Curt Doolittle

Category: Epistemology and Method

  • Well you know there is only one test of one’s knowledge: survival in debate, and

    Well you know there is only one test of one’s knowledge: survival in debate, and demonstrated success in reality.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-15 23:16:56 UTC

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  • It is a name, a description, a causal reference, an accusation, and a judgement.

    It is a name, a description, a causal reference, an accusation, and a judgement. And as a judgement rests true or false.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-15 22:14:31 UTC

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  • Ideas are like gravity: they create a direction, a ‘down’, a ‘premise’. But unli

    Ideas are like gravity: they create a direction, a ‘down’, a ‘premise’. But unlike gravity, with words we can invert direction and premise.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-15 21:23:40 UTC

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  • All talk of principles are lies – frauds. And that the only measure of the truth

    All talk of principles are lies – frauds. And that the only measure of the truth or falsehood, good or bad, morality or immorality is the full accounting of the consequences of an action. It is an inescapable irony of libertine thought that on one had one uses the broken window parable to illustrate the necessity of accounting for all costs, then on the other hand to rely upon ‘ principles’ the very purpose of which is to circumvent the requirement for the full accounting of costs. It’s this form of selective lying that permeates all libertine (rothbardian) thought.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-15 17:30:00 UTC

  • Ideas are like gravity: they create a direction, a ‘down’, a ‘premise’. But unli

    Ideas are like gravity: they create a direction, a ‘down’, a ‘premise’. But unlike gravity, with words we can invert direction and premise.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-15 16:23:00 UTC

  • Benefit and Loss are absolutes. Good and Evil are absolutes. Preference is relat

    Benefit and Loss are absolutes. Good and Evil are absolutes. Preference is relative. That we use the authoritarian terms good and evil to lie about our preferences is just another form of fraud.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-15 14:22:00 UTC

  • Epistemology is a Simple Thing (Really)

    (propertarianism) (core)Recipes describe actionable knowledge that we can use to transform state.

    Theories describe an Opportunity Field. There exists only one epistemological method for the discovery of recipes and theories: – Observation->perception, – Free association-> wayfinding, – Hypothesis->construction, – Theory->survival from criticism, – Law->survival in the market for criticism, – Habituation -> survival, – Metaphysical inclusion -> replication. Within this method we find special cases of the epistemological method: non-contradiction, apriorisms, simplicity – in the same way we discover special cases of prime numbers – and for the same reason: coincidence of simplicities amidst the chaos of possibilities. But we eventually run low on simplicities at any given level of precision, and must develop new logical and physical and moral instrumentation in order to obtain sufficient information to discover more simplicities at greater precision. All the while defending against our tendencies to engage in error, bias,wishful thinking, suggestion, obscurantism, pseudoscience, pseudorationalism, pseudo-moralism, and deceit. To warranty our speech against the dark forces of error, bias, and deceit, we can test each existentially possible dimension – in which humans can act – against error, bias, and deceit. – Categorical Consistency – identity – Logical Consistency – internal correspondence – Empirical Consistency – external correspondence – Existential Consistency – operational correspondence – Moral Consistency – reciprocal correspondence – Scope Consistency – full accounting – dimensional correspondence. This process constitutes the completion of the scientific method for the warranty of due diligence of one’s testimony in every domain of human inquiry without exception. Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine

  • Epistemology is a Simple Thing (Really)

    (propertarianism) (core)Recipes describe actionable knowledge that we can use to transform state.

    Theories describe an Opportunity Field. There exists only one epistemological method for the discovery of recipes and theories: – Observation->perception, – Free association-> wayfinding, – Hypothesis->construction, – Theory->survival from criticism, – Law->survival in the market for criticism, – Habituation -> survival, – Metaphysical inclusion -> replication. Within this method we find special cases of the epistemological method: non-contradiction, apriorisms, simplicity – in the same way we discover special cases of prime numbers – and for the same reason: coincidence of simplicities amidst the chaos of possibilities. But we eventually run low on simplicities at any given level of precision, and must develop new logical and physical and moral instrumentation in order to obtain sufficient information to discover more simplicities at greater precision. All the while defending against our tendencies to engage in error, bias,wishful thinking, suggestion, obscurantism, pseudoscience, pseudorationalism, pseudo-moralism, and deceit. To warranty our speech against the dark forces of error, bias, and deceit, we can test each existentially possible dimension – in which humans can act – against error, bias, and deceit. – Categorical Consistency – identity – Logical Consistency – internal correspondence – Empirical Consistency – external correspondence – Existential Consistency – operational correspondence – Moral Consistency – reciprocal correspondence – Scope Consistency – full accounting – dimensional correspondence. This process constitutes the completion of the scientific method for the warranty of due diligence of one’s testimony in every domain of human inquiry without exception. Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine

  • NO. SCIENCE IS A MORAL DISCIPLINE WITHIN NATURAL LAW: THE MEANS BY WHICH WE WARR

    NO. SCIENCE IS A MORAL DISCIPLINE WITHIN NATURAL LAW: THE MEANS BY WHICH WE WARRANT THE TRUTHFULNESS OF OUR STATEMENTS.

    (Ethelbert, Jesus, and Kant say the same thing)

    The languages of science(testimony), physical science, propertarianism (social science), natural law (science of dispute resolution), accounting, finance, and economics, (measurement of production), function as the universal language of truth-telling.

    The discipline of science asks us to warranty that we have performed due diligence on our statements. We warranty that we have eliminated error, bias, wishful thinking, suggestion, obscurantism, pseudoscience, and deceit from our utterances.

    That’s what science is:

    A NATURAL LAW: a warranty of our information, just like the warranty of our services, just as the warranty of our products, just as the warranty of our speech.

    Period. End of story.

    I know. You thought you were smart. You were so proud that you had transcended superstition. But it never occurred to you that you were just as ridiculous in the present generation due to the pseudosciences of Marx, Freud, Boaz, Adorno than your superstitious ancestors were in the pseudoscience of theology.

    Ok. Have we got that straight? Look in the mirror. Repeat after me: “I was suckered by pseudoscience, just like my ancestors were suckered by superstition. I am a sucker. I pledge not to be a sucker any longer. There is only one moral rule in both silver(negative) and gold (positive) forms: Impose not cost upon the cost born by others, by limiting yourself to actions and words, consisting only of productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary transfer, limited to productive externalities.

    Ethelbert (Anglo-Saxon Silver Rule), Jesus (Golden-Rule), and Kant (bi-metal rule), all said the same thing. Everything else is lies to justify theft and to circumvent voluntary transfers between individuals classes and groups.

    Ok. We’re done here.

    “Please stop torturing me with your postmodern superstitions, ok?. Thanks, -The Management.”

    Curt Doolittle

    The Philosophy of Aristocracy

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-15 12:33:00 UTC

  • DECREASING THE ERROR, BIAS, AND DECEIT, TO IDENTIFY CHEAPLY OPPORTUNITIES TO SEI

    DECREASING THE ERROR, BIAS, AND DECEIT, TO IDENTIFY CHEAPLY OPPORTUNITIES TO SEIZE

    The political questions we face are very different if we seek to eliminate error, bias, and deceit, rather than if we seek to identify optimums by which to obtain discounts. People will sieze the discounts no matter what. the problem is in decreasing the error, bias, and deciet, so that those opportunities are more readily visible. It’s not that we should ignore error bias and deceit so we must constantly thrash through them to find the opportunities amidst the clutter.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-15 12:31:00 UTC