one another, does not require whatsoever that they tell the truth to one another.

    That members of a community fulfill promises or contracts with one another, does not require whatsoever that they tell the truth to one another.

    Another community may both fulfill it’s promises, its contracts, and the commitment to tell the truth at all times regardless of cost.

    The principle of truth to to an Adherence community consists of order. The principle of ‘truth’ to a contract community consists of fidelity. The principle of truth to a truth-telling community consists of ***SCIENCE***.

    If you grasp the profundity of this statement you will understand why some cultures produce science, and some produce trade, and some produce tyranny. Some create science. And some create pseudoscience. And some create only order. Some create science, innovation, trade and trust. Others create only trade, and others create only utilitarian applications of tools.

    Small things in large numbers have vast consequences.

    When we use ‘functions” such as the verb to be, or the word ‘truth’ we do not really understand their construction, just that they are shorthand approximations that tend to work. We have just knowledge of use, not knowledge of construction.

    But the word ‘true’ means very different things in different places: science, fidelity, and adherence.

    And the consequences are astounding.

    Truth is a performative declaration. Truth claims then, to different groups, state either epistemology, fidelity, or adherence.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-12-29 08:51:00 UTC

  • If Mathematics Is An Exact Science, Why Are There Assumptions?

    As far as I know, mathematics consists not of science but of a logic. A logic meaning a grammar of decidability. And in the case of mathematics, the grammar of decidability consists of reduction of all references to positional names, and therefore all relations to positional relations. And we can do so with an unlimited number of dimensions,

    A science is necessary when we do not know the first principles (causal relations) of phenomenon and seek to identify them. Science therefore consists of theories and laws.

    A logic is necessary when we do know the first principles (causal relations). Ergo, logics consist of axioms.

    You can declare an axiom, but only identify a law.

    Once a law is known you may model it with axioms.

    That I know of there are only two assumptions in mathematics, and both are necessary for the simple reason that independent of context (applied mathematics) we have no means of decidability in matters of scale independence.

    The law of the excluded middle.
    The need for choice.

    Mathematics is actually quite simple. Its that because it is so simple, consisting only of positional relations, we can describe any set of constant relations with it.

    https://www.quora.com/If-mathematics-is-an-exact-science-why-are-there-assumptions

  • If An Advanced Alien Civilization Uses An Axiomatic System That Allows Them To Solve Many Math Problems That We Have Tried For Centuries To Solve, Would We Adapt To Their System So That Our Math Knowledge Can Catch Up To Theirs?

    Um. I don’t think you understand the constitution of mathematics. And I am not sure that I want to invest that level of effort. But given the simplicity of math, and the impossibility of anything more ‘simple’ than math, the only thing we can do with mathematics that we cannot do now, is increase the dimension of constant relations that we calculate. And even today, that is largely a function of computational power. I mean, once you get to Lie groups you really have completed the circle, very similarly to how once you get to chemistry you have completed the subatomic cycle, and started over.

    https://www.quora.com/If-an-advanced-alien-civilization-uses-an-axiomatic-system-that-allows-them-to-solve-many-math-problems-that-we-have-tried-for-centuries-to-solve-would-we-adapt-to-their-system-so-that-our-math-knowledge-can-catch-up-to-theirs

  • If Mathematics Is An Exact Science, Why Are There Assumptions?

    As far as I know, mathematics consists not of science but of a logic. A logic meaning a grammar of decidability. And in the case of mathematics, the grammar of decidability consists of reduction of all references to positional names, and therefore all relations to positional relations. And we can do so with an unlimited number of dimensions,

    A science is necessary when we do not know the first principles (causal relations) of phenomenon and seek to identify them. Science therefore consists of theories and laws.

    A logic is necessary when we do know the first principles (causal relations). Ergo, logics consist of axioms.

    You can declare an axiom, but only identify a law.

    Once a law is known you may model it with axioms.

    That I know of there are only two assumptions in mathematics, and both are necessary for the simple reason that independent of context (applied mathematics) we have no means of decidability in matters of scale independence.

    The law of the excluded middle.
    The need for choice.

    Mathematics is actually quite simple. Its that because it is so simple, consisting only of positional relations, we can describe any set of constant relations with it.

    https://www.quora.com/If-mathematics-is-an-exact-science-why-are-there-assumptions