Of course I talk to you. I learn. I get better and what I do when I talk to you. Besides, you don’t think The Cathedral is going to like what I have to say: that you should hang them all and congratulate yourselves afterward.
Source date (UTC): 2015-10-03 11:31:00 UTC
http://t.co/PTT3h9ZXcUCurt Doolittle’s Suggested Reading List
Source date (UTC): 2015-10-03 07:32:00 UTC
It’s done when it’s done. I would like it to be in the next year. I will try to make it in the next year.
Source date (UTC): 2015-10-03 04:54:26 UTC
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Source date (UTC): 2015-10-02 12:42:00 UTC
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Kant is interesting really because on the one hand, I see him as the sort of root of all continental philosophical evil, and the man who gave license to the ‘liars’ with:
—“I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.”—
For which he will ever be damned.
On the other hand, he does produce a few gems. Particularly that you should try never to lie, and a simple test of moral action:
–“the categorical imperative … Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law”–
But he goes into god’s plan:
—“The friction among men, the inevitable antagonism, which is a mark of even the largest societies and political bodies, is used by Nature as a means to establish a condition of quiet and security. …. The history of mankind can be seen, in the large, as the realization of Nature’s secret plan to bring forth a perfectly constituted state as the only condition in which the capacities of mankind can be fully developed, and also bring forth that external relation among states which is perfectly adequate to this end.”—Kant
I state this instead as “Any super predator such as man will evolve to create a condition of pacification of the universe around him. history of man is of his pacification of the earth. Sometimes more so than he desires.”
–“The problem of establishing a perfect civic constitution is dependent upon the problem of a lawful external relation among states and cannot be solved without a solution of the latter problem.”—Kant
I state this instead as “competitive pressures determine group evolutionary strategy, expressed as norms, morals, laws and institutions.”
Source date (UTC): 2015-10-01 00:11:00 UTC
(diary)
Listening to fellow Seattlite Greg Johnson, same interest in (a) art history (b) archaeology (“Gods Graves and Scholars), but instead of philosophy and culture, I was interested in the history of war, history of invention, science, cognitive science, AI and computers – and not in philosophy and culture. I was (as an aspie) far more anti-social. I remember starting with Durant’s POV that after his study of Philosophy, there is nothing much there, and history provides insight into man. I have ended up viewing law as the only honest philosophy.
So despite similar backgrounds and gene pools we approached the problem differently.
I used to complain that my mind had been transformed by writing so much software, and that it had affected my writing. And it wasn’t until I’d understood the failure of the operational/intuitionist revolution, that I grasped that the reason I’d made the discovery (or connection) was precisely because I had been so affected by writing programs, each statement of which is a test of existential possibility.
It’s the same reason that I am clueless about pop trends in the alt-right and libertarian movements. I don’t read ‘points of view’ or ‘opinions’ or ‘beliefs’ so much as ‘what is’. It’s why I reduce statements to equilibrial transfers.
Kind of fun to listen to someone so similar who took a different path.
Source date (UTC): 2015-10-01 00:09:00 UTC
( is it the moon or something? Why is it these women are hitting on me today? Must be tourists. Or the season change. Or God knows. Although I do notice that women are more attracted to you when you’re in get-it-done mode. Despite the fact that it means you’re oblivious to their interests. I am sure I could figure it out but I am too busy. )
Source date (UTC): 2015-09-30 12:22:00 UTC
http://www.ecamm.com/mac/callrecorder/HOW TO RECORD AN AUDIO INTERVIEW WITH ME ON PROPERTARIANISM, TESTIMONIALISM, OR ARISTOCRATIC EGALITARIANISM.
(a 12 step program 🙂 )
1) Email me asking for an interview. Suggest a time. Schedule a time. I am in eastern Europe at GMT +2: Reserve an hour.
2) Make a list of questions, or at least a subject, and email them to me. I will make a list of notes. This helps me position the conversation for you.
3) Buy Call Recorder for Skype or torrent it or use a trial copy.
http://www.ecamm.com/mac/callrecorder/
4) Use Skype
5) Test it with three different friends before you call me, for at least ten minutes.
6) Ring me 30 minutes and 15 minutes ahead of time. It’s not like I am sitting around waiting for your call, with nothing else to do. I’m busy, and I get distracted easily. 🙂
7) start recording, introduce yourself. Introduce me. Let me say thank you, then ask your first question.
8) I’ll answer. Please let me finish my thoughts, so keep notes when you’re interviewing, and return to questions. Interrupting me is ok if you don’t understand, but don’t change the subject – the reason my interviews are hard on people is that interviewers dont let me finish a chain of reasoning, and most of my chains of reasoning are quite long.
9) At the end I will wrap up with a summary statement f what I tried to get across.
10) thank each other. cut.
11) I will send you my notes in case something wasn’t understood.
12) You will Send me a link to the finished product.
Source date (UTC): 2015-09-29 11:57:00 UTC
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Source date (UTC): 2015-09-29 09:33:00 UTC
TODAY IS ASK CURT ANYTHING (REASONABLE) DAY.
This is my queue, and I know I’m missing four of five of your requests. If I don’t have you listed here, please tell me you’re waiting for it.
There are things I can answer in five minutes, things in twenty, things in an hour, and things that take multiple sessions. The way I work is to write posts as ‘rest’ between work sessions. So some questions are easier for me to answer than others.
respond to Ivan Ilakovac’s question on art.
respond to Vigilu Pop’s question on changing values.
respond to Sam Fusini on post-grad study of philosophy
respond to Richenbach’s nonsense
finish Josh (nietzsche) response
finish molyneux post
finish friedman book review
Answer (better) the question of a Virtue Ethics and why that is a property of Aesthetics (preference) rather than Ethics (necessity).
I am currently working on formal institutions. I feel comfortable with the general structure of the houses, and of the judiciary, and the military. But I am not comfortable with ritual and education.
After this I have to deal with money and economy, and that is where I was very certain, but now I have to work through the details.
– Cheers
Source date (UTC): 2015-09-29 07:26:00 UTC