Curt Doolittle

Category: Epistemology and Method

  • POPPER, HAYEK, AND HOPPE: INFORMATION AND CALCULATION IN SOCIAL SCIENCE Popper a

    POPPER, HAYEK, AND HOPPE: INFORMATION AND CALCULATION IN SOCIAL SCIENCE

    Popper and Hayek treat information (knowledge) as the model for analysis of man but fail to complete it. (Just as physicists treat the universe as information.)

    Hoppe (by way of rothbard) creates the method of categorization, measurement, and operations of information: property and voluntary cooperation.

    Popper: sources of knowledge and ignorance.(individual/critical/truth)

    Hayek: use of knowledge in economics and society (group/law/cooperation/liberty)

    Hoppe: propertarian ethics (cooperation) as entities (property) and operations (voluntary transfers).

    Doolittle: the division of perception, cognition, knowledge and labor by reproductive demand, and the use of voluntary cooperation to consolidate it into a network that acts on the behalf of the network of individuals.

    Together this creates is a system of constant calculation, whose test is volition (demonstrated use of existing knowledge)

    In my early work I referred to the problem of ‘calculation’. I knew it was the problem I had to solve. I just didn’t realize how enormous a problem it was other than it was the only way of preventing thievery in government.

    I knew my writing was difficult to understand because of the influence of writing software. It took me a very long time to understand that I was intuiting the relationship between the existential dependence of software (computability) and testimonial (existential) truth. And that the only way to write this way was to write in the same style as programming.

    Like I tell people – my autistic intuition finds patterns. I just have to work out what it’s telling me and determine if its true or not. For this reason I never think I am particularly smart – it’s more that I am gifted, and I work hard at translating my gift into language.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-19 06:24:00 UTC

  • THINKING OF BERNARD WILLIAMS (PHILOSOPHER) : THE MIND OF ARTISTS, ENTREPRENEURS,

    THINKING OF BERNARD WILLIAMS (PHILOSOPHER) : THE MIND OF ARTISTS, ENTREPRENEURS, AND JURISTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF PHILOSOPHY.

    You know, there is a natural conflict between judges, entrepreneurs, and artists. A judge makes no proactive statements, only prohibitionary. Artists and entrepreneurs envision possibilities, and rarely issue prohibitions.

    But it is somewhat of a difference between the sculptors of stone and of clay.

    A sculptor of clay creates from either skeleton or nothing, A sculptor of stone eliminates all that is not that which he desires. Working with clay is much more forgiving than working with stone. The sculptor of stone works with what exists, and the sculptor of clay works with what yet may be. The Judge works with what exists, and the artist and entrepreneur work what may be.

    Together they produce the same art.

    I agree with Williams that scientism is tedious for the artist, of limited use to the entrepreneur – but it is of necessity to the jurist.

    Reasonableness, Reason, Justification are tools of artist and entrepreneur for the purpose of creating hypotheses – that which may yet serve man.

    Science, Criticism, and Testimonialism are the tools of the jurist for the purpose of determining truth – that which exists independently of our opinions.

    The division of perception, cognition, knowledge, advocacy, negotiation, and labor, exists everywhere.

    For every OBVERSE (hypothesis) there must exist a REVERSE (criticism).

    Creator and Jurist are necessary for a two dimensional imaginary plane to be represented as a three dimensional object in reality.

    (You see, I am perfectly capable of argument by informative analogy. But that is only because I know the truth, and wish to inform. It is not because I want to inform without first knowing the truth.)

    Theory:obverse and limits:reverse.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-19 06:20:00 UTC

  • COSTS OF TRUTH

    http://www.propertarianism.com/en_US/2015/07/27/the-costs-of-truth/THE COSTS OF TRUTH

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-19 01:43:00 UTC

  • This is why it is hard for most. I write tests not parables

    This is why it is hard for most. I write tests not parables.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-18 14:54:59 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/689098664996909056

    Reply addressees: @DIA_operative @helios_unbound @276039081 @Outsideness

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/666711007356542976

    IN REPLY TO:

    @DIA_operative

    @helios_unbound @276039081 @curtdoolittle @Outsideness Perhaps it’s my passion for cryptography but I’d always thought his writing lucid

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/666711007356542976

  • I write in the analytic not sympathetic mode, and I demand a great deal from rea

    I write in the analytic not sympathetic mode, and I demand a great deal from readers

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-18 14:51:25 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/689097767780790273

    Reply addressees: @DIA_operative @helios_unbound @276039081 @Outsideness

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/666711007356542976

    IN REPLY TO:

    @DIA_operative

    @helios_unbound @276039081 @curtdoolittle @Outsideness Perhaps it’s my passion for cryptography but I’d always thought his writing lucid

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/666711007356542976

  • DO YOU SEE THE EVOLUTION OF LYING? THE WAR ON TRUTH. 1) Pre-weasel Words : Mysti

    DO YOU SEE THE EVOLUTION OF LYING? THE WAR ON TRUTH.

    1) Pre-weasel Words : Mysticism and Scriptural “Quotation” of Prophets (vs common sense and natural religion:myth)

    2) Weasel Words: Weasel Words and Reasonableness (vs reason and philosophy)

    3) Advanced weasel words: Rationalism and Philosophy (vs natural law and law)

    4) Very and advanced weasel words: Pseudoscience and Scientism (vs science)

    5) Abandoning Pretense: Political Correctness and Postmodernism (democracy)

    OMFG. Thousands of years of lying. LYING IS A GREAT STRATEGY.

    You do know that the Romans considered the Greeks immoral liars, right?

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-18 10:22:00 UTC

  • (maybe it isn’t obvious) (important ideas) Once the technology of truth telling

    (maybe it isn’t obvious) (important ideas)

    Once the technology of truth telling exists, and once you have been informed that it exists, **you no longer err, you lie** at best out of willful ignorance.

    THAT is why testimonialism matters so much.

    TRUTH IS ENOUGH.

    They are parasites.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-18 04:00:00 UTC

  • Philosophy: “Testimonial Science” Well, we usually define philosophy as either t

    Philosophy: “Testimonial Science”

    Well, we usually define philosophy as either the love of wisdom – in the ancient sense – or in the modern sense, the search for truth.

    My work is an effort to define truth, so that we can prohibit falsehood and the use of falsehood as a means of theft, parasitism, predation and conquest.

    So as far as I know I have produced the most total definition of truth and means of identifying it as has been achieved as yet. (and it seems hard to do better really.)

    This definition of truth causes the convergence of biology, morality, philosophy, law, and science. Which is in itself an achievement, and we call this kind of utility “explanatory power”. This truth has a great deal of explanatory power.

    I call this ‘existentially possible’ and ‘complete’ truth “Testimonial Truth”.

    And since science and philosophy are merged by using this definition of truth, I argue that philosophy should be reframed (relabeled) as “Testimonial Science”.

    Meaning, the science of speaking the truth.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-17 08:23:00 UTC

  • THE RECIPE OF OUR DESTRUCTION? 1) WEASEL WORDS + REASONABLENESS -> 2) PSEUDOSCIE

    THE RECIPE OF OUR DESTRUCTION?

    1) WEASEL WORDS + REASONABLENESS -> 2) PSEUDOSCIENCE + RATIONALISM -> 3) MYTH + MYSTICISM -> 4) LYING + PROPAGANDA.

    Not sure why I didn’t think of this earlier but Weasel Words and Reasonableness, and Pseudoscience and Rationalism make use of the same basic technology for lying.

    What technology: Analogy, Loading, Framing, Overloading, and Suggestion.

    This is how they hacked our altruism.

    Damn.

    ( I really did it. That’s it. )

    Isn’t it how women talk to each other? Through indirection and suggestion? Whereas men talk in facts? So am I right that the jews and the church and now the academy and state weaponized the female communication strategy of superior empathy as a means of suggestion?

    That’s why they distribute it through women. They’re more open to suggestion than men. OMG.

    Yep.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-17 07:33:00 UTC

  • YOU SEE, YOU GOTTA KNOW WHAT YOU”RE TALKING ABOUT… Test of Meaning: “Can you u

    YOU SEE, YOU GOTTA KNOW WHAT YOU”RE TALKING ABOUT…

    Test of Meaning: “Can you understand this analogy to experience?”

    Test of Reasonableness: “Can I get away with saying this relationship exists?”

    Test of Rational: “Can this survive rigorous scrutiny?”

    Test of Rationalism: “Can I construct a non-contradictory proof of this?”

    Test of Empiricism: “Can I demonstrate and observe this in reality”

    Test of Science: “Do these demonstrations and observations survive criticism”

    Test of Testimonialism: “Has this statement survived criticism in every dimension possible?”

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-17 02:54:00 UTC