Form: Critique

  • WHEN INTELLECTUAL DISHONESTY FAILS, ONLY VIOLENCE REMAINS (Problem for my “antag

    WHEN INTELLECTUAL DISHONESTY FAILS, ONLY VIOLENCE REMAINS

    (Problem for my “antagonists” on both the left and right is that I don’t really have insecurities to exploit. I am however, easy to frustrate when wasting my time defending against straw men and sophisms. And intellectual dishonesty makes me very angry. The problem is, intellectual dishonesty is the default mode of critique. When intellectual dishonesty fails then there is no means of negotiation to pursue, and only violence remains. So the online and macro environments are in parallel.)


    Source date (UTC): 2019-07-11 20:05:23 UTC

    Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/102424610287276691

  • Color Me Frustrated: Despite his efforts, Eric [Weinstein] makes the common mist

    Color Me Frustrated: Despite his efforts, Eric [Weinstein] makes the common mistake of trying to explain the invisible by conflating the measurement as existential with what is being measured as existential. There are no ‘spinners’ there are (exist) some combination of forces that produce the spinning effect, and we just don’t know what they are. And because we cannot (yet?) measure at such scales we must explain observations in measurements – but “the description is not the thing, it’s a description of the consequences of the thing”. THERE IS NOTHING COMPLICATED about quantum physics, or any other kind of physics, or any other science, other than the problem of providing a model – an analogy to experience – that explains what it is that we are measuring in operational terms rather than the literary analogy we call mathematics. (Einstein gave us the elastic surface model of gravity for example.) Eric calls this visualizing – reducing to an analogy to experience. Measurements(individual terms) are more complicated than the models (aggregates), just as the mathematical description of of a whirlpool or tornado is more complicated than the visual observation. Unfortunately, we don’t know the model of reality in analogy to physical experience – not material as in mass, but material as in existential. Moreover: The 248/8 (Lisi) symmetry (“self referentiality”) means nothing more than such a system, of that many forces, in that many dimensions, can maintain equilibrium without appeal to external forces – and this suggests a possibility of completeness meaning nothing is left to discover. (We have no idea if he’s right really. Only that this is an example of the category of candidate solutions we might investigate.) Every bit of evidence we have finds the same forces, which we reduced to analogy to experience using the model of electromagnetism, fluids, fluids of different densities, and describe with vectors, graphs, networks, manifolds of forces. So far we divide the universe into forces, particles, atoms, molecules, biological, life, sentience (cognition), speech and calculation(grammars of disambiguation comparison and transaction) in all its forms. And there is little evidence or demand for any grammar (system of relations) smaller than those fundamental forces. The question is largely whether those fundamental forces exist in space, which we would need to define, or whether they produce space, and as such need no further definition.


    Source date (UTC): 2019-07-11 19:56:12 UTC

    Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/102424574141005157

  • Amateurish nonsense. When there is a good criticism of P-Law I’ll share it. Ther

    Amateurish nonsense. When there is a good criticism of P-Law I’ll share it. There won’t be. So I won’t have to. The only good criticisms are (a) cost of forcing the legal profession to adopt it, (b) choice of proposed policy under it, (c) the possibility of revolt to enact it.


    Source date (UTC): 2019-07-09 20:49:05 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1148695589934239744

    Reply addressees: @FourteenHans

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1148693578945724417


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  • So please stop pandering for sales by cherrypicking. We leave that drivel up to

    So please stop pandering for sales by cherrypicking. We leave that drivel up to Paul Krugman, Joseph Stiglitz, and Brad Delong.

    You loosed an honest bowshot in 2000.

    Are you afraid of the truth now?


    Source date (UTC): 2019-07-06 22:23:23 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1147632160087650304

    Reply addressees: @sapinker

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1147631753705791488


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    Unknown author

    @sapinker HOW do you measure “Bowling Alone”, over-50 suicides, rise in female mental illness, the loss of median IQ, the dissolution of the nuclear family, the relative decline of the middle class, and the warm civil war about to turn hot? How do you measure that? I can. Can you?

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1147631753705791488


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    @curtdoolittle

    @sapinker HOW do you measure “Bowling Alone”, over-50 suicides, rise in female mental illness, the loss of median IQ, the dissolution of the nuclear family, the relative decline of the middle class, and the warm civil war about to turn hot? How do you measure that? I can. Can you?

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1147631753705791488

  • Dear Steven. Do you know what economics consists of? Differences in cherrypickin

    Dear Steven. Do you know what economics consists of? Differences in cherrypicking measurements of capital and consumption. LIFE was better right up until we squandered the dividend, immigrated the underclasses, and converted to industrialization of hate of western civ in 08.


    Source date (UTC): 2019-07-06 22:19:25 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1147631160119480320

    Reply addressees: @sapinker

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1147201553977237504


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    @sapinker

    Populists claim it was better in the 70s, but “the best explanation for the good old days is a bad memory.” I was there: 2-digit inflation + unemployment; gas lines; shortages of sugar, coffee, meat. Unskilled wages bought *much* less. https://t.co/YZg07bdIeJ #HumanProgressData

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1147201553977237504

  • Nonsense factory: retread of the obvious for newbs. Government by Judiciary: can

    Nonsense factory: retread of the obvious for newbs.

    Government by Judiciary: canon on the 14th, but this is well trodden territory.

    How progressives Rewrote the Constitution: best narrative even if GbJ is best academic.


    Source date (UTC): 2019-07-06 00:52:43 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1147307352716140544

  • There is a substantive problem in pseudoscience (philosophy) that depends upon a

    There is a substantive problem in pseudoscience (philosophy) that depends upon an observer (self) that is mistaken. But this is something we have only come to understand in the past few years. Intellectual history, math, photography, computer sci have contributed to this error.


    Source date (UTC): 2019-06-17 13:12:20 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1140608113101479936

    Reply addressees: @OrienPermu

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  • OMG. I can’t really tell if you’re ignorant, stupid, or intellectually dishonest

    OMG. I can’t really tell if you’re ignorant, stupid, or intellectually dishonest. “A quantum (probabilistic) function does not require an observer [to change state (collapse)] it requires an action of measurement that interferes with the wave…” ie: physical interaction.


    Source date (UTC): 2019-06-15 20:06:52 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1139987658871062534

    Reply addressees: @HaraldMagnusson

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  • Your use of Pilpul (Lying by Abrahamic Sophism) is obvious to those of us who un

    Your use of Pilpul (Lying by Abrahamic Sophism) is obvious to those of us who understand the technique. Realism and Naturalism (metaphysics), Acquisitionism(psych.) Testimonialism (epist), Propertarianism (ethics). Compatibilism(soc.) The rest is just fantasy literature. 😉


    Source date (UTC): 2019-06-15 13:05:33 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1139881630540161025

    Reply addressees: @HaraldMagnusson

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1139880366825791489


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    Unknown author

    @HaraldMagnusson The physical universe never reaches equilibrium (homogeneity) if only due to vast scale and time. Because of scale, time, and disequilibrium, universes (big bangs) will arise chaotically (assuming temporal independence) or oscillate or froth asymptotically otherwise.

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1139880366825791489


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    @curtdoolittle

    @HaraldMagnusson The physical universe never reaches equilibrium (homogeneity) if only due to vast scale and time. Because of scale, time, and disequilibrium, universes (big bangs) will arise chaotically (assuming temporal independence) or oscillate or froth asymptotically otherwise.

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1139880366825791489

  • RE: Rand’s “Heroes”. Abrahamic Substitute for Argument: False Promise; Baiting i

    RE: Rand’s “Heroes”. Abrahamic Substitute for Argument: False Promise; Baiting into Hazard; Pilpul (Sophism); Critique (gossiping, shaming, ridicule, rallying, moralizing, psychologizing, undermining); “heaping of undue praise on heroic figures”; and saturation by propagandizing.


    Source date (UTC): 2019-06-03 12:55:32 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1135530456986849280

    Reply addressees: @FriedrichHayek

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1135283760427986944