Category: Epistemology and Method

  • LYING IS A TALENT? —“Curt Doolittle , did you ever think about the fact that t

    LYING IS A TALENT?

    —“Curt Doolittle , did you ever think about the fact that truth is boring and lying (telling stories) makes the life beautiful? You have to be talented in order to lie, not everybody can do it well… BuI bet that many people have not the time and patience to read your arguments…”—Grete Tartler Tabarasi

    I think many things. Among them, that I agree that lying is a talent. I also agree that murder, violence, theft, fraud, fraud by omission, free riding, privatization of the commons conspiracy, conversion, invasion and conquest require great skill.

    And that theft by such methods is rewarding and enjoyable – and certainly preferable to engaging in production, holding to contract and promise, and speaking the truth and the whole truth.

    So some of us must do the yeoman’s labor of capturing, chaining, imprisoning and hanging those who murder, steal, lie, and cheat.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-07 00:42:00 UTC

  • Nope. And furthermore it is unscientific to make cost benefit statements without

    Nope. And furthermore it is unscientific to make cost benefit statements without having made a full accounting.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-05 17:42:19 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/673195712285396992

    Reply addressees: @LearnLiberty @ATabarrok

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/673183053670277120


    IN REPLY TO:

    @LearnLiberty

    .@ATabarrok: “All people should be free to move about the earth, uncaged by the arbitrary lines known as borders.” https://t.co/vjkYWMZptv

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/673183053670277120

  • All psychologism is pseudoscientific deception. Honest men speak in costs discou

    All psychologism is pseudoscientific deception. Honest men speak in costs discounts premiums asymmetries and incentives.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-05 10:11:49 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/673082340227325952

    Reply addressees: @mrianleslie

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/673077120151719937


    IN REPLY TO:

    @mrianleslie

    A convincing defence of the Zuckerberg donation. And as to why it needs a defence…https://t.co/hECgTCOtsi https://t.co/LhfgcINEiY

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/673077120151719937

  • FULL ACCOUNTING IS MUCH MORE IMPORTANT THAN I THOUGHT I have definitely underest

    FULL ACCOUNTING IS MUCH MORE IMPORTANT THAN I THOUGHT

    I have definitely underestimated the importance of the the principle of the “Warranty of Full Accounting”. Its so damned obvious in retrospect. But it is VERY hard to pull a fast one if you are required to give a full accounting of any principle. This is much better than popper’s incomplete ‘falsification’. Followers of Popper ‘get’ that something is very right with falsification but none have reduced it the the set of dimensional warranties that I have. The virtue of thinking like a programmer in operations balancing accounts rather than a philosopher using analogies, or a logician using equality of ratios.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-05 09:05:00 UTC

  • We couldn’t innovate the technology of truth fast enough to compensate for the r

    We couldn’t innovate the technology of truth fast enough to compensate for the rate at which they innovated lying. Again, just as they distributed the first great lie throughout Rome on the backs of women and slaves, they did the same in the 19th and 20th century through women and slaves.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-05 08:36:00 UTC

  • IF WE TEACH 100 PEOPLE HOW TO DISMANTLE THE THE LIES AND RESTATE IT AS TRUTH WE

    IF WE TEACH 100 PEOPLE HOW TO DISMANTLE THE THE LIES AND RESTATE IT AS TRUTH WE WILL CHANGE MANKIND FOREVER.

    That’s our first objective. To get 100. To get that 100 I need to show how they lie, show formulaically how they lie, show formulaically how to restate lies truthfully.

    We can transform social science, morality, law, and politics just as much as we have changed the world from mysticism to science.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-05 08:34:00 UTC

  • WARNING TO NEW FRIENDS. I’M CHANGING THE WORLD. ENDING THE LIES. AND YOU MIGHT N

    WARNING TO NEW FRIENDS. I’M CHANGING THE WORLD. ENDING THE LIES. AND YOU MIGHT NOT LIKE. THERE IS COMFORT IN LIES.

    (edited, updated, expanded)

    Please understand what I do here. I work on philosophy in public like a medieval street craftsman. You can see it getting made. Successes and failures. I test ideas and some survive and some do not.

    I started with the ambition of creating a rational or perhaps scientific language of morality and politics.

    Along the way I discovered the secret of western rates of development in the prehistoric, ancient and modern worlds: truth telling, oath taking, the jury, and the common law. The consequence was reason, science, medicine, rapid economic velocity. the civic society, and the high trust society.

    What I did not expect to discover was that it was the enfranchisement of women and the rapid expression of their opposing reproductive strategy under democracy that caused the systematic destruction of every institution in western civilization through the use of anti-chivalry, the anti-slavery movement, the voting booth, and the power of the family purse.

    Nor did I understand the conspiracy of common interest between women, the Catholics of the underclasses, the Jews, and the slaves.

    Nor did I expect the dominance of German rationalism in counter enlightenment thought – pseudo moralism.

    Nor did I expect the dominance of Jewish creation of the pseudosciences and their use of critique on one side, and the heaping of undue praise on the other, that when combined with aggressive expansion into the social science departments – and the Jewish conversion of social science into pseudoscience – nor the relationship between that expansion, and the increased dominance of women participating in pseudoscience. Nor how rapidly the academy would switch from an extension of the clergy, to an extension of the scientific movement, to an extension of the pseudoscientific movement in just a few generations : the academy sold what women wanted to buy. And then women justified their pseudoscience at the voting booth and destroyed western civilizations 4000 year climb out of darkness.

    In both the ancient world and in the modern world the Jews created the first and second great lies. First monotheism out of Egyptian monotheism using Babylonian narratives. The distributing it via Roman roads, Roman commerce, Roman slaves and Roman women. Whose gossip in great numbers achieved the destruction that the Justinian plagues did not.

    Then the Germans created pseudo philosophy under Kant and his followers, and created a new means of deceit: a new form of obscurantism. A new way to lie.

    Then the Jews created pseudoscience out of every possible discipline in the modern world, and sold it on Anglo and German roads, railroads, printing presses, radio waves, movies and television to generations of women who for the second time destroyed western civilization.

    So, how do we end the great lies, and how do we launder pseudo rationalism, pseudoscience, propaganda and lying from the informational commons?

    It turns out that we can.

    I understand why it took 2500 years to solve the problem of truth telling. It was a long hard journey. But just as crime expands faster than the law, lying expanded faster than truth. In both the ancient world the lies spread faster than the high cost of truth to prevent them. Only in the modern world did science progress fast enough that the great lie of mysticism could be outpaced – purely because of mysticism’s vast architecture of falsehoods could not be adapted to the change. So liars had to invent a new means of lying: obscurantism, suggestion, and pseudoscience, sold to a literate proletariat, women and slaves.

    We think we are superior to the past because of our reduction in violence and particularly in the west because of the reduction in theft. But this is false. We have merely shifted from the theft of material goods to the theft of genetics, and the theft of culture, and the theft of norms, and the theft of territory using the most obscure method of theft possible: financialization, fiat money, credit, invisible transfers, and privatization of wealth produced by the productive commons through financialization.

    Instead of promising false salvation in heaven, they bribe us with bread and circus to consume goods instead of bearing offspring and saving for retirement – we will now all be subject to inescapable poverty instead of a few subject to escapable poverty. The subject us to incremental conquest through involuntary immigration. They subject us to propaganda, lying, pseudoscience, obfuscation and obscurantism. They lie.

    But we can now outlaw lying and the transmissions of lies in the commons. We can suppress lying just as we suppressed murder violence theft fraud conspiracy and free riding.

    Civilization consists of suppressing the very visible parasitism of the male: the use of violence to place the burden of production on others; and the invisible parasitism of the female: the use of moral hazard to breed at will and place the burden of upkeep on others. The common law evolved to incrementally suppress each new means of parasitism. Women used democracy and their greater numbers to institutionalize parasitism – undoing all of western history.

    So the enlightenment project whether Anglo empirical, French moralistic, German rationalist, and Jewish pseudoscientific failed. It failed because instead of giving women their own house we treated them as equals.

    But women are not equals. They are competitors that we must either cooperate with or enslave. Women have the rabbit’s r-selection and short term reproductive strategy: consumption and growth. Most men have the wolves’ long term k-selection strategy:scarcity and quality.

    Civilization required taming women and men with property rights and marriage such that they could only reproduce given what they could produce. Marriage is the Great Compromise that restricts reproduction to production.

    The only problem facing mankind is the transfer of rates of reproduction from those who can produce to those who cannot.

    I have solved the problem of post democratic government.

    And We will bring an end to lying, pseudoscience and pseudo rationalism and pseudo moralism the same way we have brought an end to violence theft and fraud.

    Because that is our history: the incremental suppression of parasitism as we discover new means of parasitism amidst our discovery of new means of production.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-05 06:24:00 UTC

  • Isn’t free speech over truthful speech merely the left’s means of lying and prop

    Isn’t free speech over truthful speech merely the left’s means of lying and propagandising with impunity?

    Truth is enough.

    It created the west.

    It restored the west from mysticism.

    It can restore the west from pseudoscience and deceit.

    We need only make all public speech testimony.

    Because that is its function.

    Perjury for false testimony in the commons.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-03 04:22:00 UTC

  • Scientific Method In Everything

    Seek out combat: Intellectual, romantic, social, economic, and physical. Not to win, but to improve until you can no longer find a way to lose. Love the fight. Revel in it. It’s your heritage. Celebrate it. Heroes all – whether words, heart, work, money, stick, spear, sword or rifle. He who fights regardless of rank is a brother in arms.

    Famous household phrase I’d hear, “that’s okay, at least I’ll die trying.” Anecdotal. Nostalgic. Usually it was spoken in reference to a physical contest (street scuffle) and rebuffing an opponents boastful challenge.— William Benge

    Also pick intellectual fights with people with similar belief structure using arguments you do not agree with… great for hashing out third ways and new perspectives.–Delian

  • Scientific Method In Everything

    Seek out combat: Intellectual, romantic, social, economic, and physical. Not to win, but to improve until you can no longer find a way to lose. Love the fight. Revel in it. It’s your heritage. Celebrate it. Heroes all – whether words, heart, work, money, stick, spear, sword or rifle. He who fights regardless of rank is a brother in arms.

    Famous household phrase I’d hear, “that’s okay, at least I’ll die trying.” Anecdotal. Nostalgic. Usually it was spoken in reference to a physical contest (street scuffle) and rebuffing an opponents boastful challenge.— William Benge

    Also pick intellectual fights with people with similar belief structure using arguments you do not agree with… great for hashing out third ways and new perspectives.–Delian