Category: Science, Physics, and Philosophy of Science

  • The challenge of our era is the widespread use of pseudoscience in the 20th c

    The challenge of our era is the widespread use of pseudoscience in the 20th c.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-17 20:32:26 UTC

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  • Well, I think thats true. Information appears to be the base “model” in physical

    Well, I think thats true. Information appears to be the base “model” in physical, social, and conceptual domains.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-12 05:45:13 UTC

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  • Only wealthy societies can afford science and criticism. Truth is expensive

    Only wealthy societies can afford science and criticism. Truth is expensive.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-12 05:28:55 UTC

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  • And in doing so from justificationism(morality) to criticism (science)

    And in doing so from justificationism(morality) to criticism (science)


    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-12 05:28:23 UTC

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  • If you think mathematics isn’t – like science – trial and error, then you never

    If you think mathematics isn’t – like science – trial and error, then you never managed to learn long division.

    I can’t really communicate how frustrated this made me in fourth grade. I just assumed I didn’t understand something if it was all trial and error. But I did understand: it’s trial and error.

    Mathematics doesn’t justify anything. It proves something is POSSIBLE.

    All logics criticize, none of them justify or confirm. Survival tells us possibility not truth.

    This is why mathematicians construct proofs, and why praxeologists/operationalists construct proofs of existential possibility.

    Because we are testing whether something is possible.

    But many roads lead to Rome.

    We do not know it is the one we have chosen.

    We only know that it is possible to get to Rome.

    And therefore we have a truth candidate.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-12 02:41:00 UTC

  • OUR ASCENT CRUSHES OUR VANITY Copernican Revolution made us understand we were n

    OUR ASCENT CRUSHES OUR VANITY

    Copernican Revolution made us understand we were not the center of the universe.

    Darwinian revolution made us realise that we are a glorious accident.

    The exploration of greater and lesser space made us realise the universe is quite hostile to us.

    The Propertarian revolution has made me understand that our consciousness is a puppet for our genes to use in negotiating cooperation with others. And all our vanity childish, and all our achievement an externality.

    We have progressed from confident to humble to frightened to humiliated.

    But the only possible language of the gods is truth.

    And we learn that language slowly and humbly.

    But there is a lesson here: the most foolish of creatures can become gods with enough effort.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-08 01:46:00 UTC

  • Empirically speaking, we already overspend on Grad and PhD students. We overspen

    Empirically speaking, we already overspend on Grad and PhD students. We overspend on most sciences (because they’re psuedosciences) and underspend on those that matter (physics, material science, chemistry, biological chemistry, genetics, archaeology) Virtually all other programs (psychology, social sciences, political sciences), and certainly all pseudosciences (the humanities) are a waste of money.

    Even in those hard sciences we can see in the cites that the number of scientists that do meaningful work remains relatively constant over time, no matter how many scientists we add to the pool it seems to make very little difference. Just why this is true, we aren’t sure.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-01 00:03:00 UTC

  • THE CHURCH FAILED TO REFORM AND THE SCIENCES DIDN”T HAVE TIME TO COMPLETE THEIR

    THE CHURCH FAILED TO REFORM AND THE SCIENCES DIDN”T HAVE TIME TO COMPLETE THEIR EVOLUTIONARY PROGRAM

    I mean, another way to look at the 20th century is that in response to Darwin, Maxwell, Spencer, (a) the church failed to reform in response by stating that god and natural and physical laws were the same expression of his divinity, and (b) our intellectual class failed to synthesize operationalism as a means of reforming scientific thought-at its new-grand-scale, and (c) the Jewish pseudoscientists (Boaz, Marx, Freud, Cantor) filled a void that both state, academy, and finance could use to profit from the new wave of democratic voters (customers), students (customers), and consumers (customers) who they could not force to spend down their accumulated cultural and institutional capital.

    We can easily argue that this is the same strategy the ancient Jews took in response to the imposition of (scientific Aryan-universalist) roman law on top of their (mystical authoritarian separatist) Jewish law. I mean, it worked against classical civilization, why wouldn’t it work against restored classical civilization of the enlightenment?

    Intellectuals provide a product for a market. I am just concerned that we do not let another era of fraudulent defective products like ancient Jewish mysticism and modern Jewish pseudoscience into a civilization where second tier intellectuals, women, and the underclass are all too willing to embrace utter falsehoods at the expense of their civilization and it’s progenitors – and in the case of western civilization, all of human kind that benefits from western creativity.

    So what we see, is that between the failure of democracy, the progressive failure of Keynesian economics, the failure of Freudian psychology, of Boazian anthropology, of Marxist economics and sociology, and even Cantorian infinity to survive scrutiny by late 20’th and early 21st century science, that we have at least a temporary opportunity to overthrow the Second Great Deceit’s attack on western truth, science, and eugenics.

    But we have a short time before the second great deceit and it’s customers in women and the underclasses, possess such numbers that we can be forced into another dark age. And that the promise of a eugenic north America, like a eugenic Europe, insulated from the steppe, desert, and jungle, can continue to provide an engine of innovation for mankind.

    For the simple reason that we pay the high cost of truthfulness: That discipline of eliminating error, bias, wishful thinking, suggestion, and deceit, that we call ‘science’.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine

    We must achieve by force what they have achieved in both the ancient and modern world by deceits.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-06-28 03:38:00 UTC

  • “There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments — there are consequences.”

    —“There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments — there are consequences.” —-Ingersoll H/T William Butchman


    Source date (UTC): 2016-06-21 09:17:00 UTC

  • I know you don’t know this but science doesn’t work by confirmation, it works by

    I know you don’t know this but science doesn’t work by confirmation, it works by falsification. No cite matters.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-06-09 08:08:45 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/740817898638303232

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