Curt Doolittle

Form: Aphorism

  • “CURT: ISN’T TRUTH A PREFERENCE?”— Truth exists one way or the other. Some of

    —“CURT: ISN’T TRUTH A PREFERENCE?”—

    Truth exists one way or the other. Some of us PREFER truth. And truth TENDS to be more competitively useful than fiction *in the longer term*.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-19 09:50:00 UTC

  • BTW: Because we had to lie to implement democracy in sufficient numbers to wrest

    BTW: Because we had to lie to implement democracy in sufficient numbers to wrest control from the monarchies.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-18 17:13:09 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/854382304759861250

    Reply addressees: @mcmaz1ng @JayMan471 @primalpoly

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/853950076439474178

    IN REPLY TO:

    @Its_Lynnocent

    @curtdoolittle @JayMan471 @gmiller If it was so easy to “deconflate” oh wise truth bearer then explain why do we still live in a world divided and ruled by ideology?

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/853950076439474178

  • Truth? Don’t make excuses. Take your intuition, and then go negotiate a trade wi

    Truth? Don’t make excuses. Take your intuition, and then go negotiate a trade with someone. That’s about as much truth as is necessary in the world. 😉 The proof of ‘good’ is in the voluntary exchagne, not in the excuse for it.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-18 11:35:00 UTC

  • Did priests and prophets teach us to lie? They did

    Did priests and prophets teach us to lie? They did.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-18 11:33:00 UTC

  • TRUTH AND LIES All truth is very simple: Deflation and Full Accounting, and abse

    TRUTH AND LIES

    All truth is very simple: Deflation and Full Accounting, and absence of suggestion by consequence.

    The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

    All Lying is very simple: Conflation, and Partial Accounting, and Suggestion.

    No truth, a little truth, not enough truth to require a combination of self substitution and suggestion.

    The problem is that the transfer of meaning is conducted by the same method as lying – because its cheap and independent of prior knowledge in the audience.

    While at the same time the transfer of truthfulness (parsimony: deflated yet fully accounted), is expensive and dependent upon prior knowledge in the audience.

    We suggest by conflation of properties that assist in the formation of free associations, then we deflate until only the truthful associations remain.

    So you get an ‘aha’ moment, if you convey meaning, but then you deflate error from that meaning.

    Or, as popper said, you cast a really wide net to convey meaning, and then you have to filter out all the stuff you didn’t mean to catch.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-18 11:14:00 UTC

  • You are a prisoner of your frames. If you don’t start any political question wit

    You are a prisoner of your frames. If you don’t start any political question with violence and predation and construct from the bottom up, you are engaging in one of many forms of wishful thinking and deceit.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-18 09:03:00 UTC

  • Complaint is the Language of Imbeciles

    COMPLAINT IS THE LANGUAGE OF IMBECILES Anyone can complain. Anyone can criticize. How many people can explain the incentives that cause people to act in a way that they do, that you disagree with? Complaints about people. Complaints about events. complaints about society, complaints about civilization. complaints about man. Complaints are merely statements of incompetence. Competence is demonstrated by an explanation of the incentives that produce behaviors, and the institutional methods by which counter-incentives can be created that will produce preferred behaviors. And high competence is demonstrated by explanation of a possible method of doing so.

  • Complaint is the Language of Imbeciles

    COMPLAINT IS THE LANGUAGE OF IMBECILES Anyone can complain. Anyone can criticize. How many people can explain the incentives that cause people to act in a way that they do, that you disagree with? Complaints about people. Complaints about events. complaints about society, complaints about civilization. complaints about man. Complaints are merely statements of incompetence. Competence is demonstrated by an explanation of the incentives that produce behaviors, and the institutional methods by which counter-incentives can be created that will produce preferred behaviors. And high competence is demonstrated by explanation of a possible method of doing so.

  • Advocate Against the Negative – the Positive Is A Choice

    I advocate a world that ostracizes, punishes, or kills those who behave parasitically on the production of others, whether produced by private, kin, or common, and whether life, physical, institutional, normative, or informational.

  • Advocate Against the Negative – the Positive Is A Choice

    I advocate a world that ostracizes, punishes, or kills those who behave parasitically on the production of others, whether produced by private, kin, or common, and whether life, physical, institutional, normative, or informational.