Curt Doolittle

Form: Definition

  • TIP: American law not only seeks (a) restitution, and (b) punishment to disincen

    TIP: American law not only seeks (a) restitution, and (b) punishment to disincentivize the actor, but (c) prevention to provide disincentive would be imitators. In the court’s eye, the 250m is compensation for willingness to prosecute, and prevention (warning) to others.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-02-20 20:39:29 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1098321262357696512

    Reply addressees: @BobMurphyEcon

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1098284715126259713

    IN REPLY TO:

    @BobMurphyEcon

    If I say I think $250 million is a ludicrous amount, but I still think what happened to this kid is a travesty, I’m pretty sure every other person on Earth will hate my guts. https://t.co/Ek1nP93KfC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1098284715126259713

  • Propertarianism is calculable (possible by humans) but not computable (possible

    Propertarianism is calculable (possible by humans) but not computable (possible by machines) where calculation consist of transformation of inputs into outputs by means that are subjectively testable (unlimited), open to deduction, inference, and recursion, and computation is the transformation of inputs into outputs given the internal limits of comparison of the computational grammar.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-02-19 11:44:00 UTC

  • HISTORY VS LITERATURE Don’t confuse literature with history. History consists of

    HISTORY VS LITERATURE

    Don’t confuse literature with history. History consists of demonstrated preference (records), Literature consists of narration. The written record is propaganda with a grain of truth. The demonstrated preference record is truth with a grain of propaganda.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-02-18 17:40:04 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1097551334599999488

  • HISTORY VS LITERATURE Don’t confuse literature with history. History consists of

    HISTORY VS LITERATURE

    Don’t confuse literature with history. History consists of demonstrated preference (records), Literature consists of narration. The written record is propaganda with a grain of truth. The demonstrated preference record is truth with a grain of propaganda.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-02-18 12:39:00 UTC

  • CLARITY (a) only individuals act (b) only groups conspire (c) whether individual

    CLARITY

    (a) only individuals act

    (b) only groups conspire

    (c) whether individuals or groups act against the interests of the commons, it is still a collection of individuals, since even groups consist of individuals.

    (d) organizations demonstrate preference not stated belief or thought.

    (e) if some organization or affiliation or identity can be identified as problematic it is certainly possible to exit the organization and all people within it as conspirators regardless of stated opinion or belief.

    CONVERSELY

    (f) it is very difficult to imagine extracting someone by genome.

    HOWEVER

    (g) war is war, so if it escalates from tort (court) to combat (war) then the law no longer applies.

    THEREFORE

    I have said repeatedly, fix the law the good will stay the bad will leave, and organizations that are hostile will be shuttered.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-02-17 19:13:00 UTC

  • PROPERTARIAN NATURAL LAW VS CONSTITUTIONAL LEGISLATION VS LEGISLATION VS REGULAT

    PROPERTARIAN NATURAL LAW VS CONSTITUTIONAL LEGISLATION VS LEGISLATION VS REGULATION

    Propertarian natural law used to create normative (political) law – but truthfully. Meaning that we must give special dispensation to devout christians to lie about magic nonsense, just as we give special dispensation to the Amish.

    But in matters of law, no. Ie: we can re-christianize the public spaces etc, and re-paganize the public spaces, and re-lionize (heroes) the public spaces … if we want. We just must state that christians exchange prohibition on making truth claims about magic nonsense in exchange for free practice of the religion. And once that constitutional trade is made, it cannot be modified.

    In practice this is what exists today. Except we cannot outlaw judaism and islam for being counter to natural law. Whereas christianity is only counter to the justification of natural law.

    This is why these are problems for smart people.

    They are hard problems.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-02-17 14:34:00 UTC

  • ETYMOLOGY: ‘RABBLE’ rabble (n) c. 1300, “pack of animals,” possibly related to M

    ETYMOLOGY: ‘RABBLE’

    rabble (n)

    c. 1300, “pack of animals,” possibly related to Middle English rablen “to gabble, speak in a rapid, confused manner,” probably imitative of hurry, noise, and confusion (compare Middle Dutch rabbelen, Low German rabbeln “to chatter”). Meaning “tumultuous crowd of vulgar, noisy people” is from late 14c.; applied contemptuously to the common or low part of any populace from 1550s.

    (someone used the term and I realized I didn’t know its origin)

    Source date (UTC): 2019-02-17 11:28:00 UTC

  • DEFINITION: AGENCY Agency is the capacity for human beings to identify opportuni

    DEFINITION: AGENCY

    Agency is the capacity for human beings to identify opportunities and make choices that are consistent, correspondent, existentially possible, and coherent with and within reality, and to act upon them, unimpeded by knowledge limitation (ignorance), intellectual limitation(intelligence), mindfulness limitation (impulse), physical limitations(body), instrumental limitations(technologies), resource limitations, the impediments of others and their organizations into norms, laws, institutions, polities, and armies. Perfect agency would require omniscience, omniscience, and complete insulation from impulse.

    Simon Ström translates Agency to the language of physics:

    AGENCY = POTENTIAL ENERGY

    Agency = potential energy (PE)

    Force = applied energy (F)

    Event = Impulse (Imp), [force vector + temporal dimension]

    Consequence = displacement vector (s)

    Action = work (W)

    Externalities = Waste heat (h)

    W = F * s

    Source date (UTC): 2019-02-15 07:53:00 UTC

  • Language: a stream of continuous recursive disambiguation resulting in one or mo

    Language: a stream of continuous recursive disambiguation resulting in one or more transactions, resulting suggestion at a minimum, a contract for meaning at a on average and due diligence against error, bias, and deceit at a maximum.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-02-14 13:50:52 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1096044103228444672

  • Language: a stream of continuous recursive disambiguation resulting in one or mo

    Language: a stream of continuous recursive disambiguation resulting in one or more transactions, resulting suggestion at a minimum, a contract for meaning at a on average and due diligence against error, bias, and deceit at a maximum.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-02-14 08:50:00 UTC