Curt Doolittle

Form: Aphorism

  • Those who do not understand the reasons for their success will fail to repeat it

    Those who do not understand the reasons for their success will fail to repeat it.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-01-08 10:52:00 UTC

  • The world is just too short of good criticism. Why? Because its expensive. And p

    The world is just too short of good criticism.

    Why? Because its expensive.

    And production of uncritical argument is cheap.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-01-05 14:11:00 UTC

  • If You Can Name A Thing You Can Kill A Thing

    [T]here is an ancient myth that has more than a grain of truth to it: if you can name a demon you can kill, control of dispel it.

    We all have true names. Meaning if we are fully understood we lose the power of deception.

    I am hot on the trail of a conceptual demon – the obscurant, lie that appeals to cognitive bias through suggestion.

    I think it may take me another year or more to discover it’s true name.

    But when I do, I will kill it. Or at least arm others who will kill it.

    I made progress with truth: I know how to cage that demon using the common law.

    Now I must understand how lies are constructed.  Because then I can kill it.

  • If You Can Name A Thing You Can Kill A Thing

    [T]here is an ancient myth that has more than a grain of truth to it: if you can name a demon you can kill, control of dispel it.

    We all have true names. Meaning if we are fully understood we lose the power of deception.

    I am hot on the trail of a conceptual demon – the obscurant, lie that appeals to cognitive bias through suggestion.

    I think it may take me another year or more to discover it’s true name.

    But when I do, I will kill it. Or at least arm others who will kill it.

    I made progress with truth: I know how to cage that demon using the common law.

    Now I must understand how lies are constructed.  Because then I can kill it.

  • Philosophy, Morality, Science, and Law Should Be Identical Propositions

    [I]f philosophy, morality, science, and law are not identical propositions then something is very wrong. Because philosophy morality science and law can be constructed as identical propositions. Because truthful, due-diligent, warrantable, speech is consistent regardless of the discipline in which we utter it.
    Propertarianism.

  • Philosophy, Morality, Science, and Law Should Be Identical Propositions

    [I]f philosophy, morality, science, and law are not identical propositions then something is very wrong. Because philosophy morality science and law can be constructed as identical propositions. Because truthful, due-diligent, warrantable, speech is consistent regardless of the discipline in which we utter it.
    Propertarianism.

  • PHILOSOPHY, MORALITY, SCIENCE, and LAW If philosophy, morality, science, and law

    PHILOSOPHY, MORALITY, SCIENCE, and LAW

    If philosophy, morality, science, and law are not identical propositions then something is very wrong. Because philosophy morality science and law can be constructed as identical propositions. Because truthful, due-diligent, warrantable, speech is consistent regardless of the discipline in which we utter it.

    Propertarianism.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-01-02 08:48:00 UTC

  • “Wrong. It takes volunteers. But if there are no volunteers, it takes a capitali

    “Wrong. It takes volunteers. But if there are no volunteers, it takes a capitalist to incentivize the people to change the bulb. At which point the bulb gets changed and the worker earns money for doing it.” — Greg Bowman

    Source date (UTC): 2015-01-02 07:17:00 UTC

  • PHILOSOPHY, MORALITY, SCIENCE, and LAW If philosophy, morality, science, and law

    PHILOSOPHY, MORALITY, SCIENCE, and LAW

    If philosophy, morality, science, and law are not identical propositions then something is very wrong.

    Because philosophy morality science and law can be constructed as identical propositions.

    Because truthful, due-diligent, warrantable, speech is consistent regardless of the discipline in which we utter it.

    Propertarianism.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-01-02 05:22:00 UTC

  • Correcting biases, fallacies and deceptions seems insurmountable, unless you wor

    Correcting biases, fallacies and deceptions seems insurmountable, unless you work at it for long enough. The problem is, that it’s just not worth most people’s time.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-01-02 04:51:00 UTC