Curt Doolittle

Form: Aphorism

  • Apriori and Rational vs Empirical and Operational

    —“Anything that can be shown apriori can be demonstrated or translated empirically with higher confidence but not everything that is empirical can be demonstrated apriori.”— Ayelam Valentine Agaliba

  • Apriori and Rational vs Empirical and Operational

    —“Anything that can be shown apriori can be demonstrated or translated empirically with higher confidence but not everything that is empirical can be demonstrated apriori.”— Ayelam Valentine Agaliba

  • The Limits of Intelligence and the Challenge of Error

    (life’s wisdom)

    [A]t some point, it seems that greater intelligence is less influential than lack of wishful thinking, lack of accumulated error, accumulating knowledge, the time you invest in problem-solving, and choosing a narrow field of inquiry.

    We believe true things, but largely we believe partly true things, some what true things and false things. Every time we USE one of these not-entirely-true beliefs to make a judgement, we produce, remember and habituate errors. We create a frame: “pattern of decision making”, worldview, and metaphysics, unconsciously.

    One can be quite bright, but never express one’s intellectual potential for no other reason than accumulated error.

    We all believe in unicorns.

    The trick isn’t so much believing anything in particular, as it is not believing so much that is false.

    Most smart people I meet suffer from wishful thinking and accumulated error.

  • The Limits of Intelligence and the Challenge of Error

    (life’s wisdom)

    [A]t some point, it seems that greater intelligence is less influential than lack of wishful thinking, lack of accumulated error, accumulating knowledge, the time you invest in problem-solving, and choosing a narrow field of inquiry.

    We believe true things, but largely we believe partly true things, some what true things and false things. Every time we USE one of these not-entirely-true beliefs to make a judgement, we produce, remember and habituate errors. We create a frame: “pattern of decision making”, worldview, and metaphysics, unconsciously.

    One can be quite bright, but never express one’s intellectual potential for no other reason than accumulated error.

    We all believe in unicorns.

    The trick isn’t so much believing anything in particular, as it is not believing so much that is false.

    Most smart people I meet suffer from wishful thinking and accumulated error.

  • You’re Demonstrably Incapable of Self-Rule if Your People are Running to the West

    YOU’RE DEMONSTRABLY INCAPABLE OF SELF RULE IF YOUR PEOPLE ARE RUNNING TO THE WEST. [E]ither fix your problem at home, hire us to fix it for you (it’s quite easy if you’re honest to fix a society). And if you do neither, out of defense, we must start a new program of colonization and modernization out of our own self-defense. It’s not our burden. It’s our defense.

    You have no right to externalize your failures. And we have no right to externalize our failures (democracy and equality)

  • You’re Demonstrably Incapable of Self-Rule if Your People are Running to the West

    YOU’RE DEMONSTRABLY INCAPABLE OF SELF RULE IF YOUR PEOPLE ARE RUNNING TO THE WEST. [E]ither fix your problem at home, hire us to fix it for you (it’s quite easy if you’re honest to fix a society). And if you do neither, out of defense, we must start a new program of colonization and modernization out of our own self-defense. It’s not our burden. It’s our defense.

    You have no right to externalize your failures. And we have no right to externalize our failures (democracy and equality)

  • All Truth Is Negative In Government Too

    [T]he trick for any government is not to do good things. It is to not do bad things. If it’s not bad it must be good. Ascent in the production of commons is illogical.We don’t need to approve contracts for commons. We need only adjudicate them if they create involuntary transfers. Democracy is an inversion of logic. We need juries, not legislatures.

  • All Truth Is Negative In Government Too

    [T]he trick for any government is not to do good things. It is to not do bad things. If it’s not bad it must be good. Ascent in the production of commons is illogical.We don’t need to approve contracts for commons. We need only adjudicate them if they create involuntary transfers. Democracy is an inversion of logic. We need juries, not legislatures.

  • OATH Love all Others. Speak only Truth. Impose no Cost. Strengthen the Body. Mas

    OATH

    Love all Others.

    Speak only Truth.

    Impose no Cost.

    Strengthen the Body.

    Master a Craft.

    Fill the Mind.

    Teach the Young.

    Improve the Commons.

    Contribute to Beauty.

    Safeguard the Helpless.

    Mete out Justice.

    Punish the Wicked.

    (Now its getting good…)

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-27 11:17:00 UTC

  • Strict construction will make transparent transfers so that they require defense

    Strict construction will make transparent transfers so that they require defense.

    But shares are not shares. This is empirically demonstrable.

    The problem as in banking is lack of understanding on the part of depositors and retail investors.

    Shares are not and cannot be equal.

    Not possible

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-26 09:40:00 UTC