Curt Doolittle

Form: Definition

  • White, Grey, Black, Lies in P-Law

    Oct 29, 2019, 7:54 PM by Stephen Thomas No one really cares if you lie for vanity’s sake. That’s a white lie.

    Libel, Slander False Advertising Baiting into Hazard Fraud private or Political Subversion of the Commons Conspiracy to subvert the Commons All of which are well defined. Those are black lies. You must lie in public to the public about matters public or conspire to propagate lies to the public about matters public And worse, you mustn’t lie FROM a position OF influence TO the public ABOUT the public, about products, policy, economics, science or law. If you want to tell everyone you wear the wrong size shoe. No one is gonna to arrest you. We will however laugh at you for being so damn petty!

    (—“I would tell you your baby’s is cute, your children are beautiful, your wife is lovely, and you are charming, brave, and witty. None of those is true. But they demonstrate I will invest in building trust in our relationship.”—CurtD )

  • White, Grey, Black, Lies in P-Law

    Oct 29, 2019, 7:54 PM by Stephen Thomas No one really cares if you lie for vanity’s sake. That’s a white lie.

    Libel, Slander False Advertising Baiting into Hazard Fraud private or Political Subversion of the Commons Conspiracy to subvert the Commons All of which are well defined. Those are black lies. You must lie in public to the public about matters public or conspire to propagate lies to the public about matters public And worse, you mustn’t lie FROM a position OF influence TO the public ABOUT the public, about products, policy, economics, science or law. If you want to tell everyone you wear the wrong size shoe. No one is gonna to arrest you. We will however laugh at you for being so damn petty!

    (—“I would tell you your baby’s is cute, your children are beautiful, your wife is lovely, and you are charming, brave, and witty. None of those is true. But they demonstrate I will invest in building trust in our relationship.”—CurtD )

  • What Does “Bait Into Hazard” Mean?

    Nov 1, 2019, 6:42 PM

    —“You often say “bait into hazard”, any chance you could explain that in more depth? I don’t really get what you mean. Are you talking about moral hazard in economics? And what’s the baiting?”—

    If I suggest you might win at gambling (you can’t), that’s baiting you into hazard. If I entice you into buying drugs, i’m baiting you in to a hazard, since addiction is a spiral. If I offer you a loan to get what you want under impulse or duress, but I can extract interest from you, and then seize your property in restitution. If I promise you equality or socialism when it’s genetics that cause our differences, and you act to destroy your civilization, then that’s all baiting into hazard. if I promise you salvation in heaven if you rebel against the government that is trying to create order and prosperity over the next few decades, that is baiting you into a hazard. In other words, you are entering into a voluntary exchange that is not in your interests, simply because for whatever reason you are vulnerable to the trap.

  • What Does “Bait Into Hazard” Mean?

    Nov 1, 2019, 6:42 PM

    —“You often say “bait into hazard”, any chance you could explain that in more depth? I don’t really get what you mean. Are you talking about moral hazard in economics? And what’s the baiting?”—

    If I suggest you might win at gambling (you can’t), that’s baiting you into hazard. If I entice you into buying drugs, i’m baiting you in to a hazard, since addiction is a spiral. If I offer you a loan to get what you want under impulse or duress, but I can extract interest from you, and then seize your property in restitution. If I promise you equality or socialism when it’s genetics that cause our differences, and you act to destroy your civilization, then that’s all baiting into hazard. if I promise you salvation in heaven if you rebel against the government that is trying to create order and prosperity over the next few decades, that is baiting you into a hazard. In other words, you are entering into a voluntary exchange that is not in your interests, simply because for whatever reason you are vulnerable to the trap.

  • Definition: Disambiguation: Mistake vs Error

    Definition: Disambiguation: Mistake vs Error https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/27/definition-disambiguation-mistake-vs-error/

    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-27 05:25:58 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1265514562943672321

  • Definition: Disambiguation: Mistake vs Error

    Nov 9, 2019, 10:20 AM

    —“Mistake(mistaken) vs. Error (err). Whats your distinction?”—Richard Hall

    ERROR: Errors in the construction of arguments that lead to erroneous conclusions (logic, operations) -vs- MISTAKE: Mistakes in articulation that do not lead to erroneous conclusions (explanation, example) I mean, I produce a lot of content, almost every day. So I make mistakes all the time. I make typos all the time, poor word choice, vocabulary mistakes, phrasing, or sentence structure, misquote, mis-remember, all sorts of things, and I tend to write in language that eliminates ‘optional’ words, and omg the list is endless. Those are mistakes. Errors would be the production of an argument that produced an irreciprocal or false conclusion.

  • Definition: Disambiguation: Mistake vs Error

    Nov 9, 2019, 10:20 AM

    —“Mistake(mistaken) vs. Error (err). Whats your distinction?”—Richard Hall

    ERROR: Errors in the construction of arguments that lead to erroneous conclusions (logic, operations) -vs- MISTAKE: Mistakes in articulation that do not lead to erroneous conclusions (explanation, example) I mean, I produce a lot of content, almost every day. So I make mistakes all the time. I make typos all the time, poor word choice, vocabulary mistakes, phrasing, or sentence structure, misquote, mis-remember, all sorts of things, and I tend to write in language that eliminates ‘optional’ words, and omg the list is endless. Those are mistakes. Errors would be the production of an argument that produced an irreciprocal or false conclusion.

  • Definition: Parsimony

    Definition: Parsimony https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/27/definition-parsimony/

    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-27 05:21:15 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1265513374454079490

  • Definition: Parsimony

    Nov 13, 2019, 9:21 AM DEFINITION: PARSIMONY “Lowest cost across all dimensions testable by man” EXPANSION – Given human faculties: sense, disambiguation (constant relations), perception(integration-prediction), auto-association-prediction, attention-prediction (will), recursion-prediction, and release of actions; – And dimensions of tests of constant relations: free associative, categorical, logical, empirical, operational, rational choice, reciprocal rational choice, completeness; Parsimony must refer to: “Lowest Cost”, expanded to:

    • the lowest cost (least information), description of a chain of causation
    • surviving tests of: entropy, realism, naturalism, operationalism,

    • and;

    • bounded rational self interest:

    • in the seizure of opportunity,
    • from the field of identified opportunities,
    • given the opportunity cost of the opportunity,
    • determined by competition for the greatest return in the shortest time for the least effort, with the greatest certainty at the lowest risk,
    • to the point of disequilibrium and subsequent re-equilibration,

    • eliminating the opportunity from the field of opportunities.

    • and

    • reciprocity (repeating the above) is the only productive rather than parasitic (costly) means of interaction.
      (- although parasitism and predation are profitable means of interaction, they are consumptive not productive.)

    The difference between: – Testimony (due diligence by self), – Coherence(consistency by audience), – Parsimony(competition by market), … is grammatical (point-of-view), and an application of and conformity to, – the law of epistemology (free association-idea-> hypothesis-surviving > theory-surviving > application-surviving) I can fuss with this a bit to make it as tight as reciprocity and testimony, or any of the other definitions, but ‘skeptical subjective testing against Occam’s Razor serves as the colloquial reduction.

  • Definition: Parsimony

    Nov 13, 2019, 9:21 AM DEFINITION: PARSIMONY “Lowest cost across all dimensions testable by man” EXPANSION – Given human faculties: sense, disambiguation (constant relations), perception(integration-prediction), auto-association-prediction, attention-prediction (will), recursion-prediction, and release of actions; – And dimensions of tests of constant relations: free associative, categorical, logical, empirical, operational, rational choice, reciprocal rational choice, completeness; Parsimony must refer to: “Lowest Cost”, expanded to:

    • the lowest cost (least information), description of a chain of causation
    • surviving tests of: entropy, realism, naturalism, operationalism,

    • and;

    • bounded rational self interest:

    • in the seizure of opportunity,
    • from the field of identified opportunities,
    • given the opportunity cost of the opportunity,
    • determined by competition for the greatest return in the shortest time for the least effort, with the greatest certainty at the lowest risk,
    • to the point of disequilibrium and subsequent re-equilibration,

    • eliminating the opportunity from the field of opportunities.

    • and

    • reciprocity (repeating the above) is the only productive rather than parasitic (costly) means of interaction.
      (- although parasitism and predation are profitable means of interaction, they are consumptive not productive.)

    The difference between: – Testimony (due diligence by self), – Coherence(consistency by audience), – Parsimony(competition by market), … is grammatical (point-of-view), and an application of and conformity to, – the law of epistemology (free association-idea-> hypothesis-surviving > theory-surviving > application-surviving) I can fuss with this a bit to make it as tight as reciprocity and testimony, or any of the other definitions, but ‘skeptical subjective testing against Occam’s Razor serves as the colloquial reduction.