(ok. i gotta finish this chapter today. so please, everyone try to be boring, ok?)
Source date (UTC): 2017-08-11 10:50:00 UTC
Category: Personal Reflections and Diary
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Curt Doolittle shared a photo
Curt Doolittle shared a photo.
Source date (UTC): 2017-08-10 23:36:00 UTC
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The world is a different place today. But I remember, very clearly, in the south
The world is a different place today. But I remember, very clearly, in the southern florida night, as a boy, looking through a ten inch reflector telescope at Saturn. I felt small. Vulnerable. Awe. And fear.
Source date (UTC): 2017-08-10 20:33:00 UTC
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The more others do, the less I have to. The more of a movement we have, and the
The more others do, the less I have to. The more of a movement we have, and the less of a personality cult we have. Evidence is evidence. Everyone who can learn some part of propertarianism and employ it in the defeat of our enemies demonstrates empirically that the theories are true.
I can defend them until I”m blue in the face. 100 Prosecutors of Natural Law will achieve more than all defenses that I can produce on my own.
Hence why I want to produce the book, courses, and the institute, and I want to empower others to make arguments among the different classes and constituencies.
Let a thousand prosecutors bloom.
Who in turn will make a thousand nations bloom.
And we will change the world.
Source date (UTC): 2017-08-10 14:04:00 UTC
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I considered myself smart and different but not a genius. It was more that other
I considered myself smart and different but not a genius. It was more that other people were just somewhere between misguided, not very smart, and crazy. I though of them as zombies. I just loved people anyway and so I just ‘did my own thing: learning on my own and doing what was necessary to keep teachers and professors amused and enjoyed other people. If knowledge of aspiness had been available and treatment for it with ssri’s or stimulants, I think I would have sought much harder to fit in. It was after I stopped trying and just accepted that the world would like me much better if I tried to help everyone I could, and avoid stupid converstations whenever I could, and provide people only with ideas and suggestions if they asked for it.
Source date (UTC): 2017-08-10 13:59:00 UTC
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Well, I can talk to very few others, without having to dumb down my arguments, b
Well, I can talk to very few others, without having to dumb down my arguments, but when I can, so it’s much easier to be ‘clear’.
Most people who follow this work do so for reasons that value the narrative more so than the science, and so they inversely value the properties of the work. So I end up defending the theory of history rather than the science.
And the kind of people who conduct these arguments are generally not scientific but moral and literary thinkers.
So you know, I can’t really have adult conversations very often about the science and the logic. Mostly I’m limited to amateur conversations about the theory and history.
And those folks are generally not capable of understanding the science and logic upon which that theory and history depend.
—” Curt, This clarifies the nature of the interviews and Q&A’s you’ve done.”—Bill Joslin
Source date (UTC): 2017-08-09 13:10:00 UTC
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Life is interesting for some, hard for many, and a lot harder if you’re stupid
Life is interesting for some, hard for many, and a lot harder if you’re stupid.
Source date (UTC): 2017-08-08 17:01:00 UTC
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I DON’T KNOW, ACTUALLY. IS THE TERM POLYMATH? OR IS IT JUST SPECIALIZING IN TRUT
I DON’T KNOW, ACTUALLY. IS THE TERM POLYMATH? OR IS IT JUST SPECIALIZING IN TRUTH REGARDLESS OF FIELD?
I don’t like the term polymath either. The problem is, I have had to master the theoretical content of nearly every field, even if I have not had to (nor would I in one lifetime be able to) master the application of that theoretical content. Because while it takes quite a bit of effort, it’s possible to deflate the ‘nonsense language’ in each field, into what constitutes a truth claim in this field, and how is it *not in fact true*.
I’m clearly an expert in truthful speech across the fields – all of them. Which required understanding the criteria of decidability in each of them. So I would go with specialization in truthful speech across all fields, contributing to all fields. But I don’t claim to be a very good mathematician, chemist or physicist. just a judge of decidability in those fields.
—“Don’t mathematicians specialise in being truthful in their fields? What do you mean when you say you are ‘specialised’ at determining truth in all these fields?”— Rik Storey
No. And one of the top mathematicians will tell you that. They specialize in PROOFS, not truth. “We leave truth to philosophers, we create proofs”.
Just as top scientists don’t say they create truth. They practice science. And science produces hypotheses, theories, and laws.
Just as jurists don’t produce truths, they produce law (decisions).
—“Precisely so then in what sense do you claim to specialise in truth in all these fields?”—Rik Storey
FAILURES IN FIELDS
– Mathematical failure of operationalism and the construction of platonism.
– Physical science (Critical Preference) failure of parsimony and cost.
– Law failure of natural law of decidability and strict construction.
– Economic failure of full accounting and limits.
– Money failure of full transition to multiple currencies.
– Accounting failure of pooling and laundering (traceability).
– Politics (many) failures of economics vs natural law, failure of
monopoly and ascent vs market and legal dissent. Many, many.
– Sociology failure of reciprocity and limits.
– Psychology and failure of Acquisitionism.
– Metaphysics and failure of action. the errors in philosophy are so fast that I could spend the rest of my life about it.
– Aesthetics failure of tripartite valuation, measurement by triangulation, and reduction to acquisition.
– Literature failure of morality and cognitive science.
– Religion failure to abandon abrahamism for literature and cog sci.
And that’s just touching the surface.
I mean, this is why it’s taking a whole book. I have to produce a f-cking chapter on each damned field….sigh.
Source date (UTC): 2017-08-08 14:52:00 UTC
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IMHO: Men run out of energy, they don’t mature. 😉
IMHO: Men run out of energy, they don’t mature. 😉
Source date (UTC): 2017-08-08 14:50:00 UTC
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Hehe
Hehe
Source date (UTC): 2017-08-08 13:20:00 UTC